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Impeachment Trial Day 2: Democrats
Impeach American Voters
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Day Five – Senate Impeachment Trial, 
Defense Begins – 10:00am 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The Senate Trial continues today on day five at 10:00am ET. Today is the first day of the Trump defense and will only be three hours long by request/agreement with the Senate.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/25/day-five-senate-impeachment-trial-defense-begins-1000am-livestream/
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Jay Sekulow Presser: Defense Begins Saturday 
10am With Three Hour Preview – 
And Don’t Forget Nellie Ohr
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ During a Senate trial break President Trump attorney Jay Sekulow gives a short presser to rebut some of the more egregious disinformation from the House prosecutors... Sekulow smartly connects the lengthy scumbag/liar-Schiff prosecution point about foreign interference in U.S. elections to Nellie Ohr, the wife of the third ranking DOJ official, Bruce Ohr, working for Fusion-GPS and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton while contracting with British and Ukraine officials for an investigation into Donald Trump. ie. actual foreign interference. Additionally, on a housekeeping and scheduling note, Sekulow states the Senate has requested an accommodation from the defense to limit opening to 10am-1pm on Saturday. So the defense segment will begin at 10am tomorrow then break after three hours and resume on Monday January 27th.
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Trey Gowdy slaps down scumbag/liar-Adam
Schiff for his 'wildly stupid trial
strategy' in fiery interview  
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by CARLOS GARCIA
{ theblaze.com  } ~ Trey Gowdy lobbed a vehement criticism of Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for what he called a "wildly stupid trial strategy."... The former congressman from South Carolina made the comments on Fox News on Thursday during the third day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the US Senate. "The big question is," asked Brett Baier, "is the way that scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff said it, do voters never get to trust the vote and only lawmakers can decide what the line is, that a president can get kicked out of office for?" "Yeah, Brett, scumbag/liar-Adam's ordinarily not that stupid but when you tell the jury, the Senate, on one day that they're corrupt and then you tell the American people they cannot be trusted to pick the commander in chief, that's just a wildly stupid trial strategy," Gowdy responded. "Remember when Donald Trump, as a candidate, began to question the reliability of the vote? Remember when he started making allusions to potential voter fraud and he was roundly criticized by everyone that I heard in the media for even suggesting that you could not, that you could not rely on a vote total," he added."Well scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has done exactly the same thing," he continued. "American people, we don't trust you to factor this in in November, so we need a hundred senators to decide that," Gowdy mocked, in the voice of Democrats he was criticizing. "It is a wildly stupid trial strategy, only surpassed by New York Democratic Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler's insulting of the jury two days ago," he concluded. Democrats do not have enough votes in the Senate to convict and remove the president, and he is expected to survive the trial with the backing of his Republican allies.  https://www.theblaze.com/news/trey-gowdy-slams-adam-schiff-for-stupid-impeachment-trial-strategy?utm_source=theblaze-breaking&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200124Trending-GowdySchiff&utm_term=TheBlaze%20Breaking%20News  
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scumbag liar-Nadler calls Trump a 'dictator' 
as Dems wrap opening arguments 
in Senate impeachment trial
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By Marisa Schultz and Alex Pappas 
{ foxnews.com } ~ Three exhausting days of opening statements from the Democrats prosecuting the case against President Trump drew to a close with fireworks Friday evening... as impeachment manager Rep. scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., labeled the president a “dictator” in fiery remarks. "He is a dictator,” scumbag liar-Nadler said Friday evening, arguing Trump wants to be “all powerful” and not respect Congress. “This must not stand. And that is why -- another reason -- he must be removed from office." scumbag liar-Nadler’s comments came as Democrats were wrapping their opening arguments in the trial, insisting the president tried to “cheat” in the 2020 election through his dealings with Ukraine and should therefore be removed from office. Meanwhile, the president’s team of lawyers have vowed to lay out an aggressive case in defense of the president when they begin their opening statements Saturday morning. “It's not a rebuttal, but what we are going to do is attack, attack all of the misstatements,” Trump lawyer Jordan Sekulow previewed Friday on “Fox and Friends.” “We're going to make the case for the president why the president was totally within his constitutional rights,” he added. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Saturday’s session will begin at 10 a.m. ET and run “for several hours.” A source on the president's legal team told reporters they expect the sessions to be short, possibly between 2 to 3 hours. They suggested it will be an "overview of coming attractions" with the "bulk" presentation coming on Monday. That's when this source says they'll get into the "nitty gritty"...  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-impeachment-trial-third-day-democrats  
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America Must Avoid the EU's 
Embrace of 'Political Islam'
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by Martha Lee
{ spectator.org } ~ A new European Union scheme, championed by an official who sings the praises of “political Islam,” advocates expanding religious influence over all areas of European public life, to little opposition... Meanwhile, in the United States, the question of religion in the public sphere continues to be debated vigorously and opposed by secularists on both sides of the political spectrum. One case currently brought before the Supreme Court, opposed by groups such as the ACLU, is considering whether state governments might be compelled to subsidize private religious schools. Such careful deliberation is rarely seen in Europe. Religious institutions operate under a rather different set of rules: religious bodies already exert significant political influence, receive enormous amounts of taxpayer funding, and are often deputized by governments to provide community and welfare services. The EU hopes to build on that further. In September 2019, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, announced the launch of an initiative called “Global Exchange on Religion in Society,” which she presented as an unobjectionable extension of the European Union’s existing student exchange program but “for civil society actors who work on faith.” But given the involvement of Islamist-linked bodies with the scheme, Global Exchange is more likely to become a means for theocrats to strengthen their influence in Europe, with the financial and political support of European officials. According to the EU, Global Exchange “will connect civil society practitioners inside and outside Europe, allowing them to learn from each other, explore partnerships, acquire new skills, and to scale-up positive experiences of coexistence among people of different faiths in pluralistic societies.” Behind this jargon, however, critics have spotted danger. The few organizations truly concerned by this latest EU program are mostly found in France, one of the few European countries with codified secularism. Comite Laicite Republique (CLR) has published analysis alerting Europeans to the ominous consequences of Mogherini’s initiative. While France’s  laïcité stands out for its extremely strict separation of church and state, the CLR’s concerns are relevant to the rest of Europe, as well. The CLR describes “Global Exchange” as an anti-secular “time bomb,” warning that this initiative would implement a program of reintroduction of religious authority in European societies that are mostly agnostic and effectively secular...
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New EU Report on Integration Misses the Point
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by Judith Bergman
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights recently published a report in which it warned Europe against creating a "lost generation" of migrants aged 16-24, who had arrived in Europe between 2015 and 2018... The report focuses particularly on the experiences of those young people who arrived in 2015-16 and looks specifically at the five EU member states with the most asylum applicants: Austria, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. The report also includes Greece, as it is a first EU member state of arrival. According to the report, Integration of young refugees in the EU: good practices and challenges: "From 2015 to 2018, according to Eurostat, 1.9 million people received international protection in the EU, either as refugees or as beneficiaries of subsidiary protection, or received a humanitarian residence permit. More than 80 % were below the age of 34..." Also, according to the report: "In its 2016 Action Plan on the integration of third country nationals, the European Commission pointed out that failure to integrate the newly arrived people can result in 'a massive waste of resources, both for the individuals concerned themselves and more generally for our economy and society'. The legal, economic and social inclusion of recently arrived refugees in the host society depends on how the different rights they are entitled to under EU and national law can be realised in practice". It is worth noticing that the European Commission places the responsibility for integration of third-country nationals exclusively on the shoulders of EU member states. The report states: "EU law defines in detail the rights and obligations of asylum applicants and international protection beneficiaries, whereas beneficiaries of humanitarian protection are generally covered by national law. If these rights are not respected, protected and fulfilled, people will face problems in successfully integrating in EU societies once they are allowed to stay and settle. Identifying challenges and gaps, but also opportunities and promising practices, provides the evidence that is necessary for the EU and its Member States to adjust their policies and actions. The young age of many newly arrived persons and their backgrounds of conflict and persecution require smart investments for successful integration. This report aims to contribute to reflection on how to achieve this, thus making sure that a whole generation will not be lost."...
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Impeachment Trial Day 2: Democrats
Impeach American Voters
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Thomas Gallatin:  scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff led House Democrats in making their opening arguments Wednesday in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Speaking for two hours, scumbag/liar-Schiff’s case boiled down to the supposed need to remove Trump for his “corrupt purposes.” You see, it’s not that Trump’s actions rise to the level of impeachable offenses; it’s his intentions as interpreted by Democrats that are impeachable. Orange man bad, must be removed. Furthermore, scumbag/liar-Schiff argued, “The president’s misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won.” Democrats don’t trust the American people to judge for themselves whether Trump deserves to remain in office.

scumbag/liar-Schiff’s statement is scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment repackaged. This is simply how Democrats think about vast swaths of America, proving that they’re not really after Trump; they’re after you, the voter. Ever since Trump defeated scumbag/liar-Clinton, Democrats have been seeking to impeach the vote of the American people.

Also on Wednesday, the Senate received a letter signed by 21 Republican state attorneys general calling the Democrats’ basis for impeachment illegitimate and for it to be “explicitly rejected.” The AGs argue that the Democrats’ “corrupt motives theory is dangerous to democracy because it encourages impeachment whenever the President exercises his constitutional authority in a way that offends the opposing political party, which is predisposed to view his motives with skepticism and motivated by its own motives to regain that very office.” While this letter won’t stop the impeachment trial, it may serve Senate Republicans. As The Wall Street Journal editorial board argues, “This might take the form of a Senate resolution at the time of acquittal. The crucial point is to reject impeachment as a regular tool of partisan punishment, reserving it for genuine cases of presidential abuse.”

Meanwhile, the Democrats’ push to call more witnesses is proving tricky. There has been some speculation that Democrats would be open to a deal exchanging John Bolton for Hunter Biden, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer quickly shot that down, saying, “I think it’s off the table.” Then he quickly spun it as Republicans wanting to use it “to smear the loose lips liar-Bidens.” The fact of the matter is that the crux of the whistleblower’s complaint rests entirely on Trump’s legitimate request that the loose lips liar-Bidens’ shady behavior be investigated. It’s disingenuous to claim the loose lips liar-Bidens are not tied up in this, but that’s par for the course with these Democrats.

The fact is Democrats will need the votes of at least four Republicans to get Bolton on the stand, and for those votes they will need to give those Republicans something in return. However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is playing it smart, stating that the Senate will be open to calling only those witnesses the House itself called; no new witnesses will be considered. He also warned, “It could dramatically change the separation of powers between the House and the Senate if the Senate agrees we will conduct both the investigation and the trial of an impeachment.”

In any case, as Mark Alexander has asserted for months, “What Democrats want is Republicans on the record voting against witnesses so they can perpetuate the ‘Trump is guilty and Republicans covered for him’ myth. They will then use those votes in campaign ads against a few Republicans they believe are vulnerable in November. The Demo impeachment charade has always been about retaking the Senate so that if Trump is reelected they can block conservative SCOTUS nominations. Republicans should call their bluff and seek witnesses — and scumbag-Schumer and scumbag/liar-Schiff will run for cover.”

Finally, as far as the House Democrats offering any new or compelling arguments against Trump, the sentiment among Senate Republicans was summed up by Wyoming’s John Barrasso, who commented, “Six hours of testimony so far today… I didn’t hear anything new at all.” That matters not because the Senate is supposed to hear new things but because nothing Democrats have presented so far merits impeachment or removal.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68098?mailing_id=4819&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4819&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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The Truth About Virginia's
Psycho Gun-Control Laws
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Media Editors  
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Trump Has an Iran Strategy. This Is It.
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By Richard Goldberg
{ nytimes.com } ~ President Trump’s strategy to confront Iran is easy to understand: impose maximum pressure to gain maximum leverage ahead of negotiations... to dismantle its nuclear program and address its malign activities — all while avoiding a military entanglement or pursuing a policy of regime change. Iran’s leaders, for their part, recognize that Mr. Trump’s strategy has already sent their economy into a tailspin and could bring down their regime if sanctions are not soon lifted. The recent regime-perpetrated murder of about 1,500 Iranian protesters demonstrating against the government’s austerity policy revealed a destabilized Islamic Republic increasingly afraid of its repressed citizens. The Iranian regime doesn’t need to trust America or Mr. Trump to strike a deal; it just needs to act as a rational actor to avoid collapse. Unlike the 2015 Iran deal, which was a fragile nonbinding political agreement subject to the ebb and flow of American politics, Trump could offer to submit a binding treaty to the Senate for ratification.  Tehran’s conventional options are limited because it cannot win a direct military confrontation with the United States. So instead the regime pursues headline-grabbing provocations to foment political debate in open democracies — in Europe and the United States — while avoiding direct military retaliation. The list of Iranian provocations over the past year includes the downing of an American drone, mine attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz and a cruise missile strike on Saudi oil facilities. On the nuclear front, Iran’s slow but steady effort to shrink its breakout timeline raises alarm bells in Western capitals without provoking an American or Israeli military strike on its nuclear facilities. Each of these escalation points appear designed to bait Mr. Trump into reinforcing the false narrative that there are only two choices when it comes to Iran: war, or a return to the flawed 2015 nuclear deal. If Iran could make war seem imminent, so the thought goes, it might indirectly force Mr. Trump into relieving sanctions assuring the regime’s survival, perhaps even without entering direct negotiations. To his credit, President Trump recognized those traps for what they were and exercised strategic patience. Indeed, Mr. Trump could have responded to each provocation with a proportional military response. After a day of flag waving, the national mood might well have shifted against Mr. Trump, forcing him to offer sanctions relief prematurely without achieving any long-term national security objectives...  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/trump-iran.html   
Tucker Carlson just shut down the biggest 
lie the Fake News Media tells about
 scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff
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by renewedright.com ~ There is no question the so-called “mainstream” media is trying to use impeachment to turn scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff into a national hero. That effort just came a screeching halt... And that’s because Tucker Carlson just shut down the biggest lie the Fake News Media tells about scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff. After scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s over two hour opening statement in the oral argument phase of President Trump’s impeachment trial the Fake News Media swooned. Left-wing CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin claimed scumbag/liar-Schiff was “dazzling” and turned in the “second best courtroom performance” Toobin ever witnessed. “I thought it was dazzling,” Toobin gushed. “I thought the way he wove through both the facts of the case and the historical context was really remarkable. It was the second-best courtroom address — since it’s like a courtroom, that I ever heard.” Toobin went on to praise the partisan and flimsy case scumbag/liar-Schiff presented as airtight and overwhelming. “When you consider the volume of information he covered using the video . . . the witness testimony, the documents, it’s very persuasive stuff. And, you know, if people are listening, it’s very hard to imagine that they will think that the Democrats and the House managers are just making this up,” Toobin continued. Toobin was not the only Fake News Media member to fall head over heels in love with scumbag/liar-Schiff. Amazon’s Washington Post National Security “reporter” Greg Miller swooned over scumbag/liar-Schiff like a 13-year-old school girl in love with her favorite pop music star. Tucker Carlson took on the media fawning over scumbag/liar-Schiff and compared it to pornography. “They were too deep in bliss. To the mouth-breathers on cable television, an scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff speech is like a brainstem massage, surging waves of ecstasy flood the central nervous system. Linear thought ceases. All that’s left are satisfied grunts of pleasure.” Carlson added that “we want to apologize to any viewers under 18 who may have just watched that. It was obviously pornographic and not suitable for children.” There was also another aspect of media hypocrisy surrounding so many fake news reporters praising scumbag/liar-Schiff. CNN and the Washington Post love to catalogue Donald Trump’s supposed lies...
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Israel's F-35i 'Adir' Stealth Fighter Is a Beast 
And Now A Second Squadron Is Ready
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by Seth Frantzman
{ meforum.org } ~ Israel unveiled its second F-35i squadron to coincide with the new year at its Nevatim Airbase where its F-35s are based. This is a milestone for Israel which received its first F-35s in 2016 and declared its first squadron operation in December 2017... Israel's F-35i is a modified version with unique features. Israel is expected to acquire at least 50 of the Lockheed Martin jets amid rising tension with Iran. It fulfills Israel's desire to have a qualitative military edge over adversaries throughout the Middle East. The F-35i has been kept under wraps and extreme security by Israel, however, the country has been slowly illustrating the plane's effectiveness. In photos shown in May 2018 the F-35 was pictured flying over Beirut. At the same time, the plane was said to have carried out its first combat sorties from Israel. Also, Israel recently hosted its Blue Flag exercise where its F-35s flew alongside Italian F-35s and US warplanes. Israel has said that its Air Force has carried out more than 1,000 airstrikes in Syria against Iranian targets over the last years and Israel has also hinted that it has struck  Iranian-backed militias in Iraq. The second squadron for Israel was announced in a ceremony Thursday, January 16 in a ceremony with Air Force Commander Major General Amikam Norkin. The squadron will be labeled the 116th Squadron Lions of the South, alongside the first F-35i squadron dubbed Golden Eagle. The 116th Squadron has previously used F-16s and other planes going back more than 60 years. Re-established for the F-35 "Adir" planes it carries with it Israel's long history of air superiority in the region and projecting Israeli power hundreds of miles from the country's borders...  https://www.meforum.org/60323/israels-f-35i-adir-stealth-fighter?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=66a709f48a-MEF_Frantzman_2020_01_24_08_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-66a709f48a-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-66a709f48a-33703665&mc_cid=66a709f48a&mc_eid=f33b9e6c12  
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Trump Retaliates: Announces Sanctions 
to Paralyze Iran’s Petroleum Industry
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By Kristine Javier
{ thepatriothill.com } ~ Today, the U.S. government had just announced that it will bring in sanctions for Iran’s petrochemical and petroleum sectors, as well as named the four international petroleum companies which had funded the country’s terrorist activities... In an announcement by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the administration decided to take measures against the four international companies that have transferred hundreds of millions of dollars of exports from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). NIOC played an instrumental role in Iran’s terrorism activities as it funds the country’s militia known as Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF). In a statement, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that “Iran’s petroleum and petrochemical industries are major sources of revenue for the Iranian regime and funds its malign activities throughout the Middle East. The entities targeted today facilitate Iran’s petrochemical and petroleum exports in contravention of U.S. economic sanctions.” Mnuchin added, “Iran’s petrochemical and petroleum sectors are primary sources of funding for the Iranian regime’s global terrorist activities and enable its persistent use of violence against its own people.” By imposing the sanction, the Treasury Department expects that all corporations and businesses tied to these properties will be blocked from U.S. borders, as well as deny any American citizen to engage in any transactions between these corporations. As to make matters worse, the Treasury added that any foreign financial institutions which conduct transactions or support the following companies will have to sever their access to U.S. financial systems or block any of their interests within the U.S jurisdiction...   https://thepatriothill.com/politics/2020/01/24/trump-retaliates-announces-sanctions-to-paralyze-iran-s-petroleum-industry/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=patriothill-trump-01_24-mid   
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 scumbag/liar-nObama Plans to Step in 
2020 Elections As Democrats Scramble to Unite
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By Kristine Javier
{ thepatriothill.com } ~ According to Fox News, former U.S. President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama is planning to step in the 2020 Democrat presidential primary to ensure... that 78-year-old Senator commie-Bernie Sanders would not win the party’s nomination. This has become a great deal since scumbag/liar-nObama had always preferred to lay low during preliminaries. The former president has become increasingly wary of commie-Sanders as he continued to gain momentum in recent national polls, getting ahead of loose lips liar-Joe Biden and front-runner Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. According to the numbers, there is a huge possibility that commie-Sanders might be the first to win the primary contest. He even managed to gain attention, as things heat up with the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire. However, despite his increasing popularity, scumbag/liar-nObama believed that commie-Sanders is both “temperamentally” and “politically unfit” to be able to beat President Donald Trump in the upcoming 2020 elections. Fox Business confirms that commie-Sanders’ “confrontational” manners might drag him down, as proven with his long years as a U.S Senator. In fact, his former opponent scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton said in her new documentary, “He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It’s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.” scumbag/liar-Clinton even added that “it’s not only him, it’s the culture around him. It’s his leadership team. It’s his prominent supporters. It’s his online commie-Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.” When asked by The Hollywood Reporter if her statements hold up, scumbag/liar-Clinton’s response was “Yes, it does.” scumbag/liar-nObama was also concerned with commie-Sanders far-left policies. scumbag/liar-nObama believes that commie-Sanders’ plan to give free college tuition and massive student debt forgiveness by implementing a massive tax increase would draw out even the most traditional Democratic voter...   https://thepatriothill.com/left-news/2020/01/24/obama-plans-to-step-in-2020-elections-as-democrats-scramble-to-unite/?utm_source=sprklst&utm_campaign=patriothill-obama-01_24-mid  
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US Gov’t Hands Out Tens 
of Millions to Islamist Organizations
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by clarionproject.org ~ The U.S. government under the Trump administration has handed out tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to Islamist organizations... according to research by Sam Westrop at Middle East Forum (MEF). As MEF noted, “between 2017 and 2018, the amount of taxpayers’ money given to organizations either influenced or controlled by Islamist activists more than tripled from $4 million to $13.5 million. Under the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, the amount given to Islamist-linked organizations averaged a mere $1.7 million each year.” Most recently, in October 2019, the government awarded the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) with $100,000 in federal grant government money. CAIR was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, the largest-ever terror funding case in American history. The government officially ended all partnerships with the organization in 2009 because of CAIR’s connection to funding the Hamas terror group. Yet, CAIR was recently the recipient of the $100,000 Department of Homeland Security grant as part of its DHS’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program. In addition to monies given to CAIR, MEF found that the government gave...  https://clarionproject.org/govt-grants-islamist-organizations/?utm_source=Clarion+Project+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7963a7ed08-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_23_10_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_60abb35148-7963a7ed08-6442509&mc_cid=7963a7ed08&mc_eid=b83b13a9b5 
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The Truth About Virginia's
Psycho Gun-Control Laws
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Everything on Demand
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'90s liar-Pelosi Argues Against Impeaching Trump
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Media Editors:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVLVDY_-Cq4&feature=emb_title
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Impeachment: The Worst-Case Scenario
Is the Best We Can Hope
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Media Editors:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mGCtizYGdM&feature=emb_title
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Who Decides What Is an Abuse of Power?
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Media Editors:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxFehvB7vVw&feature=emb_title
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Jordan Peterson Educates Climate Activist
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Trump Slowing Illegal Immigration;
commie-Sanders Would Reverse Course
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Political Editors  
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Dem impeachment witness Vindman unloads
on Blackburn as Dems wrap
3rd day of Trump's trial
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{ foxnews.com } ~ As the third day of the ongoing impeachment trial of  President Trump wrapped up in the Senate chamber, most of the drama was elsewhere... with one witness for the Democrats accusing a Republican senator of "defamation" and "slander" after she questioned his patriotism and implicated him in a scheme to take down Trump from inside the White House. The off-field spat began Thursday evening on Twitter, when Tennessee GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn quoted the commanding officer of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman as saying that Vindman was a "political activist in uniform." Vindman, a National Security Council official, testified during House Democrats' impeachment inquiry last year that Trump's Ukraine dealings left him in a state of "shock," and Democrats were quoting from Vindman's remarks during the Senate trial on Thursday. Vindman has denied knowing the identity of the whistleblower who flagged Trump's fateful July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president -- a claim that Republicans have questioned, because under cross-examination, Vindman apparently admitted to leaking the contents of Trump's call to the whistleblower. At the time, California Democratic Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, presiding over the House impeachment inquiry, shut down GOP attempts to press Vindman as to whom he had leaked information about Trump's call, saying it would potentially reveal the whistleblower's identity. Blackburn tweeted as scumbag/liar-Schiff spoke on Thursday evening:  "scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff is hailing Alexander Vindman as an American patriot. How patriotic is it to badmouth and ridicule our great nation in front of Russia, America’s greatest enemy? ... Alexander Vindman broke the chain of command and leaked the contents of the President’s July 25th phone call to his pal, the 'whistleblower.' Over a policy dispute with the President! How is that not vindictive?""It makes sense that Alexander Vindman leaked the July 25th phone call to his friend aka the 'whistleblower'," Blackburn continued. "They both have lots in common: —Held the same NSC job —Liberals who worked under scumbag/liar-nObama —Wanted to take out Trump."...
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Sleepy Dems & Repubs head for 
third day of an incredibly boring Senate trial
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By M. Dowling
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Senators are bored to death by the incredibly uninteresting Senate trial in which Democrats repeated what they said on day one as they push for the Senate to redo the House impeachment... Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, the lead manager for the Democrats, is repeating everything he said a hundred times before on leftist media channels and in the House during the inquiry. According to The Washington Post, Sen. Rand Paul felt so bored that he desperately scribbled “S.O.S.” Morse code for ‘Help’ on a piece of paper. He followed up the “S.O.S.” with “THESE R NOT MY PARENTS!” referencing condescending scumbag/liar-Schiff et all and “PLEASE HELP ME!” He reportedly pulled out a concealed crossword puzzle and began completing it while scumbag/liar-Schiff spoke.“No one expected senators truly to honor their oath to be impartial. But Paul and some of his Republican colleagues aren’t even pretending to treat the proceedings with dignity,” the Post’s Dana Milbank condescendingly wrote. The right-hating activist Milbank didn’t mention the Democrats also seen bored beyond words. “Senator commie-Bernie Sanders could be seen nodding off, slouched deep in his wooden desk with his chin bobbing on his chest,” the nonpartisan Courthouse News Service reported. “A Democrat in the back row leaned on his right arm, covered his eyes and stayed that way for nearly a half-hour,” the Associated Press added in its own report. “Some openly snickered when lead prosecutor scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff said he’d only speak for 10 minutes. And when one of the freshman House prosecutors stood to speak, many of the senator-jurors bolted for the cloakrooms, where their phones are stored.” It is true that this is the most boring crapfest in history. It’s masochistic to watch it if you don’t have to. scumbag/liar-Schiff is a cure for insomnia. The Democrats keep repeating the same nonsense with no facts over and over. Late at night, they get extremely vicious and nasty.  https://www.independentsentinel.com/sleepy-dems-repubs-head-for-third-day-of-an-incredibly-boring-senate-trial/  
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George Stephanopoulos Caught on 
Camera Telling ABC Studio to 
Cut-Off Trump Defense Attorney
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ A good reminder of what we can expect when President Trump’s defense team has their first opportunity in five months to defend him... During a broadcast segment on ABC news reporters in the Capitol were interviewing President Trump defense attorney Jay Sekulow. Back in the ABC studio, scumbag/liar-Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos did not want to see ABC broadcasting statements from the defense and he is caught on camera using hand signals to tell the producers to cut-off the broadcast. Stephanopoulos realized he was caught.
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“scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s ‘Abuse of Power’ 
is What The Founders Called
‘Separation of Power'”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representative Jim Jordan appears on Fox News to discuss the latest day of impeachment trial proclamations, noting: “what Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff calls abuse of power is what the founders called separation of power”.  So true.
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Impeachment Trial Runs 
Straight Into Rules Dispute
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by conservativesociety.org ~ President Trump’s impeachment trial finally got underway Tuesday — but he wasn’t even in the country and nobody seemed to want to talk about him much anyway... Instead, the focus was all on the rules of the trial itself. Amazingly enough, the Democrats don’t seem to like them a lot — but the Senate voted to approve them anyway. Maybe the process spent so long bogged down in the House that Dems have forgotten what not being able to rig everything in their favor feels like. The long-awaited impeachment case reached the Senate Tuesday, following weeks of delay caused by House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) refusal to turn the articles of impeachment over to senators. Even before the trial began, House Democrats were complaining about the rules drawn up by Senate Judiciary Committee chair Mitch McConnell (R-KY). When those rules — which, crucially, include a “kill switch” option to prevent the trial dragging on — were approved by the Republican majority the Dem protests just got louder. Under the rules, each side of the trial will get 24 hours to make their opening statements, spread over 2 days. After that there will be another 16 hours of written questions and a 4-hour debate — and only then will there be votes on calling additional witnesses, which many Democrats want to do. The impeachment managers who will act as the prosecution — an all-Democrat team, including Congressman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) – immediately complained that McConnell had broken with the routine used in the scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachment.  According to a letter written by the managers, “If those efforts are successful, this will be the first impeachment trial in American history in which the Senate did not allow the House to present its case with witnesses and documents. The McConnell Resolution goes so far as to suggest it may not even allow the evidence gathered by the House to be admitted.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer (D-NY) claimed Wednesday that the trial is beginning under “a cloud of unfairness” after 11 amendments he suggested were all voted down. What scumbag-Schumer and other Dems don’t seem to understand is that if you’re outvoted because the other side has more elected representatives than you, that isn’t unfairness; it’s democracy. The Democrat majority in the House has allowed them to control the impeachment process so far. Now that it’s moved to the majority-GOP Senate, that control has evaporated. It seems some of them need time to adjust to not getting their own way all the time.   https://www.conservativesociety.org/news/impeachment-trial-runs-straight-into-rules-dispute/?utm_source=AT&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=AT-012320-pm   
Sweden and its Welfare State in Crisis
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by Nima Gholam Ali Pour
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Swedish welfare state has often been praised by the left in the United States. After the migration crisis of 2015, however, when Sweden was flooded by Syrian refugee claimants... Sweden is now facing a welfare crisis that threatens the entire Swedish welfare state model. Sweden had 9.7 million inhabitants in 2015, before it received 162,000 asylum seekers. 70% of those asylum seekers came from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq. 70% of those asylum seekers were also men. The migration crisis created an unsustainable financial and social situation that caused the Swedish political establishment to rethink its stance on asylum migration, which, until then, had been extremely liberal. Asylum migration has continued,  nevertheless. Between 2016 and 2018, more than 70,000 additional migrants have applied for asylum in Sweden, and more than 105,000 asylum migrants have been granted  asylum. There is a demographic impact from migration that affects Sweden's national and cultural identity, as well as the crushing economic impact on Sweden's welfare state. The demographic impact can be seen in cities such as Sweden's third-largest city, Malmö, where people of foreign background  foreign-born or both parents born abroad have increased from 31.9% of the population in 2002, to 45.9% of the population in 2018. There are already three Swedish municipalities where the majority of the population has a foreign background: Botkyrka, Södertälje and Haparanda. The question then becomes how to integrate foreigners if the majority of the people in a city are of a foreign background. 51% of the elementary school students in Malmö are either foreign born or both of whose parents are foreign born. Within a generation, Sweden's third-largest city will have a population in which the majority of people are of foreign background. How will integrating immigrants take place then, and which group will be integrated into which?...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15414/sweden-welfare-crisis 
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Trump Slowing Illegal Immigration; commie-Sanders
Would Reverse Course
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Political Editors:  Since President Donald Trump went to work tackling the nation’s illegal immigration crisis, the number of illegal border crossings have decreased precipitously and nowhere more so than Arizona. As The Daily Wire reports, “In Arizona alone, the Border Patrol was registering around 14,000 apprehensions per month by May of 2019, but in October of 2019, there were only 800 apprehensions. In December of 2019, the streak kept up, and apprehensions dropped around 90%.”

