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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” WALT WHITMAN Good morning, The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court found that FBI agents improperly accessed data collected on American citizens. The issue of search queries for Americans in the database containing Section-702-obtained data has raised concerns for years. Notably in 2016, the NSA raised concerns about the FBI giving external contractors access to this sensitive data. Read the full article here Trump Aims to Rein in Federal Bureaucracy With Two Executive Orders Johnson & Johnson to Pay $8B to Man Claiming His Breast Tissue Became Enlarged After Taking Drug Turkey Opens Ground Assault on Syria’s Kurdish Militia, Deaths Reported Facebook declined to ban an advertisement from President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign. Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign made the request to the tech giant. Read more Three Chinese nationals were charged last week with importing and distributing fentanyl as part of an international drug operation they ran with other distributors, including a former county deputy sheriff in Pennsylvania, U.S. authorities said. Read more Globalization, the most powerful economic force to have shaped the world over the past two decades, is now giving way to a new world order. Souring sentiment against globalization, particularly in developed countries, has led to a global revival of nationalism. Read more Officials in Nashville, Tennessee, will be allowed to continue cracking down on home music studios after a state court upheld the Music City’s law against home business owners serving clients on-site. Read more U.S. senators and representatives can manipulate their elected positions for their own benefit by taking advantage of multiple perks and privileges that constitute an entirely legal “pay-to-play” culture of corruption in Congress, according to a nonprofit government watchdog. Read more Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), head of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, was among lawmakers who wrote to the DOJ, asking what the department has done with criminal referrals made in the wake of the hearings. Read more See More Top Stories Attention: If you Currently Own or are Considering Buying Physical Precious Metals for your portfolio, please read carefully. On Sept. 26th, 2016, under the Obama Administration, the American Bankers Association and the Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures [CUSIP] announced it started tracking a list of Fungible Gold, Silver, Platinum and Palladium bars and coins. Simply put: when the failing banking system NEEDS to calculate YOUR ASSETS outside of their financial system, THEY CAN EASILY DO SO! Contact GSI Exchange to acquire the secret documented list of fungible precious metals that are now being tracked by the big banks. Call 833-474-4653 now to speak with a GSI Exchange representative about this new tracking trend. Click here to claim your complimentary copy of our exclusive Bank Failure Survival Guide while supplies last Ominous Signs of Hatred in Politics By Mark Hendrickson Heated rhetoric and politics go hand in hand. In today’s hyper-politicized polity, the line between heated and hate-filled rhetoric is crossed often. This is not merely regrettable, but dangerous. When verbal vitriol mutates into hatred, hatred too often erupts in violence. The casualties of hatred fall into three categories… Read more U.S. Attorneys Ignoring President Trump’s Orders to Prioritize Religious Liberty By Eugene Delgaudio Repeatedly, during his campaign for president in 2016, President Donald Trump promised to protect religious freedom, gaining broad support from both the evangelical community and conservative Catholics in the process. And repeatedly, during his presidency, President Trump has taken actions… Read more See More Opinions China’s Migrant Workers—at the Heart of Economic Growth By Valentin Schmid (June 6, 2016) Financial markets usually take a shorter term view and focus on things like quarterly economic growth, the exchange rate, as well as capital flows—especially when it comes to China recently. Every once in a while, it’s good to focus on some longer term indicators, which will shape the economy for the next decades, like population growth and the availability of workers. Read more Just how will the Hong Kong protests likely play out? How are the Chinese Communist Party’s economic and political systems fundamentally at odds with those of the West, and why is it so intent on controlling Hong Kong? What is the Chinese regime’s strategy in the US-China trade war? And how would a decoupling of the US and Chinese economies impact America and the world? On the Hong Kong Protest, US-China Trade War & ‘Parasitic’ China Economy Copyright © 2019 The Epoch Times, All rights reserved. Want to change how you receive these emails? You can unsubscribe from this list or remove my account. |
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| Good morning from Washington, where President Trump advances his campaign against overregulation with new executive orders. Fred Lucas reports. Anti-porn activist Haley Halverson joins the podcast. On “Problematic Women,” radical feminist Natasha Chart challenges the transgender agenda. Plus: Nolan Peterson on a huge protest in Ukraine against making nice with Russia, Star Parker on the left’s crusade to topple Trump, and Jarrett Stepman on defending Columbus Day. On this date in 1845, the U.S. Naval Academy opens in Annapolis, Maryland, with 50 midshipmen and seven professors. |
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Thursday, October 10, 2019 Impeachment Update “The White House declared Tuesday it will halt any and all cooperation with what it termed the ‘illegitimate’ impeachment probe by House Democrats, sharpening the constitutional clash between President Donald Trump and Congress… Trump attorneys sent a lengthy letter to House leaders bluntly stating White House refusal to participate in the inquiry.” AP News Also on Tuesday, “Gordon Sondland, the U.S. European Union ambassador, was barred by the administration from appearing in a closed-door session with three House panels investigating Trump’s entreaties to Ukraine.” AP News Polls indicate that the public currently supports impeachment by a margin of 49%-43%. FiveThirtyEight From the Left The left opposes a full House vote, and is critical of Trump’s refusal to cooperate with Congress, arguing that it is legally dubious and a violation of the separation of powers. One law professor states, “An impeachment inquiry is not a dinner invitation. It is not something one can decide whether or not to accept. The president, like other American citizens, is subject to Congress’ subpoena power. Let’s not confuse the president’s refusal to comply with a right to refusal.” Sean Illing, Vox “Mr. Cipollone’s letter presents the president as the judge of whether a congressional inquiry into impeachment is constitutional. That obviously can’t be right. Not only would that violate the principle of separation of powers; it also would effectively put the president in ultimate control of the impeachment process.” Noah Feldman, New York Times “[The] letter offers a more sophisticated twist on Trump’s Twitter feed, on which the president defended blocking Sondland’s testimony because ‘unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public to see.’ But charging that your opponents are mean isn’t a legal defense… Democrats have been warning with more and more urgency that the Trump administration’s response to an impeachment inquiry might represent obstruction of justice… [The White House] missive sprawls over eight pages, but its message can be boiled down to just five words: You’re damn right we’re obstructing.” David A. Graham, The Atlantic “The president does not get to decide which congressional actions are legitimate and, therefore, which congressional commands he accepts. If he has a specific claim that his circumscribed right to executive privilege should prevent the turnover of a particular document or the testimony of a particular witness, he should make a case-by-case argument. Instead, he has essentially claimed that he can ignore Congress if he so chooses. And, in true Trumpian fashion, he insists that his lawlessness is constitutionally approved while those legitimately endowed with the power to hold him to account are betraying the nation’s founding document. In fact, the Constitution unambiguously empowers the House to conduct an impeachment, and it grants the president no authority to impede it.” Editorial Board, Washington Post “It’s one thing for Republicans to argue that there was no explicit quid pro quo in Trump’s telephone conversation with the Ukrainian president. It’s quite another for them to agree that the president should be free to engage in witness tampering, destruction of evidence, and obstruction of justice, or that the legislative branch should be powerless to exercise its constitutional authority against the executive branch. Indeed, the more partisan the Republican, the easier he or she will find it to imagine that a corrupt Democrat at some point will occupy the White House. Should that dark day come to pass, wouldn’t they then regret having given Trump free rein?… By redefining the crisis as an existential debate over the limits of presidential power, Trump may be in danger of losing those Republicans who still think of themselves as constitutional conservatives.” Geoffrey Kabaservice, The Guardian Regarding the issue of a formal vote to launch an impeachment investigation, many argue that “holding a vote now may… limit the efficacy of the subpoenas already churning through the justice system—or at least give Trump’s litigators an argument for starting over… If a vote is taken now, the president’s lawyers are likely to argue that the prior requests were thus not included in the impeachment inquiry… Such a vote may also limit the House investigators in what they can investigate… it is important that the House not limit itself to abuses of power already known, as all indications suggest the impeachable conduct will continue… Finally, a vote requires difficult political choices… many red and purple district Democrats may be waiting to see what evidence emerges from the House investigations before determining whether impeachment is warranted. A party-line vote now—or one with some Democrats voting against—gives Trump ammunition to call the investigation partisan and to further refuse to cooperate.” Molly Claflin, Slate “The Constitution makes it clear the House has the ‘sole’ discretion to impeach and the Senate has the ‘sole’ ability to hold a trial. In other words, impeachment is purely a function of the legislative branch; not the executive, and not the judicial… Even if Trump and Republicans keep hammering their argument about precedent, there’s no sign in the letter they will take Democrats to court to try to dictate how the inquiry plays out… That’s probably because they know the courts will likely stay out of it: In past cases challenging impeachments (mostly of federal judges), the courts have upheld Congress’s right to impeach and have a trial… In short, the White House’s precedent claims amount to a political ploy, not a legal one.” Ella Nilsen, Vox “Fifteen current Republican senators served in the House or Senate during the Clinton impeachment. All but one of those — Sen. Susan Collins of Maine — voted either to impeach Clinton or to convict him and remove him from office. I’d challenge any of them to explain why they deemed Clinton’s behavior so bad and are so unmoved by Trump’s.” Ruth Marcus, Washington Post From the Right The right is calling for a House vote to authorize the impeachment inquiry, and accusing Democrats of hypocrisy regarding congressional subpoenas. “What’s really unprecedented is this: House Democrats are pursuing impeachment without holding a vote to authorize an official impeachment inquiry. Impeachment is a political, not legal, process, and Democrats can rewrite the rules if they like. But the more political impeachment becomes, the more it justifies a political response from the White House, and the less credibility impeachment will have with the public. The reasons for not holding a vote on opening an impeachment inquiry appear to be self-interested and craven, which only underscores the White House’s point. Authorizing an impeachment inquiry would give the Republican minority the right to call its own witnesses and otherwise participate in the investigation… “Schiff has already been caught lying on TV about staffers on his own intelligence committee being in contact with the Ukraine-call whistleblower before the formal complaint that led to the current impeachment efforts was filed… Impeachment is a gravely serious step to take, as it threatens to overturn the will of voters. So far, Democrats aren’t taking the impeachment process seriously. So they should not be surprised that Trump isn’t taking it seriously, either.” Editorial Board, New York Post “If there is to be an inquiry about invoking this most solemn and consequential of the House’s powers, the House must vote to conduct it. It is not for the Speaker and her adjutants to decree that there is an inquiry. If the inquiry is to be legitimate, the House as a whole must decide to conduct it. Members of the House are the representatives of the sovereign — the People. In November 2020, the People are scheduled to vote on whether Donald Trump should keep his job. If Democrats, who control the House, truly believe the president has committed impeachable offenses and is so unfit for his duties that we can’t wait just 13 months for the sovereign to render that verdict, then they should vote to conduct an impeachment inquiry. If they are afraid to vote on it, then they shouldn’t be doing it.” Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review “There have so far been two hearings in the House Democrats’ effort to impeach President Trump over the Ukraine matter. Both have been held in secret. One was [last] Thursday, the other Friday, and the public does not know what was said in either. Two more are scheduled for this week and will be held behind closed doors, too… the American people deserve to know precisely why one party in the House proposes to remove the president. They deserve to know the facts behind the Ukraine matter. It is simply inconceivable that a party could seek to remove a president but say to the American people, in essence: Trust us, we’ve got good reason. The impeachment proceedings should be opened up — now.” Byron York, Washington Examiner “Mr. Cipollone is trying to make a political point about the unprecedented secret and unfair way the House is proceeding on impeachment, and on that he’s entirely correct… We don’t recall Democrats fretting when Mr. Clinton made executive-privilege claims that were more sweeping than Nixon’s during Watergate. The media that now profess horror at Mr. Trump raised not a whit of concern when Attorney General Eric Holder denied documents to Congress and was held in contempt. Just politics, they said then… “If Mrs. Pelosi does choose to brawl over documents, she’s likely to win in court more than she loses. The House in its impeachment power can seek evidence from the executive, and the courts are likely to agree when its requests are reasonable and related to the alleged offenses being investigated. But Mr. Trump may also sometimes prevail if the House is issuing kitchen-sink subpoenas that jeopardize his ability to conduct foreign policy or communicate freely with advisers. No one should be surprised if the White House chooses to fight back, and hard, when Democrats are trying to remove Mr. Trump from office and brand him as ‘impeached’ for 2020. The Pelosi Democrats are fighting ugly, and Mr. Trump is fighting ugly back.” Editorial Board, Wall Street Journal “The president of the United States and his administration should not refuse to cooperate with a House impeachment effort in any way, shape or form. But we didn’t get here overnight… back in 2012, a lot of people thought it was just fine if an administration and its officials refused to turn over documents because they thought the members of Congress investigating them were a bunch of partisan hacks. When Holder defied Congress, a lot of people cheered. When Congress held him in contempt, a lot of people thought Holder should wear it as a badge of pride… “Back then, we could have had a broad bipartisan consensus that even the biggest, dumbest partisan hack is entitled to the full powers and authorities of the office. We could have all agreed that even if a committee chairman has a bigger axe to grind than Paul Bunyan, that didn’t make compliance with requests for documents, subpoenas, or testimony optional… But congressional Democrats and their allies in the media didn’t make that choice. They established the argument that some defiance of Congressional subpoenas is okay, as long as the executive branch believes that the Congressional investigators are being unfair. And now, here we are.” Jim Geraghty, National Review A Moderate’s Take “Democrats are playing Trump’s game. Trump has no policy agenda. He’s incompetent at improving the lives of American citizens, even his own voters. But he’s good at one thing: waging reality TV personality wars against coastal elites. So now over the next few months he gets to have a personality war against Nancy Pelosi and Jerrold Nadler… This political brawl will leave Trump victorious.” David Brooks, New York Times On the bright side… Beekeeper turns honey-stealing bears into taste testers. New York Post 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. 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POLITICO Playbook: This is not a fever dream
By JAKE SHERMAN and ANNA PALMER
10/10/2019 05:56 AM EDT
DRIVING THE DAY
IF YOU WENT TO SLEEP EARLY, like Jake almostdid: The Washington Nationals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-3. Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto hit back-to-back home runs off Clayton Kershaw to tie the game. Howie Kendrick hit a grand slam in the 10th. The NLCS begins tomorrow night in St. Louis. First pitch is 8:08 p.m. No, this is not a fever dream.
… AND NEITHER IS THIS: FOUR-COLUMN HEADLINE on today’s NYT front page: “TURKEY ATTACKS U.S. ALLY IN SYRIA”
AP/CEYLANPINAR, Turkey: “Turkish ground forces pressed their advance against Kurdish fighters in northern Syria on Thursday, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said, launching airstrikes and unleashing artillery shelling on Syrian towns and villages the length of its border.
“The Turkish invasion, now in its second day, has been widely condemned around the world. In northern Syria, residents of the border areas scrambled in panic on Wednesday as they tried to get out on foot, in cars and with rickshaws piled with mattresses and a few belongings. …
“The Kurds, who have been America’s only allies in Syria fighting the Islamic State group, stopped on Thursday all their operations against the IS extremists in order to focus on fighting advancing Turkish troops, Kurdish and U.S. officials said.” AP
WAPO FRONT PAGE … PHIL RUCKER and BOB COSTA: “Trump’s Syria decision tests the bounds of Republican support as he demands solidarity on impeachment”: “President Trump’s decision to suddenly withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria has angered evangelical Christian leaders and Republican hawks, cleaving his political coalition at the very moment he is trying to fortify his standing to survive the intensifying impeachment inquiry in Congress.
“Instead of enjoying uncontested GOP support as he plunges into a constitutional showdown with House Democrats and prepares for a bruising reelection campaign, Trump is now fighting on two fronts within his party.” WaPo
OFFICIALS IN BOTH PARTIES practically guarantee that a package sanctioning Turkey will pass Congress in the coming weeks.
AS OF NOW, Turkish President RECEP TAYYIP ERDOĞAN is coming to Washington in the coming weeks — the administration says. It will be Erdoğan and Trump vs. the rest of the town.
FOR YOUR RADAR — “Intel officials say ISIS could regroup after U.S. ‘betrayal’ of Kurds in Syria,” by NBC’s Ken Delanian and Dan De Luce: “A sustained Turkish military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in Syria — which President Donald Trump appears to have permitted — would vastly increase the threat to Americans from the Islamic State militant group, which remains intent on attacking the West, current and former intelligence officials tell NBC News.
“The immediate concern, officials say, is what will happen with the 12,000 ISIS fighters currently being guarded by the American-backed Kurds. The ISIS prisoners are the world’s largest concentration of terrorists. If those fighters are set free, officials fear a replay of what happened in Iraq between 2010 and 2013, when the core group who founded ISIS were released or escaped from detention after U.S. forces left the country.” NBC
— @realDonaldTrump: “In case the Kurds or Turkey lose control, the United States has already taken the 2 ISIS militants tied to beheadings in Syria, known as the Beetles, out of that country and into a secure location controlled by the U.S. They are the worst of the worst!”
— NYT: “At the Pentagon, where more than five years of fighting alongside Kurdish troops in Iraq and Syria has now given way to standing aside as those same allies are attacked, some officials said there was more anger than they had seen at any point in Mr. Trump’s presidency.”
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— THE PRESIDENT said this Wednesday: “Now, the Kurds are fighting for their land, just so you understand, they are fighting for their land. And as someone wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn’t help us in the Second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy, as an example. They mentioned the names of different battles, but they’re there to help us with their land, and that’s a different thing.”
— THE PRESIDENT said Wednesday that since Democrats “have a tiny margin in the House, they have eviscerated the rules.” In fact, in our system of government, whoever is in the House majority gets to write the rules — no matter how large the majority.
AND ABOUT THESE NEW TALKING POINTS: The president and his allies have latched onto a theory that Republicans should be afforded subpoena power in the impeachment probe because it was done in the past. Minority subpoena power is a real thing. But those subpoenas are always subject to a full-committee vote — and the committees are still controlled by Democrats.
— AND THE PRESIDENT keeps saying he wants a vote to start the impeachment probe. A few Republicans have pointed out to us that they don’t want this vote at all. They have no idea where this probe is heading, and they don’t want to be on the record against it — if they don’t need to be.
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IMPEACHMENT CLIP PACKET …
— FOX NEWS NATIONAL POLL — “Record support for Trump impeachment,” by Dana Blanton: “A new high of 51 percent wants Trump impeached and removed from office, another 4 percent want him impeached but not removed, and 40 percent oppose impeachment altogether. In July, 42 percent favored impeachment and removal, while 5 percent said impeach but don’t remove him, and 45 percent opposed impeachment.” Fox News
— FIVETHIRTYEIGHT IMPEACHMENT AVERAGE: 49.2% support, 43.3% don’t support. 538
— HEADS UP … HAPPENING TODAY … NYT’S NICK FANDOS on A1:“House chairmen leading the impeachment inquiry planned to issue additional subpoenas for witness testimony and records related to Mr. Trump’s dealings with Ukraine as soon as Thursday, lawmakers and aides said, after a pause for the Jewish High Holy Days.
“They want to force executive branch officials to answer to their demands, generating a detailed record of refusals that could shape an impeachment article charging Mr. Trump with obstructing Congress. Democrats also still see other meaningful avenues for gathering evidence that go around the Trump administration’s defiance, including questioning private citizens, former officials, career diplomats near retirement and the whistle-blowers whose revelations fueled the inquiry.” NYT
— KYLE CHENEY and HEATHER CAYGLE: “Democrats confident in obstruction case against Trump — but want more”: “House Democrats are increasingly confident they have all the evidence they need to impeach President Donald Trump for obstructing their investigations. … But they’re not prepared to impeach Trump on obstruction of Congress alone. As they contemplate their impeachment strategy, Democrats say they prefer any obstruction charge to play a supporting, rather than starring, role in their efforts.” POLITICO
— NANCY COOK: “‘There is no discernible legal strategy’: Trump returns to his roots for impeachment battle”
— TREY GOWDY has formally joined the president’s personal legal team, per a statement Wednesday night by counsel Jay Sekulow, and will no longer be a commentator for Fox News. NBC has more
FOR THE RECORD: Gowdy was a forceful advocate of the Obama White House turning material over to Congress. Let’s see if that continues.
