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MUELLER'S COHEN REPORT JUST DEBUNKED A KEY CLAIM IN THE "TRUMP-RUSSIA DOSSIER"

Media reports from as far back as 2 years ago, stated special counsel Robert Mueller

obtained evidence of a Prague trip involving Michael Cohen and Kremlin officials, that

reportedly "confirmed" secret meetings proving collusion.

However, a flurry of court filings by Mueller last week suggests the story is fake.

Real Clear Politics reported last summer that Lanny Davis, attorney for Michael Cohen, trashed

the infamous Trump dossier, a document put together by former British spy Christopher

Steele, in an interview with NBC's Chuck Todd on Wednesday.

Davis said the part about Cohen visiting Prague to meet with Russians in 2016 "never"

happened."

He called it the "so-called dossier" and said it mentions his client in a "false"

manner.

On Tuesday, a superior court judge threw out a defamation lawsuit against Steele for failing

to provide evidence that information in the dossier was knowingly falsified.

"Can you say definitively whether you know if Michael Cohen was ever in Prague in 2016?"

Todd on Wednesday's edition of Meet the Press Daily on MSNBC.

"Never, never in Prague," Davis sternly said.

"Never ever?"

Todd pressed.

"Never ever in Prague," Davis answered.

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Jim Comey relied on Hillary's bought and purchased Steele Dossier to get a FISA warrant and spy

on Trump, and then NEVER VERIFIED the contents.

Steele was so lazy that he didn't even get the CORRECT LOCATION of meetings, and was

wrong about Michael Cohen EVER being in Prague.

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It was one of the most incendiary allegations included in the Clinton-financed opposition

research known as the Steele dossier – that Donald Trump's fixer Michael Cohen met with

"Kremlin officials" in Prague in 2016 to arrange payments to operatives hacking

Hillary Clinton's campaign.

Despite strong denials from Cohen, the claim has shadowed the president, inspiring and

coloring the Russia investigation ever since.

McClatchy reported in April that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had obtained evidence of the

Prague trip and likely confirmed the secret meeting.

But a flurry of court filings by Mueller last week suggests that this story is false, a

damaging piece of disinformation that has roiled the nation for two years.

Officials familiar with the case said the proof is in the lack of evidence in the 25

pages of court papers Mueller has filed on Cohen over the past two weeks.

The alleged Prague visit is not evident in the plea agreement, the criminal information

statement or the sentencing memorandum, none of which contain redactions.

In fact, language in the filings strongly indicates prosecutors have not found evidence

to authenticate the Prague rumor, according to people familiar with the case, who spoke

on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

They point to the sentencing memo filed Friday, for starters.

On page 5, Mueller stated that Cohen "has provided relevant and truthful information"

about "his own contacts with Russian interests during the campaign" to prosecutors in their

investigation of Russian election interference.

Though Mueller details contacts Cohen made with various Russians, he offers no evidence

he contacted Kremlin officials in Prague, as described in the dossier.

The Czech city, in fact, is not cited in any of his filings, though Moscow, St. Petersburg,

Davos and other cities are.

Prosecutors corroborated the information Cohen provided about his Russia contacts with evidence

— including travel records — they seized from him.

In addition, Cohen pleaded guilty last month to a single count of providing false testimony

to Congress related to a Moscow real estate venture – which suggests there was no reason

for him to correct his September 2017 statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee claiming,

"I have never in my life been to Prague or to anywhere in the Czech Republic."

In that same sworn testimony, Cohen also categorically denied plotting with Russian officials to

hack the election.

"I have never engaged with, been paid by, paid for, or conversed with any member of

the Russian Federation or anyone else to hack or interfere with the election," Cohen told

the Senate.

"I emphatically state that I had nothing to do with any Russian involvement in our

electoral process."

He added that he saw "not a hint of anything" that demonstrated Trump's involvement in

Russian interference in the election, either.

The Prague allegation is one of the most specific claims in the Steele dossier, a piece of opposition

research compiled by former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele and paid for by the

Clinton campaign.

Although former FBI Director James Comey has called the dossier "salacious and unverified,"

Mueller's team has relied on it as a road map in its investigation, and even traveled

to London to debrief its author.

The Prague claim was cited in three unconfirmed, hearsay reports written by Steele between

October and December 2016.

They alleged that Cohen visited the Czech capital to clandestinely meet with "Kremlin

officials" and hackers in August 2016 to arrange "deniable cash payments to hackers

who had worked in Europe under Kremlin direction against the Clinton campaign."

The reports further state that "three colleagues" accompanied Cohen to Prague.

Cohen has offered his passport to show he has never traveled to Prague – nor even

left

the country

during

the time alleged.

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JAIL TIME COMING!! TRUMP JUST EXPOSED ONE THING MUELLER WANT TO HIDE MOST - Duration: 13:20.

JAIL TIME COMING!!

TRUMP JUST EXPOSED ONE THING MUELLER WANT TO HIDE MOST

President Trump's lawyers are preparing written responses to questions from Special

Counsel Robert Mueller regarding possible collusion with Russia.

The move, first reported by CNN, marks a major advance in negotiations between Trump's

attorneys and Mueller's team and could signal that the investigation is entering its final

phases.

The two sides have battled for months over whether Trump would appear for an interview

with Mueller's prosecutors or submit answers in writing.

Trump's legal team, led by Jay Sekulow and Rudy Giuliani, have also pushed for a narrow

set of questions to be posed to Trump.

Mueller, who was appointed special counsel on May 17, 2017, is investigating whether

the Trump campaign conspired with Russians to influence the 2016 election as well whether

Trump obstructed justice by firing James Comey as FBI director.

Comey's firing, on May 9, 2017, paved the way for Mueller's appointment.

Trump's lawyers have reportedly pushed to avoid dealing with questions about obstruction

of justice.

Giuliani, the public face of Trump's legal team, has argued that Trump was allowed to

fire Comey for any reason he saw fit.

In April, The New York Times published a list of nearly 50 questions that Mueller presented

the Trump team.

The questions covered a wide array of topics, including activities on the campaign as well

as the firing of Michael Flynn

as

national

security adviser.

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Senate passes bill to avoid shutdown as Trump talks border wall - Duration: 3:04.

The Senate unanimously approved the legislation Wednesday. But a House GOP conference meeting Thursday morning sparked confusion about whether the chamber could pass it amid simmering opposition within the caucus.

House Republicans huddled Thursday morning, and leaders reportedly could not assure members that Trump would sign the bill. The leaders then canceled a news conference after House Speaker Paul Ryan took an emergency call from the president. Republicans claimed they delayed the event due to the meeting running long and votes taking place on the floor, according to NBC News.

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told members that they would hold another conference meeting later Thursday to discuss funding, NBC reported. It is unclear when they meeting will take place.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has said Democrats will support the short term funding bill.

If the House passes the bill and Trump signs it, lawmakers will dodge the third government shutdown this year and delay the ongoing immigration debate until Democrats hold a House majority next year. But Trump — who said last week he would be "proud" to shut down the government over border security — has left the door open to vetoing the bill. The hardline GOP House Freedom Caucus and Trumps allies in the conservative media have urged him not to sign a bill that does not fund the barrier.

