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http://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...hite-nationalism-Demographics-are-our-destiny

Rep. Steve King openly peddles white nationalism: 'Demographics are our destiny.'

Conservative Republicanism and white nationalism are now functionally the same movement.

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That's Iowa Rep. Steve King, the prime architect of the party's newly aggressive anti-immigrant stance, a position he obtained by scuttling post-2012 party efforts at reworking and moderating the party's past immigration stances. He’s voicing these thoughts in support for Dutch white nationalist stain Geert Wilders.

And yes, this is the new Republican "normal."
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I'm sure the mainstream media won't cover this.. And they'll still have that White Supremacist piece of shit congressman on various shows and never ask him about this...
 
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Conway Defends Wiretap Claims: ‘Microwaves That Turn Into Cameras … Just a Fact of Modern Life.’

After making the interview rounds over the weekend on Fox News, Presidential Counselor Kellyanne Conway sat for a brief but illuminating chat with the New Jersey Newspaper, The Record, at her home in Alipine, New Jersey. The interview was conducted by columnist Mike Kelly.

The first minutes of the interview focused on healthcare. Conway reiterated that Donald Trump and his administration were committed to the GOP Obamacare replacement.

“The President and Vice-President support the American Health Care Act,” she said bluntly, adding that much of the Conservative criticism would be fixed during the bill’s reconciliation process between the House and Senate.

The interview was mostly a rehash of old talking points from Conway until Kelly asked about the issue of surveillance, specifically bringing up Trump’s explosive accusation that he his home in Trump Tower was wiretapped by President Obama during the 2016 campaign.

“There are many way to surveil each other now,” said Conway, sidestepping whether she personally agreed with the President’s claims. “There was an article this week that talked about how you could surveil someone through their phones, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, microwaves that turn into cameras. We know that that is just a fact of modern life.”

Conway then moved on to more traditional ground of criticizing the media and opinion journalism.
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Conway Doubles Down on Spying Microwaves: ‘Of Course I Have No Evidence…’

Kellyanne Conway went on the Monday morning news junket today and she may or may not have admitted that the Trump administration has no proof to back up the president’s allegation that Trump Tower was wiretapped by former president Barack Obama.

During an interview earlier today, Conway stood by President Trump‘s claim by saying it’s “just a fact of modern life” that microwaves and other tech can be hacked and turned into surveillance devices. George Stephanopoulos asked Conway about this on Good Morning America, inquiring as to why Trump made the claim without offering any proof.

Conway insisted that her previous comments weren’t about Trump Tower specifically, but were about the various CIA spying techniques recently disclosed by WikiLeaks. Stephanopoulos asked Conway to clarify that she has no evidence about Trump Tower, and she responded with “Of course I don’t have any evidence for those allegations, and that answer has nothing to do with what the president said last week.”
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Trump's Budget Chief Claims Obama Admin Was 'Manipulating' Jobs Data

White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney claimed on Sunday, without providing any evidence, that President Barack Obama's administration was "manipulating" unemployment data.

"We thought for a long time, I did, that the Obama administration was manipulating the numbers in terms of the number of people in the workforce to make the unemployment rate, that percentage rate, look smaller than it actually was," Mulvaney, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on CNN.

There is no evidence for that claim, and Mulvaney did not provide further details.

On Monday, former Congressional Budget Office head Doug Elmendorf called Mulvaney's claim a "shocking accusation."

"There is no evidence for that whatsoever," Elmendorf said on CNN. "I think he should retract that comment."

He said that the unemployment rate is "calculated according to a set of formulas, a process for collecting data that has been in place for years."

"The production of those numbers is not affected by who is in political power," Elmendorf said. "That assertion of dishonesty on the part of civil servants who are working very hard to produce accurate information every month is damaging to our country."

The claim that Obama's administration fudged jobs data is one that President Donald Trump has pushed since long before he ran for office. In 2012, Trump accused Obama of using "a lot of monkey business" to tout a drop in the unemployment rate.

“I don’t believe the number and neither do any of the other people that have intelligence,” Trump said at the time. “Because that number came out of nowhere.”

From 2012 to 2016, Trump derided unemployment data under Obama's administration as "a complete fraud," "a totally phony number," "those phony statistics" and "totally fiction."

On Friday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that while Trump repeatedly called employment numbers "phony" during the presidential campaign, they were nevertheless "very real" now that Trump is in office.
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Errr. Running up on dude n talkin shit irl tho. White privilage. White ppl think they do n say whatever they want. Its not his fault america brought the con n elected that game show host/reality tv star as prez. Spicer jus cashin checks. I dont condone workin for trump, but thats for him to deal with.
 
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Spicer: Trump 'Still Believes' Millions Cast Illegal Votes

White House press secretary Sean Spicer maintained Monday that President Donald Trump still believes that millions of people voted illegally during a press conference Monday.

The comment came after Spicer said “of course” the public can believe everything Trump says, “if he’s not joking.”

