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Misty » 15 Jun 2018 12:43 pm » wrote:Trump is delusional and our democracy is in danger?
Is there a psychiatrist in the house?

Speaking of delusional, that is. :\

Trump in fact is returning the country to the Constitution, the rule of law and the democratic process, after Obama grossly violated all of that.

And committed the biggest abuse of power in US history.
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Misty » 08 Jun 2018 5:54 pm » wrote:Here is your typical Trump supporter.
Making fun of a kid whose friends and classmates were slaughtered.

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She making fun of a grown man, actually - one who is putting himself out there as an arbiter of morality.

He can shut the **** up and be left alone any time he decides he can;t take the heat.

Tell ya one thing that little twig-armed ****** ain't gonna do - he ain;t gonna take that challenge. That chick will humiliate the androgynous little half a queer.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice

"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"

You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.

Who cuts off your dick is not a friend

An opinion you won't defend is not your own

Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe

When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge

If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
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THE ADMINISTRATOR » 08 Jun 2018 6:57 pm » wrote: i don't know man...i'd let her **** me with a machine gun to my head with no problem...i have a machine gun of my own''what justifies to you to mock trump's bod when hillary is wider than long?
I wanna see them fight, and I'll **** the winner.

And the loser.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice

"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"

You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.

Who cuts off your dick is not a friend

An opinion you won't defend is not your own

Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe

When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge

If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
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Misty » 08 Jun 2018 7:21 pm » wrote: The vote was yesterday Sparky.
The VOTE was yesterday - the cages were 2014.

It's a leave the gun, take the cannoli situation - and you took the gun and left the cannoli.

Two words: Foe, Pa.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice

"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"

You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.

Who cuts off your dick is not a friend

An opinion you won't defend is not your own

Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe

When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge

If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
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Misty » 08 Jun 2018 7:26 pm » wrote: You Cult45 members drove away all the sane people, and y'all gang bang the few that are left.
You make that sound like a bad thing.

Enabling sexual predators through slut shaming takes its toll, whatever the letter after their name.

Hey, like they say: drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park...
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice

"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"

You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.

Who cuts off your dick is not a friend

An opinion you won't defend is not your own

Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe

When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge

If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
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Termin8tor » 08 Jun 2018 9:52 pm » wrote: What a **** con artist you are.

Protecting an arrogant smear artist who trashes innocent people by associating him with the tragedy.

Might work on corrupt liberal MSM cable news, but not here.

Psychopath. :loco:
Damn, clem. You hit that nail right on the head.

She's calling him a kid - I was pleasantly surprised she didn't say LITTLE kid, - and pity signalling about the "tragic loss" he's been waving the bloody shirt around over and soaking up his 15 minutes about. He's a grown man, and he doesn't appear to give one **** about the kids who dies so he could be famous.

When you're so desperate that you gotta protect a grown man from a physical challenge by a young woman, your pretense at giving a **** about the glass ceiling is shattered.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice

"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"

You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.

Who cuts off your dick is not a friend

An opinion you won't defend is not your own

Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe

When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge

If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
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I like that tweet. I agree with that tweet.

The hypocrisy on both sides is so thick that it's a phenomenon unto itself. The dems are consistently attacking trump from the right, the repubs are giving peace a chance - the whole country has it's *** screwed on backwards.

Dems are the party of wall street wars, and repukes are trying to make the peace.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice

"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"

You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.

Who cuts off your dick is not a friend

An opinion you won't defend is not your own

Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe

When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge

If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
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Lies, China And Putin: Solving The Mystery Of Wilbur Ross' Missing Fortune

Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross

Amid President Trump’s headaches confirming cabinet secretaries, from neophyte Rex Tillerson to conflict-prone Scott Pruitt to unprepared Betsy DeVos, all of whom squeezed through, Wilbur Ross was a tonic.

With his blue power suit and decades of dealmaking, he had the look and the résumé of a commerce secretary.

And unlike his boss, Ross promised to divest from almost all his holdings upon entering government, drawing bipartisan praise en route to an easy confirmation.

“You have really made a very personal sacrifice,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut.

“Your service has resulted in your divesting yourself of literally hundreds of millions of dollars.”

In November 2017, Ross confirmed in writing to the federal Office of Government Ethics that he had divested everything he promised.

But that was not true. After weeks of investigation, Forbes found:

For most of last year, Ross served as secretary of commerce while maintaining stakes in companies co-owned by the Chinese government, a shipping firm tied to Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, a Cypriot bank reportedly caught up in the Robert Mueller investigation and a huge player in an industry Ross is now investigating.

