Saturday, November 4, 2017
Trump: DOJ must do 'what is right and proper' and investigate Hillary Clinton
President Trump opened up on
Democrats with both Twitter barrels from high in the sky Friday,
exploiting fractures in the rival party after top operative Donna
Brazile revealed insiders plotted to steal last year's presidential
primary from Bernie Sanders.
"Bernie Sanders supporters have every
right to be apoplectic of the complete theft of the Dem primary by
Crooked Hillary!" Trump tweeted from Air Force One, as he headed off on a
13-day tour of Asian nations.
It was part of a mid-morning Twitter barrage in which
Trump called for his own Justice Department to probe a range of scandals
involving the Democratic Party and his vanquished 2016 presidential
rival, Hillary Clinton.“Everybody is asking why the Justice Department (and FBI) isn’t looking into all of the dishonesty going on with Crooked Hillary & the Dems,” Trump tweeted early Friday. “New Donna B book says she paid for and stole the Dem Primary. What about the deleted E-mails, Uranium, Podesta, the Server, plus, plus…”
In excerpts released Thursday from an upcoming book, Brazile, a longtime party stalwart and Clinton confidante, confirmed longstanding suspicions that the Democratic National Committee she once headed worked with Clinton to ensure she won the party's presidential primary over Sanders, the Vermont senator who built a huge following with his blend of Democrat politics and socialism.
"I always felt I would be running and winning against Bernie Sanders, not Crooked H, without cheating, I was right," Trump tweeted.
Brazile's explosive charge has sent shockwaves through the party.
“I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested,” Brazile wrote in a book excerpt first published in Politico Magazine. “By Sept. 7, the day I called Bernie, I had found my proof and it broke my heart.”
The proof, according to Brazile, was a joint fundraising agreement document between the DNC, the Hillary Victory Fund and Hillary for America. It had been signed in August 2015, four months after Clinton announced her candidacy and a year before she officially secured the nomination over Sanders.
“The agreement –signed by Amy Dacey, the former CEO of the DNC and Robby Mook, with a copy to Marc Elias—specified that in exchange for raising money and investing in the DNC, Hillary would control the party’s finances, strategy, and all the money raised,” Brazile wrote. “Her campaign had the right of refusal of who would be the party communications director, and it would make final decision on all the other staff.”
DONNA BRAZILE: I FOUND 'PROOF' THE DNC RIGGED THE NOMINATION FOR HILLARY CLINTON
Even before Friday morning's tweetstorm, Trump reacted to the allegations against Clinton on Thursday night on “The Ingraham Angle.”
“It’s illegal, number one, and it’s really unfair to Bernie Sanders,” Trump said. “I’m not a Bernie Sanders fan, although I must say I got a lot of his votes when he was thrown out. Many of those people voted for me because of trade because I agreed with him on trade…But that was, I thought that was terrible.”
"Pocahontas just stated that the Democrats, lead by the legendary Crooked Hillary Clinton, rigged the Primaries! Lets go FBI & Justice Dept.," Trump tweeted again. 'Pocahontas,' when used by the president, is typically in reference to Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN Thursday, Warren, D-Mass., was asked whether she believed the DNC was rigged, to which the senator simply responded, "Yes."
But on Friday, Trump took the opportunity to add the Brazile bombshell to a list of allegations and situations that he wants his Justice Department to investigate, including her “deleted E-mails” and “the Server,” pointing back to the months-long Clinton email investigation.
Trump also referred to “Uranium,” alluding to the controversial Obama-era Uranium One deal. The 2010 deal concerns the sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to Russia’s Rosatom nuclear company. The U.S. was involved because the sale gave the Russians control of part of the uranium supply in the U.S. Clinton, at the time, was secretary of state.
TRUMP CALLS DNC PRIMARY-RIGGING 'ILLEGAL,' SLAMS 'FAKE' DOSSIER IN FOX NEWS INTERVIEW
Trump also referred to “Podesta,” though it is unclear if he was referring to Democratic lobbyist Tony Podesta, or his brother, Clinton’s longtime confidante and 2016 campaign manager John Podesta.
This week, Tony Podesta stepped down from his lobbying firm, which was co-founded with his brother John, in the wake of special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe expanding to question Podesta’s Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) filings, and whether he was in violation of that law.
A spokesperson for Podesta told Fox News that they were compliant with their FARA filings and were “fully” cooperating with Mueller’s team.
The president tweeted again, moments later, underscoring the need for a federal probe.
"....People are angry. At some point the Justice Department, and the FBI, must do what is right and proper. The American public deserves it!" Trump tweeted.
JFK files link MLK Jr. to multiple affairs, say he possibly fathered child out of wedlock
A dossier released as part of the
JFK files says the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with
multiple women, according to published reports.
