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Chicago Teachers Union members have voted to authorize a strike, officials announced Thursday night.
CTU President Jesse Sharkey announced that the union eclipsed the 75 percent threshold needed to authorize a strike at approximately 9:15 p.m. Thursday. Sharkey said that 94 percent of the votes tallied thus far were in favor of authorizing a strike.
More than 90 percent of votes have been counted, but full vote totals won't be known until Friday at the earliest. (Snip) Chicago Public Schools officials say they are offering a 16 percent raise, which would make the average teacher salary nearly $100,000 within the next five years.
Gavin Newsom calls for impeaching Trump,
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California's far-left governor, Gavin Newsom, is out there with the best of them, loudly calling for the impeachment of President Trump. It's nothing new for him, given that he ran for governor in 2017 on this platform.Appearing last night on the late-night Daily Show, Newsom made no bones about it, according to the Hollywood Reporter: "There's no doubt he will be impeached." To that statement, the Daily Show crowd erupted with cheers. Newsom followed with, "The question is will he be removed from office, and that's a separate question that Mitch McConnell can answer."From his point of view, it makes sense, because even though he's
Sections of a so-called whistleblower’s complaint alleging President Donald Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 presidential race relies upon a self-described investigative journalism organization bankrolled massively by billionaire activist George Soros.
I am troubled by the complaint and wonder how an intelligence officer could file it over something a president said to a foreign leader. How could this be an intelligence matter?
It appears likely to me that this so-called whistleblower was pursuing a political agenda.
I am very familiar with transcripts of presidential phone calls since I edited and processed dozens of them when I worked for the NSC. I also know a lot about intelligence whistleblowers from my time with
Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake made a bold claim on Thursday when he said "at least 35" GOP senators would privately vote for President Trump's impeachment.
Appearing at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, Flake, a frequent critic of the president, offered his own reaction and predicted that close to three dozen Republican senators would back impeachment.
"I heard someone say if there were a private vote there would be 30 Republican votes. That's not true," Flake said during a Q&A. "There would be at least 35."
Contrary to suggestions by some, most Trump supporters are not automatons or blind supporters. What bothers them, and should bother others, about the latest Ukraine hysterias is the familiar monotony of this latest scripted psychodrama. The whistleblower admits to hearsay (“I was not a direct witness to most of the events described”). His term-paper report is laden with anonymously sourced rumors, e.g., “According to multiple White House officials I spoke with,” “I was told by White House officials,” “Based on my understanding,” “I learned from multiple officials,” “I do not know whether similar measures were taken,” “I do not know whether those officials spoke with or
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-Calif.) said at her press briefing today that she is “very prayerful” about her move to go forward with an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump and in explaining her decision to do so quoted what the soon-to-be Roman dictator, Julius Caesar, said when he crossed the Rubicon on his way to seize Rome. A reporter asked Pelosi: “What message do you have to the White House regarding cooperation with the committee?”(Video) Pelosi said: “Speak truth. Speak truth. But know truth. Believe me I am very prayerful about this. This is a heavy decision to go down this path.
While national leaders participate in Climate Week in New York City and elsewhere, one organization reveals the follies of some past ideas about environmental matters. “Wrong again: 50 years of failed eco-polcalyptic predictions,” wrote Myron Ebell, director, of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment, and Steven J. Milloy, a “junk science” expert, and climate scholar. “Modern doomsayers have been predicting climate and environmental disaster since the 1960s. They continue to do so today. None of the apocalyptic predictions with due dates as of today have come true,” the pair said in their analysis. “While such predictions have been
Donald Trump diverted on Wednesday from a closed event with the U.S. delegation, and went on a tirade against Joe Biden where he calling him 'dumb as a rock.' Within a minute of beginning his remarks thanking those who attended the 74th session of UNGA this week in New York City, Trump began ranting against ‘Sleepy Joe,’ a source told an LA Times reporter. During the event, where he appeared alongside U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft, Trump went off against 'press scum,' and expressed his confidence about his chances in next year's presidential elections.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has taken aim at the unnamed "leaker" who raised concerns about President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. Conway said whoever it was who proceeded to share information with the intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint led to the current firestorm was hopefully tuned in to "The Story" when she appeared on Thursday evening. "The whistleblower is someone who does not have firsthand knowledge of what happened," she said, calling the individual "more blowhard than whistleblower."
Chobe National Park, Botswana — Prince Harry says “no one can deny science” when it comes to climate change. He spoke Thursday during his visit to Botswana, the latest stop on his Africa tour with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their baby, Archie. Conservation is a major issue during the 10-day, multi-country trip that began this week in neighboring South Africa. Noting the global student climate strikes inspired by Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, the prince said that “it’s a race against time and one which we are losing.” He also called Botswana a place of “escapism” for him
Wow! The MSNBC host of Deadline: White House, Nicolle Wallace, declared President Trump to be a liar on Wednesday (how original) and used that as an excuse to cut away from the televised press conference almost 24 hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared the House's formal attempt to impeach the President. Perhaps Trump's truth telling about Joe and Hunter Biden was too much for her to tolerate. In any event, it was a stunning act of anti-journalism.Here was Nicolle cutting away from the Trump press conference because she has passed judgement that he wasn't being truthful...or was it that she couldn't abide him telling painful truths?
A proposed fracking ban put forward by leading Democratic presidential candidates would have a devastating impact on U.S. jobs, energy independence, and even national security, according to several studies.Reports from the American Petroleum Institute, Independent Petroleum Association of America, and U.S. Chamber of Commerce painted a stark picture of the economic fallout from ending fracking, a process which has transformed the United States into the top oil and natural gas producer in the world.Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) are among eight remaining 2020 candidates
First we were told the phone call was, as The Washington Post breathlessly wrote, “so troubling that it prompted an official in the US intelligence community to file a formal whistleblower complaint.”Then we actually got the transcript, and it was nothing, so we were informed by CNN that we had “to read between the lines.”In other words, as the crooked FBI agent said of the Russian collusion hoax, there is no there there. So it was time for the Democrats to … just plain make it up.Thus, on Thursday morning, live on most TV channels, Rep. Adam Schiff, the Framingham-born hack Congressman from California, read into the record an
During a congressional hearing on ICE detention, the former leader of the agency entered into a fiery back-and-forth with a congresswoman whom he accused of having a double standard.The House Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, which is controlled by Democrats, held a hearing Thursday titled “The Expansion and Troubling Use of ICE Detention.” The meeting, which lasted over two hours, focused on the increasing number of migrants being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and alleged abuses of those detained.
