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Flynn Attorney on Explosive New Documents: There’s More Coming and It Gets Worse (Townhall)
During an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night Sidney Powell, a top attorney representing General Michael Flynn against the FBI, said explosive new documents showing agents framing her client are only the beginning.
“The documents I’ve seen so far in addition to the ones you have in your hands now are even more stunning. It’s just absolutely appalling what these agents and then the Special Counsel operation did to General Flynn. It’s abuse of their authority at every turn,” Powell said. “These documents weren’t easily discovered. The emails have been in the FBI the whole time but the handwritten notes, as I understand it, may not have been. We still do not know who the author of those is. They’re devastating evidence of lengths they were willing to go to dsiregard all prior protocols, all prior rules, their standard practice in other cases to warn of 1001 violation. All of that. None of that applied to General Flynn. They only had special violations of every protocol known for him because they were determined to take him out.” [Read More]
“Bar Rescue” star Jon Taffer joined Neil Cavuto Tuesday on “Your World” to discuss the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on the restaurant industry, saying social distancing would continue even after official guidelines are softened.
“I just don’t think, Neil, that we’re going to sit shoulder to shoulder with a stranger anymore,” Taffer said. “If you cough in public, you’re like a criminal today. So distancing is going to continue for a period of time.” [Read More]
Senior U.S. officials are beginning to explore proposals for punishing or demanding financial compensation from China for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, according to four senior administration officials with knowledge of internal planning.
The move could splinter already strained relations between the two superpowers at a perilous moment for the global economy. [Read More]
How Close Is US to Herd Immunity for COVID-19? What the Numbers Show (The Daily Signal)
There has been considerable interest lately in Sweden’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to Sweden’s top epidemiologist, Dr. Anders Tegnell, Sweden is expected to achieve herd immunity in several weeks’ time.
Sweden pursued a much more relaxed mitigation strategy, practicing social distancing while avoiding a national lockdown, and approximately 20% of Swedes may have been infected and may now be immune to the virus. [Read More]
President Trump said Thursday that newly released FBI documents will “totally exonerate” former national security adviser Michael Flynn and blamed CNN for plotting to “destroy” Flynn.
“He’s in the process of being exonerated,” Trump said. “That [note] is total exoneration. When you read the notes, how could you do anything else?” [Read More]
The Calumet County Sheriff’s Department in Wisconsin is under scrutiny for a viral video that shows two of its deputies aggressively threatening a woman whose daughter was playing at the neighbor’s house and “running around barefoot.” (The barefoot comments can be seen in the longer version of the video here.) In the video, the deputies can be heard badgering a woman for allowing her daughter to play with neighbor children. [Read More]
