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Mercer issues rare public rebuke of former ally Bannon
By Rosalind S. Helderman
White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland in February 2017.
Stephen K. Bannon's main financial backer is formally cutting ties with the former Trump adviser.
In a new statement Thursday, billionaire conservative donor Rebekah Mercer said that she has not spoken to Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, in many months and that she continues to support President Trump.
"I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected," Mercer said. "My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements."
Mercer almost never speaks publicly, and her statement about her longtime ally represented an extraordinary rebuke. It comes in the wake of new book by journalist Michael Wolff, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which includes incendiary comments by Bannon about the president he helped elect and about Trump's family.
Mercer is arguably the most prominent former Bannon associate to disavow him in the wake of the book's publication. She said she remains committed in her support for Breitbart News, where she holds a minority stake and where Bannon serves as chairman.
People familiar with the conservative news website said discussions have begun at the organization about potentially removing him from the perch that propelled him to them forefront of national conservative politics.
A Bannon spokesperson declined to comment.
Report: More Classified Emails Found On Anthony Weiner’s Laptop
At least 18 more classified emails have been found on the laptop belonging to Huma Abedin’s estranged and incarcerated husband, Anthony Weiner, according to Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
Fitton told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday, “It wasn’t just low-level classified materials that were found in the Clinton email server.” The emails were found by the FBI in an account belonging to Abedin, and are only coming to light now thanks to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filed by Judicial Watch.
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Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research for Judicial Watch, further told Fox Business Lou Dobbs that the emails “were classified when they were written […] were classified when they were transmitted and they were classified when they were residents on the Weiner laptop.”
Based on this new information, Fitton doubled down on the widespread belief that the discovery of the emails should have resulted in a criminal prosecution. “There were highly top secret documents of the most secure type and it would have resulted in a criminal prosecution, I guarantee you, if you were anyone else but the Democratic nominee for president,” he said, adding, “These are classified records that [Former FBI Director] James Comey and his colleagues… knew were on the Weiner laptop, but didn’t take seriously enough to pursue criminal charges against Abedin or Clinton for allowing this egregious abuse of trust that the American people placed in them.”
That the FBI didn’t take the discovery of the classified emails seriously is hardly surprising. Earlier this week, a report from The Hill revealed that the FBI uncovered evidence that Clinton and her team had broken federal law by sending classified emails via a private server, but agents chose to ignore the evidence and protect Clinton from prosecution.
No one should receive special treatment under the law just because of who they are, but that’s unfortunately what happened with Clinton, the FBI and the Department of Justice. The deep state is real, and President Donald Trump is absolutely right: Huma Abedin, and whoever else, should face jail time.
Chris Farrell, director of investigations and research for Judicial Watch, further told Fox Business Lou Dobbs that the emails “were classified when they were written […] were classified when they were transmitted and they were classified when they were residents on the Weiner laptop.”
Based on this new information, Fitton doubled down on the widespread belief that the discovery of the emails should have resulted in a criminal prosecution. “There were highly top secret documents of the most secure type and it would have resulted in a criminal prosecution, I guarantee you, if you were anyone else but the Democratic nominee for president,” he said, adding, “These are classified records that [Former FBI Director] James Comey and his colleagues… knew were on the Weiner laptop, but didn’t take seriously enough to pursue criminal charges against Abedin or Clinton for allowing this egregious abuse of trust that the American people placed in them.”
That the FBI didn’t take the discovery of the classified emails seriously is hardly surprising. Earlier this week, a report from The Hill revealed that the FBI uncovered evidence that Clinton and her team had broken federal law by sending classified emails via a private server, but agents chose to ignore the evidence and protect Clinton from prosecution.
No one should receive special treatment under the law just because of who they are, but that’s unfortunately what happened with Clinton, the FBI and the Department of Justice. The deep state is real, and President Donald Trump is absolutely right: Huma Abedin, and whoever else, should face jail time.
Just In: Rush Says He Knows Who The Leaker Is In The Trump White House
By Joe Setyon
On his radio broadcast Thursday, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh revealed the culprit behind the leaks that plagued the Trump White House in the months after President Donald Trump took office.
According to Limbaugh, “more than half” of the leaks originated from then-White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
“The thing that I think everybody believes and that everybody knows,” Limbaugh said, “is that most of the leaking that was coming out of the Trump White House was Steve Bannon.”
