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Sunday, June 24, 2018

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she was told to leave Virginia restaurant because she works for Trump



I'm going to paint a picture to expose the double standard in one sentence. Imagine Sarah Huckabee Sanders was black and held the same position in the Obama administration. 

This from Yelp regarding The Red Hen:


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The Red Hen 

2.0 star rating
13743 reviews




Peter Luger 

4.0 star rating
4682 reviews




Conservatives are working diligently to get it down to one star. To put things in perspective Peter Luger Steakhouse has been around since 1887 and they got 9,061 fewer reviews!

  To explain how stupid liberals are look at this from a business standpoint. 


She owns a business...
and is deliberately pissing off 40 to 50% or more of her customer base???


Stephanie Wilkinson, the owner of The Red Hen




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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 14: White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders conducts a White House daily news briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House June 14, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)



WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was booted from a Virginia restaurant because she works for President Donald Trump, setting off a fierce debate about whether politics should play a role in how administration officials are treated in public.

Sanders was the latest to experience a brusque reception in such a setting.

Sanders tweeted that she was told by the owner of the Red Hen in Lexington, Virginia, that she had to “leave because I work for @POTUS and I politely left.” She said the episode Friday evening said far more about the owner of the restaurant than it did about her.

“I always do my best to treat people, including those I disagree with, respectfully and will continue to do so,” Sanders said in the tweet from her official account, which generated 22,000 replies in about an hour.

The restaurant’s co-owner Stephanie Wilkinson told The Washington Post that her staff had called her to report Sanders was in the restaurant. She cited several reasons, including the concerns of several restaurant employees who were gay and knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar transgender people from the military.

“Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,” Wilkinson told her staff, she said. “They said yes.”

Wilkinson said that she talked to Sanders privately and that Sanders’s response was immediate: “That’s fine. I’ll go.”

Employees at the restaurant told The Associated Press that Wilkinson wasn’t available for further comment.

Over the weekend, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich weighed in on the increasingly nasty tone of politics. Gingrich was known for setting a more combative tone in congressional politics in the 1990s.

“The increasing personal nastiness toward people who work for President Trump reflects the left’s understanding that they are losing,” Gingrich said in a tweet. “Nastiness reflects desperation, not strength. They can’t win the argument so they use nastiness. Sad and dangerous.”

Lexington, located in the Shenandoah Valley and a three-hour drive southwest of the nation’s capital, is politically a spot of blue in a sea of red. It sided with Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, by a 2-1 margin. It’s the county seat of Rockbridge County, which went with Trump by a similar margin. And it is home to Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University.

Sanders’ treatment at the restaurant created a social media commotion with people on both sides weighing in, including her father, Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential candidate.

“Bigotry. On the menu at Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington VA. Or you can ask for the ‘Hate Plate,'” Huckabee said in a tweet, quickly generating 2,000 replies in about 30 minutes. “And appetizers are ‘small plates for small minds.'”

Tom Lomax, a local business owner, brought flowers to the restaurant Saturday afternoon as a show of support. He called Wilkinson a “force of nature” and “one of the biggest drivers of the downtown.”

“We support our own here, great little community we have,” he said.

Stephen Russek, a former restaurant owner in the area, said “they had no right to do that.”

“You have your political opinions, you don’t throw somebody out of your restaurant,” Russek, who lives nearby, said. “They ought to be shut down.”

The separation of families trying to enter the U.S. at the southern border has intensified political differences and passions that were already at elevated levels during the Trump presidency.

Earlier in the week, Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, cut short a working dinner at a Mexican restaurant in Washington after protesters shouted, “Shame!” until she left. A few days earlier, Trump aide Stephen Miller, a key adviser on immigration, was accosted by someone at a different Mexican restaurant in the city, who called him “a fascist,” according to the New York Post. The Trumps don’t get out a lot socially in Washington and Trump often dines at BLT Prime in the Trump International Hotel or at Trump properties elsewhere when he does go out.

Ari Fleischer, who was a press secretary for President George W. Bush, tweeted Saturday: “I guess we’re heading into an America with Democrat-only restaurants, which will lead to Republican-only restaurants. Do the fools who threw Sarah out, and the people who cheer them on, really want us to be that kind of country?”





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The Truth About the Border








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Saturday, June 23, 2018

US Navy drafts plans to house 25,000 immigrants at cost of $233m




$233 million!!!

And it's "temporary and austere"... like we're apologizing for the accommodations.

How much less would it have cost to deposit them back in Mexico?






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The U.S. Navy is drafting plans to house up to 25,000 immigrants on its bases and other facilities, at an estimated cost of about $233 million over six months, as the Trump administration seeks to ease a mounting crisis on the Mexican border, a U.S. official said on Friday. 

