The Deep State, Rosenstein, Facebook, and Twitter Are No Match for the Constitution, the Deplorables and President Trump

TODAY, THERE'S A LOT GOING ON -- ROSENSTEIN, COHEN, THE FBI, AND TWITTER. Do they fit into a pattern? • • • ROSENSTEIN AND THE DEEP STATE. A month ago, American Thinker's Patricia McCarthy asked, "How do you solve a problem like Rod Rosenstein?" McCarthy said : "Rosenstein is a caricature of a bloviating, pompous little pajama boy that SNL might satirize if he were a Republican. He claims to be a Republican but no one on the planet believes that, any more than they believe Comey or Wray are Republicans. This bunch has a plan, and to paraphrase from a great Fred Thompson line from The Hunt For Red October, the DC establishment does not do anything without a plan. The pretend political affiliations of the cabal that tried to frame Trump are irrelevant. They are all part of the same gang of swamp thugs." • McCarthy said Rosenstein and the American Left have to be tamped down : "They have to be defeated, completely. Such people have no business telling our elected officials what they can and cannot have access to. This is not the Soviet Union or East Germany before the fall of the wall. Their hollow claims of 'confidentiality' are bogus. They are covering up their own grievous crimes against the nation. It was our own FBI, DOJ, and CIA who colluded with one another and a host of nefarious, underworld informants in an attempt to bring down a legitimate Presidential candidate, and then a President-elect. Rosenstein lied throughout that hearing. Wray was incidental; he is no leader equipped to reform the FBI. It is as though they all are aware of how corrupt each agency is and they are all afraid for themselves and their cushy jobs. Not one of them cares about the country, the Constitution or what is right and honorable." • • • MEADOWS AND JORDAN CARE AND THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT ROSENSTEIN. A month after Patricia McCarthy asked what to do about Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, a group of 11 House Republicans introduced five articles of impeachment against him. The articles were introduced by Representatives Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Jim Jordan of Ohio, respectively the chairman and a prominent member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Jim Jordan has, in fact, announced that he's running for the position of House Speaker to replace the retiring Paul Ryan. • TheHill said last weekend that while they are not going to force a House vote on the articles for now, Jordan warns : IF the Department of Justice doesn’t hand over documents that Congress has requested, he and other lawmakers will force a vote on the impeachment of Rosenstein. Jordan said on Sunday that lawmakers “have caught the Department of Justice trying to hide information from us, redacting stuff in documents that they should not have redacted. The House has a constitutional duty to do oversight if the executive branch isn’t going to do that. People should be held in contempt, people should be impeached. That’s why if they don’t give us the information, Mr. Meadows and myself and others are going to force an impeachment vote at some point.” • In one article of impeachment, Rosenstein is accused of improperly signing off on the FISA surveillance warrant application against ex-Trump aide Carter Page. The application heavily relied on the Fake Steele Russia Dossier, which was funded by the Clinton campaign and the DNC and contained unverified, salacious allegations against President Trump. The articles of impeachment says : "Under Mr. Rosenstein’s supervision, the Department of Justice and FBI intentionally obfuscated the fact the Dossier was originally a political opposition research document before the FISC [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court]....As Deputy Attorney General, Mr. Rosenstein has failed in his responsibility for the proper authorization of searches under FISA, and his conduct related to the surveillance of American citizens working on the Trump campaign has permanently undermined both public and congressional confidence in significant counterintelligence program processes." • • • NUNES HAS TARGETED THE FISA APPLICATION. The Daily Caller reported on Sunday that House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes told Fox News's Maria Bartiromo : “We are quite confident that once the American people see these 20 pages, at least for those that will get real reporting on this issue, they will be shocked by what’s in that FISA application.” • The DOJ released portions of the four FISA applications on July 20 in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. A majority of the information remains redacted because it is classified. BUT, Nunes and his fellow Republicans on the Intelligence Committee asked President Donald Trump in a June 14 letter to declassify 21 pages from the final FISA application, which was SIGNED BY deputy Attorney General Rod ROSENSTEIN. Desipte the redactions, the Daily Caller says : "the released unredacted portions of the applications confirmed much of what has already been made public through two memos released earlier this year by Republicans and Democrats on the House Intelligence panel. The applications show that the FBI relied heavily on the unverified Steele Dossier to make the case that Page was acting as a foreign agent of Russia during the presidential campaign. Page