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On a very slow news day, new information arose concerning two ongoing situations; U.S. politico’s involvement with Russia and suspicion of the Obama administration spying on then-President-elect Trump. 

Item one comes from Daniel Chaitin @washingtonexaminer.com, who writes: “John Podesta slapped the Daily Caller with a cease-and-desist letter on Wednesday after the conservative news outlet published a story about the former Clinton campaign chairman and Obama counselor.”

Back on March 26, “reporter Richard Pollock wrote that Podesta ‘may have violated federal law by failing to disclose the receipt of 75,000 shares of stock from a Kremlin-financed company when he joined the Obama White House in 2014.’ 

To that, Podesta's counsel, Marc Elias, responded with a letter demanding  the Daily Caller "immediately cease publication of these false and libelous claims." It also demands that a correction to the story be published, clarifying that Podesta met his financial obligations.”

Most interesting about the issue is that there have been substantial numbers of implications regarding Podesta over time, many of them relative to his long and quite close association with the Clinton’s. Leading to the obvious question of why this particular one is different to the extent that legal action is called for. Making many think that this time around, a “smoking-gun” may very well have been found. 

Presently, 104 comments follow the article, virtual all of them hostile towards Podesta. Examples include:  

Reader Ferd Berfel writing: “We need to investigate the Podesta Hillary Obama Russian corruption. 

Dan Bushnell added: “AMEN! RIGHT ON!” 

Gary Almond confirmed this writer’s thought, posting: “Of all the heinous allegations against Podesta, it's interesting that this is the one he choses to fight.”

Bill Daniels who resides in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia opined: “Someone associates Podesta with pizzagate. Should look into it on you tube.” 

According to Wikipedia: “Pizzagate is a debunked conspiracy theory that emerged during the 2016 United States presidential election cycle. The theory, which went viral, claimed that John Podesta's emails, which were leaked by WikiLeaks, contained coded messages referring to human trafficking and connecting a number of restaurants in the United States and members of the Democratic Party with a fabricated child-sex ring. The false theory has been extensively discredited by a wide array of organizations and described as a "fictitious conspiracy theory" by the District of Columbia Police Department.” 

Nonetheless, many readers still referenced the theory as if it were a valid concern at present, accentuating the hostility remaining toward Podesta and his relationship with the Clinton’s. 

Next is an item regarding Judge Andrew Napolitano’s return to Fox News this morning after being taken off air for several days. Where, according to Eddie Scarry also @washingtonexaminer.com, he stood by his previous claim that British intelligence was asked by the Obama administration to spy on then-President-elect Trump.”

When asked if he plans to stick by the story, Napolitano said: “Yes, I do and the sources stand by it. And the American public needs to know more about this rather than less because a lot of the government surveillance authority will expire in the fall and there will be a great debate about how much authority we want the government to have to surveil us, and the more the American public knows about this the more informed their and the Congress' decision will be."

He added that "a lot more is going to come" on the issue. 

Napolitano’s suspension resulted from an appearance on Fox in which he referred to Obama, saying: "He used GCHQ. What is that? It's the initials for the British intelligence-finding agency. So, simply by having two people saying to them president needs transcripts of conversations involving candidate Trump's conversations, involving President-elect Trump, he's able to get it and there's no American fingerprints on this."

At the time, the “claim was disputed by Fox daytime anchor Shepard Smith and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers has denied that U.S. intelligence had asked the British to conduct surveillance, and said that it would be against the law.” 

Although soon after that Fox suspended Napolitano, his reinstatement suggests that there’s far more about the issue yet to come out. It’s also extremely probable that what remains will support the Judge's long-held suspicions about Trump being a target of surveillance. 

And that’s because it’s almost a certainty that Fox conducted significant investigating of its own before bringing the Judge back knowing full well he’d continue his accusations on the matter.

Thus, what we have today are two separate situations each of which indicate that Trump will come out on top again. Making one wonder if there’s anything Democrat leadership ever gets right at all. 

That’s it for today folks. 

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