Posts on Thursday, April 18, 2019
Beto O’Rourke, traveling the country doing a head-snapping number of presidential campaign events, had just finished an extended version of his stump speech Wednesday when a self-described cable news devotee confronted the former congressman over his absence from her TV screen. O’Rourke’s cable absenteeism diverges with the omnipresence of other 2020 candidates, particularly South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, whose media saturation strategy corresponds with his recent rise in polls and surprising early fundraising success. (Snip) Even some of O’Rourke’s fans are starting to express concern. “I haven´t seen you on MSNBC recently,” the woman told O’Rourke as he took
CNN political analyst April Ryan called for the firing of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday, claiming Sanders “lied” to the media following the release of the Mueller report. In May 2017, following the turbulent firing of FBI Director James Comey, Sanders told reporters that “countless” FBI agents had lost confidence in Comey despite one reporter’s assertion that the “vast majority” of them supported his leadership. According to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office, Sanders told investigators her claim was a “slip of the tongue” and was “in the heat of the moment,” admitting that it was not founded
Rush Limbaugh says special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report would have been more accurate if he had openly lamented President Trump’s attempt to obstruct a silent “coup.” The man behind the “golden EIB microphone” said on Thursday’s show that hundreds of pages were not needed to explain the details of an investigation that concluded with zero criminal charges against the president. Mr. Limbaugh told his audience that the lengthy report exist primarily to fuel biased media attacks against Mr. Trump. “This wasn’t an investigation,” he said. “It was an attempt at a coup. It was an attempt to throw Donald
It’s that time of year again, when thousands of people will show up on the front lawn of the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll and the 2019 Commemorative Egg will be presented to first lady Melania Trump.And trust us when we say, this year’s egg might just be the most stunning of all the rest, just like the first lady. And we got the chance to get a sneak peek at it before it will presented to FLOTUS on Monday. Watch: (Video) This year’s egg is striking and clearly inspired by the first lady, as it is
Thursday, after U.S. Attorney General William Barr released Special Counsel Robert Mueller´s Trump-Russia investigation report, Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) said Barr must resign and urged Americans to sign an online petition demanding Barr´s resignation. “AG Barr must resign,” Swalwell said in a tweet promoting the petition: “AG Barr must resign. You can represent the people OR you can represent the President, but you can’t do both. Sign our petition to demand Barr resign." (Tweet)
Hundreds more Central American migrants are making their way through Mexico towards the U.S. as border agents reported catching 1,800 illegal immigrants sneaking into the United States in just one day. Migrants were spotted walking along a highway in the Mexican town of Villa Comaltitlan on Thursday.They are en route to the U.S. but are still about 1,000 miles from reaching the border. It comes after border patrol agents said they had intercepted roughly 1,800 illegal immigrants in just one day as they crossed over the U.S. border. (Photos) Half of those detained on Tuesday crossing over from Mexico were
During an on-air appearance Thursday, CNN host Chris Cuomo said that he wasn’t “going to let” people say that establishment media outlets, including his own, were misleading the public on the Trump-Russia story. “I’m not going to let people say that, you know, CNN or the media, or whatever, have been creating a false narrative,” Cuomo declared. “This report is plenty of proof that the questions that have been asked repeatedly were legit and that the answers we were getting consistently were not, especially once you get past the line of, ‘Hey, are you a felon?’ Once you move past
A dream to live at sea has left an American Bitcoin investor and his Thai partner in hot water with officials in Thailand, and the two may face life in prison or death over violating the country’s sovereignty. Thai authorities raided a floating home on Thursday in the Andaman Sea belonging to Chad Elwartowski and Supranee Thepdet, known as Nadia, who sought to be pioneers in the “seasteading” movement which promotes living in international waters to be free of any nation’s laws.(Snip) “Hunting us down to our death is just plain stupid and highlights exactly the reason someone would be
Steny Hoyer tamps down impeachment talk after Mueller report: ‘Not worthwhile at this point’
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., pushed back on impeachment talk after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report Thursday. “Based on what we´ve seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point,” Hoyer told CNN. “Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months, and the American people will make a judgment.” Hoyer’s comments stand in contrast to those of some of his Democratic colleagues in Congress, who had called for President Trump’s impeachment even before the release Thursday of a redacted version of Mueller’s report into Russian influence in the 2016 elections.
