Happy Hump Day!
And man, have we be humpin’ this week. Today will be no exception. Prepare to be humped.
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BUT BUT BUT….THE COOCHIE CAPS SAID IT WAS MUELLER TIME….
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The addition of Rudy Giuliani to the Trump legal team has been….let’s say shaky at times. But this is one time where I really, really hope he has his facts straight. Many in the Trump orbit and legal world at large seem to think he does, indeed.
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According to Rudy, King Bob Mueller’s team has informed PDT’s attorneys that they have concluded that they cannot indict a sitting president, which is a common legal opinion and one with precedent.
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WHILE WE’RE ON THE DEEP STATE…..
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The Failing New York Times reported today that FBI agents started a secret investigation into Russian election interference and the Trump campaign called “Crossfire Hurricane” (a reference to Rolling Stones lyrics) just 100 days before Election Day 2016.
Agents were reportedly so concerned with keeping things under wraps that they avoided interviewing Trump associates and subpoenaing documents. Only about five Justice Department officials were aware of the case, according to officials cited in the story, in contrast to the dozen who would normally be briefed on such a national security matter.
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“DON’T LET THEM CATCH US ACTING AS POLITICAL OPERATIVES, FOLKS…THEY’LL BELIEVE THAT WE’RE ACTING AS POLITICAL OPERATIVES!”
NAVARRO BENCHED?
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Peter Navarro, the Trump trade adviser whose very existence is a giant middle finger to China, has reportedly been sidelined for important trade talks tomorrow with the Big Red Menace. Or maybe he hasn’t. The media can’t make up its mind.
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The White House said today that Peter Navarro, probably the most staunch anti-China member of the Trump economic team, will take part in tomorrow’s meeting between Trump administration officials and Vice Premier General Tso, China’s top economic official, though his role seems to have been greatly diminished.
According to reports and sources within said reports, the problems with Navarro started a while back and have lead to questions about his future role in the White House. Bloomberg today cited officials who said that during a recent trip to Beijing to try and defuse tensions, Navarro “did not act like a team player.” They also said he has of late “behaved erratically and unprofessionally.”
Navarro reportedly “blew up” at Treasury Secretary supernerd Steven Mnuchin and Commerce Secreatry Wilbur Ross during the trip to China. Navarro was angry over the direction of the talks and cursed at Mnuchin according to Axios’ Jonathan Swan. That means Navarro likely thought they were going too soft.
However, the White House did confirm today that Navarro would take part in the discussions, but were keen to point out that he would only be another member of the team. This is significant because Navarro is considered to be the top trade guy in the administration, and China is his baby. It’s the whole reason he’s there. Therefore, being just another member of the team is quite the demotion at a time when he should be taking center stage.
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Talks between the US and China have been red hot lately as our two countries’ trading relationship undergoes serious changes (namely we have testicles now). Tensions have increased as Trump imposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese goods, and the Chinese retaliated with tariffs of their own.
Navarro was brought on to the Trump campaign in 2016 after Jared Kushner came across Navarro’s book, “Death By China,” during an Amazon search. Navarro’s strong anti-China views and skepticism of free trade helped to build Trump’s early economic agenda.
General Tso met with a bipartisan group of swampdwellers on Capitol Hill today to talk about reducing the tariffs and ways to strengthen the US-China trade relationship. Additionally, lawmakers miraculously grew a spine and took him to task for the theft of US intellectual property by Chinese firms.
“Today, we had a productive meeting in which our members urged the Vice Premier and his delegation to work with the Administration and Congress to reduce trade barriers, increase intellectual property rights protection, and create a level playing field for American companies and workers,” Rep. Kevin Brady, the Republican chair of the House Ways and Means committee, said in a statement.
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WHAT I THINK:
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While there are reports of “blow-ups” with Mnuchin and whatnot, I seriously doubt that’s the real reason behind Navarro’s recent minimization within the economic team.
The fact is, China hates his guts, mostly because of his book noted above, “Death By China, ” Reports are that the Chinese refuse to engage with him at all. While I don’t care to capitulate to the Chinese anymore than anyone else, if putting someone else at the head of the negotiating table will achieve what we need in terms of upgrading our trade deals, I suppose it’s a small concession to make.
The fact is, Navarro is there because he and Trump see eye to eye. PDT didn’t just formulate his stance on China. He’s held the same position since the 80’s. Navarro just happens to agree. Thus, in the big picture of things, our stances and goals really aren’t changed regardless of where Navarro sits at the table.
I think PDT is calling off Navarro’s barking long enough for them to get a deal done.
That’s what I think. And you can take it to the bank, Jack.
