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Today’s Trump Twitter Meltdown: Everything Is Fake News Except Fox And Don’t Forget That Hillary Lost

The Hill reports: President Trump early Wednesday blasted the “fake news media” and leaks from the intelligence community after reports emerged that senior aides with his presidential campaign were in contact with Russian officials. Trump in his first tweet of the morning said the “fake news media” is “going crazy with conspiracy theories and blind hatred.” Tump slammed MSNBC and …

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Dan Rather: #Flynnghazi Might Even Be Worse Than Watergate, Hollywood Would Reject It As Far-Fetched

Dan Rather has gone viral with another Facebook rant. He writes: Watergate is the biggest political scandal of my lifetime, until maybe now. It was the closest we came to a debilitating Constitutional crisis, until maybe now. On a 10 scale of armageddon for our form of government, I would put Watergate at a 9. This Russia scandal is currently …

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Government Ethics Office Tells White House To Punish Kellyanne Conway For Hawking Ivanka’s Company

The Hill reports: The director of the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) says White House counselor Kellyanne Conway misused her official position by hawking Ivanka Trump’s product line on TV and recommends the White House punish her. “Under the present circumstances, there is strong reason to believe that Ms. Conway has violated the Standards of Conduct Act and that disciplinary …

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LIVE VIDEO: White House Press Briefing

Well, THIS should be fun. UPI reports: White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer will likely face questions about the resignation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn and the Trump administration’s involvement with Russia during the daily press briefing Tuesday. Reporters have largely been unable to directly question Spicer since news first broke last week that Flynn spoke to a …

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Paul Ryan Praises Trump For Booting Flynn, Refuses To Call For New Probe Into Trump-Putin Ties [VIDEO]

Politico reports: House Speaker Paul Ryan praised President Donald Trump for swiftly demanding his top national security aide Michael Flynn’s resignation – despite reports that indicate Flynn decided to step down on his own and that the White House sat on damaging information about Flynn’s ties to Russia for weeks. “National security is perhaps the most important function or responsibility …

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GOP Rep. Chris Collins: Republicans Are Mum On Flynn Because They’re Celebrating Valentine’s Day [VIDEO]

Roll Call reports: Rep. Chris Collins of New York, one of President Donald Trump’s most vocal supporters on Capitol Hill, is defending the administration after Michael Flynn resigned his post as national security adviser. Yet, most of his GOP colleagues are notably silent. Collins was one of the few Republicans from either chamber making the morning television talk show rounds …

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Hair Furor Suddenly Has Big Problem With Leaks

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday said the “real story” of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s resignation was “illegal leaks,” rather than reports Flynn misled senior White House officials about his conversations with Russia. “The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal with …

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RUSSIA: Lawmakers Rant That Michael Flynn Was Ousted For The “Thoughtcrime” Of Being Pro-Kremlin

The Washington Post reports: Leading Russian lawmakers rushed to defend President Trump’s former national security adviser on Tuesday after he resigned for misleading senior White House officials, including Vice President Pence, about his contacts with Russia. The heads of the foreign affairs committees in both Russia’s upper and lower houses of parliament chalked up Michael Flynn’s resignation to a dark …

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Conway Defends White House: I’m Not Here To Say Who Knew What And When They Knew It [VIDEO]

ABC News reports: Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, said today that she “did not know” whether the president and vice president were made aware three weeks ago that former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who resigned Monday night, had misled the public and was possibly susceptible to blackmail because of his pre-inauguration conversations with Russia’s U.S. ambassador. Flynn resigned …

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Matt Lauer Blasts Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway Over Flynn: That Makes No Sense! [VIDEO]

Mediaite reports: Kellyanne Conway got more than she bargained for this morning during an appearance on the NBC TODAY Show, getting hammered by anchor Matt Lauer over several inconsistencies stemming from General Michael Flynn, the former National Security Advisor who officially resigned late Monday night. While Conway attempted to explain away her previous comments that Flynn “had the full confidence …

