Posts on Wednesday, December 18, 2019
President Trump wasn't happy that Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) voted to impeach him, and went low with his response.
As the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night, Trump was speaking to supporters at a rally in Battle Creek, Michigan. He asked the crowd if they knew Dingell, calling her a "real beauty," and then mentioned that after her husband, the late Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), died earlier this year, he offered to give the family "A+ treatment" when it came to the state funeral.
"I didn't give him the B treatment," Trump said. "I didn't give him the C or the D. I could have."
156 guns seized after Anaheim man trips
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A man accidentally tripped a burglary alarm in his Anaheim home and was arrested along with his housemate, who told officers over the phone to inspect their house, resulting in the discovery and seizure of over 150 guns from the residence on Monday, Dec. 16.
Officers responding to an automated notification from an alarm triggered at a house near West Broadway and South Archer Street found the front door of the dwelling open, Anaheim Police Sgt. Shane Carringer said. They called one of the people registered to that address, and he asked police to enter the home to investigate.
An American Airlines mechanic accused of sabotaging a navigation system on a Miami flight with 150 passengers aboard pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to destroy the aircraft in a plea agreement designed to avoid a maximum sentence up to 20 years in prison. “I do admit the guilt,” Abdul-Majeed Marouf Ahmed Alani, 60, said through an Arabic interpreter in Miami federal court. Alani, a veteran AA employee who had lived in California and commuted to his job at Miami International Airport, now faces up to three years in prison under a joint recommendation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and his defense lawyer.
The American Civil Liberties Union is asking that men's restrooms now include tampons and other menstrual products to push back against sex discrimination for 'every person' who menstruates. The ACLU released a statement on Tuesday presenting their argument for accessible menstrual products in men's bathrooms to fully accommodate transgender and non-binary people. 'While free menstrual products are not uniformly provided in women’s restrooms, they are almost never available in men’s restrooms, even for pay,' the statement read. 'Men’s restrooms are also less likely to have a place to dispose of these products conveniently, privately, and hygienically.' ACLU also pointed out that men's homeless
President Trump, as he is impeached, holds Michigan campaign rally originally appeared on abcnews.go.com As voting began in the House to make him the third president in United States history to be impeached, President Donald Trump took the stage in Michigan on Wednesday for a much-anticipated campaign rally. Trump hit the stage for his last campaign rally of the year in Battle Creek, Michigan, just as Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff introduced the two articles of impeachment facing the president. Minutes later, he was impeached on the first article. "It doesn't feel like we're being impeached," Trump said, to cheers, just after stepping to the podium.
Hollywood elites celebrated their version of Christmas on Wednesday as the House of Representatives voted to impeach President Donald Trump along mostly partisan lines, with Democrats passing the two articles of impeachment brought by the House Judiciary Committee. A slew of far-left celebrities including Rob Reiner, Alyssa Milano, and Michael Moore gloated over the proceedings, calling President Trump “criminally corrupt” and a “motherfucker.” They also denigrated the Republican Party for being filled with “white men.” Filmmaker Michael Moore said he gained access to the House gallery to watch the proceedings in person. “Congress is about to impeach a lawless, criminal president,” the Bowling for Columbine director tweeted.
Fox Nation host David Webb called on American voters to ask themselves one question as Democrats argued in favor of impeaching President Trump during debates on the House floor on Wednesday. "Are they working for you as they promised?" he said on his Fox Nation show "Reality Check," adding: "What are they actually doing in Washington, D.C., and with the remaining workdays in December?"
Webb observed that the Democratic campaign platform in the 2018 midterms did not include calls for impeachment. Though he acknowledged that Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib told supporters soon after she was sworn into Congress in January that she intended to "impeach the mother-----r.”
It is said there are two things you should never watch being made: sausage and government budgets.
Now we can add impeachment to the list of stomach-turning sights to avoid.
The arcane rules, phony cordiality and debates over the second sentence in paragraph G of Point Six were bad enough, but the nausea meter hit the roof when Nancy Pelosi took the microphone. Wearing a funereal black dress, she stood next to a cardboard American flag and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
I would have counted her more honest if she had pledged her allegiance to a Democratic donkey.
WASHINGTON— A sample of the sights and sounds across Washington and beyond on a momentous day in Washington on Wednesday as the House passed two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump (all times local):9:45 p.m.Minutes after the House impeached President Donald Trump, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw the process into confusion by refusing to say when or whether she would send the articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial.At a news conference held immediately after the vote, Pelosi said “we’ll see what happens” when asked if she would send the articles to the Senate. She said that House Democrats could not name impeachment managers —
President Trump stared down the Democrats Wednesday night at his rally in Battle Creek, Michigan. “I feel so lucky that I took you on this fantastic journey. It’s so much fun,” Trump said. “They want to impeach you. They want to do worse than that.” “It doesn’t feel like we’re being impeached. The country is doing better than ever before,” Trump said to a roaring crowd as the demonic Democrats were voting to impeach him for non-crimes. WATCH:
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) on Wednesday night voted "present" on both articles of impeachment against President Trump. On Monday, Gabbard said she was still undecided as to how to vote, and was "taking this time for myself to be able to review everything that's happened, all the information that's been put forward." Gabbard is the only member of the Democratic presidential field able to vote on impeachment.
