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After months of deliberation, former Vice President Joe Biden has announced his decision to run for president for a third time, answering one of the biggest outstanding questions about the makeup of the 2020 race. "The core values of this nation ... our standing in the world... our very democracy ... everything that has made America -- America -- is at stake. That's why today I'm announcing my candidacy for President of the United States," Biden tweeted, along with the campaign video. Biden will hold his first official event in Pittsburgh. followed by a swing through early voting states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden is the 21st candidate to seek the Democratic nomination for president. In his announcement, Biden highlighted President Trump's 2017 comments about the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe joined CBSN to discuss.
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| Who Is Spying on the U.S.? German Intelligence Had American Surveillance Targets, Says Report | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:36:20 -0400
German Chancellor Angela Merkel was famously outraged in 2013 when she heard that the U.S. had allegedly bugged her phone, telling then-President Barack Obama: “Spying between friends, that's just not done."
But Germany’s foreign intelligence service spent years spying on American public and private sector targets, a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel claimed Thursday.
The magazine said that it had seen evidence suggesting German security agency the BND had used almost 4,000 keywords in internal surveillance databases that related to American targets from 1998 to 2006. These included White House email addresses as well as phone and fax numbers, as well as the U.S. Department of State and Treasury.
Other targets included the US Air Force, the Marine Corps, the engineering company Lockheed Martin, space agency NASA, several universities and the NGO Human Rights Watch, Spiegel reported.
German spies also accessed data from more than 100 foreign embassies in Washington, according to Die Zeit.
The findings are likely to prove embarrassing for the German government at a time when U.S.-German relations are already strained following forceful remarks by President Donald Trump about trade and tariffs on German industries, and an awkward meeting between the president and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in March.
The BND declined to comment on the reports, but its president, Bruno Kahl, did address the organization's future oversight, according to Deutsche Welle.
"The question concerning who can scout the BND and who cannot does not just depend on increasing authorization for lawmakers, but also implementing an ambitious series of controls," he said.
Merkel earlier this year said to a parliamentary committee looking into the actions of America’s National Security Agency (NSA) that she did not know about any BND spying in the U.S.
Another report in Spiegel this April said that the BND also spied on Interpol, the international crimefighting agency, and in February the magazine said it had seen evidence that the agency had accessed phones, faxes and emails of several news organizations, including the New York Times and Reuters.
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| How Russian Money Helped Save Trump’s Business – Foreign Policy | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 16:06:46 -0400
In the fall of 1992, after he cut a deal with U.S. banks to work off nearly a billion dollars in personal debt, Donald Trump put on a big gala for himself in Atlantic City to announce his comeback. Party guests were given sticks with a picture of Trump’s face glued to them so they could be photographed posing as the famous real-estate mogul. As the theme music from the movie Rocky filled the room, an emcee shouted, “Let’s hear it for the king!” and Trump, wearing red boxing gloves and a robe, burst through a paper screen. One of his casino executives announced that his boss had returned as a “winner,” according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio.
But it was mainly an act, D’Antonio told Foreign Policy. In truth Trump was all but finished as a major real-estate developer, in the eyes of many in the business, and that’s because the U.S. banking industry was pretty much finished with him. By the early 1990s he had burned through his portion of his father Fred’s fortune with a series of reckless business decisions. Two of his businesses had declared bankruptcy, the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City and the Plaza Hotel in New York, and the money pit that was the Trump Shuttle went out of business in 1992. Trump companies would ultimately declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy two more times. When would-be borrowers repeatedly file for protection from their creditors, they become poison to most major lenders and, according to financial experts interviewed for this story, such was Trump’s reputation in the U.S. financial industry at that juncture.
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For the rest of the ’90s a chastened Trump launched little in the way of major new business ventures (with a few exceptions, such as the Trump World Tower across from the United Nations, which began construction in 1999 and was financed by two German lenders, Deutsche Bank and Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank). “He took about 10 years off, and really sort of licked his wounds and tried to recover,” D’Antonio said. As late as 2003, Trump was in such desperate financial trouble that at a meeting with his siblings following his father’s death he pressed them to hurriedly sell his father’s estate off, against the late Fred Trump’s wishes, the New York Times reported in an investigation of Trump family finances in October. And his businesses kept failing: In 2004, Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts filed for bankruptcy with $1.8 billion dollars of debt.
