WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Trump is Better Than Reagan

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Trump is Better Than Reagan

By Wayne Allyn Root

It’s time for a victory lap. As the great Mohammed Ali said, “It ain’t bragging if you can back it up.”

At Fox News Opinion, I predicted back in July 2015 (days after Trump declared for president) that Donald Trump would be the greatest jobs creator ever- for black Americans, Hispanic Americans, females, gays, Muslims. In short, I predicted President Trump would create jobs for EVERYONE including his worst critics. See:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/07/02/donald-trump-first-hispanic-president.html

I predicted under President Trump there’d be a job in every pot.

And not just any jobs. Obama created nothing but crappy part-time, low-wage jobs. I predicted Trump would produce full-time middle class jobs.

Don’t look now, but it’s all happened. Trump is our generation’s Reagan. Reagan was my hero. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but…

Trump may actually be better than Reagan.

Reagan produced millions of good-paying middle class jobs, unprecedented prosperity and the greatest economic expansion in world history. Trump is on track to surpass Reagan’s economic success.

Let’s start with the May jobs report. US job growth sharply accelerated. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 223,000, smashing expectations by 33,000 jobs.

Manufacturing gained 18,000 jobs. Construction gained 25,000 jobs. Mining gained almost 6000 jobs.

The jobless rate is now 3.8%, the lowest since November of 1969. Yes, I said 1969.

Black unemployment is the lowest ever.

Hispanic unemployment is the lowest ever.

Female unemployment is the lowest in over half a century.

I’m sure gays and Muslims are enjoying record low unemployment too- there just isn’t a measurement for those groups.

Wages are up 2.7% for the year. Happy Days are here again. A wage increase of any size was just a rumor in eight years under Obama.

But wait. I haven’t gotten to the really good news yet!

The number of full-time jobs rose by 904,000 for the month of May. That’s the biggest monthly increase this century.

We also lost 625,000 low quality, low wage part-time jobs. I call them “Obama jobs.” Good riddance.

When liberals praised Obama for creating jobs, I pointed out his own former Chief Economic Advisor proved an overwhelming majority of those jobs created under Obama were crappy, low-wage, part-time jobs. In the Obama era every new job required food stamps and free healthcare to survive.

“The Trump Miracle” produces the exact opposite of Obama. With Trump’s economy, its all about full-time, high-wage jobs.

But wait, there’s more good news.

*GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the only real way to measure if an economy is healthy, or not. The Fed just predicted GDP for the 2nd quarter will be a blistering 4.8%.

That’s a number not seen since the days of Reagan.

*The USA has moved back to #1 in the world in the global economic competitiveness index. Thanks to President Trump’s massive tax cuts and killing of regulations, we’re now ahead of booming economies like Singapore, Hong Kong and Switzerland.

*A record 35% of small businesses reported paying higher wages to employees last month. 74% of employers plan to pay $11 per hour or higher, compared to 53% a year ago. Small business is exploding under Trump.

Why is all of this happening? First, Trump cut taxes dramatically, so now business owners can afford to share the wealth.

Secondly, Trump is killing regulations at the fastest pace of any president in history, so business owners can spend our money on paying higher wages, instead of on lawyer bills.

And third, here’s the big one: Trump’s strict immigration policies are working overtime (excuse the pun). 40% of employers are using E-verify to hire only legal American citizens- up from 25% last year. Trump’s policies are super-charging the economy for American citizens, not illegals.

Now to a little personal example. I’m on the front lines of the economy. I have no safe job, no safe paycheck, no pension. I am a small businessman and entrepreneur. Which means I spend my life pitching deals and hustling 24/7. I’m the perfect laboratory experiment to tell you if the economy is working, or not.

Under Obama I pitched many deals, but never raised one dollar in eight long years. Nothing. Zip. Nada. Zero. There was no life, no pulse, no hope under Obama for entrepreneurs like me.

It was a dynamic economy for illegal aliens, and people on welfare or food stamps. But for the job creators, financial risk-takers and business owners, it was a disaster.

Everything has changed under Trump. The world of money has opened up. Everyone is buying again. Everyone is writing checks again. I’m the living proof. I’m raising money for business deals- and groups are banging down my doors to invest. Investors are begging me to take their checks. That never happened in eight long years under Obama.

Coincidence?

It’s a new day under President Trump. We are free to make money again. We are free to practice capitalism without guilt. The sun is out. The skies are blue. There’s a job in every pot. The Trump Miracle lives.