Lawmakers have already funded five departments, including the Pentagon and Health and Human Services. The seven unfunded agencies make up about a quarter of the government.

In separate tweets Thursday morning, the president threatened retribution for Democrats for not funding the wall and . Democrats "know Steel Slats Wall are necessary for Border Security" but "are putting politics over Country," he contended. He threatened not to "sign any of their legislation, including infrastructure, unless it has perfect Border Security."

But the president seemed to contradict himself in his next tweet. He suggested he did not need the barrier for strong border security. Trump said U.S. agencies have done a "great job" at the border.

"Border is tight. Fake News silent!" he wrote.

As of Wednesday, the White House had not indicated whether Trump would sign the bill. The president will "take a look" and decide whether to approve it once he sees what Congress passes, a senior administration official told CNBC.

Trump sought dollar 5 billion for the wall in the spending package. Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Chuck Schumer .

The conservative Freedom Caucus, staunch supporters of the president and his immigration agenda, pushed for the dollar 5 billion in wall money on the House floor Wednesday night. They also called for an end to the so called catch and release immigration policy. The caucuss members reportedly plan to oppose the spending bill, which means Republicans would need Democratic support to pass it.

Trump has started to justify his failure to secure wall funding in the spending bill. As a candidate, he repeatedly promised Mexico would pay for the barrier. On Wednesday, he claimed Americas southern neighbor will fund the wall through his revised North American trade agreement, .

He also contended that the U.S. military will construct the wall — a process that could also require congressional appropriations.

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TRUMP DROPS MASSIVE NUKE ON MUELLER,ROBERT MUELLER IN FULL PANIC MODE - Duration: 15:13.

TRUMP DROPS MASSIVE NUKE ON MUELLER,ROBERT MUELLER IN FULL PANIC MODE

Has President Donald Trump been subpoenaed by special counsel Robert Mueller?

If you believe Politico the answer is yes.

A new report by Politico on Wednesday said that court documents have been filed that

makes it appear as if Mueller has subpoenaed the president to testify before the grand

jury.

The legal fight of the century may have already started, and almost no one noticed?

According to former federal prosecutor Nelson Cunningham, recent reporting — some of it

just by hanging around the clerk's office in Washington DC — reveals a very unusual

level of activity involving a grand jury, a subpoena, and bunch of expedited appeals.

Has Robert Mueller subpoenaed the president? Cunningham says "it all fits":

But now, thanks to Politico's reporting (backed up by the simple gumshoe move of sitting

in the clerk's office waiting to see who walks in and requests what file), we may know

what Mueller has been up to: Since mid-August, he may have been locked in proceedings with

Trump and his lawyers over a grand jury subpoena – in secret litigation that could tell us

by December whether the president will testify before Mueller's grand jury.

The evidence lies in obscure docket entries at the clerk's office for the D.C. Circuit.

Thanks to Politico's Josh Gerstein and Darren Samuelsohn, we know that on August 16th (the

day after Giuliani said he was almost finished with his memorandum, remember), a sealed grand

jury case was initiated in the D.C. federal district court before Chief Judge Beryl A.

Howell.

We know that on September 19, Chief Judge Howell issued a ruling and 5 days later one

of the parties appealed to the D.C. Circuit.

And thanks to Politico's reporting, we know that the special counsel's office is involved

(because the reporter overheard a conversation in the clerk's office).

We can further deduce that the special counsel prevailed in the district court below, and

that the presumptive grand jury witness has frantically appealed that order and sought

special treatment from the judges of the D.C. Circuit – often referred to as the "second-most

important court in the land."

How do we know this isn't Roger Stone, Carter Page, or some other fringe figure in the special

counsel investigation?

Presumably, any number of people would fight a grand-jury subpoena if one got delivered

to them, and might appeal a lower-court defeat.

That's true enough, Cunningham acknowledges, but few of them would get those appeals fast-tracked,

especially in the manner the court docket suggests.

After the first appeal was lodged, the court gave Mueller's team only three days to respond,

then dismissed the appeal two days after Mueller's team filed their response — apparently on

technical grounds, because the district court issued a favorable ruling to the witness,

who renewed the appeal.

Back before the D.C. Circuit, this case's very special handling continued.

On October 10, the day the case returned to the court, the parties filed a motion for

expedited handling, and within two days, the judges had granted their motion and set an

accelerated briefing schedule.

The witness was given just 11 days to file briefs; the special counsel (presumably) just

two weeks to respond; and reply papers one week later, on November 14 (for those paying

attention, that's 8 days after the midterm elections).

Oral arguments are set for December 14.

That's pretty fast for an ordinary witness' appeal of a subpoena, Cunningham argues, but

that's not the most compelling circumstance.

After losing the first appeal, the witness asked for an en banc review, which would require

all ten current judges on the DC Circuit Court of Appeal to rule on the case.

That itself is unusual, Cunningham argues, suggesting that the witness presents specific

and unique circumstances.

And at that point, a very curious thing happened — Judge Gregory Katsas recused himself before

the en banc petition was denied.

And who is Gregory Katsas?

He's the only current Trump appointee to the DC Circuit, Cunningham notes, as well

as a former deputy counsel to Trump.

The en banc petition wouldn't require a recusal if the witness were someone like Stone

or Page, as Katsas testified during his confirmation hearings that he never worked on anything

to do with the special counsel investigation.

However …

But if the witness were the president himself – if the matter involved an appeal from

a secret order requiring the president to testify before the grand jury – then Judge

Katsas would certainly feel obliged to recuse himself from any official role.

Not only was the president his former client (he was deputy counsel to the president, remember)

but he owes his judicial position to the president's nomination.

History provides a useful parallel: In 1974, in the unanimous Supreme Court decision US

v Nixon requiring another witness-president to comply with a subpoena, Justice William

Rehnquist recused himself for essentially the same reasons.

But, The New York Times Maggie Haberman reported, that the speculation is nothing more than

fake news according to President Trump's counsel Jay Sekulow.

"The report in Politico is completely false.

There has been no subpoena issued and there is no litigation," he

told her.

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Wait Until You See the Brand New Prototype Trump Just Rolled Out for the Border Wall - Duration: 3:02.

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TRUMP JUST DROPS A DEVASTATING ANNOUNCEMENT ON SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER - Duration: 13:35.

TRUMP JUST DROPS A DEVASTATING ANNOUNCEMENT ON SPECIAL COUNSEL ROBERT MUELLER

Robert Mueller and his rigged witch hunt crossed the line.

Mueller terrorized Trump associates in an effort to frame the President for collusion

with Russia.

But then Trump shut down Mueller with these two tweets.

Donald Trump Points Out The Mueller Probe Is A Scam

The Mueller probe is an illegitimate scam.

More Americans realize this every day.

And they are fed up with the fact that Mueller is part of a coup to overthrow a President

duly elected by the American people.

According to both CNN and NBC's exit polling data from the midterm elections, more Americans

disapprove of the way Mueller is handling the investigation than approve of it.

It's not hard to see why.

Mueller's collusion case is a bust.

He has indicted no one for conspiring with Russia.

Roger Stone was his main target, but Stone recently produced text messages that proved

he told the truth about receiving information about WikiLeaks hacked emails from a backchannel

source.

