Porn star's lawyer Michael Avenatti accuses feds of cancelling meeting with Stormy Daniels

Porn star Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti on Sunday accused federal prosecutors of cancelling the meeting with his client regarding the investigation into President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen after it somehow leaked to the media.
“So I was just informed by the US Attys office that they are canceling the meeting tomorrow scheduled with me and my client (for weeks) because the press found out about the meeting and they can’t handle a few cameras outside their offices,” Avenatti tweeted.
“If they consider this a big deal, how will they ever bring any serious criminal charges against Cohen et al., let alone handle a trial, in such a high profile matter? We have bent over backwards to accommodate them. This is unheard of. We remain willing to cooperate but something isn’t right,” he added.
In an email published by Avenatti, he said the reasons for cancellation are “ridiculous” and urged the federal prosecutors to meet with him and his client.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, was expected to meet Monday with attorneys from the U.S. attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, which oversaw the April FBI raid that resulted in millions of paper and electronic records being seized, Politico reported.
Cohen is facing questions related to the allegations of bank fraud and possible campaign finance law violations in relation to a $130,000 payment Cohen made to Daniels amid the 2016 presidential election over claims she had a 2006 fling with the Trump.
Cohen hasn’t yet been charged with any crime, though experts believe Cohen will face charges of campaign violation law as the payment’s purpose was to avoid negative publicity to the Trump campaign in the final weeks of the election.
The president’s attorney Rudy Giuliani said the payment was made to “resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the President’s family. It would have been done in any event, whether he was a candidate or not.”
Daniels is suing Trump and Cohen, arguing that an October 2016 non-disclosure agreement is void because Trump never signed it. Daniels also sued Trump for defaming her after saying the alleged sexual encounter never happened and she fabricated the story.

US to present North Korea with post-summit 'asks': report

The United States is preparing “specific asks” in a timeline that will be presented to North Korean officials as a result of the recent historic summit, Reuters reported.
The news agency, citing an unnamed U.S. defense official, reported that the U.S. hopes the presentation will show Pyongyang’s level of interest in denuclearizing.
“There will be specific asks and there will be a specific timeline when we present the North Koreans with our concept of what implementation of the summit agreement looks like,” the official reportedly said.
The Associated Press reported that the Koreas, in the meantime, are discussing the possible relocation of North Korea's long-range artillery systems away from the tense Korean border.
North Korea has deployed an estimated 1,000 artillery pieces along the border, posing a significant threat to Seoul and the metropolitan area.
In a speech marking the 68th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon said that "moving (North Korea's) long-range artillery to the rear is under discussion," as he explained what types of good-will steps between the sides have been taken in recent months.
Lee's comments appear to be Seoul's first official confirmation of media reports that South Korea demanded that the North reposition its forward-deployed artillery pieces during inter-Korean military talks this month. Seoul's Defense Ministry, which has denied those reports, said it had no immediate comment on Lee's speech.
Also Monday, military officers from the two Koreas met to discuss how to fully restore their military hotline communication channels, according to the South's Defense Ministry. The results of the talks were expected later Monday.

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Bernie Sanders' income tops $1M for second year in row, reports say

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who portrays himself as an advocate for working Americans, speaks in Silver Spring, Md., June 18, 2018.  (Associated Press)

U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ message of income inequality resonated with many voters in 2016 -- and now the senator himself may know how the other half lives.
A financial disclosure document filed in May shows that the indepedent lawmaker from Vermont made more than $1 million in 2017, given him income of that figure or more for the second year in a row, VTDigger reported.
Most of that income – $885,767 – came from cash advances and royalties for his 2016 book, “Our Revolution,” which recounted the Sanders' failed bid for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
The same book also outlined the political ideas that helped Sanders pose a strong threat to Hillary Clinton's bid for nomination.
The remaining $174,000 of Sanders' income for last year came from his Senate salary.
Sanders has long brandished his credentials as one of the “poorest” members of Congress to rally against income inequality, a threat the senator has called “the great moral issue of our time.”
But the senator’s income places him high above the national threshold for qualifying for the so-called "One Percent," the group of super-wealthy individuals that is supposedly knocking U.S. society out of balance.
According to a 2013 Economic Policy Institute report, a family needs an income of $389,436 to be in the top 1 percent nationally.
When asked by VTDigger whether Sanders’ income damages his credibility as an advocate for average Americans, the senator’s senior political adviser dismissed the question as “ridiculous.”
“Bernie Sanders continues to fight for working-class people across this country, so I think it’s a pretty ridiculous question,” Jeff Weaver said.

