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Ken Starr Says Mueller Should Investigate Trump for ‘Lying to the American People’

Ken Starr, the former independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton, recently said there’s no apparent evidence that President Donald Trump broke any laws in the Russia probe. Now, he doesn’t seem to be so sure. POTUS ordered the firing of special counsel Robert Mueller last June amid news that Mueller was looking into Trump for a possible obstruction of justice case, according to The New York Times. This contradicts the president’s claim that he never did such a thing.

“I think lying to the American people is a serious issue that has to be explored,” Starr said in Sunday’s episode of This Week. He later added that “I think that is something that Bob Mueller should look at.”

He stops short of saying Trump broke the law, however. Starr appeared on This Week to debate Law&Crime founder Dan Abrams over whether the reported request was illegal. Abrams argued it could support a possible obstruction of justice case if this were part of a pattern of behavior meant to end the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded in Russian 2016 election interference.

Starr said no, the request was fine because the president only wanted to fire Mueller because he disliked him.

“The president’s power is extremely broad as long as he’s not engaged in discrimination or accepting bribes,” Starr said.

Abrams agreed that Trump could legally order the firing of Mueller, but argued that “that’s not the relevant question here.”

Ken Starr needs to be investigated for the utter screw up of his investigation into the death of deputy White House counsel Vince Foster . . . as well as for other malfeasance.

No one should be surprised to see him inject himself into the DNC/FBI/DOJ insurance policy ploy to oust Trump. He's already proved his worth in this kind of dirty business.

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Scoop: Trump team considers nationalizing 5G network

Trump national security officials are considering an unprecedented federal takeover of a portion of the nation’s mobile network to guard against China, according to sensitive documents obtained by Axios.

Why it matters: We’ve got our hands on a PowerPoint deck and a memo — both produced by a senior National Security Council official — which were presented recently to senior officials at other agencies in the Trump administration.

The main points: The documents say America needs a centralized nationwide 5G network within three years. There'll be a fierce debate inside the Trump administration — and an outcry from the industry — over the next 6-8 months over how such a network is built and paid for.

Two options laid out by the documents:

The U.S. government pays for and builds the single network — which would be an unprecedented nationalization of a historically private infrastructure.

An alternative plan where wireless providers build their own 5G networks that compete with one another — though the document says the downside is it could take longer and cost more. It argues that one of the “pros” of that plan is that it would cause “less commercial disruption” to the wireless industry than the government building a network.

Between the lines: A source familiar with the documents' drafting says Option 2 is really no option at all: a single centralized network is what's required to protect America against China and other bad actors.

The source said the internal White House debate will be over whether the U.S. government owns and builds the network or whether the carriers bind together in a consortium to build the network, an idea that would require them to put aside their business models to serve the country's greater good.

Why it matters: Option 1 would lead to federal control of a part of the economy that today is largely controlled by private wireless providers. In the memo, the Trump administration likens it to "the 21st century equivalent of the Eisenhower National Highway System" and says it would create a “new paradigm” for the wireless industry by the end of Trump's current term.

But, but, but: The proposal to nationalize a 5G network also only covers one part of the airwaves; there’d be other spaces where private companies could build.
The PowerPoint presentation says that the U.S. has to build superfast 5G wireless technology quickly because “China has achieved a dominant position in the manufacture and operation of network infrastructure,” and “China is the dominant malicious actor in the Information Domain.” To illustrate the current state of U.S. wireless networks, the PowerPoint uses a picture of a medieval walled city, compared to a future represented by a photo of lower Manhattan.

The best way to do this, the memo argues, is for the government to build a network itself. It would then rent access to carriers like AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. (A source familiar with the document's drafting told Axios this is an "old" draft and a newer version is neutral about whether the U.S. government should build and own it.)

It's a marked shift from the current system where those companies each build their own systems with their own equipment, and with airwaves leased from the federal government.
Nationwide standard: the federal government would also, according to the memo, be able to use the banner of national security to create a federal process for installing the wireless equipment, preventing states and cities from having their own rules for where the equipment could go.

The bigger picture: The memo argues that a strong 5G network is needed in order to create a secure pathway for emerging technologies like self-driving cars and virtual reality — and to combat Chinese threats to America’s economic and cyber security. A PowerPoint slide says the play is the digital counter to China’s One Belt One Road Initiative meant to spread its influence beyond its borders. The documents also fret about China's dominance of Artificial Intelligence, and use that as part of the rationale for this unprecedented proposal.