Much of the credit for this significant drop goes to Trump’s multifaceted approach in addressing the problem of illegal immigration, which includes the construction of border wall, the new “remain in Mexico” asylum policy, and agreements with Mexico and Central American countries to actively engage and limiting illegal immigration coming through their countries. Slowly but steadily Trump has made progress on one of his signature campaign promises, despite Democrat efforts to prevent him.

Speaking of Democrats, presidential candidate commie-Bernie Sanders recently expressed his desire to end and reverse Trump’s successes in combatting illegal immigration. When asked if he supported tearing down the border wall, Sanders responded, “I don’t know, maybe the answer is yes.” He then equivocated slightly by suggesting, “If it’s going to cost me billions to tear it down, maybe the money would be better spent on child care in this country.” But commie-Sanders didn’t stop with the wall; he ridiculously asserted that he would effectively end all but a fraction of deportations. “If someone has been convicted of a terrible, terrible crime, that might be an exception to the rule,” he explained. “A moratorium on 99% of deportations is nothing to sniff at, and I think the undocumented community would be very proud of that.”

While the “undocumented community” — otherwise known as illegal aliens — might be proud of that, no American should be. The truth is the only reason commie-Sanders and Democrats are advocating for open borders and an end to deportations of illegals is because they see them as future voters. It’s all just about politics and lust for power. Sanders, who claims to want to serve Americans, expresses no concern for protecting and defending American citizens first, which is the primary job of the president. No, he’d rather blast those who are working to protect our citizens and secure our borders as acting selfishly and immorally. Frankly, it’s despicable.   ~The Patriot Post

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
California’s Environmentalist Democrats 
Force Children to Swim in Diluted Sewage
by Daniel Greenfield 
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Trump's Legal Team Files Lengthy Brief Calling Impeachment Articles 'an Affront 
to the Constitution'
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By Randy DeSoto 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ President Donald Trump’s legal team filed a lengthy legal brief with the Senate on Monday... calling the House Democrats’ impeachment effort an “affront to the Constitution” that should be rejected on its face. Trump’s 110-page legal brief highlights that the House voted to impeach the president without alleging any criminal conduct. Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution provides that the president “shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The House passed two articles of impeachment last month, claiming first that Trump abused the powers of his office by asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July to look into former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s dealings in Ukraine. The second article alleges that Trump obstructed Congress by not providing all the documents and witnesses requested by various congressional committees looking into the matter. “The Articles of Impeachment now before the Senate are an affront to the Constitution and to our democratic institutions,” the opening of the Trump legal brief reads. “The Articles themselves — and the rigged process that brought them here — are a brazenly political act by House Democrats that must be rejected.” “House Democrats’ novel conception of ‘abuse of power’ as a supposedly impeachable offense is constitutionally defective. It supplants the Framers’ standard of ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors.'” The brief includes a robust defense of Trump’s right as commander in chief to inquire about alleged corruption in Ukraine, including potentially that involving the loose lips liar-Bidens, before directing the release of military aid to Zelensky’s government in September. While serving as vice president, loose lips liar-Biden demanded in March 2016 that a Ukrainian prosecutor who was overseeing an investigation into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings be fired, or the country’s government would not receive a $1 billion loan guaranteed by the United States.“House Democrats’ accusations rest on the false and dangerous premise that Vice President loose lips liar-Biden somehow immunized his conduct and his son’s from any scrutiny by declaring his run for the presidency,” the president’s lawyers wrote. “There is no such rule of law. It certainly was not a rule applied when President Trump was a candidate. His political opponents called for investigations against him and his children almost daily.”...
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White House Impeachment Adviser Reveals 
What He Thinks Every Time He Sees ‘Liar’ scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff On TV
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by STEPHANIE HAMILL
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Tony Sayegh, a special adviser to President Donald Trump, sat down with the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill to discuss the impeachment trial... “The Democrats are desperately trying to ask for a redo of the process that they had in the House,” said Sayegh.  He also went on to share his thoughts about House Intelligence committee chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, among other things.
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Randy Credico Testified Against Roger Stone
Now He’s Imploring Judge Not 
To Send Trump Ally To Prison
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The government’s key witness in the trial of Roger Stone implored a federal judge Tuesday to spare the longtime Republican operative of jail time when he is sentenced next month... “I am writing to respectfully yet fervently implore you not to send Roger Stone to prison when he is sentenced before your Honor,” Randy Credico wrote to Judge Amy Berman Jackson in a letter reported by Yahoo! News. A jury in Washington, D.C., convicted Stone on Nov. 15 of charges that he made false statements to the House Intelligence Committee about his contacts with associates regarding WikiLeaks. He was also convicted on a more serious count of witness intimidation. Prosecutors successfully argued that Stone attempted to intimidate Credico into pleading the Fifth instead of testifying before the House intelligence panel. Prosecutors cited text messages that Stone sent Credico on April 9, 2018 in which he said he would take Credico’s dog, Bianca, from him. Stone also wrote “prepare to die cocksucker” to Credico during the spat. Stone and Credico battled publicly throughout 2018 over Stone’s claim that his longtime frenemy was a source of information about WikiLeaks’ plans to release information about the scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton campaign. Stone has long maintained that Credico gave him tips about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases of scumbag/liar-Clinton information. Credico is longtime friends with a former lawyer for WikiLeaks, but he has denied being a back channel for Stone...  https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/22/randy-credico-implore-roger-stone-prison/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11732  
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North Dakota Republican Senator Contests scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s Claim Of 
Unfair Impeachment Trial
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by dailycaller.com ~ North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer joined Daily Caller White House correspondent Amber Athey Wednesday... to react to the opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. In particular, Cramer shot down impeachment manager scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s claim that the trial won’t be fair unless he and his colleagues are allowed to collect additional documents and call new witnesses to take part in the proceedings.  https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/22/north-dakota-senator-kevin-cramer-adam-schiff-impeachment-trial/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11732  
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Did scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff Purposely 
Mislead America About The Parnas Texts?
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by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ I know what you are thinking, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff? The man who lied about what was in the Trump/Zelinsky phone call... He’s the congressman who lied about having evidence that President Trump colluded with the Russians, Should we now believe that the man who tried to purchase naked pictures of the President didn’t tell the truth about the Lev Parnas texts to Rudy Guiliani that dominated a few news cycles last week? Well yes according to Politico. The issue arose when scumbag/liar-Schiff (D-Calif.) sent a letter to House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last week summarizing a trove of evidence from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. In one section of the letter, scumbag/liar-Schiff claims that Parnas “continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky,” citing a specific text message exchange where Parnas tells Giuliani: “trying to get us mr Z.” The remainder of the exchange — which was attached to scumbag/liar-Schiff’s letter — was redacted. Politico got a copy of the unredacted version. Latest: Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren: I’m Going to Create a DOJ Task Force to Investigate Trump. But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: “mr Z answers my brother.” That suggests Parnas was referring to Zlochevsky not Zelensky. I know what you are thinking– all people whose last names begin with a “Z: look alike. Politico spoke to a “Democratic official working on the impeachment trial didn’t dispute the suggestion that the initial interpretation was incorrect.” “The most charitable view of the situation is that scumbag/liar-Schiff’s staff committed the equivalent of Congressional malpractice by not looking more than an inch deep to determine the facts before foisting this erroneous information on his colleagues and the American public,” said one senior GOP aide. “But given the selective redactions and contextual clues, it seems as though Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff sought to portray an innocuous meeting with Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky as an insidious one with the President of Ukraine simply because both of their surnames start with the letter Z.”...   https://lidblog.com/adam-schiff-purposely-misled/   
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 Democratic fumble or touchdown?
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by Hugo Gurdon
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The big game is here at last. Yes, the Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers, but also the trial of President Trump. His relentless harassers, the Democrats... have marched the ball halfway down the field with the House impeachment vote and are now trying a Hail Mary pass into the Senate end zone. Republicans are blocking and tackling, and on this final play, they will bat the ball away so it falls harmlessly to the ground. Sound exciting? It should. But as anyone who has tuned into Senate proceedings in recent days can tell you, it isn't. Tedium is what people most notice. Check out social media. Here's a passage from a Jan. 21 story on Nate Silver's website, FiveThirtyEight: "The whole process feels a bit like having peeked at the last few pages of a book: We don’t know exactly how the plot will unfold, but we already know where it will end." Silver, who started out analyzing baseball statistics, recognized that sport and politics are similar and adapted his techniques from one to the other. But Trump's impeachment needs no analysis. His acquittal has never been in doubt. Politics can be exciting, but as with sports, it works only when the outcome is uncertain. That's why elections make for good TV. When pundits are asked who'll win, the true answer is, "I don't know." No one ever really does. If we learned anything in 2016, it was that. If you know the outcome in advance, it isn't a real election. Just ask the 99%-100% who voted for Saddam Hussein or Kim Jong Un. Trump could win a second term this November — a lot of people hope or fear he will — but it's far from certain. For my part, I can't rule out the possibility that loose lips liar-Joe Biden, Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, or Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren might beat him. Nor do I absolutely dismiss the chances of Pete Buttigieg or Sen. Amy Klobuchar, although their odds are longer. It's a stretch to compare septuagenarian presidential contenders to the dynamic Chiefs and 49ers. But as we get toward November, the election will have a Super Bowl feel. The tension is building now, as the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary hove into view. It wouldn't be like that if it was already obvious who'd be lifting the political Lombardi Trophy. Have you ever replayed a football game on video because the live clash was so exciting? It can be entertaining, like those viral videos of Democrats' crumbling confidence on election night 2016. But it certainly isn't suspenseful. Every twist or turn, touchdown or interception, is drained of doubt. It's a shadow of its former self... Theres no doubt in our minds who's going to win this November, DJT.  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/is-impeachment-a-democratic-fumble-or-touchdown?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/23/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261  
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California’s Environmentalist Democrats 
Force Children to Swim in Diluted Sewage
by Daniel Greenfield 

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ California’s gold rush began when gold was discovered on a fork of the American River. Its end can also be found on the American River which no longer contains gold, but instead high levels of E. coli bacteria.

The cause of the contamination is only a mystery to the political establishment in the nearby capital.

"A grocery sack containing what appeared to be human feces hung from a branch over the American River," a recent Sacramento Bee story began.

The American River had been named by John Sutter. The Swiss immigrant went bankrupt when his land was overrun by gold prospectors. The new invaders aren’t trying to get rich. They already are. The benevolence of the state’s government in Sacramento means that they get everything for free.

Sutter’s son had founded Sacramento. And Sacramento’s Democrat majority is ‘unfounding’ California. Now the filth of its social welfare policies is fouling the confluence of the Sacramento and American rivers, where explorers once marveled at an expansive landscape, vagrants have set up tent cities.

E. coli levels at beaches are supposed to be at 88 or below, and anything over 1,000 is supposed to lead to a beach closure. At 500, there’s a 10% chance of gastroenteritis and a 4% risk of febrile respiratory disease. But at Discovery Park, the numbers went as high as 2419.6 in December 2019.

The E.coli levels had climbed so high that labs could no longer even properly measure them.

Discovery Park is a convenient getaway for Sacramentans. More recently however, visitors describe mountains of trash, waste, and needles. “Don't walk, wade or swim without shoes, used needles have been strewn throughout the park,” one Californian wrote. “I found crack heads, hookers, and crazy people screaming obscenities and throwing punches at anyone who came too close,” another described.

"I have been threatened by homeless trying to hit me, bitten by a homeless person’s dog," one intrepid visitor reported. "I have seen cleanup crews load as many as 4 bins the size of railroad cars with trash and it still isn't enough."

Sacramento County has put up signs warning people to wash their hands after touching the water and not to drink the water or even swim if they have open cuts, while blaming the E. coli contamination on bacteria from the “intestines of mammals – from wildlife to humans”. While that’s scientifically true, it isn’t the bears or the beavers that turned the river into a foul stew of bacteria. It’s the people.

Californians are swimming and tubing in water that Democrat politicians have made hazardous.

The environmental movement was built on claims of pollution, real or false, before leaving behind the field of actual health risks to people for science fiction fantasies about planetary destruction, ice ages and global warming. Meanwhile at Tiscornia Beach, at the confluence of the American and Sacramento Rivers, the EPA’s threshold, a level of contamination that would make 32 out of 1,000 people sick, had been repeatedly exceeded. A professor referred to samples of the river water as “diluted sewage”.

That’s a problem considering that the American River is used to provide drinking water to Sacramento.

But officials will spend the next three to four years gathering samples to understand the problem.

What can happen to the swimmers, campers, and boaters while the officials spend years gathering samples and shifting blame for the problem?

This summer, a Shigella outbreak infected multiple people on the Santa Ana River. Shigella is potentially fatal. The Downey Park area was shut down for a week over the summer. After a week, the authorities insisted that there was probably nothing wrong with the river, but warned everyone to wash their hands after touching the river. Just not in the river which has homeless encampments nearby.

One obvious concern is that the Santa Ana River is used for drinking water across Orange County. While that water supply in Orange County is unlikely to be affected by the water pollution near Downey Park, the contamination is a warning that the homeless problem is not just a threat to campers and swimmers. Rivers like these are vast and have natural cleansing mechanisms, but everything has a limit.

The Sacramento River provides 31 percent of California’s water supply. The American River is a crucial elements of Sacramento’s water supply. The Santa Ana River is vital to Orange County’s water resources.

No part of any body of water from which drinking water is drawn should consist of “diluted sewage”.

The San Diego River is the largest local source of drinking water for San Diego County. Homeless encampments began to pop up alongside the San Diego River leading to piles of garbage and waste.

Earlier this year, the San Diego Water Board asked local agencies to, in the words of the local FOX affiliate, “curtail the flow of human fecal matter into the San Diego River.”

"It was surprising to find out there was actually a lot of human waste present in the San Diego River water shed," David Gibson, the Executive Officer of the Water Board, said. "There are organisms like noroviruses that cause massive illnesses on cruise ships that we're finding in our own water.”

Tracking the spread of infections caused by homeless waste is difficult. Most people don’t even associate bouts of stomach problems with a recent weekend swimming or boating on the water.

Or surfing.

In one study of 654 surfers, researchers noted a 3-fold increase in ear infections and a 5-fold increase in infected open wounds. Exposure to seawater had come to mean exposure to human fecal matter.

Surfing, the quintessential Californian sport, has been endangered by the state’s homeless policies.

The California lifestyle of beaches, swimming and surfing, hiking and camping, increasingly means risky contact with human waste. And the illnesses, from the merely gastrointestinal, to even more serious disease outbreaks, reflect the transformation of a prosperous state into a Third World country.

Environmentalists once obsessed over Love Canal. Today they ignore the contamination of California and the environmental hazards for families, especially children, because it’s politically incorrect.

While movies like Dark Waters depict corporate villains who cover up environmental catastrophes that harm families, in California, it’s the party of the environmentalists that has overseen an unprecedented environmental catastrophe that has affected some of the state’s major rivers and drinking supply.

And it’s the Democrats and their leftist organizations who have been covering up the threat.

No state is more obsessed with environmental virtue signaling than California. From windmills to solar panels, from plastic bag bans to straw bans, from a refusal to construct dams to putting fish ahead of farmers, Sacramento has imposed an environmentalist dystopia on its progressive populace.

Meanwhile Democrat social policies have left local children swimming in water that is diluted sewage.
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Iran and the Nobel Peace Prize Presidents
By Dennis L. Weisman
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Friday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


CARTER PAGE FALLOUT: DOJ rules scumbag-Comey FBI had “insufficient predication to establish probable cause” in FISA scandal (The Daily Wire)

A TALE OF TWO WHISTLEBLOWERS: Whistleblower who reported government waste, fraud, and abuse gets none of the protections the anti-Trump whistleblower received (RealClearPolitics)

Government & Politics


BLAINE AMENDMENT IN TROUBLE: A promising day for religious liberty at the High Court (National Review)

VIOLATES FEDERAL LAW: Trump administration plans action against California over abortion-coverage requirement (The Wall Street Journal)

Culture & Heartland


VILLAGE ACADEMICS: Democrat professors outnumber Republicans 9:1 at top colleges (Washington Examiner)

VILLAGE ACADEMIC CURRICULUM: LGBTQ education is now mandatory in New Jersey schools (The Philadelphia Inquirer)

THE UGLINESS OF IDENTITY POLITICS: Miami PD suspends white officer who begins identifying as “black” (The American Mirror)

RIGHT TO LIFE: Tennessee governor announces fetal heartbeat bill, other abortion restrictions (National Review)

FOR THE RECORD: Toxic “forever chemicals” found in drinking water throughout the U.S. (USA Today)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: State Department is right to tackle “birth tourism” (The Heritage Foundation)

POLICY: Google is posing a serious threat to innovation (Issues & Insights)

HUMOR: Democrats warn that American people may tamper with next election (The Babylon Bee

~The Patriot Post
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Second Session – Day Three – 
Senate Impeachment Trial 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers (over 3 days); 24 hours of presentation by Defense team (over 3 days); 16 hours of Senate questioning... 4 hours of closing arguments, equally divided; and then a Senate debate/vote on further motions to include witnesses. If there are going to be witnesses, they will first be deposed prior to testimony. No witness testimony will be permitted without first being deposed. The Senate Trial continues with the second session today at 7:15pm EST. McConnell announced the evening session will last until approximately 10:30pm.
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Lee Zeldin Challenges Media and Debunks scumbag/liar-Schiff’s Claim that Ukraine 2016 Interference is “Conspiracy Theory”
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Lee Zeldin, Mike Johnson, Mark Meadows and Elise Stefanik appear for a quick presser during the impeachment hearings... Zeldin notes that scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has claimed Ukraine interference in the 2016 U.S. election is “conspiracy theory“; then Zeldin cites specific examples of Ukraine activity the media are well aware of. After calling out the media examples, Mr. Zeldin challenges them to debunk him….. the media are silent.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/23/lee-zeldin-challenges-media-and-debunks-schiffs-claim-that-ukraine-2016-interference-is-conspiracy-theory/  
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Senate blocks Democrats' pretrial 
demand for Trump documents
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump’s impeachment trial opened with a vote to block a subpoena for White House documents related to Democratic allegations the president abused the power of his office by withholding security aid from Ukraine... The Senate Republican majority defeated a measure 47-53 offered by Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer demanding the White House turn over a trove of documents stemming from Trump’s conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Republicans stayed unified in opposition to the move by scumbag-Schumer, a New York Democrat. Republicans instead backed a resolution setting the terms of the impeachment trial that would postpone consideration of additional evidence until after House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense lawyers have presented their cases. The vote followed arguments by Democratic impeachment managers and the defense lawyers, providing a glimpse of the cases each side will present in the coming days. The Senate rules allow impeachment managers and the defense lawyers three days each to present arguments. “The Senate should act on this subpoena now, at the outset of the trial,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, argued. “Documents that are directly relevant to evaluating the president’s scheme. If it won’t even ask for this evidence, this trial, and your judgment, will be questioned.” Trump’s legal team, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, argued the House impeachment investigation was partisan, lacked due process, and took shortcuts to speed up the inquiry. The Senate should not be forced to fix the shortcomings of the House impeachment proceedings, Trump’s lawyers argued. “Never before in the history of our country has a president been confronted with this kind of impeachment proceeding in the House,” Cipollone argued before the Senate. The House impeachment team, led by Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, said the Senate trial, like any trial, should have evidence and witnesses... You had your chance at the House and you didn't.
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scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler left every Democrat 
seeing red with this huge impeachment mistake
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by patriotpulse.net ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler was a controversial addition to the House Impeachment Manager team... scumbag liar-Nadler is an obnoxious partisan who can’t help himself when the camera light turns on. And now scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler left every Democrat seeing red with this huge impeachment mistake. Democrats knew scumbag liar-Nadler is a liability. That’s why on day one of the Senate impeachment trial, Democrats stashed scumbag liar-Nadler until the wee hours of the morning. Democrats finally let scumbag liar-Nadler speak after midnight hoping everyone would be too exhausted to notice any blunders. But that was not the case. scumbag liar-Nadler infuriated Republicans by accusing GOP Senators of engaging in a cover up to block subpoenaing new witnesses until after oral arguments and a period for Senators to ask written questions. “I see a lot of senators voting for a cover-up, voting to deny witnesses. An absolutely indefensible vote, obviously a treacherous vote,” scumbag liar-Nadler ranted. Democrats’ goal of persuading four GOP Senators to break ranks and vote for new witness testimony suffered a blow after scumbag liar-Nadler’s false and partisan attack. “If the Democrats are smart, they won’t put scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler on the field again,” Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson told reporters. “He was so out of line. It’s offensive accusing us of a cover-up.” “To my Democratic colleagues, you can say what you want about me, but I’m covering up nothing,” South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham added. “I’m exposing your hatred of the president.” scumbag liar-Nadler also caused a blow-up when he baselessly accused the President’s lawyers of “lying.” That led to White House counsel Pat Cippollone demanding scumbag liar-Nadler apologize to the President of the United States and his family. Chief Justice John Roberts sensed matters were getting out of hand and reprimanded both sides – even though the Democrats were the ones that crossed the line – for uncivil conduct. scumbag liar-Nadler’s disastrous performance turned the atmosphere in the Senate chamber toxic and may have extinguished Democrats’ hopes to persuade RINO Republicans to turn on Trump and vote for new witness testimony.  https://patriotpulse.net/jerry-nadler-left-every-democrat-seeing-red-with-this-huge-impeachment-mistake/#gf_1374  
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Lindsey Graham promises evidence 
against loose lips liar-Bidens on Friday
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by wnd.com ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is pushing back on the repeated claims of House impeachment managers that President Trump had no reason to believe that loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden's dealings in Ukraine warranted investigation... Speaking to reporters ahead of the third day of the Senate impeachment trial, he noted the managers "must have said 50 times" that "the loose lips liar-Biden conflict of interest allegations have been debunked and there is no scintilla of evidence in terms of conflict of interest and wrongdoing." However, directing his remarks to the reporters, he said "nobody, particularly in your business, has done much looking at when happened with Hunter Biden." "You're going to hear much more about that, and I'll tell you tomorrow," he said. Graham gave a preview, nevertheless, ticking off a series of events that culminated in loose lips liar-Joe Biden -- as loose lips liar-Biden himself boasted at a public event -- pressuring then-Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko to fire the prosecutor investigating his son's corrupt Ukrainian firm by threatening to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal attorney, said Thursday he will begin releasing documents related to alleged corruption by the loose lips liar-Bidens in Ukraine and around the world. "Everything I tried to tell the press last March is now coming out, and more," the former New York City mayor wrote on Twitter. "I will now start to reveal the evidence directly to you, the People. The loose lips liar-Biden Family Enterprise made millions by selling public office. Then when loose lips liar-Joe was scumbag/liar-nObama’s Point Man, they ALL made millions."Graham noted to reporters Thursday he supported Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation of the Trump campaign, and "two years later, I'm good to go."But "nobody has looked at what's happened in the Ukraine," he said. In November, Graham sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo requesting documents of loose lips liar-Joe Biden's phone calls with former Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko in February and March 2016. Among Graham's concerns was whether there was any mention of Ukraine's investigation of the business activities of Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky. Graham pointed out that in 2014, loose lips liar-Joe Biden was "given the Ukraine portfolio by scumbag/liar-nObama." "It's a notoriously corrupt place," he said of the country. "Within a month of being given the Ukraine portfolio, the vice president's son is hired by Burisma, one of the most corrupt companies in the Ukraine... https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/lindsey-graham-promises-evidence-bidens-fridautm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking  
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FISA Court Confirms Two Carter Page 
Surveillance Applications ‘Not Valid’
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{ nationalreview.com } ~ A FISA Court order declassified Thursday confirmed that the government had found two of the four FISA applications authorized for the FBI to surveil 2016 Trump-campaign adviser Carter Page to be “not valid,”... and will further investigate the validity of the other two. The order revealed that the government found two of the surveillance application renewals to be “not valid” based on “the material misstatements and omission” used by the FBI, which was found by the Justice Department to have “insufficient predication to establish probable cause to believe that Page was acting as an agent of a foreign power.” Based on the ordering of the applications, it appears the review found the second and third renewal applications used against Page to be invalid, while the original application and the first renewal remain under investigation. The third renewal was personally signed by scumbag-James Comey, while the fourth was signed by Andrew McCabe. The court also said it was still waiting on the Bureau after it “agreed ‘to sequester all collection the FBI acquired pursuant to the Court’s authorizations’” against Page, but so far has not provided an update. DOJ inspector general Michael Horowitz revealed “at least 17 significant errors or omissions” committed by the FBI in his report on the Bureau’s “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign, but did not come up with any “documentary evidence” that the probe was predicated by political bias. Among the more egregious violations detailed in the report was the revelation that a top FBI national security lawyer doctored an email for Page’s fourth application to conceal that Page served as a source for the CIA. In its order, the FISC also outlines five further steps for the government to complete by January 28, 2020, including a review of its “minimization procedures” with “a detailed description of the steps taken or to be taken to restrict access to such information in unminimized form.” The FISC slammed the FBI in a rare public statement last month following Horowitz’s report. “The frequency with which representations made by FBI personnel turned out to be unsupported or contradicted by information in their possession, and with which they withheld information detrimental to their case, calls into question whether information contained in other FBI applications is reliable,” the court wrote.
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Iran and the Nobel Peace Prize Presidents
By Dennis L. Weisman

I. Introduction

{ americanthinker.com } ~ For the second time in 40 years, a Republican President was forced to clean up the mess left by his Democrat predecessor’s failures in Iran. The first time was when a group of Muslim “college students” overran the U.S. embassy in 1979 and paralyzed the Carter administration for more than a year. The second time was when the scumbag/liar-nObama administration, in a move reminiscent of British PM Chamberlain’s futile attempt to appease Hitler, sent a plane-load of cash in the middle of the night to Tehran to induce the rogue nation to stand down on its nuclear program. The irony with Carter and scumbag/liar-nObama, both Nobel Peace Prize recipients, is that their policies precipitated “war” not peace.

Aesop's fable of the scorpion and frog captures the essence of the problem:

"A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a babbling stream. It's too treacherous to cross, so the scorpion nicely asks the frog to carry him across on its back. This makes the frog a little suspicious. It asks, “How do I know you won’t sting me?” The scorpion says, “Because if I do, I will die too.” That sound reasoning relaxes the frog's nerves. So he allows the scorpion to climb aboard and they shove off across the flowing water. They get halfway across the stream and the scorpion stings the frog directly in the middle of his back. The frog feels the onset of the scorpion's poison and starts to sink. He manages one dying breath: "Why?!" And the scorpion replies: “It’s my nature…”

II. James Earl Carter Jr.

Jimmy Carter would unquestionably rank ahead of Donald Trump and most other presidents in a contest for sainthood. Carter is a humanist, a philanthropist, teaches Sunday school and builds houses for the poor. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts.” Still, he was a below-average president and America lost stature in the world when he was at the helm. His presidency was an aberration that reflected the country’s need to restore order to an office rocked by the Watergate scandal and President Nixon’s resignation. The American people generally liked Jimmy Carter, but they could not trust him to keep them safe.    

After the Iranian Revolution, the U.S. embassy in Tehran was overrun and 52 American diplomats and citizens were taken hostage and held for 444 days. Eight U.S. servicemen would die in a failed rescue attempt when their helicopter crashed in the desert. The hostages were released before Ronald Reagan was even sworn into office, having defeated the hapless Jimmy Carter. There was a new sheriff in town and the Iranians feared Reagan in a way they never feared Carter.  

When the Iranians mined the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq War, the USS Samuel Roberts was crippled and nearly sank while escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers. The Reagan administration responded with Operation Praying Mantis on 18 April 1988.  By the time the smoke had cleared, half of Iran’s Navy had been destroyed. Iran was forced into a ceasefire and hostilities in the Gulf ended shortly thereafter.

It turns out that the B actor who played a tough cowboy in Western movies brought that same grit to the Oval Office. The Russians would take notice when President Reagan abruptly fired the air-traffic controllers for an unlawful strike less than a year into his presidency. He was not a man to be trifled with.  

III. Barack Hussein scumbag/liar-nObama

Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was swept into office as a youthful, dynamic almost messiah-like figure after George W. Bush completed his second term. The American people had begun to question the Iraq War amidst the specter of human rights abuses. The WMD that were the lynchpin of the U.S. entry into Iraq were never found and the Bush administration lost credibility. The economy had fallen into a deep recession in 2008 and the government appeared flat-footed and ill-prepared for the severity of the crisis. The people were ready for the “hope and change” they were promised.  

Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was woke. As one journalist noted, he looked cool jogging down the stairs of Airforce One in his sharply creased slacks. He is a gifted, inspirational orator with the ability to rally the crowds. He was also the country’s First Black President. Opinions differ as to whether scumbag/liar-nObama had the “goods” for the job, or whether he simply emerged at the right time in our nation’s history. He went from Illinois state senator to U.S. President in a mere four years. Television had changed the presidency and scumbag/liar-nObama looked good on camera. The problem with TV is that viewers focus too much on how you look and sound, and too little on the substance of what you actually say.

scumbag/liar-nObama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international cooperation between people” and the “new climate” precipitated by his reaching out to the Muslim world. This prize was not without controversy, largely because he had been president for less than a year and his significant accomplishments were elusive if not illusory.    

