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| News 8 Takeaways From Mueller’s 2 Appearances Before Congress Rep. John Ratcliffe asked Mueller, “Can you give me an example other than Donald Trump where the Justice Department determined that an investigated person was not exonerated, because their innocence was not determined?” More Commentary Canada’s Ball-Waxing Controversy Is an Omen for America A transgender woman is complaining to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, requesting the Parliament-funded entity inflict punitive damages on a salon owner for discrimination. More Commentary What the Founders Had to Say About National Debt “When you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty,” said Benjamin Franklin. More Analysis New Spending Deal Worse Than Obama’s Deals “President Trump’s been very critical of President Obama, and President [George W.] Bush before him, and some of the decisions that they made. But in terms of these spending bills, this is much worse,” says Heritage Foundation’s Justin Bogie.. More Commentary Working Mom of 6 Explains Why Government-Funded Maternity Leave Is a Bad Idea Heritage Foundation’s Rachel Greszler breaks down why a top-down, big government paid family leave program would actually hurt women. More Commentary Understanding Why ‘the Squad’ Screams ‘Racism’ Following the advice of Saul Alinsky, “the squad” gets attention through sensational hype of dogma and character assassination of those who disagree. More | ||
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Mueller fallout: Democrats’ growing tensions over impeachment
By ANNA PALMER and JAKE SHERMAN
07/25/2019 05:53 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
OK, LET’S PLAY A GAME. Hand your phone to a friend, close your eyes and ask them to read the next paragraph.
“I DO BELIEVE what we saw today was a very strong manifestation — in fact some would even say indictment — of this administration’s cone of silence and their cover-up. This is about the oath we take to protect and defend the Constitution. But some of the actions that the administration may have taken … may have jeopardized our national security by strengthening Russia’s hand and interfering in our elections, undermining democracy, not only in our country but in other countries as well, upsetting our pre-eminence as a democracy in the world. This is very serious. Today was very important.”
NOW take a guess who said that.
IT WASN’T an impeachment stalwart, who was ready to march to the floor to file articles to remove the president. That was Speaker NANCY PELOSI on Wednesday evening at a news conference, speaking about the day of hearings with former special counsel ROBERT MUELLER.
HER MESSAGE SOUNDED URGENT. She was describing a campaign and administration run amok.
BUT MOMENTS LATER, NBC’s KASIE HUNT told Pelosi that some Democrats were expecting imminent action now that Mueller had said his piece — as halting and uneven as it was.
PELOSI SAID THIS: “I don’t know why they thought that. … We have a number of lawsuits.” What the speaker was saying was that she wanted to allow a series of court cases and Hill probes to play out before they make a decision on impeachment.
SO, AS DEMOCRATS enter a six-week-long recess, they do so with a leadership that remains firmly against impeaching the president.
YES, THEY SAY they believe President DONALD TRUMP has committed a series of urgent and dire crimes. The Justice Department cannot and will not indict him. But, at the same time, they say they are not ready to do what they can to begin the process of removing the president from office. They want the strongest hand, they say, before they make any call.
ALLIES OF PELOSI whispered Wednesday that the day’s hearings vindicated her.
BUT THIS IS BEGINNING to cause friction at the top ranks of the party, as a key chairman — JERRY NADLER of New York — told PELOSI he wants to start impeachment proceedings.
… JOHN BRESNAHAN, HEATHER CAYGLE and KYLE CHENEY: “Pelosi rebuffs Nadler on impeachment after Mueller flop”: “House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler pushed to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump during a closed-door meeting Wednesday, only to be rebuffed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
“At a caucus meeting following the hotly anticipated testimony of special counsel Robert Mueller, Nadler suggested that several House committee chairs could begin drafting articles of impeachment against Trump. Pelosi called the idea premature, said the sources.” POLITICO
THE DEMOCRATIC BASE FAITHFUL is also perplexed and frustrated …
… JON FAVREAU, Crooked Media’s co-founder and the host of the popular podcast “Pod Save America,” put it this way to us Wednesday night: “Mueller has given Democrats more than enough evidence that the president has committed impeachable offenses, but he can’t make the decision to impeach any easier for them. Pelosi and the House Democrats have to either pick up the ball and run with it, or walk away for good. The middle ground strategy just isn’t working.”
SO, TO REPEAT: The House of Representatives goes home Friday afternoon for a six-week-long recess. There are those who believe the August recess could slow the drumbeat for impeachment — and we have made that point, too. But August might also help clarify this: Were Democrats elected to help solve kitchen-table issues — as the leadership has contended? Or does the base want them to train their focus on impeaching TRUMP?
WAPO’S DAN BALZ: “Democrats are now left with one option to end Trump’s presidency: The 2020 election”
HOW IT PLAYED … NYT A1: “MUELLER DEFENDS INQUIRY AND SAYS RUSSIA ISN’T DONE … A Halting Delivery at Odds With a Laser Focus of the Past … Rejects ‘Witch Hunt’ Claim and Warns of New Meddling … Refusal to Dramatize Findings Prevents Blockbuster Moment” A1 PDF … AP’s David Bauder: “Mueller hearing makes for less than compelling TV drama”
THE LEGAL ANALYSIS … POLITICO MAG: “‘A New Legal Argument for Impeachment’: Were the Mueller hearings a dud, or a quiet blockbuster? Ten legal experts weigh in.”
UP NEXT — “Mueller’s finally done. Here’s how his probe lives on,” by Darren Samuelsohn, Natasha Bertrand and Josh Gerstein
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Happy Thursday. SPOTTED: A.G. Bill Barr coming out of lunch at Bourbon Steak on Wednesday, taking pictures with tourists. … Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin at Nobu for dinner.
AS IF WEDNESDAY WASN’T EXCITING ENOUGH, today the House will vote on Treasury Secretary STEVEN MNUCHIN and PELOSI’S two-year budget and debt-limit deal. It’s an interesting split screen: Democrats are bludgeoning TRUMP over the 2016 election, considering impeachment and calling him a racist for what he says about Democratic members of the House. But they are still willing to do business with him.
YOU MIGHT SAY, well, the government has to be funded, and the debt limit has to be lifted. Both true. But the breadth and depth of this deal is stunning, given Democrats’ opposition to the president in other areas.
WE’RE VERY CURIOUS to see what the GOP vote total is. Democrats are expected to rally around Pelosi.
BEHIND THE SCENES — NANCY COOK and BURGESS EVERETT: “How Trump shut down the GOP deficit hawks”
URGENT … PAGING JARED AND KIM KARDASHIAN WEST … BBC: “ASAP Rocky charged with assault in Sweden”
2020 WATCH …
— BIDEN TAKES THE GLOVES OFF IN DETROIT, from a pool report from the Detroit News’ Jonathan Oosting: “Biden rarely mentioned his Democratic primary challengers until local businessman George Barnes, founder of Heritage Optical, urged him to be tougher in the second presidential debate next week in Detroit.
“‘I’m not going to be as polite this time,’ Biden vowed, referencing his sparring with Sen. Kamala Harris in the first debate. ‘Because this is the same person who asked me to come to California and nominate her in her convention.’
“Barnes told Biden that criticism from Harris and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey could make him a stronger candidate against Trump in the general election. ‘If they want to argue about the past, I can do that,’ Biden said. ‘I got a past I’m proud of. They got a past that’s not quite so good.’”
— MAGGIE SEVERNS: “Top Obama bundler backs Harris with Hamptons fundraiser”: “Public relations executive Michael Kempner and his wife, Jackie, are hosting the August 18 fundraiser in tony Watermill, N.Y., according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. Kempner was one of Obama’s biggest bundlers, raising more than $3 million for the former president’s 2012 reelection campaign, and he also served as a bundler for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.” POLITICO
— “Castro campaign expands after debate bump,” by Laura Barrón-López and Nolan McCaskill: “Julián Castro will announce more than a dozen new hires and promotions for his presidential campaign Thursday, including installing two organizing directors in key primary states after a strong showing in June’s Democratic debates.” POLITICO
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BORDER WATCH — “Trump’s third-country asylum ban halted temporarily by California judge,” by Ted Hesson: “A San Francisco-based federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked a Trump administration ban on asylum seekers who pass through another country en route to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar issued a preliminary injunction that will halt the asylum ban nationwide. The move came hours after a federal judge presiding over similar litigation in the District of Columbia declined to stop its implementation.” POLITICO
— “El Paso Border Patrol chief being transferred to Detroit amid controversy,” by NBC’s Julia Ainsley
FROM OUR PALS IN NORTH KOREA — “N. Korea fires missiles into sea in apparent pressure tactic,” by AP’s Hyung-Jin Kim in Seoul, South Korea: “North Korea fired two short-range missiles into the sea Thursday, South Korea’s military said, the first weapons launches in more than two months and an apparent effort to pressure Washington as the two sides struggle to restart nuclear negotiations.