— REX’S REVENGE? … BLOOMBERG: “Trump Urged Top Aide to Help Giuliani Client Facing DOJ Charges,” by Nick Wadhams, Saleha Mohsin and Stephanie Baker: “President Donald Trump pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani, according to three people familiar with the 2017 meeting in the Oval Office.
“Tillerson refused, arguing it would constitute interference in an ongoing investigation of the trader, Reza Zarrab, according to the people. They said other participants in the Oval Office were shocked by the request.
“Tillerson immediately repeated his objections to then-Chief of Staff John Kelly in a hallway conversation just outside the Oval Office, emphasizing that the request would be illegal. Neither episode has been previously reported, and all of the people spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the conversations.” Bloomberg
— BEHIND THE STRATEGERY: NYT’S ELIZABETH WILLIAMSON: “As White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone Builds Case for Defiance on Impeachment”: “As a lawyer in private practice, Pat A. Cipollone, now President Trump’s White House counsel, told colleagues that there were two approaches to legal fights.
“One, he said, was like the Department of State, when the two sides would try to work out a deal to avoid painful and expensive litigation. The other, when the first failed, was the Department of War. As of this week, Mr. Cipollone has put himself squarely in the war camp when it comes to Mr. Trump’s defense against the House impeachment inquiry.” NYT
— GONESVILLE! … AP’S JILL COLVIN: “White House aides try disappearing act amid impeachment talk”: “They’ve skipped the high-profile Sunday TV shows and avoided driveway chat sessions with reporters. Few who are typically eager to defend the president have appeared at all on television so far this month.
“White House officials close to President Donald Trump are pulling off a disappearing act, remaining largely absent from public view — in the middle of the storm over impeachment.” AP
— CNN: “William Barr, for now, avoids Democrats’ impeachment scrutiny,” by Evan Perez, Manu Raju and Jeremy Herb: “Democrats … have turned their investigative targets elsewhere, mostly on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the White House and the State Department, which is the center of what Democrats say was a corrupt effort by the President to withhold congressionally approved aid for Ukraine in exchange for a Ukrainian probe to dig up dirt on the Bidens. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe or Hunter Biden in Ukraine.” CNN
Good Thursday morning. POLITICO NEWS … Meridith McGraw and Tina Nguyen will join our White House team in the next few weeks. McGraw was previously a White House reporter and producer at ABC, and Nguyen is currently a staff reporter for Vanity Fair’s The Hive.
THE RTCA will honor NBC’S KELLY O’DONNELL with the 2019 career achievement award for distinguished reporting on Congress at its annual dinner Oct. 24 at The Anthem. ABC’S MARY BRUCE will get the Joan S. Barone Award, BBC’S CLIVE MYRIE will get the David Bloom Award, and CNN’S KIM UHL will get the Jerry Thompson Memorial Award. Buy tickets
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— NATASHA KORECKI and MARC CAPUTO with a Manchester, N.H., dateline: “Why Biden finally teed off on Trump”: “After calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment for the first time, Joe Biden experienced something here he rarely sees on the campaign trail: a sustained standing ovation. His Rudy Giuliani joke had the crowd roaring, as did his digs on Trump’s tax secrecy.
“It was just the kind of crowd energy that the Biden campaign had hoped to tap as it abruptly shifted gears on Wednesday, revealing a new intensity and an amped up response to the president’s relentless attacks.
“For a Biden campaign lagging in fundraising, polls and enthusiasm, the former vice president’s roll-out of a swaggering, fire-breathing approach and full embrace of impeachment signaled a dramatic departure from course — a change in direction necessitated by weeks of Trump’s siege warfare.
“For weeks, Biden spoke cautiously about impeaching the president, even as every other major Democratic candidates called for it. As Trump repeatedly blasted unproven allegations of wrongdoing against the Bidens, Biden wasn’t aggressive enough for Democrats who want the fight taken to the president.
“But in speeches at two events here on Wednesday, Biden attacked the president in the sharpest and most personal terms he’s used since entering the Democratic primary. For the first time, he directly called for Trump’s impeachment. He accused the president of spreading lies and of attempting to extort another country. He even pivoted to ripping on Trump’s lawyer, Giuliani, mocking him as a man of great ‘integrity.’
“It was his most aggressive posture to date, presenting a case that Trump could not be trusted, while positioning himself as the fighter that America needs at this moment to face off against a ‘bully’ and a ‘coward.’” POLITICO
— TRUMP IN MINNESOTA TONIGHT … NYT’S ANNIE KARNI and MAGGIE HABERMAN: “Trump Is Serious About Carrying Minnesota, the One That Got Away in 2016”: “It is a rare rally for Mr. Trump in a state he did not win in 2016, and takes him to the heart of opposition territory: In 2018, the city helped elect to the House Ilhan Omar, a Democratic woman of color who has become one of the president’s favorite foils.
“Meanwhile, Brad Parscale, the president’s campaign manager, is planning to pour tens of millions of dollars into the campaign’s Minnesota operation, compared with the $30,000 the Trump campaign spent on the state last cycle. The campaign already has 20 paid staff members in the state, and expects to expand to 100. And the campaign and the Republican National Committee are outspending Democrats by about four to one on digital advertising, according to campaign officials and local Democratic Party officials.” NYT
— THE FINE PRINT … NBC’S MARK MURRAY: “[I]n a statement to NBC News, the Warren campaign clarified that the candidate would indeed attend high-dollar events for the party (where individuals can donate tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars) — though not for the campaign (where the maximum primary and general election donation is a combined $5,600).” NBC
BIG DOUGH ALERT … JAMES ARKIN: “McGrath raises $10.7M for race against McConnell”: “[Amy] McGrath’s campaign said she had nearly 300,000 total contributions and an average donation of $36. Her campaign did not provide her cash on hand figure as of Sept. 30.” More for Pros
THE PRESIDENT’S THURSDAY — TRUMP will leave the White House for Andrews at 4:10 p.m. At 4:30, he’ll fly to Minneapolis, where he’ll arrive at 5:55 p.m. and head to the Target Center. He will host a rally at 7 p.m., and leave at 8:30 p.m. He’ll take off for D.C. at 9:05 p.m., and land at Andrews at 12:15 a.m. He is scheduled back at the White House at 12:35 a.m.
PLAYBOOK READS
CNN: “German synagogue gunman couldn’t break down the door. That saved lives”
A HEADLINE THE PRESIDENT WILL LIKE … AP/KYIV: “Ukraine president: ‘No blackmail’ in conversation with Trump”
HAPPENING TODAY … WSJ: “Senior U.S. and Chinese officials will square off for trade talks Thursday at a pivotal moment in the countries’ relationship, with higher tariffs looming if negotiators fail to break a five-month stalemate.”
— BLOOMBERG: “U.S. Weighs Currency Pact With China as Part of Partial Deal”: “The White House is looking at rolling out a previously agreed currency pact with China as part of an early harvest deal that could also see a tariff increase next week suspended, according to people familiar with the discussions.”
CONWAY VS. CONWAY — Former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara snagged a rare interview with America’s most outspoken spouse, George Conway, for his podcast, “Stay Tuned.” It goes live at 6 a.m.
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MEDIAWATCH … CNN’S OLIVER DARCY: “Matt Drudge, an influential figure in conservative media, sours on Trump as he faces impeachment”: “The narrative-setting news aggregation website, founded in 1995 by Matt Drudge, has spotlighted an overwhelming amount of negative news for the Trump White House in the last several weeks. It’s marked a major shift from how the outlet had previously covered the president. …
“One explanation for Drudge’s aggressive coverage could be that he wants to play a role in a second presidential impeachment. Drudge rose to notoriety during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, famously breaking the news of Clinton’s relationship with then-intern Monica Lewinsky.
“‘Impeachment is where Matt Drudge entered,’ the person close to Drudge told CNN Business. ‘This is a great story. And Drudge is breaking out the popcorn.’” CNN
— Roberta Rampton will be White House editor at NPR. She most recently has been a White House correspondent for Reuters. … Ankita Rao is now voting rights editor at The Guardian U.S. She previously was a senior editor at Vice.
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FIRST IN PLAYBOOK — MARK YOUR CALENDARS: Tim McGraw and Jon Meacham will perform at the Barbara Bush Foundation’s National Celebration of Reading at the Kennedy Center on Nov. 12. The event, being held in D.C. for the first time, will mark the foundation’s 30th anniversary.
TRANSITION — Former DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has been appointed a member of the administration’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council.
BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Raj Shah, SVP at Fox Corp. and a former White House spokesman, is 35. A fun fact about him: “My name, Raj Shah, said quickly sounds a lot like a foreign country that’s been the subject of a lot of conversation (and investigation) in Washington. It made me the butt of some pretty hilarious jokes from my White House colleagues.” Playbook Q&A
BIRTHDAYS: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is 52 … Healy Baumgardner … Rep. Donald McEachin (D-Va.) is 58 … Brian Nick, VP of comms at Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated, is 44 … Kevin Geary … POLITICO’s Clea Benson, Jason Millman and Matt Rohan … Michael Long, senior adviser and director of member services for Speaker Nancy Pelosi, is 37 … Victoria Lee … Caroline Wren … Jason Mida … NYT’s Adam Nagourney … Scott McAdams … Jim Cullinan (hat tips: Teresa Vilmain) … former Sen. Adlai Stevenson III (D-Ill.) is 89 … former Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) is 8-0 … former Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.) is 54 … Stanley Kay … Dirk Maurer, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for countering WMD … Casey Enders, CEO of Carly Fiorina’s Unlocking Potential Foundation (h/t Rebecca Schiever) … Dena Battle … Jessica Powell, legislative assistant for Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) (h/t Alex Monié) …
… Natalie Montelongo, national political director for Julián Castro’s campaign … Nathaniel Koloc … Algirde Pipikaite … Thad Logan … Deloitte’s Shrupti Shah and Chrissie Del Tatto … Guillermo Meneses,director of media relations and corporate communications at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association … Sam Feinburg … Marty P. Smith … Vincent-Immanuel Herr … Alexandra LaManna, director of communications at Lyft … Tanveer Kathawalla … Sarah Sweeney … Spencer Anderson of the State Department … Tricia Messerschmitt … James Schuelke … Seth Levey … Carrie Sarver … Zack Nacheman … Edelman’s Alessandra Pollare … Dan O’Meara … Don Burnette … B.J. Goergen Maloney, executive director of the Philanthropy Centre at J.P. Morgan … Megan McCafferty … Victoria Glover … Lindsay Deloria … Michael Limperopulos … Michael Borden, a partner at Sidley Austin
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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. Corporate Commies On Wednesday, Americans showed up at a Washington Wizards game holding signs in support of Hong Kong. As the American national anthem played, NBA security officials forced these Americans to leave the area that sits only a mile from where the American Bill of Rights is on display guaranteeing our freedom of speech. To the extent the NBA has taken a stance, it has stood for China. Frankly, none of us should be surprised an organization that routinely opposes religious liberty in the United States would stand with a totalitarian communist regime that routinely exterminates religious minorities. The post Corporate Commies appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » A Brief Note About Media Bias Major media outlets are replaying Republicans from the Clinton Impeachment to show they are now diametrically opposed to the positions they took during that impeachment. This is true. But I would argue the same holds true of the Democrats. In fact, Democrats in congress, including Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, sound very much like the […] The post A Brief Note About Media Bias appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » We Can’t Be Friends With China If we don’t exercise our rights as Americans, we too can lose them. Or we can simply use our freedom to lay down those rights in order to appease communist China. That’s what being friends with China means, to them. The post We Can’t Be Friends With China appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » Trump Can’t Deliver The Goods He’s Promised Nearly three years into President Trump’s term, it’s becoming obvious that world leaders haven’t bought what he’s selling. The America Trump projects could definitely be great–and fearsome–if the man in the White House actually had the goods he’s been promising. It’s pretty obvious that he doesn’t. Every move with a foreign leader seems to have […] The post Trump Can’t Deliver The Goods He’s Promised appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » The Sports World Isn’t Handling this NBA/China Thing Well As the situation between China and democracy protesters in Hong Kong continues to boil, the sports world hasn’t been immune from the hotbed of controversy. Over the weekend, Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey tweeted his support for the Hong Kong protestors, a tweet he has since deleted after the Chinese Basketball Association broke its […] The post The Sports World Isn’t Handling this NBA/China Thing Well appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » TSA Flags Woman For Mass Quantities Of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Americans have an inalienable right to board airplanes with mass quantities of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. The post TSA Flags Woman For Mass Quantities Of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos appeared first on The Resurgent. Read in browser » President Trump’s Most Damnable Act. He Should Be Loudly Condemned. The President has abandoned our allies in Syria to slaughter. The Kurds have been the most reliable, pro-American group in Northern Iraq and Syria. They have helped us against Al Qaeda. They have helped us against ISIS. They have helped us hold land. They have helped us save lives. They are all going to die […] The post President Trump’s Most Damnable Act. He Should Be Loudly Condemned. appeared first on The Resurgent. 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- D.C.-area readers: Join Axios White House editor Margaret Talev tomorrow at 8 a.m. for conversations with Ambassador Susan Rice, author of the memoir “Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For“; EU ambassador to the U.S. Stavros Lambrinidis; and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.). RSVP here.
1 big thing: Impeached and re-elected
It’s looking more likely by the day that President Trump will be impeached by the House. But if he is acquitted by the Senate — and then goes on to win a second term — Democrats will face a predicament neither party has confronted in U.S. history, Axios’ David Nather and Margaret Talev write.
- Why it matters: If Trump survives politically and is re-elected to serve another four years, Congress likely would have nowhere left to go in the event of another scandal, legal and political experts say — not because the House couldn’t impeach him again, but because it might be politically impossible.
- So Democrats know they probably only get one shot at using impeachment to remove him from office.
- Never before have we had a president who might be in a position to be re-elected after impeachment. Andrew Johnson wasn’t nominated for another term, Bill Clinton was already in his second term, and Richard Nixon resigned in his second term in the face of certain impeachment.
You’ve asked us: Could the House just impeach him again if there’s a second-term scandal?
- Technically, it can do whatever it wants, legal experts tell us. There’s nothing stopping it from bringing up new articles of impeachment if there’s another scandal — or even on the same issue all over again.
- Politically, though, no one believes House Democrats would want to go through it again, with the risk of blowback in the midterms.
2. The limits of political tribalism
Data: NORC survey of 523 registered voters in September. Support = voters who rated policies between 6-10 on a 0 (oppose) to 10 (support). Chart: Andrew Witherspoon/Axios
Most Americans would move toward the center on policies including health care, immigration and the minimum wage if the two parties spent more time face-to-face — or at least that’s the takeaway from “America in One Room,” a social experiment conducted over a single weekend last month in Dallas.
- Axios’ Alexi McCammond reports that Henry Elkus, founder of Helena, the nonpartisan organization that hosted the experiment, acknowledged it’s a “weird utopia” designed to counteract people’s everyday, polarized lives.
3. Lead of the day
In September, U.S. and Turkish military forces conduct a joint ground patrol in northeast Syria. Photo: U.S. Army Spc. Alec Dionne via Reuters
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Turkey launched a ground and air assault on Wednesday against a Syrian militia that has been a crucial American ally in the fight against ISIS, days after President Trump agreed to let the operation proceed.
— The N.Y. Times’ Ben Hubbard and Carlotta Gall
4. Pic du jour
Photo: Noah Berger/AP
Above, Armando Espinoza delivers paper products to a café in downtown Sonoma, Calif., where power is turned off.
- “A new layer of chaos is surrounding Pacific Gas and Electric Co. … as public outrage escalates over the utility’s unprecedented forced blackouts in parts of 34 California counties because of wildfire concerns,” per the S.F. Chronicle.
- Why it matters: “PG&E, which is in bankruptcy protection due to past wildfires sparked by its equipment, has never before tried to prevent another disaster by cutting power to 750,000 customer accounts.”
“Classes were canceled. Frozen foods melted. Hospitals switched to emergency generators. Blooms withered in florists’ coolers. Unused food was jettisoned at shuttered restaurants. Lines formed at gas stations. Cellphones faded out.” (L.A. Times)
5. ⚖️ Impeachment state of play
Joe Biden smiles as he is introduced yesterday in Rochester, N.H. Photo: Elise Amendola/AP
Floodgates open at State … President Trump “pressed then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to help persuade the Justice Department to drop a criminal case against an Iranian-Turkish gold trader who was a client of Rudy Giuliani” in 2017. (Bloomberg)
Joe Biden yesterday became the last of the major 2020 Democrats to call for Trump to be impeached:
- “We all laughed when he said he could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and get away with it. It’s no joke. He’s shooting holes in the Constitution, and we cannot let him get away with it.” (Axios’ Zach Basu)
🍦 Scoop: House committees have requested that Trump’s former Russia adviser, Fiona Hill, appear for a deposition on Oct. 14, as well as turn over several documents dating back to January 2017. See the letter. (Axios’ Alayna Treene)
6. The upward mobility gap
Reproduced from Chetty, et. al, 2018, “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective“; Note: Location based on where men grew up; Map: Axios Visuals
The fastest-growing cities in the U.S. may be adding lots of jobs for well-off people, but many have low rates of upward mobility for lower-income kids growing up there, writes Axios’ Kim Hart.
- And it’s especially bleak for black males, according to Raj Chetty, Harvard economics professor and director of Opportunity Insights, a research and policy organization.
Why it matters: The extent of racial disparities and economic mobility “is so extreme in the U.S. that it’s almost like they’re two Americas,” Chetty said about the maps above.
7. Job openings slow down
Credit: Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Axios Visuals
The U.S. job market remains strong, with more job openings than unemployed people seeking a job, but companies are starting to put some hiring plans on hold, Axios’ Dion Rabouin reports.
- The Labor Department’s job openings and labor turnover survey, or JOLTs, showed the number of job openings was 4.4% lower than it was a year earlier, falling for the third straight month.
8. Apple removes Hong Kong police tracker
HKmap.live. Photo: Vincent Yu
Confronted with evidence of danger to police and citizens, Apple removed an app last night that the company said “has been used in ways that endanger law enforcement and residents in Hong Kong.”
- Why it matters: With pro-democracy riots in their 18th week, the app — HKmap.live — has allowed users to track police movements, then target and ambush officers. Apple determined that those uses violate both App Store policy and Hong Kong law.
- Hong Kong authorities, who had complained about the app, said it also was being used to victimize residents in areas where police weren’t present.
The context: Earlier in the day, the Communist Party’s main newspaper, the People’s Daily, had criticized Apple, saying the app “facilitates illegal behavior.”
- “Is Apple guiding Hong Kong thugs?” the commentary asked, per AP. “Apple needs to think deeply.”
- The South China Morning Post, the main English-language paper in Hong Kong, reported that the app “uses crowdsourcing to track police vehicles, armed officers and incidents in which people have been injured.”
- Apps removed from the App Store continue to work, but new users can’t add the app.
9. Hollywood’s China cave
While the U.S. reckons with the fact that China’s market power can stymie free speech after the NBA’s firestorm, Hollywood has long willingly bent to Chinese censorship to rake in profits, writes Axios’ Shane Savitsky.