Carl Bernstein argued Thursday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether President Trump obstructed justice makes a valid case that the president is a threat to national security. Bernstein, a CNN analyst, cited his former Watergate colleague Bob Woodward’s book Fear: Trump in the White House, in which Woodward reported that former Cabinet officials believed Trump was not acting in the best interests of the United States and was a danger to national security. “That, too, comes through this report,” Bernstein told CNN.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said the special counsel Robert Mueller´s report was written “with the intent of providing Congress a roadmap” to investigate President Trump for obstruction of justice. Nadler, speaking at a New York press conference Thursday, made it clear House Democratic investigators are just getting started with probing Trump and plan to use the 400-plus page Mueller report to fuel the inquiry. Mueller “made it clear he did not exonerate the president and responsibility now falls to Congress” to continue the investigation and his report was meant to “preserve the evidence” for future investigations," Nadler said.
Some Things to Ponder
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There´s a push to change laws to permit both criminals serving time and ex-criminals the right to vote. Guess which party is pushing the most for these legal changes. If you guessed that it was the Democrats, go to the head of the class. Bernie Sanders says states should allow felons to vote from behind bars. Elizabeth Warren doesn´t go that far but believes felons should have the right to vote. Democrats want the criminal class to have voting rights restored because they could become a significant part of the Democratic base. These are America´s murderers, rapists, burglars, child molesters and drug dealers. Over two
The New York Yankees‘ anti-racism efforts have extended to pulling from their seventh-inning stretch a famous recording of the legendary Kate Smith singing “God Bless America.” Not because anyone has complained that the song is racist, but because Smith recorded other racially-insensitive standards from and during the Jim Crow era. The Yankees pulled Smith’s “God Bless America” from the rotation at the start of the season, but the New York Daily News reported the reason Thursday—“the Yankees were made aware of Smith’s history of potential racism.” According to the Daily News, the “potential racism” of which
The most remarkable thing about special counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report is how blithely the prosecutor reversed the burden of proof on the issue of obstruction. To be sure, President Trump’s conduct outlined on this score isn’t flattering, to put it mildly. For example, the special counsel’s evidence includes indications that the president attempted to induce White House Counsel Don McGahn to fire the special counsel (in June 2017), and then (in January 2018) to deny that the president had made the request. Mueller’s report further suggests that the president dangled pardons.
On a perfect, cloudless spring day in Richmond, Virginia, thousands of pro-life protesters marched around the state capitol building against a bill that would allow abortion up to the moment of birth.They were also protesting recent remarks made by Gov. Ralph Northam (D) in support of legal infanticide. It was the largest pro-life march since the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., on January 18 of this year, which attracted hundreds of thousands of marchers. The Washington Post, which gave some coverage to the national march in January and more coverage of the pro-abortion Women’s March on January 19,
New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reportedly hired a top Hollywood talent agency and explored a possibility of writing a book, though the deal appears to have gone nowhere. Ocasio-Cortez, the self-described Democratic Socialist who got into Congress after defeating prominent Democrat Joe Crowley in her district in November, has come to symbolize the party’s leftward movement. Ocasio-Cortez retained the talent agency Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and held meetings earlier this year about potentially writing a book, the Daily Beast reported. The book deal, in the end, didn’t materialize,
Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Trump-Russia investigation clearly contradicts BuzzFeed’s assertions about the Trump Tower Moscow project.The story, entitled “President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project,” was published by BuzzFeed News on January 17. It supposedly recounts “the first known example of Trump explicitly telling a subordinate to lie directly about his own dealings with Russia.”It claims that President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, “told the special counsel that after the election, the president personally instructed him to lie — by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than they actually did
Tenants are fleeing a D.C. high rise as the city´s progressive housing policy has led to panhandling, marijuana smoking, and at least one overdose death in the past year.Sedgewick Gardens is an historic landmark in a high-priced neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C., the Washington Post reported. But in the past two years, it has also come to play home to a number of formerly homeless people, many of whom may not have been pushed into housing before exposure to treatment as part of the District´s "housing first" approach to policy.It is standard practice, according to the Post, for D.C.´s government
Thousands of interviews and hundreds of subpoenas later, special counsel Robert Mueller broke his two-year Wizard of Oz-like silence on Thursday in the form of a 448-page report that formally dropped the curtain on the bad political musical we’ve come to know as the Russian collusion scandal. (Snip)For the purpose of a court of law, Trump neither committed a Russia collusion crime that he needed to cover up nor took formal action that actually impeded the probe.And that left only a theoretical case for attempted obstruction.