 As part of a broader plan to induce Iran to stand down on its development of nuclear weapons, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the scumbag/liar-nObama administration released upwards of $150 billion in Iranian assets. Even Secretary of State hanoi-Kerry conceded that some of these funds would likely be used to finance acts of terrorism.

President Trump ended U.S. involvement in the JCPOA. He did not believe Iran’s leaders could be trusted to live up to the agreement—most scorpions can’t. The president’s adversaries and his own defense secretary argued this would reignite tensions with Iran.  

Following the Iran-initiated assault on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq on New Year’s Eve, which followed attacks on U.S. military personnel and the death of a civilian contractor, President Trump sanctioned striking Iran’s top military commander, General Qasem Soliemani. The general was responsible for the deaths of several hundred American military personnel and had orchestrated terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East. The drone that killed the general was fired over Iraq, but it was heard around the world in China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia. President Trump understood, just as President Reagan had before him, that you must sometimes do more than just “carry a big stick.”

The final scene in the Iran saga is not yet written. President Trump’s actions against Iran’s terror network were certainly bold; time will tell whether they were also wise.

IV. Conclusion

Four U.S. Presidents have been awarded Nobel Peace Prizes Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson,Jimmy Carter and Barack 
scumbag/liar-nObama. Yet President Reagan won the Cold War, a standoff that truly posed an existential threat, without firing a single shot. He prevailed with an unwavering belief in the power of free markets and “peace through strength.” Presidents Carter and scumbag/liar-nObama were good, peace-loving and well-intentioned men, but our enemies would question their resolve, and this put the country at risk.

Their detractors would say that Ronald Reagan was not “intellectually” equipped for the presidency and that Donald Trump lacked the experience and temperament for the office. Neither is as humanist as Jimmy Carter or as woke as Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, but none of that matters when the missiles are flying overhead, and tomorrow is no longer assured. By the way, that 3 AM phone call that Mrs. scumbag/liar-Clinton shamelessly hawked in her 2008 presidential campaign finally did come, and President Trump answered it.  
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The Progressive Left Is Anti-Woman
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Louis DeBroux  
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Pence invites Netanyahu, Gantz 
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by jpost.com ~ US Vice President Mike Pence invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to the White House next week... to discuss "regional prospects and prospects for peace." The invitation, which took place at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on Thursday, comes amid reports that the Trump administration is planning to roll out its "Deal of the Century" by next week, ahead of the March 2 Israeli election.  Aspects of the plan were revealed by Israeli media earlier in the day. These include that the US will allow for Israeli sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and settlements in Area C. It also allows for a demilitarized Palestinian state, which would include portions of open and Palestinian spaces in Area C. Channel 12 further reported that all of the settlements will be linked territorially, except for 15 of them and that Israel will be able to apply sovereignty already, if it agrees to the plan. Moreover, Jerusalem would be under total Israeli control with a symbolic presence. Channel 12 noted that all of Israel's security demands were accepted.  During their meeting at the embassy, Netanyahu praised US President Donald Trump for moving the embassy to Jerusalem. He said that now he is seeking to give Israel the peace and security it deserves. He noted that he thinks Gantz should be invited to the peace plan roll out event, because, "I think it's important that we do not lose this historic opportunity," Netanyahu said. Before the meeting,  Pence spoke at the central ceremony of the Fifth World Holocaust Forum taking place at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, and his comments were echoed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who called on the assembled world leaders to “join the vital effort of confronting Iran.” Pence pledged that the US would “stand strong” against the Islamic Republic of Iran which he described as the leading sponsor of state led antisemitism in the world. The US vice president also spoke warmly of the Jewish state, saying that “the world can only marvel at the faith and resilience of the Jewish people, who just three years after walking in the valley of the shadow of death, rose up from the ashes to reclaim a Jewish future and rebuild the Jewish State.”  https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/US-Vice-President-Mike-Pence-meets-with-Netanyahu-in-Jerusalem-615133  
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How the Dems Lost Day Two
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by E. DONALD ELLIOTT
{ /spectator.org } ~ scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, the House manager leading the impeachment case against President Trump, did an excellent job of presenting a fundamentally flawed and fallacious argument in his opening statement yesterday... scumbag/liar-Schiff is a former federal prosecutor who was articulate and seemingly factual and well-prepared, albeit a little self-righteous. He quoted extensively from White House documents and the testimony of aides and officials who were concerned about the temporary hold on military aid to Ukraine, which gave his presentation an undeserved aura of credibility. But scumbag/liar-Schiff provided absolutely no factual support for the crucial premise on which his entire case depends. scumbag/liar-Schiff asserted repeatedly, without providing any evidence, that the matters the president asked Ukraine to investigate were “kooky conspiracy theories” that no one could possibly believe. Change that one unsupported premise, and the whole house of cards collapses. Assume for purposes of argument that the matters that Trump asked Ukraine to investigate were based on reasonable suspicions of misconduct. If so, his actions were all proper and well within his constitutional duty to take care that the laws are properly enforced rather than a “scheme” to “cheat” in the next election, as scumbag/liar-Schiff repeatedly asserted. scumbag/liar-Schiff used a rhetorical trick that sophists, including former federal prosecutors, have known throughout history: provide elaborate factual support for peripheral details and hope that the impression that your argument is factual will carry over to the critical premise, for which you can offer no support whatsoever. A law firm with which I am affiliated represents the loose lips liar-Biden campaign on certain election matters, so I am not allowed to say anything about the loose lips liar-Bidens, and I will not do so. But I urge every fair-minded person to read the full transcript of scumbag/liar-Schiff’s opening statement with an eye for unsupported, conclusory statements that various matters were “conspiracy theories” that had been repeatedly “debunked.” If you are too busy to do that, or your mind is made up, just do a search for the words “conspiracy theory,” “false,” and “debunked”. You’ll come up with many examples of totally unsupported assertions by Mr. scumbag/liar-Schiff. He refers repeatedly to the consensus conclusions of unnamed “experts” that the president lacked a reasonable basis for requesting investigations. Based on that assumption, he jumps to the conclusion that the president’s requests must reflect a “corrupt motive” to “cheat” in the next election, including the following...
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6 Democratic Senators To Watch 
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By Mollie Hemingway
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Last week, CNN’s Manu Raju asked Sen. Martha McSally whether she would acquiesce to Democratic demands for more witnesses and evidence in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump...The Republican from Arizona declined to answer the question, calling him a “liberal hack.” Raju, who published articles promoting the Russia collusion hoax and other Democratic efforts, was vociferously defended by his colleagues. Jake Tapper said Raju was reasonably asking the “question of the day.” In a way, he was. The question of the day in a media filled with activists tends to be the Democratic question of the day, with the effect of helping advance that party’s narratives and objectives. And so it has been with the media rush to pin down Republican senators that Democrats have targeted. That’s why McSally was being run down in the hallways. Other “Republican senators to watch,” we keep being told, include rino-Susan Collins of Maine, rino-Mitt Romney of Utah, rino-Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and Cory Gardner of Colorado.The media and Democrats have different reasons for targeting each. rino-Murkowski is an independent who is easily swayed by Democrats. rino-Collins is a moderate who didn’t even vote to convict President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton during his impeachment trial, even though he’d clearly perjured himself and obstructed justice. Still, Democrats hope that her notorious concern for propriety might be exploited along the way as they seek to save an impeachment for which an acquittal is a foregone conclusion. Plus, rino-Collins is running for re-election. rino-Romney is out of step with his party related to Trump, and Alexander is a lame duck who also never cottoned to Trump. Gardner, like rino-Collins in Maine, is in a tough re-election campaign in Colorado. These are the senators the media and Democrats hope will change their votes. They like to hope for things. Yet reporters rarely if ever talk about Democrats’ mirror image problems here. Joe Manchin of West Virginia is, like rino-Romney, out of step with his party on Trump. Yet both are likely to vote against impeachment. Gardner and rino-Collins are in tough re-elects, yes, in states that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton won in 2016. Gary Peters of Michigan is in a state that Trump won and is competitive heading into this election. The media focus on rino-Collins and Gardner — and not Peters — because they want rino-Collins and Gardner to lose... https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/23/6-democratic-senators-to-watch-in-impeachment-trial/ 
Asleep at the Wheel
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ liar-Nancy Pelosi is a smart woman, or so we’ve been told. Shrewd, calculating, and ruthless are words also used to describe the current liar-Speaker of the House... But for those of us paying attention, it’s become apparent she’s asleep at wheel. Consumed by the impeachment scam, hoping to damage the Trump brand beyond all repair; since beating him at the ballot box in November will be a near to impossible task, liar-Pelosi is either ignoring the chaos brewing in her own party or she simply doesn’t care. There’s a perfect storm bearing down on the Democrats not limited to a growing contingent of unrelenting commie-Bernie Sanders supporters, the Social Justice political action group’s recent auditions for congressional House seats, and the likelihood that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton will enter the 2020 Presidential race, exploiting a very weak slate of potential nominees. The Democrats have no chance of winning back the White House with commie-Bernie Sanders as their nominee for president, plain and simple. commie-Sanders’ socialist ideology doesn’t resonate with a majority of Americans. And yet, commie-Bernie’s poll numbers are right up there with loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. I loathe the polls as a true gauge of how Democrats may choose to vote in November, but the fact that he has numbers in the double digits ought to worry the Democrat leadership. Perhaps it does and perhaps it doesn’t -- who knows? They’re certainly keeping the cards close to their chest, focusing all their efforts on impeachment theatrics at the Senate trial. And while the sometimes Democrat front-runner loose lips liar-Joe Biden continues to stumble, stutter, and can’t seem to keep track of where he is at any given moment on the campaign trail, the commie-Sanders’ campaign machine marches on. It’s no surprise that scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton took aim and fired off a salvo of disparaging remarks against commie-Sanders; she most likely concluded commie-Bernie is a force to be reckoned with this time around, and perhaps he won’t be easily placated with a new vacation home in trade for stepping aside. Nor will his supporters, who have vowed to upend the DNC convention should commie-Sanders not be the nominee, but that isn’t the only fly in the House Speaker’s ointment...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/asleep_at_the_wheel.html 
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Dershowitz has bad news for 
liar-Pelosi's 'impeached forever' claim
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by wnd.com ~ House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi seemed to take satisfaction in declaring that President Trump has been "impeached forever."... But the Democratic lawmaker "doesn't understand what impeachment is," contends Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz explained to Fox News host Sean Hannity that an impeachment is like a grand jury presentation. And "just as being found innocent by a jury removes an indictment – a Senate acquittal makes an impeachment 'disappear,'" Dershowitz said. "What she has said is, even if the president is acquitted, the impeachment stands – no," he said. "That's like saying that, if a person is indicted and the jury acquits 12-0 in five minutes, he’s still indicted. "No – the impeachment disappears. The impeachment is only a grand jury presentment." Fox News reported liar-Pelosi spoke "gleefully" about impeachment on Bill Maher's show. Maher said, "Just for the record, being impeached is a bad thing, right?" "And you're impeached forever," liar-Pelosi replied with a big grin, prompting applause from the audience. "No matter what the Senate does, that can never be erased."If I knew that the president was listening, I would want him to know that he is impeached forever," liar-Pelosi said, "and he is impeached forever because he used the office of president to try to influence a foreign country for his personal and political benefit and doing so, he undermined our national security, he was disloyal to his oath of office to protect the Constitution and he placed in jeopardy the integrity of our election." With 67 votes required to convict and Republicans holding a 53-seat majority, it's widely expected that the Senate will acquit the president... The people of San Fran if you have any sense of honesty vote liar-Pelosi out.
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The Rage of the Democrats
By Amil Imani
{ americanthinker.com } ~ What underlies the rage of the Democrat Party and of the leftist Democrat Establishment vis-à-vis President Donald Trump?... Over forty years ago, during my high school years in Iran, my father and I had a conversation. He was an avid Republican, even though he lived on the other side of the world. Right before I prepared to leave Iran for the U.S., he gave me some fatherly advice. He explained why the Democrat Party was bad for America, bad for Iran, and bad for the world. He advised me that if I ever became a US citizen, I should never vote for Democrats. After all these years, I now understand what he meant by those words of wisdom. For over twenty years, I did not vote simply because I was not a U.S. citizen. Even after I became one, I was not fully aware of the depth of this party's evil ideology, although eight long years of scumbag/liar-nObama's presidency was enough to make me realize where America was headed and what brand of Democrats were in charge. But it was not until the election of President Trump that exposed just how corrupt the Democrats and every government institution were. Now that that genie is out of the bottle, they cannot put it back in. Public trust is out the door — all because it was scumbag/liar-Hillary's turn to be president. After the election was over, scumbag/liar-Clinton and her campaign staff were stunned and angry. So they went on a crusade and would remain there. They blamed everyone in the book for her loss, except the very person who lost the election. For the past three years, these phony investigations cost American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars. They were fully aware that  it was just a hoax and a fraud. In the process, they hurt the country and the American people.  President Trump's opponents mostly are from the camp of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton– and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama–supporters. Both scumbag/liar-nObama and scumbag/liar-Clinton were students of Saul Alinsky. Alinsky was a self-professed radical, obsessed with leftist ideology.  Moreover, the Left, rooted in Marxism, is atheistic and steeped in multicultural moral relativism. Hence, the pro-American nationalism of President Trump — his campaign slogan of "Make America Great Again" — infuriates the Left, which flatters itself as being internationalist or "cosmopolitan" as well as the trend of the future...  
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The Progressive Left Is Anti-Woman
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Louis DeBroux:  Progressives claim to work for the advancement of women, yet any objective observation shows their efforts have little to do with advancing women and everything to do with increasing the power of political leftists.

Several recent stories bear this out.

On Sunday, The New York Times made its 2020 presidential endorsement. Well, two, actually: Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren.

Justifying the dual endorsement, the Times wrote, “The events of the past few years have shaken the confidence of even the most committed institutionalists. We are not veering away from the values we espouse, but we are rattled by the weakness of the institutions that we trusted to undergird those values.” One wonders whether the NYT editors were looking in a mirror when they wrote that line.

The Times called dinky/liar-Warren, the radical, a “gifted storyteller,” which is a hilariously diplomatic way of saying she is a pathological liar. The paper called Klobuchar the “standard-bearer” for Democrat centrists, before noting she is campaigning for an economy-destroying policy of net-zero emissions by 2050 and a “more robust public option” in healthcare. In other words, socialized medicine.

It is a testament to how far left the Democrat Party has veered that Klobuchar could be considered a centrist.

Though claiming to be nonpartisan, the last time the NYT endorsed a Republican was Eisenhower in 1956, even though two very accomplished Republican women, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina and former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, have run for president in recent years. Obviously, conservative women need not apply for the Times’s endorsement.

In other news, the Grammys last week fired its first-ever female boss, Deborah Dugan, in an apparent attempt to silence her. Though the Recording Academy (which owns the Grammys) claims she was put on leave because of allegations of “misconduct” (allegedly, a staffer has accused her of bullying), the timing is highly suspicious. Three weeks ago, Dugan sent a memo to the Recording Academy’s HR department, accusing the company of attempting to silence those who came forward with allegations of “sexual harassment, financial impropriety, and [improper] insider benefits.”

Apparently, protecting women is less important to the Grammys than protecting Hollywood’s wealth, power, and cultural influence.

Of course, these same progressive cultural icons lecture the rest of us that we must #BelieveAllWomen, yet are silent on — or attack — women who make accusations against powerful progressive/Democrat men. Where are the progressives who came to the defense of Juanita Broaddrick, who credibly accused former president scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton of rape? Likewise, Virginia Democrat Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax was accused of rape by two separate women, who gave very detailed accounts of what happened. Yet Fairfax refused to resign, and the story has been quietly swept under the rug.

And it was an open secret for decades in Hollywood that producer Harvey Weinstein was a serial rapist, yet the Hollywood glitterati looked the other way as he ruined the lives of countless women. Sacrificing these young women to his lusts was the price they paid for their fame and fortune.

The same goes for billionaire pedophile Jeffrey “Didn’t Kill Himself” Epstein. He was a close friend and bankroller of Hollywood leftists and Democrat politicians, and they turned a blind eye to his crimes in order to advance their careers.

In other news, last Saturday was the fourth annual Women’s March in Washington, DC, and other cities around the country. But when you have to ask, “Does it still matter?” the answer is no, it doesn’t.

In 2017, an estimated three to five million people attended Women’s March rallies in more than 650 cities across the U.S. Last year, that number dropped to around 700,000.

Last week, the march in DC appears to have drawn less than six thousand people. In LA, Philadelphia, and Chicago, there were not enough protesters to even fill a city park.

A major part of the problem appears to be that the so-called Women’s March never even had any pretense of being about women but rather about advancing leftist causes, including abortion, subsidized housing, illegal immigration, and climate change.

And after effectively banning conservative, pro-life women from participating, the Women’s March was heavily criticized for its ties to anti-Semitic groups, including the notorious hate-monger and anti-Semite “Reverend” scumbag-Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam.

Luckily, there is a home for those who truly believe in advancing the cause of women, including protecting the unborn, because pro-life is pro-woman. They can be found this week at the March for Life, which turns out hundreds of thousands of pro-life supporters each year.

The idea that the progressive Left supports women is laughable. It doesn’t want equality for women, where women compete on their own merits; it wants special rights. It doesn’t support women; it supports leftist women and attacks conservative women. It doesn’t protect women; it sacrifices them to the powerful and it kills them in the womb.

It is the definition of anti-woman.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68066?mailing_id=4816&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4816&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Trump Denounces Tyranny of Socialism at Davos
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Democrats are hoping John Bolton will 
bring down Trump. Good luck with that
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By Marc A. Thiessen 
{ washingtonpost.com } ~ Consider the irony: Senate Democrats are hoping that former national security adviser John Bolton — yes, John Bolton... will provide them with the bombshell testimony that brings down President Trump. In other words, they have pinned their hopes on a man they have vilified for years, and whose national security career they sought to destroy. Good luck with that. Democrats want Bolton to take the stand in Trump’s impeachment trial because during the House inquiry National Security Council official Fiona Hill testified that Bolton was “furious” when he learned about a shadow operation in Ukraine, headed by Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani, that involved temporarily withholding U.S. military aid and pressing the government to investigate the business dealings of former vice president loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s son Hunter. Hill said Bolton described Giuliani as a “hand grenade,” told her to bring her concerns about the matter to White House lawyers and declared that he didn’t want any part of “whatever drug deal” was afoot in Ukraine. No doubt that is all true. Bolton is a foreign policy professional. But none of this means that Bolton believes Trump committed an impeachable offense. He may very well believe Trump’s decision to withhold lethal aide to Ukraine, and to raise Hunter Biden with Ukraine’s president, was wrong. If so, he’d be correct. But not every bad decision a president makes is impeachable. I’ll bet Bolton considers President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s decision to release five senior Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay in exchange for U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl — an act that the Government Accountability Office found was illegal — worse than a “drug deal.” Yet no Democrats called for scumbag/liar-nObama’s impeachment over it. Some have speculated that Bolton may be motivated to testify against Trump because of his acrimonious exit from the White House and his disagreement with some of Trump’s foreign policy decisions. Please. Whatever he thinks of the way Trump treated him, Bolton has been treated far worse by Democrats. Have they forgotten how they tried to ruin his professional reputation and  filibustered his nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, forcing President George W. Bush to install him in the post temporarily with a recess appointment? Or how, when Trump appointed Bolton as national security adviser, Democrats excoriated Bolton for being, as Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called him, “a grave danger to the American people"? As for policy disagreements with Trump, I’m sure there are many areas where Bolton does not approve of Trump’s foreign policy. But there are more where he does. Does anyone think Bolton is eager to bring down the president who launched the military strikes that killed Iranian terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani — and to do so to help Democrats who openly criticized Trump for launching that strike? Bolton obviously agrees with Trump more than he disagrees, or else he would never have joined his administration...
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scumbag/liar-Schiff warns of Russian attack 
on US mainland, as Day 2 of Trump's 
Senate impeachment trial concludes
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By Gregg Re
{ foxnews.com } ~ House Democrats launched into lengthy arguments that broke little ground, if any, in President Trump's  impeachment trial Wednesday... as the head impeachment manager, California Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, suggested that Russians could attack the U.S. and insisted that removing Trump from office was necessary because the integrity of the 2020 election could not be "assured." Trump's lawyers sat by, waiting their turn, as the president blasted the proceedings from afar, threatening jokingly to face off with the Democrats by coming to "sit right in the front row and stare at their corrupt faces." The challenge before the House managers has been clear. Democrats were given 24 hours over three days to prosecute the charges against Trump, trying to win over not just fidgety senators sitting silently in the chamber but an American public, deeply divided over the president and his impeachment in an election year. Most senators sat at their desks throughout the day, as the rules stipulated, though some stretched their legs, standing behind the desks or against the back wall of the chamber, passing the time. Visitors watched from the galleries, one briefly interrupting in protest. Almost immediately after Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled in Wednesday's session, bored and weary senators started openly flouting some basic guidelines. Fox News observed that a Democrat in the back row leaned on his right arm, covered his eyes and stayed that way for nearly a half-hour, and some lawmakers openly snickered when scumbag/liar-Schiff said he'd speak for only 10 minutes."I do see the members moving and taking a break," freshman Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., one of the House prosecutors, said mid-speech at the center podium. "I probably have another 15 minutes." "You just have to stretch and you just got to stand. Those chairs, they look nice, but they are not comfortable chairs," Sen. Lisa rino-Murkowski, R-Alaska, a key swing-vote moderate, said of the restlessness while scumbag/liar-Schiff spoke. The previous day of the trial lasted for more than 12 hours, and ended well past midnight on a testy note as Roberts admonished both sides for their conduct. On Wednesday, rino-Murkowski slammed Democratic impeachment manager Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., for arguing the previous evening that senators who didn't vote for immediate subpoenas were defying their oaths of office: “As one who is listening attentively and working hard to get to a fair process, I was offended," rino-Murkowski said...   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-senate-impeachment-trial-schiff-russia-attack  
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scumbag/liar-Schiff Caught Twisting
 Impeachment Evidence; Media 
Fact-Check Trump Attorneys, Instead
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By Kristine Marsh 
{ newsbusters.org } ~ Tuesday evening, Politico published a story revealing House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) completely “mischaracterized,”... a text message exchange between Rudy Giuliani and his former business associate, Lev Parnas. However, this revelation didn’t make the cut on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN or MSNBC on Tuesday all the way into Wednesday morning. Politico’s Melanie Zenanona reported that scumbag/liar-Schiff “appears to have mischaracterized a text message exchange” between these “two players in the Ukraine saga.” In a letter scumbag/liar-Schiff sent to House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) last week, he claimed that Parnas “continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky.” scumbag/liar-Schiff then cites a text message between Parnas and Giuliani talking about “mr. Z” as evidence of that. However the unredacted copy obtained by Politico, reveals that Parnas was clearly referring to the head of Burisma, not Ukrainian President Zelensky: But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: “mr Z answers my brother.” That suggests Parnas was referring to Zlochevsky not Zelensky. Politico demonstrates of how further contextual evidence in the exchange confirm “mr. Z” was indeed, Zlochevsky. Considering the additional context changes the meaning entirely, it at best shows scumbag/liar-Schiff was shockingly sloppy with his impeachment “evidence.” At worst, it shows he purposefully misrepresented the facts. Yet the media couldn't be more uninterested. While the rest of the media was out to lunch, Fox News did cover the story on both their news and opinion shows late Tuesday into Wednesday morning...  https://www.newsbusters.org/s3/files/styles/blog_body-50/s3/images/fox_and_friends_-_08_13_41_am.jpg?itok=WTtZlFNr
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Entire Navy Tomahawk Missile 
Arsenal Will Upgrade To Block V
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By John Grady
{ news.usni.org } ~ The Navy’s arsenal of Tomahawk cruise missiles will all become a Block V configuration, with older models to be retired and demilitarized, according to the program manager... “All Block IVs will be converted” and become Block V Tomahawks, said Capt. John Red, speaking to reporters during the 2020 Surface Navy Association Symposium last week. The upgraded Tomahawks will have a more extended range and modernized data-link radio and navigation systems. The upgrades are being done at Raytheon’s Tucson, Ariz., facility. The existing Tomahawk Block III missiles will be retired and demilitarized. The first five Tomahawk Block IVs being modernized will come out as test missiles with four heading back to the fleet “to demonstrate their capabilities” when used in an expected contested environment in the future, Red said. When the Block IV cruise missiles were first manufactured, the expectation was they would have a 30-year life. Red added, “they were designed in 1999, the late 90s with early 2000s technology. That meant “the future is now” for their modernization. “We’re still producing Block IVs,” which reached initial operating capability in 2004, said Chris Daly, director of program management at Raytheon. Red said 90 missiles will go through the recertification process per cycle. There will be three variants in Block V, but “the determination of the split” between the versions has yet to be determined, Red said. “The Block Va variants will be called Maritime Strike” with a new seeker capable of hitting a moving target. Red would not detail the seeker’s capability beyond saying it operated in various modes and has “the ability to discriminate targets” and can be updated in flight. Block Vb will feature the Joint Multi-Effects Warhead System. The new warhead was first announced in 2010 and tested in 2014...   https://news.usni.org/2020/01/22/entire-navy-tomahawk-missile-arsenal-will-upgrade-to-block-v?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=e0ebd39a80-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-e0ebd39a80-231491269&mc_cid=e0ebd39a80&mc_eid=3999f18767   
Erdogan's Bold Plan for a 
New Muslim Brotherhood Regime in Libya
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by Con Coughlin
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to intervene militarily in the Libyan conflict not only raises the prospect of the conflict entering a new and more dangerous phase... it also promises to provide a significant boost for the Islamist militias that are vying to take control of the country and establish a Muslim Brotherhood-style government in Tripoli. Mr Erdogan's justification for sending Turkish troops to Libya, which has the backing of the Turkish parliament, is to provide support for Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj, the head of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA). The GNA is under enormous pressure as a result of the offensive being undertaken by General Khalifa Haftar, the rebel Libyan leader who, with the backing of Russia, France and the United Arab Emirates, has overrun large swathes of the country and is now attempting to seize control of the Libyan capital. The strength of Gen. Haftar's position was graphically demonstrated earlier this week when Haftar's forces seized control of Libya's vital oil production facilities on the outskirts of Tripoli, a move that has cut output to almost zero. This move prompted Mr Serraj to warn that Libya faces dire consequences if the blockade is not lifted. After the summit in Berlin called by German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the aim of establishing a ceasefire, Mr Serraj declared: "The situation will be catastrophic should it stay like this." The summit ended with neither of the warring parties agreeing to a ceasefire, and only giving their lukewarm support to international calls for an arms embargo to prevent any further escalation in the fighting...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15474/libya-erdogan-muslim-brotherhood 
Dershowitz: Impeachment Charges 
Should Be Immediately Dismissed by Senate
 
by restoreamericanglory.com ~ In a conversation with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Monday night, Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz argued that the weak impeachment articles against President Donald Trump should be dismissed out of hand by the U.S. Senate... Dershowitz, who is serving the president’s legal team in an advisory capacity, said that since the articles themselves do not accuse Trump of anything close to a crime, they are subject to immediate dismissal. “This is a motion-to-dismiss case, in which, if it were a criminal case and he was charged with dishonesty … the first thing you do is make a motion to dismiss because dishonesty isn’t a crime,” he said. “Obstruction of Congress is not an impeachable offense. Abuse of power is not an impeachable offense. A motion to dismiss and a perfect world would be ideal, but do the American public want to see an end to the trial so quickly? I think that becomes a political issue.” Dershowitz explained that an argument to dismiss based on the weakness of the articles themselves did NOT conflate with an admission of guilt. He said that the president’s position continues to be consistent – that he is not guilty of the charges filed against him by the House of Representatives. However, he said, it was incumbent upon the legal team to make two arguments simultaneously: That one, Trump is innocent, and two, even if he was guilty, the charges would not amount to an impeachable offense. “The position is he didn’t do any of these things, that he is innocent as a matter of fact,” Dershowitz explained. “As every criminal trial lawyer knows when you have disputes over facts and disputes over law, you always argue in the alternative. You always argue that the facts are not proved, but hypothetically, even if the facts were to be proved, they wouldn’t rise to the level of a crime or in this case an impeachable offense. So, it is not an acknowledgment in any way by anyone on the legal team that the president did anything wrong, that is just not how that brief could possibly be read.” No one can lay out the weakness of the case against Trump like Dershowitz, which is why it is a great thing that he’s an official part of the legal team. There is no constitutional basis for these proceedings, despite the endless arguments by the Democrats to the contrary. Even if every word of what they’ve said about Trump is true, there is nothing in these charges that makes him subject to an impeachment conviction. This is a political show being produced with taxpayer dollars. The quicker it’s over, the better.
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Trump Denounces Tyranny of Socialism at Davos
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Thomas Gallatin:  While the Senate was wrangling over rules for its impeachment trial, President Donald Trump was in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, where he gave one of the best speeches of his presidency. Trump was there to tout “the great American comeback” and to encourage world leaders to follow his lead and reject the doom-and-gloom prognostications of the globalist and their calls for socialism. “This is not a time for pessimism,” he declared. “This is a time for optimism. … The American Dream is back — bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. No one is benefitting more than America’s middle class.”

Trump blasted the climate alarmists for their fearmongering and destructive agenda: “Fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and optimism and action. But to embrace the possibilities of tomorrow, we must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. They are the heirs of yesterday’s foolish fortune-tellers. … They predicted an overpopulation crisis in the 1960s, mass starvation in the ‘70s, and an end of oil in the 1990s. These alarmists always demand the same thing: absolute power to dominate, transform, and control every aspect of our lives.”

