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Biggest Bombshell From Comey Hearing? McCain’s Deteriorating State Of Mind

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Today’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing promised to be must-see TV. James Comey, the former FBI director, would testify, under oath, about his interactions with the president prior to being unceremoniously canned by Trump.

But with Comey releasing a written summary of his testimony one day prior to the Senate hearing, there was little mystery as to what Comey was going to say or his version of events. There was really nothing the public didn’t already know that came out of Comey’s mouth.

But when it was Arizona Sen. John McCain’s turn to question the former FBI chief, the words that can out of his mouth were downright startling … they didn’t make much sense.

Not only was Comey unsure what point McCain was trying to make with his line of questioning, but some members of the committee, on both sides of the aisle, could not hide the pained look on their faces as McCain spoke gibberish.

To the best of my knowledge, McCain was trying to ask Comey why he let Clinton off the hook following his investigation, but not Trump … oblivious to the fact there were two different inquiries. The 80-year-old senator even accused Comey of having a “double standard.”

For some reason McCain could not grasp the fact that the Clinton investigation into her use of a private email server had been completed before Comey gave her the all-clear while the Trump inquiry into possible complicity with Russian interference in the 2016 election was still on going.

Mercifully, the chairman of the committee, Richard Burr, cut off the senator before his allotted time had expired.

John McCain handily won his reelection bid over Democratic challenger Ann Kirkpatrick this past November.

Interestingly enough, McCain’s Republican primary opponent, Kelli Ward, tried using McCain’s advanced age against him, saying outright he was too old and mentally unfit for the job.

“I’m a physician. I see the physiological changes that happen in normal patients again and again and again over the last 20, 25 years, so I do know what happens to the body and the mind at the end of life,” said Ward.

It appears Ward was right. After today’s too-painful-to-watch performance, where he even confused Trump with Comey, it seems McCain does not have all his faculties.

Sad.

Photo | politico.com

 

 

 

 

Trump Poised For Easy Reelection Victory

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Nov. 2, 2020 – With Election Day finally upon us, Donald J. Trump is projected to win his second term in office in tomorrow’s presidential voting. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight gives the Republican a 75% chance of retaining the White House over his Democratic opponent, Michael Moore.

While Democrats are still hopeful for an upset, it is unlikely the liberal firebrand and documentary filmmaker will be successful in ousting the popular, but polarizing, president.

With the two congressional investigations into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia during the 2016 election still under way, and after Trump’s firing of Robert Mueller, in 2018, as special prosecutor for the FBI’s separate probe, many Democrats have simply lost heart.

While Mueller’s ouster caused an uproar among Democrats, their demand for Congress to renew the independent counsel statute that provides for the appointment of a special prosecutor, one who could not be fired by the president or the attorney general, fell on deaf ears. The Republican-controlled congress saw no need for the lapsed independent counsel law arguing the two congressional investigations, now entering their fourth year, where more than capable of resolving any “alleged improprieties.”

Adding to the Democrats’ woes was the House Intelligence Committee’s reopening of the Hillary Clinton Benghazi/Email investigation. This allowed Donald Trump to once again stir up Republican resentment of Democrats and to reprise his attacks on his former rival, along with the reflexive chants of “lock her up,” while on the campaign trail.

Democrats had hoped their continuing calls for Trump to release his tax returns would finally gain some political traction but the most recent polling shows a majority of Americans either do not care about the issue or believe the president’s promise to release his returns “once the IRS audit is completed.”

Perhaps all those liberals and progressives banking on a change of course in 2020 should have seen the writing on the wall after the Democrats’ drubbing in the 2018 midterm elections.

The much-anticipated tidal wave of Democratic voters never materialized. Hope of retaking both the Senate and the House of Representatives never came to fruition thanks partly to the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in 2018 allowing states to pass more stringent “voter ID laws” as long as state legislatures “vouched” they would not be discriminatory.

For Democrats it looks like it’s on to 2024 and finding a strong candidate to run against the likely Republican nominee, Mike Pence. There is early talk of Democrats going the route of Republicans in 2016 by nominating a celebrity. Dwayne “the rock” Johnson is a name much bandied about.

Photo | businessinsider.com

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It’ Official … United States No Longer Leader Of The Free World

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If it weren’t already obvious from his “America First” campaign slogan, or his recent performance on the world stage, Donald J. Trump has finally cemented the deal … the U.S. can no longer claim the mantle of leader of the free world.

Today, unbowed by science, some members of his own party, our European allies … and even the Pope, the United States officially withdrew from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

To Trump, it was a bad deal. He says he wants to “renegotiate” a better agreement for the U.S.

“If we can get a deal, that’s great. If not, that’s fine,” said Trump.

Of course our allies, France, Germany and Italy put out a statement reminding our master negotiator the Paris deal is “not renegotiable”.

With the United States pulling out of the international climate deal spearheaded by the Obama administration in 2015, we now join Nicaragua and Syria as the only countries in the world not participating in the accord. Oh, and by the way, Nicaragua had a good reason for not signing up … it was pushing for a more stringent agreement! And Syria? Well, it is in the middle of a civil war.

There was a time the world looked to the United States for leadership on climate change and almost everything else (strangely enough, that seems only a few days ago!) With Trump as our nation’s chief executive, that well-earned reputation is now a moot point.

By going rogue, it is possible the United States has done more harm to itself than to the climate.

China, no doubt, will now be the undisputed world leader in clean energy.

As much as Trump “digs” coal, sorry people of West Virginia, those mines are not reopening anytime soon.

Of course, the United States withdrawing from the accord does not, in and of itself, kill the deal completely. China, Canada, and the European Union have signaled they intend to move forward with the agreement even without the United States, but the U.S. exit just might encourage other, less-willing participants, like Russia, to follow the U.S. lead or significantly downgrade their commitments.

For those who traffic in Trump/Russia conspiracy theories, now that is something to think about! This seemingly irrational move may just make sense when viewed through the eyes of Putin.

Photo | montecarlotimes.com

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