Democratic Washington Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who serves as vice chair of the subcommittee,
The House of Representatives is set to take a two-week “recess” vacation after announcing its so-called “impeachment inquiry” against President Donald Trump in response to him having a routine conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. “Congress is about to leave for a two-week recess,” said Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) on Thursday. The representative added that he believes Congress “should not do that” and should remain in Washington, DC, “to do the work to hold this president accountable.”“The stakes are so high,” said Khanna. “We have just announced an impeachment inquiry against the president.” Watch below:
The Deep State whistleblower is a CIA officer who was detailed to work at the White House, according to a new report by the New York Times. Little is known about this ‘whistleblower’ but the Times reported that he has since returned to the CIA. The whistle-blower who revealed that President Trump sought foreign help for his re-election and that the White House sought to cover it up is a C.I.A. officer who was detailed to work at the White House at one point, according to three people familiar with his identity. The man has since returned to the C.I.A., the people said. Little else is known about him.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, now a 2020 Democratic presidential contender, has locked into a specific story about the controversy in Ukraine.
He insists that, in spring 2016, he strong-armed Ukraine to fire its chief prosecutor solely because Biden believed that official was corrupt and inept, not because the Ukrainian was investigating a natural gas company, Burisma Holdings, that hired Biden's son, Hunter, into a lucrative job.
There’s just one problem.
Hundreds of pages of never-released memos and documents — many from inside the American team helping Burisma to stave off its legal troubles — conflict with Biden’s narrative.
Singer Sade's transgender son Izaak Adu has shared a sweet post thanking his mother for her support following his gender reassignment surgery on Wednesday. Izaak, 23, posted a candid message on his Instagram page celebrating his transition alongside a snap of him with his arm around his mum as they had dinner together. The only child of the Smooth Operator singer came out as transgender in 2016 on Coming Out Day and has since documented his journey on his social media pages. During the the post he also revealed that he will soon be returning home after successfully recovering following his surgery
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Thursday that his country's delegation would vote for the United Nations headquarters to be moved out of New York if given the chance, in the latest sign of escalating tensions with the United States on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
“If we’re ever asked, we will, of course, vote for it, for the United Nations headquarters to be transferred to a more secure and better country that does not have the narrow viewpoints that we have been witnessing,” he said in response to a question at a press conference. There appears to be no significant movement to move the U.N.
The "OK" hand gesture has been added to an expanding list of hate symbols used by white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League announced dozens of new additions to its database on Thursday. The hand symbol began as a hoax by users of the website 4chan before turning into a popular trolling tactic, according to the Anti-Defamation League. By this year, it had evolved into a gesture embraced "in some circles as a sincere expression of white supremacy," the civil rights group said. The suspect in the New Zealand massacre last March flashed the symbol during his court appearance in March after
President Trump and his advisers are frantically searching for the identity of the whistleblower who exposed Trump’s phone call with Ukraine’s president and those in the White House who spoke to him.
Trump demanded the identities of the sources as Democrats clamored for Trump’s impeachment for allegedly inducing Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
“I want to know who’s the person who gave the whistleblower the information because that’s close to a spy,” Trump said. “You know what we used to do in the old days when we were smart with spies and treason, right?”
The Trump administration is considering bringing on Corey Lewandowski, Trump's 2016 campaign manager, to lead the White House fight against impeachment.
Lewandowski has had multiple conversations with White House officials about coming on board to lead a crisis management team, according to CNN. President Trump has reportedly not made a final decision to create such a team.
Lewandowski’s potential team could also be created outside of the administration.
The Senate confirmed private sector lawyer Eugene Scalia Thursday to be labor secretary, putting the department in the hands of one of the leading critics of the Obama administration's labor policies.
Scalia was confirmed on a party-line 53-44 vote.
Scalia, 56, son of the late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, replaces Alex Acosta, who resigned amid controversy over his handling of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein case. During Barack Obama's presidency, Scalia led efforts by business groups that undermined the previous administration's attempts to implement labor-friendly policies and enact new regulations on the financial industry.
Arkansas Republican Sen. Tom Cotton lambasted Hunter Biden Thursday by describing a paternity suit in his home state that has been filed against the former vice president’s son.
“There is a young woman in her 20s in Arkansas who has filed a paternity suit in Arkansas state court against Hunter Biden. And he is dodging process, and has done so for months. He is literally hiding out from process servers so he doesn’t have to submit to a DNA test,” Cotton told radio host Hugh Hewitt during an interview Thursday morning.
Cotton continued, “He claims that he is not the father of this child. If that’s the case, why doesn’t
As Donald Trump faces an impeachment inquiry, onetime aide Anthony Scaramucci is keeping up his barrage against the president, saying the soon-to-be-released whistleblower complaint will uncover “rank criminality.”“You’ve got a felon acting lawlessly as the chief executive of the United States,” Scaramucci told Yahoo Finance’s On the Move.The founder of Skybridge Capital and, famously, White House Communications Director for 11 days, recently changed his tune on his former boss and has been calling for a different Republican nominee for president. Trump’s call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked the leader to “do us a favor” and investigate the son of former Vice President Source corrected.
Hillary Clinton compared her millions of votes during the 2016 presidential election as a letters of recommendation while lamenting that President Trump won.
"To me, it was like applying for a job and getting 66 million letters of recommendation," she said in a CBS interview preview released Thursday.
Clinton, 71, described her loss to Trump as "losing to a corrupt human tornado."
"It was like...losing to a corrupt human tornado." Earlier this week, the former secretary of state said she came to the decision that she supported impeachment.
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To summarize the following article from AP, dumb, white Democrat males think Democrat policies have moved too far left and might vote for Trump. The highly educated, diverse group of people, especially women, are enlightened and will vote for the bold policies of the left.
The article further says that Trump lost Congress in 2018 “in part because Trump’s turbulent leadership style and divisive policies have alienated women”
Now, when Obama’s Democrats got stomped in 2010 and for the next six years, losing over 1,000 seats nationwide, we rarely if ever got stories that they lost because of Obama’s turbulent leadership style and because he alienated anyone.