It’s hard to imagine a more radioactive portfolio for a cabinet member.

To this day, Ross’ family apparently continues to have an interest in these toxic holdings.

Rather than dump them all, the commerce secretary sold some of his interests to Goldman Sachs—and, according to Ross himself, put others in a trust for his family members.

He continued to deal with China, Russia and others while evidently knowing that his family’s interests were tied to those countries.

In addition, five days before reports surfaced last fall that Ross was connected to cronies of Vladimir Putin through a shipping firm called Navigator Holdings, the secretary of commerce, who likely knew about the reporting, shorted stock in the Kremlin-linked company, positioning himself to make money on the investment when share prices dropped.

Absurdly, maintaining all those conflicts of interest appears to be entirely legal—a reflection of ethics laws woefully unprepared for governing tycoons like Donald Trump and Wilbur Ross.

Ross appears to have broken one law, however: submitting a sworn statement to federal officials in November saying he divested of everything he had promised he would—even though he still held more than $10 million worth of stock in financial firm Invesco, his former employer.

He also continued to hold a short position in a bank called Sun Bancorp, a company he had promised to divest. The next month, Ross got rid of interests in both.

What does Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross say about all of this now? Not much.

When Forbes asked, a month ago, what became of his holdings, he passed the message to his spokesman, who said he hoped to have an answer the next day.

Five days later, he sent a one-sentence statement, promising Ross’ current assets would be reflected on an annual financial disclosure, which he had not yet filed.

Given two weeks to respond to a list of detailed questions, the spokesperson declined to answer most of them but underscored that Ross eventually divested of his holdings.

The spokesperson also issued a statement about whether Ross had broken the law by lying to federal officials.

"The secretary did not lie," he said, adding that Ross filed amended paperwork, which is currently under review by the Office of Government Ethics.

Wilbur Ross is not known for telling the truth.

On a Sunday afternoon last fall, just back from a trip to Asia, Ross called Forbes to lie about his personal fortune.

Forbes had listed the commerce secretary on its billionaires rankings for years, but his financial disclosure report revealed less than $700 million in assets.

When pressed about the discrepancy, Ross calmly cited more than $2 billion in undisclosed assets, saying he had shifted a chunk of his fortune to a trust for his family.

Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexand ... ccb3c87e87
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Trump's media allies struggle to mold coherent defense of his immigration policy.

(CNNMoney) President Donald Trump's top allies in the media have struggled this week to formulate a coherent defense of his administration's immigration crackdown, oscillating between talking points to provide the president cover for the widely-condemned zero-tolerance policy that has resulted in children being separated from their parents at the southern border.

Members of the pro-Trump media seemed to share the same goal: Fending off an onslaught of criticism directed at the White House by members of both political parties.

But the ways in which each defender has gone about doing this differed, ranging from falling back on tropes and arguments often employed by white nationalists, to portraying immigrants as threats, to outright dismissing the controversy as part of a fictitious plot.

The shifting defenses of the unchanging policy seems to reflect the White House's inability to crystalize an effective explanation to blunt the mounting outrage.

Trump, for instance, has suggested he is no fan of the policy and called on Congress to "CHANGE THE LAWS," while simultaneously characterizing immigrants as crime-committing individuals who want to "infest our country."

"The confusion of the Trump media mirrors the confusion in the Trump White House and I think really reveals how dependent they are on having a coherent spin out of the Trump White House," Charlie Sykes, a conservative talk show host and author of "How the Right Lost Its Mind," told CNN.

"It exposes the backstage confusion. There is no coherent party line. It shows their dependence on him setting the theme."

As the story bubbled to the surface over the weekend, several different talking points emerged.

One came early on by the way of Ann Coulter, an anti-immigration hardliner.

Appearing Sunday on Fox News, Coulter claimed the children at detention facilities were "child actors" and implored the president not to "fall for the actor children."

The next day, Rush Limbaugh, the top-rated conservative talk show host, effectively fed his audience a strain of Coulter's theory by suggesting that what is happening at the border is not a real news story.

He referred to the scenes playing out on the border as an "entirely manufactured crisis," saying Democrats "have to change the subject" away from news good for Trump, like positive economic numbers.

And Laura Ingraham, the Fox News prime time host and radio personality, dismissed the crisis as "phony border outrage" on Monday.

She said the children who have been ripped from their parents and taken to detention facilities, where some have been held in metal cages built of chain-link fences, are "temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps."