has vehemently denied the allegations. The release of the FISA applications reignited debate over whether the FBI abused the FISA process by relying on the Dossier to obtain the warrants." • Nunes says that Democrats -- who argue that the applications show that the FBI provided enough evidence to show FISA Court judges that there was probable cause to believe that Page was acting as a covert agent of Russia, and that the information hidden behind the remaining redactions likely provided other damning evidence against Page, including evidence that would bolster the Democrat-funded Dossier -- and the media do not want additional portions of the FISAs to be made public : “They don’t want that unredacted. They don’t want transparency for the American people.” • • • THE FISA APPLICATION SUPPORTS NUNES' ORIGINAL MEMO. Last weekend, the Soros Cener for American Progress again insisted : "The only thing the newly released FISA documents show is that Republicans have been lying for months." • So, the Washington Examiner compared the FISA application and the Nunes Memo. Here are the key findings of that comparison -- "Nunes made a case that the information left out of the application, like the specific source of funding for the Steele Dossier, was 'material and relevant' to the Page case....The 'Dossier' compiled by Christopher Steele on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump's ties to Russia....When the Nunes memo was released, there was controversy over its assertion that the Dossier formed an 'essential' part of the Page FISA application. But Senate Judiciary Committee staff, who reviewed the FISA application separately from the House, concluded that the Dossier allegations made up the 'bulk' of the application. Even a Washington Post article Sunday trying to debunk the Nunes Memo...conceded that the Dossier played 'a prominent role' in the FISA application. Finally, the Nunes Memo's assertion...that former FBI number-two Andrew McCabe agreed that 'no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele Dossier information,' was not challenged by Democrats when the Nunes Memo was made public....Readers will search the FISA application in vain for any specific mention of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign funding of the Dossier. For the most part, names were not used in the application....the FBI chose to describe the situation this way, in a footnote: "Source #1...was approached by an identified US person, who indicated to Source #1 that a US-based law firm had hired the identified US person to conduct research regarding Candidate #1's ties to Russia...The identified US person hired Source #1 to conduct this research. The identified US person never advised Source #1 as to the motivation behind the research into Candidate #1's ties to Russia. The FBI speculates that the identified US person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit Candidate #1's campaign." Democrats argue that the FISA Court judges should have been able to figure out, from that obscure description, that the DNC and Clinton campaign paid for the Dossier. That seems a pretty weak argument, but in any case, the Nunes Memo's statement that the FISA application did not disclose or reference the role of the DNC and the Clinton campaign is undeniably true....The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named US person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a US law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele Dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of -- and paid by -- the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information....Steele's numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling -- maintaining confidentiality -- and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI....In the initial FISA application, the FBI argued that Steele had not leaked to the media. In later applications, the bureau admitted Steele had leaked but maintained that he was still credible because he only leaked after providing the Dossier allegations....Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele....Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he "was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president." This clear evidence of Steele's bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files -- but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications....During this same time period, Ohr's wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife's opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs' relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC....According to the head of the counterintelligence division, Assistant Director Bill Priestap, corroboration of the Steele Dossier was in its 'infancy' at the time of the initial Page FISA application. After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele's reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele Dossier, even though it was -- according to his June 2017 testimony -- 'salacious and unverified.' While the FISA application relied on Steele's past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele Dossier information." • The Washington Examiner concludes : "The bottom line is that, whatever the criticism it has received, the Nunes Memo was almost entirely accurate. The release of the FISA application supports that view." [NOTE : Rosenstein may attack and sneer at Nunes nad the House committtees investigating him and the FISA applications he signed off on, but the truth is in Nunes'Memo, not in the FBI / DOJ FISA applications.] • • • LOSING THE Dossier PATH TO IMPEACHMENT, PROGDEMS TURNED TO MICHAEL COHEN. We learned in Monday's blog that Professor Alan Dershowitz wants the Cohen-Trump telephone call tape to undergo forensic analysis. Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, also had harsh words for Cohen and the questionable legal strategy : “I question the strategy of doing this, of trying to make a tape say what it doesn’t say. Or of putting out a tape in which you’re a lawyer taping a client and then thinking you could cooperate with the government." Giuliani also told Fox News that they need to hear the raw version of the Trump, Cohen tape that's been released : “Now that we’ve seen the full scope of Cohen and Lanny Davis’ deception, we don’t trust anything.” According to Giuliani, analysts say the public audio is a “tape of a tape,” and because of that, they are unable to determine if Cohen cut off the recording in the room, in real time, or altered and/or erased parts of it at a later date. Giuliani said : “Since we don’t have the original, we asked for it. Our expert analysis is done until we get the raw copy, which we are seeking.” Giuliani speculated that the chances of success for obtaining the raw tape are narrow. Fox said that authorities in the government’s investigation of Cohen -- that is, the Mueller special counsel gang of Deep Staters -- are reportedly analyzing multiple recordings. Giuliani insisted, there’s nothing on the tapes [thereare several Cohen tapes] that contradicts the positions the President has publicly taken “on all these things.” Giuliani claimed he would welcome the release of all the so-called “Cohen tapes,” telling Fox News that if Cohen’s legal team sought his permission to release the tapes, “we would say happily, we’ll play it for everybody. They show the President didn’t do anything wrong and that Cohen deceives people.” • Could DAG Rosenstein obtain a copy of the raw tape for the President's attorneys? Almost surely he could. Will he? Almost surely, he will not. • In addition, on Monday the Daily Caller noted an interview with Professor Dershowitz, in which he explained that he believes the tape couldn’t contain evidence of any crime : “How do I know that? A former judge, appointed by Judge Kimba Wood, made a determination that this tape is covered by the lawyer-client privilege. And criminal discussions are not covered by the lawyer-client privilege. So we already have a judicial determination that this tape does not contain elements of a crime.” • • • WHILE PROGDEMS AND THEIR MEDIA HOUND TRUMP ABOUT COHEN AND RUSSIA, TWITTER "SHADOW BANS" CONSERVATIVES. And, once again, it is Devin Nunes who is taking the lead in stopping the Twitter practice. "Shadow Banning" is Twitter's practice of removing conservatives from its automatically created lists that show up in drop down search boxes. • Last week, Vice News reported that Nunes, along with several other conservative Republican figures, were harder to find on Twitter as their accounts did not show up because of Twitter's "shadow banning." The shadow banned conservatives didn't completely disappear from Twitter -- their profiles still appear when a full search for their profile is conducted -- but the potentially politically charged maneuver makes it much less convenient for users to find them. These GOP leaders -- Nunes, along with Representatives Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, and Mark Meadows, as well as Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel -- felt the impact, said the left-leaning Vice News, but : "Meanwhile, their Democratic counterparts did not experience the same issue." • The Washington Examiner says Devin Nunes is looking at "legal remedies" to take against Twitter for "shadow banning." Nunes told Fox News on Sunday : "It sure looks to me like they are censoring people and they ought to stop it. We are looking at any legal remedies to go through." • Nunes' comments follow a tweet by President Trump saying : "We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once!" • Twitter says that "shadow banning" is not something the company does, and in a blog post attributed what happened to being an "issue" that was resolved on Wednesday. Twitter also claimed that some Democratic politicians were affected, but did not identify any, and suggested that the GOP problem "had more to do with how other people were interacting with these representatives’ accounts than the accounts themselves." • Representative Matt Gaetz announced last week on Fox News that he is also working on the shadow banning situation. Gaetz has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against Twitter because his account didn't appear in auto-complete search results. Gaetz's spokesman said : "Congressman Gaetz continues to believe that interactive computer services, such as Twitter, should not discriminate against content while simultaneously asserting that they are a nonbiased public forum under federal law." Nunes says the issue of his visibility on Twitter had been a months-long problem : "For several months people have been contacting me saying, 'I tried to find you on Twitter. I couldn't find your account, why is that?' " Nunes, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has repeatedly condemned Twitter for applying a layer of censorship on the tweets tied to the Drudge Report, tying the issue