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Sunday, December 10, 2017
Chelsea Handler retweet of Sarah Sanders parody sparks outrage
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| Chelsea Handler has drawn criticism for retweeting a video that mocks White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. (Reuters) |
Comedian Chelsea Handler is coming under fire for
tweeting a vulgar video that mocks White House press secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders' weight and physical appearance.
The video – a promotion for Handler’s
Netflix series – is a fake step-by-step makeup tutorial, featuring
comedy writer Fortune Feimster as Sanders.
Each step of the fake tutorial is accompanied by crude
jokes that ridicule – among other things – Sanders’ face, Trump and
Republicans.“Right now my skin is dry, just like Puerto Rico right before that one rainy day they had,” she says before applying moisturizer to her face.
“My face is a big, fat biscuit!” she says as she uses the lotion.
Feimster compares her makeup foundation to the foundation of America: “It’s Republican, it’s strong, and it’s white.”
“I used to not know what foundation was, but our great president was kind enough to take me to a Sephora and he said to the employee, ‘Hey, you see that fellow over here? Make him a woman,” she says.
Not everyone was amused with the video. Many took to Twitter to criticize Handler’s attack of Sanders.
One Twitter user wrote: “Keep it up and everyone will despise you. You are obviously a very unhappy person. Maybe as a modern feminist you should act like a lady for a change.”
Despite the backlash, Handler was unfazed by the criticism, replying, “This woman deserves to be taken down. She is pure evil.”
Lindsey Vonn suffers back injury in World Cup race after Trump comments
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| Old Saying: What goes around comes around. |
What is the meaning of what comes around goes around?
American skiing star Lindsey Vonn has withdrawn
from her Sunday events at the World Cup in Switzerland after suffering a
back injury during a super-G race on Saturday.
The injury occurred two days after
she criticized President Donald Trump in an interview about the upcoming
Winter Olympics in South Korea.
"I am extremely disappointed," Vonn tweeted Sunday,
"but my biggest goal this season is the Olympics and I need to take care
of myself now so I can be ready for next week, and more importantly,
for February."On Saturday, Vonn crossed the finish line in obvious distress, almost one second behind the then-leader, and slumped to the snow.
Vonn's tentative run after jarring her back early on placed her 24th, trailing 1.56 seconds behind the surprise winner, Jasmine Flury of Switzerland. The race was shortened due to strong winds higher up the mountain.
Vonn stayed in the finish house to be treated, and one hour later limped slowly into a waiting car to be driven from the St. Moritz course.
Minutes earlier, her father Alan Kildow told the Associated Press his daughter was "OK."
Vonn tweeted Saturday that she had suffered an "acute facet (spinal joint) dysfunction."
Saturday's race was interrupted several times by gusts lifting flurries of snow, and Vonn was left standing at the gate as the No. 4 starter during the first delay of about three minutes. She stayed warm with a thick jacket draped on her shoulders.
Vonn did not speak with media or fans before getting into the car, and wore the hood of a United States team jacket up to shield her face from television cameras tracking her.
The two-time Olympic medalist told CNN in an interview that aired Thursday that she would "absolutely not" visit the White House if the United States Olympic team gets a traditional post-games invitation.
"I was asked my opinion and I gave it," Vonn told reporters Friday. "I mean, it's not necessarily my place to be sticking my nose in politics, but as an athlete I do have a voice."
Looking ahead to the Feb. 9-25 Pyeongchang Winter Games in South Korea, Vonn told CNN she hoped "to represent the people of the United States, not the president."
Though Vonn did not mention Trump by name, the athlete activists she said Friday she admired included Colin Kaepernick. The president has responded to the NFL quarterback by posting confrontational messages on Twitter.
"People like Billie Jean King and Arthur Ashe and Colin Kaepernick," Vonn said in the post-race interview zone. "There's definitely been a lot of people that have made their voice heard and made a positive impact."
"I'm not trying to be negative in any way, I'm trying to be positive," said the 33-year-old Vonn, whose 77 World Cup race wins leads the women's all-time list. "All those people have made a positive impact and hopefully my message does as well."
Vonn told CNN she took the Olympics and "what walking under our flag means in the opening ceremony" very seriously.
"I want to represent our country well," said the 33-year-old skier, who also has seven career world championships medals, including two gold. "I don't think that there are a lot of people currently in our government that do that."
