Fox News pastor: Christians who follow Trump are spiritually superior to other believers
Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, a Fox News contributor, said on Sunday that Christian followers of President Donald Trump tend to have “deeper convictions” than other believers.

While appearing on Fox & Friends, Jeffress dismissed a poll that showed a drop in the number of people who call themselves evangelicals.
According to the Texas pastor, Trump has nothing to worry about because evangelicals show up in larger numbers at the ballot box than other religious groups.
“[I]n the poll we’re talking about today,” Jeffress said, “even though the evangelical number has dropped as a whole, the number of evangelicals turning out at the ballot box is greater than other groups, and it’s because evangelicals have deeper convictions. They believe in absolute moral and spiritual truth, and they tend to vote those convictions at the ballot box.”
http://washingtondailyreport.com/fox-new...gn9eGc22N8KEoXU

Trump Aided and Abetted Russia’s Attack. That Was Treachery. Full Stop.
The scandal may not be a crime. It’s a betrayal.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/201...HQ4b4rwtCM82lws

David Axelrod@davidaxelrod
One question:
What the Mueller probe established, according to the AG, is that the Russians hacked the DNC and engaged in an aggressive, covert campaign to influence our election.
So why did DonaldTrump stand next to Putin in Helsinki and meekly accept his denials?
1:40 PM - 24 Mar 2019

Buttigieg surges to third place in new Iowa poll
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) surged into third place in a poll of the Iowa caucus released Sunday.

Eleven percent of likely Democratic Iowa caucusgoers surveyed by Emerson Polling said they would pick Buttigieg to be their 2020 presidential nominee.
Overall, Buttigieg placed third behind Former Vice President Joe Biden, at 25 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 24 percent.
The only other candidate to receive double-digit support was Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who was the choice for 10 percent of respondents.
"The biggest surprise in this poll is Mayor Pete, last week we saw him inching up in our national poll, and now he’s in double digits in Iowa, America is going to be asking who is 'Mayor Pete'?" Spencer Kimball, director of the Emerson Poll, said.

Buttigieg, who has formed an exploratory committee but has not officially declared, was polling at 0 percent in Emerson's January survey of Iowa, which shows his recognition and support have grown significantly in the last few months.

His performance in Sunday's Emerson poll was boosted by placing second in the 18-to-29-year-old demographic, with 22 percent. Sanders led that category with 44 percent.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/43...n-new-iowa-poll

After the Mueller Report: The beginning of more legal trouble for Trump
Now that Robert Mueller has turned in the report from his investigation into Russia and the Trump campaign, attention will move from the special counsel to members of Congress. At least five House committees are already investigating the president, his businesses and his associates. Several others are investigating current and former cabinet secretaries and other elements of the Trump administration.

Then, there are criminal investigations being led by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Northern Virginia, and Washington, D.C. – plus a state investigation by the New York Attorney General's office.

"We will be seeing a great number of investigations happening at the same time – any one of those is a live torpedo in the water," said Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University Law School professor and CBS News legal analyst.
"So, in many ways the end of the Mueller investigation is just the beginning of even more legal trouble for the President?" asked correspondent Ed O'Keefe.
"Yes. You have to keep in mind, while the Department of Justice policy says you cannot indict a sitting president, it says nothing about holding indictment to proceed after his term of office."

And, Turley said, Congressional investigations will complicate the rest of Mr. Trump's presidency
"Many of these committees were held in abeyance waiting for the completion of the special counsel investigation," he said. "Now that it's done, they have a free field [in which] to operate."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/after-the-m...aT4xEN0KfYEUNhc

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5629

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Buttigieg surges to third place in new Iowa poll
South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D) surged into third place in a poll of the Iowa caucus released Sunday.

Eleven percent of likely Democratic Iowa caucusgoers surveyed by Emerson Polling said they would pick Buttigieg to be their 2020 presidential nominee.
Overall, Buttigieg placed third behind Former Vice President Joe Biden, at 25 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), at 24 percent.
The only other candidate to receive double-digit support was Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who was the choice for 10 percent of respondents.
"The biggest surprise in this poll is Mayor Pete, last week we saw him inching up in our national poll, and now he’s in double digits in Iowa, America is going to be asking who is 'Mayor Pete'?" Spencer Kimball, director of the Emerson Poll, said.

Buttigieg, who has formed an exploratory committee but has not officially declared, was polling at 0 percent in Emerson's January survey of Iowa, which shows his recognition and support have grown significantly in the last few months.

His performance in Sunday's Emerson poll was boosted by placing second in the 18-to-29-year-old demographic, with 22 percent. Sanders led that category with 44 percent.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/43...n-new-iowa-poll

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5631

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Und Biden ist, was vielleicht noch schwerer wiegt, zumindest dem Geraune nach kein guter Spendensammler.

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #5632

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5631

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Und Biden ist, was vielleicht noch schwerer wiegt, zumindest dem Geraune nach kein guter Spendensammler.

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Spendensammler?
Ich dachte Samenspender.