President Donald J. Trump should be the runaway winner of the 2018 Nobel Economic Prize.

And yes, so far, he’s even better than Reagan.

Wayne Allyn Root is the host of “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show” on Newsmax TV, nightly at 8 PM ET, found on DirecTV channel 349, Dish TV channel 216, or at http://www.newsmaxtv.com/Shows/The-Wayne-Allyn-Root-Show He is also a nationally syndicated radio host of “WAR Now: The Wayne Allyn Root Show” found at http://usaradio.com/wayne-allyn-root/

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MO-Sen: Petersen’s polling looks good. Meet the veteran running the GOP candidate’s campaign

Jeffrey Carson doesn’t seem to miss a beat. He’s responsive, he speaks with ease rather than talking points, and he’s driven by conviction — just like the candidate he represents in Missouri’s GOP primary for U.S. Senate.

Carson is the campaign manager for Austin Petersen, who is seeking to eventually topple incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill (D). Petersen was a Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 2016, and came in second. Now, he’s running to represent his home state, and shows poll numbers against McCaskill that are turning voters’ heads.

But Petersen faces a challenging primary on August 7, in a race that includes Attorney General Josh Hawley and bomber pilot Tony Monetti as other top contenders.

So who is this guy running the campaign?

From 2004-2008, Jeff Carson was a Patriot missile defense officer and later a ground liaison officer in the U.S. Army, serving all over The Gulf, including Iraq.

“My whole family is military — literally, everyone. My mom, dad, step-mom, step-dad, brother, all three uncles, grandpas…I’m the runt who only served four years, everyone else was career.

“Service is in our blood. That’s why I do what I do now; it’s another way I can serve, here on the political side. We have a big problem with politicians and our political system in this country.”

That’s why Carson says he felt a different calling after his four years were up. He secured an MBA from Texas Tech following his military discharge, and worked for “the man,” (including contracting for Google and product development for  Asurion), for a number of years before quitting his job to join the political arena.

He explained to TheBlaze that the corporate world wasn’t for him: “I believed my path would be different than that. Something in my gut just told me.”

What drew him to work with Petersen?

Carson originally worked for Petersen’s 2016 presidential race. When asked why he signed on for another run, he told TheBlaze, “First and foremost: It’s really, really tough to find good people in politics, who you can trust to make the right decisions — even when it’s difficult.

“And finding the right candidates? That’s nearly impossible.”

But Carson says Petersen is that type of candidate. He said of Austin, “I’ve seen him bribed and even threatened over the time we’ve worked together, and he’s always told the bad guys to take a hike. That’s always stuck with me.

“Austin always says, ‘You may not always agree with me, but you can trust me to be honest.’ Even on things that we know aren’t the most popular positions to have in a Republican primary.”

He reiterates that a great thing about Petersen is that he spells everything out, and there are no secrets or surprises for voters. “Go on his website, and check out where he stands on the issues,” Carson said, “you don’t have to question what you’re getting with him as a candidate. He’s transparent.”

Here’s an interview Petersen did with Ben Shapiro, who calls him a friend:

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Giuliani: Let’s face it, the 13 partisan Democrats on Mueller’s team are trying to “frame” Trump

Anytime there’s an escalation in Russiagate rhetoric by Team Trump it’s worth noting and wondering what news might be coming that they know about but we don’t — yet. Rudy’s in contact with Mueller’s lawyers and of course he’s endlessly fielding media inquiries about the investigation; from those two sources he’s bound to get broad hints about new developments that haven’t become public. For instance, it seemed strange and random when POTUS went on a Twitter tirade about Paul Manafort on Sunday:

What the hell was that about, people wondered? My guess was that maybe Manafort had finally agreed to cooperate with Mueller, Trump had gotten wind of it, and he’d taken to Twitter to pre-spin the news that was coming. Some sort of Manafort news was surely coming, though. Lo and behold, within 24 hours the NYT was reporting that Mueller suspected Manafort of witness tampering. The paper probably asked the White House for reaction over the weekend, triggering POTUS’s “Paul who?” Twitter spasm.

Now here’s Giuliani with the hardest knock on Mueller yet, accusing him of not just conducting a baseless “witch hunt” but of preparing to frame the president for a crime he didn’t commit. Does … he have reason to believe that Trump’s about to be formally accused of something by Mueller? Or is he just caught up in the moment in the clip below, pandering to a friendly audience with irresponsible chatter about the head of state being framed by deep-state operatives like all cautious, judicious lawyers do?

An amazing true fact via Harry Enten:

The hero of 9/11 is at 29/44 nationally, fully 20 points underwater among independents. The last time Quinnipiac polled him, in 2007 during his brief presidential run, he was at 47/32. I think obituarists will be kind to him when his time finally comes by leading with his 9/11 response but don’t hold me to that if the Russiagate standoff turns ugly this year and Rudy remains the tip of Trump’s messaging spear. Depending on how crazy things get, maybe this ends up as his legacy.

In lieu of an exit question, read Paul Rosenzweig on why Mueller’s witness-tampering claim about Manafort is not just weak but may signal trouble for Mueller. Quote: “This is a sign that they are feeling pressure. Possibly from Trump. Possibly from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Possibly just from their reading of the public tea leaves. Whatever the source of the pressure, they have an increased sense of urgency to move quickly.” If they desperately need Manafort’s cooperation at this point to make something stick, maybe they have less evidence against Trump and his inner circle than we all suspect. Which makes Rudy’s “framing” comment even weirder.

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The Dakota Access Pipeline just celebrated one year of operation

Last Friday the Dakota Access Pipeline celebrated one year in operation. We’re a long way from the battles between “water protectors” and police that seemed to preoccupy the media for so many months. From Forbes:

DAPL has been quietly transferring crude oil from the Bakken fields in North Dakota at a rate of over 500,000 barrels per day. That has helped bolster North Dakota’s daily production numbers. According to the North Dakota’s Department of Mineral Resources, North Dakota production hit 1.16 million barrels per day in March, thanks in large to part to DAPL…

The Dakota Access Pipeline’s safety record to date is quite impressive—the pipeline has been entirely free from significant incidents. While several minor leaks have been recorded, they were each quickly contained at the source and amounted to mere gallons, rather than barrels of volume escaping. According to available data, the pipeline lost less than 4 barrels of oil during its first six months in operation versus roughly 61.25 million barrels transported during the same period of time…

Supporters view DAPL as a modern success story. For opponents, it is a stark reminder that we live in a word that is dependent upon fossil fuels. Lowering emissions and reducing spills is a worthy goal; opposing every form of energy infrastructure is not.

While the pipeline has been doing well so far, its opponents are still facing jail time. One protester, Michael “Little Feather” Giron, was sentenced to 36 months in jail just last week over his involvement:

On Oct. 27, 2016, law enforcement officials began removing DAPL protesters who gathered at a spot on Highway 1806 south of Mandan.

Some of the protesters had erected an illegal roadblock on the road and were trespassing on private property.

At some point, a number of protesters added more barricades to the roadblock and set them on fire.

Another protester who unfurled a giant NoDAPL divestment banner at a football stadium pleaded guilty yesterday:

One of two people charged with misdemeanors for unfurling a banner from the rafters of U.S. Bank Stadium during a Minnesota Vikings game to protest the Dakota Access pipeline has pleaded guilty and has been placed on probation.

And the sentencing for the most serious crime that took place during the protests, the discharge of a handgun, will take place later this month.

Of course, the success or failure of a pipeline can’t be judged in a single year. I certainly hope the company maintaining the pipeline stays focused on safety and making sure the spills that inevitably do happen are measured in gallons instead of barrels. But as the Intercept wrote in its review of DAPL leaks: “Pipelines leak.”

Yes, and because they do there will always be some risk involved in transporting petroleum over long distances. Risk is unavoidable so long as we want to continue enjoying all the privileges that come with living in a society where energy and the products and experiences it makes possible are relatively cheap and available to everyone. But the fact remains that shipping oil by pipeline is safer than shipping by rail or truck. It’s not a perfect solution, just the best one available to us at the moment.

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Grassley Sends Letter to Christopher Wray Demanding Unredacted Version of FBI’s “Confidential Human Source” Policy Guide

Grassley Sends Letter to Christopher Wray Demanding Unredacted Version of FBI’s “Confidential Human Source” Policy Guide

On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) sent FBI Director Christopher Wray a letter requesting an unredacted version of the FBI’s “confidential human source” policy guide.

FBI Director Wray must hand over the requested documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee by June 20th.


Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA)

 

Senator Grassley wants answers on Spygate.

The “confidential human source” AKA Stefan Halper, was paid a total of $411,575 in 2016 and 2017 for work with the US government that included spying on the Trump campaign.