The National Enquirer, the troubled supermarket tabloid accused of blackmailing Amazon chief Jeff Bezos, has been sold for $100 million, according to a new report.The Enquirer’s parent company, American Media, has agreed to sell the paper, along with two smaller supermarket tabloids it owns, to James Cohen, former owner of magazine wholesale distributor Hudson News, according to the Washington Post.The Post was the first to report that Cohen was the lead bidder after it emerged that the embattled Enquirer was for sale along with smaller tabloids the National Examiner and the Globe.
A Missouri man is accused of killing his wife just hours after a nonprofit group posted his $5,000 bail in a domestic violence case involving his spouse. Samuel Scott was charged Tuesday with first-degree murder in connection with the death of Marcia Johnson, who was 54. Scott is now jailed on $1 million bond. The defendant had previously been accused of striking Johnson in the face and injuring her ear and cheekbone. He also threatened that he “might as well finish what (he) started since (she) was going to contact the police,”
Teen beats 70-year-old man unconscious with a stick in the Bronx in random unprovoked attack
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A teenager beat a 70-year-old man with a stick, knocking him unconscious, in a random unprovoked attack on a Bronx street, officials said Thursday. (NYPD) A teenager beat a 70-year-old man with a stick, knocking him unconscious, in a random unprovoked attack on a Bronx street, officials said Thursday. The victim told police that he was walking down Third Ave. near E. 168th St. in Claremont Village when the teen ran up behind him and struck him in the head with a stick about 1:50 p.m. April 6, officials said. The senior fell to the ground unconscious, cops said.
Mueller report says investigators struggled with whether Trump committed crime of obstruction
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A detailed report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III said investigators struggled with both the legal implications of investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice and the motives behind a range of his most alarming actions, from seeking the ouster of officials to ordering a memo that would clear his name. [SNIP] “if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are unable to reach that judgment.”
A frank discussion turned nasty at an Ohio gas station where a quartet allegedly accused of stealing hot dogs went on a rampage. Four women were caught on video attacking a man with everything they could get their hands on when he stepped in to stop them from beating up another female customer, according to Cam Dancy, who posted the video on YouTube and spoke to Cleveland’s 19 News. “I know the video makes it look like he was trying to fight them, but they were actually jumping him,” Dancy said. “They were throwing trash cans and the windshield
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday corrected a reporter’s assertion that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was “his,” reminding him that Mueller authored the report on behalf of the Justice Department. (Snip “This is his report, obviously that you’re talking about today.” “Not it’s not,” Barr shot back. “It’s a report he did for me as the attorney general. He is required under the regulation to provide me with a confidential report. I’m here to discuss my response to that report and my decision to — entirely discretionary to me — to make it public since these reports are not supposed to be made public.”
