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Former CIA Director John Brennan defended his strident criticism of President Trump Friday and said it’s justified because Trump is a political aberration and “not in a good way.”
“It is abnormal for us to speak out as critically and as vocally as we have, but these are abnormal times and he is an abnormal president. He’s an aberration and not in a good way,” Brennan, an MSNBC contributor, said during the cable news network’s “Morning Joe” program. [Read More]
President Trump Calls On TBS To Fire Samantha Bee For Foul Ivanka Rant (Daily Wire)
President Trump on Friday called for the TBS network to fire host Samantha Bee for a profane rant on her late-night comedy show.
That “double standard” Trump spoke of appears to be a reference to conservative comedienne Roseanne Barr who said something equally offensive on Twitter this week and was immediately fired by ABC. [Read More]
Unemployment Rate Falls to 18-Year Low; Solid Hiring in May (WSJ)
The U.S. labor market was firing on all cylinders in May: the unemployment rate fell to an 18-year low, employers added jobs at a faster pace and wages modestly improved.
The unemployment rate ticked down to a seasonally adjusted 3.8%, matching April 2000 as the lowest reading since 1969, the Labor Department said Friday. Nonfarm payrolls rose a seasonally adjusted 223,000 in May, a jump from gains from March and April. Average hourly earnings ticked up to a 2.7% from a year earlier—and raises were even stronger [Read More]
The White House on Thursday denounced a campaign ad produced by a Democrat seeking the nomination to challenge Rep. Barbara Comstock (R-Va.) that compared President Trump to Osama bin Laden.
The ad flashes an image of bin Laden followed by one of the White House as the candidate, Army veteran Dan Helmer, says, “After 9/11, the greatest threat to our democracy lived in a cave; today he lives in the White House.” [Read More]
Although his questioners at the time didn’t know what he was talking about, Fusion GPS chief Glenn Simpson raised eyebrows on Aug. 22, 2017, when he told Senate Judiciary Committee investigators that the FBI had a “human source” inside the Trump campaign.
It’s still not clear what Simpson meant. Was he referring to Stefan Halper, now recognized as an FBI informant who tried to insinuate himself into the campaign? Or was it someone else? Congressional investigators still don’t know. But in light of the attention paid to Halper, it’s still worth going over precisely what Simpson said last year. [Read More]
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