Former Vice President Joe Biden now says that Trump committed an “impeachable offense” in his much-ballyhooed July phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. In an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Biden said that Trump could be impeached based on the provided transcript of his July phone call with Zelensky. A plain reading of the transcript, however, gave no indication of a quid pro quo wherein Ukraine would investigate the former vice president using his influence to have a prosecutor fired for investigating his son’s business dealings.
With the Thursday morning release of a declassified version of the famed 'whistleblower' report, the left and its media arm are having a field day. Headlines such as these are pretty much all that's out there, with this sampling curated by the Drudge Report:
Seven-day scramble ends with big gamble...
Majority of House members now support impeachment...
All circumstantial evidence?
Trump Team Bets Backfire!
But fans the flames...
ROVE: Pelosi's Circular Firing Squad...
PAPER: Charges epitomize framers' idea of impeachable offense?
George Conway predicts Republicans will vote against Trump...
Favors, dirt, investigations...
Voters react with joy, fury, ambivalence...
House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) intends to force House Democrats to take another controversial vote by Friday sometime, forcing them on the record on their intent to forcibly impeach President Donald Trump, all as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to refuse to schedule any actual vote formally opening House impeachment proceedings.
If Speaker Pelosi refuses to seek approval of the whole House in the critical decision of impeachment—as is longstanding practice and precedent—I will again give all members the opportunity to go on record so their constituents can know where they stand on this issue.
Thursday on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” network chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin weighed in on House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) committee hearing that featured acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on President Donald Trump allegedly urging Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to probe former Vice President Joe Biden.
Trump released the transcript from his call, which appeared to not show any wrongdoing on the president’s part.
Although Democrats have maintained Trump sought to create a quid pro quo with Ukraine, Toobin said Schiff’s fight to prove Trump was involved in impropriety “didn’t really have that much juice to it.”
Two Trump supporters are offering a $50,000 reward for information about the national security whistleblower at the center of the Ukraine phone affair. Controversial conservatives Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl said they would pay the money for “information relating to the identity of the ‘Trump Whistleblower.’” The New York Times on Thursday reported that the whistleblower works at the CIA and was stationed in the White House when the call was made.The duo have said their goal is to provide full transparency on the issue in which the administration has already released the transcript of the July 25 call and the
President Donald Trump ridiculed Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Thursday after the House Intelligence Committee chairman employed a fantasy narrative during a congressional hearing with the acting director of national intelligence.“Adam Schiff has zero credibility,” he wrote on Twitter. “Another fantasy to hurt the Republican Party!” (Tweet) The president commented on the hearing after leaving New York City to return to the White House in Washington, DC, after spending several days attending meetings with world leaders during the United Nations General Assembly. Trump appeared to be in a good mood.
Democratic donors on Wall Street and in big business are preparing to sit out the presidential campaign fundraising cycle — or even back President Donald Trump — if Sen. Elizabeth Warren wins the party’s nomination.
In recent weeks, CNBC spoke to several high-dollar Democratic donors and fundraisers in the business community and found that this opinion was becoming widely shared as Warren, an outspoken critic of big banks and corporations, gains momentum against Joe Biden in the 2020 race.
The New York Times is claiming the whistleblower behind a complaint made about a phone conversation between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart is a male CIA officer who at one point had been detailed to the White House.
The report, which the Times says was corroborated by three sources, paints the most detailed portrait of the insider to this point, though he has yet to be named publicly.
The Times also reports that, based on the wording of his complaint, the whistleblower likely has extensive knowledge of Ukrainian politics.
Tuesday, when Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared, "no one is above the law," her target was President Donald Trump—but she did far more damage to former Vice President Joe Biden.
Democrats are very excited by a few words in a phone call between the President of the United States and the new, reform-oriented anti-corruption President of Ukraine. (Snip)Most Americans will ignore an attack on investigating corruption as just politics.
However, when Americans learn how deeply involved Hunter Biden was in China and Ukraine while his father was vice president, they will see a scandal involving a lot of money which is easy to understand and easy to condemn.
A pair of GOP chairmen are floating the idea of investigating former Vice President Joe Biden as Democratic calls grow for President Trump to be impeached over his communications with Ukraine's leader.
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) both raised the possibility of an investigation into Biden after the White House released a record of a July 25 phone call that showed Trump asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to look into Biden.
Democrats have reacted to the records released by the White House by saying they make the case for impeachment, but Republicans are countering with calls for Biden to be investigated.
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Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire is testifying before the House Intelligence Committee. I have embedded the committee’s live feed below.
Having just watched the shameless Chairman (ugh!) Adam Schiff examine Maguire, I am impressed yet again by the dishonest and deceitful approach of Schiff to all matters Trump. Schiff serves one legitimate purpose, though not the one he intends. He strongly suggests to me that this affair is “a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham.” By contrast, Devin Nunes made an excellent opening statement and is doing a good job examining Maguire as I write.
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The highlight of the House Intelligence Committee hearing so far has to be Chairman (ugh!) Adam Schiff’s recitation of the Trump/Zelensky phone call (video below). Here we get to the “essence” of the proceedings (to borrow Schiff’s terminology). In his recitation Schiff fabricated Trump’s side of the conversation and, when called on it, explained that it was meant to be a “parody.”
Schiff himself is a walking parody of political deceit and ambition. It doesn’t make for a pretty picture. (Snip)
The Ukraine Call Transcript was so damning that Adam Schiff had to completely rewrite it and make up quotes that weren’t in it.pic.twitter.com/bkB6RxLFjV
— Benny (@bennyjohnson) September 26, 2019
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“When Biden’s son walks out of China with $1.5 billion in a fund, and the biggest funds in the world can’t get money out of China, and he’s there for one quick meeting and he flies in on Air Force Two, I think that’s a horrible thing. I think it’s a horrible thing.”
— President Trump, remarks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sept. 25, 2019
“Ask how his son made millions of dollars from Ukraine, made millions of dollars from China, even though he had no expertise whatsoever.”
What a crushing feeling it must be to be a Democrat, an infotainment industry newsreader, or a NeverTrumper today. The week started off so full of hope, with impeachment in the air as the autumn colors turned. That was Monday. By Thursday morning it was all over but the shouting.
Oh, and the lies. Lots and lots of lies.