Donald Trump reacted to this news by again pointing out that Mueller's investigation

is a rigged witch hunt.

Trump tweeted:

The inner workings of the Mueller investigation are a total mess.

They have found no collusion and have gone absolutely nuts.

They are screaming and shouting at people, horribly threatening them to come up with

the answers they want.

They are a disgrace to our Nation and don't…

….care how many lives the ruin.

These are Angry People, including the highly conflicted Bob Mueller, who worked for Obama

for 8 years.

They won't even look at all of the bad acts and crimes on the other side.

A TOTAL WITCH HUNT LIKE NO OTHER IN AMERICAN HISTORY!

Donald Trump Stays On The Offense Trump also pointed out the real collusion

case that someone should investigate.

He tweeted:

Universities will someday study what highly conflicted (and NOT Senate approved) Bob Mueller

and his gang of Democrat thugs have done to destroy people.

Why is he protecting Crooked Hillary, Comey, McCabe, Lisa Page & her lover, Peter S, and

all of his friends on the other side?

He also wrote:

The only "Collusion" is that of the Democrats with Russia and many others.

Why didn't the FBI take the Server from the DNC?

They still don't have it.

Check out how biased Facebook, Google and Twitter are in favor of the Democrats.

That's the real Collusion!

Mueller will never investigate those crimes.

That's because they were committed by loyal members of the swamp.

Mueller's job is to protect the swamp and destroy Donald Trump.

That's why he's harassing Trump supporters like investigative journalist Jerome Corsi.

Corsi said he expects Mueller's team to indict him for perjury even though he believed

he was fully truthful.

But Corsi supported Trump.

He also wrote a book about how he believed Barack Obama was born in Kenya.

So Mueller singled him out for destruction.

And now he may end up spending the rest of his life in prison—despite the fact he never

worked for the Trump campaign and never colluded with the Russians.

We will keep you up to date on any new developments

in this

ongoing story.

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Trump's Pentagon chief Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis will retire in February - Duration: 13:06.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will leave the administration in early 2019, but the onetime Marine Corps general is doing it on his own terms – listing the ways he's incompatible with his commander-in-chief

Chief among them is that Mattis believes Trump hasn't tended the diplomatic garden of international alliances, leaving the United States unable to defend its interests overseas

And the timing of his announcement was unmistakably linked to the president's announcement Thursday of a troop pullout from Syria that the two men disagreed about

'Because you have the right to a Secretary of Defense whose views are better aligned with yours on these and other subjects,' Mattis wrote after his litany, 'I believe it is right for me to step down from my position

' Trump treated the departure like any other in Washington's revolving doors.'General Jim Mattis will be retiring, with distinction, at the end of February, after having served my Administration as Secretary of Defense for the past two years,' he tweeted

'During Jim's tenure, tremendous progress has been made, especially with respect to the purchase of new fighting equipment

General Mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations

A new Secretary of Defense will be named shortly.I greatly thank Jim for his service!' Mattis' message Thursday was far less rosy – a rhetorical flamethrower with a touch of khaki

'One core belief I have always held is that our strength as a nation is inextricably linked to the strength of our unique and comprehensive system of alliances and partnerships,' he wrote

'While the US remains the indispensable nation in the free world, we cannot protect our interests or serve that role effectively without maintaining strong alliances and showing respect to those allies

' Mattis also declared that America 'must be resolute and unambiguous in our approach to those countries whose strategic interests are increasingly in tension with ours

' In clear references to Russia and China, he wrote about four decades of 'immersion' in global affairs, leading him to believe in 'treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors

' At the White House, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a crush of reporters that Mattis made the decision about the timing of his announcement

'He and the president have a good relationship, but sometimes they disagree,' she acknowledged, responding to a question about the Syria troop pullout's role in the defense secretary's departure

'The president always listens to members of his national security team, but at the end of the day, it's the president's decision to make,' she said

'He was the one to be elected president, to be the commander in chief, and while he takes all of their opinions, and all of their advice into consideration, at the end of the day it's his decision to make

' Trump made waves Wednesday at the Pentagon by announcing his withdrawal of America's mid-size military contingent stationed in Syria

The decision, reached Tuesday in a small group meeting at the White House, didn't include consultation with Gen

Joseph F.Dunford Jr.,the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were in the room

Both objected.Trump declared this week that his administration has won the war against the ISIS terror army, even though the Pentagon has said the group still has 30,000 soldiers in Iraq and Syria

Some administration officials are bracing for a possible pullout from Afghanistan next

The U.S.has 14,000 troops stationed there.According to CNN, no decision has been made but officials are worried Trump might act soon to pull out of a conflict he has long claimed America should never have entered

The president asked back in 2011, years before he began to flaunt his political ambitions: 'When will we stop wasting our money on rebuilding Afghanistan? We must rebuild our country first

' Reactions to Mattis' announcement fell along partisan lines on Thursday.House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who will become speaker in January, said during a press conference at the Capitol that she was 'shaken by the resignation of General Mattis' and called it 'a very sad day for our country

' Pelosi encouraged reporters to read the resignation letter, and to pray for the United States

'You have leaders, great leaders who have left the administration in dismay and the rest of them have left in disgrace

And that's what this administration has been about,' she claimed.Most Republicans thanked the defense secretary for more than 40 years of public service

Many Democrats lamented that one of the Trump administration's few 'adults in the room' would be leaving

Illinois Democratic Sen.Dick Durbin said on Twitter: 'America has lost more than an exceptional Secretary of Defense

We have lost the adult in the room when the President goes off on a tweet-filled, uninformed rant about our national security

' Tennessee Rep.Jim Cooper appeared to be tweeting from the same talking points.'I worry the White House meeting rooms will soon be vacant of adults,' he wrote

California Democratic Rep.Jimmy Gomez chimed in: 'The adults have officially left the building

' Fellow Californian Adam Schiff, who will chair the House Intelligence Committee in 2019 and 2020, took his criticism a step further

'Old Marines never die, but they do resign after the President ignores their advice, betrays our allies, rewards our enemies, and puts the nation's security at risk

Turn out the lights when Mattis leaves; we will not see his like again while Trump remains in office,' Schiff tweeted

Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan, a retiring Wisconsin Republican, issued a more traditional statement, saying Mattis has made the nation 'a safer America at home, and a more commanding force abroad

His patriotism and grit are matched only by his humility and graciousness.' On GOP dissenter, Florida Sen

Marco Rubio, tweeted that Thursday's resignation letter 'makes it abundantly clear that we are headed towards a series of grave policy errors which will endanger our nation,damage our alliances & empower our adversaries

' Trump has speculated before about how long Mattis might stay in his Cabinet.Asked in October during a '60 Minutes' interview whether his Defense Department chief might be on his way out, he responded: 'Well, I don't know

He hasn't told me that.' 'I have a very good relationship with him.It could be that he is

I think he's sort of a Democrat, if you want to know the truth,' he said.'But General Mattis is a good guy

We get along very well.He may leave.I mean, at some point, everybody leaves.Everybody

People leave.That's Washington.' Virginia Democratic Sen.Mark Warner tweeted in horror on Thursday: 'This is scary

' 'Secretary Mattis has been an island of stability amidst the chaos of the Trump administration

As we've seen with the President's haphazard approach to Syria, our national defense is too important to be subjected to the President's erratic whims

' Warner is vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.Mattis isn't the only senior official on the way out

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will depart in a matter of weeks, and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is also on a glide path to the private sector

The president drew cheers at political rallies during his late 2016 transition period when he announced that Mattis would run the Pentagon

Trump was fond of calling him 'Mad Dog,' a nickname Marine lore described as a loving tribute bestowed by the men he led

In fact, his men in the field had a different moniker for him when he was a Marine colonel

They called him CHAOS, short for 'Colonel Has An Outstanding Suggestion'–a hat tip to Mattis' reputation as a thinking man's soldier

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Donald Trump e la minaccia aliena - Zanc9 fa le voci #3 - Duration: 4:42.

