In November 2019, President Donald Trump made an unscheduled visit to Walter Reed hospital, which the White House dismissed as a “quick exam and labs.” Now, new information is revealed about what really happened at this visit. Chris Cillizza explains.
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Hey, Chris here — do you think the President’s medical records should be public?
Hey Chris your Mom & Dad paid to much for your College Education! You are fake news, and not true Reporters. You all lie and not publish the truth unless it promotes your narrative. You would not know how to do true Investigative Reporting, if your life depended on it. You hate your country, and anyone who really investigates and knows the truth from all sides. What do you really think we are that stupid? Oh wait yes you do! You have convinced all these blind non Patriotic Biden Supporters so I guess you know they are all stupid.
@America Matters
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Patricia Castillo You probably didn’t notice Reagan’s clear decline. You’d probably vote for Kanye West with untreated bipolar disease – Bipolar type 1 by that “campaign rally” he had.
@Higgs Boson
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Absolutely not! I’m not even a Trump supporter, I hate the guy, but that’s a huge privacy issue! How would you like it if the whole population got to hear about your medical records? Imagine if the whole country knew that FDR had polio, he never would have won all the terms he did!
He’s an overweight, old man that eats burgers and drinks diet coke all day
@brian gardner Know what? We can all see with our eyeballs that he is a fat old man. The only food we ever see him eat is fast food burgers, so there ya go genius.
@TRUTH HURTS do you even know what truth is? Truth and Facts are not the same. Do you really believe the crap your being told? Please do your own truth searching facts. Dont hate on things that your being spoon fed on. Go out there and do things on your own. Smh.
@brian gardner I think it’s called “PICTURES”
NightWing and he gets a DOUBLE SCOOP OF ICE CREAM AFTER DINNER, when everyone else gets one scoop.
NightWing sounds like a recipe for disaster.
Stormy is very well acquainted with his _’mini-strokes’_
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And his LACK of stamina lol
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🥁 🥁 🥁
Touché
Yusuf Ginnah ugh, the she deserved a lot more 💰 money!
Hi, Everyone / Pence, the holy man lied? Oh no, the sky is falling! Hipócrates!
I think he means Hippocrates. Ancient Greek doctor.
Kamala Harris funded her campaign for senator with contributions from sex rings. Here are links.
Archdiocese church abuse
Senator Harris, while DA of San Fran, ignored opportunity in 2004 to continue the work of predecessor, on abuse in the Archdiocese.
Harris assumed office she stopped cooperating with victims and chose not to prosecute a single abusive priest.
https://youtu.be/7sVswKxx9dw
Testimonials from abused children^
Though Harris has touted her early career as a sexual crimes prosecutor, after she won her run-off campaign against Hallinan, her office actually worked to cover up the records of claims of sexual abuse by priests of the San Francisco archdiocese.
Harris’s campaign to unseat Hallinan showed an unusual influx of unparalleled donations from high-level officials of the Catholic Church.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/wireStory/victims-question-kamala-harris-record-clergy-abuse-63963167
During her 13-year tenure as district attorney and then attorney general, Harris failed to prosecute even one case of priest sexual abuse, though during that same period at least 50 major cities had brought charges against priests.
“negotiated the agreement to bury the abuse records from public view.”
Catholic Church’s National Review Board (NRB) of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The purpose of the NRB was to review Catholic Church abuse cases. Russoniello was also a partner in the San Francisco law firm Cooley Godward. Russoniello donated the maximum amount by law to her campaign, $1,250, and his law firm added another $2,250. He also sat on Harris’s advisory council when she was San Francisco district attorney. Another law firm, Bingham McCutcheon, which handled legal matters for the archdiocese concerning Catholic Charities, donated $2,825, the maximum allowed. Curiously, Bingham McCutcheon had only donated to two other candidates running for office in San Francisco before, for a total of $650. As with Russoniello, their support was unusual.
“board members of San Francisco Catholic archdiocese-related organizations and their family members donated another $50,950 to Harris’s campaign.”
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https://youtu.be/WH18NlAKLMA
Kamala Harris Advertisements ^
Warnings Shelved and Ignored
An NCR cover story reported that in 1985, a 92-page report on clergy sex abuse was distributed to U.S. bishops concerning more than 100 lawsuits that could predictably cost a billion dollars.
The Rev. Thomas Doyle, a Vatican canon lawyer; Raymond Mouton Jr., a Louisiana criminal lawyer who defended the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, a notorious pedophile priest; and the Rev. Michael Peterson, a psychiatrist, produced the strongly worded document that argued for immediate action to deal with sexual molestation in the church.