Her move ticked off former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, now an MSNBC contributor. When told by anchor Brian Williams about Gabbard's first "present" vote, McCaskill responded, "That's just stupid."
Leaders in Brooklyn Park's Liberian community say their people have received an early Christmas gift after Congress voted to approve provisions for Liberian refugees already living in the United States who have temporary protected status.
As part of the National Defense Authorization Act, passed by both the House of Representatives and by the Senate, refugees with Deferred Enforced Departure will be allowed to stay in the country and will have a path to citizenship for the first time in the immigration's program history.
Eight-year-old Ryan Kaji earned $26 million in 2019 on his YouTube channel, making him the highest-paid creator on the platform, according to a list published Wednesday by Forbes magazine.
Kaji, whose real name is Ryan Guan, was already the video platform's highest earner in 2018, with $22 million, according to Forbes. His channel "Ryan's World," launched in 2015 by Ryan's parents, is only three years old but already has 22.9 million subscribers.
Initially called "Ryan ToysReview," the channel mostly consisted of "unboxing" videos -- videos of the young star opening boxes of toys and playing with them.
India leads the world in pollution-linked deaths– followed by China and Nigeria – according to a report published on Wednesday that estimated the global impact of contaminants in the air, water and workplace.
The report by the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) found pollution to be the largest environmental cause of premature death on the planet, causing 15% of all deaths – some 8.3 million people. (Snip) India and China led in the number of pollution deaths, with about 2.3 million and 1.8 million respectively, followed by Nigeria, Indonesia and Pakistan.
The US came seventh with almost 200,000 deaths.
House Democrats voted to impeach President Donald Trump Wednesday, making Trump the third president in American history to be impeached by the House of Representatives.The House passed article one of H.R. 755 which charges President Trump with abusing the office of the presidency. Article one passed on mostly partisan lines, 230-197, with most Republicans against the resolution. Two Democrats, Reps. Collin Peterson (D-MN) and Jeff Van Drew (D-NJ), voted against the resolution.
A group of House Democrats is pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other leaders to withhold the articles of impeachment against President Trump that are expected to emerge on Wednesday, potentially delaying a Senate trial for months. The notion of impeaching Trump but holding the articles in the House has gained traction among some on the political left as a way of potentially forcing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to conduct a trial on more favorable terms for Democrats. And if no agreement is reached, some have argued, the trial could be delayed indefinitely, denying Trump an expected acquittal.
Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide attempt in jail has vanished, it was revealed Wednesday, as the mystery into the millionaire pedophile's death deepens. In court on Wednesday prosecutors revealed that they could not locate the footage from outside Epstein's cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City when he attempted to take his own life on July 23. 'I don’t know the details of how it was lost or destroyed or why it wasn’t retained when it should have been,' lawyer Bruce Barket said in court. In that attempt Epstein was found with neck injuries after he apparently tried
Rep. Al Green (D-TX) used a photograph of a migrant girl crying at the U.S.-Mexico border in his argument for President Donald Trump’s impeachment during the House of Representatives debate on Wednesday afternoon.Green, speaking next to a poster of the photograph under a red-lettered slogan, “Impeach Now,” said that he was speaking “in the name of democracy” and “for the sake of the many who are suffering.”However, that particular child was not suffering because she was separated from her parents, as Democrats have widely, and incorrectly, claimed.As Breitbart News reported in July 2018 (original links):
The father of the tearful two-year-old Honduran migrant girl who
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Homelessness in Seattle has reached a crisis point. Despite more than $1 billion in public and private spending across King County, more people live on the streets than ever before (a problem that will likely get worse, following the Supreme Court’s refusal to address the legality of public camping). But rather than focus on the causes of homelessness—addiction, mental illness, and social breakdown—progressives in local government have waged war against abstract forces of oppression.
Last week, the leaders of the homelessness response in Seattle and King County hosted their annual conference under the theme of “Decolonizing Our Collective Work.”
Appearing Wednesday on CNN’s Newsroom, House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) accused President Donald Trump of issuing a “veiled threat” against him amid the House Democrats’ ongoing impeachment proceedings.(Tweet/Video) A partial transcript is as follows: DANA BASH: The president in the Oval Office attacked you directly. He was sitting next to the president of Guatemala. He lamented you can’t be prosecuted for telling what you call parody of the July 25th phone call.