Hi guys!

I am Donald Trump, and I want to become the president of the USA, yeah!

Yeees! Donald Trump! Donald Trump!

Oh, sorry, it's my assistant. It may be important…

Oh, this is some good news!

I actually AM the president of the USA!!

Yeees! Donald Trump! You are the best! Yeeeah!

Thank you guys

Anyway, I came here to tell you something really cool

We found aliens!

You know, the ones with green skin, who make whooo, whoooooooo!

Oh, again?

"Take it more seriously: they want to attack the Earth"

Oh, wow!

"They have black skin, huge teeth and three pairs of red eyes"

No matter how many eyes they've got, but their skin is BLACK!?

Where do they come from? South Africa!?

Mmm, let's ask him

"So, where do they come from?"

"They come from Vega"

Oh, they're Vegans!?

Don't worry dude: vegans are not dangerous

I know a couple of them. They only eat carrots, like rabbits

"They are planning an invasion"

Oh no! I don't want America to be full of rabbits!

Well, I'll put them on the blacklist

Now, let me call my dear friend from Russia

Hi, Vladi! How are you?

"Donald Trump, what are you doing calling me in the middle of the night??"

Are you kidding me? It's 6 p.m.

"Idiot!"

"The Earth is a sphere. There's the time zone: here in Moskow it's 4 o'clock"

Oh, I thought the Earth was flat

Anyway, did you hear about the vegans' invasion? We must do something!

"Ah, the aliens' invasion! Yes, the news leaked two weeks ago"

"Don't you worry, I have programmed a nuclear missiles system that will solve everything"

"The red button is ready. I just have to press it and everything blows up!"

Oh, ok. See you later then

Man, this is not good, not good at all

Atomic bombs? I don't like them. I don't like radiation: it ruins my hair!

Well, I've got a better idea

I'll build a wall, a great wall to separate the Earth from Vega

And I'll make vegans pay for that wall!!

Yeees! Donald Trump! Donald Trump! You are the best! Yeeeah!

As you can imagine, they both had their own minds

Putin sent missiles, while Donald Trump built the interstellar wall

However, Putin's missiles crashed into the wall and blew it up

So, aliens could reach the Earth unharmed, and the worst thing is...

THEY WEREN'T VEGANS

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Trump prepares to stay in Washington for holidays if demands for border wall are not met - Duration: 2:52.

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James Mattis Handed Trump The Letter That No One Saw Coming - Duration: 3:46.

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TRUMP FINALLY DID IT TO SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE BORDER!! DEMS NEVER SAW THIS COMING - Duration: 11:57.

TRUMP FINALLY DID IT TO SHUT DOWN THE ENTIRE BORDER!!

DEMS NEVER SAW THIS COMING

one of the people's favorite emojis thatNthere's the one that goes like this wellVthat's where

we are now with this whole funding battle after the president called

over leaders of Congress Republican side to a meeting at the

White House in which he basically told them that he needed to have something about border

security in the bill or he

certainly wasn't going to sign it the president in a statement from Sarah Sanders saying quote

President Trump just met with Republican members of the

House not surprisingly they all feel strongly about border security stopping the flow of

drugs stopping human trafficking and stopping terrorism we

protect nations all over the world the Democrats are unwilling to protect our nation we urgently

need funding for

border security and that includes a wall when the Speaker of the House his last day is supposed

to be today walked out of the White House it was clear that the president

dug in his heels and said I want something more than what the Senate

gave me last night listen here so what we're gonna do is go back to the house and work

with our members we want to keep the government open but we also

want to see an agreement that protects the border we have very serious concerns about

securing our border so the president said he will not sign this bill

so we're going to go back and work on adding border security to this also keeping the government

open because we do want to see an agreement just for the record

here are the 12 members of Congress on the Republican side who were in the meeting was

the Speaker Paul Ryan Kevin McCarthy the

incoming minority leader Steve Scalise Liz Cheney mo Brooks of Alabama Jim Jordan additionally

mark meadows Paul Mitchell Chris Gibson mark walker Barry ladder Milken and Wagner all

there as well but that the real question now Dana is I'm not

sure what they do because the Senate's left town and if they pass a measure that's got

funding for border

security in it there's nobody from the Senate to take a look at it the president will be

speaking at 2:30 we do know that so we he'll probably have

something to say about this it's also Ninteresting to note too that the president has kind of

stopped talking about a quote wall it is now talking

about a steel slat barrier which maybe Democrats may find more palatable I doubt it but he's

talking about it in

different terms well he's giving them some options on I did have one question for you

which is then why didn't the president say anything

before the Senate voted on the bill that now he doesn't like you know I was

talking to White House officials yesterday afternoon when this idea the CR was floating

around the Senate and I said so are you you're going to eat the CR and sign it and the consensus

seemed

to be yeah the president would you know reluctantly sign it but then the president woke up this

morning clearly was of a different mind than what his

aides told me yesterday so he wants this this funding for border security what he

can't get out of Congress he's going to try to get out of existing appropriation so this

tale has yet to be told in full and like many things around here at the

White House it's going to be a doozy IBwill not surrender this nation to the whims of

criminal organizations who prey on the vulnerable who hurt women and children

and has spread human misery and suffering human trafficking and massive drug inflow

must also be stopped it's at a tremendous level what we're doing and the

incredible job being done by border

security ice Border Patrol local police and the military the military has been incredible

and we're stopping them to process you wouldn't believe how tough

but we're stopping them in record numbers at this moment there is a debate over funding

border security in the wall also called so that I give them a little

bit of an out steel slats we don't use the word wall necessarily but it has to

be something special to do the job steel slots I've made my position very clear any measure

that= funds the government must include border security has to not for political purposes

but for for a country for the safety of our community this is not

merely my campaign promise this is the promise every lawmaker met that is the solemn promise

to protect and defend the

United States of America and it is our sacred obligation we have no choice for decades Washington

abandoned this commitment and millions and millions of people to enter our

country illegally and over the objections of the American people

no one voiced or voted for a policy no one endorsed this policy and no one ratified this

policy it was a total

assault on our democracy itself illegal immigration costs our nation two hundred and seventy five

billion dollars a year you hear many different numbers you can

say billions and billions but the number that I hear most accurate is two hundred and seventy

five billion dollars a year at least millions of jobs and thousands of

innocent lives more than 90% of

heroine comes across our southern border heroin deaths have tripled since 2002 every week

this illegal heroine kills at least 300 Americans and costs our nation

over 230 million to 289 billion dollars for nearly 5 billion dollars a week I spoke with

