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THIS SESSION IS OVER

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Gregg Jarrett – FOX NEWS

Jeff Sessions should never have accepted the position of Attorney General of the United States.  His leadership has proven unproductive and ineffectual.

There are two reasons for this.

First, he deceived President Trump by concealing his intent to recuse himself from the federal investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.  Hours after he was sworn in, Sessions began setting his recusal in motion by meeting with Department of Justice officials to discuss stepping aside from the probe.  Failing to disclose such a material matter to the president was an egregious betrayal.

Trump was reportedly disgusted and angry with Sessions when he learned of the recusal – rightly so.  “If he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office, and I would have picked someone else,” said Trump at a news conference.  The president was entitled to know the truth, but Sessions actively hid it from him.  Sessions’ deception deprived him of Trump’s confidence and trust which are essential to the job of Attorney General.  This ethical impropriety renders him unfit to serve.

Second, Sessions appears either incapable or incompetent.  He has resisted producing the documents relevant to the anti-Trump dossier which were subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee.  He has failed to appoint a special counsel to reopen the case against Hillary Clinton for likely violations of the Espionage Act in the use of her email server, obstruction of justice for destroying 33,000 emails under congressional subpoena, and potential self-dealing for profit through her foundation.  The evidence is compelling.

Moreover, Sessions has taken no action to investigate the unmasking of Trump aides during intelligence surveillance by the Obama Administration.  Evidence continues to mount that the incoming president was spied upon for political reasons.  Transition officials were unmasked, perhaps illegally.  And in one case, the unmasking was leaked to the media which is a crime.  Yet Sessions is twiddling his thumbs.

And why hasn’t Sessions investigated the possible criminal conduct of James Comey?  The fired FBI Director appears to have falsely testified before Congress, stolen government documents, and leaked them to the media.

Jeff Sessions may have been a fine Senator, but he has proven to be a feckless Attorney General.  He should resign.  But before he does, he can attempt to rectify the wreckage he has wrought by initiating several necessary criminal investigations and/or appointing a special counsel to do so.

James Comey

Comey was asked, under oath, by the House Judiciary Committee if he decided not to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton before or after he interviewed her.  He testified, “After.”

Yet, a document uncovered by the Senate Judiciary Committee belies his testimony.  A full two months before the FBI ever interviewed Clinton and her top aides, Comey drafted a statement exonerating Clinton.  Absent some extraordinary explanation, it appears that Comey’s investigation of Clinton was nothing more than a charade and that he may have lied under oath.  If it can be proven, it would constitute the crime of perjury under 18 USC 1621 or a false statement under 18 USC 1001.

This document establishes persuasive evidence that Comey predetermined that Clinton would not be charged.  What prosecutor writes a statement absolving a suspect beforethe evidence is fully gathered, especially from the principal witnesses?   No prosecutor I know of.  Unless, of course, the fix was in.  Unless someone instructed him to protect Clinton or he decided to do it all on his own with a presidential election hanging in the balance.

Either way, it might well constitute obstruction of justice.  It is a felony to interfere with a criminal investigation.  It is also illegal to use your public office for a political purpose, if that is what Comey was doing.

But Comey’s misconduct and potential illegality don’t stop there.  As FBI Director, he converted government documents to his own personal use and leaked at least one of them to the media.  As FBI Director, he crafted seven presidential memorandums which are government property, took them into his personal possession when he was fired, and then conveyed one or more of them to a friend for the sole purpose of leaking them to the media.  Under 18 USC 641, this could be a crime.

Under no circumstances were these memos “personal,”, as Comey claims.  They were authored during the course and scope of his employment, composed on a government computer, shared with government employees, and pertained directly to meetings with the president that were central to his job as FBI Director.

Under the Federal Records Act, they are government records.  This is indisputable, regardless of what Comey and his lawyers allege.  They know this because Comey signed an “Unauthorized Disclosure Agreement” promising that, under penalty of legal action, he would not disseminate workplace documents.  If the facts are as stated, he should be prosecuted under the Privacy Act.

