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Politics : A Real American President: Donald Trump -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (204098)	5/12/2020 7:10:31 AM
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President Trump Triggers “Kung Flu” Reporter Doubtlessly implying some kind of racist motive, Asian-American reported Weijia Jiang dropped her face mask and screamed at President Trump this afternoon in the White House Rose Garden, forcing an early ending to the press event. Towards the end of the presser – the first in a week – President Trump called on CBS’s Weijia Jiang who asked the President why he was treating coronavirus testing as a competition between countries. . @weijia: Why is this a global competition to you when Americans are losing their lives every day? TRUMP: Maybe that's a question you should ask China. WEIJA: Why are you saying that to me, specifically? TRUMP: I'm saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that. pic.twitter.com/hokJOXASh8 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 11, 2020 The President had never implied it was a competition, but had repeatedly put the U.S.’s number one in testing status into context with other countries. Nevertheless, Jiang – the same reporter who alleged a White House staffer used the phrase “Kung Flu” but quickly went silent when she was asked to reveal who – attempted to excoriate him and the White House Task Force for daring to place the U.S. at #1. “Why is this a global competition to you when Americans are losing their lives every day?” asked Jiang. POTUS rebuked her: “Maybe that’s a question you should ask China,” he began to reply. China is known to have hidden the outbreak of the coronavirus early on, leading to many unnecessary deaths in the West. Jiang, however, chose to deflect from China and instead have a meltdown on the White House lawn. “Why are you saying that to me, specifically?” she cried, to which the President responded: “I’m saying it to anybody who would ask a nasty question like that.” At that moment the President tries to move on, only to be told by CNN’s Kaitlin Collins that she too was waiting for Trump to answer to Jiang’s outburst. At this point Jiang dangerously dropped her face mask and began shouting across the lawn in the President’s direction. It was at this point the presser was brought to a close. Thanks victim-wannabe Jiang, and of course a special mention for CCPNN.

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Elon Musk Restarts California Factory in Defiance of Local Government Order

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To: Honey_Bee who wrote (204098)	5/12/2020 8:14:59 AM
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Pennsylvania Governor Wolf Threatens To Pull Funding From Counties That Re-Open Against His Orders May 11, 2020, 10:49pmby Brock Simmons

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STUNNING: In the US 39% of All US COVID-19 Deaths — or 31,900 — Occurred in Nursing Homes May 11, 2020, 10:07pmby Jim Hoft

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (204098)	5/12/2020 8:20:02 AM
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DR. FAU-CHICOM EXPECTED TO LIE A LOT BY CHUCKY SCHUMER... foxnews.com Schumer tells Fauci before Senate coronavirus testimony: 'Let it rip' Vandana Rambaran In eager anticipation of the Senate's virtual hearings with four top doctors from President Trump's coronavirus task force, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., urged Dr. Anthony Fauci to "let it rip." Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is scheduled to testify for the first time before the Senate Health Committee on Tuesday about the way Trump has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. FAUCI, OTHER HEALTH OFFICIALS TO TESTIFY BEORE SENATE PANEL VIA VIDEOCONFERENCE AMID CORONAVIRUS CONCERNS "Until now, we've mostly heard from the members of the coronavirus task force through the distorted lens of the White House press conference where the president often prevents them from answering fully, interrupts their response, or even contradicts their fact-based evidence," Schumer said on Monday. ...

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (204098)	5/12/2020 8:20:40 AM
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Barack Obama is Worried About Something, That Is Obvious Matt Margolis pjmedia.com Barack Obama’s decision to comment about the Michael Flynn case has the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board scratching their heads as to “what he’s really worried about.” “Barack Obama is a lawyer, so it was stunning to read that he ventured into the Michael Flynn case in a way that misstated the supposed crime and ignored the history of his own Administration in targeting Mr. Flynn. Since the former President chose to offer his legal views when he didn’t need to, we wonder what he’s really worried about.” In the past couple of weeks, evidence that Trump’s former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn was set up by FBI agents in a perjury trap resulted in his case being dropped by the Justice Department. Soon after, the release of declassified documents and testimony revealed that Barack Obama was aware that Flynn was being wiretapped and was briefed on the details of conversations he was having with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. In a private call with former members of his administration, Obama weighed in on the DOJ dropping the charges against Flynn, bizarrely claiming that it was unprecedented, and incorrectly claiming that Flynn was charged with perjury. Audio of the call was leaked to the media. “The news over the last 24 hours I think has been somewhat downplayed — about the Justice Department dropping charges against Michael Flynn,” Obama said. “And the fact that there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk. And when you start moving in those directions, it can accelerate pretty quickly as we’ve seen in other places.” Listening to the call you can hear that Obama sounds shaky, even nervous discussing it. And there’s plenty of reason. In addition to setting up a perjury trap for Flynn, Obama officials also withheld exculpatory evidence and investigated Trump and his associates over alleged Russian collusion even though they had no empirical evidence of that collusion. Declassified documents also showed that Obama was aware of the bogus investigation and efforts to railroad Michael Flynn. As Attorney General Barr has explained, the FBI had no justifiable reason for questioning Flynn in the first place, since, as the incoming national security adviser, it was well within standard practices for him to be having conversations with foreign ambassadors, such as Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. “Donald Trump’s victory increased the chances that this unprecedented spying on a political opponent would be uncovered, which would have been politically embarrassing at the very least,” the Wall Street Journal noted. “Targeting Mr. Flynn—and flogging the discredited Steele dossier—kept the Russia collusion pot boiling and evolved into the two-year Mueller investigation that turned up no evidence of collusion.” “This among other things is what U.S. Attorney John Durham is investigating at the request of Attorney General William Barr. Maybe that’s why Mr. Obama is so eager to distort the truth of the Flynn prosecution,” they mused. That sounds about right. Barack Obama should be worried. We know that the bogus investigation of Trump and his associates over Russian collusion was completely bogus. This was already a huge scandal, and now that we know Obama was being briefed on it, it’s even bigger. _____ Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama’s Legacy and the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis

To: Honey_Bee who wrote (204098)	5/12/2020 10:05:18 AM
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SOME VIP QUESTIONS FOR YOU, MR. OBAMA: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) addressed the Senate yesterday and, among much else, offered this observation about Barack Obama: “I’ve heard no comment from Mr. Obama about independent Inspector General findings that Andrew McCabe lied under oath to federal investigators multiple times. Or about how DOJ prosecutors falsely told the court that they had produced all Brady material to Flynn. Or when the federal government surveilled an American citizen connected to the Trump campaign without probable cause and based on intelligence the FBI knew was questionable at best.” One thing Obama need not worry about: Nobody in the MSM will dare to ask him for a response to Grassley. The speech link above includes one to video of Grassley’s presentation.