WASHINGTON- Before the world glimpsed the redacted version of the special counsel´s report, President Donald Trump tried once more to frame the moment as a political victory. The 448-page report does include an account of how the president attempted to seize control of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and force out Robert Mueller from leading the inquiry. But that didn´t stop Trump from taking a public victory lap Thursday, declaring at a White House event that he was having "a good day.""It was called no collusion, no obstruction. There never was, by the way, and
President Trump got his wish with Attorney General William Barr, according to some media that reacted to Barr´s Thursday morning press conference about the Robert Mueller report. Networks like CNN and MSNBC claimed that Barr is acting as Trump´s protector, even to the point where he was repeating the president´s talking points. "The word ´collusion,´ a lawyer doesn´t use that term," said MSNBC guest Neal Katyal. "There is no crime of collusion. Only Trump uses that term."In his remarks, Barr repeatedly emphasized that Trump did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Trump and his supporters say well,
Former Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake will not back President Donald Trump’s re-election and will likely support the Democratic nominee, he said in an appearance on CBS This Morning Wednesday. The frequent critic of Trump is a regular on the network morning show, hosting a segment called “Flake’s Take.” The discussion began with the announcement that Republican Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld would challenge President Trump in 2020 for the GOP nomination, about which Flake remarked “I hope he’s not the last Republican to enter the field.” When asked if he was going to support President Trump in 2020, Flake was
Attorney General William Barr defended his handling of the release of the Mueller report Thursday, dismissing criticism that he was acting as if he were President Trump´s personal attorney. CBS correspondent Paula Reid confronted him at his press conference by mentioning the criticism that his handling of the report roll-out has been overly defensive of Trump. (Video/Tweet) Reid said that Barr was "generous" to Trump in his interpretation of the instances of potential obstruction of justice identified in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller. She specifically questioned his comment that Trump behaved as he did in part because he
House Democrats may not have had the guts to condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semitism last month, but they are getting the willies about their famously Jew-hating, CAIR-enabling, 9/11-trivializing coeval from Minnesota, and starting to return her money. She´s positively rolling in dough from lefty donors these days, raising more money than she knows what to do with, and as is the political practice, starting to hand it out to like-minded others in her own party. In the first quarter, financial records show she raised $832,000, which is more than most of them raised,
—Beware of what what progressive and socialist Democrats—backed by the mainstream and socialist media—plan for the masses with AG William Barr’s today 9:30 a.m. redacted release of the Robert Mueller Special Counsel Report: an attempt to eclipse the ”He is risen!” message of Easter Sunday. In the immediate aftermath of Monday’s horrific inferno at Notre Dame Cathedral and right on today’s Commemoration of The Last Supper, the intent is to leave people of faith in hopeless despair by recreating the
The long-awaited Mueller Report was released for online download Thursday morning by the federal Department of Justice. A redacted version of the nearly 400-page recounting of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and suspected links to President Trump was pushed live shortly after a copy was delivered to Congress. Attorney General Bill Barr said in a press conference earlier Thursday that while Mueller confirmed that Russia tried to influence the hotly-contested race, his findings included no evidence that Trump or anyone in his orbit was complicit.
PEOPLE are seeing haunting images of faces in the flames that engulfed Notre Dame on Monday night - with one photo apparently showing Jesus in the inferno. While heartbreaking photographs of the disaster at the ancient Paris landmark have stunned the world - some snaps of the burning structure may show more than they appear to at first glance. (Photos) One photo of hellish flames tearing through the 853-year-old cathedral has been said to show the silhouette of Jesus Christ in the embers. Appearing to stand among the flames, the full-length figure can be seen amid the collapsed scaffolding that
Washington — Reiterating that special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of President Trump´s 2016 campaign colluding with Russia, Attorney General William Barr defended Mr. Trump in a preemptive press conference ahead of the release of Mueller´s report, saying the president faced "an unprecedented situation" throughout the two-year investigation. "As he entered into office, and sought to perform his responsibilities as President, federal agents and prosecutors were scrutinizing his conduct before and after taking office, and the conduct of some of his associates," Barr said at the Thursday morning press conference. Standing alongside Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,
This week, Attorney General William Barr testified in front of the Senate Appropriations Committee. In an exchange with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Barr answered, “I think spying did occur, yes. I think spying did occur.” He received immediate pushback for his comments. “Let me just say how very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer is going off the rails,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in response to his comments. She went on to say, “He is the attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.”
