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Rubio Distracts From GOP Tax Cut Success 
by Louis DeBroux
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Humckabee Flips Tables on Mueller - 
Ten Questions He Needs to Answer for Trump
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Former Arkansas Governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had a perfect rebuttal... to the idiotic and outrageous 49 questions that Grand Inquisitor Mueller wants to ask President Donald Trump in his effort to conduct a coup and remove him from office on behalf of the corrupt globalist political establishment that has hijacked our government. Huckabee was being sarcastic in preparing his list and it still made more sense than the moronic and sophomoric questions that the “esteemed hit man” Mueller and his team of political mercenaries prepared, despite their supposed collective wisdom and intelligence. On his blog, at mikehuckabee.com, Huckabee published  a short, ten item questionnaire that included an eleventh bonus question that should have completely put the Mueller hack job to shame, if he and his despicable team of swamp creatures were capable of that emotion. Writing as if he were Trump penning a message to Mueller, Huckabee stated the questions he’d like to see Trump ask of his persecutors...  https://rickwells.us/huckabee-mueller-ten-questions-trump/
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Joe diGenova Discusses Rod Rosenstein
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ While I believe the remarks by Rod Rosenstein are being ridiculously taken out of context... by dismissing the originating question, there is a solid argument to be made that enough is just simply enough with this *redaction* nonsense. It is clear, the political left are determined to use Lawfare tactics to impeach President Trump and destroy anyone/everyone around him.  Accepting this, and knowing the Lawfare scheme can only succeed in an environment of rumor, innuendo and false witness, the fastest way to destroy the narrative is full transparency.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/02/joe-digenova-discusses-rod-rosenstein/.
Giuliani says Trump paid $130G
 to Cohen for 'expenses' over several months 
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by Samuel Chamberlain & Paulina Dedaj 
{ foxnews.com } ~ In a wide-ranging interview on Fox News' "Hannity" on Wednesday night... Rudy Giuliani told host Sean Hannity that President Donald Trump reimbursed his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, $130,000 that Cohen paid to adult film actress Stormy Daniels days before the 2016 election in exchange for her silence about a sexual encounter with Trump in 2006. "That money was not campaign money," said Giuliani, a recent addition to Trump's legal team who is also a former mayor of New York City and Republican presidential candidate. "It's not campaign money. No campaign finance violation." "They funneled the payment through Cohen's law firm," Hannity said. "Funneled it through the law firm and the president repaid it," Giuliani said...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/03/giuliani-says-trump-paid-130g-to-cohen-for-expenses-over-several-months.html.
Michael Caputo Discusses His Three-Hour Questioning by 
Corrupt Legal “Small Group” liar-Clinton Representatives
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Michael Caputo appears on television with Tucker Carlson (Fox) and Anderson Cooper (CNN)... to discuss his three-hour inquisition by liar-Hillary Clinton’s “small group” #Resistance lawyers within the Robert Mueller special counsel team..
Mattis Sends Guantanamo 
Policy Recommendation to White House  
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by Paul Crookston
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Secretary of Defense James Mattis provided the White House this week with a new policy regarding the transfer of detainees... to the detention center at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January keeping the detention center open and calling for guidance from the defense secretary within 90 days. The Department of Defense said in a statement it has obliged, putting forward a policy recommendation one day after the deadline, CNN reports. The department is not making the details public at this time. "The Secretary of Defense has provided the White House with an updated policy governing the criteria for transfer of individuals to the detention facility at US Naval Station Guantanamo Bay," Pentagon spokesperson Cdr. Sarah Higgins said...
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Rubio Distracts From GOP Tax Cut Success 

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             However, such ignorance is unexpected coming from a conservative senator who was one of the last standing in a very crowded field of 2016 Republican presidential candidates.
               Regarding corporate savings from the GOP tax cuts, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) toldThe Economist, “There’s no evidence whatsoever that the money’s been massively poured back into the American worker.” He continued, “There is still a lot of thinking on the Right that if big corporations are happy, they’re going to take the money they’re saving and reinvest it in American workers.” Instead, he argues, a “few gave out bonuses,” while the remainder engaged in stock buybacks, increasing the share price for investors.
               During negotiations on the tax cut bill, Rubio pushed for a less generous corporate tax cut and an even greater child tax credit, winning a substantial increase. So he’s at least being consistent.
               In his interview, Rubio criticized supply-side “Reaganomics,” which reduced tax and regulatory burdens on businesses and unleashed a quarter-century of economic growth, benefitting the vast majority of Americans.
               Following the GOP tax cuts, hundreds of businesses announced bonuses and wage increases. Apple alone announced more than $300 million in bonuses to rank-and-file workers, and America’s largest employer, the much-maligned Walmart, raised its minimum wage to $11/hour, a whopping 52% higher than the federal minimum wage.
               Rubio contradicts himself by admitting that the tax cuts “make the U.S. economy a more attractive place to do business.” More business means more jobs, which creates a labor demand, which raises wages. More business means economic growth, which means higher tax revenue (because of, not in spite of, the lower rates).
               Even his railing against stock buybacks reveals a lack of understanding of how investments work. The tax cuts free up money for corporations to make capital investments, which increases productivity. Increased productivity brings higher wages for workers because workers produce more goods in less time.
               There is also the fact that, as the National Taxpayers Union’s Andrew Wilford explains, “Research continues to show that corporations only engage in stock buybacks when opportunities for productive capital investment are exhausted. There is no connection between increases in stock buybacks and decreases in economy-wide investment.
               Additionally, stock buybacks increase the value of the remaining shares. More than half of all Americans own stock directly or through mutual funds, which means their retirement accounts gain value when corporations buy back stock. Is this not a good thing? The National Taxpayers Union Foundation estimates that shareholders (including tens of millions of American workers and retired seniors) will see a 4.32% to 4.95% increase in their portfolios as a direct result of the tax cuts.
               In other words, Wilford says, the stock buybacks are “not proof that corporate tax reform is failing to benefit the economy. They’re proof that it is succeeding.”
               Whereas workers can see an immediate benefit when they receive a bonus, the greater positive impact will come in the next 18 months to three years as the effects of the tax cuts take hold. Businesses make decisions over a much longer horizon, which is why it was so important to make the corporate tax rate cuts permanent. Businesses would not make major investments based on a tax cut that expired in a year, or two or even five.
               It’s hard to tell whether Rubio’s statements are rooted in economic ignorance or political calculus, but either way, they are unhelpful to the Republican Party — a gift that Democrats were quick to exploit.
               While President Donald Trump has been wildly successful in slashing regulations, securing the border, nominating conservative jurists to the bench and dealing with foreign adversaries, the Republican Congress, thanks to a handful of turncoat GOP senators (Rubio is not among them), has precious little to brag about besides tax cuts as we go into the midterm elections — elections in which the majority party typically loses seats.
               Republicans are banking on Americans seeing the positive impact of the tax cuts in the form of wage increases, bonuses and job creation. Having a well-respected Republican senator torpedo that message is a deeply hurtful, self-inflicted wound. Rubio should be praising the tax cuts, not criticizing them. He took a step toward fixing things and better explaining himself with a new op-ed at National Review, but some significant damage was already done.   ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/55707

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