The FBI meeting with Congress on the informant will only include Republicans

 

Sad!

 

Elliott Broidy

Broidy is the guy who used Michael Cohen to pay off a Playboy model who got pregnant.  Now we are finding out more about him.  This column is a good overview.

Broidy lobbied the Trump administration to help Saudi Arabia and hurt Qatar.

Broidy’s company has obtained $800 million in contracts during the Trump administration.

There’s even a plausible theory that Trump got the model pregnant and used Broidy as a front.

 

 

Trump’s outrageous claim about the FBI

Remember when Trump said that Obama wiretapped him?  This was a lie with no supporting evidence.  Trump has done it again with his claim that the FBI embedded someone in his campaign.  This is another baseless claim designed to take attention away from the actual activities of the Trump campaign.

Think about it:

  1. The FBI was investigating Clinton’s emails during the campaign.  Comey made two public statement which contributed to Clinton’s loss in the election.
  2. The FBI was investigating the Trump’s campaign’s contacts with Russia (an enemy of the US) during the campaign.  The FBI said nothing about this during the campaign.  Neither did President Obama.

If the FBI and Obama wanted to hurt Trump and help Clinton, they would have said something before the election about the connections between Russia and the Trump campaign.  They didn’t.  The facts are the opposite of Trump’s outrageous claim since their inaction helped Trump.

Sad!

Update:  Here’s a great tweet:

Where House members stand on gun safety proposals

The Washington Post asked all House of Representatives members where they stood on the gun policy agenda proposed by some survivor of the Parkland shooting.

The five items are (summarized by the Post):

“1. Dedicated funding for the CDC to research gun violence
2. Strengthening the ATF’s ability to track and record gun sales
3. Universal background checks for gun purchases
4. A ban on magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition
5. A ban on assault weapons, including a registration or buyback program for these weapons already in circulation”

Most Republicans didn’t even answer.  There were 156 Democrats and two Republicans. who completely supported the agenda.

Democrats have not been perfect on gun safety but it’s clear nothing will get done with the Republicans, who are beholden to the NRA, in charge.

Sad!

Online hoaxes after the Santa Fe shootings

Once again, just like in prior mass shootings,  fake Facebook posts about the Santa Fe shooting emerged.

This article states: “In the first hours after the Texas school shooting that left at least 10 dead Friday, online hoaxers moved quickly to spread a viral lie, creating fake Facebook accounts with the suspected shooter’s name and a doctored photo showing him wearing a “Hillary 2016″ hat.”

Even Fox News covered this aspect of the story:

Sad!

Trump’s foreign policy

Two good points about Trump’s foreign policy: