Petrus

Retired Senior Federal Law Enforcement and Intelligence Official. Three decades with the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security.

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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton suggests Putin has kompromat on Trump, Russia will back Tulsi Gabbard third-party bid
The Washington Post - By Aaron Blake
At Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) hit back at critics who charged she’s too close to Russia. “This morning, a CNN commentator said on national television
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Eric Trump
Growing number of Republicans struggle to defend Trump on G-7 choice, Ukraine and Syria
The Washington Post - By Rachael Bade, Mike DeBonis, Seung Min Kim
A growing number of congressional Republicans expressed exasperation Friday over what they view as President Trump’s indefensible behavior, a sign that the president’s stranglehold on his party is starting
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U.S. Politics
Trump outstripping Obama on pace of executive orders
Associated Press - By KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as "power grabs" and a "basic disaster." He's switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency,
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Chinese Government
Bannon Teams Up With Chinese Group That Thinks Trump Will Bring on End-Times
The Daily Beast - Will Sommer
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Getty/Courtesy Claws of The Red Dragon After trying to launch his own cryptocurrency and failing to …
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Donald Trump
Trump threatens to sue CNN, seeks 'substantial' payment over damages: letter
Reuters - By Jan Wolfe
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign have threatened in a letter to sue CNN for what they said was the network falsely advertising itself as a news
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News
Hillary Clinton suggests Russia is grooming Tulsi Gabbard for third-party run
NBC News - Dareh Gregorian
The Hawaii lawmaker responded by slamming the former first lady as "the queen of warmongers." Hillary Clinton says she believes that the Russians have "got their eye on somebody who's currently in the
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Politics
Tulsi Gabbard Lashes Back at Hillary Clinton After Claim of Russian Influence
The New York Times - Maggie Astor
Hillary Clinton waded into the Democratic primary on Friday by suggesting that Russia was backing Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii for president and that Republicans were “grooming” her as a third-party
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Rudy Giuliani
Rudy Giuliani Met With DOJ Officials in ‘Very Sensitive’ Foreign Bribery Case: NYT
The Daily Beast - Allison Quinn
Rudy Giuliani met with top Justice Department officials recently on behalf of a client in a foreign bribery case that the Trump attorney called …
20 hours ago
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Rick Perry
Rick Perry Refuses To Comply With Subpoena, Says House ‘Impeachment Inquiry’ Isn’t Valid
The Inquisitr - Ryan Ledendecker
News of Perry's refusal to comply with the subpoena comes on the heels of reports that he intends to resign from his position. Energy Secretary Rick …
21 hours ago
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U.S. Politics
Tulsi Fires Back And Proves Hillary Clinton's Tweet Correct
crooksandliars.com - Nicole Belle
For the Pantsuit Nation of Hillary Clinton fans, it's a familiar lament as even our most pessimistic expectations of at Trump presidency has been …
21 hours ago
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Bill Maher
Trump Tweets Rebuke Of Bill Maher Guest
Deadline - Geoff Boucher
UPDATED: President Trump tweeted a rebuke directly at a guest of Real Time with Bill Maher after apparently tuning-in to the HBO show on Friday during …
17 hours ago
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Mitt Romney
Trump falsely accuses GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of being a "Democrat secret asset"
Axios - Orion Rummler
President Trump tweeted a video on Friday that falsely accused Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) of being a "Democrat secret asset" who aimed to "infiltrate …
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Opinion
Internal Democratic poll suggests a way to bleed Trump dry
The Washington Post - By Greg Sargent
One big question House Democrats face is whether they will opt for a quick, clean impeachment of President Trump, as opposed to broadening their impeachment inquiry to include other aspects of Trump’s
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Donald Trump
The Crisis of the Republican Party
The New York Times - By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
In the summer of 1950, outraged by Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist inquisition, Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican senator from Maine, stood to warn her party that its own behavior was threatening the
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Hillary Clinton
State Dept. finds no ‘systemic’ classified violation in Hillary Clinton private-server emails
POLITICO
A State Department investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email account found no widespread effort by her aides or other staffers to mishandle classified information. The
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John Kasich
'Final straw': GOP ex-Ohio Gov. Kasich supports impeachment
Associated Press - By ALEXANDRA JAFFE, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who ran against President Donald Trump in the 2016 Republican primary, said Friday that he supports impeaching the president — but isn't ready to call for
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Hillary Clinton
Clinton email probe finds no deliberate mishandling of classified...
