ICE director: California mayor’s warning helped 800 illegal immigrants avoid deportation

At least 800 illegal immigrants avoided deportation thanks to the California mayor who warned her community about a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that was scheduled to happen “within 24 hours” of her alert on social media.

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf tweeted the alert on Saturday and assured illegal immigrants that police are “prohibited” from cooperating with federal immigration officials. California became a sanctuary state in 2018.

Acting ICE director Thomas Homan criticized Schaaf for her actions during an interview on Fox News Wednesday morning.

“What she did is no better than a gang lookout yelling ‘police’ when a police cruiser comes to the neighborhood except she did it to the entire community… This is beyond the pale,” Homan told Fox News.

The mayor’s actions are now under review by the Department of Justice, according to Homan.

“I’ve been doing this 34 years and this is a whole new low to intentionally warn criminals that law enforcement is coming,” he said during the interview. “I just can’t believe it happened.”

Homan said Schaaf put ICE agents in harm’s way.

“I think what she did was intentionally put law enforcement officers at risk. Look, being a law enforcement officer is dangerous enough. But to give criminals a head’s up we’re coming next 24 hours, increases that risk.”

At least 800 illegal immigrants who’ve been convicted of crimes and are a threat to public safety.

Holman mentioned Schaaf’s comment during a Sunday news conference, when she said, ” … my priority is safety, and that is safety for everyone.”

He said her warning did the opposite because 800 illegal aliens, who are convicted criminals, are still loose on the streets.

“That community is a lot less safe than it would have been,” he said.

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Schaaf has not made any apologies for issuing the warning.

“I think it’s my responsibility as a person in power and privilege to share the information I have access to, to make sure people know what their rights are,” Schaaf told the Washington Post Tuesday.

She also posted another message on social media confirming her position.

“I do not regret sharing this information. It is Oakland’s legal right to be a sanctuary city and we have not broken any laws. We believe our community is safer when families stay together,” Schaaf tweeted Tuesday.

 

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Dirty Cop Mueller’s Latest Leak Shows His Desperation as Witch Hunt Turns Into National Joke

Dirty Cop Mueller’s Latest Leak Shows His Desperation as Witch Hunt Turns Into National Joke

In July 2016, Republican candidate Donald Trump joked at a campaign event that Russia should release Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails.

“Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing.”

It was a joke.
The crowd loved it.

Trump was kidding.

Today Dirty Cop Robert Mueller leaked a report to their comrades in the liberal media that they are basing their witch hunt on this joke by Trump.

This is all they got.

The Mueller Witch Hunt officially turned the corner this week.
These crooked clowns are a joke.

Trump was right.

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Trump Rejects Idea of Adding Concealed-Carry Reciprocity to Background Check Bill: ‘You’ll Never Get It Passed’

President Donald Trump on Wednesday rejected the idea of adding concealed-carry reciprocity to a bill that would bolster the country’s background check system for gun purchases.

Some lawmakers have proposed a concealed-carry reciprocity measure that would allow individuals with a valid concealed-carry permit issued by any state and a valid government-issued photo ID to be able to carry a concealed gun in any state, as long as they abide by that state’s gun laws.

Trump said during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House that, while the measure may pass one day as its own bill, adding it to any bipartisan background check legislation would doom it to fail

House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) first brought up the idea of putting a national reciprocity measure into a background check bill.

"If you look at the concealed carry population by and large, these are people helping us to stop crimes, go out there and help prevent crimes," Scalise said.

Scalise added that he hopes the idea is not immediately dismissed, but the president was not persuaded.

"You know I’m your biggest fan in the whole world," Trump told Scalise.

"I think that maybe that bill will someday pass, but it should pass as a separate [bill]," Trump said. "If you’re going to put concealed carry between states into this bill, we’re talking about a whole new ball game."

Trump said that he would support the bill as long as it is separate. But combining it with a background check bill, he argued, would prevent Congress from passing any legislation.

Florida Republican Rep. John Rutherford also pushed national reciprocity at the meeting.

Rutherford told Trump that, while background checks and laws about who can buy a gun are important, when the system breaks down, someone can go into a gun-free zone and kill defenseless people.