“Bernie Sanders continues to fight for working-class people across this country, so I think it’s a pretty ridiculous question.”

Sanders is reportedly working on a follow-up book, titled, “Where We Go from Here,” scheduled for an Oct. 30 release.
Sanders’ socialist “authenticity” has been challenged before.
In the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the senator was criticized for purchasing a vacation home – his third at the time – in upstate Vermont, for $575,000.  

Immigration policy gives Trump-hating media a new reason to go overboard demonizing him and his team

Media criticism of President Trump’s immigration policy reached a fever pitch this past week, as the president was demonized and called every name in the book, while some members of his administration and family were threatened and harassed.
In theory, it was all part of the immigration fight. In practice, it was one more opportunity for Trump-haters to launch extreme attacks against the president and those close to him.
The left hounded administration officials at restaurants and at home, which thrilled Univision anchor Jorge Ramos. Protestors confronted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen while she was eating at a restaurant and at her home, while White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders was kicked out of a restaurant because she works for President Trump. 
Far-left Splinter News tweeted out the personal cell phone number of White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, and a fading Hollywood star called for the president’s youngest son to be dragged from his mother and “put in a cage with pedophiles.”
That barely begins the hate-fest. Canadian comedy writer Pat Dussault apologized after tweeting what appeared to be a disturbing threat to Donald Trump Jr.’s 4-year-old daughter. “Don’t worry, we’re coming for Chloe, too,” he wrote.
Next, there was the widespread assault on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Former “Sex and the City” star Cynthia Nixon – now seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of New York against Gov. Andrew Cuomo – called the officers a “terrorist organization.”
The anti-American “journalism” group Wikileaks posted a database of ICE officers. Open borders extremist and Border Angels Founder Enrique Morones told “The Beat With Ari Melber” on MSNBC: “Donald Trump, without a doubt, is pure evil.”
Then for the coup de grâce, New Yorker magazine staff writer and fact checker Talia Lavin tried to ruin the career of an ICE employee over a tattoo. She tweeted that she thought the elbow tattoo of wounded Marine veteran Justin Gaertner was a Nazi Iron Cross. Turns out, it was the symbol of his unit in Afghanistan, where this hero also lost both his legs.
Lavin resigned and apologized, but still found the gall to complain about ICE, which had complained about her. “I do not think it is acceptable for a federal agency to target a private citizen for a good faith, hastily rectified error,” she tweeted.
The media piled on all week. “Morning Joe” Co-host Mika Brzezinski declared: “If you vote for Trump, then you, the voter, you, not Donald Trump, are standing at the border, like Nazis.”
That’s not too different from what Rolling Stone writer Ana Marie Cox thought about a rally President Trump spoke to in Minnesota. She described it as “the way the end of democracy sounds.”
And in one last sign of the journalism apocalypse, Politico even dredged up one of Stephen Miller’s third-grade classmates to write an immigration article that was a ridiculous attempt at journalism, headlined "I Sat on the Other Side of Stephen Miller's First Wall."
But remember, there’s no media bias. None. Whatsoever.
2. This Is Fake News: CNN’s Senior Media Correspondent Brian Stelter said in January that President Trump averaged calling something “fake” at least once a day. There might be a good reason for that – the news media.
This past week, journalists delivered on two major examples of fake news. Both were so astonishingly egregious that it’s a wonder how many journalists stay employed. It’s almost as if facts don’t matter.
Time magazine continued to fill recycling bins with anti-Trump material. At least 10 of its 23 covers this year have targeted his administration. Five have depicted the president personally – from having his hair on fire to appearing as king. The latest cover showed the president looming over a crying immigrant child. The headline read: “Welcome to America.” The media went bonkers, with TV outlets pitching it as news.
Only it wasn’t.
Turns out the doctored image that merged Trump and the little girl as if they were standing together (they weren’t) was more than a little inaccurate. The girl was indeed separated from her mom – by about two feet.
Of course, the media loved the phony image. ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN all reported on it. “CBS This Morning” Co-host John Dickerson summed up the approval, referring to it as “an iconic – a now-iconic photo taken last week captured that girl as her mother was detained.”
It gets worse. The girl’s mother has been deported previously for illegal immigration. Time’s correction of the whole affair was laughably dishonest, admitting only that the “story misstated what happened to the girl in the photo.”
To its credit, CBS actually fact-checked the image. Correspondent David Begnaud warned viewers about the bogus cover: “You may have seen the photo, you may have shared it on social media. A lot of people have. And with it, there’s been a lot of misinformation that’s been spread.” For more on that “misinformation,” check out Daily Caller Media and Breaking News Editor Amber Athey’s piece.
That was more elaborate than what happened to former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. But the result was much the same. As President Trump spoke on immigration during an ABC News broadcast, a graphic at the bottom of the screen falsely proclaimed: “Manafort Pleads Guilty to 5 Charges of Manslaughter.” No one has ever accused Manafort of manslaughter.
The brain trust at error-prone ABC (admittedly, not brainy or trustworthy) was quick to release an apology. “There simply is no excuse for this sort of mistake,” it wrote saying network officials “are investigating” how it happened. At least, this time it wasn’t ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross tanking the entire stock market.
Washington Post Media Critic Eric Wemple crushed ABC in a story headlined: “In colossal error, ABC News reports that Paul Manafort ‘pleads guilty’ to manslaughter.” Wemple came up with three scenarios how it happened. The first two ended by calling it “a clear scandal with disciplinary implications.” The third version added “or perhaps law-enforcement implications.”
Do ABC lawyers get combat pay?