But Trump eventually made a comeback, and according to several sources with knowledge of Trump’s business, foreign money played a large role in reviving his fortunes, in particular investment by wealthy people from Russia and the former Soviet republics. This conclusion is buttressed by a growing body of evidence amassed by news organizations, as well as what is reportedly being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the Southern District of New York. It is a conclusion that even Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has appeared to confirm, saying in 2008—after the Trump Organization was prospering again—that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.”
Trump’s former longtime architect, Alan Lapidus, echoed this view in an interview with FP this month. Lapidus said that based on what he knew from the internal workings of the organization, in the aftermath of Trump’s earlier financial troubles “he could not get anybody in the United States to lend him anything. It was all coming out of Russia. His involvement with Russia was deeper than he’s acknowledged.”
The overseas money came initially in the form of new real-estate partnerships and the purchase of numerous Trump condos, said a former real-estate partner of Trump’s who witnessed the transformation of those years and later soured on Trump. “I think part of it was he was toxic to the banks. I think he also probably learned that personal guarantees [on loans] weren’t a brilliant idea either,” said the former business associate, who would speak to FP only on condition of anonymity. “So he was saying to himself, ‘What else could I do in the world? I’ll just convince people to buy my brand.’ And the only people who were willing to buy it were tasteless Russians, people who like the absurd, ostentatious gold-leaf lifestyle he has. You’re not going to sell that brand to blue bloods in Greenwich, Connecticut.”
Or as another Trump biographer, Gwenda Blair, put it: “Trump was on the Titanic heading down. Everyone’s drowning around him. … Suddenly he gets saved. It’s almost like a spaceship landed right next to where he was in the water.”
All this history helps put into context some recent developments in the investigations by Mueller and the Southern District of New York, which have focused on supposed Trump collusion or conspiracy with the Russians. It may have seemed odd at first that during the presidential campaign the people in Trump’s orbit—including Trump’s son, daughter, and son-in-law—were contacted by at least 14 Russians, according to information emerging from the federal investigations. Or that in November 2015, according to a sentencing memo published recently, former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen was approached by a Russian who offered “political synergy” between the Trump campaign and Russia (adding that a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin would have “phenomenal” impact “not only in political but in a business dimension as well”).
But in fact at least some of these encounters appear to have sprung from business contacts Trump had developed over nearly two decades.
According to Trump’s former real-estate partner and other sources who are familiar with the internal workings of the Trump Organization, his post-’90s revival may have really begun in the early 2000s with the Bayrock Group, which rented offices two floors down from Trump’s in Trump Tower. Bayrock was run by two investors who would help to change Trump’s trajectory: Tevfik Arif, a Kazakhstan-born former Soviet official who drew on seemingly bottomless sources of money from the former Soviet republic; and Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman who had pleaded guilty in the 1990s to a huge stock-fraud scheme involving the Russian mafia.
With Bayrock’s help, Trump began his broad transformation from a builder to a brander. He reinvented himself and his business model—going from being a force in real estate to a nearly bankrupt but brazen self-promoter who had mainly his name to sell. In lieu of the big banks, Bayrock helped to bring Trump back into real estate by supplying him with the equity stake he needed to entice new lenders for big projects, according to a former Bayrock official. The biggest of those projects was the Trump SoHo, the troubled 46-story condominium and hotel that has been a target of lawsuits since it opened in 2010 and is reportedly being investigated by Mueller over whether it was financed partly by Russian money. That deal gave Trump 18 percent of the equity just for licensing his name. (In addition to Bayrock, the other partner was the Sapir family from the former Soviet republic of Georgia.)
The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment for this article. But in a deposition related to Trump SoHo litigation, Trump said he was drawn to Bayrock because he was impressed with Kazakh-born Arif’s connections, and that Arif had brought potential Russian investors to meet him. “Bayrock knew the people, knew the investors,” Trump said.
By the time he ran for president, Trump had been enmeshed in this mysterious overseas flow of capital—which various investigators believe could have included money launderers from Russia and former Soviet republics whobought up dozens of his condos—for a decade and a half. And Felix Sater was pitching Cohen on a Moscow deal as recently as mid-2016—as Trump was clinching the Republican nomination, according to a sentencing memo recently unveiled by the Mueller probe.
As a result, some recent reports indicate that federal and congressional investigators are now focused on the Trump Organization as much as the president himself in probing alleged Russian influence. This is especially true of Democratic House members getting set to take over key committees in January. According to two Democratic staffers involved in Trump probes who spoke to FP on condition of anonymity, Democratic Senate staffers plan to work with their House colleagues—who will have subpoena power—in investigating the president’s business dealings going back to the Bayrock-Trump partnership and Trump’s other overseas sources of investment. They say another primary focus will be the Trump Organization’s more recent all-cash purchases overseas, “largely of golf courses,” in order to probe whether some of that investment may have involved money laundering.
“Our broader concern is the extent to which the Trump Organization has received an influx of foreign sources of money over the years, and if that continues to compromise the president,” said one Capitol Hill staffer. He added that this wouldn’t be an issue if Trump had followed precedent and divested himself of his business holdings, as previous presidents have.
It remains unclear whether Trump’s policies have been influenced by these past—and in some cases ongoing—business associations, or by the president’s awareness that Russian and other foreign capital helped revive his business career. But one question Mueller must certainly be probing is whether the relationships made Trump beholden to certain Russians—and whether the outreach by Russian business people to Trump and his organization reflects Kremlin tradecraft for developing intelligence assets and compromising them.
“Russian efforts either to recruit somebody as an asset or effectively coerce them into becoming an asset historically typically rely on compromise of either a financial nature or a sexual nature,” said David Kris, a former assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s National Security Division. “Or some other nature by which they can gain leverage. Either induce somebody voluntarily to cooperate or blackmail them.” Kris added that “there is long history of that kind of activity, including in the context of presidential elections,” going back to Soviet efforts to offer money to Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 election.
Ever since his presidential campaign, Trump’s critics in Washington have questioned his unwillingness to criticize Putin directly and his push to ease sanctions against Russia. Most recently, the U.S. president appeared to blame both sides for Putin’s violent intervention in Ukraine, when Russian ships fired upon, wounded, and seized Ukrainian sailors, saying: “Either way, we don’t like what’s happening, and hopefully, it will get straightened out.” Trump at first called off a meeting with Putin at the G-20 summit at the end of last month, then held one anyway. And he recently appeared to let both Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman off the hook for political murder, which both leaders are accused of. “The world is a very dangerous place!” Trump said.
Trump, of course, is not known for a sense of loyalty to anyone who has helped him in the past—as Cohen, who was just sentenced to 36 months in prison, has recently discovered. And Trump’s standard response to accusations that, as a businessman, he occasionally dealt with unsavory partners is that what mattered was their money was good. If a buyer overpaid, all the better. As he told a campaign rally in 2015: “Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million. Am I supposed to dislike them?”
Some New York real-estate experts, like Joel Ross, a long-established investment banker in Manhattan, say this devil-may-care attitude is typical in the industry, and critics are overreacting in tying Trump’s business ties to his presidential policies. Though Ross says he’s “no fan” of Trump, he added that the key point is that the big 2016 Moscow negotiation went nowhere, and there is no evidence that Trump is currently basing his policies toward Russia on his business dealings. In truth, Trump’s several forays into Russia in search of possible deals is standard in big-time real estate, Ross said. And the majority of negotiations don’t pan out.
“As to any other deals, what they may earn on a management contract is not enough to get him to change foreign policy,” Ross wrote FP in an email. “This is not as serious an issue as you seem to imagine. You guys in the media have no understanding of how real estate works and how unserious these things are. Trump is not much different than most of the NY real estate developers. Obnoxious, liar, screws people, impossible to trust, etc, but in NY real estate–not unusual.”
Ross added: “None of any of that is proof of anything other than Trump was considered a bad guy who nobody trusted to do business with in the US banking world. That is far from any proof he did anything wrong as to collusion which there was none.”
What there was, at the very least, was a lot of money. The Trump-Bayrock partnership took off especially after Trump launched his reality-TV show, “The Apprentice,” in early 2004. The show featured contestants who competed for the prize of a contract to promote one of Trump’s properties. His fame escalated worldwide, and Bayrock turned that into a marketing bonanza. Real-estate experts in New York with knowledge of Trump’s career contend that Bayrock was a critical bridge back to success for him, tiding him over until the mid-2000s. That’s when lending standards had so deteriorated—during the mortgage-backed securities mania—that some U.S. lenders had become willing to deal with Trump again. Bayrock sold the debt-ridden mogul on the idea of launching an international chain of Trump-branded, mixed-use hotels and condominiums and was willing to supply him with an equity stake—the 10 percent or so any developer needs to secure a loan, the former Trump partner told FP. “Bayrock was the loyal soldier bringing him deals,” he said.