Trump appeared receptive to this point. Rutherford then explained that he concealed carries because he does not know where all the gun-free zones are.

After a brief cross-talk on gun free zones, Rutherford suggested looking back at national reciprocity. Trump maintained that would not be on the table for now.

"You’re not going to get concealed carry approved. Amy [Klobuchar], Dianne [Feinstein], and a lot of other people, they’re never going to consider it," Trump said.

"People may consider it, but they’re not going to consider it in this bill," he said.

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CNN Embarrassed While Trying to Give Viewers ‘Up-Close Look at AR-15′

With all the tumult over gun control after the shooting on Valentine’s Day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida that killed 14 people, it comes as no surprise that hysteria levels at CNN would not only go through the roof, but they would try to promote the liberal view that guns are always deadly and often fatal.

However, CNN was so intent on slamming the AR-15 as a “full semi-automatic” rifle that a segment on Monday night’s Anderson Cooper 360 contained inaccuracies from both CNN correspondent Gary Tuchman and retired military officer/CNN military analyst Mark Hertling.

According to an article from The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra, the men went to a shooting range for a demonstration of the weapon’s firing capacity.

After referring to the segment as “an embarrassing clip,” Saavedra stated:

Tuchman falsely asserted that a defining characteristic of the AR-15 is the “power of the bullet” that it fires.

This is a common lie spread by the media as the try to scare people into calling for AR-15s to be banned.

“Although that is akin to presenting a fully complete, partially finished home or totally full half-glass of water, they made their claims with straight faces,” Saavedra continued.

The staff writer then quoted Joseph Avery, who has more than 30 years of experience with the federal government in Army combat arms as an Air Force officer and in the Department of Defense:

A lot of people will buy this just because it’s cool, and they want to appear like soldiers. If you’re a gun collector or a gun aficionado and you want an AR-15, you can certainly buy one, and you should be able to buy one. The problem is when it gets in the hands of the wrong people.

In my personal opinion, you have to receive a whole lot of training to use this weapon. And this weapon in the wrong hands can be more dangerous than most weapons because of its capability to do a lot of damage in a short period of time and be irreversible.

“The M16 has had two problems in the past,” Avery continued, such as “a cartridge with a projectile that is far too small … and underpowered, and a weapon platform that is unreliable and prone to jamming because of basic design flaws.”

Back to the CNN segment, Hertling made this absurd clam to Tuchman: “Now those are single shots. If I wanted to fire this on full semi-automatic, all I do is keep firing.”

For those who actually know what they’re talking about concerning guns, one would know that there’s no such thing as a gun that’s “full semi-automatic.” Only later did Hertling acknowledge as much in some tweets.

Tuchman commented that these weapons can more easily be rented since no electronic checks are necessary then. “All you have to do is prove that you’re an American citizen with ID.”

Saavedra also stated that “CNN’s segment was thoroughly mocked on social media as the network once again proved why many Americans do not take the media’s ‘expertise’ on firearms seriously.”

Some of the first comments were made by NRATV’s Colion Noir, who responded: “All guns are loud;” Avery should stop “making up words” like “full semi-automatic;” A “gun doesn’t kick that hard;” and people should “throw the whole CNN away.”

Securites Studies Group president Jim Hanson later referred to the CNN segment as “journalistic malpractice and an object lesson in beta male submission.”

Cooper had begun the segment by stating:

We had a spirited discussion last week on this program about AR-15-style guns, weapons originally designed for use on the battlefield but used to take 17 lives in Parkland, Florida.

We’re talking about them because these shootings … have become so frequent and part of the lexicon about mass shootings that there’s not really an understanding of what they really do or how powerful a weapon it is. So we wanted to take a closer look.

According to the NRA, he stated, “more than 15 million AR-15s are owned by Americans today.”

“Fans like the guns because they’re lightweight, easy to handle,” Cooper added. “They also see them as a symbol of their Second Amendment rights. Its opponents question whether weapons so lethal should even be sold.”

Hopefully, the next time the people at CNN produce a report on guns, they’ll make sure they have accurate information first. With any luck, they won’t have to be embarrassed again.

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WATCH: Trump Joins With Democrats, Supports Assault Weapons Ban

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump joined with the Democrats and Sen. Dianne Feinstein in a meeting on gun control as he appeared to signal support for an assault weapons ban in what many see as a betrayal of his base of supporters.

During a live broadcast in the White House Cabinet Room, Trump appeared to signal support for Feinstein’s radical gun control measures which include banning assault-style weapons.

“Dianne, if you could add what you have also — and I think you can — into the bill,” Trump said.

“Joe, can you do that?” Trump asked. “Can you add some of the things. I’ll help. Can you add what Amy and what Dianne have?”

“I’m going to say this,” Trump continued. “We’re going to get it passed.”

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China Censors the Letter ‘N’ to Suppress Criticism of Xi Jinping

China Censors the Letter ‘N’ to Suppress Criticism of Xi Jinping



As if Communist China’s frenzy to suppress criticism of Xi Jinping’s bid for a lifetime in office was not weird enough already, users of the Twitter-like Weibo social media platform report that the letter “N” was briefly classified as an “illegal” search term.

As Business Insider explains, plenty of other terms were banned for more obvious reasons, including anything that might suggest a user wanted to see mockery of Xi, support for term limits, or a desire to emigrate from China. From Sunday through Tuesday morning, searching for the letter “N” also returned a “Content Is Illegal!” response from Weibo.

Several theories were floated for why “N” was suddenly treated as an unacceptable symbol of dissent:

The letter is used in China to represent unknown numerical values, like the letter X in algebra.

Professor Victor Mair, a China expert at the University of Pennsylvania, said in a Monday blog post it was “probably out of fear on the part of the government that ‘N’ = ‘n terms in office,’ where possibly n > 2.”

CA Yeung, a Perth-based China blogger, also posited that “N = infinity.”

It could also represent “no” in Y/N select items. As Twitter user Kasumi Shen said: “You can’t choose N in a (Y/N) select item as long as you are still living in China.”

Business Insider quotes China’s state-run Global Times mocking Western “hysteria” over China’s authoritarian speech codes, although the Global Times is rather coy about their reason for needling Western media. The gist of the editorial is that Westerners do not understand China’s need for stability and social harmony as it carries out a world-historic program of modernization:

Leading billions of people toward a moderately prosperous society within a short time and then toward a high-income society is almost equivalent to recreating another Western world. Such tremendous change will bring about shocks, controversies and challenges.

Solidarity is a necessary precondition for China to successfully complete the second half of its modernization. It is the cornerstone of China in the new era. The CPC [Communist Party of China] has made us Chinese all closely connected to each other. Over the years, the authority of the CPC Central Committee and the prosperity of our Chinese society have both risen. The authority of the Central Committee is the most outstanding part of China’s competitiveness. It is the source of the country’s efficiency and ability to mobilize people and make adjustments. It is the thing the outside world most envies about China and the target of Western anti-China rhetoric.

Chinese society must strengthen its resolve. We must be aware that the world is full of competition. Solidarity is for Chinese the nation’s most crucial political resource and firm support for the CPC Central Committee is the lifeline of China’s long-term unity.

And of course, silencing everyone who disagrees is an efficient method of manufacturing “solidarity,” provided the resources are available to swiftly enforce standards as particular as blocking searches for a single problematic letter.

If China really wanted to zing Western media for hypocrisy, they would point out that at roughly the same time Beijing was shooting down searches for emigration, autocracy, the letter “N,” and Winnie the Pooh, users of Google Shopping suddenly found themselves unable to search for anything containing the word “gun,” including Guns & Roses albums, water pistols, and burgundy. They could also point to the mysterious or frankly biased standards for banning users from some social media outfits, and say Beijing is simply more serious about pursuing the widely embraced goal of controlling speech in the name of social harmony.

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Ann Coulter: The School to Mass Murder Pipeline

Nikolas Cruz’s psychosis ended in a bloody massacre not only because of the stunning incompetence of the Broward County Sheriff’s Department. It was also the result of liberal insanity working exactly as it was intended to.