Over the weekend, news broke that a whistleblower had the goods on Trump, who had supposedly twisted the arm of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky into a quid-pro-quo deal to investigate Joe Biden, Trump's potential president rival. The swamp-fever pitch reached such heights over the next two days, that on Tuesday
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) performed an entirely made-up conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during his opening statement at a committee hearing Thursday morning.
The White House released a transcript of a phone call between Trump and Zelensky on Wednesday, but Schiff made up and fabricated his own own transcript that he read at the hearing, which sought to create a quid pro quo that Democrats have accused the president of making.
“This is the essence of what the president communicates,” Schiff began.
ABC News was forced Thursday morning to correct and walk back the latest Trump-Ukraine bombshell that wasn’t.
In a world where America enjoyed the services of legitimate news organizations, the far-left ABC News would have already retracted this story, would have removed it completely, because… As you will see below, the story is now a non-story. The central premise of the story has been wiped out by the facts. But, as we all know, ABC News is not a legitimate news organization, so let me welcome you to…
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Oh, yeah, ABC News thought We got Drumpf now fer realzies! with the bombsheLOL revelation that the White House had set a very definite
n yet another high stakes adventure, most international intelligence sources agree that the Iranian mullahs’ regime, led by Ali Khamenei, staged the recent attack on two Saudi Arabian Aramco oil facilities. This carefully targeted Iranian attack has had far-reaching repercussions and consequences. Worse, it once again heightens the sense of crisis across the Middle East’s most sensitive regions, including Saudi Arabia and Iran.This latest provocation by Iran raises many puzzling questions. Among them are recent signs Khamenei and the mullahs may be open to some negotiations involving economic benefits to their beleaguered regime.
Fred Fleitz, who recently served as chief of staff to former National Security Adviser John Bolton and is the CEO of the Center for Security Policy, has questioned the origins of the complaint about President Trump and Ukraine. He spoke after a redacted version was released publicly on Thursday morning. “As a former CIA analyst and former NSC official who edited transcripts of POTUS phone calls with foreign leaders, here are my thoughts on the whistleblower complaint which was just released,” he said. First, he said, “This is not an intelligence matter.
If you have read any of the documents that came from Fusion-GPS, Nellie Ohr and Christopher Steele, you will likely find an amazing amount of similarity to the format and writing in this “whistleblower” complaint.
It was obviously written by a Lawfare member.
The complaint is the same structure as the Steele Dossier. No direct knowledge; no direct evidence to the claims; second-hand gossip, rumors from people who might have known another person to have overheard something, mixed with prior media reports to narrate a story as told by the author. Here is the complaint:
The Justice Department revealed that U.S. Attorney John Durham, picked by Attorney General William Barr to look into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation, is investigating whether Ukraine was involved in any 2016 election efforts.
“A Department of Justice team led by U.S. Attorney John Durham is separately exploring the extent to which a number of countries, including Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election,” DOJ spokeswoman (Snip) “While the Attorney General has yet to contact Ukraine in connection with this investigation, certain Ukrainians who are not members of the government have volunteered information to Mr. Durham, which he is evaluating.”
How many out there are plain tuckered out by what is passing for “NEWS”?
Many in the masses have been that way ever since the Democrats began calling all blowhards out to the ‘Screech ‘Impeach!’ campaign.
Notice how it wasn’t “NEWS” when former vice president, now bumbling 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden openly threatened to, then had fired a Ukrainian prosecutor, who was investigating his son Hunter Biden’s potentially corrupt
On Wednesday the Trump Administration released the White House transcript of President Trump’s call with President Zelensky of Ukraine. In the transcript released today President Zelensky brought up Rudy Giuliani and his investigations with President Trump. It was Zelensky who brought up the Biden investigation and NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP! President Trump then asked Zelensky to look into the 2016 election including information on Crowdstrike.
Senator Chris Murphy (D., Conn.), who traveled to Ukraine in early September, told reporters this week that he had heard "directly" from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that Zelensky felt pressured by Trump to investigate Hunter Biden's involvement with Ukrainian gas giant Burisma. But according to a tape of a briefing Murphy gave two weeks ago about his meeting with Zelensky, Murphy made no mention at all of such an allegation.It was only 13 days after his initial briefing that Murphy emerged to say Zelensky had expressed concerns to him that the Trump administration was withholding U.S. aid to compel an investigation.
Adam Schiff was slammed Thursday morning when – out of the gate – he “improvised fake dialogue” between President Trump and Ukraine President Zelensky. It is disturbing and outrageous that Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff opens up a hearing of this importance with improvised fake dialogue between President Trump and President Zelenskyy. We should focus on the facts. — Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) September 26, 2019. Democrats are desperately trying to nail Trump and begin the impeachment process over a conversation Trump had with Zelensky. Trump has been accused of
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Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes ripped Democrats on Thursday during a House Intelligence Committee hearing, claiming Democrats have been seeking out compromising photos of President Donald Trump. The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee claimed the impeachment inquiry against the president is politically motivated. “Of course Democrats on this very committee negotiated with people who they thought were Ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of Trump,” Nunes said. It’s possible that Nunes was referring to a 2018 incident in which now-House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff was fooled
Muslim woman in northern Virginia claims she was denied a job because she asked about taking two five-minute prayer breaks during her shift.
In a suit filed in federal court on Tuesday, 26-year-old Shahin Indorewala maintains her interview for a junior management position with Fast Trak Management in Falls Church was going well—until she inquired about taking the breaks in exchange for a shorter lunch.
Observant Muslims are expected to pray five times a day, where ever they may be. With the schedule for the job set for 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., Indorewala said she knew at least two of those prayer sessions would take place during business hours.
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson is considering an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden’s role in Ukraine when he was still serving in the White House, The Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. The Wisconsin lawmaker told colleagues that he would consider a probe against the former vice president who is now running for president, three people familiar with the conversations told WaPo. The report suggested other Republicans in the Senate are being more circumspect about how to approach the matter. WaPo changed several sections of the report in a later version,
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In a post on his Facebook page on Thursday, nationally syndicated radio talk show host, TV host, author and American lawyer Mark Levin blasted today’s hearing on President Donald J. Trump’s comments to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “just another spectacle, another drama for the media, another sham.”
“We will learn nothing,” wrote Mark Levin on social media. “This is just another spectacle, another drama for the media, another sham.”
