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Trump Returns Home to Another Accusatory NYT Report
President Trump landed just after 8p in D.C. Thursday night after returning home from Vietnam with no denuclearization deal yet in place with North Korea.
Just in time for the New York Times to drop another long-winded report littered with anonymous sources and lazy reporting.
“Four people briefed on the matter” told the New York Times that “President Trump ordered his chief of staff to grant his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, a top-secret security clearance last year, overruling concerns flagged by intelligence officials and the White House’s top lawyer.”
This contradicts what Trump told the NYT directly last month, that he had no involvement in his son-in-law receiving clearance.
Now that collusion looks to be off the table, the left is scrambling to come up with anything.
Nancy Pelosi Won’t Commit to Green New Deal Vote
“I can’t say we’re going to take that and pass it because we have to go through our checks and balances of it with our committee chairs and the rest,” the California Democrat said when asked about the Green New Deal during a Howard University lecture series.
“We welcome all the enthusiasm that people want to put on the table, and the Green New Deal is one of them, but we have to operate in a way that’s evidence-based, current in its data,” Pelosi said.
As Bill put it last night, Pelosi is not smart – but she is shrewd.
In a closed-door meeting with Congressional Democrats, she reportedly said, “This is not a day at the beach. This is the Congress of the United States,” - so STOP voting with Republicans.
For her part, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex warned she is keeping a list of Democrats who vote with Republicans. She plans to send it around to progressive activists to help them get moderates voted out of office – mobilizing the Twitter mob – that is the cycle.
Axios Outlines Democrats’ Post-Mueller Plan
Axios has published a comprehensive overview of how Democrats plan to take the baton from Robert Mueller once his investigation winds down, likely with no “grand finale” as many Democrats were hoping.
That outline is here and it is worth a read. It outlines how Congress will call from Trump family members and workers to testify.
As Bill said last night, Trump should advise his entire family and all employees of his organization to plead the fifth, since the continued investigations are clearly just to harm him.
Axios also just published a study of inequality through dog parks so maybe take the above with a grain of salt.
Biden Thinks Trump Did The Right Thing in Vietnam, Says Pence is a “Decent Guy" – Quickly Backtracks
"The president did the right thing by walking away," Biden said while speaking at the University of Nebraska, the Lincoln Journal-Star reported Thursday. "But diplomacy matters; preparation matters. The president treats everything like it's a real estate deal."
Biden said that he hopes that Trump "learned a very important lesson."
Biden also referred to Mike Pence as a “decent guy” at another event, sparking outrage from the Twitter mob, led by actress turned failed NYC gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon:
Cuomo Begs Amazon to Come Back to NYC
The New York Times is reporting that Andrew Cuomo is trying to get Amazon to come back to New York City by calling top executives, including the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos.
Cuomo us not happy with the Ocasio-Cortezes of the world and plans to have a group of city leaders publish an open letter in the Times asking them to come back.
"Governor Cuomo will take personal responsibility for the project's state approval," the letter read, according to a version of the letter published by the Times in advance on Thursday.
Stratfor: Why an Abrupt Finale to the Trump-Kim Summit Won't Kill Negotiations
- The second Trump-Kim summit ended suddenly and prematurely, reportedly due to an impasse over what North Korea was willing to trade for sanctions relief, along with other issues related to Pyongyang's weapons program, according to Washington.
- This, however, does not presage a return to the escalating tests and tensions that preceded the 2018 rapprochement, as progress and negotiations at a lower level are likely to continue.
- In the wake of this summit breakdown, China and South Korea will move quickly to try to put the U.S.-North Korea relationship back on track and sustain diplomatic dialogue.
Read Stratfor’s Report Here.
George H.W. Bush's service dog Sully has a new job at Walter Reed
The former president's companion has been reassigned to care for wounded veterans at Walter Reed Military Medical Center.
This line from the AP: Sully offered his paw as he was administered an oath streamed on Facebook to “support, comfort and cheer warriors and their families.”
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ICYMI: Bill’s New Column “The Woke Nightmare”
Bill talked about the column last night – watch that below and read the column exclusively on BillOReilly.com.
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