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Trump's Budget, and related reporting 2017-05-24 07:39:56 Post No.142862
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Trump's Budget, and related reporting
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News has been pouring out involving reactions to Trump's budget. I figure I'll post a few stories here off Reuters and people can throw in any relevant articles they find.
"Republicans push back against Trump plan to cut foreign aid" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-foreign-aid-idUSKBN18J2DC
>Trump administration officials defend the cuts by saying the rest of the world must do its "fair share" as the United States retreats from its traditional spending abroad.
>In all, the Trump proposal cuts about 32 percent from U.S. diplomacy and aid budgets, or nearly $19 billion.
"U.S. budget proposes allowing new toll roads, higher airline security fees" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-budget-transportation-idUSKBN18J2YP
"White House budget envisions massive savings from Dodd-Frank rollback" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-wallstreet-idUSKBN18J2QO
>The White House does not detail how those savings, which are equivalent to the annual economic output of the Democratic Republic of Congo, would be realized. But the administration said an ongoing review of existing financial rules “will likely result in proposals that will provide significant savings to the federal government.”
"Amid opposition, Trump makes low budget request for Mexico border wall" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-wall-idUSKBN18J05H
>An internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plan in February estimated the total cost for the wall at $21.6 billion, but the White House's budget proposal for 2018, released in full on Tuesday, included a request for just $1.6 billion.
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"Trump budget would sell entire U.S. Northeast gasoline reserve" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-gasoline-idUSKBN18J2HT
>The U.S. Northeast Gasoline Supply Reserve (NGSR) was established in 2014 to minimize the impact of sudden supply interruptions, such as occurred in 2012 during Sandy, the second-costliest hurricane in the country's history.
"Trump seeks to slash $3.6 trillion of spending in austere budget" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-idUSKBN18I26X
>U.S. President Donald Trump asked lawmakers on Tuesday to cut $3.6 trillion in government spending over the next decade, taking aim at healthcare and food assistance programs for the poor in an austere budget that also boosts the military.
>The White House said its proposed tax cuts would help fuel higher growth and pay for themselves by generating an additional $2 trillion in revenue over 10 years.
>Lawrence Summers, a former economic adviser to Democratic President Barack Obama, said the Trump administration was double-counting that money by saying it would help close budget deficits while also offsetting the revenue lost by cutting tax rates.
>"It appears to be the most egregious accounting error in a presidential budget in the nearly 40 years I have been tracking them," Summers wrote in the Washington Post.
>Mick Mulvaney, Trump's budget office director, said his office made other assumptions that were probably too conservative. "We stand by the numbers," he said.
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"Trump budget wants to halve oil stockpile, open Arctic refuge to drilling" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-energy-idUSKBN18J03X
>U.S. President Donald Trump's White House wants to sell half of the nation's emergency oil stockpile and open the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to drilling as part of plans to balance the budget over the next 10 years, documents by the administration showed.
>The White House budget, which will be delivered to Congress on Tuesday, is meant as a proposal and may not take effect in its current form. But it reveals the administration's policy hopes, which include ramping up American energy output.
>The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world's largest, holds about 688 million barrels of crude oil in heavily guarded underground caverns in Louisiana and Texas. Congress created it in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo caused fears of long-term motor fuel price spikes that would harm the U.S. economy.
>The Trump budget proposes to start selling SPR oil in fiscal year 2018, which begins on Oct. 1, with sales that would generate $500 million, according to the documents. The sales from the reserve would gradually rise over the following years, peaking at nearly $3.9 billion in 2027, and totaling nearly $16.6 billion from 2018 to 2027.
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"Trump's budget proposes converting some military grants to loans" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-budget-foreign-idUSKBN18J05D
>"We do change a couple of the foreign military programs from direct grants to loans," said Mick Mulvaney, the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, in a briefing with reporters on Monday. "Our argument was instead of ... giving somebody $100 million, we could give them a smaller number worth of loan guarantees and they could actually buy more stuff."
>Military aid to Israel and Egypt, two close U.S. allies in the Middle East and the biggest recipients of U.S. military assistance, will remain unchanged, Mulvaney said.