He pointedly asserted, “We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our Liberty. America will always be the proud, strong, and unyielding bastion of freedom.”

Overall, Trump’s speech was positive and full of hope for the future despite the looming impeachment trial he is facing at home. He concluded by stating, “Above all else, we will forever be loyal to our workers, our citizens, and our families — the men and women who are the backbone of our economies, the heart of our communities, and the soul of our countries. Let us bring light to their lives one by one and empower them to light up the world.”   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68068?mailing_id=4816&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4816&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Impeachment Trial Kicks Off
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Nate Jackson  
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‘The Origin of The Feces’ – White House Lawyer Patrick Philbin Explains House Circumvention of Constitution During Impeachment
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ As 21 different state attorneys general noted earlier today, there are several reasons why the impeachment effort is unconstitutional... These are not process arguments; they are factual arguments central to the constitutional framework of our government. The failure of a full House vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to pursue evidence -via enforceable subpoenas- was a defect by design of liar-Nancy Pelosi’s decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry by her decree, not an authorizing vote. White House lawyer Patrick Philbin explains the legal issue; this could be the lead argument in the defense case when it starts. CTH noted this structural issue last August, and the issue remained throughout the heavily manipulated proceedings. None of the House requests for testimony or documents held any enforcement authority because the House did not follow the constitutional process. The House was not issuing subpoenas, it was issuing letters requesting voluntary witness participation and document production. Recently the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel explained this issue in a lengthy legal finding that leads to the same conclusion...
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Jay Sekulow Discusses Current 
Status of House Impeachment Case
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump’s co-lead counsel, Jay Sekulow, discusses his perspective on the opening arguments for the House impeachment case... As Sekulow notes, so far the House appears to be attempting to leverage impeachment for a difference in foreign policy outlooks.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/22/jay-sekulow-discusses-current-status-of-house-impeachment-case/
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Zeldin, Jordan, Ratcliffe and 
Meadows Debunk Media Spin
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Unfortunately, one of the necessities of this ridiculous impeachment effort is to have fact-based advocates who can debunk impeachment lies before the narrative engineers (media) has a cycle to run with them... That’s one of the reasons why Lee Zeldin, Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe and Mark Meadows are so important. In this quick media briefing, the truth tellers quickly debunk the narrative (story) being spun within the upper chamber by scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’s lying House Managers. John Ratcliffe hones-in on the timeline and rattles-off the dates as an experienced litigator.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/22/zeldin-jordan-ratcliffe-and-meadows-debunk-media-spin/
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'I'm exposing your hatred': Lindsey 
Graham slams Dems over
impeachment demands  
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by Nate Madden
{ theblaze.com } ~ Sen. Linsdey Graham (R-S.C.) unloaded some heated criticism on congressional Democrats on Wednesday over their actions in the Senate impeachment trial so far... saying that they were on a "crusade to destroy" President Donald Trump. At a Wednesday news conference flanked by fellow GOP Sens. Mike Braun (Ind.) and Steve Daines (Mont.), Graham described Democrats' previous demands on the rules of the Senate trial as "an effort to ask the Senate to ignore every privilege that President scumbag/liar-Clinton was able to exercise, Nixon was able to exercise, and to suggest to the Senate that an independent judiciary, really, is a non-player." "If I were the president I wouldn't cooperate with these guys at all," Graham said of those behind the impeachment effort. "I wouldn't give them the time of day. They're on a crusade to destroy this man and they don't care what they destroy in the process of trying to destroy Donald Trump. I do care." The Senate was in session until the early morning hours Wednesday as the result of several Democrat-sponsored amendments to the trial rules package having to do with calling new documents and witnesses. During debate about one of those amendments, House manager scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler accused the senators opposed to it of wanting a "cover-up" rather than trying to get to the truth. In Graham's Wednesday remarks, he appeared to allude to scumbag liar-Nadler's "cover-up" comments, saying "To my Democratic colleagues, you can say what you want about me, but I'm covering up nothing; I'm exposing your hated of this president to the point where you would destroy the institution." The debate about subpoenaing witnesses and documents has become a major point of contention in the Senate's trial as a result of House investigators' decision not to take White House's claims of privilege to federal court during the course of last year's inquiry. Under the adopted rules of the trial, the question of bringing in more witnesses will be taken up later in the process...
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Ranking Democrat Senator Dianne Fein-stein
Left Senate During scumbag/liar-Schiff
Testimony – Said “Goodnight” and Went Home
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Many people are becoming aware the Senate impeachment trial is an exercise in politics, nothing more... The votes are already decided; the trial is simply a pantomime. To highlight the point, Democrat Senator Dianne Fein-stein, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, simply walked out during the trial when scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff was testifying; said “goodnight” and just went home.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/22/ranking-democrat-senator-dianne-feinstein-left-senate-during-schiff-testimony-said-goodnight-and-went-home/ 
scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler never knew what hit 
him when Trump’s lawyer dropped 
this hammer on him
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by renewedright.com ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nader was one of the impeachment managers liar-Nancy Pelosi picked to try the case in the Senate. On the first day scumbag liar-Nadler was already wishing liar-Pelosi picked someone else... And that’s because scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler never knew what him when Donald Trump’s lawyer shut him down with this jaw-dropping truth bomb. Democrats spent the first day of the trial wasting everyone’s time with procedural votes over subpoenaing witnesses and documents despite the Republican majority passing rules following the scumbag/liar-Clinton impeachment model where all decisions on witnesses would come after each side made their opening arguments and the Senators had time to ask questions. scumbag liar-Nadler argued one motion to subpoena former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s testimony would “put the United States Senate on trial” and that the President’s lawyers were “lying.” Democrats argued all day that Republicans were engaging in a cover up because they would not allow Democrats to run the Senate trial. scumbag liar-Nadler made that very argument in the wee hours of that morning and that set off White House Counsel Pat Cippollone. Cippollone’s fiery response was the highlight of the first day of the impeachment witch hoax trial. “Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice, members of the Senate. We came here today to address the false case brought to you by the House managers. […] We’ve been respectful of the Senate. We’ve made our arguments to you. And you don’t deserve, and we don’t deserve, what just happened. Mr. scumbag liar-Nadler came up here and made false allegations against our team. He made false allegations against all of you: he accused you of a ‘cover up.” He’s been making false allegations against the President,” Cippollone began. Cippollone then took scumbag liar-Nadler to task in sharply personal terms...   https://renewedright.com/jerry-nadler-never-knew-what-hit-him-when-trumps-lawyer-dropped-this-hammer-on-him/  
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Impeachment Trial Kicks Off
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Nate Jackson:  The Senate kicked off its impeachment trial yesterday with votes on rules for the proceedings and opening statements from President Donald Trump’s legal team and his Democrat accusers. Chief Justice John Roberts presided and had to rein in a few tempers. “Those addressing the Senate should remember where they are,” Roberts admonished. Though this is only the third time in our nation’s history that a president has stood for an impeachment trial, the proceedings were remarkably — and predictably — unserious. And yet, somehow, that’s quite fitting.

House Democrats failed to make a compelling case for impeachment in their rush to vote before Christmas. They claim to have “overwhelming” evidence for impeachment, while simultaneously hollering about a Republican “coverup” to obstruct the evidence they need. House Democrats want the Senate to aid them by extending the investigation, including calling more witnesses that they didn’t bother calling (John Bolton and Mick Mulvaney, for example. Anyone but Hunter Biden or the whistleblower!). That’s not the Senate’s job, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is playing it all about as well as he can.

“Democrats really don’t want to hear more witnesses,”  surmises The Wall Street Journal editorial board. “They merely want to pretend they do, get Republicans to vote against witnesses, and use that as an issue in November. Perhaps Republicans should call them on it.”

While the question of calling witnesses didn’t receive a vote yesterday, McConnell conceded to one more day for each side to present its case and to allow all House evidence without a Senate vote to admit it. The rules were officially adopted in a 53-47 party-line vote at 1:40 a.m.

Those who portray McConnell as having “caved” to moderates on those rules are either unfamiliar with Trump’s Art of the Deal or are willing to attribute such strategic moves only to Trump himself. McConnell has a strategy that provides political cover for Republicans in tough reelection battles like rino-Susan Collins, Martha McSally, and Cory Gardner. As a bonus, he can point to having compromised with Democrats in order to be as fair as possible. Of course, that won’t stop Democrats from caterwauling about a “rigged” trial all the way until Election Day.

But did we mention that Democrats like Chuck scumbag-Schumer have taken the opposite position on rules they took in the 1999 impeachment trial of scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton? We can’t quite put our finger on what’s different now…

Some highlights of the cases made by each side:

“The president is on trial in the Senate, but the Senate is on trial in the eyes of the American people,” pronounced scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He slammed Republicans for balking at more witnesses because “only guilty people try to hide evidence.” Except scumbag liar-Nadler insisted just last week that testimony from either Hunter or loose lips liar-Joe Biden would not be “relevant” because he had a “mountain of evidence” that was perfectly sufficient to impeach and remove Trump.

“Let me be very blunt,” said House Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff. “Right now a great many, perhaps even most, Americans do not believe there will be a fair trial. They don’t believe that the Senate will be impartial. They believe that the result is pre-cooked, the president will be acquitted.” Funny, but scumbag/liar-Schiff pre-cooked the impeachment inquiry in the House.

White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, on the other hand, was right on the mark. Democrats have “no case” against Trump. But never mind that, he said; “They’re not here to steal one election, they’re here to steal two elections.”   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68070?mailing_id=4816&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4816&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

Read more…

Thurs/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Show Trial Begins
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Thursday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


HISTORIC: Trump will be first president to address March for Life in person (The Resurgent)

A WITNESS DEMOCRATS DON’T WANT: Whistleblower was overheard in 2017 discussing with ally how to remove Trump (RealClearInvestigations)

RED WAVE? Impeachment drives 1,000 GOP candidates to run for House (Washington Examiner)

NEEDED VISA OVERHAUL: U.S. imposes visa rules for pregnant women on “birth tourism” (AP)

Economy


RIGHT TO WORK: Union membership falls to record low of 10.3% — down 10% since 1983 (The Hill)

CHALLENGES STILL LOOM: Trump administration approves Keystone pipeline on U.S. land (Associated Press)

Culture


“WE CAN’T LET VIRGINIA GO TO WASTE”: White nationalists arrested ahead of Richmond rally planned to kill gun-rights demonstrators to spark civil war (National Review)

INDEFENSIBLE: Less than half of Americans know six million Jews killed in Holocaust (Washington Examiner)

WARPED PRIORITIES: San Antonio’s Chick-fil-A fight has cost more than $300K so far (KENS 5)

Health


MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH? Immune cell that kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists (The Telegraph)

VIRUS OUTBREAK: Chinese city halts all air, train traffic to contain spread of coronavirus that has killed 17 (USA Today)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: How the oil-production boom has benefited America (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: Counting the homeless, searching for solutions (RealClearPolicy)

HUMOR: New, deadlier AR-16 introduced, which is an AR-15 wearing a MAGA hat (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68097?mailing_id=4819&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4819&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  
Second Session – Day Two  
Senate Impeachment Trial 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ To assist in page-load-time we’re breaking up the Senate Impeachment discussion threads. There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers (over 3 days); 24 hours of presentation by Defense team (over 3 days)... 16 hours of Senate questioning; 4 hours of closing arguments, equally divided; and then a Senate debate/vote on further motions to include witnesses. If there are going to be witnesses, they will first be deposed prior to testimony. No witness testimony will be permitted without first being deposed. The Senate Trial continues today with the second session at 3:50pm EST, continuing with with opening arguments by House Impeachment Managers.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/22/second-session-day-two-senate-impeachment-trial-350pm-livestream/  
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff: 
Americans are too stupid to decide elections
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by wnd.com ~ U.S. Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the congressman known for falsely claiming for years he had evidence of Trump campaign 2016 collusion with Russia... and for putting a fabricated Trump phone transcript in the congressional record, has gone off the deep end this time, says talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh.  In his opening statement Wednesday in the impeachment trial of President Trump, scumbag/liar-Schiff charged that the results of elections cannot be trusted and Americans who vote are too stupid to make such decisions. "He actually said it. The son of a ... actually said it," Limbaugh told his listeners. scumbag/liar-Schiff said the Senate needs to stop an "attempt to use the powers of the presidency to cheat in an election for precisely this reason, the president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box." Explained Limbaugh: "Meaning we can't wait for the American people to decide because you people don't know enough to throw the guy out. The Democrats have to be in charge of this. Your vote doesn't count anymore." "The president's misconduct cannot be decided at the ballot box, for we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won," scumbag/liar-Schiff claimed. The president reacted to the Senate trial from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "These are major sleazebags. It's a total hoax. It's a disgrace," he said. The House impeachment managers contend Trump used the power of his office to pressure Ukraine to help him win the 2020 election then tried to cover up his scheme by obstructing Congress' investigation. The White House argues Trump had a public interest in asking Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky to "look into" an apparent conflict of interest in Hunter Biden's profiting from a corrupt Ukrainian firm while his father was scumbag/liar-nObama's point man for Ukraine policy. Limbaugh said: "Folks, in a normal and sane world, scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff would have just stepped in it. ... He said, 'We cannot trust the ballot box.' Now, where do you start with this?"... California, you need to vote this scumbag out of office,  https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/adam-schiff-americans-stupid-decide-elections/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking  
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Impeachment, Democrats, 
and those 90,000 documents
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by Byron York
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ For weeks, Democrats have been demanding to see new witnesses and documents for the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump. Mostly they have emphasized witnesses... But on Tuesday, the first full day of the trial, the Democratic House managers seemed to turn up the call for documents, claiming that President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton provided tens of thousands of pages of documents for his impeachment trial in 1999. "In the scumbag/liar-Clinton case, the president provided all of the documents — more than 90,000 pages of them — before the trial took place," the managers said in a statement released Tuesday morning. "Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's resolution rejects that basic necessity." House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi backed up the managers. "For the scumbag/liar-Clinton trial, witnesses were deposed and the president provided more than 90,000 documents," she said Tuesday. "All of the documents in the scumbag/liar-Clinton trial were turned over prior to the trial," said lead impeachment manager Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff when arguments before the Senate began. "All 90,000 pages of them, so they could be used in the House's case." So a question: Where did the figure of 90,000 pages, or documents, come from? Did scumbag/liar-Clinton helpfully cooperate with the House Republicans who were trying to remove him from office 20 years ago? It turns out scumbag/liar-Schiff, liar-Pelosi, and their colleagues were not telling the whole story. They got the 90,000 figure, apparently, from scumbag/liar-Clinton's rebuttal to the Starr report — the report independent counsel Kenneth Starr turned over to Congress on Sept. 9, 1998, after seven months of investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair. In that rebuttal, given to Congress on Sept. 11, scumbag/liar-Clinton's lawyers wrote: "During the past four and a half years, the President has ... produced more than 90,000 pages of documents and other items" to investigators. But not to Congress. The scumbag/liar-Clinton situation was entirely different from the one scumbag/liar-Schiff and his fellow Democrats face today. Starr was an independent counsel with full law enforcement powers, and his office issued many grand jury subpoenas pushing scumbag/liar-Clinton, who often resisted fiercely, to turn over the 90,000 documents over the course of four and a half years, covering the Whitewater, Travelgate, Filegate, and Lewinsky investigations. "If memory serves me correctly, I don't think he voluntarily gave us anything," said Sol Weisenberg, a former Starr prosecutor, in a conversation Tuesday...
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Deep State Insider Spills the Beans!  
Behind the Deep State
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by thenewamerican.com ~ In this episode of Behind the Deep State, host Alex Newman highlights the explosive revelations of Professor Carroll Quigley, a mentor to scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton... Among other things, Quigley exposed the fact that a secret network that operates much like the right believes communists operate has been playing an enormous but hidden role in world affairs. This “Roundtable Group,” which seeks a global feudalist system that it controls, operates through front groups such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Royal Institute on International Affairs. Alex discusses the Quigley books "Tragedy and Hope," and "The Anglo-American Establishment."  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/34674-alex-newman-deep-state-insider-spills-the-beans?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_12_2_2019_15_37_COPY_01)&mc_cid=8d1991d2a1&mc_eid=8ab66f2b22
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Flynn Lawyers Argue For Probation 
Instead Of Jail Time
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by CHUCK ROSS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Michael Flynn’s lawyers argued Wednesday that he should not face jail time for making false statements to the FBI... while also accusing federal prosecutors of trying to suborn perjury from the former national security adviser in a case involving his former business partner, Bijan Rafiekian. “The government tried to manufacture facts in the Rafiekian case and they thought they could strongarm Mr. Flynn into helping them through perjury,” Flynn’s lawyers wrote in a sentencing memo filed Wednesday. “Mr. Flynn should receive a sentence, if any, of probation and community service,” they added. Flynn’s lawyers criticized prosecutors for revising their sentencing recommendation for the retired Army general. In December 2018, prosecutors recommended that Flynn receive only probation, citing his “substantial” cooperation with the special counsel, as well as in an investigation of Rafiekian on charges that he conspired to work as an unregistered agent of Turkey.  Flynn pleaded guilty Dec. 1, 2017, in the special counsel’s probe to making false statements to FBI agents Jan. 24, 2017, regarding his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He pulled out of a sentencing hearing Dec. 18, 2018, after Judge Emmet Sullivan indicated he was prepared to issue a sentence that included jail time. Flynn changed up his legal strategy in the ensuing months, hiring Sidney Powell, an ardent critic of the special counsel’s investigation. Powell accused prosecutors of withholding exculpatory information from Flynn regarding his interview with the FBI. After months of contentious legal filings, prosecutors revised their sentencing recommendation for Flynn on Jan. 7, suggesting that he receive up to six months in prison.  Powell responded to the government’s recommendation by filing a request Jan. 14 for Flynn to be allowed to withdraw from his plea deal...  https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/22/flynn-lawyers-probation-no-jail/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11721   
Dems 'Don't Care What They
Destroy' to Get Trump
By Brian Freeman   
{ newsmax.com } ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., slammed Democrats on Wednesday for the impeachment trial, saying they are willing to destroy the country's institutions in order to attack President Donald Trump... Graham told reporters that what he saw Tuesday was "an effort to ask the Senate to ignore every privilege that President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton was able to exercise, Nixon was able to exercise and to suggest to the Senate that an independent judiciary really is a non-player." Graham grew impassioned at the Senate press conference, insisting "If I was the president, I wouldn't cooperate with these guys at all. I'm the same guy that said, you can't fire former special counsel Robert Mueller. I encouraged him to work with Mueller. Mueller is a man of the law. Representatives scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, scumbag liar-Jerry] Nadler, and liar-Nancy Pelosi impeached this president in 48 days." Graham exclaimed, "I wouldn't give them the time of day," insisting Democrats are "on a crusade to destroy this man, and they don't care what they destroy in the process of trying to destroy Donald Trump." He also rejected Democratic accusations he and other GOP senators are trying to cover up what Trump did by not allowing new witnesses or evidence, emphasizing: "I'm covering up nothing. I'm exposing your hatred of this president to the point that you would destroy the institution."
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The Show Trial Begins
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The contrast could not have been starker. One picture showed House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi smiling as she signed (with numerous pens) two articles of impeachment against President Trump. She passed out the pens like souvenirs to fellow Democrats. They were embossed in gold with her signature and rested on silver trays.

The other picture was of President Trump signing phase one of a new trade deal with China.

Which picture depicted events of greater long-term benefit to Americans? Unless you are a rank partisan out to remove President Trump from office by whatever means, the obvious answer is the China trade deal.

The latest wrench thrown into the machinery of government comes from Democrats who released to their compliant media friends a “note to self” written on a hotel notepad supposedly by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney and a frequent flyer to Ukraine. The note said, “Get (Ukrainian president) Zalensky to announce that the Biden case will be investigated.”

Democrats claim Parnas was an intermediary in the effort to get Ukraine to investigate loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.

Parnas’ credibility would be in doubt were he under oath before a court, instead of “testifying” on various cable TV programs. Parnas heads a company that claims to combat fraud. Oh, the irony!

Democrats insist the Senate trial be “fair.” How is it fair when House Democrats continue to leak documents they hope will damage the president and influence senators to vote for his removal from office? Some Democratic senators, who will sit in judgment of the president, have already declared him guilty.

It is politics at its worst and opens the door, as some of the Founders warned, for “normalizing” impeachment.

Historical background is always helpful and so I consulted the National Constitution Center, a private, nonprofit organization and a leading platform for constitutional education and debate, where I found this: The “high crimes and misdemeanors” language (in the Constitution) remains controversial today. In two essays… Neil J. Kinkopf and Keith E. Whittington looked at the Founder’s vision: “The Framers meant for the phrase ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ to signify only conduct that seriously harms the public and seriously compromises the officer’s ability to continue. If the phrase is given a less rigorous interpretation, it could allow Congress to influence and control the President and the courts…”

The article continues: “When the Founders wanted to ensure accountability, they mostly relied on elections and the voters to hold government officials responsible for their actions,” said Whittington. “But what might fall into the category of ‘other high Crimes and Misdemeanors’ was still quite unclear.”

Trump’s call to Ukraine’s president, which is at the heart of the impeachment articles, does not meet the standard of seriously harming the public or compromising the president’s ability to do his job as shown by the China trade deal and the USMCA trade agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada, both signed and passed days after impeachment.

That the Government Accountability Office says the president “broke the law” by withholding $250 million in military aid to Ukraine, aid Congress had approved, doesn’t help the president’s defenders, but does it rise to the level of a “high crime and misdemeanor”? Senators will decide. But they should recall that in 2014 the GAO ruled President scumbag/liar-nObama’s prisoner deal to exchange Guantanamo Bay detainees for deserter Bowe Bergdahl violated federal law. scumbag/liar-nObama was not impeached.

Speaker liar-Pelosi summed up the true motives of Democrats when she said that regardless of what the Senate does, impeachment will be a “permanent stain” on President Trump’s legacy.

In fact, the stain will be on Democrats. It is Democrats who have plotted ways to reverse the will of voters who elected Trump. It is Democrats who fear he will be overwhelmingly re-elected in November.  

~The Patriot Post

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Impeachment Trial Day 1: The Senate Begins
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Thomas Gallatin  
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As The Impeachment Trial Begins, 
Democrats Are Losing Their Minds
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By John Daniel Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ On Monday, as senators and House impeachment managers prepared for the opening of President Trump’s impeachment trial Tuesday, Democrats and their courtiers in the mainstream press decided to ratchet up the their rhetoric to the point of delusional hysteria... The House managers—led by Reps. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler—issued a statement that essentially accused Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of a coverup, saying his proposed rules for the trial are “rigged,” nothing more than an “effort to prevent the full truth of the President’s misconduct from coming to light.”That wasn’t all. scumbag/liar-Schiff and the impeachment managers also called on Trump’s lead impeachment lawyer, Pat A. Cipollone, to disclose what he knows about the president’s alleged behavior underlying the two articles of impeachment, saying Cipollone is a “material fact witness,” and that, “The ethical rules generally preclude a lawyer from acting as an advocate at a trial in which he is likely also a necessary witness.” Funny they should mention that. As my colleague Mollie Hemingway pointed out on Twitter, scumbag/liar-Schiff is himself a material fact witness to this entire impeachment imbroglio, beginning with his office’s coordination with the whistleblower. As for McConnell’s rules being some kind of coverup, compare them to the House impeachment inquiry, which turned up no evidence of a crime despite scumbag/liar-Schiff stacking the deck in Democrats’ favor by not allowing GOP members to call witnesses or ask substantive questions. By those standards, McConnell’s proposed rules are generous to Democrats, stipulating a four-day calendar in which each side gets two days, 12 hours per day, just for opening statements. After that, senators would have 16 hours for written questions for the prosecution and defense, then four hours of debate—all to adjudicate a purely partisan impeachment probe that after months failed to persuade even one GOP member of the House that Trump had committed an impeachable offence. To a certain mindset—apparently rampant among Democrats and media elites—none of this matters. Nothing we learned during the House impeachment inquiry, not to mention what we all know about Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after the White House released the transcript, seems to matter to Democrats hell-bent on delegitimizing the Trump presidency...
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff Would Be The Last 
Person To Get A GOP Senator To ‘Cross Over’
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By Erielle Davidson
{ thefederalist.com } ~ The Democrats’ fervent hope in the impeachment process is no longer to remove President Donald Trump but rather to attain the moral victory of convincing just one Senate Republican to “cross over” and vote in favor of removal following the impeachment trial... For the adoring left within the media and on Capitol Hill, a crossover vote would give Democrats the bipartisan label they have so craved but have been unable to secure throughout the entirety of this process, largely due to their gross unprofessionalism and the obviousness of the Ukraine phone call being a pretext for ambitions they have held since 2016. If the Democrats want to garner crossover votes in the impeachment trial, Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is the last person who should be managing the impeachment circus, largely because he has become the insufferable face of House partisanship and the blatant crookedness of the impeachment process. Yet he was one of seven Democrats chosen by Speaker of the House liar-Nancy Pelosi last week to do so. But his performance today, combined with his salacious history, is a reminder of why he should be nowhere near the impeachment process.In his opening statement before the Senate this morning, scumbag/liar-Schiff waxed poetic about concerns that the Senate would not hold a “fair trial,” declaring, “Right now, a great many, perhaps even most, Americans do not believe there will be a fair trial. They don’t believe that the Senate will be impartial. They believe that the result is pre-cooked, the president will be acquitted.” scumbag/liar-Schiff’s statement, in all its attempts to grasp at some form of political gravitas, serves as a stark reminder of all that scumbag/liar-Schiff himself has done in the past to ensure this impeachment process would be as dishonest as possible. Granted, Americans — and Republicans in the Senate — may want a fair impeachment trial, but scumbag/liar-Schiff has shown himself to be incapable of offering that. scumbag/liar-Schiff has spent the vast majority of Trump’s presidency peddling unfounded and debunked conspiracy theories and “leaking” false information to countless media outlets in hopes of forwarding the Democratic #Resistance narrative. In the time period preceding the impeachment inquiry, scumbag/liar-Schiff invented a transcript for President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, fabricating entire events within the phone call that never actually took place and reading his falsified narrative before the House. Later, he claimed to have had no communication with the whistleblower prior to the formal filing of the complaint. That, too, like the phone call summary he delivered before the House, proved to be a lie...
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State AGs urge Senate to reject impeachment
in stinging letter: 'A dangerous
historical precedent'
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By Ronn Blitzer
{ foxnews.com } ~The attorneys general of 21 states have come forward with a blistering rebuke of the impeachment of President Trump, asserting that it "establishes a dangerous historical precedent."... The Republican attorneys general, in a letter submitted to the Senate Wednesday morning and obtained by Fox News, urged the chamber conducting Trump's trial to "reject" the impeachment articles. "If not expressly repudiated by the Senate, the theories animating both Articles will set a precedent that is entirely contrary to the Framers' design and ruinous to the most important governmental structure protections contained in our Constitution: the separation of powers," they wrote. The letter accuses House Democrats of impeaching Trump as a politically motivated response to the 2016 election and warned that it poses a threat to the 2020 election as well. "Even an unsuccessful effort to impeach the President undermines the integrity of the 2020 presidential election because it weaponizes a process that should only be initiated in exceedingly rare circumstances and should never be used for partisan purposes," the letter continued.The attorneys general proceeded to pick apart the impeachment articles themselves. The abuse of power article, they claimed, "is based upon a constitutionally-flawed theory" that is "infinitely expansive and subjective" because it relies on the motivation the president had for "exercising  concededly lawful constitutional authority" emphasis in original that Democrats deemed to be corrupt."It cannot be a legitimate basis to impeach a President for acting in a legal manner that may also be politically advantageous," they continued. "Such a standard would be cause for the impeachment of virtually every President, past, present, and future."...
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The Impeachment Trial Briefs Are In,
 And The Winner Is…
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by FORMER REP. BOB BARR
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The House impeachment managers and the lawyers for President Donald Trump have both filed their memorandums for the Senate impeachment trial which gets underway in earnest today... While the two documents are nearly identical in length, the president’s is by far the stronger document. Neither memorandum breaks new legal, political or constitutional grounds, but there was no expectation they would. The only “new” evidence – if it can be characterized as such – is that the managers’ memorandum includes references to matters that came to light in the month since the two Articles of Impeachment were passed by the House. The managers discuss statements recently made by Ukraine-American operative Lev Parnas in television interviews and refer also to a Government Accountability Office memorandum released last week after being requested by Democratic Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen. The GAO report found fault with the grounds on which the Office of Management and Budget temporarily delayed the release of military assistance dollars to Ukraine last summer. Even if the Senate decides to consider this “new” evidence, however, it adds nothing to the underlying question confronting the upper chamber – whether President Trump is guilty of the offenses alleged against him by the Democrat majority in the House and should be removed from office. If the grounds on which this seminal question is to be answered are to be gleaned from these first filings, the answer is a resounding, “Not Guilty.” While the trial brief filed on the president’s behalf is over 100 pages long, the operative language, capturing the full essence of why the Senate trial should result in acquittal, is set forth in the preliminary “Answer” filed last Saturday and which continues as a central theme throughout the memorandum: “the Articles of Impeachment are constitutionally invalid on their face and fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the Constitution.” That truly is all the president’s lawyers need assert in his defense, because it rebuts completely what the House is attempting to do in direct violation of the explicit language in the Constitution itself. The Constitution mandates that the only grounds on which a president may be impeached and removed from office are “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”. Neither the First nor the Second Article of Impeachment levelled against Trump constitutes a violation of any state or federal law. “Abuse of Power” is not a crime, and “Obstruction of Congress” is not a crime. No amount of wordsmithing by the House managers can shoehorn either of these “offenses” into any criminal statute. Notwithstanding former President scumbag/liar-Clinton’s valiant but unsuccessful effort to escape impeachment in 1998 by arguing, “it all depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is,” what is written in the Constitution of the United States means what it says. Lawyers may argue about whether a particular crime constitutes a “high” crime the House decided in 1998 that perjury and obstruction of justice by a sitting president did meet that criteria. But they never should be permitted to prevail in arguing that behavior which is not a crime is a crime in order to rid themselves of a president they do not like...   https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/21/former-rep-barr-impeachment-briefs-trump/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=11712  
rino-Mitt Romney Lets the Left Down on Impeachment and Makes a Good
 Point Along the Way
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{ redstate.com } ~ I may not be a rino-Mitt Romney guy, but I have to give him credit here. After initially signaling he might buck Mitch McConnell and hand Democrats leverage they didn’t deserve... the Utah Senator is now doing the right thing and pushing the trial forward. In 53-47 vote, Chuck scumbag-Schumer’s plans to bully the majority went up in flames. No one defected. Not rino-Romney, not rino-Collins, nor rino-Murkowski. rino-Romney put out a  statement letting it be known that he supported the scumbag/liar-Clinton era rules being proposed by McConnell. The allegations outlined in the articles of impeachment passed by the House are extremely serious – did the President abuse his office for personal political gain, and did he obstruct Congress’ investigation by blocking subpoenas? These allegations demand that the Senate put political biases aside, and make good faith efforts to listen to arguments from both sides and thoroughly review facts and evidence. I have made clear to my colleagues and the public that the Senate should have the opportunity to decide on witnesses following the opening arguments, as occurred in the scumbag/liar-Clinton trial. The organizing resolution released tonight includes this step, and overall, it aligns closely with the rules package approved 100-0 during the scumbag/liar-Clinton trial. If attempts are made to vote on witnesses prior to opening arguments, I would oppose those efforts.  That’s a bit dramatic, but I realize that rino-Romney is rino-Romney so it’s not worth caring about. He’s going to let it be known that he’s super serious so he can continue to appear as the unbiased statesman. When it comes to votes, he’s fallen in line. Multiple amendments proposed by scumbag-Schumer after his initial defeat earlier in the evening have been tabled with the help of rino-Romney. One just happened less than an hour ago...
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Tulsi Gabbard Files Defamation Lawsuit 
Against scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton
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By  Ashe Schow
{ dailywire.com } ~ Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) announced Wednesday morning that she has filed a defamation lawsuit against scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton for the former secretary of state’s claims that Gabbard is a “Russian asset.”...  In a press release published to Gabbard’s presidential election campaign website, Gabbard claimed scumbag/liar-Clinton “deliberately and maliciously made false statements in an attempt to derail Rep. Gabbard’s campaign.” scumbag/liar-Clinton made the remarks about Gabbard during an October 17, 2019 interview, saying, “somebody who is currently in the Democratic primary … is a favorite of the Russians… Yeah, she’s a Russian asset.”  Gabbard’s press release notes that after scumbag/liar-Clinton’s comments, the media “extensively republished and disseminated these statements, which were interpreted widely as scumbag/liar-Clinton asserting that Gabbard is a Russian asset.” In the lawsuit itself, Gabbards attorneys at Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hecht LLP allege that scumbag/liar-Clinton possibly made the remarks “out of personal animus, political enmity, or fear of real change within a political party scumbag/liar-Clinton and her allies have long dominated.” They allege scumbag/liar-Clinton lied about Gabbard “publicly, unambiguously, and with obvious malicious intent” and that the claims have harmed Gabbard. The lawsuit calls scumbag/liar-Clinton “a cutthroat politician by any account,” who held a grudge against Gabbard because the Hawaiian politician endorsed scumbag/liar-Clinton’s presidential rival, Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I-VT), in 2016. scumbag/liar-Clinton went on to lose the election to President Donald Trump...
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Impeachment Trial Day 1: The Senate Begins
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Thomas Gallatin:  The Senate’s impeachment trial of President Donald Trump begins today. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell released his proposed rules on Monday evening, which predictably had Democrats immediately crying foul. The biggest curve ball in McConnell’s proposal is a rule requiring that all evidence collected by House Democrats be approved via a vote before being admitted into the trial — and then only after opening arguments by both the House Democrats and Trump’s legal team. McConnell’s rules allow for a vote on whether to call witnesses, which Democrats insist on doing.

It’s clear that McConnell wants to avoid a drawn-out process, which is exactly what Democrats are aiming for. McConnell allotted 24 hours over two days for partisans on each side to present their case, starting with House Democrats. Then, following the Trump team’s rebuttal, senators will have up to 16 hours to submit questions in writing to both sides. Only after that process is complete will the Senate consider “the question of whether it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents.”

Furthermore, if the Senate votes to call witnesses, “no testimony shall be admissible in the Senate unless the parties have had an opportunity to depose such witnesses.” And any deposing of witnesses will be done behind closed doors.

Also on Monday, Trump’s legal team released its  blistering 110-page brief against the Democrats’ articles of impeachment, calling them “an affront to the Constitution and our democratic institutions.” Team Trump adds that the “two flimsy Articles of Impeachment,” which “allege no crime or violation of law whatsoever — much less ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors, as required by the Constitution,” will “permanently weaken the Presidency and forever alter the balance of power among the branches of government in a manner that offends the constitutional design established by the Founders.”

Trump’s acquittal is almost a foregone conclusion given that it would take the votes of 67 senators to convict, though the Democrats’ real ploy is not conviction but political damage. To that end, their aim is to paint Republicans as unfair if they vote against calling witnesses — witnesses House Democrats didn’t bother to call. Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer and company do hold the advantage of needing only a simple majority vote to get their witnesses, whom vulnerable Republicans will feel compelled to vote in favor of calling. By getting witnesses called, scumbag-Schumer hopes to drag out the trial for as long as possible with the hope of damaging Republicans and aiding the Democrats’ bid to gain control of the Senate in the 2020 election. As we grow tired of noting, the Democrats’ whole despicable exercise is purely partisan political theater.   ~The Patriot Post

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Refugees From Socialism Give a Needed Warning
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Robin Smith
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Ukraine Whistleblower Overheard Discussing 
How To ‘Take Out’ Trump In 2017, Report Says
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By  Amanda Prestigiacomo
{ dailywire.com } ~ The man suspected to be the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment of President Donald Trump over a phone call with the president of Ukraine... reportedly openly discussed how to “take out” Trump not even two weeks after Trump took office, well before the call took place. RealClearInvestigations  reported Wednesday that sources overheard the CIA analyst and alleged whistleblower discussing how to remove Trump from office with fellow scumbag/liar-nObama holdover Sean Misko, who reportedly offered “guidance” to the alleged whistleblower during the impeachment process under Democratic Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (CA). As noted by the outlet, there is “strong evidence” that the man identified in the report is the whistleblower, though he has not been officially named as such.“Sources told RealClearInvestigations the staffer with whom the alleged whistleblower was speaking was Sean Misko. Both were scumbag/liar-nObama administration holdovers working in the Trump White House on foreign policy and national security issues,” RealClearInvestigations reported Wednesday. “And both expressed anger over Trump’s new ‘America First’ foreign policy, a sea change from President scumbag/liar-nObama’s approach to international affairs.” “Just days after he was sworn in they were already talking about trying to get rid of him,” a White House colleague who allegedly overheard the conversation told RealClearInvestigations.“They weren’t just bent on subverting his agenda,” the source added. “They were plotting to actually have him removed from office.” Another source said the alleged whistleblower and Misko “didn’t like” Trump’s “policies,” adding, “They had a political vendetta against him from Day One.”...
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Senate sets impeachment trial 
rules that postpone vote on witnesses
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The Senate passed rules governing President Trump’s impeachment trial that exclude immediate consideration of new witnesses or evidence... Republicans early Wednesday voted without any defections to provide a majority needed to pass the resolution. It followed a daylong debate over the rules of a trial that could last for weeks. While the rule dodges a witness fight for now, key Republicans have signaled they may vote for witnesses later in the trial. Among them is Sen. rino-Susan Collins of Maine, who put out a statement Tuesday indicating she is “likely” to vote to subpoena additional witness testimony. The vote to pass the resolution followed an extended effort by Democrats to force changes to the rules to require witnesses and new evidence upfront. Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, a New York Democrat, introduced several amendments to subpoena documents and require witness testimony. All of scumbag-Schumer’s amendments failed along party lines. The rules of the trial will generally follow those set during the 1999 impeachment trial of President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton in that senators won’t vote on whether to summon new witnesses or to subpoena additional documents until after both the impeachment managers and Trump’s defense team present their arguments. The trial terms provide each side three days to present arguments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell earlier Tuesday altered the rules to appeal to Senate moderates who balked at the two-day time limit McConnell initially hoped set. McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, also changed a rule that would have required the Senate to approve of the admission of evidence the House acquired during a weekslong impeachment investigation. The rule now allows the House impeachment managers to submit all of their evidence unless the Senate objects...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-sets-impeachment-trial-rules-that-postpone-vote-on-witnesses?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/22/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
President Trump Interview
with Maria Bartiromo
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Earlier today, while attending Davos, President Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo... The primary topic was trade and economics with additional insight around the impeachment fiasco and some current events. Unfortunately Ms. Bartiromo did not ask if President Trump remembered there were documents he was going to declassify.
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Nasty scumbag liar-Nadler 
Gets Lambasted by Justice Roberts
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by thegreggjarrett.com ~ Democratic impeachment manager scumbag liar-Jerry “Nasty” Nadler, and the President’s counsels, were given a scolding after an exchange between them pushed the limit of what Chief Justice John Roberts would allow in the Senate... Day 1 of the Senate impeachment trial merely consisted of Democrats mudslinging and presenting gossip as evidence.  The President’s legal counsel had enough of Rep. scumbag liar-Nadler and his cohorts’ accusations against Republican Senate members, the President, and even the legal counsel members themselves, and called Rep. scumbag liar-Nadler out on his persistent personal attacks. Rep scumbag liar-Nadler started the heated exchange by stating, “It’s embarrassing. The President is on trial in the Senate, but the Senate is on trial in the eyes of the American people. Will you vote to allow all the relevant evidence to be presented here? Or will you betray your pledge to be an impartial juror? … Will you bring Ambassador Bolton here? Will you permit us to present you with the entire record of the president’s misconduct? Or will you instead choose to be complicit in the president’s coverup? So far I’m sad to say I see a lot of senators voting for a coverup, voting to deny witnesses, an absolutely indefensible vote, obviously a treacherous vote.”White House counsel Pat Cipollone responded by telling Rep. scumbag liar-Nadler, “we’ve been respectful of the Senate. We’ve made our arguments to you. And you don’t deserve, and we don’t deserve, what just happened. Mr. scumbag liar-Nadler came up here and made false allegations against our team. He made false allegations against all of you; he accused you of a cover-up. He’s been making false allegations against the president. The only one who should be embarrassed, Mr. scumbag liar-Nadler is you, for the way you’ve addressed the United States Senate. This is the United States Senate. You’re not in charge here. … It’s about time we bring this power trip in for a landing.” Then, White House counsel Jay Sekulow doubled down on scumbag liar-Nadler’s nasty accusations by stating, “At about 12:10 a.m., January 22, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, in this body, on the floor of this Senate, said ‘executive privilege and other nonsense.’ Now think about that for a moment. ‘Executive privilege and other nonsense.’ Mr. scumbag liar-Nadler, it is not ‘nonsense.’ These are privileges recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States. And to shred the Constitution, on the floor of the Senate. To serve what purpose? The Senate is not on trial. The Constitution doesn’t allow what just took place. Look what we’ve dealt with for the last, now 13 hours. And we hopefully are closing the proceedings, but not on a very high note.”...  https://thegreggjarrett.com/nasty-nadler-gets-lambasted-by-justice-roberts/   
Joe diGenova Reacts To First Day 
Of Trump Impeachment Trial
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by STEPHANIE HAMILL
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Joe diGenova, former U.S. district attorney for D.C., discusses what stood out to him on the first day of the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump... “They’re making the argument that they need all this information that they didn’t get when they conducted their own impeachment inquiry and returned it prematurely,” said diGenova. “They’re essentially conceding that their impeachment investigation was incomplete.” He went on to explain why Republicans  should ask for Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden to testify to learn more about his controversial business dealings in the Ukraine.
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Democrat scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler Rejects 
Calling the loose lips liar-Bidens 
for Impeachment Trial
by restoreamericanglory.com ~ Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz came up with a brilliant proposition. If Democrats were so desperate to call all-new witnesses for the impeachment trial, then perhaps they could be accommodated by a “witness reciprocity” deal... For every witness Democrats call, Republicans get one of their own. In other words, if Democrats want to call John Bolton, that’s fine. Republicans will call Hunter Biden. If they want to call Mick Mulvaney, so be it. Republicans will call loose lips liar-Joe Biden. In an impeachment process that has been characterized by partisan nonsense, this was one of the fairest propositions we’ve heard. Naturally, Rep. scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of the House’s impeachment managers, has rejected the deal out of hand. “Is there any circumstance in which Democrats would consider, for reciprocity, having Hunter Biden come and testify?” asked CBS Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan. “You know, the question of witnesses in any trial, in any trial, all relevant witnesses must be heard,” scumbag liar-Nadler replied. “Whether if- if you’re accused of robbing a bank, testimony that I saw him rob the bank or he was somewhere else, he couldn’t have robbed the bank, is admissible. It’s not negotiable whether you have witnesses. And this whole controversy about whether there should be witnesses is really a question of does the Senate want to have a fair trial or are they part of the cover up of the president? Any Republican senator who says there should be no witnesses or even that witnesses should be negotiated is part of the cover up.”Pause the tape for a second. Focus on the way Democrats want this trial both ways. On the one hand, they argue that there’s no constitutional reason for them to accuse President Donald Trump of a crime. Okay, fine. But you can’t fail to meet that minimal bar and simultaneously pretend that this is a criminal trial. What possible sense does that make? The articles of impeachment are wholly partisan, and the House impeachment process was wholly partisan. But now that it’s in the Senate, House Democrats want to flip the script and start doing things by the book. scumbag liar-Jerry, no one is falling for this. “So, you’re saying no way would Hunter Biden ever be called to testify?” Brennan asked. “Well, I’m saying that Hunter Biden has no knowledge of the accusations against the president,” scumbag liar-Nadler said. “Did the president, as we said- as the evidence shows that he did, betray his country by conspiring with a foreign country to- to try to rig the election? Hunter Biden has nothing to say about that.” This is the kind of weaselly reply that is technically correct while also far afield from the point. If Hunter Biden and his father are guilty of wrongdoing, then Trump did not betray his country. He protected his country by refusing to give military aid to a nation that is rife with corruption. Indeed, that IS what he did, irrespective of whether or not the loose lips liar-Bidens are actually guilty of anything sinister. But the testimony of Hunter Biden could certainly help clarify it for even the dumbest people in the Senate. Bafflingly, scumbag liar-Nadler, liar-Pelosi, and scumbag/liar-Schiff have yet to realize that they aren’t running this trial. They could have called any witness they wanted back when this process was still in the House. Instead, they chose to rush to a vote. Now they want to go back and do it all over again on Mitch McConnell’s time? Sorry, guys, it doesn’t work that way.   http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/democrat-jerry-nadler-rejects-calling-the-bidens-for-impeachment-trial/  
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Refugees From Socialism Give a Needed Warning
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Robin Smith:  Presidential candidate and self-avowed socialist commie-Bernie Sanders was recently introduced by actor John Cusack with the declaration, “We have a 10- to 12-year window to radically transform our energy systems, or climate change, predatory capitalism, and endless war economies will rob us of the right to any future at all.”

The race is on: Which will happen first — the end of the world due to manmade climate change or the destruction of capitalism?

While Democrats are on message for their base, their steadfast hatred of the Liberty that created the greatest economy in the world should put every American on high alert. It’s America’s economic engine that provides opportunities for individuals to be self-reliant, own private property, work, and use those private earnings for their growth, their family, and their futures. Yet the entire Democrat Party is running on policies that erode the very foundation of Liberty.

Among the leading Democrat candidates, Sanders finds his appeal among the 18- to 44-year-olds. But what if the contrasting message hailing the virtues and values of capitalism and consumerism was carried by Millennials from a nation destroyed by socialism, rather than by hated Republicans?

Meet Jorge Galicia, who traveled to the U.S. in October 2018, and Andrés Guilarte, who arrived in January 2019. Both 20-somethings are asylum seekers born and raised in Venezuela, and they now speak to American college students about their firsthand experience with socialism’s destructive power. The college-educated gents are convinced that today’s indoctrinated intellectuals either simply don’t know what’s happening in Venezuela or need to be confronted with what they will lose.

Addressing their peers on college campuses in the Fund for American Studies program, Guilarte stressed, “We are eyewitnesses of the falling of the country. … We used to have rights like you have here. You can go to the supermarket, buy everything. You can have money for the month. … We used to be just like everybody else.”

Galicia chimes in, “Who in the world wouldn’t want to have free healthcare, free college tuition, free whatever? The thing is those kinds of offers are not sustainable in the longterm.” Then came the warning: “I know it is tempting, but do not fall into that trap. You need to learn from other people’s experience. Keep your Liberty protected, because what you have — it’s a beautiful country.” By contrast, with socialism in Venezuela “you started to see the scarcity of medicine, food supplies,” and other staples.

What Galicia cited as unsustainable offers that come at the expense of Liberty are all the enticing bait of the 2020 Democrat Party. They will, according to the survivor of socialism, yield “a horrible future for America.”

The pair’s warning about socialism in Venezuela reminds us about the Soviet Union. Democrats fear “Russian influence” but embrace the failed economic policies that Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn warned of after surviving as a political prisoner in the Soviet Gulag for eight years. Seeing the blood of millions slaughtered by totalitarianism, Solzhenitsyn wrote of “an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man’s noblest impulses,” and a “tilt of freedom in the direction of evil … evidently born primarily out of a humanistic and benevolent concept according to which there is no evil inherent in human nature.”

Americans can listen and learn from Galicia and Guilarte — and the late Solzhenitsyn before them — or we’ll learn firsthand that socialism destroys the Liberty that makes us unique and great.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68022?mailing_id=4813&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4813&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Impeachment Moves Forward to Nowhere
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Day Two – Senate Impeachment Trial 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Day one recap:  A series of 11 rules amendments were offered by Democrat Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer. Each proposal was defeated individually during 13 hours of arguments and debate... The final rules package, which passed 53-47 at 01:45am this morning, is almost identical to the original draft presented by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The only change was spreading the 24hrs over three days instead of two. There will be 24 hours of presentation by House Impeachment Managers over 3 days; 24 hours of presentation by Defense team over 3 days; 16 hours of Senate questioning; 4 hours of closing arguments, equally divided; and then a Senate debate/vote on further motions to include witnesses. If there are going to be witnesses, they will first be deposed prior to testimony. No witness testimony will be permitted without first being deposed. The Senate Trial Begins again today at 1:00pm EST, starting with opening arguments by the House Impeachment Managers.
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President Trump Isn’t the Only One on Trial
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by ADAM J. WHITE
{ thebulwark.com } ~ When the Senate opened its impeachment trial by swearing an oath to “do impartial justice,” the candid citizen might ask whether such a thing is even possible... The candid senator might, too. How can partisan senators do “impartial justice?” First, by understanding what is on trial. And second, by understanding what the Senate was created to be. This is a trial of President Donald Trump, but it is more than that. As their oath emphasized, the senators sit in judgment of “the trial of the impeachment of Donald John Trump.” These words echo the Constitution itself, which entrusts the Senate with “the sole Power to try all Impeachments.” Which means that this is a trial of the House’s impeachment—which is to say, a trial of not just the facts and legal questions surrounding Trump, but also retrospectively of the prudential judgments surrounding the House’s decision. Which requires the Senate to make prudential judgments of its own.The breadth of discretion inherent in impeachment has been evident since the Founding. The Constitution defines impeachment broadly in terms of “treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Founders knew that this standard is not susceptible to easy legal definition. As Alexander Hamilton explained in The Federalist, impeachment “can never be tied down by such strict rules, either in the delineation of the offense by” the House that prosecutes it, “or in the construction of it by” the Senators who stand in judgment of it. Rather, he wrote, impeachable offenses “are of a nature” best described as “political”—not political in the low sense of partisanship, but in the highest senses of statesmanship and the “public trust.” And while the president’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, contends that “abuse of power” is not grounds for impeachment, Hamilton saw otherwise: impeachment would be the ultimate protection against “abuse of the executive authority.” “What more,” Hamilton added, “could be desired by an enlightened and reasonable people?” The founding generation entrusted these judgments to the Senate because they intended the Senate to embody a mix of both accountability and statesmanship—and to be deeply invested in the administration of government power...
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We’re All Ready For This Impeachment 
scumbag/liar-Schiff Show To Be Over
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By Kylee Zempel
{ thefederalist.com } ~ Just when you thought Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff had reached maximum sleaze, word breaks he likely mischaracterized evidence related to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial... achieving new heights of corruption for ol’ “schifty scumbag/liar-Schiff.” Last week, scumbag/liar-Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Democratic House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler of New York, summarizing evidence brought forth by Lev Parnas, a former associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani. This evidence was related to Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president on which this impeachment sham is supposedly based. scumbag/liar-Schiff claimed Parnas “continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky,” based on a text exchange between Giuliani and Parnas — and scumbag/liar-Schiff’s own bias or chicanery. The text was attached to scumbag/liar-Schiff’s letter but was redacted after “trying to get us mr Z.” Politico reports, however, that “an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: ‘mr Z answers my brother,’” suggesting Parnas was referring not to President Zelensky, but to the founder of the energy company on whose board an unqualified Hunter Biden sat for $50,000 a month. Not looking great for scumbag/liar-Schiff, the lead impeachment manager. This partisan impeachment charade hackery has dragged on far too long, since about Jan. 20, 2017. Only willfully ignorant zealots can’t see that the alleged sins of Donald Trump fall far short of high crimes and misdemeanors — and frankly far short of scumbag/liar-nObama’s abuse of power in implementing scumbag/liar-nObamacare, scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s sending classified emails over a private server while secretary of state, or loose lips liar-Joe Biden’s own Ukraine-related quid pro quo. As if that were not enough, Democrats’ slimy tactics throughout this entire spectacle have “threatened our democracy” far more than any benign phone call Trump has made while occupying the Oval Office. For proof, read the transcript of the call. Not scumbag/liar-Schiff’s made-up nonsense impersonation. The real transcript...
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Navy CMV-22B Osprey Design 
Completes First Flight
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By Ben Werner
{ news.usni.org } ~ The first CMV-22B Osprey – the tiltrotor aircraft selected to replace the Navy’s aging fleet of C-2A Greyhounds as the carrier onboard delivery aircraft – completed its first flight operations, according to its manufacturer... Compared to the MV-22B flown by the Marine Corps, the Navy CMV-22B variant has extended operational range, with the ability to transport up to 6,000 pounds of cargo or personnel to a 1,150 nautical mile range, according to a Naval Air Systems Command fact sheet. A consortium of Boeing and the Bell Textron subsidiary of Textron Inc. builds the CMV-22B Osprey. The flight test occurred at Bell’s Amarillo Assembly Center in Texas. “With the ability to travel up to 1,150 nautical miles, the CMV-22B will be a lifeline for our servicemen and women out at sea,” Kristin Houston, the vice president of Boeing Tiltrotor Programs and director of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Program, said in a statement. “The quality and safety built into this aircraft will revolutionize the way the U.S. Navy fulfills its critical carrier onboard delivery mission.” The Navy’s Osprey variant also has a beyond-line-of-sight HF radio, a public address system for passengers, improved fuel-dump capability and an improved lighting system for cargo loading and unloading, when compared to other variants, according to NAVAIR. The Navy started using Greyhounds as its COD in the 1960s. The Navy announced in 2015 its plan to replace Greyhounds with Ospreys. The Navy is getting 39 Ospreys as part of a $4.2-billion contract modification with Bell-Boeing the Pentagon announced in July 2018. Bell-Boeing plans to deliver the first CMV-22B to the Navy early this year for developmental testing. The overall program of record calls for 48 aircraft, though current Navy plans only show funding for 44, including the 39 under contract. In December 2018, the Navy established its first Osprey squadron, Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron 30, at Naval Air Station North Island. The “Titans” of VRM-30 are scheduled for their first operational detachment deployment in 2021 on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), according to the Navy. The first Osprey deployment on Vinson is expected to coincide with the first operational deployment of the Navy’s F-35C Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter. The Navy selected the V-22 as its new COD because the aircraft can carry an F-35 engine to an aircraft carrier.
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Are Americans In Danger from 
a Possible Iranian Cyber-Offensive?
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By Julio Rivera
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a cryptic warning to Americans on January 6th regarding the “Potential for Iranian Cyber Response” to the recent U.S. military strike in Baghdad last week... that claimed the life of Qassim Soleimani, major general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In just the past few days, Iran has claimed responsibility for missile attacks aimed at multiple U.S. military targets in Iraq. As a result of these recent events, one horrific byproduct of Iranian aggression and confusion that materialized was the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, which was scheduled to travel from Tehran to Kiev. Despite the fact that Iran doesn’t possess intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland and it isn’t thought to have a nuclear weapon, there are still many other avenues available to the Iranian regime to wreak havoc and exact revenge against the United States and other western countries. The most likely method is thought to be via a large-scale cyber offensive. Iran has already shown a propensity for this type of disruptive activity, as over the past decade they have shown the ability to penetrate the systems associated with our critical infrastructure. This included the August/September 2013 attack executed by an Iranian who was employed by a company performing work on behalf of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who was able to access the supervisory control and data acquisition  (SCADA) systems of the Bowman Dam in Rye, New York. This hacking incident allowed the actor to access information regarding the status and operation of the dam and possibly manipulate its day-to-day functions. Additionally, almost five years ago, Iran was the culprit when over half of Turkey, an estimated 44 of 81 provinces which are home to over 40 million people, suffered a massive power outage that lasted for most of March 31st, 2015. The total blackout encompassed everything connected to the Turkish electrical grid, including computers, airports, traffic lights, hospitals, water and sewage systems and more...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/are_americans_in_danger_from_a_possible_iranian_cyberoffensive_.html   
France: Smoke Grass, Kill a Jew, 
Skip the Trial, Go Free
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by Guy Millière
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Paris, April 4, 2017. Sarah Halimi, a 66-year-old Jewish woman, is thrown from her third-floor balcony or window. Her body lands in the building's courtyard... Her murderer first had tortured her. Neighbors had heard screams and called the police. Nine officers came, but when they heard through the door a man shouting "Allahu Akbar", they ran downstairs to wait for reinforcements. When Kobili Traoré finally surrendered, he said, "I killed the sheitan" Arabic for "Satan". While torturing his victim, he said, he had recited verses from the Qur'an, and the Qur'an had "ordered him to kill a Jew". He said he had spent the previous day in a nearby mosque. He was placed in a mental institution, where he told the psychiatrist who examined him that he smoked marijuana. The murder was not mentioned in the newspapers. A French Jewish organizations spoke of a "distressing anti-Semitic crime" and organized a silent demonstration in front of Halimi's building. It was only then that a few articles were written. The French presidential election was about to take place, and journalists from the mainstream media apparently did not want to speak about an anti-Semitic murder committed by a Muslim. The judge assigned to the case, Anne Ihuellou, at first refused to acknowledge that the murder had been a hate crime. It took the Halimi family's lawyers more than six months to get her finally to concede, on February 27, 2018, that the motive for the murder had in fact been anti-Semitic. The judge also refused to organize a review of the events of the case, and agreed to question Traoré only briefly. She called in a psychiatric expert, Daniel Zagury, who said that at the time of the act, the murderer had been in a state of "acute delirium" due to the consumption of cannabis, but fully "accessible to a penal sanction." Seemingly dissatisfied with Dr. Zagury's conclusions, Judge Ihuellou asked for two more opinions by experts -- both of whom, contradicting Dr. Zagury's conclusions, said that the Traoré was unfit to stand trial. On July 12, 2019, the judge dismissed Dr. Zagury's report,  declared that there are "plausible reasons for concluding that the murderer is not criminally responsible" and stated that the attack had not been anti-Semitic...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15448/france-jews-murder   
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Impeachment Moves Forward to Nowhere
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Impeachment is moving forward and going nowhere. There is new information but it doesn’t really tell those who’ve paid attention anything they didn’t know. Putative administration operative Lev Parnas said on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday that the president knew everything about efforts to lean on Ukraine. But this was clear in testimony throughout the impeachment hearings. His own ambassador to the European Union said it! The ambassador to Ukraine knew she was being schemed against, lost her job because of it, and spelled it out under oath.

It’s icing on a cake that’s already sagging. The president will be acquitted for a host of reasons, from partisanship to a prudential judgment that his actions don’t warrant removal with a presidential election 10 months away.

What did Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi gain by playing her monthlong game of peekaboo, waiting to send the charges to the Senate? She withheld from Majority Leader Mitch McConnell papers he didn’t wish to receive and she saw that as leverage? It appears she was playing for time as investigators tried to develop more evidence. But again, for what? The president couldn’t look more guilty.

Meantime impeachment as a dramatic and distinct event lost all momentum. In the month after the House vote the story lost lift, then got lost in the Iran drama. This second stage feels not like the continuation of the first but a brand new second impeachment, which a lot of people will experience as overkill.

On the creepiness of the signing ceremony for the impeachment articles: Modern presidents have always held such ceremonies and signed big, happy legislation with many pens. Lyndon B. Johnson liked clutching bunches of them in his thick, meaty fist and handing them out personally. But the impeachment of a president is a grave and unhappy event. It’s not celebratory. Enacting triumphalism was shallow and looked like a tell. Why pens, why not a scalp?

Serious people understand the implications of things. Impeachment has now been normalized. It won’t be a once-in-a-generation act but an every-administration act. Democrats will regret it when Republicans are handing out the pens.

To the Democratic debate Tuesday night in Des Moines.

It contained my favorite panel-candidate moment of this cycle.

Bright young woman journalist: “Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told Sen. dinky/liar-Warren that a woman could not win the election?”

Sanders: “That is correct.”

BYWJ: “Sen. dinky/liar-Warren, what did you think when Sen. Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?”

dinky/liar-Warren: “I disagreed.”

It was like Judge Judy on drugs:

“commie-Ernie, did you hit Peggy on the head?”

“No, of course not.”

“Peggy, how did you feel when commie-Ernie hit you on the head?”

The moment went uncorrected. This is why people hate the press.

I found myself watching Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren. She has proved she can take a punch and throw one (“Look at the men on this stage. Collectively, they have lost 10 elections.”) Of the candidates in their 70s she’s the highest-energy and most indefatigable. Actually she’d have high energy for a 50-year-old. All candidates now have to be actors but she’s a good one, telling her stories over and over, her voice growing husky at the moving parts.

Her challenge is not that she’s a woman, it is her policies, and maybe something else. I watched the debate with a man who’s sophisticated observer with no dog in the fight. Ms. Warren was doing her magical thinking about how universal Medicare won’t cost people a thing, it’s all savings with a few small tax increases on people we don’t like. I asked aloud, “Does she believe what she says or does she know it’s make-believe?”

He considered: “She did.” he said. That sounds right, that she started with belief but at this point sees the holes in what she’s saying. She’s caught, because she’s said it too often and now can only repeat it.

commie-Bernie Sanders has the same magical thinking about the cost of things, who’ll pay, and what effect that will have on the nation’s life. But he gets away with it because he’s a declared socialist. His supporters don’t want realism and his foes don’t expect it. Ms. dinky/liar-Warren says she’s a capitalist with a critique, so she faces a different burden.

There was also in the debate a kind of detachment from real life. A voter asked: “How will you prioritize accessing quality affordable child care?” The candidates were indignant that women can be held from the workforce by the high cost of child care. Pete Buttigieg vowed to get “federal dollars” involved, and spoke of stunted careers. Ms. Warren said, “My plan is universal child care for everyone.” She told of how she was almost forced “off track” by child care problems. Mr. commie-Sanders said, “Every psychologist in the world knows 0 through 4 are the most important years of human life, intellectually and emotionally.”

No one spoke with compassion for parents, for mothers who forgo the earnings and status (“I have a job”) and relationships (“I’m not lonely all day”) of having a job to stay home with kids under 4. No one said that actually a lot of parents think the most important thing is to stay home and raise the kids, that many struggle to do it, and we might want to help them. No one noted we don’t give any particular honor to those who stay home, even though our culture depends on them.

What seemed to guide all the answers was a technocratic assumption that it’s best for little children to be raised by well-compensated strangers as mom is absorbed into the workforce, where she’ll finally achieve full self-actualization.

It was all so … cold. And detached from real life as many live it.

Meanwhile in full-employment America, Donald Trump is taking out terrorists with drones and announcing trade deals with China and seemingly weathering every storm. In the China ceremony Tuesday, in the East Room, after a booming “Hail to the Chief,” with a palpable sense of triumph filling the room, with the golden frames of the great portraits shining, Mr. Trump rolled off the names of the CEOs in the audience. There were a lot! It was in a way a fabulous celebration of the riches produced by capitalism. But it also seemed an almost sinister declaration of the intimate ties between great U.S. corporations and the federal government. The CEO of Boeing is here, the chief of eBay. “How’s General Electric doing, Nels?” “Ryan Lance, ConocoPhillips, you’re doing fantastically well!” “I made a lot of bankers look very good, but you’re doing a great job.” “Ken Griffin, Citadel, what a guy he is.”

It was reminiscent of the scene in “The Godfather: Part II” where Fulgencio Batista hands around the solid gold telephone. “I’d like to thank this distinguished group of American industrialists for continuing to work with Cuba for the greatest period of prosperity in her entire history. Mr. William Shaw, representing the General Fruit Company … Messrs. Corngold and Dant of the United Telephone and Telegraph Company … and of course our friend Mr. Robert Allen of South American Sugar.”

We all think our breathless recitations of the latest revelations matter but I don’t know, it keeps feeling like 2016. Only this time with full employment.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/67983?mailing_id=4811&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4811&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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Media Malpractice
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Wednesday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


“REMEMBER WHERE [YOU] ARE”: Chief Justice Roberts admonishes both sides at Senate impeachment trial, after marathon session erupts into shouting match; meanwhile, McConnell’s trial rules are adopted 53-47 (Fox News)

LESSONS UNLEARNED: Virginia Senate advances “red flag” gun law, despite rally (AP)

SETTING EXAMPLES: Virginia rally attendees pick up trash following event (MRCTV)

Politics


TIT FOR TAT: Senate Democrats privately mull witness trade in impeachment trial: A loose lips liar-Biden for Bolton (The Washington Post)

SYSTEMIC HATE: Another commie-Bernie staffer allegedly promotes violence: Kill the rich, put Republicans in camps (The Daily Wire)

WARNINGS IGNORED: scumbag/liar-Hillary defends the scumbag/liar-Clintons’ longtime association with Harvey Weinstein, and it does not go well at all (Red State)

“MALICIOUS INTENT”: Tulsi Gabbard files defamation lawsuit against scumbag/liar-Hillary for dubbing her a “Russian asset” (The Daily Wire)

Culture


“MY GOAL IS TO UNVEIL THE TRUTH ABOUT ABORTION”: New England Patriots tight end and pro-lifer Benjamin Watson producing abortion documentary (The Hollywood Reporter)

TAXPAYER-SOURCED FUNDING: Planned Parenthood’s annual report shows Big Abortion needs Big Government (CNSNews.com)

“THE DEVIL HAD ME”: Kanye West preaches Jesus Christ to 12,000 students (The Daily Wire)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: The lethal legal legacy of Roe v. Wade  (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: When will the #MeToo movement address pornography? (Washington Examiner)

HUMOR: Democrats align with with Iraqi Baath party in last ditch effort against Trump (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68069?mailing_id=4816&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4816&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body      
Chief Justice Roberts admonishes both sides at Senate impeachment trial, after marathon 
session erupts into shouting match
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By Gregg Re
{ foxnews.com } ~ A marathon, 12-hour first day in the Senate impeachment trial against President Trump erupted into a shouting match well after midnight Wednesday morning... as Trump's legal team unloaded on Democratic impeachment manager Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y. -- in an exchange that prompted a bleary-eyed Chief Justice John Roberts to sternly admonish both sides for misconduct in the chamber. scumbag liar-Nadler began the historic spat by speaking in support of the eighth  amendment of the day, which was proposed by Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, D-N.Y., just as the clock struck midnight. The proposal would have amended the trial rules offered by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to immediately subpoena former National Security Advisor John Bolton. McConnell's rules, which were eventually adopted in a 53-47 party-line vote at 1:40 a.m. ET Wednesday and largely mirror those from the scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton impeachment trial in 1999,  permit new witnesses and documents to be considered only later on in the proceedings, after opening arguments are made. But scumbag liar-Nadler, who was overheard  apparently planning to impeach Trump back in 2018, said it would be a "treacherous vote" and a "cover-up" for Republicans to reject the Bolton subpoena amendment, claiming that "only guilty people try to hide evidence." Bolton has reportedly described Trump's conduct as akin to a "drug deal," and he has indicated he would be willing to testify and provide relevant information. “It’s embarrassing,” scumbag liar-Nadler began. “The president is on trial in the Senate, but the Senate is on trial in the eyes of the American people. Will you vote to allow all the relevant evidence to be presented here? Or will you betray your pledge to be an impartial juror? ... Will you bring Ambassador Bolton here? Will you permit us to present you with the entire record of the president's misconduct? Or will you instead choose to be complicit in the president's coverup? So far I'm sad to say I see a lot of senators voting for a coverup, voting to deny witnesses, an absolutely indefensible vote, obviously a treacherous vote.” Trump's legal team, which has argued that Democrats' impeachment case couldn't be as "open-and-shut" as advertised given the apparently urgent need for new evidence even after the House impeachment inquiry, immediately rose in response...
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff Continues
 His Lying in the Senate
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By M. Dowling
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff lied to the senators on Tuesday during the first day of the impeachment trial.He claimed falsely that he gave Republicans equal time during the House’s rushed impeachment proceedings... He has a history of lying. He lied about the Ukraine call, the Russia-Trump collusion evidence, and knowing the fake whistleblower’s identity. We can count on him to conduct a fair, impartial trial? scumbag/liar-Schiff, the Chair of the Intelligence Committee, lies all the time, especially about what he did in the House. He didn’t let the administration participate until the last week of the inquiry. Republicans were often blocked from asking difficult questions and witnesses were kept from answering. The House Democrats blocked all GOP witnesses not also on their list. They blocked the President’s counsel from all closed-door depositions and public intelligence hearings. His selective leaking was aimed at controlling the narrative. he withheld key facts and lied and lied. The Republicans also couldn’t hold their witness day. scumbag/liar-Schiff has not released all the testimony including Inspector General Atkisson’s testimony. scumbag/liar-Schiff is never fact-checked and he appears incapable of telling the truth. He’s a disgrace and it’s disgraceful that he is involved in the trial. He’s a psycho...
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Trump's lawyer 'absolutely destroyed' 
scumbag/liar-Schiff as impeachment trial opens
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by wnd.com ~ President Trump's counsel Jay Sekulow on Tuesday was praised on Twitter for having "absolutely destroyed" Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and his "little impeachment sham."... Sekulow pointed out that when Trump was investigated in the House, he was "denied the right to cross-examine witnesses ... to access evidence ... the right to have counsel at hearings." Sekulow also noted scumbag/liar-Schiff is known for putting "words into transcripts that didn't exist." The reference was to scumbag/liar-Schiff reading into the congressional record his personal interpretation of the text of President Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukraine's president.  "It's going to be a rough impeachment trial for scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff ... and it couldn't happen to a more deserving, bug-eyed little fella," said a post at Twitchy, which aggregates news on Twitter. The post was headlined "He's dead Jim, DEAD! Jay Sekulow just absolutely destroyed scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff and his little impeachment sham too." PJ Media reported Sekulow "quoted Democrats' own words against them. He condemned the House Democrats' rush to impeach Trump, adding an article of impeachment for 'Obstruction of Congress' rather than litigating a matter of executive privilege in court. He quoted House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), and Rep. scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), each of whom defended Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's Attorney General scumbag-Eric Holder when he was held in contempt of Congress in 2012."...   https://www.wnd.com/2020/01/trumps-lawyer-absolutely-destroyed-schiff-impeachment-trial-opens/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=wnd-breaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=breaking   
Cruz Turns Tables Back on Dems as 
Impeachment Trial Opens, Keeps Spotlight 
on scumbag/liar-Schiff
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By Joe Saunders 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ Even in the Senate, Democrats want to play by House rules. As the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump opened on Tuesday... Democrats trying to oust a duly elected president showed how hard they’re going to try to use the same kinds of kangaroo court tactics in the upper chamber as they used in the House of Representatives to pass articles of impeachment in the first place. In a move that likely foreshadows the bare-knuckle fights ahead, the seven House impeachment managers appointed by Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi wrote White House counsel Pat Cipollone on Tuesday attacking his role on the Trump defense team while alleging he is a “fact witness” to the events in question. But Sen. Ted Cruz struck back hard in a Facebook post with an argument few Democrats likely want to face. Describing the letter as “Democrats’ opening salvo,” the Texas Republican had one question: What do they say about Rep. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff? scumbag/liar-Schiff, of course, is the California Democrat and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who played such a key role in getting the articles of impeachment through the House. Now, he’s one of the managers prosecuting the case in the Senate. Throughout the hearing process in the House, scumbag/liar-Schiff’s honesty was doubtful to any unbiased observer — from his literally unbelievable claim that he doesn’t know the identity of the whistleblower to his  clearly disingenuous statements about the contact between the whistleblower and scumbag/liar-Schiff’s committee before the complaint about Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky was even filed. It’s fair to say that behind liar-Pelosi herself, no one in Congress is more responsible for the impeachment trial the country is experiencing than scumbag/liar-Schiff. That would make him at least as much of a “material witness” as the White House counsel. As the White House wrote in the  lengthy response it filed Monday to the articles of impeachment, detailing its objections to the House procedures (page 6): “Chairman scumbag/liar-Schiff’s hearings were fatally defective for another reason — scumbag/liar-Schiff himself was instrumental in helping to create the story behind them.”...
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Senate blocks Democrats' pretrial 
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump’s impeachment trial opened with a vote to block a subpoena for White House documents related to Democratic allegations the president abused the power of his office by withholding security aid from Ukraine... The Senate Republican majority defeated a measure 47-53 offered by Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer demanding the White House turn over a trove of documents stemming from Trump’s conversations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Republicans stayed unified in opposition to the move by scumbag-Schumer, a New York Democrat. Republicans instead backed a resolution setting the terms of the impeachment trial that would postpone consideration of additional evidence until after House impeachment managers and Trump’s defense lawyers have presented their cases. The vote followed arguments by Democratic impeachment managers and the defense lawyers, providing a glimpse of the cases each side will present in the coming days. The Senate rules allow impeachment managers and the defense lawyers three days each to present arguments. “The Senate should act on this subpoena now, at the outset of the trial,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat, argued. “Documents that are directly relevant to evaluating the president’s scheme. If it won’t even ask for this evidence, this trial, and your judgment, will be questioned.” Trump’s legal team, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, argued the House impeachment investigation was partisan, lacked due process, and took shortcuts to speed up the inquiry. The Senate should not be forced to fix the shortcomings of the House impeachment proceedings, Trump’s lawyers argued...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-blocks-democrats-pre-trial-demand-for-trump-documents?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_01/21/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261   
Trump administration to add seven 
countries to its travel ban list
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by Katherine Doyle
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The White House will add seven new countries to its travel ban, including Belarus, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania... The announcement could arrive as soon as Monday, the three-year anniversary of the original order, according to administration officials with knowledge of the list, a report by the Wall Street Journal said. Some countries will only face a ban on certain visa categories and the rule would not ban citizens outright from entering the U.S. The list of countries is not final. On the Davos sidelines early Tuesday, President Trump confirmed in an interview with the Wall Street Journal his administration's plans to name additional countries. He declined to name them, however. An updated version of the ban was expected later this month, with the new rules expected to antagonize U.S. relations with the countries in question. Trump signed his original travel ban Jan. 27, 2017, one week into into his first term. The order, which initially applied to seven majority-Muslim countries denying their citizens U.S. visas, inspired massive revolt after the president referred to it as a "Muslim Ban" on Twitter. It was amended and upheld in a June 2018 Supreme Court decision, affording the White House a major victory. A third iteration was later upheld, which restricted entry for some citizens of Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.
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Media Malpractice
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I have often noted that media bias is about more than just how stories get spun. Media bias is also evident in what stories simply don’t get told — call them the sins of journalistic omission. And the left-wing media did it again Thursday night. 

All the networks wanted to talk about was impeachment, and that’s understandable given their obvious Trump hatred. But most journalists understand that this farce is not going anywhere. 

But something did happen on Capitol Hill that is going somewhere. As we told you, the USMCA trade deal to replace NAFTA passed the Senate by an overwhelming margin of 89 to 10.

Remember when Donald Trump campaigned against NAFTA? Predictably, the political establishment opposed him. The media mocked him. They said he would destroy our relationships with Mexico and Canada. 

WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

Allow me to just reiterate that what everyone once said could not be done — the USMCA — passed the House last month by a vote of 385 to 41 and passed the Senate Thursday by a vote of 89 to 10. Donald Trump did it, and this new deal will have lasting benefits for the American people.

And the big three networks gave it absolutely zero coverage Thursday. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Zilch. 

For a fleeting moment, Politico appreciated the historic nature of the accomplishment and posted a story with this headline:  "Senate Passes USMCA In Major Win For Trump.“ 

After sufficiently flogging Politico's digital editor for his blasphemy — speaking well of Donald Trump — the title was quickly changed to this: "Senate Passes USMCA, But Much Work Remains." 

By the way, kudos to Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ)! The former Air Force fighter pilot certainly knows how to handle the liberal media. 

As she was walking into the Senate chamber Thursday for the start of the impeachment trial, a CNN reporter shouted a gotcha question at her. McSally responded, "You’re a liberal hack. I’m not talking to you.”

Perhaps McSally can give her fellow Senate Republicans a few tips on public relations!

Impeachment Collusion

Collusion has been a big buzzword throughout the impeachment drama, and we got a prime example of collusion on Thursday.

As I am sure you have heard by now, the “non-partisan” Government Accounting Office (GAO) released a statement claiming that the president violated the law when he withheld funds from Ukraine. Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi and her media allies quickly pounced.

First of all, Trump didn’t withhold the money. He delayed it to ensure it wasn’t going to be wasted by corruption, which is the president’s responsibility. But the release of that GAO statement on the opening day of the Senate impeachment trial was no coincidence. It was more anti-Trump collusion by the Swamp.

But since we’re talking about GAO reports as evidence of impeachable crimes, the Government Accounting Office determined that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama broke the law seven times. By the left’s logic, scumbag/liar-nObama should have been impeached seven times! Where was Pelosi’s outrage then? 

Pence’s Profile in Courage

If you’ve ever read John F. Kennedy’s book, Profile In Courage, you may recall that one of the chapters is about Sen. Edmund Ross, a Republican senator from Kansas. Ross bucked his party and prevented the partisan impeachment of President Andrew Johnson in 1868. (Northern Republicans at the time bitterly resented Johnson, a Democrat from Tennessee.)

Vice President Mike Pence, an astute observer of American history, has a great opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal about the courage of Sen. Ross. You can read it here

Pence raises Ross’s example to ask if any Senate Democrats will have the courage to stand up against this sham partisan impeachment, intended solely to reverse the last election. 

Great job, Mr. Vice President!

Speaking of the impeachment trial, the members of the president’s impeachment defense team were announced yesterday. They are:

    • Pat Cipollone, who currently serves as White House counsel

    • Jay Sekulow, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer

    • Ken Starr, the former Whitewater/scumbag/liar-Clinton independent counsel

    • Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and renowned defense attorney

    • Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida

    • Robert Ray, who also led the Whitewater/scumbag/liar-Clinton investigations

    • Jane Raskin, a former federal prosecutor who represented the president during the Mueller investigation   

 ~The Patriot Post

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SCOTUS Case Could Derail Effort
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Thomas Gallatin  
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First scumbag-Schumer Rules Amendment 
Defeated – House Managers Attempt To 
Rectify Inherent Impeachment Flaws
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com  } ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer is attempting to rescue two legally and structurally deficient articles of impeachment rushed from the Lawfare community in the House of representatives... However, in his first effort to introduce new documents and force the Trump administration to hand over new executive branch information, related to President Trump foreign policy decisions and delayed foreign aid to Ukraine, the scumbag-Schumer amendment was defeated. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell moved to table the amendment, dismissing the request, and won a floor vote as all republican senators stayed united 53-47. It is anticipated that scumbag-Schumer will next move for another amendment making the same request for new State Department documents the House committees did not seek. The primary reason Chuck scumbag-Schumer has to make this ridiculous effort for more evidence, is how the House never established their ability to enforce subpoenas via “Judicial Enforcement Authority”. The failure of a full House vote to authorize the House Judiciary Committee to pursue evidence -via enforceable subpoenas- was a defect by design of liar-Nancy Pelosi’s decision to initiate an impeachment inquiry by her decree, not an authorizing vote...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/21/update-first-schumer-rules-amendment-defeated-house-managers-attempt-to-rectify-inherent-impeachment-flaws/   
U.S. Army Purchases Israeli
Spike NLOS Missiles
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by Ari Lieberman
{cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ The United States Army announced that it will purchase the Israeli Spike Non-Line-Of-Sight missile (NLOS) for its fleet of AH-64 Apache attack helicopters... and possibly for its MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial platforms as an interim solution for a missile with greater standoff capabilities. Built by Raphael Advanced Defense Systems, the Spike NLOS has a range of 25 kilometers, which is more than double than that of the American Hellfire missile. The missile, which features an advanced tandem warhead design is capable of penetrating reactive armor as well as the latest variants of composite armor. The "Non-Line-Of-Sight" is a reference to the Spike’s “over the horizon" capabilities, which enables the missile to engage an enemy target through indirect, standoff positions. This feature, along with the Spike’s range makes the pilot much less vulnerable to air defense systems, including anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft artillery. The Spike NLOS can be guided via a laser designator or real-time wireless data link. The operator can also abort the mission after launch or change targets. This is an important feature that enables the operator to limit collateral damage should civilians suddenly appear or alternatively, to direct the missile toward a more valuable or dangerous target. The dynamic and fluid nature of the modern battlefield makes this feature invaluable. The Hellfire does not have this capability. Israel produces a wide variety of Spike missiles with different ranges for different combat situations. Some variants are light-weight and can be shoulder fired while other variants are heavier and can be launched from combat ships and areal platforms. Variants of Israel’s Spike are in service with 31 militaries worldwide but there is no better advertisement for the Spike than getting the U.S. Army’s imprimatur. The genesis of the pairing of the Spike NLOS to the AH-64 Apache began in the summer of 2014 during Operation Protective Edge. Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were firing hundreds of rockets at Israel and trying to infiltrate Israel through a network tunnels originating from Gaza. Islamic terrorists fired their rockets from hospitals and UNRWA schools to shield themselves from retaliatory strikes. In so doing, Hamas and Islamic Jihad committed double war crimes...
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scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff stood in front of the cameras and had this insane 
impeachment meltdown
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Dershowitz straightens out GAO 
on Trump and that Ukraine money
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by wnd.com ~ A recognized expert on the Constitution, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, disputes the General Accountability Office's opinion that President Trump's delay of defense aid to Ukraine was a crime... "The Constitution allocates to the president sole authority over foreign policy short of declaring war or signing a treaty. It does not permit Congress to substitute its foreign policy preferences for those of the president," he argued in a column for the Gatestone Institute, where he is a fellow. The GAO contended the $214 million allocated to the Department of Defense for security assistance was appropriated by Congress, and the administration, therefore, had no right to hold back the funds because it disagreed with its allocation. "Faithful execution of the law does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those that Congress has enacted into law," said the GAO, an independent, non-partisan entity commissioned by Congress. But Dershowitz contended that to the extent "that the statute at issue constrains the power of the president to conduct foreign policy, it is unconstitutional." "Even if the GAO were correct in its legal conclusion — which it is not — the alleged violation would be neither a crime nor an impeachable offense," he wrote. "It would be a civil violation subject to a civil remedy, as were the numerous violations alleged by the GAO with regard to other presidents." Dershowitz said the GAO got the constitutional law "exactly backwards." "It said that the 'faithful execution of the law' — the Impoundment Control Act — 'does not permit the president to substitute his own policy priorities for those congress has enacted into law,'" he wrote. "Yes, it does — when it comes to foreign policy. The Constitution allocates to the president sole authority over foreign policy short of declaring war or signing a treaty. It does not permit Congress to substitute its foreign policy preferences for those of the president." Dershowitz posed a hypothetical situation: "Congress allocates funds to Cuba or Iran or Venezuela. The president says that is inconsistent with his foreign policy and refuses to release the funds. Surely the president would be within his constitutional authority. Or consider the actual situation that former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama created when he unilaterally made the Iran deal and sent that enemy of America billions of dollars without congressional approval. I do not recall the GAO complaining about that presidential decision, despite the reality that the Iran deal was, in effect, a treaty that should require senate approval that was never given."...
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Muslim Deceit and the Burden of Proof
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by Raymond Ibrahim
{ cms.frontpagemag.com } ~ In his recent defense of the Islamic doctrine of taqiyya, Usama Hasan, of the UK think tank Quilliam, made the following admission... It is true that hardened islamist terrorists, such as the Al-Qaeda & ISIS supporter Usman Khan who murdered two people at Fishmongers’ Hall after pretending to have been “rehabilitated”, do misuse the principle of taqiyyah in order to further their cause. However, the charge that all Muslims are generally religiously obligated to lie, and do so routinely, is both dangerous and untrue. While this may be true, it is also inevitable. After all, how is the infidel to know which Muslim is and isn’t “misusing the principle of taqiyyah”?  Moreover, why should the burden of proof be on the non-Muslim—who stands to and often does suffer and even gets killed from ignoring the role of deceit in Islam—and not on the Muslim, whose religion allows deception in the first place? This is particularly so since more than a few “hardened islamist terrorists” are convinced that their creed allows them to dissimulate to their heart’s content—so long as doing so can be seen as helping further the cause of Islam. In this, as in virtually all things Islamic, Muslims have their prophet’s example—two that are especially poignant—to turn to. First is the assassination of Ka‘b ibn Ashraf (d. 624), an elderly Jew. Because he dared mock Muhammad, the latter exclaimed, “Who will kill this man who has hurt Allah and his messenger?” A young Muslim named Ibn Maslama volunteered on condition that to get close enough to Ka‘b to murder him, he needed permission to lie to the Jew. Allah’s messenger agreed. So Ibn Maslama traveled to Ka‘b and began to complain about Muhammad until his disaffection became so convincing that Ka‘b eventually dropped his guard and befriended him. After behaving as his friend for some time, Ibn Maslama eventually appeared with another Muslim, also pretending to have apostatized.  Then, while a trusting Ka‘b’s guard was done, they attacked and slaughtered him, bringing his head to Muhammad to the usual triumphant cries of “Allahu Akbar!”...   https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/muslim-deceit-and-burden-proof-raymond-ibrahim   
First case of China-linked coronavirus 
reported in US, federal officials say
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By Madeline Farber
{ foxnews.com } ~ At least one person in the United States is infected with the mysterious pneumonia-like virus that’s killed at least six people and sickened some 300 others... since the illness was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The case of the new coronavirus was confirmed in a man in Seattle, Washington. The man arrived in the U.S. last week before officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced “enhanced health screenings” for airline passengers arriving from or traveling through the Wuhan province. San Francisco International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport and Los Angeles International Airport all began the initiative on Jan. 17. The patient, who was not identified, is a resident of the U.S. and is in stable condition, CDC officials said during a Tuesday news  conference. The patient is isolated at the hospital he is being treated at and poses "very little risk" to medical staff and the public, officials said. The man was reportedly aware of the outbreak affecting Wuhan before falling ill and proactively reached out to state health officials when he began experiencing symptoms, which have been reported to include fever, cough, and shortness of breath. The patient did not arrive on a direct flight from Wuhan, meaning people on more than one flight may have been exposed to the illness, which officials this week confirmed is transmissible between humans. Officials are now working to determine who may be at risk, Dr. Scott Lindquist, the Washington State epidemiologist for communicable diseases, said during the news conference. Confirmation of human-to-human transmission has sparked fears that a person infected with the virus and experiencing the most severe stage of infection could be a super-spreader —  someone who transmits the virus to a considerable more amount of people than the average infected person, the South China Morning Post reported. Coronavirus can cause a range of illnesses, from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) — the latter of which also began in China and infected some 8,000 people during a 2002-2003 outbreak. At least 770 died after it spread to other cities and countries across the world. At the time, international travel in combination with a few super-spreaders facilitated the massive outbreak, according to one report. The current coronavirus outbreak has now affected five countries including the U.S. In addition to China, officials in Thailand, South Korea, and Japan have also reported cases, according to the CDC.
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SCOTUS Case Could Derail Effort to Negate
Electoral College
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Thomas Gallatin:  On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear cases that hold significant implications for the Electoral College and states’ rights. During the 2016 presidential election, four Electoral College electors, one from Colorado and three from Washington, cast votes for candidates who did not win their state’s popular vote. In Colorado, the elector cast a vote for John Kasich instead of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, and in Washington, three electors cast their votes for Colin Powell rather than scumbag/liar-Clinton. Both the states of Colorado and Washington are among approximately 30 states that require Electoral College electors to cast their votes in concurrence with their respective state’s popular vote.

Following the votes of the so-called “faithless electors,” both states responded — Colorado voided the elector’s vote and Washington fined the electors. The electors responded by suing their respective states; the Colorado elector won, but the Washington state supreme court ruled against the electors and upheld the fine.

The question that SCOTUS will answer is whether state requirements mandating that electors cast their vote with a state’s popular vote is constitutional. The ramifications of the Court’s ruling could derail the Left’s effort to  circumvent the Electoral College via the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC), the effort by several blue states to throw their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote regardless of the state’s popular vote. Ironically, 13 of the 16 states that have thus far joined the NPVIC movement have laws requiring EC electors to vote for their respective state’s popular-vote winner.