- Why it matters: China is set to become the world’s biggest movie market in 2020, and with 1.4 billion citizens, it won’t relinquish that title anytime soon. It is key for Hollywood studios to do all they can to ensure that their tentpoles can pass the standards of the country’s strict censors, especially when it comes to Chinese political issues.
An extreme example was the 2018 decision to not allow Disney’s “Christopher Robin” to be released because Chinese President Xi Jinping’s resemblance to Winnie the Pooh had become a joke among activists who resisted the country’s Communist regime.
10. 1 fun thing
Photo: Holly Persic/Chris Persic via AP
A Pittsburgh-area couple found out where all their walnuts have gone: squirrels stored more than 200 of them under the hood of the couple’s SUV, AP reports.
- Chris Persic tells KDKA-TV that his wife, Holly, called to say the vehicle smelled like it was burning. When she popped the hood, she found walnuts and grass piled over the engine.
- They took the SUV to a mechanic who found half a trashcan of walnuts under the engine.
What’s next: The Persics have gotten a quote on removing a black walnut tree from their property.
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| Turkey began a fast-moving air and ground offensive in northeastern Syria on Wednesday aimed at destroying an American-backed Kurdish militia. The U.S. military, which vacated the area on Monday on President Trump’s orders, did nothing during six hours of air strikes that sent petrified civilians fleeing as Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies crossed the border (The Associated Press). Turkey’s move to root out United States-allied Kurdish forces in Syria accelerated rapidly after Trump gave the operation his tacit approval during a phone call with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday. But three days of searing bipartisan criticism of his abrupt decision to move 50 to 100 U.S. forces out of the region before strikes began forced the president to amend his narrative. His detractors, including Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), say the president’s decision could destabilize the Middle East and encourage ISIS, Iran, Russia and Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad to continue grabs for power. The Hill: Congress is set for showdown with Trump over the Kurds. The president’s policy statements shifted again on Wednesday when he said NATO member Turkey had “invaded” Syria. “The United States does not endorse this attack and has made it clear to Turkey that this operation is a bad idea,” he elaborated in a statement (The Hill). Having commended the Kurds all week, the president later did an about-face to offer a new defense of Turkey’s assault on the stateless fighters, arguing the Kurds did not help the United States during World War II — a remark that left many puzzled. “And as somebody wrote in a very, very powerful article today, they didn’t help us in the second World War, they didn’t help us with Normandy, as an example. They mentioned names of different battles. But they’re there to help us with their land and that’s a different thing,” Trump told reporters. Although the president did not cite the article he had in mind, it was presumed to be a reference to a commentary for TownHall by trial lawyer Kurt Schlichter. Trump also said on Wednesday that he was open to imposing sanctions on Turkey if the Turks do not treat the Kurds humanely (Reuters). Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the president could redeploy U.S. forces he ordered withdrawn, if necessary, to respond to ISIS threats. “It’s certainly the case that the president is mindful that ISIS might begin to rise up again. And so the president has said, when they do, we’ll come back and we’ll get this,” Pompeo said during a Sinclair media interview on Wednesday. “We will – we will go where we need to go to keep the American people safe from the treat of radical Islamic terrorism, whether that’s in Syria or Afghanistan.” A member of U.S. special forces in Syria serving with Kurdish forces spoke by phone with Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin, who did not identify the soldier but tweeted his vigorous defense of the Kurds, now under Turkish attack. “I’m ashamed for the first time in my career,” Griffin quoted the soldier as saying. Erdoğan, who is scheduled to meet with Trump in the Oval Office on Nov. 13, announced Turkey’s military offensive on Twitter, asserting that his forces were battling terrorists, which is how Ankara perceives Syrian Kurds who have throttled Islamic State fighters at the behest of the U.S. military. “Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace to the area,” Erdoğan tweeted. Reuters: Syrian Kurds outgunned but vow to inflict toll on Turkish army. Trump has repeatedly maintained that ISIS was “defeated,” as measured by territory it once held, an assertion frequently challenged by counterterrorism experts. The time for the U.S. military to get out of the Middle East is now, the president said this week. “Fighting between various groups that has been going on for hundreds of years. USA should never have been in Middle East. Moved our 50 soldiers out. Turkey MUST take over captured ISIS fighters that Europe refused to have returned,” Trump tweeted on Wednesday. “The stupid endless wars, for us, are ending!” Analysis & Perspectives: Elliot Ackerman: Trump betrays an ally at the Turkish border. Carl Hulse: For once, Republicans break with Trump, but not on impeachment. David Ignatius: Trump has opened the door for an Islamic State resurgence in Syria. Hemin Kobane: Turkey wants to destroy us. Trump just gave them a green light. Aaron David Miller and Richard Sokolsky: Trump’s incoherent Syria pullback should surprise no one. Alaa Elassar: Who are the Kurds in Syria and why are they under attack? |
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| IMPEACHMENT WATCH: Former Vice President Joe Biden called for Trump’s impeachment during a speech on Wednesday as he continues to deal with the fallout from the Ukraine saga and constant attacks from Team Trump and the president’s allies. Biden’s announcement came over two weeks after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) officially supported the inquiry into the president’s actions and dealings regarding Ukraine and push to investigate Biden and his son Hunter Biden. In his speech, Biden said that Trump has “violated his oath of office” and “committed impeachable acts.” “To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached,” Biden told supporters in Rochester, N.H. “That’s not only because of what he’s done. The answer to whether he has committed acts sufficient toward impeachment is obvious.” “We see it in Trump’s own words. We see it in the texts from State Department officials that have been made public. We see it in his pulling much of the United States government into his corrupt schemes, individuals within the government, his appointees,” Biden said. “We have to remember that impeachment isn’t only about what the president has done. It’s about the threat the president poses to the nation.” Biden had already called for an inquiry, but he had until Wednesday avoided a direct impeachment call, which many of his 2020 rivals — including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — have loudly supported in recent months. The former vice president’s remarks also took place days before the fourth Democratic debate, where the issue will surely arise. Biden’s impeachment announcement also came a day after the White House opened up a new battle front in the impeachment war, saying they would not cooperate with House investigators, including requests and subpoenas for testimony and documents. According to one Biden adviser, Trump’s defiance of Congress helped propel the candidate to his new position. “Fifteen days ago, VP Biden said that if Donald Trump and his Administration obstructed Congress’ Constitutional right to investigate, it would be a tragedy of his own making, and one that would necessarily lead to impeachment proceedings. These last fifteen days have been a remarkable period in American political history,” the adviser said before detailing the events. |
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| POLITICS: The president will rally supporters in Minnesota tonight as he makes a renewed push to put a blue state he narrowly lost in 2016 into the red column in 2020. Trump, who lost the state by a mere 1.4 percentage points (45,000 votes), counts Minnesota among the states he stands a chance to flip in 2020, along with Nevada, New Hampshire and New Mexico, but some strategists believe pulling off a victory there will be a tall task. “Minnesota is definitely an uphill climb for Trump,” said Alex Conant, a GOP strategist who is from the state. “There’s more Democrats than Republicans in the state, so a lot needs to happen for Trump to win. Specifically: Trump needs to unite and excite every Republican in the state, and hope that a lot of Democrats don’t like the Democratic nominee.” “That could happen. In 2016, a lot of Minnesota Republicans didn’t support Trump. He’s done a really good job consolidating their support since then,” Conant continued. “Minnesota Democrats [who] win statewide tend to be more like Tim Walz & Amy Klobuchar than [Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)] and Elizabeth Warren. The Twin Cities are really liberal, but there’s a lot of union Democrats in northern Minnesota [who] are more moderate.” The rally comes as Trump feuds with another Democrat, this time Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who wanted to charge the reelection campaign about $500,000 for extra security needed to put on the rally. Trump’s campaign labeled Frey as a “radical leftist mayor,” and argued that he was “abusing the power of his office and attempting to extort President Trump’s re-election campaign by conjuring a phony and outlandish bill for security in an effort to block a scheduled Keep America Great rally.” The back and forth with Frey is by no means his only high-profile spat with a Minnesota Democrat. Trump has frequently warred with Omar in recent months. Ironically, the Minneapolis rally will take place in Omar’s district. The rally is also Trump’s first since House Democrats opened their impeachment inquiry against him and will take place as he takes body shots from all sides over the situation in Syria. As Brett Samuels writes, the one-two combo and Trump’s tendency to lash out during free-wheeling rallies sets the stage for what could be a fiery event. The rally will also play as counterprogramming to the 2020 Democratic town hall on LGBTQ issues, which CNN is hosting. The New York Times: Trump is serious about carrying Minnesota, the one that got away in 2016. The Associated Press: “Welcome to Minneapolis”: Trump rally roils liberal bastion. |
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| Republicans in Congress must find the courage to call out abuses of power, by Chris Gagin, opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2p3Bl3Y What makes Adam Schiff tick? by former Rep. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.), opinion contributor, The Hill. https://bit.ly/2IEszjH |
| WHERE AND WHEN |
| Hill.TV’s “Rising” at 9 a.m. ET features Terren Klein, CEO of College Plus, who talks about Chegg and College Plus teaming up to survey more than 1,500 college students across the country about the 2020 presidential campaign; and Michael McCann, director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at the University of New Hampshire School of Law and a legal analyst for Sports Illustrated, who talks about college sports and state and potentially federal challenges to the NCAA. Find Hill.TV programming at http://thehill.com/hilltv or on YouTube at 10 a.m. The House is expected to return to work on Tuesday. The Senate convenes on Friday at 2:15 p.m. for a pro forma session. The president departs the White House this afternoon for Minneapolis to hold a reelection rally at 8 p.m. Trump is scheduled to return to the White House after midnight. Vice President Pence will also travel to Minnesota to meet with Minneapolis Police Officers in the afternoon and then take a tour of Safety Signs, a family-owned business in Lakeville. Pence will introduce Trump at 7 p.m. at their campaign rally held at the Target Center. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin participates in U.S.-China trade talks today and Friday. Pompeo meets with El Salvadoran Foreign Minister Alexandra Hill at 8 a.m. at the State Department. Economic indicator: The Consumer Price Index for September will be released at 8:30 a.m. Washington’s Humane Rescue Alliance is preparing for its 32nd annual “Bark Ball” fundraiser on Oct. 19 at 6 p.m. at the Washington Hilton. Up first: Charitably minded online bidding opened on Monday to all comers for more than 200 donated items. Find ticket info for the black-tie ball (canine guests welcome), plus event details HERE. |
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| ➔ State Watch: California will become the first state in the country to allow pharmacies to dispense HIV-prevention drugs without a doctor’s prescription (The New York Times). …Louisiana is now a new hub for immigrant detention under Trump (The Associated Press). ➔ Alleged leaker: Federal officials arrested a counterterrorism analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency when he showed up for work on Wednesday. They charged Henry Frese, 30, of Alexandria, Va., with leaking top-secret details about foreign countries’ weapons systems to two journalists, including a reporter with whom he was apparently romantically involved. Frese “was caught red-handed disclosing sensitive national security information,” the Justice Department said. The two journalists were not identified (The Washington Post). The government detailed the FBI’s surveillance of phone calls and direct messages on Twitter between Frese and two journalists, who apparently both covered national security (The Hill). ➔ Economy: The Federal Reserve at its September meeting exchanged mixed views about the risk of recession, according to official minutes of the discussion released on Wednesday. Several Fed governors referenced some statistical models that found the likelihood of a recession had “increased notably in recent months.” But several officials stressed that such models were difficult to interpret. Seven of the central bank’s 17 policymakers last month indicated they think there will be one more rate cut this year on top of the reductions in July and September (Reuters). Fed officials also expressed concerns last month about the effect on hiring and consumer spending of a slowing economy (The New York Times). ➔ MLB Playoffs: The Washington Nationals pulled off a massive upset Wednesday night out West and defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7-3, in Game 5 of the National League Division Series. The Nats used the long ball to do the trick, launching back-to-back home runs in the 8th inning off Dodger ace Clayton Kershaw and a grand slam in the 10th inning by Howie Kendrick to punch their ticket to the National League Championship Series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Game 1 is slated for Friday at Busch Stadium (ESPN). ➔ Boeing 737 Max: American Airlines said Wednesday it expects federal officials to sign off on software updates and other changes to Boeing’s 737 Max jets later this year and plans to resume passenger service on the aircraft on Jan. 16. The Federal Aviation Administration insists there is no timeline for returning the planes to service, and said it has not given airlines a date when the aircraft’s grounding will be lifted (The Washington Post). |
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| And finally … It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for this week’s Morning Report Quiz! Inspired by pro basketball in the headlines, we’re eager for some smart guesses about the NBA, basketball and China. Email your responses to asimendinger@thehill.com and/or aweaver@thehill.com, and please add “Quiz” to subject lines. Winners who submit correct answers will enjoy some richly deserved newsletter fame on Friday. In 2002, who became the first Chinese-born player to appear in an NBA game? Yao MingWang ZhizhiYi JianlianJeremy Lin How tall is Yao Ming, who is known as one of the best Chinese basketball players of all time? 7 feet7 feet 2 inches7 feet 4 inches7 feet 6 inches What former NBA star became a household name in China by playing seven seasons and averaging 20 points per game in the Chinese Basketball Association from 2011 to 2018? Allen IversonStephon MarburyJosh SmithSpud Webb In November 2017, what NCAA program had three of its basketball players arrested for shoplifting while in China during a preseason tour? Stanford UniversityUniversity of Southern CaliforniaArizona State UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles |
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| View In BrowserOctober 10, 2019chicagotribune.comDaywatch 1.) Lightfoot says teachers holding up contract talks over affordable housing. Union replies: ‘We have nearly 17,000 homeless students.’ THURSDAY, OCT 10 Mayor Lori Lightfoot has raised another issue that she said is holding up an agreement with the teachers union: affordable housing. The mayor said the union is “demanding that the city enact CTU’s preferred affordable housing policy as part of their contract.” With the potential walkout now a week away, Lightfoot said the union laid out this demand rather than providing a response to what she called the city’s comprehensive contract offer. In a response, the CTU tweeted that “we have nearly 17,000 homeless students in CPS. ”CPS teachers want an affordable housing provision in their contract. It’s among the new topics starting to land on bargaining tables.40 students in one class? CTU officials say class size needs to be addressed in their new contract. The boys soccer team of Solorio Academy High School is having another dream season, but one thing could derail them before the first playoff whistle blows — a teachers strike. What do you think about a potential Chicago teachers strike? Tell us here. 2.) Relentless visits, repeated voicemails and yelling: Inside Madigan ward’s push to keep a college student from running for alderman THURSDAY, OCT 10 Supporters of Marty Quinn, House Speaker Michael Madigan’s hand-picked alderman in the 13th Ward, used a little-known quirk in election law in an unusual push to try to keep a DePaul University student off the ballot. They hit the streets aggressively – some residents say too aggressively – to ask people to sign sworn affidavits revoking their support for the little-known candidate. Some Southwest Side residents said they were bombarded with repeated visits and voicemails. Others said they were yelled at when they refused to sign the piece of paper put before them. They managed to persuade 2,796 voters to sign papers withdrawing their support for David Krupa. However, the 19-year-old had only submitted 1,729 voter signatures to get on the ballot. Cook County authorities have taken notice. 3Facing a $838 million city budget deficit, Lightfoot proposes merging 2 city departments THURSDAY, OCT 10 Mayor Lori Lightfoot wants to merge two city departments — the Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology with Fleet and Facility Management — to save $1 million as she works to close the city’s gargantuan shortfall. The proposed merger highlights the political and financial challenges Lightfoot is confronting ahead of a budget address later this month where she’ll unveil proposals to close the city’s $838 million budget gap. Dating back to her campaign for mayor earlier this year, Lightfoot has repeatedly promised to cut expenses wherever she could before seeking to raise politically unpopular taxes. Increase alcohol, cigarette and ride-sharing taxes, but hold the line on property taxes. That’s what Chicagoans had to say in an online survey the city conducted as a companion to Lightfoot’s budget town halls. Meanwhile in Springfield, Gov. J.B. Pritzker released a five-year plan to to revitalize Illinois’ economy. Here’s what’s in it. 4.) City releases files from watchdog’s probe of fatal Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald THURSDAY, OCT 10 After city officials for years kept a Chicago government watchdog’s investigation into the Laquan McDonald police shooting under wraps, Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration released a trove of records to the public, a key move in her campaign promise to try to build trust in the way high-profile police misconduct allegations are handled. This marks the first time the city’s Law Department has publicly released reports from Inspector General Joseph Ferguson’s investigation of police Officer Jason Van Dyke’s 2014 fatal shooting of McDonald. Read the documents here and read more about their release and what we learned from them here. Chicago’s inspector general report says police lieutenant rewrote key witness reports in Laquan McDonald shooting 5.) Fancy new kitchens are popping up in Chicago-area high schools. They’re designed to appeal to students who’ve grown up watching ‘Iron Chef’ and ‘Chopped.’ THURSDAY, OCT 10 Erin Guardi, a senior at Downers Grove South High School, wasn’t planning to take a cooking class. But she soon found herself baking blueberry muffins with her team of four in a classroom that has gone from the 1950s to the 21st century with a $1.24 million renovation. The spaces are designed to give students an experience similar to what they see on Food Network competition programs: Six work stations on large islands, a teacher demonstration station and monitors above the islands that display recipes and videos. To put it another way, this isn’t the home economics class of yesteryear. And it’s bringing young people in to taste and test. A Chicago cupcake-maker engaged in a 7-year fight with the city over its food truck regulations is taking her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. 6.) How a U. of I. grad’s invention led to a growing business — and a key piece of gear she’ll rely on when racing the Chicago Marathon THURSDAY, OCT 10 As a kid, Arielle Rausin had little interest in sports — even before the car accident that paralyzed her from the waist down at age 10. That was until she met a teacher who invented ways for her to play alongside her classmates. Fast forward to her time at the University of Illinois, where she got an idea for a class project that she has since turned into a growing business and a key piece of gear she’ll rely on when racing the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. Here’s what you need to know about the Chicago Marathon course map, where to watch the race and how to avoid traffic congestion. A former D1 athlete turned nun is running the Chicago Marathon. She’s part of a team hoping to raise $200,000 to renovate a Humboldt Park school building built on the site of a deadly fire in 1958. 7.) How Stacy Fitzgerald — whose 3 sons play football and whose husband coaches at Northwestern — defends a game under siege THURSDAY, OCT 10 Stacy Fitzgerald, the quintessential football mom, grew up in more of a soccer family but is a strong advocate for the game that has made her husband wildly successful, a game her three sons love even more than her butterscotch granola. It’s also a game under siege because of declining participation and a movement in Illinois to ban tackle football for children younger than 12. 8.) $44 million sale of Gold Coast condo building could be the last before new Chicago law makes deconversions much harder THURSDAY, OCT 10 A real estate developer known for converting condominium buildings into rental apartments is close to buying a 25-story Gold Coast tower for $44 million, a deal that could be approved just two days before a Chicago ordinance takes effect that will make such sales more difficult.Amid a strong rental market in Chicago in recent years, there has been a run of condo deconversion deals, in which investors acquire an entire condo building and change the units to rent-generating apartments. The 57-year-old building at Chestnut and Wabash Avenue likely will be one of the last to sell and be deconverted under the current rules. Investors were eyeing the 70-story Lake Point Tower for a condo deconversion. 