Month: August 2017

Thursday at 7 p.m. ET, President Donald Trump will host a rally at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena in Huntington, WV Video courtesy of the Right Side Broadcast Network Follow Breitbart.tv on Twitter @BreitbartVideo

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” Jay Sekulow, a member of President Trump’s legal team, reacted to the reported empaneling of a grand jury by Special Counsel Bob Mueller by stating that there is no reason to believe the president is under investigation and that the president isn’t thinking of firing Mueller. Sekulow said that while there was no advance notice, which he stated isn’t unusual, the empaneling of the grand jury isn’t a surprise and is “very much standard operating procedure” in a case like this. He added, “But with respect to the empaneling of the grand jury, we have no reason to believe that the president’s under investigation here.” He later said that there are no revelations that suggest the president is under investigation. Sekulow stated that he doesn’t know anything about the report that subpoenas have been issued with regards to Donald Trump Jr.’s 2016 Russia meeting. He added that while a grand jury empaneling is standard, grand jury proceedings are supposed to be secret. He also said that a grand jury “goes a long way in moving the process forward.” Sekulow also said that speculation about the president firing

Former White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci canceled his much-hyped online media spectacle that was scheduled for Friday afternoon. In a Thursday afternoon tweet, Scaramucci—whom new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly axed after this week after his profane interview with the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza in which he cussed out former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and accused Chief Strategist Steve Bannon of giving himself blowjobs—said he will focus on his family and work in the private sector. “No Press Event Tomorrow: Focusing on Family, My Work in The Private Sector. #MovingForward Stay Tuned!” he tweeted. No Press Event Tomorrow: Focusing on Family, My Work in The Private Sector. #MovingForward Stay Tuned! — Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) August 3, 2017 After telling HuffPost that he would go “dark” for a bit, Scaramucci immediately on leaked a goofy communications strategy memo that he wrote supposedly a full week after he got hired, again putting the spotlight on himself on Wednesday. To make matters worse, the communications memo revealed someone who may have been way in over his head, as Breibart News explained. For the time being, it looks as if Scaramucci has decided to stop production of his one-man “The