>The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the proposal, said the foreign military grants could affect Pakistan, Tunisia, Lebanon, Ukraine, Colombia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
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Illegal immigration grew by 740,000 people in 2016 due to overstayed visas 2017-05-24 06:14:56 Post No.142841
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Illegal immigration grew by 740,000 people in 2016 due to overstayed visas
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Nearly 740,000 people, more than the population of Alaska, overstayed their U.S. visas last year, the Homeland Security Department said Monday.
A large percent of those were students and foreign exchange visitors — 79,818 — who were supposed to leave in 2016 but didn’t.
China had the largest number of student overstays, followed by Saudi Arabia, South Korea, India and Brazil, the department said.
Homeland Security last year published the number of overstays for the first time in at least two decades, saying 527,127 people who came by air or ship stayed past their visas from October 2014 to September 2015.
An estimated 40 percent of the roughly 11 million people currently in the country illegally stayed past their visas.
This year's report added student and foreign exchange visitors and many visa categories for temporary workers, while last year's only counted business travelers and tourists. Homeland Security said it will make additional improvements in future reports, including more data on people who cross by land.
President Donald Trump vowed during last year's campaign to finish building a system to record when visitors leave the country by using biometric identifiers, like facial or iris scans, but he has focused much of his attention on building a wall and hiring more border agents.
Homeland Security's internal watchdog said earlier this month that immigration agents waste their time logging in and out of archaic computer systems while trying to track down foreigners suspected of overstaying their visas only to find out later that many visa holders have left the country.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/23/illegal-immigration-grew-by-740000-people-in-2016-due-to-overstayed-visas.html
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a wall between mexico and the US will solve this problem though. LOCK HER UP lol amirite?
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Why can't fox news into grammar? Immigration didn't grow by 740,000, the illegal immigrant population did.
Also fox news sucks in general, inb4 retracted.
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>>142842
Build the wall
Lock her up
End all immigration
MAGA
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Ethics Agency Rejects White House Move To Block Ethics Waiver Disclosures 2017-05-23 08:14:26 Post No.142479
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Ethics Agency Rejects White House Move To Block Ethics Waiver Disclosures
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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/22/529502156/white-house-moves-to-block-disclosure-of-ethics-waivers-for-trump-appointees
Updated at 10:08 p.m. ET.
The Office of Government Ethics has rejected a White House attempt to block the agency's compilation of federal ethics rules waivers granted to officials hired into the Trump administration from corporations and lobbying firms.
The White House action, a letter to OGE Director Walter M. Shaub Jr. from Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, was first reported by The New York Times. The newspaper had earlier published a detailed account of lobbyists turned appointees who were granted waivers and now oversee regulations they previously had lobbied against.
With an ethics waiver, a federal official is free to act on matters that normally would trigger concerns about conflicts of interest or other ethical problems. Federal regulations say the waivers generally should be made public on request. The Obama administration routinely posted waivers online. The Trump administration has issued an unknown number and released none.
Shaub notified the White House and federal agencies in April that OGE wanted to see all ethics waivers issued by President Trump's administration. He set June 1 as the deadline. The broad request is known as a data call.
Mulvaney notified Shaub in a letter last week that the data call "appears to raise legal questions regarding the scope of OGE's authorities." He said he wanted the data call put on hold until it is reviewed by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, which advises the executive branch on constitutional questions and limits of executive power. The move could block the request for waivers indefinitely.
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Shaub told the White House late Monday that his agency would continue collecting the ethics waivers. In a nine-page response, Shaub said that the OGE "declines your request to suspend its ethics authority," adding that "public confidence in the integrity of government decisionmaking demands no less."
Under federal regulations, OGE is supposed to oversee all waiver decisions throughout the government.
"OGE has a right to review any waiver," said former OGE Assistant Director Stuart Gilman. Referring to the data call, he said, "It's not like somehow or other this is a special case."
The ethics waivers are supposed to be public documents, but the administration so far has not released them. An anti-Trump legal group, American Oversight, sued eight federal departments and agencies on Monday, arguing that ethics waivers should be released under the Freedom of Information Act. American Oversight had previously filed FOIA requests.
The Trump administration and OGE are fighting on other fronts, as well:
— OGE earlier this month announced a new certification document for Cabinet secretaries and other top-ranking appointees to show they are fulfilling the ethics agreements they signed before being confirmed by the Senate. Ethics agreements typically commit a nominee to avoid ethics violations through a blind trust, divestiture, recusal or similar action.