School and law enforcement officials knew Cruz was a ticking time bomb. They did nothing because of a deliberate, willful, bragged-about policy to end the “school-to-prison pipeline.” This is the feature part of the story, not the bug part.

If Cruz had taken out full-page ads in the local newspapers, he could not have demonstrated more clearly that he was a dangerous psychotic. He assaulted students, cursed out teachers, kicked in classroom doors, started fist fights, threw chairs, threatened to kill other students, mutilated small animals, pulled a rifle on his mother, drank gasoline and cut himself, among other “red flags.”

Over and over again, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School reported Cruz’s terrifying behavior to school administrators, including Kelvin Greenleaf, “security specialist,” and Peter Mahmood, head of JROTC.

At least three students showed school administrators Cruz’s near-constant messages threatening to kill them — e.g., “I am going to enjoy seeing you down on the grass,” “Im going to watch ypu bleed,” “iam going to shoot you dead” — including one that came with a photo of Cruz’s guns. They warned school authorities that he was bringing weapons to school. They filed written reports.

Threatening to kill someone is a felony. In addition to locking Cruz away for a while, having a felony record would have prevented him from purchasing a gun.

All the school had to do was risk Cruz not going to college, and depriving Yale University of a Latino class member, by reporting a few of his felonies — and there would have been no mass shooting.

But Cruz was never arrested. He wasn’t referred to law enforcement. He wasn’t even expelled.

Instead, Cruz was just moved around from school to school — six transfers in three years. But he was always sent back to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in order to mainstream him, so that he could get a good job someday!

The moronic idea behind the “school-to-prison pipeline” is that the only reason so many “black and brown bodies” are in prison is because they were disciplined in high school, diminishing their opportunities. End the discipline and … problem solved!

It’s like “The Wizard of Oz” in reverse. The Wizard told the Scarecrow: You don’t need an education, you just need a diploma! The school-to-prison pipeline idiocy tells students: You don’t need to behave in high school, you just need to leave with no criminal record!

Of course, killjoys will say that removing the consequences of bad behavior only encourages more bad behavior. But that’s not the view of Learned Professionals, who took summer courses at Michigan State Ed School.

In a stroke of genius, they realized that the only problem criminals have is that people keep lists of their criminal activities. It’s the list that prevents them from getting into M.I.T. and designing space stations on Mars. Where they will cure cancer.

This primitive, stone-age thinking was made official Broward County policy in a Nov. 5, 2013, agreement titled “Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline.”

The first “whereas” clause of the agreement states that “the use of arrests and referrals to the criminal justice system may decrease a student’s chance of graduation, entering higher education, joining the military and getting a job.”

Get it? It’s the arrest — not the behavior that led to the arrest — that reduces a student’s chance at a successful life. (For example, just look at how much the district’s refusal to arrest Nikolas Cruz helped him!)

The agreement’s third “whereas” clause specifically cites “students of color” as victims of the old, racist policy of treating criminal behavior criminally.

Say, in the middle of a drive to cut back on the arrest or expulsion of “students of color,” how do you suppose the school dealt with a kid named “Nikolas Cruz”? Might there be some connection between his Hispanic last name and the school’s abject refusal to do anything about Cruz’s repeated criminal behavior?

Just a few months ago, the superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, Robert W. Runcie, was actually bragging about how student arrests had plummeted under his bold leadership.

When he took over in 2011, the district had “the highest number of school-related arrests in the state.” But today, he boasted, Broward has “one of the lowest rates of arrest in the state.” By the simple expedient of ignoring criminal behavior, student arrests had declined by a whopping 78 percent.

FOOTBALL COACH: “When I took over this team a year ago, we were last in the league in pass defense. Today, we no longer keep that statistic!”

When it comes to spectacular crimes, it’s usually hard to say how it could have been prevented. But in this case, we have a paper trail. In the pursuit of a demented ideology, specific people agreed not to report, arrest or prosecute dangerous students like Nikolas Cruz.