“The South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from near the eastern coastal town of Wonsan and flew about 270 miles and 430 miles respectively before landing off the country’s east coast. South Korea’s military earlier said both missiles flew 430 kilometers but the trajectory for one was revised based on a joint South Korean-U.S. analysis. South Korean officials said the missiles were both short-range.” AP
TRUMP’S THURSDAY — The president will leave the White House at 11 a.m. en route to the Pentagon to participate in the full honors welcome ceremony for Defense Secretary Mark Esper. He will return to the White House at 12:15 p.m. Trump will participate in a “Pledge to America’s Workers” one-year celebration in the State Dining Room at 3:30 p.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
BEYOND THE BELTWAY — “Ricardo Rosselló, Puerto Rico’s Governor, Resigns After Protests,” by NYT’s Patty Mazzei and Frances Robles in San Juan: “Gov. Ricardo A. Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced his resignation on Wednesday night, conceding that he could no longer credibly remain in power after an extraordinary popular uprising and looming impeachment proceedings had derailed his administration.
“In a statement posted online just before midnight, Mr. Rosselló, 40, said he would step down on Aug. 2.
“He said his successor for the moment would be the secretary of justice, Wanda Vázquez, a former district attorney who once headed the island’s office of women’s affairs. Ms. Vázquez was next in line under the commonwealth’s Constitution because the secretary of state, who would have succeeded Mr. Rosselló as governor, resigned last week when he also was caught up in a chat scandal that enveloped the administration.
“But the governor appeared to leave open the possibility that a different successor could be in place by the time he steps down.” NYT
JACK BLANCHARD IN LONDON: “Meet Boris Johnson’s new Cabinet” … “Boris Johnson’s Day 1 revolution” … The latest from London Playbook
N.Y. POST: “Jeffrey Epstein found nearly unconscious in NYC jail cell after possible suicide attempt”: “Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found in his cell on Tuesday nearly unconscious with injuries to his neck after a possible suicide attempt, sources said.
“Epstein was discovered by guards sprawled out on the floor at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he’s being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, according to law enforcement sources. … Investigators believe Epstein may have done it to himself either on purpose or as a ploy to get transferred out of the jail, sources said.”
— “Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House Multiple Times in Early ’90s,” by The Daily Beast’s Emily Shugerman: “[A] Daily Beast investigation has uncovered ties between Epstein and the Clinton administration that date back to the president’s earliest days in the White House, casting doubt on the oft-circulated narrative that the two only began associating after Clinton left office.
“As early as 1993, records show, Epstein donated $10,000 to the White House Historical Association and attended a donors’ reception hosted by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Around the same time, according to a source familiar with the connection, Epstein visited presidential aide Mark Middleton several times at the White House. Two years later, businesswoman Lynn Forester de Rothschild wrote a personal letter to Clinton thanking him for their talk about the financier.
“President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has been recently charged in New York,” Clinton’s spokesperson, Angel Ureña, told The Daily Beast.”
— FYI: “Democratic fundraising committees decline to say whether they will donate or give back Jeffrey Epstein contributions,” by CNBC’s Brian Schwartz
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CLICKER … BARRY BLITT CARTOON on BOB MUELLER: “‘More peach cobbler, dear?’ … ‘That’s outside my purview. But I take your question.’” The New Yorker
VALLEY TALK — “Facebook Antitrust Inquiry Shows Big Tech’s Freewheeling Era Is Past,” by NYT’s Mike Isaac and Natasha Singer in San Francisco: “Facebook came under siege on multiple fronts on Wednesday, agreeing to new layers of oversight and two fines to settle privacy and disclosure violations, even as it acknowledged that it was under investigation from the Federal Trade Commission for antitrust concerns.” NYT
MEDIAWATCH — “Democrats are launching ‘news’ outlets to turn swing-state voters against Trump,” by Vice’s David Uberti: “One of the party’s largest Super PACs is finally pulling the trigger on a $100 million plan to help boot Trump from office … Priorities USA is planning to flood swing states — many of which have lost their local papers — with stories favorable to the Democratic agenda. Four ‘news’ outlets staffed by Democratic operatives will publish state-specific information across social media in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Wisconsin. They’ll also boost content by independent sources.” Vice
— “American Carnage” by POLITICO Magazine’s Tim Alberta debuts at No. 2 on the NYT bestseller list.
— HAPPENING TONIGHT: Trump plans to phone into Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News tonight, per the network.
PLAYBOOKERS
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SPOTTED: Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) at the Detroit airport, taking selfies in line. Pic … Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross celebrating Courtney Carlson’s birthday at Fiola Mare on Wednesday night. … Morgan Ortagus, Jonathan Hoffman, Monica Crowley and Kerri Kupec at dinner together at Cafe Milano on Wednesday night.
SPOTTED at a party celebrating Carl Hulse’s new book, “Confirmation Bias” ($18.89 on Amazon), at Maureen Dowd’s Georgetown home Wednesday night: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sens. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), Rahm Emanuel, Chris Dodd, Jeff Zeleny, Margaret Brennan, Bob Costa, Ashley Parker, Matt Viser, Paul Volpe, Brad Dayspring, Mike Isikoff, Julie Mason, Dana Milbank …
… Doug Heye, Anne Gearan, Karen Tumulty, Helene Cooper, Annie Clark, Tammy Haddad, Howard Fineman, Karen Attiah, Ashok Bajaj, Francesca Craig, Elise Labott, Peter Reid, Leon Wieseltier, Kevin Dowd, Peggy Dowd, Maggie Haberman, Mark Leibovich, Mark Landler, Mark Mazzetti, Jonathan Kott, Margaret Carlson, Jackie Calmes and Jim Courtovich.
— FORMER SENS. ELIZABETH and BOB DOLE held their joint birthday celebration at their Watergate apartment Wednesday night. SPOTTED: Kellyanne Conway, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), HUD Secretary Ben Carson, Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs Jim Byrne, Steve Schwab, Diana Davis Spencer, Jason Mida, Al Roker, Rep. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Chris Dodd, Tom Daschle, Chuck Robb and Don Nickles.
SPOTTED at a summit hosted by Engage, a new women’s group, at the Newseum on Wednesday: Rachel Pearson, Adrienne Elrod, Alice Stewart, Kristi Rogers, Jessica Hogle, Courtney Geduldig, Amy Gleason, Julie Kane, Kate Dickens, Christine Brennan, Tom Jackman, Aaron Cummings, Stephen Tausend, Tammy Haddad, Holly Page, Linda Tarplin, Melinda Ferris, Mimi Braniff, Shannon Finley, Juliane Sullivan, Jeanne Wolak, Helen Toler and Debra Dunn.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Mike Nizza, editor at Bloomberg Opinion, is 41. A fun fact about Mike: “I grew up in Staten Island, which contains all the answers to our nation’s most pressing questions. Also, three of the top five pizzas in the world.” Playbook Plus Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) is 37 …Robert Zoellick, former World Bank president, is 66 … State Department’s Katie Martin (h/t Michael McAdams) … Brad Karp, chairman of Paul Weiss, is 6-0, celebrating at a barbecue cookout with family and friends … Amy Holmes is 46 … Liz Benjamin of Marathon Strategies … Arit John … Kirsten Sutton, chief of staff at the CFPB … Judy Keen … Sarah Benzing, COS to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) (h/ts Jon Haber and Jennifer Donohue) … Holly Armstrong … Susan Goodwin … Tony Welch … Jesse Harris … Erin Seidler (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Fox News’ Katy Ricalde and Alex Pfeiffer… Kristin Jones … Christine Quinn, president and CEO of Win and former NYC Council speaker, is 53 … Andrew Feldman is 3-0 … Jake Maguire …
… DOJ’s Kelly Laco … Alex Nguyen, national press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer … Liz Brown, LD for Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) … Clio Grillakis of the Ex-Im Bank … Mark McLaughlin of American Crossroads/Senate Leadership Fund … Scot Davies … Hugo Teufel, Raytheon chief privacy counsel … journalist Rebecca Gale … Kevin Elkins … Anne Applebaum is 55 … Mitchell Englander … Christian Hulen, senior strategist at the Lukens Company … HuffPost’s Jesselyn Cook … Alan Chartock is 78 … Caroline Black … Domenic Recchia … David DeSantis … Anne Lykes … Steph Korey … Matthew Hamilton … Erica Mills … Austin Brooks … Nicholas Evans … Emily Casarona … Chris Haas … USAID’s Alison Harding … Susan D. Ball … Beneva Schulte … radio talk show host John Gibson is 73 … Corey Vale
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Thursday, July 25, 2019 Mueller Testifies “Former U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified on Wednesday to the U.S. House of Representatives about his investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and any possible obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump.” Reuters From the Left The left is disappointed that Mueller did not bolster the case for impeachment and criticizes Republicans for downplaying the threat of election interference. “I can’t escape the feeling that Robert Mueller ultimately failed to do his job. Yes, he conducted a thorough, fair investigation of President Trump and Trump’s 2016 campaign. But when that investigation was over, Mueller ducked the tough decisions… He should have said that he found no evidence of several of the accusations that Trump’s critics have made: that Russia has salacious compromising material on him; that an aide held a secret meeting in Prague; that Trump was a Russian intelligence asset… “At the same time, Mueller should have stated that the evidence strongly suggested that Trump committed obstruction of justice and campaign-finance crimes. Because Justice Department policy holds that sitting presidents can’t be indicted, Mueller could have explained that the right place to hear these cases was Congress… That approach would have been consistent with Mueller’s role as a prosecutor in this case. It would have been fair to Trump, and it would have been fair to the country.” David Leonhardt, New York Times “Mueller was less than convincing or forceful… [He] struggled mightily on the appearances front. He seemingly struggled to hear the questions asked of him. He struggled to find citations within his own report being [used] by members of Congress. He was halting in his responses and occasionally looked befuddled. While he seemed to rise to the task somewhat as the day went on, the perception of him as nothing short of the perfect prosecutor took a hit.” Chris Cillizza, CNN Some argue that “at key moments, however, Mueller made himself perfectly clear… ‘Did you actually totally exonerate the president?’ Representative Jerry Nadler, the Democratic chair of the Judiciary Committee, asked. ‘No,’ Mueller replied… “Some Republican lawmakers criticized Mueller for this phrasing, arguing that it inverted the presumption of innocence. They argued that if he couldn’t bring charges against the president, he shouldn’t have released his findings on the matter. That misunderstands the unique legal situation in which Mueller found himself. In the report, Mueller explained that he still investigated whether the president obstructed justice ‘in order to preserve the evidence when memories were fresh and documentary materials were available’… The special counsel’s performance simply made clear his unspoken message all along: I’ve done my job, now you do yours.” Matt Ford, New Republic “Nearly all Republicans on both committees failed even to acknowledge the threat posed by Russia and other countries. With significant exceptions like Will Hurd, representative of Texas, Republican lawmakers seemed much more focused on protecting Mr. Trump and deflecting any concerns about electoral security by impugning Mr. Mueller’s integrity, attacking the origins of an investigation that he did not initiate, and — in one particularly disgraceful jab by Guy Reschenthaler of Pennsylvania — accusing his investigative process of being ‘un-American’… “At least twice Mr. Mueller called for legislation to improve information-sharing and other coordination among intelligence agencies… But that kind of concerted legislative action seems unlikely. To this day, Mr. Trump refuses to acknowledge the seriousness of Russian intervention, and the Republican-controlled Senate is unwilling to consider legislation for enhanced election security — maybe because doing either could be seen as an admission that the election was tainted. Conceding the obvious might seem like a small price to pay. But the president appears more concerned with nursing his ego than safeguarding American democracy — and that puts us all, Republicans, Democrats and independents, at risk.” Editorial Board, New York Times “Instead of using the Mueller report to build a general case against Trump, and satisfy their base’s demand to at least try to provide a check on his accelerating abuses, [Democrats] hauled Mueller before the House to summarize his own report back to them like it’s kindergarten story hour… [their] plan appears to be to run out the clock in a defensive crouch, like some trapped rodent, hoping against hope that the voters rescue them from Trump in 2020.” Ryan Cooper, The Week “After Wednesday, the prospects for impeachment appear more remote, which means it will be left to the eventual Democratic presidential nominee, with the help of the party, to develop a comprehensive case against the president, one that can win 270 electoral votes. To date, that hasn’t happened.” Dan Balz, Washington Post From the Right The right believes Mueller’s testimony significantly undermined the case for impeaching Trump. “Going into the hearing, impeachment advocates needed either explosive new claims or a compelling prosecutorial performance to generate meaningful new interest in impeachment. If they could get both new facts and a compelling performance, then the short-term demand to launch a formal impeachment inquiry would surge. They got neither… “Make no mistake, impeachment requires changed minds. It requires changing Democratic minds about the political wisdom of attempting to remove Trump, and changing Republican minds about the wisdom of defending him. Politically, impeachment requires a bombshell. It requires a ‘moment.’ It needs its own Nixon tapes or Lewinsky dress. Instead, America got a legal brief. And no one reads legal briefs.” David French, National Review “The president is, of course, wrong to claim he was fully exonerated, but it’s also an absurd standard that seems to have been invented solely for Republicans. Prosecutors only have the authority to charge, not to ‘exonerate’ their targets. [Rep. John] Ratcliffe, in fact, asked Mueller if he could cite a single example besides Donald Trump where the DOJ ‘determined that an investigated person was not exonerated because their innocence was not conclusively determined.’ Mueller responded: ‘I cannot, but this is a unique situation.’ After lecturing everyone about how justice must be meted out equally to all Americans, we now hear that rules are malleable if we’re talking about Donald Trump.” David Harsanyi, The Federalist “You can argue that we should expect more from a president than to simply have refrained from directly conspiring with a hostile foreign power to reach the White House. Yet that case becomes harder to make when that is precisely what you have conditioned rank-and-file Democrats to expect from the Mueller report. No dramatic reading of that report, least of all by a 74-year-old clearly no longer accustomed to congressional testimony, will deliver on those expectations.” W. James Antle III, The American Conservative “Mueller was slow to react to questions. He frequently asked for questions to be repeated. He sometimes appeared confused. He did not appear to be conversant with some issues in the investigation. He did not, or could not, put together detailed answers even to those questions he agreed to address… Mueller’s performance raised questions that reached far beyond one appearance before one committee. It called into doubt the degree to which Mueller was in charge of the entire special counsel investigation… “If Mueller was not fully in charge, that would direct attention to the staff he assembled for the investigation — staff that President Trump has often derided as ‘17 angry Democrats.’ Some of Mueller’s aides were Democratic donors, and a key aide, Andrew Weissmann, famously attended Hillary Clinton’s 2016 election night event that was planned as a victory party.” Byron York, Washington Examiner Some argue that “it’s not the job of a special counsel, who under the regulations is supposed to act like a typical U.S. attorney, to give a dramatic, passionate, ratings-grabbing TV rendition of his work… It was always a mistake for Democrats to stake so much on Mueller, both by relying on his investigation to do the hard work of making the political case against Trump for them and by elevating him into an oracle who would pronounce authoritatively and unquestionably on the investigation… [Democrats] can investigate or not and impeach or not, as they see fit. For too long, Mueller has been their crutch. Maybe now, they will finally see that he has let them down, and as duly elected members of Congress they should never have tried to subcontract their responsibilities to an inferior officer of the executive branch, who, like all of us, is a mere mortal.” Rich Lowry, Politico “The current impeachment efforts are similar to the failed Republican efforts to unseat President Bill Clinton. Then-independent counsel Ken Starr’s investigation also arguably uncovered crimes committed by Clinton; it remains undisputed that the president at the very least lied under oath, committing perjury. Democrats fought the impeachment, however, as a ‘vast right-wing conspiracy’ and rallied public opinion to their side. They succeeded because there had been a years-long effort by many conservatives to investigate the Clintons driven by partisan animus. The years of vitriol that have been directed at Trump are no different in their origin than those anti-Clinton efforts, and people across the political spectrum clearly see that.” Henry Olsen, Washington Post On the bright side… Adorable new species of flying squirrel discovered in China. Gizmodo Our volunteer team spends hours each night scanning the news, fact-checking, and debating one another, so your 5 minutes each morning can be well spent. If you’ve found value in our work, we welcome you to help sustain our efforts and expand our reach. Any support you can provide is greatly appreciated! Share Tweet Forward Sign Up Here Copyright © 2019 The Flip Side, All rights reserved. You can unsubscribe from this list here. |
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| Mueller pushes back in a testimony unlikely to change political dynamic Former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III finally responded to the president’s taunts. But the hearings hardly provided the made-for-TV moment for which Democrats had hoped and possibly undercut the party’s push for impeachment. By Ashley Parker, Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey and Mike DeBonis · Read more The Take | Analysis Democrats now have one option to end Trump’s presidency: The 2020 election The Mueller testimony didn’t deliver the spark the Democrats wanted. That puts the onus on House leaders and heightens the stakes for next year’s presidential election. By Dan Balz · Read more Mueller’s final day on the national stage was a halting, faltering performance One of Washington’s last respected symbols of bipartisanship repeatedly stumbled before divided House committees. By Marc Fisher · Read more Puerto Rico governor to resign amid intense pressure on and off island Ricardo Rosselló, 40, faced mass protests after a series of chat messages denigrating his opponents and Hurricane Maria victims were leaked. Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez Garced will succeed him after he steps down Aug. 2. By Arelis Hernández · Read more The Opioid Files | Follow the Investigation Opioid makers say there is no proof they are responsible for the epidemic’s harms In a filing for an enormous federal court case, drug manufacturers rejected a link between legal production of painkillers and death and addiction on U.S. streets. By Lenny Bernstein and Katie Zezima · Read more ADVERTISEMENT Opinions The real bombshell in Mueller’s testimony wasn’t about impeaching Trump By Karen Tumulty · Read more Big Tech, meet Big Brother By Editorial Board · Read more I’m the administrator of Medicaid and Medicare. A public option is a bad idea. By Seema Verma · Read more So this is why Mueller didn’t want to testify By Dana Milbank · Read more By Sunday, Mueller’s performance will be epochal By Ed Rogers · Read more The repeal of the ‘Cadillac tax’ showed a hazard of bipartisanship By George Will · Read more ADVERTISEMENT More News Campaign 2020 Biden tears into Booker, criticizes Harris in a shift to aggressively counter his challengers The former vice president took a shot at police practices in Newark during Cory Booker’s tenure as mayor and questioned the fiscal feasibility of Kamala D. Harris’s plan for health care. By Chelsea Janes and David Weigel · Read more Federal judge in California halts Trump’s latest asylum ban In blocking a days-old program that sought to bar Central Americans and other migrants from requesting asylum at the southern border, the judge said the government’s frustrations with rising border crossings did not justify “shortcutting the law.” By Maria Sacchetti and Spencer Hsu · Read more A second heat wave hits Europe, with Paris expecting to reach 109 degrees today The punishing (and often lethal) heat is afflicting cities and regions largely without air conditioning. By James McAuley and Andrew Freedman · Read more The Fix | Analysis Trump basked in the glow of young supporters. The presidential seal behind him was fake. The doctored image resembled the bird on the Russian coat of arms and it was clutching golf clubs and cash in its talons. By Michael Brice-Saddler and Reis Thebault · Read more Trump vetoes congressional attempt to block arms sales to Saudi Arabia The sales would replenish part of an arsenal that lawmakers say has been used against civilians in Yemen’s civil war. Many lawmakers also object to the idea of rewarding Saudi leaders after the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. By Karoun Demirjian and Colby Itkowitz · Read more Social media companies are outsourcing their dirty work to the Philippines. A generation of workers is paying the price. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and other tech firms have tasked contractors with reviewing suicides and massacres to decide if such content should remain online — and protect the firms’ reputations. By Elizabeth Dwoskin, Jeanne Whalen and Regine Cabato · Read more For Facebook’s Zuckerberg, FTC settlement could bring a new era of accountability Mark Zuckerberg’s power within Facebook is virtually unchallenged as the co-founder, CEO and largest stockholder. A deal that requires him to personally attest to the firm’s privacy practices may bring an end to that. By Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin · Read more Navy SEAL platoon kicked out of Iraq for drinking alcohol while deployed, officials say A U.S. Special Operations Command statement said the platoon was sent home to San Diego “due to a perceived deterioration of good order and discipline within the team during non-operational periods” of their deployment. By Dan Lamothe · Read more |
