WATCH: Trump Chimes in on the Russia Witch Hunt Following Mueller’s Testimony

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President Donald Trump took a victory lap following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s hearings on Capitol Hill.

“So we had a very good day today,” Trump told reporters. “There is no defense to this ridiculous hoax, this witch hunt that’s been going on for a long time, pretty much from the time I came down the escalator with the First Lady.” . . .

“We’ve done a great job. We’ve got the strongest stock market. We’ve got the best unemployment numbers, the most people working in the history of the country right now, almost 160 million. Our military has been rebuilt and getting even stronger,” Trump explained. “We’ve done a great job and we’ve done it under this terrible, phony cloud, a phony cloud. That’s all it was. And they should be ashamed of themselves.”

“Everybody knew it was a hoax, especially the Democrats,” Trump said. “I wish we could be a fly on the wall in those rooms where the Democrats would go in and talk before and after meetings and they’d be laughing and smiling and say, ‘Can you believe we’re getting away with this?’ And, again, they didn’t get away with it.”

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WATCH: Former Prosecutor Scolds Mueller for Violating Justice System’s ‘Most Sacred of Traditions’ in Russia Probe

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A House Republican and former federal prosecutor took former special counsel Robert Mueller to task on Wednesday for violating “every principle and the most sacred of traditions” of the criminal justice system with the conclusions about President Donald Trump’s innocence made in Mueller’s special counsel report.

To begin his question time at Wednesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, brought up a now-infamous portion of the Mueller report that said the special counsel’s team declined to make “a traditional prosecutorial judgment” but added that “we are unable to reach” a judgement about his innocence and that “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”

Ratcliffe took issue with the language, pointing out — as many others have — that it was not Mueller’s job as a prosecutor to exonerate Trump or to declare that the president had not been exonerated.

“Which DOJ policy or principle sets forth a legal standard that an investigated person is not exonerated if their innocence from criminal conduct is not conclusively determined?” Ratcliffe, who served as a U.S. attorney in the George W. Bush administration, asked. “Where does that language come from, Director? Where is the DOJ policy that says that?”

After Mueller paused for a moment and attempted to answer the question, Ratcliffe simplified it: “Can you give me an example other than Donald Trump where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined?”

“I cannot,” Mueller said, protesting that “this is a unique situation.”

Ratcliffe then said that Mueller couldn’t think of an example because “it doesn’t exist”:

“Nowhere does it say that you were to conclusively determine Donald Trump’s innocence or that the special counsel report should determine whether or not to exonerate him.

“It’s not in any of the documents. It’s not in your appointment order. It’s not in the special counsel regulations. It’s not in the OLC opinions, it’s not in the Justice Manual, and it’s not in the Principles of Federal Prosecution.

“Nowhere do those words appear together, because respectfully, respectfully, Director, it was not the special counsel’s job to conclusively determine Donald Trump’s innocence or to exonerate him. Because the bedrock principle of our justice system is a presumption of innocence.

“It exists for everyone. Everyone is entitled to it, including sitting presidents. And because there is a presumption of innocence, prosecutors never, ever need to conclusively determine it.”

Later, Ratcliffe said that Muller “managed to violate every principle and the most sacred of traditions” about criminal investigations and prosecutions.

“I agree with the chairman [Jerry Nadler] this morning when he said Donald Trump is not above the law,” Ratcliffe concluded. “He’s not, but he damn sure shouldn’t be below the law, which is where volume 2 of this report puts him.”

Video of the exchange can be found here:

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WATCH: Ilhan Omar ‘Disgusted’ by Muslim Woman Asking Her to Condemn FGM

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) lambasted a female Muslim audience member Tuesday for asking her to renounce female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice common in Omar’s native Somalia.

Omar was reportedly taking questions an event for the Muslim Collective for Equitable Democracy event when Muslim audience member Ani Osman-Zonneveld of Muslims for Progressive Values asked Omar to condemn FGM.