Finally, four of the seven memos were “classified,” according to the FBI.  If Comey conveyed any of them to an outside source, this would constitute an Unauthorized Removal of Classified Documents (18 USC 1924) or a violation of the Espionage Act (18 USC 798) under which Clinton should have been charged when Comey was FBI Director.  The irony is lost on no one.  Yet, Sessions appears to have taken no action.

Before he resigns, Sessions must open a full investigation and convene a grand jury to determine whether criminal charges should be brought against Comey.  In the alternative, he can appoint a second special counsel to investigate the case.  The current special counsel, Robert Mueller, is a long-time friend, ally and mentor to Comey.  Mueller is not likely to include Comey in his current investigation, even though he has authority to do so under the directive he received.

Hillary Clinton

The case against Clinton is, by now, self-evident.  She stored 110 emails containing classified information on her home computer server, an unsecured and unauthorized place.  It is a crime to mishandle classified information under the Espionage Act.

Yet Comey misinterpreted the criminal statute by claiming Clinton did not “intend to violate the law.”  This is not the legal standard, as any knowledgeable lawyer will tell you.  The standard is whether she committed intentional acts, such as intentionally setting up her personal server and knowingly using it for her work documents, including classified materials.  Clinton clearly intended to do these things.

Regardless, the law under 18 USC 793 requires only “grossly negligent” behavior.  Here, Comey insisted Clinton was “extremely careless.”  However, the two terms are synonymous under the law.  Indeed, there is a frequently used jury instruction which explains that gross negligence is extremely careless behavior.  So, in essence, Comey was admitting Clinton violated the law, although he twisted the statute to conclude otherwise.

There is strong evidence that Clinton obstructed justice.  All of her emails were under a congressional subpoena.  She was required to preserve and produce every single one of them.  She did not.  Instead, she deleted roughly 33,000 emails in defiance of the subpoena and cleansed her server of any incriminating evidence.  Destruction of evidence under a lawful subpoena constitutes obstruction.  Under the law, it is no excuse to claim that some of the emails were personal in nature.

Growing evidence suggests that Clinton used her office as Secretary of State to confer benefits to donors and foreign governments in exchange for financial contributions to her foundation and cash to her husband.  If proven, it would support various crimes of corruption.

It has been reported that Clinton helped UBS avoid the IRS.  Thereafter, Bill Clinton got paid $1.5 million and the Clinton Foundation received a ten-fold increase in donations by the bank.  It has also been reported that Clinton’s state department approved billions of dollars in arms sales to several nations whose governments gave money to the Foundation.

And then, there is the infamous Uranium One deal.  After the State Department under Clinton signed off on the U.S. sale of one-fifth of our nation’s uranium production capacity to the Russians, millions of dollars from Russian sources connected to the Kremlin began to flow to the Clinton Foundation, and Bill Clinton received $500,000 for a speech in Moscow.  Coincidence?  Or criminal “pay-to-play?”

In his confirmation hearing, Sessions promised to recuse himself from any matter involving Hillary Clinton.  Therefore, before he resigns, Sessions must appoint a special counsel to reopen the Clinton investigation and decide anew whether criminal charges are merited.

Susan Rice

In March, the former National Security Adviser to President Obama insisted she “knew nothing” about Trump transition officials swept up in surveillance at the end of the Obama administration.  Her statement was not true, and not the first time Rice conjured a false narrative.  When confronted with evidence to the contrary, she admitted she knew of the incidental collection and, further, she is the one who requested that names be unmasked.

If Rice or UN Ambassador Samantha Power or any other person requested the unmasking of names for a reason other than national security, it is a crime.  And so too is the leaking of those names to the media which clearly occurred.  Under the Hatch Act, it is against the law for a public official to use his or her office for a political purpose.

Congress is vigorously investigating Rice and others.  Yet Sessions seems detached and unconcerned.  As the nation’s top lawyer, he is duty-bound to pursue such a substantial breach of intelligence operations.

