Posts on Thursday, July 25, 2019
A federal judge has upheld California’s ban on owning, manufacturing or selling semiautomatic rifles and the “bullet buttons” that convert a conventional rifle into a rapid-fire weapon.
Semiautomatic rifles are “incredibly effective killing machines” that are not commonly used or necessary for self-defense, said U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton of Santa Ana. She rejected a challenge to the law by the California Rifle & Pistol Association, an arm of the National Rifle Association.
Her ruling Monday was the first federal court decision on the California law,
The View has become more toxic than ever and morale among staffers is at an all-time low - and it's all due to Meghan McCain, insiders have exclusively told DailyMail.com.
The 34-year-old conservative is at the root of discord behind the scenes at ABC's long-running daytime talk show, earning her the nickname 'Manic McCain!' by producers for her inappropriate outbursts on screen and off. McCain's spats with co-host Joy Behar, including calling her a b***h on live TV and accusing Sunny Hostin of leaking negative stories about her, have reached such a boiling point that group Hot Topics meetings have been cancelled, sources said. 'It's never been this bad,'
WASHINGTON — In late summer 2016, after WikiLeaks had published its first tranche of stolen Democratic emails, Donald J. Trump received a phone call while riding to La Guardia Airport and then told an aide that more damaging releases were coming. (Snip) The credibility of Mr. Trump’s written answers, which were released in an appendix to the Mueller report, has received relatively less attention than his attempts to impede the Russia investigation. The report did not contain a section analyzing whether the answers met the criteria for perjury, unlike its treatment of his actions that raised concerns about obstruction of
People told the Daily Caller News Foundation what they thought of quotes President Donald Trump said regarding immigration, except it was actually former President Barack Obama who said them.“That is our direct message to families in central America: Do not send your children to the border. If they do make it, they’ll get sent back, more importantly, they might not make it,” Obama said in 2014.He also said in 2009, “You are gonna pay a significant fine, you are going to learn English, you are going to go to the back of the line so that you don’t get ahead of somebody applying legally, but after you’ve
Top Democratic strategists are launching a new outside group that can raise and spend unlimited money to tout issues that helped candidates flip the House in 2018 and became early legislative priorities this year.The group, a nonprofit called House Majority Forward, seeks to cut through media coverage of House Democrats focusing on White House investigations and a handful of outspoken freshmen. It formed quietly in March but will begin running its first TV and digital ads Thursday night — part of $10 million in issue advertising planned for 2019, according to interviews and documents obtained by POLITICO.
After self-inflicted wounds from his boasts over decades-old work with segregationist senators and a desultory debate performance, Joe Biden is resetting his campaign to confront his Democratic primary rivals.The former vice president's strategy, previewed Wednesday night at a Detroit fundraiser, marks a dramatic shift from the front-runner's version of a Rose Garden strategy, which was heavy on campaign fundraising and light on taking on his two dozen primary rivals. He is now pledging to attack his rivals head-on, abandoning his nonaggression campaign promise made in May.His poll numbers plummeted after a near-disastrous debate performance in Miami last month,
Manhattan federal prosecutors are conducting an “ongoing investigation of uncharged individuals” connected to Jeffrey Epstein, according to court papers filed Thursday. The probe was revealed in a court filing that seeks to ensure that evidence in the case against Epstein remains secret. Prosecutors said they planned to give lawyers for the convicted pedophile “certain documents and materials” containing both “confidential” and “highly confidential” information that shouldn’t be made public. But they asked Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman to first endorse a nine-page order prohibiting the lawyers from sharing the information with anyone not directly involved in Epstein’s case. The reasons include the possibility that releasing it “would impede,
WASHINGTON— Congressional Democrats on Thursday pivoted away from questions of impeachment by saying they are going to “own” the upcoming August recess on issues like health care and prescription drug costs. Not emphasized was the testimony a day earlier by former special counsel Robert Mueller, which dulled some Democratic hopes of moving closer to formal impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump. In private, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi advised members of her caucus to talk about impeachment if they must to advance their prospects of winning re-election next year — but not in a way that challenged other members’ views. A majority of Democrats, like most Americans, do not support launching
According to comedian D.L. Hughley, worshippers of Satan are better people than those Trump supporters who merely want to "Make America Great Again." (Video) According to Fox News, the comedian issued his denunciation of Trump supporters on TV One's "The D.L. Hughley Show." The comedian said he could never be friends with a Trump supporter."You could worship the devil and be a better human being than if you worshiped Donald Trump," said Hughley. "Look up the tenets of the Church of Satan ... and then go to a Trump rally and you’ll feel safer around Beelzebub than this dude."
