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Newsmax TV March 27, 2018
McConnell bill would legalize hemp as agricultural product By Morgan Gstalter TheHill March 26, 2018 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced a new bill on Monday that would legalize hemp as an agricultural product. The Hemp Farming Act of 2018 would legalize hemp, removing it from the federal list of controlled substances and allowing it to be sold as an agricultural commodity, according to WKYT. Continue Reading…..
Orlando nightclub shooter’s father, an FBI informant, brushed off son’s terror comments, agent says By Greg Norman Fox News March 26, 2018 The Orlando nightclub shooter’s dad — revealed to be an FBI informant — told authorities who were investigating Omar Mateen before the attack that pro-terror comments the would-be gunman made to coworkers were just examples of him “being stupid,” an agent testified Monday. FBI Special Agent Juvenal Martin, who was on the stand in the terrorism trial of Noor Salman, Omar Mateen’s wife, said Omar’s father, Seddique, had called him while his son was being investigated…
Claiming Executive Privilege To Avoid Mueller Could Backfire For Trump By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux FiveThirtyEight March 26, 2018 Will President Trump sit down for a one-on-one interview with special counsel Robert Mueller? It might be more likely after the president’s lead lawyer on the Russia investigation resigned last week. The lawyer, John Dowd, had reportedly advised the president against such a move, and now he’s out. If Trump does talk to Mueller, there’s a possibility that he could invoke executive privilege to try to avoid answering some of the special counsel’s questions.1 That would be the first formal invocation…
Trump Won’t Hire 2 Lawyers Whose Appointments Were Announced Days Ago By Maggie Haberman, Michael S. Schmidt and Mark Landler New York Times March 25, 2018 President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase. “The president is disappointed that conflicts prevent Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing from joining the president’s special counsel legal team,” Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Jay Sekulow, said in…
2 lawyers not joining Trump legal team after all AP News March 25, 2018 PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump will not be adding two new lawyers to the legal team defending him in the special counsel’s Russia investigation after all, one of the president’s attorneys said Sunday. Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement that Washington lawyers Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing have conflicts that won’t allow them to represent the president regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Sekulow had announced diGenova’s appointment last week. Continue Reading…..
DiGenova will not join Trump’s legal team By Luis Sanchez TheHill March 25, 2018 President Trump will not be hiring Washington lawyer Joseph diGenova due to “conflicts,” The Associated Press reported. Trump’s personal attorney Jay Sekulow announced on Sunday that the president won’t hire diGenova or his wife, Victoria Toensing, for the legal team assembled to defend him in the special counsel investigation. Continue Reading…..
‘Our patience is not unlimited’: US slams ‘biased’ UN rights body over Israel resolutions RT International March 24, 2018 The US has threatened to re-evaluate its membership of the UN Human Rights Council, after it adopted five ‘biased’ anti-Israeli resolutions condemning its policies and calling on the world community to halt arms sales to Tel Aviv. Following a month-long 37th session in Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) approved five ‘anti-Israel’ resolutions. One of the resolutions, titled ‘Ensuring accountability and justice for all violations of international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem,’ condemned…
Freedom Watch TV March 24, 2018 See also: “Jeff Sessions: A National Disgrace,” by Larry Klayman
By Larry Klayman WND March 23, 2018 In recent weeks, President Trump has boldly exercised his executive authority and fired a Cabinet official and the national security adviser. I am talking about former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster. Both of these individuals were at odds in large part with the president’s agenda and deserved to be let go. The country is better for it, particularly in the later respect with the appointment of John Bolton to replace McMaster as The Donald heads into a meeting and possibly negotiations with Kim Jong-un of…