When the first fire alarm went off at Notre Dame cathedral on Monday evening, a staffer checked the most vulnerable part of the entire structure, the attic, and was relieved to see no flames, Paris prosecutor Rémy Heitz said Tuesday. That didn´t last. Within 23 minutes, the attic was ablaze. Known as "the forest," the attic was full of wooden beams from trees cut down between 1160 and 1170, and over the centuries, they became extremely dry. (Snip) firewalls and sprinkler systems were never installed in order to protect the design of the structure. It was also risky to add
The CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies have become bastions of political liberals and the pro-Democratic Party views of intelligence personnel have increased under President Donald Trump, according to a journal article by a former CIA analyst.John Gentry, who spent 12 years as a CIA analyst, criticized former senior intelligence leaders, including CIA Director John Brenan, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and former deputy CIA director Michael Morell, along with former analyst Paul Pillar, for breaking decades-long prohibitions of publicly airing their liberal political views in attacking Trump.The institutional bias outlined in a lengthy article in the quarterly International
Secret footage of the Democratic Party´s 2020 convention is available online. Actually, I don´t time-travel, so I linked to the Mexican standoff at the end of "Reservoir Dogs," where three of the characters shoot each other dead. Quentin Tarantino´s cinematic flourish captures the state of the Democratic Party better than Obama´s talk of a circular firing squad, because Democrats are drawing a bead on other Democrats with malice. aforethought, and mayhem in their hearts. Being intersectional means never having to say you´re sorry, and it also means demanding that everyone else say they´re sorry. Nancy Pelosi is under siege
President Donald Trump shared a Game of Thrones meme on Thursday, sending a message to Democrats continuing to obsess about the report issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “Game Over: For the haters and the radical left Democrats,” the image read in a font popularized by the HBO’s show, noting that there was “no collusion” and “no obstruction." (Tweet) The president shared the image after Attorney General Bill Barr concluded his press conference detailing the final copy of the redacted report. Barr again stated that the Special Counsel found no collusion between members of the Trump campaign and Russia
On the eve of the release of the redacted final report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, President Trump declared victory over the media in the "spying" narrative, citing a new poll finding more Americans agreeing with his view that the Obama administration "spied" on his campaign than with the left-leaning media´s insistence that there´s "nothing to see here."(Video) "Nolte: Poll Shows Media Failed to Gaslight Public About Trump Campaign Spying," Trump tweeted Wednesday night. (Tweet) Trump was quoting former Daily Wire writer John Nolte´s report for Breitbart on a new poll finding that a plurality of Americans agree with Trump
Attorney General William Barr on Thursday said no redactions in special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his Russia investigation were made based on claims of executive privilege by the White House. Barr said that although there were “significant portions” of the report that Trump would have been within his rights to redact since the White House complied with the investigation, he refrained from doing so. The Office of the White House Counsel requested to examine the report — after Barr told lawmakers they would receive a redacted version of the report by April — so they could “advise the President
Boom! Not Guilty!……..AG Bill Barr: “No Evidence of Trump Campaign Collusion with Russia” (Video)
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Attorney General Bill Barr exonerated the Donald Trump campaign in collusion with Russian operatives during the 2016 election. Attorney General Bill Barr did not find the Trump campaign colluded in Russian efforts to tamper with the 2016 election. The Special Counsel report completely exonerated President Trump on the junk charges brought against him by a corrupt Democratic operatives inside the DOJ and FBI. (Video)
Donald Trump has tweeted a Game of Thrones-themed poster just moments after the completion of a press conference in which the attorney general cleared him of conspiring with Russia. "No collusion, no obstruction. For the haters and the radical left Democrats - GAME OVER," reads the message, which is written in font reminiscent of that used on the popular HBO fantasy drama. The poster, which also features an image of Mr Trump turned away and surrounded by smoke, appears an attempt by the president to preempt the upcoming release of Robert Mueller´s report on the Trump campaign´s links to Russia.
