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Samantha Fucking Powers visits Sri Lanka and one month later there is HUGE radical Islamic terrorists attack in eight locations … nothing to see here, keep it moving!
>Little girl who wasn't able to write about POTUS as her hero, gets a care package from the White House
I love our POTUS so much!
@dcexaminer
Were @FBI officials receiving incentives from media outlets in exchange for leaks?
@MattGaetz says evidence of just that is set to come out ahead of an expected watchdog report.
Matt Gaetz: Evidence of FBI-media 'corruption' coming out before DOJ inspector general report
Rep. Matt Gaetz says evidence of FBI officials improperly receiving incentives from the media in exchange for leaks will soon come out.
During an interview on Fox News late Saturday, the Florida Republican said the Justice Department inspector general is examining the FBI's relationship with some members of the press. But, he said some of this information will be made public before the watchdog report's release.
"One of the other nuggets that the inspector general is working on is the corruption that existed between the media and members of of the FBI," Gaetz said. "Where members of the mainstream media were giving concert passes and athletic tickets and other incentives to people in the FBI to leak to them so we'll be seeing that even before we see the inspector general's report on how this fraudulent investigation began."
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz announced the initiation of a FISA abuse investigation in March 2018 after requests from both then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Republican members in Congress. He is expected to wrap up by May or June.
It's unclear where Gaetz may have gotten his information. His office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
However, his fellow GOP colleagues Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan recently said they discussed the FISA investigation with Horowitz. The lawmakers claimed the Justice Department and FBI had abused the FISA process and misled the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in their investigation and surveillance of President Trump and his associates during the campaign, as well as during the Trump administration.
Gaetz questioned the voracity of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, noting how he cited media reports "as if they're gospel when they clearly are not."
Mueller's report, which was released in redacted form on Thursday, found no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller declined to make a conclusion about possible obstruction of justice by the president.
The DOJ inspector general released a report last summer that found many FBI officials talking to the press and attending "social events" with the media during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's private emails, breaking with FBI policy limiting employees who are authorized to speak to the media.
In October, the inspector general released more information in a summary that said a senior FBI official, who had since retired, accepted tickets to a sports event from a television reporter who regularly covered the bureau. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/matt-gaetz-evidence-of-fbi-media-corruption-coming-out-before-doj-inspector-general-report
Trump USMCA would add $68B to GDP and 176,000 jobs, independent report says
The Trump administration's proposed U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade would boost the U.S. economy by $68.2 billion and add 176,000 jobs, according to a report released Thursday by the U.S. International Trade Commission, an independent federal agency.
The analysis should aid passage of the deal, which would replace the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement but is currently stalled in Congress.
The commission nevertheless said that the deal's impact would be "moderate" in light of the trade agreements already in place with Canada and Mexico. "Because NAFTA has already eliminated duties on most qualifying goods and significantly reduced nontariff measures, USMCA’s emphasis is on reducing remaining nontariff measures on trade and the U.S. economy," the report said.
The deal would strengthen labor standards and rights, especially those in Mexico, increase intellectual property rights protections enjoyed by U.S. firms, and reduce the scope of the system for settling disputes between investors and individual countries, likely leading to less U.S. investment in Mexico — and freeing up capital for domestic manufacturing and mining, according to the report. The projected positive effect would be small, though.
The Trump administration is trying to booster support the deal's approval by Congress and get it passed by this summer. It released a report Thursday touting the deal as adding 76,000 jobs to the domestic auto industry.
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said the report's findings "validate" the administration's decision to renegotiate NAFTA. "This report is an important step forward in gaining congressional approval of the USMCA … There can be no doubt that the USMCA is a big win for America’s economy," he said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has been noncommittal about bringing it up for a vote, however, and many Democrats have argued the administration should reopen talks with Canada and Mexico.
Business groups said the study showed that Congress should embrace the deal. "This agreement will level the playing field for manufacturers in the United States and support the 2 million American manufacturing jobs that depend on our exports to Canada and Mexico,” said Linda Dempsey, vice president of international economic affairs for the National Association of Manufacturers.
Democrats were less enthusiastic. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, said the report confirms that the trade deal was "at best a minor update to NAFTA" that would only provide modest benefits to workers. "As I’ve said for months, the administration shouldn’t squander the opportunity to lock in real, enforceable labor standards in Mexico and fix the enforcement problems that have plagued NAFTA," he said.
Farmers for Free Trade, an agriculture industry coalition group, said the real problem was allowing the legislation to linger, since that created confusion over what is the current U.S. trade policy. "The true benefit that USMCA delivers for American farmers is certainty and stability," said Brian Kuehl, the coalition's co-executive director. "Especially right now, American farmers need a victory. USMCA will guarantee that their most important export markets remain open for business and free from red tape." https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/economy/trump-usmca-would-add-68b-to-gdp-and-176-000-jobs-independent-report-says