Posts on Wednesday, September 25, 2019
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and his longtime girlfriend Sandra Lee have ended their relationship after more than 14 years together. The couple confirmed their split in a statement on Wednesday. 'Over the recent past, we have realized that our lives have gone in different directions and our romantic relationship has turned into a deep friendship,' the statement said. 'We will always be family and are fully supportive of each other and dedicated to the girls. Our personal lives remain personal and there will be no further comment.'
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s words from 1998 about the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton are being used against her now as many critics are calling her a hypocrite in light of her decision this week to push for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. “Today, the Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness, but impeaching him with a vengeance,” Pelsoi said on December 18, 1998. “In the investigation of the president, fundamental principles which Americans hold dear — privacy, fairness, checks and balances — have been seriously violated.
‘Ready to spend our national strength’:
Iran’s Rouhani warns Saudi Arabia
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Iran’s Rouhani warns Saudi Arabia
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Saudi Arabia is still vulnerable to attacks like the recent strike against a pair of oil facilities, an Iranian official warned after rebuffing any negotiations with the United States. (Snip) “We are ready to spend our national strength and regional credibility and international authority.”
Those remarks raise the specter of more strikes against Saudi Arabia just days after European officials affirmed the U.S. assessment that Tehran is responsible for the Sept. 14 attack on Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Aramco
Judge denies Oberlin College’s request to unseal
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There have been many strange motions and actions in the Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College case. A post-trial motion by Oberlin College to unseal Facebook records may be one of the more strange developments, and offers a window into the bitter feelings of college officials. Allyn D. Gibson (Allyn D.) is the grandson of plaintiff Allyn W. Gibson (“Allyn W.”) and the son of plaintiff David Gibson. Allyn D., who was not a party in the lawsuit, was the store clerk on duty who caught an Oberlin College student shoplifting.(Snip)During the case, Allyn D.’s Facebook records were subpoenaed by Oberlin College,
Conservative radio talk show Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that Democrats are already experiencing "blowback" for taking aim against President Trump, including their push for impeachment following allegations concerning the president's phone call with the president of Ukraine. (Snip) Democrats initiated an impeachment inquiry Tuesday, following the whistleblower's complaint that Trump had improperly pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden. "Their media is not telling them about blowback. Their media isn’t reporting what people who disagree with them are saying or doing," Limbaugh said. "They’re ignorant of it."
Congressional committees in the House and Senate approved legislation supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong, warning China that any crackdown could revoke the city’s special trading status with the U.S. (Snip) The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 would also require the president to report to Congress and impose sanctions on the individuals responsible for “abducting and torturing” human rights activists. China expressed its objections to the move in a website statement by foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang. China will fight back against any U.S. actions that harm China’s national interest, the ministry said.
KEENE, N.H. – U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says impeachment proceedings against President Trump are “not a matter of politics” but of constitutional responsibility — applauding the House for finally launching an inquiry while hedging on its likelihood of success in the Senate.“This is not a matter of politics. It is a matter of constitutional responsibility,” Warren said in the opening of her campaign speech in Keene, N.H., Wednesday afternoon. “Nobody is above the law, not even the president of the United States.” Warren was the first major presidential candidate to call for Trump’s impeachment, doing so in April after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s
If you thought the Ukraine whistleblower controversy could not get any more partisan, be forewarned.The Federalist is reporting that one of the people hired to be on the anonymous whistleblower’s legal team — which many expect is a move made in preparation of a House testimony — is a very clear ally to the Democrat Party. Andrew Bakaj, a managing partner at Compass Rose Legal Group, has ties that run deep into the Democrat Party. He interned for Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton in 2001. Bakaj reportedly specializes in whistleblower and security clearance law.
Andrew P. Bakaj, a former C.I.A. and Pentagon official whose legal practice specializes in
Eleven GOP senators voted to cancel President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national border emergency and his subsequent transfer of agency funding to build the border wall. This 54 to 41 vote was not about the border wall, but whether “the Congress of the United States of America should yield its constitutionally prescribed power of the purse to the President,” said Maine GOP Sen. Susan Collins.“The answer to that question, regardless of who is in the White House … should be no,” Collins continued. “Congress alone is empowered by the constitution to adopt laws directing money from the U.S. Treasury.” The president “stole” the money,
On Tuesday Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment investigations against President Donald Trump for allegedly putting pressure on Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate the Biden Crime Family for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ukraine. The bogus accusations were based on hearsay from an anti-Trump “whistleblower” who supports a rival political opponent. On Wednesday the transcript of the call between President Trump and President Zelensky was released. By late Wednesday morning we all know the allegations were false.
Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that “the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.” Translation: Joe Biden – the great white hope of the Democratic Party – is fading. President Trump’s phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ended up shining more light on Biden’s Vice Presidential malfeasance more than Trumpian “corruption.” Pelosi’s announcement was a left-handed admission that it’s looking a lot like her party will nominate Elizabeth Warren as its 2020 standard-bearer. That means the only way to prevent Trump from winning a second term as president is to impeach him for, well, you name it
When Ukrainians voted to elect comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy as their next president in the spring of 2019, the fledgling administration was eager to coordinate a phone call with Kyiv’s most important benefactor -- the United States, according to an adviser to Zelenskiy. But after weeks of discussions with American officials, Ukrainian officials came to recognize a precondition to any executive correspondence, the adviser said."It was clear that [President Donald] Trump will only have communications if they will discuss the Biden case," said Serhiy Leshchenko an anti-corruption advocate and former member of Ukraine's Parliament, who now acts as an adviser to Zelenskiy.
ST. PETERSBURG — He stood in the GTE annual meeting holding a well-prepared manuscript typed by his wife, and readied to tell the story of his first sale for the company’s marketing department.
He earned this place of prestige selling a switchboard to Ridgewood Groves in Seminole on his first day. His first day.
His boss encouraged him to explain how he crafted the deal at the meeting. A salesman talking sales. Sounds simple, right?
Emmett Clary says he can’t remember a single word he uttered that night. Not one.
