Trump Accuses Comey of Perjury While Dodging Questions About Secret Tapes He Probably Made Up. At a White House press conference today, President Trump accused former FBI director James Comey of perjuring himself before the US Senate—a very serious charge—and further advanced the ridiculous charade that he can prove it all with secret “tapes” which almost certainly do not exist. After managing to stop tweeting for an entire day (hallelujah), the president let loose on Friday, accusing Comey of making “false statements and lies” while testifying under oath. On Twitter, Trump went so far as to declare “total and complete vindication” even though Comey explicitly stated the president leaned on him to end the investigation into his pal Michael Flynn. Trump previously characterized the FBI as being in a state of utter disarray under Comey, one of the several pretexts the president used to explain Comey’s firing before publicly admitting that what he really wanted was for that whole Russia thing to go away. Those were lies, plain and simple,” Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee. Asked about the “tapes” he most likely invented on Friday, Trump told reporters, “I’ll tell you about that sometime in the near future.” That future may be sooner than he expected: Having accused Comey of perjury, the Senate Intelligence Committee is now demanding that the president hand over the “tapes” by June 2. So he has two weeks. In the wake of Comey’s testimony and Trump’s rebuttal, the American public has been left with the difficult decision. Should they believe the G- man who once threatened to quit his job as a US attorney on principle and whose former employees can’t find anything bad to say about him? Or the former casino owner who paid $2. Tough call. Meanwhile, seven of Trump’s current and former aides, including son- in- law Jared Kushner, are currently being scrutinized by a special counsel over their contacts with the Russian government. A special counsel that was only necessary because Trump’s attorney general suspiciously omitted his own exchanges with a Russian envoy during his Senate confirmation hearings. Maybe Merriam- Webster can just tweet the definition of “vindication” so the president can learn to use it properly. Correction: They already have. After three seasons telling the story of the burgeoning Rebel Alliance, the fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels is finally going to show that central piece of. X- Wings Will Finally Enter the Rebellion's Arsenal in the Last Season of Star Wars Rebels. After three seasons telling the story of the burgeoning Rebel Alliance, the fourth and final season of Star Wars Rebels is finally going to show that central piece of rebel iconography: the X- Wing itself. Yesterday, attendees to Dragon. Con’s Star Wars Rebels fan panel got a fabulous surprise: Henry Gilroy, co- executive producer of the show, made an appearance, chatting with fans and dropping some new tidbits on the upcoming season of the show. Chief among them is the revelation that, finally, after three seasons of conspicuous absence, X- Wings will finally open their S- foils and swoop into Rebels. The news comes via Star Wars Insider’s Bryan Young, who tweeted the panel. I kind of love that it’s taken this long, to be honest. ![]() ![]() The Start of Darkness trope as used in popular culture. Nobody is born evil (well, except maybe the Enfant Terrible). Something usually happened to push a. One of the interesting things to note about Rebels over its four seasons has been the way it’s slowly evolved its art direction. The first season, focused mostly on the planet of Lothal, avoided the imagery traditionally associated with the Rebellion in the Original Trilogy almost entirely. Kanan, Hera, and their crew weren’t Rebels, not officially; they were an isolated cell taking orders by proxy, with no ambition toward making change on a galactic scale. The look of the show followed suit; it was more Tatooine than Yavin IV. Then, as the Rebel Alliance the audience is more familiar with has begun to coalesce, that’s started to shift. The second and third seasons introduce the traditional rebel flight suits, with B- Wings and Y- Wings and early looks at Rebel bases and troopers. You even see this reflected in Ezra, whose look in season three more closely conforms with what the main story has trained us to expect from a Jedi, aging up a little and trading out his stun- gun/lightsaber combo for a more traditional green blade. Now the final season, from what we’ve seen, looks to continue the trend. We’ve seen glimpses of the base on Yavin IV, camo fatigues like those worn in Return of the Jedi, and now we know we’ll see X- Wings, perhaps the most iconic and obvious symbol of the Rebel Alliance and Star Wars as a whole. It’s a visual shorthand for the evolution of the Rebellion across the series, from a fledgling guerrilla cabal to the uncertain but formidable movement seen in Rogue One and A New Hope. It’s a fitting move for the ending of the series, a sort of symbolic passing of the torch. The final season of Star Wars Rebels premieres this fall. Any other traditional Star Wars touches you hope Rebels pulls off before its swan song?[Twitter, via Screen.
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