SCOTUS will likely hear the cases in April with a ruling expected in June, so this should be decided well before the 2020 election.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68016?mailing_id=4811&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4811&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Opening Salvos in the Trump 
Impeachment Trial
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Nate Jackson
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House impeachment managers target top 
Trump defense attorney Cipollone, 
claim he is 'material
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By Brooke Singmanou 
{ foxnews.com } ~ House Democrats prosecuting the Trump impeachment case took aim Tuesday at White House Counsel Pat Cipollone... claiming in a stunning letter that the lead member of the president's defense team is actually a “material witness” to the charges in both articles and demanding that he disclose all “first-hand facts and information” before proceedings begin. The impeachment "managers" said they need that information in order to weigh potential “ethical” issues or conflicts of interest concerning his defense of the president. Just hours before Senate trial proceedings were set to resume, the impeachment managers claimed that during the House inquiry they gathered “evidence” that indicates he is a “fact witness to numerous critical events related to the president’s scheme, and remains deeply involved in actions implementing the president’s directive to obstruct the House’s impeachment inquiry.” “In preparation for the trial of Donald J. Trump before the Senate, we write to notify you that evidence received by the House of Representatives during its impeachment inquiry indicates that you are a material witness to charges in both Articles of Impeachment for which President Trump now faces trial,” the managers – Reps. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, Val Demings, Hakeem Jeffries, Sylvia Garcia, Zoe Lofgren and Jason Crow – wrote in a letter to Cipollone on Tuesday. “You must disclose all facts and information as to which you have first-hand knowledge that will be at issue in connection with evidence you present or arguments you make in your role as the President’s legal advocate so that the Senate and Chief Justice can be apprised of any potential ethical issues, conflicts or biases,” they wrote. The managers then outlined Cipollone's alleged connection to both articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. “Evidence indicates that, at a minimum, you have detailed knowledge of the facts regarding the first Article and played an instrumental role in the conduct charged in the second Article,” they wrote. They went on to say that ethical rules generally "preclude" a lawyer from acting as an advocate in a trial if he or she is also a witness. “These issues are directly implicated by your involvement in the events underlying the Articles of Impeachment,” they wrote...Does this apply to scumbag/liar-Schiff also?
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Senate resolution sets a fast pace
 for Trump impeachment trial
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial is going to move quickly, at least at first. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has drafted the rules for the trial... which allow 24 hours across two days for House impeachment managers to present their case that Trump abused the power of his office and obstructed Congress. The resolution also prohibits the testimony of witnesses unless they are first deposed privately. The resolution, which senators will pass Tuesday afternoon at the start of the trial, provides Trump’s White House defense team with the same amount of time to present their case. It also provides Trump's team the chance to offer a motion to dismiss the case as soon as the resolution setting the terms of the trial is adopted. But that motion is likely to fail because Republicans have indicated they want to hear the case before rendering judgment. Senior Republican aides say the 24 hours provided to present both the case and the defense line up with the 1999 impeachment trial of President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton, except, in that case, the 24 hours were used by both sides over a three-day period. According to the resolution, obtained by the Washington Examiner, senators would be provided 16 hours to ask written questions after the presentation of the case and the defense. After that, the Senate will hold a four-hour debate on whether to subpoena or call witnesses to testify or to seek additional evidence. If senators vote to call witnesses, the witnesses will be deposed first, “and the Senate shall decide after deposition which witnesses will testify” in the Senate. Finally, after witnesses are interviewed, the Senate will vote on each of the two articles. It takes 67 votes to convict the president on either of the articles, so it is unlikely Trump will be removed from office. The resolution does not automatically allow all of the House impeachment investigation material to be used as evidence in the Senate trial...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-resolution-sets-a-fast-pace-for-trump-impeachment-trial?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_01/20/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief&rid=5261   
scumbag-Schumer will force votes 'right off the 
bat' on impeachment witnesses and documents
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by Susan Ferrechio
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Senate Democrats will call up votes on witnesses and documents at the outset of President Trump's impeachment trial Tuesday afternoon, setting up an immediate partisan battle that is likely to last the length of the trial... Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters he'd force a vote "right off the bat" to subpoena the administration for documents related to Trump's call with the president of Ukraine in which he asked for help investigating former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden and Democrats. scumbag-Schumer may also try to change the Senate rules to allow more days to present arguments. Democrats charge Trump with abuse of power for withholding security aid from Ukraine while seeking its help investigating loose lips liar-Biden. "The documents are of equal importance. People should understand that the documents can shed as much light on why the aid was cut off, who did it, and how it evolved as the witnesses, and we feel very strongly that we need documents," scumbag-Schumer told reporters. "And that's why it's our first call." Democrats are opposed to the rules Republicans plan to pass governing how the trial will proceed. They want Republicans to agree to subpoena the documents and to call several Trump administration officials to testify. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, unveiled the rules Monday night. They prohibit a vote on calling witnesses until after the impeachment managers and Trump's White House lawyers present their arguments. But Democrats want the GOP to agree to call witnesses and subpoena documents at the start of the trial...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schumer-will-call-votes-right-off-the-bat-on-witnesses-and-documents?utm_source=breaking_push&utm_medium=app&utm_campaign=push_notifications&utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_01/21/2020&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News&rid=5261  
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Hundreds of US-Bound Migrants 
Storm Border, Rush into Mexico
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By Jack Davis 
{ westernjournal.com } ~ In a chaotic scramble, Honduran migrants seeking to enter the U.S. illegally tried to cross into Mexico on Monday... Mexican authorities used tear gas and troops in an effort to contain migrants who waded across the river separating Mexico and Guatemala in an effort to reach America’s southern border. The day began with a caravan estimated to hold more than 4,000 migrants massed on a bridge spanning the river, to be met by Mexican officials who, as promised to President Donald Trump, would not allow them entry. Shortly after noon, a group numbering in the hundreds then tried to wade across the knee-deep Suchiate River that separates the two countries. As the migrants crossed, Mexican National Guard troops were there to meet them. Many migrants successfully found their way around the troops, while others were blocked from entering Mexico by the guardsmen, some of whom were hit by rocks thrown by the migrants. It was unclear at the end of the day how many migrants had successfully made it past the troops and into Mexico. Many migrants remained at the edge of the river and some returned to Guatemala, according to The Associated Press. Mexico’s National Migration Institute told the migrants that it planned to send undocumented foreigners to immigration stations and then to their home countries if they were in Mexico illegally...
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Erdoğan's 'Make-Turkey-More-Islamic' 
Campaign Is a Failure
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by Burak Bekdil
{ meforum.org } ~ Trust for Islamist politics in both the Middle East and North Africa has plummeted since the beginning of the Arab Spring... A survey for BBC Arabic found that since 2012-13, public trust in Islamist political parties in Egypt, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, Jordan, the Palestinian territories, Sudan and Iraq has significantly declined, from nearly 40% to less than 20%. The survey also found a similar decline in trust for religious leaders in the same countries. In the Gaza Strip alone, public trust in Hamas fell from 45% to 24%. In Turkey, Islam does not appear to be appealing to masses as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan apparently hoped it would. In 2012, Erdoğan described his political mission as "raising devout generations," a remark for which Turkey's main opposition called him "a merchant of religion." In November 2019, Erdoğan repeated his quest for "devout generations" so that "we will not see alcoholics on the streets." He boasts that since he came to power in 2002, the number of imam school students has risen from 60,000 to 1.3 million. No doubt, that is an impressive record for an Islamist strongman. But too premature to cheer about. A survey, part of OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment, has revealed that 54% of imam school students do not feel they belong to their school, compared to 27.5% to 29.1% of students at other types of schools. It seems a greater number of families have forced their children to enroll at imam schools but, at least at the high school level, these students are unhappy. There are empirical studies that theism is on the rise in Turkey, especially among imam school students. The pollster Optimar found that in 2017, 99% of Turks identified themselves as Muslims, but in 2019, only 89.5% said they were Muslim. An unexpected 4.5% said they were theist, 2.7% agnostic and 1.7% atheist, and 1.6% did not answer...
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scumbag-George Soros Launches Campaign 
to Silence “Climate Deniers” on YouTube!
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By Spiro Skouras
{ activistpost.com } ~ Many would agree that climate change is perhaps the biggest and most critically important issue that we face globally as a society... And I personally would agree with that 100%. But it all depends on which side of the fence you land on. And of course just like any argument, or debate, there are at least two sides to every story. One side is currently being championed as the people who want to save the world, young people mainly, who are willing to speak out against the establishment and their evil ways for the good for mankind and mother earth. This side of the argument which portrays itself as grassroots, just so happens to fall in line essentially word for word with the establishment, whom they blame for this supposed climate crisis. The other side of the argument is anyone who dares to even question the legitimacy, or science behind the claims that the world is about to end unless we do something about man made climate change right now! This side is known as the climate deniers. That’s right, if you wish to have an open discussion, dialogue, ask questions, engage in a debate or any such action which does not fall in line with the UN 2030 climate agenda you are part of the problem and must be silenced. This report exposes how billionaire powerhouse scumbag-George Soros is bankrolling a campaign to silence ‘climate deniers’ on YouTube. How can we have a civilized discussion that could potentially lead to a solution, if one side of the debate is being silenced by a collaborative campaign with special interests and a loaded deck?  https://www.activistpost.com/2020/01/george-soros-launches-campaign-to-silence-climate-deniers-on-youtube.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=138dc4e3f6-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-138dc4e3f6-387888649  
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Opening Salvos in the Trump 
Impeachment Trial
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Nate Jackson:  “The Articles of Impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their President. This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election — now just months away.” That’s the summation of the Democrat impeachment charade according to a letter to the U.S. Senate from White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Donald Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow. The letter was the opening statement from Trump’s defense team as the Senate’s impeachment trial gets underway.
 

The blistering letter continues, “The Articles of Impeachment are constitutionally invalid on their face. They fail to allege any crime or violation of law whatsoever, let alone ‘high Crimes and Misdemeanors,’ as required by the Constitution.”

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a self-described liberal Democrat, has also joined Trump’s legal team in a limited role, though, as he put it, “I think it overstates it to say I’m a member of the Trump team.” In any case, he’s been a harsh critic of impeachment for months, and he slammed Democrats for impeaching Trump over “two non-criminal actions” that aren’t’ actually impeachable. Worse, Dershowitz said, their actions amount to “the greatest nightmare” of Founders like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. Rather than counter Dershowitz on the merits, Leftmedia outlets just reiterate that he served on the defense team for Jeffrey Epstein … though somehow the name of Epstein’s buddy scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton eludes the Beltway’s intrepid reporters.

What else is the Leftmedia doing? Worrying over how partial Republican senators are going to be during the trial.

Speaking of being impartial, here’s what one senator had to say about this partisan political theater:

It has shaken me that we stand at the brink of removing a President — not because of a popular groundswell to remove him and not because of the magnitude of the wrongs he’s committed — but because … a small group of people who hate [the President] and hate his policies … very cleverly and very doggedly exploit the institutions of freedom that we hold dear and almost succeed in undoing him.

That was a letter written by now-Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer in defense of scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton in 1999. The extent to which scumbag-Schumer gets it backwards would be funny if it weren’t so serious.

As a final note, expect to frequently hear the name Lev Parnas in the same scandalized tones usually reserved for Russian mobsters. Who is Parnas? A crony of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, who has documents pertaining to both Trump’s policy toward Ukraine and the firing of former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Like the Government Accountability Office’s bogus finding that Trump broke the law by temporarily delaying military aid to Ukraine, however, Parnas is part of the Democrats’ new narrative that “further investigation” is critical before the Senate can vote on Trump’s fate.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/68014?mailing_id=4811&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4811&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Putin Proposes Russia Return to Tyranny
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Political Editors  
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Day One – Senate Impeachment Trial 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The U.S. Senate Impeachment Trial of President Donald Trump begins today at 1:00pm Eastern... The first series of anticipated events includes the framework for Senate rules for impeachment which will come in the form of a final resolution for Senate vote. The formation of the impeachment rules, and any amendments therein, will likely take up the majority of the afternoon in the Senate. 
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Day One Schedule – President Trump Delivers Opening Remarks – Davos, World
Economic Forum 
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com  } ~ President Trump traveled overnight to Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum. I found it very interesting that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was not on the Dec. delegation list... The U.S. Delegation includes: Treasury Secretary, Steven Mnuchin; Commerce Secretary, Wilbur Ross; Labor Secretary, Eugene Scalia; Transportation Secretary, Elaine Chao; U.S. Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer; Under Secretary for Growth, Energy and Environment (DoS), Keith Krach; Asst to the President, Ivanka Trump; Asst. to the President, Jared Kushner; and Asst. to the President / Deputy for Policy Coordination, Christopher Liddell. The 2020 Davos economic conference will be a little more important to watch this year as it was in 2017 due to the completed U.S. Trade Agreements S Korea, Japan, Mexico, Canada, and China and the predicted focus for the Trump administration to pivot from Asia to the EU and U.K. for the next critical phase of the ‘America-First’ global trade reset. There will likely be a great deal of attention upon the opening remarks by President Trump scheduled to be delivered at Switzerland.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/21/day-one-schedule-president-trump-delivers-opening-remarks-davos-world-economic-forum-530am-livestream/  
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The Secret Sauce of the Democrats’ 
Impeachment Strategy
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By Sally Zelikovsky
{ americanthinker.com } ~ What is it about this impeachment that is so valuable to Democrats that they feel justified risking a flimsy impeachment strategy today, knowing that it could be used against them tomorrow?... Legal scholars and political pundits are justifiably worried about the implications President Trump’s impeachment holds for America’s future. Not only will tomorrow’s presidents be vulnerable to political vendettas, coups to undo election results, and frivolous attacks on policy and ideology by a House mob run amok, but our entire constitutional republic, and the separation of powers and checks and balances on which it is built, are in jeopardy. The Democrats are certainly motivated by their short-term goals of ousting Trump, disrupting his presidency, and creating chaos for the 2020 elections. But an impeachment on such a shaky foundation does not serve them well in the long-term, especially if the tables should turn and they are sitting in the White House while Republicans control the House. What makes this entire impeachment risk worth their while is… the judiciary. It’s their secret sauce. For decades, the Democrats have had an ideological lock on the judiciary.  It has been their failsafe for policy when they are unable to pass desired legislation, promulgate burdensome regulations, or affect change with either a swipe of the President’s pen or by propaganda delivered through the media, the educational system, and Hollywood. Then along comes “Trump the Indefatigable” who has completely changed the complexion of the judiciary in the last three years by appointing 187 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices. One in four circuit court judges is a Trump appointee and he has flipped the very liberal Second and Third Circuits, NY, CT, VT and NJ, PA, DE, Virgin Islands, respectively as well as the Eleventh Circuit FL, AL, GA. He has strikingly leveled the playing field in the oft-reversed, very progressive 9th Circuit and is one appointment away from equalizing the number of Democrat and Republican-appointed judges in the 1st, 4th,  and 10th Circuits. This is an astounding accomplishment that concomitantly delivers a resounding death blow to the Democrats and grin has them quaking in their goose-stepping boots. They know, all too well, the power of the judiciary to influence legislation and drive the culture. Of the 20 House impeachments against federal officers, three have been against presidents, one each against a Senator and a Cabinet Secretary, but lightbulb moment the majority of them have been against 15 federal judges, including Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase...
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Rudy Giuliani Responds to 
Media Claims by Lev Parnas
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani says he was ‘misled’ by Lev Parnas who Giuliani identifies as an egregious liar... During the interview on Fox News and Laura Ingraham Rudy Giuliani says Mr. Parnas motive to tell false statements is identical to the reason for Michael Cohen to lie; he is trying to get a plea deal with New York prosecutors.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/21/rudy-giuliani-responds-to-media-claims-by-lev-parnas/  
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The 'Crime' of Arabs Singing to Arabs in Israel
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Here is a new one for the books: An Arab singer stands up to perform in front of an Arab audience, and the anti-Israel brigade goes berserk. What has so inflamed the Israel haters this time?... The singer is Aziz Maraka, a Jordanian composer, performer, recording artist, and producer. The audience are Arab citizens of Israel from the town of Kafr Yasif in the Northern District of Israel. Maraka, who was invited last month to entertain Arab citizens of Israel during the annual Christmas Market festival in Kafr Yasif, has been facing widespread criticism and a shaming campaign on social media for agreeing to perform in Israel. Never mind that Maraka, an Arab, was invited by Arabs to a Christmas event in an Arab town. Never mind that Maraka was not invited by any Israeli private or public institution. Never mind that Maraka did not perform before a Jewish audience. None of that matters to the anti-Israel groups and individuals who are slandering the Jordanian singer and accusing him of "treason" and "promoting normalization" with Israel. The campaign of hate against Maraka shows that those who are calling for boycotting Israel care nothing about the well-being or interests of Arabs, including the two million Arab citizens of Israel. Those who are now condemning the Jordanian singer say they are opposed to any form of normalization with Israel. They choose to ignore that it was Arabs who invited the Arab singer to perform in their town. They choose to ignore that Israel was kind enough to approve Maraka's request to enter the country for the Christmas celebration. To justify its lamentable denunciation of Maraka, the so-called Palestinian Committee for the Boycott of Israel claimed that the Kafr Yasif festival was being organized under the auspices of official Israeli institutions, including the Israeli Ministry of Culture and Sports, and various companies and banks...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15470/arab-singer-israel-jordan 
ICE is Done Playing Games 
With Sanctuary Cities Like New York
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by restoreamericanglory.com ~ Federal immigration authorities are done playing games with cities like New York. After having another handful of their detainer requests ignored by city officials over the past month... ICE is now issuing “immigration subpoenas” to the city, demanding that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s government begin turning over information about current inmates with deportation orders against them. “This is not a request, it’s a demand,” said ICE senior official Henry Lucero. “This is a last resort for us. Dangerous criminals are being released every single day in New York.” NYC officials remain stubbornly defiant. “New York City will not change the policies that have made us the safest big city in America,” a spokesperson for de Blasio’s office told the Associated Press. Oh, rest assured, New York: It is not your sanctuary policies that have cleaned up the streets. The mere idea that refusing to cooperate with federal immigration authorities is the root cause of your city’s relatively clean crime record is beyond the point of laughable. It’s actually a little sad, even as a blatant piece of propaganda, simply because it’s hard to imagine anyone taking it seriously.Indeed, it’s hard to imagine anyone other than illegal aliens themselves taking the side of New York in some of these cases. For instance, the case of Reeaz Khan, a 21-year-old alien from Guyana who was being held in NYC jails on an assault charge. ICE sent city officials a detainer notice, asking that they hold Khan in custody so that he could be transferred over to federal authorities and deported back to his home country. As per usual, city officials refused although they now claim, absurdly, that they never received the notice. Khan went on to promptly kill 92-year-old Queens resident Maria Fuertas. “It is this city’s sanctuary policies that are the sole reason this criminal was allowed to roam the streets freely and end an innocent woman’s life,” argued acting ICE Director Matthew Albence. Well said. In a statement, Lucero said that ICE may begin using these subpoenas as a regular tool of compliance. “Like any law enforcement agency, we are used to modifying our tactics as criminals shift their strategies,” Lucero said. “But it’s disheartening that we must change our practices and jump through so many hoops with partners who are restricted by sanctuary laws passed by politicians with a dangerous agenda.”   http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/ice-is-done-playing-games-with-sanctuary-cities-like-new-york/ 
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Putin Proposes Russia Return to Tyranny
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Political Editors:  In a not-so-shocking turn of events, Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and his entire government resigned following President Vladimir Putin’s proposed constitutional changes — changes that would effectively extend his rule indefinitely. As NBC News  reports, “Russian President Putin on Wednesday proposed a nationwide vote on sweeping constitutional changes that would shift power from the presidency to parliament and the prime minister, a move that could allow him to extend his rule after leaving the Kremlin.” Well, it looks like Putin has hit that old “reset” button again…

Medvedev, Putin’s long-time lackey, resigned so as to give Putin near-unilateral authority to change the constitution, and Putin’s changes effectively swing power away from the presidency to the parliament and more specifically the prime minister. Seeking to paint the move with the veneer of democracy, Putin called for a nationwide vote on his changes.

This move is reminiscent of Putin’s manipulations from 2008 to 2012, when he relinquished the presidency in order to observe the constitution’s term limits, yet became the prime minister with Medvedev serving as his puppet president. Washington Examiner’s Tom Rogan observes, “It’s pretty clear that Putin is creating new political structures to restrain the power of future presidents. An important factor to consider is that while these amendments seem declarative, Putin will play an outsize role in their interpretation and action. Again, this is about ensuring that no future leader can wrest control from Putin in a way that would jeopardize his interests.” And, Rogan adds, “The key takeaway here is that whether in the shadows or otherwise, Putin is going to be the Russian czar for a long time to come.”

Finally, Mark Alexander notes, “There is an arguable parallel between Putin’s efforts to erode the Russian constitution’s voter protections and Democrat efforts to erode our Constitution’s voter protections by eliminating the Electoral College.”   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67952?mailing_id=4807&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4807&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Yes, Virginia, There Are Second 
Amendment Defenders
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Michael Swartz
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Tuesday News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


FLIMSY CHARGES: McConnell proposes swift impeachment trial with long days (AP)

CUT TO THE CHASE: The Senate impeachment trial: eight things you need to know (The Daily Signal)

FINANCIAL AID IN THE CROSSHAIRS: Supreme Court takes up church-state separation in Christian schools case (NBC News)

Government & Politics


INDIVIDUAL MANDATE PUNTED: Supreme Court won’t rule on scumbag/liar-nObamaCare before Election Day, declines to fast track (NBC News)

AMBIGUOUS FUNDRAISING NUMBERS: Trump outraises individual Democrats but is behind the pack (The Resurgent)

NO FREE SPEECH (OR FACTS) ALLOWED: Denver Post columnist fired after arguing there are two sexes (The Washington Free Beacon)

2020 Contrast


FOR THE RECORD: Illegal border crossings fall a staggering 90% in Arizona following Trump policy change (The Daily Wire)

AND WHAT DOES commie-SANDERS WANT?  commie-Sanders floats “moratorium on 99%” of deportations, demolition of border wall (National Review)

World


“NO PLANS TO SEND THEM OUT”: Iran backtracks on plan to send flight recorders to Ukraine (AP)

FAILED “REFORMS”: Mexico murders rise to record 34,582 in AMLO’s first year in office (Bloomberg)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Yes, Trump deserves credit on black unemployment (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: Let’s not squander the opportunity to increase organ donations and save lives (National Review)

SATIRE: Media offers thoughts and prayers that someone would start some violence at gun-rights rally (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/68036?mailing_id=4813&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4813&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body   
President Trump Adds MAGAnificent Seven 
to Impeachment Defense Team
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The gang is getting back together again. Representatives Jim Jordan, John Ratcliffe, Mark Meadows, Debbie Lesko, Elise Stefanik, Lee Zeldin and Doug Collins have been selected as additions to President Trump’s impeachment defense team. UPDATE... and Mike Johnson Today, President Donald J. Trump announced that the following Members of the House of Representatives will serve as part of his team working to combat this hyper-partisan and baseless impeachment. Throughout this process, these Members of Congress have provided guidance to the White House team, which was prohibited from participating in the proceedings concocted by Democrats in the House of Representatives. The President looks forward to their continued participation and is confident that the Members will help expeditiously end this brazen political vendetta on behalf of the American people. UPDATE – Oh man, they messed up my “MAGAnificent Seven” slogan by unexpectedly having eight. LOL. Oh well, “Elite Eight” because it makes sense to include an actual constitutional attorney ¹Mike Johnson. This is a big honor. These names will appear in history books generations from now.…And not Matt Gaetz LOL.
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Media Predicted Carnage Fail – Virginia 
Lobby Day Second Amendment Rally Peaceful
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Approximately 22,000 second amendment supporters rallied at the Richmond, Virginia capitol today to petition state government not to infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners... Appearing to cheer for some confrontation or violent outcome, the national media had hyped the event as a massive assembly of “right wing militia groups”; further attempting to inject a racial element around the MLK holiday by proclaiming “white separatists” would be squaring-off against Virginia law enforcement. It was all fake news. Curtis Houck from the Media Research Center assembled a montage of CNN and MSNBC media reports from this morning to highlight how the national media attempted to set the narrative. An incredible contrast of media nonsense against the reality, purpose and intent of a peaceful rally to petition state government for a constitutional right.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/20/media-predicted-carnage-fail-virginia-lobby-day-second-amendment-rally-peaceful/ 
Trump to decide on 'Deal of the Century' 
release date in coming days
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By LEON SVERDLOV
{ jpost.com } ~ US President Donald Trump is expected to decide in the coming days whether to present the White House's "Deal of the Century" before the Israeli election... Channel 13's political correspondent Barak Ravid has reported. According to Ravid, there have been intense deliberation among Trump's advisers regarding the issue, but the president is presumably concerned about the  possible effect the publication of the peace plan might have on Israel's March 2 election – as well as on his own re-election. However, if Trump decides to wait until after the election, it may be difficult for him to present his plan later due to his own 2020 re-election campaign, Ravid wrote. Presenting the plan before the election might tilt the odds in favor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose primary focus in the run-up to the election is expected to be on the question of parliamentary immunity.  After Netanyahu was indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust, his legal issues have also become the focus of the campaign by rival party Blue and White, which is currently also the largest party in the Knesset. Trump's "Deal of the Century" to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been the focus of much speculation. A December report by Lebanese pan-Arabist TV channel al-Mayadeen said that a draft copy of the plan showed Jerusalem would  remain united mostly under Israeli control, with some responsibilities shared with a Palestinian state. The reports also claimed that the plan includes the formation of "New Palestine" in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the settlement blocs to become part of sovereign Israel.  Netanyahu promised to annex the Jordan Valley before the end of the second election last fall. Then, US special envoy Jared Kushner advised the prime minister to wait until the plan is released. Trump's decision on the plan's release date is expected to be influenced by developments in Congress concerning his impeachment process as well...   https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Trump-to-decide-on-Deal-of-the-Century-release-date-in-coming-days-614670   
How Europe Made Itself Dependent 
on Nefarious Oil Powers
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by Victor Davis Hanson
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Despite its cool Green parties and ambitious wind and solar agendas, Europe remains by far the world’s largest importer of oil and natural gas... Oil output in the North Sea and off the coast of Norway is declining, and the European Union is quietly looking for fossil fuel energy anywhere it can find it. Europe itself is naturally rich in fossil fuels. It likely has more reserves of shale gas than the United States, currently the world’s largest producer of both oil and natural gas. Yet in most European countries, horizontal drilling and fracking to extract gas and oil are either illegal or face so many court challenges and popular protests that they are neither culturally nor economically feasible. The result is that Europe is almost entirely dependent on Russian, Middle Eastern, and African sources of energy. The American-Iranian standoff in the Middle East, coupled with radical drop-offs in Iranian and Venezuelan oil production, has terrified Europe—and for understandable reasons. The European Union has almost no ability to guarantee the delivery of critical oil and gas supplies from the Middle East should Iran close the Strait of Hormuz or harass ships in the Persian Gulf.
Europe’s only maritime security is the NATO fleet—a synonym for the U.S. Navy. Vladimir Putin’s Russia supplies an estimated 30% of Europe’s oil needs. In times of crisis, Putin could exercise de facto control over the European economy...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/01/16/how-europe-made-itself-dependent-on-nefarious-oil-powers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-europe-made-itself-dependent-on-nefarious-oil-powers?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1WbFlUZGhZamhtT0dVNCIsInQiOiJwdHoydjJibTgzRE9pcUZuYnh1azV2Z2djZTVrWjRlT0sxaXZmNk9RNEhGcEF1XC9ucVA5azhBU2NvaGF0VmpjaEN3Y1EwWUhYOUpQNWV5c0dVWm5HaFlFUk9jSVFZUnlPcnhNeFRSZldFckd1VFJkUUJVQllcL1wvZnlMSVNDbUI0NCJ9   
Columnist for Palestinian Authority Daily Calls
for Terrorist Attack on Upcoming Holocaust Memorial Ceremony Attended
by Over 40 World Leaders
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by Benjamin Kerstein
{ algemeiner.com } ~ The official Palestinian Authority daily published an opinion piece on Saturday that called for a terrorist attack on a major upcoming memorial ceremony in Israel marking 75 years since the liberation of Auschwitz... saying, “One shot will disrupt the ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony.” The event, titled “Remembering the Holocaust: Fighting Antisemitism,” has attracted over 40 world leaders, including Britain’s Prince Charles, US Vice President Mike Pence, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who will all arrive in Israel this week. According to a translation from Palestinian Media Watch, columnist Yahya Rabah wrote in PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida that Israel “is now energetically planning to hold a ceremony for the Holocaust in occupied Jerusalem, and it is accustomed to the world participating with it in this ceremony, as the Jews’ Holocaust is terrible, but the Palestinian holocaust by Israel that still continues is insignificant, beautiful, spectacular, and good.” “Of course, the Palestinians will never accept this equation, and it can be assumed that they will resist the ceremony being held in Jerusalem itself, as Jerusalem is theirs, despite Trump, who gave it to Israel as part of the filthy deal of the century,” he added. Rabah then called for an act of terrorism, writing, “One shot will disrupt the ceremony and one dead body will cancel the ceremony.” “And despite the misery of the Arabs and their dissatisfaction with what is happening, they are capable, if even for just a moment, of not following in the steps of Israel and America who are determining for them who their enemies are and who their friends are,” Rabah seethed.  https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/01/19/columnist-for-palestinian-authority-daily-calls-for-terrorist-attack-on-upcoming-holocaust-memorial-ceremony-attended-by-over-40-world-leaders/?utm_content=news1&utm_medium=daily_email&utm_campaign=email&utm_source=internal/%22   
How to End White Privilege
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by  Brandon Tatum  
{ prageru.com } ~ Brandon Tatum doesn’t forgive you for your white privilege... How can he forgive you for something that doesn’t exist? So where did the notion of white privilege come from? Who does it benefit? And who does it hurt? The answers might surprise you.  
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Yes, Virginia, There Are Second 
Amendment Defenders
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Michael Swartz:  One of the bellwether elections of the 2018 “blue wave” was the prior year’s state-level balloting in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Not only did the Democrats retain the governor’s office, swapping out Terry McAuliffe for his lieutenant, Ralph “Blackface” Northam, but they also came within a single vote of securing the Virginia House of Delegates, a remarkable shift from its previous 66-34 Republican majority. Last November, the Democrats finished what they started, gaining six more House seats and flipping the Virginia Senate, where the GOP’s narrow majority had stood since 2015.
 

With their legislative majority firmly established, a governor limited to one term, and the 2018 Charlottesville strife still fresh in their minds, Virginia Democrats decided to begin this year with a virulently anti-Second Amendment gun-control agenda. Perhaps having seen this writing on the wall, a vast majority of Virginia’s counties and independent cities have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, vowing not to enforce draconian gun-confiscation laws if passed.

To be sure, this made for a tense start to the legislative session in Richmond — and it’ll be even more so next week with a major Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) lobbying day slated for Monday. Citing the presence of “credible threats,” Gov. Northam ordered a preemptive strike: the declaration of a state of emergency, which allowed him to ban weapons from the state capitol grounds. Democrat lawmakers had already banned weapons from the Capitol building itself earlier this month. Not surprisingly, hundreds of 2A backers have expressed their displeasure with the newly proposed suite of 12 gun-control bills, three of which just passed the state senate.

This week’s lobbying day, sponsored by the National Rifle Association, actually drew praise from Northam for its amicable discussion of differences. “Earlier this week, the NRA hosted its annual lobby day … and the day passed without incident. That is what peaceful events look like,” said Northam, who called on the VCDL to show similar restraint. The NRA had a different request, though, and its advocacy got results: The most egregious anti-gun bill, a bid to confiscate AR-15 rifles, was withdrawn, and other measures were amended to weaken the anti-gun bills.

