FBI probes bizarre right-wing plot to smear Robert Mueller

Activists reportedly asked women to fabricate sexual harassment claims. No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Wednesday, October 31 MUELLER SMEAR UNRAVELS Pro-Trump activists, including coffee shop loiterer Jacob Wohl, are reportedly involved in a bizarre attempt to smear special counsel Robert Mueller with false claims of sexual misconduct. The Justice Department has asked the FBI to investigate. [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook] RYAN: TRUMP CAN’T CHANGE CITIZENSHIP House Speaker Paul Ryan broke with the White House over birthright citizenship, rejecting Trump’s claim that he has the power to overturn the constitutional right with an executive order. [HuffPost] PITTSBURGH OFFICIALS BOYCOTT TRUMP Local officials declined to meet the president, who visited Pittsburgh four days after an anti-Semitic gunman opened fire on a synagogue and killed 11 people. Trump was greeted by protesters, including the Rev. Susan Rothenberg, who shouted, “It’s not about you. Let the families grieve. This is our neighborhood. You are not welcome here!” [HuffPost] PENCE’S ‘RABBI’ THINKS JEWS ARE GOING TO HELL The Christian “rabbi” who offered a prayer for the weekend’s victims of neo-Nazi terror at a rally with Vice President Mike Pence believes that Jews who do not accept Christ as their savior are condemned to hell. [HuffPost] CONWAY’S HUSBAND SLAMS TRUMP AGAIN George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, also spoke out about Trump’s birthright plan, penning a scathing editorial that shreds the president’s proposal to use an executive order to overrule a citizenship right enshrined in the Constitution. [HuffPost] RYAN ZINKE PROBE REFERRED TO JUSTICE DEPARTMENT The Interior Department’s internal watchdog has referred one of its probes into Secretary Ryan Zinke’s conduct to the Department of Justice. While it’s unclear which of the internal investigations into Zinke’s conduct was involved, the move suggests possible criminal violations. [HuffPost]         YE ‘DONE WITH POLITICS’ Kanye West is stepping away from politics, claiming he has been “used to spread messages I don’t believe in.” Ye met with Trump in the Oval Office earlier this month. [HuffPost] BULGER ‘KILLED BY HITMAN’ Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger is dead, with reports suggesting he was killed by Mafia hitman Fotios “Freddy” Geas. [HuffPost]   HOW GAB RECRUITED RACISTS Gab CEO Andrew Torba claims Pittsburgh synagogue suspect Robert Bowers doesn’t represent his website. But Torba has spent years recruiting racists like the accused killer. [HuffPost] FEDEX ENDS NRA PARTNERSHIP FedEx has announced an end to a program that gives discounts to business members of the National Rifle Association. [HuffPost] THE PLANET’S HIDDEN CLIMATE CHANGE The seas cover 71 percent of the Earth and are home to the vast majority of living things on the planet. However, rising water temperatures are creating an epic underwater refugee crisis among marine life. [Reuters] HOW A SINGLE TWEET SPARKED CHAOS A right-wing troll and a Russian Twitter account created 2016's biggest voter fraud story. This is how Russia’s disinformation campaign was able to use online content to spread distrust. [NBC]       Here are last-minute Halloween recipes you can still make. This woman claimed to have had sex with 20 ghosts. Now she’s engaged to one. Kathy Griffin didn’t realize suspected pipe bomber Cesar Sayoc threatened her on Twitter. Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack O’Connell are attached to star as iconic outlaws Bonnie and Clyde in Kiké Maillo’s “Love Is A Gun.” Investigators searching for the flight recorders of crashed Lion Air Flight 610 have heard transponder "pings." Voters in Missouri and Arkansas will decide next week whether to boost the minimum wage. The fiancee of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi has called on Trump to ensure that his death in Istanbul is not covered up. A Christian woman who was sentenced to death in Pakistan eight years ago on blasphemy charges has been acquitted by the country’s top court. Here’s the one thing Jon Stewart says he got wrong about Trump. Naomi Watts is set to star in a highly anticipated “Game of Thrones” prequel series from co-creators Jane Goldman and George R.R. Martin. Eddie Redmayne is reportedly in talks to Star in Aaron Sorkin's “Trial of the Chicago 7.” This year’s midterm spending will be a record, thanks to small donors, women and billionaires. The U.S. women’s gymnastics team has been crowned world champion — again. This GOP Senate candidate from Minnesota thinks Americans with pre-existing conditions are usually “wealthier.” How capitalism has screwed women over. 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