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Propaganda Minister Kellyanne Conway: Michael Flynn Has Trump’s “Full Confidence” Despite Lies [VIDEO]

CNN reports: President Donald Trump has “full confidence” in White House national security adviser Michael Flynn, a top aide said Monday, despite the fact Flynn has been unable to deny that he spoke about sanctions against Russia with the Russian ambassador before Trump took office. Flynn’s possible talk of sanctions — and the fact that he likely misled Vice President …

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National Security Advisor Michael Flynn Apologizes To Pence For Lying About Calls To Russian Ambassador

USA Today reports: National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has apologized amid reports that Flynn discussed U.S. sanctions against Russia with the Russian ambassador in the days before President Trump’s inauguration, a White House official said. The apology was directed most notably to Vice President Pence, who had emphatically denied to CBS News last month that Flynn had discussed “anything having …

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White House Senior Advisor Stephen Miller Goes Nuts Trying To Defend Trump’s Voter Fraud Lies [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: George Stephanopoulos got particularly heated with White House senior policy advisor Stephen Miller over recent claims by President Trump of voter fraud. The president claimed last week that he would have won New Hampshire if “thousands” of people hadn’t been bussed in to illegally vote. Miller argued to Stephanopoulos that “anyone who’s worked in New Hampshire politics” is …

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POLL: 51% Of Trump Voters Say Bowling Green Massacre Proves Need For Trump’s Immigration Ban

Public Policy Polling reports: 66% of Americans consider the United States to be a safe country, to only 23% who consider it unsafe. Perhaps as an outgrowth of that sentiment only 45% of voters support Trump’s Executive Order on immigration, to 49% who are opposed to it. Among those who do support it you have to wonder how well thought …

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Your Daily Presidential Tantrum

This morning Trump screamed that the “FAKE NEWS” New York Times lied in their story about his call with Chinese president Xi Jingping. As you can see, the very first line of their story mentions last night’s call. Twitter wags note that Trump is probably looking at the print version of today’s Times, which went to press before the White …

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LIVE VIDEO: White House Press Briefing

Remember all those times I posted live-steams of Josh Earnest’s White House press briefings because we just HAD to see how he was going to handle Obama’s latest lying meltdown? No? Watch below as Sean Spicer does exactly that for Hair Furor. Scheduled start is 1:30PM.

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McCain Hits Back: It’s Incredible That Trump Equates America With “Butcher And Killer” Putin [VIDEO]

Via Mediaite: Earlier this morning, President Donald Trump took to Twitter to lob some personal attacks at Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) over McCain’s criticism of the Yemen raid as a “failure.” Following Trump’s mean tweets, CNN’s Manu Raju caught up with McCain on Capitol Hill to get his reaction. Asked about the Russia Review Act that he signed on to …

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Trump Accuses McCain Of “Emboldening The Enemy”

The New York Daily News reports: President Trump took aim at a pair of senators who have criticized him in recent days on Thursday morning, saying Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) “emboldens the enemy” by criticizing a recent military operation while accusing Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) of being a serial liar after he relayed critical comments from Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. …

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Trump Boasts To Police Group: “I Comprehend Very Well, Better Than I Think Almost Anybody” [VIDEO]

The Week reports: President Trump defended his immigration executive order Wednesday while speaking at the National Sheriffs’ Association’s winter meeting. After reading the entirety of the order, which bans people from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S., Trump insisted the order “couldn’t have been written any more precisely.” Whether “you’re a good student in high school or a …

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Trump Claims Murder Rate Is Highest In 45 To 47 Years

Truth is dead. Facts are dead. The New York Daily News reports: President Trump continued his war on facts Tuesday, inaccurately claiming that the nation’s murder rate was the highest it’s been in nearly 50 years. Trump was holding a listening session with county sheriffs from across the U.S. at the White House Tuesday morning when he made the untrue …

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