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House Democrats took bold action by moving closer and closer towrad impeaching President Trump on Wednesday, if one could describe kicking and screaming for three years as "bold." While the impeachment process continues on its predictable outcome of the Senate acquitting Trump of any wrongdoing, individuals on both sides of the aisle decided to remove all mental filters and make it clear to their audience that they need their phone taken away. Here are the top five worst takes about impeachment. 1) Jennifer Rubin, "conservative" blogger at the Washington Post
Christmas Rally – President Trump MAGA
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While the swamp is voting on false and malicious impeachment articles, our President travels to Battle Creek, MI to hold a MERRY CHRISTMAS Rally at the Kellogg Arena. President Trump is expected to speak at 7:00pm EST ..RSBN Livestream Link – Fox10 Livestream Link – Donald J Trump Livestream
Supporters of President Donald Trump camped out overnight to secure prime sitting for Wednesday evening’s “Merry Christmas Rally” in Battle Creek, Michigan, as House Democrats are in the final stages of completing their partisan impeachment proceedings.Both President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence are scheduled to speak at the rally scheduled to kick off at 7:00 p.m. local time at Kellogg Arena. Footage shared by Fox 17 shows hundreds of Trump supporters bearing frosty temperatures in heavy snow gear through Tuesday evening into the morning. One supporter flashed a homemade “Trump 2020” sign as the camera showed off the long line to get into the venue.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) launched the debate over the impeachment of President Donald Trump on Wednesday by comparing the Democrats’ struggle to remove him from office to the Battle of the Bulge against Nazi Germany in World War II. Described as “Hitler’s Last Gamble,” the battle began in December 1944, when the Nazis sent 200,000 troops into a surprise attack against American forces. Though the Americans prevailed, 100,000 were killed or wounded over two months of fighting.
Pelosi drew an analogy between the impeachment debate and that battle, the largest ever fought by the U.S. Army:
A federal appeals court reviewing Obamacare has ruled the law's individual mandate is unconstitutional but did not invalidate the entire law. The court ordered a lower court judge to reconsider whether any of the sweeping law can survive.
The appeals court’s decision keeps the legal threat to Obamacare alive while reducing the likelihood the Supreme Court could render a final verdict on the law before the 2020 elections. (More to follow.)
Panama City - Panama declared a day of national mourning for Friday, the 30th anniversary of the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Noriega and resulted in hundreds of deaths in the Central American nation.
The measure approved Wednesday by members of President Laurentino Cortizo’s Cabinet, a first for the country, has been a main demand of relatives of those killed in the military operation, who see it as a symbolic step toward justice for the deaths of Panamanian civilians and soldiers.
It calls for Panamanian flags to fly at half-mast on the anniversary, but not for obligatory closure of businesses and government offices.
The head of a Seattle-area nonprofit resigned this week after a video of a performer giving lap dances and kissing attendees at the organization’s annual homeless conference went viral, according to new reports. Kira Zylstra, acting director of King County’s coordinating agency for homelessness, All Home, stepped down after the clip—showing transgender performer Beyoncé Black St. James’ provocative act at the Dec. 9 event—circulated, the Seattle Times reported. St. James, who wore a revealing bodysuit with silver pasties over her chest, can be seen in the clip doing high kicks and even smooching one of the attendees.
The United States and India on Wednesday agreed to grow defense and technology ties as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the 'noise and silliness' from impeachment proceedings would not distract the Trump administration from protecting the country.
“The world should know that despite all the noise, the chaos, the media asking questions that are completely unrelated to the reason that we’re here today, that the leaders of our two nations are working diligently to protect the American people, to develop a relationship that’s important strategically for the coming decades between the United States and India,” Pompeo said alongside Defense Secretary Mark Esper at the State Department.
The Washington suburbs have been revealed as some of the richest places in the US - out-earning California's Silicon Valley. Loudoun County and Falls Church City, both in Virginia, topped the nation in terms of median incomes, with households earning an average of $140,000 and $137,500 per year, according to the US Census Bureau.They far outstripped Santa Clara County in California, which makes up the majority of Silicon Valley and where the average household earns $126,000 per year.In total, nine of the 20 wealthiest counties in the US are located in the DC suburbs.
Spoiler alert: The House is going to impeach President Trump, and the Senate will acquit him.
But you probably already knew that.
Unless we step into an alternate reality, in which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) bursts into gales of laughter and begs Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to please keep talking, it seems likely the Senate won’t call any White House officials to testify during the trial. McConnell said as much on Tuesday in response to Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) request that the Senate call four witnesses — including acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and former national security adviser John Bolton.
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Three anonymous Silicon Valley conservatives have announced their intention to create a news aggregation site to rival the Drudge Report following what they describe as his recent leftward tilt.They recently launched a new campaign to determine the appeal of such a site. Their new campaign, titled "Free Matt Drudge," explains, "We love Matt Drudge and know the only way the Drudge Report would have gone so far left is if he was being held hostage in some progressive’s basement. For this reason, we demand his immediate release without condition," but it also adds that the hostage scenario was "obviously satirical."The site, which doesn't yet have a name,
A top Pentagon intelligence official will soon leave the building, the fourth key defense official to announce their resignation within a week.
Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Kari Bingen submitted her resignation on Dec. 5 and will leave Jan. 10, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Uriah Orland confirmed in a statement. Her departure was first reported by Politico.
"The department's commitment to providing unmatched intelligence as we implement the National Defense Strategy remains unwavering. We appreciate her service to the department and wish her continued success in the next chapter of her life," he added.
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After 3 years. Wile E. Coyote finally will impeach President Donald John Trump (Snip)
Big deal.We already have been embroiled in fury for 3 years because Obama and the Democrats refuse to accept the results of the 2016 presidential election.(Snip)Democrats impeachment will fail in the Senate, but Democrats say this will go on his permanent record.
Meanwhile, President Donald John Trump is going on his merry little way, making America great again, rebuilding the economy, and building the wall. In just 3 years he has appointed 50 circuit judges. It took Obama 8 years to get 55 (Snip)
That is what history will remember. The impeachment us background noise.
Rep. Louie Gohmert went off during the impeachment debate after Rep. Jerry Nadler accused him of spouting “Russian propaganda” on the House floor. The fireworks took place after Texas Rep. Gohmert said Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election.“This country’s end is now in sight!” he shouted. “And I hope I don’t live to see it! This is an outrage!” Rep. Nadler responded by the statement by claiming he was dismayed that a lawmaker would “spout Russian propaganda.” (Tweets/Videos) In response, Gohmert reapproached the microphone, which was off,
Amazon, Apple and Google will work together to create a new common standard that will make it easier for smart devices to speak to each other.
It is a move the technology giants hope will make it easier for consumers as they will be able to use different devices from a variety of companies on the same network.
'We believe that the protocol has the potential to be widely adopted across home systems and assistants', the new group said in a statement.
The royalty-free and open source software standard will have 'security as a fundamental design tenet', according to Apple. It will be designed from the start to work with existing smart assistants
Nancy Pelosi’s Democratic caucus has been champing at the bit to throw President Trump out of office, but the House speaker on Wednesday ordered her colleagues not to gloat — and wore a black dress to what she repeatedly called the “solemn” impeachment proceedings.Pelosi and other Democratic leaders told their members not to cheer or applaud when the impeachment vote totals are announced, Axios reported, and many members described the day as sad and solemn. “Don’t cheer, keep it solemn,”
Twenty-one years ago, then-Rep. Charles Schumer worked to establish the precedent that a president could lie under oath.The question for Schumer was not whether the president was lying but what he was lying about. The ultimate question underlying then-President Bill Clinton's impeachment was this: Did Paula Jones, an Arkansas state employee, have a right to fair and honest proceedings when she brought a federal civil suit against the former governor of Arkansas who had gone on to become the president?
President Donald Trump’s supporters plan to bring a Christmas-themed message to Democrats ahead of a House of Representatives vote on impeachment.With the House is expected to vote to impeach Trump along party lines on Wednesday, liberals have cheered on the answer to their dreams and now, supporters of the president are fighting back with Christmas carols. (Tweet/Video) Conservative activist group Public Advocate is planning to target Democrats and their impeachment investigation with a few critical parodies of Christmas carols in locations around the U.S. Capitol, CBS News reported.
As the House of Representatives moves toward a vote today on articles of impeachment against President Trump, support for removing him from office has fallen to its lowest point since the Ukraine scandal first broke, according to the latest Microsoft News Poll. In our latest daily tracking poll, in response to the question "If the House of Representatives votes to impeach President Trump, would you support or oppose the Senate voting to remove him from office?" only 1 percentage point separates likely voters who support removing Trump (48 percent) and oppose removing him (47 percent). Taking into account the margin
The left and its Democrats in power are in bad shape.
They face a blowout election from voters in 2020, probably comparable to what Britain got, based on their crazed effort to impeach and remove President Trump over some totally non–national security issue like arms to Ukraine.
They're sinking in the polls. Their favorite networks are seeing collapsing ratings. They have a string of bad candidates, each more socialist than the next. Voters hate socialism, along with guys who are too old to run. The Horowitz report exposed the dishonesty and absence of integrity of their Deep State allies.
The object of their ire, by contrast,
As Democrats intone piously about saving the republic from a president who has "abused his power" and "committed high crimes," and the news media call it all "historic," somewhere, behind the scenes, the red-state Democrats are panicking.
According to the Daily Caller:
New internal polling by the Trump campaign suggests Democrats in pro-Trump districts should avoid supporting impeachment or risk losing re-election.
The new poll, released Tuesday, surveyed 900 likely voters in the 30 congressional districts that President Donald Trump won in 2016 but are currently occupied by Democrats.
Nice to see what everyone suspected.
Here is the difference between conservative and liberal government, explained through a football analogy.
