Новости за 23.08.2018

Scott Johnson, Power Line
RealClearPolitics has just posted Paul Sperry's 7,000-word investigation into the FBI's misrepresentations and nonfeasance in the matter of the Weiner laptop and the Clinton emails. Sperry's column runs under the headline Despite Comey Assurances, FBI Failed to Examine Vast Bulk of Weiner Laptop Emails. Sperry reports that the FBI examined only a tiny fraction of hundreds of thousands of Hillary Clinton emails discovered on the Weiner laptop six weeks before

Ezra Klein, Vox
Tuesday showed how corruption might cost Trump his reelection.

Bradley Smith, WP
If a candidate for public office decided to settle a private lawsuit to get it out of the news before Election Day, would that be a campaign expenditure? If a business owner ran for political office and decided to pay bonuses to his employees, in the hope that he would get good press and boost his stock as a candidate, would that be a campaign expenditure, payable from campaign funds?

Michael Kruse, Politico
Perhaps for the first time, an insider has bitten back - hard.

Jill Filipovic, CNN
The administration wants to allow coal-burning power plants to emit more deadly carbon and to give states greater leeway to allow big-money companies to pollute. The new rules would replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, which is aimed at reducing carbon emissions.

Tammy Bruce, Washington Times
The tragic killing of 20-year-old University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, allegedly by an illegal immigrant from Mexico, appears to be yet another example of America's dangerous and failed immigration policy.

Leslie Rutledge, RealClearPolicy
The president and Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler deserve thanks, as well as the dozens of state attorneys general who leveled the first legal challenges to the validity of President Obama’s sweeping measures in federal court.

Kevin O'Leary, The Hill
At 4:00 pm on Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018, the stock market did something it has never done before. It continued to grow for 3,453 days without a 20-percent correction. The current bull run started on March 9 2009, when the S&P 500 bottomed at 676. It never looked back; since then, it’s up 322 percent.

William Saletan, Slate
Investigation or no, the evidence has always been right in front of us. Here it is.

Charles Hurt, Washington Times
The entire media-political-government-power complex camped along the Potomac River in this fetid August heat officially lost its collective mind this week.

Susan Glasser, The New Yorker
With Michael Cohen’s guilty plea and Paul Manafort’s criminal convictions, Tuesday was a day for the optimists who think they can finally see the beginning of the end of the Trump Presidency.

Jason Zengerle, NY Times Magazine
Thanks to ruthless discipline — and a plan long in the making — the G.O.P is carrying out a sweeping transformation of the federal judiciary.

Paul Sperry, RCInvestigations
When then-FBI Director James Comey announced he was closing the Hillary Clinton email investigation for a second time just days before the 2016 election, he certified to Congress that his agency had “reviewed all of the communications” discovered on a personal laptop used by Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin, and her husband, Anthony Weiner

Jonathan Allen, NBC News
Two of the president's former associates were in court Tuesday. Both guilty of multiple felonies. What happened to draining the swamp?

Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Show
RUSH: So let’s see. A guy who has been known to the Drive-By Media for many years, but let’s just say the last four, has been considered a sleazebag, a shyster, a reprobate, an SOB, just a piece of scum, and that would be Michael Cohen. Today he is a man of paragon and virtue because the one thing that hasn’t changed

Bret Stephens, New York Times
The principled case for impeachment is clear. What’s missing is the courage.

Alan Dershowitz, The Hill
A few things are clear. A candidate is free to contribute to his or her own campaign. It also is not criminal for a candidate to pay hush money to women whose disclosures might endanger his campaign.

Salena Zito, New York Post
Last week, a woman in her mid-40s who lives in a tidy suburban enclave just outside of Columbus, Ohio, summed up her continued support for President Donald Trump despite his morals, values and behavior not matching hers nor matching her expectations she had for any president of the United States.

Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic

Christian Toto, Hollywood in Toto

Jefferson Cowie, New York Times