Fake News Network found out (again) it can't stand by its own reporting

3 CNN Journalists Resign After Retracted Story on Trump Ally

I can't understand this. Their job is to get Trump. Since when did the facts get in the way? 

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Anthony Scaramucci at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January. A CNN story linked him to a Russian investment fund supposedly being investigated by the United States Senate. Laurent Gillieron/European Pressphoto Agency

Three prominent journalists at CNN resigned on Monday after the cable news network was forced to retract and apologize for a story on its website involving a close ally of President Trump.

The article — linking Anthony Scaramucci, a hedge-fund manager and Trump confidant, to a Russian investment fund supposedly being investigated by the Senate — was removed from CNN.com late last week after the network decided it could not fully stand by its reporting.

The resignations are a black eye at a sensitive moment for the news organization, which has emerged as a regular target of Mr. Trump and his supporters. The president relishes dismissing the network's coverage as "fake news," and his closest advisers have accused the channel of harboring a bias against Mr. Trump.

CNN's president, Jeffrey A. Zucker, has invested enormous resources into political and investigative coverage of the Trump White House, and he was deeply upset by last week's reporting errors, according to two people briefed on the network's discussions over the weekend who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Mr. Zucker helped lead an internal inquiry that found the story was published despite concerns expressed by CNN's standards team, the people said. Thomas Frank, a veteran reporter who wrote the story; Lex Haris, executive editor of investigations; and Eric Lichtblau, an investigative editor and reporter hired from The New York Times in April, submitted resignations on Monday morning.

It was the latest in a series of embarrassing episodes at CNN. The network fired Kathy Griffin, a host of its New Year's Eve special, after she published a photograph in which she appeared to brandish a facsimile of Mr. Trump's severed head. It cut ties with the host Reza Aslan after he assailed Mr. Trump in vulgar Twitter posts. And it issued a correction on another story that inaccurately predicted the congressional testimony of James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director.

By Monday night, some critics of CNN had already seized on the news. "Fake News Blues," blared a headline on the right-wing website Breitbart News.

Fake News Network found out (again) it can't stand by its own reporting

Supreme Court: Will Justice Kennedy retire this month?

It appears Trump may be making another appointment soon and is the main reason I voted for him. If he's only a one-term president (hope not) I can see him appointing 3 judges in total. Ginsburg will not retire just to spite Trump. She'll have to be carried out dead on a stretcher before Trump can replace her.

Remember this?

In an interview, in her court office, the 83-year-old justice, and leader of the court's liberal wing said she presumes Democrat Hillary Clinton will be the next president. Asked what if Republican Donald Trump won instead, she said, "I don't want to think about that possibility, but if it should be, then everything is up for grabs."

Via: https://earloftaint.com

Including her integrity.


She added:

"It's likely that the next president, whoever she will be, will have a few appointments to make," Ginsburg said, smiling.

No bias here... right?

What do you think the odds are Trump will get any favorable rulings from her?

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The Supreme Court’s term ends next week with growing speculation that Justice Anthony Kennedy--the panel’s most pivotal member--may retire at age 80 after 29 years on the court.

Action is expected on President Trump’s travel ban before the court’s long summer break but the biggest news of all would be if Kennedy were to use the court’s last public session on Monday to announce his retirement, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

Kennedy has played an important role as the court’s swing vote on many important rulings. His departure would allow conservatives to wrest near total control of the bench for the foreseeable future.

The justice has sided with his liberal colleagues on gay rights and abortion rights, as well as some cases involving race, the death penalty and the rights of people detained without charges at the Guantanamo Bay naval base. He has written all the court's major gay-rights decisions, including the 2015 ruling that declared same-sex marriage is a constitutional right nationwide

Several of his former law clerks have said they think he is contemplating stepping down in the next year or so.

Kennedy and his clerks were gathering over the weekend for a reunion that was pushed up a year and helped spark talk he might be leaving the court.

"Soon we'll know if rumors of Kennedy's retirement are accurate," one former Kennedy clerk, George Washington University law professor Orin Kerr, said on Twitter Friday.

Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told reporters in April, "I would expect a resignation this summer."

Kennedy's departure would allow Trump to fill a second Supreme Court vacancy in just a short period of time.

Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump's first nominee, joined the court in April, overriding efforts by the Democratic minority to block the nomination.