Gentlemen, I'm a conservative referee. By now, you all should know the rules of the game. In fact, we expect and depend on you to know the rules of the game. It's you whom the game is about, and it's you who will be enjoying the spoils of victory or the agony of defeat.
My fellow referees are best relegated to the periphery of the field. The less involved we are, the better the game will progress. Who wants a bunch of starts and stops, delays
The 2020 Bum Steer Awards
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Last year, many Texans comported themselves in an admirable, even heroic manner. But too many other Texans seemed quite happy to try to compensate for all that decency by acting in an idiotic, even malevolent fashion. Craven politicians, heartless corporations, inebriated marksmen, clueless members of the fourth estate, and a whole host of individuals who really, really should not be allowed around children—those were the people and entities who seemed all too intent on confirming the worst stereotypes the rest of the world has about Texas. And perhaps inventing a few new ones.
Let’s take a moment to remember a whole bunch of nincompoops—and worse!—we hope to someday forget.
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele has said his administration is currently unable to implement an asylum deal made with the United States that aims to prevent uncontrolled migration across the southwest border and disrupt human smuggling operations, admitting the country’s economy is “in shatters.”
(Snip) the 38-year-old leader admitted that at present El Salvador is not capable of honoring the asylum deal he made with the Trump administration late September.
When questioned about whether the Central American nation is prepared to accept asylum seekers, Bukele noted the high crime rate in the country and responded: “Well, not right now. We don’t have asylum capacities, but we can build them.”
An Israeli Jewish student has been subjected to harrowing anti-Semitic abuse on the New York subway, being called a 'f***ing stinkin' a** Jew'. Lihi Aharon was riding the train from Manhattan to Brooklyn when a fellow passenger launched the sickening anti-Semitic tirade. 'Allahu akbar,' she shouted at Aharon, 'It's in the Quran, where they curse the serpent Jew, you wouldn't believe. You f***ing nasty a** Jew ... you f***ing stinking a** Jew.' The woman later knocked the camera out of Aharon's hands and the victim alleges her face was grabbed hold of and left with a scratch.
Grainy surveillance video captured the robbery and fatal stabbing of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors in Morningside Park, it emerged in a Tuesday court hearing for one of her alleged murderers. A surveillance camera mounted atop a security booth near the entrance to the park was rolling as three alleged teenage muggers accosted and knifed Majors, 18, on Dec. 11, an NYPD investigator testified. “It’s a pixelated video,” said Detective Wilfredo Acevedo, adding that the clip captured “a little scuffle at the bottom of the steps, and poking motions towards the victim.” The video’s existence emerged in a Manhattan Family Court hearing for Zyairr Davis
Cops are looking for a maniac who launched a string of violent outbursts Monday on the Upper East Side—including a random slugging of a woman looking at her cellphone. The suspect can be seen on surveillance video gingerly walking on East 85th Street near Park Avenue around 11 a.m. when he suddenly strikes the 21-year-old woman in the face without notice, according to police. The victim suffered bruising and swelling to the face but refused medical attention. The suspect simply walked away. Minutes earlier, the suspect approached a man sitting in his car in front of 960 Park Ave., cops said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and several other female House Democrats are wearing black attire in an effort to show Wednesday’s scheduled impeachment vote is a “somber day.”CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash tweeted that Pelosi conveyed to her that she “feels sad” over today’s vote as she walked into the House chamber while House Democrats debate impeachment. “As she walked into the house chamber @SpeakerPelosi told me she ‘feels sad,’” wrote Bash, before adding in a subsequent tweet: “@SpeakerPelosi is wearing black. One of her colleagues told me several of the female Democrats did that intentionally to signal it is a somber day.”
Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, the vice chairman of the House Rules Committee, delivered a bizarre, rambling line of questioning during Tuesday’s impeachment hearing.Oddly enough, Hastings, while serving as a federal judge, was impeached back in 1988 and removed from office in 1989.Though the impeachment inquiry took place in 1988, the acts themselves – soliciting a $150,000 bribe in exchange for lightening sentences for two mob-connected individuals – took place in 1981. Hastings was acquitted of conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges in relation to the bribe, but new evidence later revealed Hastings had lied during his testimony and falsified evidence.
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Republicans on the House Oversight Committee mocked House Democrats on the eve of the impeachment vote with a parody version of “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” In a series of tweets, they took on the imminent impeachment of President Donald Trump, beginning with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to rally the necessary votes for impeachment. (Tweet) In the second stanza, they took aim at the process, which many Republicans have claimed was unfair from the outset.(Tweet)
New York - Paul Manafort's state charges in New York were thrown out by a judge on Wednesday in a dramatic court victory for the former Trump campaign chairman.
He won a claim that the prosecution brought by New York state's attorney general, Letitia James, was invalidated by 'double jeopardy' laws because it overlapped with the federal crimes of which he was convicted earlier this year.
However Manafort remains in federal custody and is not scheduled for release until Christmas Day 2024.
