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Trump took aim at House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has faced controversy for his handling of the impeachment effort, and called on Republicans to release their own transcripts. "If Shifty Adam Schiff, who is a corrupt politician who fraudulently made up what I said on the 'call,' is allowed to release transcripts of the Never Trumpers & others that are & were interviewed, he will change the words that were said to suit the Dems purposes," Trump said in a tweet Sunday evening. The president suggested that Republicans "should give their own transcripts of the interviews to contrast...

Whole Title: Trump slams 'fake' and 'lousy' polling that reveals nearly 50% of voters want him impeached and claims 'I have the real polls' President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that polls showing that 49 percent of voters want him impeached were 'fake' and 'lousy' and said he had 'the real polls.' The polling from Fox News, MSN, and NBC/WSJ revealed that that almost half the country now supports Trump's removal, and were conducted amid an impeachment inquiry focusing on whether POTUS improperly encouraged Ukraine to carrying out investigations that would help his political goals. When confronted by the numbers...

A TOP-RANKING US judge has stunned a conference of Australian judges and barristers in Chicago by advocating secret trials for terrorists, more surveillance of Muslim populations across North America and an end to counter-terrorism efforts being "hog-tied" by the US constitution. Judge Richard Posner, a supposedly liberal-leaning jurist regarded by many as a future US Supreme Court candidate, said traditional concepts of criminal justice were inadequate to deal with the terrorist threat and the US had "over-invested" in them. His proposed "big brother" solutions flabbergasted delegates at the Australian Bar Association's biennial conference, where David Hicks's lawyer, Major Michael Mori,...