Just back from a week of baby sitting. Lynn got up at 6AM to take them to their respective schools, made them breakfast, cooked dinner except for a few nights when we treated them to their favorite away from home meals, took them to play tennis, played in the park, I washed the dishes most of the evenings and we also spent a few days looking at apartments and retirement facilities in the eventuality we decide to move to Winterpark. (I will report on what we found in a later memo.) Now home, digging out from under.
Below is a pastiche of a few things I posted before we left and a few more upon our return.
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Bill got $500,000. (See 1 below.)
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Responses to previous memos:
Can we ever know what/who a man truly is? Isn't it more important to learn who we are? And in that, let the chips fall where they may.
Regardless, you have my respect and admiration.
Be well,
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I thanked him and told him to read "Sapiens."
And:
Dick,
Great commentary in your blog post today. Well said and so true. Anything that is said today that even remotely suggests self-reliance and a culture of work is viewed as racist. We need some more Cicero’s in congress; or at least read his words and try to follow. This debt is the biggest threat to the future of the US in my opinion. Only solution in my opinion is a national sales tax, specifically directed to deficit reduction. Won’t happen, but it’s the only way out from what I see in DC. J---
I responded thanks and good idea with which I agree.
And:
"Totally agree with your views. All peoples would be better off if they lived their lives in the following order: education, marriage then children. Simplistic but it works." M-----
And
"VERY well said, Dick! “Racist”, like “fascist” has lost all meaning except to signify something leftists dislike."
S--
And
"VERY well said, Dick! “Racist”, like “fascist” has lost all meaning except to signify something leftists dislike."
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Some postings as I left for Maitland to baby sit our grandchildren. (See 2 and 2a below,)
While driving to Florida I caught two hours of Zuckerberg's testimony before the Senate.
I made comment in a previous memo about his testimony, before the fact, and now that I have heard him I would like to make these comments:
1) He handled himself well before The Senate and his performance was mostly brilliant and far better than the former head of the IRS, Comey and most all the other bureaucrats who testify before Congressional Committees who engage in obfuscation, outright lies and disinformation when they are even willing to answer questions.
No wonder this young man has been able to create an unbelievable company. Do I believe everything he said? No. I do believe he will assist Congress in writing laws that will protect what he has created but will also acknowledge laws protecting personal rights are long over due.
2) Because the two Committees were comprised of Senators their own performance was less showy and in some cases quite insightful.. In the two hours I listened to there were no peacocks though there were efforts to somewhat taint the direction towards Russian Collusion and Trump's connection but not much so kudos to the Senators I heard.
3) There is no doubt guarding privacy of unsuspecting citizens is serious business and must be governed judiciously and not in a crippling manner that destroys innovation and incentives. Can business be relied upon to do so? Probably not. The drug industry cuts corners and seeks excessive profits but they also spend billions on research that fails and even if successful the government bureaucrats at The FDA strangle them with delays etc.
How you balance the equities is always a difficult decision and, no doubt, allowing government to do so is fraught with risks.
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Also, in a previous memo I discussed bigotry and mentioned my three black Americans friends. I was remiss in not mentioning three other accomplished black Americans I have the good fortune to know but not well and who are more distant but I consider them good friends and must include them in my inner circle and they are Lt.Col. Allen West, Roger Moss and Star Parker. Each in their own way are extraordinarily accomplished and have benefited/defended our society in enumerable ways and I bow my hat to them and apologize for mentioning them as an afterthought.
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From a fellow memo reader who also has his own radio show.( Not sure I agree with his suggestion.) (See 3 below.)
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1) Ukrainian Art Patron Victor Pinchuk’s $150,000 Gift to Donald Trump Is Being Investigated by Robert Mueller
It may have looked like a great deal at the time: $150,000 for a 21-minute video address by Donald Trump sent to a conference organized by his friend, the Ukrainian billionaire art collector and steel magnate Victor Pinchuk. But Pinchuk’s especially generous “honorarium” to the Trump Foundation in September 2015 for the video appearance that month is now being scrutinized by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates alleged foreign influence on the US presidential election.
While driving to Florida I caught two hours of Zuckerberg's testimony before the Senate.
I made comment in a previous memo about his testimony, before the fact, and now that I have heard him I would like to make these comments:
1) He handled himself well before The Senate and his performance was mostly brilliant and far better than the former head of the IRS, Comey and most all the other bureaucrats who testify before Congressional Committees who engage in obfuscation, outright lies and disinformation when they are even willing to answer questions.