Trump’s good week
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In a 72-hour stretch this week, President Donald Trump went a long way toward putting two looming threats to his bid to retain power to rest.The first, impeachment, took a blow on Wednesday when former Special Counsel Robert Mueller delivered muted and sometimes shaky testimony before two House panels — and failed to serve up the sort of compelling new red meat that might sway Democrats who have been reluctant to launch an impeachment inquiry. The president also threw his weight behind the budget deal negotiated by his Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin,
MSNBC Analyst: ‘We in the Media’
Failed to Explain Russia Probe
in ‘Bite-Sized Way’ for Public replies
Failed to Explain Russia Probe
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MSNBC analyst Richard Stengel said Thursday that "we in the media" hadn't done a good-enough job of explaining the particulars of the Russia investigation to the public in a "bite-sized way.In the aftermath of former special counsel Robert Mueller's low-key testimony Wednesday on Capitol Hill, the former Obama administration diplomat said on Deadline: White House it was incumbent on the press and Democrats to put significant nuggets from the Russia probe on a "three-by-five card" and repeat it over and over for Americans to understand.
MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace, who was among the many members of the media critical of Mueller's performance on Capitol Hill, said
Joseph R. Biden Jr. entered the 2020 presidential campaign with wide support from black voters and a reservoir of good will stemming from his eight years as an unswervingly loyal vice president to Barack Obama — a huge head start in a primary where African-Americans will play a decisive role. But as the next high-stakes televised debate rapidly approaches, the two leading black candidates in the Democratic contest, Senators Cory Booker and Kamala Harris, have mounted a direct challenge to Mr. Biden’s decades-long record on race in hopes of undermining his standing with black voters and ultimately derailing his candidacy.
From the beginning of the Left's attempt to destroy the Trump candidacy, then presidency, it was Adam Schiff who was the most consumed by the fabricated hoax that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the election. He believed every morsel of disinformation that was carefully leaked by the collaborators at the FBI, DOJ, CIA, DNC and the Clinton gang. (Snip) it has been Schiff who was obsessed with taking Trump down(Snip) His ridiculous conclusion to his committee's two hours was clearly written before either hearing, and so was in contradiction to what had taken place with every word.
Presidential candidate and military veteran Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is suing Google after the tech giant blocked her ads account shortly after the first Democrat presidential debate. [snip] Gabbard’s complaint accuses Google of censoring the candidate at the very moment when millions of Americans wanted to learn more about her. It also accuses Google of sending Gabbard’s campaign emails to people’s Gmail spam folders at a “disproportionately high rate.”
The campaign seeks a legal injunction against Google to prevent further election meddling, as well as $50 million in damages.
In our opinion the content of the diary by former FBI Director James Comey, as outlined in what has formally been called “The Comey Memos”, is devastating to the U.S. Department of Justice and FBI. How do we know? Because the FBI is fighting like hell to keep even descriptions of the memo(s) content from becoming public.
Here’s something you don’t see CTH say every day…. We’re on the side of CNN !
Rather complex backstory with citations HERE(Snip) In the background of what was The Mueller Investigation, there was a FOIA case where the FBI was fighting to stop the release of the Comey memos.
Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) has introduced a new bill to stop censorship by Big Tech [Snip] The bill would amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which currently allows tech platforms to censor material [Snip] "whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.”
Rep. Gosar’s bill would strike this section of the legislation, replacing it with a legal protection that gives tech companies immunity for granting users the ability to block or filter lawful speech. [Snip] Instead, they would be forced to give this power to their users, who would then get to decide what content they see and when they see it.
Why is it so hot?
Partly, it’s just the luck of the weather. The jet stream – the west-to-east winds that play a big role in determining Europe’s weather – has been further north than usual for about two months. A stationary high-pressure weather system has left the UK and much of continental Europe sweltering. Iceland, by contrast, has been hit with clouds and storms that would normally come further south. “The current hot and dry spell in the UK is partly due a combination of North Atlantic ocean temperatures, climate change and the weather,” said Len Shaffrey, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading.
It took just minutes for Robert Mueller's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee to turn into a painful exercise when it became clear the 74 year-old special counsel had difficulty handling the questions posed to him about his long, complex investigation into the Trump-Russia affair.
Mueller was slow to react to questions. He frequently asked for questions to be repeated. He sometimes appeared confused. He did not appear to be conversant with some issues in the investigation. He did not, or could not, put together detailed answers even to those questions he agreed to address.
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) suggested in a recently resurfaced interview that Americans should be “more fearful of white men” than radical Islamic terror. In an August 2018 interview with Al Jazeera host Medhi Hasan, the far-left “Squad” member was asked for her thoughts on the purported rise of Islamophobia in the wake of terror attacks such as the Manhattan bike path massacre that killed eight people. “I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country,” Omar claimed. (Tweet)
Aftermath of Mueller….
