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Trump Asked Top Intelligence Officials To Push Back Against FBI Investigation, And Other Trump News From Monday
White House Blocks Ethics Inquiry: The White House is challenging the Office of Government Ethics and asking its chief to withdraw letters ordering government agencies to disclose waivers granted to previous lobbyists — allowing them to work with sectors they lobbied for. Trump, like President Obama, signed an order barring lobbyists from working with sectors they lobbied for if they're hired by the government, but unlike Obama, he is refusing to make any waivers granted public.
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"If you are not guilty of a crime, what do you need immunity for?"

"The mob takes the Fifth Amendment"

"If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

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On same weekend as record-breaking arms deal, Saudis announced $100 million donation to Ivanka fund

Over the weekend, Jared Kushner was credited with negotiating a $110 billion arms deal to the Saudis, the largest arms deal in U.S. history:

The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser. He shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call.

Pressured to finalize a massive $100-plus billion arms deal in the two weeks leading up to Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Kushner hoped to maneuver a discount on Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system during the Saudis' visit to the White House on May 1 -- a request that Hewson said she would look into at the time.
Coincidentally, the Saudis have also agreed to donate a whopping $100 million to the recently announced women's fund inspired by Jared Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump:

The World Bank plans to announce Sunday at an event with Ivanka Trump, the U.S. president’s daughter and senior White House adviser, that Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have pledged $100 million collectively toward a fund for women who own or want to start businesses, according to people familiar with the announcement.
 
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On same weekend as record-breaking arms deal, Saudis announced $100 million donation to Ivanka fund

Over the weekend, Jared Kushner was credited with negotiating a $110 billion arms deal to the Saudis, the largest arms deal in U.S. history:

The deal was finalized in part thanks to the direct involvement of Jared Kushner, the President's son-in-law and senior adviser. He shocked a high-level Saudi delegation earlier this month when he personally called Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and asked if she would cut the price of a sophisticated missile detection system, according to a source with knowledge of the call.

Pressured to finalize a massive $100-plus billion arms deal in the two weeks leading up to Trump's trip to Saudi Arabia, Kushner hoped to maneuver a discount on Lockheed's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system during the Saudis' visit to the White House on May 1 -- a request that Hewson said she would look into at the time.
Coincidentally, the Saudis have also agreed to donate a whopping $100 million to the recently announced women's fund inspired by Jared Kushner’s wife, Ivanka Trump:

The World Bank plans to announce Sunday at an event with Ivanka Trump, the U.S. president’s daughter and senior White House adviser, that Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates have pledged $100 million collectively toward a fund for women who own or want to start businesses, according to people familiar with the announcement.
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You're like the crypt keeper of fake news lol

Five Journalists and Pundits Who Totally Botched The "Ivanka Fund" Story

While she had proposed the idea of the World Bank fund, Ms. Trump doesn’t control it or raise money for it, one person familiar with the plans said.

A number of members of the media, including journalists and pundits, didn't bother reading about the details and falsely claimed the Saudi government was giving the money to a fund run and owned by Ivanka herself. Calling it the "Ivanka Fund," they went so far as comparing the donation to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's abuse of her public office to raise money for the Clinton Foundation.

The problem? The two aren't remotely comparable and yet this false assumption was proliferated to hundreds-of-thousands, if not millions of people.
 
Freeloading Rusty

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seekntruth said:
You're like the crypt keeper of fake news lol

Five Journalists and Pundits Who Totally Botched The "Ivanka Fund" Story

While she had proposed the idea of the World Bank fund, Ms. Trump doesn’t control it or raise money for it, one person familiar with the plans said.

A number of members of the media, including journalists and pundits, didn't bother reading about the details and falsely claimed the Saudi government was giving the money to a fund run and owned by Ivanka herself. Calling it the "Ivanka Fund," they went so far as comparing the donation to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's abuse of her public office to raise money for the Clinton Foundation.

