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The billionaire who funded the Hillary Clinton campaign – and the new Power Rangers movie – Telegraph.co.uk

In a six degrees of Kevin Bacon kind of way, there is a direct link between Rita Repulsa and Hillary Clinton. And, no, thats not a derogatory comment. Rather, the two wildly separate but equally iconic (okay, not really)females have the same man paying their bills. That man is Haim Saban, an Israeli-American billionaire and media mogulwho, through his vast, strange life, did as much to bring the Putty Patrol into the TV lexicon as he did bring a woman within a few questionable percent of the US presidency.

The unconventional connection stems from the early Nineties, when Saban, under pressure from parents groups and then-Vice President Al Gore about the level of violence in his TV shows, befriended Bill Clinton. The two quickly bonded, and Saban has gone on to become one of the familys largest financial backers, contributing $11.5 million to Hillary Clintons presidential run in 2016,...

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Oh, My God, Has Donald Trump Had a Crush on Hillary Clinton This Entire Time? – Observer

It seems inexplicable that Donald Trump, a man with no political experience and seemingly no interest in the tedium and minutia of politics, would want to become President of the United States. Maybe Donald Trump had no idea what the job of President actually entailed, or he just became drunk on the attention and the adoration of the crowds, or maybe he just never thought he would ever win. Maybe its all of the above.

Or

Maybe hes been in love with Hillary Clinton this entire time. Maybe seeking the presidency was a desperate attempt by Donald Trump to get the attention of the only woman hes ever loved. She couldnt ignore him if he became the president. Hillary Clinton had already fallen in love with one Commander in Chief; maybe she couldfall in love with another.

What evidence do I have? Im glad you asked.

On a Swedish TV show, British actress Emma Thompson revealed that Donald Trump phoned directly into her trailer while she was in Los Angeles filming a movie.

As Thompson relayed the story: I liftup the phone. Hi, its Donald Trump here. I said, Really? Can I help you? and he said, Yeah, I just you know, I wondered if I could offer you some accommodation in one of my Trump Towers. Theyre really comfortable.

But Donald Trump did not call the star of Sense and Sensibility and Love Actually just to offer her a hotel stay. Well, you know, I think we would get on very well, Trump said, according to Thompson. Maybe we could have dinner sometime.

Yes, Donald Trump asked out Emma Thompson (she politely refused). But the most important detail of the story? The movieThompson was shooting at the time: Primary Colors, with John Travolta. Primary Colors, the 1998 filmbased on a roman clef about Bill Clintons first presidential run. And who did Emma Thompson play?

The Hillary Clinton character.

Sure, Donald Trump was still married to his second wife Marla Maples at the time (the two were together from 1993 to 1999; Primary Colors, which was released in March 1998, most likely filmedin 1997) but how could Trump resist? Hillary Clinton was First Lady at the time; Emma Thompson in a Clinton-like characterwas the closest he would able to come to his one true love.

Suddenly it all makes sense: stalking her around the stage at the third presidential debates, the childish insults like an elementary school boy with a crush, the fact that he still cant stop talking about her, even four months after the electionour president has a bad case of the mentions! Its just like when you have a crush on someone new and you spin every conversation into a chance to talk about them, except youre also undermining our democracy with entrenched partisanship. Looking back, Trumps entire primary run was probably all just an elaborate attempt to neg her.

But theres another piece of evidence: Donald Trumps Twitter fixation with Kristin Stewart. In 2012, the futurePresident of the United Statestweetedabout the 26-year old star of the Twilight franchise and her ex-boyfriend Robert Pattinson nearly a dozen times, after she was caught in tabloid photos cheating on him.

Donald Trump had a vested, emotional interest in Robert Pattinson leaving Stewart (the two were still together at the time), pleading with him that he could do better, that she would cheat again, that the relationship could never be fixed. Its almost as though there were another famous power couple, a couple who suffered through a massive cheating scandal and didnt break up when Donald wished they would.

Donald Trump could not publicly plead with Hillary Clinton to leave her husband, and so he pleaded with Robert Pattinson instead.

Hillary Clinton, I think is a terrific woman,Donald Trump said in an interview with Greta Van Susteren,in 2012, the same year as theStewart/Pattinson fixation.