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What happened yesterday with Robert Mueller’s testimony was a public fiasco. However, for those who have followed the construct of the scheme team assembly from the outset, it was not surprising.After watching how the special counsel couldn’t respond to appropriate questioning, I sat down to summarize three years of review (Snip)
Then I became angry. Not angry in the outrage sense of the word, but angry at the obvious construct to the fraud. A frustrating sense of anger; because if we could see all of this back in early 2018 it must be obvious to those much closer to the epicenter
Schiff: ‘I Would Be Delighted If We Had
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a Prospect of Removing Him Through
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Thursday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, lamented that impeachment was not an option when it came to President Donald Trump.
“New Day” co-host John Berman asked if Schiff’s position on Trump’s alleged crimes was not a contradiction, to which Schiff explained that impeachment could also exonerate Trump.
“I would be delighted if we had a prospect of removing him through impeachment, but we don’t,” Schiff said. “And the most attractive thing to me about an impeachment is that it is among the strongest forms of censure
Sidney Powell, the attorney who represents former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, blasted former special counsel Robert Mueller’s performance during Wednesday’s hearings before Congress. “It was just appalling from every perspective on every level. It was an embarrassment for Mr. Mueller to allow his credibility and integrity to be put behind this investigation build on a fraud,” Powell said.A Mueller critic, Powell appeared on Fox Business Network’s “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss the Democrat-led dog an pony show that proved to be disastrous for them, in large part because Mueller was not very sharp and often appeared befuddled
Wednesday at a press conference on Capitol Hill, House Oversight Committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) begged the American people to pay attention to the details in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony before Congress.
Cummings said, “Our speaker made it clear that we needed to paint a picture for America so that they could fully understand what is going on. This is a critical moment in our country’s history. Don’t be fooled. And it is a moment which people will be talking about and reading about 300, 400, 500 years from now. They are going to ask the question,
Democrats routinely blame Donald Trump for exacerbating racial tensions, but they're the ones who made the stoking of ethnic conflict a hallmark of their electoral strategy long before 2016.President Lyndon Johnson, for instance, reportedly viewed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in purely cynical and racist terms, predicting that the new laws would enable Democrats to secure the black vote for generations to come. Democrats then spent the next several decades baselessly impugning their Republican opponents as racists, but the practice really ramped up during the administration of President Barack Obama.As the militant Black Lives Matter movement began calling for violence against
A handful of 2020 presidential candidates reacted to former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testimony on Wednesday before both the House Judiciary Committee and House Intelligence Committee, and there appears to be a consensus: impeach.
The crowded field of Democrats did not shy away from remarking on Mueller’s lengthy day of lackluster testimonies, which was largely seen as a “disaster” for Democrats.
Despite that, a handful of prominent 2020 candidates weighed in and continued to call for impeachment.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released Thursday the first installment of its highly anticipated and largely declassified bipartisan reports on Russian election interference during the 2016 presidential election, a day after former special counsel Robert Mueller’s testified to the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees. This first volume, “Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure,” concluded “the Russian government directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure at the state and local level.” The report notes, however, that there is “no evidence that any votes were changed or that any voting machines were manipulated.”
Mueller Lays an Egg
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As the Good Ol' Boys used to sing on Hee Haw, yesterday was "Gloom, Doom, and Agony" for the Democrats.
For those most severely afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS), it was a terrible, rotten, no good, very bad day. These folks, the stalwarts of the Democratic House and Senate caucuses, not to mention the DNR, had put all their 2020 election eggs in the basket of keeping the impeach Trump narrative alive. Key to that objective was coming out of today's Mueller Testimony with a few bombshell revelations upon which they could continue to claim that "the Russians did it and Trump colluded and obstructed."
They told us Robert Mueller was Captain America: Crusader for Truth, and instead we got George Costanza and all the inept deception, sweaty stalling, and blundering dishonesty that comes with him.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s bumbling, stumbling, grumbling, tumbling, crumbling testimony Wednesday before the U.S House of Representatives was not only karma on steroids, it once again proved just how brilliant the American Constitution is.
You see, the sublime spectacle of watching Robert Mueller’s reputation go up in flames, flames ignited by his own corrupt report and fueled by three years of the establishment media’s hoax machinery, would not have been possible without the Separation of Powers,
How did a man in such a sorry state of such self-evident mental decline get appointed to head up one of the most significant investigations in American law-enforcement history?
That is the question one would be forgiven for asking watching Robert Mueller’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee regarding his investigation into alleged “collusion” between the Trump presidential campaign and Russia. The number of times he sat, mouth agape, while direct and straightforward questions were put to him, only to ask that the questions be repeated, was striking. “What was the question?” was one of Mr. Mueller’s most oft-repeated responses.