No wonder this young man has been able to create an unbelievable company. Do I believe everything he said? No. I do believe he will assist Congress in writing laws that will protect what he has created but will also acknowledge laws protecting personal rights are long over due.
2) Because the two Committees were comprised of Senators their own performance was less showy and in some cases quite insightful.. In the two hours I listened to there were no peacocks though there were efforts to somewhat taint the direction towards Russian Collusion and Trump's connection but not much so kudos to the Senators I heard.
3) There is no doubt guarding privacy of unsuspecting citizens is serious business and must be governed judiciously and not in a crippling manner that destroys innovation and incentives. Can business be relied upon to do so? Probably not. The drug industry cuts corners and seeks excessive profits but they also spend billions on research that fails and even if successful the government bureaucrats at The FDA strangle them with delays etc.
How you balance the equities is always a difficult decision and, no doubt, allowing government to do so is fraught with risks.
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Also, in a previous memo I discussed bigotry and mentioned my three black Americans friends. I was remiss in not mentioning three other accomplished black Americans I have the good fortune to know but not well and who are more distant but I consider them good friends and must include them in my inner circle and they are Lt.Col. Allen West, Roger Moss and Star Parker. Each in their own way are extraordinarily accomplished and have benefited/defended our society in enumerable ways and I bow my hat to them and apologize for mentioning them as an afterthought.
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From a fellow memo reader who also has his own radio show.( Not sure I agree with his suggestion.) (See 3 below.)
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1) Ukrainian Art Patron Victor Pinchuk’s $150,000 Gift to Donald Trump Is Being Investigated by Robert Mueller
The Ukrainian billionaire behind the Future Generation Art Prize gave Trump's foundation the "honorarium" for a 21-minute-long video speech.
It may have looked like a great deal at the time: $150,000 for a 21-minute video address by Donald Trump sent to a conference organized by his friend, the Ukrainian billionaire art collector and steel magnate Victor Pinchuk. But Pinchuk’s especially generous “honorarium” to the Trump Foundation in September 2015 for the video appearance that month is now being scrutinized by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates alleged foreign influence on the US presidential election.
Marcus S. Owens, a former head of the Internal Revenue Service division that oversees tax-exempt organizations, told the New York Times that the donation was “an unusual amount of money for such a short speech.” Owens added that it “looks like an effort to buy influence.” Trump has repeatedly denounced the investigation as a “witch hunt.”
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation has responded by pointing out that in late 2015, Trump was among a number of candidates to be the Republican nominee. In the video, Trump began his short speech by declaring: “Victor I have known for a long time and he is a tremendous guy, a tremendous guy,” before stating that Ukraine has not been treated right by the US or Europe. It was one of Trump’s first forays into foreign policy.
Many current and former politicians have benefited from Pinchuk’s largesse, including Hillary Clinton and Tony Blair, whose foundations received lavish donations from the magnate. (The Clinton Foundation received “more than $13 million” from him since 2006, according to the Times, while the total sum is reportedly as much as twice that.)
Pinchuk’s fortune is around $1.46 billion, according to Forbes. His art philanthropy is also substantial. He founded the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev in 2006; four years later, he launched the high-profile biennial Future Generation Art Prize, an open-call art competition that awards $100,000 to a promising young international artist. During the Venice Biennale, he stages exhibitions of the prize’s finalists at a palazzo.
In 2009, he launched the PinchukArtCentre Prize, the first nationwide art prize in Ukraine, which is awarded every other year to an artist under 35. He is also a trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Pinchuk’s personal taste tends toward the blue-chip, and his collection is heavy on works by Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, and Damien Hirst. In 2012, Olafur Eliasson created site-specific installations for Pinchuk’s steel-pipe factory, as well as Dnipropetrovsk Sunrise, an artificial sun for that industrial city in Ukraine.
Pinchuk’s other philanthropic activities include supporting the Elton John AIDS Foundation, throwing a free concert by Paul McCartney in Kiev, and funding a film by Steven Spielberg on the Holocaust in Ukraine.
The billionaire’s critics point out that his business empire was built in the late 1990s after the collapse of the USSR, when his father-in-law, Leonid Kuchma, was the president of Ukraine. Kuchma, who stepped down in 2005, has been accused of running a corrupt government and ordering the murder of an opposition journalist.