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) hosted an extremist anti-Israel activist who has openly and explicitly endorsed terrorism at her congressional office in mid-April to celebrate the American Muslims for Palestine Advocacy Day. The organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), which organized the meeting, posted a photo on its Facebook page of Tlaib standing next to Joe Catron, (Snip) Catron serves as U.S. coordinator of the Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, an arm of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which the U.S., Australia, Japan, Canada, and the E.U. have all designated a terrorist organization.
There are times that even The Onion—the popular satirical newspaper—can’t compete with the outlandish coverage produced by allegedly legitimate news publications. Newsweek magazine’s front-cover swoon over Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) this week is one such example. The interview portrays Schiff as a warrior-martyr, fighting the evil Trump regime for the good of the country. He blasts Attorney General Bill Barr; regurgitates long-disproven allegations of Trump-Russia collusion; and again insists many of his Republican colleagues have private misgivings about President Trump (Snip) For anyone even remotely aware of Schiff’s congenital dishonesty and malfeasance, the Newsweek profile
Economist Herbert Stein’s old adage—”If something cannot go on forever, it will stop”—still holds. Take illegal immigration. There are currently somewhere from 11 million to 15 million immigrants living in the United States without legal authorization. Last month, nearly 100,000 people were apprehended or turned away while trying to illegally cross the southern border. (Snip) the United States would be gaining a fairly large city of undocumented arrivals each month.Most of the people who enter the United States illegally arrive without fluency in English, a high-school diploma, competitive job skills or money. The majority will require support
If it had only been a singular incident involving a Catholic church in France the burning of one of the most well known human monuments to all of Christianity and Western Civilization could be understandably classified as an unfortunate accident during recent renovation work. Given that more than a thousand French churches across the country have been vandalized in recent years, though, more and more French (and others) are wondering if the Notre Dame fire wasn’t something far more sinister. Just released video of what appears to be someone moving inside the cathedral followed by a flash of
I knew President Donald John Trump had once again outfoxed the Disloyal Opposition was when I read David French´s piece on Friday, "Donald Trump’s Idea to Ship Illegal Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities Is Ridiculous and Wrong." French wrote, "From a purely political standpoint, how does this not backfire?" I laughed so hard, I nearly fell in the lard. A man who could not last a week in the 2016 presidential race dared to explain politics to the man who won the race with the most states in 20 years.
Attorney General Bill Barr scheduled a press conference for 9:30 a.m. today ahead of his voluntarily releasing to the public the Mueller Report. The press already knows the report clears President Donald John Trump of collusion, but led by Maggie Haberman ?of the New York Times, the press is not making not accepting this. There is a call for reporters to boycott the press conference. Transparency in government is the last thing the modern press wants. Last year: RUSSIAN COLLUSION! PUTIN AGENT TRUMP MUST BE TRIED FOR TREASON
An app-based rental car company has suspended service in Chicago after more than 100 vehicles were stolen through misuse of its mobile application. The company “car2go” announced Wednesday that service in Chicago was temporarily shut down “out of an abundance of caution,” a company spokeswoman said. “We are working with law enforcement to neutralize a fraud issue,” the company wrote in a tweet. “No personal or confidential member information has been compromised.” Chicago police said that 100 vehicles are currently unaccounted for, and that 50 vehicles — all of them Mercedes-Benz — remain in the Chicago area.
CHARLOTTESVILLE —About 24 hours after presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke released his tax returns from the past decade, a University of Virginia student asked him why he didn’t donate more money to charities. O’Rourke, a former congressman from El Paso, and his wife reported in their 2017 tax return that they donated $1,166 — which was one-third of 1 percent of their $370,412 of income that year. O’Rourke told reporters on Wednesday that, over the years, he and his wife have donated “thousands of dollars” more that they did not itemize “because it wasn’t important for us to take
MSNBC political analyst Zerlina Maxwell criticized conservative-leaning Christians for not being "kinder" and said that South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is "demonstrating how to actually be a Christian," after the 2020 presidential hopeful shrugged off protesters in Iowa last night. "I think that we are going to see a number of protests. Anti-abortion protesters are going to show up at events throughout this primary," she said on MSNBC Live. "I have no doubt. So I think it´s a test for Democrats, including Mayor Pete, about how they can handle that type of direct adversity."
