Donald Trump couldn’t ask for better polling results than what became evident today.  In addition to pulling away with a 32% lead, he’s extending his trend to continue pulling away – and Trump is also leading in the second choice category, which means he automatically is carrying reserve fuel to push his polling even higher.  (Full Poll pdf below)

Conversely the numbers for Wall Street, the U.S. CoC and the RNC/GOPe via Jeb Bush are devastating.   Jeb Bush is polling single digits in the 10th consecutive poll – this is completely unsustainable for the GOPe road map, and completely unacceptable for the money groups behind him.  Again, desperation abounds….
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Reporter Andrew Knapp attended the first pre-trial hearing today.  He filed the following reports:

UPDATE: Defense argued that Walter Scott got on Slager during a struggle and pummeled him. Attorney Andy Savage said Michael Slager looks forward to clearing his name. Prosecutor Scarlett Wilson, though, said Slager became executioner and planted evidence, lying to make it look like self-defense.
UPDATE: Michael Slager bond hearing is over. No decision by the judge in impassioned, emotional three-hour hearing for Michael Slager, the former North Charleston policeman charged with murder in Walter Scott’s shooting death. (more…)

Will this finally be the tipping point where people recognize that Glenn Beck is an unstable, self-centered nutter?  Too soon to tell.  It will be interesting to see how his partner Dana Loesch responds/aligns on this.
Last year it was the insufferable “Soccer Ball and Teddy Bear Tour” for illegal aliens.  In February of this year he stated he swore off the Republican party forever and would never return.  Now Beck mounts a full-throated attack against Sarah Palin…..  As previously stated, the Donald Trump campaign is putting a spotlight on the festering underbelly of corporatist political media.  Beck being a big part of that.
(Via Washington Examiner) Glenn Beck ripped former Alaska governor Sarah Palin as a “clown” on his radio program Thursday, one day after sharing a stage with her at an anti-Iran deal rally in Washington, D.C.  (MediaIte Link)

“I didn’t listen to her speech. Yeah, I’m going to say it,” Mr. Beck said. “I don’t care what Sarah Palin says any more. Sarah Palin has become a clown. I’m embarrassed that I was once for Sarah Palin. Honestly, I’m embarrassed.” (more…)

After taking the lead in New Hampshire this week (49-38), now Bernie Sanders takes the lead in Iowa (41-40).  Despite the Poll financiers continuing to prop up Hillary’s diminishing support by placing Joe Biden in every poll result over the last two weeks, Bernie Sanders now takes the lead in Iowa State polling.
Removing the Biden Paradox, the actual polls reflect an even more damaging reality for Team Clinton.   Wall Street releasing apoplectic tears, MSM trying desperately to avoid the looming consequence.

(Via Quinipiac) In a come-from-behind rally, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the choice of 41 percent of Iowa likely Democratic Caucus participants, with 40 percent picking former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and 12 percent backing Vice President Joseph Biden, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. (more…)

Activist Judge Barry Williams gave activist Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby a big assist in her goal to convict six Baltimore police officers.  Williams ruled against a venue change motion while saying there’s no evidence they will be unable to seat an impartial jury.
The pre-trial hearings continue this afternoon.

(Via Baltimore Sun) A Baltimore Circuit Court judge ruled Thursday morning that the trials of six police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray will stay in Baltimore, saying the defense had failed to prove that the officers cannot receive a fair trial in the city.

“The citizens of Baltimore are not monolithic,” Judge Barry Williams said in his ruling. “They think for themselves.”

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00:00 to 07:45 Greetings – Iran Deal
07:45 to 10:25 Mid-East Refugee and Immigration Crisis
10:30 to 11:25 NBC giving advertising revenue to veterans
11:30 to 12:25 Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
12:25 to 12:54 Iran Wrap Up – Salutations

Many people will look at this devastating sunlight upon the U.S Intel Community as a political embarrassment for the Obama administration.  However, I would disagree. 
This entire exposition smells more like a deflective shield targeted to give the White House an excuse for terrible Mid-East policy.   This “revelation” protects the White House more than it causes embarrassment; it gives Obama excuses for his failures…. and you’ll note this is surfacing at a time when Russia is entering Syria under the auspices of needing to fight ISIS, because the U.S. has failed.  There’s an obvious transparency to the timing…
(Via Daily Beast) More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned.
The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence. (more…)

Well, this is either incompetence or willful blindness.  The U.S. State Department now saying they were unaware the “transparency czar”, who happens to be in charge of Hillary’s email release, was a donor to Clinton’s campaign….
(Via The Daily Caller) The State Department admitted on Wednesday that it did not know that a career diplomat hired as the agency’s new email and transparency czar donated the maximum allowed under federal law to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Regardless of that potential conflict of interest, agency spokesman John Kirby also acknowledged that the new hire, Janice Jacobs, will likely be involved in processing Clinton’s emails. (more…)

Watch the video to see what the “aid for Syrian refugees” was:

It would appear the relief supplies were actually a container filled with weapons. Remember, this arrived in Greece specifically designated for the Syrian “refugees” – I’m looking for more details on the video.
CNN or international media? {{{crickets}}}

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