thephan wrote:

A Dutch journalist just asked new U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra why he said there are “no go” areas in the Netherlands, where radical Muslims are setting cars and politicians on fire.

Hoekstra denied it, and called the claim “fake news.”

The reporter then showed Hoekstra a video clip of himself at a congressional hearing in 2015 saying: “The Islamic movement has now gotten to a point where they have put Europe into chaos. Chaos in the Netherlands, there are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned.”

“And yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands,” he added in the clip.

Then things got extremely weird.

When the reporter pressed, Hoekstra denied using the term “fake news,” which he'd uttered moments before.

“I didn’t call that fake news,” he said. “I didn’t use the words today. I don’t think I did.”

Sounds like Pete Hoekstra got a scratch on his scratch right there.

Bucky wrote:

thephan wrote:

A group of House Republicans has gathered secretly for weeks in the Capitol in an effort to build a case that senior leaders of the Justice Department and FBI improperly — and perhaps criminally — mishandled the contents of a dossier that describes alleged ties between President Donald Trump and Russia, according to four people familiar with their plans.

A subset of the Republican members of the House intelligence committee, led by Chairman Devin Nunes of California, has been quietly working parallel to the committee's high-profile inquiry into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. They haven't informed Democrats about their plans, but they have consulted with the House's general counsel.

The people familiar with Nunes' plans said the goal is to highlight what some committee Republicans see as corruption and conspiracy in the upper ranks of federal law enforcement.

politico

A congressional aide with knowledge of the meetings said Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) was not among the participants. ”While he does believe the FBI and DOJ have recently made decisions worth looking into, he is and will always be a defender of the FBI, DOJ and the special counsel," the aide said.

How is the operating idea that your politics are bad, and my politics are good fit into America? A flat out partisan operation is beyond suspect, especially if potential same party objectors are removed to advance an agenda. It almost dances on the edge of the definition of conspiracy itself (a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.) depending on harm it could create. it certainly is McCarthy like.

i think we're heading for an all-out constitutional crisis

pacino wrote:those cabinet meetings are insane spectacles of Trump showing power and also showing how badly he needs approval

Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there. Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.

Donald Trump wrote:FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go?!!!

pacino wrote:depending on the conservative, the response will either be: "FAKE NEWS" or "and?"

Warszawa wrote:I totally despise trump but I really believe mike pence is the worst person in the world

pacino wrote:The big issue now is 'chain migration,' which is essentially not a real thing. It's never been about illegal immigration; it's always simply been about immigration and who is coming.

Your Trumpie relatives will concentrate on this while ignoring how their family came here.

Bucky wrote:i think the bill's focus of eliminating people who itemize will really hurt my fire company's fund drive going forward

also, along those same lines, i imagine democratic candidates receive a much larger share of their funding from people who will no longer be itemizing than their R counterparts

/conspiracy theory