DAILY BELLWETHER 10/30/2017 DEMOCRAT WOMEN OF THE SENATE WERE 'ALL FOR' TAX REFORM UNTIL PRESIDENT TRUMP PROPOSED THEM! (Talk about stupidity!)

Paul Manafort, Rick Gates Indicted by Federal Grand Jury in Russia Probe Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his associate Rick Gates have been indicted by a federal grand jury Monday on 12 counts, according to the special counsel’s office. The special counsel’s office told Fox News that the counts include conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, unregistered agent of a foreign principal, false and misleading Foreign Agent Registration (FARA) statements, false statements and seven counts of failure to file reports of foreign banks and financial accounts. The case was unsealed Monday, after Manafort and Gates were permitted to surrender themselves to the custody of ... Read More

Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Accused of Election Law Violation Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was accused of breaking election rules Wednesday as she and fellow Democrats faced fallout from the disclosure that her campaign and party operatives paid for research used in a salacious anti-Trump dossier. President Trump called the revelation “a disgrace,” and the head of the House investigative committee said he wants to know whether the FBI relied on the dossier in its counterintelligence work. “It’s very sad what they’ve done with this fake dossier,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House. “The Democrats always denied it. Hillary Clinton always denied it. I think it’s a disgrace. ... Read More

Obama Justice Department’s $1 Billion ‘Slush Fund’ Boosted Liberal Groups President Barack Obama’s Justice Department created a “slush fund” of nearly $1 billion using legal settlements with banks and steered those funds to political allies on the left while excluding conservative groups, internal documents show. The financial institutions, which made legal settlements with the Obama administration regarding mortgage securities that imploded during the 2008 financial crisis, include Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and JPMorgan Chase. Public records of the settlement agreements with the Justice Department show that when cash donations to liberal groups are combined with other donations in the form of ... Read More

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Kushner Took Secret Trip to Saudi Arabia White House senior adviser Jared Kushner took an unannounced trip to Saudi Arabia late last week to discuss a Middle East peace initiative, a White House official told Politico. Kushner, who is also President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, left Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and returned Saturday. He met with officials from Egypt, Jordan and the UAE, and was accompanied by Trump's special envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Jason Greenblatt, and Deputy National Security Adviser Dina Powell. The same group visited Saudi Arabia and ... Read More

Democratic Women in the Senate Were All for These Tax Reform Principles until Trump Proposed Them Women in public office often make women and their families a focus of their work. They put aside partisanship to support positive ideas that are meant to help women in the home, school, workforce, and the economy. Now is an important moment to unite across the aisle and to encourage their male colleagues to make good on past promises of tax relief to American families. Instead, a handful of female senators on the left -- who once bemoaned our byzantine tax code and claimed to champion tax relief for working-class families -- are intentionally trying to block tax reform efforts. Not one of the ... Read More