“I got up there in front of the group and my hands were shaking like that,” Clary explains, as he mimics the moment
When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "When you strike at a king, you must kill him," he probably wasn't thinking of impeachment. But politically speaking, the stakes are pretty much the same whether you try to murder a monarch or remove a president from office.
Just ask Newt Gingrich, who found himself the victim of a putsch within his own party after his impeachment of Bill Clinton died in the Senate. Had Gingrich claimed Clinton's scalp, do you doubt he'd have likely remained Speaker for as long as he might have wanted?
Suppose however the target of Congress's impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump isn't actually
Since taking control of the House last year, watching the Democrats is not unlike watching a demolition derby. Pelosi, Schumer, Schiff, Green, and the Squad, to name a few, all driving tired, beaten up, divisive narratives, as fresh as a demolition derby car. Ukraine knows exactly what went transpired between the Obama administration – Obama, Biden and Clinton and the oligarchy of Ukraine. Hunter and Joe Biden, while actions are questionable, are nothing more than a way to distract away from the very real crimes that hurt America. The collusion of Obama and Clinton, et al., in the creation of the Russian hoax dossier.
Sparks fly at assault-weapons ban
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A former police officer made a bold proclamation during a congressional hearing Wednesday regarding a proposed assault-weapons ban: she would not comply.
Dianna Muller, who served in the Tulsa Police Department for 22 years and is the founder of gun advocacy group The DC Project, was among the witnesses at the House Judiciary Committee hearing. The session on an otherwise contentious issue flew largely under the radar amid the Trump-Ukraine controversy and Democrats' impeachment push. But reflecting the gun control divide in the country -- amid a spate of deadly mass shootings that prompted renewed calls for strict laws -- Muller said that such a ban
At 2:44 PM, the Washington Post ran a story, titled, "Acting director of national intelligence threatened to resign if he couldn’t speak freely before Congress on whistleblower complaint." At 3:25 PM, Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire politely issued a statement basically calling this report absolute fake news. WaPo thought it had a bombshell report. It looked as if Maguire was going to quit because President Donald J. Trump and his White House were going to do their best to block him from testifying before Congress regarding the Ukrainian whistleblower complaint.
On the heels of Democrats calling for impeachment over a phone call President Donald Trump had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky where Trump allegedly asked for dirt on Joe Biden, Trump and Zelensky held a joint press conference on Wednesday afternoon.And the Ukranian president minced no words as he stated emphatically “Nobody pushed me,” into probing the Bidens.And both Trump and Zelensky made it clear in the press conference that the United States and Ukraine are allies, no matter what Democrats say.Trump opened the press conference by saying that he and the Ukrainian president have had several phone conversations.“They’d like to hear every single word and
The tiny Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez impersonator, Ava Martinez, who had been driven off the internet due to threats and harassment is back with a brand new hilarious parody video — saying that it “looks like politics are no longer off limits for children thanks to Greta.” “The sky is falling! The sky is falling…” the eight-year-old AOC lookalike tweeted with her newest video.(Tweet/Video) “Like, I want to tell you about the most amazing science book I just finished reading on climate change. It’s called Chicken Little,” Martinez continued.
The whistleblower complaint that sparked an impeachment inquiry into President Trump will be transmitted to Congress at 4 p.m. Wednesday. Republican Rep. Devin Nunes told the chamber that the director of national intelligence would provide the House Intelligence Committee with the whistleblower complaint. This comes on the same day that the White House released a transcript of a July 25 call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodoymyr Zelensky. The whistleblower, who is yet unnamed, filed a complaint with the intelligence community inspector general in August alleging that Trump urged Zelensky to work with his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, to investigate ties that political opponent Joe Biden's son,
Representative Rashida Tlaib’s performance during a House subcommittee hearing on vaping was so completely, totally absurd that she must either be willfully lying or totally stupid.
No, I am not exaggerating. Tlaib made some straight-up bananas comments during Tuesday’s hearing, including asking Vicki Porter (who, as Reason’s Robby Soave notes, was the only pro-vaping witness at the hearing) whether or not she was a “conspiracy theorist.”
Tlaib asked:
“Ms. Porter, I was reading because I want to know more about you and your beliefs, and I respect that we all have different beliefs, but you call yourself a converted conservative and a reformed Marxist? Are you a conspiracy theorist?”
The company that created “Barbie” launched a new line of gender-neutral Barbie dolls released in Walmart and Target stores Wednesday.
Mattel Creatable World released a new line of Barbie dolls in efforts to create “more inclusive” dolls, available online at Target, Walmart, and Amazon. The dolls are designed to meet the needs of children who do not necessarily identify as female or male.
“Creatable World™ gives kids a blank canvas to create their own characters,” Mattel’s website says. “Switch long hair for short hair—add a skirt, pants or both. It’s up to you! Mix and match, swap or share.”
'No one is above the law,' unless you're
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For absolutely no identifiable reason at all, it's taken for granted by Democrats and liberals in the media that because we're only 14 months away from a presidential election, it was inappropriate for President Trump to ask the leader of Ukraine to look into potentially corrupt conduct by Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
That's quite a grace period for any high-profile Democrat who might be interested in enriching his or her family by pulling some strings within the federal government.
We still don't know if Joe Biden ever did anything like that, though it looks like he might have.
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I’d characterize the conversation as suggestive, but obviously not a smoking gun. There’s nothing here that directly indicates aid is going to be withheld, but certainly nothing that’s inconsistent with it, either.
It’s not a problem for Trump to ask Zelensky to go back and look at the role of Ukrainian actors in 2016; this is simply asking a foreign leader to cooperate in a probe that has been being undertaken by the United States department of justice. Hence, one assumes, the references to attorney general Bill Barr.
Asking for an investigation of a political opponent is obviously more troubling. But this is a little fuzzy, since it
Fox News was far and away the highest rated network Tuesday evening, as House Democrats officially launched an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
The network averaged 3.3 million viewers during House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement, including 551,100 viewers in the coveted ages 25-54 demographic, according to Nielsen Media Research Center. The numbers far outpaced other cable news outlets, including MSNBC and CNN. MSNBC averaged just under 2.4 million viewers during Pelosi’s announcement, including just 305,000 viewers in the 25-54 demographic. Meanwhile, CNN averaged just over 1.4 million viewers during the announcement, with 365,000 viewers coming from the 25-54 demographic.
