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” the president wrote in pointed tweets Wednesday morning. They are testing Rockets (last week) and more, and are coming very close to the edge. intel community testified publicly before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Trump ridiculed that assessment and the intelligence leaders themselves. On Wednesday evening, Chuck Schumer announced that “It’s past time for U. Intelligence Community leaders to stage an intervention with Donald J. Here’s the meat of Schumer’s letter: “I believe it is incumbent on you, Director Wray and Director Haspel to insist on an immediate meeting with the President to educate him about the facts and raw intelligence underlying the Intelligence Community assessments, and to impress upon him how critically important it is for him to join you and the leadership of our Intelligence Community in speaking with a unified and accurate voice about national security threats.
And it compels us all to face an Earth we are not accustomed to. The latest idea to tack on an increase in the nation’s borrowing limit to discussions over Trump’s demand for $5.7 billion for a U. President Trump is dealing with special counsel Robert S.
S.-Mexico border wall divided Republicans and was immediately rejected by Democrats, a less-than-promising development on the eve of congressional negotiators’ first meeting. Mueller III’s investigation, a new Democratic House majority and a series of controversies.
Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie took several shots at White House senior adviser Jared Kushner in his new book , alleging that in an act of spite, Donald Trump’s son-in-law coordinated his removal from the president’s transition team shortly after the 2016 election. “If a guy hires a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, and videotapes it, and then sends the videotape to his sister in an attempt to intimidate her from testifying before a grand jury, do I really need any more justification than that?
He claims Kushner (below left) was still “seething” from events that took place more than a decade prior — when Christie, as a U. attorney, prosecuted Kushner’s father, Charles, for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign contributions, sending the elder Kushner to prison for 14 months. ” He added, “It’s one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes that I prosecuted when I was U. attorney,” Christie said during a segment with PBS’s “Firing Line With Margaret Hoover.” “And I was a U. attorney in New Jersey, Margaret — so we had some loathsome and disgusting crime going on there!“The Intelligence people seem to be extremely passive and naive when it comes to the dangers of Iran. Trump.” He also posted a letter addressed to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats (right), who oversees the entire U. He is putting you and your colleagues in an untenable position and hurting the national interest in the process.You must find a way to make that clear to him.” This all seems obvious enough, but coming from the Senate Minority Leader, it’s stunning: he’s literally calling, in exact words, for U. intel leaders to stage an intervention with an out of control President of the United States.Perhaps the biggest unresolved question hanging over the whole thing is this: What exactly is an “emolument”? Cunningham at Georgia State University and Jesse Egbert of Northern Arizona University uses a scientific method called “corpus linguistics” that combines traditional linguistics with large sets of data, in the form of contemporary written texts.Studying 138 million words written between 17, the researchers found more than 2,500 uses of “emolument” or “emoluments.” s, Karoun Demirjian, Jan. A planned Senate Judiciary Committee vote on William P.Larry Klayman, the estranged founder of Judicial Watch who is representing Corsi as he processes through Mueller’s probe, appeared on Newsmax TV yesterday with host John Cardillo to spar with Gateway Pundit contributor Cassandra Fairbanks, who had taken to Twitter the day before to call Corsi “a deranged old man,” and to criticize Mueller for taking information from him. Images and personal essays by longtime New York Times writers are a vivid window on the man who made baseball truly American. The Trump administration has launched a large political project to remake several states in Latin America. The plan includes regime change in Venezuela, Nicaragua and eventually Cuba. is going for such a wide ranging plan in the western hemisphere might explain why Trump is pressing to end the other military projects in the Middle East and Afghanistan. The pop star and Grammy Award winner has come under fire for accepting the offer, and activists have called on her to either cancel Thursday’s performance or use the opportunity to shed light on the plight of jailed women.