The document must be signed by the official. As with tax returns and other federal documents, false statements run the risk of penalties. There was no previous oversight of compliance.
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— The White House has raised a conflict-of-interest question to challenge newly appointed special counsel Robert Mueller, who will oversee the FBI's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The issue is that other lawyers at Mueller's former law firm represent presidential daughter Ivanka Trump; her husband, Jared Kushner; and onetime Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort. Mueller never worked for those clients, but under ethics law he still could require a waiver for his new job. It's worth noting that while the White House suggests conflicts for Mueller, it obtained an ethics agreement for EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. He needed it because, in his previous job as Oklahoma attorney general, he was a plaintiff in several lawsuits challenging EPA regulations.
— Last winter, Shaub used Twitter to exhort Trump into putting his hundreds of corporations into a blind trust. Trump instead put them into a revocable trust, where he can draw money from his businesses whenever he wants.
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gotta love the transparency in the current administration.
on a separate note things like this indicate how the odds are stacked against the white house making it 4 years without a devastating, career-ending shitstorm coming to light. at least it'll be entertaining as fuck and maybe people will go to jail for once
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Anthony Weiner’s world is about to get much smaller and sadder 2017-05-22 08:58:18 Post No.142093
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Anthony Weiner’s world is about to get much smaller and sadder
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>Anthony Weiner had the look of a haunted man.
>“I appreciate you doing your job,” he told a small pack of reporters, through clenched jaws, Saturday afternoon as he left the Union Square apartment building he once shared with his wife, Huma Abedin, and only child, Jordan, 5.
>“I don’t have anything to say,” he said.
>His sides were heaving, and he looked like he was holding back tears as he stood on Union Square East.
>“Thank you,” he coughed before bolting into a yellow cab.
>Just one day ago, the 52-year-old former New York congressman and mayoral candidate pleaded guilty to sexting with a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina.
>The facts of the case were grotesque. Weiner had engaged in sick “rape” fantasies with the girl, and urged her to dress up in plaid schoolgirl skirts. On Friday as he admitted his guilt and embarrassment to the judge, he cried.
>Soon after leaving federal court — with prosecutors’ threat of a two-year prison sentence still ringing in his ears — he learned that his wife had just filed for divorce.
>Now, with the threat of prison, a protracted custody battle and a quite likely toxic bachelorhood looming, Weiner’s life is getting ever smaller.
http://nypost.com/2017/05/20/he-did-it-to-himself-anthony-weiner-faces-prison-exile/
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At least he seems to be taking it like a man this time. I think he knows he fucked up and he deserves all of this.
>Weiner had engaged in sick “rape” fantasies with the girl, and urged her to dress up in plaid schoolgirl skirts.
Kek. Where can I find transcripts?
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I thought it wasn't even a real girl but a decoy.
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Huma Abadin and this guy are quite the pair
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Found this written by some guy somewhere, kinda just want to hear peoples views on it.
Warning this is article will have a slightly dark theme to it. Ok so blue whale is a group on social media that will tell you to download their app. First you make an account and blue whale gains a lot of your information. Then they will tell you to do things from listening to weird music to cutting and stabbing yourself as a challenge for 50 days. If not with all the info they have on you they say they will murder you and your family.
many teens have killed themselves from this. Otherwise im just issuing an alert going on through Europe and slowly through the UK.
Heres a link to a news site.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/35221009/police-issue-warning-over-spreading-blue-whale-suicide-game/#page1
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This article is a month old, it does not belong on /news/. Read the sticky, please.
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Wtf is going on with the airlines? 2017-05-11 07:57:23 Post No.138886
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Wtf is going on with the airlines?
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2017-05-11 07:57:23
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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/i-had-to-pee-in-a-cup-on-a-united-airlines-flight-mom-says/
Wew lad. How far are these Secretaries of the Sky going to use this power to kick anyone out and steal their ticket price?
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amazing
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I find it appalling that after that big story about the doctor getting dragged off, we have only seen more and more of these airline horror stories. It's like, what the fuck are they thinking? Shouldn't they be playing it safe now that people are keeping a close eye on them?
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And what are people going to do? Not fly anymore?
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Trump asked two top intelligence officials to deny Russia collusion: Washington Post 2017-05-23 03:54:18 Post No.142415
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Trump asked two top intelligence officials to deny Russia collusion: Washington Post
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Just copy/paste the article here, numbnuts.