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IN THIS ISSUE: – The 2020 Congressional Elections: A Very Early Forecast THE 2020 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS: A VERY EARLY FORECAST By Alan I. Abramowitz Senior Columnist, Sabato’s Crystal Ball |
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — A forecasting model based on postwar electoral history along with the president’s approval rating and the House generic ballot points to Democratic gains next fall. — The model’s projection won’t be finalized until late next summer and will be based on whatever the president’s approval and the House generic ballot polling is at that time. — The Republicans enjoy some advantages on both the House and Senate map that might allow them to overperform whatever the model’s final projection is. Forecasting 2020’s Race for Congress With more than 20 Democrats vying for their party’s 2020 presidential nomination, it is understandable that the nation’s attention has been focused in recent months on which candidate will emerge from next year’s primaries to challenge President Donald Trump in November 2020. But no matter whom the Democrats nominate and no matter who wins the general election, the ability of the next president to carry out his or her policy agenda will depend on which party controls the House of Representatives and Senate in 2021. Even if President Trump is reelected, a Democratic House would probably continue to aggressively pursue investigations into allegations of misconduct by the president and his allies during and after the 2016 campaign and to oppose many of the president’s policy initiatives. A Democratic Senate would almost certainly mean that most of the president’s judicial nominees would be dead on arrival and many of his executive branch appointments would face tough scrutiny. On the other hand, a Democratic president would have little or no chance of enacting an ambitious progressive agenda if Republicans controlled either chamber of Congress, and a Republican Senate could be expected to block a Democratic president’s judicial nominees, especially any appointments to vacancies on the Supreme Court. In the last election, Democrats won 235 seats in the House of Representatives to 199 for the GOP with one vacancy remaining to be filled in a special, do-over election in North Carolina’s Ninth Congressional District. Republicans won a 53-47 seat majority in the Senate, with 34 seats up for grabs in 2020. Of those seats being contested, 22 are currently held by Republicans and 12 are currently held by Democrats. Republicans would need a pickup of 18 or 19 seats in the House, depending on the results of the special election in North Carolina, to take back control of the lower chamber and Democrats would need a pickup of three or four seats in the Senate, depending on which party controls the vice presidency in 2021, to take back control of the upper chamber. In order to assess the outlook for the 2020 House and Senate elections, I used a forecasting model that provides fairly accurate predictions of seat swing based on four factors: the number of seats currently held by the president’s party, the president’s net approval rating in late August or early September of the election year, the results of generic ballot polling in late August or early September of the election year, and a dummy variable distinguishing midterm elections from presidential elections. Based on election outcomes in the post-World War II era, we expect that: 1. The more seats the president’s party is defending in the current House or Senate, the more seats the president’s party should lose. 2. The more popular/unpopular the president, the more seats the president’s party should gain/lose. 3. The larger the lead/deficit that the president’s party holds in the congressional generic ballot, the more seats the president’s party should gain/lose. 4. The president’s party should lose seats in midterm elections even after controlling for the other predictors. Table 1 presents estimates for the House and Senate forecasting models based on all congressional elections between 1946 and 2018 except for two elections, 1948 and 1988, for which no generic ballot polling data is available. The results show that all of the independent variables included in the model have statistically significant effects in the expected direction for both House and Senate elections. However, the House model provides considerably more accurate forecasts with an adjusted R2 of .78 compared with an adjusted R2 of only .54 for the Senate model (R2 figures closer to 1 are more predictive, while those closer to 0 are less predictive). This difference in accuracy reflects the fact that the House results are based on 435 contests across the entire country in every election while the Senate results are based on only 33-35 contests in states holding Senate elections in a given year. In addition, the higher visibility of individual senators compared with their House counterparts probably means that chance factors play a larger role in determining Senate seat swing. As a result, forecasts of Senate seat swing should be viewed with caution. For the 2018 midterm election, the model predicted a Democratic gain of 42 seats in the House and no change in the Senate. The actual results were a Democratic gain of 40 seats in the House and a Republican gain of two seats in the Senate. Table 1. Estimates for House and Senate Forecasting Models Table 2 presents conditional forecasts of seat swing in the 2020 House and Senate elections depending on the Democratic margin on the congressional generic ballot and President Trump’s net approval rating in late August or early September of 2020. The other two predictors in the model — Republican seats at stake and whether it is a presidential or midterm election year — are already set. Table 2. Conditional Forecasts of House and Senate Seat Swing in 2020 (Change in Republican Seats) Source: Data compiled by author. The main takeaway points from these results are that, based on the president’s current net approval rating and the current House generic ballot, the Democrats would be likely to make modest gains in the House elections and have a real chance to win control of the Senate. According to the most recent averages from FiveThirtyEight, national polls have shown a Democratic advantage of around 6.5 points on the House generic ballot — somewhat similar to the results prior to the 2018 midterm election — and a net approval rating for President Trump of about -10. Those numbers, if they continue into the late summer of 2020, would predict Democratic gains of around five seats in the House and six seats in the Senate. Conclusions Barring a dramatic shift in the electoral landscape, Democrats appear very likely to hold onto their majority in the House of Representatives in the 2020 elections and make at least modest gains in the Senate. However, there are significant caveats with both projections. Obviously, one of those is that it is very early and that the president’s approval rating and the generic ballot could very well be different late next summer. In the House, we are in an era with limited ticket-splitting and a weak incumbency advantage. Additionally, the overall House map has a Republican lean: Republicans could win the House back by defeating fewer than two-thirds of the 31 Democrats who hold seats that Trump carried in 2016 (and only three Republicans hold seats that Hillary Clinton carried). The confluence of these factors could allow Republicans to overperform the projection in this model, particularly if Trump is reelected. While the model predicts a good chance of a Democratic majority in the Senate in 2021, that prediction should be taken with considerable caution considering the margin of error of the model and the fact that only a handful of Republican seats that are up next year are in Democratic-leaning or swing states. Moreover, if Democrats do take back the Senate, it will almost certainly be by a very narrow margin, which would make it difficult to pass the sort of progressive legislation advocated by many of the party’s 2020 presidential candidates. Alan I. Abramowitz is the Alben W. Barkley Professor of Political Science at Emory University and a senior columnist with Sabato’s Crystal Ball. His latest book, The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump, was released last year by Yale University Press. Out Now: The Blue Wave, the UVA Center for Politics’ book on the 2018 election Our new book on the 2018 midterm elections, The Blue Wave: The 2018 Midterms and What They Mean for the 2020 Elections, is now available from Rowman and Littlefield. Edited by University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato and Crystal Ball managing editor Kyle Kondik, The Blue Wave features top journalists, academics, and analysts who explore the 2018 midterm from all angles and look ahead to the monumental presidential election coming in 2020. Use code RLFANDF30 for 30% off at Rowman and Littlefield’s website. The Blue Wave features the following contributors and chapters: — Larry J. Sabato: The Blue Wave: Trump at Midterm — Alan I. Abramowitz: The Trump Effect: The 2018 Midterm Election as a Referendum on a Polarizing President — Rhodes Cook: The Primaries: Democrats Shine in the Shadow of Trump — David Byler: Humpty Dumpty’s Fall: How Trump’s Winning Presidential Coalition Broke Down in 2018 — Kyle Kondik: The House: Where the Blue Wave Hit the Hardest — James Hohmann: The Senate: The Republicans’ Bright Spot — Madelaine Pisani: The Governors: Democratic Wave Falls Short of a Wipeout — Michael Toner and Karen Trainer: The Money Wars: Emerging Campaign Finance Trends and Their Impact on 2018 and Beyond — Emily C. Singer: Women Rule: The Surge of Women in Congress — Theodore R. Johnson: Hindsight in 2020: Black Voting Behavior and the Next Presidential Election — Matt Barreto, Gary Segura, and Albert Morales: The Brown Tide and the Blue Wave in 2018 — Diana Owen: Presidential Media and the Midterm Elections — Joshua T. 