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2) Israel does not acknowledge or confirm the attack in Syria at the T4 base near the city of Homs. At the same time, it seems that the US and Russia have completely shattered Israel's ability to deny the action. While the public debate and the struggle for national interests and prestige are increasingly heated between Trump and Putin, they may also have implications for Israel's security.
Russian dominance in the Middle East during the presidencies of Obama and Trump, and especially Moscow's involvement and control in Syria, radically influences Israel's security interests. Between the close alliance with the United States and the joint coordination mechanism with the Russians, Israel needs to find a very delicate balance with the superpowers, who yesterday, as it seems, chose to use Israel as a pawn to convey messages to one another. In the end, it came down to the Americans being happy to let the Russians know through the media that they, in fact, were informed by the Israelis ahead of the attack.
As for the target of the attack, it appears that it was an Iranian drone base. This is supported by reports from Syria and information from the previous Israeli attack on the exact same base against an Iranian command center after the interception of a drone that penetrated Israel. If Israel is indeed behind the attack, it can be assumed that the possibility that the Russians would be angry at the attack and the finger would be pointed at Israel were taken into account right from the beginning, out of fear of a response from the Syrian side. Despite the timing, right after the chemical weapon attack by the Assad regime in the city of Douma, this is not an act of reprisal, and it can be assumed that the strike had a different operational objective.
But it can not be ignored that, at least in terms of legitimizing it internationally, an attack on Syria the day after the chemical attack is not perceived as an aggression. It is quite possible that the timing of the strike was influenced by the circumstances and perhaps the decision-making process to carry out the attack was accelerated by it.
Beyond the confrontation between Russia and the United States, the main story in the northern arena is the direct confrontation between Israel and Iran on Syrian soil. There is no more shadow war or contest through agents. The confrontation between Israel and Iran, it seems, is turning into a limited direct military confrontation. It is impossible to ignore the fact that within two months, in at least two known incidents, Iranian fighters and officers were killed by an action attributed to the Israeli Air Force. It seems that in light of the continued Iranian consolidation in Syria, Israel has decided to remove the gloves.
After the day of battle two months ago, when the Iranian UAV was intercepted and an Israeli fighter plane was shot down, quite a few things happened underneath the surface, despite the apparent media silence.
First, a large amount of effort was invested into national news and foreign publications dealing with the essence of Iranian activity in Syria. The Israeli fingerprint on these publications was clear. When it became apparent that despite Israeli messages the Iranians were determined to continue their program as if nothing had happened, and they continued to cross red lines defined by Israel, reports that the air force had resumed its attack on targets in Syria resurfaced. Despite this, the media remained silent and events continued to develop in absolute quiet - until yesterday.
In the coming days, preparedness in the north of Israel is likely to be particularly high, given the possibility of retaliatory action from the Syrian side, and the chance of an American strike on Syria following their use of chemical weapons.
At the same time, it has to be remembered that in less than a month, the US may withdraw from the nuclear agreement with Iran, making it irrelevant. Therefore, the time period until May 12 could have a restraining effect on the Iranians, which will somewhat delay what appears to be an increasingly likely collision course on the northern front.
Additionally, the events in the northern arena further illustrate the extent to which the Gaza Strip is a secondary front for Israel. Accordingly, the IDF is operating in the south in order to contain events there, and not to enter into a broader confrontation in the Gaza Strip.
2a) NEW YORK POST
Within hours of learning that Bashar al-Assad launched another horrific chemical-weapons attack on his own people, President Trump tweeted there’d be a “big price to pay.” He should follow his instincts by holding Assad accountable, increasing his leverage over Vladimir Putin and breaking Iran’s strategic foothold in Syria.
The tragedy of Syria is largely rooted in two decisions made by Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama. The first was a refusal to act on his own declared red line for military action in response to the use of chemical weapons, which invited Russia and Iran to dominate the region.
The second was Obama’s decision to waive US sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran, which gave the Islamic Republic hundreds of billions of dollars to bolster the Assad regime both financially and militarily.
Trump now has an opportunity to reverse both mistakes. First and foremost, he should respond militarily to Assad’s crimes.
Obama’s failure to establish a US military deterrent emboldened Iran, North Korea, Russia and China to challenge America at every turn. Trump can ill afford to make the same mistake, particularly at a time when many question his resolve.
Last April, Trump responded to Assad’s chemical-weapons use by launching 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase used to stage an attack. Since then, Iran’s military presence in Syria has expanded. America needs more than a once-a-year cruise-missile strike to defend the full range of our national-security interests.