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. State Department investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state has found no evidence of deliberate mishandling of classified
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Adam Schiff
U.S. Republicans plan vote to censure Democrat Schiff, face of...
Reuters - Reuters Editorial
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) leaves a closed-door meeting after hearing testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, as part of the impeachment inquiry led by the House Intelligence,
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Donald Trump
E.U. ambassador throws Trump and Giuliani under the bus in testimony to impeachment investigators
Salon - Joseph Neese
Gordon Sondland, the United States Ambassador to the European Union, adresses the media during a press conference at the US Embassy to Romania in Bucharest September 5, 2019. (DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP/Getty
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Jim Mattis
Mattis Takes Swipe At Trump: 'I Earned My Spurs On The Battlefield'
NPR - Scott Neuman
President Trump fired him (after he submitted his resignation) and earlier this week reportedly called him "the world's most overrated general," but former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had a few barbs
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Donald Trump
GOP Group Uses Trump's Own Words On Corruption Against Him In Searing Fox News Ad
HuffPost - Lee Moran
Republicans for the Rule of Law released the commercial after the president decided to host the next G-7 summit at a Trump golf resort. President Donald Trump’s past comments about corruption are turned
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Rick Santorum
‘This Is Really Bad’: Rick Santorum Has An Ominous 2020 Warning For Trump
HuffPost - Ed Mazza
The president's most loyal voters are turning on him, the former Pennsylvania senator says. Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) warned President Donald Trump that he’s rapidly losing Republican voters
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Donald Trump
Trump was ‘yelling and screaming’: Reporter says GOP source fears Trump is ‘not in control of himself’ — and getting even
rawstory.com - Cody Fenwick, AlterNet
CNN correspondent Jamie Gangel reported Thursday that Republicans at the contentious White House meeting the previous day featuring President Donald …
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Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly working on TV comeback
Page Six - By Sara Nathan and Emily Smith
Amid wild rumors following Megyn Kelly’s headline-making Fox News appearance, Page Six has learned she is not returning to her former network — and …
1 day ago
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News
Eight killed in Mexico as cartel gunmen force authorities to release El Chapo’s son
Los Angeles Times - Kate Linthicum
A daring operation to capture one of Mexico’s most powerful drug lords failed disastrously Thursday when armed cartel members launched a deadly counterattack, laying siege to the northern city of Culiacan
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Donald Trump
Mulvaney admitted to a quid pro quo with Ukraine. Was that a genius move?
The Guardian - Cas Mudde
And there it was, practically out of the blue, at a press conference, Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, by and large admitted that the president held back military aid to force Ukraine
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Politics
'The EU gave nothing away': Europe's press on the Brexit deal
The Guardian - Jon Henley
European media and commentators were unanimous in saying that the greatest and most humiliating concessions in the new Brexit accord concluded on Thursday had been made not by the EU, but by Boris Johnson.
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Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s sanity is not the question. The real issue is how he got into office
The Guardian - Gary Younge
Divining, assessing and adjudicating the mental health of this US president has become more than just a parlour game While writing a New Yorker profile on Donald Trump in the late 1990s, Mark Singer attempted
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Opinion
Our Republic Is Under Attack From the President
The New York Times - By WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN
Last week I attended two memorable events that reminded me why we care so very much about this nation and also why our future may be in peril. The first was a change of command ceremony for a storied unit
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Donald Trump
Trump Compares Turks and Kurds to ‘Two Kids’ Fighting
The New York Times - Peter Baker
DALLAS — President Trump insisted on Thursday night that he was smart to let Turkey attack America’s Kurdish allies in northern Syria, comparing the two warring sides to children on a playground who need
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