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Thursday, October 10, 2019 China Exports Censorship To The U.S. After years of wielding their power and censorship over American companies, the Chinese finally ignited a fight that has captured Americans’ attention and united them in anger. Both the right and the left were outraged by the NBA’s apologetic response to China after the Houston Rocket’s General Manager tweeted support of Hong Kong protestors. Over the course of the week, the apparent influence of Chinese censorship on American institutions has grown. Last night, at Capitol One Arena in Washington D.C. where the Wizards the Guangzhou Long Lions, security confiscated signs reading “Free Hong Kong” and “Google Uyghurs.” In other words, NBA security agents on U.S. soil prohibited speech offensive to the Chinese government. But it’s not just China’s response to the NBA or “South Park” that has revealed the depths of their growing aggression. Perhaps more enlightening has been the response of America companies who bend over backwards to avoid offending the Chinese and their own wallets. At ESPN, the sports channel usually eager to discuss politics more than sports, the senior news director mandated that shows discussing the NBA-China story focus on basketball and avoid addressing China and Hong Kong. Read my piece up at The Federalist today on 14 American brands that self-censored to appease communist China. Impeachment Update: White House Tells Democrats They Will Not Cooperate House Democrats say they are pursuing an impeachment inquiry, yet they have not pushed to hold a vote on the floor to create a committee to investigate impeachment. On Tuesday, the White House sent a letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats saying the Trump administration would not cooperate with their “partisan inquiry,” and accusing them of “seeking to overturn the results of the 2016 election.” “You have designed and implemented your inquiry in a manner that violates fundamental fairness and constitutionally mandated due process,” wrote White House counsel Pat Cipollone. Read David Harsanyi on how Democrats are using impeachment as a political weapon, not as the rule of law. (The Federalist) Related: Joe Biden finally calls for the impeachment of President Trump, ignoring his own family’s involvement in Ukraine. Kylie Jenner Deletes Video Of New Car After Being Shamed On Social Media Kylie Jenner, the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, deleted an Instagram post of her $3 million Bugatti Chiron after fans commented that people are starving. Jenner, 22, is known to collect luxury cars, including Ranger Rovers, a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, a Lamborghini and more. As one Twitter user pointed out, Dave Chappelle reminds us that comparing wealth doesn’t actually help anyone: “Can’t do comparative suffering. If you’re hungry, and your friend says, ‘You know, people are starving in Africa,’ ‘So what? I still want lunch.’” Read full story here (Page Six). For My Fellow Home Cooks Things Chefs Do That You Should Not (Taste): “I’ve also sworn off the ice bath, which chefs prescribe like dermatologists do ointment. Basically, you briefly boil something (asparagus, green beans, shrimp), then plunge it into a big bowl of icy water in order to stop the cooking and, in many cases, keep the color bright… A proper ice bath requires two-thirds of the average Brooklyn countertop, and means emptying both of your ice trays, leaving you without even a lone cube for your glass of Grüner, and that’s just madness. Instead, just as my own expert kid-sleeping guidance would include noise-canceling headphones and a large glass of whiskey, my blanching advice is to drain your blanchables, then run them under cold water. Your asparagus will be green and crisp enough.” Thursday Link Round Up Why are more than 1 million Californians intentionally without power right now? (The Federalist) Disturbing report coming out of public schools: Teaching preschoolers to celebrate transgenderism. (The Federalist) Kanye’s pastor says the rapper recently experienced “radical” salvation. (Faithwire) Sad…Alex Trebek says his ability to host “Jepoardy!” is diminishing (CBS) This incredible Lisa Frank hotel room is a lot on the eyes, but good for my 90s’ soul. (Popsugar) These should be the official pastry of October: Cinnamon Sugar Scones (SmittenKitchen) BRIGHT is brought to you by The Federalist. |
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Chuck Grassley of Iowa asked the Department of Justice and the FBI Tuesday for an update on the criminal referrals he submitted against witnesses who made potentially false accusations of sexual misconduct against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The Senate Judiciary Committee asked the Justice Department to pursue criminal investigations … Grassley Seeks Update After Referring Avenatti, Swetnick To Justice Department For Kavanaugh Claims is original content from Conservative Daily News – Where Americans go for news, current events and commentary they can trust – Conservative News Website for U.S. News, Political Cartoons and more. Read on » Dems Continue To Do Nothing While Trump Succeeds By Jim Clayton – There once was a time in politics that if one side lost they would pull themselves up by the bootstraps and figure out how to win the next time around. In the meantime both parties would work together for the good of the country. 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10/10/2019 Share: Carl Cannon’s Morning Note Fisher Investments Presents: NBA and China; ‘Mandate of Heaven’; Editorial Restraint Good morning, it’s Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Twenty-three years ago, a hard-charging New York Times correspondent was chafing at the direction he was getting from his editors while covering a fast-moving story that had shocked the world and cast a pall over the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. The journalist’s name was Kevin Sack. The story he wanted to cover more aggressively was detonation of a pipe bomb in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. One woman was killed in that July 27, 1996 terrorist attack. A news cameraman died of a heart attack while covering the bombing. Scores of people were maimed. This dastardly crime would turn out to be the first of four bombings by a domestic terrorist named Eric Rudolph. His list of victims could have been — would have been — much more extensive if not for the alert reaction of a security guard named Richard Jewel. He shooed bystanders out of the park, thereby forestalling much greater human suffering. But in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, and long before Rudolph was known to law enforcement, the story turned. Ham-handed (and loose-lipped) FBI agents, coupled with a heedless Atlanta newspaper, flipped the narrative. Richard Jewel wasn’t a hero, they suggested publicly. He was the bomber. This proved to be untrue — nonsense, really — and Kevin Sack, a native Southerner who lived in Atlanta and was personally angered by the terrorist attack, was saved by a cautious editor. It’s a lesson with great relevance for our times, a subject we’ll revisit in a moment. First, I’d point you to RealClearPolitics’ front page, which presents our poll averages, videos, breaking news stories, and aggregated opinion columns spanning the political spectrum. We also offer original material from our own reporters and contributors, including the following: * * * Rubio to Trump: Punch Back on China’s NBA Boycott. Susan Crabtree has the details. Democrats Need a Hard-Nosed Strategy to Counter the GOP. Jessica Tarlov and Antjuan Seawright argue that it’s time for their party to mirror the one thing Democrats agree that Republicans do well: stick together. If Trump Loses His “Mandate of Heaven,” Will It Go to Pence? Myra Adams considers the president’s standing with Christians, whose support may be endangered. The Giuliani-Ukraine Notes Few Have Seen. In RealClearInvestigations, Eric Felten reports on an allegation that the Ukrainian president warned a prosecutor against investigating Burisma “as it was not in the interest of Joe and/or Hunter Biden.” Federal Court Ruling on 5G Could Harm National Security. In RealClearPolicy, William J. Haynes argues that the loss of protections for cellular technologies being developed by American companies would have far-reaching implications. The Economic News From the Census Bureau Is Good. In RealClearMarkets, Aaron Brown spotlights preliminary data from the Income and Poverty Report. The Need for DoD Gender Equality. In RealClearDefense, Mackenzie Eaglen lays out statistics on female representation at the Pentagon and beyond. Environmentalists Overlook Benefits of Wood Biomass. In RealClearEnergy, Brian Rogers points to the low carbon emissions (compared to coal) from burning the byproducts of the timber industry, such as the tops and limbs of trees. What If Yellowstone’s Supervolcano Erupted? RealClearScience Editor Ross Pomeroy describes the bleak aftermath, as detailed in a new book. * * * “I have perhaps never been so furious with an editor,” Kevin Sack explained six years ago this week while revisiting the Atlanta bombing and the rush to blame an innocent man. It was late afternoon on July 30, 1996, and as a national correspondent in the New York Times’ Atlanta bureau, Sack had spent hours frantically trying to confirm the spectacular Atlanta Journal scoop: namely, that Richard A. Jewell, a security guard initially portrayed as a heroic first responder, was actually the focus of the FBI’s search for the bomber. “As I was sweating my deadline, compiling everything I had learned about Mr. Jewell, word was conveyed that the paper’s executive editor at the time, Joseph Lelyveld, had decreed that we would not join the news media herd in reporting that Mr. Jewell was the leading suspect. Nor would we in any way suggest that Mr. Jewell’s actions or personality merited suspicion, as The Journal had in publishing, without attribution, that he ‘fits the profile of the lone bomber.’” So Sack and his newspaper played it straight, producing a 642-word story that ran inside the paper. It used Richard Jewell’s name, but in a reluctant and measured way; mostly, the Times focused on the media circus. Sack recalls being utterly dispirited when he saw his account in print. As the flimsy theory fingering Jewell evaporated in the face of the evidence, the reporter instead would look back on his paper’s approach with some measure of pride. Mainly, though, he was grateful for his editor’s wisdom. “In retrospect, of course, the rabbinical wisdom shown by Mr. Lelyveld that afternoon, in the face of intense competitive pressure, provided one of the greatest journalistic lessons of my career,” Sack noted. “While The Times has demonstrated over the years that it is not immune to misjudgment … we stood out in the coverage of the Jewell story for our restraint. Mr. Lelyveld’s call saved the paper, and me, from embarrassment and perhaps from the litigation that Mr. Jewell later pursued against several news organizations. There but for the grace of Joe went I.” But no one’s career lasts forever. Joseph Lelyveld stepped away from the editor’s chair in the spring of 2001. Months later, another domestic terrorist struck this country. This time, the attack wasn’t a pipe bomb. It came in the form of deadly anthrax spores, sent through the U.S. Postal Service. But Joe Lelyveld’s judiciousness left the building when he did: In the anthrax attack, it was the New York Times that led the rush to (erroneous) judgment. The new Richard Jewell was an unfortunate foil named Steven Hatfill. The Times’ ignoble performance in this case might be considered a historical footnote, except for a couple of factors. The first is the key role played by James Comey and Robert Mueller in the amateurish investigation that led to the sliming of Hatfill. The second is the indispensable part played by the media, which never quite seems to learn the lessons of Centennial Olympic Park in the summer of 1996. Carl M. 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- Democrats are scared that the actual truth just might get exposed, God forbid!
- Reminder: Syrian Kurds did not fight ISIS for us
- BREAKING: Ukrainian press reports Burisma paid $900,000 to JOE Biden
- Three years and $1.2 billion later, Los Angeles has built ZERO homes for the homeless
- Hillary Clinton’s publicist tried to have Harvey Weinstein exposé killed: Report
- As Elizabeth Warren attacks Facebook, theories emerge that Joe Biden is the ‘tip of the iceberg’
- The truth about the impeachment inquiry
- Trump, Bush and the Kurds: A common legacy
- Citizens made safer by border wall speak out for We Build the Wall
- Even the NY Times sees obvious corruption in Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian scandal
| Democrats are scared that the actual truth just might get exposed, God forbid! Posted: 09 Oct 2019 11:17 PM PDT By Richard Ferguson Oh, horrors of all horrors. This is just plain sick any way you look at it. This is a new low for the lowest of the low Democrat party. The Democrats are scared to death that the truth of their evil shenanigans might get discovered regarding their whistleblower HOAX against Pres. Trump. […] The post Democrats are scared that the actual truth just might get exposed, God forbid! appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Reminder: Syrian Kurds did not fight ISIS for us Posted: 09 Oct 2019 11:02 PM PDT For the record, I am against the President pulling troops back from the Syrian-Turkey border simply because their presence there was preventing the bloodshed we’re seeing today. That’s a different discussion for a different time. But one thing I don’t appreciate is hearing talking heads and Twitter pundits saying we turned our backs on allies […] The post Reminder: Syrian Kurds did not fight ISIS for us appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| BREAKING: Ukrainian press reports Burisma paid $900,000 to JOE Biden Posted: 09 Oct 2019 09:53 PM PDT Update: President Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, referenced the report on Fox News last night. Original Story: Ever since a whistleblower accused President Trump of inappropriately pressuring Ukraine to reopen their investigation into Burisma Holdings, Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been at the center of the controversy. Democrats have claimed the President leveraged aid in a quid pro […] The post BREAKING: Ukrainian press reports Burisma paid $900,000 to JOE Biden appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Three years and $1.2 billion later, Los Angeles has built ZERO homes for the homeless Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:15 PM PDT Strong bipartisan support that included 77% of the voting population in Los Angeles offered hope for the homeless population in Los Angeles. That was three years ago. Today, following an audit of Proposition HHH spending and progress, it has been revealed the city has completed zero homes intended to help 10,000 of the 34,000 known […] The post Three years and $1.2 billion later, Los Angeles has built ZERO homes for the homeless appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Hillary Clinton’s publicist tried to have Harvey Weinstein exposé killed: Report Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:58 PM PDT Disgraced former Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein had many friends in high places. One of those friends had just finished losing the 2016 presidential election when her long-time friend and supported needed a favor. That’s when Hillary Clinton’s publicist, Nick Merrill, reached out to journalist Ronan Farrow in an effort to kill the exposé on a sampling of […] The post Hillary Clinton’s publicist tried to have Harvey Weinstein exposé killed: Report appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| As Elizabeth Warren attacks Facebook, theories emerge that Joe Biden is the ‘tip of the iceberg’ Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:10 PM PDT Candidates running for office often defend their opponents in an effort to seem fair. We saw this back and forth “goodwill” play out before the Iowa caucus in 2016 when Ted Cruz and Donald Trump defended each other regularly before the gloves came off. Now, Elizabeth Warren has gone after Facebook for not taking down […] The post As Elizabeth Warren attacks Facebook, theories emerge that Joe Biden is the ‘tip of the iceberg’ appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| The truth about the impeachment inquiry Posted: 09 Oct 2019 01:24 PM PDT It’s time to start asking questions about the ‘impeachment’ inquiry and banana republic style politics by polling. Liz Wheeler of One America News Network has some very good questions about just what is going on in the pseudo-impeachment. Calling out the politics by polling tactic of the authoritarian socialist left and the national socialist media […] The post The truth about the impeachment inquiry appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Trump, Bush and the Kurds: A common legacy Posted: 09 Oct 2019 11:25 AM PDT President Donald Trump has been taking a lot of heat over his recent decision to withdraw U.S. troops from an area in Syria in which Turkish forces have been pursuing a military offensive against Kurdish fighters. I don’t pretend to be an expert on the politics of the region, so I can’t comment on the […] The post Trump, Bush and the Kurds: A common legacy appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Citizens made safer by border wall speak out for We Build the Wall Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:59 AM PDT When news broke last year that U.S. Air Force Veteran Brian Kolfage started a GoFundMe page to build a citizen-funded border wall, reactions were mixed. Some thought it would never work. Other’s didn’t think they’d have the technical expertise to build a proper wall even if they had enough money to do so. There were […] The post Citizens made safer by border wall speak out for We Build the Wall appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
| Even the NY Times sees obvious corruption in Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian scandal Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:08 AM PDT Progressive mainstream media will play its part in trying to keep the focus of the fake impeachment inquiry on a phone call and a whistleblower’s complaint. In doing so, they will also avoid talking about Democratic corruption associated with Ukraine, including but not limited to Joe and Hunter Biden’s string of suspicious actions and circumstances. But […] The post Even the NY Times sees obvious corruption in Hunter Biden’s Ukrainian scandal appeared first on Conservative Christian News. |
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From NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray and Carrie Dann
FIRST READ: Trump’s now fighting political wars on two fronts
It’s one thing for a president to be fighting against his impeachment and removal from office.
And it’s entirely another when the same president decides to alienate his party – plus the opposition and much of the world – by
allowing Turkey to invade Northern Syria against Kurdish fighters.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
“Instead of enjoying
uncontested GOP support as he plunges into a constitutional showdown
with House Democrats and prepares for a bruising reelection campaign,
Trump is now fighting on two fronts within his party,”
the Washington Post writes.
And as Republicans defend him on one front, but criticize him on the other, the danger for Trump is that
the American public might not separate the two different political wars.
You’ve heard of wagging the dog – diverting attention from one serious matter to another.
Well, this is Trump biting the dog that’s defending him.
And it’s Biden vs. Trump on the 2020 front
And when it comes to the 2020 race, Trump is fighting on
a third different front – against Joe Biden.
“Donald Trump has
violated his oath of office, betrayed this nation and committed
impeachable acts,” Biden said yesterday in New Hampshire,
per NBC News. “He should be impeached.”
“I’m not going to let him get away with it,” Biden added. “He’s picked a fight with the wrong guy.”
Trump fired back at Biden.
“Well, he’s falling
like a rock,” the president said at a White House event yesterday. “We
have him on tape with corruption. He’s getting the prosecutor for – I
guess, John, it was $2 billion – said, ‘We’re not going
to give you the $2 billion or whatever the amount was unless you get
rid of this prosecutor,’ and there was, lo and behold, the prosecutor
was gone.”
(In fact, Biden
calling for ousting Ukraine’s prosecutor was supported by the United
States, the Western countries and the International Monetary Fund.)
Is this where Biden hopes the campaign is the rest of the fall – in
a one-on-one fight against Trump?
It might be his best strategy…
Slight majority favor impeaching and removing Trump, per Fox poll
Our latest
NBC/WSJ poll found a plurality of Americans – 49
percent – opposing President Trump’s impeachment and removal from
office, while 43 percent said they support it.
But a
Fox News poll from yesterday showed a slight majority – 51 percent – favoring impeachment and removal.
Also in the poll, 66 percent said it was inappropriate for Trump to ask foreign countries to investigate political rivals.
And it asked what is more important to Trump: 55 percent answered doing
what’s best for himself, while 39 percent said it’s doing what’s best for the country.
2020 VISION: Sanders says he “misspoke” about curtailing activity after heart attack
“I misspoke the
other day. I said a word I should not have said and media drives me a
little bit nuts to make a big deal about it,” Bernie Sanders said in
a sit-down interview with NBC News on Wednesday. “We’re going to get
back into the groove of a very vigorous campaign, I love doing rallies
and I love doing town meetings.”
NBC’s Gary Grumbach
reminds us what Sanders said the day before the interview…
SANDERS:
Look, we were doing, you know, in some cases five or six meetings a
day. Three or four rallies and town meetings and meeting with groups of
people. I don’t think I’m going to do that.
But I certainly intend to be actively campaigning. I think we are going
to change the nature of the campaign a bit. Make sure I have the
strength to do what I have to do.
GRUMBACH: What do you mean by change the nature?
SANDERS:
Well, probably not doing four rallies a day. I’m not quite sure, I
could be wrong on this, I don’t know if there is anybody who did more
rallies than we have done all over the states
and I, you know, probably not do three or four rallies a day, do two or
do other things as well.
Also in the interview with NBC, Sanders
dismissed concerns that he and his campaign weren’t transparent since it took three days to admit he had a heart attack.
“No, I don’t accept
that. I think that’s a media thing. You know I think that to try to
understand what in fact is going on, it’s uh, I think we did it
appropriately and as quickly as we could. So no apologies.”
REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo
On the campaign trail today: President Trump holds a rally in Minneapolis at 8:00 pm ET… Nine Democratic candidates – Cory Booker, Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Beto O’Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro and Tom Steyer – participate in an LGBTQ forum hosted by the Human Rights Campaign and CNN… And Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard and Steve Bullock are in New Hampshire.
Dispatches from NBC’s embeds: While
campaigning in New Hampshire yesterday, Joe Biden (not so subtly)
jabbed Elizabeth Warren. “Without mentioning
her name, Biden repeatedly referenced one thing that Warren is known
for: her plans,” per NBC’s Marianna Sotomayor and Amanda Golden. “‘We
are not electing a planner. There’s no one in this race who has a
stronger record passing important and consequential
election law or legislation than I have,’ he said. Later when
discussing gun reform, Biden said ‘But more important than my plan is my
promise: I promise you I will get this reform done.’”
