midterm elections

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According to reports, Mr. Sayoc shows signs of mental illness.  The story is being used by the  mainstream media to cast Trump and Republicans in a negative light ahead of the midterm elections. 

John Bolton, the US National Security Adviser to President Donald Trump, is in Moscow this week. The main topic of concern to many Russians was the stated intention by President Trump to withdraw the US from the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (or INF) Treaty with Russia. With the current record of American hostile and unprovoked actions taken against the Russian Federation over the last two years especially, this move caused a good deal of alarm in Russia.

US President Trump described the outgoing US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley as an  “extraordinary person” who is “going to make a lot of money” in the private sector.
Haley resigned from her UN post on Tuesday, but is likely to stay in her UN position until the end of the year, before her successor could be nominated and confirmed by the Senate.
President Trump told the press after Haley’s resignation…

The Democrats and the media lost on Thursday, as the seventh FBI investigation related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh turned up no corroboration of accuser Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations that the Judge sexually assaulted her in 1982.

The President can unilaterally fund the Wall without Congress on the basis of being the Commander in Chief of the military, which exists to defend the nation. Defense of the nation it the purpose of the wall.

On September 5th, the media world was “rocked” by an anonymously authored op-ed piece in The New York Times that, to hear about it through all the other networks, was like the end of the world for President Trump. According to the op-ed piece itself, it is written by a “senior official in the Trump White House” who has “vowed to thwart parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
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The CIA and The New York times have teamed up to produce a gem of fake news.
The NYT is reporting that Kremlin sources working for the CIA have suddenly ‘gone quiet’ out of fear that they will face the same ‘Novichok’ fate as Sergei Skripal. The lack of ‘intelligence’ from the deeply embedded CIA sources within the Kremlin have left US intelligence is ‘in the dark’ about Russian intentions towards the November midterm elections.

On Wednesday August 22, the latest sanctions set against Russia by the US go into effect. These sanctions have already exacted a toll on the Ruble sending it into the high sixties against the dollar last week. At the time of this writing the ruble has only slightly improved from the worst level since the announcement, and this round of sanctions is the most painful since the Ruble hit a crippling level of 83 to the dollar in late 2015.

CNBC is breaking a story that Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, is stepping down from his post on the nation’s highest Court, effective July 31 this year: