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#1
The Flea Trap / 2021-2022 Hockey Season
November 21, 2021, 12:21:54 PMThis ought to be good to watch.
#2
The Flea Trap / Whistler, BC
July 28, 2021, 07:54:16 PMI was in Vancouver last week. The weather was TERRIFIC!
I wanted to see Whistler but all the tour buses to Whistler from Vancouver were paused. Just fyi for any Whistler enthusiasts.
#3
The Flea Trap / Islamophobia is Very Much Alive in Canada
June 08, 2021, 08:11:51 PM #5
The Flea Trap / Heart Health
December 14, 2020, 02:21:56 PM #6
The Flea Trap / Global Pandemic
April 05, 2020, 11:45:51 AMIn Hungary, the pandemic was just an excuse.
APRIL 3, 2020
Anne Applebaum
Staff writer at The Atlantic
Viktor Orbán is the prime minister of Hungary. He has been in power since 2010. During that time, he has underinvested in hospitals. Instead, public money has gone to pet projects, many of them related to the sports he enjoys. In his home village, Felcsút, the government built an elaborate soccer stadium with a heated field and 3,814 seats—which, as The New York Times noted, is twice the number of people who live in the village. Meanwhile, the nearby county hospital's emergency ward has long struggled to cope with even an ordinary number of patients. On one evening in October, a visiting Times reporter found two harried doctors on call at midnight, and 30 people waiting for treatment.
During the past decade, Orbán's government has also misdirected European Union money—some meant to encourage regional development in places like Felcsút, some meant specifically for medical development—to friends and party comrades. This kind of corruption, coupled with the Hungarian government's nationalist rhetoric, has famously persuaded many educated people to leave the country, including doctors. Poor salaries in the health service haven't persuaded them to stay. Now, thanks to COVID-19, Hungary faces a looming health crisis, as well as an economic crisis.
Who will Orbán blame? The answer, dear reader, is: you. And me. And anyone inside or outside Hungary reading or distributing material critical of the Hungarian government.
On March 30, the Hungarian Parliament, which is controlled by Orbán's party, Fidesz, voted to cancel all elections, suspend its own ability to legislate, and give the prime minister the right to rule by decree—indefinitely. None of these powers is needed to fight the coronavirus. None of them fixes the existing problems in Hungarian hospitals. All of them will help the Hungarian government push through other measures. Almost immediately, they were used to pass controversial edicts on museum construction and theater management, and to prohibit transgender people from legally changing their sex—issues without the remotest relevance to the pandemic. The government also wants to use its new powers to pass a decree classifying all information about a major Chinese railway investment in the country, the single largest infrastructure investment in Hungarian history. Once again, this has nothing to do with fighting the virus but it will conveniently keep the details of the business deal, and the names of the businessmen who benefit, out of the public view for 10 years.
Like many others, I tweeted criticism of this de facto coup d'état. The next day, some of those who searched for Anne Applebaum and Hungary received, as one of their top Google results, this message from the Hungarian government's English-language propaganda site, abouthungary.hu: "Coronavirus Protection Act: The importance of saving Hungarian lives is clearly not a priority outside Hungary." Meanwhile, József Szájer, one of the leaders of Hungary's European parliamentary delegation, sent out a letter to foreign colleagues—members of a pan-European alliance of center-right parties with which Fidesz is aligned—accusing them of lacking concern for Hungarian lives. "Please," Szájer wrote, "do not hinder us by unfounded criticism in the midst of our fight!" His use of hinder is extraordinary, for it implies, again, that foreign criticism will somehow harm Hungary's battle against the coronavirus.
Not coincidentally, this is the same kind of language used by Zoltán Kovács, Hungary's serially dishonest press spokesperson—think Kellyanne Conway with facial hair—when he speaks about Hungary's small but still vocal political opposition, as well as critiques from abroad. "We're in a state of emergency, by the way," he sneered in a posted comment. "Lives are at stake." For that reason, he wrote, the "gross distortion" of the "facts" about the situation is "biased and irresponsible." State-controlled media have gone further, openly labeling the government's opponents as proponents of the virus.
