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After dirty cop-Mueller’s Exoneration
of Trump, Full Disclosure
{nationalreview.com} ~ The news that Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller has closed his investigation without recommending criminal charges against President Trump is a relief. It is not a surprise... Nor is it a surprise that the news has Trump antagonists clamoring for full disclosure of the special counsel’s final report. Mind you, when skeptics of the Trump-Russia investigation asked what the criminal predicate for it was, and on what basis the scumbag/liar-nObama administration had decided to monitor the opposition party’s presidential campaign, we were admonished about the wages of disclosure — the compromise of precious defense secrets, of deep-cover intelligence sources and methods. Why, to ask for such information was to be an insurrectionist seeking to destroy the FBI, the Justice Department, and the rule of law itself. Now, though, it’s only the uncharged president of the United States at issue, so disclose away! Well, if we’re going to have disclosure, fine. But let’s have full disclosure: dirty cop-Mueller’s report in addition to the FISA applications; the memoranda pertinent to the opening and continuation of the investigation; the testimony in secret hearings; the scope memorandum Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein issued on August 2, 2017, after failing to cite a crime when he appointed dirty cop-Mueller — let’s have all of it. As far as the special counsel’s report goes, because of the way the regulations work at least when the Justice Department deigns to follow them, we now have dirty cop-Mueller’s bottom line, but not his reasoning and the underlying facts. It is the opposite of the Trump opposition’s preferred Roger Stone and George Papadopoulos scenario, where dirty cop-Mueller’s team spins pages and pages of “Gee, sure seems like a lot of almost-collusion here” before you flip to the end and find that there’s no case — just a campaign hanger-on who lied to an investigator long after the imaginary espionage conspiracy occurred. At the moment, we just have dirty cop-Mueller’s conclusion: There is no basis to indict the president for a crime — not collusion, not obstruction, not false statements. The collusion-peddlers, who took great umbrage at the suggestion that “VERIFIED” FISA surveillance-warrant applications should be disclosed, now demand dirty cop-Mueller’s full report so they can get to the familiar work of obscuring the bottom line and spinning the spin. As we’ve noted before, unlike dirty cop-Mueller, who needs a crime to indict, Congress does not need a crime to impeach. The media-Democrat alliance does not need a crime to inflate dirty cop-Mueller’s not-quite-so stories into treason. To keep this carnival rolling on for another year and a half, they just need fodder for the narrative — which is so predictably morphing from the collusion narrative to the impeachment narrative to the campaign narrative...The Media’s Role in Pushing The False
Russian Collusion Conspiracy
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ We shared a discussion thread several months ago about how the media are enmeshed within the story of the DOJ and FBI corruption... The media engagements with the parties swirling around the FBI, DOJ and scumbag/liar-Clinton-Steele Dossier are so pervasive they cannot reasonably report on any aspect of the story without exposing their own duplicity. As more and more information surfaces about corrupt DOJ and FBI activity, it’s worth remembering the media’s complicit role... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/03/24/the-medias-role-in-pushing-the-false-russian-collusion-conspiracy/.
Presidential Veto Sets Up Long Fight
Over Border Wall Funding
{fairus.org} ~ The question of President Trump’s authority to veto of H.J. Res. 46, a joint resolution that would terminate the presidential declaration of a national emergency and bar him from authorizing certain military funds for border wall construction... is certainly headed for the courts. In the meantime, the issue of appropriating funds for the wall will remain on Congress’ front burner for the foreseeable future. Last week, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan released to Congress a fact sheet detailing the authorized military construction projects subject to being canceled, reduced, or raided in order to reallocate $3.6 billion to finance President Trump’s border wall. The Pentagon noted that any project which received an award date prior to September 2019 would also be spared. Given those restrictions, about two-thirds of the $12.8 billion list of identified projects are exempt. The release only fueled the fire that was coming from Senate Democrats last week when they grilled Shanahan about the Pentagon’s budget. It is a drama which will be showcased again when the secretary appears March 26 before the House Armed Services Committee with General Joseph F. Dunford, U.S. Marine Corps. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) issued a statement presaging his intentions...Something 'big' coming? Carl Bernstein says
volume of Russia investigation stories 'justified'
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein said the high volume of Russia investigation-related stories in the past two years have been merited... no matter if special counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller determined the Trump campaign colluded. CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter argued the volume of coverage fueled the belief that “something big is coming” in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. “The volume of coverage is justified,” the veteran journalist of Watergate fame told CNN’s “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter. Bernstein, best known for his investigative reporting that shed light on the Watergate scandal leading to former President Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974, has been at the forefront of reporting digging into the years-long Russia investigation. In January, Bernstein said he had been told that a draft of dirty cop-Mueller's final report shows Trump helped Putin "destabilize" the U.S. dirty cop-Mueller concluded his investigation Friday, delivering his report to Attorney General William Barr. The investigation led to the indictments of 34 people and three Russian companies, including six individuals close to Trump, such as former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, but none relate to collusion with Russia. dirty cop-Mueller is not expected to recommend any new indictments. Barr is reviewing the report and may be able to brief members of Congress on dirty cop-Mueller’s “principal conclusions” sometime Sunday... These hater Trumps can't stand the true facts when it hits them in the face. They continue to take false lies as true..