The Elizabeth Warren-Jim Clyburn’s joint event in South Carolina on
Wednesday was a split crowd when considering 2020 candidates, NBC’s
Benjamin Pu reports. “When I asked voters where they stood with current
2020 candidates, several said they were split between
Biden and Warren. When I pointed out that they were very different
ideologically, voters were quick to note the goodwill the black
community felt with Biden but said that they were also considering
Warren now as they were learning more about her.”
DATA DOWNLOAD: And the number of the day is … 26 percent
26 percent.
That’s the share of Americans who have a positive view of Rudy Giuliani, per our
latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Forty-two percent have a negative view, giving the former New York City mayor
a net negative rating of -16 percent.
In December 2001, after Giuliani’s response to the 9/11 attacks,
just 2 percent of Americans had a negative view of him, with 84 percent viewing him positively.
TWEET OF THE DAY: Grand Slam
THE LID: Indie Rock
Don’t miss the pod from yesterday, when we looked at where independents are on impeachment in our latest poll.
ICYMI: News clips you shouldn’t miss
The death toll
has climbed in northern Syria.
Trump wants to
race against the clock on impeachment. Nancy Pelosi has a different view.
Joe Biden
turned up the volume on his rhetoric about Trump and impeachment.
The Ukrainian president
says there was “no blackmail” in his phone conversation with Trump.
Trey Gowdy
is in for Trump’s legal fight.
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We love hearing from our readers, so shoot us a line here with your comments and suggestions.
Thanks,
Chuck, Mark, and Carrie
ARRA NEWS SERVICE
| ARRA News Service (in this message: 19 new items) |
- NBA Won’t Be “Woke” on China
- The Coup Attempt Began the Day After the Election
- Planned Parenthood to Spend $45 Million to Defeat Trump and Flip U.S. Senate
- Trump Stands Firm, Ready For A Rematch, Corporate America Bows To China
- Democrats’ Fear of Durham About to Reach Panic Level
- Harvard Says It Uses Racial Discrimination to Sculpt a ‘Diverse’ Class. This Is a Dangerous Path.
- How To End Human Trafficking
- Surrendering to SPLC’s Lazy Media Lemmings
- Domestic and Foreign Wars
- School Records Show Elizabeth Warren Lied About Being Fired Over Pregnancy
- Planned Parenthood and Hollywood
- In Search Of . . .
- Half Truths, Lies And Fake Stories Make Schiff’s Credibility Crumble
- Stand By Your Tweet
- Why did Obama-Biden support the Coup of Ukraine in 2014?
- How Unreasoned Impeachment Dysfunction Is Trashing Democrats
- The Unfairness of the Left’s Impeachment Push Against Trump
- What Democrats Today Really Want
- Violent Crime Dropped in 2018
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NBA Won’t Be “Woke” on China
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 08:51 PM PDT
by Tony Perkins: The National Basketball Association infamously has aligned itself as a “woke” organization,
meaning they are alert and outspoken against “injustice” in all it’s
politically correct forms. At least that’s been their reputation with
those who populate social media. But as The Guardian pointed out this week, “the league is only woke when it doesn’t cost money.” Case in point, on Washington Watch (Tuesday), I spoke with radio talk show host and best-selling author Todd Starnes about the NBA’s recent flip-flop in defending pro-democracy freedom demonstrators in Hong Kong who are facing the wrath of China at literal gun point. “The controversy started when the Houston Rockets general manager, Daryl Morey, tweeted his support for protesters in Hong Kong, where police have used live ammunition on civilians after months of demonstrations. Morey deleted the tweet shortly afterwards and the NBA and the Rockets distanced themselves from his statement. The NBA said it was ‘regrettable’ that the tweet had caused offence in China, and the Rockets said Morey’s views did not represent those of the team,” The Guardian noted. Why the switch? Following an actual pro-democracy message — killed quickly — China’s government run television network cancelled the NBA broadcasts. As the Wall Street Journal reported, it didn’t stop there: “The escalation in tensions threatened to plunge the NBA’s carefully cultivated China franchise into deeper crisis, with more merchants halting sales of NBA merchandise, many Chinese celebrities pulling out of an NBA event in Shanghai and a major Chinese sponsor yanking its endorsement of the games. Tickets from the designated online agent for Thursday’s Shanghai game became unavailable.” As soon as China wanted to pull the plug, the NBA began to grovel. This suggests to me that for the NBA, this is not about morals or what’s right and wrong. It’s about money. Its bottom line is money. Starnes agreed: “For a league that prides itself in being ‘woke,’ the NBA is really asleep at the wheel here.” And their “sheer hypocrisy” is on full display when you look at “how the NBA treated the great state of North Carolina and how they’re dealing with the Chinese.” You have to wonder if the pro-Democracy demonstrators had met in North Carolina bathrooms if the NBA might have been more supportive. In 2017, the NBA moved its All-Star Game to New Orleans, Louisiana, from Charlotte, North Carolina, after that state said that men and women should have privacy in bathrooms. Ironically, the policy isn’t really different in my home state of Louisiana. Like North Carolina, Louisiana is one of 32 states in the U.S. that does not force private businesses to allow men in women’s showers, locker rooms, and restrooms. On the other hand, in New Orleans — the same as in Charlotte — the NBA will be free to divide the restrooms at its own event on the basis of self-professed “gender identity” instead of objective biological sex, if it wishes to do so. Only politics — not the well-being of transgender persons or anyone else — motivated this disruptive and punitive move. Starnes noted that the NBA’s courage is paper thin. “They can champion, you know, issues like who uses what bathroom in the name of social justice. But they’re afraid to stand up against China for those that are actually working for true freedom,” he said. As chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, I’ve seen the reports of China’s human rights violations including concentration camps, organ harvesting and violence against people of faith of all beliefs, and sadly it’s not just the NBA that is staying silent because money can be made in China. Hollywood executives are allowing Chinese censors to approve its movie scripts. Hollywood is producing movies based upon what the Chinese Communist Party will allow. And then, of course, we have businesses, U.S. businesses, top fortune 500 firms that are operating in China and facilitating the repression of people. In fact, just yesterday the Trump administration “blacklisted” eight Chinese companies that “have been implicated in human rights violations and abuses in the implementation of China’s campaign of repression, mass arbitrary detention, and high-technology surveillance against Uighurs, Kazakhs, and other members of Muslim minority groups in the XUAR,” a notice from the Commerce Department said. The blacklisting prohibits U.S. firms from legally doing business with the companies. Sadly, the NBA is in league with a lot of corporations who have put money and access to China’s controlled marketplace over American ideals and the concern for those suffering under Communist rule. ————– Tony Perkins (@tperkins) is President of the Family Research Council . This article was on Tony Perkin’s Washington Update and written with the aid of FRC senior writers. Tags: Tony Perkins, Family Research Center, FRC, Family Research Council, NBA, Won’t Be “Woke”, China To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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The Coup Attempt Began the Day After the Election
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 08:33 PM PDT
by Newt Gingrich:
The current fake impeachment effort is simply part of an ongoing effort
to drive President Trump from office. It is part of a determination on
the Left that President Trump must be expelled from the White House. This coup attempt – which is exactly what it is – has nothing to do with evidence or any single accusation. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi said when asked what she would do if the whistleblower accusation about Ukraine collapsed, “We have many other, shall we say, candidates for impeachable offense in terms of the Constitution of the United States, but this one is the most understandable by the public.” In other words, no matter the evidence and no matter how many times President Trump and his team knock down the attack, there will always be another effort designed to drive him from office. This Destroy President Trump coup effort developed in the first 24 hours after the 2016 election. On Wednesday, November 9, 2016, a left-wing group announced emergency protests against Donald Trump in six cities that day. Within 24 hours of Trump being declared president, left-wing activists were gathering in Chicago, Los Angeles, Sacramento, New York City, San Francisco, and Albuquerque. As the organizers at Act Now to Stop and End Racism (ANSWER) announced: “In a shock result, Donald Trump has been elected president – but the people can rise up and defeat his bigoted, extreme right-wing agenda! The ANSWER Coalition is mobilizing across the country to organize and take part in emergency actions.” As one of my colleagues discovered, these gatherings were just the beginning. Below, we’ve compiled a partial list of the first week’s intense reaction from the Left. You can see, the Left’s first reaction was simply to protest the election of President Donald Trump – in what is essentially a protest against democracy and our electoral system. After weeks of sometimes violent protests, the anti-Trump movement realized that simply shouting and causing public nuisance wasn’t going to get them what they wanted. It didn’t take long for the members of the Left to find impeachment was the best vehicle for their coup to drive the President from office. By December 15, about five weeks after the presidential election and roughly five weeks before the presidential inauguration, Vanity Fair published an article by Emily Jane Fox headlined “Democrats are Paving the Way to Impeach Donald Trump.” The focus at that phase of the effort was the family business, the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC and possible personal financial improprieties (all of which disappeared within a few weeks and were replaced by Russian collusion as the focus of Democratic coup efforts). By the day of the inauguration, January 20, 2017, the impeachment hunger was great enough that the Washington Post headlined Matea Gold’s article “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun.” As I wrote in my bestselling books Understanding Trump and Trump’s America, this effort to drive President Trump from the White House has never been about finding truth. It has always been about subverting the will of the people. You are not watching an impeachment process. You are in year three of an attempted coup d’etat, which started the day the President was elected. The evidence is there for anyone who wants to look. Post-Election Protest Timeline November 9, 2016“Not Our President’: Protests Erupt Across the Bay Area After Trump’s Stunning Presidential Victory” – NBC Bay Area“Anti-Trump Alaskans Talk Unity, Look Ahead at Candlelit Gathering” – Anchorage Daily News“Thousands Join Anti-Trump Protests Around Country” – ABC 13“Trump Victory Sets Off Protests On Both Coasts” – CBS Miami“Hundreds Gather in Portland Following Trump’s Victory” – WGME 13“Anti-Trump Demonstrators Take to DC’s Streets” – NBC Washington“Anti-Trump Protests in Multiple American Cities Including Winston-Salem“- Fox 8“Anti-Trump protest takes Tempe streets” – NBC 12“Fires Erupt, Vandalism Reported at Anti-Trump Protest in Oakland” – ABC 7“Thousands Protest Trump Election in LA, Block 101 Freeway Downtown” – ABC7“‘Love Trumps Hate’: Protestors March Through Atlanta After Election” – WXIA“Donald Trump Victory Sparks Protests in Downtown Detroit” – WXYZ Detroit“Protests in Major Cities for Second Day After Trump’s Victory” – CBS News“Anti-Trump Protests Break At The University Of Michigan” – NBC 6“Anti-Trump Protesters March Through Richmond For 2nd Night” – NBC 12“Nationwide Protests Continue as Obama and Trump Strike Conciliatory Tone” – NBC“Oxnard Students Took To The Streets Protesting Trump” – VC Star“#NotMyPresident Protests in Downtown Greensboro” – WFMY News“Louisville’s “Not My President” Protest Wraps Up” – WLKY“Hundreds of Anti-Trump Protesters Close Down I-94 in Minneapolis” – CBS Minnesota“Anti-Trump Demonstrations Continue in Philadelphia for Second Night” – CBS Philly“Anti-Trump Protesters March to Iowa Capital” – The Des Moines Register“Students Hold Anti-Trump Protests at Texas State University” – KSAT 12“‘Ignite Your Right: Humanity Against Trump’ Protest Friday at UMass” – Amherst WireNovember 11, 2016“Second Anti-Trump Protest of The Day Takes to Nashville Streets” – The Tennessean“More North Texas Anti-Trump Protests Planned Tonight” – CBS DFW 11“Anti-Trump Protesters Gather in Downtown Miami, Block Traffic” – CBS Miami“Anti-Trump Protesters Take To The Streets In Grand Rapids” – The Collegiate“Denver High School Students Walk Out of Class in Anti-Trump Protest” – The Denver Channel“Vanderbilt Students Protest Trump, Shout ‘Not My President’” – The Tennessean“Anti-Trump Protesters Block I-80 in Iowa City” – KCRG“Anti-Trump Protesters Gathered in Southwest Bakersfield Friday” – 23 ABC Bakersfield“200 Gather In Burlington For Afternoon Anti-Trump Rally” – The Burlington Free Press“Round Three of Anti-Trump Protests in Dallas” – WFAA“Dallas And Fort Worth Streets Filled With Anti-Trump Protesters For Third Day” – WFAA“Anti-Trump Protests Flare in Large US Cities for 3rd Day” – VOA News“Protesters in Royal Oak March Against Trump and Bigotry” – The Detroit Free Press“Dozens Protest in Olympia: ‘No KKK, No Fascist USA, No Trump’” – My Northwest“SUNY New Paltz Students Protest Trump Presidency” – The Times Herald-Record“Anti-Trump Protests in Michigan and Around the Nation” – The Detroit News“Anti-Trump Protests Held in CT” – Eyewitness News 3November 12, 2016“Not Their President: UI Students Protest Trump’s Election” – The News Gazette“Anti-Trump protests at UNCG, UNCW” – WCNC Greensboro, SC“Students Hold Anti-Trump Protest on Campus” – WECT 6 News Wilmington, NC“Anti-Trump Protest: Marchers Burn American Flag, Fail to Block Interstate” – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Trump Protesters Take Over Downtown San Antonio” – My San Antonio“Anti-Trump Protesters March at VCU: ‘We Do Not Respect Blatant Sexism’” – CBS 6“U.S. Protesters March Against Trump Presidency for Fifth Day” – Reuters“8,000 Anti-Trump Marchers Flood Downtown Los Angeles; Many Fear Immigration Policy” – The Los Angeles Times“Thousands Protest Against Trump in Chicago” – WGN9November 13, 2016“7 Arrested In Indianapolis Anti-Trump Protest, Where Hundreds Gathered” – USA Today“Day Five of Anti-Trump: Protests Continue in a Number of Cities” – NBC———————- Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) is a former Georgia Congressman and Speaker of the U.S. House. He co-authored and was the chief architect of the “Contract with America” and a major leader in the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections. He is noted speaker and writer. This commentary was shared via Gingrich Productions. Tags: Newt Gingrich, Coup Attempt, Began, Day After the Election To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Planned Parenthood to Spend $45 Million to Defeat Trump and Flip U.S. Senate
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 08:18 PM PDT
Jerry Cox, Contributing Author: On Wednesday,
the political action committee for Planned Parenthood — the nation’s
largest abortion provider — announced plans to spend at least $45
million on political campaigns in 2020. The super PAC Planned Parenthood Votes reportedly has four goals: Defeat President Trump in key battleground states.Flip the U.S. Senate from Republican to Democrat.Maintain Democratic control over the U.S. House of Representatives.Support liberal candidates in state races.According to NPR, Planned Parenthood considers the $45 million “an initial investment.” They hope to raise and spend a lot more money. Here’s why this matters for Arkansas: It’s unlikely Planned Parenthood could change the outcome of the presidential race in Arkansas simply by pummeling voters with heavy-handed campaign ads and independent expenditures. However, they could make a difference in close legislative races. Planned Parenthood plans to spend record-setting levels of money trying to influence political campaigns next year. It’s possible some of that money will wind up in Arkansas. In 2018 Planned Parenthood’s political action committee in Arkansas received $10,000 from Planned Parenthood’s main office in New York. Planned Parenthood’s PAC gave some of that money to candidates running against Rep. Carlton Wing (R – North Little Rock), Rep. Jim Sorvillo (R – Little Rock), Rep. Mark Lowry (R – Maumelle), and Sen. Jason Rapert (R – Conway). Here’s the good news: Even abortionists know that abortion’s days are numbered in America. That’s why they’re pouring so much money into defeating pro-life candidates. States like Arkansas are leading the fight to protect unborn children, and even many liberal pundits agree it’s only a matter of time before the U.S. Supreme Court dismantles the Roe v. Wade ruling. Pollsters have consistently found voters do not agree with Planned Parenthood’s radical pro-abortion policies. We are successfully building a culture that values unborn children. But abortionists still plan to put up a fight in 2020. —————— Jerry Cox is the founder and president of Family Council and the Education Alliance and a contributing author to the ARRA News Service. Tags: Jerry Cox, Family Council, Planned Parenthood, to Spend $45 Million, to Defeat Trump, Flip U.S. Senate To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Trump Stands Firm, Ready For A Rematch, Corporate America Bows To China
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 07:53 PM PDT
Gary Bauerby Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Trump Stands Firm Impeachment is serious business. Whenever any elected official, from dog catcher to president, is faced with charges that could overturn an election, it is vital that voters know the process is fair. But what is happening right now in the House of Representatives is anything but fair. As we have noted before, House Democrats are not following the established rules of impeachment. The accused has the right to cross-examine witnesses, subpoena witnesses and present their own case. We’ve done this twice in modern history — during the Nixon impeachment and the Clinton impeachment. In both cases, there were clear rules to ensure a fair process. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with the cover of a compliant media, has chosen to make up the rules as she goes along. It looks like impeachment and they keep calling it impeachment, but House Democrats are denying the president the ability to defend himself as he would be able to do in an impeachment proceeding. So, yesterday, the White House sent Pelosi an eight-page letter explaining in thorough detail why the administration will no longer participate in this charade. Under these outrageous circumstances, the president was absolutely correct to refuse further cooperation. But the speaker’s response should send a chill down the spine of every American who cares about the rule of law. Pelosi insisted that the White House’s failure to cooperate with her sham procedure “will be regarded as further evidence of obstruction,” which is an impeachable offense. Translated: “We have nothing to impeach you on now, so we’re trying to manufacture an impeachable offense.” Here are some additional facts you should know: Ukrainian officials reportedly decided in February — five months before Trump’s phone call — to re-open the investigation into the energy company that employed Hunter Biden. So why are Democrats trying to impeach the president for something Ukraine was already doing?Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham is launching his own investigation of corruption in Ukraine.We knew that the CIA operative who filed the complaint had a bias against Trump. It was initially reported that he was a registered Democrat. Then we were told he had a professional relationship with a “prominent Democrat.” Now we’re learning that the prominent Democrat is in fact one of the 2020 presidential contenders.Durham’s Delay Five months ago, Attorney General William Barr appointed federal prosecutor John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russian collusion hoax. Durham has been hard at work since then, and there have been persistent reports that he has found evidence of a widespread conspiracy against the president by Obama operatives and elements of foreign governments. Yesterday, news broke that Durham is expanding his investigation and is also asking for additional staff and funding. Some conservatives were excited by this news. I must admit that I have concerns. How much longer will Durham’s investigation take? If it drags on past the election, that could be devastating. If Biden, Warren or Hillary (YIKES!) wins, Durham’s investigation will be shut down and his work will be “lost” like Clinton’s emails. We will be left with the inspector general reports, which are very different and limited in many important ways. Ready For A Rematch? Remember how we told you recently that Hillary Clinton thinks she has a path to getting back into the arena and seeking revenge for being cheated out of 2016? Some have been warning us for a while now that “Hillary 4.0” would be hitting the campaign trail. Believe it or not, Clinton’s stock is rising on various political betting sites. On PredictIt, Clinton is third, behind Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, as the person most likely to emerge as the Democrat nominee in 2020. A Twitter exchange yesterday between Trump and Hillary raised a lot of eyebrows. After Trump sarcastically suggested that Clinton should try to steal the nomination from Warren, Hillary tweeted, “Don’t tempt me.” She later said in a PBS interview, “Maybe there does need to be a rematch.” Anything seems possible at this point! The dynamics of the Democrat race have certainly changed a lot in the past week. For example: After admitting he had in fact suffered a heart attack, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced that he is scaling back campaign appearances. It was also just announced that the senator’s daughter-in-law passed away over the weekend.Joe Biden’s fundraising has tanked. He finished fourth in the last quarter.Elizabeth Warren is now the Democrat frontrunner, after leading Biden in four of the last five polls.Corporate America Bows To China Guess where NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is today? He’s in China hoping to soothe strained relations with the NBA’s communist masters. Meanwhile, back here in the land of free markets, Vans shoes has become the latest company to capitulate to the communist Chinese. It was going to produce a shoe depicting Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protestors on the side. Evidently, Vans got a call from their commissar — the shoe has been cancelled. Videogame maker Activision is facing calls for a boycott after it banned a top player and stripped him of prize money for saying “Liberate Hong Kong” during a live broadcast. . And the sports network ESPN, which has never shied away from offending conservatives, has banned its hosts from talking about Hong Kong. Thanks to the NBA controversy, this is the biggest sports related story right now and ESPN is willingly playing the role of China’s censor. Somebody needs to break it to the people of Hong Kong that they have been relegated to the trash heap known as the “deplorables and irredeemables.” The same “woke” corporate elites who have been appeasing the left by bashing the 63 million people who voted for Trump are now appeasing China by bashing the people of Hong Kong. As I wrote in my latest opinion piece, it’s clear that communist China is winning the battle for corporate America’s soul. Read more at The Washington Examiner. ——————- Gary Bauer (@GaryLBauer) is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families Tags: Gary Bauer, Campaign for Working Families, Trump Stands Firm, Ready For A Rematch, Corporate America Bows To China To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Democrats’ Fear of Durham About to Reach Panic Level
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 07:31 PM PDT
U.S. Atty John H. Durhamby Roger L. Simon: The important news of the day–far beyond the inevitable tedious impeachment jousting–is that John Durham’s investigation
of the provenance of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation of
possible Trump-Russia collusion has expanded, according to several
administration officials.Fox News previously reported that Durham
would be reviewing the days leading up to the 2016 election and through
the inauguration. However, based on what he has been finding, Durham has expanded his investigation adding agents and resources, the senior administration officials said. The timeline has grown from the beginning of the probe through the election and now has included a post-election timeline through the spring of 2017, up to when Robert Mueller was named special counsel.That’s the same Robert Mueller who testified under oath he was “not familiar” with Fusion GPS after years investigating a supposed scandal instigated by that company. This eye-rolling lie is far more significant than anything he has prosecuted others for. This is the same Mueller who also lied, administration officials just informed us, in denying, again under oath, he interviewed for the FBI job before becoming special counsel. Actually, it’s worse. As the president’s former lawyer John Dowd put it: “Capt. Robert Mueller, USMC, sits in front of his commander in chief being interviewed for FBI director knowing he is going to investigate the president and never says a word.” Comey and Mueller–separated at birth, two extremely pompous liars. No wonder they’re pals. But leave all that aside. What has Durham found, possibly in concert with his superior AG William Barr, that necessitated expansion of his work? It could be related to the length of time it is taking Inspector General Michael Horowitz to deliver his more limited report that has been repeatedly promised for some months now. Previously, Horowitz was criticized for pulling his punches on the Hillary Clinton investigation. This will not be so easy now with Barr and Durham going over the same material. Horowitz is not able to interview those no longer working for the government–most of the potential miscreants having slipped away–but Barr and Durham have no such restriction. They can follow leads anywhere. Recently that has taken them to Italy to speak with intelligence officials. They have also apparently spoken with their peers in Australia and the UK. Did something come of that? It would be strange if it didn’t, especially now that we have learned that Durham’s mission has expanded, “adding agents and resources.”. This indeed should strike fear in the hearts of the Democrats. The Department of Justice holds the whip hand. They can indict people. Yes, the Democratic Congress can impeach. And no wonder they are trying their best to do that now. They are riding high–or some of them may think they are–because of polls and the nonstop outrage of the media. But most of the public doesn’t know the full story or anything close. The truth rarely emerges quickly. In Churchill’s words, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” Eventually, however, it does. And when it does, in this case, if the Democrats have already impeached a president–if it turns out there was a coup plot or something close involving the CIA, the previous administration and others–there will be hell to pay in this country like we haven’t seen since the 1860s, maybe worse. One would advise the Democrats to reconsider, but they don’t seem able to do it. They probably have too much to lose. ————————– Roger L. Simon (@rogerlsimon) is co-founder and CEO Emeritus of PJ Media – he has a new novel The GOAT available on Amazon. Tags: Roger L. Simon, PJ Media, U.S. Atty John H. Durham, Democrats’ Fear of Durham, About to Reach Panic Level To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Harvard Says It Uses Racial Discrimination to Sculpt a ‘Diverse’ Class. This Is a Dangerous Path.