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Sry no can do noobee here.
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>>142463
normally I call shill on any alt-right bullshit spammers but you seem like a liberal shill.
Congrats on being so obvious even a lefty hates you.
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Germany Is Quietly Building a European Army Under Its Command 2017-05-22 11:24:55 Post No.142159
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Germany Is Quietly Building a European Army Under Its Command
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http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/05/22/germany-is-quietly-building-a-european-army-under-its-command/
>Berlin is using a bland name to obscure a dramatic shift in its approach to defense: integrating brigades from smaller countries into the Bundeswehr.
The memes are getting real.
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>Doesn't understand military formations
It's just a couple brigades added to a division which is still only one-sixth of Germany's military (1% the size of the US' military). Specifically, it's a rapid-reaction force that's poorly suited for occupation duties.
http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_141113.htm
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Reince Priebus scrambles to stop aides from slipping internet hoaxes on Trump’s desk: report 2017-05-22 12:44:10 Post No.141892
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Reince Priebus scrambles to stop aides from slipping internet hoaxes on Trump’s desk: report
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Aides to President Donald Trump regularly print out fake news and internet hoaxes and place them on the president’s desk in the hopes that he will read them, according to a new report from Politico.
Sources tell Politico that the situation has grown so dire that Chief of Staff Reince Priebus recently sent out a memo asking aides to not put any news stories on the president’s desk, out of fear that they may turn out to be hoaxes that he will impulsively tweet about.
One recent incident involved Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland printing out a fake Time magazine cover purportedly from the 1970s that predicted a coming Ice Age. As Time itself has documented, the cover was doctored as part of a hoax intended to spread misinformation about climate change.
“Trump quickly got lathered up about the media’s hypocrisy,” Politico writes. “But there was a problem. The 1970s cover was fake, part of an Internet hoax that’s circulated for years. Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it.”
This is relevant because aides will regularly slip Trump stories to manipulate him and get him on board with their agenda — Trump’s infamous tweet about former President Barack Obama illegally wiretapping Trump Tower, for instance, reportedly came after he read an article that was placed on his desk that falsely claimed Obama had spied on him during the 2016 presidential campaign.
Additionally, Politico‘s sources say that Trump fired Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh earlier this year after someone slipped an article posted on conspiracy theorist Chuck Johnson’s website alleging that Walsh was responsible for all the damaging leaks coming out of the administration.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/reince-priebus-scrambles-to-stop-aides-from-slipping-internet-hoaxes-on-trumps-desk-report/
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his next diplomatic visit will involve a wealthy nigerian prince
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>tfw normies gone and /pol/ in the white horse
feels good. if only that libcuck priebus would leave
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>>141892
>trolling the President into destroying the fabric of the federal government
Please, no.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/04/15/asia/north-korea-missile-test/
> North-Korea fires a missile, it lands in the east-ocean, not far away from Japan's ocean. They talk about if it's a failure or not.
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> Trump is not happy about it as always. Even mentioned Russia. Asking countries to increase the sanctions to North-Korea.
> The new south korean president Moon Jae-in, called shortly after in for a crise security meeting.
> Japan's prime minister "Abe" is angry at the action and say "This is not acceptable to the country, also they put Tokyo in danger".
I'm sorry. These countries can bark as much as they want (South-Korea, USA, Japan). But they keep repeating themselves. There is no sign that North-Korea are slowing down or stopping. Doesn't matter how hungry or poor they are. The North-Korean people are suffering tremendously due to Kim Jon-un's poor decision making, poor leadership, to the war and all this testing.
How long does this need to last?
CMON WORLD!
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The correct link:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-idUSKBN1890UO
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>>139689
What do you propose op?
What would be an acceptable course of action?
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>>139692
Not OP but I think we should just nuke North Korea and be done with it.