This was the period in which the Trump Organization began to grow into a global trademarking factory—he called many of his assets “Trump Marks” on his 2015 Federal Election Commission disclosure form—largely prospering on royalties, fees and rents from buildings, golf courses, and other properties and products in which Trump had little equity other than putting his name on them. As the election disclosure form revealed, among the approximately 500 corporations, trusts, limited liability companies, and other associations the Trumps hold positions in are numerous “Trump Marks” entities, from Baku, Azerbaijan, to Dubai to Toronto to Qatar. The former real-estate magnate became largely a collector of branding fees.
Bayrock’s money sometimes came from sources outside Russia and the former Soviet republics, according to one of the firm’s former employees, including an obscure Icelandic investment bank called the FL Group. But those roads too sometimes appeared to lead back to Russia. In 2017, real-estate developer Jody Kriss, whom Sater hired to help him run Bayrock, told Timothy O’Brien of Bloomberg what happened after an Icelandic competitor of the FL Group contacted him to invest in Bayrock. When Kriss brought that offer to Sater and Arif, they told him that the money behind Icelandic banks “was mostly Russian”—and they had to take FL’s funds for deals with Trump because FL was “closer to [Vladimir] Putin,” according to O’Brien. (Kriss confirmed this account to FP.) In 2007, the FL Group invested $50 million in several Bayrock projects linked to Trump, including a development in Whitestone, Queens, and Trump SoHo in Manhattan. FL Group dissolved in 2014.
Kriss told Bloomberg’s O’Brien that he eventually left Bayrock because he became convinced that the firm was a front for money laundering.
Precisely where Bayrock’s other money came from remains unclear. Some of it was
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| The FBI Is a Player in the 2016 Election, and the FBI Is Out of Control | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 13:42:38 -0400
The last time the internal politics of the Federal Bureau of Investigation got deeply entangled in a presidential election was in 1972, and that election wasn't remotely close. Nonetheless, as depicted vividly in Tim Weiner's book, Enemies, the incumbent Nixon Administration was trying to push out J. Edgar Hoover but were terrified to do so directly, in no small part because Nixon was a lot of big talk about being tough but generally choked when it came time to be tough. Hoover and the FBI had been involved in the larval stages of what would generally be summarized one day as "Watergate," including illegal wiretapping, but Hoover balked at any assignment that seemed to compromise his total control over the Bureau.
For example, after Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers and then turned himself in, the Nixon people wanted Hoover to investigate Ellsberg preparatory to an indictment under the Espionage Act. Hoover refused. Nixon got pissed, and sent his own people into the fray to, among other things, break into Ellsberg's psychiatrist's office. And, at that point, we were pretty much off to the races as regards to what John Mitchell ultimately would call "the White House horrors."
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For the next year, the FBI went into turmoil as Nixon tried to find a way to kick Hoover to the curb. William Sullivan, the FBI official who had helped develop the FBI's COINTELPRO domestic surveillance program, and who, as Weiner reports, was considered at the time to be Hoover's heir apparent, was infuriated at Nixon's meddling and, for the next year, as the White House geared up for re-election, Nixon and Hoover were at knifepoint and the morale in the Bureau tanked badly.
Sullivan and Hoover split when Hoover pulled the plug on COINTELPRO. Hoover was devastated by what he saw as Sullivan's betrayal and he died in May of 1972. Nixon replaced Hoover with a pliable doofus named L. Patrick Gray, who managed to stumble into involvement with the Watergate cover-up. A career FBI man named Mark Felt was passed over in favor of Gray and Felt was not happy. Soon, he was meeting in a parking garage with Bob Woodward of The Washington Post.
Anyway, the recent history of the FBI's involvement with presidential elections is not a promising one.
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It's hard to keep up with what's going on. Clearly, there are FBI sources dissatisfied with decisions made not to keep investigating Hillary Rodham Clinton's e-mails and/or the Clinton Foundation. They're talking. There also seem to be FBI sources who are frustrated with what they see as the too-close-by-half relationship of the Donald Trump campaign to Russian oligarchs up to and including Vladimir Putin. They're talking. And there are people completely outraged by the bungling attempts by FBI director James Comey to involve himself so directly in the presidential election, and they're all talking. The FBI, in short, is out of control.
It's hard to know what to believe. Reputable reporters are producing contradictory information by the bucketful, and there's just enough ambiguity in it to make great ammunition for the completely unprincipled and truthless campaign being run by one-half of this election. This has exacerbated distrust within the electorate and, I would suspect, within the FBI itself, which is not something any of us should like to have going on as a new president enters office.