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 07:16 PM PDT
by Kenny Xu: A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that Harvard University does not illegally discriminate against Asian Americans. The keyword is “illegally.” Harvard does discriminate against Asian Americans in its college admissions process. District Court Judge Allison Burroughs concedes that Harvard follows a “racially conscious” admissions system that gives a plus to black and Hispanic applicants but dings Asian applicants, according to Harvard’s own internal review. Treating a group worse or better than the way people usually are treated is the dictionary definition of discrimination, though Burroughs takes pains to avoid using the term in her decision. But the Massachusetts judge, a Barack Obama appointee, maintained in the ruling Tuesday that Harvard’s discrimination was legal because Harvard demonstrated a compelling rationale for needing its race-conscious admissions program, and that such a program was the only way for the college to fulfill that rationale. What is the “compelling rationale” she uses? It is one word—diversity. “Race-conscious admissions will always penalize to some extent the groups that are not being advantaged by the process, but this is justified by the compelling interest in diversity and all the benefits that flow from a diverse college population,” Burroughs wrote to explain why Harvard’s discrimination should not be considered illegal. But the judge is wrong. Diversity is not a sufficient rationale to allow racial preferences to interfere with any kind of merit-based process, and to think otherwise is to make a very dangerous decision. What is the purpose of an admissions system? It is to select the most qualified people for scarce positions. The only “compelling interest” in an admissions system is to admit the most qualified people. Other interests can exist and even be good, but they are secondary to the primary interest of producing the most meritorious class. And, I shouldn’t need to say this, but race has no effect on whether one should be considered meritorious for any position—not a positive, not a negative. But let’s say that you believe that diversity is so important toward the establishment of a college class that you consider it a “compelling interest.” Would there still be a case for discriminating against certain races to achieve such “diversity?” Absolutely not. In 1948, President Harry Truman signed an executive order banning segregation in the U.S. armed forces. Truman signed this order despite reservations among many of his own generals, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, who testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee that the practice of racial discrimination was necessary for the “stability” of the enterprise. Stability was the justification then; diversity is the justification now—and both are wrong. We passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to flatly ban discrimination on the basis of race—no matter the potential or perceived benefits. We cannot sacrifice our country’s progress on civil rights for the sake of a few spots at Harvard or other elite schools. Now, Harvard has convinced Burroughs that what it has been doing to Asian Americans really isn’t all that insidious or anti-American. Harvard argues that race is only “one part” of its holistic considerations when determining how to sculpt a diverse class. But if race is only “one part” of diversity, then why is Harvard fighting so hard to legitimize it? There are so many ways people are different from each other—in income, gender, geography, interests in subjects, talent, etc. Yet Harvard insists that among all these characteristics, it absolutely needs to consider race to create a sufficiently diverse class of admitted students. Harvard is saying race isn’t all that important in its thinking—until someone suggests it should be removed, at which point it becomes the most important thing in the world. This is where the plaintiffs misstepped a little. They attempted to show that Harvard was capable of keeping its desired racial balances without a racial preferences program. They should have asked instead why Harvard was so bent on focusing on racial diversity over all the ways humans are different from each other. Because the truth is, it’s not about “diversity” at all. It’s about preserving racial identity politics. It’s about continuing to break down American meritocracy to pit races against each other. It’s about pursuing the ultimate oppression narrative. And for the sake of that narrative, Judge Allison Burroughs let Harvard have its cake and eat it too. —————— Kenny Xu (@kennymxu) works for Young America’s Foundation, writes on race and identity politics from Washington, D.C. and on The Daily Signal. Tags: Kenny Xu, The Daily Signal, Harvard, says it uses, racial discrimination, to sculpt, diverse class, dangerous path To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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How To End Human Trafficking
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:56 PM PDT
. .. Business, and business alone, can provide the missing ingredient to rescue human trafficking victims Illustration on human trafficking by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times by Dottie Laster & Ralph Benko: There has been a big, underreported development in the cause of human trafficking victim rescue. Businesses — like Delta Airlines and Marriott Corp. — are engaging meaningfully. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a task force. Nobody knows how many victims suffer as sex slaves in America. We know that the number is substantial. And that it’s intolerable. We know how to put an end to this shameful condition. I, Dottie Laster, have been credited with triggering the largest human trafficking victim rescue in U.S. history. And I, Ralph Benko, was a field organizer there and in half a dozen other cities for President George W. Bush’s Operation Rescue and Restore. Unassumingly, we helped build an “underground railroad’ to rescue the victims of modern day slavery. We know from direct experience. Business, and business alone, can provide the missing ingredient to rescue all the human trafficking victims in America. It’s the right thing. So welcome, business, to this great humanitarian crusade. However, it is as important to do the thing right as it is to do the right thing. Businesses now are putting most of their effort into educating their employees (and customers) on how to spot a victim. Good beginning. Now something more, but not more expensive, is needed. A famous story supposedly about FDR goes: “Civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph met with FDR before World War II to get the president to take action against discrimination, the president boomed back: ‘I agree with you, now go out and make me do it.’” “Make me do it” is the missing ingredient. The resources needed to rescue human trafficking victims are already out there. The resources are fragmented among many agencies. We just need to align them. The local police are quietly knowledgeable about where the traffickers and their victims may be found. But making the rescue is delicate and complex. And you need T and U visas from the federal Department of Homeland Security at the ready. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigrant Services (USCIS) website says “T visa nonimmigrant status is a temporary immigration benefit that enables certain victims of a severe form of human trafficking to remain in the United States for up to 4 years if they have assisted law enforcement in an investigation or prosecution of human trafficking.” The USCIS says a “U nonimmigrant status (U visa) is set aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity.” Also, many traffickers operate interstate. That can thwart local police and district attorneys. That requires the FBI and Justice Department. Rescuers need a safe and secure place to shelter the rescued victims. Local nonprofits are usually the best bet for this and will go to great lengths to provide. Many victims need language and job training. Many require psychological counseling. Other agencies are available to provide these. Rescuers need philanthropists, foundations and government agencies to provide humanitarian funding to rescue victims at scale. Otherwise, success would swamp the rescue infrastructure. It is a very rewarding cause. Success will win their enthusiastic support. Rescuing the victims — all the victims — is not prohibitively expensive. Neither is it cost free. Freedom is never “free.” So, the resources are there. Why do we still have trafficking? Let’s let you in on the secret key to ending human trafficking. Most agencies have little to zero routine operational interaction with one another. Also, there are abundant rivalries and even mild animosities. Local police mostly look on the FBI with disdain. And vice versa. Nobody knows USCIS’s phone number. Humanitarian service providers tend to look on the police as borderline brutes. Cops look at social workers as namby-pamby bleeding hearts. (Until they get to know each other.) The agencies that have to work together are not naturally aligned. Public pressure makes them do it. But public pressure is “as spontaneous as arson.” It will take a small squad of do-gooders to activate public pressure. Victim rescue at scale requires busybodies and nudniks. Socrates was such a one. He called himself a “gadfly.” The government, or government-funded agencies, won’t fund their own busybodies. They can’t. Yet, when FDR said “I agree with you, now go out and make me do it,” he meant it. Here too! Virtually every elected official truly sympathizes with trafficking victims. They would be thrilled to be “made” to rescue them. So what’s the solution? Two dozen or so well-organized busybodies, nationally. They’d pour on the sweet relentless pressure needed to force alignment among the responsible parties. We know. We’ve done it. The cost of such a squad would be a rounding error on the weekly profit and loss report of any major corporation. That cost would be an excellent PR investment. It would protect their brands from the tarnish of charges — founded or not — of negligence toward human trafficking on their turf. Plus, what CEO wouldn’t care to go down in history for more than just turning a profit? To be remembered for ridding America of modern-day slavery? Being a great businessperson? Great. Being a great humanitarian? Priceless. Let’s end human trafficking in America, now. Thank you, U.S. Chamber of Commerce. ————– Dottie Laster is the principal of Trafficking Victim Rescue Central. Ralph Benko is the chairman of The Capitalist League and contributor to the ARRA News Service. Also shared by the Washington Times. 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Surrendering to SPLC’s Lazy Media Lemmings
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:30 PM PDT
Michelle Malkin & Dr. Bill Smithby Michelle Malkin:
ACT for America, a nationwide grassroots group that educates the public
about radical Islam, was founded in 2007 by my vigilant activist friend
and Lebanese Christian immigrant journalist Brigitte Gabriel. I was
honored to accept Gabriel’s invitation to speak at her organization’s
annual banquet at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 7. Gabriel has worked tirelessly to expose the Islamic imperialist agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamic state; barbaric practices of female genital mutilation and honor killings by adherents of sharia; and the whitewashing of violent jihad in American middle school textbooks. Past speakers and honorees at ACT for America’s events and legislative briefings include former Rep. Mike Pompeo of Kansas (now President Donald Trump’s secretary of state), Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma (now Trump’s NASA administrator), Rep. Ron DeSantis of Florida (now Florida governor) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee. I planned to talk to ACT for America’s gala attendees about the ongoing national security threat that jihad-coddling Muslim grievance groups and other identity politics agitators in the “Open Borders, Inc.” infrastructure pose to our country’s very existence. But thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Council on American Islamic Relations, Miami Herald, copycat journalists and the Trump Organization, the event was banned from Mar-a-Lago. Yes, banned. All it took was a noisy little echo chamber of lazy media lemmings in search of weekend clickbait. On Saturday morning, the Miami Herald published an inflammatory attack masquerading as “breaking news” with the headline: “Anti-Muslim extremist group says it will host $1,500-a-plate gala at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago.” Where did the Miami Herald get its characterization that ACT for America was an “extremist group”? From the discredited charlatans at the Southern Poverty Law Center. Miami Herald reporter Nicholas Nehamas admitted to me that he wrote the “story,” padded with an obligatory assist and dutiful quote from SPLC’s Muslim counterparts at CAIR, after receiving an SPLC HateWatch alert titled: “Anti-Muslim Hate Group to Hold Gala at Mar A Lago.” Media monkey see. Media monkey do. Barely two hours later, according to an email I obtained, the Mar-a-Lago catering department informed ACT for America that “we will not be able to host your proposed event” because “as a private Club we strive to ensure that the agenda and subject matter discussed at any event is in line with our Club’s culture.” Gabriel was not given a chance to defend herself or educate Mar-a-Lago’s cowering bureaucrats about the SPLC’s corrupt culture of manufacturing hate fraud, raising millions off fear-mongering, stashing away gobs of money in offshore accounts and staving off internal complaints of racial and sexual harassment for decades. Nor was I was given a chance to answer any questions about the subject matter of my planned speech, which was going to cover the SPLC and CAIR’s war on immigration enforcement patriots, SPLC’s defamation settlements, and the ongoing litigation against the smear merchants by deplatformed Trump supporters Laura Loomer and Gavin McInnes. A cascade of copycat hit pieces ensued. The New York Times crowed: “Mar-a-Lago Won’t Host Anti-Muslim Group’s Gala, Trump Organization Says.” The Palm Beach Post echoed: “Trump Organization cancels anti-Muslim group’s event at Mar-a-Lago.” The Guardian followed: “Lavish gala hosted by anti-Muslim group canceled at Mar-a-Lago.” And the Daily Beast bellowed: “Mar-a-Lago Disinvites Anti-Muslim Group ACT for America to Host Annual Gala at Trump Resort.” The Trump Organization’s capitulation to Trump-hating speech and thought police thugs has daunting implications for a wide range of politically engaged citizens on the right. If Trump’s family-run companies will swallow the SPLC and CAIR’s defamatory “hate” labels wholesale and throw the president’s most ardent supporters under the bus, what signal does that send to any hotel chain (or local government) about protecting the free speech and peaceable assembly rights of anyone on the center-right? SPLC’s sweeping hate designations haven’t just targeted Gabriel and me (two conservative women of color, by the way), but also (for starters): –Black conservative scholar Carol Swain. –Black Trump administration Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson. –Muslim reformer Maajid Nawaz. –Refugee Resettlement Watch blogger and citizen journalist Ann Corcoran. –Investigative Project on Terrorism founder Steven Emerson. –Former Reagan official and Center for Security Policy president Frank Gaffney. –Jewish anti-jihad activist Pamela Geller. –Former FBI agent and Marine veteran John Guandolo. –Somali-born ex-Muslim activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. –Renowned historian and author David Horowitz. –Scholar and Middle East Forum founder Daniel Pipes. –Palestinian-American ex-jihadist Walid Shoebat. –Scholar and Jihad Watch founder Robert Spencer. –Lawyer, Fox News host, LifeZette.com founder and talk radio veteran Laura Ingraham. –Former prosecutor and judge and Fox News Channel host Jeanine Pirro. –Author and nationally syndicated columnist Diana West. –Alliance Defending Freedom. –The Remembrance Project. –Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum. –American Principles Project. Christians, Jews, Muslims and atheists. Cops, vets and government officials. Attorneys, doctors, academics, authors, journalists and activists. White, black, brown, multiracial, multiethnic, interfaith and intermarried. Has there ever been a more diverse universe of “white supremacists” on the planet? But not to worry. While the SPLC and its open borders media handmaidens are busy destroying their enemies, Trump is busy “monitoring” the situation. With friends like these… —————— Michelle Malkin is mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, and author. She shares many of her articles and thoughts at MichelleMalkin.com. Article shared by Rassmussen Reports. Tags: Rassmussen Reports, Michelle Malkin, Surrendering to SPLC, Lazy Media Lemmings To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Domestic and Foreign Wars
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:09 PM PDT
John Stosselby John Stossel: Democratic presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is controversial within her party. She says the U.S. should talk to its enemies. She was criticized for meeting with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. But Democrats were supposed to be the anti-war party, I say to her in my newest video. “They’re heavily influenced by a foreign policy establishment … whose whole power base is built around continuing this status quo,” Gabbard tells me. “So much so, to the point where when I’m calling for an end to these wasteful wars, they’re saying, ‘Well, gosh, Tulsi, why are you such an isolationist?’ As though the only way that we can relate with other countries in the world is by bombing them.” Gabbard is a veteran, and now says, “Honor our servicemen and women by only sending them on missions that are worthy of their sacrifice.” She enlisted because of the 9/11 attacks. However, there, too, she thought a limited response was necessary but now says that our government has “used that attack on 9/11 to begin to wage a whole series of counterproductive regime-change wars, overthrowing authoritarian dictators in other countries, wars that have proven to be very costly to our servicemembers.” She blames both parties. “I call out leaders in my own party and leaders in the Republican Party (and all) who are heavily influenced by the military-industrial complex that profits heavily off of us continuing to wage these counterproductive wars.” She also wants to end our big domestic war, the war on drugs. She’d start by legalizing marijuana. “I’ve never smoked marijuana,” she says. “I never will. I’ve never drunk alcohol. I’ve chosen not to in my life, but this is about free choice. And if somebody wants to do that, our country should not be making a criminal out of them.” Even if they use stronger drugs? Heroin? Meth? “That’s the direction that we need to take,” she says. Although Gabbard just barely polls well enough to make the Democratic debates, she made a big impact at one debate by basically knocking Sen. Kamala Harris out of the race. Gabbard simply pointed out Harris’ hypocrisy in suddenly becoming a criminal justice reformer. Gabbard said, “She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” That debate clash crushed Harris in betting predictions about who the Democratic nominee would be. Harris’ numbers started dropping from that moment, and she quickly fell from first place to, as I write this, seventh. Good for Gabbard for bringing up the drug war — and for running an ad that at least mentions America’s huge federal debt. But like most Democrats, Gabbard would spend billions on expensive new programs, funding it with military cuts. But Bernie Sanders admits that “Medicare for All” alone would cost $3 trillion. The budget for the entire military, by comparison, is $700 billion per year. “The money that we are going to save by ending these wasteful wars — you’re right, it won’t cover every other thing that we need to accomplish,” Gabbard admits. At least she’s willing to debate with me. No one else polling over 1% has been willing so far. “Our leaders are increasingly unwilling to sit down with those who may be ‘on the other team,'” she explains. “Look, I love my country. You love our country. Let’s come together as Americans with appreciation for our constitution, our freedoms, civil liberties and rights, and have this civil discourse and dialogue about how we can move forward together.” ——————— John Stossel is author of “No They Can’t! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed.” Article shared by Rassmussen Reports Tags: Rassmussen Reports, John Stossel, Domestic and Foreign Wars To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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School Records Show Elizabeth Warren Lied About Being Fired Over Pregnancy
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 06:01 PM PDT
by Daniel Greenfield: Senator Elizabeth Warren has a Hillary problem. It’s the compulsive lying. Warren has been trying to rewrite her history by claiming that she was fired for being pregnant.Warren told an audience at a town hall in Carson City, Nev. Wednesday that she had “loved” working as a special needs teacher. “By the end of the first year, I was visibly pregnant, and the principal did what principals did in those days,” she said. “Wish me luck and hire someone else for the job.”Except that contradicted Warren’s own past interview, in which she told another story.My first year post-graduation, I worked — it was in a public school system but I worked with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I actually didn’t have the education courses, so I was on an ’emergency certificate,’ it was called. “I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, ‘I don’t think this is going to work out for me,'” Warren continued. “I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, ‘What am I going to do?'” Warren is still trying to defend her story, claiming, “All I know is I was 22 years old, I was 6 months pregnant, and the job that I had been promised for the next year was going to someone else. The principal said they were going to hire someone else for my job,” she said. But records show that she’s lying.Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a “2nd year” contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job. That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was “accepted with regret.”Paleface speaks with forked tongue. Warren as far too ambitious to be working with children. But that story wouldn’t play well on the campaign trail. So at some point, the fake Cherokee’s past was revised into a story about sexism. Is there anything in Elizabeth Warren’s past that is true? ————– Daniel Greenfield (@Sultanknish) is Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an investigative journalist and writer focusing on radical Left and Islamic terrorism. Tags: Daniel Greenfield, FrontPage Mag, School Records Show, Elizabeth Warren, Lied About Being Fired, Over Pregnancy To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Planned Parenthood and Hollywood
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:44 PM PDT
by Kerby Anderson:
Planned Parenthood has been facing some political setbacks in Congress
and some state legislatures. But Planned Parenthood seems to be making
some advances in the cultural arena. One example of that is the impact
the organization is having in Hollywood. The director of arts and entertainment engagement at Planned Parenthood was bragging the other day about her growing influence in Hollywood. She confirmed that the organization advised on more than 150 productions since 2014. This has been a concerted effort to influence the abortion dialogue and thus shape people’s perspectives. The director explained that originally she would be watching TV and going to movies in order to figure out who might be open to including story lines. Now she has repeat clients and even has people calling her. One article asks whether culture can change politics. That is hardly a difficult question. I’ve often said that politics is downstream from culture. Change culture and cultural perceptions and you will eventually change political perspectives. I was completely unaware of the pervasive influence of Planned Parenthood in Hollywood. I was aware of the pro-abortion message in the film “Cider House Rules” that was based on the novel by John Irving. The coming-of-age story challenges the moral perspective of the character played by Tobey McGuire because of the doctor played by Michael Caine. The rules in the cider house are posted in the dorm of the workers. But they eventually decide to write their own rules, thus reinforcing the theme of moral relativism. Although that was a blatant abortion message, apparently Planned Parenthood has been working behind the scenes to make sure a latent pro-abortion message appears in films rather than a pro-life message. That is why we always need discernment whenever we watch a film. ———————- Kerby Anderson (@kerbyanderson) is a radio talk show host heard on numerous stations via the Point of View Network (@PointofViewRTS) and is endorsed by Dr. Bill Smith, Editor, ARRA News Service. Tags: Kerby Anderson, Planned Parenthood, Hollywood To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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In Search Of . . .