The Navy has not so far been asked to provide accommodation for migrants who have entered the United States illegally. The official, who asked not to be named, stressed that the draft memo, which looks at setting up housing on Navy airfields in Alabama, was for planning purposes only. 

President Donald Trump is facing a public outcry over his policy of separating children from their migrant parents, with lawmakers struggling to get immigration legislation passed. The memo gives an early indication of how much Trump's plan to house thousands of immigrants while they await trial under his "zero-tolerance" policy could cost. 

The facilities, which could include tents, are described as "temporary and austere" in the memo, according to the official. It suggests the facilities be built for between six months and one year. 

The official said the draft document, drawn up by Phyllis Bayer, the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment, also says that a Navy base in California could house up to a further 47,000 people. 

Asked about the plan, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Robert Manning said in a statement that the Department of Defense was "conducting prudent planning" and was looking nationwide at its installations in case it was asked for assistance in housing illegal immigrants. 

The U.S. military said on Thursday it had been asked by the government to get ready to house up to 20,000 immigrant children. It said the government had already assessed three military bases in Texas and would review another in Arkansas.




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Cynthia Nixon reveals her oldest child is transgender



You have to remember she's running for governor of NY so this is a check mark on the plus side. In CA it would be a guaranteed victory.



Cynthia Nixon revealed her oldest child is transgender in an Instagram post on June 22. (Reuters)


Cynthia Nixon is proud of her kids. 

On Friday, the candidate for New York governor, 52, shared on Instagram that her oldest child, Samuel—known as Seph—is transgender.

Nixon shared the news in a post celebrating her son on the Trans Day of Action with a photo from his graduation earlier this month from the University of Chicago.

"I’m so proud of my son Samuel Joseph Mozes (called Seph) who graduated college this month. I salute him and everyone else marking today’s #TransDayofAction. #TDOA," the "Sex and the City" alum captioned a picture of the pair. 


Can't help thinking she had an affair with Bill Gates.

 Should have named the kid Pat. 


Nixon shares 21-year-old Samuel, who was born Samantha Mozes, with ex Danny Mozes. The former couple are also parents to 15-year-old son Charles Ezekiel Mozes. In addition, Nixon is mom to 7-year-old Max Ellington Nixon-Marinoni with her wife, Christine Marinoni. 


"We want our government to work again. On health care, ending massive incarceration, fixing our broken subway," Nixon said in a video announcing her candidacy at the time. "We are sick of politicians who care more about headlines and power than they do about us."




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Friday, June 22, 2018

This is the FBI agent who worked on Hillary Clinton probe, labeled Trump supporters 'retarded' and texted 'f**k Trump' to her colleague lover - seen for the first time since her identity was revealed after release of IG report




The FBI is dirtier than the exhaust pipe on my truck. After reading this latest episode don't know how much more proof is needed to make heads roll. There needs to be jail time here. To think Trump is being investigated for collusion while all this went on at the FBI is a travesty. Who do I blame? Republicans. Imagine if you will the FBI agents were Republicans and acted in the same manner regarding Clinton. The Democrats would have put up a fight and the shit would have REALLY hit the fan! Republicans are all talk. Benghazi, IRS scandal, F&F what came of it? Nothing. We are going to witness the same thing again because they're fucking worthless. 

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The FBI agent on the Hillary Clinton email investigation who traded anti-Trump texts with her FBI colleague lover is pictured here for the first time since her name was revealed by Congress.

Sally Moyer, 44, who texted 'f**k Trump,' called President Trump's voters 'retarded' and vowed to quit 'on the spot' if he won the election, was seen leaving her home early Friday morning wearing a floral top and dark pants. 

She shook her head and declined to discuss the controversy with a DailyMail.com reporter, and ducked quickly into her nearby car in the rain without an umbrella before driving off.

Moyer's texts and instant messages from her FBI devices were included in a 568-page inspector general report released last Friday, which said those messages and others 'raised concerns about potential bias in the Clinton investigation.' 

Moyer was identified only as 'Agent 5' in the report, but her name was released by Rep. Mark Meadows during a congressional hearing this week.

Moyer, an attorney, and registered Democrat appears to have worked at the FBI since at least September of 2006. She previously worked for law firm Crowell & Moring. Moyer graduated from Allegheny College in 1996 with a degree in political science.


FBI agent Sally Moyer, 44, was spotted leaving her Washington D.C. home on Friday morning but declined to discuss the controversy



Moyer worked on the 'filter team' for the Hillary Clinton probe during which she sent anti-Trump messages to another colleague, to who she is now married

At the time of the texts, Moyer was on the 'filter team' for the Clinton probe – a small team of government officials that determines whether information obtained by the FBI is considered 'privileged' or if it can be used in the investigation.