But the judge's ruling opens the way for Donald Trump to set Manafort entirely free by presidential pardon or by commuting his setence.
This Christmas season, decorate your trees and hang your stockings, and know that three kings come again, bearing gifts. But this time, 2,020 years later, these three kings bear gifts not for the baby Jesus, but for the Democratic Party.
The biggest lie in American politics today is that Republicans are the party of the wealthy elite, and the Democrats are fighting for the little guy.
While corporate political spending is split roughly down the middle between Democrats and Republicans, in all other categories the Democrats are way in front. Labor unions, which collect and spend at least $14 billion per year in the United States, are almost exclusively committed to Democratic
President Trump began the day of his impeachment on Wednesday by asking the nation to pray.
“Can you believe that I will be impeached today by the Radical Left, Do Nothing Democrats, AND I DID NOTHING WRONG!” Mr. Trump tweeted at 7:34 a.m. “A terrible Thing. Read the Transcripts. This should never happen to another President again. Say a PRAYER!”
The House was expected to hold a final party-line vote on two articles of impeachment sometime in the late afternoon, accusing Mr. Trump of abuse of power and obstructing Congress in his dealings with Ukraine. (Snip) Republicans say he will be acquitted in a Senate trial sometime next month,
Democratic reliance on dangerous myths and falsehoods is no longer a bug but a feature of their narrative and philosophy.
Case in point are comments made this week by former President Barack Obama. At an Obama Foundation Leaders event in Singapore, Mr. Obama, relying on gender stereotypes, perpetuated an undeniable, and dangerous, myth that women are not just better than men, but inherently better leaders. (Snip) That’s odd, because we are living in an era where we have seen the results of women in political leadership and, like with men, the results are, to be kind, a mixed bag. Not only have women leaders failed, they’ve done so in spectacular fashion.
Derangement is a mental impairment that causes those afflicted with it to make very bad decisions, often ignoring or disputing realities that would caution them against their self-destructive actions. Even though the leftist-dominated psychology and psychiatric professions refuse to acknowledge it, Trump Derangement Syndrome is real, a genuine mass psychosis, and it is at the root of the impeachment vote today.
It is often speculated that the real goal of Democrats is to “place an asterisk” next to President Trump’s name. (snip) here are seven facts that will place an asterisk next to this impeachment, as a monumentally foolish act of political malpractice
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch set off a minor social media frenzy Tuesday after appearing on “Fox and Friends” and wishing host Ainsley Earhardt “Merry Christmas” during an interview promoting his book.
Leftwing critics suggested the justice was signaling his sympathies with people disturbed at the secularization of American public life by saying “Merry Christmas” instead of its capacious alternative “Happy Holidays.” (Tweet) (Snip) Other commentators suggested the program was an inappropriate venue for a Supreme Court justice. “Fox and Friends” is said to be a staple of the president’s media diet, and generally keeps a pro-Trump editorial line.
More than 140 New York City elementary and middle schools had at least one grade where more than 90 percent of kids flunked their state exams last academic year, according to a Post analysis. A total of 23 schools had at least one entire class where not a single student passed a math or English proficiency test given annually to kids in grades 3 to 8.(Snip) With many of the city’s lowest-performing schools spending in excess of $30,000 annually per student, Chu called for urgent scrutiny of the Department of Education. “What exactly is being taught in these classrooms?” she asked.
When state’s attorney Kim Foxx announced no prosecution for shoplifting under a thousand dollars, the results were fully predictable. Chicago and Cook County, Illinois are leading the headlong American rush toward lawlessness and the loss of civil order. The election of Kim Foxx as Cook County State’s Attorney, with hundreds of thousands of dollars in backing by George Soros, has been a further disaster. Not just the scandalously lenient treatment of Jussie Smollett after convulsing Chicago and the entire country with a fake hat crime caper, but the virtual abolition of laws against felony shoplifting under one thousand dollars: (snip) The results are absolutely predictable
Today's the big impeachment day, and the Democrats are still yelling and piously intoning about it about its importance. It's big. It's rare. It's "historic" as newsman David Muir was saying last night.
There's just one problem: The public is not paying attention. Actually, it's bored as hell, and the evidence of it is everywhere.
It's like they gave an impeachment and nobody came.
They're not talking about it in the streets, not even in far-left Berkeley.