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BREAKING NEWS: PALESTINIANS ARE TERRORISTS
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Perhaps the most fashionable thing a member of the American and/or European Left could do over the last several decades is to criticize the big mean occupying force knows as Israel. Never mind that they’re the only hope for democracy in the Middle East, and that any nationality/ethnicity/gender/orientation can live in Israel and even serve in its government, a fact that isn’t even close to true for their Muslim counterparts.
Somehow, the grossly anti-Semitic hordes who seek to destroy Israel from within and without have managed to capture the hearts and imaginations of our leftist moonbats. Maybe it’s the throwing of gays off rooftops and the legal rape of any woman who isn’t sufficiently covered head to toe. Those are leftist values, right?
Whatever it is, one is hard-pressed to convince our coochified friends that anyone but Israel has malicious intent. Faced with wave upon wave of fact, our leftist friends stand strong against all documented evidence and logic to maintain their support of those who seek Israel’s end.
But if they won’t believe us…..perhaps they’ll take the word of Hamas?
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A Hamas official today acknowledged that 50 of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during Gaza border riots on Monday and Tuesday were members of their nifty little jihad outfit, bringing the total number of known members of terror groups among the fatalities up to 53.
“In the last rounds of confrontations, if 62 people were martyred, Fifty of the martyrs were Hamas and 12 from the people. How can Hamas reap the fruits if it pays such an expensive price?” said Hamas official Salah Bardawil.
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“I am giving you an official figure. 50 of the martyrs in the recent battle were from Hamas,” he said.
It doesn’t get anymore straightforward than that, folks. If you’re crying about the casualties at the Gaza border, you’re rooting for terrorists. Literally.
That’s what you’re doing.
Israel knew it was Hamas all along, as they deal with these goat-humpers on a regular basis. If Hamas isn’t sending over fire-kites to start brush fires, they’re breaching the fence, firing missiles into residential areas and attacking with small arms fire. That’s when they’re not kidnapping and killing Israeli children.
After the first “March of Return” protests in March, a movement meant to “take back” Jerusalem (despite their never having it), Hamas acknowledged that five of its terrorists were among the fatalities, but it subsequently refrained from acknowledging whether its men were among the dead.
Now, Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar said he hoped to see a mass breach of the Israeli border during Monday’s protests timed to coincide with the US embassy’s move to Jerusalem.
They planned this for a while, folks.
For Hamas, the terror group whose sole purpose in life is Israel’s destruction, Monday’s border protest was the culmination of a weeks-long campaign to try to break the blockade on the territory. Israel put the blockade in place to prevent Hamas from acquiring weaponry and attacking the Jewish state.
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BIG PICTURE:
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Hamas are going to continue these types of attacks going forward in a “weekly format,” meaning they’ll keep them going with one or two attacks a week so as to keep the Zionist devil from ever getting comfortable. And with Ramadan upon us, we’re sure to see at least a few folks blow themselves up in the name of Allah.
Meanwhile, the legacy media will ignore every attack on Israel and then lose their ever-loving minds at the first hint of retaliation.
They’re the #FakeNewsCrew. It’s what they do.
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MORE BEGGING FOR ACCOUNTABILITY
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It’s sad to write a headline such as that, but it’s exactly what’s happening.
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House Freedom Caucus leadership is calling on PDT to order the Department of Justice to release all relevant documents regarding potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses, the impetus for the investigation into the Trump campaign and documents that lay out the scope of King Bob’s probe.
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GOP Reps. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, Jim Jordan of Ohio and Ron DeSantis of Florida sent a letter to PDT today asking for him to use his authority to “instruct Attorney General [Keebler] Sessions to immediately produce all documents” related to House Republicans’ investigation into “prosecutorial and investigatorial decisions” made the DOJ and FBI made in 2016 and 2017.
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“As a separate and equal branch of government, we have a constitutional right to these documents,” the lawmakers wrote. “The Department of Justice has obstructed Congressional oversight by refusing to supply necessary and relevant documents.”
They’re correct. Congress has a constitutional duty to provide oversight over the DOJ. The constant stonewalling is a slap in the face of every American, even the ones who don’t realize it.
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Among the items sought by (the few useful) House Republicans are DOJ documents related to Hillzdawg’s use of a private server, how and why the FBI first began its probe into the Trump campaign and a 2017 Rosenstein memo that details the scope of Mueller’s investigation.
House Republicans have requested some 1.2 million documents thus far, but have only received a few thousand of them, many of which have been heavily redacted so as to be completely friggin useless.
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As will John Brennan, Leakin’ James Comey, Peter Strzok and every other deep-stater who sought this silent coup.