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Former FBI Director James Comey
President Slams Justice Dept. For Watered-Down Travel Ban After Terrorist Attack In London
To Testify On Thursday And
President Trump Cannot Stop It
President Donald Trump
complained Monday morning that his travel ban executive order, one that the White House on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to reinstate, had been “watered down” by the Justice Department in order to pass legal muster.
Still, he wrote on Twitter, the controversial measure is nec- essary despite the legal hurdles it has faced thus far.
Trump wrote early Monday morning in a multi-post flurry. “The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, po- litically correct version they
try, was one of Trump’s most high-profile campaign prom- ises.
But the measure, the intro- duction of which sparked chaos at international airports around the country when it was first signed, has been re- jected by courts at multiple lev- els.
The president’s renewed public-facing attention to the travel ban also seemingly stems from a terrorist attack over the weekend in London, for which the Islamic State has claimed responsibility, that left at least seven people killed and 48 hospitalized.
When James Comey, the former FBI director, stands be- fore a Senate committee on Thursday to give evidence about the president who fired him, it will be one of the most dramatic moments in U. S. po- litical history, according to The Guardian.
The questions Comey will be asked by the Senate intelli- gence committee include whether Donald Trump tried to persuade him to stop an in- vestigation into improper con- tacts between a top adviser and Russian officials, whether Trump sought to extract a vow of personal loyalty, and whether Comey was fired be- cause he did not comply.
The possibility of collusion with the Kremlin to skew a presidential election – is far more grave than the issues of bribery and political dirty tricks underpinning those two other historical stains (The Teapot Dome in the 1920s during Warren G. Hardings presi- dency and Richard Nixon’s Watergate).
Trump has denied trying to make Comey drop the case, but if Comey contradicts him and is supported by other evi- dence, it would represent po-
Former FBI director James Comey will testify on Thursday.
tential obstruction of justice by the president and mark a long leap down the road towards impeachment.
Can President Donald Trump invoke executive priv- ilege and block James Comey from testifying before the Sen- ate Select Committee on Intel- ligence on June 8?
A Sunday report suggests that, while he is leaning against doing so, the matter remains under discussion and he has yet to reach a decision. Yet there really isn’t anything to decide – executive privilege simply can’t apply here.
Comey can’t be restrained from testifying before the Com- mittee because he’s now a pri- vate citizen who wants to talk.
President Donald Trump took to twitter to complain. Here he is signing the travel ban on Janu- ary 17, 2017.
submitted to S.C.”
The travel ban, which would
block individuals from six ma- jority-Muslim nations from en- tering the U. S. and halts the flow of refugees into the coun-
Russian President Says Americans Have ‘Lost Their Senses’; There Is No Info On Trump
‘March For Truth’ Rallies Held In 130 Cities Against President Trump
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday denied having compromising information on President Donald Trump, calling it “nonsense."
During an interview on NBC News' "Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly," host Megyn Kelly asked Putin if he has "something damaging on our president." Putin rebuffed the accusation.
Putin said he never met with Trump during the lat- ter's visits to Moscow, adding
Russian president Vladimir Putin was interviewed by NBC News on Sunday night.
that a lot of Americans and companies come to Russia and saying the country doesn't
gather information on them. Right now, I think we have representatives from a hun- dred American companies that have come to Russia. Do you think we're gathering compro- mising information on all of them right now or something? Are you all, have you all lost your senses over there?" Putin, a former KGB spy, said. The FBI is currently investi- gating potential connections between Trump campaign aides and the Russian govern-
ment.
YouTube Reporter Lies That Cong. Maxine Waters Shoved Him At March For Truth Rally
Protesters rallied Saturday in nearly 130 U. S. cities to call for what they consider the need for more thorough federal in- vestigations into whether President Trump’s associ- ates colluded with Russia dur- ing the 2016 presidential elections.
The ‘March For Truth’ rally in Washington on the National Mall was held within blocks of a pro-Trump rally outside of the White House.
The sides reportedly clashed briefly at the pro-Trump “Pittsburgh Not Paris” rally but no major incidents so far have been reported.
"I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump said Thursday in announcing that the United States would withdraw from the 2015 Paris Climate Agree- ment, in which industrial na- tions have agreed to limit greenhouses gases. “It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio; De- troit, Michigan and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ... before Paris, France.”
Organizers for the "March for Truth" rallies Saturday say their objective is to “let our elected leaders know that Americans want answers.”
Michael Tracey, a “roving” reporter for The Young Turks, a progressive news show on YouTube with millions of sub- scribers, decided to come for “Auntie Maxine” Waters (D- CA) before he was ready.
During the “March for Truth” in Los Angeles over the weekend, Tracey and his cam- eraman Ty Bayliss ap- proached Waters and asked her about the Democratic Party’s focus on RussiaGate as well as her previous support for a U.S. / Russian solution to the Syrian conflict under President Obama.
When Cong. Waters an- swered that their agendas were
Cong. Maxine Waters and YouTube reporter Michael Tracey during their encounter.
different, and that she was out to ‘impeach this president and not to bash former president Obama’, Tracey put the mic in her face as she tried to walk away. She pushed the micro- phone to get by. However, Tracey and his Black camera- man are saying that she shoved
him. Tracey, went full Super- SaiyanWypipoBernieBro and posted on Twitter that he was shoved.
Once Tracey’s encounter got posted, and the “explosive” video with Congressman Waters went viral, the post- ings got more backlash than back pats. Tracey then quickly dialed up his his black cameraman Ty Bayliss to back up his story.
Bayliss starts off by saying Maxine Waters “ain’t shit” then embellishes Stacey’s ver- sion of events. Both were sent to ‘backlash hell’ for their at- tempt to discredit Congress- woman Waters.
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