to the larger issue of censorship and bias conservatives face in the technology arena." • At the center of Twitter’s censorship problem is its decision to penalize “bad-faith actors,” who aren’t actually in violation of any rules but still threaten “healthy conversation.” The Washington Examiner says : "Much of the sorting between good and bad actors on Twitter is done by an algorithm which takes into account criteria like whom you follow and tweet at, and who follows and tweets at you. Twitter didn’t penalize the congressmen because of anything they said, but because the 'wrong' accounts were engaging with their tweets, two Twitter executives conceded in a blog post Thursday. The Republicans were guilty of being followed by the wrong people. Twitter has since restored the congressmen’s visibility on Twitter but the underlying issue remains. Twitter is still burying accounts it deems 'bad-faith actors,' while remaining opaque about who does or doesn’t fit that classification -- and which accounts follow or retweet you are still part of the criteria." The Examiner explained that Twitter, which once described itself as the “free speech wing of the free speech party,” has aggressively stepped up its speech policing in other ways : "The company in June acquired Smyte, a tech company whose specialties include fighting cyberbullying, 'hate speech' and trolling. Twitter’s third-party partners include the Southern Poverty Law Center, a left-wing nonprofit known for labeling pedestrian conservative organizations as 'hate groups.' [NOTE : Facebook, Amazon, Google And Twitter All Partner With Left-Wing SPLC.] • BUT, Epoch Times says Twitter may "have relaxed the effects of its 'quality' search filter function associated with so-called 'shadow banning,' after evidence indicated that the content of some accounts on the social media platform was obscured to followers, while many others appeared to be unaffected." The Epoch Times discovered the change in the filter functionality while researching the shadow banning phenomenon : "Some search results changed overnight on July 28 after the Epoch Times alerted Twitter to some of its findings." For several years, says Epoch Times, Twitter users have accused the company of shadow banning....While the full extent and history of the practice remain unclear, one identified method was to remove the tweets of targeted accounts from search results, unless a user turned off the 'quality' filter function, found in the 'search filters' box. The filter is on by default and snaps back on after just one search. • • • THERE IS A DEEP STATE CONNECTION. Gaetz is convinced Twitter targeted him intentionally : “I am certain there were only four members of Congress who had their voices suppressed on Twitter,” he told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson on July 27. “Matt Gaetz, Jim Jordan, Mark Meadows, and Devin Nunes. That’d be one hell of a coincidence.” Epoch Times says : "All four lawmakers are Republicans. All four also have been vocal in seeking more documents regarding alleged bias within the FBI and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrants that spurred the Russia investigation, alleging that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign before and after the 2016 election. Official documents have shown the Justice Department and FBI under former President Barack Obama used unverified opposition research paid for by Democrats to obtain a warrant to spy on the Trump campaign." Epoch Times reported that it reviewed more than 50 accounts identified by hashtags commonly associated with Trump supporters (such as #MAGA) and Trump opponents (such as #TheResistance). Many of the accounts on both sides were prolifically cross-promoting their tweets, garnering thousands or even tens of thousands of followers. And, the Epoch Times found that : "Almost all accounts of the Trump supporters were targeted by the 'quality' filter. None of the accounts used by Trump opponents were apparently targeted by the filter, according to the confirmation function on the website Shadowban.eu, which the Epoch Times repeatedly tested to verify it can indeed identify accounts that have been affected." • Epoch Times says : "Many of the Trump supporters posted comments, links, and memes expressing faith in God, love for America, support for Trump, and criticism (at times speculative) of prominent Democrats such as Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Even Scott Presler, the vice chairman of the Virginia Beach Young Republicans who’s known for his upbeat attitude, has been shadow banned, despite having a verified account with almost a quarter-million followers....Many of the Trump opponents posted comments, links, and memes in support of Democrats and Progressive policies and criticizing (at times, speculatively) Trump. Some of them regularly used foul or abusive language, without any apparent effects. 'SHUT THE [expletive] UP!' stated user THE[expletive] [expletive]™ in a July 27 tweet, using the popular recurring hashtag #FridayFeeling as well as hashtags #DearDonald and #[expletive]Traitor, with an obscene emoji and a picture of the message '[expletive] TRAITOR' in large red letters. THere was NO SHADOW BAN. • If Gaetz’s complaint to the FEC succeeds, it could open the floodgates to others. Gaetz said Twitter and other social media companies have successfully averted lawsuits by declaring themselves neutral public forums that can’t be held responsible for what people post. Gaetz says : "Twitter...can’t say on one hand, ‘We’re neutral and thus we shouldn’t have to respond to lawsuits,’ and then, on the other hand, tell me and other outspoken conservatives that our behavior results in suppression on their platform,’ he said. 