Before he resigns, Sessions should launch a criminal investigation into the unmasking of names or appoint a special prosecutor to do the same.

Jeff Sessions either wittingly or unwittingly bungled his confirmation hearing, which led to the recusal that is said to have angered Trump and alienated the AG from the president.  Regardless, Sessions’ performance as Attorney General ever since has been notable only for a series of failures to act when action is demanded.

The moment the President of the United States no longer has confidence in his Attorney General, it is time for him to submit his letter of resignation.  But first, Sessions can restore integrity to the Department of Justice and salvage his own tattered reputation by taking aggressive action against Comey, Clinton and Rice.

Then he should quietly bow out.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/09/19/gregg-jarrett-sessions-should-resign-but-not-before-taking-action-against-clinton-comey-and-rice.html

THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM – THE WRITING IS ON THE WALL

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The H-1B is a visa in the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act, section 101(a)(17)(H) which allows U.S. employers to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations. If a foreign worker in H-1B status quits or is dismissed from the sponsoring employer, the worker must either apply for and be granted a change of status, find another employer (subject to application for adjustment of status and/or change of visa), or leave the United States. Effective January 17, 2017, USCIS modified the rules to allow a grace period of up to 60 days but in practice as long as a green card application is pending they are allowed to stay. In 2015, there were 348,669 applicants for the H-1B filed of which 275,317 were approved.

The regulations define a “specialty occupation” as requiring theoretical and practical application of a body of highly specialized knowledge in a field of human endeavor including but not limited to biotechnology, chemistry, architecture, engineering, mathematics, physical sciences, social sciences, medicine and health, education, law, accounting, business specialties, theology, and the arts, and requiring the attainment of a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent as a minimum (with the exception of fashion models, who must be “of distinguished merit and ability”). Likewise, the foreign worker must possess at least a bachelor’s degree or its equivalent and state licensure, if required to practice in that field. H-1B work-authorization is strictly limited to employment by the sponsoring employer.

On March 3, 2017 the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service announced on their website that starting from April 3, 2017 they would temporarily suspend premium processing for all H-1B visa petitions until further notice. On April 18, 2017 President Trump signed a “Buy American, Hire American” Executive Order which sets broad policy intentions directing federal agencies to propose reforms to the H-1B visa system.

The raison d’être for American companies to request H-1B visas for foreign subjects is two fold. One, the companies find it cheaper to hire a foreigner and number two, companies can’t find Americans with similar qualifications. This seems odd at first look, but once delved into the reason is crystal clear.

Adding to the chaos are the number of STEM visas which have risen at a parabolic rate during the past couple of years. It is important to note that almost 60% are from China and India. 

On the home front less than 3.5% of college graduates majored in computer sciences and information technologies. These are technologies targeted by foreign countries. This is a sad story, but one that has to be told. Many factors play a part in this dismal statistic, but there is one standout; our education system does not have the discipline needed to keep up with the rest of the world. In fact our college educated barely compete in STEM. In the next thirty years we will see the downside when the behemoths of China and India become hegemonic in the spheres of influence that matter most.  Taking a myopic view one does not see what the future holds, but with foreigners leaping us by leaps and bounds it does not look good at this point in time.

How do U.S. students compare with their peers around the world? Recently released data from international math and science assessments indicate that U.S. students continue to rank around the middle of the pack, and behind many other advanced industrial nations.

One of the biggest cross-national tests is the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), which every three years measures reading ability, math and science literacy and other key skills among 15-year-olds in dozens of developed and developing countries. The most recent PISA results, from 2015, placed the U.S. an unimpressive 38thout of 71 countries in math and 24th in science. Among the 35 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which sponsors the PISA initiative, the U.S. ranked 30th in math and 19th in science.

Younger American students fare somewhat better on a similar cross-national assessment, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study. That study, known as TIMSS, has tested students in grades four and eight every four years since 1995. In the most recent tests, from 2015, 10 countries (out of 48 total) had statistically higher average fourth-grade math scores than the U.S., while seven countries had higher average science scores. In the eighth-grade tests, seven out of 37 countries had statistically higher average math scores than the U.S., and seven had higher science scores.