Restaurant Faces MASSIVE #MAGA Boycott After Refusing to Serve Sarah Sanders!

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Sarah Sanders booted so restaurant could uphold 'certain standards,' co-owner says: report

A co-owner of a restaurant that refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday reportedly cited morality and living up to "certain standards,” as the reason why.

The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va. (A separate restaurant in Washington, also called the Red Hen, is not affiliated with the Virginia restaurant.)  (Facebook)

Stephanie Wilkinson recalled the moments leading up to the encounter in an interview with the Washington Post, starting with a phone conversation she had with an employee, who revealed that Sanders was dining at the Red Hen in Lexington, Va.
After her chef reportedly told her that “the staff is a little concerned,” Wilkinson left her home and headed for the restaurant.
“I’m not a huge fan of confrontation,” Wilkinson told the Post. “I have a business, and I want the business to thrive.”
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“This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals,” she continued. She also reportedly described the actions of Trump’s White House as “inhumane and unethical.”

“This feels like the moment in our democracy when people have to make uncomfortable actions and decisions to uphold their morals.”

After arriving, Wilkinson recalled to the Post that Sanders’ party had some appetizers on the table, but had not yet received their entrees. She said she spoke to her employees, asking them how they wanted her to move forward.
“I can ask her to leave,” she suggested to the staff, according to the Post.
“Yes,” the employees replied.
Wilkinson then told the Post that she approached Sanders, introduced herself, then asked Sanders to “come out to the patio” to talk.
“I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion,” Wilkinson told the Post. “I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation,” before saying, “I’d like to ask you to leave.”

“I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion. I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold."
- Stephanie Wilkinson, co-owner, Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Va.

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She reportedly said the press secretary replied simply by saying “That’s fine. I’ll go,” before she and her entire party left the restaurant.
Wilkinson told the Post that the Sanders group had “offered to pay,” but Wilkinson declined, telling them that there was no charge for their order.
Following the exchange, TMZ reported that Sanders was kicked out of the restaurant on “moral grounds” and cited a waiter who said that Sanders was served “for a total of two minutes before my owner kicked her out along with seven of her other family members.”
Sanders confirmed the events on Twitter, saying she was told to leave by the owner because she worked for the president.
“Her actions say far more about her than about me,” she tweeted. “I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so.”
Looking back, Wilkinson told the Post, she "would have done the same thing again."
Meanwhile, an unaffiliated restaurant in Washington, also called the Red Hen, was working to convince customers that it was not involved in the Sanders dispute, which took place in Virginia.
"Good morning! @PressSec went to the unaffiliated @RedHenLex last night, not to our DC-based restaurant," the Red Hen in Washington tweeted.

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