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Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com)
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, ratifying President Trump's choice of a former advocate for business interests to lead the agency. From a report: Wheeler, also a former Republican Senate aide on environmental issues, has been acting administrator since July, when former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid a host of ethics controversies. Since Wheeler began leading the agency, he has continued work on many of the same priorities as his predecessor, including looking to roll back Obama-era air and water pollution regulations. But Wheeler has brought a level of stability to the agency that didn't exist under Pruitt, keeping a relatively low profile while continuing to make progress towards meeting the Trump administration's policy goals for the agency. He has met often with industry representatives. Wheeler attended or held more than 50 meetings with representatives of companies or industry groups regulated by the EPA between April and August of 2018, a CNN review of his internal schedules found.
Andrew Wheeler is helping Make America Great Again by bringing back those glory days when rivers routinely caught fire.
"Grab them by the pussy" -- President of the United States of America
"He had no direct evidence or knowledge of any Russian collusion during the campaign and said so under questioning yesterday." - Wrong, his testimony IS evidence. He said Jr. told Trump about that meeting beforehand.
Which is .... hearsay, and thus inadmissible as actual evidence... You cannot testify to what you *think* somebody else said to somebody else, especially when that somebody is available to testify as to what was said. ALSO... IF you are talking about the "Trump Tower Meeting" during the campaign, it is FAR from established that anything unseemly or unethical took place at that meeting, in fact, everybody who was at that meeting says that the topic being discussed was some obscure adoption rules and had nothing to do with coordinating electioneering activities. But don't let the lack of actual evidence dissuade you from believing something else happened.
When he was questioned about "Russian Collusion" Cohen says the following... Transcript excerpt follows from NBC none the less...
Was there collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia?
"Questions have been raised about whether I know of direct evidence that Mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with Russia. I do not. I want to be clear. But, I have my suspicions," Cohen said.
Suspicions are not "direct evidence" so Cohen knows nothing of importance about this subject.
I'm making no judgment here about what Trump may or may not be guilty of, I'm just pointing out that Cohen doesn't have any direct evidence of Russian collusion to share with us. That Cohen suspects something he cannot prove may mean something to you, but to a court of law, it's meaningless.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
ALSO... IF you are talking about the "Trump Tower Meeting" during the campaign, it is FAR from established that anything unseemly or unethical took place at that meeting, in fact, everybody who was at that meeting says that the topic being discussed was some obscure adoption rules and had nothing to do with coordinating electioneering activities. But don't let the lack of actual evidence dissuade you from believing something else happened.
The US passed the Magnitsky Act December 14, 2012. This applied financial sanctions to Russia, particularly some Russian billionaires and high level officials. As a direct response, on December 19, 2012, Russia voted to ban the adoption of Russian children by US citizens. Russia has publicly stated that they would only lift the ban on adoptions if the Magnitsky sanctions were lifted. So when the say the 2016 meeting was about "adoptions", that directly translates to "sanctions" as the two are directly linked and you can't talk about one without the other.
Don Jr has publicly admitted that the meeting between the campaign and with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya took place. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the sanctions (using the codeword adoptions). And Veselnitskaya was offereing damaging information on Clinton as incentive, which from emails we have was described as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.” An email to which Don Jr. replied, “If it’s what you say I love it.”.
The Trump campaign knowingly met with Russians about a quid pro quo deal exchanging dirt on Clinton for lifting sanctions on Russia.
Most of the states with the most meth labs are Republican, and the state with the most meth labs is Vice-President Pence's very own Indiana.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
I assume he's talking about the power grabs the state senates did in those two states. When the Republican governors lost their elections, the Republican state senates passed a bunch laws transferring a bunch of power from the governor to the senate. The outgoing governors were happy to sign the bills into law on their last days in office.
And fuck coal miners. Leave that poison in the ground.
Let me remind you Hillary Clinton said the same thing and she was left in the dust. No pun intended.
No, she did not say "the same thing."
She said that the coal industry was dying (true) and that she wanted to offer opportunities for coal workers to train and transfer to other industries. That does not sound like "fucking" coal miners.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Cohen testified he was in the room when Trump Jr. came in and said what he testified Jr. said. That's not hearsay, that's direct testimony from someone who was in the room. It's evidence. You're a retarded traitor lol.
Also it's testimony indicating Jr. lied to Congress, which is going to be quite thoroughly investigated, lol, you can take my word on that you punk ass illiterate traitor.