Omar said she was “disgusted” by people who ask Muslim politicians specific questions on issues and groups embraced by extreme members of their religion – such as FGM, al-Qaeda, and Hamas – and called it a “waste” of time.

“I am, I think, quite disgusted I think to be honest that as Muslim legislators, we are constantly being asked to waste our time speaking to issues that other people are not asked to speak to because of the assumption exist that we somehow support and are for [the issue],” Omar said, according to BuzzFeed News.

She urged audience members to think twice before asking Muslim lawmakers questions, pressing them to ensure that it is a “proper question that they would probably ask any member of Congress, any legislator, [or] any politician.” (Read more from “Ilhan Omar ‘Disgusted’ by Muslim Woman Asking Her to Condemn FGM” HERE)

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Tlaib: BDS Movement Against Israel Like American Boycott of Nazi Germany

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Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) likened the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement to the American boycott of Nazi Germany during a floor speech on Tuesday.

Tlaib, a Palestinian-American and a supporter of BDS, spoke on the floor about her opposition to a House resolution affirming opposition to the movement. It is likely to pass on a bipartisan basis.

Tlaib said she could not stand by as the “daughter of Palestinian immigrants” and watch an attack on the right to “boycott the racist policies of the government and state of Israel.”

“The right to boycott is deeply rooted in the fabric of our country,” she said. “What was the Boston Tea Party but a boycott? Where would we be now without the boycott led by the civil rights activists in the 1950s and 60s like the Montgomery bus boycott and the United Farm Workers Grape boycott?” . . .

“Americans boycotted Nazi Germany in response to dehumanization, imprisonment, and genocide of Jewish people,” she said. “In the 1980s, many of us in this very body boycotted South African goods in the fight against apartheid. Our right to free speech is being threatened with this resolution. It sets a dangerous precedent because it attempts to delegitimize a certain people’s political speech and to send a message that our government can and will take action against speech it doesn’t like.” (Read more from “Tlaib: BDS Movement Against Israel Like American Boycott of Nazi Germany” HERE)

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CRAZY: Beto O’Rourke Compares Trump Rally to Nazi Event

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Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke called President Donald Trump an outright racist Monday and compared last week’s North Carolina campaign rally to a Nazi event, according to The Hill.

During the same interview, O’Rourke said his hometown of El Paso, Texas, has the potential to become the Ellis Island of today, a place where immigrants are welcomed in to the country to improve their own lives and the nation at large. . .

O’Rourke’s comments came during an ABC News interview on Ellis Island in New York. He accused Trump of racism and inciting violence against minorities.

“President Trump is a racist,” O’Rourke said, referencing the president’s criticisms of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley. “What we saw in North Carolina last week was almost an impromptu Nuremberg rally, inciting hatred and, ultimately, I think, implicit in that is violence against people based on the color of their skin, based on their religion, based on their difference from the majority of Americans.” . . .

“This is Ellis Island, but where I live in El Paso, Texas, could be the Ellis Island of today,” O’Rourke said. “Perhaps millions of people who become Americans coming from Mexico and El Salvador and the Western hemisphere first set foot in the United States in my hometown. So, though we’re about 2,000 miles apart, El Paso and New York, we’re connected in that common story of America.”

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WATCH: Twitter Permanently Bans Free Speech Activist for Response to Trans Woman’s Vulgar Tweet About Her Genitalia

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In this episode of “Pseudo-Intellectual,” host Lauren Chen talked about Canadian free speech advocate Lindsay Shepherd who was permanently banned from Twitter after an online altercation with a transgender woman named Jessica Yaniv.

According to The Post Millennial, Shepherd claimed, “I got suspended for two tweets (although they didn’t tell me exactly which tweets were the problem so I am giving my best guess): last night, JY tweeted that I have a loose vagina from pushing a 10 pound baby out, but he still has a “tight p***y” (in reality, JY still has male genitalia according to the proceedings of the current human rights tribunals he’s been testifying in; and in reality I had a C-section and a 6 pound 10 oz baby).”