These were the parties to the Nov. 5, 2013, agreement that ensured Cruz would be out on the street with full access to firearms:

Robert W. Runcie, Superintendent of Schools

Peter M. Weinstein, Chief Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit

Michael J. Satz, State Attorney

Howard Finkelstein, Public Defender

Scott Israel, Broward County Sheriff

Franklin Adderley, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department

Wansley Walters, Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice

Marsha Ellison, President of the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP and Chair of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board

Nikolas Cruz may be crazy, but the parties to that agreement are crazy, too. They decided to make high school students their guinea pigs for an experiment based on a noxious ideology. The blood of 17 people is on their hands.

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Deadline-less DACA just the latest stage of a never-ending story

Democrats breathed a sigh of relief on Monday after the Supreme Court made it clear that DACA would continue for the foreseeable future with or without legislation. Their activist allies shouldn’t be as sanguine. Without a deadline, it looks like action on DACA won’t come for months now, NBC noted earlier today:

The Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program at this point has given Congress a reprieve on an issue that has tied up Washington for months.

After the decision was announced Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan indicated that there was less urgency to address the program, known as DACA. …

Giving the courts time to finish hearing the case and any subsequent appeals could push back any legislative deadline beyond the November midterm elections.

But it doesn’t mean that the sometimes bitter fight on immigration, which has contributed to a government shutdown this year, is going away.

Actually, it does and it doesn’t. It’s already largely disappeared from the headlines, except for a protest yesterday involving Catholic priests and nuns. (One acquaintance of mine, Fr. Thomas Reese of the Religion News Service, got himself arrested as he’d earlier promised.) In part that’s because of the gun-control debate, but that’s another example of the same dynamic. Both sides have invested themselves in entrenched positions rather than effective solutions.

So in one sense, the debate on DACA has gone away with the deadline for action removed, or at least indefinitely postponed. Never mind that the program is now locked out to new applicants; Democrats don’t have much incentive to end the argument, and Republicans don’t need to act to prevent being blamed for the consequences of failure. It’s both gone and ever-present, only becoming acute when either side needs to boost its base.

In my column for The Week, I point out that an effective solution is already on the table, and that a compromise would benefit everyone. This, of course, means it won’t happen until a deadline reappears, especially if all Congress can muster is a down payment on the border wall in exchange for DACA:

That gives Trump almost nothing in hand while coughing up all the leverage he has for bargaining up front. Besides, as Trump rightly argues, Congress authorized the building of the border wall 12 years ago with a significant number of Democratic votes, due at least in part to criticisms from the bipartisan 9/11 Commission over the lack of security on both borders. Waiting another 10 years to fund a wall that Congress authorized makes little sense, either pragmatically or politically. Without the full funding in place up front, Congress would be asking Trump to approve DACA on credit when they have a long history of not paying the bill.

Furthermore, a statutory form of DACA that envisions new applicants for the foreseeable future sets up an incentive for illegal entries by parents who understandably want better lives for their children. Most such parents work through the legal immigration system to achieve that, and most Americans welcome them. However, DACA applies specifically to illegal immigrants; deferred action on prosecutions are hardly needed for legal immigrants. Creating that incentive without securing the border will eventually make the DACA issue a permanent fixture in American politics rather than providing a comprehensive resolution of an unfortunate set of circumstances from earlier failures to address immigration policy and border security.

The best compromise would be to settle for three pillars rather than four or two. Regularize the DACA program in statute with a path to citizenship as Trump has proposed, in exchange for full and immediate funding for the border wall ($25 billion) and an end to so-called chain migration specifically for those within the DACA program. The visa lottery system can wait for broader immigration reform. That would satisfy the constituents for all sides while actually providing solutions rather than more opportunities for failure.

How long will it take before Congress and the White House come up with a workable and effective compromise? That’s anyone’s guess … but a deadline would sure come in handy.

To put this in perspective, the $25 billion ask is less than 10% of the additional amount of money Congress added to spending over the next 18 months in order to pass a budget. Jeff Flake just bumped up Congress’ proposed FY2019 contribution to a little over $7 billion, with the rest of it pledged in the following ten years. It’s nonsensical after twelve years of inaction. But it sure makes a lot of sense if the desired end result isn’t an effective solution, but instead an effective means of political fundraising and demonization.

