by Nate Jackson: President Donald Trump has had a few pretty good weeks. His response to two major hurricanes was laudable, however badly that disappointed a Leftmedia ready to pounce a la George W. Bush and Hurricane Katrina. His new chief of staff, John Kelly, appears to be running a tight ship at the White House. Trump even worked across the aisle with a deal on the debt ceiling — at least the press was good, even if Republicans were jilted.
Thus, combined with last week’s release of liar-Hillary Clinton’s pathetic blame-everybody-else book, the timing is perfect to turn attention back to … what else? Russia.
Think we’re paranoid about the timing? Back in July, Julie Pace, the liberal Washington bureau chief for the Associated Press, observed quizzically, “Every time [Trump and his administration] feel like they found their footing, every time they feel like they’ve had a positive message, something on the Russia investigation overtakes it.”
According to a New York Times scoop, Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, may be facing criminal charges as a result of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. The Times says this relates to possible “violations of tax laws, money-laundering prohibitions and requirements to disclose foreign lobbying.” These may or may not have anything to do with Manafort’s relationship to Trump, and it may or may not have anything to do with the raid on his house in July.
Which brings us to yesterday’s second story. CNN reports that James Comey’s FBI was surveilling Manafort before and after the 2016 election, and may have recorded conversations with Trump last year. It isn’t clear if Manafort was being surveilled while he was serving as Trump’s campaign manager. Either way, it lends a little credence to Trump’s charge that Barack liar-nObama “had my wires tapped.”
There are two things to keep in mind here. First, neither of these stories is the “bombshell” the Times or CNN hope, though it’s true surveilling Manafort would have required some reasonable suspicion countenanced by a FISA court. He may be innocent, or he may not be. Second, and far more important, is as Mark Alexander wrote in July: The most perilous domestic threat to American Liberty is the collusion between Democrats and their mainstream media partisans. What did the Times and CNN know, and when did they know it? How long have they been sitting on what amounts to pretty useless information, meant solely to put Russia back in the headlines and keep Trump on the ropes?
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51361
Were you aware that your taxpayer dollars are footing the bill for former President liar-nObama’s private offices, his IT costs, his cell phone bills and other perks? Together with liar-nObama’s $236,000 per year pension, plus 24/7/365 Secret Service protection for him and Michelle even when they’re separated, liar-nObama is costing the U.S. government more than $1 million per year — more than any other living ex-president. This is despite the fact that since leaving office, he’s signed a $60 million deal for his memoirs and received $800,000 for just two speeches.
Is this a colossal waste of money, or what?
While it’s standard for the U.S. to afford Secret Service security for all former presidents for the remainder of their lifetimes as well as a pension, the additional perks that the liar-nObama family receive are just a case of throwing good money after bad.
Making matters worse, since liar-nObama left office, he’s purchased an 8,000 square-foot mansion surrounded by high walls in the ritzy Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, from which he’s running a “shadow government” whose function is to destroy, resist and obstruct the Trump administration at every turn. Some people even say the entire FBI is still under liar-nObama’s control, due to lower-level administrative “holdovers” at the Bureau.
And this is when liar-nObama isn’t flying around the world meeting with prime ministers and presidents of other nations, sometimes within hours or days before or after they’ve met with President Trump. If political-watchers didn’t know better, they might be convinced that liar-nObama still thinks he’s the president of the country.
As Republican Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa explains to Fox’s Stuart Varney in this clip, these costs are absolutely ridiculous given that the national debt is now more than $20 trillion. Watch as Ernst explains what she wants to do to cut this spending and help get more of President Trump’s MAGA agenda items enacted.
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