Moyer exchanged most of the messages with another FBI agent who worked on the Clinton investigation, identified as 'Agent 1' in the report.

Moyer and Agent 1 were in a romantic relationship at the time, and the two have since married, according to the report. Agent 1's name is being withheld.

The inspector general report said it found no 'documentary or testimonial evidence directly connecting the political views these employees expressed in their text messages and instant messages to the specific investigative decisions.'

However, the report said the messages 'cast a cloud over the FBI [Clinton] investigation and sowed doubt the FBI's work on, and its handling of, the [Clinton] investigation.'

'Moreover, the damage caused by their actions extends far beyond the scope of the Midyear investigation and goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence,' said the report.

In the conversations, Moyer and Agent 1 discuss their support for Clinton and opposition to Trump as well as their frustration with the probe into whether Clinton improperly stored classified information on her private email server.

Agent 1 referred to the investigation as a 'waste of resources and time and focus' shortly after he was assigned to the case.

'Its just so obvious how pointless this exercise is. And everyone is so into it,' Agent 1 texted Moyer on Oct. 26, 2015.

Many of the texts directly referenced Trump and the election.


In a text message exchange with Agent 1 in August 2016, Moyer said anyone who enjoyed this job was 'an absolute f***ng idiot' 


On Election Day 2016, Moyer vowed to quit 'on the spot' if Trump won the election

'I find anyone who enjoys [this job] an absolute f***ng idiot. If you don't [sic] think so, ask them one more question. Who are you voting for? I guarantee you it will be Donald Drumpf,' Agent 1 texted Moyer on Aug. 26, 2016.

'I forgot about drumpf,' responded Moyer, citing a popular running  joke by TV host John Oliver that was intended to mock Trump's last name.

'[T]hat's so sad and pathetic if they want to vote for [Trump],' added Moyer. '[S]omeone who can't answer a question…someone who can't be professional for even a second.'

Moyer later complained about her co-workers, texting Agent 1 on September 9, 2016 that she 'would rather have brunch with trump and a bunch of his supporters like the ones in Ohio that are retarded [sic]' than spend time with some of her colleagues.

On Election Day, Agent 1 texted Moyer, writing: 'You think HRC is gonna win right? You think we should get nails and some boards in case she doesn't.'

'[Hillary] better win,' replied Moyer. '[O]therwise I'm gonna be walking around with both my guns. And likely quitting on the spot.'

Agent 1 responded: 'You should know…that…I'm…with her,' a reference to Clinton's campaign slogan 'I'm with her.'

'Screw you trump,' wrote back Moyer. 'Go, baby, go! Let's give [Clinton] Virginia!'

After Trump's election, Moyer complained in a text about having to be on call for the president's inauguration on December 6, 2016.



Moyer had said her personal political views had no impact on her work at the FBI or on the Clinton investigation



Messages show Moyer (pictured on Thursday) labeled Trump's supporters in Ohio 'retarded,' and in a fit of pique over being asked to work on Inauguration Day, she added: 'F*** Trump'

'F**k you Trump,' she texted Agent 1.

Moyer also claimed she would turn down a presidential award for public service due to her disdain for Trump.

'I think now that Trump is the president, I'd refuse it. it would be an insult to even be considered for it,' she wrote on February 9, 2017.

In addition, the inspector general report found that Agent 1 'sent numerous messages that referenced 'political' considerations in the context of the [Clinton] investigation.'

In one message, Agent 1 told a colleague that the investigation would probably be completed by March of 2016 because of the timing of the presidential election.

'Doesn't matter what we have, political winds will want to beat the [primary elections],' wrote Agent 1 to an unidentified FBI employee.

On May 6, 2016, Agent 1 texted Moyer: 'pretty bad news today...someone has breathed some political urgency into this [Clinton investigation].'

Although the messages were exchanged on government devices, Moyer told the inspector general that she considered her comments 'personal' and 'off-the-cuff.'

She also said her personal political views had no impact on her work at the FBI or on the Clinton investigation.

'I can tell you in no way did my political or what I understand of [Agent 1], no political anything is going to interfere with us doing our job as professionals,' Moyer told the inspector general.



Kevin Clinesmith, 36, another FBI attorney who worked on the Clinton investigation, was found to have sent similar messages



Clinesmith, who is divorced, told the New Columbia Heights website at the time that he grew up in a 'small farming town in rural Michigan' and moved to the Washington area in 2008.



