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President Donald Trump on Sunday morning continued to make personal the firing of former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe late Friday night.
Wow, watch Comey lie under oath to Senator G when asked “have you ever been an anonymous source…or known someone else to be an anonymous source…?” He said strongly “never, no.” He lied as shown clearly on @foxandfriends.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
Spent very little time with Andrew McCabe, but he never took notes when he was with me. I don’t believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying James Comey. Can we call them Fake Memos?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
Why does the Mueller team have 13 hardened Democrats, some big Crooked Hillary supporters, and Zero Republicans? Another Dem recently added…does anyone think this is fair? And yet, there is NO COLLUSION!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
First, while it is true some of Mueller’s team has made political contributions to Democrats in the past, it is misleading to say the team consists of “13 hardened Democrats.” As the Washington Post pointed out, Mueller is prohibited by federal regulations from making politically-motivated hiring decisions. And Mueller himself is a Republican.
Also, as the Washington Post pointed out, Comey was not asked by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) whether he had known someone else to be an anonymous source. Grassley actually asked whether Comey had “ever been an anonymous source” in reports relating to the investigations of Trump or Hillary Clinton, and whether Comey had “ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source” regarding the same investigations. Comey answered in the negative to both questions.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who carried out McCabe’s firing, said in a statement Friday night that both the office of Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz and the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility “concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions,” presumably during a previously-reported inspector general probe of the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
In a lengthy response, McCabe said he had been singled out, and his credibility attacked, as “part of this Administration’s ongoing war on the FBI and the efforts of the Special Counsel investigation, which continue to this day.”
McCabe maintained that he was authorized to share information with the media through his staff; that “others, including [then-FBI Director James Comey], were aware of the interaction with the reporter;” and that he answered the inspector general’s questions “truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me.”
Following the firing, variousoutletsreported that McCabe had kept written memos detailing his interactions with Trump, and that he had been in touch with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office.
The Sunday tweets were a continuation of what Trump started the day before: a series of stinging statements that mixed justifications for McCabe’s firing with attacks against him personally, and against his former boss, ousted FBI Director James Comey.
Read Trump’s Saturday tweets related to the firing below:
Andrew McCabe FIRED, a great day for the hard working men and women of the FBI – A great day for Democracy. Sanctimonious James Comey was his boss and made McCabe look like a choirboy. He knew all about the lies and corruption going on at the highest levels of the FBI!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
As the House Intelligence Committee has concluded, there was no collusion between Russia and the Trump Campaign. As many are now finding out, however, there was tremendous leaking, lying and corruption at the highest levels of the FBI, Justice & State. #DrainTheSwamp
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wife’s campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
The Mueller probe should never have been started in that there was no collusion and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a Fake Dossier paid for by Crooked Hillary and the DNC, and improperly used in FISA COURT for surveillance of my campaign. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 18, 2018
This post has been updated.
Precious metals continue to recover, in ever so slow a fashion, with Gold now…
by J. Johnson via JS Mineset
Great and Wonderful Tuesday Morning Folks,
Precious metals continue to recover, in ever so slow a fashion, with Gold now at $1,858.40, up $7.60 after reaching up to $1,864 and afterwards, down to $1,841. Silver is up 18.6 cents at $25.47 after it reached up to $25.745 then down to $25. The US Dollar is stagnant with the trade up 0.008 at 90.45 after the support was turned on when the value dropped to 90.285 with the high at 90.60. Of course, all this happened before 5 am pst, the Comex open, London close, and after permanently banning Trump, and other conservatives from its platform, Twitter’s stock plummets, apparently someone doesn’t want a president to be heard at all, as his email service was shuddered as well.
Gold under the Venezuelan Bolivar gained 96.88 overnight with the last buy at 18,560.77 with Silver at 254.382 Bolivar, scratching back 4.645. Argentina’s currency now has Gold’s value pegged at 158,563.39 Peso’s adding back 1,173.77 with Silver doing the same, gaining 43.83 with its last price at 2,172.39 A-Peso’s. Over in Turkey, Gold has almost recovered all of yesterday’s pull with the last buy at 13,905.43 Lira, gaining back 145.49 of the 147.38 pull from yesterday with Silver at 190.600 T-Lira, getting back 4.507 from yesterday’s 10.75 hit.
January Silver’s Delivery Demands now has a total of 366 fully paid for 5,000-ounce contracts waiting for receipts with a Volume of 7 up on the board and a trading range between $25.335 and $25.105 with the last buy at the high, up 14.6 cents since yesterday’s close. Monday’s delivery activity had a total of 11 contracts with a full day’s trading range between $25.52 and $24.725 with the last purchase at $24.825 a gain of 24.3 cents, with the Calculated Comex Close higher at $25.239 a gain of 65.7 cents, that only reduced the demand count by 4 contracts that got receipts. Here’s a frustration about Comex and their ways; the way I hear it brokerages have to pay up to $1,000 a month for “live feed” per computer, and the accuracy should be worth something but alas, it apparently doesn’t matter after yesterday mornings post of 175,192 in Open Interest was still up on the board, way after 5 am in the morning, which proved a drop of 86 contracts, yet Harvey Organ, who gets his data after the Friday Night Closing showed a larger drop, which now coincides with today’s Comex numbers, that 5,490 contracts left the field of play, yet Comex keeps those who pay for live feed in the dark, which leaves this mornings questionable Open Interest total to 169,702 contracts trading against the physicals. Also, during yesterday’s trades, Comex upped the physical demand count by 1 from 369 to 370, before reducing it to 366 today.
January Gold’s Delivery Demands now has a total of 136 fully paid for contracts standing for receipts with a Volume of 14 up on the board and a trading range between $1,859.70 and $1,849 with the last buy at the high, a gain of $10.10 so far today. Yesterday’s full day of delivery activity happened in between $1,849 and $1,826.50 with the last buy at $1,847.50, a gain of $13.40 with a CCC at $1,849.60 a gain of $15.50 that helped reduce the demand count by 355 contracts that got receipts, maybe. Yesterday morning’s Comex antics showed 491 in the delivery count way after 5 am, then reduced that by 17 contracts, sometime during the trading day, to 474, then to start this morning off at 136 contracts still waiting for receipts, maybe. Gold’s Overall Open Interest at the Comex also got skewered over Sunday night and yesterday, with today’s starting total at 553,842 paper contracts to go against the physicals, reducing the count by 13,325 contracts. Yesterday morning’s tally (which I prove several times with my calculator before I post) revealed a drop of 1,018 contracts. Which gave us the idea that the Resolutes were standing strong. If the Comex computers can’t keep up on accuracy, why does anyone have to pay for it?
There is no doubt, regardless of which president one wants, the chatter going on is way beyond anything in the past. Putting this all together is impossible, for now, yet precious metals are telling us nothing to see here, all is well.
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Keep your metals close, and get more while you can at these cheap prices. Surprise or Not, Silver and Gold should have moved higher already, much much higher. As always
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