Posts on Thursday, February 13, 2020
Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland is fired up about going to the White House and he’s letting everyone know it.
The TMZ cameras caught up with Breeland in New York City and asked the Super Bowl champ whether he planned to attend the White House celebration.
“Why would I not [go], man?!” Breeland asked. “It’s an experience that everybody, every kid would want to go to.” [video]
“I want to go see what the White House is like!” he added.
Breeland’s head coach, Andy Reid, was asked about visiting the White House immediately following the Super Bowl, and said he would make the trip.
“I mean, I’ll be there,” Reid said.
Alabama Dem Introduces Legislation
Mandating Vasectomies for Men at Age 50 or
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Mandating Vasectomies for Men at Age 50 or
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An Alabama Democrat state lawmaker from Birmingham has introduced legislation that, if passed would mandate, “every Alabama man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first,” according to a report from Alabama-based Yellowhammer News.
The bill, filed by State Rep. Rolanda Hollis (D) on Thursday, is viewed by some a response to the 2019 passage by the state legislature of the Human Life Protection Act, a law that is currently making its way through the federal courts that ban abortion with very few exceptions.
Retired Marine Johnny Joey Jones, who is also a former NASCAR employee, said President Trump’s expected presence at the season-opening Daytona 500 is “very intuitive.” Speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, Jones, a Fox News contributor, agreed with host Steve Doocy who said the president is a brilliant marketer who knows that his core audience is going to be tuned in to the race. “I helped work for and run a program at a nonprofit where we took wounded veterans to NASCAR races. We did that for about two years,” Jones said on Thursday, adding that he also worked with a NASCAR
You knew it was coming, you just didn’t expect it this soon. But no one ever accused the most radical elements of the Never Trump movement of being anything less than nuts when it comes to Donald Trump.
Enter The Bulwark, Bill Kristol’s left-wing funded vanity project which has made a mockery out of “principled” conservatism. Johnathan V. Last, the least surprising person to have penned an essay like this, decided it was time to make the conservative case for Bernie Sanders, because of course he did.
Peaceful Florida citizens holding Trump signs were minding their own business last Thursday when a man rushed at them with a cane sword.
Police arrested 49-year-old James L. Whitehurst II and charged him with 10 counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and one count of disorderly conduct, the Ocala Star Banner reported.
Victims reportedly told police that Whitehurst had approached them during their peaceful assembly with what was described as a cane sword. The assailant allegedly pointed the sword in their faces and made threatening statements, holding the blade 6 inches from their faces.
Whitehurst confessed to having removed the sword from its holder and pointing it at
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is setting the stage for the upper chamber of Congress to vote on two abortion bills: One bans late-term abortion, and the other punishes doctors who do not administer proper care to children who survive an abortion. The first bill, proposed by South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, prohibits all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy except in cases of rape, incest, and the endangerment of the life of the mother.The second is proposed by Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, which mandates doctors "exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion."
EXCLUSIVE: A New Hampshire man was arrested Thursday afternoon after allegedly assaulting a 15-year-old Trump supporter and two adults at a polling site during the state’s first-in-the-nation primary earlier this week.The teen's mother said in an exclusive interview with Fox News after the arrest that her son is "traumatized."The Windham Police Department said Patrick Bradley, 34, of Windham, was charged with simple assault and disorderly conduct.Fox News has learned that the suspect got in the face of the teenage boy who was wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat and volunteering at the Trump tent
The Senate approved a bipartisan measure Thursday limiting President Donald Trump's authority to launch military operations against Iran. Eight Republicans joined with Democrats to pass the resolution by a 55-45 vote. The rebels were Lamar Alexander; Bill Cassidy; Susan Collins; Mike Lee; Jerry Moran; Lisa Murkowski; Rand Paul; and Todd Young. The measure, authored by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., says Trump must win approval from Congress before engaging in further military action against Iran.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Val Demings (D-FL) stated that it wouldn’t surprise her if Attorney General William Barr and President Trump were “in cahoots” with regards to Barr’s criticism of President Trump. Demings said, “I have no faith or confidence in what William Barr has said. I think that this situation involving Roger Stone has turned up the heat a bit. The president, who has been impeached, and just went through a trial, really can’t take that. And I think — I would not be surprised, Erin, if the attorney general and the president did — were not in cahoots,
WASHINGTON — While the Democratic National Committee over the past 10 days has tried to distance itself from the troubled app that threw the results of the Iowa caucuses into disarray, a copy of the contract and internal correspondence provided to Yahoo News demonstrates that national party officials had extensive oversight over the development of the technology. (Snip) “Consultant agrees to work with the DNC Services Corporation / Democratic National Committee (‘DNC’) on an on-going basis as Consultant develops the software,” the contract reads. The contract also specifies that Shadow agrees to “provide DNC continual access to review the Consultant’s
A majority of voters believe it was inappropriate for Joe Biden’s son to work for a Ukrainian gas company while his father led U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the country, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll. (Snip) In contrast, 52 percent of voters believe it was inappropriate for Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to take the job with the firm Burisma, while 18 percent said it was appropriate. Fifty-seven percent said it was a scandal while 19 percent said it wasn’t. Still, a plurality of 40 percent said the Biden-Ukraine affair wouldn’t make any difference in their vote, while 31 percent
President Donald Trump will serve as the grand marshal for the Daytona 500 and give the command to start the engines, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Chip Wile, the president of Daytona International Speedway, confirmed Trump will attend the race earlier Thursday but there wasn't an immediate announcement regarding the President serving as the grand marshal or giving the start the engines command. "The Daytona 500 is one of the greatest events in sports and the prestigious season-opening event to the NASCAR Cup Series.
Democrats have been flipping out over President Donald Trump’s tweets commenting on the sentencing of Roger Stone, saying he thought the sentence was excessive. Let’s stipulate up front that this is not something that presidents should be doing as it tends to make it look like you’re politicizing things, even when you are not.
