Grab your popcorn 😁! Trump gives Barr green light to declassify 2016 campaign surveillance documents; I'm Excited Are You?!

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Grab your popcorn 😁! Trump gives Barr green light to declassify 2016 campaign surveillance documents; I'm Excited Are You?!

Trump gives Barr green light to declassify 2016 campaign surveillance documents; Travel ban over abortion law

Friday, May 24, 2019

Trump gives Barr the green light to unseal documents on the 2016 surveillance of the Trump campaign
President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016. Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the move as an attempt to "weaponize law enforcement and classified information." Trump has long claimed his campaign was the victim of "spying," though the intelligence community has insisted it acted lawfully in following leads in the Russia investigation.



Last month, Barr ran into a buzz saw of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and media figures for testifying that “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign. But despite the backlash, the attorney general appeared to be referring to intelligence collection that already has been widely reported and confirmed.



Alleged Trump 'cover-up': A second generation of the 'Russia witch hunt'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's claim of a presidential "cover-up" is the second generation of the Russia collusion "witch hunt,"according to a White House spokesman. Deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley made the claim Thursday on "The Story with Martha MacCallum," describing the continuing Democrat push for further investigations as "the Russia collusion hoax witch hunt 2.0." Gidley's comments came asTrump and Pelosi and other Democrats continued to snipe at each other over Wednesday's scuttled meeting on infrastructure. White House officials insist Trump was calm when he cut short the meeting with Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Pelosi and Schumer insist Trump was agitated and threw the equivalent of a presidential temper tantrum when he abruptly ended the session. The president has demanded Democrats end their "phony investigations" before he negotiates with them on issues like infrastructure. Meanwhile, Wells Fargo, TD Bank Thursday turned over Trump's financial records to Democrats in the House Financial Services Committee led by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.



Theresa May says she'll quit as Conservative leader June 7

British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Friday that she will resign -- ending her months-long struggle to keep her job despite seething anger from her own Conservative Party over her handling of Brexit. "I believe it was right to persevere even when the odds against success seemed high. But it is now clear to me that it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort," she said outside 10 Downing Street.



LA lawmakers approve Alabama travel ban over new abortion law
Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors voted this week to enact a one-year ban on official travel to Alabama over that state’s controversial abortion law, which all but outlaws the procedure. Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, who co-authored the motion with Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, called the law an "attack not only confined to the residents of those states but an act of aggression upon all of us." The motion prohibits officials conducting business on behalf of the county from traveling to Alabama except for emergency response, training or assistance or “legally required matters where the failure to authorize such travel would seriously harm the County’s interests," Solis said in a statement.



Pete Hegseth op-ed: Let's stop second-guessing our war heroes
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