If Democrats capture the White House in 2020, your own neighborhood is likely to look like the disease-ridden tent slums taking over Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren insists it's wrong to ban living on the streets and in public parks. Bernie Sanders is calling for a 3% cap on annual rent hikes, the kind of poisonous rent control law that deters new housing construction and worsens homelessness.
As for Joe Biden, expect him to stick by the Obama administration's policy that living on the street is a civil right. Never mind the harm that street dwellers inflict on the public's health and safety
In the midst of this impeachment inquiry talk, it is easy to forget that other 2020 presidential candidates are still trying to latch on to whatever media coverage they can get. It seems that Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has decided that the latest "evidence" against president shows him that his supporters who "enable" him are despicable. Booker's comments were made to MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Tuesday night after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced a formal impeachment inquiry.
"I just want to say I've seen this. I've been saying this from the beginning the Trump administration.
A coalition of state Attorneys General — led by California, Maryland and Massachusetts — are suing the Trump administration over recent changes made to the way it enforces the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
California AG Xavier Becerra (D) challenged the Trump administration’s changes to the way it will protect species under the ESA as a choice “to prioritize endangering endangered species rather than protecting them.”
The lawsuit follows the administration’s announcement in August that it would weaken protections on various plants and animals, opting to no longer regulate threatened species at the same degree as endangered species.
President Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Wednesday that the nations had reached agreements on agricultural and digital trade provisions of a broader deal between the U.S. and Japan.
The agreement, finalized and touted by Trump and Abe at the United Nations summit, would eliminate or reduce tariffs on $7.2 billion in U.S. agricultural goods imported by Japan.
The deal would also reduce import taxes and other trade barriers for digital products—such as software, digital media, computer source code and data—exchanged between the U.S. and Japan.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, in a floor speech on Wednesday, said the Trump White House and its allies will "rush" to call the Democrat impeachment inquiry a "partisan with hunt no matter how serious the allegations." "But let me be clear," Schumer continued, "because I know accusations of partisanship are already being written. This inquiry was not taken up for partisan reasons. It does not prejudge an outcome." (Video) Schumer warned his Republican colleagues that it may fall to them to judge the president's actions, and he reminded them of their constitutional duty:
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Tuesday that the House would launch a formal impeachment inquiry in response to the dispute over Mr. Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his potential 2020 rival, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The rising furor has heightened interest in how the impeachment process works. Here’s what you need to know:
What is impeachment?
The Constitution permits Congress to remove presidents before their term is up if enough lawmakers vote to say that they committed “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
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As vice president and with the permission of Obama, Joe Biden withheld a billion dollars in U.S. aid to Ukraine unless it fired the prosecutor who was investigating Biden's worthless son. Biden bragged about this last year.
Instead of bringing Biden to justice, the media and Democrats want to use this to impeach President Donald John Trump. We live in a land where the media and Democrats have embroidered the truth so much that they reject the truth. They resent the truth because it does not conform to their childish narrative of Orange Man Bad, Democrats Good.
On July 25, President Trump talked to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by phone
Kids are different today – in troubling ways. Studies and polls reveal they are far more prone to anxiety and depression than previous generations and more of them embrace nanny-state socialism.
Multiple factors are driving these broad behaviors – including the rise of social media, infantilizing helicopter parents and the low-grade panic caused by the Great Recession. But a key driver that has received little attention is the left’s false and calculated hysteria around climate change.
Apocalyptic fears may be a feature rather than a bug of human psychology, but Americans under 25 have grown up under a singular cloud of doom.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta appeared on air Wednesday morning to report a major bombshell: that President Trump doesn’t want to be impeached. “You’ve heard–that the president has said, ‘Well, this could be good for me. This impeachment process could work for us and help the Republicans.’ The Trump campaign was saying last night this is going to energize our base and so on,” Acosta said.
“I talked to a source close to the White House last night, someone who regularly talks to the president who says, you know what, he does not want to be impeached. He does not like the idea of impeachment.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) raised approximately $1 million dollars Tuesday, after Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi came out in favor of the impeachment of President Donald Trump for the first time after meeting with her caucus. The reelection campaign and a joint fundraising committee started fundraising in regards to impeachment around 2 p.m. and pulled in $1 million by 8 p.m, Tuesday night, according to The Hill. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel sent out a tweet Tuesday afternoon, saying the RNC raised 350,000 in Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin’s district for backing impeachment.
Recently, a young Iowan named Carson King went viral after being photographed at a football game while holding up a sign asking people to send him money, via Venmo, to buy more Busch Light beer. He succeeded beyond his wildest dreams, bringing in more than $1 million. Instead of keeping the money, King decided to give it to a children's hospital.
And for that amazing act of charity, Carson King had to be destroyed.
Zachary Evans, National Review:
"The Des Moines Register is facing backlash for exposing the years-old racist tweets of an Iowa man who raised $1 million for charity.
Watch: How Worried Is Trump About
Impeachment? His New Fundraising Video
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Impeachment? His New Fundraising Video
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After months of trying to keep the more radical members of her party from beating the drum too loudly for the politically risky action, Democratic leader House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (CA) finally made a decision to formally move forward with an impeachment inquiry on Tuesday. Will the move backfire, as many analysts have warned, or will it pay off for Pelosi and company? Amid a series of posts slamming the Democrats for moving forward with an impeachment inquiry over the latest “witch hunt”-spawned scandal, President Trump revealed that his campaign believes impeachment will pay off — for him, literally.
On Tuesday Democrat Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced impeachment investigations against President Donald Trump for allegedly putting pressure on Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate the Biden Crime Family for laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars from Ukraine. The bogus accusations were based on hearsay from an anti-Trump “whistleblower” who supports a rival political opponent. On Wednesday the transcript of the call between President Trump and President Zelensky was released. By late Wednesday morning
Good grief, talk about a nothingburger – this phone call is fine. Here’s the transcript of the phone call between President Trump and President Zelenskyy.[White House] President Donald J. Trump has released a declassified, unredacted transcript of his telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from July 25th, 2019. The transcript can be read HERE.