But let’s also stipulate that it’s the Democrats who have politicized this six ways to Sunday, not Trump and that they didn’t give a darn when Obama said and did far worse.For starters, is there anyone that thinks that Roger Stone would have been prosecuted at all but for
Not surprisingly, several media outlets are reporting Jessie Liu resigned from the Treasury Department effective Wednesday evening. Interestingly, in the discussions of the issues around Liu all MSM are ignoring her involvement in the James Wolfe case/cover-up.
Ms. Liu moved from being U.S. Attorney in DC into the Treasury Department in a quest to become the Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes within the agency. However, that treasury position required senate confirmation and President Trump withdrew her nomination.
Lindsey Graham, other Republicans
blast Rush Limbaugh over Buttigieg
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blast Rush Limbaugh over Buttigieg
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Washington—Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh drew bipartisan condemnation Thursday for saying the country won’t elect Pete Buttigieg president because he’s been “kissing his husband” on stage after debates. Limbaugh’s comments came eight days after President Donald Trump awarded him the nation’s top civilian honor during the State of the Union address. The president said, among other things, that the tribute recognized the millions of people a day the host speaks to and inspires. Limbaugh, a staunch Trump ally who recently announced he has advanced lung cancer, made the remarks on his nationally syndicated radio show. Buttigieg has finished in the top
Three is perfectly good company on the latest episode of HGTV’s “House Hunters.” The long-running home improvement show featured its first-ever “throuple,” or a relationship with three partners. In Wednesday’s episode, the happy Colorado Springs throuple—Brian, Lori and Geli—sought the perfect home to cement their harmonious union.(Snip) The trio sought to find the perfect abode for their brood: Brian, Lori, their two children, plus Geli, whom they met at a bar and fell in love with about four years ago. Through the three didn’t get married, they had a ceremony to solidify their commitment.
“5th Place Biden” on Thursday told the far-left women of “The View” that his philandering crackhead son Hunter has only done good his whole life. Biden bombed his appearance on ‘The View’ because he was on the defense the entire time — defending his spiraling campaign and defending his son Hunter who has turned out to be a huge liability for him. Biden stuck to his talking points after finishing in 4th place in Iowa and 5th place in New Hampshire: “You know, we had the first two rounds, made up about two percent of the public. I’m heading south now where I feel good.”Biden the bully said
Barr blasts Trump's tweets on Stone
case: 'Impossible for me to do my job':
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In an exclusive interview, Attorney General Bill Barr told ABC News on Thursday that President Donald Trump "has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case” but should stop tweeting about the Justice Department because his tweets “make it impossible for me to do my job.”
Barr’s comments are a rare break with a president who the attorney general has aligned himself with and fiercely defended. But it also puts Barr in line with many of Trump’s supporters on Capitol Hill who say they support the president but wish he’d cut back on his tweets.
Donald Trump made a previously unannounced visit on Thursday afternoon to his reelection campaign headquarters in Virginia to meet with campaign officials.He was joined by White House Advisor Jared Kushner and his campaign manager Brad Parscale for the hour-long meeting at the Republican National Committee Annex Office in Arlington. The Trump campaign posted a picture of the president’s visit to its social media accounts. 'Thank you for the visit and inspirational talk today, Mr. President!' the caption read. 'We won't let you down in November!' There appeared to a few dozen to 100 people in the photo
Idiot conservatives were doing the idiot thing this week, screaming “racism!” in response to an old tape of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg defending stop-and-frisk, one of the policies that drove New York City murder rates down to Mayberry levels. They weren’t being ironic.
In the 2015 tape, Bloomberg makes the blindingly obvious point that if “95% of murders and murder victims are young male minorities” — as is true in New York City — then police should be questioning about 95% of young male minorities.
To stop crime, he said, you “put a lot of cops where the crime is, which means in minority neighborhoods.”
Democrats will no doubt be distressed to learn that the progressive habit of politicizing absolutely everything is giving new weight to the law of unintended consequences. A New Hampshire woman, horrified by the uproar in the knitting world a few months ago when woke knitters went on a rampage, found herself at the Trump rally in New Hampshire and went public about the pleasant surprises she found there.
Ilhan Omar Bill Would Let Congress Restrict
President’s Power on Sanctions, National
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has introduced a series of sweeping foreign policy bills, including one that would let Congress limit the president’s power to place international sanctions and declare national emergencies.
Omar describes the legislative package, titled “Pathway to PEACE (Progressive, Equitable, and Constructive Engagement),” as “a bold progressive vision to rethink the country’s approach to foreign policy by centering human rights, justice and peace as the pillars of America’s engagement in the world, and making military action a last resort” in a press release. “I believe in a world where there are no young girls living through war, and no nations that are being destroyed,” she declared in the statement.
They may not agree on much, but the hosts of The View, to a person, have always been on Joe Biden’s side. From the moment he officially announced his presidential bid early last year, the hosts vigorously defended him against allegations of inappropriate touching. Meghan McCain vehemently attacked his accusers of executing a “hatchet job.” Meanwhile, Whoopi Goldberg pushed back the criticism of his record on race and Joy Behar wondered aloud if Democrats could just “skip the primary” and anoint Biden the nominee. So when Biden appeared Thursday morning on The View following disastrous a fourth-place finish in Iowa
Few of the critics who are treating President Donald Trump’s comments on Roger Stone’s sentencing — widely viewed as unduly harsh — as an attack on the rule of law showed such strong concerns when then-President Barack Obama weighed in, repeatedly, on ongoing trials or investigations.
In 2015, President Obama told CBS news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of an unsecured private email server for her official communications may have been a “mistake,” but added: “I don’t think it posed a national security problem.”
The New York Times reported that FBI officials: “saw an instance of the president trying to influence the outcome of a continuing investigation —
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has labelled mass migration a threat to humanity during a counter-terrorism conference in Vienna.
