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Watch: Rudy Giuliani Reveals Trump Paid Cohen $130k for Stormy Daniels in Bombshell Interview

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By The Daily Wire. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is now a member of President Donald Trump’s legal team, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday that Trump reimbursed his personal attorney Michael Cohen $130,000 for his payment to Stormy Daniels.

“That was money that was paid by his lawyer,” Giuliani told Hannity. “The president reimbursed it over several months.”

“That money was not campaign money,” Giuliani continued. “Sorry — I’m giving you a fact that you don’t know. It’s not campaign money — no campaign finance violation.” (Read more from “Watch: Rudy Giuliani Reveals Trump Paid Cohen $130k for Stormy Daniels in Bombshell Interview” HERE)

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Giuliani Says Trump Paid $130g to Cohen for ‘Expenses’ over Several Months

By Fox News. . .On “Hannity,” Giuliani said Trump repaid Cohen “over several months” by putting him on a “retainer of $35,000 when he was doing no work for the president.”

“I said, ‘That’s how he’s repaying it, with a little profit and a little margin for paying taxes,'” said Giuliani, who added that Trump “didn’t know about the specifics of [the payment], as far as I know, but he did know about the general arrangement that Michael would take care of things like this. Like I take care of things like this for my clients. I don’t burden them with every single thing that comes along.”

Last month, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he had no knowledge about the payment Cohen made to Daniels. When asked why Cohen sent Daniels the money, the president answered: “You’ll have to ask Michael Cohen – Michael’s my attorney.”

Days later, federal agents raided Cohen’s home, office and hotel room in New York City.

After Giuliani’s appearance on “Hannity,” sources familiar with the matter told Fox News that Trump did in fact repay Cohen the $130,000 Cohen paid to Daniels, over several months. (Read more from “Giuliani Says Trump Paid $130g to Cohen for ‘Expenses’ over Several Months” HERE)

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North Korea Hands Trump a Huge Win

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By Business Insider. North Korea has released three US citizens detained there, the Financial Times reported Wednesday, citing a South Korean activist who campaigns for the release of detainees.

The releases would meet some of the US’s demands for North Korea to demonstrate sincerity before a historic meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — something that John Bolton, Trump’s hawkish national security adviser, reiterated during an interview on Fox News on Sunday.

The three citizens— Kim Dong-chul, Kim Sang-duk, and Kim Hak-song — have been released from a labor camp and given health treatment and ideological education in Pyongyang, the Financial Times report said.

“We heard it through our sources in North Korea late last month,” Choi Sung-ryong told the news outlet. “We believe that Mr. Trump can take them back on the day of the US-North Korea summit or he can send an envoy to take them back to the US before the summit.” (Read more from “North Korea Hands Trump a Huge Win” HERE)

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Release of Americans Held in North Korea ‘Imminent,’ Source Says

By CNN. The official told CNN the North Koreans made the decision to free the Americans two months ago, and that North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho had proposed their release during his visit to Sweden in March.

US officials insisted at the time that their release “must not be related or used to loosen the main issue of denuclearization,” the source said.

The three Americans, Kim Dong Chul, Kim Hak-song and Kim Sang Duk, also known as Tony Kim, have been detained in North Korea for months.

Donald Trump, who looks set to become the first sitting US President to meet a North Korean leader during a planned summit with Kim Jong Un, said last month his administration was fighting “very diligently to get the three Americans back.” (Read more from “Release of Americans Held in North Korea ‘Imminent,’ Source Says” HERE)

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Kathy Griffin Issues Shock ‘Date Rape’ Trump Statement

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By Conservative Tribune. . .That was on full display Monday, when Kathy Griffin took to the Trump-hating stage of ABC’s “The View” to continue her return to American celebrity a year after she seemingly self-destructed with a picture of Trump decapitated in effigy.

“By the way, I take the apology back,” she told “The View” co-hosts flippantly. “F*** him. “And the sons, the sons, Don Jr. and Eric, or as I call them, ‘Eddie Munster’ and ‘Date Rape.’” . . .

The changed tone is probably because Griffin realized that when she groveled for forgiveness, she’d actually underestimated the degree to which coastal liberals in this country have committed themselves to opposing Trump no matter how successful he might be.

