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Donald Trump Speaks About Considering Firing Sessions

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President Donald Trump responded to rumors that he was considering firing Attorney General Jeff Sessions, but did not say whether he planned to fire him.

“We’ll see what happens,” he said, when questioned by reporters at a press conference. “Time will tell.”

Trump denied that he was letting Sessions “twist in the wind.”

“I am disappointed in the Attorney General,” he said frankly. “He should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office.”

He added that Sessions made the wrong decision, saying that it hurt the office of the presidency. (Read more from “Donald Trump Speaks About Considering Firing Sessions” HERE)

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Here’s What Voters Think About a Trump Impeachment – It’s Pretty Surprising

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Voters are evenly divided on whether or not President Donald Trump should be removed from office, according to a poll released Monday morning.

Forty-two percent of respondents said that the president should be removed from his office in some way, but another 42 percent believe that the president should stay exactly where he is, according to a poll released by USA Today. The remaining respondents were undecided.

A question in the poll asked voters if they would be “upset” if Trump is impeached in some way. Thirty-four percent answered in the affirmative, but 34 percent of voters said they wouldn’t feel upset if Democrats were somehow able to follow through with their threats . . .

Forty-six percent of respondents don’t believe Trump will finish out his first term, with only 27 percent of all voters believing that the president will serve through the 2020 presidential election. (Read more from “Here’s What Voters Think About a Trump Impeachment – It’s Pretty Surprising” HERE)

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Trump Calls House Intel’s Top Democrat ‘Sleazy’

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President Trump on Monday morning criticized the Democratic leader of the House investigation into Russian attempts to interfere with the 2016 election, calling Burbank Rep. Adam Schiff “sleazy” and “biased.”

Schiff is the highest ranking Democrat on the House Select Intelligence Committee, which is examining whether the Trump campaign assisted in Russia’s efforts. The committee is meeting behind closed doors Tuesday to hear from Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The investigation has catapulted Schiff into the national spotlight. Schiff has become a frequent guest on cable and Sunday morning news shows, and has turned to Twitter, the president’s preferred medium, to respond directly to Trump.

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FACT CHECK: Has Mueller Crossed Trump’s ‘Red Line’ in the Russia Investigation?

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. . .Towards the end of an interview with The New York Times last Wednesday, reporters asked Trump about the Russia investigation.

“If Mueller was looking at your finances and your family finances, unrelated to Russia – is that a red line?” asked a Times reporter.

“Would that be a breach of what his actual charge is?” a different Times reporter interjected.

“I would say yeah,” replied Trump. “I would say yes.”

Although it’s unclear from the transcript which question Trump answered, some news outlets have characterized the remark as the president drawing a “red line” for Mueller on the Russia investigation. The president did not draw it himself, but the White House has not disputed the “red line” either. (Read more from “FACT CHECK: Has Mueller Crossed Trump’s ‘Red Line’ in the Russia Investigation?” HERE)

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Paul Ryan Just Said Something That Will Get Trump’s Attention

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Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said Monday that it isn’t congressional Republicans’ role to defend President Trump from the investigations into Russian election interference and pushed back against the notion that special counsel Robert Mueller is biased against the president.

The comments from Ryan came a day after Trump tweeted that “it’s very sad that Republicans…do very little to protect their president.” Trump’s top aide Kellyanne Conway also attacked Mueller Sunday and described his legal team as a “band of Democratic donors.” Mueller has brought seven attorneys onto his legal team that have donated a combined $60,787 to federal Democratic donors, a practice Trump has dubbed “ridiculous.”

Ryan was asked on local Wisconsin radio Monday morning about why Republicans aren’t doing more to protect President Trump from Mueller’s investigation and those being conducted by Congressional committees. The radio host Jay Weber mentioned the Democratic donors hired, and in his response Ryan said, “Bob Mueller is a Republican who was appointed by a Republican.” (Read more from “Paul Ryan Just Said Something That Will Get Trump’s Attention” HERE)

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“Mega-Donor” to Gay and Bisexual Groups Named Trump’s New Spokesperson as Spicer Resigns

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By Miranda Green. Sean Spicer said Friday night that President Donald Trump did not want him to resign as White House press secretary but “understood” that it was in the best interest of the administration.

Speaking to Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Spicer said that while he had previously considered resigning, it was his decision alone to leave his post as press secretary and give it over to a new communications team under Anthony Scaramucci, who was named the new White House communications director, and deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who will be taking over the press secretary position. The White House announced Spicer’s resignation earlier on Friday.

“He’s been very gracious throughout this process,” Spicer said of Trump. “My decision was to recommend to the President that I give Anthony and Sarah a clean slate to start from, so that they can talk about the President’s agenda and help move it forward. And he, after some back and forth, understood that the offer that I was making was something that was in the best interest of the administration.” (Read more from “”Mega-Donor” to Gay and Bisexual Groups Named Trump’s New Spokesperson as Spicer Resigns ” HERE)

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Little Known Facts About Scaramucci

By Newsmax. * Goldman Sachs was Scaramucci’s first job out of law school, and he was fired a year later. “I was terrible at it,” he told New York Magazine. He would return to Goldman Sachs soon after and stay there until 1996, when he left to start his own business.

* In 2008, he was a fundraiser for Barack Obama, whom he knew in law school, he told Gawker. It was the only time he crossed the aisle, returning to the Republican side to help Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2012. . .