The House Oversight Committee announced Wednesday that it had postponed a vote on whether to recommend that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway be held in contempt of Congress, as talks continued with the Trump administration.“I am postponing the Committee’s vote as I work with the White House to try to reach an accommodation,” panel Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said in a statement. “Ms. Conway violated the law numerous times and must be held accountable.”The vote was supposed to take place Thursday and recommend that the House find Conway to be in contempt of Congress “for her refusal to comply with a subpoena
The U.S. Justice Department has scheduled the execution of five death-row federal inmates, after Attorney General William Barr announced he has reinstated the federal government's use of capital punishment after a nearly two-decade hiatus.'Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people´s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,' Barr said in a statement on Thursday.'The Justice Department upholds the rule of law-and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed
News coverage of special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before Congress Wednesday drew a sizable audience — but not as big as some other recent televised hearings. The 7 1/2 hours of hearings, from 8:15 a.m.-3:45 p.m. ET, drew an average of just under 13 million viewers (12.98 million) on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. In the hearings, Mueller reiterated the findings of his report on Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election and contacts with members of Donald Trump's campaign — including that the report did not clear the president of possible obstruction of justice. The 13 million viewers falls short of some other recent televised hearings:
I am not in the business of predicting election outcomes, but with all the usual caveats I will say this: If I were betting my own money on the 2020 election — today — I would not bet against Donald Trump.
The Mueller circus offers us one lesson and one lesson only: The Democrats still believe they can defeat the star of The Apprentice in a reality-show election. Ain’t nobody gonna beat Donald J. Trump in a goat rodeo.
The Democrats are running a scorched-earth, high-drama spectacle campaign against President Trump, who specializes in scorched-earth, high-drama spectacles and who today has the power
One month after Robert Mueller was appointed Special Counsel in May of 2017, a Project Veritas investigative journalist sauntered up to CNN commentator Van Jones. He asked Jones for his opinion of Mueller’s probe into the charge against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Namely that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the White House from Democrat Hillary Clinton. “The Russia thing is just a big nothing burger,” said the affable leftist Jones.Wednesday, a confused and at times flustered Robert Mueller confirmed Jones’ rare and lucid observation.
Actress Faye Dunaway has been fired from a Broadway-bound play in which she was the only cast member after slapping a member of the crew, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dunaway was playing Katharine Hepburn in Tea at Five, a new production of the one-woman-show written by Matthew Lombardo and directed by John Tillinger. Tillinger also directed the show’s original 2002 production, which starred Kate Mulgrew.
Dunaway reportedly lost her temper moments before the curtain was supposed to rise on a July 10 performance during the show’s Boston tryouts at the Huntington Theatre, first slapping crew members who were attempting to put her wig on, then verbally abusing the cast
MILWAUKEE—Gently, and just for a moment, Julián Castro moved his shoulders to the beat. Walking out onstage as the featured speaker at the League of United Latin American Citizens conference’s unity luncheon here, Castro was feeling the drums, the little bit of trumpet.
A few weeks before, bouncing from camera to camera in the spin room after his breakout performance at the first Democratic presidential debate, in Miami, Castro was feeling the pressure. That night, I watched him pull out his phone, frustrated that there weren’t more tweets about the performance from his account. “I want you to just keep hitting it, over and over,”
‘Squad’ Set To Replace Mueller
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Folk, who had been lied to for more than two years, could plainly see that there was never any there there, only Hillary Clinton’s failed attempt at sabotage to bring desperado Dems out of the exile they were sent to on Nov. 8, 2016. Who would now count on the credibility of Russian collusion stealing Election 2016 from Clinton when the Special Counsel Top dog claims he didn’t know what Fusion GPS , or Christopher Steele’s Dirty Dossier was, and could not even remember which President first appointed him to the FBI?
A tourist was savagely beaten, stomped and spit on by a gang of over a dozen youths at the entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel around 1 a.m. on July 14, according to Washington, D.C. police who released hotel surveillance video showing the brutal unprovoked attack. The Hilton–located about twelve blocks north of the White House at 1919 Connecticut Avenue and T Street, NW–is a key part of official Washington, playing host to presidents, foreign dignitaries, business and political gatherings including the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. It is also where President Ronald Reagan was shot by a would-be assassin in 1981.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler pushed to launch impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump during a closed-door meeting Wednesday, only to be rebuffed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
At a caucus meeting following the hotly anticipated testimony of special counsel Robert Mueller, Nadler suggested that several House committee chairs could begin drafting articles of impeachment against Trump. Pelosi called the idea premature, said the sources.
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The media thought Mueller would bring the impeachment finally of President Donald John Trump. Instead, Mueller's testimony made impeachment a joke. [Snip] Only 1% trust all media and only 17% trust most media. [Snip] We elected a Playboy billionaire president because none of the virgins could get the job done. [Snip] There was no indictment of him or anyone in his campaign or his administration. [Snip] But in the 21st century, the news media reports emotions not facts. After the Mueller Report bombed in March, Democrats tried a summer rerun on Wednesday. [Snip] This morning the reviews were in. They fell into three categories: honest, dishonest, and Fantasy Island.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified before Congress today on the Trump-Russia Collusion witch hunt.