Are the mainstream and social media helping to morph Biden, knowing full well that he, like all Democrat presidential hopefuls, is part of the warm up act for the DNC’s 11th-hour dark horse pick for the 2020 Elections? The up-against-it desperate Democrat Party needs to Impeach President Donald Trump. Democrats need to “IMPEACH TRUMP!” to save Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.
With the help of top Democrats, the mainstream and social media have tried to con the masses by morphing Biden into a somewhat pathetic, bumbling, stumbling gaffe maker; a 2020 presidential hopeful continuously confused about dates and places, a septuagenarian once noteworthy for
LOS BANOS, Calif. — One of the most recent threats to California's environment has webbed feet, white whiskers, shaggy fur and orange buck teeth that could be mistaken for carrots. "Boy, they're an ugly-looking thing," said David Passadori, an almond and walnut grower in central California. "And the way they multiply — jeez." The swamp rodents, called nutria, are setting off alarms in California. They weigh about 20 pounds (9 kilograms) each and eat the equivalent of about a fourth of their weight each day by burrowing into riverbanks and chomping into plants that emerge from the water. The animals can destroy
Mattel Inc. has unveiled a new line of customizable dolls that are free of gender labels in a step toward more “inclusive” play, the company said Wednesday. The Creatable World line allows children to create their own characters with “extensive” wardrobe options, accessories, hairstyles and up to six skin tones, Mattel said in a press release. A video ad promoting the social media hashtag #AllWelcome said the doll line is “designed to keep labels out and invite everyone in, making play more inclusive than ever before.” “Toys are a reflection of culture and as the world continues to celebrate the positive impact of inclusivity
Mark Zuckerberg keeps proving that he is bully, a thug, a liberal and a liar. He is a bully and a thug because he uses his powerful Facebook platform to target conservatives. Zuckerberg is a liberal because he was raised in the San Francisco Bay area. He is a liar because he repeatedly tells Congress that he is not targeting political opponents. But can he solve a Rubik’s Cube in less than 10-minutes? Probably not. Though maybe he should be able. The man who makes millions devising algorithms to censor conservatives should be able to solve the manual algorithm of the Rubik’s Cube, Right?
As cable news channels breathlessly waited Tuesday for Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph R. Biden to declare his support for impeachment, President Trump stole the spotlight.
Mr. Trump announced in a tweet that he was going to do exactly what Mr. Biden planned to demand: release the transcript of his much-discussed phone call with the Ukrainian president.
The tweet, which he typed out just minutes before Mr. Biden’s major news conference, forced the campaign team into a hectic rewrite session that delayed the speech for an hour.
Throughout a day dominated by an impeachment circus that spanned from Capitol Hill to the campaign trail, Mr. Trump repeatedly showed he was the ringmaster.
Charges have been filed against a man and a teenage girl after a shot was fired into a Corner Bakery during a fight Monday on Michigan Avenue in the Loop.
Angel Martinez, 18, is charged with one felony count of aggravated discharge of a firearm toward an occupied vehicle, according to Chicago police.
Martinez, who lives in Cicero, and the 17-year-old girl are also each charged with a felony count of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon for allegedly possessing a loaded gun without a FOID card, police said.
(Snip) One bullet went through the window of the Corner Bakery at 224 S. Michigan Ave., according to a law enforcement source.
The Pacific Gas & Electric Co. proactively shut off power to more than 48,000 Northern California customers in the face of an elevated fire risk that was expected to continue through Wednesday evening.
Customers in parts of Butte, Nevada, Plumas and Yuba counties lost power at 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. According to PG&E’s outage map, power was restored to some areas by 8 a.m., but regions near Chico and Yuba City were without electricity nearly six hours later.
Western parts of the Sacramento Valley and nearby foothills also remain under a severe fire threat, with high temperatures, strong winds reaching up to 40 mph and humidity levels
That didn’t take long. Greta Thunberg, the angry young climatologist making headlines all over the world, has “won” 1 million Swedish kronor ($103,000) for her angry crusade to stop global warming. The 16-year-old is among four people named as the winners of a Right Livelihood Award, also called the “Alternative Nobel Prize.”“We honour and support courageous people solving global problems,” says their website. What problem Thunberg has “solved” is unclear.“Thunberg is the powerful voice of a young generation that will have to bear the consequences of today’s political failure to stop climate change.
President Trump is seen in the news as perpetually on the verge of being toppled by the latest scandal of the week. But not here in Hillsboro or places like it.
The latest round of accusations involving Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh led to calls for Kavanaugh’s impeachment in Washington but were largely dismissed here as more flimsy, partisan attacks. Former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski’s scornful testimony before Congress brought demands for a contempt citation from some but was mostly cheered here. The saga of Trump, Ukraine and the unknown “whistleblower” leaves people here wondering why former vice president Joe Biden isn’t more scrutinized
Nope, it’s not obstreperously obnoxious Jim Acosta of CNN, who embodies the disingenuous sanctimony of Emma Lazarus utopianists. It’s not former Washington Post reporter and illegal immigrant fraudster Jose Antonio Vargas, who represents the insatiable entitlement of amnesty mongers. It’s not spittle-flecked Geraldo Rivera, who personifies ethnic identity narcissism. And it’s not the lying liars of Time magazine, whose manufactured cover art fable of Yanela Sanchez (the illegal immigrant poster child for “separated families” at the border who was never actually separated from her mother) epitomizes Trump-deranged “fake news.” If I had to name just one America-sabotaging mouthpiece who symbolizes the foulest of the Fourth
The Justice Department’s Criminal Division has already investigated President Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president about Joseph R. Biden and concluded Mr. Trump did not violate campaign finance laws, officials announced Wednesday.
And a separate division of the department has also ruled that the administration did not break the law by failing to quickly share a whistleblower’s complaint with Congress, saying the matter didn’t meet the definition of “urgent” that would trigger the law.
The department also released the transcript of Mr. Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, showing the American leader did talk about Mr. Biden, the former vice president and current Democratic presidential front-runner,
The just-released transcript of President Trump’s July 25 conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky confirms the president’s statement that he did nothing blameworthy with regard to the Biden investigation. The conversation was friendly and wide-ranging. There was discussion of how much the U.S. is helping Ukraine:
Trump: I will say that we do a lot for Ukraine. We spend a lot of effort and a lot of time. Much more than the European countries are doing and they should be helping you more than they are. Germany does almost nothing for you.