The problem? The two aren't remotely comparable and yet this false assumption was proliferated to hundreds-of-thousands, if not millions of people.
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#Alternativefacts
 
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IVANKA TRUMP’S “MASSIVE” NEW FUND COULD BE AN ETHICAL MINEFIELD
Ivanka’s “Massive” New Fund Could Be an Ethical Minefield

“Ivanka Trump told me yesterday from Berlin that she has begun building a massive fund that will benefit female entrepreneurs around the globe,” he wrote in a brief news item Wednesday morning. “Both countries and companies will contribute to create a pool of capital to economically empower women.” A source told Allen that the fund had already received financial commitments from “Canadians, Germans and a few Middle Eastern countries” to provide capital to women building small- and medium-sized companies.

Others disputed that characterization. A White House official stressed to The Washington Post that while Ivanka helped inspire the idea, she will not be involved in soliciting funds. “This is not a White House fund. This is not something that she will have any authority over in any way,” the official said. The initiative was first mentioned publicly by German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the panel, though a Trump administration official credited Ivanka for raising the idea during a meeting with World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.

Still, the creation of the fund presents another tricky balancing act for Ivanka, who is already struggling to reconcile her dual roles as First Daughter and Senior Adviser to the president—an unprecedented arrangement that has highlighted the immense gulf between her advocacy on behalf of women and her father’s policies. On the panel in Berlin on Tuesday, Ivanka was jeered when she defended her father’s history on women’s issues, calling him “a tremendous champion of supporting families and enabling them to thrive.”

New of the fund immediately raised questions from ethics experts, who posited that the First Daughter could be thrust into even more perilous territory. “Some of the questions that need to be answered are: is it being done through governmental authority or not?” Kathleen Clark, an ethics expert at Washington University in St. Louis, told Talking Points Memo. “Instead of private equity, is it intended as some sort of non-profit?” Former Bush-era ethics czar Richard Painter was more pointed: “It absolutely cannot be a private fund,” he said. “She can’t be at the White House soliciting money for a private foundation. We went through this with Hillary Clinton, who resigned from her foundation when she took a job as secretary of state.”

On social media, too, the reaction was swift. Commentators immediately seized on the apparent parallels to the Clinton Foundation, which Republicans including Donald Trump derided throughout the 2016 campaign as a pay-to-play scandal and ethics nightmare.




On same weekend as record-breaking arms deal, Saudis announced $100 million donation to Ivanka fund
The donations and the White House are not tied. Definitely not. No way! It is a total coincidence the $100 million donation is being made the same weekend a $110 billion arms deal is announced. And never mind that Ivanka Trump is traveling to Saudi Arabia in her official capacity as an ‘assistant to the president of the United States.’

Let’s recall Donald Trump’s reaction when it came to the Saudis donating to the Clinton Foundation. From October 2016:

When Chris Wallace asked Clinton about reports of conflicts of interest at the foundation, she responded, "I'm thrilled to talk about the Clinton Foundation because it is a world renowned charity and I'm so proud of the work that it does."

Trump shot in that it's a "criminal enterprise."

"Saudi Arabia given $25 million, Qatar, all of these countries. You talk about women and women's rights? These are people that push gays off business, off buildings. These are people that kill women and treat women horribly and yet you take their money," Trump said. "So I'd like to ask you right now why don't you give back the money that you've taken from certain countries that treat certain groups of people so horribly?

When the fund was announced last month, the Washington Post spoke with experts who said this is dangerous territory for the Trumps:

If true, this is egregious and potentially illegal, according to multiple ethics and legal experts. “Ifthe donation would be a quid pro quo bribe, then asking for it is certainly solicitation of a bribe, which is every bit as criminal as the bribe itself,” Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe tells me via email. “But I started that sentence with ‘if’ because I don’t have enough facts about the donation request to opine on the ultimate bribe issue.” Nevertheless, he says:

At the very least, though, a donation is a “present,” which – if made by a foreign government or an agent of such a government or an entity controlled by it – is expressly banned by the text of the Foreign Emoluments Clause with respect to anyone holding “any Office of Profit or Trust” under the United States. Whether it counts as an “emolument” becomes irrelevant if it’s a “present,” which any donation would at least be.

Tribe explains, “Even if the First Daughter and Assistant to the President somehow manages to create formal distance between herself and that version of the Clinton Foundation, which of course her father denounced endlessly during the campaign, the hypocrisy of the move is jaw-dropping.” He adds, “Such contributions would surely constitute a financial benefit to … her brand, and her family’s brand even if she is unable to spend a penny of the contributions themselves. As such, soliciting such contributions violates at least the spirit of the Foreign Emoluments Clause.”