The Hungarian minister called on the United Nations (UN) to put funding towards fighting global terrorism, calling on the international organisation to spend less on facilitating mass migration.
“[W]e are calling on the UN to include the fight against terrorism in its budget, to spend more on the global fight against terrorism and less on migration, for the benefit of all the world’s citizens,” Szijjártó said.
He went on to note that mass migration has been connected to at least 30 terror attacks since the migrant crisis in 2015,
In 1959, the Smithsonian Institution received a letter from Mrs. James “Shirley C.” Wade offering to sell a linen banner bearing an ink portrait of the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. An eagle carried the Jefferson portrait victoriously aloft framed in a halo of seven-pointed stars. The imagery was crafted in the foment of a bitter campaign that was barely resolved by a voting system so flawed (a problem later clarified by the 12th amendment) that it required congressional intervention to deliver Jefferson’s victory. During the campaign, Jeffersonian Republicans accused John Adams of conspiring to establish a new monarchy aligned with the British, and the Federalist
Former first lady Michelle Obama will soon have a second California school as her namesake. In a unanimous vote, the West Contra Costa Unified School District Board decided to change the name of Wilson Elementary School to Michelle Obama Elementary School. The idea was first proposed when the PTA sent a letter to the school board, the school board said. Two ad hoc meetings received unanimous support from parents, students and community leaders. "We wanted to choose someone on a global level," Wilson PTA President Maisha Cole said. "With a new school and new learning environment, we want our children to think beyond Richmond, to think beyond California,
James Carville fires back after
Bernie Sanders calls him 'hack':
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Bernie Sanders calls him 'hack':
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James Carville is embracing the “political hack” label Sen. Bernard Sanders gave him Wednesday night, saying it’s better than being a “communist” in an obvious dig against the socialist presidential candidate. “Last night on CNN, Bernie called me a political hack,” Mr. Carville told Vanity Fair contributor and host of Snapchat’s “Good Luck America” Peter Hamby in a phone interview Thursday, Twitchy reported. “That’s exactly who the [expletive] I am,” Mr. Carville said. “I am a political hack. I am not an ideologue. I am not a purist. He thinks it’s a pejorative. I kinda like it. At least I’m not a communist.”
The McClatchy Company, the publisher of newspapers from the Miami Herald to the Kansas City Star, is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The company, which oversees 30 local newsrooms, will continue to operate as usual while the company restructures under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,(Snip)
The company started out of Sacramento in 1857 following the Gold Rush, creating a paper called the Sacramento Bee. McClatchy has taken out a loan of $50 million from Encina Business Credit and is using its usual operating cash flows for the company to stay afloat.
As part of its reorganization, the company expects to pull its publicly-traded listing on the New York Stock Exchange and go private.
So much of the drama of the last three years of the Trump administration is about the conflict between the Constitution, which requires political oversight of the bureaucracy, and the Resistance’s strongly held view that political oversight of the administrative state is evil.
The Russia collusion hoax was perpetrated by bureaucrats who admitted they were motivated by a a belief that their foreign policy vision was more appropriate and legitimate than the one chosen by the American people when they elected Donald Trump to be their president.
Likewise, the Ukraine impeachment effort was ginned up by a group of bureaucrats who wished that President Trump had
Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s defensive response Tuesday to the news that special prosecutor Dan Webb has re-indicted TV actor Jussie Smollett underscores that she still has no plans to explain why her office handled the case as it did last year. So allow me to offer my best guess:
No sinister conspiracy. No backroom deal. Foxx didn’t collude with powerful people to try to give a break to a celebrity, as some have insinuated. She wasn’t trying to curry favor with the black or gay community — Smollett is both, and she is African American.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a queen new deal. The 30-year-old freshman congresswoman from The Bronx has signed on as a guest judge for Season 12 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” which will have a two-part premiere on Feb. 28 and March 6 on VH1. The series, which pits 13 cross-dressing contestants against each other in the search of “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” has already taken on a red, white and blue political hue for the new season, which coincides with the 2020 presidential election.(Snip) “Each episode will give the audience a more intimate look at the new queens
Washington Examiner Editor Out
After Colleague Secretly Recorded
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After Colleague Secretly Recorded
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The high-level bloodletting at the Washington Examiner continued this week with the dramatic ouster of its managing editor on Monday, days after the conservative magazine fired its breaking news editor for sharing a lewd video.
Toby Harnden, a British journalist who joined the Examiner as managing editor in 2018, parted ways with the outlet on Monday morning.
Here’s where things get messy: Harnden was out after the aforementioned breaking news editor accused him of misconduct in a lengthy email, obtained by Mediaite, which included recordings of conversations.
Gen. Philip Kearny has watched over the U.S. Capitol for 132 years. Kearny, a New York-born cavalry officer, earned honors for his bravery fighting in the Mexican-American War before his death fighting for the Union in the Civil War. The town of Kearny, where he lived for a few years, was named in his honor. Since 1888, a bronze statue of the general, complete with cavalry saber and soaring mustache, has stood in the Capitol’s National Statuary Hall alongside 99 other historical figures from across the country. But Kearny’s watch may be ending soon.(Snip) “We would want to add to the diversity,"
A Liberal in Trump Land
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Lockport, New York—Much has been written in the era of Trump about the dividing of America. Statistics tell us that we have retreated into enclaves of the like-minded, liberals with liberals, conservatives with conservatives, each side shielded from the experience of daily interaction with people who do not share our political views. I do not have that problem.
Lockport is a small city of twenty thousand inhabitants that sits astride the Erie Canal in the far northwestern corner of New York. It is possible to arrive here solely on streets named after Republican presidents. A left turn off Lincoln Avenue will put you on to Nixon Place.
Mayor Yang?
