Author: Freedom Watch
The Late Show Spoofs Sean Hannity’s On-Air About-Face on Reports Trump Tried to Fire Mueller By Rachel Withers Slate Magazine January 30, 2018 On Monday’s Late Show, long-time Fox News satirist Stephen Colbert parodied something that didn’t really need spoofing: Fox’s coverage of reports that Trump tried to fire Robert Mueller. When an explosive report from the New York Times on Thursday revealed that Trump had tried to fire the special prosecutor last June, Trump-friendly commentator and “final hole of the world’s worst putt-putt course” Sean Hannity changed his on-air tack so fast it gave Colbert whiplash. Continue…
Surveillance memo vote triggers war of words on Capitol Hill By Adam Shaw Fox News January 30, 2018 The House Intelligence Committee’s Monday vote to release a classified memo on purported government surveillance abuses has touched off a war of words between Democrats and Republicans, with both sides unloading their rhetorical guns as time ticks down to the memo’s likely publication. President Trump has five days to decide whether he has any objections to the release, but signs point to him allowing it. The document was pushed by Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., and other GOP committee members.…
Don Lemon On Low Black Unemployment: “Thanks, Obama” Real Clear Politics January 30, 2018 Don Lemon discussed the dropping black unemployment rate with an all-black, Democratic Congressmember panel on Monday night. Lemon brought up Jay-Z’s recent interview with Van Jones where he dismissed that a change in black unemployment doesn’t matter because money doesn’t bring happiness. Trump responded to the hip-hop artist in a tweet the next day: “Somebody please inform Jay-Z that because of my policies, Black Unemployment has just been reported to be at the LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED!” Continue Reading…..
Rod Rosenstein Is Shirking His Duty to Supervise Robert Mueller By Andrew C. McCarthy National Review January 29, 2018 If Mueller wants to interview the president, he should be required to demonstrate that there is strong evidence the president has committed a crime, and that the president has essential evidence of the crime that cannot be obtained from any other source. It is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s job to force Mueller to make that showing. That duty trumps whatever “hands off” promises he may have made to Democrats. If the Justice Department will not supervise its prosecutors,…
Memo claims Rosenstein approved application to extend surveillance of Carter Page: report By Rebecca Savransky TheHill January 29, 2018 Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved an application last year to extend surveillance of former Trump campaign associate Carter Page, according to a secret Republican memo detailed in a The New York Times report. According to the Times, which cited three people familiar with the memo, the FBI and Justice Department’s application was based partially on research by investigator Christopher Steele, who compiled a dossier containing unverified claims about President Trump’s ties to Russia. Continue Reading…..
Gowdy Just Dropped Some Hints About What’s in Secret FISA Memo By Leah Barkoukis Townhall January 29, 2018 Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Affairs, said Sunday he wants the two FBI officials whose anti-Trump text messages were revealed to testify before lawmakers. He also dropped some hints about what’s in the secret FISA memo. To start, Gowdy commented on the FBI officials’ messages that showed they “hated” then-candidate Donald Trump. He wants answers as to whether their positions were powerful enough to have actually affected the election. Continue Reading…..
Graham: FISA memo should not be released now By Julia Manchester TheHill January 29, 2018 Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Sunday he does not believe a classified memo purported to list Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses by the U.S. government should be released now. “No, I don’t want it released yet,” Graham told ABC’s “This Week.” “I want somebody outside of the Republican-led Congress to look at these allegations,” he said. Continue Reading…..
Mike Pence’s Holocaust Day message with ‘Christ imagery’ sparks Jewish outrage haaretz.com January 28, 2018 U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has been excoriated on Twitter by Jews offended by what they view as his use of “Christ imagery” when memorializing Hitler’s victims on International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Pence tweeted a video of him and his wife Karen laying a wreath and taking a tour of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem during their visit to Israel last week. In the tweet, he paid tribute to what he called the “6 million Jewish martyrs of the Holocaust who…
Jeff Sessions weathers turbulent year as attorney general AP News January 28, 2018 WASHINGTON (AP) — Jeff Sessions was in his office, looking unusually deflated. He had just received another public lashing from President Donald Trump. Trump had browbeaten his attorney general for months after Sessions’ decision to step aside from the intensifying Russia investigation. Never mind that Sessions has proved fiercely devoted to his boss, carrying out Trump’s agenda while giving him credit every step of the way. Trump was unforgiving. Continue Reading…..
Rancher Cliven Bundy, recently freed, sues Nevada and Clark County Fox News January 28, 2018 Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who was recently cleared of federal charges and freed from jail, is now turning his sights on state and county government. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Bundy’s lawsuit filed Thursday in Clark County District Court claims that former President Barack Obama’s late 2016 establishment of Gold Butte National Monument was “as illegal as it is unlawful” and would preclude him from continuing to function on his land and destroy his livelihood. Continue Reading…..