Trump should start with strikes against the Assad regime’s chemical-weapons delivery infrastructure. The president should also make clear he won’t withdraw from territories the US military and its allies liberated from ISIS in eastern Syria until all our national-security objectives are achieved.
These territories constitute 30 percent of Syria’s land mass and put America and our allies in control of 70-90 percent of its pre-war oil production. That’s the kind of leverage over Putin that Trump needs in order to negotiate an end-state in Syria that doesn’t include Assad, Iran or ISIS.
The president should then target the financial lifeblood of Iran’s strategic hold on Syria: the Central Bank of Iran. In January, Trump promised to stop waiving sanctions on the bank unless Europe helped him fix Obama’s nuclear deal. But the deal can never be truly fixed so long as Iran can use its central bank to spread evil outside its borders.
It’s time for Trump to signal his intention to allow the sanctions waiver to expire.
Rather than use the windfall of sanctions relief provided under the nuclear deal to stabilize its economy, Iran’s central bank doubled down on sponsoring terrorism. In addition to financing the regime’s illicit missile program, proxy war in Yemen and repression at home, the Central Bank of Iran underwrites Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guard Corps in the war for Assad’s survival.
In effect, Assad’s use of chemical weapons is enabled if not directly subsidized by the bank.
If terrorism, missiles and domestic repression weren’t enough reasons for France, Germany and Britain to support the re-imposition of sanctions against the bank, perhaps the financing of crimes against humanity will be. When French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visit the White House later this month to ask for exceptions to these sanctions, Trump should push back hard.
Making exceptions to our Iran sanctions isn’t like making exceptions to steel tariffs. Every waiver helps Iran build another missile to wipe Israel off the map. Every exception increases the budget for Iranian terrorism. Every carve-out brings us more Shia militias and the threat of an ISIS resurgence in Syria.
The pressure campaign Trump built against North Korea should be replicated against the Islamic Republic — and that means not giving out exceptions.
The timing is perfect for the re-imposition of sanctions on the bank. This weekend, Iran’s currency cratered to a new record low. Protests are continuing throughout the country. The signs of regime instability and vulnerability to outside pressure are growing. Now is the ideal time to hit Iran’s central bank and shake the regime to its core.
For Trump, Iran’s use of the nuclear deal to expand its sponsorship of terrorism, missile development and proliferation were already reason enough to bring back these sanctions. This weekend’s barbaric attack in Syria gives him one more.
Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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3) MR. PRESIDENT: FIRE THEM BEFORE THEY FIRE YOU
By Jeff Crouere
3) MR. PRESIDENT: FIRE THEM BEFORE THEY FIRE YOU
By Jeff Crouere
In his first 15 months, President Donald Trump has fired more administration officials than many Presidents do in an entire term. At this point, it is essential that he use his Celebrity Apprentice tag line "You're Fired," for three more Department of Justice officials: Special Counsel Robert Mueller, "The Jackal," Attorney General Jeff Sessions "The Weasel," and, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein "The Snake."
Mueller
is "The Jackal" because he is trying to politically terminate the
presidency of Donald Trump. There is no question that he is doing the
bidding of the Deep State and trying to build a case to charge President
Trump with a series of crimes.
His
11-month investigation has been a total witch hunt. It reached a new
level of danger for President Trump yesterday as the office, home and
hotel room of Michael Cohen, his attorney, were raided by FBI agents.
Cohen is very close to Trump and has vowed to "take a bullet" for the
President if necessary.
It
seems the agents were looking for information about the $130,000
payment to porn star Stormy Daniels days before the November 8, 2016
presidential election. Cohen has contended that he made the payment with
his own funds and was not reimbursed by President Trump or the
campaign.
In the raid, agents confiscated Cohen’s computer, phone and personal financial records. As the President’s attorney, all of their communications are privileged, so there will be a team of FBI agents who will be assigned to remove those materials. Despite these assurances, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz called it a “very dangerous day for lawyer-client relations.” He condemned “the deafening silence” of the ACLU on this raid and noted that the organization would be “on every television station in America jumping up and down” if Hillary Clinton’s attorney had been targeted.
This action is a tremendous escalation of the investigation into President Trump. At a meeting of military advisers in the White House, the President addressed the raid. He called it a “disgrace,” noting that the investigators found “nothing” in their pursuit of collusion between the Russians and President Trump.