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After a disappointing result in Tuesday’s New Hampshire Primary, the most unlikely breakout star of the 2020 Democratic primary season, entrepreneur and nonprofit executive Andrew Yang, ended his longshot bid for the Democratic nomination. Despite having never held elected office, starred in a popular television series, or amassed a vast personal fortune, Yang cultivated a loyal following and outlasted a cast of senators, governors, and members of Congress. Yang’s impressive showing has fueled speculation about his potential next move, including the possibility of a run at the second most-scrutinized job in America: New York City mayor.
McClatchy, the publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Miami Herald, The Kansas City Star, and dozens of other newspapers, has filed for bankruptcy protection as it struggles to pay off debt while revenue shrinks because more readers and advertisers are going online.
McClatchy said Thursday that its 30 newspapers will continue to operate normally as it reorganizes under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, helped by $50 million in financing from Encina Business Credit.
In short, Democrats don't want to legislate or work, they want to IMPEACH! Stuck on stupid, the Democrats will never drop their ‘Impeach the President!’ craze. To Pelosi and her demented sidekicks Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, Impeachment is really forever—forever and a day—whatever day opens the way for another Impeachment investigation, when off they go. “Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, in an interview Wednesday, would not rule out a new
President Trump and Michael Bloomberg traded sharp jabs on Twitter Thursday, with the commander-in-chief ripping the Democratic presidential candidate as a “loser,” prompting the former Big Apple mayor to describe him as a “barking clown.” “Mini Mike is a 5’4” mass of dead energy who does not want to be on the debate stage with these professional politicians. No boxes please,” Trump said in one of two tweets about Bloomberg, who is 5 feet 8. “He hates Crazy Bernie and will, with enough money, possibly stop him. Bernie’s people will go nuts!”
Hope Hicks, a longtime aide to President Trump and former White House communications director, is returning to the West Wing as a staffer for Jared Kushner, according to a report on Thursday.The 31-year-old Hicks, who worked on Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign before following him to the White House, will report to Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka, and will be given the title “counselor to the president,” the New York Times reported.A senior administration official told the publication that Hicks will work on Trump’s re-election campaign, as well as other projects Kushner oversees.
Blackburn Proposes Bill to Ban Funding
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for States that Give Drivers’ Licenses
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Senator Marsha Blackburn (R., Tenn.) announced on a conference call Wednesday that she was proposing a bill to block grant funding from the Department of Justice for local law enforcement in states with sanctuary policies that allow illegal immigrants to receive drivers’ licenses. “When I look at the situation we have with immigration here in our country, I say let’s leave the system in better shape than we found it, because it’s a broken system,” Blackburn said. She echoed the passing of the Real ID Act after 9/11 as rationale for additional measures. Please split wide headlines.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is leading the Democrat primary field in Super Tuesday states, according to a Morning Consult poll released Tuesday. The poll, released on the same day as the New Hampshire primary, shows Sanders not only leading the Democrat primary field on a national scale but experiencing a seven-point advantage over his closest competitor in Super Tuesday states — including Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia. The Vermont socialist has 27 percent support in the March 3 Super Tuesday states, followed by Joe Biden (D), Michael Bloomberg (D), Sen.
Two weeks ago, in addition to filing a supplemental motion to withdraw the guilty plea Michael Flynn had entered on December 1, 2017, Flynn attorney Sidney Powell filed a second motion seeking dismissal of the charge against President Trump’s short-tenured national security advisor, based on egregious government misconduct and in the interest of justice. Yesterday, the government responded to Flynn’s motion to dismiss based on prosecutorial misconduct, but failed to address two of the retired general’s strongest arguments.(Snip)In yesterday’s filing, the government countered that it had no obligation to provide Flynn this information because, at most, it constituted impeachment evidence which need not be provided to a criminal defendant
Social media posts from the lead juror in the Roger Stone trial, who is “standing up” for the four prosecutors who withdrew from the case this week, reveal she was a perpetuator of the grand Russian collusion conspiracy theory in addition to showing an obvious bias against Stone.
In March of 2019, Tomeka Hart tweeted about the Mueller indictments which, at the time, included Stone.
“Ignoring the numerous indictments, guilty pleas, and convictions of people in 45’s inner-circle, some Republicans are asserting that the Mueller investigation was a waste of time because he hasn’t found evidence,” Hart wrote on Twitter sharing from a now-deleted Facebook post.
Racism is alive and well at the University of Virginia. But because it’s anti-white racism in particular that’s apparently been breeding at the increasingly far-left university, you ought to expect to hear zero about it from the mainstream establishment press. It turns out that the university contains a Multicultural Student Center that’s designed to serve as “a student-centered, collaborative space that supports underrepresented and marginalized communities, while cultivating the holistic empowerment of all students.” And apparently, underrepresented and marginalized communities don’t include white people, as the following stunning video footage clearly demonstrates:
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) is scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump today to discuss the Trump Administration’s ban on enrollment in “Trusted Traveler Programs” for New York state residents, as Fox News reports.
As reported last week, the Department of Homeland Security initiated the ban after New York’s passage of its “sanctuary state” law protecting illegal aliens from federal immigration authorities. The move, announced by Acting DHS Secretary Chad Wolf, was meant to reduce the risk of illegal aliens possibly enrolling in the program due to their protected status in New York state.
An Illinois pediatrician who took his own life left behind a suicide note revealing he falsified medical records — and may have not vaccinated children, according to reports.
The note left by Dr. Van Koinis — a 58-year-old pediatrician who ran a practice in Evergreen Park — indicates he felt regret over fudging documents to show his young patients were immunized at the request of parents, the Chicago Tribune reports.(Snip) Investigators believe parents of children who opposed vaccinations for communicable diseases — which are required by statute for all students in Illinois — sought out Koinis with a “purpose” to get fraudulent records to allow their children
Virginia lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly passed legislation that would redefine “assault firearms” and ban their sale and transfer in the U.S. state as Democrats continue to advocate for a series of gun control measures, Fox News reports.House Bill 961 expands the definition of an assault weapon and bans anyone from purchasing or selling certain semi-automatic firearms, including AR-15 style rifles.The vote was close, with a tally of 51-48, The Wall Street Journal reported. State Democrats currently control 55 seats in the chamber. The passage of the bill in the state’s Senate isn’t guaranteed, as Democrats have only a two-seat majority in the 40-seat Senate, meaning they can only
You didn’t really think that the Democrats would stand down after failing to Impeach the President, did you? Two of their manufactured grandiose schemes have crashed and burned: Russia collusion and Ukraine quid pro quo. They have moved on to yet another false narrative that they hope will succeed under the rubric of a “cover-up,” retaliation, and political corruption of the DoJ. A set-up associated with the latter item is well underway.
