HotAir Daily Express 06/15/2018

[Hot Air Daily Express]( [Follow us on Facebook]( [Home]([Green Room]([Archive]([The Ed Morrissey Show]([Print]([Forward]( [Trump: I’m soft on Kim Jong Un’s human rights record because I don’t want to see a nuclear weapon destroy your family]( 6/15/2018 11:21:25 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments This is excellent salesmanship of his weird whitewashing of Kim a few days ago on Fox News, inviting the viewer to step into his shoes and see things from the perspective of situational ethics. What would you do? You have a lunatic cult leader armed [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: I’m not signing the compromise House immigration bill]( 6/15/2018 10:41:16 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Bad news for Paul Ryan and his hopes of pulling together both moderates and conservatives, but not entirely a surprise either. Ryan put down a rebellion in his own caucus and headed off a clean DACA authorization that almost succeeded in coming to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Get your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook]( Hoover SPONSORED How can America rediscover what has made it exceptional? Find out when you download your free Make America Exceptional Again ebook today! [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trade war on: Trump approves $50 billion in China tariffs]( 6/15/2018 10:01:35 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Nuclear war off, trade war on? Just as the White House celebrates a successful start to a process that might result in the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the Trump administration approved $50 billion in tariffs on its most important [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani: Trump’s not sitting down for an interview “in a corrupt investigation”]( 6/15/2018 9:21:03 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments “Those FBI agents should be fired today,” Rudy Giuliani told Fox & Friends this morning, “and in prison next week.” Giuliani joined a chorus of guests on F&F arguing that the report from inspector general Michael [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Trump: Aren’t you glad I fired Comey now?]( 6/15/2018 8:41:05 AM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments After a relatively long silence in response to the long-awaited IG report on the “midyear investigation,” AKA Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, Donald Trump finally weighed in today on Michael Horowitz’ findings. It amounted [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [WaPo writer ponders, can’t we just impeach Scott Pruitt?]( 6/15/2018 8:01:30 AM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments I can’t imagine how difficult it must be these days to work at the Washington Post, the New York Times, or the host of other media outlets who have been desperately looking for a way to force EPA administrator Scott Pruitt out of office. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Mark Sanford: I pledge allegiance to the flag, not to Trump]( 6/14/2018 10:01:28 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t know where this guy gets off suggesting that the GOP’s turning into a cultist nightmare. Clearly, he’s … uh … he’s … what was I saying? Complacency is our enemy. Anyone that does not embrace the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Clearly, there is no bias problem at the FBI]( 6/14/2018 9:21:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments The conclusion of the DOJ Inspector General’s report is that bias did not impact the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails (though the IG did leave one question about this unresolved). Nevertheless, the report contains plenty of [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Hillary mocks Comey for IG revelation that he used private email]( 6/14/2018 8:41:06 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Somehow I always knew that the 2016 election would end up with all major players sh*tposting about each other on Twitter. When’s Obama going to come get some of this? But my emails. — Hillary Clinton [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Cold War flashback: Germans thwart Islamist ricin attack plot]( 6/14/2018 8:01:51 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments A Tunisian man faces prosecution for planning an Islamist terrorist attack via a rare and highly dangerous poison, a plot thwarted by investigators in Germany this week. The alleged perpetrator had begun buying precursors to the deadly chemical [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Reporter yells at Sanders: Where’s your empathy for kids separated at the border from their parents?]( 6/14/2018 7:21:25 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Remember Brian Karem? This isn’t the first time he’s thrown a tantrum at one of Sanders’s press briefings to applause from his friends in the media hashtag-Resistance. Personally, I think it’s nice of the White House to [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Prof. Bret Weinstein: ‘What I have seen functions…like a cult’]( 6/14/2018 6:41:15 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Last month, Professor Bret Weinstein gave testimony before Congress on his experience at Evergreen State College and what he believes it means for our future as a nation. Weinstein posted video of his testimony on YouTube last week (see below). [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Giuliani: Come on, Cohen’s not cooperating with Mueller]( 6/14/2018 6:01:29 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Inside dope or wishful thinking? As Allahpundit pointed out yesterday, the idea that Michael Cohen’s change of representation means he’s cutting a deal with prosecutors was pretty speculative. Unless Rudy Giuliani’s coordinating [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Leak-o-rama: IG says lots of FBI employees were talking to reporters — and some even received benefits]( 6/14/2018 5:21:47 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments By “benefits” I mean food, drink, and tickets to events. Minor bribes. Not … you know. But stay tuned. There are more IG reports to come. You never know what those crazy kids at the FBI might be getting up to in off-hours. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Did the FBI’s slow walk of the Weiner laptop investigation cost Clinton the election?]