The problem for the President is that Mueller left the “collusion” aspect of the investigation many months ago. He has been working with his team of partisan Democrat attorneys and focusing on obstruction of justice and crimes unrelated to Russia.
Mueller has been successful in a collecting a few guilty pleas, such as retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who admitted to lying to the FBI. In the case of former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, Mueller charged him for activities related to his lobbying work with the Ukrainian government several years ago.
The latest move in the investigation obviously concerns the payments Cohen made to a porn star, once again, not related to Russia.
At this point, the President needs to fire Mueller, “The Jackal,” before he wastes any more taxpayer dollars on this fishing expedition. Despite warnings from U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and others, Mueller needs to go. He has a history of botched investigations, such as the one probing the anthrax attacks of 2001 that were pinned on the wrong person.
The Special Counsel is clearly laying the groundwork for charging the President and presenting the case for Congress to impeach him. Before it gets to that point, the President needs to send him packing.
Once the President is in a firing mood, he should not stop with Mueller. He also needs to fire Rosenstein, “The Snake.” This is the Deputy Attorney General who wrote the memo recommending that former FBI Director James Comey be fired. However, he is also the Justice Department official who hired Mueller in the first place and started this mission to impeach the President.
Rosenstein also referred the latest raid to a New York U.S. Attorney who authorized FBI agents to seize Cohen’s materials and his attorney-clients communications with President Trump.
As noted by the President, Rosenstein also “signed the FISA warrant” based on a phony Clinton campaign funded dossier that actually involved collusion with Russian sources.
Finally, the President needs to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions “The Weasel.” Unfortunately, Sessions has been a tremendous disappointment as Attorney General. By recusing himself from the Russia investigation, he created the Mueller monster. He seemingly has little to no control over the Justice Department. The real authority rests with Rosenstein and Mueller, not Sessions. He is either too intimidated or compromised to interfere with a Special Counsel who is on a mission to destroy the President.
To make matters worse, Sessions refused to appoint a Second Special Counsel to investigate a variety of abuses involved in the FISA warrant and other matters. There is seemingly no real investigation into Hillary Clinton’s suspicious handling of the Uranium One deal or her mishandling of top secret email communications. She destroyed 33,000 emails that were subpoenaed by U.S. House investigators, but absolutely nothing has happened to her.
While FBI officials raided the homes of Manafort and Cohen, Hillary was given special kid glove treatment in her July 5, 2016 interview. She was not under oath and her responses were not recorded.
Hillary’s attorneys were never raided by FBI agents, they were given immunity. The double standard is atrocious. The Deep State is furiously trying to end the Trump presidency and Sessions, “The Weasel,” is a mere bystander.
Today, the President remarked that Sessions “made a terrible mistake” when he recused himself in the Russia investigation. As noted by talk show host Mark Levin, the Justice Department is “out of control,” so Attorney General Jeff Sessions must “step aside.” If he does not, the President must fire him.
President Trump seems to finally understand this is a war on his agenda and an attempt to negate the 2016 election. He called the Mueller team “a biased group of people” with “the biggest conflicts of interest I have ever seen.” Today, he noted that he has been totally cooperative and given over “a million pages in documents to the Special Counsel.” However, nothing short of impeachment will satisfy Mueller.
Mr. President, the time to act is now. Fire these three stains on the Department of Justice and end this “attack on our country.” If not, the consequences for your presidency and our country will be severe.
Crouere is also host of Ringside, a television version of the radio program, which airs on WLAE-TV, a PBS affiliate in New Orleans. New Orleans area television viewers can also watch Crouere on ABC-26 TV, where he has served since 2002 as the political analyst and provides his insight on local, state and national politics.
The website for the radio and television program RingsidePolitics.com provides a web poll, political rumors, a schedule of guests, and links to a variety of Crouere's columns. He writes daily, weekly, and monthly political analysis columns and editorials fo+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
In the raid, agents confiscated Cohen’s computer, phone and personal financial records. As the President’s attorney, all of their communications are privileged, so there will be a team of FBI agents who will be assigned to remove those materials. Despite these assurances, famed attorney Alan Dershowitz called it a “very dangerous day for lawyer-client relations.” He condemned “the deafening silence” of the ACLU on this raid and noted that the organization would be “on every television station in America jumping up and down” if Hillary Clinton’s attorney had been targeted.
This action is a tremendous escalation of the investigation into President Trump. At a meeting of military advisers in the White House, the President addressed the raid. He called it a “disgrace,” noting that the investigators found “nothing” in their pursuit of collusion between the Russians and President Trump.