The conservative radio host was responding to the intensifying feud between Bannon and President Donald Trump. In a book released Friday by author Michael Wolff, Bannon is quoted as criticizing Trump’s family.
In one instance, he took aim at a June 2016 meeting involving Donald Trump, Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort and a Russian lawyer. Bannon reportedly called that meeting “treasonous.”
Bannon, who currently serves as the executive chairman of Breitbart News, joined the Trump campaign in August 2016 as its CEO. After Trump won the election, Bannon was made chief strategist, and served in that capacity until he was ousted from the administration in August 2017.
Limbaugh is not the only one to accuse Bannon of leaking. Just days before the former top aide officially departed the White House, Axios reported that Trump himself believed Bannon was “behind damaging leaks about White House colleagues.”
Limbaugh went on to note that he had “never heard of” Bannon before his involvement with the Trump campaign. He continued going after the former White House strategist, pointing out that he is “all over the place” in regard to his various comments on Trump and his administration.
“Bannon is all over the place,” he said, before referencing a “60 Minutes” interview in which Bannon “was praising Trump to the hilt.”
“And now in this book he’s quoted as saying that Trump and Trump Jr. were committing treason by dealing with the Russians,” Limbaugh said. “I never understood half of the president’s staffing. I never understood how he knew these people and ended up choosing them.”
According to the conservative commentator, Bannon only held influence with Trump because the Mercer family, which donated millions of dollars to the Trump campaign, wanted him to.
“The Mercers gave Trump $5 million,” Limbaugh said of the family, which holds a stake in Breitbart. “The Mercers wanted Bannon inside Trump. Trump said, ‘OK, fine, make him strategist.’ I don’t know if Trump ever even met Bannon before this campaign began.”
For his part, Trump has cut all ties with Bannon, releasing a statement Wednesday in which he condemned his former top adviser.
“Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency,” Trump said. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
“Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country,” the president added. “Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans.”
“Steve doesn’t represent my base — he’s only in it for himself.”
Trump’s legal team has also sent cease-and-desist letters to both Bannon and Wolff and his publisher.
The president wanted to stop publication of Wolff’s book — “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”
In response to the letter, though, the book’s release date was actually moved up to Friday.
Melania strikes back: book claiming she did not want Trump to win is ‘fiction’
President Trump is well-known for his blunt tweets and posts; many who take a shot at him on social media find themselves the target instead. In most cases, First Lady Melania Trump takes the high road, responding to her detractors with grace, if at all. But new allegations that Melania didn’t want Trump to win the election elicited a swift rebuttal from the First Lady.
After the New Yorker published an excerpt of a new book critical of Trump and Melania, the First Lady’s spokeswoman quipped in a statement that the book is “clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section.”
Taking Aim at the Trump Presidency
As one of the most polarizing figures of the 21st century, Trump’s has been the target of constant derision from the Left. Lately, however, one of his own former advisors is telling stories that paint the President as a man with a “Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul.”
Michael Wolff, author of the new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, relied heavily on quotes from Steve Bannon, former campaign official and short-lived chief of staff.
According to the details provided by Bannon, Wolff depicted the Trump family as “horrified” at the President’s unexpected win.
Wolff claims that the plan was never to actually win, just to reap the martyrdom benefits of being beaten by an evil and corrupt Hillary Clinton.
Trump lashed out at Bannon on Wednesday, pointing out that the former Breitbart editor came on board late, after Trump had already won the nomination.
Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind…Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look.
First Lady Strikes Back
Melania was not spared Wolff’s poison pen either. The author claimed that Melania was “in tears – and not of joy” at the news that her husband had won the presidency.
According to Wolff, Melania would have preferred to “go on inconspicuously lunching” in the wake of an election loss.
Melania denies the story. Wolff’s book “is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section,” said Melania’s spokesperson, communications director Stephanie Grisham.
“Mrs. Trump supported her husband’s decision to run for President and in fact, encouraged him to do so. She was confident he would win and was very happy when he did.”
With all the fake news in the last year, why should anyone believe that this latest round of allegations has any merit?
