All of you will love this story and I have to give O’Donnell his dues for being fair to Trump in the end; but, it didn’t start out that way.  O’Donnell started out trying to tar brush Trump, recently, just as McCain and Graham are presently doing.  In the end, McCain and Graham are a part of the RINO’s in the Senate and are guilty of that same behavior because these two are members of the NEW WORLD ORDER who are trying to push Trump out.

Didn’t McCain and Graham meet with the rebel leaders in Syria?

GOP Senator Graham Apologizes for McCain Tantrum at Syrian Christian Leader Meeting.

FEBRUARY 05, 2014

Hell-bent on arming opposition forces in Syria—despite strong evidence that they’re run by Islamic terrorists—John McCain displayed behavior unbecoming of a United States Senator during a recent meeting with Syrian Christian leaders touring Capitol Hill.

The delegation of Syrian clergy came to Washington to raise awareness among lawmakers of the growing crisis among the region’s minority Christian community. Christians make up about 10% of the Syrian population and they are being targeted and ruthlessly murdered by radical elements of the rebel forces, according to the visiting church officials. They say the media and human rights groups in the west have been largely silent on the ordeal of the Christians in Syria.

A number of churches have been destroyed or burned, children were killed when rebels fired mortar rockets at an Armenian Christian school in Damascus and countless others have been abducted by Islamic fighters, the Syrian delegation reveals in a statement published by the research group, Westminster Institute, that brought them to Washington. Eleven nuns have also been abducted and are still in captivity and two bishops are still missing after getting kidnapped during a humanitarian mission.

But Senator McCain, an Arizona Republican, evidently doesn’t want to hear negative stories about the rebels he’s working to arm. So he stormed out of a closed-door meeting with the Syrian clergy officials last week. Held in the Senate Arms Services Committee meeting room, the reunion also included senators Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. Graham is a Republican and the rest are Democrats.

McCain marched into the committee room yelling, according to a high-level source that attended the meeting, and quickly stormed out. “He was incredibly rude,” the source told Judicial Watch “because he didn’t think the Syrian church leaders should even be allowed in the room.” Following the shameful tantrum McCain reentered the room and sat briefly but refused to make eye contact with the participants, instead ignoring them by looking down at what appeared to be random papers.

The outburst was so embarrassing that Senator Graham, also an advocate of U.S. military intervention in Syria, apologized for McCain’s disturbing outburst. “Graham actually apologized to the group for McCain’s behavior,” according to the source, who sat through the entire meeting. “It was truly unbelievable.”

Not really, for those familiar with McCain’s history on this matter. The veteran lawmaker is enamored with a controversial young “Syria expert,” Elizabeth O’Bagy, who has managed to convince him as well as the president and secretary of state that Syrian rebels are mostly moderate and not terrorists. While persuading the U.S. of this, O’Bagy concealed that she was a political director for the Syrian Emergency Task Force (SETF), a group that advocates for Syria’s rebels from Washington D.C.

Before getting exposed by conservative media outlets, O’Bagy claimed to be an objective analyst at a Washington D.C. think-tank that studies military affairs when in fact she had a “reputation as the leading expert on the armed opposition in the Syrian revolution,” according to SETF. In September O’Bagy was abruptly fired from the think-tank for padding her resume and McCain graciously hired her. “Elizabeth is a talented researcher, and I have been very impressed by her knowledge and analysis in multiple briefings over the last year,” McCain said in a statement to the political news publication that broke the story in late September.

Besides the fact that a Syrian Islamist group is essentially steering U.S. policy, a number of domestic and international media outlets have confirmed that terrorists—mainly Al Qaeda—are running opposition forces in Syria. For instance the New York Times published a piece that reveals Islamist rebels—including the most extreme groups in the notorious Al Nusra Front, an Al Qaeda-aligned force—are running the show in Syria. “The Islamist character of the opposition reflects the main constituency of the rebellion,” the story says. “Nowhere in rebel-controlled Syria is there a secular fighting force to speak of.”

Incredibly, last month an international news agency reported that Congress secretly approved U.S. weapons flow to what officials describe as “moderate” Syrian rebel factions. The White House refused to comment on the back-door operation, but the story cites U.S. and European officials who say the weapons deliveries have been funded by the U.S. Congress, in votes behind closed doors, through the end of government fiscal year 2014.

What a mess – do we really know who the enemy is?

NOW THE REAL STORY:

Sunday July 19, 2015
Trump-O’Donnell Bet Off, MSNBC Host Backtracks,  very politely, on ‘Apprentice’ Pay.

NEW YORK, NY – JULY 06: Donald Trump attends the 2015 Hank’s Yanks Golf Classic at Trump Golf Links Ferry Point on July 6, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images)

By Sandy Fitzgerald | Friday, 17 Jul 2015 08:48 AM

Donald Trump’s challenge to MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell is off, after the pundit admitted on his show Thursday night that he likes the candidate and that he may have been “wrong” when he accused him of lying about the money he earned for his reality show.

I’m very disappointed,” Trump told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program Friday. “I was really all set to go after him this morning. And now I feel guilty if I do that. I feel very, very guilty.”

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On Thursday’s “Morning Joe” show, Trump called to bet O’Donnell his “Apprentice” salary if the “Last Word” host could prove, as he claimed, that Trump had exaggerated the nearly $213 million he listed in his campaign disclosure statement as having earned over the show’s 14 seasons.

Just before that, O’Donnell and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough had a heated argument about the issue, with O’Donnell continuing his arguments on Twitter after leaving the live program.

But by Thursday night, O’Donnell was ready to step back, and said on his own show that Trump has often treated him very well.

“Just three months ago. Donald was making his grand entrance in the ballroom of the White House Correspondents Dinner and I was sitting alone at a table minding my own business. He spotted me, called my name and what he — watch what he did — he stretches out his hand for a handshake,” O’Donnell said, showing a film clip.

“He does that to a guy who savaged him four years ago when he was talking about running for president. I bothered him so much back then he threatened to sue me, but he didn’t care about that when he saw me. He just wanted to shake my hand and wish me well … in that moment, Donald was a bigger man than I was and I liked him for that.”

He said Trump also reached out to him a year ago, upon his return to his show after a long hospital stay following a car accident.

O’Donnell said he got “hung up” about the money Trump earned, but, “where I come from, no one settled disagreements with bets because no one had money to bet. So no, Donald there won’t be any bet because I would never bet about anything. I just don’t bet, period.”

Also, he said, he doesn’t want to be the topic of a story about Trump, as he wants to cover Trump’s campaign. And, what’s more, “I might be wrong. I have never said I know exactly how much Donald Trump made for the entire series. I don’t know. I have made semi-educated guesses about it and I don’t care very much about it. I don’t really care.”

O’Donnell also apologized to journalist April Ryan, who had joined the panel to discuss the question she had posed to President Barack Obama the day before about the rape allegations against comedian Bill Cosby.

“I am really sorry that I wasted the time that should have been focused on what April Ryan had to say,” O’Donnell said. He then replayed Ryan’s statement from the “Morning Joe” show.

After the “Morning Joe” show played the O’Donnell clip for Trump, the real estate magnate, who is leading the GOP presidential campaign field in several national polls, joked that he was ready to “say lots of nasty things about him. It’s hard to do that now. Joe, you really ruined my morning, to be honest.”

No money was on the table at any time; but, you know what – they both won in the end!

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