Trump associate Roger Stone was convicted of three non-violent crimes: obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering
Prince Harry‘s talks with financial giant Goldman Sachs — and his recent appearance at a JPMorgan summit — are the first steps by the ex-royal to land lucrative gigs on the paid speaking circuit, sources close to both banks told The Post.
A source close to Goldman Sachs confirmed that the bank has been in talks with the Duke of Sussex to do one of its “Talk at GS” speaker series in London — making it clear those appearances are unpaid.
But the speaking engagements will serve as a
They Can't Really Be This Stupid, Can They?
There was a time when I used to have nothing but praise for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s political instincts and acumen, despite the fact that she represented the other side. In her first incarnation as Speaker of the House, Pelosi was extraordinarily shrewd and powerful. She managed to get members of her own caucus to give up their careers for Obamacare.
Her second turn in the job is making me seriously consider that some sort of intergalactic space invader body-snatching may have happened here.
Evidently so drunk that she’s unaware her first attempt blew up in her party’s face,
Michael Bloomberg, who’s willing to spend $2 billion to beat President Donald Trump and spent more than $350 million plastering airwaves with his ads, is now paying people to plaster your Instagram accounts with terrible memes. The New York Times reported Feb. 13 that the liberal billionaire presidential candidate “has contracted some of the biggest meme-makers on the internet to post sponsored content on Instagram promoting his presidential campaign.” [Emphasis added]. The campaign is collaborating with Meme 2020, “a new company formed by some of the people behind extremely influential [Instagram] accounts.”
The mood on the set of MSNBC was grim.
Rachel Maddow fought back tears of rage. Brian Williams struggled to make sense of it all. A former U.S. senator flailed her arms in frustration and indignation.(Snip) Maddow and company’s hysterics centered around the news that Attorney General William Barr had intervened to reduce an egregious sentencing recommendation against Roger Stone, a former Trump confidant convicted of five counts of lying to Congress, one count of witness-tampering, and one count of obstruction of justice. (Otherwise known as a day at the office for California congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.)
Democrats seem to term everything racist, especially when it has anything to do with Republicans or President Donald Trump, whether it makes sense or not.
Some of the things they’ve termed racist over the years are just downright silly.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) demonstrated exactly that during a Congressional hearing on the proposed Trump budget for next year. Russell Vought was answering questions for the Office of Management and Budget to Congress.
Lee attacked the budget talking about the “racist roots of work” and then goes into a confused rant.
The media frets constantly that President Donald Trump’s rhetoric will lead to violence against Democrats and even — the horror! — journalists. But the same media is curiously silent when Republicans become the targets of hate. On Saturday, for instance, a Florida man drove his van through a Trump campaign volunteer tent because, as he told police, ‘someone had to take a stand’.
The incident started when the man drove his van slowly up to the tent, according to a police report. Two volunteers approached the man’s van to chat with him when ‘the vehicle accelerated towards them and the tent.’
‘Both victims had to move out of the way quickly
Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary Tuesday night. Second-place finisher Pete Buttigieg earned 24.4 percent of the vote, while Amy Klobuchar, not long ago polling in single digits, came out of nowhere with 19.8 percent, a classic New Hampshire outlier result.
The words “eked” and “narrowly” are getting a workout in headlines today. There is a Yeah, but… passage in nearly every major media write-up of Bernie’s win. “Sanders cements his front-runner status, but his narrow margins… show how volatile this race is,” is how The New York Times put it.
In reality, the results for Sanders cut both ways.
Seattle City Councilmember Sawant says
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Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant outlined her new proposal Wednesday for a tax on big businesses such as Amazon, saying she intends to introduce legislation that would impose a payroll tax of 1.7% on the largest 3% of Seattle corporations, as measured by payroll in the city.
The tax would apply to about 825 companies (those with at least $7 million in annual payroll) and would raise $300 million a year, Sawant said, citing work by the council’s central staff. Supermarkets would be exempted. She said her plan would direct 75% of the money raised by the tax to build affordable housing and 25% to
The "expert" predictions of economic disaster should Donald Trump win the 2016 election did not occur. Under Trump, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Nasdaq composite have reached historical highs while unemployment for blacks and Hispanics have hit historical lows. In the wake of Trump's undeniable economic success, what is the 2020 Democratic Party argument for why voters should back their candidate over Trump?
The morning after Trump's election, Paul Krugman, economics professor and columnist for The New York Times, wrote: "Now comes the mother of all adverse effects --
Candidates who flame out early in presidential primaries, almost by definition, do not make history. But Joe Biden may be an exception. Biden’s presidential campaign is now almost certain to fail, but he has done more than any other candidate to shape the outcome. And the result is likely to be disastrous — for Biden’s personal legacy and political agenda. Biden has run for president three times. He has not yet managed to finish higher than fourth in any primary or caucus. Biden may, or may not, have been a good enough politician to win a presidential campaign in his
Flagging presidential hopeful Joe Biden tried to reassure his supporters over the phone last night, telling them 'I'll be damned if we're gonna lose this nomination to Donald Trump.'The former Vice President was outstripped in Iowa last week and then again in New Hampshire this week where he came fourth and fifth respectively, as Bernie Sanders became the favorite to win the Democratic Primaries.Biden ducked out of the state on an early bus as his competitors lapped up their successes and now faces spooked donors looking to throw their cash behind another runner.'It wasn't expected that he would perform great in Iowa or New Hampshire.
