Breaking news: @SundayFutures @FoxNews @DevinNunes ready to send 8-criminal referrals to the AG 3 of them include conspiracy to lie to Congress & fisa court
https://twitter.com/MariaBartiromo/status/1114892311954108416
Nunes: Five are referrals of crimes like lying to Congress. Others: Conspiracy, manipulation of intelligence, and a 'global leak referral,' involving 'about a dozen highly-sensitive, highly-classified information leaks that were given to only a few reporters.'
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/1114893041175801857
Cain, Moore nominations for Federal Reserve seats on track: Kudlow
Top White House officials on Sunday defended President Donald Trump’s plan to name two political loyalists to the Federal Reserve board of governors, brushing aside controversies over their personal lives and qualifications to help run the world’s most powerful central bank.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow and acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney used appearances on Sunday morning talk shows to defend Trump’s plan to nominate economic commentator Stephen Moore and businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain to fill open board seats at the Fed.
“The president stands behind both of those gentlemen right now,” Kudlow said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“We have two open seats. The president has every right in the world to nominate people who share his economic philosophy.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-idUSKCN1RJ0EX?utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=5caa0854e6dfda0001dc9a9a&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Finley: America’s hate crime surge is a hoax
It’s been repeated so often it’s taken as fact: Hate crimes have soared over the past two years, and the blame rests with President Donald Trump and supporters inspired by his hateful rhetoric.
It’s a compelling story, supported by statistics that show an increase of 17% in the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI during the Trump presidency.
But it isn’t true. The surge has little to do with Trump and his red hat brigade. This according to Will Reilly, a Kentucky State University associate professor, who extensively researched hate-fueled violence in America for his book Hate Crime Hoax.
“Almost all of that surge is due to the simple fact that in 2017 the number of police departments reporting hate crimes to the FBI increased by 1,000,” says Reilly. “The surge narrative is pretty dishonest.”
Smollett’s fake hate crime is not a one-off. Reilly’s research finds that most high-profile hate crimes over the past few years have turned out to be hoaxes.
“In major cases, almost all of them have been hoaxes,” Reilly says. “The number of hate crime hoaxes actually exceeds the number of convictions. The majority of these high-profile incidents never happened.”
It’s also a false narrative that white cops are targeting African American men, Reilly says.
In 2015, he says, of the 1,200 Americans killed by police, just 258 were black, and only 17 of those were unarmed and shot by white officers. And yet, his research indicates just 10 percent of the media coverage of police violence focused on the non-black victims.
“White guys shot by police under identical circumstances never become national stories,” Reilly say.
“It’s worth noting that interracial crime is not a huge threat in America,” says Reilly, who is African American. “Eighty-five percent of whites are killed by other whites. Ninety-four percent of blacks are killed by other blacks.”
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/columnists/nolan-finley/2019/04/07/finley-americas-hate-crime-surge-hoax/3374192002/