Mark Levin’s remarks stem from an ongoing hearing, wherein Acting Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”) Joseph Maguire is testifying about the
The House Intelligence Committee on Thursday released a redacted version of the partisan federal employee’s whistleblower complaint regarding President Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.In the nine-page document, the so-called “whistleblower” claims that the president was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” While characterizing the Trump-Zelensky call based on hearsay, it accuses the White House of attempting to conceal records related to their conversation. Further,
Major media outlets had already decided on the narrative of the whistleblower complaint against President Donald Trump regarding his conversation with the Ukraine president. Now that the White House’s transcript has been release, these same outlets are cutting out important context in order to give a different, more negative, impression of the call. The New York Times and The Washington Post each put sections of the transcript on their front pages on Thursday. Each paper cut out what Trump said after asking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky for a “favor” and skipped ahead to a portion of the call when Trump brought up former Vice President Joe Biden’s son’s
You know the Democrats had a pre-planned strategy to use the “whistleblower” complaint, because Adam Schiff has the production scheduled for 9:00am public hearing today.
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire is appearing before the House Intelligence Committee to face lawmakers’ questions about his handling of the hearsay whistleblower complaint relating to a phone call between President Donald Trump and the president of Ukraine. (Snip)
Lawmakers also received their copy of the 6-page complaint Wednesday afternoon after criticizing the White House and Department of Justice for complying with Office of Legal Counsel guidance and handling recommendations. The declassified complaint, consisting of hearsay and political media spin, is expected to be
Release of the transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukraine’s new president makes one thing clear — the Democrats are focusing on the wrong guy. They’re trying to use this episode to impeach Mr. Trump. What the conversation shows, though, is that Mr. Trump was enlisting help to do exactly what he had promised to do, drain the swamp. The culprit on whom to focus is Vice President Biden.
The transcript certainly confirms that Mr. Biden was mentioned by Mr. Trump in his call with Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky. And that Mr. Biden’s son, Hunter, was also mentioned. This shows up on the fourth page of the five-page transcript,
Wall Street Journal columnist and editorial board member Kim Strassel posted a 10-part thread on Twitter yesterday to comment on White House transcript of the Trump/Zelensky phone call (embedded below). Here are her comments via the Thread Reader app:
1) Having read DOJ’s Trump-Ukraine release, here’s the real story: This is another internal attempt to take out a president, on the basis of another non-smoking-gun.
2) As to call transcript itself: Trump’s actual “favor” is that Ukraine look backward, to what happened in the 2016 election. This is a legitimate ask, since election meddling looks to have come from both
The average cost of family coverage in employer health plans pushed above the $20,000 mark for the first time this year, according to a new report, as the 5% average increase in premiums exceeded the growth rate for wages and general inflation. Low-wage workers face unique challenges, the study found, since they are less likely to be offered employer coverage and must pay a larger share of the premium when they have the chance to buy it. The numbers come from an annual national survey by the California-based Kaiser Family Foundation on cost trends for employer health plan coverage, the market
Nashville—A man who was arrested for exposing himself and urinating on the floor at Nashville International Airport was re-arrested hours later for throwing rocks off the I-40 Jefferson Street bridge. According to Metro Police, 56-year-old Eliezer Nieves Gonzalez was originally at the Southwest Airlines baggage office on Monday around 4 p.m. exposing himself and urinating in front of passengers near the baggage belt.(Snip) Gonzalez was found with urine on his hands and pants, and he admitted to investigators to urinating on the floor, saying it was okay to do so in Puerto Rico so he thought
A police officer’s Tesla ran out of battery power in the middle of a high-speed chase in California last week, reports said Wednesday. The cop from the Fremont Police Department was pursuing a suspect in a department-issued Tesla Model S car last Friday when he suddenly noticed he was running low, the Mercury News reported. As the officer and the suspect hit speeds of 120 miles per hour, the cop radioed that he would have to drop the pursuit. “I am down to six miles of battery on the Tesla so I may lose it here in a sec,”
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence will hold a hearing Thursday with the Acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Joseph Maguire on the Ukraine “whistleblower” complaint.
The House Intelligence Committee will hold a hearing at 9:00 A.M. Eastern to conduct oversight on a “whistleblower” complaint that was released to Congress and the public Thursday regarding President Donald Trump’s July conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Democrat-led House Intelligence Committee has released the whistleblower complaint that triggered President Trump's impeachment inquiry. The complaint cites “multiple White House officials with direct knowledge of the call" between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and accuses Trump of attempting “to pressure the Ukranian leader to take actions to help the President’s 2020 reelection bid.” It also presents allegations that the White House tried to "restrict access" to records of the call.
"In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White House officials had intervened to 'lock down' all records of the phone call, .
Well, this is certainly an odd coincidence! In fact, when you dig in, you find an amazing series of coincidences. If you believe in coincidences when the CIA is involved, that is.
Mitt Romney’s national security advisor in his 2012 campaign -- a career CIA spook who rose to its top levels -- sits on the board of directors of Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that formerly paid Hunter Biden $50k a month despite his complete lack of credentials or qualifications.
And it also an odd coincidence that Mitt has as CNN puts it “been a lone Republican voice expressing concern about President Donald Trump's July phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky
A Gallup poll released on Thursday says, "Americans remain largely mistrustful of the mass media."
The poll found that only 41 percent of Americans have either a "great deal" of trust (13 percent) or a "fair amount" of trust (28 percent. in newspapers, television and radio to report the news "fully, accurately and fairly."
Gallup said this represents a four-percentage-point drop since last year; and it marks the end of earlier improvements since the record low of 32 percent trust in 2016, the run-up to the election.
Gallup said Republicans' trust is at a very low level -- 15 percent; while 69 percent of Democrats and 36 percent of independents say
President Trump's personal attorney Jay Sekulow said the Democrats' newly announced “impeachment inquiry,” launched before all the facts were known, is "political theater" that will come to "nothing" in the end. The president is conducting his role as commander in chief, and the American people don't deserve this. They don't deserve what's being done," Sekulow told Fox News's Sean Hannity Wednesday night. Part of what's being done is a shrug -- complete indifference from Democrats and the liberal media -- at former Vice President Joe Biden's quid pro quo with the Ukraine government.
