The confirmation of former Goldman Sachs Partner Steven Munchin, who is Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, may have gotten just a little more problematic today, after Mnuchin declined to answer questions from Democratic senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio about his views on financial regulations, sanctions and his time as head of a bank accused of unfair foreclosure practices.
So much for Obama’s claims to have expelled 35 Russian diplomats. It has been revealed that the Russian “intelligence operatives” kicked out of the US in retaliation for hacking the DNC include sick children, a pregnant woman and a chef. The December 29th decision by the Obama Administration to expel 35 Russian “diplomats” unleashed a storm of criticism in Russia. “Can you imagine how limited the amount of time it was and how urgently they needed to pack?” Nikolai Lakhonin, press secretary of the Russian Embassy in Washington, told LifeNews on Sunday.
Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer has reignited expectations that Hillary Clinton will be punished for the illegal tactics employed during her failed campaign, claiming there should be more focus on the Democratic nominee’s cheating and election manipulation than on alleged Russian hacking. Spicer questioned the “magnitude” of the mainstream media scrutiny on Russia’s alleged cyber warfare against the Democratic National Committee in an attempt to boost his boss into the White House.
President Vladimir Putin has been warned he is doomed to failure in Ukraine and that 2017 will be a year of aggression against Russia. War mongering US senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham told a crack team of marines in Ukraine that “2017 will be the year of offense” promising to defeat Putin on Eastern European battlefields. McCain warned “In 2017 we will defeat the invaders and send them back where they came from.
Submitted by Rick Sterling via Strategic-Culture.org,