President Xi of China and he has agreed to make fentanyl another one of

the big big problems and probably I

think it's just gone to number one kills 80,000 people a year in our country he's going to

make that a major crime in China and if you get caught you pay a major penalty it's called

the death penalty and it wasn't listed as a crime until

I spoke to so I appreciate President Xi for doing that that's a

tremendous that's gonna have a tremendous impact every day 10 known or suspected terrorists

try to gain entry into our

country every day 2,000 illegal aliens try to cross our borders they try we get most

of them it's hard without a wall every year 50,000 illegal children are

smuggled by coyotes and criminals into our country in the last two years alone ice officers

arrested criminal aliens charged with or convicted of 100,000

assaults 30,000 sex crimes and 4,000 murders it's rough stuff yet the

Democrats continued to oppose border security no matter how many innocent people get hurt

or die ridiculously and dangerously certain people want open

borders which allow potentially massive crime our nation has spent trillions of dollars

and sacrificed thousands of brave young lives defending the borders

of foreign nations I am asking Congress to defend the border of our nation for tiny fraction

tiny fraction of the cost essential to border security is a

powerful physical barrier walls work whether we like it or not they work better than anything

in Israel 99.9 percent successful think of it I spoke to

Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister two

days ago we're talking about it he said it's 99.9 imeem he came up I didn't ask I said

99.9 percent successful we have proposed a steel slat barrier to halt the

deadly flow of these illegal traffickers smugglers and terrorists

every day that we deprive our Border Patrol and ice officers the resources

they need we put many innocent lives in harm's way it should be bipartisan I\ think it will

end up being bipartisan I really do illegal immigration also strains public services

that Americans depend on and illegal immigration drives down wages for the neediest Americans

no one who calls themselves a progressive should support illegal immigration open borders

hurts poor Americans more than anyone else

in our society in life there are certain principles worth fighting for principles that are more

important than politics party or personal convenience the safety and

security and sovereignty of the United States is the most important principle of all if

we don't stand strong for our national borders then we cease

to be a nation and we betray our

commitment to the loyal citizens of our great country I look forward to signing a bill that

fulfills our fundamental duty to the American people it is all about and I say this in any

way they want to hear it it's all about America first

we have to put our country first we have to put our people first and we have to put safety

first so thank you

all very much and we'll be working on that Mitch and Paul and Kevin and everybody and

we'll see what we can do but hopefully that all come together it

some additional perspective now in all these major stories from House Majority Leader Kevin

McCarthy Republican from California mr. leader thanks for joining

us first of all give us just an update

of how you think this gets solved from your point of view well first of all Brett think

about it you've already had 75% of the government funding we're

debating that last 25% this is about national security about border security so the Senate

sent over to us what is a continuing resolution that funds the government

as is with no border security

in there even though we've already been funding and building the wall it also had nothing

in there when it came to disasters remember the Hurricanes in North

Carolina in Florida in Georgia are the devastating fires in California so

what we will do and remember there are two separate bodies here it happens on

every bill we will take a continuing resolution we will add five billion dollars in that for

border security we'll also add the in there for disaster relief for those states

of devastation because they can't wait a lot of those individuals can't go

in plant can't rebuild entire cities are burnt in California and we'll send that over to

the Senate they can take action which we don't have a problem until Friday

tomorrow late I think there's some differences and we can find common

ground it's the way our government is designed to find common ground and come

to a solution right but you do you think you have the votes because you think you have

the votes in the house we will have the votes in the house we will pass it tonight

and we will send it to the Senate now the question is about the

Senate mr. leader yes because you have Chuck Schumer saying we're not doing it you have

senators over in the Senate who lost or they were stepping aside and they

may decide they're not gonna do this so where's your your optimism if you have any about getting

it past the Senate to avoid a partial shutdown well first

of all if I listen to Chuck

Schumer just a week ago he said he would fund the wall at 1.6 1.8 billion dollars is he

now saying he would not do that if I look at his what he voted on just a

few years back 2013 he funded and voted for a wall in that process as well so it's Chuck

Schumer changing his position

from the past and this is the real challenge here the American people have to understand

yes Republicans are in the majority we will pass it in the house

but the rules say you have to have 60 votes in the Senate so it really comes down to this

Chuck Schumer want to shut the government down

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Trump defends toughness on ISIS after Fox & Friends host claims he 're-founded' the terror army - Duration: 6:04.

President Donald Trump defended his toughness against ISIS after 'Fox & Friends' host accused him of having 're-founded' the terror group with his sudden decision to pull troops out of Syria

'I've done more damage to ISIS than all recent presidents.not even close!' Trump wrote on Twitter Friday morning, just hours after the segment aired, throwing his press secretary onto the defensive on what is typically friendly terrain

Trump's pushback came after host Brian Kilmeade brough back Trump's own words – including his past claims that President Obama 'founded ISIS

'Both presidents have ordered airstrikes and kept troops in the field to combat the terror group in a multi-year campaign that pushed back it's self-proclaimed caliphate and seized what had effectively been its former capital

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders taunted ISIS not to 'pick a fight' with President Donald Trump Friday – after getting tough questions from Fox News host Brian Kilmeade slamming the president's sudden Syria pull-out

Kilmeade skewered Sanders Friday following Pentagon chief James Mattis' stunning resignation, saying Trump had 're-founded ISIS' by bucking Mattis and other military brass and announcing a troop withdrawal

Sanders appeared on the program Friday amid reverberations from Mattis' harsh resignation letter, which defended U

S.alliances and split with Trump following his sudden announcement of a pullout of U

S.troops from Syria.Kilmeade could be seen shifting in his chair in what started out as a softball interview with Sanders, who was out to defend the embattled Trump Whitehouse amid a looming government shutdown

'Sarah, he is giving Russia a big win.Vladimir Putin praised him.He also is doing exactly what he criticized president Obama for doing,' Kilmeade pounced on the president's favorite morning program

Referring to Trump, Kilmead said: 'He said president Obama is the founder of ISIS

He just re-founded ISIS because they got 30,000 men there and they are already striking back with our would-be evacuation,' Kilmeade continued

'The president is really on the griddle with this,' he added.'Brian, I have to respectfully and vehemently disagree with you,' Sanders pushed back

'The idea that the president has had anything to do with helping ISIS reemerge is absolutely outrageous,' she countered

Then Kilmeade, who wrote a book on Andrew Jackson and the battle of New Orleans, interjected: 'Leaving is helping

Leaving is helping,' echoing concerns inside the pentagon that the removal of 2,000 U

S.forces could provide relief to ISIS, while leaving Russia and Iran in power positions

Sanders responded that Trump 'has put so much emphasis on rebuilding the strongest military on the face of the planet

If ISIS wants to pick a fight with somebody, they sure as heck don't want to pick one with Donald Trump

Because  he will destroy them and defeat them,' she said.'And he's has made that extremely clear

We have wiped out 99% of ISIS in Syria.The president doesn't want to be in the middle of a civil war in the Middle East and continue to put American lives on the line

' Kilmeade interjected again,' saying 'The word on the ground is different from what you just said,' in a reference to the 30,000 ISIS fighters the Pentagon estimates remain in Iraq and Syria

'If we need to fight ISIS again the president is not afraid to do that,' Sanders countered

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt quickly cut off the interview.'All right, Sarah.Thank you so much

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Libs Fundraise For Ladders To Jump Trump's Wall, Amputee Vet Shuts Them Down HARD - Duration: 4:35.

