Peter Thiel Says Trump Is the Republican Who Isn't a ‘Zombie’

Peter Thiel is not ready to give up on defending President Donald Trump just yet.

The PayPal Holdings Inc. and Palantir Technologies Inc. co-founder praised Trump’s honesty, adding that unlike other Republican presidential hopefuls from the 2016 election, he isn’t a "zombie" and was the only candidate who addressed what Thiel considers politics’ biggest problem: political correctness.

"I got to meet a lot of people running for president on the U.S. Republican side in 2016 and they all felt like zombies," he said during a Monday event on entrepreneurship in Sao Paulo, Brazil. "They couldn’t say anything different other than programmed ideological soundbites." Trump, Thiel said, is "a very healthy corrective to that."

"I fully understand why people think of President Trump as a rude, mean person," Thiel said. "But I think that’s often better than telling beautiful lies about the way the country is working."

https://www.bloombergquint.com/uselections/2018/08/27/peter-thiel-says-trump-is-the-republican-who-isn-t-a-zombie

Alan Dershowitz: Robert Mueller 'gearing up' to subpoena Trump

Alan Dershowitz suspects special counsel Robert Mueller's team of federal prosecutors is preparing to subpoena President Trump.

"I do. I think they’re gearing up for what will be a difficult legal battle," Dershowitz, a fierce critic of Mueller's federal Russia investigation, said during an interview Tuesday with CNN.

Dershowitz's comments follow a CNN report Monday in which Rudy Giuliani, Trump's lead personal attorney, said he hasn't heard from Mueller's office in nearly three weeks as the two sides negotiate terms for a possible presidential voluntary interview as part of the ongoing Russia probe.

Dershowitz was asked Tuesday whether the radio silence could indicate Mueller's team may be considering another means of obtaining Trump's testimony.

"I suspect they have come to the same conclusion I came to several weeks ago that the tactic of the Trump team — I have no inside information on this — but the tactic of the Trump team is to make the Mueller team an offer they can’t accept so that in the end there will be no sit-down and the Trump team can say, 'Look, we made them an offer. It’s their fault. They didn’t accept it,'" Dershowitz said.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/alan-dershowitz-robert-mueller-gearing-up-to-subpoena-trump

The Enigmatic Case of Carter Page

Going in, the FBI’s very best evidence in the whole Trump-Russia collusion theory was, supposedly, against a U.S. citizen they wiretapped over and over again — month after month — under both the Obama and Trump administrations. But businessman Carter Page has yet to be charged with a crime.

Page is either the slickest foreign spy to ever walk the planet, or he’s not a spy at all.

https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/08/28/the-enigmatic-case-of-carter-page/

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For now, Rouhani's own position appears safe. The judiciary may determine that he broke the law and parliament has the power to impeach him, but experts on Iranian politics say power struggles are more likely to play out indirectly.

"The parliament's move is politically motivated and indicates that tensions would increase in the Islamic Republic in coming months," Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian economist, told Reuters by telephone from Tehran.