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Good morning, Here is all the news conservatives need to know to start their day. At 4pm ET, you can catch me on radio to bring you up to speed on developments throughout the day. You can listen live here. Democrats Accidentally Abort Their Impeachment Effort The Judiciary Committee is filled with lawyers who all learned in law school that one should never ask a question without already knowing the answer. What they forgot was that one should not trot out a witness without being sure the witness is credible. Bob Mueller may be credible by reputation, but not by delivery. Trading messages yesterday with senior Democrat campaign operatives, even they agreed that Mueller did the Democrats more harm than good. They were hoping for some very clear statements and, while they got them, they were overshadowed by Mueller’s performance and his deflection of questions. Put bluntly — Bob Mueller seemed old and tired and ill prepared for the congressional hearing. It left people wondering if Mueller had even read his report. The post Democrats Accidentally Abort Their Impeachment Effort appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » When Alleged Comedians Attack Navy SEALs for Not Being “Man” Enough Being a decorated war veteran doesn’t make you immune to all criticism. Those who have served in the military are still just as likely to have bad ideas, bad thoughts, bad policy suggestions as anyone else. And when they share them publicly or take on a role of public leadership, they have to understand rebuke […] The post When Alleged Comedians Attack Navy SEALs for Not Being “Man” Enough appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » FOX & MSNBC Agree? Mueller Testimony Was A Disaster For Democrats AND Mueller Chris Wallace and Chuck Todd practically said the same thing regarding the morning Mueller testimony. Rarely does commentary on Fox News and MSNBC align but this was identical: Bad news for Democrats and Mueller. The post FOX & MSNBC Agree? Mueller Testimony Was A Disaster For Democrats AND Mueller appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Hey CNN, Since When is a Landslide Vote Divisive? The House of Representatives approved a resolution that expresses opposition to the anti-Israel BDS (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) movement. House Resolution 246, though non-binding, calls out the BDS movement for its anti-Semitism. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the resolution, 398-17, with five representatives abstaining. The most unusual thing about the vote just might be […] The post Hey CNN, Since When is a Landslide Vote Divisive? appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Ilhan Omar: We Should Be ‘More Fearful of White Men’ The post Ilhan Omar: We Should Be ‘More Fearful of White Men’ appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Eyewitness: It Was the Lawmaker Who Said “Go Back” in the Publix Check Out Wow the tables have turned.. An eyewitness to the incident at the Publix grocery store claims it was State Rep. Erica Thomas who told Eric Sparkes to “Go back where you came from!” not the other way around. Georgia State Rep. Erica Thomas claimed the hispanic gentleman, Eric Sparkes, called her a lazy son of […] The post Eyewitness: It Was the Lawmaker Who Said “Go Back” in the Publix Check Out appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Here’s What Trump Had To Say About Boris Johnson: They Call Him Britain Trump.. The post Here’s What Trump Had To Say About Boris Johnson: They Call Him Britain Trump.. appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Mueller: Evidence Did Not Support a Trump, Russia Conspiracy The post Mueller: Evidence Did Not Support a Trump, Russia Conspiracy appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Victim Dictum “Go back where you came from!” is racist and insulting—except when it isn’t. The post Victim Dictum appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » AOC Issues An Overt Threat of Violence Against Those Who Support Israel AOC issued an overt threat: “My concern with being overly punitive on nonviolent forms of protest is that it forces people into other channels and I would hate to be a part of, you know, paving that kind of path.” The post AOC Issues An Overt Threat of Violence Against Those Who Support Israel appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Recent Items: Remember, you can listen to the Erick Erickson Show anytime and anywhere via WSB Radio, iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud. As always, you can find pretty much anything and everything I’m writing about throughout the day via The Resurgent. Thanks for reading and tuning in. Erick Erickson THE RESURGENT Facebook Twitter Instagram Copyright © 2019 The Resurgent Media Group, LLC, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences |
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| Former special counsel Robert Mueller departed Capitol Hill after more than six hours of testimony before two House committees on Wednesday, sparking an exultant response from President Trump as Republican allies joined him in declaring it a “good day” for the White House. Trump said Mueller’s presentation was a “disaster” for his political foes and he repeated his view that the probe has been a “witch hunt” from the start. Democratic lawmakers, who hoped the subpoenaed testimony might “breathe life” into a narrative that the president broke the law by attempting to obstruct justice, were less certain about their desired outcome. One senior Democratic aide told The Hill’s Scott Wong that the majority on the House Judiciary Committee got Mueller to walk through his 448-page report while stating that the 22-month investigation did not exonerate Trump, as the president has claimed.“The president was not exculpated for acts he allegedly committed,” Mueller told committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), using a legal phrase meaning “not cleared.” “There was no new information relayed today,” conceded Judiciary Democrat Rep. Jamie Raskin (Md.). “But it was new to about 99 percent of the American people. So, it wasn’t new to anybody who read it. But most people have not read it.” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) sarcastically thanked Democrats for securing Mueller’s testimony. “Great day for Republicans. We’re just really glad that Chairman Nadler scheduled a hearing,” he told reporters outside the packed hearing room. The former FBI director spent hours offering one-word responses while lawmakers read aloud from numbered paragraphs with sentences filled with dozens of witness’s names. For an uninitiated TV viewer, it was a tough through-line to follow. Mueller at times indicated he had trouble hearing the questions and had to be reminded to speak into the microphone when he answered. He occasionally appeared unsure about the report’s findings and asked to pause while he reviewed sentences before responding. When asked how many interviews with witnesses he attended, he said “very few.” “If it’s in the report, then I support it,” he said at one point. Politico: Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) rebuffed Nadler, who pushed for an impeachment inquiry in a closed-door caucus meeting following Mueller’s testimony. Although the former special counsel was cautious when speaking about Trump, Mueller was firm and expansive when defending the professionalism and dedication of his team and about the investigation’s findings that Russia interfered with the 2016 election and continues to pose a threat to American democracy. “They’re doing it as we sit here,” he said. In his opening statement, the former special counsel underscored that the risks continue. “Over the course of my career I’ve seen a number of challenges to our democracy,” he said in his opening statement. “The Russian government’s effort to interfere in our election is among the most serious. As I said on May 29, this deserves the attention of every American.” The Hill: Mueller Day falls flat.The Hill: Both parties dig in (and 4 other takeaways).The Hill: House impeachment supporters, now numbering 92 according to The Hill’s tally, did not see the needle move.The Hill: Mueller Day winners and losers. In depth: The Hill: Mueller explains decision not to subpoena Trump. “We had to make a balanced decision in terms of how much evidence we had” and how much time they were willing to spend in court, Mueller said.The Hill: Mueller says Trump could be charged with obstruction of justice after he leaves office.The Hill: Mueller reveals what he wants the public to “glean” from his report. “We spent substantial time ensuring the integrity of the report, understanding that it would be our living message to those who come after us,” Mueller said.The Hill: Mueller declines to answer dozens of questions from lawmakers. Perspectives and Analysis: Niall Stanage: Mueller’s stumbles distract from substance.Noah Bookbinder: Mueller said all he needed to say. Now it’s up to Congress.Dan Balz: Democrats are now left with one option to end Trump’s presidency: The 2020 election.Nicholas Kristof: The Mueller hearings and the stench in Washington.Harry Litman: 5 things we learned from Mueller’s Judiciary testimony.Henry Olsen: Mueller’s testimony crystallized public opinion against impeachment.John Cassidy: Why the Mueller hearings were so alarming. |
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| MORE CONGRESS: Democrats will bring the bipartisan deal to raise spending caps and the debt ceiling for a vote on the House floor Thursday before lawmakers break for a lengthy August recess. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) made the announcement early Wednesday and it is expected to be the final vote for members on Thursday. The Senate will likely take up the package next week before they break for their own recess a week later than the House. The vote comes as conservatives make noise and try to push Trump to oppose the bill given the spending increases in the package. Including spending cuts in the bill, the package increases spending by $320 billion over the next two years, leaving some conservatives frustrated as they ready to go home to their districts for August. On the other side of the aisle, it remains to be seen how many progressive Democrats will vote against the package due to the $738 billion in defense spending, a figure that some believe is too high for them to swallow. However, as Niv Elis and Cristina Marcos report, House Democrats received the package well at a caucus meeting Wednesday morning. “We had a whole presentation from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on how good this deal was, how far above expectations it was, what a great negotiator our Speaker is. No one stood up at all to oppose it,” said Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), a progressive who intends to vote for it. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), a staunch opponent of the defense spending increases, announced Wednesday that he’ll vote for the package, pointing to the $100 billion increase in domestic spending. > House Dems kumbaya: Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are scheduled to meet Thursday to address simmering tensions within the House Democratic Caucus after the two engaged in an intraparty feud over the vote on the border supplemental package in late June (The Wall Street Journal). After the vote on the Senate’s $4.6 billion border supplemental, which was supported by most centrist House Democrats and panned by progressives for not having tight enough restrictions on what the administration can and can’t do, Pelosi dismissed Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) for not having “any following” and for only being four votes. Ocasio-Cortez intimated that Pelosi’s targeting of “the squad” was based on race before walking those remarks back. Additionally, House Democrats have taken issue with Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff, Saikat Chakrabarti, particularly for claiming that Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) took votes that “enable a racist system” and described centrist Democrats last month as “new Southern Democrats.” Since then, however, Pelosi and other House Democrats have rushed to the side of the four progressive members over Trump’s tweet telling them to “go back” to where they came from. Three of them were born in the U.S.; Omar was born in Somalia. |
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> Saudi Arabia: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is rife with tension over how much pressure to put on the Trump administration to get tough with the Saudis. The conflict is threatening to harm the bipartisan nature of the committee’s work as Chairman Jim Risch (R-Idaho) is set to put two bills forward to deal with the Riyadh situation, one from Risch, the other from Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the committee’s ranking member.