Why does this matter? Because although Hungary is a small country, it is one whose creeping authoritarianism is widely admired. In early February, I wrote about the rapturous reception that Orbán had received at a conference of self-declared nationalist and far-right intellectuals—American, Israeli, and European—in Rome. I fully expect his tactics to be imitated: Anybody who disagrees with my emergency laws is trying to spread illness is something we will hear again. So is Whichever mistakes we made in the past, we are not responsible for them now. Indeed, I suspect that we will hear that sentiment again and again. In the United States, President Donald Trump has already blamed an extraordinary array of actors, from state governors to Barack Obama to China, for mistakes made by himself and his administration.
Outside Hungary, other parliaments and assemblies have found ways to keep working. It's true that Britain's Parliament is in early recess; members departed for Easter six days earlier than they otherwise would have. But they have a designated date of return, and they are already setting up systems to conduct some business online. The European Parliament, meanwhile, is physically unable to meet: Many of its members—my husband is one, from Poland—literally have no way to get to the parliamentary chamber in Brussels, since planes have stopped flying and borders have closed. Nevertheless, members managed to debate and even to vote last week, using a bespoke online system. A variety of other parliaments, from the Danish Folketing to the German Bundestag, have set up special procedures to continue operations.
Few lawmakers, at least so far, expect their government's emergency measures to be abused. If, by contrast, his European counterparts have little confidence in the Hungarian prime minister, that is his own fault. His government has had an "emergency" anti-migration decree in place since 2015, though anything resembling an immigration emergency has long passed.
Yet criticism, both domestic and foreign, can have a positive effect, even in Budapest. Alongside measures about museums, theaters, and sex changes, Orbán also issued a decree that would remove powers from local governments, many of which are led by opposition politicians. This was not only an egregious power grab; it may well have complicated the pandemic response in municipalities. In the wake of that edict, outrage was so loud and so sustained that the government withdrew the measure a mere 16 hours later.
So ignore the Hungarian-government propagandists. Also ignore anyone else who tells you that their policy is above criticism, that politics don't apply in a pandemic, or that accountability and transparency need to be suspended for some indefinite period of time. The opposite is true: All of the decisions being made right now, whether medical or economic, deserve widespread scrutiny and debate. As Francis Fukuyama has written, there is no evidence that authoritarians are better than others at controlling disease; several democracies—South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and perhaps Germany—look like they have control of their coronavirus outbreaks. Nor does any evidence show that secrecy produces better outcomes; quite the contrary.
There is evidence that effective bureaucracy, good information and good data will help us survive. If we are not only to get through this global crisis but come out on the other side better prepared, we also need to keep track of which decisions were made and when, and to remember who was responsible for them: in the United States and the United Kingdom, in China and Taiwan, in Germany and France, in South Africa and Brazil—and in Hungary too.
#9
The Flea Trap / 2019-2020 Hockey Season
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#10
The Flea Trap / Animal Kingdom
August 22, 2019, 04:14:07 PM
Feast your eyes on these adorable Siberian Tiger cubs. I want them!
#11
The Flea Trap / Fans Worry For A Star After Disturbing Post
July 25, 2019, 10:24:57 PM
"My heart is broken but I am forever in debt to you for this beautiful show," Manning added, tagging "OITNB" creator Jenji Kohan and series producers Tara Herrmann, Lisa Vinnecour, and Neri Tannenbaum.
"This is for anyone who feels alone, terrorized by cyber criminals, cyber bullying, criminals with the intent to cause others distress and isolate them from life, for people who have lost everything due to another humans mental illness and smear campaigns," Manning wrote.
Manning's fans and friends were quick to send her their support and express their concern.
"Babe I tried to text you are you OK?" wrote musician Abimbọla Fernandez, while another asked, "Are you in danger?"
"So sorry you are feeling this way. Shame on anyone who could have helped and didn't," read a different comment, while another simply added, "Don't know what's happening.... but hope you're ok."
#12
The Flea Trap / Canada's new food guide recommends fruits and vegetables make up half your plate
June 29, 2019, 10:53:36 PMCanada's new food guide, the first update in more than a decade, recommends fruits and vegetables make up half our plates at any meal
Drink water. Go light on the animal products. Fill half your plate with fruits and vegetables. Fruit juice is liquid sugar, not fruit. Avoid processed foods. Limit booze.