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Trump threatens government shutdown will last for a very long time if Democrats oppose House bill th

President Trump on Friday threatened that a partial government shutdown would last for a very long time if Congress does not meet his demand Friday for billions in funding for his long promised border wall in a stopgap spending measure.

In a spate of morning tweets, Trump sought to pin blame on Democrats for a potential shutdown even though he said last week that he would proudly own one if lawmakers did not provide at least dollar 5 billion toward his marquee campaign promise.

And he suggested that Senate rules should be changed if necessary so that Republicans could pass the bill without any Democratic support.

The Democrats, whose votes we need in the Senate, will probably vote against Border Security and the Wall even though they know it is DESPERATELY NEEDED, Trump wrote. If the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time. People dont want Open Borders and Crime!

The Democrats, whose votes we need in the Senate, will probably vote against Border Security and the Wall even though they know it is DESPERATELY NEEDED. If the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time. People dont want Open Borders and Crime!

Trumps warning came ahead of a midnight deadline for the president and Congress to come to terms on a spending bill to avert a partial government shutdown that would affect funding for roughly 25 percent of the federal agencies whose budgets rely on Congress.

After Trump threatened Thursday to veto a Senate measure that did not contain the border funding he sought, the House hurried to appease the president, pulling together a bill that would keep the government funded through Feb. 8 while also allocating dollar 5.7 billion for the border wall. The House bill also included nearly dollar 8 billion for disaster relief for hurricanes and wildfires.

Democrats, however, have enough votes in the Senate to keep that bill from advancing and have showed no signs of relenting.

The bottom line is simple: the Trump temper tantrum will shut down the government, but it will not get him his wall, Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer D N.Y. told reporters Thursday night.

In a contentious Oval Office meeting last week with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi D Calif. and Schumer D N.Y. , Trump said he would be proud to shut down the government for border security.

So I will take the mantle, he said. I will be the one to shut it down. I wont blame you for it.

Senator Mitch McConnell should fight for the Wall and Border Security as hard as he fought for anything. He will need Democrat votes, but as shown in the House, good things happen. If enough Dems dont vote, it will be a Democrat Shutdown! House Republicans were great yesterday!

In other tweets Friday, Trump urged Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell R Ky. to fight hard to pass a bill with he border wall funding he is seeking.

Senator Mitch McConnell should fight for the Wall and Border Security as hard as he fought for anything, Trump wrote. He will need Democrat votes, but as shown in the House, good things happen. If enough Dems dont vote, it will be a Democrat Shutdown! House Republicans were great yesterday!

Trump also urged McConnell to use the Nuclear Option and get it done!

That is a reference a Senate rule that requires 60 votes to advance most legislation. Trump was advocating that McConnell change the rule so that only 50 votes are required. By doing that, Republicans would be able to pass a bill without Democratic cooperation in a chamber in which Republicans hold 51 seats.

For more than a year, Trump has tried to pressure McConnell to change Senate rules in a way that would allow the chamber to pass legislation with a simple majority.

During the Obama administration, when the Senate was controlled by Democrats, Democrats changed the rules to allow most presidential nominees to advance with a simple majority of votes. During the beginning of the Trump administration, McConnell extended this practice to the nomination of Supreme Court justices, which proved crucial because both of Trumps nominees to the nations highest court won approval by a narrow margin.

But McConnell has resisted such a change for legislation, as have a number of other Republicans, worried about the precedent it would set.

Last year, more than 60 senators from both parties signed a letter to McConnell and Schumer, saying they were opposed to changing the rules in the way Trump has demanded. The letter was signed, among others by Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Roy Blunt of Missouri, and John Thune of South Dakota.

Mitch, use the Nuclear Option and get it done! Our Country is counting on you!

In his tweets, Trump also sought to counter Democratic arguments that a border wall is an antiquated strategy for curbing illegal border crossings.

The Democrats are trying to belittle the concept of a Wall, calling it old fashioned, Trump wrote. The fact is there is nothing elses that will work, and that has been true for thousands of years. Its like the wheel, there is nothing better.

Properly designed and built Walls work, and the Democrats are lying when they say they dont, the president added.

The Democrats are trying to belittle the concept of a Wall, calling it old fashioned. The fact is there is nothing elses that will work, and that has been true for thousands of years. Its like the wheel, there is nothing better. I know tech better than anyone, technology.....

The Democrats are trying to belittle the concept of a Wall, calling it old fashioned. The fact is there is nothing elses that will work, and that has been true for thousands of years. Its like the wheel, there is nothing better. I know tech better than anyone, technology.....

Trumps attacks on Twitter came as a number of federal agencies were in the final stages of implementing their shutdown plans.

A number of federal parks and monuments are slated to close, some as soon as Saturday morning. The Securities and Exchange Commission posted a list of the services it will soon suspend, including the processing of certain business records. The Justice Department, Commerce Department and Internal Revenue Service are preparing to send thousands of people home without pay.

And Trumps prediction that a shutdown would last for a very long time means that more than 100,000 federal employees risk missing at least one paycheck, and possibly more. Even the Border Patrol agents and Transportation Security Agency officials who are directed to continue working during the shutdown will not be paid until Congress funds their agencies.

About 480,000 federal workers would be furloughed, according to a Washington Post projection.

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Trump Calls for Mitch to Use the "Nuclear Option" to Pass Wall Funding! - Duration: 3:52.

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Mick Mulvaney Will Let Trump Be Trump - Duration: 4:54.

WELCOME TO "THE LATE SHOW."

OF THE I'M YOUR HOST, STEPHEN COLBERT.

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) I FEEL THE SAME WAY.

I FEEL THE SAME WAY.

I'M IN A GOOD MOOD.

HAPPY FRIDAY AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYBODY.

THE PRESIDENT-- ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

WOOO!

COMING TO THE END OF THE YEAR, AND WE HAVE EARNED IT.

THE PRESIDENT REPORTEDLY "WILL SPEND 16 DAYS AT MAR-A-LAGO

DURING THE HOLIDAYS."

THIS IS FUN.

COINCIDENTALLY, RICHARD NIXON WENT TO MAR-A-LAGO A MONTH

BEFORE HE RESIGNED THE PRESIDENCY.

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) OH, PLEASE.

OH, HISTORY, OH, HISTORY, PLEASE REPEAT YOURSELF.

WE DID OUR PART BY NOT LEARNING FROM YOU.

( LAUGHTER ) NOW, WHEN TRUMP GETS BACK, HE'LL

HAVE A NEW CHIEF OF STAFF: BUDGET DIRECTOR AND CHEF FROM

THE PIZZA BOX, MICK MULVANEY.

MULVANEY'S PREDECESSOR, GENERAL JOHN KELLY, TRIED TO REIN IN

TRUMP, BUT ACCORDING TO POLITICO, MULVANEY DOESN'T PLAN

TO TRY.