The three-race St. Moritz meeting concludes with a double event on Sunday, when gusts of up 37 mph are forecast.
A morning super-G will count first as a standalone race, then also as the opening run of a combined event with a slalom leg to follow in the afternoon.
Trump says CNN was 'caught red handed' with fake news on WikiLeaks email
President Trump on Saturday slammed
CNN for a mistake in a recent report on Russia meddling, saying the
cable TV network was “caught red handed” disseminating “fake news.”
“CNN’S slogan is CNN, THE MOST
TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS.” Trump tweeted. “Everyone knows this is not true,
that this could, in fact, be a fraud on the American Public. There are
many outlets that are far more trusted than Fake News CNN. Their slogan
should be CNN, THE LEAST TRUSTED NAME IN NEWS!”
The tweet came one day after CNN reported that the
president’s son Donald Jr. and others on the Trump presidential campaign
received an email on Sept. 4, 2016, telling them in advance about the
release of some yet-to-be published WikiLeaks documents. These included
emails from the Democratic National Committee.However, the date was erroneous. The email was in actuality dated Sept. 14, one day after the WikiLeaks document dump.
In a tweet Saturday, the president also criticized ABC News and reporter Brian Ross for a recent, incorrect story that Trump, as a candidate in the 2016 White House race, had illegally instructed campaign member Mike Flynn to make contact with Russia, in an apparent attempt to help defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The stock market plunged, and Ross was suspended over the gaffe for four weeks.
CNN BOTCHES DATES, INACCURATELY REPORTS TRUMP CAMPAIGN HAD WIKILEAKS SNEAK PEEK
Trump appeared to suggest that CNN had intentionally put out an incorrect story.
“Fake News CNN made a vicious and purposeful mistake yesterday,” Trump tweeted. “They were caught red handed, just like lonely Brian Ross at ABC News (who should be immediately fired for his ‘mistake’). Watch to see if @CNN fires those responsible, or was it just gross incompetence?”
Washington Post reporter apologizes for 'bad tweet' after Trump calls him out
A Washington Post reporter on
Saturday apologized for his “bad tweet” after President Trump called him
out by name for posting a misleading photo about the crowd size during
Friday’s rally.
“It was a bad tweet on my personal
account, not a story for Washington Post,” the reporter, Dave Weigel,
tweeted Saturday. “I deleted it after like 20 minutes. Very fair to call
me out.”
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| Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel |
"Very fair to call me out," Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel said Saturday, after President Donald Trump tweeted about a photo Weigel posted online.
But that photo was not taken while Trump was speaking. Trump tweeted photos showing the arena full.
Said Trump: “.@daveweigel @washingtonpost put out a phony photo of an empty arena hours before I arrived @ the venue, w/ thousands of people outside, on their way in. Real photos now shown as I spoke. Packed house, many people unable to get in. Demand apology & retraction from FAKE NEWS WaPo!”
“Sure thing: I apologize,” Weigel replied, saying he deleted the photo after another reporter informed him he had “gotten it wrong.”
The president, though, wasn't satisfied with Weigel's apology.
"FAKE NEWS, he should be fired," Trump tweeted.
Earlier on Saturday, the president had boasted on Twitter about the size of the crowd.
“Arena was packed to the rafters, the crowd was loud, loving and really smart,” he said. “They definitely get what’s going on. Thank you Pensacola!”
Saturday, December 9, 2017
More Clinton ties on Mueller team: One deputy attended Clinton party, another rep'd top aide
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| What a Joke. |
New allegations of bias dog Mueller Russia probe
A key member of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe represented Hillary Clinton's IT staffer in the email case. Plus, a top DOJ official demoted amid probe of contacts with Trump dossier firm. #Tucker
More Clinton connections have emerged
for members of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigative team,
amid growing Republican complaints about potential bias inside the
office created to lead an independent probe.
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported
that Mueller investigator Andrew Weissmann, a former partner at
WilmerHale, attended Hillary Clinton’s election night party last
November at the Javits Center in New York City. Fox News reported
earlier this week that Weissmann in January also praised outgoing acting Attorney General Sally Yates, after she was fired for refusing to defend President Trump’s travel ban.
Aaron Zebley, another former partner at WilmerHale and a former chief of staff to Mueller when he served as FBI director, represented Justin Cooper, a key figure in the Hillary Clinton email controversy.