Following the White House release of a memo on President Trump’s July 25 phone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday Democratic leaders were making the U.S. the “laughing stock of the world.” She also suggested mockingly which confidential U.S. documents should be made public next.
“I’ve read the transcript of the telephone conversation between Trump and [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky, which Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi found
I believe the children are our future. One child in particular: the unidentified teen who celebrated kiddie-climate-panic day or whatever it was last week by taking the day off from high school (with the full blessing of Bill de Blasio’s Department of Education) and getting high in a park in Manhattan. The kid skipped the marches and protests and general clamor. Who wouldn’t? “I thought about it, but what could I really do for the climate?” the teen told the New York Post. “What do marches really do?”
This kid gets it. Give him an A in Reality Studies. Maybe someday he’ll learn that spending Friday afternoon smoking weed
A new ad supporting Republican Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, who is in a tight race with his Democratic opponent Andy Beshear, shows female track athletes being left in the dust by a male competitor who identifies as female. The looks on the faces of the girls watching the male athlete celebrating are unforgettable.
“Andy Beshear supports legislation that would destroy girls’ sports. He calls it ‘equality.’ Maybe. But is it fair?” asks the ad’s female narrator. It’s a smart ad in a heated campaign. Many Republicans are watching this race as a bellwether contest, which makes sense as this ad highlights a policy that could
Elizabeth Warren is on the way to securing the Democrat nomination, and the ensuing general election battle will be a re-run of Little Bighorn except, ironically, Sitting Bolshevik will be Custer. Trump’s going to drag her kicking and screaming and nagging, always nagging, down the trail of tears until that glorious November night when Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and maybe Minnesota all express their reservations over sending this tiresome scold to the White Wigwam in Washington. Oh, are you a True Conservative™ who gets the sadz at this Mohican mockery?
You didn't hear many people saying that "it was God's will" a few years ago when a kid fell into the gorilla exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo. Instead, you saw memes featuring the gorilla, Harambe, and the words "I'm dead because a bit** wasn't watching her child."
Sympathy for the gorilla, who was shot and killed, makes total sense. Outrage against the mom doesn't, unless you think she should have been on constant high alert against this and every other one-in-a-billion accident.
Unfortunately, that's how we've begun to think. Alan Levinovitz, a professor of religious studies at James Madison University, has a theory for why that is.
The impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump is arguably the flimsiest and most premature impeachment in American history. It's also the fastest by far.Before this week, only three presidents in U.S. history had faced an official impeachment inquiry from the U.S. House of Representatives. Two of them, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, were in their second terms. The third, Andrew Johnson, became president on April 15, 1865 when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. The House initiated impeachment against him on February 24, 1868. He had been in office 2 years, 10 months, and 9 days.
The percentage of foreign-born U.S. residents has reached its highest level in more than a century, according to estimates from the 2018 American Community Survey released today.
A record 44.7 million people are foreign-born, or about 13.7% of the U.S. population. That’s the highest rate since 1910 and comes amid a highly-charged political debate over whether the decennial Census survey should include a citizenship question.
A subset of the foreign-born figure -- the number of people in the U.S. but ‘not a U.S. citizen’ held at around 22 million in 2018.
While the idea of adding a citizenship question to the decennial Census survey has been a contentious issue
Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly this week, President Donald J. Trump stood solidly on the side of those who believe in national sovereignty. He said:
America is governed by Americans. We reject the ideology of globalism, and we embrace the doctrine of patriotism. Around the world, responsible nations must defend against threats to sovereignty not just from global governance, but also from other, new forms of coercion and domination.This is in stark contrast to the last U.N. General Assembly speech by his predecessor, President Barack H. Obama. He said: And so I believe that at this moment we all face a choice.
Like all 4-year-olds, my oldest is always changing her mind about things — which planet is the best, where to bury the treasure in the backyard, whether worms are yucky. Just yesterday she told me that her new favorite tape is Schoolhouse Rock. This is a welcome development. With apologies to Ariel and Sebastian, I would rather hear "I'm Just a Bill" 187 times a day than listen to "Kiss the Girl" even once more.
Why is there no "Impeachment Blues," I wonder? The way that it is discussed in American media these days one could be forgiven for having the impression that the impeachment of presidents
The next phase of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump will take place Thursday when the embattled acting director of National Intelligence testifies on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers will grill spymaster Joseph Maguire over his weeks-long delay in turning over a whistleblower complaint to Congress, leading once-cautious House Democrats to launch an impeachment inquiry and igniting a political firestorm. Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) predicted the open hearing “will probably be waste of time,” since the sensitive substance of the complaint can’t be discussed in public.
Democrats and Republicans demonstrated starkly different reactions following the release of the unredacted transcript of President Trump’s conversation with the president of Ukraine.
Many congressional Democrats publicly declared it the “smoking gun,” while Republicans dismissed their cries by noting the absence of quid pro quo or generally lawless behavior.
However, Democrats are striking a drastically different tone privately, as several reports indicate.
The far-left flank of the Democrat caucus forced House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to concede and announce a formal impeachment inquiry against the president on Tuesday.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has defended the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, saying that it will help prevent “a potential meddling in the 2020 election that has still yet to happen.”
Ocasio-Cortez was speaking Wednesday on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time when she described the inquiry as an “urgent action.”
“We have the opportunity to act now to prevent a profoundly destabilizing action and intervention in our democracy before it happens,” she said. “And I think that is a profoundly urgent action that we need to take right now.”
Impeach Joe Biden
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Until the transcript of President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky emerged on Wednesday, Democrats were in a mad fury with accusations that Trump had bribed a foreign government to investigate the business dealings of former Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter.
The claim, based on a whistleblower’s second-hand account, which none of them had seen, alleged that Trump withheld aid to Ukraine on the condition that it open an investigation on Biden.
Circumstantially at least, there seemed to be some crumbs to back this up. Aside from the mysterious whistleblower claim, the administration had
In an interview with ABC News Wednesday, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “it was clear” to Ukrainian officials that President Trump would communicate with them only if they agreed to discuss former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
"It was clear that Trump would only have communications if they discussed the Biden case. This issue was raised many times. I know that Ukrainian officials understood."