New Hampshire House Votes To Give
Illegals Driver’s Licenses
{fairus.org} ~ On a mostly party-line vote (204-137), New Hampshire’s Democratic-controlled House of Representatives approved legislation that would allow illegal immigrants to get a driver’s license... without a Social Security number. Just five Democrats joined Republicans to vote against HB 397, which would authorize “the issuance of drivers' licenses for residents of New Hampshire who do not possess a social security card.” The bill stipulates that in absence of a Social Security number, “a resident may prove his or her identity and age to the director by producing reliable official documentation of 2 forms of identification.” According to the legislation, the documentation could include a current or expired alien registration card, employment au thorization card, temporary resident card, or any other document issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service; and/or Any other documentation issued by the government of the applicant’s country of birth. The bill also included penalties for disclosure of any applicant information “to any government agency or official unless pursuant to a validly executed warrant issued by a state or federal judge.” A failure to comply could result in a fine of no more than $5,000 and may result in imprisonment of one to 3 years... New Hamshire dems you are doing a disservice to your state as well to the United State..
Fed pick Stephen Moore says he'll be
independent despite pushing Trump policies
by Colin Wilhelm{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Stephen Moore, President Trump's pick to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, defended shifting his views on major economic issues since working with Trump, saying Saturday that he favors stable prices and economic growth.
"Certainly I'm in favor of most of the policies that this president has put forth," Moore said in a phone interview with the Washington Examiner.
During the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, Moore, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, criticized the Fed’s post-financial crisis policy of setting interest rates near zero to spur spending, suggesting in 2015, for instance, that "easy money policy" risked a repeat of the 2008 crisis.
But Moore did an about-face after Trump's criticism of the central bank for raising rates, calling on the Fed to keep its target rate as low as possible. Moore went as far in December as to call on Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, another Trump nominee, to resign for raising rates.
Moore said Saturday that he would not take political considerations into account if he were confirmed to the Fed, despite his proximity to Trump. "I get that the Fed has to be independent of what the president wants," he said.
When questioned about the discrepancy between his views on interest rates before and after Trump's presidency, Moore said that he favors changing Fed policy to tie interest rates to the prices of oil and other major commodities. He explained that he supported "a rules-based monetary policy that would have exceptions during a time of economic crisis."
"Keep those stable over time, and you'll have a stable price system," Moore said.
According to data from the Federal Reserve, the price of oil is about 40 percent lower than it was before the recession that began in late 2007, while the average price of gasoline per gallon is approximately 60 cents lower.
Jim Pethokoukis, an economic policy analyst for the American Enterprise Institute who has known Moore for years, said that Congress will look skeptically at Moore's closeness to Trump and his reversals on policy.
“That’s certainly an accusation that he’s going to hear,” said Pethokoukis, a frequent guest on Moore and Larry Kudlow’s old radio show. “I think it’s OK to change your mind on things, but I think you have to provide a logical coherent path” as to what caused that change, he said.
Before Trump's election, Moore also positioned himself as a fiscal hawk.
In 2015, Moore argued that the debt ceiling, a legal borrowing limit for the federal government, should not be raised without significant spending cuts. The Trump administration has asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling without any spending cuts in return.
In comments since Trump’s election, Moore has downplayed the need to cut spending, arguing that all that matters is economic growth.
"I don't think, by the way, there is any particular relationship between the debt and interest rates or deficits and rates," Moore said in a 2018 interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network. "But I want to reduce the debt burden on the economy, so growth — you have debt, numerator, GDP denominator — get that GDP up."
Deficits are rising significantly during Trump’s presidency, accelerated by the tax cuts and spending increases he's presided over. The Congressional Budget Office projects that the federal deficit will approach $900 billion this year, over $100 billion more than last year, and will rise indefinitely in the years ahead.
On Saturday, Moore pushed back on the notion that he doesn't care about the government spending more than it takes in. "Deficits reduce growth, they don't stimulate growth," he said before adding that "I'm a big growth hawk. Whatever you can do to create economic growth."
"We just need a Fed policy that permits the economy to grow without inflation," Moore said. "In my mind, the most important thing is growth. There's no way you can possibly bring the deficit down without growth."
Despite the discrepancies between his own views over the years, and likely universal opposition from Democrats, Moore has the advantage of a winning personality, said Pethokoukis.
"He is a super friendly guy," said Pethokoukis of Moore. "We got into it, but it was always very congenial, if spirited.”
Economic experts on both the Right and the Left panned Moore's nomination after Trump announced his intent to pick the former Club for Growth president, driven largely by Moore's unorthodox background for the Fed.
"Steve is a perfectly amiable guy, but he simply does not have the intellectual gravitas for this important job," wrote Greg Mankiw, a Harvard economist and a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the George W. Bush administration. "It is time for senators to do their job. Mr. Moore should not be confirmed."
Why would Mankiw go against Mr. Moore...one reason he doesn't like Mr. Moore.
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