* He’s spoken out in favor of gun control in the past. “We (the USA) has 5% of the world’s population but 50% of the world’s guns. Enough is enough. It is just common sense it apply more controls,” he tweeted in 2012. (Read more from “Little Known Facts About Scaramucci” HERE)

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Gay Rights Sympathizer Scaramucci Selected for Role as Key Adviser to Trump

By Peter LaBarbera. Anthony Scaramucci, who describes himself as a committed “gay rights activist,” has been picked for a top job advising President-elect Trump that is comparable to Valerie Jarrett’s preeminent role in the Obama White House, The Washington Post reported Friday.

As LifeSiteNews previous reported, Scaramucci told BBC in November: “I’m … a gay rights activist. … I’ve given to the [pro-“gay” Republican] American Unity PAC … to the Human Rights Campaign, I’m for … marriage equality.”

“We don’t want to be on the wrong side of history,” Scaramucci told the Huffington Post last April, explaining why his investment company, Skybridge Capital, gives to LGBT groups. Scaramucci, a 2012 Mitt Romney mega-donor, last year invited “transgender” activist Bruce (“Caitlyn) Jenner to speak at his annual SALT conference, which he describes as a “premier thought leadership and global investment forum” for fellow hedge-fund investors. (Read more from “Gay Rights Sympathizer Scaramucci Selected for Role as Key Adviser to Trump” HERE)

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DOJ Lawyers Still Battling Christians Over Obamacare Contraception Mandate

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Six months into President Trump’s administration, Department of Justice attorneys are still battling Christian organizations in court over Obamacare’s contraception mandate.

DOJ lawyers have continued to keep alive a slew of cases appealing a 2014 district court ruling that granted an injunction from the mandate to several Catholic organizations. The Supreme Court vacated an appeals court ruling against The Little Sisters of the Poor and similar organizations in 2016, sending the cases back to the lower courts. Many religious freedom advocates expected that the Trump administration, which has vowed to protect The Little Sisters and other organizations burdened by the contraceptive mandate, would drop the legal campaign against the religious organizations. But more than six months into the Trump era, the legal fights are still alive.

President Trump signed an executive order in early May, directing the Secretaries of Health and Human Services, Labor and Treasury to “consider issuing amended regulations, consistent with applicable law, to address conscience-based objections to the preventive-care mandate” in Obamacare. HHS Secretary Tom Price said the executive order would allow the HHS to “safeguard the deeply held religious beliefs of Americans who provide health insurance to their employees.”

Later that month, a draft Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) rule was leaked to the media. Religious liberty advocates praised the draft rule, which — if implemented — would carve out religious liberty protections for the Little Sisters and other organizations. Under the draft rule, the government would still make sure women’s birth control is covered by insurance — as required by Obamacare — but without compelling religious objectors to take part in the process. (Read more from “DOJ Lawyers Still Battling Christians Over Obamacare Contraception Mandate” HERE)

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Trump Will Use Anti-Terror Law To Sidestep Enviro Review For Border Wall

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President Donald Trump plans to use anti-terror law to avoid undergoing a years-long environmental impact study for a large section of a border wall that is expected to travel through a wildlife refuge, Reuters reported Friday night.

Trump will use a 2005 anti-terror law created shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack to sidestep an environmental impact study for a 32-mile portion of the border wall, sources told Reuters. The proposed section will pass through the 2,000-acre Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge near the southern tip of Texas.

The area is home to 400 species of birds as well as a dwindling population of federally protected ocelots. There are only about 50 ocelots remaining in the U.S., according to the Fish and Wildlife Service.

Anonymous sources told Reuters that the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) would rely on the exemptions provided to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under the guises of the Real ID Act, which would help the government build the wall without waiting several years for permission. (Read more from “Trump Will Use Anti-Terror Law to Sidestep Enviro Review for Border Wall” HERE)

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Sneak Peek Inside Trump’s Voter-Fraud Commission

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One of the newest members of the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity says he is impressed that the bipartisan group appears to be focused on protecting the rights of eligible voters while preventing illegal voting.

He categorically rejects assertions from the political left that the commission’s actual intent is to disenfranchise vulnerable segments of the population who are unlikely to support President Trump, such as minorities, immigrants and the poor.

On Wednesday, the commission held its first meeting, a public session at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House. Vice President Mike Pence is chairman of the commission. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach serves as co-chairman.

Hans von Spakovsky, among the most recently appointed members, told WND and Radio America he is excited that the group seems clear on its task.

“This is a bipartisan commission, but I was really struck by the unanimity of all of the commissioners on all of the issues we need to look at, the kind of data we need to gather, and the work that needs to be done,” said von Spakovsky, who also serves as the manager of the Election Law Reform Initiative at the Heritage Foundation. (Read more from “Sneak Peek Inside Trump’s Voter-Fraud Commission” HERE)

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Spokesman for Trump’s Legal Team Abruptly Resigns

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Mark Corallo, the spokesman for President Trump’s independent legal team, resigned his position on Thursday, according to several reports.

Corallo’s resignation comes as Trump’s legal staff ramps up a campaign to discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who has expanded the scope of his investigation of Trumpworld in recent weeks.

What began as an investigation into potential collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russian government has broadened to include a look at Trump’s businesses and those of his family members and other associates, including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

According to reports from The New York Times and The Washington Post, Trump’s Russia-related legal staff, which is separate from White House counsel, has been looking for ways to discredit Mueller and his staff of lawyers and investigators. Many of the lawyers hired by Mueller have donated to Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton. (Read more from “Spokesman for Trump’s Legal Team Abruptly Resigns” HERE)

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