~Zelensky advisor Serhiy Leshchenko https://t.co/byEYC7I11r
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) September 25, 2019
“It was clear that Trump will only have communications if they will discuss the Biden case,”
One of the animating chapters in the Trump-Russian collusion saga was the claim that Russia infiltrated the Democratic National Committee’s email server in the spring of 2016. That hack, according to collusion truthers, and the subsequent release of damaging emails exchanged between top Democratic Party officials was central to Vladimir Putin’s scheme to sway the presidential election in favor of Donald Trump.
But the evidence to support this widely accepted claim is sketchy at best and appears to be under appropriate scrutiny by prosecutors now examining the origins of the FBI’s pre-election investigation into the Trump campaign for “colluding” with Russia.
Only the People Can Decide
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In the United States as in Great Britain, the political system has been so strained by issues of such immense controversy that they cross party lines, immobilize the system, and can only be settled by the voters as a whole.
There will be no other determination of whether President Trump gets to finish his task of grinding to powder and replacing the ruling bipartisan elite that he believes grievously misgoverned the country in the post-Reagan years. In 2016, he neither won a mandate for revolution nor incurred a cause to be denied or removed from office. Almost half the voters substantially agreed with the president in 2016, and this
On Tuesday, House speaker Nancy Pelosi looked serious and somber as she made the big announcement to the country. "Therefore, today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry," she said. Sounds serious, as if drastic changes will commence.
What Pelosi promised her radical members was the gold they have waited three years for: to impeach Trump. What Pelosi instead did was send them on a trip to El Dorado. In fact, nothing has changed, since the House never officially voted on the issue.
So now we have a whistleblower who isn’t because he cannot be, either from his circumstance or from the law. He or she had no firsthand knowledge, weren’t on the call or in the room, and in any case cannot blow the whistle on a unitary executive, namely President Trump. You can only be a whistleblower for an agency you are a member of. We have a quid without a quo and a phone conversation in which President Trump did not pressure a Ukrainian leader into a crime Joe Biden has previously confessed to, namely threatening to withhold a loan guarantee unless the Ukrainian government fires a prosecutor looking into
Greta the Angry
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Those who are befuddled and beleaguered by climate nonsense look to Greta Thunberg as if she were another Joan of Arc. Those of us who live in reality see her as being hopelessly mired in the arrogance of untruth. Yes, Greta’s childhood has been stolen from her, but it isn’t America that’s done that – it’s her parents who have allowed her to be prostituted in this manner. It is the leftist politicians and their ilk who are milking her youth and gullibility and her hunger for acceptance who have stuck her up on a tilting pedestal. I’m as uncomfortable watching her as I am seeing
Speaker Nancy Pelosi dialed her long-time deputy, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, on Monday afternoon to let him know she’d come to a momentous decision: she was going to endorse an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
Pelosi was in New York City for a private dinner with members of the Acela Corridor elite — Fortune 500 executives, politicians and high-profile journalists — to kick off the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. Hoyer was sitting in a rental car in South Carolina, after attending the funeral of Emily Clyburn, the late wife of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, earlier in the day.
Joe Biden’s brother told executives at a healthcare firm that the former vice president’s cancer initiative would promote their business, according to a participant in the conversation, who said the promise came as part of a pitch on behalf of potential investors in the firm.
The allegation is the latest of many times Biden’s relatives have invoked the former vice president and his political clout to further their private business dealings. It is the first that involves the Biden Cancer Initiative, a project Joe Biden made the centerpiece of his post-White House life following the death of his son Beau.
Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and the Democrats appear bound and determined to ensure that he remains in that position for another four years.
That’s the bottom-line takeaway from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to open a formal “impeachment inquiry.” Donald Trump is not going to be removed from office. There is no shortcut to overturning the 2016 election. This is just the latest in a long line of increasingly weak attempts by House Democrats to discredit the president, and the inevitable futility of this effort is crucial to understanding the Democrats’ true motivations.
There’s practically zero chance that they are
Yet the concept of citizenship is being assaulted on the premodern side by the legal blending of mere residency with citizenship.
Estimates of the number of undocumented American residents range from 11 million to more than 20 million. The undocumented are becoming legally indistinguishable from citizens and enjoy exemption from federal immigration law in some 500 sanctuary jurisdictions. An illegal resident of California will pay substantially less tuition at a California public university than a U.S. citizen of another state.
Multiculturalism has reduced the idea of e pluribus unum to a regressive tribalism. Americans often seem to owe their first allegiance to those who look like they do
Joe Biden has never been shy about using his family as a campaign asset. But escalation of the scandal surrounding work by the former vice president's son Hunter Biden with a Ukrainian gas company might once again turn into the liability that many Democrats have long feared.
Jobs held by Hunter Biden, 49, have complicated the political life of his father going back at least to 2008, when the then-Delaware senator was chosen as running mate for Democratic presidential nominee-to-be Barack Obama. Campaign officials were forced to address questions over Hunter Biden having been hired by credit card company MBNA for consulting work, earning him a $100,000 annual retainer.
If Congress is to get to the bottom of President Trump’s efforts to get the Ukrainian government to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, Rudolph W. Giuliani is an obvious choice for the witness list.
But Democrats are split as to whether he would do more harm than good to their nascent impeachment inquiry and some expressed concern that hauling in a loose cannon like Giuliani in front of a committee would risk a replay of the circus-like atmosphere created by Trump loyalist and former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski—a scene few Democrats are eager to recreate.
The ideological war between prominent Fox News channel program hosts has gone hot – and this time the dust up is approaching near-nuclear levels of direct on camera mano a mano. The combatants are veteran Fox News afternoon news program host Shepard Smith and prime time opinion show host Tucker Carlson. The foil for pouring gasoline on the long simmering fire between the Fox News opinion and news department sides is prominent Washington, D.C. Republican attorney Joseph diGenova.
Appearing on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Tuesday at 8 P.M. E.T., diGenova called Fox News paid contributor Andrew Napolitano, the channel’s “senior judicial analyst,” “a fool”
Democrats, socialists and others with animosity toward this White House say they’ve found the smoking gun in Donald Trump’s released telephone transcript with Ukraine’s president — the supposed quid pro quo nugget of gold — and that it won’t be long now before impeach, impeach, impeach moves from message to reality.
Hmm. Really now. Funny how after eight years of Barack Obama quid pro quo-ing here, there and everywhere, it’s only now Democrats care.