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Zelensky: Yes, you are absolutely right.
With the release this morning of the unredacted transcript of President Trump’s July 25 call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the bait has been set in a trap, and the House Democrats are very likely to vote to begin impeachment proceedings for President Trump. President Trump and his advisors hastened to release it because the now want impeachment.
There is no quid pro quo offer or demand in the call and no mention of military aid, but there is plenty of expression of Trump’s desire to have the affair investigated.
Youth and Ignorance
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Camille Paglia is a professor of humanities and media studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she has been a faculty member since 1984. Paglia describes herself as transgender, but unlike so many other transgender people, she is pro-capitalism and hostile to those who'd restrict free speech. She's a libertarian. As to modern ideas that include "gender-inclusive pronouns" such as zie, sie and zim, Paglia says it is lunacy. In a 2017 interview, Paglia was especially irritated by the thought police running college campuses today.
Hillary Clinton has joined the growing number of Democrats who are calling for an impeachment investigation to begin into President Donald Trump.Clinton, who has been a critic of Trump since she ran for the Presidency in the 2016 election, said that now feels like the right time to begin proceedings.It comes after reports President Trump pressured Ukraine's government to look into the family of his leading 2020 challenger, Vice President Joe Biden, and whether the former Vice President had pulled strings to get his son into the country.'We are in a crisis,' Clinton said to People. 'I did not come to that decision easily or quickly but
True to form, 2020 White House candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) told The New York Times Tuesday that billionaires should not exist, while a new survey published by the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute on the same day reveals that Americans decisively disagree.
“I don’t think that billionaires should exist,” Sanders said in the interview. “I hope the day comes when they don’t.”
A new study from the Cato Institute out the same day as Sanders’ comments shows that 82 percent of Americans believe that people “should be allowed to become billionaires.” The study also shows that 75 percent of Americans reject the idea that it
President Donald Trump reacted Tuesday to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to begin an impeachment inquiry to remove him from office. “There has been no President in the history of our country who has been treated so badly as I have,” he wrote on TwitterThe president noted Democrats had gotten nothing done since taking the House majority and electing Rep. Nancy Pelosi as Speaker.“The Democrats are frozen with hatred and fear,” Trump wrote. “They get nothing done.” He noted the level of investigations and criticism targeting him, his family, his businesses, and his administration was unprecedented. “This should never be allowed to happen to another President,”
Fox News’ senior political analyst Brit Hume weighed in on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s announcement of a formal impeachment inquiry, arguing the move “was really quite clever.”What Pelosi accomplished, he argued, was to placate the progressive wing of the party while protecting moderates by not actually moving forward with a formal impeachment vote."It strikes me that the Speaker and the other leaders are under pressure from the left wing of the party and the leftists in their caucus -- who are numerous -- to move ahead here," he said.
Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, blasted Democrats Wednesday for jumping to conclusions about President Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before knowing the facts.
“The transcript between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelensky reveals that Democrats have again leapt to conclusions before looking at the facts," he said in a statement. "There was no quid pro quo and nothing to justify the clamor House Democrats caused yesterday. The real danger here is that Democrats keep using baseless accusations in hopes of crippling a successful presidency.”
On Tuesday, he reminded the American public that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement
An encounter between a Florida deputy and college student has gone viral after an image of the young man praying over the officer in a local restaurant was posted to social media over the weekend.
Justine Tucker was out to dinner with her husband Cameron on Saturday when the couple was approached by Juan O’Neal. Tucker said the young man asked if he could pray over her husband, who is a deputy with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office, after he felt “compelled” to talk to them.
“Tonight was a night that I will never forget,” her Facebook post read.
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2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., sidestepped a question about fellow candidate Joe Biden's ties to Ukraine on "Fox & Friends" Wednesday and said President Trump's latest actions are a "bridge too far" for Democrats."Where are we coming in as a nation when both Republicans and Democrats see an ally, Ukraine, under attack and a president of the United States withholds that aid in order to go after a political opponent? I think that was a bridge too far for people," he said.Host Steve Doocy asked about the double standard regarding Biden and Ukraine after it was discovered the former vice president's son, Hunter, had ties to
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Most voters expect Joe Biden to be the Democratic nominee, but President Trump has the edge for now in next year’s presidential race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 65% of Likely U.S. Voters think Biden is likely to be the Democrats’ presidential candidate next year, although only 23% consider that Very Likely. Twenty-eight percent (28%) say he is unlikely to be nominated, but just nine percent (9%) say it’s Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.) The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on September 23-24, 2019 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3
The Democratic Party has had the horse in front of the cart all along in their quest to impeach President Donald Trump, and now House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has finally been convinced/cajoled to go along over what may be the weakest reasoning yet.The investigation of Trump began before he even took office and the effort picked up considerable steam after former special counsel Robert Mueller failed to produce the goods on the president. House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., led the way, insisting his panel was engaged in an impeachment investigation, even though there has been no formal vote in the House to authorize the probe.
Bill Kristol excitedly reports the prospect that Sen. Mitt Romney's criticism of President Trump's call with the Ukrainian president may result in House and Senate Republicans supporting impeachment.
"I think this statement by DeLauro is very important," Kristol said of a key Pelosi ally calling for the impeachment of Trump. "That signals to me I think where Nancy Pelosi is going."
The Department of Justice has released an unredacted transcript of a phone call between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The call took place in July from the White House Situation Room. It shows no effort by President Trump to pressure Zelensky into investigating former Vice President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, in exchange for military aid. This action was falsely alleged by a whistleblower and pushed Democrats on Capitol Hill into an impeachment inquiry. In fact, military aid isn’t mentioned at all.
"There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so
The Justice Department’s Criminal Division has already investigated President Trump’s conversation with the Ukrainian president about Joseph R. Biden and concluded Mr. Trump did not violate campaign finance laws, officials announced Wednesday.