But now that she’s back in full Trump-despising mode, Griffin is reaping the benefits. She even made a point of telling the shrews on “The View” that she’d sold out New York’s Carnegie Hall for an upcoming show, eliciting a round of applause from the trained seals in the audience. (Read more from “Kathy Griffin Issues Shock ‘Date Rape’ Trump Statement” HERE)

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Kathy Griffin Curses up a Storm on ABC’s ‘The View’ During Profane Trump Rant

By Fox News. Kathy Griffin seemed to forget she was on morning television when she dropped the F-bomb several times and cursed throughout her appearance on ABC’s “The View.”

The comedian had to have her mic cut multiple times, and co-host Joy Behar appeared to attempt to get Griffin to keep things PG but failed.

The 57-year-old once again took back her apology after she nearly lost her career for posing with a bloodied Trump mask in 2017.

“Yeah, I take the apology back,” she told the hosts. “F— him. And Don Jr. and Eric, or as I call them Eddie Munster and Date Rape. I’m not holding back on this family. This president is different and I have been through the mill and so now I’m back on the road. I sold out Carnegie Hall in less than 24 hours.” (Read more from “Kathy Griffin Curses up a Storm on ABC’s ‘The View’ During Profane Trump Rant” HERE)

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Mueller May Subpoena Trump

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By LMT Online. In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Donald Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

But Special Counsel Robert Mueller responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter.

Mueller’s warning – the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump’s legal team – spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president’s lead lawyer.

“This isn’t some game,” Dowd said, according to two people with knowledge of his comments. “You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.”

The flare-up set in motion weeks of turmoil among Trump’s attorneys as they debated how to deal with the special counsel’s request for an interview, a dispute that ultimately led to Dowd’s resignation. (Read more from “Mueller May Subpoena Trump” HERE)

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Mueller’s Former Assistant Says Grammatical Errors Prove Leaked Questions Came from Trump

By The Hill. Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller, said Tuesday he believes President Trump leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.

“I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Mueller’s office where he outlined broad topics and these guys wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise,” Zeldin said on CNN’s “New Day.”

“Because of the way these questions are written … lawyers wouldn’t write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper,” he continued. “So, I don’t see this as a list of written questions that Mueller’s office gave to the president. I think these are more notes that the White House has taken and then they have expanded upon the conversation to write out these as questions.” (Read more from “Mueller’s Former Assistant Says Grammatical Errors Prove Leaked Questions Came from Trump” HERE)

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Trump’s Former Physician Makes a Confession After Revealing His Office Was Raided

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By The Blaze. The president’s personal physician admitted Tuesday to CNN that he did not write the medical letter that was released to the press about Trump in 2015, but that then-candidate Trump dictated the letter to him.

It was revealed Tuesday that associates of the president “raided” the offices of Dr. Harold Bornstein and seized documents relating to Trump’s health after the doctor told the New York Times about a hair growth product he prescribed to the president.

After that report, Bornstein told CNN that he did not write the infamous letter about Trump’s health that was widely panned by the skeptical media in 2015.

“He dictated that whole letter,” Bornstein said to CNN. “I didn’t write that letter.”

The letter had a glowing review of Trump’s health, but the language it contained had many questioning whether Trump himself wrote it. (Read more from “Trump’s Former Physician Makes a Confession After Revealing His Office Was Raided” HERE)

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Trump’s Old Doctor Says President’s Men Raided His Office; White House Calls It ‘Standard Procedure’

By The Blaze. Three men from the White House allegedly went to the office of President Donald Trump’s former doctor and confiscated the president’s medical records. The doctor said he felt “raped, frightened, and sad” following the February 2017 event. The White House called it “standard procedure.” . . .

Dr. Harold Bornstein was Trump’s personal physician for decades before he ran for office. In 2015, during the campaign, Bornstein became notorious after he signed a statement that stated, in part, “If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.”

He also referred to Trump’s health as “astonishingly excellent.”

Bornstein later told NBC News that he had written that statement in five minutes while a limousine sent by Trump waited for him. (Read more from “Trump’s Old Doctor Says President’s Men Raided His Office; White House Calls It ‘Standard Procedure’” HERE)

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Trump Takes Massive Stand for Christians Against Islamist Butchers

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By Conservative Tribune. When Trump stood on the White House lawn on Monday for a joint news conference with the president of Nigeria, he made a statement supporting Christians on the continent that drew little notice from the White House press corps, but echoed for religious communities around the world. . .

