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Let's see- for our magical potion, let's add some Eye of Newt...

Good article.

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House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes has issued a subpoena to David Kramer, a former State Department official who, in late November 2016, traveled to London to receive a briefing and a copy of the Trump dossier from its author, former British spy Christopher Steele. Kramer then returned to the U.S. to give the document to Sen. John McCain.

This is one of the many reasons why, when this traitor dies, I will not mourn him or honor him, not at all.

Possibly Trump intentionally enrages his opponents with blunt and stinging nicknames or accusations that have some truthfulness. Enraged people do impulsive acts to extract revenge that aren't smart that may cause them to take themselves out or lose credibility.

Trump seems to always be playing 3 dimension chess and there is much genius behind many of his actions that appear confusing or dumb initially.

He might be the king of letting his opponents keep digging when they find themselves in a hole.

War between Trump, media set to intensify....

Donald Trump’s unconventional presidency has roiled the media landscape, creating new dynamics that will play a major role in shaping his second year in office.

Some of the leading names in print journalism and cable news have taken an unusually adversarial approach to covering Trump, leading to charges of bias and sparking a debate within the industry about whether the president is being covered fairly.

Trump has responded by doing away with media interviews and press conferences almost entirely, even as he and his allies launch near-daily attacks on the media’s credibility.

They’ve been given ample political ammunition from several high-profile corrections and retractions in coverage of Trump, usually pertaining to the investigation into Russian election meddling. Some press critics have accused media outlets of loosening their reporting standards in a frenzy to discredit the president.

Even so, Trump’s presidency has been a bonanza for the media, delivering record ratings, subscriptions and web traffic, with the president’s admirers and detractors all lapping up coverage about him.

The end result is that Trump will enter 2018 — a year in which the administration faces a special counsel investigation and the potential for impeachment-hungry Democrats to take control of Congress — with perhaps the most antagonistic relationship with the media of any president in modern times.

“I don't expect Trump's approach to media relations will change at all, nor should we expect the press to tire of antagonizing Trump,” said Jeffrey McCall, a professor of media studies at DePauw University. “Buckle your seatbelts. 2017 was a rough ride for news consumers trying find out what was really happening in the world and 2018 will be an even greater challenge.”
No media organization has been as critical of Trump’s presidency as CNN.

After being accused during the campaign of fueling Trump’s rise by broadcasting his speeches and rallies in full, CNN has gone wall-to-wall with programming that has been fiercely critical of Trump and his administration.

Under the leadership of Jeff Zucker — who hired Trump while at NBC for the highly rated reality program “The Apprentice” in 2004 — the network is running one ad campaign accusing the president of being a liar and a second that showcases its anchors lecturing administration officials.

CNN regularly taunts the White House with mocking chyrons, and its chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, has taken the aggressive style into the briefing room.

Acosta is one of several reporters who have become media sensations — racking up viral news clips and tens of thousands of Twitter followers — by feuding publicly with administration officials or ranting about the unique dangers of the Trump presidency.

CNN recently tapped journalist Brian Karem — who sometimes writes for Playboy and was little known until he had an explosive argument with press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders at a press briefing — to be a regular contributor on the network.

The combative exchanges have led to accusations of grandstanding within the Washington press corps, a charge the White House leveled when it briefly stopped broadcasting the daily press briefings.

CNN once had a reputation as the mainstream alternative to right-wing Fox News and left-wing MSNBC, but the network will head into 2018 as the poster child for what many on the right view as media bias and hysteria around the Trump presidency.

“CNN has always been like this, it’s just never had the spotlight on it like it does now,” said Armstrong Williams, who owns several television stations on the right-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group.

Fox News, meanwhile, was steadfastly anti-Trump during the GOP primaries, but has morphed into an ally and defender of the president.

The president is known to watch the network’s unabashedly pro-Trump morning show "Fox & Friends," often going to Twitter to share his thoughts about news events covered on the show.

And Trump’s most influential ally in the media is Sean Hannity, whose 9 p.m. show is a nightly rundown for tens of millions of conservatives looking for coverage of Trump’s accomplishments and attacks on his enemies.

Hannity and the guests on his show have questioned the credibility of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, raising allegations of conflicts of interest, political bias and corruption — attacks that have caught on among GOP lawmakers and others in the Republican mainstream.

“Fox News is reprehensible,” said Democratic strategist Andrew Feldman. “The way they’re trying to bolster Trump, it feels like a propaganda media outlet from a third-world country. It’s not supposed to be that way in the U.S.”

The New York Times and The Washington Post, meanwhile, are posting record subscription numbers and basking in Beltway praise for their coverage of the Russia investigation, the White House and the administration.