Canada's new food guide is being praised for its simplicity, for doing away with confusing, "idiotic and ridiculous" recommended portions and serving sizes and for promoting a plant-heavy eating plan that's more in line with dietary guidance from other countries, where the smallest section in the grocery store is the dairy aisle.
But the guide is also being criticized for being too simple and fuzzy, for including "healthy eating" tips that sometimes border on the mildly patronizing, and for demoting dairy and beef — foods that, until now, enjoyed almost miracle food status in one of the country's most venerable documents.
The new guide, the first rewrite in more than a decade, recommends Canadians choose proteins that come from plants— not animals — more often.
Gone is the rainbow of the old four food groups, replaced by a single plate, half of it filled with fruits and vegetables, and a quarter each to whole grains and proteins. "Milk and alternatives" and "meat and alternatives" have lost their status as official, standalone food groups and have been lumped into the protein-rich category instead.
At a technical briefing in advance of Tuesday's release of the updated food rules, Dr. Hasan Hutchinson was asked why anything dairy appeared to be largely absent from the composite plate and snapshots of "healthy eating."
"Certainly in the picture of the composite plate you've got, ah, yogurt — that's right there in the protein group," Hutchinson, director general of Health Canada's office of nutrition policy and promotion, told reporters. And, while it may have been hard to see, there was milk in a bowl of porridge and berries.
Hasan said the long-awaited rewrite is based on a rigorous scientific review using the best available evidence, and that industry-commissioned reports were intentionally excluded to reduce any perception of conflict of interest — real or perceived — and to maintain "the confidence of Canadians."
Among the changes:
The previous four food groups — vegetables and fruit, grain products, milk and meat — are history. Instead, food is now separated into three groupings: vegetables and fruits, whole grains (such as whole grain pasta, brown rice and quinoa) and protein foods (lentils, lean red meat, fish, poultry, unsweetened milk and fortified soy beverages, nuts, seeds, tofu, lower fat dairy and cheeses lower in fat and sodium).
Also gone are recommendations for specific portions or daily servings. No one wanted the old measures, said Dr. Yoni Freedhoff, an associate professor in the department of family medicine at the University of Ottawa.
"Nobody weighed and measured their foods. Nobody really followed it, nobody knew what a serving size was. They were ridiculous and idiotic," said Freedhoff, a bariatric medicine specialist. "But they provided the food industry with something really powerful to market — especially the dairy industry, which talked about how many servings of dairy you needed to have per day, and how Canadians were doing a poor job with that."
The new guide instead focuses on proportions, with an emphasis on a high proportion of plant-based foods. It also recommends replacing foods that contain mostly saturated fat (cream, high fat cheese, butter and the like) with foods that contain mostly unsaturated fats, like nuts, seeds and avocados. A diet higher in vegetables and fruits is linked to a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, eating more nuts or soy protein can help improve blood fat levels, and processed meat has been linked to higher risks of colorectal cancer, Health Canada says.
While some have accused Health Canada of pushing an environmentalist agenda, the agency says the food guide's primary focus is health, though it does acknowledge eating more plant and fewer animal-based foods can "help to conserve soil, water and air."
In fact, water should be our "beverage of choice," the guide says. It's essential for digestion and keeps us hydrated without adding empty calories with "little to no nutritive value." Water can include water from fruit, vegetables and soups. But the guide recommends moving away from fruit juices and other sugary drinks (100 per cent fruit juice has been unceremoniously struck from the "fruits and vegetable" grouping to the delight of many nutritionists). And, it warns of the health risks of drinking excess amounts of alcohol, including certain cancers, hypertension and liver disease. Booze can also be a significant source of free sugars and saturated fat when mixed with syrups, sugary drinks or cream-based liquors.
Canadians are also being advised to limit our consumption of highly processed foods and to prepare meals and snacks using ingredients that have little to no added sodium, sugar or saturated fats. It offers lifestyle advice: Cook more often. Eat meals with others. Take time to eat. Notice when you are hungry and when you are full. Be aware of food marketing.
The Dairy Farmers of Canada maintains that there is "no scientific justification to minimize the role of milk products" in the Canadian diet, and warns that lumping milk products together with other protein foods will lead to "inadequate intakes of important nutrients." The industry had warned that any drastic change to the guide would harm a sector already reeling from concessions granted in recent trade agreements.
#13
The Flea Trap / You Can't Shag The -- !