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:35 PM PDT
. . . Pelosi moves to an official Impeachment inquiry without a vote or a crime. Editorial Cartoon by AF “Tony” Branco Tags: editorial cartoon, AF Branco, Pelosi, In Search of, official Impeachment, without a vote, or crime To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Half Truths, Lies And Fake Stories Make Schiff’s Credibility Crumble
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:27 PM PDT
by GOPUSA / Washington Times:
Rep. Adam Schiff, now leading the closed-door impeachment inquiry, has
left a trail of anti-Trump allegations that remain unproven or conflict
with the official record, an analysis shows. The California Democrat once insinuated that a blocked call on Donald Trump Jr.’s cell phone was to tell his dad about an upcoming meeting with a Russian lawyer. Turned out, the call was to a business associate. “Adam Schiff is basically the Jussie Smollett of Congress on steroids,” Don Jr. said on Fox News. That is just one example. A Washington Times review of Mr. Schiff’s comments on Russia and impeachment found multiple embellishments, half-truths and factual misstatements. The renewed focus on Mr. Schiff’s truth record comes as the Democratic leader, in making the case for impeachment, has put words in the commander in chief’s mouth that President Trump never uttered. And, a comparison of the congressman’s statements to special counsel Robert Mueller’s report finished in March raises concerns about Mr. Schiff’s credibility. The Democrat’s narrative amounts to “all these lies,” said House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, California Republican. “Adam Schiff lied about having quote-unquote stone-cold evidence about Russia collusion,” White House spokesman Hogan Gridley told Fox News. Mr. Schiff’s most recent allegation had even some normally loyal pundits criticizing him. At a Sept. 26 nationally televised hearing, Mr. Schiff said Mr. Trump requested that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky fabricate evidence against former Vice President Joe Biden. In other words, Mr. Trump was asking Mr. Zelensky to commit a felony. Such a request isn’t in the transcript of the July phone call. Challenged by Republicans, Mr. Schiff defended his version of the call as his own personal “parody.” After two days of taking heat, the California Democrat shifted his defense, tweeting that the unidentified anti-Trump whistleblower “confirmed” the quote. He didn’t explain where. It isn’t in the nine-page complaint against Mr. Trump that the whistleblower, a CIA analyst and Democrat, sent the House and Senate intelligence committees. Republicans also accuse Mr. Schiff of lying about when he or his staff had contact with the whistleblower. At first, the congressman said there was no contact. But now it turns out the person consulted with committee Democrats. “You know what else Adam Schiff has been saying to you and the American public that was not true?” said Rep. Lee Zeldin, New York Republican. “That he had no contact with the whistleblower — he’d like to, but he didn’t have any contact. He lied.” There are other examples of Mr. Schiff’s dubious assertions since early 2017. The trail starts with the infamous dossier. The Steele dossier At a March 2017 hearing with FBI Director James Comey at the witness table, Mr. Schiff repeatedly cited the discredited Christopher Steele dossier. He gave credence to a list of unverified felony charges against Mr. Trump. The allegations came straight from the Kremlin, creating the irony of Mr. Schiff using Moscow’s election-year allegations against Mr. Trump to investigate the Russians’ own U.S. election meddling. Since that hearing, Republicans forced the disclosure that it was Mr. Schiff’s party that funded Mr. Steele. None of his 13 separate conspiracy allegations prove true. Mueller found no Trump conspiracy in his report. Mr. Schiff fought efforts to find out who funded the dossier and how the FBI used it to target Mr. Trump. Secret was no secret Mr. Schiff said Mr. Steele correctly predicted that energy company Rosneft would sell a 19% stake to a private investor. The charge was aimed at buttressing Mr. Steele’s allegations against Trump volunteer Carter Page. “Is it a coincidence that the Russian gas company, Rosneft, sold a 19% share after former British intelligence officer Mr. Steele was told by Russian sources that Carter Page was offered fees on a deal of just that size?” Mr. Schiff said at the hearing. In fact, an Internet search shows the news media reported on the 19% stake weeks before Mr. Steele wrote that particular dossier memo. Misleading a judge In 2018, then-House intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes, California Republican, issued a report on how the FBI used the dossier to convince a judge to approve a year’s worth of wiretaps on Mr. Page. Mr. Schiff issued a counter-memo which the established press accepted, labeling Mr. Nunes’ paper “debunked.” But Mr. Schiff was wrong on a number of points. He wrote that Bruce Ohr, then a top Justice Department official, didn’t go to the FBI with dossier dirt until Nov. 2016 so it would be impossible for him to have influence on the wiretaps application in October. In fact, Mr. Ohr began feeding dossier information in August 2016, starting with Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe and reaching deep inside the Justice Department. He talked directly to Agent Peter Strzok, the man heading the Trump investigation who held great animus toward the president. Mr. Schiff said the Nunes report “mischaracterizes Bruce Ohr’s role, overstates the significants of his interactions with Steele.” In fact, Mr. Ohr, as associate deputy attorney general, the No. 4 position, played a critical role in repeatedly ferrying Mr. Steele’s allegations to the Obama administration and continued talking to him well into 2017. Mr. Ohr’s wife worked at Fusion GPS, Mr. Steele’s handler. Mr. Ohr provided the FBI all of her anti-Trump research, as well. Axes to grind Mr. Schiff said the FBI notified judge’s of the dossier’s partisan nature by writing, in a footnote in the application, that the FBI “speculates” that it came from a person who wanted to harm Mr. Trump. In fact, the FBI knew far more. Mr. Ohr told the bureau Fusion worked for the Hillary Clinton effort and told Mr. McCabe that Mr. Steele was “desperate” to destroy candidate Trump. Mr. Schiff said the FBI “independently corroborated” Mr. Steele’s allegations that Mr. Page, while on a public trip to Moscow in July 2016, secretly discussed bribes for sanctions relief. In fact, the FBI didn’t confirm this, according to the Mueller report. “The investigation did not establish that Page coordinated with the Russian government in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 election,” the report said. In November 2016 an internal FBI report graded the dossier as only “minimally corroborated.” No corroboration Mr. Schiff said the FBI didn’t cite a Yahoo News story as dossier corroboration to a judge. He said the FBI included it in the application to show Mr. Page’s denial. In fact, when Mr. Nunes eventually obtained a declassified wiretap application, it clearly showed the article was meant as corroboration. The FBI stated that the Yahoo story didn’t come from the same source — Mr. Steele — because the ex-British spy told agents he didn’t talk to reporters. Mr. Steele had spoken to the Yahoo reporter who based the story on him. There was no corroboration for the judge. Leaks by the number Leak 1: Mr. Schiff’s Democrats have leaked several erroneous anti-Trump stories that garnered big liberal media play. Donald Trump Jr testified to the House intelligence committee on Dec. 7, 2017. Almost immediately CNN reported that he received a heads-up from Wikileaks that it planned to release more stolen Democratic Party emails. Thus, evidence of collusion. The story was wrong. The email Mr. Trump Jr. provided the committee showed the unsolicited Wikileaks message came the day after the release occurred. The CNN story stayed uncorrected for hours. Leak 2: Democrats leaked misleading Facebook numbers for Russian-bought ads, showing they supposedly targeted Michigan, Wisconsin and other swing states. Republicans released numbers that showed deep-blue Maryland displayed more Russia ads than Wisconsin, 262 to 55. Leak 3: Mr. Nunes, then the committee chairman, worked closely with the White House in writing his wiretap-dossier abuse memo. Mr. Nunes said he didn’t and Democrats presented no evidence that he did. Leak 4: Democrats leaked that White House communications director Hope Hicks in testimony admitted to telling “white lies.” It turned out her example was that she would tell a caller Mr. Trump wasn’t in when he was. Rebuttal problems Mr. Schiff, aregular guest on CNN and MSNBC, suggested pre-Mueller report that he had seen evidence of a conspiracy or that certain known contacts between a Trump associate and a Russian amounted to election collusion. In March 2017, the month he read from the dossier, Mr. Schiff said on MSNBC, “I don’t want to go into specifics, but I will say that there is evidence that is not circumstantial and is very much worthy of investigation, so that is what we ought to do.” The following December on CNN he said, “We have all of these facts in chronology, you’d have to believe that these were all isolated incidents, not connected to each other — just doesn’t make rational sense … We do know this: the Russians offered help, the campaign accepted help, the Russians gave help and the president made full use of that help. That is pretty damning, whether it is proof beyond a reasonable doubt of conspiracy or not.” One of Mr. Schiff’s major pieces of evidence is the July 2017 disclosure that Donald Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer in June 2016 who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. The meeting lasted about 20 minutes and she didn’t relay any dirt. The meeting had nothing to do with Russian hacking or social media information warfare. In his overall conclusion, the Mueller report said, “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.” In April 2018, Mr. Nunes and the Republican majority issued a report saying there was no election conspiracy. Mr. Schiff issued a 99-page rebuttal. One section focused the George Papadopoulos, the Trump adviser who met Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor active in Western national security circles. In London, Mr. Mifsud told Mr. Papadopoulos on April 26, 2016 that he heard Moscow owned “thousands” of Clinton emails. Mr. Schiff said Mr. Nunes never sought records to “determine whom on the campaign he would have reported this overture to.” “You cannot find what you dod not seek,” the Schiff report said. In fact, the Mueller report a year later found that Mr. Papadopoulos never acted on what Mr. Mifsud said nor told anyone on the campaign. He communicated with a Russian tied to a think tank about having candidate Trump visit Moscow. No visit happened. Mr. Mueller examined all of Mr. Papadopoulos’ actions in Europe. There was no evidence he was involved in coordinating hacking or social media. Mr. Schiff’s report is dotted with a Russian here and a Russian there reaching out to the Trump campaign. But again, the long Mueller investigation did not find anything contact was part of a conspiracy. The Schiff report implies that the National Rifle Associate took millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions from Russia. This is a theory pushed repeatedly by Fusion GPS, Hillary Clinton’s opposition research firm which handled Mr. Steele and circulated his bogus dossier. There was no evidence of this in the Mueller report. Nor have there been any confirmed reports that the FBI is investigating the NRA. Resign and censure News in March that the Mueller investigation found no Trump-Russia election conspiracy prompted House intelligence committee Republicans to write a letter demanding Mr. Schiff resign the chairmanship. “The findings of the special counsel conclusively refute your past and present assertions and have exposed you as having abused your position to knowingly promote false information, having damaged the integrity for his committee, and undermine faith in U.S. government institutions,” the Republicans wrote. After Mr. Schiff’s “parody” routine, Rep. Andy Biggs, Arizona Republican, offered a resolution calling on the House to censure him. Mr. Schiff vigorously defended himself at a March 28 hearing. He mentioned: Don Jr.’s willingness to meet with the Russian attorney; Paul Manafort, former campaign manger, providing polling data to his long time employee in Ukraine who the FBI says is tied to Russian intelligence; Adviser Roger Stone, who had a brief message exchange with a persona who turned out to be a Russian intelligence officer. “My colleagues may think it’s OK that the Russians offered dirt on the Democratic candidate for president of part of what was described as the Russian government’s effort to help the Trump campaign,” he said. “You might think that’s OK. My colleagues might think it’s OK, when that was offered to the son of the President who had a pivotal role in the campaign, that the President’s son did not call the FBI. He did not adamantly refuse that foreign help. No, instead that son said that he would love the help of the Russians.” None of Mr. Schiff’s examples went to the core investigation: did Trump associates conspire with Russians to interfere in the election? Said Mr. Schiff, “I have always said that the question of whether this amounts to proof of conspiracy was another matter, whether the Special Counsel could prove beyond a reasonable doubt, the proof of that crime would be up to the Special Counsel and I would accept his decision, and I do. He’s a good and honorable man, and he is a good prosecutor. But I do not think that conduct, criminal or not, it’s OK. And the day we do think that’s OK is the day we will look back and say that is the day America lost its way.” —————– GOPUSA is edited by Dr. Bobby Eberle. He is a conservative political analyst, writer, commentator and founder of GOPUSA.com as well as an athlete and former aerospace engineer. 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Stand By Your Tweet
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 05:12 PM PDT
by Paul Jacob, Contributing Author: Last Friday, Daryl Morey, the general manager of the National Basketball Association’s Houston Rockets, tweeted a graphic repeating the Hong Kong protesters’ chant, “Fight for freedom! “Stand with Hong Kong!” But before I could hit “like,” he deleted it amid the massive backlash from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese companies it rules. The owner of the Rockets, with billions in NBA business at stake, immediately distanced himself from his GM — and human rights — tweeting that, “@dmorey does NOT speak for the @HoustonRockets” and “we are NOT a political organization.” Rockets star James Harden apologized on Chinese state television, adding, “We love China. We love playing there.” Despite suggesting that it does not “Stand with Hong Kong,” the NBA did reiterate that “the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them.” “I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China,” GM Morey penitently explained in yet another tweet. “I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event. I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives.” On Facebook, Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai posted a defense of China’s anti-democratic action in Hong Kong. “Supporting a separatist movement in a Chinese territory is one of those third-rail issues,” the Taiwan-born businessman wrote. Let’s hope Hongkongers — for the last 18 weeks risking life and limb by demanding basic democracy, rather than totalitarian control by China — were not counting on a more steadfast commitment from Morey. Or the wealthy owners of the Rockets or Nets. Or the NBA. This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob. —————— Paul Jacob (@Common_Sense_PJ ) is author of Common Sense which provides daily commentary about the issues impacting America and about the citizens who are doing something about them. He is also President of the Liberty Initiative Fund (LIFe) as well as Citizens in Charge Foundation. Jacob is a contributing author on the ARRA News Service. Tags: Paul Jacob, Common Sense, Stand By Your Tweet To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Why did Obama-Biden support the Coup of Ukraine in 2014?