Another long-running testing effort is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a project of the federal Education Department. In the most recent NAEP results, from 2015, average math scores for fourth- and eighth-graders fell for the first time since 1990. A team from Rutgers University is analyzing the NAEP data to try to identify the reasons for the drop in math scores.

The average fourth-grade NAEP math score in 2015 was 240 (on a scale of 0 to 500), the same level as in 2009 and down from 242 in 2013. The average eighth-grade score was 282 in 2015, compared with 285 in 2013; that score was the lowest since 2007. (The NAEP has only tested 12th-graders in math four times since 2005; their 2015 average score of 152 on a 0-to-300 scale was one point lower than in 2013 and 2009.)

Looked at another way, the 2015 NAEP rated 40% of fourth-graders, 33% of eighth-graders and 25% of 12th-graders as “proficient” or “advanced” in math. While far fewer fourth- and eighth-graders now rate at “below basic,” the lowest performance level (18% and 29%, respectively, versus 50% and 48% in 1990), improvement in the top levels appears to have stalled out. (Among 12th-graders, 38% scored at the lowest performance level in math, a point lower than in 2005.)

NAEP also tests U.S. students on science, though not as regularly, and the limited results available indicate some improvement. Between 2009 and 2015, the average scores of both fourth- and eight-graders improved from 150 to 154 (on a 0-to-300 scale), although for 12th-graders the average score remained at 150. In 2015, 38% of fourth-graders, 34% of eighth-graders and 22% of 12th-graders were rated proficient or better in science; 24% of fourth-graders, 32% of eighth-graders and 40% of 12th-graders were rated “below basic.”

These results likely won’t surprise too many people. In a 2015 Pew Research Center report, only 29% of Americans rated their country’s K-12 education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (known as STEM) as above average or the best in the world. Scientists were even more critical: A companion survey of members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science found that just 16% called U.S. K-12 STEM education the best or above average; 46%, in contrast, said K-12 STEM in the U.S. was below average.

Note: This is an update of a post originally published Feb. 2, 2015. It has been updated to include more recent data.

TOPICS: EDUCATION, EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT, SCIENCE AND INNOVATION

  1. Photo of Drew DeSilver

     is a senior writer at Pew Research Center.

LONDON SUBWAYS SHUTTING DOWN

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Once again, London was the scene of a terrorist attack. The infamous tube was the target; over 30 individuals were injured by a bucket bomb. The culprits are in custody; an eighteen and twenty one year old to boot. Although the perpetrators have not been outed, you can bet your last dollars it was Mohammed who was responsible for the heinous attack. The Parson Green station was in pandemonium.

The arrests are part of a major manhunt for the perpetrators of Friday’s attack. Police had previously arrested an 18-year-old suspect in the departure area of the port of Dover on Saturday. Dover is major port town about 80 miles southeast of London. The teen was taken into custody “on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism,” authorities said.

Previously the London Mayor had this to say.Mayor Sadiq Khan (a MUSLIM) warned Londoners that terrorist attacks are “part and parcel” of living in a big city in the wake of the September bombing in New York City. “It is a reality I’m afraid that London, New York, other major cities around the world have got to be prepared for these sorts of things,” Khan told the Evening Standard.

And the usual response in this weekends blast. Sadiq Khan has condemned “hideous” terrorism after today’s incident on the Tube, adding: “We will never be defeated.”  How’s that?

At last count Muslims make up approximately 13% of London’s population. Big Ben must be singing the blues. 

AMERICA WILL REBUILD IT WITH YOUR MONEY

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During the financial meltdown in 2009, Rick Santelli asked if you wanted to pay for your neighbor’s house. CLICK HERE  for a video that will specifically enlighten you on what is happening again in Florida and Texas. America, are you pistoff yet? But wait let us not spare the details.