Diocese Payouts To Sex Abuse Victims
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, which covers 20 counties from the San Francisco Bay Area to the Oregon border, came under fire in 2005 when 33 people accused 10 priests of sexual assault from decades earlier. The diocese settled the lawsuit, offering $35 million to victims one day before a civil trial was to begin, USA Today reported.
Since the mid-1980s Catholic dioceses and religious orders have paid out nearly $3 billion in out of court settlements and court orders awards, according to the watchdog group Bishopaccountability.org.
These are the major awards and settlements since 2000 of the San Francisco Archdiocese, according to National Catholic Reporter – all while Kamala Harris was District Attorney:
2005-04-20 — San Francisco, California — $5.8 million — 4
2005-06-10 — San Francisco, California — $21.2 million — 15
2005-07-08 — San Francisco, California — $16.0 million — 12
2005-10-11 — San Francisco, California — $2.6million — 2
George Soros’s Foundation Pours $220 Million Into Racial Equality Push
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/george-soros-racial-justice-organizations.html
Hillary Clinton colluded with major news networks to create a narrative for the 2016 election (links below)
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5953
1. Clinton Staff hosts private “off-the-record cocktail party” with 38 “influential” reporters, journalists, editors, and anchors (from 16 different mainstream media outlets including CNN, NBC, CBS, NYT, MSNBC, & more) with the stated goal of “framing the race.”
2. Donna Brazile (CNN contributor at the time, and current DNC Chairman now) leaked CNN town hall questions to Hillary Clinton’s staff prior to the debate.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5205#efmAD-AMa
3. Clinton campaign and the New York Times coordinating attack strategy against Trump
https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/4664
4. Glen Thrush, POLITICO’s chief political correspondent and senior staff writer for POLITICO Magazine, sends John Podesta an article for his approval. Writes: “Please don’t share or tell anyone I did this. Tell me if I fucked up anything.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/12681#efmAByAEV
5. Huffington Post contributor Frank Islam writes to John Podesta in an email titled “My blogs in the Huffington Post”, says “I am committed to make sure she is elected the next president.” “Please let me know if I can be of any service to you.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5988#efmADmAE6AF-AG1
6. Clinton staffer “Placing a story” with Politico / New York Times: “place a story with a friendly journalist” “we have a very good relationship with Maggie Haberman of Politico” “we should shape likely leaks in the best light for HRC.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7524#efmA14A2IA3AA36A9fA-kA-6BAICwpCx4
7. John Podesta receiving drafts of New York Times articles before they’re published.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/844
Clinton staff “placing a story with a friendly at the AP (Matt Lee or Bradley Klapper).”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9272#efmBKsBMU
More media collusion: NYT and AP “helpful” to Clinton campaign.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/5502
8. Clinton staff colluding with New York Times and Wall Street Journal to paint Hillary’s economic policies in a “progressive” light.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/9007#efmAcTAdS
9. CNBC panelist colluding with John Podesta on what to ask Trump when he calls in for an interview.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/7710#efmAakAd6AjgAlR
10. Clinton staff appearing to control the release times of Associated Press articles.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8460
🇺🇸 🕊💪🙅♂️
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donna-brazile-leaves-cnn/
Bill Clinton Inc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-bill-clinton-inc-hacked-memo-reveals-intersection-of-charity-and-personal-income/2016/10/26/3bf84bba-9b92-11e6-b3c9-f662adaa0048_story.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Life_Children%27s_Refuge_case
💊 More then 100 UN Peacekeepers ran a child sex ring in Haiti. None were ever jailed.
Also Laura Silsby was caught with 33 kids kidnapped in a church group she was going to traffic across the border. The Clinton’s flew in an immediately covered it up.
She changed her name and works for a top position in Amber Alert
Laura Gayler ^
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/2772
The lawyer who represented Laura Silsby, was himself convicted as a sex trafficker in a ring of human trafficking involving women and girls. Jorge Puello was arrested in the capital of the Dominican Republic on a warrant issued by Interpol, the international police organization. At the time of his arrest, his wife was already imprisoned in El Salvador and “faced charges of presumed sexual exploitation of minors and women.” Puello was ultimately sentenced to three years in federal prison .”
https://wikileaks.org/gifiles/docs/32/323249_-os-haiti-us-legal-adviser-to-u-s-haiti-missionaries.html
The Harvard Human Rights Journal
A link to an extensive study of the case by the Harvard Human Rights Journal which clearly linked Bill Clinton to the scandal was totally ignored. They similarly failed to acknowledge or address emails published by Wikileaks between Hillary Clinton and her legal counsel which may potentially indicate that she violated State Department policy for the treatment of U.S. citizens arrested or detained abroad.