WASHINGTON – A legal and political earthquake hit the nation's capital precisely four years ago when Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died on a hunting trip in Texas. President Barack Obama was poised to nominate his successor and give the court its first liberal majority in decades. (Snip) But with both the White House and Senate in Republican hands, McConnell has said the 2016 precedent does not apply. He's vowed to confirm as many federal judges as possible. 'We'd fill it':Mitch McConnell blocked Obama Supreme Court pick but says he'd help Trump fill a vacancy. "My motto for the
MORRISTOWN, N.J.—Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the former National Security Council aide and impeachment witness President Donald Trump fired Friday, was just doing his job, former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told students and guests at a Drew University event here Wednesday night.
Over a 75-minute speech and Q&A session, Kelly laid out, in the clearest terms yet, his misgivings about Trump’s words and actions regarding North Korea, illegal immigration, military discipline, Ukraine, and the news media.
Fried chicken and feet. What a great combo.
The maker of polarizing footwear Crocs and the fried chicken chain KFC teamed up to create one of the most bizarre pairs of shoes the internet has ever seen. Say hello to KFC X Crocs Bucket Clogs, a limited edition, low-to-the-ground pair of soles covered in a fried chicken print. The top of the shoe is made to look like perforated fried chicken. The bottom was designed to look like KFC's iconic red and green chicken box. One iteration of the crispy Crocs comes with removable, chicken-scented Jibbitz charms so it can smell like the fried protein.
Last month the DOJ admitted to the FISA court that two of the four FISA warrants used against Carter Page were fraudulently obtained.(Snip)However, what the DOJ did not admit publicly was how the current FBI Chief Legal Counsel, Dana Boente, participated in obtaining the April 2017 warrant. Additionally, a review of the internal FBI & DOJ scheme to obtain the fraudulent April warrant shows FBI Director James Comey couldn’t get the renewal unless he convinced Main Justice to trick the President into issuing an executive order to grant surveillance on himself.
In hindsight this story explains the ongoing issues within the FBI.
Senate Democrats are feeling queasy about their party’s presidential primary after Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) seized frontrunner status by winning the New Hampshire primary, while former Vice President Joe Biden stumbled to a fifth-place finish. Democratic senators have been careful not to criticize Sanders publicly, fearing that it could undermine party unity heading into the November general election, which they view as a must-win contest. But they have serious questions about the electability of their self-described Democratic Socialist colleague, and the problems he may create down ballot for vulnerable Senate candidates. Several of Sanders’s signature proposals, such as “Medicare for
Deval Patrick ended his long-shot Democratic presidential campaign after failing to gain traction during his last-minute bid in a crowded field of candidates. “The vote in New Hampshire last night was not enough for us to create the practical wind at the campaign’s back to go on to the next round of voting. So I have decided to suspend the campaign, effective immediately,” Patrick said in a statement Wednesday. Patrick, who was the first black governor of Massachusetts, holding office from 2007 to 2015, announced his candidacy in November
Idiot conservatives were doing the idiot thing this week, screaming “racism!” in response to an old tape of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg defending stop-and-frisk, one of the policies that drove New York City murder rates down to Mayberry levels. They weren’t being ironic.
In the 2015 tape, Bloomberg makes the blindingly obvious point that if “95% of murders and murder victims are young male minorities” -- as is true in New York City -- then police should be questioning about 95% young male minorities.
That didn't take long.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have taken their show on the road, getting out and about with a coming appearance to speak at Goldman Sachs, same as President Obama in his post-presidency did before them. According to Maureen Callaghan at the New York Post:
Just weeks after slamming the door on Buckingham Palace, declaring their suffering as wealthy, pampered, world-famous senior royals so unbearable that they must take their leave and flee to the Canadian woods in search of privacy, humility, a slower way of life,
Though this may not be a representative opinion, I think Vice President Biden’s decline turned into a power dive with his claim over the weekend of almost sole responsibility for the destruction of Robert Bork’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court in 1987. Even this was dishonest, as Teddy Kennedy’s savage attack, imputing to Bork the desire to banish women who sought an abortion to the care of butchers in back alleys, carried more weight than did Biden, who as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee was supposed to show a modicum of impartiality.
Because they are obsessed (and deranged with TDS), Democrats are utterly predictable in their reactions to the statements and actions of President Trump and his key allies like AG Barr. Taking to Twitter with his public objection to the harsh sentence recommendation for Roger Stone handed down by the 4 prosecutors who obtained a guilty verdict, President Trump knew that Democrats would react hysterically. And sure enough, they have taken the bait. (snip) Democrats already have warmed up for further humiliation by impeaching the President, only to see their repulsive and unfair tactics heighten public approval of both him and the GOP
With impeachment receding in his rear-view mirror, and with the Democrat party fielding the weakest and most socialist crop of candidates since 1972, President Trump is feeling his oats. No wonder, then, that he’s got Bill Barr’s Justice Department working overtime to drain the Swamp.
In a recent interview with Lou Dobbs, Nunes obliquely suggested that the same attorneys who apparently railroaded the Roger Stone trial and then pressed for a seven-to-nine-year sentence for Stone’s first time, non-violent, generic D.C. offenses, will soon find themselves in the hot seat.
If you watch and read the mainstream media, you’ll find all sorts of what passes as “analysis” of the Granite State’s vote results,. The narrative being peddled is that the Democratic Party’s left is vying with its center. Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders won, with “moderate” Mayor Pete Buttigieg of white bread Sound Bend less than two points behind, his fellow Midwest centrist, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, with a surprising and respectable near-20%, right behind him, and lefty Sen. Elizabeth Warren in disappointing single digits finishing fourth.