“These papers are on fire and in a competition for the kinds of consequential scoops we haven’t seen since Watergate,” said George Washington University media studies professor Steven Livingston. “I think we’ll look back on this as the golden era of journalism.”

Still, both papers have dealt with accusations of anti-Trump bias and faced criticism for reporting on the investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

The Post had to correct a story claiming that Russians had hacked the U.S. electric grid. Former FBI Director James Comey told Congress under oath that a New York Times story titled “Trump Campaign Aides Had Repeated Contacts With Russian Intelligence” was “almost entirely wrong.”

The press had a particularly rough stretch in early December, when ABC News suspended its top political reporter, Brian Ross, for incorrectly reporting that Trump had directed his former national security adviser Michael Flynn to contact the Kremlin during the 2016 campaign.

Later that same week, CNN had to retract a story claiming that WikiLeaks had given Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., early access to stolen Democratic emails. It was one of three major reporting errors on the Trump–Russia connection that the outlet admitted to this year.

The president and his allies have seized on the corrections and retractions to attack the “fake news” media.

While Trump gave interviews to a variety of outlets after taking office, he now rarely gives interviews to outlets other than Fox News.

Trump’s most recent television interview was with Laura Ingraham, a Fox News anchor, on Nov. 1. His last interview with a broadcast network was with NBC in May.

Trump gave only one traditional press conference in 2017 and is the first president in 15 years not to hold an end-of-year event.

The president prefers tweeting or chatting briefly with reporters in informal settings — a trend most expect will continue in 2018, even as he remains omnipresent in the media.

“Trump has used Twitter to bypass the normal press agenda-setting function and is essentially setting the agenda on his own terms through social media,” McCall, of DePauw University said. “I am not convinced Trump's Twitter use is all that strategic, but it certainly has given him direct access to the citizenry and the news agenda in ways never seen before from the White House.”

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CNN regularly taunts the White House with mocking chyrons, and its chief White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, has taken the aggressive style into the briefing room.

"Definition of chyron

: a caption superimposed over usually the lower part of a video image (as during a news broadcast) "

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chyron

Why do then not just throw these over indulged, spoiled assholes the hell out of the White House press corps?

Jerk they credentials!

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Why do then not just throw these over indulged, spoiled assholes the hell out of the White House press corps?

Jerk they credentials!

Because they'd make a huge 1A issue out of it that would get massive MSM airplay and spark a bunch of silly, yet destructive, protests.

Or...Sarah can just handle those idiots who routinely get exposed on national TV as dolts.

President Donald Trump tweeted a video Thursday of himself on cable TV nearly 20 years ago warning of the North Korean nuclear threat.

The video features then-President Bill Clinton announcing a 1994 deal with North Korea which was supposed to halt the regime’s march towards a nuclear weapon in exchange for aid. Trump then appears from a cable news segment years later decrying the Clinton administration’s decision to sign the deal and not “deal with” the situation militarily.

“You want to do it in five years when they have warheads pointed all over the place, everyone of them pointed at New York City or Washington?” then-businessman Trump asks incredulously when asked how he would respond to caution from military leaders. “Its better to do it now.”

The president’s video comes months after North Korea demonstrated the likely ability to deliver a nuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile anywhere on the U.S. mainland, passing a strategic milestone it long sought in its nuclear program. Trump has so far sought to deter North Korea’s nuclear ambitions through international sanctions and pressure on countries like China to cease trade with the rouge regime.


http://dailycaller.com/2017/12...for-nearly-20-years/

If you are disruptive, insulting, and argumentative, you lose your press pass. There is no 1A issue. A press pass is not a right, and I don't care how they portray it in their false narritive. They will NEVER portray this administration in a positive light, why should we be scared they portray it MORE negativly?

The purpose of a press conference is to relay information, not to "handle" reporters. If they cannot conduct themselves in a professional manner, they leave. Period.

Quite frankly there is no need for a press conference when a reporter askes the same question three times because they did not get the answer they wanted, only to have another reporter ask the same thing after they are called on trying to get a sound bite. They are not after news, they are after personal "glory" within their circle and clicks on the internet.

You act like a professional reporter, or you leave. Simple.

Quit feeding the trolls.

I'm confused. Aren't these Democrat assholes always harping about the rich paying their "fair share" and all that? Turns out they are hypocrites yet again, what a shocker.

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It seems that Trump's tax plan has officially turned New York Governor Andrew Cuomo into a "trickle down" economics guy.
Apparently unhappy that the new tax legislation will result in higher taxes for the "millionaire, billionaire, private jet owners" of his state who have mortgages over $750,000 and annual property taxes of over $10,000, Cuomo said that the White House's efforts to "spread the wealth around" are nothing more than an effort to "pillage the blue to give to the red."