( 6/14/2018 4:41:38 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly that James Comey’s decision to announce he was re-opening the investigation into her emails about 10 days before the 2016 election was responsible for her loss (along with a long list of other things). Today [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Buzzfeed: Trump told G7 that Crimea is Russian because everyone speaks the language]( 6/14/2018 4:01:26 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments If true — heavy on the if — this undermines the entire post-World War II emphasis on self-determination, and waves a very big red cape in front of a very determined Kremlin bull. According to Buzzfeed’s two diplomatic sources, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Today’s hot topics: Horowitzmas, Wisconsin’s Blue-Wavemas, pro-life momentum, and more!]( 6/14/2018 3:31:42 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (4 pm ET), we have another great lineup for the news of the day! The show will be streamed on Hot Air’s Facebook page and embedded here and on the show page for those who are not on Facebook. Join us as we [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Why hasn’t Peter Strzok been fired yet?]( 6/14/2018 3:21:17 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments I don’t understand why he wasn’t showed the door the day the IG discovered the “we’ll stop it” text. Whether he actually did anything to stop Trump is key for investigative purposes but beside the point for employment [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [‘Foreign actors’ had access to Hillary’s emails including one classified ‘secret’]( 6/14/2018 2:41:27 PM John Sexton 0 Comments Fox News’ Catherine Herridge is reporting that an FBI memo and documents prepared by two House committees indicate that unnamed “foreign actors” had access to some of Hillary Clinton’s emails, including at least one [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [The unavoidable “Trump saluted a North Korean general!” post]( 6/14/2018 2:01:14 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments It’s a protocol fumble, but is it also a counterpart to Barack Obama’s infamous bow to the Saudi king nine years ago? North Korea’s state-run television channel aired footage of the summit between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [“Persistently illegal conduct”: New York Attorney General sues Trump, kids, charity]( 6/14/2018 1:31:00 PM Allahpundit 0 Comments Reeeeeally dumb of the AG to make this announcement today, when it’s not only guaranteed to step on the news about the DOJ’s Emailgate report but happens to be POTUS’s birthday. If they want the suit to be viewed as a nonpartisan [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Of course: Venezuelan socialism hasn’t failed because it ‘has never been in place’]( 6/14/2018 1:01:35 PM John Sexton 0 Comments No matter how often socialism is tried we always find out later (from disappointed and defensive socialists) that socialism was never really tried. Now that Venezuela is a basket case of 4-digit inflation, high crime, and chronic starvation, [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Boston “goes there” with new law designed to crush Airbnb]( 6/14/2018 12:31:16 PM Jazz Shaw 0 Comments After months of “investigation and study” with veiled threats coming from the office of Mayor Marty Walsh, Boston voted this week to impose strict limits and fees on people choosing to rent out a room using Airbnb to make some extra [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Bloomberg: Cancel Horowitzmas … for now; Update: “We’ll stop” Trump?]( 6/14/2018 12:01:28 PM Ed Morrissey 0 Comments Our first clue? The Tweeter in Chief spent more of his morning attacking the New York Attorney General’s office than the Department of Justice after his briefing on the highly anticipated report from Inspector General Michael Horowitz. [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [CBS: Sarah Huckabee Sanders eyeing the exit at the White House]( 6/14/2018 11:21:40 AM Allahpundit 0 Comments Not surprising. In fact, she’s barely disputing the allegation. Press secretary Sarah Sanders and principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah are both heading for the exits, according to sources inside the White House and close to the [More...]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Latest Headlines: We pick, you click.] Peter Beinart [Trump takes his party back to the 1920s]( CNN [Fewer teens having sex and using drugs, CDC survey finds]( CNN [Report: Michael Cohen tells friends, family he’s willing to cooperate with feds]( NBC News [Feds to build tent city to house migrant kids in Tornillo, Texas]( The Local, Germany [End for Merkel? Power struggle with minister threatens to collapse coalition]( The Blaze [Franklin Graham: This separation policy for children at the border is disgraceful]( AP [Trump says FBI was “plotting against” him]( Wash Times [Rudy Giuliani demands Mueller suspend investigation today in wake of IG report]( CNN [Michael Cohen seeks restraining order to stop Michael Avenatti from speaking to the press]( Collins, Shesgreen [House GOP releases compromise immigration legislation that would protect DREAMers, fund wall]( AP [Trump could impose tough U.S. tariffs on China as early as today]( Timothy Carney [The media should stop ignoring when sexual misconduct perpetrators are married]( Newsweek [Study: Religious people live four years longer on average]( Kevin Williamson [Watch what you say. Someone else is.]( Matt Bai [Jeff Sessions takes on microaggressions. He’s right.]( Jacob Lambert [Why I’ll never cheer for my son]( Shikha Dalmia [The Trump doctrine isn’t “We’re America, bitch.” It’s “I’m Trump, bitch.”]( Robert Tracinski [Trump’s North Korea meeting is just bad theater]( Joseph Wulfsohn [Why it’s ridiculous to label Trump’s North Korea summit a failure]( Matt Lewis [How Corey Stewart and other GOP opportunists embraced the dark side to win primaries]( Michael Barone [Will we get tired of so much winning?]( YouGov [Poll: Americans still love Canada, even if the President doesn’t]( Rich Lowry [Why Republicans should want Scott Pruitt out]( David French [Meet the new hubris, same as the old hubris]( WaPo [Kids in these U.S. hot spots at higher risk because parents opt out of vaccinations]( [Ed Morrissey Show]( [Advertisement] __________________________SUBSCRIPTION INFO__________________________ WERE YOU FORWARDED THIS EDITION OF THE HOT AIR DAILY? 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