Appearing on Fox News Wednesday, Clinton Administration veteran Richard Goodstein was touting the strong showing
A 6-year-old pointed a finger gun
at her teacher and said ‘I shoot you.’
Her school called the cops. replies
at her teacher and said ‘I shoot you.’
Her school called the cops. replies
Maggie Gaines understands why her daughter’s teacher at Valley Forge Elementary School went to the principal after the 6-year-old pointed her finger at the teacher like a gun and said, “I shoot you.”
What she doesn’t understand is why she and her husband had to end up on a conference call with the Tredyffrin Township police the next day, giving their names and ages to an officer. “‘You don’t understand, this is insane,’” Gaines recalls saying.
Gaines was told that her daughter, Margot, who has Down syndrome, had triggered a threat assessment by the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District — and that, under district policy, school officials had to call police.
Fired FBI Director James Comey blasted Barr’s decision to intervene on the abusive and excessive Roger Stone sentencing recommendation handed down by Mueller’s crooked prosecutors.Federal Prosecutors on Monday recommended Trump confidante Roger Stone serve 7-9 years in prison for process crimes during the Mueller witch hunt. Mueller’s prosecutors lied to the DOJ during a briefing about Roger Stone’s sentencing memo.So in a rare move, the Department of Justice backed down from its abusive sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone.
The Democrats' February Blues
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All political parties and candidates have bad days. But the new progressive Democratic Party had four of its worst days in recent memory in a single week in February.
On Feb. 3, the Iowa Caucuses imploded for the first time in their history. The new app-driven counting melted down, discrediting the very idea of caucusing in general.
The winner -- Pete Buttigieg by two delegates over Bernie Sanders -- was not known for days. The mess was ironic in a number of ways.
Joe Manchin thinks President Donald Trump abused his power and voted to remove him from office. But he also thinks Trump can still be a “tremendous president” and is eager to reconcile. The West Virginia Democratic senator surprised his Republican colleagues by denying Trump a bipartisan acquittal last week. But he can’t quit Trump entirely — and is even open to supporting Trump’s re-election campaign. “I don’t rule anything out. I really don’t rule anything out,” Manchin said
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said Wednesday on CNN that Attorney General William Barr should resign or be impeached over the Justice Department’s reversal on Roger Stone’s sentence following a tweet posted by President Donald Trump. Warren said, “I have to say I know everybody wants to talk about the horse race, but the thing that is really getting to me right now is what’s going on over at the Justice Department. The whole notion that we have people in our Justice Department resigning because Donald Trump’s inappropriate influence and the attorney general overturning a sentencing of Donald Trump’s cronies. You know, right in front of our eyes,
Far-left Democratic Representative Ayanna Pressley (MA) declared on the floor of the House of Representatives on Wednesday that women are “still shackled” and not “free” in the United States because the U.S. Constitution is “sexist by its very design.”“The year is 2020 and here we women are still in so many ways not fully free, still shackled,” Pressley said. “Women are strong, hardworking, bright, and resilient. We are the backbones of our families, our communities, and our democracy. We do not live in checked boxes; we live in an intersectionality of lived experiences and identities.
SAN DIEGO — In a race against the clock, a San Diego lab is scrambling to get a COVID-19 vaccine out and on the market. As the days go by, Inovio Pharmaceuticals is getting closer to releasing the desperately needed vaccine against the deadly virus. (SNIP).When Chinese scientists released the genetic sequence on Jan. 9, Inovio researchers got to work immediately and within 3 hours they had a vaccine for coronavirus, or COVID-19 as it is now being referred to
Democrats Cannot Stop Trump 2.0
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"You're awake, by the way," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, deadpan, informed the viewers in a clip shared widely on election night 2016. "You're not having a terrible, terrible dream. Also, you're not dead, and you haven't gone to Hell." Hillary Clinton, a polished Madam Secretary, had lost an election to a person who had been viewed as a joke — a political outsider, an eccentric celebrity, and a real estate billionaire with a scandalous personal life and some shady business issues. "Donald Trump, the racist, sexist, xenophobic candidate of the Republican alt-right, has been elected President of the United States. ...
Democrats will no doubt be distressed to learn that the progressive habit of politicizing absolutely everything is giving new weight to the law of unintended consequences. A New Hampshire woman, horrified by the uproar in the knitting world a few months ago when woke knitters went on a rampage, found herself at the Trump rally in New Hampshire and went public about the pleasant surprises she found there.
In June 2019, the knitting world got woke and it was ugly. It got so ugly that it actually made the New York Times and the BBC. People who were enjoying their craft were suddenly lambasted as racist cultural appropriators and worse.
You know, these Deep State dorks want to be thought of as cunning operators with savage skills, but most of them are more like Barney Fife stumbling on a loaded AK-47 while hopped up on Aunt Bea’s famous hash hush puppies. They tried yet another hack ploy with the Roger Stone sentencing, and found themselves outplayed yet again like Joe Biden going up against Bobby Fischer. All Trump did is follow a basic rule they taught me and every other infantry guy down at Fort Benning.
You charge into the ambush. Full bore, no hesitation.
When you find yourself in a kill zone, you don’t futz
Trump's mirror on democracy
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President Trump is a populist. He draws his strength from those who are angry with the way our government is working and tired of the pablum offered in lieu of authentic answers to problems real people face. In that sense, he provides a great service to our republic. He holds a mirror to the politics-as-usual crowd and what is seen is not pretty.
When James Madison University professor Dr. Dan Schill and I conducted the CNN focus groups for the 2016 election, our very first observation was that voters were angry.
The good news for the fake Indian is, Joe Biden was also on the ballot in New Hampshire Tuesday.
The bad news is everything else.
See, the media only have room for one major political obituary every day, and Tuesday it was Creepy Joe’s turn. (Andrew Yang and Michael Bennet don’t count, never did, obviously.)
But don’t worry, Sen. Warren, your day is near. You’re approaching the political checkout counter. Take a number. You’re in the passing lane on the Trail of Tears, as your ancestors might put it, to the Happy Hunting Ground.