And, just like that, we've now entered a bizarro world where 'up' is 'down', 'cold' is 'hot' and liberal Democrats no longer want to the wealthy to "pay their fair share".
Of course, as we've pointed out numerous times of late, the Trump tax bill signed into law last week limits the total deduction taxpayers can take for local, state and property taxes to just $10,000 and caps the interest deduction on mortgages to the first $750,000 of principal.
Not surprisingly, the change will hit wealthy taxpayers in high-tax, high-cost-of-living blue states like New York, New Jersey and California particularly hard as they will lose a significant portion of their itemized deductions.
All of which begs the obvious question: Could it be that the Left's "tax the rich" rhetoric was nothing more than an empty threat designed to draw populist support and win elections??? Say it ain't so....

NY Gov Rips Trump Tax Bill: "Let's Pillage The Blue To Give To The Red"

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Comedy Gold

The angry faces really crack me up.

Dour Power!!

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"If you want a bigger economy, more jobs, more take-home pay, less power with Washington bureaucrats, and lower taxes with more money in your pocket, then vote Republican.

If Republicans can learn to tell the truth better than the elite media and Democrats lie, the GOP will win an astonishing victory in 2018."

New York, New Jersey, and probably Kommiefornia consider suing the US Govt over the limits on state & local tax deductions in the new tax law. CNBC

Poor babies. Good luck with that.

liking Nunes more and more

http://www.washingtonexaminer....port/article/2644540

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes on Thursday slammed the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for their "failure to fully produce" documents related to the Trump dossier, saying that DOJ and the FBI should investigate themselves.

“Unfortunately, DOJ/FBI's intransigence with respect to the Aug. 24 subpoenas is part of a broader pattern of behavior that can no longer be tolerated,” Nunes wrote in a scathing letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in which he complained about information and witnesses subpoenaed by his committee earlier in 2017.

“As a result of the numerous delays and discrepancies that have hampered the process of subpoena compliance, the committee no longer credits the representations made by DOJ and/or the FBI regarding these matters,” Nunes added in the letter obtained by Fox News.

Nunes demanded records and available dates for witnesses to testify be given to Congress by Jan. 3., threatening to introduce a contempt of Congress resolution if his request is not met.

The committee is seeking reports regarding meetings between the FBI and confidential human sources about the controversial dossier, as well as testimony from key DOJ and FBI officials.

Nunes also blasted the DOJ's response to the subpoenas as "disingenuous" because the department initially claimed the documents "did not exist."

“As it turns out, not only did documents exist that were directly responsive to the committee’s subpoenas, but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the committee’s investigation were brought to light,” Nunes said.

The House Intelligence Committee is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The dossier compiled by former M16 British spy Christopher Steele contains salacious and unverified allegations of misconduct and collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

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"but they involved senior DOJ and FBI officials who were swiftly reassigned when their roles in matters under the committee’s investigation were brought to light"

Nunes is shining light in dark corners

Two days of congressional questioning and suddenly Andrew McCabe decides to swiftly retire at age 50. Would really liked to have watched that question and answer session.

Nunes wants to interview Ohr, Strzok, FBI Attorney James Baker, FBI Attorney Lisa Page, FBI Attorney Sally Moyer and FBI Assistant Director for Congressional Affairs Greg Brower.






Andrew Weissman is on Muellar's team. Weissman attended Clinton's election night gathering in NY.

Unfortunately I believe Trump will have to step in and order the DOJ and FBI to comply. If Nunes gets a contempt of congress resolution does anyone think the DOJ will enforce it? Of course not. Both of those agencies feel they are above the law. Nothing will happen until Trump starts telling the DOJ to comply or be fired. These people have absolutely ZERO fear of repercussions because they have never ever happened before.

The FBI works for the DOJ. The DOJ works for Trump. Congress has official oversight for both of those agencies. When they fail to comply with lawful requests from Congress their boss, Trump, can legally order them to, or fire them.

I believe that is what it will come to as the Trump haters in those agencies will not give up.

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I believe Trump will have to step in and order

I have faith that he will.

Faith = Consciousness beyond reason.

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"pillage the blue to give to the red."

This is an admittance that the previous tax code allowing federal deduction of state and local taxes in high tax states, pillaged the red states to give to the blue. Money is power and this tax bill provision ingeniously takes both from leftys in high taxed states. They should complain about it, they've benefited from an unfair scam keeping money out of federal coffers for decades. This ship has sailed except that the dems will return back to this scam at the earliest opportunity.

Heard a Democrap say that when they are restored to their rightful place of power that they will make state and local taxes not just fully deductible but will make them tax credits.