In the appearance with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, Trump deplored the ongoing religious attacks on churches in Nigeria by mainly Muslim herdsmen from the dominant Fulani tribe.

“We are deeply concerned by religious violence in Nigeria including the burning of churches and the killing and persecution of Christians. It’s a horrible story,” Trump said, according to Christianity Today.

“We encourage Nigeria and the federal state and local leaders to do everything in their power to immediately secure the affected communities and to protect innocent civilians of all faiths, including Muslims, and including Christians.”

To most American listeners, that might have sounded like an even-handed statement. But it probably carried a good deal of meaning to Christian churches in Africa as well as the Muslim government of Nigeria. Because in Nigeria today, the news is more about Muslims butchering Christians rather than the other way around. (Read more from “Trump Takes Massive Stand for Christians Against Islamist Butchers” HERE)

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Trump Tells Nigeria’s President Church Attacks Must Stop

By Christianity Today. President Donald Trump repeatedly spoke up for beleaguered Christians in Nigeria at a White House meeting today with the country’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, who’s currently under fire for not doing more to stop ongoing sectarian attacks by militant Fulani herdsmen. . .

The President praised Buhari’s efforts to fight ISIS and Boko Haram in the West African nation, but Fulani herdsmen have recently outpaced both as the deadliest terror force in Nigeria.

Officials believe the nomadic majority-Muslim herders are responsible for last Tuesday’s attack that killed 19 people during a Catholic mass and destroyed dozens of homes. The violence in Benue state continued last week with fatal late-night attacks on Christians’ homes and another church, where Christians were taking refuge. Hundreds have been killed so far this year.

Trump’s meeting with Buhari comes just one day after the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) organized national protests “asking the federal government and the security agencies to stop the unending killings and bloodshed in the country.” (Read more from “Trump Tells Nigeria’s President Church Attacks Must Stop” HERE)

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Journalist Posts Dossier Timeline, Confirms Deep State and Media Colluding to Trounce Trump

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By Conservative Tribune. For more than a year, the liberal mainstream media — and particularly CNN — have gleefully perpetuated a conspiracy theory regarding alleged collusion between the Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government as an explanation for Hillary Clinton’s surprising electoral loss in 2016. The centerpiece of that claim are the contents of a “salacious and unverified” anti-Trump dossier.

That dossier was believed to have been compiled during the lead up to the election by former British spy Christopher Steele in association with a liberal opposition research firm known as Fusion GPS, with funding supplied by Clinton’s campaign and the Democrat National Committee.

Unfortunately for them, its veracity has increasingly become even more dubious as more information about its creation and introduction to the public have been uncovered.

Indeed, it now appears that the only “collusion” that took place during the 2016 election was between Trump-hating “deep state” government employees — namely former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and fired FBI Director James Comey, among others — and their willing anti-Trump allies in the liberal media.

Sean Davis of The Federalist laid it all out last week in a timeline after scouring through the 253 pages of a declassified House Intelligence Committee report on alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election and comparing that knowledge with what has already been gleaned from other sources. (Read more from “Journalist Posts Dossier Timeline, Confirms Deep State and Media Colluding to Trounce Trump” HERE)

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Leaked Questions Reveal What Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Russia

By The Guardian. Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the US election, wants to ask Donald Trump about contact between his former election campaign manager Paul Manafort and Russia, the New York Times reported on Monday.

The paper said it had obtained a list of nearly 50 questions that Mueller, investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, wants to put to the US president. More than half relate to potential obstruction of justice.

“What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?” is one of the more dramatic questions published by the Times.

The pointed reference to Manafort breaks tantalising new ground, since there was no previous evidence linking him to outreach to Moscow. Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution thinktank in Washington, tweeted: “This is very interesting – strong evidence that there are still collusion threads that are not yet public.”

Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, pleaded not guilty last October to a 12-count indictment accusing them of conspiring to defraud the US by laundering $30m from their work for a Russia-friendly political party in Ukraine. (Read more from “Leaked Questions Reveal What Mueller Wants to Ask Trump About Russia” HERE)

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Senator: ‘Liberals Would Kill Themselves’ If Trump Wins Nobel Peace Prize

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By The Daily Caller. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said liberals would have a meltdown and commit suicide if President Donald Trump was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

“I want to be there. It may be the first time the Nobel Peace Prize was given and there was mass casualties because I think a lot of liberals would kill themselves if they did that,” Graham said on “Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo.”