Speaking with forked tongue only take-um candidate so far. Fourth place —
Rob Manfred Is Ruining Baseball
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Commissioner Rob Manfred is mulling a fundamental change to Major League Baseball, a development that should not surprise anyone, given the obstinate disregard he’s shown for the traditions and inheritance of the sport since succeeding Bud Selig in 2015. The latest novelty entertained by his office is a proposal that would expand the MLB playoffs from their current ten-team format — with three division winners and two wild-card teams in both the American and National Leagues — to a field of 14. Per ESPN, the proposal would add “a reality TV-type format to determine which teams play each other in an expanded wild-card round,” the perfectly farcical cherry on top
Liberal groups and high-powered New York attorneys swooped into Detroit this week to help the city fight a lawsuit over its voter roll irregularities, which included thousands of deceased individuals appearing on the rolls.
The League of Women Voters of Michigan and its Detroit chapter filed a motion to intervene on behalf of Detroit city clerk Janice Winfrey and Director of Elections George Azzouz. Winfrey and Azzouz were sued in December by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), an election integrity group. The officials had ignored PILF's requests to inspect Detroit's voter registrations after the group discovered thousands of ineligible voters on the city's rolls.
A new analysis from Gallup shows that Trump's economic numbers would be the envy of his predecessors, as 61 percent of Americans say they are better off than they were three years ago, "a higher percentage than in prior election years when an incumbent president was running." Only 36 percent say they aren't better off. Which is still significantly better than the 52 percent who said they were not better off in 2012—when Barack Obama was reelected for some reason.
It's interesting to see that the perception of the economy is very much tied to party identification. In 2020, 89 percent of Republicans
Now that the New Hampshire results are in — and, oh boy, wait for the Nevada vote count! — there are several takeaways that do not necessarily accord with the mainstream media’s “common wisdom.”
1. Polls Do Not Matter Until the Last Few Weeks of an Election.
New Hampshire proves something about polling that I have been writing for years: polls do not matter until elections are within four or fewer weeks. The average person has no idea what in the world is going on. Think of your friends and coworkers. If you have astute friends and work among intelligent people, then just think of the kids
The Democrats’ white knight, Michael Bloomberg, might be a good businessman, but he has exposed fatal political weakness even before his presidential campaign is off the ground.
At the first whiff of criticism, he folded, apologized and repudiated the law-and-order policies that were his greatest legacy as mayor.
No wonder President Trump called him “a lightweight,” as Bloomberg squirmed to dodge the fallout from an old speech justifying the NYPD’s crime-fighting stop-and-frisk program.
“You’ve got to get the guns out of the hands of people . . . to stop [kids] from getting murdered,” Bloomberg says in leaked audio of a 2015 speech.
Ain’t that the truth.
Emmanuel Macron has waded into a row over a schoolgirl whose attack on Islam has divided France, insisting that blasphemy is “no crime”.
The French president defended the teenager, named only as Mila, who received death threats and was forced out of her school after filming an anti-religious diatribe on social media.
Macron’s intervention comes after his justice minister, Nicole Belloubet, was criticised for claiming Mila’s attack on religion was “an attack on freedom of conscience” while saying the death threats were “unacceptable”.
The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced an investigation into Harvard and Yale on Wednesday and accused both universities of failing to report foreign gifts and contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
The federal agency claimed Yale failed to report at least $375 million in foreign transactions and hasn't reported any gifts or contracts for the last four years. The DOE did not say how much Harvard might have failed to report.
Section 117 of the Higher Education Act requires American Title IV-eligible colleges and universities to report any foreign gifts or contracts that exceed $250,000 in value. Institutions must also disclose any foreign ownership or control, twice each year --
Roger Stone jury foreperson's
anti-Trump social media posts surface
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anti-Trump social media posts surface
after she defends DOJ prosecutors replies
Former Memphis City Schools Board President Tomeka Hart revealed Wednesday that she was the foreperson of the jury that convicted former Trump adviser Roger Stone on obstruction charges last year -- and soon afterward, her history of Democratic activism and a string of her anti-Trump, left-wing social media posts came to light.
Hart even posted specifically about the Stone case before she voted to convict, as she retweeted an argument mocking those who considered Stone's dramatic arrest in a predawn raid by a federal tactical team to be excessive force. She also suggested President Trump and his supporters are racist and praised the investigation conducted
On Tuesday President Trump spoke briefly to reporters from the Oval Office.President Trump was asked about the Roger Stone case during his brief banter with reporters.. President Trump: No I didn’t speak to the Justice… I would be able to do it if I wanted. I have the absolute right to do it. I stay out of things to a degree that people wouldn’t believe. But I didn’t speak to him. I thought the recommendation was ridiculous. I thought the whole prosecution was ridiculous. And I look at others who haven’t been prosecuted or
The president of the Black Lives Matter movement in the Greater New York area has claimed that rioting is justified at protests because the 'American way' is through 'bullets and blood' not peaceful protest. Hawk Newsome appeared on Fox Nation's 'No Interruption'' on Wednesday speaking to host Tomi Lahren about Black Lives Matter and about recent anti-police protests in New York. Newsome, who also appears in the cast of CopWatch America on Bet, told Lahren he would not condemn the destruction caused as it calls attention to the organization's grievances with society. The civil rights leader also claimed that peaceful protest is the 'tool of white supremacy', posting
All Democrat presidential candidates suffer electability issues, estimated Tommy Vietor, a former spokesperson for Barack Obama. He shared his concerns alongside fellow Obama administration alumni Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett during a Monday-published episode of the trio’s podcast, Pod Save America.“I could make a case against every candidate running right now about why they are not particularly electable, and it literally keeps me up at night,” stated Vietor, “but I think the easiest one to make is probably against Bernie Sanders because I think you could point to concern among the Obama-Trump voters — or the moderates —