The move sparked backlash from Democrats who argued it violated a deal Menendez and Risch made on how to handle the Saudi legislation. Moving forward without Menendez’s backing would break a long-standing committee tradition of the chairman always securing the ranking member’s support before voting on a bill. One aide described the standoff as “World War III” (The Hill).
> FAA Commissioner: The Senate voted to confirm Stephen Dickson, a former Air Force pilot and Delta Air Lines executive, to lead the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday by a 52-40 vote that broke along party lines.
The post had been vacant since January 2018 and led by former acting chief Daniel Elwell, a former American Airlines pilot. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said Dickson was “highly qualified to lead the FAA,” pointing to his past experience (The Associated Press).
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2020 POLITICS: The battle between former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) escalated Wednesday when Biden and his team hit the New Jersey senator for labeling him the “architect of mass incarceration” after he released a criminal justice plan earlier in the week.
Biden panned Booker during a stop in Detroit, saying that the New Jersey Democrat “knows that’s not true,” adding that most of the incarceration happened before the 1994 crime bill that Biden supported was written. He then turned the tables on Booker, calling out his tenure as mayor of Newark and the city’s “stop and frisk” policy.
“If you look at the mayor’s record in Newark, one of the provisions I wrote in the crime bill, patterned and practice of misbehavior, his police department was stopping and frisking people, mostly African American men,” Biden told reporters. “The Justice Department took action against them, held the police department accountable. … If he wants to go back and talk about records, I’m happy to do that, but I’d rather talk about the future.”
Shortly after, Biden’s team expounded upon his remarks, noting that 90 percent of those incarcerated are in state and local prisons and adding that the “absurdity” of Booker’s remark is “obvious.” They added that they are responding to Booker now because of the short amount of time Biden will have to do so in next Wednesday’s debate in Detroit (The Hill).
Politico: Cory Booker is all out of love.
The Associated Press: Biden says he’s not relying on Obama as “crutch” in 2020 bid.
The Hill: Sanders campaign accuses Biden of “continued lies” about “Medicare for All.”
The Atlantic: Julián Castro’s pressure to be “the Latino candidate.”
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© Getty Images > The Club for Growth, a conservative super PAC, is coordinating with the largest pro-Trump super PAC on ads attacking the 2020 Democratic contenders in a sign that the fiscally conservative group has warmed to Trump after fiercely opposing his 2016 presidential bid. As Jonathan Easley writes, the anti-Democratic ads have nothing to do with fiscal conservatism, the group’s founding principle, and instead focus on issues important to the liberal electorate, such as Biden’s record on race. The group has not committed to spending on Trump’s behalf yet for the general election, although David McIntosh, the group’s president, said in an interview they would likely spend against the eventual Democratic nominee. The Club for Growth is deeply frustrated by exploding spending and deficits in the Trump era, but the group blames Democratic and Republican lawmakers, saying that the Trump White House has made a good faith effort to reduce spending but has been railroaded by Congress. Trump has signaled his support for a spending bill that conservatives warn would add trillions of dollars to the deficit. Josh Kraushaar: Democrats throwing Trump a political lifeline. Reid Wilson: Inside the progressive hunt for vulnerable House Democrats. |
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| WHITE HOUSE & ADMINISTRATION: As part of a $5 billion settlement, the government ordered Facebook to create new layers of oversight for its collection and handling of users’ data. The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday detailed a privacy settlement with the social network that helps drive the debate about how aggressive U.S. regulators should be against big tech companies (The New York Times). Text of the FTC settlement is HERE. > Trade: The United States and China will restart negotiations next week in Shanghai, the first such meeting over trade differences since talks fell apart in May. Traveling to China to represent the United States will be Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (Reuters). The White House announced that talks begin on Tuesday with Vice Premier Liu He of China about intellectual property, forced technology transfer, non-tariff barriers, agriculture, services, enforcement and the trade deficit. The Wall Street Journal reports the administration wants China to agree to buy more American agricultural products and that China appears amenable as a “goodwill gesture.” |
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© Getty Images > Immigration: A federal judge in California issued a preliminary injunction on Wednesday that blocks Trump’s new asylum restrictions at the U.S. southern border (NBC News and The Hill). Earlier in the day, Trump’s new asylum border rule cleared a separate, initial legal hurdle as a federal judge in Washington rejected a request to block the new policy that bars almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the U.S.-Mexican border. > Food Stamps: A controversial Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposal to tighten eligibility for food stamps could undercut access to basic nutrition for millions of Americans and hurt some low-cost retailers, according to an analysis by the USDA. The study clashes with the administration’s defense of the proposed rule change, which the government said on Tuesday would end widespread abuse of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by Americans who don’t qualify because of income. “The proposed rule may also negatively impact food security and reduce the savings rates among those individuals who do not meet the income and resource eligibility requirements for SNAP,” the department said in the text of the rule published in the Federal Register (Reuters). > Saudi Arabia: Trump on Wednesday vetoed three congressional resolutions that would have blocked the administration’s emergency arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. “This resolution would weaken America’s global competitiveness and damage the important relationships we share with our allies and partners,” Trump told Congress. It’s the third time the president has used his veto pen, and it follows a previous presidential rejection of a Saudi-related measure (The Hill). > Ebola: USAID announced it will send more than $38 million to fight the Ebola crisis in the Congo region, in part through support for the World Health Organization (Axios). |
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| Boris Johnson faces a rocky road, by Michael Geary, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2ykMHSB An interest rate cut is a done deal. Or is it? By Robert J. Samuelson, columnist, The Washington Post. https://wapo.st/2OgU7ki |
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| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.), a member of the House Intelligence Committee to react to Mueller’s testimony, Andy Ngo, a journalist who was attacked by antifa in Portland, Ore., and Joseph Moreno, a former federal prosecutor, to talk about the Mueller hearings. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House meets at 10 a.m. The Oversight and Reform Committee at 10 a.m. expects to act on a resolution to hold Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to Trump, in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will hold a news conference at 11:30 a.m. in the Capitol. The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security will hear from Matthew Albence, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, at 1 p.m. The Senate convenes at 10 a.m. The president heads to the Pentagon to participate in welcome honors at 11:15 a.m. for Mark Esper, the new secretary of defense. Trump participates in a celebration for Pledge to America’s Workers at 3:30 p.m. The National Governors Association is holding its summer meeting in Salt Lake City through Friday. The National Urban League holds its summer conference in Indianapolis, Ind., through Saturday, including presentations by 2020 presidential contenders today. The Hill today hosts an 8 a.m. event, “Policy Prescriptions: Lowering Drug Prices” at 1777 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., with Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) and Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who will discuss reducing patient drug prices. The Hill’s special report on the subject is HERE. Event info is HERE. |