As reported by the WSJ’s Ruth Simon. Brian Harmon just finished spending $330k to fix up his home in Kingswood, Tx when hurricane Harvey bathed the house in flood water. This is the 22nd time since 1979 that the house was flooded. REPEAT 22 TIMES. YES, SINCE 1979 thru last year, you (Uncle Sam) has coughed up $1.8 million dollars to rebuild the house that is worth $600,000. What kind of bull is this?  Are words that you typically hear in a bar full of stevedores now coming from your mouth?

Looking at the statistics, repetitive flood properties account for 2% of the 1.5 million that have flood insurance, but FEMA pays out 30% of their claims to these freeloaders. But that is not all. FEMA will even buy your house to alleviate further claims at above market price. Effectively, the risk of owning these properties is passed on to the government (us).

Once again as the story noted nearly half the frequently flooded properties have received more that their homes are worth. Because of FEMA insurance bad behavior is condoned by Uncle Sam. After Harvey 1850 homeowners have asked Harris County Flood Control Department’s buyout program to be put on the list.

US SUCKERS PAY FOR RISKY BEHAVIOR.

Oh we forgot to tell you that the Flood Program is under water to the tune of $25,000,000,000 not counting Harvey and Irma. The floodgates have opened once again and it is not unreasonable to expect another $25,000,000,000 to be added to the toll.

 

CROOKED HILLARY BOOK TOUR

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We know a rat when we seen one. If it smells like a rat, looks like a rat, squeals like a rat, it must be a rat; a big fat one indeed. So now the book tour starts in earnest as Hillary tells her side of the most biased reasons why she got beat bad. Yeah sure she got the popular vote with the help of 3 plus million illegals and then some.

Think about the run-up to the general election, the Clinton campaign was hard at work in determining which candidate would be the most competitive. Was it Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Carly Fiorina or Scott Walker? Donald Trump was not even on their radar. Their thinking was that Trump was a joke, a buffoon, a cartoon character, who if he was to be the nominee Hillary would have no trouble pulverizing him to smithereens  in a head to head match up. Wrong?

Little did their brain trust realize that a self inspection was in order; for Hillary was not liked, she was a liar, could not be trusted and all the rest. But most of all Hillary was a killer, having killed Ted Stevens in Benghazi and the three brave men who guarded the embassy. Don’t forget the description of the embassy by the Clinton team; it was no embassy, just an outpost – they tried to belittle it and by doing that that would mitigate the protection that was on order.

Hillary skirted the arrest of the justice department because of the insiders and outsiders (Comey-Lynch) who protected her. If she won it would be business as usual.  We have not seen justice prevail. Time for the Sessions’s Justice Department to bring in the big guns.

Yesterday Clinton stopped at the Danbury, Ct Costco for a book signing. Very confusing why she wood stop in a Republican enclave. A smattering of protesters with “Hillary for Prison” signs and “Make American Great Again” were relegated to a street corner across from the store, where they blamed Clinton for the deaths of the four Americans in the 2012 Benghazi attack.

 With all narcissists there is a common thread; they believe that their faults are few and in between. They blame others, never to accept blame; truth to them is what they believe which is “they are a legend in their own mind.”

America has had enough of this Murderer. Lock her up for good.

NEVER FORGET THOSE WHO DIED ON 9-11-2001

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A vicious ideology set the hijackers in motion. Their mission that seemed impossible a day before became reality on the morning of September 11, 2001. Not a person in America who was alive that day will ever forget those who perished. But we also must remember and be vigilant of those who live to carry on their mission. We know who they are. 

They have infiltrated our government, our schools, our neighborhoods.

In fact one was elected president of the United States. Their paradigm, a turtle philosophy of slow infiltration. Small towns and mega cities acquiesce to their demands; liberal judges affirm their requests. Look no further than London, Paris and Brussels. Sweden is another prime example of Muslim takeover.

Yes folks it is happening here, in Middle America and across the plains. Only you can stop this infiltration by standing tall against a credo of destruction. They will not be happy until America succumbs to the Caliphate.

God Bless those who perished on 9-11.