The effort by House Democrats to impeach President Donald Trump has created plenty of political stars on both sides of the aisle, from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) in the GOP to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) in the Democrat Party. But perhaps no bigger star has emerged in the fight than Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), a hard-charging GOP congressman from Long Island whose district includes the Hamptons.It’s not because of any viral moment in a public hearing. Zeldin actually is not on either of the committees that have held public impeachment hearings, though he is on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which granted him access to the Secure Compartmentalized Information
Donald Trump will hold a massive political rally in Michigan at the exact same time the House is due to vote on impeaching him.The president is expected to fill the 9,000-seat Kellogg Arena, in Battle Creek, to capacity for a rally that will start at 7pm EST.At the same time, representatives on Capitol Hill will be wrapping up six hours of debate on two articles of impeachment before casting their ballots on whether to send the case for trial in the Senate.Trump is sure to attack the process, along with Democrats pushing it forward,
President Trump on Wednesday will be far away from Capitol Hill -- and the Washington establishment he has long criticized as an irredeemable "swamp" -- as the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives prepares to impeach him in a likely party-line vote on charges of obstruction of Congress and abuse of power.Instead, the president will be on friendly turf in downtown Battle Creek, Mich., hosting a rally that may rank among his most defiant -- a marked contrast from the approach of former President Bill Clinton, who mostly stayed under the radar during his own impeachment proceedings in 1998. There will be unusually tight security near the Capitol building
Thanks, Pelosi: RNC Collects $25+ Million
From 600,000 New Donors Since House
Took Up Sham Impeachment replies
From 600,000 New Donors Since House
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As Nancy Pelosi and her minions continue full bore with the impeachment show trial, the Republican National Committee is raking in millions of dollars to spend retaking the House next year, while the DNC sputters.Axios reported: The Republican National Committee has seen over 600,000 new donors since the start of impeachment, deputy chief of staff Mike Reed tells Axios. “Voters are consistently expressing how they want Washington to focus on real issues,” he said. The Trump campaign and RNC combined took in more than $10m in small-dollar donations last week alone, as the House Judiciary Committee adopted two articles of impeachment, according to a campaign official.
In a recent article, I explained that Operation Mockingbird is a program founded by the CIA in the 1950s to use journalists and front groups to spread propaganda. Today’s version of Operation Mockingbird uses intelligence agencies, academia, Hollywood, and the Democratic party to spread hatred for Christians, traditional values, law-abiding gun owners, straight white men, pro-lifers, police and the 63 million who voted for Trump. I am encouraged that a growing number of young Americans realize they are being propagandized 24/7. Young people are fed up with SJWs (social justice warriors) demonizing whites, anyone who is happy, successful, thin, and enjoying life. Youths are angry for
If their only intent was to distract the public’s attention from all the good news piling up around President Donald Trump, Democrats could not have timed their impeachment votes better. Trump is racking up wins that are going unnoticed by the impeachment-obsessed media, but not, apparently, by the public.
Last week, to take one example, Trump secured a rare agreement with Democrats, who signed off on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada agreement, which supersedes NAFTA. This has been a longstanding goal of Trump’s, who campaigned on fixing what he called the worst trade deal ever. Whether the USMCA is a big improvement over NAFTA depends on whom you ask, but nobody can deny
As they prepare for their final battle against the galaxy’s forces of evil, the characters in The Rise of Skywalker remind each other several times that if this doesn’t work, everything that’s come before—everything they’ve fought for, everything they’ve been through—will all count for nothing. You could say the same of the movie itself. We can debate the importance of final chapters, whether they really have, or should have, the power to elevate or invalidate everything that came before them—and though the ninth episode in this generation-spanning story has been advertised with the promise that “The Saga Will End,” that’s a promise that has been made and broken before.
Through months of impeachment proceedings, Democrats, with the help of a parade of witnesses, have hammered away at President Trump for abusing power. Yet as the House prepares to vote on impeaching him, Trump's approval rating is virtually unchanged from before the process started — neither cratering from the negative news or benefiting from any large-scale backlash against impeachment.
This has become a pattern for Trump, whose approval rating (while historically low) is the most stable in history — or at least since Gallup started measuring presidential approval during the Harry Truman presidency. Since taking office, Trump has never polled higher than 46% or lower than 35%,
China routinely broke federal law by not disclosing how much it spent to publish regime propaganda in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other newspapers, an expert review of foreign agent registration filings concluded.
China Daily, an official mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has published hundreds of propaganda articles designed to look like ordinary news stories in some of America's most influential newspapers. While foreign agents may place ads in the United States, the propaganda outlet has repeatedly violated the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) by failing to provide full disclosures about its purchases.
During an interview on CNN on Monday night, House Financial Services Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) pushed a conspiracy theory that President Donald Trump colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election. She admitted that she doesn't have evidence to support the claim.
Her entire conspiracy theory centers around the idea that Vladimir Putin helped get President Trump elected because he would remove the sanctions placed on Russia.
"Because I believe, even though I don't have the facts to prove it, I believe that Putin wanted to lift the sanctions. He's always wanted to lift the sanctions that were placed on him because of his interfering and encouraging into Crimea.
A Washington Post fact-check released Thursday gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) four Pinocchios for a "bogus talking point" about the number of children killed with firearms each year.
Pelosi has repeatedly claimed that 47 percent of gun deaths were "teenagers or children," according to the Post. CDC data show the real number is closer to 9 percent, meaning the House speaker exaggerates the true number by more than fivefold. This discrepancy led the Post to assign Pelosi's claim the harshest rating on its fact-checking scale.