(Associated Press)
A dossier on Martin Luther King Jr.
claims the civil rights leader possibly fathered a child out of wedlock,
and had an affinity for orgies.
The data, part of the JFK files
recently released by the National Archives, also includes the assertion
that singer Joan Baez was among the multiple women with whom King
allegedly had affairs, the New York Daily News reported.
Described in the 20-page report is a "two-day drunken
sex orgy in Washington, D.C." that was linked to an event that King
attended, the Washington Examiner reported.The dossier cites information obtained from “a responsible Los Angeles individual,” who was said to be a relative of King’s alleged lover -- who was described as the wife of a prominent black dentist. The source said King may have fathered a baby girl with the woman, the Daily News reported.
The informant was said to have met King in 1960, and claimed that King had affairs with multiple women, including Baez.
The 676 newly released JFK files also include a declassified memo that quotes a Soviet diplomat who doubted Lee Harvey Oswald’s capability to operate a rifle and assassinate President Kennedy, the Daily News reported.
President Trump tweeted last week for all remaining documents to be released, changing his initial stance to withhold certain files due to national security concerns.
This is the third time this year the National Archives has released declassified JFK documents, adhering to a deadline set by Congress under the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 that ordered the release of the files in 25 years.
Keith Olbermann argues claim that Trump did more damage to the US than bin Laden
A conversation on "The View" got intense Friday
morning after Keith Olbermann defended his recent tweet saying that
President Trump and his family have done more damage to the U.S. than
Usama bin Laden.
Olbermann was grilled about his claim
that Trump has hurt the country more than bin Laden and the Islamic
State combined, as he suggested in a Nov. 1 tweet to Donald Trump Jr.
"View" host Meghan McCain was in visible disbelief.“3,000 people died on 9/11. I mean, the comparison is absurd,” McCain said about Olbermann’s claims, to which he responded by saying more people died during the Iraq War than 9/11 and “we didn’t need to be there.”
BIN LADEN FILES REVEAL FONDNESS FOR ‘FUNNY CATS,’ ‘CHARLIE BIT MY FINGER’ VIDEOS
“You think that bin Laden did less to damage America than President Trump?” McCain asked, to which Olbermann immediately replied, “Yes.”
McCain went on to say, “rhetoric like that is so damaging,” before defending her brother’s service in the Iraq war, saying the comparison between Trump and bin Laden, the latter of whom “was dedicated to the destruction of … everything that we hold dear,” was unbelievable.
“How do people like us find common ground,” McCain asked, adding that she was exhausted with the behavior on both sides of politics.
“Do you want President Trump to fail? Do you want America to fail? I’m genuinely curious,” McCain said.
TRUMP’S ASIA TRIP COULD BE AN INCREDIBLE SUCCESS IF HE DOES THIS
The heated back and forth was cut off by a commercial break and Olbermann was unable to reply, but upon return, the conversation took a somewhat more upbeat swing with Olbermann labeling McCain’s father his “favorite person in American politics in the 21st century." The former MSNBC host also said that he owes McCain and former President George W. Bush an apology “based on what we’ve seen in the last two years in this country.”
Olbermann continued saying he “would happily take a third term of George W. Bush rather than this,” adding that he didn’t think Trump was “stable,” and would even prefer Vice President Pence in the Oval Office.
“My attitude towards this administration is, we’re stuck with it, or I’m stuck with it from my view, no matter what happens going forward for at least four years… I’m accepting that,” Olbermann said. “I’ll take President Pence, I’ll carry him to the White House on my shoulders if need be.”
Trump visits Pearl Harbor ahead of first official tour of Asia
Before embarking on his first official visit to
Asia, President Donald Trump flew to Hawaii on Friday, where he and
first lady Melania Trump visited Pearl Harbor, the site where U.S.
forces came under surprise attack from the Japanese in 1941.
The president and first lady also
made a solemn visit to the USS Arizona Memorial, where they tossed
flower petals into the water above the battleship’s sunken hull.
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A total of more than 2,300 sailors, soldiers and Marines died as a result of the attack, as did 68 civilians, according to the National Park Service.
During his visit in Hawaii, Trump was expected to meet with the U.S. Pacific Command to discuss the escalating threat from North Korea. He was also scheduled to meet with the governors of Alaska, Hawaii and Pacific U.S. territories, which are all relatively close targets if North Korea opts for a missile strike aganst the U.S.
Trump will head to Japan on Saturday, then make subsequent stops in South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines, where the looming crisis in North Korea will likely remain a key topic of discussion.
The president plans to attend the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) conference in Vietnam and the East Asian Summit in the Philippines, for which he recently tacked on an extra day to his trip.
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