June 22, 2019, 09:36:35 PMForcing an animal into any sexual act is now outlawed in Canada after the Senate finalized a bill Tuesday to close a loophole in the country's bestiality laws.
Prior to the bill's passing, there was no law against forcing an animal into sexual acts that excluded penetration.
The clear gap in law was highlighted in a 2016 Supreme Court of Canada decision.
A B.C. man was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2013 for sexually assaulting his two stepdaughters. Identified only as D.L.W to protect the children's identity, the man's sentence included two years for bestiality, when he engaged in certain acts with dogs.
The man appealed the bestiality conviction to the BC Court of Appeal after the trial judge accepted the prosecutor's position that penetration is not required. But that conviction was overturned by the appeal court and the Supreme Court of Canada accepted that decision following an appeal by the Crown.
"Penetration between a human and an animal was the essence of the offence," noted the ruling.
Changes to the Criminal Code of Canada in 1988 dealing with bestiality continued to define the act as penetration.
"That Parliament must have assumed that the term 'bestiality' encompassed sexual activity of any kind," but it didn't, noted the high court.
Based on case law,"it was clear that to secure a conviction, the prosecution had to prove that penetration of an animal, or, in the case of women, penetration by an animal, had occurred."
The case set lawmakers in motion to broaden the definition. But, as reported by iPoliticslast January, the Liberal government was criticized for taking too long.
Private member's bills from Conservative Michelle Rempel, in 2017, and Liberal Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, in 2016, were both defeated.
"The failure to fix this law is not without consequence. Last year, there was at least one bestiality charge that was thrown out because it did not meet the limited definition that currently exists," statedSenator Vernon White before passing the bill Tuesday.
The new Bill C-84 redefines bestiality as "any contact, for a sexual purpose, with an animal."
Bill C-84 also strengthens language around prohibiting animal fighting.
"These changes make it clear that any sexual contact with an animal is a serious crime and ensures that abusers are banned from owning animals, which will prevent them from causing further harm," said Shawn Eccles, BC SPCA senior manager, cruelty investigations, in a news releaseWednesday.
The bill was amended at one point to ensure that those convicted of bestiality will be placed on the Sex Offender Registry.
"Many studies have proven a clear link between animal abuse and child abuse, so adding convicted animal abusers to the National Sex Offenders Registry protects children as well as animals," stated Barbara Cartwright, CEO of Humane Canada in a news release supportive of the bill.
Humane Canada, Canada's federation of SPCAs and humane societies, issued a statement that the passing of Bill C-84 "is due in part to the continuing support and efforts of Justice Minister David Lametti, MPs Michelle Rempel and Nathaniel Erskine Smithand Senator Yvonne Boyer."
#14
The Flea Trap / Are We as Awful as We Act Online?
June 03, 2019, 09:05:37 PM"YOU NEED TO have your throat cut out and your decomposing, bug-infested body fed to wild pigs." An anonymous Facebook user wrote that—and more that's unprintable—to Kyle Edmund after the British pro tennis player lost in a 2017 tournament.
After University of Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard spoke about the history of male suppression of female voices, she received Twitter threats, including "I'm going to cut off your head and rape it."
On Martin Luther King Day this year, an anonymous Twitter user lionized the man who killed King some 50 years ago: "RIP James Earl Ray. A true fighter for the white race." The same month, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that his "Nuclear Button ... is a much bigger & more powerful one" than Kim Jong Un's. This capped weeks of dueling statements in which Trump called the North Korean leader "Rocket Man" and "a madman" and Kim called Trump "a gangster" and a "mentally deranged U.S. dotard."
The internet is a particularly volatile place of late. Aggression on social media has reached such a pinnacle of acrimony that some U.S. House members proposed designating an annual "National Day of Civility." The proposal drew civil responses—but also tweets and posts of wrath, ridicule, and profanity.
Is this aggression on social media giving us a glimpse of human nature, one in which we are, at our core, nasty, belligerent beasts?
No.
It's true that hate crimes are on the rise, political divisions are at record heights, and the level of vitriol in the public sphere, especially online, is substantial. But that's not because social media has unleashed a brutish human nature.