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Ukraine baned russian speacking social media 2017-05-16 09:08:41 Post No.140284
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banned are Yandex, VK, Odnoklasniki, Mail.ru and others.
additionally President Poroshenko ordered the total spying on all russian speacking Facebook in Ukraine.
the System goes from spying by using FBI tools against Mod and Mafia down to the paying head money for sneatches and others, who will report the "separatism". de facto everyone who said that he oposes or is not happy with new dictature in Ukraine can get up to 10 years prison now. (the ukrainian court just sentenced the guy for oposing maidan by posting his opinion in Facebook for 5 years)
https://life.ru/t/%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8/1008063/poroshienko_zablokiroval_dostup_k_iandieksu_odnoklassnikam_i_vkontaktie
Ukrainian Parliament stripped all soviet WW2 veterans of their privileges and support and added privileges and extra payments to the old neonazis and war criminals. additionally the ukrainian parliament declared that all ukrainian soldiers, who were in ATO are now WW3 veterans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiNuuaVEebw
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>Ukrainian Parliament stripped all soviet WW2 veterans of their privileges and support and added privileges and extra payments to the old neonazis and war criminals.
As if you needed any more proof that Ukraine is a shithole. They should just let Putin annex them already.
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>>140292
Shithole full of cockholes.
Also, Putin didn't annex the whole Ukraine in 2014, he won't do it now. Three years ago South-East of the country was ready to join Crimea, but Poo-poo pussied out after US and EU threatened full economic blockade, not just some sanctions.
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Another Fox News host under fire, this time for thinly veiled comments about Ivanka Trump 2017-04-27 04:13:09 Post No.135445
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Another Fox News host under fire, this time for thinly veiled comments about Ivanka Trump
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>Fox News host Jesse Watters is under fire for making what critics say was a sexually charged remark about Ivanka Trump, further fueling Fox’s critics who have accused the network of fostering a sexist work environment.
>On Tuesday night’s episode of “The Five” — the 9 p.m. show that followed “The O’Reilly Factor,” which was canceled after longtime star Bill O’Reilly was dismissed over mounting allegations of sexual harassment — the network played a clip of Trump holding a microphone close to her mouth as she talked about women’s rights at a panel in Germany.
>“It’s funny. The left says they really respect women and then when given an opportunity to respect a woman like that they boo and hiss … so I don’t really get what’s going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone,” Watters said.
>Watters gestured with his hand toward his mouth as he made the remark and then grinned at his co-hosts.
>Top figures in conservative media went on Twitter to express their disgust with Watters. John Podhoretz, a writer at The Weekly Standard, called Watters a “disgusting creep.”
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>In a statement, Watters said his remarks were taken out of context and were not meant to be sexual in any way.
>“During the break we were commenting on Ivanka's voice and how it was low and steady and resonates like a smooth jazz radio DJ,” he said. “This was in no way a joke about anything else.”
>The controversy could not come at a worse time for Fox News, which is seeking to rehabilitate its image after cutting ties with O’Reilly and former Chairman Roger Ailes over allegations they sexually harassed multiple women there.
>Fox News dismissed O’Reilly last week amid revelations that he and the network had paid out millions of dollars to settle sexual harassment claims against him.
>“The O’Reilly Factor” aired for the final time last Friday, completing a stunning downfall for an anchor who was one of the network’s biggest stars for years.
>Political watchers were quick to tie Watters’s controversy to what they say is a culture of sexism or misogyny at Fox.
>This is not the first time Watters has been engulfed in controversy.
>Watters once had a regular segment on “The Factor” in which he did cheeky man-on-the-street interviews.
>A segment from last October in which he visited Chinatown in New York City was widely condemned as racist for perpetuating Asian-American stereotypes.
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Paid Liberal shills were flown to Germany to boo and hiss, obviously
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>>135445
>>Watters gestured with his hand toward his mouth as he made the remark and then grinned at his co-hosts.
There is literally a highlight reel of Fox News Dudes doing shit like this on air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlddDLeUyXs
Multiple in fact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEoWSaM61NI
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Trump creates voter-fraud panel that critics label a ‘sham’ 2017-05-12 01:33:05 Post No.139079
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>President Trump on Thursday launched a long-promised commission on “election integrity,” rekindling a controversy over the prevalence of voter fraud at U.S. polls.
>The commission, established by executive order, is the upshot of Trump’s unsubstantiated claim shortly after taking office that more than 3 million undocumented immigrants illegally voted in November’s election.
>White House aides said the scope of the commission, chaired by Vice President Pence, will reach beyond allegations of voter fraud to include voter suppression and other suspect election practices, and would include members of both major political parties.
>“The president’s committed to the thorough review of registration and voting issues in federal elections,” White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Thursday. “And that’s exactly what this commission is tasked with doing.”