"I AM HONORED TO BE THE NEW ZOOKEEPER.

AS MY FIRST OFFICIAL ACT, UNLOCK ALL THE CAGES!

LET'S GET THE LIONS HIGH AND RUB STEAK SAUCE ON THE PENGUINS."

( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) SOURCES -- SOURCES -- I COULD GO

FOR SOME PENGUIN.

SOURCES CLOSE TO MULVANEY SAY HE INTENDS TO GIVE TRUMP MORE

LEEWAY TO ACT AS HE CHOOSES-- A RECOGNITION THAT TRYING TO

CONTROL TRUMP IS A FUTILE APPROACH.

SO, I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT WHAT WE'VE SEEN IN THE LAST YEAR

AND HALF IS TRUMP BEING CONTROLLED.

( LAUGHTER ) WHAT'S HE GOING TO BE LIKE NOW?

(AS TRUMP) : "I WAS WRONG.

THERE ARE NOT FINE PEOPLE ON BOTH SIDES.

WHITE POWER!

I'M GOING TO TWEET OUT THE NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODES!

I LOVE PUTIN!

I'LL COLLUDE WITH ANYTHING THAT MOVES!

LET THE PEE PEE RAIN!" ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )

ONE OF THE KEY HEADACHES FOR KELLY WAS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH

JARED AND IVANKA-- OR AS THEY'RE KNOWN BY THEIR CELEBRITY COUPLE

NAME, THE ACTUAL CHIEF OF STAFF.

( LAUGHTER ) KELLY REPORTEDLY DERIDED THEM AS

TWO NEW YORKERS "PLAYING GOVERNMENT."

(AS IVANKA) : "OKAY, JARED, I'L BE THE FIRST DAUGHTER, WHO'S

ALSO A FASHION MODEL AND SECRETARY OF STATE.

YOU GET TO COVER UP THE MURDER OF A SAUDI JOURNALIST.

GO!

ERIC, YOU CAN BE A TREE STUMP."

( LAUGHTER ) BUT SOURCES SAY THAT MULVANEY IS

NOT GOING TO GET IN JARED AND IVANKA'S WAY.

A FORMER ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL SCOFFED AT THAT PLAN, SAYING,

"EVERYONE GETS ALONG WITH THE KIDS IN THE BEGINNING."

( LAUGHTER ) WOW, THAT SOUNDS OMINOUS.

"WHY, YOU MUST BE THE NEW NANNY.

YOU LIKE THE CHILDREN?

OH, EVERYONE LIKES THE CHILDREN, UNTIL SUNDOWN.

( LAUGHTER ) I HOPE YOU HAVE A STRONG DOOR.

( MANIACAL LAUGHTER ) THEY'RE WATCHING US RIGHT NOW."

( LAUGHTER ) AND WITH THE HOLIDAY SEASON

COMING UPON US, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE TRAVELING.

AND THERE'S SOME GOOD NEWS FOR FOLKS WHO PLAN ON FLYING,

BECAUSE THE T.S.A. HAS SAID IT WILL DIAL BACK ITS CONTROVERSIAL

PASSENGER-MONITORING PROGRAM CALLED "QUIET SKIES"-- WHICH IS

ALSO WHAT I CALL IT WHEN I CRUSH TWO AMBIEN INTO THAT TINY

WHISKEY BOTTLE.

( LAUGHTER ) YOU MAY NEVER HAVE HEARD OF

QUIET SKIES, BECAUSE THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM WAS TO MONITOR

AMERICAN TRAVELERS WHO WERE NOT ON ANY TERROR WATCH LISTS OR

SUSPECTED OF TERRORISM OR CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR.

THAT'S ENTRAPMENT.

NO ONE IS AT THEIR BEST AT THE AIRPORT.

I ONCE SAW AN INFANT EAT A ENTIRE CINNABON.

I SAW A GUY CARRYING AN IGUANA IN A FANNY PACK.

I ONCE SAW A GUY PAY $4.50 FOR MINTS, AND THAT GUY WAS ME!

(LAUGHTER) WHY DIDN'T THE AIR MARSHALS

SHOOT ME?

THIS PROGRAM USED ARMED, UNDERCOVER AIR MARSHALS TO

MONITOR WHETHER TRAVELERS USED A PHONE, WENT TO THE BATHROOM,

CHATTED WITH OTHERS, OR CHANGED CLOTHES.

BUT AFTER COMPLAINTS, THE T.S.A.

HAS AGREED TO SCALE THE PROGRAM BACK... SORT OF.

MARSHALS WILL STILL MONITOR PEOPLE THEY CONSIDER PERSONS OF

INTEREST, BUT THEY ARE CHANGING THE THRESHOLD FOR REPORTING

THEIR OBSERVATIONS TO INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES.

SO, MARSHALS WILL STILL WATCH WHAT YOU DO, BUT WON'T

NECESSARILY REPORT IT, WHICH MEANS NOW THERE ARE JUST ARMED

MEN STATIONED AROUND THE AIRPORT WRITING DOWN WHEN YOU PEE.

( LAUGHTER ) "UH, YOU GOING TO REPORT THAT TO

SOMEBODY?" NO.

NA, THIS IS JUST FOR ME."

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Trump Pivots On Wall Funding - Duration: 8:47.

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Behind Trump's Billions: How He Really Got His Real Estate - Duration: 12:25.

President Donald Trump: a very polarizing figure whose wealth lies at the heart of his

public persona.

For decades Trump has presented himself as a self-made billionaire who started out with

nothing more than a million-dollar loan from his father.

And yet, as it turns out Donald's father, Fred Trump, had a much bigger part to play

in his son's rise to prominence.

In this video, we're gonna look behind Trump's billions, to see how he really got his real

estate empire.

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The story of Donald's wealth starts almost a century ago with the rise of his father.

Fred Trump was a true hustler.

Having lost his father at the age of 12, Fred had to learn how to work and the industry

he got into was construction.

He had built his first residential house by the time he was 20 and he got into this business

at a very opportune moment.

You see, President Roosevelt had just signed the New Deal, which among other things wanted

to encourage residential construction, providing very cheap loans and subsidies that Fred was

very eager to take.

In fact, from the 1930s onwards America enacted housing subsidy after housing subsidy, starting

with the New Deal, then with military housing during World War 2 and finally with the post-war

housing boom enabled by the GI Bill.

As the American home ownership rate jumped by 20% in the span of just 3 decades, Fred

Trump amassed a fortune, largely enabled by the vast sums he received from the government.

In 1949 alone the FHA gave him a $26 million loan to build two apartment complexes in Brooklyn:

Shore Haven and Beach Haven.

What's interesting though is not that he got rich using government money, which is

actually pretty typical, but that he began a massive campaign of funneling money to his

children when he was just 40 years old.

The numerous methods he used were simple, but effective.

Before building those two apartment complexes in Brooklyn, Fred purchased the land they

would be built upon using his company.

He then created a trust whose beneficiaries were his children and he donated the land

to the trust.

Now because Fred's construction company was no longer the owner of the land he would

have to lease it from the trust through a contract known as a ground lease.

