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Donald Trump Will Meet With Democratic Leaders Pelosi and Schumer to Discuss Infrastructure
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Washington, USA – April 30, 2019. In spite of a certain pressure due to the ongoing Democratic-led investigations into the administration, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will meet with President Donald Trump on Tuesday in an effort to reach an agreement regarding infrastructure policy. The meeting will take place at 10:30 a.m. ET at the White House. Rejuvenating America's infrastructure has long been regarded as an area of potential collaboration between Democrats and the President, due to the fact that both sides have considered i...
Trump Calls Fed Policy a Stock Market "Killer"
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WASHINGTON, DC – April 15, 2019 If not for Fed policy, the stock market could grow by 10,000 points, the President Trump is certain. He called the “quantitative tightening” program (or officially - the normalization of balance), in which the regulator cleared its inflated balance in 2017, a “killer.” “If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points, and GDP would have been well over 4% instead of 3%...with almost no inflation. Quantitative tightening was a killer, should have done the exact oppo...
The Wall to be Funded by the Pentagon
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – April 11, 2019 Members of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee pressed defense officials Tuesday about their plans for the money for the border wall, asking what programs, if any, will be delayed or abandoned with a potential funding shift that could occur if the department decides to authorize it. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has awarded the first two contracts that will use military funds to pay for the construction of additional fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border as part of President Trump's emergency declaration. The two contracts awarded Tu...
Strong Response to Democrats from Candace Owens at House Judiciary Hearing on Rise of White Nationalism
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WASHINGTON – April 10, 2019 Turning Point USA’s Communications Director, Candace Owens, obliterated the smug left in her unbelievably powerful opening statement at the recent House judiciary hearing on the rise of white nationalism. The conservative commentator told lawmakers that the country needs to talk more about what she called harassment of conservatives of color. "We're not talking enough about political hatred in this country," she said. In addition to being Turning Point’s communications director, Owens, who is black, is a frequent public speaker and an active s...
Fake Trap for the FOX. Part 3
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WASHINGTON – March 9, 2019 In 2015, a Fox reporter called the British city of Birmingham “totally Muslim” whereas census data said around 850,000 non-Muslims lived there that year, accounting for approximately 80% of the near 1.1 million population of Britain’s second largest city. Speaking on Fox News, Steven Emerson – who claimed to be a “terrorism expert” –said gangs of religious police in parts of London beat up people who are not wearing Islamic clothes. “And, parts of London, there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriousl...
Slew of Departures From Capitol Hill
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WASHIGTON, D.C. – April 09, 2019 Just one day after Trump announced the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Randolph “Tex” Alles would step down as head of the Secret Service, the White House confirmed. “United States Secret Service Director Randolph ‘Tex’ Alles has done a great job at the agency over the last two years, and the President is thankful for his over 40 years of service to the country,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. “Mr. Alles will be leaving shortly, and President Trump has selected James M....
...And Justice Not for All
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WASHINGTON – April 9, 2019 How's Washington Opposition to ICC Going to Play International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda claimed on April 5 that Washington has canceled her visa to the United States and she considers this act as an attempt to attack the ICC. According to the prosecutor, she has “an independent and impartial mandate under the Rome Statute of the ICC and will continue to undertake that statutory duty with utmost commitment and professionalism, without fear or favour.” Bensouda’s report to the UN Security Council on the investigation of the...
Fake Trap for the FOX. Part 2
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WASHINGTON – March 8, 2019 This next part in our series will talk about Fox News’ repeatedly falsified statistics, largely propagated through the Fox & Friends morning show. There are too many examples to discuss them all, so we will look at just a few. For example, Fox has repeatedly published data on unemployment in the US in different years. One chart said the US economy was losing an increasing number of jobs per quarter, from 7 million in December 2007 to 15 million in June 2010. The numbers were taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In fact, Fox used f...
NATO's 70th Anniversary: Spreading Sorrow, Suffering, and Death Across the Globe
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WASHINGTON D.C. – April 5, 2019 NATO foreign ministers met Thursday in Washington D.C. to mark 70 years since the alliance’s founding amid rifts between members over security and trade issues. Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland took the opportunity of the NATO meeting to register Ottawa's displeasure with being labeled a potential national security threat by the US in relation to steel production. She called the designation, which has led to the imposition of tariffs on Canadian steel, "absurd" and pointed to her presence at the NATO meeting as proof that Canada...