It was a lucrative business for Stefan Halper.

Hill sources are saying the FBI spy who infiltrated Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016, Stefan Halper, bled information into Hillary’s phony dossier.

Now the Democrats are in spin mode. There may have been a second and even a third spy planted in Trump’s campaign.

The Dems and media sycophants went from ‘there was no spy inside of Trump’s camp’ to ‘the informant was there to help protect Trump against the Russians.’

Former DNI Chief James Clapper is claiming embedding spies is “a standard investigative practice.”

Grassley wants the FBI’s policy guide on using “confidential human sources” AKA spies.

Grassley wrote to Wray:

We are writing to request that the FBI provide the Committee with a fully unredacted copy of
the version of the FBI’ s Confidential Human Source Policy Guide (CHSPG) currently in force. If a
different version was in force in 2016, please provide a fully unredacted copy of that as well.

Please provide the CHSPG by June 20, 2018. To the extent the CHSPG is classified, please
deliver it to the Office of Senate Security. Although the Committee complies with all laws and
regulations governing the handling of classified information, it is not bound, absent its prior
agreement, by any handling restrictions or instructions on unclassified information unilaterally asserted
by the Executive Branch. Therefore, if you have any specific requests with regard to the Committee’s
handling of unclassified material, we ask that you raise those with us in advance of production.

Screenshot of letter below:

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Past Versus Present Americans

Having enjoyed my 82nd birthday, I am part of a group of about 50 million Americans who are 65 years of age or older. Those who are 90 or older were in school during the 1930s. My age cohort was in school during the 1940s. Baby boomers approaching their 70s were in school during the 1950s and early ’60s.

Try this question to any one of those 50 million Americans who are 65 or older: Do you recall any discussions about the need to hire armed guards to protect students and teachers against school shootings? Do you remember school policemen patrolling the hallways? How many students were shot to death during the time you were in school? For me and those other Americans 65 or older, when we were in school, a conversation about hiring armed guards and having police patrol hallways would have been seen as lunacy. There was no reason.

What’s the difference between yesteryear and today? The logic of the argument for those calling for stricter gun control laws, in the wake of recent school shootings, is that something has happened to guns. Guns have behaved more poorly and become evil. Guns themselves are the problem. The job for those of us who are 65 or older is to relay the fact that guns were more available and less controlled in years past, when there was far less mayhem. Something else is the problem.

Guns haven’t changed. People have changed. Behavior that is accepted from today’s young people was not accepted yesteryear. For those of us who are 65 or older, assaults on teachers were not routine as they are in some cities. For example, in Baltimore, an average of four teachers and staff members were assaulted each school day in 2010, and more than 300 school staff members filed workers’ compensation claims in a year because of injuries received through assaults or altercations on the job. In Philadelphia, 690 teachers were assaulted in 2010, and in a five-year period, 4,000 were. In that city’s schools, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, “on an average day 25 students, teachers, or other staff members were beaten, robbed, sexually assaulted, or victims of other violent crimes. That doesn’t even include thousands more who are extorted, threatened, or bullied in a school year.”

Yale University legal scholar John Lott argues that gun accessibility in our country has never been as restricted as it is now. Lott reports that until the 1960s, New York City public high schools had shooting clubs. Students carried their rifles to school on the subway in the morning and then turned them over to their homeroom teacher or a gym teacher — and that was mainly to keep them centrally stored and out of the way. Rifles were retrieved after school for target practice (https://ift.tt/2Jgn8df). Virginia’s rural areas had a long tradition of high school students going hunting in the morning before school, and they sometimes stored their guns in the trunks of their cars during the school day, parked on the school grounds.

During earlier periods, people could simply walk into a hardware store and buy a rifle. Buying a rifle or pistol through a mail-order catalog — such as Sears, Roebuck & Co.’s — was easy. Often, a 12th or 14th birthday present was a shiny new .22-caliber rifle, given to a boy by his father.

These facts of our history should confront us with a question: With greater accessibility to guns in the past, why wasn’t there the kind of violence we see today, when there is much more restricted access to guns? There’s another aspect of our response to mayhem. When a murderer uses a bomb, truck or car to kill people, we don’t blame the bomb, truck or car. We don’t call for control over the instrument of death. We seem to fully recognize that such objects are inanimate and incapable of acting on their own. We blame the perpetrator. However, when the murder is done using a gun, we do call for control over the inanimate instrument of death — the gun. I smell a hidden anti-gun agenda.