It’s only now Democrats seem to have gleaned a sense of conscientiously objecting to what they perceive as abusing one’s high office to obtain political or personal favors.
Not that Trump’s call
The world’s oldest political party is evidently suffering from senile dementia. The Democrats are now pursuing what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mischaracterizes as “an official impeachment inquiry” without evidence of presidential wrongdoing and precious little support from the electorate. The unredacted transcript of President Trump’s July conversation with Ukrainian President Zelensky debunks the latest conspiracy theory about a quid pro quo arrangement between the two involving the 2020 election. Moreover, public opinion polls show that the majority of voters are against impeachment. Yet the Democrats seem confused about what these facts mean and have responded to them in a way that is irrational and self-destructive.
Their refusal to heed
Leland Keyser, hero
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Leland Keyser was a longtime friend of Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. According to Ford, Keyser was at the party where the assault supposedly occurred.
Keyser, though, denied that she was at such a party and that she ever encountered Kavanaugh. None of the other alleged partygoers remembered the party either, but Keyser was especially credible because she was Blasey Ford’s friend. She’s also a registered Democrat (and the ex-wife of Bob Beckel).
The more Keyser thought about her friend’s story, the less sense it made to her. She became all the more convinced
Today’s article is dedicated to the Democratic party. In an act of generosity, and in very simple terms, I’m going to explain to you how you can have everything you want. Every last thing I disagree with fundamentally. Every single dark socialist desire that you wish to see supplant the fundamental freedoms on which this country is founded. I am, believe me, not particularly happy about doing so, and there are no tricks. You may question my motives, but humor me and I’ll reveal them in time.
Among other things, it may be clearer once you understand the small, regrettable detail of the price.
Now, first, of course,
The now-released transcript of President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s prez, Volodymyr Zelensky, shows just why Americans have so little faith in the news media.
Turns out, the document shows none of the Trump abuses suggested in press accounts over the past few days — distortions that have already triggered Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “official impeachment inquiry.”
Reports claimed Trump made a “promise” to “a foreign leader that was so disturbing it prompted the filing of a formal complaint,” as Vanity Fair reported.
The Trump administration reached a deal with the government of Honduras to enhance the Central American nation’s asylum capacity.
The agreement, signed Wednesday, is similar to agreements previously reached with the governments of El Salvador and Guatemala, a senior Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told reporters on a phone call.
The official said migrants who had an opportunity to seek protection in Honduras, El Salvador or Guatemala will be returned from the U.S. border to seek asylum or protection in one of those countries under the recent agreements, including the new Honduras accord.
Acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire is expected to face questions before the House and Senate Intelligence committees on Thursday about his handling of a whistleblower complaint that prompted House Democrats to launch a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. Maguire did not transmit the complaint -- centered on comments made by Trump to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a July phone call -- to Congress until Wednesday, though the Intelligence Community Inspector General considered it "credible" and of "urgent concern," requiring reporting to Congress. But the acting director of national intelligence and the Justice Department blocked the inspector general
So now we have a whistleblower who isn’t because he cannot be, either from his circumstance or from the law. He or she had no firsthand knowledge, weren’t on the call or in the room, and in any case cannot blow the whistle on a unitary executive, namely President Trump. You can only be a whistleblower for an agency you are a member of.
Lawyers for the whistleblower who has alleged possible wrongdoing by President Trump in his July call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky worked with a nonprofit group to establish a GoFundMe page seeking to raise an initial $100,000 for the whistleblower's legal defense, Fox News has learned.
John Tye, a onetime whistleblower who founded the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid, told Fox News he was working with the whistleblower's lawyers at the Compass Rose Legal Group as a matter of principle. Their fundraising page, which can be found at helpthewhistleblower.org, went live Wednesday evening.
“We hope that Americans will stand up to and stand with this whistleblower and show the government
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has defended the House’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, saying that it will help prevent “a potential meddling in the 2020 election that has still yet to happen.”
Ocasio-Cortez was speaking Wednesday on CNN’s Cuomo Prime Time when she described the inquiry as an “urgent action.”
“We have the opportunity to act now to prevent a profoundly destabilizing action and intervention in our democracy before it happens,” she said. “And I think that is a profoundly urgent action that we need to take right now.”
Ocasio-Cortez said that previous House investigations into Trump have tended to focus on alleged past actions.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex took their son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor on his first official engagement today - opting to dress him in a pair of adorable striped dungarees in line with royal tradition.Meghan Markle, 38, and Prince Harry, 35, were seen beaming as they took four-month-old Archie to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation in Cape Town.The little boy was dressed in a pair of blue dungarees and a white bodysuit by H&M, costing just £12.99, and little socks by Bon Point at £13.The seventh-in-line to the throne looked the spitting image of dad Harry, who was seen in similar dungarees in 1985
The 2020 presidential race is well underway, and while some of the early hopefuls have dropped their bids, there are still a handful of Democratic contenders looking to land on the official ballot. One of the more prominent candidates, Senator Elizabeth Warren, is putting a lot of effort behind her 2020 bid. Warren, who is currently a U.S. Senator in Massachusetts, is regarded as one of the more liberal candidates in the current Democratic race. The senator has built her campaign on promising middle-class Americans to fight for their equality. “Rich guys have been waging class warfare against hard-working people for decades ,”
It's not just San Francisco that has a poop problem.
The verdant banks and peaceful beaches of the Russian River are left littered with human waste after busy weekends of visitors partying on the water, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
"You're talking about orders of magnitude of fecal matter beyond wild animals," said Don McEnhill, executive director of RussianRiverkeeper, an organization that seeks to preserve the Russian River's natural beauty.
The Press Democrat reports most of the waste is found near Petrified Forest Road, Porter Creek Road and Geysers Road and Steelhead Beach — where there is a public restroom.
Seems the mainstream media are desperate to keep President Trump's stellar United Nations speech out of the news.
On Tuesday, Trump delivered a far from throwaway speech articulating the vision of the voters who elected him, speaking of nationalism, globalism, and socialism, along with an added rundown of problem nations to condemn and props for others. RealClearPolitics has a video and transcript.
For starters, it was a zero apologies for America speech, which was a breath of fresh air, given the previous administration.He drove a fine definition of nationalism in the American sense, not other countries, as a positive thing that benefits not just the U.S., but all nations.