Author: Freedom Watch
James Comey isn’t above the law By Michael Goodwin New York Post June 3, 2018 There they go again. For the 1 millionth time, anti-Trumpers are horrified, aghast, stupefied. The president’s latest offense against their sensibilities is a pointed use of his pardon power. So far, he has pardoned just five people, including Jack Johnson, the legendary black boxer whose conviction a century ago was an act of pure racism. Continue Reading…..
Chris Cuomo of CNN laments Fox News, MSNBC viewers ‘retreating to their corners’ By David Bauder The Washington Times June 3, 2018 Chris Cuomo envisions his new CNN prime-time show as a haven for independent thinkers who want their preconceptions tested. His challenge is finding enough people who want that on a cable news network. He’s swimming against a strong tide. Fox News Channel and MSNBC are thriving with prime-time programming that appeals to partisans of each side, most emphatically with Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow in the 9 p.m. Eastern time slot where “Cuomo Prime Time” lands…
Giuliani: Trump Would Fight Subpoena, Not Pardon Himself Newsmax June 3, 2018 An attorney for President Donald Trump stressed Sunday that the president’s legal team would contest any effort to force the president to testify in front of a grand jury during the special counsel’s Russia probe but downplayed the idea that Trump could pardon himself. Rudy Giuliani, in a series of television interviews, emphasized one of the main arguments in a newly unveiled letter sent by Trump’s lawyers to special counsel Robert Mueller back in January: that a president can’t be given a grand jury subpoena as…
Ex-US attorney: Trump pardoning himself would be ‘almost self-executing impeachment’ By Maegan Vazquez and Veronica Stracqualursi CNN June 3, 2018 Former US attorney Preet Bharara said Sunday that it “would be outrageous” for a sitting president to pardon himself, which President Donald Trump’s lawyers appear to argue in a letter sent to special counsel Robert Mueller. “I think (if) the President decided he was going to pardon himself, I think that’s almost self-executing impeachment,” Bharara, a CNN legal analyst, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Whether or not there is a minor legal argument that some law…
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Trump’s lawyers to Mueller in letter: President can end probe, use pardon power By Christal Hayes USA TODAY June 2, 2018 Lawyers for President Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in a confidential letter that the president would not comply with requests for an interview, could end the special counsel’s investigation and could use his executive powers to pardon if needed. The January 2018 letter, along with a second letter sent in June 2017, was obtained by The New York Times and provide the clearest view yet of Trump’s legal strategy in Mueller’s wide-ranging investigation into Russian meddling…
NATO chief says alliance won’t aid Israel if Iran attacks USA TODAY June 2, 2018 BERLIN — NATO’s secretary-general says the alliance wouldn’t come to Israel’s defense in case of attack by arch enemy Iran. Jens Stoltenberg told the magazine Der Spiegel in comments published Saturday that Israel is a partner, but not a member and that NATO’s “security guarantee” doesn’t apply to Israel. Continue Reading…..
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Trump allies gang up on Gowdy By Kyle Cheney POLITICO June 2, 2018 Rep. Trey Gowdy has been a pitbull investigator for Republicans for years. Now, he’s in President Donald Trump’s doghouse for daring to challenge the president’s unsupported claim that Democrats and their sympathizers in the FBI embedded a spy in his 2016 campaign. Trump allies have been pummeling Gowdy in recent days, branding him a gullible or clueless backer of the intelligence community. Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, labeled him “uninformed.” Another Trump-tied attorney, Victoria Toensing, said Gowdy “doesn’t know diddly-squat” about the particulars of federal…
With ‘Spygate,’ Trump Shows How He Uses Conspiracy Theories to Erode Trust New York Times May 29, 2018 WASHINGTON — As a candidate, Donald J. Trump claimed that the United States government had known in advance about the Sept. 11 attacks. He hinted that Antonin Scalia, a Supreme Court justice who died in his sleep two years ago, had been murdered. And for years, Mr. Trump pushed the notion that President Barack Obama had been born in Kenya rather than Honolulu, making him ineligible for the presidency. None of that was true. Last week, President Trump promoted new,…