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As expected here for quite some time now, the Russian investigation is now beginning a seismic shift. Moving away from Trump and toward Democrat leadership where it belongs. On Friday, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced it sent four investigatory letters, including one to former Attorney General Loretta Lynch. 

And while the Democrats keep insisting that Trump must be guilty of something, not really caring about what in particular, Trump himself maintains his focus on turning the nation’s economy around from the disaster its been for the last eight years under Obama.    

Seventeen tech CO’s met with him Monday, appearing optimistic about what was possible during this administration. According to Charlie Spiering @breitbart.com, “Trump appeared open to working with them on issues they cared about, including immigration, saying “[W]e’re working very diligently with everybody, including Congress, on immigration so that you can get the people you want in your companies.”  

“Peter Thiel — the most high profile venture capitalist in Silicon Valley, who endorsed Trump — praised the president for highlighting the importance of technology.

“I think that the tech industry is an industry that is doing well in America and we need to sort of make it do even better,” Theil said, calling for ongoing government and regulatory support. “I think your administration is off to a terrific start in doing these things.”

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, said to Trump “I’m absolutely convinced that during your administration there is going to be a huge explosion of new opportunities because of the platforms that are getting built in our industry.”

“Apple CEO Tim Cook said he was pleased that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and his daughter Ivanka Trump were bringing technology companies together in the Trump administration to help streamline government.” And that “innovations made in the Trump administration would pay back immensely in the future.”

“Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos also praised Trump’s administration for forming the tech innovation council, telling Trump that his team could be the “innovation administration.”

“Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also thanked Trump for the opportunity and said he hoped that Trump would continue both government spending on technology and “enlightened immigration” policies that would allow them to stay competitive.

“A full list of the tech CEOs who attended below:

Ajay Banga, CEO of MasterCard
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon
Zachary Bookman, CEO of OpenGov
Safra Catz, Co-Chief Executive of Oracle
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple
John Doerr, Chairman of Kleiner Perkins
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware
Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel
Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai
Bill McDermott, CEO of SAP
Steven Mollenkopf, CEO of Qualcomm
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft
Shantanu Narayen, CEO of Adobe
Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Alphabet
Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture
Peter Thiel, Founders Fund”

By comparison, while the POTUS was meeting with industry leaders having potential to create billions upon billions of dollars in growth to the nation’s economy, leftists remained transfixed on Russian collusion-based witch hunts.

However, a reported Ian Mason @breitbart.com the Senate Judiciary Committee is now demanding “answers and documents related to the 2016 investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server, especially reports that Clinton campaign operatives expressed confidence Lynch would keep that investigation from “going too far.”

“The demand comes as the Judiciary Committee investigates the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of ex-FBI Director James Comey, in which the material may take on a new significance.

“The New York Times reported this April that not only had Lynch told then-Director Comey in September of 2015 to refer to the investigation of Secretary Clinton and her staff as a “matter,” but that the Justice Department  obtained a Russian document in March 2016 showing a “Democratic operative” expressing “confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the Clinton investigation from going too far.”

Reader Rick Jones (Deplorable) asked in a comment: “Could this be the begining of the swamp draining??? It is crystal clear that all of these dirtbags have committed numerous crimes, crimes for which regular folk would be locked up."

Rick received 597 “Likes.”

And then, another example of Democrat financial wizardry appeared. While gas prices are now sliding, providing consumers more room in their budgets for fulfilling needs and/or perhaps even some entertainment, California Governor Jerry Brown wants a 12-cent hike in his state's gas tax.

Brown said: “There's nothing more fundamental in the business of government than making sure the roads and bridges don't fall apart – and they are falling apart." 

He likened the $5 billion a year infusion of additional taxpayer money to annual medical check-ups, saying neglect, in either case, is done at one's own peril.

Voters though, have quite different opinion, whereas “A recent poll of California voters shows a strong majority against the new tax, which takes effect in November and will raise the state's overall gas tax to 50 cents per gallon. Another 7.5 cent-per-gallon increase is scheduled for 2019, which will put California motorists second in the nation to Pennsylvania for most taxes paid at the pump.”

What’s even more ridiculous about Brown's proposal is that, as stated by Kris Vosburgh of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association: “The fact is by the time the money goes through the bureaucracy – much of it is diverted elsewhere – people don't see an improvement." 

Reader tsaerman wrote: “More taxes to give to illegals. If you come to California maker sure to brush up on your spanish because nobody speaks english here anymore. GRACIAS.”

californiakook added: “They have to raise taxes. They've subsidized electric vehicles, and relieved them of road use taxes, although they are just as rough on roads as any Ford Fiesta. So, you have to tax those people who need a car, not a short range golf cart. That's the Socialist way of doing business.”

And then Rush once again referenced Alan Dershowitz, who’s become a steady ally in illustrating the absurdity of the left’s fixation on the non-existent Trump/Russia connection.    

Yesterday, Rush said: “I don’t know what has happened to Professor Dershowitz, but whatever it is, I like it.”

“Professor Dershowitz has written about it. He said, “Now that President Trump has tweeted that he didn’t tape James Comey, the anti-Trump zealots are accusing him of witness intimidation.” Professor Dershowitz says, “This is most the absurd of the many absurd charges leveled against Trump by those out to get him without regard to the law. Trump’s bluff was calculated to get Comey to tell the truth. How can that be witness intimidation? If it were, Abraham Lincoln would have gone to prison rather than the White House.

“As a young lawyer, he, too, bluffed a witness into telling the truth. In one of his most famous murder cases, a witness testified that he saw Lincoln’s client kill the victim. The time it occurred was at night, so the witness testified that he was able to see the crime because there was a full moon. Lincoln then handed the witness an almanac and asked him to turn to the date in question. The almanac showed that there was no moon on that night, and the witness broke down and admitted that he had not seen the crime.

“The defendant was acquitted. Lincoln later acknowledged that he had deliberately fooled the witness into telling the truth by handing him an almanac for the wrong year. The correct year’s almanac indeed showed a full moon.” Lincoln fully bluffed a witness and got him to change his story, which was a lie. Dershowitz says that all Trump has done here is bluff Comey into releasing news that Trump wanted Comey to release.”

In the near future, however, Alan Dershowitz may not have time to write about comparison’s such as Trump and Abraham Lincoln. Because, as the Senate Judiciary Committee ramps up it’s investigations into Democrat involvement with Russia, many of them will be needing lawyers like Dershowitz to defend them.

That’s it for today folks.

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