But we know from sad history that electoral politics is one area from which the FBI, and every other institution of the surveillance state, should stay away—or be kept away—at all possible costs, because they can do more damage by accident than any terrorist can do on purpose. Like it or not, and I don't, the FBI is a player in the 2016 presidential election, and the agendas that are roiling it at the moment are as big a part of it as the electoral college or Scottie Nell Hughes.
This is damage that will last.
Update (6:25 PM): Like I said.
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Deutsche Bank has begun to provide documents on financing for some of President Donald Trump's projects to New York State authorities, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Wednesday.
In mid-March, New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed the German bank, demanding records related to loans and lines of credit granted to the Trump Organization.
The money was intended to finance projects such as Trump hotels in Washington, DC, Miami and Chicago, another source told AFP last month on the condition of anonymity.
It was unclear whether Deutsche Bank had provided all the documents requested.
"We remain committed to cooperating with authorized investigations," a bank spokesman told AFP, while declining to comment on a CNN report that the company was handing over the documents.
James' office also declined to comment on the status of the documents regarding financing for the Trump Organization, the holding company that has been run by Trump's sons Eric and Donald Trump Jr since he entered the White House.
New York authorities also wanted records related to the Trump Organization's failed attempt in 2014 to buy the Buffalo Bills football team, the source said on condition of anonymity.
James demanded the information from Deutsche Bank after Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen testified before Congress, saying among other things that Trump wildly inflated his net worth in order to secure loans from Deutsche Bank.
Deutsche Bank was one of the few major banks to continue to lend to Trump following the bankruptcies of his casinos and other businesses in the 1990s. The German bank in recent years has loaned Trump more than $300 million.
That put the bank at the center of investigations and congressional scrutiny.
When opposition Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January, they sought information on interest rates granted to the Trump Organization, as well as details on a huge Russian money laundering case that earned Deutsche Bank a $630 million fine in January 2017.
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Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:44:53 -0400
Perspective | 'No collusion'? I managed Russia operations at the CIA. Read between the lines. The Washington Post
Politicians and pundits tried out a new line after the release of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential ...
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| Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York's attorney general - CNN | ||
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| Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York's attorney general - CNN | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:44:03 -0400
Deutsche Bank begins process of providing Trump financial records to New York's attorney general CNN
Deutsche Bank has begun the process of providing financial records to New York state's attorney general in response to a subpoena for documents related to ...
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| Deutsche Bank begins providing Trump financial records - WFMZ Allentown | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:43:47 -0400
Deutsche Bank begins providing Trump financial records WFMZ Allentown
Deutsche Bank has begun the process of providing financial records to New York state's attorney general in response to a subpoena for documents related to ...
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| On The Money: Trump vows to fight 'all the subpoenas' | Deutsche Bank reportedly turning Trump records over to NY officials | Lighthizer, Mnuchin to travel to China for trade talks | Average tax refund down 2 percent in first year of Trump law | TheHill - | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:43:28 -0400
On The Money: Trump vows to fight 'all the subpoenas' | Deutsche Bank reportedly turning Trump records over to NY officials | Lighthizer, Mnuchin to travel to China for trade talks | Average tax refund down 2 percent in first year of Trump law | TheHill The Hill
Happy Wednesday and welcome back to On The Money, where we're puzzled by the John Cornyn-Patton Oswalt.
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| Deutsche Bank now providing Trump financial documents - CNN | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:43:10 -0400
Deutsche Bank now providing Trump financial documents CNN
Deutsche Bank has started providing financial records to New York state's attorney general in response to a subpoena for documents related to loans made to ...
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| Deutsche Bank to hand over President Trump's financial records t - Honolulu, Hawaii news, sports & weather | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:41:21 -0400
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Deutsche Bank will hand over President Trump's financial records to the New York Attorney General.
Wednesday, April 24th 2019, 10:41 PM HST by KITV Web Staff
Deutsche Bank will hand over President Trump's financial records to the New York Attorney General.
A source tells CNN the move is in response to a subpoena for documents related to loans to Trump and his businesses.
New York's Attorney General opened a civil investigation after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress the President had inflated his assets.