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No Pardon for Partisan Hypocrisy

Quick, grab the smelling salts and clear the fainting couches.

President Trump’s pardon of conservative author Dinesh D’Souza last week violently triggered Beltway media elites. It’s peanut butter, weed pollen, gluten, manspreading, Chick-fil-A, the national anthem, and Kryptonite all rolled into one giant political allergen. Allow me to administer the rhetorical, metaphorical antihistamine.

To The Washington Post editorial board, President Trump’s use of the pardon is “another show of disrespect for the justice system.” Outspoken D’Souza was the subject of a highly politicized prosecution by former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara (now an anti-Trump resistance leader) over campaign finance violations totaling $20,000. The WaPo punditocracy grudgingly admits that the president “has constitutional power to do this” and that it is “Mr. Trump’s prerogative” to pardon individuals the newspaper considers “unsavory.”

Yet, the editorialists fulminate that what “is offensive here is not the pardon power, but the use of it” for “arbitrary, political and unjustified” reasons.

G-U-Double F-Awww. The protesting Posties wouldn’t be capable of acknowledging an acceptable exercise of the pardon power by Trump if it body-slammed them off the ropes on UFC Fight Night.

Former Navy sailor Kristian Saucier received a Trump pardon after serving a year in prison for taking photos on his submarine to show his family where he worked (in contrast to the hands-off treatment of the classified information-breaching Clinton brigade). Too political, the pundits cry.

The late boxer Jack Johnson, America’s first black heavyweight champion, received a Trump pardon after being jailed under Jim Crow for traveling with a white woman (who later became his wife) across state lines. Publicity stunt, the bitchers bitched. Not enough, the moaners moaned. Trump’s still a racist, the grievance-mongers mongered.

Indeed, The Washington Post opinion writers have depleted their Bank of Selective Outrage accounts while spewing about Trump’s pardons. “Nothing but right-wing trolling,” harumphed Paul Waldman. “Twisted brand of mercy,” decried Ruth Marcus. “A warm-up for a constitutional crisis,” squawked Jennifer Rubin.

Spare us all the hot air, media heavers. Democrats have long wielded pardon powers to reward deep-pocketed cronies, absolve unrepentant domestic terrorists and lionize national security leakers. The “democratic values” that WaPo-lemicists claim are now under siege thanks to Trump’s pardons got crushed under the wheels of the corruptocrat bus a long, long time ago.

Self-dealing Bill Clinton handed out pardons and commutations like Pez candy to relatives like half-brother Roger Clinton (convicted of cocaine possession) and family-tied associates like his brother-in-law Hugh Rodham’s clients, including convicted cocaine distributor Carlos Vignali and convicted herbal supplement fraudster and perjurer A. Glenn Braswell; the two felons had forked over $400,000 to Rodham in legal fees to win their clemencies.

Hillary’s other brother, Tony, raked in more than $240,000 from a couple convicted of bank fraud, who he just happened to mention to his brother-in-law in the White House, who granted the pardon — after which brother Tony denied being paid for any work having to do with a pardon. Meanwhile, Madame HRC’s Senate campaign treasurer, William J. Cunningham III, pocketed $4,000 to prepare clemency for two Arkansas-based convicted tax cheats, Robert Fain and James Manning. President Clinton granted both; Hillary played dumb and feigned shock, shock that political favor-trading was going on in Clinton land.

And don’t even get me started on the putrid Marc and Denise Rich pardon scandal, overseen by Clinton/Obama alum Eric Holder.

If systemic pay-for-play pardons aren’t a “twisted brand of mercy,” what else are?

Critics assail President Trump for “bypassing the traditional review process,” which 1) is his prerogative; 2) was standard operating procedure during the Clinton years; and 3) has been questioned by watchdogs on all sides of the ideological aisle because of the inherent conflict in the federal pardon lawyer’s office being overseen by federal government prosecutors reluctant to undo any convictions.

No one did more damage to the integrity of the federal pardon attorney’s office than Eric Holder, who pressured its staff to abandon its full-scale opposition to Clinton’s clemency for 16 members of the deadly FALN Puerto Rican terrorist group and Los Macheteros. The office tossed its original report rejecting clemency at Holder’s behest and replaced it with a new and improved “neutral” memo giving Clinton cover to grant the pardons without contradicting the “traditional review process,” to borrow a phrase.

