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Tom Rogan:
“…Consider the latest unemployment data released Friday. Alongside an increase in productivity of 3.6%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the unemployment rate fell to 3.6% over the first quarter 2019. That’s the lowest rate since we first landed on the moon. And that 3.6% matching speaks to an economy that is growing, dynamic, and moral. Consider that the data also shows Hispanic unemployment is now at just 4.2%. Aside from static year-on-year changes in (still very low) unemployment for blacks, and a 0.2% year-on-year increase in unemployment for teenagers, the economy is boosting employment for every listed demographic subset.
Yet Democrats say that Trump’s economy is somehow immoral. When they aren’t trying to assign credit for it to Obama, they claim that it punishes the middle class and the poor. And so, rather than doubling down on the economic fortune we now find, Democrats are pledging to shred Trump’s corporate tax reforms, escalate regulation, and increase state control in the economy.
This is insane…”
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Stories are slowly coming from MSM outlets about the nature and extent of deep state spying on the Trump Campaign. This comes as a run-up to the future release of the IG reports on various aspects of FBI/DOJ/CIA malfeasance in the last election. The stories are intended to blunt the shock effect of the IG report to a public largely unaware of the information. Why is the public largely unaware of the information? The MSM chose not to report it while the potential of trapping Trump in some kind of crime still existed.
Remember the media went for 2 years with daily and nightly written and televised reports of the latest ‘Trump Bombshell,’ the ‘walls are closing in’, Trump ‘won’t survive,’ Trump ‘will resign in shame,’ etc.
It is all coming back to haunt them.
Benoit Faucon and Ian Talley:
“…The prospect of added pressure on Iran comes as Washington kicked off a fresh round of sanctions on Iranian oil exports on Thursday. The U.S. ban is aimed at coercing Iran into signing a new nuclear and security pact. In targeting the country’s crude—its main income source—the U.S. hopes to sever the financial and trade ties that are keeping Iran’s economy afloat.
Since the U.S. sanctions began in November, the Iranian government has missed out on more than $10 billion in oil revenue, Brian Hook, U.S. special representative for Iran at the State Department, said last week.
The U.S. Treasury Department is now weighing targeted sanctions that would curb the flow of less-visible sources of the U.S.-denominated currency that Iran needs to pay for imports of basic goods—and to shore up its own flagging currency, U.S. officials said.
The sanctions under consideration include the targeting of financial networks that transfer U.S. dollars to Iranian companies as payment for petrochemical exports—the country’s second-largest source of revenue after oil, a U.S. official said…”
From Liberal writer Margaret Carlson:
“…According to my unscientific poll asking every woman I see, Beto reminds them of the worst boyfriend they ever had: self-involved, convinced of his own charm, chronically late if he shows up at all, worth a meal or two but definitely not marriage material. When he should be home with the kids or taking out the trash, he’s jamming with his garage band or skateboarding at Whataburger. He’s “in and out of a funk” which requires long and meaningful runs to clear his head. Every thought he has is transcendent, worthy of being narrated, videotaped, and blogged. He is always out finding himself. At age 46, the man asking to run the country is currently lost…”
Paul Bedard:
“…The optimism Americans feel about their personal finances has touched a new high, setting the stage for President Trump to ride the economic recovery into the 2020 presidential campaign, according to a new survey.
The latest Gallup poll found that 56% rate their current financial situation as “excellent” or “good,” the highest in the poll dating to 2001.
What’s more, 69% said that they expect to be better off financially in a year, the highest for that finding in 16 years…”
“…The U.S. adding a robust 263,000 new hires in April while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation, according to a Labor Department report Friday. Nonfarm payroll growth beat Wall Street expectations of 190,000 and a 3.8% jobless rate, according to Dow Jones estimates…”
The circus in the House Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, and the wild accusations from Democrats in the House, are a smokescreen to give the Democratic media talking points and reasons not to cover the emerging, and shortly to be released, investigations into Obama Administration officials regarding malfeasance in the 2016 investigations into Clinton and Trump.
Real bombshells, not made up nonsense, are about to explode, and the Democrats are doing everything they can to divert attention.