GOD SPARES MAR a LAGO

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All of the progressive hate groups were wishing – not praying – because they don’t believe in God, that Hurricane Irma would destroy Mar a Lago. “Didn’t happen folks.” It was an active of Divine intervention.

The hypocrisy now is that the same progressive hate groups are asking President Trump to open up the resort to those who lost their homes, belongings and in some cases loved ones. Believe us, this is an invitation to looters, rapists and gang bangers.

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TRUMP DEALS WITH THE RINOS

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A stab in the back is rarely pleasant, but to be the recipient of one while mortal enemies are present is no laughing matter. This is called a learning experience; as the old saying goes “the enemy of my enemy may turn out to be my friend.” And this is the case with Trump breaking bread with the Libtards. He is putting the RINOs on notice that those who opened their big mouths in 2016 to get elected are liars; he calling them out. When push came to shove Obamacare lived for another day.

So here we have it; a three month extension to keep the government going, PLUS funds for the hurricane victims. Expect FEMA to be under water in short order. Who will bail them out? Of course WE, who else?

The cognoscenti have noticed the dollar diving off a steep cliff, gold ascending to new highs and the Euro, we thought it was dead and buried has suddenly come to life, rebounding about 20% against the greenback. We wonder if the 20 trillion in debt that is on the books is becoming an issue.

Back to reality. Republicans have done nothing since regaining Congress except collect their fat pay checks; welfare for the rich! Obama rolled over them like a Caterpillar, flattening one RINO after another. Compactors The likes of McCain, Romney, Ryan, a bunch of losers who hated Trump from the get-go. He beat them at their own game.  Trump is very much aware of the game these backstabbers play; they forced his hand, he outed them, the do nothing Republicans who can’t fight themselves out of a paper bag.

2018 election is at hand, many of these RINOs will find it difficult to hold onto their jobs. Maybe the others remaining will wake up and do the job they were hired to do; WORK. Expect Trump to campaign for those who can do the job we pay them to do.

THE WRATH OF CANES FURY

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If Harvey wasn’t enough, now comes Irma with Jose to follow; Irma is the most devastating storm ever to evolve in the Atlantic. This storm is not the usual wind/rain affair it is better described as the mother of all hay makers. The storm battered the island chains lying in the Caribbean; Barbuda was a wipe out.

Onward and upward the storm has pulverized the Keys as it heads northwest toward Florida taking its toll along the way. Miami has escaped the head to head match-up that was originally expected.

Now it is Tampa’s turn,  Atlanta is next to see the beast of Irma do its thing which reminds us of Sherman’s march to the sea 150 years ago.

What has caused such wrath? Global warming is the usual suspect. This storm is no gully washer for sure. Even Noah would find it difficult keeping afloat and he had God on his side!NOW: IRMA EYEWALL BEARING DOWN ON FLORIDA KEYS; POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC STRIKEIrma Hammers Florida Keys; Nearly 500,000 Lose PowerPhotos: Hurricane Irma's Destruction So FarHow Far North Will Damaging Winds Occur?Mike Seidel Blasted by High Winds in MiamiWatch: Huge Wave Crushes Irma Spectator

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NO SHAME: HILLARY’S BOOK – MORE FAKE NEWS

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Would you buy a book from Hillary Clinton?  We forgot to tell you that she is  on a book tour! A picture with her backstage costs $1200. Let’s see, Slick Willie and she were involved the “pay for play” scheme while Secretary. Soon as she got her derriere whipped by Trump, the Clinton Foundation folded up like a cheap suit. You mean that the $300 million dollars disappeared of payola disappeared? No way.

Anything she tells you is suspect to the truth. Once a liar always a liar, a chronological liar at that. Caught time and time again with her pants down and mouth open, Hillary Clinton is always one step away from being fitted for bracelets and the mandatory government issued orange jumpsuit.

Come on President Trump, lock her up, jail the Bird. Hillary Clinton is a scam artist. Why is she on a tour in the first place?  . Does she need bail money?

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