>But that did little to quell criticism from many of the same parties who lambasted Trump for his January claims. Voting rights groups and several prominent Democrats charged Thursday that Trump’s commission was both unnecessary — calling claims of voter fraud wildly overblown — and an attempt to divert attention from his firing of FBI Director James B. Comey.
>Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice, called the commission “a sham and distraction,” alleging that Trump was trying “to pivot” from the firestorm that followed his firing of Comey while the FBI chief was leading an investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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>“He fired the person investigating a real threat to election integrity and set up a probe of an imaginary threat,” Waldman said.
>League of Women Voters President Chris Carson said, “The real purpose of this effort is to justify President Trump’s false claims of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 elections.” She said the commission was being filled with “political ideologues with dangerous agendas.”
>In a statement before Trump signed his order, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman (D) said that “no matter how many times President Trump claims otherwise, voter fraud is an imaginary problem.” Schneiderman said his office found no substantiated claims of voter fraud in New York last year.
>Numerous studies have shown that instances of in-person voter fraud are rare, and the National Association of Secretaries of State, which represents many of the country’s state elections officials, said in January that it is “not aware of any evidence that supports the voter fraud claims made by President Trump.”
>Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has aggressively pursued allegations of voter fraud in his state, will serve as vice chairman of the commission, the White House announced, further fueling the controversy over its formation.
>Kobach (R) is the only secretary of state in the country with the authority to prosecute voter fraud, and he has helped create some of the nation’s strictest voter-ID requirements.
>In a Fox News interview in February, Kobach said there were 115 cases in Kansas of noncitizens on the voter rolls or trying to get on the voter rolls, which he said could be the “tip of the iceberg.” More than 1.7 million people are registered to vote in Kansas.
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>Kobach first entered the national spotlight when he advised GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on the idea of “self-deportation” for illegal immigrants during the 2012 presidential campaign. Before that, he had written Arizona’s strict 2010 “show-me-your-papers” immigration law and Alabama’s tough immigration enforcement laws.
>It was also Kobach who helped design President George W. Bush’s registration system for “higher risk” immigrants, which required fingerprinting and interrogations upon arrival. He later helped lead the fight against President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
>Along with immigration issues, Kobach has also became a major figure in the national conservative movement to add more requirements for Americans to vote or register to vote. Since the Supreme Court struck down in 2013 a key part of the Voting Rights Act, Kobach has been at the center of many legal skirmishes over voting requirements nationwide.
>The White House said that the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity — which is slated to deliver a report to Trump next year — would include perhaps another dozen members.
>Those already on board include Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson (R); New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner (D); Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap (D); Christy McCormick, commissioner with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission; and former Ohio secretary of state Ken Blackwell (R).
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>The genesis of the commission came during Trump’s first days in office. During a private Jan. 23 meeting with top congressional leaders, the president claimed that between 3 million and 5 million undocumented immigrants illegally voted in November’s election.
>He later reiterated the claim. “They all voted for Hillary. They didn’t vote for me,” Trump said in an interview with ABC News that aired Jan. 25. “I don’t believe I got one.”
>In defending his claim, for which the White House has yet to provide documentation, Trump announced he would issue an executive order related to voter fraud, and Pence told Republicans that the administration would “initiate a full evaluation of voting rolls.”
>Since then, there has been more ammunition for critics who say the exercise is aimed at a problem that isn’t widespread.
>A recent investigation in North Carolina by the State Board of Elections found that of the 4.8 million voters who participated in last year’s election, 508 were not eligible to vote.
>The investigation concluded that “no races — statewide or local — would have had a different outcome than the one already certified” if the improper votes were removed.
>Most of those who should not have voted — 441, according to a report on the investigation — were convicted felons, many on probation. In North Carolina, felons can vote only after serving their sentences, including probation.
>The investigation also found 41 noncitizens had voted, 24 people had voted twice and two people falsely voted using the name of a recently deceased family member.
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Check the fucking catalogue before starting a new thread, please.
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No evidence, it didn't happen. 2017-05-22 10:34:51 Post No.141972
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FCC says it was hit by a DDoS attack, but refuses to show any evidence
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Why don't they ever just issue the evidence? It's getting difficult to take their word when they get caught lying over and over again
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This is ridiculous, we can't even do anything to stop the FCC from selling our rights out.
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I refuse to believe anything the FCC says. Also, what the fuck is that website?