Monthly Archives: August 2018

TRAILER: Steve Bannon’s Trump @War

Politico reports: Steve Bannon is attempting a political resurrection, launching a 25-person pro-Trump rapid-response and polling operation that is framing the midterms as an up-or-down vote on the president’s impeachment. The former White House chief strategist has started Citizens for the American Republic, an outside political group that intends to advise surrogates, generate talking points, and flood the TV and …

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Trump Claims He Revoked John Brennan’s Security Clearance For His Role In Russian Interference Probe

The Hill reports: President Trump in an interview attributed his decision to revoke ex-CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance to his role in early stages of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump told The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday that he considers Brennan and other former intelligence officials whose clearances he’s considering revoking among the leaders …

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Tucker Carlson: Other Channels Are “State Media”

“Journalists ought to be skeptical of the powerful. They ought to demand accountability and clear explanations from secretive bureaucrats like John Brennan and the agency he once worked for. But they are not. Instead, they have become Brennan’s faithful handmaidens. Don’t complain, insolence is disloyalty, dissent is treason. That is the message on every other channel. That is state media, …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

USA Today reports: The man accused of smashing President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a pickax called it a “rightful and just act” after a court hearing Wednesday. Austin Clay, 24, pleaded not guilty to a felony vandalism charge in Los Angeles on Wednesday. He is the second man charged recently with taking a pickaxe …

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Twitter CEO Defends “Time Out For Alex Jones: Any Suspension Makes Someone Reconsider His Behavior

NBC News reports: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday defended the company’s decision this week to put Infowars’ Alex Jones in a seven-day “timeout” after Jones urged his viewers to ready their “battle rifles” against the media. Dorsey said he resisted banning Jones, the embattled conspiracy theorist and radio host, despite calls to do so, some of which came from …

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Conway On Her Trump-Hating Husband: He Thinks I Chose The President Over Him, Which Is Ridiculous

From a profile of Kellyanne Conway and her husband: It’s a picture George Conway took on election night 2016: Donald Trump is reaching for the first draft of his acceptance speech, just as victory seemed imminent. Back then, George was such an ardent supporter of the president, and so proud of his wife for her historic role as campaign manager, …

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Rand Paul Celebrates Trump’s Attack On John Brennan: I Filibustered His Nomination As CIA Director In 2013

The Hill reports: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday praised President Trump’s decision to revoke former CIA Director John Brennan’s security clearance, an action Paul had lobbied Trump to take. “I filibustered Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA in 2013, and his behavior in government and out of it demonstrate why he should not be allowed near classified information,” Paul …

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Manafort Judge Gives Jury Deliberation Instructions

The Washington Post reports: U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III is currently reading to jurors the instructions on the law they will have to consider as they decide whether Paul Manafort is guilty of the 18 charges he faces. This is the last step before the case will be given to jurors to begin their deliberations. The instructions are technical, …

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Shep Smith Smacks Rudy Giuliani: None Of The Steele Dossier, To Fox News’ Knowledge, Has Been Disproven

“Much of Giuliani’s attack on Brennan involved the dossier compiled by the former British spy Christopher Steele that the administration has repeatedly asserted was what began the Russia investigation. It was not. The investigation began after the former Trump policy adviser George Papadopoulos told an Australian diplomat that the Russians had dirt on his then-political opponent, Hillary Clinton. That information …

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Vatican: No Comment On Pennsylvania Molestations

CNN reports: The Vatican has declined to respond to an explosive grand jury report detailing decades of sexual abuse and cover-ups by priests and bishops in Pennsylvania, refusing even to say whether church officials in Rome have read the damaging documents. “We have no comment at this time,” Paloma Ovejero, deputy director of the Vatican’s press office, said Wednesday. But …

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Omarosa’s Book: Trump “Covets His Daughter” Ivanka

People Magazine reports: President Donald Trump‘s relationship with his daughter and senior adviser, Ivanka, frequently crosses the line of “appropriate father/daughter behavior,” in the opinion of ousted White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman, as recounted in her new book, Unhinged, out this week. “As long as I’d known Trump, I’d observed the way he hugs, touches, and kisses Ivanka; the …

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Trump Revokes Clearance Of Former CIA Director John Brennan, Threatens To Do The Same For Other Critics

ABC News reports: White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced Wednesday that President Trump is revoking the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan. Former directors of intelligence agencies are generally granted security clearance as a courtesy. Sanders also said that Trump is considering revokes the clearances of former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James …

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LIVE VIDEO: White House Press Briefing

CBS News provides likely topics: Omarosa: On Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders admitted to providing an incorrect figure regarding the number of jobs created for African Americans during the Trump era vs. the Obama era. The error came as Sanders was defending President Trump’s derogatory comments on former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman. Lewandowski: Former Trump …

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Original Series Creator To Reboot Designing Women

From the Hollywood Reporter: Twenty-five years after wrapping its seven-season run on CBS, Designing Women is plotting a return to the small screen. Series creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is behind the revival, which hails from producers Sony Pictures Television Studios. The project has been in the works for months as the indie studio searches for a home for its revival of …

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GET OUT OF MY ROOM: Live-Stream By Nazi Organizer Jason Kessler Interrupted By Furious Father [VIDEO]

The Forward reports: Jason Kessler, the organizer behind last year’s violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was knee-deep into a live-streamed conversation about Jews with neo-Nazi former U.S. Senate candidate Patrick Little when disaster struck: he was interrupted by his angry father. It led them to commiserate about their money woes, a consequence of their hate campaigns. In the …

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COLORADO: Anti-LGBT Baker Sues State Officials After Being Told He Should Have Served Trans Customer

The Denver Post reports: The owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop has sued Gov. John Hickenlooper and state civil rights officials, claiming Colorado has renewed its religious persecution by investigating him — in defiance of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision — for refusing to create a cake commemorating gender transition. Jack Phillips of Lakewood brought the lawsuit late Tuesday night in …

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37 GOP House Seats Rated “Toss Up Or Worse”

From the nonpartisan Cook Political Report: For Republicans, the 2018 House playing field is a lot like a game of Whack-a-Mole: everywhere they turn, new problems keep popping up in surprising places. In January, we rated 20 GOP-held seats as Toss Ups or worse, including three leaning towards Democrats. With today’s changes, we now rate 37 GOP-held seats as Toss …

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Grand Jury: Pittsburgh Priests Ran Child Porn Ring

The Allentown Morning Call reports: George said he never discussed the nude Polaroids, or the twisted, secret gift he and the other kids had been given decades ago by the men who preyed on them. These weren’t the kinds of things you could share without feeling humiliated, especially not if you grew up tough, like he did on the South …

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Charles Blow: If An N-Word Tape Is Ever Released, It Would Likely Only Increase Trump’s Support [VIDEO]

“We would be insane if we kept questioning and saying this is a matter of opinion of whether he’s a racist or not. He is. People have cooked that into the books. I think that if you found the tape of him using the N-word, it might actually increase his support. This does nothing to them, they believe wholeheartedly in …

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Fox & Friends Host: Omarosa Has Outsmarted Trump

The Hill reports: “Fox & Friends” host Brian Kilmeade said Wednesday that ex-White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has “outsmarted” President Trump by dragging him into a feud that will boost her book sales. “She has come out with a series of tapes,” Kilmeade said, “and in many ways, seems to have outsmarted the president who has taken the bait …

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