The vote came after Senate Republicans voted to change parliamentary rules to require only 51 votes to confirm Supreme Court nominees.

The other two older justices, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 84, and Stephen Breyer, 78, are Democratic appointees.

Neither appear to be ready to step down with Trump in the White House—if they can help it.

"I love my job," Ginsburg told a Georgetown University audience last month.

Supreme Court: Will Justice Kennedy retire this month?

Move over Loretta...here comes Jane

Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane hire lawyers as Feds open investigation into whether she falsified loan applications to try and save the liberal arts college she ran

Bernie Sanders and his wife have hired lawyers after the feds opened an investigation into loan applications she made to help save a Vermont college, according to reports.

A probe is being launched into whether Jane Sanders falsified information on loan documents in order to expand the campus of Burlington College while she served as president.

Jane ran the of the liberal arts school from 2004 to 2011. During that time the college fell $10million in debt.

Bernie Sanders and his wife, Jane Sanders (pictured together in Chicago on June 10), have hired lawyers amidst a federal investigation, according to reports

A probe is being launched into whether Jane Sanders falsified information on loan documents in order to expand the campus of the now-defunct Burlington College (pictured) while she served as president of the liberal arts school from 2004 to 2011

According to Politico Magazine, Brady Toensing, an attorney who chaired Trump's Vermont campaign, looked at the school's loan documents.

He allegedly saw that Jane Sanders had convinced a bank that the college - which had an annual budget of $4million - could repay the sum.

She also claimed the college could count on $2.6million in donations to pay for the 33 lakeside acres meant for the campus, according to a 2010 loan application.

But Jane only raised one-quarter of that amount, raking in $676,000 in donations over the next four years.

VTDigger, a local Vermont online publication, says the numbers that donors say they pledged differ from what Jane documented.

The school ended up closing its doors last May after filing for bankruptcy. 

Burlington attorney and Sanders supporter Rich Cassidy has reportedly been hired to represent the Vermont Senator. Meanwhile, high-profile Washington attorney Larry Robbins is working for Jane Sanders.

Senator Sanders indicated that he believes the investigation stemmed from politics.

Jane (pictured with Senator Sanders in Chicago on June 10) allegedly claimed the college could count on $2.6million in donations to pay for the 33 lakeside acres meant for the campus, according to a 2010 loan application. But she only raised one-quarter of that amount, raking in $676,000 in donations over the next four years

The investigation was started more than a year ago under President Obama, his Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and his United States Attorney, all of whom are Democrats.

(Probably because he wanted his girl to get elected)

Move over Loretta...here comes Jane

Senate goes after Loretta Lynch as Republicans and Democrats probe how Obama's attorney general impeded Clinton's email investigation

Loud and clear. Lard-ass didn't do this on her own initiative. Barry led her by the nose to the trough. The funny thing is why be so blatantly obvious about the plot for all the world to see when Bill could have simply called her on the phone? Besides Barry and Susan Rice who else would be listening in on the conversation? Certainly not Republicans. Hell, you couldn't have two better collaborators.

The Democrats and their accomplices the MSM are turning over every rock, checking every nook and cranny, looking for Russian collusion (which came back to bite them in the ass) but overlook the most tainted FBI, DOJ, investigation of all time. The attempted fixing of a presidential race! 

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The Senate Judiciary Committee has launched an investigation into what former Attorney General Loretta Lynch may have done in 2016 to influence an FBI investigation related to Hillary Clinton's classified email scandal.

Lynch was widely criticized for meeting with former President Bill Clinton on an airport tarmac last summer while his wife was under criminal investigation for mishandling classified materials.

Mrs. Clinton, a former secretary of state and at that time the Democratic White House nominee, kept her State Department work emails on a private email server at her home, obscuring them from government record-keepers.

She was ultimately not prosecuted even though thousands of classified emails were later recovered from the server.

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch is now the subject of a U.S. Senate inquest into whether she held back the FBI from a hard-charging probe of Hillary Clinton's classified emails

Clinton, who was at the time the Democratic presidential nominee, was let off the hook for the copious classified materials found on her private email server

The Senate committee asked Lynch in a letter on Thursday to describe her involvement in the Clinton probe. Both Republicans and Democrats in the committee's leadership signed it.

The letter cites an April 22 New York Times story that describes a memo 'written by a Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far.'

