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President Trump on Friday demanded action “at every level of government” to prevent school shootings from taking place, hours after a gunman killed several people at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas.
“This has been going on too long in our country. Too many decades,” the president said at a White House event shortly after authorities in Texas arrested the shooter. “My administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students, secure our schools, and keep weapons out of the hands of those people who pose a threat to themselves and to others.”
“Everyone must work together at every level of government to keep our children safe,” Trump said. [Read More]
President Trump on Thursday questioned whether the Obama FBI “spied” on his presidential campaign, on the heels of an extensive report on the Russia investigation’s origins that said a government informant met several times with Trump’s former advisers.
Rudy Giuliani, a member of the president’s outside legal team, also told “Fox & Friends” that former FBI Director James Comey “should be prosecuted” if his bureau spied on the campaign.
The fiery statements came on the one-year “anniversary” of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, which picked up where the bureau left off. The New York Times sought to give a definitive accounting Thursday of the original investigation — and in the middle of their report, revealed that officials confirmed “at least one government informant met several times with Mr. [Carter] Page and [George] Papadopoulos,” both former campaign advisers. [Read More]
How Conservatives Can Win Back Young Americans (The Weekly Standard)
Young Americans are moving to the left. On virtually every issue, they support the Democratic party. A Harvard University poll taken in December 2017 found that among likely American voters aged 18-29, fully 65 percent supported Democratic control of Congress. Polls consistently show greater warmth for socialism among millennials than their elders, greater sympathy for regulation, and less interest in protecting core constitutional liberties ranging from freedom of speech to freedom of religion.
“So,” conservatives usually respond, “what else is new?” [Read More]
Was Trump’s Campaign ‘Set Up’? (WSJ)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes appeared on “Fox & Friends” Tuesday, where he provided a potentially explosive hint at what’s driving his demand to see documents related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Trump-Russia probe. “If the campaign was somehow set up,” he told the hosts, “I think that would be a problem.”
Or an understatement. Mr. Nunes is still getting stiff-armed by the Justice Department over his subpoena, but this week his efforts did force the stunning admission that the FBI had indeed… [Read More]
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