Day: April 14, 2018

Trump I Ordered ‘Precision Strikes on Targets Associated with’ Assad’s Chemical Weapons

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During a statement on Friday, President Trump announced that he ordered “precision strikes” on Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons capabilities, a “combined operation” with France and the UK.

Trump said, “I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. A combined operation with the armed forces of France and the United Kingdom is now underway.”

He added, “The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons. Establishing this deterrent is a vital national security interest of the United States. The combined American, British, and French response to these atrocities will integrate all instruments of our national power, military, economic, and diplomatic. We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents.”
Trump further criticized Iran and Russia for their support of Assad, saying, “[W]hat kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women, and children? The nations of the world can be judged by the friends they keep. No nation can succeed in the long run by promoting rogue states, brutal tyrants, and murderous dictators. In 2013, President Putin and his government promised the world that they would guarantee the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons. Assad’s recent attack and today’s response are the direct result of Russia’s failure to keep that promise. Russia must decide if it will continue down this dark path or if it will join with civilized nations as a force for stability and peace. Hopefully, someday, we’ll get along with Russia, and maybe even Iran, but maybe not.
He also stated that the US doesn’t seek “an indefinite presence in Syria, under no circumstances. As other nations step up their contributions, we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home.” Trump added that the Middle East’s fate ultimately lies with its people.

Pissed Off Gowdy Just Humiliated Comey After What He Did To Trump And Melania

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On Friday South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy blasted James Comey over the former FBI director’s forthcoming book which is oddly enough called “Beneath the Dignity” of the bureau. Gowdy made his thoughts known on Fox & Friends this morning when he said: “I can’t think of anyone who’s done a better job of politicizing the FBI than [Comey] has in the last 36 to 48 hours, I think it’s sad.”

People who have already read the book have criticised Comey for even going as far as criticizing President Trump’s appearance. And in one section Comey even writes that during an intelligence briefing the Republican’s “face appeared slightly orange, with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles, and impressively coiffed, bright blond hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his.” Also adding I remember wondering, how long it must take him in the morning to get that done.”

Comey who himself looks like a kind of giraffe measuring a towering 6’8″ also writes that he made a “point” to notice Trump’s hand size, who is only 6’3″

But what’s perhaps the worst part of this book that reads like something out of yellow press news is that Comey also goes on to describe President Trump as a “mob boss” who is “untethered to the truth.”

Did anyone ever think we would ever see the day that the deep state would stoop so low as to have a former FBI director who was fired write a book making fun of a sitting president? Can anyone imagine what would have happened if this would have been done to Barack Obama who really was a gangster in many ways, to the point of even exercising his executive power and saying “I have a pen and a phone,” as a threat if the GOP wouldn’t go along with his shenanigans?
Here is more on James Comey’s legacy via Vox:

“Back in October 2016, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) called then-FBI Director James Comey’s decision to look into new Hillary Clinton emails just days before the election “appalling.” Her comment reflected the general sentiment among Democrats at the time.

But in May 2017, President Donald Trump fired Comey because the FBI wouldn’t end an investigation into a former top Trump aide’s Russia ties. Democrats, almost in unison, openly warned that dismissing Comey meant Trump may have tried to obstruct justice. And after reports surfaced that Trump had called Comey a “nut job,” Feinstein herself defended the former FBI director, saying that “Comey is no way, shape, or form a nut job.”

As Comey now sits down for high-profile interview after high-profile interview to promote his new book, expect the good feelings from Democrats and the media alike to keep coming.

Comey’s new memoir, A Higher Loyalty, is due to come out on Tuesday. The already-released excerpts indicate that it’s highly critical of Trump, and the tome will assuredly inspire more Comey fandom on television, radio, and print. It may lead to even more arguments, like Damon Linker’s in the Week last June, “that the former FBI director is a bona fide American hero.”
But painting Comey that way misses a lot. He led the FBI when the bureau possibly mishandled its investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server when she was secretary of state, perhaps costing Hillary Clinton the election. He was also the FBI director when he oversaw increased surveillance of Muslim communities and a culture of suspicion against Muslims and used suspect methods to stop terrorists.

Put together, as the Washington Post’s Margaret Sullivan noted on March 31, Comey is undeserving of the veneration and softball questions he will surely field in the coming days in response to his much-hyped new book. That, in part, is because he did a successful job at cultivating his holier-than-thou persona, says Matthew Miller, a top Justice Department spokesperson in the Obama administration.

“He wanted to position himself as the hero,” Miller told me, “the man of integrity who was going to tell the American people how it is — the last virgin in town.”

The problem, though, is that the media fell for it.

How Comey handled the Clinton probe

At around 11 am on July 5, 2016, then-FBI Director Comey gave a surprise televised address — thrusting him into the national spotlight.

“This will be an unusual statement in at least a couple ways,” he admitted from the FBI’s lectern. “I am going to include more detail about our process than I ordinarily would, because I think the American people deserve those details in a case of intense public interest.”
The “case” in question was the FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a personal email server to conduct State Department business. Investigators wanted to know if Clinton had handled classified information on an insecure network, which could make it easier for foreign adversaries to steal top secrets.