He could not have looked more confused
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On Wednesday evening former United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Joe diGenova and his wife attorney Victoria Teonsing joined Lou Dobbs to discuss today’s developments.
(Snip) Joe diGenova told Lou Dobbs that both U.S. Attorney John Durham, who is investigating the launch of the Trump-Russia collusion narrative and Inspector General Michael Horowitz have both already interviewed Joseph Mifsud, the Western Intelligence operative who launched the investigation into the Trump campaign.
Rachel Maddow Told Viewers
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Yesterday Was A ‘Remarkable Day’
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There is a reason why MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s ratings have cratered so dramatically recently. Here’s what she told her viewers on Wednesday night about former special counsel Robert Mueller’s disastrous performance before House lawmakers.
I will tell you, I was not quite sure what to expect from today’s testimony by Robert Mueller. If you had told me that today, we would get from Robert Mueller over the course of these seven hours such a blunt accounting from him…of who in the president’s campaign was compromised by Russia, and how, specifically how they were compromised by Russia, including the president.
That’s certainly putting a positive spin on the day, isn’t it?
CNN claims its Reliable Sources program "examines the media world -- telling the story behind the story -- how the news gets made." But Brian Stelter's show, and his Reliable Sources newsletter have become something much different. It's become first and foremost about ranting against President Trump as a liar, as a racist, as mentally unfit, as a budding authoritarian -- in short, it's drenched in leftist ideology. Journalism is secondary.Stelter's newsletter after the Mueller hearing effectively demonstrates this. Instead of leading his newsletter with an examiniation of "how the news gets made," subscribers were subjected to a passionate denunciation of Trump under the words "Big Lies,"
The two mayors running for the Democratic presidential nomination currently face criticism over their relationships with local law enforcement within their respective cities.Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio are set to participate in the Democratic National Committee's debates in Detroit next week, and both face lingering questions that could hamper their candidacies.“History has proven that Democratic leadership has been responsible for increased violence and crime, reduced real estate values and economic development, and higher welfare rolls in urban cities.
It may be that Robert Mueller being — to be polite — a bit past it accounts for his surprisingly befuddled demeanor and seeming unfamiliarity with his own report at Wednesday's hearings. The imputation that Mueller does little or none of his own writing — many credibly believe Andrew Weissman and/or his cohorts are the true authors of the report — may also be an explanation for this behavior. On multiple occasions when questioned about his own text Mueller had a blank expression or looked over to his last-minute sidekick Aaron Zebley for answers that should have been obvious. (Zebley's presence was itself a sign of nervous desperation.)
Democrats suffer anxiety attacks
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There must have been a point in the Robert Mueller hearings when the big thinkers of CNN and MSNBC curled up on the floor in fetal positions and began breathing into brown paper bags, trying to remain calm.
Breathe. Collusion. Breathe. “Did not reach a determination as to whether the president committed a crime.” Breathe. Ted Lieu? Breathe.Those paper bags popped in and out, out and in, when Democratic media wizard David Axelrod and Harvard Law’s Laurence Tribe pronounced the Mueller hearings an unmitigated disaster for their side. And Donald Trump puffed himself up to crow.
The federal government will resume executing death-row inmates after nearly two decades without doing so, the Department of Justice announced on Thursday. Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of five inmates convicted of murder and other crimes. The executions have been scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020. The last federal execution was carried out in 2003. There are 62 individuals on federal death row, according to a tracker maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center.
CNN panel laments failure of Dems
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Robert Mueller’s testimony before two different House committees yielded little if any wins for Democrats who were hard-pressed to find any encouragement even at CNN. Panelists on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” on Wednesday reacted to the former counsel’s testimony earlier before the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees, discussing the general failure of Democrats to take down President Donald Trump.(Video: CNN) “You know what might be a good idea for Democrats in the House of Representatives is to find out something,” CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said.“They won control of the House of Representatives and they were going to do investigations.
Jeffrey Epstein, the man dubbed the "Palm Beach Pervert," by Forbes in 2011, is now in jail awaiting trial for running a child-sex racket. Up until now, he's always dodged trouble, but now he's under intense scrutiny by both the press and prosecutors. The idea, of course, was to pin Epstein to Trump, now that the Russia collusion narrative has collapsed.
But then there was that intriguing statement by Nancy Pelosi's daughter, that a lot of Democrat "faves" might be going down. Remember this from the Washington Examiner?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s daughter said that some favorite figures of
What you’re about to watch is likely one of the most painful things CNN has ever had to endure, and it definitely hurt them more than it hurt me.