#15
The Flea Trap / Abortion
May 22, 2019, 02:25:10 PMIf I had a daughter who was raped and she got pregnant, I would not want her to carry on the pregnancy unless she, as an individual, wants to. There should be no unwanted pregnancies unless the expectant mother truly wants to have the baby either to care for or to give away for adoption. I am a little uncomfortable watching men make decisions over how a woman should handle the developments in her body. Why is this a matter for the government? Doesn't the expectant mother have a say in her own situation?
#16
The Flea Trap / Fox News
April 03, 2019, 08:38:56 PMTucker Carlson's Fox News show earned more viewers last week than all of CNN's primetime line up combined, reports the Daily Wire's Ryan Saavedra.
This has to be a bitter pill for CNN. For years now the far-left network has done everything in its power to bring Carlson down. By any measure, CNN has conducted what can only be described as a straight up, deliberate demonization campaign.
CNN has also participated in the effort to have Carlson blacklisted by advertisers due to his right-of-center political beliefs. Since the fake news outlet cannot beat Carlson in the ratings, it is hoping to drive him off the air through McCarthyism.
Obviously this has backfired in a big way.
Throughout all of last week, CNN's primetime lineup averaged a limp 2.474 million viewers, while all on his own, Carlson averaged 3.475 million viewers.
Here is the specific breakdown according to Nielsen:
Anderson Cooper: 810,000 viewers
Chris Cuomo: 875,000 viewers
Don Lemon: 789,000 viewers
This means that Carlson not only beat all three of these left-wing hacks combined, he beat them by a cool million total viewers.
Although the numbers aren't yet available, my guess is that you could easily add Jake Tapper's weekly average and/or Erin Burnett's weekly average, and Carlson still comes out on top — or close enough for bragging rights.
Carlson usually humiliates CNN, as does MSNBC, but last week was a turning point for the anti-Trump network that went all in pushing the Russia Collusion Hoax.
For two years, CNN flooded its network with one fake news bombshell after another and a narrative that assured viewers the Mueller Report would be the end of Trump — that impeachment was right around the corner.
CNN was certain Mueller would come through with some ginned-up allegation against the president. And so, for two whole years, CNN baited its viewers with this nonsense, and when Mueller failed to come up with the goods, those viewers fled in droves. MSNBC is having the same problem, but nowhere near the bottoming out CNN faces.
And CNN's ratings humiliations show no signs of going away.
On Monday, Carlson earned 3.053 million viewers, which again beat the three stooges named Cooper (791K), Lemon (882K), and Cuomo (973K) combined.
Erin Burnett attracted only 684K viewers. Wolf Blitzer earned just 688K and 617K viewers.
The numbers for Jake Tapper, the far-left anchor who colluded with disgraced former FBI Director James Comey and disgraced former CIA chief John Brennan to launch the Russia hoax, could only snag 626K viewers.
Tapper was hired to anchor the 4 p.m. hour, to be the all-important lead-in that launched CNN's entire night. The once-respected newsman has turned into a total failure and turn-off, a neurotic mix of fake news, virtue-signaling, and self-important sanctimony.
Overall on Monday, Fox averaged 2.82 million primetime viewers to CNN's laughable 882K.
In total day, Fox averaged 1.783 million viewers to CNN's pathetic 595K.
On the credibility front, CNN is over, a spent shell of hate and deception.
On the ratings front, CNN has been in real trouble for years, but with their Russia Collusion Hoax fully exposed, these numbers are now a full-blown catastrophe.
The only thing keeping CNN alive right now is a rigged system that forces 89 million Americans to pay for a cable channel they don't watch.
Follow John Nolte on Twitter @NolteNC.
#17
The Flea Trap / Mar-a-Lago
April 03, 2019, 05:21:45 PM
Mar-a-Lago (/ˌmɑːrəˈlɑːɡoʊ/) is a resort and National Historic Landmark in Palm Beach, Florida, built from 1924 to 1927 by cereal-company heiress and socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post. The 128-room, 62,500-square-foot mansion contains the Mar-a-Lago Club, a members-only club with guest rooms, a spa, and other hotel-style amenities. It is located in Palm Beach County on the Palm Beach barrier island, with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and Florida's Intracoastal Waterway to the west.
At the time of her death in 1973, Post bequeathed the property to the National Park Service, hoping it could be used for state visits or as a Winter White House, but because the costs of maintaining the property exceeded the funds provided by Post, and it was difficult to secure the facility (as it is located in the flight path of Palm Beach Airport), the property was returned to the Post Foundation by an Act of Congress in 1981.
