Author: Freedom Watch
Republican senators steamed over Trump attacks back Sessions By Leigh Ann Caldwell and Alex Seitz-Wald NBC News July 26, 2017 Republican senators have Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ back. The GOP lawmakers are furious over President Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on their former colleague and are letting the attorney general — and the public — know that they stand with Sessions in the face of the president’s broadsides. “I told him we were thinking about him and that he had a lot of friends up here,” Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., said he told Sessions, who until he joined the…
By Jordan Fabian TheHill July 26, 2017 White House press aide Michael Short resigned on Tuesday, capping off hours of drama over whether he would be fired by President Trump’s new communications director. “I have resigned, effective immediately,” Short said in a brief text message. “It was a privilege to serve the President of the United States.” Continue Reading…..
Analysis | Senators on hot mic: Trump is ‘crazy,’ ‘I’m worried’ By Philip Bump Washington Post July 25, 2017 Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) was unintentionally recorded talking about President Trump at the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on July 25. Collins appears to have been speaking to Democratic senator Jack Reed. (Senate Appropriations Committee) At the end of a Senate subcommittee hearing on Tuesday morning, someone sitting near Chairman Susan Collins (R-Maine) didn’t switch off a microphone. Collins was recorded discussing the federal budget and President Trump’s lack of familiarity with the details of governing with a…
Ryan: Mueller ‘anything but’ a biased partisan By Betsy Klein CNN July 24, 2017 House Speaker Paul Ryan on Monday defended special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election amid allegations by President Donald Trump that the investigation is a “witch hunt.” Asked why Republicans aren’t defending the President, Ryan stressed that Mueller, a former FBI director under the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, is “anything but” a biased partisan. Continue Reading…..
Mueller probe: Meet the lawyers who gave $$ to Hillary, now investigating team Trump By Brooke Singman Fox News July 24, 2017 President Trump’s tough criticism of Special Counsel Robert Mueller signals a renewed effort to challenge his investigators’ credibility over their track record of pro-Democratic political donations and other associations. There is no shortage of examples to fuel the president’s case. Of the 15 attorneys currently on staff for Mueller, at least seven have donated to Democratic candidates and campaigns, including Trump’s 2016 rival Hillary Clinton. The rest have not made political donations, according to federal records;…
Trump tweets Democrats are laughing at ‘Russian Witch Hunt,’ Republicans do ‘very little’ to protect him By Christopher Carbone Fox News July 23, 2017 President Donald Trump took to Twitter Sunday afternoon to slam the ongoing Russian investigations and take fellow Republicans to task for doing very little to protect him Trump and his associates are under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the FBI and separate Congressional panels looking into potential collusion between his campaign and the Russian government. U.S. intelligence agencies have already concluded that Russia used a combination of hacking and disinformation to influence the…
Larry Klayman on special counsel: ‘His band of leftist legal hacks have to go’ By Larry Klayman WND July 23, 2017 It is now known, not surprisingly given Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s apparent vendetta against President Donald Trump and his family, that Mueller hired a Clinton Foundation lawyer, Jeannie S. Rhee, along with other Clinton and Obama loyalists, to do a hit job on the president. But what is not generally known is that, as recently as 2016, Rhee represented the Clinton Foundation against my racketeering lawsuit’s allegations that Hillary Clinton sold government favors in return for bribes,…
Americans Protest ‘Very Fake News’ CNN Outside of Atlanta Headquarters – Breitbart Breitbart July 23, 2017 ATLANTA, Georgia — More than 150 protesters charged the CNN headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia to share their disgust with the network’s peddling of “fake news” against President Trump’s administration. With signs reading “FNN #FakeNewsNetwork” and others targeting the networks’ advertisers such as AT&T and Microsoft, protesters chanted “CNN fake news!” directly in front of the CNN Centers’ signature logo. Continue Reading…..
Jeb Bush calls out Republicans silent on Trump’s Russia probe By John Bowden TheHill July 23, 2017 Former Gov. Jeb Bush (R-Fla.) on Saturday called out Republicans for not speaking out about the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Speaking at the OZY Fest in New York City on Saturday, the Florida Republican and former opponent to President Trump gave the crowd a series of rules for politics, what he called “Jeb’s rules.” Continue Reading…..
Senate Intel Chair: ‘The Unmasking Thing Was All Created By Devin Nunes’ By Allegra Kirkland Talking Points Memo July 22, 2017 Senate Intelligence Committee chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) on Friday accused his counterpart in the House, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), of creating a false narrative about Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice. Speaking to CNN after Rice was interviewed by the panel in closed session, Burr said he asked no questions about whether she improperly requested and revealed the identities of U.S. individuals swept up in intelligence reports—an accusation Nunes has made repeatedly. Continue Reading…..