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Victoria Nuland’s name keeps turning up.
Nuland is the former Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs – serving under John Kerry at Obama’s State Department
I’ve written about Nuland here and here.
It now appears that in mid-2016, Nuland gave the green light for FBI Agent Michael Gaeta to meet with Christopher Steele in London.Continue Reading
President Trump officially fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
Tillerson was privately told of the firing on Friday, March 9, 2018:
A senior White House official said Trump asked Tillerson to step down on Friday but did not want to make it public while he was on a trip to Africa.Continue Reading
On February 4, 2018, Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State in the Obama Administration went on Face the Nation and made the following comment:
During the Ukraine crisis in 2014-15, Chris Steele had a number of commercial clients who were asking him for reports on what was going on in Russia, what was going on in Ukraine, what was going on between them. Chris had a friend [Jonathan Winer] at the State Department and he offered us that reporting free so that we could also benefit from it. It was one of, you know, hundreds of sources that we were using to try to understand what was going on.
Then, in the middle of July, when he was doing this other work and became concerned, he passed two to four pages of short points of what he was finding and our immediate reaction to that was, this is not in our purview. This needs to go to the FBI if there is any concern here that one candidate or the election as a whole might be influenced by the Russian Federation. That’s something for the FBI to investigate.Continue Reading
President Trump signed Trade Section 232 Proclamations on Steel and Aluminum today.
The signing starts a 15-day countdown before a 25% tariff on imported steel and a 10% tariff on imported aluminum goes into effect.
The Executive Order included a clause granting Canada and Mexico a roughly 30-day grace period to avoid being impacted – but only while NAFTA talks continue.Continue Reading
There’s been an increasing number of requests for the appointment of a second Special Counsel to investigate FISA abuse, the Clinton Email Investigation, the Trump-Russia Investigation, the activities of the FBI & DOJ – and the involvement of the Obama Administration.Continue Reading
Mark Levin hosted an interview with Devin Nunes.
The exchange between the two was fascinating.
Levin walked through sequences, establishing fact sets and building a de facto legal case.
The video was posted in three parts. I highlight portions from each.Continue Reading
I came across this twitter thread by pure chance.
It got my attention:
1. Republicans & @tuckercarlson @FoxNews say Democrats are turning California into a 3rd world country.
As lifelong Democrat & progressive it pains me say this: they’re right.
And I just published a 100-page, data-driven report that proves it:https://t.co/azmb6psRmz https://t.co/dizF3gLoGM
— Mike Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) March 3, 2018
On March 1, 2018, President Trump held a meeting with steel and aluminum executives where he made an announcement:
We’ll be imposing tariffs on steel imports, and tariffs on aluminum imports. We’ll probably have everything completed by next week.Continue Reading
Why did it take Adam Schiff and the Democrats so long to release their Memo if it was so important. And why release the Memo on a Saturday afternoon.
The answer is simple.
The problem was the Grassley Memo.Continue Reading
President Trump has tweeted out a series of focused messages (located at bottom of post) over the last ten days ending with this:
Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2018
President Trump has publicly castigated Sessions before.
But he has never, to my knowledge, mentioned the Inspector General.
Until now.Continue Reading