"Every time that he speaks authoritatively, he speaks – he's speaking as President of the United States," Spicer said of Trump's credibility.

“More than 3 million Americans voted illegally. Was he joking or does he still believe that?” NBC's Peter Alexander asked.

“Yes, and he still believes that. He does believe it," Spicer replied.

Though Trump called for a probe into voter fraud in late January after his initial claim of millions of illegal votes, the panel to pursue that probe still hasn’t come together. Civil rights leaders recently asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to advise against the effort.
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Spicer: We Still Think Unemployment Percentage Can Be 'Manipulated'

Sean Spicer said the President continues to believe that the unemployment percentage was “manipulated” because, the White House spokesman said, surveys to determine the unemployment rate discarded those who were looking for work after a certain length of time.

Spicer was originally asked about the director of the Office of Management and Budget, who said Sunday that “the Obama administration was manipulating the numbers in terms of the number of people in the workforce to make the unemployment rate, that percentage rate, look smaller than it actually was.”

Spicer dodged that question, but said that the President believed that the unemployment percentage was “manipulated” because of how the government counts those who have been jobless for an extended period of time.

“To look at a number and say we have 4.7 or 4.8 or 5.9 percent unemployment is not necessarily an accurate reflection of how many people are actually working, seeking work or want to work. And if you know how they conduct those surveys, there’s a lot of times where people, whether they’re older or younger, or because of how long they’ve been searching for work, are not considered statistically viable anymore, and they’re quashed away,” Spicer said. “How you look at the percentage of people working can sometimes be a a manipulated number. The number of people that are added to the rolls every month is a much more accurate understanding of what's happening in the economy.”

In fact, the Bureau of Labor Statistics includes various measures for employment, including those who have been looking for work unsuccessfully, for example, for 15 weeks or longer. They produce several different unemployment numbers based on who is included in their count of the total working and unemployed population.

“The bottom line is the percentage of people who are unemployed varies widely by who you're asking and the way you do the analysis of who is actually in the workforce,” Spicer added later.

On Friday, after the release of a favorable jobs report, Spicer was asked if Trump thought the report was accurate.

“I talked to the President prior to this, and he said to quote him very clearly,” Spicer responded. “They may have been phony in the past, but it’s very real now.”
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Spicer: Trump Explained His Wiretapping Tweet By Citing Media Reports

After another press conference in which he refused to provide any evidence for President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor wiretapped him, Sean Spicer acknowledged that Trump had cited media reports in a conversation about the charge with him.

Earlier in the press conference, Spicer was asked whether the President had shared what he claimed to know about the wiretapping with the Department of Justice.

“I'm not going to get into what the President knew or didn't know prior to it. I think we've already commented on this multiple times,” Spicer replied.

Then how, NBC's Hallie Jackson followed up later, did Spicer know that Trump meant to include multiple forms of surveillance when he put the word “wiretapping” in quotes in his original accusation?

“In some cases I'll ask him, ‘What do the quotes mean?’ and he’ll say – ” Spicer began in response.

“Did you ask him about this tweet?” Jackson asked.

“I did,” Spicer replied.

“What did he say,” Jackson asked.

“He said they were in quotes, it’s referring to surveillance overall, it was something that had been referred to in other reports,” Spicer said.

“So he cited other reports in his conversation with you?” Jackson asked.

“He did, yes,” Spicer replied.

“So is that what he was basing that tweet on?” Jackson asked.

“I’m not – as I just mentioned, good try, but I’ve been clear on that,” Spicer said, ending the conversation.
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Spicer: 'Of Course' You Can Trust Whatever Trump Says 'If He's Not Joking'

White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday that "of course" President Donald Trump's comments should be taken as fact "if he's not joking."

"The question in simple terms is, when he says something, can we trust that it's real or should we assume that it's phony?" NBC News' Peter Alexander asked Spicer during his daily briefing, referring to the Congressional Budget Office's reports on Obamacare and its expected analysis of House Republicans' new repeal bill.

"Yes!" Spicer interjected. "It's real. Absolutely."

Members of Trump's administration joined congressional Republicans over the weekend in preemptively knocking down the non-partisan CBO's analysis of the repeal bill's costs and how many people would lose coverage if it passes.

"How can we believe that it's real when you just told us that it was phony but now it's real?" Alexander asked, apparently referring to Trump's comments on the jobs report from his first full month in office.

On Friday, Spicer said that while Trump repeatedly called jobs data from the previous administration "phony" during his presidential campaign, employment numbers were nevertheless "very real" now that he is in office.

"I did not tell you that," Spicer said to Alexander.

"The President said the numbers were phony then but very real now," Alexander said. "Can you say affirmatively that whenever the President says something, we can trust it to be real?"

"If he's not joking, of course," Spicer said. "Every time that he speaks authoritatively, that he speaks, that he's speaking as President of the United States."
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