And a separate division of the department has also ruled that the administration did not break the law by failing to quickly share a whistleblower’s complaint with Congress, saying the matter didn’t meet the definition of “urgent” that would trigger the law.
The department also released the transcript of Mr. Trump’s conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, showing the American leader did talk about Mr. Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
President Donald Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to “look into” former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, during a phone call in July, NBC News’ Pete Williams reported Wednesday.
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, what Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that, so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great,” Trump said in the call, according to NBC.
Trump added: “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution, so if you can look into it, It sounds horrible to me.”
Trump only mentioned Biden
The US Army issued a warning about the possibility of mass shootings at upcoming screenings of “Joker,” according to a new report. In a widely distributed email on Sept. 18 marked “For official use only,” officials reminded service members to “identify two escape routes” and to “run, hide, fight” in the event of a shooting, Gizmodo reported. “Run if you can,” the message said. “If you’re stuck, hide (also known as ‘sheltering in place’), and stay quiet. If a shooter finds you, fight with whatever you can.” On Tuesday, the Army confirmed to Gizmodo that it issued the warning in light of social media posts from “incel” extremists
35-year-old psychologist in High School in Orange County, California, has been arrested for allegedly having sex with a teen boy inside of a classroom back in April 2018. The arrest was made on Sept. 24, 2019.
Kristen Lynn Boyle was reportedly involved in sexual intercourse with the boy in a La Habra High School classroom which was deemed outrageous.
A long investigation, which was carried out prior to the arrest, indicated that she misused her power to exploit the boy. The Orange County District Attorney’s office said in a statement that Boyle, who worked as a psychologist at the school, was charged with statutory rape, the New York Post reported.
Carlson: Dems to Explain Why It Was
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Tuesday on his Fox News Channel program “Tucker Carlson Tonight” opening monologue, host Tucker Carlson reacted to congressional Democrats moving forward with efforts to impeach President Donald Trump.
Carlson scoffed at the seriousness of the effort and questioned why Democrats were choosing to pursue impeachment with so many other problems plaguing the country.
He added Democrats will now have the burden of explaining former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden’s alleged indiscretions.
“Instead of trying to fix any of that, Democrats want to spend the next year explaining, and they plan to, explaining why it was perfectly fair for Joe Biden’s ne’er-do-well son to get $600,000
Impeach! Impeach, they say! If only he were Buckingham, they would take off his head as well. Trump has become the Democrats' version of Richard III, if he wasn't already. (Okay, he was.)
They even moved to open an impeachment "inquiry" (whatever that means -- a little bit chicken, if you ask me -- they've been doing it for the last three years anyway) after Trump announced he was making his phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky public Wednesday in unredacted form. And now he's announcing the whistleblower's complaint, whatever hand it is -- second, third, who knows? -- will be released later in the week. Talk about a reckless
Editor’s note: Peter Schweizer and the Government Accountability Institute spent three years investigating former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter and their dealings in the Ukraine and China. The research culminated in the #1 New York Times bestselling book “Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends” (Harper Collins, March 2018). (Snip)
1. Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in April 2014, according to RSB bank records. Hunter Biden had little background in energy. Over a 16-month period, Burisma paid $3.1 million to a bank account associated with Hunter’s business.
Rudy Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer and old friend from New York, was on fire last night, clearly ecstatic over what lies ahead for the Democrats (snip) he gave a preview of what lies ahead, and it is evident that he and his client, President Trump, have been waiting for the right moment to launch their counterattack.
“The Democrats have stepped into something way beyond what they realize.”
“We’ve lost the FBI… and who knows what else?
“They have walked into a trap”
“There’s only one reason the Chinese spent all that money: to buy Joe Biden.”
Ukraine controversy and impeachment inquiry
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potentially politically perilous for Biden: Experts replies
Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign is mounting an offensive strategy in the midst of allegations that President Trump attempted to exert pressure on Ukraine against his political rival. The drumbeat on impeachment has hit a fevered pitch on the Hill, with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowing to move forward with an official impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. Her announcement came just hours after Biden told a gathering of reporters in Wilmington, Delaware that if the president failed to comply with congressional requests impeachment would be "a tragedy of (Trump's) own making." Biden’s messaging on impeachment might seem a
Former CIA Officer: ‘Pelosi Launched The
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A former CIA officer who is a self-described Democrat compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry to the Titanic being launched “into a giant iceberg in 2020.” Speaking on Tuesday night’s edition of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Bryan Dean Wright – introduced as a lifelong Democrat – was asked by Fox News host Tucker Carlson if impeachment was a “wise idea.” WATCH:(Video) “No, it’s not, Tucker,” said Wright. “The whole thing is a disaster. Pelosi launched the Titanic tonight into a gigantic iceberg in November 2020. We had up until now, yesterday, really the last couple weeks it was all Russia. As of later this morning it was Ukraine.
The Democratic race for the presidential nomination may be at a turning point as a surging Elizabeth Warren blew by both Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders in California to take an 8-point lead in the latest tracking poll from the state.This poll is not an outlier. Warren also took the lead in Iowa in the Des Moines Register poll. It appears that Democrats are beginning to shake off worries about "electability" and are embracing the far-left "soak the rich" agenda of the Warren/Sanders wing of the party.The California poll is something of a shocker.
Maxine Waters: We Will ‘Move Very Quickly’
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on Impeaching Trump — Might Skip
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Tuesday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said House Democrats will “move very quickly” to bring articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. Maddow asked, “Can you tell us anything about the expected timeline there, either in terms of when you and your fellow chairs are expected to meet to talk together about these matters or when this overall is something that we should expect to come to fruition?” Waters said, “Well, it’s going to move very quickly. We met today and we will be meeting perhaps tomorrow, programs the next day but it’s going to move quickly.”