Shepard reportedly replied by saying, “This is something a man who has no functional romantic relationships with women would say.” After Yaniv sent an additional mocking tweet, she added, “at least I have a uterus, you fat ugly man.”

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Video: Man Dies After Being Struck by Ocean Wave

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A North Carolina man has died after a powerful ocean wave struck his head while he was on the beach with his family.

Lee Dingle, a father of six, was playing with three of his children when a powerful wave hit him. The force of the wave pounded Lee’s head into the ground and broke his neck, WTHR reported. . .

Oak Island Water Rescue said in a Facebook post that it, other agencies, and bystanders tried to provide life-saving support to Lee within minutes of the accident. But despite their efforts, Lee died one day later. . .

Lee served as president of Atlas Engineering in Raleigh, North Carolina, a firm which specializes in fixing buildings with structural damage, according to the facility’s website.

Atlas Engineering senior partner Tom Caldwell said he had recently received the promotion to president just two weeks before he died, WSLS reported. (Read more from “Video: Man Dies After Being Struck by Ocean Wave” HERE)

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WATCH: Trump Drops in on MAGA Themed Wedding

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After a tumultuous and bizarre week in Washington, President Trump unexpectedly dropped in on the wedding of PJ Mongelli and Nicole Marie Mongelli on Saturday night at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey, as enthusiastic attendees broke into chants of “USA.”

Fox News is told the bride and groom are huge fans of the president, had dreamed of him attending their wedding and got engaged at the golf club in 2017. Flags and pro-Trump banners could be seen at the event.

The bride said she’d sent numerous requests to the president in hopes he would attend — and that Trump ended up paying two visits to separate wedding events. At the first event, he vowed to show up to the second, and kept his word. . .

In videos posted to social media, Secret Service agents were seen keeping most attendees at bay while the bride and groom approached Trump and hugged him.

In March, Trump fulfilled a terminally ill Connecticut man’s dying wish with a phone call — with a little help from the man’s sister, an elected Democrat.

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WATCH: Georgia House Minority Leader Caught in a Hate Hoax

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Georgia State Rep. and Minority Leader Erica Thomas (D) took to Twitter on Saturday, saying a white man called her “a lazy SOB” and that she needed to go back to where she came from because she had too many items in the express lane at the local Publix. . .

“I walked into Publix, I bought my three items. There were three checkout lanes. One was express, the other two were empty. I kept my tongue shut. I went to pay for my items in one of the empty lanes. This lady, I noticed, had about 20 items on the conveyer,” Sparkes explained. “I walked up to the two customer service associates from Publix, asked them what can be done in a nice manner and they said corporate policy [says] we cant do anything but you as a customer can say something.” . . .

“I said, ‘Ma’am, not to be rude,’ my exact first words, point at the sign, which shows it in the surveillance camera, which I’ve seen already, point at the sign, ’10 items or less.’ She berates me after that. I don’t remember exactly what she said, but on camera, she approached me, came towards me as I took a couple steps back. I said, ‘You’re selfish.’ She mentioned she was nine months pregnant and I told it didn’t matter in this case. It has no point on this case. There’s two empty lines. You don’t need to be in the express line.” . . .

According to Sparkes, the two exchanged words, at which point he said, “You’re a selfish little b**ch.” He said after he made the comment he walked out of the grocery store.

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Omar Has Another Far-Fetched Opinion About Trump’s Take on Minorities and Muslims

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President Donald Trump has had an ongoing feud with members of “The Squad,” made up for Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlabid (D-MI) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA). On Friday evening, Omar, once again, responded to President Trump’s claim that if “The Squad” doesn’t like living in America, they are more than welcome to leave.

Omar interpreted that as Trump wanting every black and brown person in America to be deported and for Muslims to be banned.

Trump never said he wanted all people of color to be deported or for Muslims to be banned in America. That is Omar’s interpretation of things and, quite honestly, they’re worthy of an eye roll or two. (Read more from “Omar Has Another Far-Fetched Opinion About Trump’s Take on Minorities and Muslims” HERE)

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