 
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On May 16, a story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC Staffer Seth Rich. The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for all our reporting. Upon appropriate review, the article was found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.

We will continue to investigate this story and will provide updates as warranted.
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Travel Ban was the right idea.

https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-arena-attack-ariana-grande.html#pt0-612735

MANCHESTER, England — A 22-year-old British man whose parents had emigrated from LIBYA was identified by the police on Tuesday as the bomber who carried out Britain’s deadliest terrorist attack since 2005, an explosion that killed 22 people and injured 59 others at Manchester Arena.
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Sorry, wrong thread... but kind of relevant though ppl grilling Trump over Travel Ban from 6 countries. This dudes parents immigrated from Libya.
 
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Tang said:
Travel Ban was the right idea.

https://news.google.com/news/amp?caurl=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/23/world/europe/manchester-arena-attack-ariana-grande.html#pt0-612735

MANCHESTER, England — A 22-year-old British man whose parents had emigrated from LIBYA was identified by the police on Tuesday as the bomber who carried out Britain’s deadliest terrorist attack since 2005, an explosion that killed 22 people and injured 59 others at Manchester Arena.
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Not sure I understand how Trump's travel ban would have had an impact on this? Particularly from a terrorist born in Britain.
 
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Not sure I understand how Trump's travel ban would have had an impact on this? Particularly from a terrorist born in Britain.
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you're right. I was making a connection like the immigrants from those countries might not be a threat at the moment but they can have babies who becomes a threat.

As I was writing this, I realized how absurd that idea is given that situation is probably instigated by the US putting the travel ban on the first place.

Nothing to see here, move along. Early wake and bake is to blame
 
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Tang said:
you're right. I was making a connection like the immigrants from those countries might not be a threat at the moment but they can have babies who becomes a threat.

As I was writing this, I realized how absurd that idea is given that situation is probably instigated by the US putting the travel ban on the first place.

Nothing to see here, move along. Early wake and bake is to blame
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LOL, no worries man. It does highlight the risk of the domestic terrorist which is a really scary thing. Evolving from within the borders is gonna be a tough thing to prevent.
 
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Newly Revealed Trump Transcript Shows He Showered Praise On Murderous Dictator, And Other Trump News From Tuesday

Trump Told Rodrigo Duterte He Was Doing 'An Amazing Job'
In a transcriptobtained by The Intercept, President Trump reportedly told Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte that he was doing "an amazing job" and that he should "keep up the good work". For the last year Duterte has has waged a vigilante war against suspected drug dealers, ignoring due process, that has led to widespread killings. Specifically, Trump praised Duterte's handling of "the drug problem," saying, "what a great job you are doing".

Additionally, the two discussed North Korea. Trump told Duterte that if China doesn't solve the problem, "we will do it."
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Flynn Issued Two More Subpoenas
Dude really can't catch a break. Upon recent news that the former National Security Adviser pled the fifth in response to their original subpoena requesting all documents related to his communication with Russian officials, the Senate Intelligence Committee has issued two new subpoenas. The request target his businesses, which the committee believes can not plead the fifth.
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Trump Hiring Special Team To Handle His Crisis
President Trump is reportedly hiring a team to handle the fallout from his recent spat of major scandals. Trump has reportedly reached out to former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to lead a crisis management team that will most likely be housed outside the White House. The Washington Post reports that Trump is evaluating finalists for a team of outside counsel that will consult him on how to respond to aspect of the investigations into his campaign's ties to Russia.
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Flynn Misled Investigators About Money And Connections
According to The New York Times, former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn told Pentagon investigators when renewing his security clearance that he only had minor connections to foreign nationals and received no foreign payments, when in fact he was deeply connected to Russia and Turkey and was recently payed $45,000 to appear next to Vladimir Putin. The revelation comes amid a deepening sinkhole of scandal for Flynn, who was fired for lying about communications he had with Russia before Trump's inauguration.
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Trump Wants To Cut Billions From Disease Prevention And Research
President Trump has proposed a budget that would cut billions from health research organizations such as the National Institutes of Health. The full budget is to be released Tuesday, but was published early Monday and then withdrawn.
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