21st Century Wire says…
Speaking to reporters from his summer golf retreat in New Jersey, President Donald Trump publicly thanked Russian leader Vladimir Putin for previously ordering the US to slash its embassy staff in Moscow and close two of its storage facilities there. Much to the chagrin of the adversarial media, Trump crowed, that Putin has helped him achieve a “smaller payroll.”
21st Century Wire says…
It’s been confirmed that the FBI did conduct a predawn raid of the home of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, in early hours of July 26th – without prior warning.
FBI agents working with special counsel Robert Mueller executed a search warrant and seized “various records” and equipment from Manafort’s Virginia residency.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
That the Trump presidency is bedeviled is undeniable.
As President Donald Trump flew off for August at his Jersey club, there came word that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III had impaneled a grand jury and subpoenas were going out to Trump family and campaign associates.
The jurors will be drawn from a pool of citizens in a city Hillary Clinton swept with 91 percent of the vote. Trump got 4 percent.
Journalist Seymour Hersh in Italy, on April, 2009. (Tania/A3/Contrasto/Redux)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We recognize the following eloquent rant posted on Oliver Stone’s Facebook page as being of high integrity and congenial to boot. America, and the world, will continue to find itself in peril so long as this sort of measured, thoughtful analysis remains in such short supply in Washington DC. Wake up America, you are now asleep at the wheel.
Consortium News Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media continues to spread its own “fake news,” like the falsehood about an intelligence community “consensus” on Russia-gate “hacking,” as algorithms begin to marginalize dissent…
By Robert Parry
Russiagate. First it was Russian hacking our election,’ then it was ‘Russian interference,’ then it was ‘Russian collusion,’ then it was ‘Russian meddling,’ which was finally downgraded to Russian influence.
Still, the mainstream media led by CNN, The Washington Post, and New York Times, continues to pump out theories about Russian contacts of the Trump campaign and hangers-on, which has led nowhere after a nine month circus-like investigation.
(PP) — Marc Kasowitz, President Trump’s personal attorney on the Russia case, threatened a stranger in a string of profanity-laden emails Wednesday night.