Men do crazy things for love. Menelaus led his entire kingdom into war to bring backHelen of Troy. Henry VIII forced England to leave the Catholic Church. And Donald Trump? Well, Donald Trump wouldaccidentally rise to the highest office in the land, a role for which hes completely unqualified, and allowAmerica crumblejust to get that someone special to notice him.

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Hillary Clinton’s Stunning Campaign Statement About Trump’s Ties To Russia – Huffington Post

We are dealing with something unprecedented in the history of this country...that should scare everyone. Democrat, Republican, and Independent.

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Donald Trump should immediately disclose all of his tax ties and connections to the Kremlin and its associates. The American people deserve to know the full extent of these links and how they relate to what the Russians are doing..."

Hillary Clinton did not mince words in a speech delivered to a rapt crowd regarding what she explicitly referred to as the "relationship between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin."

"Putin is manipulating Donald. Putin is a trained intelligence officer from the old KGB. He knows he can use flattery to get into Donalds head -- to make Donald the Kremlins puppet. And It seems to be working. Donald has signaled to Putin that he will let Russia do whatever it wants, from Ukraine to Syria and beyond," said Clinton in the explosive statement.

The catch? The statement was given during a campaign rally on a cold Monday night nearly five months ago, and only eight days before the 2016 presidential election, on October 30, 2016.

A captured snippet from the event in which Clinton addressed supporters in Kent, Ohio has recently resurfaced, but at the time it received relatively little fanfare and was not otherwise widely reported on, despite the explosive nature of its contents. This was, of course, three days after FBI Director James Comey publicly suggested that she was the subject of a potentially new criminal investigation into her e-mails, which did not pan out to be true.

In retrospect, the video serves as a shockingly precise warning about the rapidly unfolding quagmire currently before us, as potential collusion between members of Donald Trumps presidential campaign and Russian operatives becomes more and more of a reality.

As of Thursday evening, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), the leading member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, has gone on record to state that the FBI is in possession of new information that exceeds circumstantial evidence, and suggested that this may go before a grand jury.

Indeed, it appears that Hillary Clinton tried to warn the American people, who likely did not have the capacity or context to fully understand the weight of her words until now. But... she tried to tell us.

Other noteworthy moments from the speech not depicted in the video include Clinton quoting former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: We have never seen a mind meld of the kind between the Russian leadership and a candidate for the presidency of the United States.

On the presidents authority to launch nuclear weapons:

The Clinton campaign has not formally addressed whether they will pursue any formal legal challenge of the election, though I previously reported on at least one possible (if implausible) legal scenario for consideration.

Alex Mohajer is a contributing Political Writer and Commentator for The Huffington Post and the Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Bros For America, a progressive political advocacy group. He is proudly Muck Rack-verified, or you can find him on his official Facebook page, or on Twitter.

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Read Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Congratulatory Letter to Haim Saban – Variety


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Read the letter former senator Hillary Clinton wrote to longtime friend and political ally Haim Saban congratulating him on receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Dear Haim: Congratulations on receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame!

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Bombshell Report Claims Trump Campaign Worked With Russia To Topple Hillary Clinton – PoliticusUSA

According to a new bombshell report from CNN, U.S. officials reportedly coordinated with Russian operatives in order to damage Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump during last years presidential campaign.

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The FBI has information that indicates associates of President Donald Trump communicated with suspected Russian operatives to possibly coordinate the release of information damaging to Hillary Clintons campaign, US officials told CNN.

This is partly what FBI Director James Comey was referring to when he made a bombshell announcement Monday before Congress that the FBI is investigating the Trump campaigns ties to Russia, according to one source.

The FBI is now reviewing that information, which includes human intelligence, travel, business and phone records and accounts of in-person meetings, according to those U.S. officials. The information is raising the suspicions of FBI counterintelligence investigators that the coordination may have taken place, though officials cautioned that the information was not conclusive and that the investigation is ongoing.

In a week filled with devastating developments for the White House, this appears to be the most damning as it would mean Trumps campaign worked with a foreign state to defeat Clinton and undermine the entire American electoral process.

Not only does it warrant a non-partisan, independent investigation, but it should result in, to paraphrase the president, a complete and total shutdown of Trumps agenda until weget to the bottom of this.

The CNN report also confirms what Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said earlier today on MSNBC when he told Chuck Todd that there is more than circumstantial evidence now showing that Russia and the Trump campaign were working together to defeat Clinton.

The road to Donald Trumps impeachment is getting shorter by the minute.

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