Other organs of the pro-Trump media body took a different approach, seeking to depict young immigrants as threats.

On Monday morning, Fox News' website led with an "exclusive" story about the "danger" it said the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy posed.

The program permits some individuals, who were brought into the US illegally by their parents, to remain in the country.

The Drudge Report, the highly-trafficked conservative news website that often sets the narrative for the rest of the conservative media, also attempted to paint a picture of the immigrants being detained by the administration, including the children, as potentially dangerous.

The website on Monday morning paired a photograph of Syrian children holding toy guns with a headline about the children being detained at the border.

The photo was later taken down, but the implication was clear: That minors being held in detention facilities posed a potential threat.

The photographer who captured the image, Christiaan Triebert, told CNN the Drudge Report's use of the image was an "obscene misrepresentation" of his work.

Tucker Carlson, the Fox News prime time host, went another route, using rhetoric similar to what one would anticipate from white nationalists.

He said that the humanitarian organizations, members of the media, and politicians on both sides of the aisle who have spoken out don't actually care "about helping children."

The real objective?

"Their goal is to change your country forever," Carlson said.

"And they are succeeding, by the way."

The pro-Trump media also floated alternative defenses.

At one point on Monday night, the Fox News website harkened back to the Obama years, attacking the former president for his immigration policies.

At other times, media allies like Sean Hannity, the Fox News host and close confidant of Trump, have said the responsibility lies with Congress to take action, echoing the president.

Like the White House, it has seemed at times that the only clear message coming from Trump's media defenders is perhaps that there is no clear message at all.

"I think one of the things Trump has discovered," Sykes said, "is that ... you don't necessarily have to be coherent or truthful for people to support you."
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From Trump's meeting with Republicans on Capitol Hill today.

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Ya think?

Of course Trump quickly veered off the subject of immigration and launched into a review of his accomplishments.

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It's your policy **** face.
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Giuliani reveals FBI agents questioned him about possible Clinton probe leaks that proved beneficial to Trump.

Rudy Giuliani revealed Tuesday he was interviewed by FBI agents earlier this year about possible leaks out of the bureau’s New York office that ended up boosting President Trump’s campaign days before the 2016 election.

The former New York mayor said the interview took place at his room at the Trump International Hotel in Washington in February and focused on his Oct. 26, 2016, claim on national TV that a “surprise” was coming.

“That’s all they asked about. What was I talking about in terms of ‘surprise,’” Giuliani told HuffPost.
“What was I talking about when I was talking about new information?”


On November 4th he was asked if he had advance notice that Comey was going to reopen the Clinton email investigation and he said, "Did I hear about it? You're darn right I heard about it."
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I assume that's autobiographical? :\
Let's take a closer look. No need to since we all know that little Miss Marxist has the highest integrity. :rofl: :rofl:

She might be technically correct, but Trump is absolutely correct on the trend and the danger of unchecked immigration.
German crime statistics reveal steep rise in violent and political crimes
Germany has recorded a significant rise in politically motivated crimes by foreigners, including jihadis. The report revealed that rise of migrant criminal suspects in Germany has soared by more than 50 percent.
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Misty » 19 Jun 2018 7:44 pm » wrote: Giuliani reveals FBI agents questioned him about possible Clinton probe leaks that proved beneficial to Trump.

On November 4th he was asked if he had advance notice that Comey was going to reopen the Clinton email investigation and he said, "Did I hear about it? You're darn right I heard about it."
Strange, but you never, EVER worried about leaks when felonies were committed by corrupt Obama officials in the coup attempt against Trump.

Why is that?
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Fear and smear is all this useless piece of **** has.

Trump warns Christian leaders of violence if GOP loses in the midterms.

He also lied about getting rid of a law which he did not.
In a closed-door meeting with evangelical leaders Monday night, President Trump repeated his debunked claim that he had gotten "rid of" a law forbidding churches and charitable organizations from endorsing political candidates, according to recorded excerpts reviewed by NBC News.

In fact, the law remains on the books, after efforts to kill it in Congress last year failed.

But Trump cited this alleged accomplishment as one in a series of gains he has made for his conservative Christian supporters, as he warned "You're one election away from losing everything that you've got," and said their opponents were "violent people" who would overturn these gains "violently."

Trump addressed the law and the upcoming midterms in private remarks Monday during a dinner with evangelical supporters at the White House after the press left.

At stake in the November midterms, Trump told the audience, are all the gains he has made for conservative Christians.

"The level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable," he said.

"Part of it is because of some of the things I've done for you and for me and for my family, but I've done them….

