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**SNIP** Trump’s four years in office greatly empowered anti-government extremists. His Interior Department repeatedly hosted people who want to see federal lands sold off. Fierce critics of endangered species protections and federal land management were tapped for powerful department posts. William Perry Pendley, a conservative lawyer with extreme anti-environmental views who spent his career lobbying for the sale of federal lands, was put in charge of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. Trump issued pardons for people like Utah state Rep. Phil Lyman (R) - who in 2014 led anti-federal land protesters on an illegal ATV ride on public lands that...

The United States imposing sanctions on four top generals from the country of Myanmar (formerly Burma). Those generals and their families banned from entering the USA because of the conflict in the predominately Buddhist country with the Rohingya Muslims. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blaming the generals for what are considered harsh policies against the Rohingya Muslim minority in the country. The Myanmar government views the conflict a a fight with Islamic terrorism. A "partial preliminary injunction" from a federal judge against ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond in Oregon Tuesday.... The US House voting 240-187 to condemn President Trump for...

"Ranchers need to be aware that they are a minority, and could be the next target of an overzealous anti-grazing litigation organization, or the victim of a lackadaisical federal agency".... That's the reaction from Oregon rancher Steven Hammond as reported by a trade publication after a temporary restraining order.... The United Arab Emirates says that a "state actor" was behind the damage to four oil tankers off its coast last month.... Meanwhile the commander of US forces in the Middle East region General Frank McKenzie says the: "threat is very real" when it comes to Iran..... Talks between the United...

"Ryan Payne rolls down the window and he sticks both hands out the window and he yells back at the...I'm guessing whoever it was with the flashing lights and he yells back at them. It hadn't been two seconds probably and his hands are out and the shot comes through and hits, misses him but I thought it but it hits the mirror...it was the first shot fired and he yanked back in really fast and he goes 'Wow! They're shootin at us'...." "LaVoy was gonna go on and when I looked up and he has on the back of...

"My message right now goes to Sheriff War of Harney County...Sheriff David Ward you could have prevented the Hammonds from going to prison. They had to suffer for two and a half years because you would not look at the evidence, you would not look at the facts. The same facts that President Trump looked at and pardoned the Hammonds upon.... You wouldn't look at the abuses and you allowed federal agencies to come, the FBI and other agencies to come and influence you and convince you that we somehow were dangeorus and the Hammonds had to suffer for that....

"All glory goes to our Heavenly Father for this tender mercy! This is a step in the right direction lets remember those still suffering whom went to expose the atrocities of the Hammonds" Ammon Bundy Facebook Post 7/10/2018 "Today President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Grants of Clemency (Full Pardons) for Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr., and his son, Steven Hammond" White House Press Release 7/10/2018 Word of the pardons came down around 10am this morning Eastern time. The White House says they are full pardons, not a commutation of sentences. The White House issued a statement that read in part:...

Walden: Trump 'seriously considering' pardon of Hammonds Congressman says president called him on Saturday WASHINGTON - Rep. Greg Walden , R-Ore., said he received a phone call Saturday from President Trump, who said he is "seriously considering" pardoning Eastern Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond, now serving a 5-year federal prison sentence. “Late Saturday afternoon, President Trump called me to say he is 'seriously considering' pardoning Dwight and Steven Hammond," the congressman said in a statement released Sunday. "The sentencing of Dwight and Steve Hammond to five years in federal prison is unjust. Period. Federal Judge Michael Hogan agreed, when...

Oregon Republican Congressman Greg Walden says President Trump called him late yesterday (Saturday June 30th) to say he is "seriously considering' a pardon for Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond. Walden, who represents the Hammonds in Congress, said that he "again strongly urged the president to administer the justice that is long overdue" and blamed the prosecution of the Hammonds on the Obama Administration. But Ammon Bundy, who led the early 2016 Oregon Standoff protest centered at the Malheur Nationa Wildlife Refuge on the Hammonds, says more needs to be done than just releasing them from prison. In a Facebook...

On June 8th it was posted on this blog that the office of White House Counsel Don McGahn had a request for the pardon of Dwight and Steven Hammond under review. This was reported by Portland media outlet KATU. Yesterday Congressman Greg Walden of Oregon, the Republican who represents the Hammonds in Congress, finally stood up on the House floor and called for their pardon. The Associated Press quoted Walden as saying: "It's time for real justice, and President Trump can administer that." Politicians don't stick their necks out and Congressman Walden's decision to speak now reinforces my sense that...