That document, the Times reported, was recovered from Russian hackers who were unaware the FBI could see what they had taken from U.S. networks.

The Washington Post described in May 'a Russian intelligence document' that 'cited a supposed email describing how then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch had privately assured someone in the Clinton campaign that the email investigation would not push too deeply into the matter.'

Lynch and former president Bill Clinton (center-right) met on an airport tarmac in Arizona last year, but insisted they never discussed Hillary's pending case. Clinton is pictured with Bryan Pagliano, who ran his wife's secret email server

James Comey, the fired FBI director, told Congress last month that Lynch's involvement in the case was one factor that pushed him to go public with his knowledge of Clinton's activities

Fired FBI Director James Comey said during his May 3 Senate testimony that he was prodded to come forward last July with his findings about Clinton in part because he feared Lynch's activity could compromise his agency's independence.

'A number of things had gone on, some of which I cannot talk about yet,' he said, that made me worry that the Department leadership could not credibly complete the investigation and decline prosecution without grievous damage to the American people's confidence in the justice system.'

Senate goes after Loretta Lynch as Republicans and Democrats probe how Obama's attorney general impeded Clinton's email investigation

Trump 'has spent $133,000 on White House furnishings in his first five months in office' - more than twice the amount Obama did

I guess they forgot Trump refused to take a $400,000 a year salary instead donated it to charity. The first president in history to do so. Unlike Barry's lavish golf vacations in Hawaii and other exotic destinations, Trump often owns the properties he plays golf on as well as the accommodations he stays at which are not charged to the taxpayer. The use of Air Force One as well as the security detail is charged to the taxpayer as with any president.

 It makes me laugh when it comes to comparing Barry's spending 'habits' to Trump. Barry took a $10.6 trillion national debt he inherited... and almost doubled it before leaving office!!!

Give me a F-ing break.

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President Donald Trump has spent more taxpayer funds on White House furnishings in the first five months of his administration than his predecessor, Barack Obama, spent in the same span of time, it was reported on Friday.

American Bridge PAC, an organization which is 'committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions,' obtained copies of federal procurement records through May 31, according to Mic.

The records show that in his first 150 days in office, Trump spent $133,053.95 on office furniture.

That's more than twice the amount that Obama spent in his first five months in office - $51,204.25.

The most notable purchase made by Trump was a $13,000 custom conference table from Kittinger Company.

President Donald Trump has spent more taxpayer funds on White House furnishings in the first five months of his administration than his predecessor, Barack Obama, spent in the same span of time. Trump is seen with Argentine President Mauricio Macri (second from left) and their wives, Juliana Awada (left), and Melania Trump (right) in the Oval Office on April 27

American Bridge PAC, an organization which is 'committed to holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions,' obtained copies of federal procurement records through May 31. The records show that in his first 150 days in office, Trump spent $133,053.95 on office furniture

Before Trump ran for office, he frequently criticized Obama for taking trips and vacations that cost significant taxpayer funds

Kittinger has 'built custom furnishings for many of the finest offices in this county and throughout the world, including many government offices at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue for more than two centuries.'

While Trump may have outspent Obama in the first five months, the 45th president has some catching up to do in June.

During Obama's first June in office, he spent almost a whopping $70,000.

So far, Trump has spent just south of $17,000 so far this month.

Before Trump ran for office, he frequently criticized Obama for taking trips and vacations that cost significant taxpayer funds.

That's more than twice the amount that Obama spent in his first five months in office - $51,204.25. Obama is seen in the Oval Office with Staff Secretary Joani Walsh on December 18, 2015

The above chart shows the expenditures made by Obama from his inauguration on January 20, 2009 until May 31, 2009

Trump also took Obama to task for playing too much golf.

Yet if current trends continue, Trump will surpass Obama in taxpayer expenditures on holiday travel as well as golfing.

In eight years in office, Obama spent $97million on travel that was not work-related, including ski trips to Aspen and vacationing in Martha's Vineyard, according to the conservative Judicial Watch. 

In the first few months of the Trump administration, the president has spent in excess of $21million, according to CNN.

CNN also said Ossoff was going to win by 5 percentage points in GA.

This is how they looked when their own bullshit came back to slap them in the face. 

You gotta love it!

Trump 'has spent $133,000 on White House furnishings in his first five months in office' - more than twice the amount Obama did