This November 6th election is very much a referendum on not only me, it's a referendum on your religion, it's a referendum on free speech and the First Amendment."

If the GOP loses, he said, "they will overturn everything that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently, and violently.

There's violence. When you look at Antifa and you look at some of these groups — these are violent people."
Antifa is going to violently overturn laws or Executive Orders?

Two big lies he told a room full of so-called Christians.

Of course they are not real Christians, who would have nothing to do with this filthy sinner.
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Misty » 28 Aug 2018 3:43 pm » wrote:Fear and smear is all this useless piece of **** has.
Strange, haven't you been spreading fear and smear for going on two years now, psychopath?
Trump warns Christian leaders of violence if GOP loses in the midterms.

He also lied about getting rid of a law which he did not.
In a closed-door meeting with evangelical leaders Monday night, President Trump repeated his debunked claim that he had gotten "rid of" a law forbidding churches and charitable organizations from endorsing political candidates, according to recorded excerpts reviewed by NBC News.
Antifa is going to violently overturn laws or Executive Orders?
Oh my gosh, Trump used the word "law" instead of "Executive Order?" And that's what you call a lie? :rofl: :rofl:

Impeach! Impeach! :clap:

In fact, Trump's EO was yet another example of great policy he has implemented, freeing religious leaders' freedom of speech.
Two big lies he told a room full of so-called Christians.

Of course they are not real Christians, who would have nothing to do with this filthy sinner.

Wow, you're **** deranged. :loco:

Real Christian believe that people can improve themselves, as Trump clearly has done.

And he's far, far, FAR the superior moral choice to serial felon and psychopathic liar Hillary Clinton.
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My heart goes out to Meghan McCain.
I know how much she loved and idolized her Father.

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Trump administration leaking a candidate's unredacted security clearance application for political purposes.
And Ms. Spanberger is not the only Dem with a security clearance that is running for office.
C.I.A. Officer-Turned-Candidate Says PAC Obtained Her Security Application

WASHINGTON — A former C.I.A. officer running for Congress accused a super PAC aligned with Speaker Paul D. Ryan on Tuesday of improperly obtaining her entire federal security clearance application — a highly sensitive document containing extensive personal information — and then using it for political purposes.

Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate challenging Representative Dave Brat of Virginia, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Corry Bliss, the executive director of the Congressional Leadership Fund, which has raised more than $100 million to help Republicans in the midterm elections.

She demanded that the super PAC destroy all copies of the form and agree to not use the information in any fashion.

“I write as a former civil servant and as an American, in shock and anger, that you have tried to exploit my service to our country by exposing my most personal information in the name of politics,” she wrote.

The super PAC released a statement on Tuesday strongly denying Ms. Spanberger’s charge, saying that the document was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed with the United States Postal Service by America Rising, a separate Republican-aligned research firm.

“C.L.F. follows the letter of the law in examining any candidate’s background and Ms. Spanberger was no different,” Courtney Alexander, a spokeswoman for the group, said in the statement.

The group also released a portion of the security clearance application, blacking out some personal information.

Graham Wilson, a lawyer for Ms. Spanberger’s campaign, said that explanation, which laid the mistake on the Postal Service, did not ring true.

“In this unredacted form, this is not a document that the government can provide under the Privacy Act,” he said.

Ms. Spanberger, 39, said in the letter that she had “clear evidence” that the Congressional Leadership Fund had provided a copy of her security clearance application to “at least one news outlet,” adding, “I am not aware of any legal way that C.L.F. could have this document.”

In an interview, she said that she suspected that the group was trying to exploit a brief time when she taught at a private Islamic school funded by Saudi Arabia.

The super PAC validated that suspicion in its response, going on at some length to try to link the school — called “Terror High” in an earlier news article — to terrorist activity.

The application was one of two that she completed for government positions, for a law enforcement job at the Postal Service and for her position with the Central Intelligence Agency.

At a political event this month, Ms. Spanberger said she was approached by a reporter for The Associated Press, who showed her a copy of the security form and said the leadership fund had provided the document on a background basis, meaning that the source would typically not be named.

The reporter pulled up a copy of the form on his email, and Ms. Spanberger said she was “100 percent” certain it was hers.

The forms ask for detailed personal information about work and health and also include vital data like a Social Security number.

“I am proud of my background and my service, and not ashamed of the information I submitted,” she said. “I have nothing to hide in my background. But, as any American in a similar situation would be, I am concerned about my privacy and security.”