These Clinton/Holder beneficiaries were linked by the FBI to more than 130 bombings and six murders. Nearly two decades later, Holder was at the DOJ helm as attorney general when President Obama commuted the sentence of another seditious FALN terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, who proudly declared to a federal judge, “I am an enemy of the United States government.”

“Unsavory” is in the eye of the beholder. So is the “arbitrary” use of the presidential pardon. Will the resistance ever acknowledge a legitimate use of this power by President Trump?

Quoth the raving ravers: Never. Never. And never more.

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Corker Pushing Ahead with Attempt to Tie Trump’s Hands on Trade

Senator Bob Corker says he will not give up his quest to limit the president’s ability to impose tariffs.

Corker unveiled a bill Wednesday that would require congressional approval before a president could levy tariffs for national security reasons.  The Trump administration has invoked national security to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports and has launched an inquiry into auto imports that is likely to lead to tariffs on vehicles.

Although Corker’s bill is supported by five other Republicans and four Democrats, it is unlikely to become law. Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell has said he will not bring the legislation up for a vote, although he warned that Senators may try to attach it to another bill.

Even if it were to pass, the bill would likely be vetoed by President Donald Trump. There are no signs the bill could garner the tw0-thirds majority in both the Senate and the House to overcome a presidential veto.

President Donald Trump told Corker in a call Wednesday to stand down on the legislation. After the call, Corker said he will continue to press his bill, according to a person familiar with the matter. One person briefed on the call described it as “heated.”

Backers of the bill include Republican Senators Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, and Mike Lee of Utah.  Democrats Mark Warner of Virginia, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota,  Brian Schatz of Hawaii, and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland also support the bill.

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Senators Demand Answers from Mark Zuckerberg over New Data Sharing Scandal

Sens. John Thune (R-SD) and Bill Nelson (D-FL), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, have sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers on Facebook’s latest data scandal.

Earlier this week it was revealed that Facebook shared user data with “at least 60” phone manufacturers including Huawei, a company linked to the Chinese government and flagged as a national security threat by the CIA, FBI, and NSA.

A Democrat lawmaker has since accused Zuckerberg of lying to Congress when he told them that users had “complete control” over who sees their data on the platform.

Among the questions asked by Sens. Thune and Nelson, which can be read in full here, is whether Zuckerberg would like to amend his statement on this, given that the New York Times reported that phone manufacturers had access to data from Facebook users’ friends even when those friends denied them the permission to share their data with third parties.

The Senators also asked Zuckerberg if Facebook verified whether the phone companies complied with the social network’s rules on data-sharing, and if there was even any method to check.

The Senators also demanded transparency: a full list of the device manufacturers that Facebook granted data access to, including manufacturers with whom it has since ended partnerships with.

The letter requests a response from Zuckerberg by no later than 5:00 p.m. on June 18, 2018.

Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. You can follow him on TwitterGab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to allumbokhari@protonmail.com.

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Hannity has advice for Mueller witnesses – and he pulls a page from Hillary’s playbook

On his Fox News show Wednesday night, host Sean Hannity passed along a suggestion for the witnesses in Robert Mueller’s investigation. Given the way Hillary Clinton’s email investigation was handled, Hannity said, this should be par for the course.

What did he suggest?

Hannity said of the witnesses, “If I advised them to follow Hillary Clinton’s lead, delete all your emails and then acid-wash your emails and hard drives on the phones, then take your phones and bash them with a hammer to little itsy bitsy pieces, use BleachBit, remove the sim cards and then take the pieces and hand them over to Robert Mueller.”

Seems reasonable enough.

Given reports that special counsel Mueller’s team has requested the witnesses to hand over their personal cell phones, Hannity’s advice drew a clear connection with the actions of former Secretary of State Clinton — whose email scandal uncovered evidence that her team had smashed two of her old mobile phones to smithereens by force.

Explaining the matter in 2016, the FBI said, “the whereabouts of Clinton’s devices would frequently become unknown once she transitioned to a new device.”

Yeah, about that…

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice has been preparing a report anticipated to be roughly 500 pages long, outlining their handling of the Clinton email probe.

President Trump asked via Twitter on Tuesday: “What is taking so long with the Inspector General’s Report on Crooked Hillary and Slippery James Comey. Numerous delays. Hope Report is not being changed and made weaker! There are so many horrible things to tell, the public has the right to know. Transparency!”

Here’s Hannity’s full take, where he outlines his advice:

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