The political planets are aligned to provide a considerably interesting day today. If events happen as outlined in recent media reports, the White House will release the transcript of a call (underpinning a hearsay whistleblower complaint) between U.S. President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine (pictured below). Additionally, the Intelligence Community Inspector General is expected to release research documents from his office showing a concerning political motive behind the hearsay whistleblower; a person who complained about the Trump-Zelenskyy phone call
CNN boss Jeff Zucker may be ready for his close-up. The boss of the left-leaning news network is said to be the “leading, if not only” internal candidate to become chief executive of WarnerMedia, the entertainment division of AT&T, according to a report. Citing anonymous sources, NBC News said Tuesday that Zucker’s name is being shopped to head up the group, which includes Warner Bros., HBO and Turner Broadcasting. Zucker would replace WarnerMedia boss John Stankey, who also holds the role of AT&T president and chief operating officer
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday evening released a statement blasting Speaker Pelosi’s impeachment inquiry announcement.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced earlier this afternoon that the House of Representatives launched a formal ‘impeachment investigation’ into President Trump over a Deep State Trump-Ukraine whistleblower hit.Pelosi and Nadler do not have the backing of the House of Representatives and did not receive authorization from a full House vote to impeach President Trump.At the time of this publication, 33 House Democrats do not support impeachment and zero House Republicans support impeachment.
As far as America is concerned, the days of globalism are over, President Trump said in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.
“The future does not belong to globalists, the future belongs to patriots,” he said. “The future belongs to sovereign and independent nations who protect their citizens, respect their neighbors and honor the differences that make each country special and unique.”
In his address to the assembled world leaders, the president criticized globalist policies and emphasized a strong message of national sovereignty, touting an “exciting program of national renewal” in the United States.
“If you want freedom, take pride in your country,” he said.
House Democrats’ most edge towards impeachment proceedings reveals that their fanatical hatred of President Trump, which has driven much of their agenda over the past two and a half years, has not abated in the slightest.
On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced the House will move forward with an “impeachment inquiry” into President Trump due to allegations that he pressured the Ukrainian president to investigate corruption charges against 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden. However, the latest calls for impeachment may end up hurting Democrats’ chances of recapturing the White House in 2020.
Democrats in the House of Representatives yesterday announced they would open a “formal impeachment inquiry,” whatever that is. Summoning all the courage of the Cowardly Lion, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stood before a flag, compared herself to Thomas Paine, and told the American people she was kinda, sorta, almost ready to maybe attempt to impeach President Trump. Bold leadership.
For weeks now, Democrats have been divided over whether they were already holding an impeachment inquiry. Not articles of impeachment, but an impeachment inquiry. As Allen Iverson once said, “We up in here talking about practice. Not a game, not a game. Practice.”
Senate Republicans are vowing to quickly quash any articles of impeachment that pass the House and warn that Democrats will feel a political backlash if they go forward and impeach President Trump.
Republican senators say there are no grounds to impeach Trump and are daring Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to embark on what they dismiss as a fool’s errand that will turn off swing voters.
“My response to them is go hard or go home,” said Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over impeachment. “If you want to impeach him, stop talking. Do it. Do it. Go to Amazon, buy a spine
Watch Joe Biden Brag About Bribing
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Ukraine To Fire The Prosecutor
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The media has had a field day over new hearsay accusations that President Trump was wrong to ask Ukranian leaders to investigate political corruption related to Joe Biden. Predictably, several House Democrats have used this news cycle to again demand Trump’s impeachment.
While the whistleblower complaint is based on hearsay, we do know that Joe Biden, while serving as vice president, pressured the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son’s company. Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukrainian national gas company Burisma in 2014 while his father was managing the United States’ Ukraine policy and despite zero personal experience in the field.
Yesterday, House speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the first steps are being taken to impeach President Donald Trump. While few people actually believe that these actions will result in the disclosure of any offense on the part of the president or in a formal impeachment vote, the actions signify that what once made America function so much better than any previous nation is now lost.
In the hotly contested election of 1800, the Democratic-Republican Party — led by Thomas Jefferson — won the presidency and control of Congress. This was not a mere transition of the gavel from one hand to the next.
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Chutzpah hardly describes what the deranged Left has been doing the past few days. Their collusion-with-Russia gambit failed miserably, so they've invented a desperate new narrative, that Trump asked the President of Ukraine to look into the corruption of Biden and his son that occurred in that country and that this is somehow illegal! Hmmm.
President Obama had made Biden his point man on Ukraine and any informed political junkie knows that family man Biden took financial advantage of the opportunity to enrich his son.
Never mind that the President can say whatever he wants to the leader of any foreign nation, in private
Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In,” Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), the vice-chairman of the House Oversight Committee, spoke about the day’s announcement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that congressional Democrats would pursue impeachment against President Donald Trump.
Hill joined her colleagues earlier in the day in support of the measure, adding that Trump’s impeachment was not her objective when she ran for Congress. However, she acknowledged there was a risk in supporting impeachment for reelection chances for her and some of her colleagues.
“[I] think this administration and the information that’s come forth over the last several months since we’ve been here has pushed each of us further and further and
Democrats wrote to the Ukrainian government in May 2018 urging it to continue investigations into President Donald Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign — collusion later found not to exist.
The demand, which came from U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT), resurfaced Wednesday in an opinion piece written by conservative Marc Thiessen in the Washington Post.
Ironically, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) declared Tuesday that the mere possibility that President Trump had asked Ukraine to continue an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden — even without a quid pro quo
The U.S. government has finally admitted that UFOs are real..sort of.
This past week, the U.S. Navy confirmed that several videos—two of which were first released by The New York Times in 2017 depicting so-called “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena" (UAP)—are authentic. The three videos, (another was later published by The Washington Post), each depicting quick-moving oblong-shaped objects, were shot by Navy pilots during training exercises in 2004 and 2015. The Navy has yet to identify the objects in the video, and along with the Department of Defense, said the videos should have never been made public.
"This has nothing to do with politics or partisanship.” That was how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it shortly before announcing the opening of an official impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump. Who is she trying to kid?
Despite the breathless commentary about Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president and a whistleblower report based on second-hand accounts of uncertain credibility, we know little about what transpired, much less whether it rises to the level of an impeachable offense. Democrats could have gone through the normal procedures to get the information from the White House rather than jump immediately to talk of impeachment.