'They can’t have it both ways.' ” • Canada Free Press wrote on Monday : "The lights are going off all over the Internet. The ability of Internet surfers to track down their favorite Conservative news sites, websites and blogs will be like finding the proverbial needle in a hay stack. The gig is up on mainstream and social media. It’s not about algorithms, not about Facebook’s sanctimonious ‘Community Standards.’ It’s not even about both Facebook and Twitter suddenly nosediving at the same time on the stock market. It’s about the MSM and social media working in sync with the Democrats to regain power in Midterm elections by keeping the masses from ever getting anywhere close to the truth." CFP, never shy about reporting factually, added : "The 'News' is no longer the citizens for surfing because the 'News' is now being painstakingly planted. Diversions by adult entertainers, lawyers secretly recording their own clients, Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel probing a non-existent collusion between President Donald Trump and Russia are the diversions to keep people from knowing the Media Blackout curtain has been dropped on the ‘net. A myriad of lesser diversions keep popping up daily, including the loon who took a pick axe to Donald Trump’s Hollywood star, Hillary Clinton showing up for a televised interview sporting what one commenter described as the swiped shower curtain from a Motel 6. Forget about the Dems new ‘For the People’ slogan because It’s ‘Midterm Victory or Bust’ for desperate Democrats who have lost well over a thousand seats since 2010. Entire state assemblies have been flipped from blue to red. Ditto for state governorships. Gone like the wind are Conservatives who had their own voice when a digitalized President Barack Hussein Obama came into power in 2008, roughly dividing the country 50-50. Conservatives had a voice in 2010, when midterms left Democrats in the dust, and had a voice again in 2012 and 2014. But the outcome of 2016 which easily handed Trump the presidency left the masses in a much different territory. ‘Hating Donald Trump’ has become both the Democrat order and News of the Day blocking out what some editors still call 'the News.' News stories reported on, written up and posted on conservative news sites are no longer showing up online and are being buried alive by search engines." • Like the Epoch Times, CFP did a test and tells us how we can test the Internet, too : "You can prove it to yourself with a simple Google search : Google recent top stories on former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. No Fox listing can be found in the first six pages of general results and no listings for Fox in the first four pages of search news results. Although it varies from browser to browser and device to device, in general search results and News results, CNN typically commands the top spot. This status combined with CNN being the chief television network broadcast at most airports shows the kind of clout CNN owns even after it’s having been roundly called out as ‘Fake News King.' It’s not your overactive imagination that finds you arriving at the conclusion that the conservative voice is being suppressed." • A new report by the Media Research Center (MRC) documents how the major social media sites -- Facebook, Twitter, YouTube -- and the Google search engine suppress conservative speech in a “clear effort to censor the conservative worldview from the public conversation.” (CNSNews, April 16, 2018) CFP says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, when asked about this censorship by Senator Ted Cruz on April 10, testified that his company “and the tech industry are located in Silicon Valley, which is an extremely left-leaning place,” and added that he did not know whether content from liberal groups, such as Planned Parenthood and MoveOn.org, had ever been restricted on Facebook.” The MRC report states : "These multi-billion dollar online media companies, which reach more than 1.8 billion people worldwide, have declared war on the conservative movement, and conservatives are losing -- badly. If the right doesn’t fight, it is doomed -- online and off. This is more than just a free speech battle. It is a struggle for the future of our nation and our world.” (CNS News) • CFP gives us some practical advice : "The only way to fight the media blackout is to go directly to the conservative news sites of your choice and send them out on your personal email accounts. Talk the substance of the Conservative stories up among family and friends. Hold that patten until Facebook and Twitter go belly up. Given that both social media giants seem as interested in left wing politics as they are in making money, that could take an infernally long time." • Canada Free Press reports some startling facts : "Taking punitive action against individuals under the guise of saving users the pain of glimpsing an offensive meme, comment or video, Facebook, Twitter and Google-owned YouTube has been deleting, locking and hiding content of targeted accounts. Not only have they demonetized accounts of popular personalities like Diamond and Silk, the black female duo leading the pack of Trump supporters, but they have refused ads from republican politicians such as Tennessee Senate Candidate Marsha Blackburn...Funny thing is, none of these purveyors of opinion draw the line at suspending and shadow banning large influential accounts, they’ve been shutting up the little guy, too. No one is immune to their slash and burn tactics....They are all about trashing the capitalist system that made these boys wealthy beyond measure. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you." • • • DEAR READERS, it is time to encourage President Trump and Representatives Nunes, Meadows, Jordan and Gaetz in their efforts to stop the growing elimination of the conservative and Republican voices from the Internet and social media. Email, write, fax, text message -- do whatever you can. Remember Thomas Jefferson : "The cost of liberty is eternal vigilance." • MSNBC invited Professor Dershowitz to sit on a panel consisting of New York Times reporter Ken Vogel, MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler, Mimi Rocah (remember her from Monday's blog) and Dershowitz. They were to discuss the latest revelations from the Mueller investigation. Harvard law professor emeritus Dershowitz accused the MSNBC panel of trying to interpret the law in ways to target President Trump. The other panel members then tried to shut Dershowitz down, accusing him of defending Trump. But, Dershowitz had the last word : “I am making a civil liberties case. I am not part of the Trump defense team and don’t you dare accuse me of doing that. I am not making a case for anybody. I would be making the identical case if Hillary Clinton had been elected and they were trying to stretch the law the way all four of you are trying to stretch the law to target somebody who you disapprove of. I am the only person on the show who is trying to defend civil liberties. Give me at least an opportunity to make that case and don’t accuse me of making a case for somebody I’m not making a case for. • However, MSNBC had no problem with 'Mad' Maxine Waters -- on the same day its anti-Trump talking heads went after Dershowitz. Representative Waters on Sunday promised to reverse the GOP tax cuts -- “tax scam,” as she called them -- if Democrats retake control of Congress. The California lawmaker also said President Trump would be “in trouble” if that happens. Waters acknowledged the economic improvement touted by President Trump, but contended that the “other mess” will eventually be his downfall, especially if Democrats retake Congress, telling MSNBC : “This President is wreaking havoc on this country. And so while there is some improvement in the economy, we have all of this other mess that we have to take a look at and what is, you know, in the forefront of what is being talked about in the media. Democrats are working very hard. We have a lot of enthusiasm. We have good candidates. We have raised an awful lot of money, and I think we’re in a good position not only to take back the House, but I believe even possibly the Senate. Of course, if we do that, look out, President. You’re in trouble.” WHERE was the effort to temper Mad Maxine's trashing of the President of the United States??? AWOL on MSNBC. • MSNBC didn't even raise the great Friday news that the US economy grew at a 4.1% rate in the second quarter. Daily Caller reported that : "According to the report released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), strong consumer and business spending, as well as a surge in exports buoyed the economic growth in the second quarter." President Trump said : “We’re on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years,” speaking from the South Lawn of the White House. “I will say this right now. I’ll say it strongly, as the trade deals come in one by one, we’re going to go a lot higher than these numbers and these are great numbers.” In addition to the solid second quarter result, the Commerce Department revised its first-quarter GDP growth from 2% to 2.2%. Personal consumption expenditures increased 4%, while business investment jumped 7.3%. President Trump said : "We are now on track to hit an average GDP annual growth of over 3% and it could be substantially over 3%. These numbers are very, very sustainable. This isn’t a one-time shot." Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin echoed Trump on July 29, saying that the United States has entered a period of sustainable growth : “We can only project a couple of years in the future. But I think we’re well on this path for several years. I don’t think this is a one or two-year phenomenon. I think we definitely are in a period of 4-5 years of sustained 3% growth at least.” President Trump also said the decline in the trade deficit was one of the “biggest wins” in the BEA report and it is “very dear to my heart because we’ve been ripped off by the world.” The trade deficit in the second quarter dropped by $52 billion, adding 1.1% to the GDP growth. The results were “considerably stronger” than expected, stated Goldman Sachs in a report. "This morning’s data confirms that growth has accelerated and that inflation is running close to the target,” the report said. • No wonder the ProgDems and their propagandist mainstream and social media sites are trying to shut down conservatives by feeding America the Fake news of Rosenstein and the Deep State. How else can they try to keep Americans from hearing the great news that's coming from President Trump's successful efforts to Make America Great Again.