Donald Trump Jr. Blasts Meryl Streep over Weinstein Denial – ‘Of Course’ She Knew
AP Photo/Richard Drew/Lars Niki/Getty Images for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences
To deflect away from her own culpability in the matter of Harvey Weinstein (a man she declared “God“), disgraced actress Meryl Streep attacked First Lady Melania Trump and President Trump’s daughter Ivanka over their “silence” regarding Weinstein. A baffling and desperate act that Donald Trump Jr. ridiculed using his Twitter account.
“Amazing that the only person in all of Hollywood who didn’t know Weinstein was a serial assaulter (of course she did) has an opinion on this,” Trump wrote.
Amazing that the only person in all of Hollywood who didn’t know Weinstein was a serial assaulter (of course she did) has an opinion on this. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/948643393424457729 …
What Streep was not asked to explain by the sycophantic New York Times in a follow-up question, is why she believes the First Lady or Ivanka would speak out against Weinstein, when, by all accounts, they did not do any business with him. Moreover, their respective brushes with the entertainment business did not include the film industry. Ivanka appeared on her father’s reality TV show. Melania was in fashion and modeling.
Streep, on the other hand, made around a half-dozen films with Weinstein over three decades. One of those titles resulted in her winning an Oscar. Others resulted in nominations.
Moreover, Streep is the Queen of Hollywood, more beloved and plugged in than anyone. The idea that the aging actress was unaware of Weinstein’s behavior, when others have credibly claimed that “everyone knew,” is preposterous.
The troubling and undeniable reality is that Streep has, in the past, shown a disturbing tolerance and affection for men who sexually abuse women. Roman Polanski, a fugitive from justice, has admitted to drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl. Nevertheless, Streep not only gave Polanski a standing ovation in 2003, she has said since that he should not be imprisoned for his unforgivable crime.
Of Weinstein’s alleged crimes, which include serial rape, incredibly, Streep wrote those off as acts of “disrespect.”
Moreover, as we saw last year during the Golden Globes telecast, Streep has no regard or respect for the truth. She is very comfortable standing before the entire world while telling a provable lie.
As of right now, the-69 year-old Streep’s disapproval rating among the public sits at a dismal 58 percent, which is worse than Trump’s — whose numbers are on the rise.
The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can't be sure if parts of it are true
Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House." AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" has set the political world ablaze.
It contains vivid, detailed, and embarrassing accounts of President Donald Trump and those around him.
But the book's author, Michael Wolff, says he can't be sure that all of it is tru
Donald Trump, seen at a meeting in the White House the day after elements of Wolff's book began to be reported. APIn other cases, the media columnist said, he did use his journalistic judgment and research to arrive at what he describes "a version of events I believe to be true."
Here is the relevant part of the note, from the 10th page of the book's prologue:
"Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.
"Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true."
The book itself, reviewed by Business Insider from a copy acquired prior to its Friday publication, is not always clear about what level of confidence the author has in any particular assertion.
Lengthy, private conversations are reported verbatim, as are difficult-to-ascertain details like what somebody was thinking or how the person felt.
Wolff attributes his book to "more than two hundred interviews" with people including Trump and "most members of his senior staff." According to the news website Axios, Wolff has dozens of hours of tapes to back up what he said.
Claims contained in the book have been widely reported by the media in the US and further afield.
They include assertions that Trump never wanted to be president, that all of his senior staff considered him an idiot, that he tried to lock the Secret Service out of his room, and that he ate at McDonald's to avoid being poisoned.
Business Insider rounded up some more of the most eye-catching claims in this article.
Trump, who sought to block publication of the book but was too late, tweeted Thursday that it was "full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist."
Donald J. Trump ✔@realDonaldTrumpI authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!
10:52 PM - Jan 4, 2018
The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, described the book as "complete fantasy."
Asked to rebut specific points, she said: "I'm not going to waste my time or the country's time going page by page and talking about a book that is complete fantasy and just full of tabloid gossip."
Other people mentioned in the book have also disputed claims made about them.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who the book said warned Trump that he may be under surveillance from British spies, issued a statement describing the claim as "categorically absurd" and "simply untrue."
Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor, also dismissed the claim that she lobbied Trump to be his ambassador to the UK as "laughably preposterous."
Other journalists have also urged caution. Some cited Wolff's track record — questions were raised about his 2008 book on Rupert Murdoch — and others compared his claims with their own knowledge of the Trump White House
On Friday morning, Wolff responded to claims about the accuracy of his book in an interview with NBC's "Today" show.