Under this contract, the trust would receive over $60,000 a year for the next 99 years,

creating a steady stream of income for Donald who at the time was only 3 years old.

But the ground leases were just the beginning because over the next twenty years, Fred would

start to transfer the buildings themselves to his children.

He'd buy a plot of land through an empty corporation, building apartments on it with

government money and the he would gift the company's shares directly to his children.

Now, this isn't a very complicated scheme: in fact it actually incurs a lot of gift tax,

which Fred doesn't seem to have paid.

If you go through his tax returns it shows that he paid gift tax on only one out of the

eight buildings he transferred this way.

He built it through a partnership for $2.5 million in 1968 and a year later he gifted

15% of the partnership to each one of his children.

If you do the math the gift tax should come close to $100k, but he only paid six and a

half.

Of course, it's worth noting that Fred Trump has been pursued by the State of New York

multiple times during the 50s and 60s for underpaying his taxes.

Despite these issues though, he had no problem obtaining millions of dollars in subsidies,

no doubt thanks to his political connections.

In fact it is during this period that Fred built his greatest project, the Trump Village,

for which he received $50 million from the State of New York and which he would also

pass down to Donald through questionable means, but that happens later.

After graduating from college in 1968, Donald of course went to work for his father and

this is when the wealth transfer really kicked into high gear.

In 1972 Donald and his father formed a partnership to secure an $8 million loan to build Prospect

Tower.

Interestingly enough, even though it was Fred who did all the work, most of the profits

went to Donald.

On top of his share from the partnership, he was receiving consultancy and management

fees, as well as everything tenants paid to rent air conditioners.

By 1975 Donald was getting over $300k per year just from that building and if you sum

up everything else, by the time he was 29 he had pocketed $9 million from his father.

Of course, Fred's goal wasn't just to enrich Donald, but to build up an image for

him to help start his career.

A 1976 profile of Donald put his net worth at $200 million, when in reality the projects

he was claiming as his own were really his father's.

At the time, Donald was the president of the Trump Organization, which carried with it

a hefty salary, but on top of that he was constantly receiving loans from Fred.

In 1979 Donald received loans for a total of $3 million from his father's companies

and the way these loans were structured is very interesting.

They did come with a certain amount of interest, but it was paid back as soon as the loan was

taken out and because the loan had no repayment plan Donald was free to keep the money indefinitely.

These loans and many more came flooding into Donald's wallet when he began his first

project in Manhattan, converting the Commodore Hotel into the Grand Hyatt between 1979 and

1980.

The exact same loans would appear a second time when Donald was building Trump Tower

between 1980 and 1983.

During this time Fred masterminded another scheme for his children.

Using multiple trusts, he'd buy off the mortgages of at least 14 of his properties

and he'd transfer them to the trusts, whose beneficiaries were, of course, Donald and

his siblings.

Effectively, during the 80s Donald became his father's banker, even though he never

actually provided mortgage loans, he just pocketed the interest payments.

By the end of the 1980s all the distribution methods had transferred nearly $50 million

to Donald from his father's empire, but that only emboldened him to take even bigger

risks.

In 1988 he bought the Plaza Hotel for over $400 million and a year later he spent over

$350 million on Eastern Airlines, which he quaintly named Trump Shuttle.

Most famous of all, of course, is Donald's entry into the casino business in Atlantic

City.

While that story is vast enough for a whole video on its own, what matters is that when

Donald's casinos started failing in the early 1990s it was Fred who propped things

up.

He personally gave Donald millions to prevent his casinos from defaulting on their debts

before bankruptcy proceedings could restructure them to give the casinos more time to repay

the loans.

For example, Fred's personal income skyrocketed by an order of magnitude to $50 million, which

incurred a tax bill of $12 million.

During this time he made no significant debt payments or charitable donations, and a frugal

man like him would never just pay taxes because he could, so the money must have gone somewhere.

Around the same time, one of Fred's employees went to the Trump Castle casino, bought $3.35

million worth of casino chips and left without placing any bets.

Another technique Fred used was to actually buy stakes in Donald's properties and then

to resell them back to him at loss a few years later.

In 1987 he purchased 7.5% of Trump Palace, a 55-story building in Manhattan, for over

$15 million.

Just four years later Fred sold back his entire stake for just $10,000 on the pretext that

the business was failing even though it wasn't.

In fact, that very same year Trump Palace sold 57 condos for over $50 million total.

In the early 1990s, however, Fred's health began declining and he even started exhibiting

symptoms of dementia.

Because he still hadn't transferred the majority of his wealth to his children he

began an impressive program to syphon everything he had left to them without paying estate

taxes before he died.

In 1992 his children incorporated a maintenance company which immediately became the subcontractor

for all of Fred's buildings.

All the millions of dollars Fred's properties spent on repairs and improvements started

going through this one company and they all incurred a large markup.

During the next few years the costs for Fred's empire went way up.

In the case of Beach Haven, trash-compacting services increased in price by 64%; janitorial

supplies went up by 100%, and plumbing increased by 120%.

In 1994 Donald and his siblings also became the managers of Fred's buildings to further

drain cash from his empire.

By 1999 the methods Fred masterminded were providing each one of his children with $2.2

million of income per year.

Eventually, when the day came to transfer the properties themselves, the only thing

that mattered was at what price the buildings would be valued and to that extent Donald

and his siblings hired a notorious real estate appraiser to help them out with their problem.

Using a variety of methods, he brought down the price of 25 apartment complexes with 7000

units to just $40 million.

The most hilarious method of all was the way he calculated two of the buildings in Trump

Village to actually have a negative value.

You see, in 1992 Fred removed those two particular buildings from an affordable housing program

so he could raise rents, but in doing so he lost a tax exemption they had under that program.

This created a one-time accounting charge that, if you base your valuation on it, makes

the building appear unprofitable even though it definitely wasn't.

In the end, transferring Fred's entire real estate empire cost him $20 million.

When Fred died in 1999 he had just $2 million in the bank and all the properties he had

spent seven decades to assemble were now in the hands of his children.

Here's the funny thing though: just five year later, when Donald's Atlantic City

casinos were once again nearing bankruptcy, he convinced his siblings to sell the entire

portfolio.

In early 2004, Donald and his brothers and sisters sold off the empire their father had

spent his entire life assembling to a New York City real estate investor for $700 million,

officially bringing an end to the legacy of Fred Trump.

Of course, since then Donald has continued doing business and today his net worth is

estimated to be around $3 billion, so clearly even though he got an immense kickstart from

his father, he did achieve a lot on his own.

And with regards to the legality of Fred Trump's tax-avoiding methods, even if they turned

out to be criminal, the statute of limitations for them has long since expired, so Donald

can only be fined with penalties.

Speaking of tax avoidance, New York City is ripe with it, so much so that the owners of

apartments worth hundreds of millions pay less in property taxes than the average home,

sometimes as low as 0.017%.

If you're curious how they're getting away with it, you should head on over to Cheddar,

who did an awesome video on exactly this topic.

If you don't know, Cheddar's channel is the home to numerous fun videos that cover

business and technology and if you haven't seen them you should definitely go and check

them out and even consider subscribing.

In any case, thank you for watching.

You're gonna see me again in two weeks, and until then: stay smart.