After years of useless investigation, millions of taxpayer dollars wasted, and no shortage of “bombshell” news reports that “signal the beginning of the end for the Trump administration,” the Mueller investigation has now been so discredited that even CNN is throwing its hands up in the air declaring this a victory for Trump.
And it’s all thanks to this disastrous Mueller hearing.
“White House officials and the President’s Republican allies are walking away from this morning’s hearing and viewing it as a success,”
First lady Melania Trump faced scrutiny on Wednesday for tweeting about Christmas while special counsel Robert Mueller was testifying in front of two House committees.
"#Christmas planning has begun in the East Wing at the @WhiteHouse," Melania Trump tweeted. "I'm looking forward to sharing our final vision for this unique tradition in the coming months." Many questioned the timing of her tweet considering it came as Mueller was concluding his testimony in front of the House Judiciary Committee. He was testifying about the two-year long investigation that concluded that no member of the Trump campaign knowingly conspired with Russia to win the election.
When asked which U.S. president appointed him to be U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, Special Counsel Robert Mueller incorrectly stated “President Bush.”
Rep. Greg Stanton (D-Ariz.), who used his time at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the findings of the Russia investigation, to remind people about Mueller’s service to the country, corrected Mueller, saying it was actually President Ronald Reagan who actually nominated him.(Video) STANTON: Director Mueller, I’m disappointed that some have questioned your motives throughout this process, and I want to take a moment to remind the American people of who you are and your exemplary service to our country. You are a Marine. You served in Vietnam and
RUSH: You know, I just saw something here, and… Ha! I’m not sure what I saw, but I’m gonna tell you what I think it is. Devin Nunes is just completing his opening statement after Schiff, little Pencil Neck, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He’s finished his statement. Devin Nunes just concluded his. It was just perfection. (snip) Mueller was listening to Nunes with rapt attention. He was laser-like focused. But the facial expression was almost like of somebody hearing something for the first time, and I’m asking myself, “Can this possibly be true?” And I think it may be.
Fox News anchor Shannon Bream took to Twitter to challenge House Democrats, 70 of whom had already been contacted for an appearance on her 11 p.m. show.
“Our amazing @FoxNewsNight staff – including @BrigidMaryMcD – has reached out to roughly 70 Dem offices to get a Member to join our show tonight,” Bream wrote. “Crickets. So, if you’re a House Dem and willing to talk about the Mueller hearing – let us know ASAP. See the rest of y’all at 11p!” (tweet) Mueller’s Wednesday appearance before the House Intelligence Committee did not live up to the expectations of many Democrats who appeared to be expecting fireworks or some new
Two things can be true about former special counsel Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony yesterday.
It was damaging to President Trump, contradicting the president’s key claims and defenses about the Russia probe.
And it all but closed the door on the likelihood of Democrats impeaching the president – given the congressional math.
Here’s a fuller breakdown on our six takeaways from yesterday:
Mueller contradicted Trump’s story on the Russia probe: “It is not a witch hunt,” Mueller said… “It was not a hoax.”… Russia’s intervention helped Trump’s campaign — not Hillary Clinton’s… Trump was NOT exonerated by the report… And “problematic is an understatement” is how Mueller described Trump’s use of the WikiLeaks
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) in an op-ed piece published Thursday said a July rally in which Trump supporters chanted “send her back” in reference to her will be a “defining moment in American history.”
In the op-ed published by the New York Times, the freshman lawmaker discusses Trump’s ongoing attacks against her and three other progressive minority congresswomen, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), which led up to the chants at his rally last Wednesday.
“The president’s rally will be a defining moment in American history. It reminds us of the grave stakes of the coming presidential election: that this fight is not merely about policy ideas;
In an essay that I published recently at The American Mind, I argue that we need a conservative revolution to reclaim our constitutional republic. Exposing the deep state is a necessary condition for this revolution. By deep state, I mean a species of corruption exercised by a largely hidden elite almost completely insulated from the oversight of the sovereign people. (Snip)Marlene has a general faith in the American government and in the public discourse about politics and issues found in legacy media outlets.
So far as she is concerned, the news she gets every day is fair if not entirely unbiased.
All Of America Now Asks, “Who Actually
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Wrote The Mueller Report Because It
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“A complete sh**show.” “Dazed and confused.” “Dead man talking.”
And on an on did the justified criticism go of today’s Democrat Party-sponsored clown show that was the “testimony” from former Special Counsel, Robert Mueller.
As the day’s testimony continued it became more and more clear that Mr. Mueller actually knows very little of what is actually in the report that bears his name, leading to more and more to question who actually compiled the report AND how much of a direct hand did operatives for both the Clintons and Obama/Jarrett, have in its creation?