The problem for the President is that Mueller left the “collusion” aspect of the investigation many months ago. He has been working with his team of partisan Democrat attorneys and focusing on obstruction of justice and crimes unrelated to Russia.
Mueller has been successful in a collecting a few guilty pleas, such as retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, who admitted to lying to the FBI. In the case of former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort, Mueller charged him for activities related to his lobbying work with the Ukrainian government several years ago.
The latest move in the investigation obviously concerns the payments Cohen made to a porn star, once again, not related to Russia.
At this point, the President needs to fire Mueller, “The Jackal,” before he wastes any more taxpayer dollars on this fishing expedition. Despite warnings from U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and others, Mueller needs to go. He has a history of botched investigations, such as the one probing the anthrax attacks of 2001 that were pinned on the wrong person.
The Special Counsel is clearly laying the groundwork for charging the President and presenting the case for Congress to impeach him. Before it gets to that point, the President needs to send him packing.
Once the President is in a firing mood, he should not stop with Mueller. He also needs to fire Rosenstein, “The Snake.” This is the Deputy Attorney General who wrote the memo recommending that former FBI Director James Comey be fired. However, he is also the Justice Department official who hired Mueller in the first place and started this mission to impeach the President.
Rosenstein also referred the latest raid to a New York U.S. Attorney who authorized FBI agents to seize Cohen’s materials and his attorney-clients communications with President Trump.
As noted by the President, Rosenstein also “signed the FISA warrant” based on a phony Clinton campaign funded dossier that actually involved collusion with Russian sources.
Finally, the President needs to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions “The Weasel.” Unfortunately, Sessions has been a tremendous disappointment as Attorney General. By recusing himself from the Russia investigation, he created the Mueller monster. He seemingly has little to no control over the Justice Department. The real authority rests with Rosenstein and Mueller, not Sessions. He is either too intimidated or compromised to interfere with a Special Counsel who is on a mission to destroy the President.
To make matters worse, Sessions refused to appoint a Second Special Counsel to investigate a variety of abuses involved in the FISA warrant and other matters. There is seemingly no real investigation into Hillary Clinton’s suspicious handling of the Uranium One deal or her mishandling of top secret email communications. She destroyed 33,000 emails that were subpoenaed by U.S. House investigators, but absolutely nothing has happened to her.
While FBI officials raided the homes of Manafort and Cohen, Hillary was given special kid glove treatment in her July 5, 2016 interview. She was not under oath and her responses were not recorded.
Hillary’s attorneys were never raided by FBI agents, they were given immunity. The double standard is atrocious. The Deep State is furiously trying to end the Trump presidency and Sessions, “The Weasel,” is a mere bystander.
Today, the President remarked that Sessions “made a terrible mistake” when he recused himself in the Russia investigation. As noted by talk show host Mark Levin, the Justice Department is “out of control,” so Attorney General Jeff Sessions must “step aside.” If he does not, the President must fire him.
President Trump seems to finally understand this is a war on his agenda and an attempt to negate the 2016 election. He called the Mueller team “a biased group of people” with “the biggest conflicts of interest I have ever seen.” Today, he noted that he has been totally cooperative and given over “a million pages in documents to the Special Counsel.” However, nothing short of impeachment will satisfy Mueller.
Mr. President, the time to act is now. Fire these three stains on the Department of Justice and end this “attack on our country.” If not, the consequences for your presidency and our country will be severe.
About author Jeff Crouere
Jeff Crouere has been a radio talk show host Since January of 1999. With radio, television and on stage programs dedicated to examining the top current issues on local, state and national levels. Crouere offers listeners political debate, analysis, and interviews with interesting political leaders and commentators. Currently, Crouere is host of a morning redio program, Ringside Politics, which airs weekdays from 7-11 a.m. CST on WGSO 990 AM and can be heard on several affiliate stations and on the Internet at WGSO.com.Crouere is also host of Ringside, a television version of the radio program, which airs on WLAE-TV, a PBS affiliate in New Orleans. New Orleans area television viewers can also watch Crouere on ABC-26 TV, where he has served since 2002 as the political analyst and provides his insight on local, state and national politics.
The website for the radio and television program RingsidePolitics.com provides a web poll, political rumors, a schedule of guests, and links to a variety of Crouere's columns. He writes daily, weekly, and monthly political analysis columns and editorials fo+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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