House Democrats, forced by a budget deadline to divert a little energy from impeachment to their primary legislative function, have reluctantly negotiated a spending agreement with congressional Republicans and the White House. The bill, which must be passed by the Senate and signed by the president before federal funding runs out this weekend, contains some good news for Americans facing ever-increasing medical expenses. It permanently repeals three looming Obamacare taxes: the medical device tax, the tax on premium (Cadillac) health plans, and the health insurance tax (HIT). All three were unpopular and would have increased health-care costs.
‘Trotsky makes the revolutions, and the Bronsteins pay the bills.”
This was the purported rejoinder of Moscow’s chief rabbi, Jacob Maze, after Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky — the former Lev Bronstein — rebuffed his request for assistance, explaining that he was not a Jew but rather an international man of socialism.
I was reminded of this tragic quip when watching a mob of liberal Blue Checkmarks have a collective meltdown over Noah Rothman’s Commentary piece “Bernie Sanders Has a Big Jeremy Corbyn Problem” this weekend.
How could Sanders, a progressive Jew — a man who lost family in the Holocaust, no less! — have an anti-Semitism problem?
Chuck Schumer’s moan that “the facts” need to “com[e] out” before a full impeachment trial can occur is an invitation to a motion to dismiss the House’s articles of impeachment, once they arrive. The House had its opportunity to develop the facts. If it didn’t develop facts sufficient to support removing the president, the Senate shouldn’t waste its time on the matter.
Mitch McConnell reportedly is considering a motion to dismiss. According to this report, he hinted that the Senate will move to dismiss the articles of impeachment after opening argument.
McConnell noted that in the 1999 trial of Bill Clinton, Schumer supported a motion to dismiss the case.
New York - A small group of President Donald Trump's fiercest conservative critics, including the husband of the president's own chief adviser, is launching a super PAC designed to fight Trump's reelection and punish congressional Republicans deemed his “enablers." (Snip) The principals include former John McCain adviser Steve Schmidt, former Ohio Gov. John Kasich adviser John Weaver, former New Hampshire GOP chair Jennifer Horn, veteran Republican operative Rick Wilson and George Conway, a conservative attorney and husband of Trump's chief counselor Kellyanne Conway. In an interview, George Conway said he encouraged the new super PAC to involve Anonymous,
Former FBI Director James Comey initially portrayed last week’s damning report on the bureau’s probe of Russiagate as a vindication. This week, Comey admitted that Inspector General Michael Horowitz discovered “real sloppiness,” which is “concerning.”
That characterization does not begin to cover the problems described by Horowitz, which this week prompted a highly unusual public rebuke from the court that reviews secret warrant applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The FISA court called the FBI’s conduct “antithetical to the heightened duty of candor” that applies in such cases.
Adam Schiff claimed over the weekend that he shouldn’t be held accountable for his own previous efforts to discount the numerous errors in the FBI’s FISA application on Carter Page. “I’m certainly willing to admit that the Inspector General found serious abuses of FISA that I was unaware of,” Schiff told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. He added, “Had I known of them, Chris, yes, I would have called out the FBI at the same time. But I think it’s only fair to judge what we knew at the time, not what would be revealed two years later.” As Ed wrote yesterday, Schiff’s explanation for his failure to see
Fox News medical correspondent Dr. Marc Siegel says San Francisco residents should be worried about the homeless crisis' effect on their health after video surfaced of a homeless man defecating in the middle of an aisle at a local grocery store.
"Isn't it ironic that a city of germaphobes, of exercise-conscious, environmentally conscious [people] ... are now in a city that's awash in human waste, which is spreading hepatitis A outbreaks every year," Siegel said on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Tuesday. "Big outbreaks of hepatitis A, rats in the streets feeding off of the garbage in sewage, typhus, typhoid fever, rotten bacterial infections and even the plague may be coming."
Brennan admits 'there were mistakes
made' in FISA applications,
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made' in FISA applications,
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Former CIA Director John Brennan, an outspoken critic of President Trump, acknowledged Tuesday that "there were mistakes made" in the highly controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application process during the Russia investigation as reported by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
Appearing on MSNBC, Brennan was asked by host Chris Hayes about "abuses" uncovered by Horowitz, who claimed he found 17 significant errors in the renewed FISA applications into former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, while Horowitz was a member of the Obama administration.
"Well clearly, there were mistakes made based on the inspector general's reports," Brennan responded.
The Democrats aren’t impeaching President Trump because he committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The Democrats are using impeachment to smear Trump and to try to blunt his 2020 reelection campaign. The Democrats want Trump, an innocent man who has not been indicted or convicted to be smeared as a criminal i the public square which is why they have released multiple reports by Democrat-led committees The Democrats want President Trump to go down in history as one of the few US presidents who have been impeached.