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I won’t say that impeachment is back in the news, because the removal of the President never left and has been a headline grabber since before Trump took the oath. (snip) For all of Pelosi’s supposed political acumen, her hand was forced by the progressive rabble-rousers. This makes for a dramatic coup de théâtre, but it’s still only that: theater. Pelosi lost face, yes. But the humiliation will be downplayed by her media backers, who treat statecraft like so many three-act plays. And we already know the coming ending.
The Washington wisdom behind Trump’s impeachment makes sense until you venture three feet outside I-495.
There are two possible scandals in the Trump-Ukraine-Biden phone call saga, but we're unlikely to get evidence of a smoking gun on either of them.
These scandals being; first and foremost, whether Trump withheld nearly $400 million in military aid in order to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating the business dealings of Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden. (There is a strong and I'd add reasonable presumption that such an investigation might damage Joe Biden's 2020 presidential bid.) The second possible scandal is whether as vice president, Joe Biden illegitimately pressured Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor in order to prevent him from pursuing evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden.
The Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that Placido Domingo had agreed to withdraw from his slate of scheduled performances at the opera house following allegations of sexual harassment made by multiple women in two Associated Press stories. The opera legend, who has disputed the allegations, indicated that he would never again perform at the Met.
Domingo had been scheduled to sing the title role in the season premiere of Verdi's "Macbeth" on Wednesday night, which would have been his first performance in the United States since the AP reported that numerous women had accused him of inappropriate behavior, including one soprano who said he grabbed her bare breast.
Monday was the culmination of a year’s worth of programmatic, propagandistic proselytization, as a 16-year-old Swedish child with a developmental disability took to a podium at the United Nations to harangue and insult the leaders of the free world over the supposed “mass extinction” that is coming as a result of global warming.
Sorry. “Climate change,” as though that is somehow a tragic event; never mind the fact that the climate changes four times per year in something we call “seasons.”
The 16-year-old, whose name is Greta Thunberg, suffers from Asperger Syndrome, a condition on the autism spectrum.
Who runs Britain? When Boris Johnson’s lawyers made their case in front of the Supreme Court this week, defending his right to prorogue parliament, they in effect brought it back to this simple question. This was a controversy for politicians to settle, not courts. Judges, they said, should think twice about ‘entering the political arena’ and unsettling the UK’s ‘careful constitutional and political balance’. He may be the first prime minister to frame the matter so starkly, but no previous prime minister has had to. This is about far more than Brexit. Britain is witnessing political litigation on a hitherto unseen scale.
We have a government
A Democratic city clerk in Michigan who had been honored by the state party for her work was charged this week with multiple felonies related to charges of altering absentee ballots.
Sherikia Hawkins was arraigned Monday in Southfield, Michigan, on six counts related to the 2018 election including forging public documents and misconduct in office and was released on $15,000 bond, according to National Review Online. “The alleged misconduct was discovered after the Oakland County Clerk’s Office noticed that 193 voter files had been changed to reflect that the voters failed to include a valid signature or return date, when all of the implicated voters had in fact included
By announcing that the impeachment inquiry is now “official,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the nation (or at least the national media) loads of drama Tuesday evening — but without actually doing anything.
House Judiciary chief Jerry Nadler has already been calling his committee’s work an “official” impeachment inquiry, after all; now the speaker says the same. But she’s still not allowing any actual votes on the House floor about it.
All she’s “done” is instruct six committee chairmen, including Nadler, to pull together all the dirt they’ve got. That’s apparently to go to Judiciary, which then might eventually vote
Hillary Clinton on Tuesday joined the rising chorus of Democrats calling for at least an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump following reports that Trump pressured Ukraine’s government to look into unsubstantiated theories about the family of his leading 2020 challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Clinton, a sharp critic of Trump since narrowly losing to him in the 2016 presidential election, made the impassioned call during an exclusive interview with PEOPLE set to be published in next week’s issue.
“We are in a crisis,” Clinton said.
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Former FBI Director James Comey said he hopes Congress will not ultimately impeach President Trump, saying it would too easily let the American people "off the hook."
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Tuesday announced a formal impeachment inquiry, saying "the president must be held accountable" for his "betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and the betrayal of the integrity of our elections."
Invoking the "darkest days of the American Revolution," Pelosi called on lawmakers to honor their constitutional oath to protect the country "from all enemies, foreign and domestic."
"This week, the president has admitted to asking the president
Former White House senior advisor Karl Rove criticized Democrats Tuesday for pursuing impeachment, saying it'll only hurt them.
"The Democrats have put themselves in a place... This is going to hurt Joe Biden badly because we're going to be talking about Ukraine and the idea of Hunter Biden being hired by a Moscow leaning oligarch in order to demonstrate that he had juice with the United States," Rove said Tuesday night on "Hannity." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced on Tuesday the formalization of an impeachment inquiry and specifically charged that the Trump administration had violated the law by not turning over a whistleblower complaint concerning Trump's July call with Ukrainian President
One of the attorneys representing the person who anonymously filed a complaint against President Donald Trump claiming Trump asked Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter has a resume that includes working for Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.). As The Federalist reports, "Andrew Bakaj, now a managing partner at the Compass Rose Legal Group, interned for Schumer in the spring of 2001 and for Clinton in the fall of the same year, according to Bakaj's LinkedIn page." The Federalist notes that Bakaj's resume also includes stints at the CIA and Pentagon
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered an ‘impeachment statement’ at 5 PM ET amid the Trump-Ukraine ‘whistleblower’ mayhem. Pelosi demanded the ‘whistleblower statement’ be given to Congress and accused the acting DNI of violating the law by withholding the document. Nancy Pelosi asserted that Trump violated federal law by and said the House of Representatives will be ‘moving forward with an impeachment inquiry.’
Speaker Pelosi also called President Donald Trump a “domestic enemy.”
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, speaking to rank-and-file Democrats in a closed-door meeting in the Capitol basement, said the whistleblower complaint involving President Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine convinced her it’s time to conduct a formal impeachment inquiry. “Right now, we have to strike while the iron is hot,” Pelosi told Democrats, according to a source in the room. “This is a national security issue ... and we cannot let him think that this is a casual thing, so that's where I'm at.”Pelosi has long resisted endorsing impeachment, arguing to Democrats that the public didn't back such a move. But she told Democrats Tuesday that the allegations leaked