Bryson DeChambeau and Adam Scott are two of a number of PGA Tour golfers who have been taking advantage of a change to the Rule of Golf that made it legal to putt with the flagstick in the hole. The change was not met with open arms by many, but Scott — who has struggled mightily with his short game at times — is grateful for it. “I think I got some disapproving murmurs on the first when I had like a 1 ½ footer and I put the flagstick back in,” Scott said last week after opening
At just 37, Pete Buttigieg doesn´t have much of a record to run on. He´s never held a federal office or won a statewide election, nor is it likely that he could in a conservative state like Indiana. Yet outside of his inspirational rhetoric, there´s one thing Buttigieg is proud of: his record as mayor of South Bend. Yet, for a presidential candidate who touted how he "cut the unemployment in half" and helped revitalize a Midwestern city, not all residents are feeling the results of the city´s supposed revitalization. In January, Buttigieg told an NPR host that his administration
Christopher Steele declined to meet with the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General, which is reportedly poised to cast doubt on the veracity of some of the former British spy’s infamous anti-Trump dossier. Steele declined the inspector general’s request on the grounds that it would be improper for him to take part “in an internal Justice Department investigation as a foreign national and former British intelligence agent,” Politico reported Wednesday. The explanation is somewhat ironic given that Steele, a former MI6 officer, provided his anti-Trump research to the FBI as well as to Bruce Ohr, a Justice Department official.
Thursday morning, the Justice Department will release the 400-page report outlining how special counsel Robert Mueller squandered $34 million to conclude that an implausible conspiracy theory was unsupported by objective evidence. Even at $85,000 per page, it’s unlikely that this document contains anything of substance that we didn’t already know after Attorney General William Barr distilled it down to 4 pages last month. Yet the Democrats and the “news” media continue their desperate attempts to keep hype alive with new conspiracy theories about a “cover-up” as well as demands
Beto Gives the Gift of Beto
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There comes a time in every political campaign where Democrats have to explain why they don´t give money to charity. They want you to vote for them so they can spend your money on their whims, but they don´t like parting with their own cash. Their excuses for this hypocrisy are never good, but sometimes they can be revealing. Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Fox News: 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke was confronted by a voter at a town hall on Tuesday about his charitable giving, after recently released tax returns showed he and his wife
A man has been arrested after walking into St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York with two cans of petrol, lighter fluid and lighters just days after a fire tore through Notre Dame in Paris. The 37-year-old New Jersey man allegedly pulled up in a minivan outside the landmark in Manhattan on Wednesday night, walked around the area, and then returned to the vehicle to retrieve the items, said New York Police Department (NYPD). “As he enters the cathedral he’s confronted by a cathedral security officer who asks him where he’s going
Soon, the dust will settle from special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, and Americans will have a fuller understanding of why prosecutors concluded there wasn’t evidence to establish that Donald Trump and Russia colluded to hijack the 2016 election. At that point, many voters exhausted by the fizzling of a two-year scandal, once billed as the next Watergate, will want to move on like a foodie from an empty-calorie shake. But a very important second phase of this drama is about to begin, as Attorney General William Barr, Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael Horowitz
What began as a serious inquiry into a potential world-historical calamity will on Thursday complete its turn into a combination of one of those really bad Washington conspiracy thrillers from the 1970s and ’80s that only a Communist could love. The release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s redacted report into Russian interference in the 2016 election won’t change the top-line finding of Attorney General William Barr’s four-page summary — namely, that Donald Trump and his campaign didn’t collude or conspire with the Kremlin.
The frenzied anticipation around special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report has overshadowed another Justice Department report on the Russia probe that could land as soon as next month, and which will likely take direct aim at the former British spy behind an infamous “dossier” on President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia. For the past year, the Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, has been examining the FBI’s efforts to surveil a one-time Trump campaign adviser based in part on information from Christopher Steele, a former British MI6 agent who had worked with the bureau as a confidential source since 2010.