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| ➔ Great Britain: New Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday and appointed a government of like-minded ministers (BBC). Here’s a look at Johnson’s Cabinet (BBC). ➔ Puerto Rico: Gov. Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico announced his resignation Wednesday following 12 days of continuous demonstrations — the island’s largest protests in recent history. Puerto Ricans called for his ouster over a scandal involving leaked private chats as well as corruption investigations and arrests. The governor said his resignation, announced by video posted to Facebook, is effective Aug. 2. By law, the island’s secretary of state would succeed Rosselló, but no one has been confirmed for that position since Luis G. Rivera Marín, who was part of the chat scandal, submitted his resignation on July 13. Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez is next in line (NBC News). ➔ Justice: Convicted embezzler Bernie Madoff, 81, asked Trump to commute his 150-year prison sentence, effectively asking the government to free him for time served for his role in the largest Ponzi scheme in U.S. history. Investors lost $20 billion in principal and Madoff pleaded guilty a decade ago (Bloomberg). The Justice Department lists the application for commutation as “pending” (CNBC). ➔ Washington tennis for a good cause: Team Stripes defeated Team Stars on Tuesday night during the seventh Washington Kastles Charity Classic tennis tournament. The clouds parted at the Kastles’ new stadium in Union Market for a sporting event that raised money for Washington, D.C., charities, including the DC Ed Fund, N Street Village and Food & Friends. Serving up plenty of good will and bipartisanship: Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Reps. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and William Timmons (R-S.C.) and former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.). Among the media aces were CNN reporter Michelle Kosinski, network president Jeff Zucker, and Wolf Blitzer, host of “The Situation Room.” The Hill, a media sponsor of the event, was represented by Editor-in-Chief Bob Cusack. ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl took home the MVP award (The Hill). |
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Congress wasted just about all of Wednesday questioning Robert Mueller, while Beltway pundits salivated at the opportunity to clog up our airwaves with more partisan conspiracy mongering. As far as political spectacles go, this wasn’t even entertaining. It was painful. Mueller seemed confused about his own investigation, and refused—as we all expected—to provide pretty much any new information at all. Even Chuck Todd described the hearing as a “disaster” for Democrats. Job well done, Congress! Here’s your must-read breakdown from The Federalist’s David Harsanyi: “If Democrats believed that Robert Mueller would provide them with additional ammunition for an impeachment inquiry, they made an extraordinary miscalculation. Not only was Mueller often flustered and unprepared to talk about his own report—we now have wonder to what extent he was even involved in the day-to-day work of the investigation—but he was needlessly evasive. In the end, he seriously undermined the central case for impeachment of President Donald Trump. The often-distracted Mueller didn’t seem to know much about anything. The very first Republican to question him, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Rep. Doug Collins, forced Mueller to correct his own opening statement. In it, the former FBI director had asserted that the independent counsel “did not address collusion, which is not a legal term.” Stressing the difference between the criminal conspiracy and the colloquial “collusion” is a popular way of obscuring the fact that the central conspiracy pushed by Democrats, one that plunged the nation into two years of hysterics and fantasy, had been debunked by Mueller. Moreover, as Collins pointed out, Mueller’s own report stated that “collusion” and criminal conspiracy were basically “synonymous.” “[C]ollusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy as that crime is set forth in the general federal conspiracy statute,” Mueller’s report states on page 180 of the second volume. When asked to explain this contradiction, Mueller stammered on for a few minutes before saying he would “leave it with the report.” Collins pointed out that, yes, the report stated that the terms “collusion” and “conspiracy” were synonymous, Mueller was forced to admit, “Yes.” It didn’t get better from there…” Here’s a roundup of shocked pundit reactions. (The Federalist) Here’s a write-up of Mueller’s refusal to deny leaking the Roger Stone raid to CNN. (The Federalist) Here’s Byron York’s take. (Washington Examiner) More Importantly, Here’s Some Non-Mueller News! FTC’s record $5 billion Facebook fine less than a tenth of company’s revenue (CBS News) Facebook’s big federal fine could just be the beginning (AP) Cory Booker Labels Joe Biden The ‘Architect Of Mass Incarceration’ (The Federalist) Tucker Carlson: Democratic Party’s Entire Future Depends On Making Sure “Millions Of People Are Above The Law” (Real Clear Politics) Kamala Harris’ Moment (Rolling Stone) Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ is Sony’s big summer gamble. Will it pay off? (Los Angeles Times) Bunny and Bunnies and Otters and Squirrels… And if you read one long article this week, make Country Roads Magazine’s feature of the “ethical taxidermist” who is aptly named, Bunny Lane. Bunny goes far beyond the deer mounts your average taxidermist is tasked with. Her taxidermy is an art form, one that honors animals who have died a natural death, and elevates their lives to something far beyond what they experienced or could have even imagined as your average squirrel, otter, or baby rabbit. Come for the technical knowledge of how to preserve a bobcat hide, stay for the hypnotizing photos of the dancing squirrels and a possum turned carnival snake-handler. BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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Robert
Mueller Just Killed Impeachment
Robert Mueller’s Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary and
Intelligence Committees provided one piece of new information: now we
know why he refused to take questions after his bizarre May 29 news
conference. Indeed, the maundering and semi-coherent
manner with which he answered the questions posed to him during
Wednesday’s hearings suggests that he was probably never up to the job
of running the special counsel investigation. It also explains the
peculiar legal reasoning that pervades the final report.
This is where he administered the lethal injection to impeachment.
By: David Catron ______________________ Pedophilia: The Next Frontier for Leftist Acceptance Ideology Over the past few decades, the Left has been engaged in the glorification of anyone who departs from the “cis-gendered” status quo, with no regard for antiquated concerns like morality or sexual ethics. By and large, leftists have enjoyed a blank check from the culture to push whatever boundaries they want when it comes to sex and gender. Now we’ve reached a predictable crossroads. And the Left has little choice but to accept the logical progression of their own ideology — accepting perversion and pedophilia under the blanket of the acceptable and the admirable. By: Keenan White ______________________ Mueller: An Unmitigated Disaster What an unmitigated disaster. The nation watches a confused, halting Robert Mueller in what will be the saddest moment in an otherwise stellar career. But without question this Mueller performance clearly illustrated one very important reality. There is no way in the world the confused, uncertain man testifying today actually ran the investigation he was charged with running By: Jeffrey Lord ______________________ What the Baby Boomers Have Wrought The United States Constitution vests authority over the purse to Congress. According to the Congressional Budget Office, revenue for the 2020 fiscal year is anticipated to be at $3.643 trillion, the highest amount in the history of the country. A normal, rational person would look at those receipts and say, “Surely Congress can balance the federal budget when it’s reporting record revenues, especially when the revenue has increased 50 percent from its 2012 level of $2.456 trillion.” Apparently, there are no longer any sane or rational people in charge of our budget in Congress. By: Glenn Delk ______________________ Rat Story Is a California Allegory It was one of the most absurd stories of California’s lunacy. In the midst of one of the worst droughts in the state’s history, state and federal wildlife officials were depleting a large reservoir in the Sierra foothills to save (by increasing river flows) a handful of hatchery-born fish that had virtually zero chance of making it to the Pacific Ocean alive. At a water-board meeting I attended, local farmers and residents were incredulous at officials’ refusal to prioritize humans over critters. By: Steven Greenhut ______________________ The Spending Is Getting Embarrassing There is no shortage of prodigal people in the world. They chain themselves to expensive habits or addictions, pursue short-term pleasures and conveniences, are wasteful with other people’s money, and increase their spending when their incomes decline. Their sins are punished by bankruptcy, bad credit, and social isolation. The same goes for irresponsible families, organizations, and corporations. By:John Jiang ______________________ Call for Captain Hornblower Iran’s seizure, at sea, of the British-flagged Stena Impero could be a serious threat to world peace. Or not. Events that seem small and random at the time can have large and terrible consequences. Ask Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Or consider the fact that a young and relatively weak United States was willing to go to war with England because Britain insisted on pressing our merchant seamen into service on its men-of-war. The old country would, in those days, do whatever it considered necessary to remain the world’s supreme naval power. It would go to war to defend this prerogative. By: Geoffrey Norman ______________________ The American Spectator is now on Flipboard, a user-friendly and customizable news aggregation website, please give us a follow today! You Might Like Read More |
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FIRST READ: Six takeaways from Mueller’s day before Congress
Two things can be true about former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony yesterday.
It was damaging to President Trump, contradicting the president’s key claims and defenses about the Russia probe.
And it all but closed the door on the likelihood of Democrats impeaching the president – given the congressional math.