PDF harvardhrj.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/King.pdf
Hillary Clinton Email
NEW LIFE CHILDREN’S REFUGE (NLCR)
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/3741
Archive https://archive.is/z9tGy
https://archive.is/KSORQ
Freedom of Information Act Collection FOIA
CLINTON HILLARY (Search found 890 items)
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/search/site/CLINTON%20HILLARY
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-25/clinton-silsby-trafficking-scandal-and-how-media-attempted-ignorecover-it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_detained_by_the_International_Criminal_Court
Bill Clinton Inc.
Inside ‘Bill Clinton Inc.’: Hacked memo reveals intersection of charity and personal income – The Washington Post
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_by_UN_peacekeepers
George Soros’s Foundation Pours $220 Million Into Racial Equality Push
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/us/politics/george-soros-racial-justice-organizations.html
Wouldn’t want Joe around my kids!
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/28/james-biden-lobbyist-virgin-islands-099318
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/feb/13/unicef-admits-failings-with-child-victims-of-alleged-sex-abuse-by-peacekeepers
Cooking of Survival Pence is a STUFFED SHIRT for sure. His expression never changed, like a department store dummy.
People, please vote for Biden. We have to stop this!
You should have added “end quote “🤣🤣🤣
GOD SAVE THE UNION
VOTE PATRIOT
VOTE BIDEN !!!
Hr pm voting blue here.
@Chuncks01 because it cant get worse under Biden.
Coincidentally, “mini-stroke” is Stormy’s nickname for him..
@AllEars Papillons See you dont understand. Appeals court had Trump pay 44k of Stormys cost. But Stormy is still paying the rest for entire fake lawsuit. It was a nothing burger and Stormy is going to have to do a lot of lap dances to make up the difference
Ngona. Take a bow that was a great comment
LMAO
ngoma 😂😂😂😂 best comment on the thread
ngoma LOL! You’re quick witted!
If Pence can’t recall then he should be assessed for Alzheimer’s.
Dawn Emile true. That’s not something he is likely to forget, now is it?
Having served on a US Presidential detail, with several US presidents, The US president does NOT! go to ANY! doctor without an appointment, unless something is wrong. Whenever the President goes for ANY! medical treatment, even a routine physical, The Vice President is on “Stand by”, (as they call it here) Pence is LYING! He knows if he was told that the US President is going for medical treatment or Not, or that the US President is out of the USA, because the Chief Justice of the Supreme court is notified, to be on alert, to swear in the new US President, if needed. Pence is parsing and using lawyer speak words, because he stated ” I don’t recall being placed on Stand by”, because it’s not called “Stand by”.
This White house can’t tell the truth about ANYTHING! This is nothing and they still lie. If Trump had medical care and recovered, just as Reagan did after being shot, it’s not a big deal, except to the Liar in Chief, whos ego comes before ANYTHING! including the truth and Facts
@Will Johnson Correct, but when the US President is in DC going for medical care, he/ she is notified. These reporters should have asked Pence if he remembers being told the US President or anyone in the Capacity of the US President ( because there are code words for every US President) was going to seek medical care of any kind. When you deal with Lawyers, they don’t “believe” they are lying when they parse their words. They don’t speak as a normal person would, even if you ask them if they would like a glass of water, it turns into ” what type of water” , “What type of glass”, is it Glass or made of something else? So these reporters must ask direct questions and learn some legal speak. I once had a Politician tell me ” I didn’t lie to you, I just didn’t tell you the truth”
Trump administration is just a bunch of liars. Sometimes they’re telling lies about telling the other lie. It’s a national disgrace. 🇺🇸😢🤧
My guess is Trump requested to be taken there that this wasn’t a routine appt. They are covering something up just like they did for Hillary.
@Mike will wow
Mike will this dangerous man has the nuclear codes. That should make us all uncomfortable 🥵
Trump doesn’t get to die before he goes to prison.
I sure hope not!!!!!
He gets a visit from barf in prison,and ” pulls” an Epstein
i just don’t want him in the office. i don’t care if he goes to prison afterwards.. none of that.. i just don’t want him to be potus right now. pardon him now…give him cash..i don’t care. just don’t be potus.