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 03:54 PM PDT
. . . In Biden’s words, to pass a trade deal. by Robert Romano: With all of the trade deals underway between the United States under the leadership of President Donald Trump, it is hard to believe that the civil war in Ukraine that began in 2014 actually started out as a policy disagreement over a pair of competing trade agreements with the European Union and Russia. But that’s the story former Vice President Joe Biden tells in his book, “Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,” published in 2017. “A popular demonstration,” Biden wrote, “which started at a square in Kyiv in late 2013, when President Viktor Yanukovych reneged on his promise to take the country into the European Union, had grown from a spontaneous eruption to a real political movement — one President Yanukovych mishandled badly.” Here, Biden is referring to the pro-Europe, anti-Russia trade agreement, the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement. It was a trade deal Yanukovych’s then-adviser Paul Manafort had advised him to adopt, but in 2013, he rejected Manafort’s advice, pulling out of the deal. What followed was a revolution in Ukraine that ultimately ousted Yanukovych from power in 2014, embroiling Ukraine in civil war that led directly to the annexation of Crimea by Russia and several separatist uprisings in eastern Ukraine. Yanukovych then fled to Russia on Feb. 22, 2014, and the trade deal was signed in March 2014 by interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk. By Biden’s account, it was his pressure that prompted Yanukovych to flee: “I made the last of many urgent calls to Yanukovych in late February of 2014, when his snipers were assassinating Ukrainian citizens by the dozens and we had credible reports that he was contemplating an even more vicious crackdown. I had been warning him for months to exercise restraint in dealing with his citizens, but on this night, three months into the demonstrations, I was telling him it was over; time for him to call off his gunmen and walk away. His only real supporters were his political patrons and his operators in the Kremlin, I reminded him, and he shouldn’t expect his Russian friends to rescue him from this disaster. Yanukovych had lost the confidence of the Ukrainian people, I said, and he was going to be judged harshly by history if he kept killing them. The disgraced president fled Ukraine the next day…” This event sounds a lot like Biden’s description of getting Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin, fired in 2016, when he threatened then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with $1.2 billion of loan guarantees if the firing was not completed, with Biden bragging to the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018 that Shokin was fired the same day. Shokin says he was investigating a natural gas firm, Burisma Holdings, who Biden’s son, Hunter, served on the board of directors of and that that’s why he was fired. Biden appears proud of his role in deposing both the prosecutor general in 2016 and the President of Ukraine following the bloodbath in the streets of Kiev in 2014. Here, in his book, Biden is referring to the infamous Maidan Massacre that took place on Feb. 20, 2014, the flashpoint of the civil war in Ukraine. What began as peaceful protests in favor of the trade deal turned bloody when snipers began firing and killing dozens of protesters and police officers. At the time, per Biden’s account, within hours of the shootings the U.S. was blaming Yanukovych and his police forces, who was impeached within two days and then promptly fled the country to Russia. In April 2014, the interim post-Yanukovych government issued a report that mirrored the U.S. position, blaming the preceding administration for the shootings. A 2018 investigative report by the New York Times outlined the efforts of Ukrainian prosecutors and reconstructing what happened in the square, also finding the police responsible. But, other accounts have pinned the blame on, variously, the protesters, Russia or even anti-Yanukovych neo-Nazi groups in Ukraine that were in favor of the protests, as “Ukraine on Fire,” a controversial documentary by Oliver Stone and Igor Lopatonok does, suggesting a tie-in to these right-wing extremist groups who opposed Yanukovych. This account mirrors an investigation led by University of Ottawa professor Ivan Katchanovski, who wrote in a 2015 paper the attacks were, “rationally planned and carried out with a goal of the overthrow of the government and seizure of power. It found various evidence of the involvement of an alliance of the far-right organizations, specifically the Right Sector and Svoboda, and oligarchic parties, such as Fatherland. Concealed shooters and spotters were located in at least 20 Maidan-controlled buildings or areas. The various evidence that the protesters were killed from these locations include some 70 testimonies, primarily by Maidan protesters, several videos of ‘snipers’ targeting protesters from these buildings, comparisons of positions of the specific protesters at the time of their killing and their entry wounds, and bullet impact signs. The study uncovered various videos and photos of armed Maidan ‘snipers’ and spotters in many of these buildings.” These in turn mirror the accounts of Yanukovych and the Russian foreign ministry. A 2015 BBC report interviewed a man who said he was one of the snipers and was recruited to do the shootings, and that he was operating out of a building that was in the control of the anti-Yanukovych, pro-Maidan protesters. After the shooting, he said those responsible came to escort him from the building, saying, “They ran up to me and one put his foot on top of me, and said, ‘They want a word with you, everything is OK, but stop doing what you’re doing.’” In 2018, Ivan Bubenchyk, a Maidan protester, was arrested for the shootings after reportedly admitting to the shootings in a 2016 interview with another reporter with identical details to the BBC report (he appears to be the same man), only to be promptly released by the prosecutor general’s office. He was then brought up on separate charges but in August, those charges were dropped, too. The same 2015 BBC report quoted on the other hand Andriy Parubiy, at the time deputy speaker of the Ukrainian parliament and former “Commandant of Maidan,” saying it was Russia who organized the snipers, “The shootings on the 20th were carried out by snipers who arrived from Russia and controlled by Russia. The fact that the shooting was aimed at both Maidan self-defense units and at riot police… leads me to believe that those shooting were aiming to orchestrate a bloodbath.” Biden’s version of events, the official U.S. position, is that it was Yanukovych who had ordered the police to shoot on his own people, including apparently police, but the differing accounts call into question what really happened that day. Very clearly, there appear to have been shooters on both sides, for and against the protests. Those shooters in favor of the protests remain a mystery as, to date, nobody has been prosecuted for the shootings by the snipers from the buildings, like Bubenchyk. However, members of the police were tried and convicted with separate shootings that had occurred on the ground amid the chaos and gunfire in Kiev as police were withdrawing from the scene. Leaving that aside, President Barack Obama and Vice President Biden, who was put in charge of U.S. policy in Ukraine, wanted Yanukovych out and EU trade deal adopted, and the siege of the capital and the shootings certainly gave them the blood in the streets they needed to get it done. Within days of the shootings Yanukovych was gone and within a month the trade deal was signed by the U.S.-backed interim government that the State Department had helped to install, documented by the BBC with a phone call by Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland that was apparently intercepted outlining U.S. efforts to put in place a new government in early 2014. Nuland stated a preference for Arseniy Yatseniuk to be in the new government, and was ultimately made Prime Minister and signed the trade deal in March 2014: “I think Yats is the guy who’s got the economic experience, the governing experience.” Biden wrote in favor of the armed overthrow of the government in his book: “The protesters in the Maidan found themselves in a war zone, enduring a brutal three-month siege in the dead of winter. They refused to back down, even in the face of death, and transformed the square where the protest began into an armed camp. Demonstrators seized government administration buildings and erected barricades so they could set up command centers, mess halls, and aid stations for people beaten and bloodied by Yanukovych’s uniformed police and his secret plainclothes thugs. The crowds of protesters grew to more than fifty thousand and just kept growing. By the middle of February 2014, they were inching toward the Parliament building.” Then, the shootings happened, Yanukovych was removed and the new U.S.-backed government was installed. Biden was bragging about removing the prosecutor general in 2016 because, in his mind, he was small potatoes compared to the overthrow of Yanukovych in 2014 to muscle the EU trade deal through, which rhymes with separate U.S. interventions in the Obama years in Libya, Egypt and Syria. This was simply how the Obama administration did business. It was a coup in Ukraine, and one that the U.S. unquestionably supported, with Biden emerging as the key player akin to a Roman territorial governor from antiquity bossing tributary cities around. What followed the revolution and the trade deal was more corruption, reports that Ukraine participated in its own election interference operations in 2016 in favor of Hillary Clinton and ultimately, the landslide election of comedian Volodymyr Zelensky on an anti-corruption platform in 2019. And now, with House Democrats threatening the impeachment of President Donald Trump for simply asking the newly elected President Zelensky about Ukraine’s potential role with the U.S. in the phony Russiagate investigation by intelligence agencies and the Justice Department in 2016 that falsely accused Trump of being a Russian agent, and also raising Biden’s role in the country including having the prosecutor general fired, they want to do the same thing here. ——————- Robert Romano is the Vice President of Public Policy at Americans for Limited Government. 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How Unreasoned Impeachment Dysfunction Is Trashing Democrats
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 03:24 PM PDT
by Lewis K. Uhler and Peter J. Ferrara: This puts the party in a new direction.” These words were uttered by no less than Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House of Representatives would formally seek President Donald Trump’s impeachment. How prophetic, how true … and how deadly for the traditional Democratic Party of blue-collar workers and their families. The socialist/progressives whom AOC represents are now in charge of the “blue” party, whose character is clearly defined by the most left-wing New York and California politicians and voters. While these progressives love their unfounded impeachment dreams, they have no sense of what it is doing to the traditional, common-sense, family-oriented center of the Democrat party. Their claim that Trump committed an impeachable offense in his conversation with the Ukrainian president when the resident discussed Joe Biden and his son’s payoff to enormous personal benefit is not a Trump problem. It is a Biden problem that Biden must deal with. Neither the Ukrainian phone call transcript which the White House released, nor the whistleblowers’ version, suggest that the president sought a “payoff” for himself or anyone in his administration. The conversation just involved pursuit of Biden’s actions for a big Ukrainian “payoff” for his son, which is the actual violation of law. The Ukrainian president had just won in a landslide on an anti-corruption platform, the U.S. has an anti-corruption treaty with Ukraine, and Trump is the top law enforcement officer in the United States. So the phone conversation was more than justified. Following Hillary Clinton with Biden as the nominee would cement Democrats as the party of corruption. This new impeachment mania appears to be “much ado about nothing,” which was the conclusion of the costly two-year probe of Trump-Russian collaboration known as the Mueller Report. This impeachment crusade might become known as the “Mueller Report 2.0,” leaving congressional conservatives and the president free to educate the public nationwide about the enormous, middle-class benefits of “Tax Reform 2.0”. In Tax Reform 2.0, Republicans have the chance to make permanent the middle-class tax cuts in Tax Reform 1.0, which fabulist Democrats deny even exist. They were not permanent in the original bill because Democrats would not give a single vote for the tax cuts that created Trump’s Blue-Collar Boom. They also have the chance in 2.0 to repeal the death tax, which would be enormously popular among the grassroots of both parties. They have the chance to index capital gains for inflation, a long overdue reform which would further boost jobs, wages and economic growth. Trump’s blue-collar boom was also created by his deregulation, particularly in energy. That has made America the world’s No. 1 producer of both oil and natural gas. Which means American energy independence, not the Green New Deal, under Trump. Trump’s Blue-Collar Boom has created nearly 7 million new jobs, slashing unemployment to the lowest level since 1969, a half-century ago. That has included the lowest unemployment in American history for black Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and young Americans (teenagers). That makes Trump’s boom the most inclusive recovery in American history. That has also included surging middle-class wages, with median incomes already up over $5,000 since Trump took office. Obama achieved only a $1,000 increase in eight years. But Pelosi’s impeachment silliness has distracted her do-nothing Democrats from doing anything for the middle class and the blue-collar workers who elected Trump, for whom Trump has delivered so handsomely. Pelosi’s impeachment mania is even more curious because she knows it is unpopular in key states and districts of the nation. It is unpopular because it denies respect for the votes of the blue-collar workers who, unhappy with Obama’s stagnation, flipped Midwest states and put Trump in the White House. And it is unpopular because it is so unreasoned in trying to impeach Trump for the corruption of Biden, just as it was Hillary who actually colluded with Russians. Yet it will dominate the political landscape for many months, highlighting the role of the socialist progressives most dangerous to the future of the traditionally blue-collar Democrat Party. These progressives/socialists will continue to talk of tax reform repeal, increasing taxes on wealth, and instituting huge, costly government programs, which would only throw America back into crippling recession. All while wasting the time of the House of Representatives on impeachment proceedings that are absolutely certain to go nowhere in a “trial” in the U.S. Senate. It appears that Pelosi is content with this being her last term as speaker of the House — and with Trump winning landslide re-election, rather than impeachment. ——————— Lewis Uhler is founder and chairman of the National Tax Limitation Committee and National Tax Limitation Foundation (NTLF). He was a contemporary and collaborator with both Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman in California and across the country. Peter Ferrara is the Dunn Liberty Fellow in Economics for the King’s College in New York, and senior policy adviser to NTLF. He served on the White House Domestic Policy Council under Reagan, and as associate deputy attorney general of the United States under Attorney General Bill Barr and President George H.W. Bush. H/T Issues & Insights. Tags: Lews Uhler, How unreasoned, impeachment dysfunction, trashing democrats, I&E Editorial To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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The Unfairness of the Left’s Impeachment Push Against Trump
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 03:11 PM PDT
Rep. Andy Biggsby Rep. Andy Biggs:
What would you do if you were prosecuted and the prosecutors never
named the alleged crime? Or if they kept changing the rules by which
they were prosecuting you? How about if the prosecutorial team suggested you be arrested and held in solitary confinement before they even stated the charge? In fact, what if they repeatedly admitted that their attacks were motivated solely by the fact that they don’t like you? Now, I ask every fair American to consider what the Democrats led by House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and the radical four leftist House freshmen are doing to President Donald Trump. The day after the 2016 presidential election, the Democrats began talking about impeachment. They haven’t let up since. The fact that they stated their intent to pursue impeachment before Trump was even in office reveals that they are motivated by hatred. Democrats have spent the past three years chasing their dream of impeaching the president, which is an American nightmare of divisiveness. They stated no charge. They have flitted around like a moth drawn to the light. First it was the Russian collusion narrative. Democrats forced multiple investigations, which all failed and embarrassed them. They should have felt shame for the evaporation of this fairy tale, but we still hear Democrats say that there is actual proof that Trump colluded with the Russians to influence the 2016 election. Then it was the crazy obstruction of justice allegation based on the non-collusion fact. They were cornered into arguing that the president must prove his innocence, not that the impeachment-mongers had to prove obstruction. Imagine asking a judge to overturn the U.S. Constitution like that. Then it was the July 25 telephone call with the Ukraine’s president. This thing unraveled fast. Day One, they claimed Trump had threatened President Volodymyr Zelenskyy eight times. When that wasn’t true, as shown by the White House transcript of the call, Democrats and leftist media types went on a coordinated kick, claiming the president is a mob boss and his threat was implicit or not overtly stated after all. When Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian foreign minister said there was no pressure, it wiped that narrative, too. Next, Democrats all got on the same page by claiming there was a cover-up by the administration because the call between the two world leaders, which contained pointed criticism of other leaders, was classified. Well, that approach was also met with derision because all of the documentation pertaining to that phone call was released with other documents. Hard to cover up something you were open and transparent about. And that brings us to the leftists’ point person on the legislative harassment of the president: Rep. Adam Schiff. Unlike a real impeachment investigation or a court of law, Schiff inexcusably fabricated and publicly read a transcript of the call in question. Let’s make it as clear as possible: There wasn’t anything true in his statement. Then Schiff followed up the whole thing with a secret hearing last week in which he tried to prevent the public from hearing the truth from the witness who was giving testimony to committee members. Unlike a real impeachment inquiry, the president doesn’t get counsel, Republicans are precluded from calling witnesses, and no charges have been lodged by the pro-impeachment mob. Again, imagine you were being attacked in this way. You probably would join the president and me in calling for a censure of the ringleader and demanding that he be removed from his position of leading this coup attempt. You can’t carry on a case in court with these types of anomalies, so why should these opponents of the president be allowed to overturn the election of 2016? ————————- Rep. Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) a Republican, represents Arizona’s 5th Congressional District in the U.S. House. He is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus and serves on the Judiciary and Science, Space and Technology committees. Tags: Unfairness, Left’s Impeachment Push, Against Trump, Rep. Andy Biggs To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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What Democrats Today Really Want
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 03:00 PM PDT
Adam Schiffby Star Parker:
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American public servant with
characteristics all too rare today — integrity, intelligence, wisdom. Moynihan was a Democrat who would find a hard time being at home in today’s Democratic Party. He was a policy adviser in Democratic — Kennedy — and Republican — Nixon — administrations and went on to serve four terms as a Democratic senator of New York. Here are two of Moynihan’s many famous observations that are particularly relevant in today’s chaotic times: “The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change culture and save it from itself.” “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.” As a policy adviser in the early ’60s, he opposed and prophetically warned about the mistake made in the welfare law that required no working man present at home in order for the household to receive welfare. His concerns proved well founded. Black families were devastated. But the thinking that went into welfare touched the whole country. Marriage and family in America since the 1960s has collapsed. One-third less American adults are married today than were in the 1960s. The percentage of babies born to unwed mothers has gone from less than 10% to over 40%. A critical moment in the slippery slope of cultural collapse was the legalization of abortion on demand in 1973, opening the door to 60 million-plus unborn children destroyed in the womb. It is the cultural war that fractures our country today: whether we are a nation of culture, facts and a Constitution that draws the line where government stops and individual freedom begins; or whether America is just about politics, where political power brokers write the script of our lives. It is now one year since the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. We saw what it means when a country detaches from reality and any sense that there is something called a fact. In such a world, any individual with an unsubstantiated charge who appeals to someone with political power can wind up sitting as a witness in a Senate hearing and hurl charges that can destroy the reputation of a fine man. In such a world, little boys and girls can arrive at school and claim their sexual identity is different from the biological reality that defined them at birth. And the idea that there is law that precedes politics is out the window. Ambitious politicians can claim they know what is just and use their power to expropriate wealth and property from whom they choose and redistribute to whom they choose. This is what divides America today, not what happened in a conversation between President Trump and the president of Ukraine. It is not President Trump whom Democrats want to impeach but 63 million Americans who voted for him. President Trump managed to do what two previous Republican candidates failed to do: win back the White House for the GOP and for Americans who want a nation where culture and the Judeo-Christian ethos matters, where facts and law and a constitution exist. It is all this that enables our freedom. And it is our freedom that is threatened by the left-wing power brokers and fiction writers. Even some in the president’s own party are missing the point — like Sen. Romney, whose bruised ego from his own political failures is more important to him than the great issues at stake in the culture war. Romney has violated President Reagan’s 11th commandment — thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. With 150-plus conservative court appointments and an unemployment rate the lowest in half a century, conservatives, under President Trump’s leadership, are winning back our country. This is what Democrats hate and want to destroy. —————– Star Parker (@UrbanCURE)is an author at and president of CURE, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education. CURE is a non-profit think tank that addresses issues of race and poverty through principles of faith, freedom and personal responsibility. shares articles with the ARRA News Service. Tags: Star Parker, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, CURE, What Democrats, Today Really Want To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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Violent Crime Dropped in 2018
Posted: 09 Oct 2019 02:44 PM PDT
by NRA-ILA:
The FBI released the 2018 “Crime in the United States” report on
Monday, which compiles crime data from law enforcement agencies around
the country. The news is good, and the positive data proved easy to
consume: “[In 2018] violent crime offenses decreased when compared with estimates from 2017. Robbery offenses fell 12.0 percent, murder and no negligent manslaughter offenses fell 6.2 percent, and the estimated volume of aggravated assault offenses decreased 0.4 percent.” According to the report, violent crime rates hit a low point in 2014, marking the lowest point since 1970. The violent crime rate in 2018, by comparison, represented the third lowest rate since 1970. The following chart illustrates the data-proven, decreasing trend of violent crime: Contrary to mainstream media reports, the 2018 data reflected the continuation of a violent crime rate decline that has persisted for nearly 30 years. In other words, even as the number of firearms has exponentially increased and the so-called “assault weapons” ban expired, crime nonetheless declined. But what about the rifles we hear about from gun control advocates? Did the report address the use of such firearms? Indeed they did. Apparently, rifles of all types were used in only 2% of the homicides for which the FBI received weapons-related data in 2018. This bears repeating: The 2% figure covered all types of rifles, including the hunting rifles that the Charlottesville’s Chief of Police advocated banning in her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee last week. Perhaps someone should remind Chief Brackney that rifles accounted for fewer homicides than knives (11%), hands, fists, and feet (5%), and blunt objects (3%). Will this objective data mean anything to the anti-gun politicians and activists whose arguments have now been scientifically disproved? Will they continue to conflate homicides and suicides into a false narrative of “gun violence”? The only way to find out is to wield the data-proven truth and hold them accountable for their fiction. When one actually looks at the data, the alleged gun “epidemic” is nowhere to be found. The “public health crisis” fueling every liberal researchers’ pursuit of federal funding is nonexistent. Despite all of their professed fidelity to science, every “progressive” politician and billionaire puppeteer ignores the scientific data proving the decrease in violent crime. Why is this? Why does their agenda require false fear instead of freedom? ——————- Source: NRA-ILA Tags: NRA-ILA, Violent Crime, dropped, 2018To share or post to your site, click on “Post Link”. Please mention / link to the ARRA News Service and “Like” Facebook Page – Thanks! |
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