In 1985, Mar-a-Lago was purchased by Donald Trump. His wife at the time, Ivana Trump, was charged with running the property. Trump retained Mar-a-Lago through both of his divorces. His family maintains private quarters in a separate, closed-off area of the house and grounds. Trump has frequently visited there as President of the United States, referring to it as the Winter White House and his "Southern White House." Mar-a-Lago has been used to host meetings for President Trump and international leaders, including Prime Minister of Japan Shinzō Abe and Chinese Paramount leader Xi Jinping. It is the second largest mansion in the state of Florida and the 20th largest mansion in the United States.
Etymology
The company identifies the name Mar-a-Lago as Spanish for "Sea-to-Lake," referring to the fact that the resort extends the entire width of Palm Beach, from the Atlantic Ocean to what is now the Intracoastal Waterway, but previously was known as Lake Worth.
#18
The Flea Trap / Report does not exonerate Trump but Mueller Finds No Trump Collusion
March 24, 2019, 04:03:02 PMSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller made no conclusion on possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump but found no evidence of collusion with Russia, according to Attorney General William Barr.
"The report found evidence on both sides of the question" on obstruction and "leaves unresolved what the special counsel views as difficult issues of law," Barr wrote in a four-page letter to Congress on Sunday. Barr quoted Mueller as saying, "While this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him."
Barr, in conjunction with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, "concluded that the evidence developed during the Special Counsel's investigation is not sufficient to establish that the President committed an obstruction-of-justice offense," he wrote.
The report will be read by Trump's supporters as clearing him of the two major allegations that have hung over his presidency -- collusion and obstruction of justice -- even as Democrats in Congress seem certain to assert their right to determine Trump's guilt or innocence on the question of obstruction of justice.
On Russia's hacking operation in 2016, Barr said, "The Special Counsel did not find that the Trump campaign, or anyone associated with it, conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in these efforts, despite multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign."
Barr issued the summary of Mueller's "principal conclusions" two days after Mueller gave him his still-secret report. It was the close of a politically explosive 22-month investigation into whether Trump or those around him conspired in Russia's interference in the 2016 campaign and whether the president sought to obstruct justice.
It's sure to be only the beginning of months of fighting in Congress -- and perhaps in the courts -- over how much should be disclosed from Mueller's report. Barr said in a letter to Congress on Friday that after this initial summary he'll consult with Mueller and Rosenstein to determine what other information from the report can be released to Congress and the public."
Nothing in the Justice Department's regulations on special counsels would prevent Barr from releasing Mueller's report once certain material is redacted, including classified matters and information about continuing law enforcement operations. But Barr has cited the department's policies against publicly criticizing someone who isn't indicted -- and against indicting a sitting president.
Democratic lawmakers already have demanded the full report as well as the underlying evidence so they can pursue their own investigations.
Trump, who has proclaimed or tweeted "NO COLLUSION" more than 200 times and has routinely denounced Mueller's "witch hunt," made no comment on the special counsel's report over the weekend in Florida. He spent much of the time on his golf course with partners including Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham. The Democratic candidates who seek to replace him in 2020 joined in demanding the full release of the report.
Justice Department officials, who described Mueller's report as comprehensive, said he didn't recommend any additional indictments and doesn't have any secret indictments under seal.
Before completing his probe, Mueller helped secure guilty pleas from five people involved in Trump's presidential campaign -- including his campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Michael Flynn, who became his first national security adviser -- though none admitted to conspiring with Russian operatives. He also indicted more than two dozen Russian hackers and military intelligence officers.
While Mueller didn't seek an indictment of Trump or members of his family, they're not necessarily in the clear.
Trump faces continuing risk from other investigations, with federal prosecutors in New York looking into his company, presidential campaign and inaugural committee. Mueller has been sharing some matters and handing off others to U.S. attorney's offices in Manhattan; Alexandria, Virginia; and Washington, as well as the Justice Department's national security division. That may keep alive cases that touch on his personal and business affairs.
#19
The Flea Trap / Stateside: Donna Brazile Joining Fox News
March 18, 2019, 07:14:00 PM #20