“The bottom line is by any objective measure what President Trump has done is historic,” Graham added. “He made the decision early on Maria and this was his most important decision about North Korea. He took containment off the table. He said to me and others early on, I’m not going to let them get a nuclear weapon that can hit America and contain the threat by threatening to blow North Korea off the map if they use it.” (Read more from “Senator: ‘Liberals Would Kill Themselves’ If Trump Wins Nobel Peace Prize” HERE)

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Trump Deserves Nobel for Role in Talks with North, South Korea’s Leader Says

By CNN. South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that US President Donald Trump would be a worthy winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his involvement in the warming of relations with North Korea.

A former South Korean President, Kim Dae-jung, won the prize in 2000 for his role in setting up a previous summit with North Korea, and his widow suggested Monday that Moon should also get the award.

Moon demurred in response, saying the US President ought to get it instead. “President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. The only thing we need is peace,” Moon said during a Cabinet meeting on Monday, according to the Blue House, the South Korean presidential office.

His remarks come three days after a historic summit that saw North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cross the border into South Korea for talks with his southern counterpart. (Read more from “Trump Deserves Nobel for Role in Talks with North, South Korea’s Leader Says” HERE)

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This Is the Action Trump Will Take If Border Wall Is Not Funded

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At a rally Saturday night in Washington, Michigan, President Donald Trump suggested that he’d be willing to force a government shutdown during the next round of budget talks in September if Congress continued to stall funding for a border wall between the United States and Mexico.

Speaking to a large crowd about an hour outside of Detroit — in an area of the state once heavily dependent on the auto industry to survive — Trump talked up his administration’s progress in righting “disastrous trade deals,” and reviving American industry, according to local media. He also took credit, in large part, for several major foreign policy advancements, including a tentative peace between North and South Korea, inked just this week.

But recognizing the crowd at his Michigan rally was similar to those crowds that joined him on the campaign trail, Trump quickly pivoted to border security, claiming Congress had abrogated its duty to the American people by refusing to fund a border wall in full and without reservation.

If Congress didn’t correct its course, Trump said, he’ll block further attempts to fund the government.

“We need security. We need the wall,” Trump announced. “We come up again on September 28th, and if we don’t get border security, we’ll have no choice. We’ll close down the country because we need border security.” (Read more from “This Is the Action Trump Will Take If Border Wall Is Not Funded” HERE)

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Judge Rules Trump Supporters Can Be Denied Service for Wearing MAGA Hat

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A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday against a Trump supporter who says he was thrown out of a bar for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, the New York Post reported.

Philadelphia resident Greg Piatek, 31, claimed in his lawsuit against the establishment that he was refused service and then removed from the New York City bar in January last year for wearing a MAGA hat.

“Anyone who supports Trump — or believes in what you believe — is not welcome here! And you need to leave right now because we won’t serve you!” Piatek said the staff of The Happiest Hour told him.

Piatek decided to sue in the Manhattan Supreme Court, saying the incident “offended his sense of being American.”

The bar’s lawyer, Elizabeth Conway, said the law protects religious beliefs — not political views.

“Supporting Trump is not a religion,” Conway said. “Whether you believe it very sincerely, it’s not.”

“He doesn’t allege that he has some sort of belief system that he follows in his everyday life and his hat is sort of an example of that,” she continued.

Paul Liggieri, Piatek’s lawyer, argued his defendant’s hat reflected a “spiritual tribute” to 9/11 victims and should be protected by an anti-discrimination statute.

“The purpose of the hat is that he wore it because he was visiting the 9/11 Memorial,” Liggieri said. “He was paying spiritual tribute to the victims of 9/11. The Make American Great Again hat was part of his spiritual belief.”

“Rather than remove his hat, instead he held true to his spiritual belief and was forced from the bar.”

Judge David Cohen ultimately sided with the bar.

“Plaintiff does not state any faith-based principle to which the hat relates,” Cohen said.

“Here the claim that plaintiff was not served and eventually escorted out of the bar because of his perceived support for President Trump is not outrageous conduct.” (For more from the author of “Judge Rules Trump Supporters Can Be Denied Service for Wearing MAGA Hat” please click HERE)

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