India’s government and companies are openly pushing for the U.S. Senate passage of a bipartisan “country caps” bill that would reward 100,000 Indian graduates per year with green cards if they take technology jobs in America. “I must compliment the U.S. House of Representatives for adopting the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants bill which removes country caps on the H1B visas,” Indian ambassador Harsh Shringla told a D.C. meeting of lobbyists and advocates on Tuesday.(Snip) The program reduces wages for Americans and also pulls business investment away from heartland states and into a few coastal cities dominated by Democrats.
Iowa carpenter died a secret
millionaire, willed his fortune
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millionaire, willed his fortune
to sending 33 strangers to college replies
Dale Schroeder was a frugal man who worked as a carpenter for 67 years, wore two pairs of jeans—for church and work—and drove a rusty old Chevy truck.
When he died in 2005 at age 86, the Iowa native’s closest friends didn’t know he secretly amassed close to $3 million in savings. “I nearly fell out of my chair," his friend Steve Nielsen recounted to CBS Des Moines affiliate KCCI in an interview about the lives Schroeder impacted since his passing. According to his pal, the longtime Moehl Millwork employee saved up a fortune over the years and wanted to empower others
Throughout this primary season, poll after poll has indicated that Democratic voters are overwhelmingly focused on finding a candidate who can make Donald Trump a one-term president. By a 2-to-1 ratio, likely primary voters place beating Trump above selecting a nominee who shares their policy positions.
This overarching goal also serves as the main justification for former Vice President Joe Biden’s candidacy. On the stump, in fundraisers, and on the debate stage, a central component of his appeal is his claimed ability to carry the moderates and independents necessary recapture the electoral votes of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.
First Lady Melania Trump revealed on Wednesday that while former Special Counsel Robert Mueller was testifying on his investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election, she was officially kicking off the White House’s Christmas preparations.(Video) “#Christmas planning has begun in the East Wing at the [White House],” the first lady announced on Twitter. “I’m looking forward to sharing our final vision for this unique tradition in the coming months.”
President Donald Trump’s advocacy for the “nation-state and restoration of sovereignty” breaks from a globalist consensus held by both former Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, assessed Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, in a Tuesday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.Trump’s policies and positions are unjustifiably derided by detractors as lacking substance, said Kirk.“I feel a little bit of responsibility, if you will, to explain to students especially, but to the broader audience in America, the timeless philosophical principles behind this presidency,”
Recently accused and previously convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein was found inside his jail cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center late last evening after what is reported as a possible assault or suicide attempt. While the two sources for NBC did not say that any material was seen in Epstein’s cell to indicate there was a possible suicide attempt by hanging, they were able to include details such as Epstein being found in a “fetal position” with marks on his neck, and that he wasn’t fully conscious.According to the local report, an additional four sources are giving multiple accounts of the Epstein incident.
After the former special counsel Robert Mueller’s disastrous testimony before a House committee, Wednesday, actress Bette Midler jumped to Twitter to accuse President Donald Trump of “raping us all with impunity.”
The extreme, left-wing actress also called the president a “cancer.”
“Mr Trump rapes us all with impunity,” she wrote, adding, “Now he’s Pres he get big time immunity.”
Midler concluded saying, “Mr Mueller’s a kind man. But he isn’t a blind man. And #Trump is a cancer on the community.”
The commander of a U.S. Special Operations task force in Iraq has sent home a platoon of Navy SEALs for drinking while deployed, U.S. defense officials said, the latest discipline incident that has emerged for an elite force relied upon heavily by the Pentagon. U.S. Special Operations Command said in a statement Wednesday night that the platoon was forced out early to San Diego by the commander of the task force, Maj. Gen. Eric T. Hill, “due to a perceived deterioration of good order and discipline within the team during non-operational periods” of their deployment.
A reader writes:
This is an anecdote about what I’ll call “unwoke intersectionality”, and how eerily timely your writing often is. Your call for alternative libraries was literally the same thought I was having over a cup of coffee this morning a few hours before you posted. I’ll share.
He goes on to tell me who he is. I am redacting this part severely to protect him. He and his wife, and their large family, are Catholics who live in a blue state, and send their kids to Catholic school. They are conservative, but don’t consider themselves to be culture warriors.
Matt Drudge, an Internet pioneer who founded the Drudge Report, wrote that Robert Mueller appeared “dazed and confused” giving testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning (Tweet) He later tweeted that everyone in Washington, DC, should be drug-tested for going along with this testimony.
“Drug test in Washington, everyone!” Drudge, the legendary news pioneer who only sounds off occasionally on social media, tweeted.
Drudge is the latest to chime in on Mueller’s testimony among the punditry, with countless numbers of journalists and opinion leaders doubting Mueller’s ability to stand behind the contents of his report.
A defining moment of today’s televised hearings came when former Special Counsel Robert Mueller claimed that he was “not familiar” with the controversial Fusion GPS firm.