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Here’s a fuller breakdown on our six takeaways from yesterday:
1. Mueller contradicted Trump’s story on the Russia probe
“It
is not a witch hunt,” Mueller said… “It was not a hoax.”… Russia’s
intervention helped Trump’s campaign – not Hillary Clinton’s… Trump was
NOT exonerated by
the report… And “problematic is an understatement” is how Mueller
described Trump’s use of the WikiLeaks disclosures in the final month of
the 2016 race.
2. The odds of impeachment seem much less likely today
But if the idea of yesterday was to galvanize Democrats to impeach Trump, it didn’t do the trick. It’s hard to disagree with
the Washington Post’s Dan Balz: “If Democrats hope to end the Trump presidency, they will have to do so by defeating him at the ballot box in November 2020.”
3. Democrats hurt their cause by starting with obstruction before discussing Russia’s interference
It’s
worth asking if yesterday might have played differently if they began
with Russia’s interference (which was the afternoon part) instead of
obstruction of
justice (which was the morning portion). After all, the obstruction
becomes clearer if you understand what was being obstructed.
4. Mueller was most animated about Russia’s interference
“Over
the course of my career, I’ve seen a number of challenges to our
democracy,” he said. “The Russian government’s effort to interfere in
our election is among
the most serious. As I said on May 29, this deserves the attention of
every American.”
5. There was less urgency from Mueller on the other matters
And
that’s perhaps the chief reason why yesterday was a bomb if you ONLY
cared about the impeachment angle. There was no clarion call from
Mueller – especially
on obstruction of justice.
6. Mueller was a credible witness
Yes,
he wasn’t sharp. And, yes, it seemed like he had a difficult time
hearing members of Congress. But you can’t say he wasn’t credible – he
carefully answered
what he wanted to answer, and he ducked the questions he wanted to
duck. Also, the one time he misspoke (on whether Trump would have been
charged had he not been the sitting president), Mueller corrected the
record.
TWEET OF THE DAY: So much for “total exoneration”
The consequences of Democrats not pursuing impeachment
While impeachment looks less likely today after Mueller’s testimony – was that by design? – Democrats need to grapple with these consequences.
One, not pursuing impeachment allows Trump to declare victory – no matter how damaging yesterday’s testimony was to Trump. Everything will be riding on the outcome of the 2020 election.
Two, Democrats won’t be able to bring up impeachment at a later date. Given the 2020 calendar, it’s pretty much now or never.
And three, not pursuing impeachment normalizes Trump’s conduct during the Mueller probe.
AP Photo/Carlos Osorio
2020 VISION: Booker vs. Biden – a preview of next week’s debate?
Cory Booker “has spent the past few days criticizing Joe Biden’s support for the 1994 crime bill decried by many progressive criminal justice
reform activists for being too harsh on issues like mandatory sentencing,”
per NBC’s Ben Kamisar, Deepa Shivaram and Marianna Sotomayor.
“Biden
pushed back Wednesday, pointing to a federal investigation into the
Newark Police Department that found that officers ‘engaged in a pattern
or practice of unconstitutional stops, searches,
arrests, use of excessive force and theft.’”
On the campaign trail today: Joe Biden, Cory Booker, John Delaney, Amy Klobuchar and Tim Ryan all address the National Urban League conference in Indianapolis… John Hickenlooper and Kirsten Gillibrand stump in Iowa… Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg are in Los Angeles… And Mark Sanford attends a “Pints and Politics” event with the Charleston Post & Courier in Mt. Pleasant, S.C.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: Beto O’Rourke held a town hall in Flint, Mich., where NBC’s Shivaram noticed a difference in how O’Rourke talks about immigration compared to other candidates:
“One thing to note on Beto’s immigration rhetoric is that he emphasizes not just the benefits immigrants have coming to America but how Americans have benefitted from immigrants. It’s a small but powerful difference — he frames the conversation in a way that is about how America is lucky that immigrants have chosen here, that they have made our country safer. It struck me as a different tone than some other candidates I’ve heard.”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is… 198.
198.
That’s the number of times Mueller deflected or declined to answer questions during yesterday’s hearings, according to an NBC News count.
Those non-responses included variations of “I direct you to the report,” “That’s outside my purview,” “I can’t get into that,” and simply “I am not going to answer that question, sir.”
THE LID: Russia, if you’re listening
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we looked at what Americans really think about potential foreign election interference in the future.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
NBC’s Ken Dilanian writes about Mueller’s performance — and how it differed from past times he has testified before Congress.
Trump says yesterday was “a great day for me,” and Democrats say they don’t see much additional momentum for impeachment.
Dan Balz writes that Democrats’ only option to end Trump’s presidency now is the 2020 election.
In a New York Times op-ed, Rep. Ilhan Omar writes “It is not enough to condemn Trump’s racism.”
The governor of Puerto Rico is out after days of massive protests.
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| US National Debt over $22.5 Trillion Posted: 25 Jul 2019 05:10 AM PDT Talking about the national debt is not the most comfortable subject. Conservative and Clickservative media doesn’t want to talk about the debt as much because a Republican is in office. But uncomfortable truths about the most expensive threat to our Nation’s livelihood and security is something we need to be more informed on. Currently the […] The post US National Debt over $22.5 Trillion appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Rep. Jamie Raskin believes Mueller’s testimony will make more Americans want to read the report Posted: 24 Jul 2019 09:27 PM PDT The Democrats and legacy media are working in overdrive to spin the disastrous testimony of Robert Mueller before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees today. The testimony, widely panned by the right as further evidence the whole Russia investigation was a hoax, even drew speculation that Mueller’s mental acuity is lacking. One of the Democrats […] The post Rep. Jamie Raskin believes Mueller’s testimony will make more Americans want to read the report appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| Illegal alien hit man Jose Juana-Zapata and child sex offender Victor Rodriguez-Galven arrested Posted: 24 Jul 2019 03:43 PM PDT With so many migrants leaving their Central American nations for the United States, business must be slow for murderers for hire. It’s also challenging for child sex offenders with so many children being used and often sold as tickets to get into the United States interior. Over the weekend, Customs and Border Protection arrested two […] The post Illegal alien hit man Jose Juana-Zapata and child sex offender Victor Rodriguez-Galven arrested appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| When asked about Islamic terrorism, Ilhan Omar said we ‘should be more fearful of white men’ Posted: 24 Jul 2019 02:47 PM PDT There’s one positive thing that can be said about Representative Ilhan Omar. She doesn’t hide her contempt her white men or her love for Islamic terrorists. The woman who categorized the 9/11 terrorist attacks as “some people did something” once responded to credible fears of Islamic terrorism by saying, “our country should be more fearful […] The post When asked about Islamic terrorism, Ilhan Omar said we ‘should be more fearful of white men’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Robert Mueller killed the Russia hoax, but Democrats like beating dead horses Posted: 24 Jul 2019 02:14 PM PDT Senator Lindsey Graham summed up the sentiment of most patriotic American who watched Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress. After today’s hearing — and for the good of the country — I hope this is the end of the #MuellerReport. Now it’s time to find out how this debacle started and went so far. — Lindsey Graham […] The post Robert Mueller killed the Russia hoax, but Democrats like beating dead horses appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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| GRAHAM SLAM: Lindsey Graham UNLOADS on Mueller’s ‘CONFUSING AND SAD’ Testimony Sen. Lindsey Graham weighed-in Wednesday afternoon on Robert Mueller’s “confusing and sad” testimony before Congress; calling his behavior “dangerous and ridiculous.”“Wow. Robert Mueller changing the job of a prosecutor from proving someone ‘Guilty beyond a reasonable doubt’ to ‘Not being able to exonerate someone accused of a crime.’ Dangerous and ridiculous. Thus far… |
| BOB’S VERY BAD DAY: Mueller Says He’s ‘Not Familiar’ With Fusion GPS, Firm Behind Steele Dossier Former special counsel Robert Mueller stunned lawmakers on Capitol Hill during his Congressional testimony Wednesday; telling legislators he was “not familiar” with opposition-research firm Fusion GPS.“When discussing the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting, you reference ‘the firm that produced the Steele reporting.’ The name of that firm was Fusion GPS. Is… |
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GOWDY: ‘Person Who Learned the Most About the Mueller Report Today was Robert Mueller’
Trey Gowdy unloaded on leading Democrats
and their handling of Robert Mueller’s Congressional testimony
Wednesday; saying the person who “learned the most” about the Mueller
Report was -in fact- Robert Mueller. “They’re not closer to anything other than wishing this had never happened. Bad facts make for bad witnesses, bad witnesses make for bad hearings, and this one was an abject, miserable failure. The person who learned the most about the Mueller Report today was Robert Mueller,” Gowdy told Fox News… |
| EPIC BURN! Ted Cruz Torches Beto O’Rourke’s Entire Campaign With THREE WORDS Texas Senator Ted Cruz roasted his former opponent on social media Wednesday; torching former Congressman Beto O’Rourke for comments he made on late-night television.“It’s a crowded field… Do you ever have doubts? Do you ever miss how easy it was to be different from Ted Cruz?”… |
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