Why not he killed 193,000 people that would be a smalllsacifice for what he has done
I agree with you God willing, and the creek don’t rise!
trump’s trip to walter reed…..WHO CARES? AT LEAST HE HAS MEDICAL COVERAGE….MILLIONS DON’T….VOTE BIDEN FOR MEDICAL FOR ALL….
VOTE BIDEN, I’M RIDEN WITH BIDEN!!!!!!
Biden doesn’t want Medicare for all!!
biden has said he doesnt want medicare for all twice
may wilson great comment
people say Medical for all is socialism or whatever. but say nothing about all the money spent on corporate welfare
That medical report written by Trump himself saying he’s the healthiest President that there’s ever been made me laugh. As if Obama was less physically fit than Trump (just for instance) !
@Chas S TRUTH.
Obama betrayed our country.
And OBAMA LOOK GOOD IN A SUIT!!!!!!,trump is a tack,he has NO CLASS, HE’S SOOOOOOOO JEALOUS OF MY PRESIDENT, I’M SURE his wife has told him OBAMA LOOK GOOD IN A SUIT
@Romona Flamer probably the dumbest political comment I’ve ever read.
Do the world a favor ,stay off the internet.
@Erich von dem Bach Zelewski LMFAO no, sorry. That’d be Trump. What with allowing Putin to put bounties on our troops’ heads and doing LITERALLY NOTHING about it.
“I aced it, I aced the test”. He’s never aced anything in his privileged, pathetic life. 💙💙🇺🇸
Ran for one Office and became The President of The Unted States.
“That’s called Batting 1,000”. But Joe Biden?
“It’s The Thing Man, Cause You Ain’t Black Winston Churchill are you a Junkie? C’mon Man! you’re just as Smart as White Kids.”
Stop Hating. 🇺🇸
Lisa Zabriskie of course he lied about it. He didn’t show on paper the test results!
@Karen Smith He did one batter, he told us what was on it. Don Lemon flunked it on National TV! Even Fredo called him out.
“But it’s the Thing Man, you know”!
The ONLY person to bring up “mini-strokes,” “cerebral events,” and “TIAs” *IS* _DONALD TRUMP._
*Gee-whillikers, I wonder why…..*
@Brand Bioc-har That’s funny . Have you forgotten about what was said about trump by the rep.’s at the debates for rep. to run ?? Man, you guys have short memories ! LOL That’s how they all play it genius .
@Debbie Horn Just answer the question hypocrite
@Brand Bioc-har Back at ya . You’re all sheep being driven off a cliff .
@Debbie Horn Typical question dodging leftist. Absolutely uneducated, very sad.
Dixie Ten Broeck good point
“…your favorite President, me…”
Get over yourself!
I think he’s had minor strokes and is known to have panic attacks too. And he’s an adderall addict.
Lisa King he slurs words and mispronounces them A LOT! Remember when he said oranges, when he should have said origins?
@Karen Smith Remember when Trump said, “Yo Semite” because he couldn’t recognize the word Yosemite?
@ROCKSLIDZ Yes, and it was bizarre, like him.
Trump was being tested for mad cow disease.
Cliff Robertson, 🤣
So THATS where it originated!
The “Trump virus”!!
Poor cows😪 🐄
😂😂😂👍💯
Cliff Roberson LOL
I didnt know golfing and failing to protect the american people was a presidential duty
Badum tissss!
M. Rekam well, he has failed us repeatedly AND golfed repeated, More than Obama.
Stop trying to figure out a liar. There is no reality. Just get rid of him then burn his DNA.
I’m luvn the DNA quip.
actually he has been ordered to provide his DNA for a rape charge. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/obviously-required-to-provide-it-trump-given-deadlines-to-produce-dna-in-e-jean-carrolls-defamation-lawsuit/
@Sue chappell Typical liberal that’s tomorrows made up headline.
“Obviously Required to Provide It’: Trump Given Deadlines to Produce DNA in E. Jean Carroll’s Defamation Lawsuit
COLIN KALMBACHERAug 10th, 2020, 5:34 pm”
Moron. LMAO
Fix News LOL
“Definitely not a stroke” is an oddly specific denial.
Trump is afraid of losing, because as soon as he is no longer the President, he will be subject to multiple charges, in several states.
For what.
Quinn R Hiligh III no doubt you’re right.
I’m sure your right
@Quinn R Hiligh III SDNY .. you dont mess with
@Quinn R Hiligh III idk if trump will win…but if he loses..he’ll be investigated for his mishandling of campaign funds.. forget collision…that ship has sailed