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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders brushed off a filing from special counsel Robert Mueller detailing Paul Manafort’s lies to investigators, saying, “The government’s filing in Mr. Manafort’s case says absolutely nothing about the President.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sought to downplay a pair of sentencing memos regarding Michael Cohen:
“The government’s filings in Mr. Cohen’s case tell us nothing of value that wasn’t already known,” Sanders said in a statement. “Mr. Cohen has repeatedly lied and as the prosecution has pointed out to the court, Mr. Cohen is no hero.”
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday she believes Donald Trump Jr. lied to the committee “on at least two occasions.”
Some in the media are distorting my statement that answering the questions was a nightmare. That is because as President he was interrupted so often with critical and more important matters. It illustrates why Mueller should end this now and media should be fair.
President Trump kept churning out tweets against special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe on Friday morning, complaining that “this should never again be allowed to happen to a future President of the United States.”
We will be doing a major Counter Report to the Mueller Report. This should never again be allowed to happen to a future President of the United States!
President Trump on Friday said that he was nominating State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert to be his next United Nations ambassador.
“Heather Nauert will be nominated for the ambassador to the United Nations,” he told reporters. She replaces Nikki Haley, who is set to leave the post at the end of the year.
One of the very exciting things to come out of my meeting with President Xi of China is his promise to me to criminalize the sale of deadly Fentanyl coming into the United States. It will now be considered a “controlled substance.” This could be a game changer on what is…….
…..considered to be the worst and most dangerous, addictive and deadly substance of them all. Last year over 77,000 people died from Fentanyl. If China cracks down on this “horror drug,” using the Death Penalty for distributors and pushers, the results will be incredible!