Cooper is the longtime Bill Clinton aide responsible for helping set up the now-infamous private email server. Cooper later admitted to “two instances where he destroyed [Hillary] Clinton’s old mobile devices by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.”
TOP MUELLER INVESTIGATOR'S DEMOCRATIC TIES RAISE NEW BIAS QUESTIONS
“You’ve got Donald Trump being persecuted by Hillary Clinton’s fan club—that’s inequitable,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Friday. “Many of the members of Mueller’s team donated to the Clinton campaign. We have a lot of highly qualified federal prosecutors in the Justice Department and we could have found a bunch of them who didn’t donate to either candidate. But that didn’t occur, and that’s troubling.”
Those political donations have been well-known since the start of the Mueller probe. At least seven of Mueller's investigators on the Russia meddling case have donated to Democratic candidates and the Democratic National Committee.'[Y]ou might start seeing a real death-spiral in terms of any public support for the investigation.'
Weissmann donated a combined $2,300 to the Obama campaign in 2008, and at least $2,000 to the DNC in 2006. Rhee donated a total of $5,400 to Hillary Clinton in 2015 and 2016 and a combined $4,800 to former President Barack Obama in 2008 and 2011.
MUELLER PROBE: MEET LAWYERS WHO GAVE $$ TO HILLARY, NOW INVESTIGATING TEAM TRUMP
Zebley has no history of political donations or any affiliation with a political party.
Neither political donations nor past legal work alone proves that an investigator is biased or unable to work a case objectively. But the revelation last weekend that another investigator, Peter Strzok, was removed from the Russia probe over anti-Trump texts has critics looking closely at every bio.
“Mueller did not have to select attorneys who had made donations to, or even represented, Democratic candidates, but as those partisan connections are becoming clearer, it gives an appearance of bias that could have been avoided,” former high-ranking Justice Department official James Trusty, who served under the Bush and Obama administrations, told Fox News on Friday.
“Add a lead investigator having a 10,000 text affair with an already dubious selection for the team (in terms of litigation experience) and you might start seeing a real death-spiral in terms of any public support for the investigation,” Trusty added in an email to Fox News.
That was a reference to Strzok's anti-Trump text messages with another former Mueller investigator, Lisa Page, with whom he was romantically involved.
Strzok has been involved in a host of significant developments in both the Clinton and Russia probes. He was present during the FBI’s July 2016 interview with Hillary Clinton at the close of the email investigation, shortly before then-FBI Director James Comey called her actions “extremely careless” without recommending criminal charges.
Strzok also oversaw the FBI’s interviews with Trump’s fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty last week to lying to FBI investigators in the Russia probe.
Trump allies routinely have sought to raise bias concerns about Mueller's team to discredit the Russia investigation.
The special counsel’s office told Fox News this week that they had no comment on such allegations, but pointed to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s comments earlier this year.
“If there were conflicts that arose, because of Director Mueller or anybody employed by Director Mueller, we have a process within the [Justice Department] to take care of that,” Rosenstein said on Fox News.
The special counsel himself has been appointed to five Senate-confirmed positions by four different presidents – two Republicans, and two Democrats. Mueller is said to be a life-long Republican, serving as FBI director for President George W. Bush.
Justice Department policies and federal law prohibit discriminating based on political affiliation when it comes to hiring for nonpolitical positions, like the FBI and Justice Department.
MUELLER DEPUTY PRAISED DOJ OFFICIAL AFTER SHE DEFIED TRUMP TRAVEL BAN ORDER: 'I AM SO PROUD'
A spokesman for the special counsel told Fox News on Friday Weissmann is still a member of Mueller's team.
Jobs Report Crushes Expectations Thanks to Pres. Trump’s Agenda
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| In this Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, photo, job seekers wait in line to apply for part-time, full-time or seasonal positions at a job fair held at Dolphin Mall in Sweetwater, Fla. On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017, payroll processor ADP reports how many jobs private employers added in November. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) |
President Trump’s economic agenda and promise of tax reform continues to push the economy forward as job creation and wages continue to soar.
The latest APD Payroll report shows the manufacturing sector added 40,000 jobs in November, the most in 15 years.
Unemployment has hit a 17-year-low as small and medium businesses led in private-sector job creation, adding 149,000 jobs last month.
Economists say this points to further gains in disposable incomes and the stock market.
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