The anti-Trump Republican movement, whatever remains of it, has been defined more by its articulation of first principles than its appreciation of winner-take-all politics. But politics is fundamentally about compromise, and the movement has been hamstrung by its inability to work with either the Trump administration or the Democratic opposition. Short of working within the administration to influence the president’s agenda, the clearest option for anti-Trump Republicans would be to ensure that there’s at least one mainstream nominee running on the 2020 presidential ballot
Abortion rights advocates have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily strike down a controversial Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a local hospital. The court in February, by a 5-4 vote, temporarily put the law on hold – hours before it was set to take effect -- pending an expected appeal from the Center for Reproductive Rights, which is representing a Louisiana abortion clinic and two physicians. The organization is challenging a decision by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upholding the Louisiana law.
Conservative commentator Ann Coulter said she could support Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT, in 2020 and even floated the idea of working in his administration if he returned to his earlier stance on immigration. In a preview clip of PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” released Wednesday, host Margaret Hoover asked Coulter how she viewed the progressive senator. She asked whether she would support him if he campaign on “getting rid of low-skilled workers” to ensure higher wages.
CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. - There’s no wall or checkpoint or regular guard at the end of Roxham Road, justa footpath to the border. In recent years, this trail has been the busiest unauthorized crossing into Canada, a well-known back door for tens of thousands of people seeking asylum in a country that projects itself as a haven for refugees. Canada has largely tolerated their arrival. But with an increasingly close election on the horizon, (Snip) is signaling plans to crack down. And they´re asking the United States to help.
Breaking: Man Arrested After Trying to Enter NY´s St. Patrick´s Cathedral With Two Gasoline Cans
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A man who may or may not have been inspired by the destructive fire that desecrated Notre Dame earlier this week has been arrested after trying to enter St. Patrick´s Cathedral in Manhattan with two gasoline cans on Wednesday night. (Video) According to ABC News, the 37-year-old man from New Jersey allegedly parked his vehicle in front of Saks Fifth Avenue where he carried two gas cans and lighter fluid into the cathedral. "Church ushers stopped the man and nearby officers with the NYPD Critical Response Command took him into custody," reports ABC. "No one was injured. The man is, for
The ridiculously long, drawn out, overdone "Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election" investigation proves an ages-old political maxim: the benchmark of proof that a political accusation has to satisfy in order to be considered true will constantly change as the needs of the accuser shift in response to new information. In other words, if the original charge proves to be baseless, the complainants will invariably lower the threshold of guilt so that even a lesser transgression will be sufficient to condemn the accused. President Trump is the latest example of that. Let´s be candid here — everything
The Trump administration is proposing a new rule to try to block some 32,000 illegal immigrant-led families from claiming public housing assistance, saying it’s unfair to hundreds of thousands of Americans who are stuck on waiting lists. Housing and Urban Development notified Congress Wednesday of the new rule, kicking off a schedule of publication and notice and comment that could have the plan finalized later this summer.
This will not come as a surprise to anyone who has followed closely; however, according to the FBI’s primary narrative engineer, Devlin Barrett at the Washington Post, the Mueller team has invested most heavily in “obstruction, obstruction, obstruction”…. For two years 19 lawyers were piecing the script together; while 40 FBI agents used 2,800 subpoenas, 230 orders for communication records, national security letters, FISA authorization, wiretaps, 50 pen register authorizations, and over 500 Title III search warrants to scour the background of every private communication, phone call, text message and email of everyone in the Trump orbit. Eventually interviewing over 500
Former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder said he believes Stacey Abrams (D.) won the Georgia governor´s race in 2018, where the final certified election results showed Republican Brian Kemp winning with 55,000 more votes. "I tend to think Stacey Abrams won that election, you know?" Holder said to The Root. In making that claim, Holder echoed other prominent Democrats in suggesting that Kemp´s role as secretary of state was a factor in the outcome. "I think the way it was conducted, the – her opponent remaining as secretary of state, basically being the referee until about the last week of the election,