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Trumpski's "Freunde":
Russia accuses US media of conspiracy against Trump and celebrates Barr summary.
There weren’t thousands of Muslims celebrating 9/11 in New Jersey, as Trump claimed, but there are many Russians celebrating as Bill Barr presumes to clear Trump from the Russia scandal.
https://theunitedstatesblues.com/russia-...-kwtOY4Xrd-Ync0


Mueller Report Has Moscow in Ecstasy, Opening the Way for More Putin Plots
Judging from the reaction of Russian officials and state media, expect Vladimir Putin to be more aggressive than ever. Latest wrinkle: Blame Ukraine for backing Hillary Clinton.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-re...ore-putin-plots

Natuerlich. 😁

Meanwhile:
Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops: reports
Two Russian air force planes landed at Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to media reports, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venez...0uIKkFFGApkHyOY

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=...&type=3&theater

Zitat von Hans Bergman im Beitrag #5637

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https://www.cicero.de/karikaturen/mueller-sonderermittler-untersuchungsbereicht-donald-trump

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William Barr Can’t Exonerate Donald Trump
Despite what the attorney general’s letter to Congress states, his argument clearing the president of obstruction goes against established law and is profoundly dangerous.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019...nald-trump.html

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...656&oe=5D4F8D93

McConnell blocks resolution to release full Mueller report
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has blocked a non-binding resolution to make special counsel Robert Mueller's full report public.

The big picture: The resolution was passed unanimously in the House, and President Trump himself said earlier Monday that it "wouldn't bother [him] at all" if the full report was released. McConnell cited national security concerns for his decision to block the resolution, and he argued that Attorney General Bill Barr should have time to decide what's made public. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who put forth the resolution, said that it does not specify a time frame.
https://www.axios.com/mcconnell-blocks-r...6c6122c44b.html

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...2c1&oe=5D152D00

WILLIAM BARR’S SON-IN-LAW JUST LANDED A JOB ADVISING TRUMP ON “LEGAL ISSUES”
Tyler McGaughey’s work will “intersect” with the Russia investigation.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/...h4OW5IDM1kVY#~o

Mueller Just Gave Democrats a Gift. Will They Take It?
Scandal and impeachment were always political losers. Now the 2020 election can be about which party will improve the lives of more Americans.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/...emocrats-226168

Rod Rosenstein didn't even clear Trump on all Topics he hired Mueller to investigate
As I have noted, the William Barr memo everyone is reading to clear Trump and his flunkies of a conspiracy with Russia actually only clears the Trump campaign and those associated with it of conspiring or coordinating with the Russian government in its efforts to hack into computers and disseminate emails for purposes of influencing the election. The exoneration doesn’t even extend to coordinating with WikiLeaks, as Roger Stone is alleged to have done (though that, by itself, is not a crime).

More significantly, it is silent about whether Trump and his flunkies conspired with Russia in a quid pro quo trading election assistance and a real estate deal for policy considerations, the very same kind of election year shenanigans Barr has covered up once before with Iran-Contra.
http://www.emptywheel.net/2019/03/25/rod...to-investigate/

The Critical Part of Mueller’s Report That Barr Didn’t Mention
The special counsel’s most interesting findings about Trump and Russia might be in the counterintelligence portion of his report.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...-report/585703/

Der kann´s auch nicht lassen. :-)

Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #5645

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Der kann´s auch nicht lassen. :-)

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Don't let Mueller report controversy overshadow Trump's abuse of office
This is the essence of Trump's failure — not that he has chosen one set of policies over another, or has divided rather than united Americans, or even that he has behaved in childish and vindictive ways unbecoming a president.
It is that he has sacrificed the processes and institutions of American democracy to achieve his goals.
By saying and doing whatever it takes to win, he has abused the trust we place in a president to preserve and protect the nation's capacity for self-government.
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/...HFhJbkSoMQjoLvU

It’s Not Barr’s Call to Clear Trump. Show Us the Mueller Report.
What’s the point of an independent special counsel if the president’s hand-picked attorney general makes his own conclusion? Time for Congress to step up.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-re...-to-clear-trump

Yes, Trump Obstructed Justice. And William Barr Is Helping Him Cover It Up.
In a letter to House and Senate leaders on Sunday, Attorney General William Barr revealed that he would not charge President Trump with obstruction of justice over his efforts to thwart the investigation into whether his campaign conspired with Russia to swing the 2016 election. In order to do so, Barr performed a remarkable gimmick that allowed him to not only break promises he made during his confirmation process, but also gloss over the crimes that Trump is suspected of committing.

It is widely believed that Barr had already categorically ruled out charging a president with obstruction. In a June 2018 memo, shared with Trump’s lawyer before his nomination, Barr argued that the theory of obstruction he believed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to be adopting would not be proper. But in that very same memo—on the very first page!—Barr conceded, “Obviously, the President … can commit obstruction in [a] classic sense of sabotaging a proceeding’s truth-finding function.” Barr envisioned that if a president “suborns perjury, or induces a witness to change testimony … then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction.”
http://washingtondailyreport.com/yes-tru...nx2AuRnkUed1I4g

Ex-Trump aide Gates still helping in 'several ongoing investigations,' Mueller team says
A new court filing suggests that probes stemming from the special counsel's inquiry into Russia's election interference remain active.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice...ns-says-n983696