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Professional sports have done nothing to win back my viewership. They have done more to confirm the appropriateness of my decision to stop watching or participating in their business.
#BREAKING: Sen. Mitch McConnell: "Senate Republicans are taking steps to issue new subpoenas to a wide variety of Obama Administration officials." https://t.co/61CZraQnBb pic.twitter.com/BS8mEP9NCo
— The Hill (@thehill) May 19, 2020
As facts about the Obama administration’s spying and leaking are spilling out, media have a brief window of opportunity to salvage some credibility.
Don’t hold your breath.
A 49-year-old man has fallen out of a sixth-floor window of a Moscow hospital for coronavirus patients and died, Russian media reports. https://t.co/i8TvxFfKRb
Three Russian doctors treating coronavirus patients also fell out of windows in recent weeks. https://t.co/qvaQOevRDq
— Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) May 18, 2020
Unanticipated headline of the day
Kenneth Frantz:
“…Just returned from 15 days on the border, from San Diego, Calif to Brownsville, TX. I droned and filmed all 23 new wall construction sites along the way. 50 hours of video taken onsite at over 80 locations. A huge undertaking. My video of entire Trump Wall will be published in one week on this channel.
During a trip to Arizona and New Mexico, I filmed the construction of new border wall being built east of Douglas, Arizona. An extremely impressive undertaking. This video hopes to remind viewers how incredibly innovative & productive our construction industry is. It reminded me of the Alaska Pipeline Project, in which I personally managed a small portion of. After the politics settle, our relationship with Mexico will dramatically improve, the environment will be just fine (as was the environment in Alaska post project), the word “illegal” immigrant will be gone, and in its place increased & rejuvenating legal immigration…”
Part 2 of Maria Bartiromo’s interview with the president.
“…Treasury Department regularly surveilled retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn’s financial records and transactions beginning in December 2015 and well into 2017, before, during and after when he served at the White House as President Donald Trump’s National Security Director, a former senior Treasury Department official, and veteran of the intelligence community, told the Star Newspapers.
“I started seeing things that were not correct, so I did my own little investigation, because I wanted to make sure what I was seeing was correct” she said. “You never want to draw attention to something if there is not anything there.”
The whistleblower said she only saw metadata, that is names and dates when the general’s financial records were accessed. “I never saw what they saw.”
By March 2016, the whistleblower said she and a colleague, who was detailed to Treasury from the intelligence community, became convinced that the surveillance of Flynn was not tied to legitimate criminal or national security concerns, but was straight-up political surveillance among other illegal activity occurring at Treasury. . . . This ruse was to get around using classified resources to surveil Americans, she said. Once the Treasury personnel had enough information about someone they were targeting from the black box, they would go to the white box for faster and more informed search.
It was routine for these searches that had no criminal nor national security predicate, merely a political predicate, she said…”
We warmly welcome the announcement of the formation of a new Government of Israel. We are extremely fortunate to have such strong and experienced partners in Jerusalem, and we will work together to advance the security and prosperity of our peoples. pic.twitter.com/M8KpYHbNFV
— Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) May 17, 2020
Peter Navarro:
“I’m glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden’s press secretary. I know for the record that in his speech that I read there was no mention of manufacturing, no mention of China. As far as I’m concerned, his administration was a kumbaya of incompetence in which we saw millions of manufacturing jobs go off to China. His new normal was a flatline in terms of wage growth.”
Multiple clips here
2. It’s obvious. Romney is using the media’s hatred of the president to rebuild his legacy with the DC media. That’s his audience. He’s a shallow and calculating lifelong politician — a narcissist.https://t.co/tCJTeM0OMV
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) May 17, 2020
I don’t think Lynch was involved in Obamagate. Not that she is scandal free – you remember the tarmac meeting with former President Clinton.
Janice Shaw Crouse:
“…Well informed citizens have been rocked by revelations from recently unclassified documents that clearly show that President Obama “was aware of the details of wiretapped conversations of then-incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in December 2016.” Further, there’s a long list of Democrat dignitaries who are also part of the unprecedented spying on an opposition party in an attempt to influence a presidential election and then undermine the duly elected president. The really pivotal fact, however, is that “Obama’s knowledge of Flynn being wiretapped raises significant questions about what Obama knew and when he knew it with regard to the attempt to railroad Flynn and prevent him from serving as Trump’s national security advisor.”…”