Clinesmith was identified as 'Attorney 2' in the inspector general report, but his name was released by Rep. Mark Meadows during a congressional hearing this week. He texted several colleagues bemoaning the 'destruction of the Republic'

'[I]n no way has it ever or would it ever affect the way I, I handle any investigation, any case, any professional work that I, that I put forward,' she said.

Agent 1 said the exchanges with Moyer were how he vented frustrations at the office and similarly said they did not influence his work on the investigation.

'I think this was primarily used as a personal conversation venting mode for me,' said Agent 1 in an interview with the inspector general.

Three other FBI official involved in the Clinton probe were also revealed to have sent anti-Trump and pro-Clinton texts on a government phone.

Two high-ranking FBI officials, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, were found late last year to have sent politically charged messages related to Trump and the Clinton email investigation. 

The two officials, who were having an extramarital affair and exchanged thousands of texts, also worked on Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump campaign officials.

In one of the messages, Page asked Strzok to reassure her that Trump wouldn't win the election.

'No he won't [win],' responded Strzok. 'We'll stop it.'

Page resigned from the Bureau in May and Strzok was reassigned. Strzok was reportedly escorted out of the FBI on Tuesday and has had his security clearance revoked.



Kevin Clinesmith, 36, another FBI attorney who worked on the Clinton investigation, was found to have sent similar messages. Clinesmith was identified as 'Attorney 2' in the inspector general report, but his name was released by Rep. Mark Meadows during a congressional hearing this week.

At the hearing, Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz declined to confirm the identities of Moyer and Clinesmith. But Meadows said he decided to name them because neither works in a counterintelligence capacity.

Clinesmith, who attended Georgetown University Law Center, previously worked for the U.S. Department of Energy before joining the FBI.

In 2012, he ran for Advisory Neighborhood Commission in Columbia Heights, a northwest neighborhood in Washington, D.C., on a platform of supporting the local arts, installing more public trash bins to the area, and improving a local dog park.

Clinesmith, who is divorced, told the New Columbia Heights website at the time that he grew up in a 'small farming town in rural Michigan' and moved to the Washington area in 2008.

Clinesmith texted several colleagues bemoaning the 'destruction of the Republic' after FBI Director James Comey wrote a letter informing Congress that the Clinton email investigation was being reopened days before the election on October 26, 2016.



Lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page worked both on the Clinton email investigation and on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe; they commiserated in 2016 about Trump's rise to power but decided they could 'stop' him; Clinesmith and Moyer are separate, and were not a romantic couple

'As I have initiated the destruction of the republic.... Would you be so kind as to have a coffee with me this afternoon?' Clinesmith wrote to one co-worker.

'I'm clinging to small pockets of happiness in the dark time of the Republic's destruction,' he told another.

After the election, Clinesmith also fretted in text messages that he could have done more to prevent Trump's victory. He texted an unnamed colleague that he believed the FBI's decision to reopen the Clinton probe 'broke the momentum' for Clinton.

'I am so stressed about what I could have done differently,' Clinesmith wrote to the unnamed FBI colleague, according to the inspector general report.

'It's just hard not to feel like the FBI caused some of this. It was razor thin in some states,' he added.

The Justice Department inspector general asked Clinesmith during an interview what actions he thought he could have taken to influence the election. Clinesmith said he would have tried to finish the investigation quicker.

'It was just kind of like a discussion on how I could have either moved the process along more quickly or more efficiently at a, at a more, at an earlier time, or whatnot,' he said.

Clinesmith also texted that he was 'numb' and 'just devastated' by Trump's election.

'I'm just devastated. I can't wait until I can leave today and just shut off the world for the next four days,' he wrote.



Republican Rep. Mark Meadows (pictured) dropped the names of Clinesmith and Moyer into his Capitol grilling of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Tuesday, saying they were 'Attorney 2' and 'Agent 5' referred to in Horowitz's recently released report


'I honestly feel like there is going to be a lot more gun issues too, the crazies won finally. This is the tea party on steroids,' he added. 'And the GOP is going to be lost, they have to deal with an incumbent in 4 years. We have to fight this again. Also, Pence is stupid.'

On November 22, 2016, a colleague texted Clinesmith to ask if he had changed his views on Trump.

'Hell no. Viva le resistance,' responded Clinesmith, a reference to the 'Resistance,' a Trump opposition movement that claimed to be collaborating with officials inside the Trump administration.

Clinesmith told the inspector general that his comment did not indicate he was going to use his FBI position to fight Trump.

'It wasn't something along the lines of, you know, we're taking certain actions in order to, you know, combat that or, or do anything like that,' he said, according to the report. 'Like that, that was not the intent of that.'

He also said his political views didn't impact his work and said he and his colleague 'tend to exaggerate some statements back and forth to one another.'




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