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President Trump Asks Dianne Feinstein to Add ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban to School Safety Bill

President Trump Asks Dianne Feinstein to Add ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban to School Safety Bill



President Trump asked Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to add her “assault weapons” ban to the overarching school safety bill during a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers on Wednesday.

Feinstein’s bill, which is an enhanced reintroduction of a bill she has put forward again and again, bans over 200 different firearms.

During Wednesday’s White House meeting, Trump showed support for the gun control pushed by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA). The Manchin/Toomey bill is a gun control bill that the Democrat-controlled Senate rejected on April 17, 2013. But Trump chalked that failure up to Barack Obama’s lack of leadership, and talked of using the Manchin/Toomey bill as a base to which other bills could be added.

The goal was to create a body of gun legislation, ubiquitously for the purposes of school safety.

Sen. Feinstein talked about her bill and described the AR-15 as one of “the latest and newest weapons” to hit our streets. However, Eugene Stoner designed the AR-15 in the 1950s and Armalite began producing the gun during the 1960s. Are weapons from 60 years ago now considered “latest and newest”?

Nonetheless, Trump listened to Feinstein, heard from a few more gun control proponents—including Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL)—then looked back at Feinstein and told her she should add her bill to the Manchin/Toomey bill for consideration.

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SHUT IT DOWN=> Robert Mueller Investigating Whether Trump Tried to Oust AG Sessions Last Summer: Report

SHUT IT DOWN=> Robert Mueller Investigating Whether Trump Tried to Oust AG Sessions Last Summer: Report

A new report reveals dirty cop Mueller is investigating whether President Trump tried to oust Attorney General Jeff Sessions last summer.

What the hell does this have to do with Trump-Russia collusion during the 2016 election?

Mueller is out of control. He’s afraid if Sessions is replaced with someone who isn’t afraid of the Deep State, Rosenstein’s head will roll and the Special Counsel will be shut down.

The Washington Post reports:

Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been investigating a period of time last summer when President Trump seemed determined to drive Attorney General Jeff Sessions from his job, according to people familiar with the matter who said that a key area of interest for the inquiry is whether those efforts were part of a months-long pattern of attempted obstruction of justice.

In recent months, Mueller’s team has questioned witnesses in detail about Trump’s private comments and state of mind in late July and early August of last year, around the time he issued a series of tweets belittling his “beleaguered” attorney general, these people said. The thrust of the questions was to determine whether the president’s goal was to oust Sessions in order to pick a replacement who would exercise control over the investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Trump associates during the 2016 election, these people said.

On July 24th Trump publicly slammed the AWOL Jeff Sessions on Twitter.

Trump tweeted, “So why aren’t the Committees and investigators, and of course our beleaguered A.G., looking into Crooked Hillarys crimes & Russia relations?”

Trump also told the New York Times in an interview in late July he wished Sessions didn’t recuse himself.

“Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job and I would have picked somebody else,” Trump said.

“How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said ‘thanks, Jeff, but I’m not going to take you,” he continued. “It’s extremely unfair — and that’s a mild word — to the president.”

President Trump lashed out at AWOL AG Sessions again on Wednesday morning.

President Trump lashed out at Sessions for asking the Inspector General to look into Obama era FISA abuse. Trump correctly states it “will take forever.”

In a rare move, AG Sessions responded to President Trump’s Twitter fury Wednesday afternoon.

SESSIONS said in a statement:

“We have initiated the appropriate process that will ensure complaints against this Department will be fully and fairly acted upon if necessary. As long as I am the Attorney General, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this Department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution.”

Mueller and his team of liberal hack lawyers need to be shut down and a Special Counsel needs to investigate Mueller, Rosentein and other corrupt operatives from Obama’s DOJ and FBI.

On Wednesday, Rep Lee Zeldin (R-NY) sent a letter to AWOL Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him appoint a Special Counsel to investigate FISA abuses and how/why Hillary’s probe ended and Trump’s Russia probe began.

President of Judicial Watch Tom Fitton reacted to the new report by WaPo:

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