Ms. Spanberger, a first-time candidate, served in the C.I.A. as a covert officer overseas for eight years, much of it investigating international terrorism cases, and has used that part of her biography in her appeal to voters in Virginia’s Seventh Congressional District, which includes the suburbs of Richmond and extends north to far reaches of exurban Washington.

She has made the race, which is rated a tossup by the Cook Political Report, surprisingly competitive.

“When I decided to run for Congress, I took stringent measures for my campaign because, as a former C.I.A. operative, I assumed I would be the target of attacks,” she said in the letter. “But I expected those attacks to come from foreign adversaries, not domestic groups associated with members of Congress, like C.L.F.”

Even before being approached by a reporter, Ms. Spanberger said in the interview that she had become suspicious that the application had been leaked because Republican-aligned groups conducting “push polling” in the race had been asking respondents whether they knew she had once taught at the Islamic Saudi Academy in Alexandria, Va., an international baccalaureate program.

One of her supporters received a call from the polling company and reported that she was asked if she would be less likely to support Ms. Spanberger if she knew that the candidate had taught at a school funded by the Saudi royal family that had “numerous students arrested for terrorism,” Ms. Spanberger said.

A recent graduate from the University of Virginia at the time, Ms. Spanberger returned to the United States in 2002 after teaching in Germany and earning a master’s degree. She applied for a job at the C.I.A. that year and was told in December that she had a conditional offer pending her background check, which she was told could take at least six months.

She waited tables in the interim, and a colleague asked her if she would be interested in a temporary job teaching English at the academy to cover for another instructor’s maternity leave, Ms. Spanberger said.

As she awaited final word from the C.I.A., she took a job at the Postal Inspection Service, the law enforcement arm of the Postal Service. She said she filled out the federal forms for both jobs at about the same time. She also said she informed the C.I.A. each time she took on new employment.

National security experts said that the unauthorized release of such a highly confidential document is particularly troubling if it turns out to not be an isolated episode.

“It calls for a tremendous amount of extremely private, personal information, and so to the person whose information is at stake, it is extremely significant,” said David Kris, a founder of Culper Partners and a former assistant attorney general for national security.

extremely significant,” said David Kris, a founder of Culper Partners and a former assistant attorney general for national security.

Ms. Spanberger noted that she, like millions of others, had been notified that her personal information may have been compromised in 2015 during a breach at the federal Office of Personnel Management. American officials have said privately that they believe that the hacking could be traced to the Chinese government.

Ms. Spanberger is among more than a dozen Democratic candidates this year with strong background in national security through service in the military or at the intelligence agencies.

Representative Ben Ray Luján, Democrat of New Mexico and the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sent a letter on Tuesday to more than a dozen candidates in his party making them aware of Ms. Spanberger’s complaint and urging caution.

“This is an official government document that only President Trump’s administration should have in its possession in its unredacted form,” Mr. Luján said.

“To be clear, we have no reason to believe that Republican groups have illegally obtained any of your personnel files, nor are we certain how C.L.F. got Ms. Spanberger’s document in the first place,” Mr. Luján said. “But even the evidence of this isolated incident is deeply troubling.”

A spokesman for Mr. Ryan, Jeremy Adler, said, “We cannot speak to the activity or behavior of outside groups.”

The Associated Press declined to comment directly on the issue. “As a matter of longstanding policy, The Associated Press does not publicly discuss its news gathering methods or sourcing,” said Bryan Baldwin, a spokesman for the news organization. “In this instance, The A.P. did not publish a story on this topic.”

President Trump’s persistent attacks on the intelligence agencies, notably in connection with its assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help him, have given rise to complaints that a “deep state” exists in the government that is working to undermine the president.

But Ms. Spanberger is looking at that from the opposite perspective.

“I personally don’t see that they only have my documents,” Ms. Spanberger said. “I just happen to be the canary in the coal mine and we had someone bring it to my attention.”

She added, “I have nothing to hide. If they need a canary in the coal mine, I’m glad it’s me.”

Correction: August 28, 2018
An earlier version of this article misidentified a founder of Culper Partners who is a former assistant attorney general for national security. He is David Kris.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/us/p ... r-pac.html
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Misty » 19 Jun 2018 6:45 pm » wrote:Image

It's your policy **** face.
You're not enjoying the Trump presidency, are you, wackjob.

They're following federal law and court rulings, as they should.

As Obama followed them, separating mothers from children the same way.

Never saw one single word of outrage for eight years about it.

I guess it's only a bad thing when a Republican does it. :\
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