There’s even a suggestion that America’s work on a secure 5G network could be exported to emerging markets to protect democratic allies against China.

“Eventually,” the memo says, “this effort could help inoculate developing countries against Chinese neo-colonial behavior.”

AI arms race: The memo says China is slowly winning the AI “algorithm battles,” and that “not building the network puts us at a permanent disadvantage to China in the information domain.” There is a real debate to be had over China and AI, but it’s unclear what at all that has to do with a mobile network.

Reality check: The U.S. wireless industry is already working on deploying 5G networks, with AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, for example, investing heavily in this area. The process for setting 5G standards is well underway. Korea has been at the forefront of testing, as have Japan and others. It's not clear a national strategy would yield a 5G network faster or by the memo’s 3-year goal.

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Read More At: https://reprieve.org.uk/update/game-cha ... an-rights/

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Christian pastor: Melania Trump demanded the White House undergo an exorcism after Obama left

Paul Begley hosts a program called The Coming Apocalypse and fancies himself to be a prophet and an expert on “how today’s world events relate to the Holy Bible and the signs of the End Times” — all credentials that require rational people to take his claims with a grain of salt. But that doesn’t mean his musings aren’t sometimes hilariously entertaining.

Last week, Begley appeared on the Weekend Vigilante podcast with Sheila Zilinsky and claimed that First Lady Melania Trump ordered that the White House undergo an exorcism before she moved in.

“When the President allowed 40 pastors to come in to the White House and anoint him with oil and lay their hands and pray on him—seven times he’s done this—that is unheard of,” Begley said. “At least he is humble enough and recognizing that he needs God enough that he keeps bringing them in for the prayer. And I’ve got to say this, it might have started with the First Lady.”

“The first lady, in that five hours when the Obamas and the Trumps went down to the Capitol and Trump was being sworn in as the 45th President of the United States,” he continued. “Melania Trump said to her husband, ‘I’m not going to go into that White House unless it has been completely exorcised.'”

According to Begley, when the Obamas occupied the White House it was filled with “all kinds of idol gods and images and all kinds of artifacts in there that were demonic.”

“Melania said, ‘You’ve got to get all of that out of there and send in some preachers and priests to go in and cleanse the White House or I will not spend on night in it.'”

“During that five hours when they were ripping out carpets and changing drapes,” Begley said, “There were people in there packing up every idol. The only thing that was left, Sheila, was one cross on one wall. They cleansed the White House. They had people in there anointing it with oil and praying everywhere.”

Listen to the audio https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/r ... -exorcised

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8wJc7vHcTs

September 2, 1987, interview with Larry King ... Donald Trump.

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The porn star whom President Donald Trump's longtime personal attorney acknowledged paying $130,000 just before Election Day believes she is now free to discuss her alleged sexual encounter with the president.

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He said that clearly as a joke. So wonderful to see the left drop their drawers over these Trump statements. Love to see them triggered, right and left and upside down.

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During the election, Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert came forth with perhaps the best analysis of Trump and his style that I saw, even though he wasn't going to vote for him. Later he did.

Since then Adams has put out many podcasts with him discoursing or being interviewed, calling attention to Trump's deft handling of various situations.

Here is one of these for anyone who is really puzzled by the Trump modus operandi, and what he is about. Adams gets a few things wrong and doesn't quite get the total Trump picture, but gets very close: https://youtu.be/CBKF6qru5SI

Adams also said that he was inclined to vote for Hillary before he heard her position of wanting to raise the inheritance tax to something like 75% . So you can't accuse Adams of being from the Conservative/Libertarian 'right'.

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"A U.S. Islamic advocacy group suspected of conspiring with Hamas celebrated a federal court’s Thursday ruling against President Donald Trump’s latest travel sanctions.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which the FBI labeled as an “unindicted co-conspirator” with the terrorist group Hamas in 2009, released a statement Thursday celebrating the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the latest edition of Trump’s travel sanctions, which CAIR called “Trump’s ‘Muslim ban 3.0.’” CAIR continued its claim that the travel restrictions are part of a white supremacist agenda that specifically targets Muslims, despite the fact that the restriction is not actually a permanent ban and does not include include the two countries that hold one-quarter of the world’s Muslim population."

https://constitution.com/muslim-group-t ... rt-ruling/
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Trump endorses Romney for Senate

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Official ... Trump standing for RE-ELECTION in 2020.