Politics

The federal judge who halted President Donald Trump's travel ban was wrong in stating that no one from the seven countries targeted in Trump's order has been arrested for extremism in the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

As AP reports,

Just last October, an Iraqi refugee living in Texas pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to the Islamic State group, accused of taking tactical training and wanting to blow himself up in an act of martyrdom.

 

Fox News host Bill O’Reilly likes being ignorant and telling his audience to ‘shut up’ …even during times of crisis that demand extreme vigilance and scrutiny of the events making the news. The man responsible for single handedly managing to stop all dialogue in the United States following 9/11 and later the invasion of Iraq, is quoted as saying: “This country is a better place because Fox News has succeeded.” The Kremlin has asked for an apology from O’Reilly for calling President Putin “a killer” during a Super Bowl interview with President Trump.

As part of continued a NATO build-up and US efforts to counter an alleged Russian threat, US military hardware, including M1A2 Abrams battle tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles have arrived in the northern Estonian town of Tapa, shortly after similar deployments were made to other Eastern European nations including Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and Germany.

No tweet this time but White House spokesperson Sean Spicer just stated: "Trump is in favor of negotiating pharma prices"... and the reaction was quick...

 “He’s for it, yes,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer says in response to reporter’s question about whether President Trump supports Medicare drug price negotiations.

Still a long way to go to retrace the previous Trump comment dip...

Another month, another all time high in Americans' confidence in the US economy.