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| Deutsche Bank to hand over President Trump's financial records to New York Attorney General | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:40:50 -0400
New York's Attorney General opened a civil investigation after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen told Congress the President had inflated his assets ... | ||
| MichaelNovakhov on Twitter: Read about Facebook Censorship-Page My Page "Trumpistan Today" was unpublished. This is the politically motivated move. Facebook wants to please Trump and practice CENSORSHIP; read my posts on this subject! Nationalize Facebook | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:38:30 -0400
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My Page "Trumpistan Today" was unpublished. This is the politically motivated move. Facebook wants to please Trump and practice CENSORSHIP; read my posts on this subject! Nationalize Facebook! 4:37 AM 4/25/2019 - Visit: trumpinvestigations.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-pag…
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Facebook Censorship: My Page "Trumpistan Today" was unpublished. This is the politically motivated move. Facebook wants to please Trump and practice CENSORSHIP; read my posts on this subject! Nationalize Facebook! - M.N. - 4:37 AM 4/25/2019 trumpinvestigations.blogspot.com/2019/04/my-pag…
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| MichaelNovakhov on Twitter: Facebook blocks could open the door to online censorship theverge.com/2019/4/23/1851… via @Verge | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:37:49 -0400
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| Fear Mark Zuckerberg's Illiberal Impulses | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:35:19 -0400
The murderer live-streamed his attack on Facebook and Twitter using a ... Such censorship is said to be justified as streitbare Demokratie—“militant ... | ||
| Facebook Censorship: My Page "Trumpistan Today" was unpublished. This is the politically motivated move. Facebook wants to please Trump and practice CENSORSHIP; read my posts on this subject! Nationalize Facebook! - M.N. - 4:37 AM 4/25/2019 | ||
Thu, 25 Apr 2019 05:08:30 -0400
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/63659407/1138776124.jpg.0.jpg) Facebook Censorship - Page My Page "Trumpistan Today" was unpublished. This is the politically motivated move. Facebook wants to please Trump and practice CENSORSHIP; read my posts on this subject! Nationalize Facebook! 4:37 AM 4/25/2019 - Visit: https://www.facebook.com/mike.nova3 Texas bill would allow state to sue social media companies like ...
Texas Tribune-Apr 23, 2019
A bill before the Texas Senate seeks to prevent social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from censoring users based on their ...
Bill would allow state to sue social media companies like Facebook ...
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Facebook Calls For Censorship
Power Line (blog)-Mar 31, 2019
In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called on governments to increase regulation of internet speech.
 Republicans and Democrats have completely different priorities on tech
Vox-Apr 9, 2019
“And any views to the contrary are suitable for censorship and silencing. ... companies like Facebook and Twitter take down accounts and posts ...
 Facebook's Call for Regulation Could Lead to Government Censorship
Competitive Enterprise Institute (blog)-Apr 3, 2019
In a recent op-ed, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote: I believe we need a more active role for governments and regulators. By updating the ...
 Censorship: Instagram, Facebook Block Pro-Life Posts by Alveda King ...
CBN News-Apr 11, 2019
Multiple pro-life supporters have seen their anti-abortion posts removed in another round of censorship from popular social media sites ...
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| MichaelNovakhov on Twitter: The FBI News Review: The Road To Dictatorship - By Michael Novakhov fbinewsreview.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-fa… | ||
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:36:36 -0400
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| The FBI News Review: The Comey Firing, as Retold by the Mueller Report – NBC Connecticut | ||
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:33:29 -0400
April 24, 2019 FBI News Review at 06 Hours The Comey Firing, as Retold by the Mueller Report – NBC Connecticut “fbi” – Google News: US Embassy says FBI agents on the ground in Sri Lanka assisting investigation in Easter bombing – WWLP.com Report: Cash payments to Alabama players, others detailed by witness in FBI …Continue reading"The FBI News Review: The Comey Firing, as Retold by the Mueller Report – NBC Connecticut" | ||
| PBS NewsHour full episode April 23, 2019 | ||
Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:32:29 -0400
Tuesday on the NewsHour, the death toll in Sri Lanka's Sunday bombings surpasses 300. Plus: The Supreme Court considers whether the census can ask about citizenship, how defiance by the president’s advisers protected him, why Democrats are divided on impeachment, a killing sparks fears of more violence in Northern Ireland, frustrated teachers on the brink and a newly revealed slave narrative.
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As bombing deaths top 300, grieving Sri Lanka seeks answers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf9cZrBpTcU News Wrap: Saudi Arabia beheads 37 in mass execution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q5RcUhO7nU Could a citizenship question jeopardize census results? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8tSIUTLrMs How Trump's advisers protected his presidency by saying no https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG_dsWenKD4 On impeachment, Democrats weigh principle against popularity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7WMQqJqyzU Deadly riot renews fears of conflict in Northern Ireland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh89V0ImAMM Teachers find demands on them growing, even when pay doesn't https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iADFkW8hYm0 How this slave manuscript challenges an American narrative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQelGvwkhE
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