Host Savannah Guthrie asked him: "You stand by everything in the book? Nothing made up?"
He responded: "Absolutely everything in the book."
Shortly after, he expanded, saying: "I am certainly and absolutely, in every way, comfortable with everything I've reported in this book."
This isn't necessarily at odds with what he said in the author's note, as it allows for the possibility that he was told something untrue and repeated it without realising, or reached a wrong conclusion when presenting a version of contested events.
Yahoo! Sports Writer Slammed for Attacking President Trump’s Tweet About Vets
by WARNER TODD HUSTON
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Yahoo! Sports writer Jay Busbee took issue with a recent tweet from President Trump in which Trump both supported military veterans and families and took a shot at NFL anthem protesters.
However, Busbee took criticism for his recent anti-Trump article when it appeared that he was speaking for all veterans.
Busbee, whose bio doesn’t mention any military service, took issue with the president’s recent tweet of a photo of a military wife mourning her deceased soldier husband. Trump also chided the millionaire NFL players who continue to refuse to stand at attention for the playing of the national anthem.
“So beautiful,” Trump tweeted on January 4. “Show this picture to the NFL players who still kneel,” the president wrote of the photo of a wife mourning at a gravesite in Arlington National Cemetery.
So beautiful....Show this picture to the NFL players who still kneel! https://twitter.com/coreylmjones/status/909204313045655552 …
Along with his comment, Trump retweeted an image from September that showed support for the military.
CoreyJones
@CoreyLMJonesWe stand to honor those who fought and died defending the greatest nation the world has ever known. God bless our vets! #MAGA 
The president’s tweet, though, incensed Busbee, who wrote a January 4 attack on Trump calling the original photo a “months-old meme” and regurgitating the arguments made by dozens of other sports writers that the NFL protests weren’t against the flag, the country, or our soldiers.
But Busbee’s screed didn’t sit well with Smoke Room’s Jena Greene, who started out criticizing the Yahoo writer by questioning whether the meme being “months-old” was even a valid criticism. Greene slammed Busbee for seeming to dismiss the military wife meme noting that the age of a good point doesn’t “destroy credibility.”
“Somebody tell this guy that photos don’t lose meaning just because they’re a little old,” Greene wrote.
Greene also slammed Busbee for assuming he has the moral authority to speak for veterans.
At one point in his editorial, Busbee writes, “Leaving aside the question of whether it’s appropriate to use a military widow’s grief purely for scoring political points.” But Greene wondered how Busbee felt he could speak for veterans.
“The last time I checked, Yahoo! Sports writers were not in charge of veterans,” Greene wrote. “They don’t serve veterans, and most of them sit in cozy offices sipping lattes and can’t remember the last time they thanked a veteran. Two entities are allowed to speak for veterans: the commander In Chief and veterans themselves. Donald Trump happens to be one of those things.”
Still, Busbee’s main point is that Trump is wrong to criticize the NFL for its protests saying that the players weren’t protesting the flag, the nation, or our soldiers.
“Protesting players have spoken at length about how their protests aren’t meant to dishonor the military,” Busbee wrote, “but rather to raise awareness of systemic racial inequality and police brutality.”
But the demonstrations were much more than that, according to the creator of the national anthem protest.
Colin Kaepernick himself said that his protest was against the flag and the very same country our soldiers have fought and died to protect.
“I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color,” Kaepernick said in August of 2016. “To me, this is bigger than football, and it would be selfish on my part to look the other way. There are bodies in the street and people getting paid leave and getting away with murder.”
Clearly, Kaepernick was standing against the country and not just campaigning for equal rights.
Mount Washington is among the coldest places on the planet — and beyond
MT. WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY
New Hampshire’s Mount Washington
By Martha Schick GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire isn’t just cold — at -36 degrees with a windchill of 94 below, it’s tied for the second coldest place on Earth, according to a tweet from the observatory. In fact, according to the latest data available from the Curiosity rover on Mars, Mount Washington feels colder than the surface of our celestial neighbor, which was measured at -78 degrees.
As of Saturday morning, the wind was gusting at over 100 miles per hour at the summit, which is 6,288 feet above sea level, according to the observatory’s website.
“We should end up being the coldest location tonight in the Lower 48,” Mike Carmon, senior meteorologist at the Mount Washington Observatory, told the New York Times. “We basically just start saying it’s stupid cold outside.”
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