Fusion GPS, of course, was paid by Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and the Democratic National Committee to produce the infamous Christopher Steele dossier that reportedly played a central role in sparking the FBI’s questionable Russia collusion probe involving the very claims that Mueller’s team was purportedly established to investigate.
Unsubstantiated Fusion GPS charges were reportedly utilized as evidence in successful FISA applications to obtain successive warrants to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, a former adviser to President Trump’s 2016 campaign who was also a
Robert Mueller is a very impressive man. Until he opens his mouth.
Or, perhaps, he is just a calcified, barnacle-crusted swamp creature long past his prime.
If that’s the case and Democrats forced him out of his retirement home to just play along with their silly partisan fantasies, then they should all be rounded up and arrested for elder abuse.
Either way, it’s no wonder why Mr. Mueller fought so hard against testifying publicly before Congress.
But there he was: in the bright lights on national television sputtering, bumbling and doddering about some report these people kept talking about. Again and again, Mr. Mueller would wander off topic and his mouth would wander off
Robert Mueller’s Wednesday testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees provided one piece of new information: now we know why he refused to take questions after his bizarre May 29 news conference. Indeed, the maundering and semi-coherent manner with which he answered the questions posed to him during Wednesday’s hearings suggests that he was probably never up to the job of running the special counsel investigation into Russian interference with our 2016 election. It also explains the peculiar legal reasoning that pervades the final report delivered to the attorney general. This is where he administered the lethal injection to impeachment.
Mueller’s excruciating testimony made it obvious that he was unfamiliar
New York -Bernie Madoff, the infamous mastermind behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history, is asking President Donald Trump to commute his 150-year prison sentence.
Madoff filed a clemency petition that is currently "pending," according to the Justice Department's website. It is unclear when the petition was first made, and officials declined to comment. The news was reported earlier by CNBC.
The White House did not immediately respond to questions about whether Trump will grant Madoff's request.
Madoff, now 81, was arrested in December 2008 on allegations that the prestigious asset management firm he ran in Manhattan was in fact a pyramid-type scheme that swindled billions of dollars from thousands of people.
Days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest on sex-trafficking charges in New York, Bill Clinton distanced himself from the high-flying financier and convicted sex offender. The former president owned up to just six encounters with Epstein, starting in 2002: four flights on the billionaire’s private jet, a single trip to his Harlem office, and one “brief visit” to his New York apartment, all with staff and security detail in tow.
Now, a Daily Beast investigation has uncovered ties between Epstein and the Clinton administration that date back to the president’s earliest days in the White House, casting doubt on the oft-circulated narrative that the two only began associating after Clinton left office.
So . . . this was Robert Mueller? This? This stumbling, confused, halting fellow — this was the man who would save us from President Trump? I’m not sure the man we watched in two hearings Wednesday could decide which of the early-bird specials to order at a retirement home in West Palm.
One can’t overstate the degree to which Silent Bob Mueller took up pride of place in the hearts and minds of America’s Trump-loathers over the past two years.
His absence from our public life — no statements, no appearances, no nothing — was the evidence of his overwhelming presence. Mueller was working diligently to rescue America
Puerto Rico’s embattled Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced on Wednesday he will resign from office amid mass protests on the island after offensive text messages between him and members of his administration leaked to the press.
In Facebook video released just before midnight, Rosselló announced he would step down effective Aug. 2.
He’ll be the first governor to resign in the modern history of Puerto Rico. Justice Secretary Wanda Vázquez is expected to take the post.
A Navy SEAL platoon from San Diego, Calif., is being ordered back to the U.S. from Iraq because of a “deterioration of good order and discipline,” the U.S. Special Operations Command said in a statement Wednesday.
“The Commander lost confidence in the team’s ability to accomplish the mission," the statement said.
The statement did not describe the exact nature of the misconduct, but the Washington Post said two defense officials told the newspaper that the SEALs involved in the incident had violated a general order against use of alcohol.
Former Independent Counsel Ken Starr criticized Robert Mueller Wednesday for failing to take the necessary steps to ensure he had a fair and balanced staff working on the Russia probe.
Responding after Mueller's first of two hearings before the House, Starr told Fox News that he was disappointed with Mueller's handling of the investigation and that it was his duty as special counsel to ensure his team would operate in a fair and unbiased manner.
"I love Bob Mueller as a human being, as a patriot - but I think he's done a grave disservice to our country in the way he conducted this investigation," said Starr.
Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy investor facing charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls, may have either attempted to commit suicide or was assaulted in jail, a late Wednesday evening report states.
According to NBC New York, citing sources familiar with the matter, an injured Epstein was discovered in the fetal position inside his jail cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. He was found “semi-conscious with marks on his neck,” reports NBC New York. Two sources told the news outlet that Epstein may have attempted to take his own life by hanging.