Along with Northam’s “credible threat” of violence this coming Monday comes an equally credible threat that far-left groups may stir up trouble. In a release obtained by the Washington Examiner, the VCDL asserted, “The Democrats are afraid of the voters and want to portray this peaceful assembly of law-abiding gun owners in the worst possible way. They would love for it to degenerate to ‘violence, rioting, and insurrection’ in order to smear gun owners. Has the Democrat leadership actually invited violent groups to attend for the purpose of disrupting our peaceful assembly?”

As the Virginia GOP notes, “Northam and the rest of the Virginia Democrats have made their session goal crystal clear: a disarmed, vulnerable, and subservient citizenry.” Somewhat less reserved was the neighboring state of West Virginia, which rolled out the welcome mat for more of Virginia’s counties to join the state. As Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw adds, “Virginia would immediately turn blue, but they’d lose some congressional seats while West Virginia would become an even darker shade of red and gain some seats.”

Clearly, it would’ve been better to have this discussion prior to the state’s 2019 election, when the citizenry could have denied Democrats their legislative majority. But here we are, and Virginia’s Second Amendment defenders appear ready for a fight.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67953?mailing_id=4807&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4807&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body 

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People Who Hate Their Country Won't Serve It
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Brian Mark Weber  
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Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. conduct airstrike against al-Shabaab terrorists  
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by africom.mil ~ In coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. Africa Command conducted an airstrike targeting al-Shabaab terrorists... in the vicinity of Qunyo Barrow, Somalia, Jan. 16. “Al-Shabaab presents a threat to America, the African people, and our international partners,” said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. William Gayler, director of operations, U.S. Africa Command. “They are a known terrorist affiliate of al-Qaeda, who continue to radicalize and actively recruit. Persistent pressure on the network helps prevent its broader spread.” Initial assessment concluded the airstrike killed two (2) terrorists. We currently assess no civilians were injured or killed as a result of this airstrike. U.S. Africa Command will continue to work with its partners to transfer the responsibility for long-term security in Somalia to the Federal Government of Somalia and its Member States. In support of the Federal Government of Somalia, U.S. forces will use all effective and appropriate methods to assist in the protection of the Somali people, including partnered military counterterrorism operations with the Federal Government of Somalia and Somali National Army forces.
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The Ruling Class Impeachment
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by JEFFREY LORD
{ spectator.org } ~ January 20, 2017 — three years ago today. The headline in the Washington Post: The campaign to impeach President Trump has begun... The time the article was posted? 12:19 pm — exactly 19 minutes after Donald John Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The very first sentence began this way: The effort to impeach President Donald John Trump is already underway. This week that campaign will begin to reach its conclusion as the impeachment trial of the President begins. Make no mistake what we are about to see. This is the continuation of a slow motion coup d’état by what can only be called the American Ruling Class. It is a televised middle finger to millions of Americans who elected Donald Trump for a reason — to put an end to an arrogant, frequently bipartisan, Ruling Class. A Ruling Class drunk on power and awash in corruption. As the week begins, recall scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s infamous campaign remark: You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up… they are irredeemable. And not to be forgotten this week as well is this telling remark from then-candidate Barack scumbag/liar-nObama in 2008: You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the scumbag/liar-Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. However the trial of the President proceeds — on the road to his already foregone acquittal — right there in those words of scumbag/liar-Clinton and scumbag/liar-nObama is the underlying reason for this impeachment. Take a hard look at the absolute resistance by liar-Pelosi, scumbag/liar-Schiff and company to calling Hunter Biden — and ex-Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden — as witnesses. In an impeachment in which they insist that there must be witnesses, they furiously resist calling the loose lips liar-Bidens. Why? Because to do so will reveal just how corrupt the Ruling Class has become in its quest for power and money. The Hunter Biden dealings in Ukraine and China are merely the tip of the massive iceberg of corruption by Ruling Class elites who exploit their family connections in a seemingly endless quest for money and even more power...  https://spectator.org/the-ruling-class-impeachment/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=6f14fa791f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_01_20_02_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-6f14fa791f-104608113  
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What's Next for the Iran Nuclear Deal?
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by Soeren Kern
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Britain, France and Germany, the three European signatories of the Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)... have activated the agreement's dispute mechanism in an effort to force Tehran into compliance with its commitment to curb its nuclear program. The three European countries — also known as the E3 — triggered the so-called Dispute Resolution Mechanism (DRM) on January 14, a week after Iranian authorities  announced that they would no longer be bound by any of the agreement's restrictions in terms of the numbers or type of centrifuges that they can operate or the level of uranium enrichment that they can pursue. The DRM (Paragraphs 36 and 37 of the JCPOA) starts the clock on a process that could result in the return of international sanctions on Iran. The deal's signatories now have up to 30 days to resolve their differences, although that time period can be extended by consensus. If the dispute cannot be solved, the matter could be brought before the UN Security Council and could result in the re-imposition of sanctions that had been lifted under the deal. That effort, however, could also easily be blocked by a Chinese or Russian veto. Iranian authorities said that they were justified in violating the deal because the United States broke the July 2015 agreement by withdrawing in May 2018. In a statement, the E3 foreign ministers rejected Tehran's argument: "We do not accept the argument that Iran is entitled to reduce compliance with the JCPOA. Contrary to its statements, Iran has never triggered the JCPOA Dispute Resolution Mechanism and has no legal grounds to cease implementing the provisions of the agreement." The E3 stressed that their objective was to save the JCPOA: "We do this in good faith with the overarching objective of preserving the JCPOA and in the sincere hope of finding a way forward to resolve the impasse through constructive diplomatic dialogue, while preserving the agreement and remaining within its framework. In doing so, our 3 countries are not joining a campaign to implement maximum pressure against Iran. Our hope is to bring Iran back into full compliance with its commitments under the JCPOA."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/15466/iran-nuclear-deal-what-next 
NSC Russia Expert Escorted From White House Under Intelligence Investigation
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ CT held off reporting on this explosive story until we could see if a tell-tale consequence surfaced; perhaps it has... On Friday the National Security Council senior director for European and Russian affairs, Andrew Peek, was escorted from the White House grounds and is currently under a security investigation. There are few details about why Peek was physically removed and is under a very serious investigation; however, some of Andrew Peek’s professional background details tell a story. The connection to Gen. John Allen is a MASSIVE warning flare. Andrew Peek, the senior director for European and Russian affairs at the National Security Council, has been placed on administrative leave pending a security-related investigation, people familiar with the situation tell Axios.Andrew Peek came from the State Department.  Because the appointment happened in the past two months, it would appear Andrew Peek was recommended by the Dept. of State and accepted for the NSC post by National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien. Here’s how it looks:  Andrew Peek was a mole. A resistance spy sent into the Trump administration as part of the allied deep state resistance effort. Someone caught him attempting to access something, and here’s how CTH can tell. The biggest flare that identifies Andrew Peek’s ideology is the connection to former U.S. General John Allen. CTH has tracked Allen for several years; he was used as part of scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign. He spoke at the DNC convention for scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton...
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President Trump Convention 
Speech to American Farm Bureau
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Sunday evening President Donald Trump delivered a key-note speech during the American Farm Bureau National Convention.
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Democrat Radicalism Creating a Dangerous Void
By Fletch Daniels
{ americanthinker.com } ~ The media generally speak of Democrats as falling into one of two wings, usually contrasted as the progressive wing or as some mythical establishment moderate wing... commie-Bernie Sanders and his squabbling squaw sidekick are placed in that first wing, while loose lips liar-Joe Biden is always slotted into the second one alongside the blooming meatball. But, at this point, Democrat politicians so fear their deranged leftist base that if there are indeed two wings, both are sprouting from the left side of the albatross, which could explain why the debates are so circular and tired as to even prompt a sad sigh from Van Jones. When all of them are for and against the same things, what's the point in tuning in? When Malarkey isn't challenging Americans to push-up contests or protecting his son's privileged position with mouth open at a foreign cash beer bong, he sounds as though he is feeling the Bern. All of these candidates are a product of the same Democrat base, which is how we landed at this point where the so-called Democrat moderates of today would have been considered dangerous radicals just a few short years ago. If you put together a radical menu, they are all ordering just about everything on it. Destruction of the energy industry? Order up a super-sized portion of that. Abortion über alles? I'll take a side of that and throw in some infanticide, please. Government health care? Naturally. The green new $90-trillion nightmare? Hey, just print more money and start killing cows. Destruction of national borders and open invitation for all the world's unskilled workers to flock to America to receive taxpayer largesse? It's the compassionate thing to do. Gun confiscation? Treating Iranian protestors like inconvenient lepers?  Reparations? Keep those refills coming...
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People Who Hate Their Country Won't Serve It
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Brian Mark Weber:  There was a time in America when each generation learned about love of country and the importance of service. It didn’t matter whether a kid grew up in the Bronx or in a small town in Mississippi. Despite our geographic and cultural differences, there was a common thread that tied us all together.

What happened to that America?

During Ronald Reagan’s farewell address in 1989, the former president asked, “Are we doing a good enough job teaching our children what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world? Those of us who are over 35 or so years of age grew up in a different America. We were taught, very directly, what it means to be an American.”

Reagan continued, “We absorbed, almost in the air, a love of country and an appreciation of its institutions. If you didn’t get these things from your family you got them from the neighborhood, from the father down the street who fought in Korea or the family who lost someone at Anzio. Or you could get a sense of patriotism from school. And if all else failed you could get a sense of patriotism from the popular culture.”

This is one of the most striking differences between America in 1989 and in 2020. Millions of young people today are taught by their parents, teachers, and certainly by Hollywood elites that the country they were born into is racist, sexist, and unworthy of patriotic pride. The very founding principles of our nation are unjust and deeply flawed, they say.

Even the Declaration of Independence, humanity’s greatest document of freedom, is now regarded by young Americans as the product of racists, oppressors, and purveyors of genocide. And we wonder why our children grow up to reject the very notion of service to country. Instead, they envision a future in which our traditions, institutions, and values are burned to the ground amid the battle cries of “social justice” warriors.

“Today, neither right-wing populists nor left-wing social reformers seem to have much faith left in those principles,” Dan McLaughlin writes at National Review. “The former are willing to discard them whenever temporary advantage can be gained in the tribal culture war, and the latter see American principles as the enemy.”

Is it any wonder that our military lacks representation from urban and coastal population centers, where American values are more likely to be denigrated than inculcated, and where parents and grandparents are less likely to have served? And is it any wonder that the opposite is true in smaller towns and in more conservative families and communities, where love of country is still the rule rather than the exception?

“More and more, new recruits are the children of old recruits,” Dave Phillips and Tim Arango report in The New York Times. “In 2019, 79 percent of Army recruits reported having a family member who served. For nearly 30 percent, it was a parent — a striking point in a nation where less than 1 percent of the population serves in the military.” According to their research, significantly fewer numbers of recruits come from northern states or big cities on the coasts such as New York or Los Angeles.

They add, “In communities where veterans are plentiful, teachers, coaches, mothers, uncles and other mentors often steer youths toward military service. In communities where veterans are scarce, influential adults are more wary.”

Put more bluntly, liberals and their progeny are less likely to serve, and recent research seems to validate the claim that more conservative regions of the country are generally more pro-military.

Sociology professors at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley published research indicating that party affiliation has shifted in the U.S. military. Denise Marie-Ordway writes at Journalist’s Resource that the research shows “among those [service personnel] who came of age before World War II, 55.4 percent identified as Democrats, 38.3 percent identified as Republicans and 6.2 percent considered themselves Independents. Fast forward several decades and party ties look quite different. About a third of veterans who turned 18 between 1972 and 2016 identified as Democratic. Just more than half said they were Republican, and 16.7 percent were Independent.”

If our country seems to be coming apart at the seams, we need look no further than this seismic shift in military service and the root causes behind it.   

~The Patriot Post

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Religious Liberty Finds an Ally in Trump
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Nate Jackson  
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McConnell Creates ‘Kill Switch’ To End 
Impeachment If It Becomes ‘Circus Run 
By scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff’
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By  Ryan Saavedra
{ dailywire.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has reportedly created a “kill switch” for President Donald Trump’s upcoming Senate impeachment trial... that would allow for the president’s legal team to either seek an immediate verdict or a dismissal of the case if the trial descends into a circus spectacle. “I am familiar with the resolution as it stood a day or two ago,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Axios. “My understanding is that the resolution will give the president’s team the option to either move to judgment or to move to dismiss at a meaningful time…” “Hawley added that in the most recent draft of the organizing resolution he saw there was an option for the president’s counsel to make a motion in multiple places, including at the beginning of the proceedings,” Axios reported. “Hawley added that if the final resolution does not allow Trump’s lawyers the option to dismiss or move to judgment at a ‘meaningful point’ in the trial, he would be ‘very, very surprised,’ and might not vote for the organizing resolution.” Hawley told Axios that if the option to dismiss the case was not available to the Trump legal team that it would give House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff (D-CA) too much power over the proceedings. On Sunday, Hawley confirmed those remarks in a tweet, writing: “.@realDonaldTrump deserves the right during Senate trial to ask for a verdict or move to dismiss – otherwise trial will become endless circus run by scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff” Trump has endorsed the idea on Twitter, writing: “Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, “no pressure” Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree!”...  https://www.dailywire.com/news/mcconnell-creates-kill-switch-to-end-impeachment-if-it-becomes-circus-run-by-adam-schiff   
Jim Jordan Discusses FBI, Flynn Prosecution, Rosenstein, Page, Strzok, and
How it all Connects
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Ohio congressman Jim Jordan appears with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the full background of the FBI surveillance impetus and how the bigger picture brings all of the government activity forward to the actions behind an impeachment trial... In the full picture, the totality of government effort, the arc of all swamp action, has been to remove a president who is everything these administrative state officials oppose. It is the independence of a Peoples’ President that represents the threat to the system…  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/19/sunday-talks-jim-jordan-discusses-fbi-flynn-prosecution-rosenstein-page-strzok-and-how-it-all-connects/
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scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler Lies 
on Face the Nation
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By M. Dowling
{ independentsentinel.com } ~ House Judiciary Chairman scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. lied on air during an interview on Face the Nation on Sunday... He was not questioned by the host despite the obvious lie. Democrats want the soundbites out there for their least-informed voters, and lying is acceptable to them. scumbag liar-Nadler pushed the Russia hoax once again. He knows what he said isn’t true. It has been fully debunked and it cost tens of millions of dollars to debunk it. While discussing calling Hunter Biden as a witness, scumbag liar- Nadler accused the President of trying “to smear his political opponents for his personal benefits and to help try to rig the 2000-20 election, as he worked with the Russians to try to rig the 2000-16 election. The same pattern.” He’s despicable. How does he sleep at night? The party that loves working with foreign agents — as in the dossier or the scumbag/liar-Clinton Foundation — is concerned about foreign agents. scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff, scumbag liar-Jerrold Nadler, and Hakeem Jefferies, the Democrat impeachment managers appeared on the Sunday news shows to make their case, which is not calling their witnesses is unfair. He also accused Senate Republicans who may be reluctant to call witnesses of being “part of the cover-up.” That is an obvious ploy to bully the weak link Republicans into caving. Democrats only need four GOP defections to get their witnesses. Naturally, they don’t want any of the President’s witnesses. That is what they did in the House during the inquiry. Republicans were not allowed to call one single witness who was not on the Democrats’ list. They only want a “fair trial,” they claim.  scumbag liar-Nadler declared on CBS’s Face the Nation, “In any trial in any trial, all relevant witnesses must be heard.” That was supposed to have happened in the House. It was their job...   https://www.independentsentinel.com/jerrold-nadler-lies-on-face-the-nation/  
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Senator Ted Cruz Discusses 
Upcoming Week of Impeachment
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Texas Senator Ted Cruz appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo for a lengthy discussion of the upcoming senate impeachment trial... Senator Cruz does not currently support subpoenas for witnesses; however, if the full senate votes to call prosecution witnesses Cruz would support reciprocal witnesses for President Trump. Senator Cruz walks through the anticipated process including the “scheduling order” or senate rules within the impeachment process. Twelve hours of prosecution, twelve hours of defense, sixteen hours of senator questioning, and then possibly a vote.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/19/sunday-talks-senator-ted-cruz-discusses-upcoming-week-of-impeachment/
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Lindsey Graham Unloads On liar-Pelosi: She 
‘May Pray Privately, But She’s 
Orchestrated The Trial Of Holy Hell’
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by VIRGINIA KRUTA
{ dailycaller.com } ~ Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham let loose Sunday on House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi... saying that she had “orchestrated the trial of holy hell” against President Donald Trump. Graham sat down with “Fox News Sunday” anchor Chris Wallace to discuss the upcoming impeachment trial and the possibility that witnesses would be called, and the topic of conversation turned to Speaker liar-Pelosi.  Wallace began the segment by asking Graham about plans for the Senate trial, noting comments from several Republicans who had voiced the desire to get through it as quickly as possible. “How do you respond to the Democratic impeachment managers who say this is just a rush to get this over with?” he asked. Graham immediately turned the argument on Speaker liar-Pelosi, saying that he liked her but that she was not doing right by the president. “I like liar-Nancy Pelosi. I have known her for years. She is a very religious person,” Graham said. “When it comes to Donald Trump, liar-Nancy Pelosi may pray privately, but she’s orchestrated the trial of holy hell.”  Graham then argued that from day one, Democrats had hit President Trump with one thing after another. “You took 48 days to impeach this president,” he said. “You did not allow him to call any witnesses. He could not have a lawyer present during the House Intel Committee. This has been a partisan railroad job. And you’re asking for fairness in the Senate? You violated every norm of what we do.” Graham concluded by reminding Wallace that he had been the one who wanted former special counsel Robert Mueller to be allowed to do his job and had trusted him to do so in a fair manner. He added that the sooner the impeachment trial was over, the better it would be for the country. “This has been a political hit job. This is political revenge. What they’re doing to the presidency is a danger to the institution itself,” he said.
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Trump Campaign Names Kimberly Guilfoyle 
National Finance Chair of Trump 
Victory Finance Committee
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by MATTHEW BOYLE
{ breitbart.com } ~ President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign has named Kimberly Guilfoyle as the new national finance chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee... Breitbart News has learned exclusively. Guilfoyle, the campaign confirmed to Breitbart News ahead of a public release of the move, will lead a nationwide volunteer and grassroots fundraising program targeted at recruiting and activating bundlers across the country to help the president’s reelection push.“The stakes have never been higher in a presidential election, which is why it’s my honor to serve as national chair for the Trump Victory Finance Committee,” Guilfoyle said. “The president’s record of success is drawing unprecedented support from across the country, and these crucial financial resources will ensure he’s in a strong position to win in November.” Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, also said that given Guilfoyle’s effectiveness in promoting the president, the expanded role she will now have as the Trump Victory Finance Committee national chair will help the president raise even more money and resources. “Kimberly has been a powerful and effective leader and surrogate for President Trump, and her expanded role will only make the reelection campaign stronger,” Parscale said. “The president’s record of achievement is attracting unprecedented support, and Kimberly will lead the effort to convert that into the resources we’ll need to win.” Trump Victory and Republican National Committee Finance Chair Todd Ricketts similarly praised the move. “I am thrilled to have Kimberly officially join the Trump Victory finance team,” Ricketts said. “As a tireless advocate for President Trump, Kimberly will be a huge addition to the team to ensure we raise the resources needed to reelect him in November.” Guilfoyle, a top conservative media personality who previously worked at Fox News, left the network to join the president’s super PAC a while back. She later joined the Trump campaign, where she—alongside Donald Trump Jr.—has been a fixture on the campaign trail helping the president. She and Trump Jr. appeared together on The View, where they battled the hosts late last year as Trump Jr. rolled out his book Triggered, a memorable appearance that had Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar in fits.  https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/15/exclusive-trump-campaign-names-kimberly-guilfoyle-national-finance-chair-of-trump-victory-finance-committee/   
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Religious Liberty Finds an Ally in Trump
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Nate Jackson:  Thursday was National Religious Freedom Day, which, as Gary Bauer notes, “commemorates the day in 1786 when the Virginia General Assembly adopted the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s statute became the foundation for the First Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees religious freedom, among other key liberties.”

To mark the occasion, President Donald Trump hosted in the Oval Office students, teachers, and others whose expressions of faith have been silenced in public schools, as well as those who’ve fought in the court system to protect those rights. He declared that he’s fighting back against the “growing totalitarian impulse on the far left that seeks to punish, restrict, and even prohibit religious expression.” Indeed, he ordered nine federal agencies to roll back regulations that restrict religious liberty — most of them issued during the tenure of the most faith-intolerant regime in the history of our Republic.

Schools won’t be forced to sponsor religious activities. The guidance states, “For example, teachers and other public school officials, acting in their official capacities, may not lead their classes in prayer, devotional readings from the Bible, or other religious activities.” Yet, the order also states, “Students and teachers do not shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”

Moreover, each year, states must provide a list of districts or local schools that have “a policy that prevents, or otherwise denies participation in, constitutionally protected prayer.” And Fox News notes, “States are also required to report local schools that do not certify to the state that they don’t have unconstitutional prayer policies.”

While anti-religious zealots complained that Trump’s budding theocracy “undermines” civil rights and will have “dire consequences” for homosexuals and religious minorities, the truth is that he’s doing what he was elected to do — protect the religious liberty enshrined in the First Amendment.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins praised the administration’s new rules, saying, “For years, we’ve watched secularists pressure school administrators into telling students that they can’t pray, read their Bibles, or talk about their faith in class. Now, the tables are turned. For once, the onus isn’t on kids or districts to defend their freedoms — it’s on states to certify that they’re compliant and respectful of these basic rights. Thanks to President Trump, the government is finally standing up to schoolyard bullies who make a living trying to intimidate and silence students.”   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/67979?mailing_id=4807&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4807&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The Iran Protests
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Virginia State Officials Preparing For Big Gun 
Rights Rally On Jan 20th And If Any Violence 
Breaks Out It Will Be Their Fault
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By Jon Dougherty
{ rightwingtribune.com } ~ For years, Second Amendment advocates in Virginia have trekked to the state capitol grounds armed and carrying firearms openly as they were lawfully permitted to do... in order to lobby for their God-given constitutional right of self-defense. And for each of those years, lobby day has gone off without a hitch: No shootings, no violence, no arrests, no problems of any kind. But something happened in November that has changed the dynamics for this year’s lobbying effort: Anti-gun Democrats managed to eke out enough victories to take control of the state legislature. And with one of their own in the governor’s mansion, scumbag-Ralph “Coonman” Northam, they immediately began pledging to introduce and pass a bevy of new gun control laws that aren’t necessary, are not stronger than the current law against murder, and will do nothing but deprive Virginians of a right that “shall not be infringed.” And for no other reason than because they can. In the lead-up to Monday’s lobby day, the vast majority of Virginia’s jurisdictions — towns, cities, counties — have passed so-called “gun sanctuary” ordinances, in which local authorities have pledged not to assist the state in enforcing new gun laws they believe are unconstitutional. Naturally, because they are a party of abject hypocrisy, scumbag-Northam’s Democrat attorney general, Mark Herring, decreed those ordinances to be unlawful and improper — all while ignoring the sanctuary cities in his state who refuse to assist federal authorities in the enforcement of immigration law. So now, thanks to Democrats, Virginia stands on the precipice of crisis and chaos when there was no reason for it to be this way other than the Garbage Party’s hatred and disrespect of the Constitution...
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FBI Interview Notes With Page 
And Papadopoulos Are Released
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by Chuck Ross
{ dailycallernewsfoundation.org } ~ The Justice Department released its fourth batch of documents from the special counsel’s probe Friday, including notes of FBI interviews with former Trump campaign advisers Carter Page and George Papadopoulos... The documents include the FBI’s interviews conducted in 2017 with Papadopoulos and with Page, as well as interviews with Russian associates of Page. The records were provided to BuzzFeed News and CNN in response to Freedom of Information Act lawsuits for FBI notes, known as 302s, that were used in the Trump-Russia probe. Papadopoulos and Page were two of the four original targets of Crossfire Hurricane, the FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign. The probe was opened on July 31, 2016 and melded into the special counsel’s investigation on May 17, 2017, when the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel. A report of the investigation ultimately concluded that there was no evidence the Trump campaign or any associates conspired with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election. The report also said there was no evidence that any Trump aides worked as Russian agents. FBI agents first interviewed Papadopoulos on Jan. 27, 2017 and conducted follow-up interviews in February 2017. He was interviewed multiple times following his arrest on July 27, 2017 on charges of making false statements in his initial FBI interview. In that first interview, Papadopoulos told agents about contacts he had in 2016 with Joseph Mifsud, a London-based academic. Papadopoulos said that Mifsud told him during a meeting in London on April 26, 2016 that he had learned from Russian sources that Russia had “dirt” on former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails. The FBI opened Crossfire Hurricane based on a tip from Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, who met Papadopoulos in London on May 10, 2017. Downer said in a memo that was given to the FBI that Papadopoulos said Russia might help the Trump campaign close to the election. The FBI agents who interviewed Papadopoulos did not mention the Downer tip. The notes indicate that FBI agents sought Papadopoulos’s cooperation in obtaining more information from Mifsud. Notes from a Feb. 1, 2017 interview say that FBI agents said they were “seeking out PAPADOULOS’ cooperation specifically in an attempt to obtain further information about his London-based contact, JOSEPH MIFSUD.” Papadopoulos told Congress on Oct. 25, 2018 that the FBI offered to pay him to travel to London to meet with Mifsud while wearing a wire. The notes do not refer to a request that Papadopoulos wear a wire, but they are heavily redacted. Papadopoulos insisted in subsequent interviews that he did not tell anyone on the Trump campaign that Russia might have scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 5, 2017 to false statements charges. Papadopoulos acknowledged in the plea that he falsely stated he met Mifsud before joining the Trump campaign...
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A normal court would reject a dishonest 
prosecutor like scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff
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by nypost.com ~ Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi named the seven House impeachment managers who will prosecute the case in the Senate. But one of the two lead prosecutors would be kicked out of any normal court for repeated lies... Intelligence Chairman scumbag/liar-Adam Schiff has been lying to the world for years in his nonstop campaign to smear President Trump. Back in March 2017, he insisted that he’d seen “more than circumstantial evidence” that Trump had colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election — a claim exposed as false by the Mueller report. Months later, he insisted that Rep. Duncan Nunes was flat-out wrong to say that the FBI’s Russia investigation relied heavily on the absurd Steele Dossier to get warrants to surveil Carter Page; the recent inspector-general report shows that Nunes was right — and scumbag/liar-Schiff had to know it. Last fall, scumbag/liar-Schiff even concealed his office’s contacts with the Ukraine “whistleblower” — and he still hasn’t detailed his involvement in framing the case against Trump before the “official impeachment inquiry” even began. Next to that, the other lead manager, New York’s own Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler, seems a paragon: He’s just a guy who won the Judiciary Committee chairmanship a year ago by claiming he’d be best to “lead a potential impeachment” of Trump.   https://nypost.com/2020/01/15/a-normal-court-would-reject-a-dishonest-prosecutor-like-adam-schiff/   
Alan Dershowitz -vs- George Stephanopoulos
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz is a member of the white house legal team from the perspective of constitutional law... In this interview George Stephanopoulos was in his old familiar role as a political narrative engineer, trying to get Dershowitz to say he did not agree with the President. The engineering objective was “Trump Lawyer says President Guilty”.
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Earth's Climate History: What the Doomsayers 
Don't Want Voters to Know
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By John Eidson
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Absent historical context, extreme weather can be overhyped in ways that lead uninformed voters to conclude that acts of God such as severe droughts and floods never happened before humans began using fossil fuels... In fact, extreme weather has occurred with monotonous regularity for millions of years. Below is an infinitesimal sampling of the endless multitude of catastrophic weather events in Earth’s past, many of which occurred long before the Industrial Revolution. The Great Hurricane of 1780 killed 30,000 people in the Caribbean. Epic dust storms in the 1930s caused catastrophic ecological damage to the Central Plains of the U.S. and Canada. Massive flooding that hit Tokyo, Japan, in 1910 destroyed more than 400,000 homes.  Consecutive years of extreme weather took the lives of one-third of the population during the Russian Famine of 1601-1603. In 1927, weeks of heavy rains in Mississippi caused flooding that covered 27,000 square miles, leaving entire towns and surrounding countryside submerged up to a depth of 30 feet. A catastrophic hurricane that hit sparsely populated Sea Island, Georgia in 1893 killed 2,000 people.  The Blizzard of 1888 was so extreme that snow and ice covered the entire northeastern U.S., from Maine to the Chesapeake Bay. On Sept. 8, 1900, a Cat-4 hurricane obliterated the island of Galveston, Texas, killing an estimated 10,000 residents. In 1889, heavy rains that lasted for days caused massive flooding in Jamestown, PA, killing 2,200. Caused by a protracted drought, the Bengal Famine of 1770 killed 10 million people in South Asia. And, for those who believe in the Bible, Genesis 7:12 reports that rain fell upon the earth for 40 days and 40 nights, an extreme weather event by any definition. What you’ve just read is a tiny slice of Earth’s turbulent climate history that global warming doomsayers hope voters will never know. And, because there’s an agenda behind climate hysteria that has nothing to do with “saving the planet” - there’s not much they won’t do to truck voters to believe that global warming is causing the environment to fall apart at the seams. They even changed the name of the alleged threat. Switching gears: Why “global warming” came to be called “climate change”. When the accelerated warming trend that began in the 1980s ran out of steam in 1997, what would become an extended leveling-off period set in. Instead of acknowledging their dire predictions of unstoppable rising temperatures were embarrassingly wrong, climate doomsayers came up with a new tag for the alleged threat. What was once referred to almost exclusively as “global warming” was quietly given an alter ego: “climate change.” Since global temperatures were in a virtual flatline, claims of cataclysmic warming were no longer believable. Rather than admitting they were wrong and looking for another way to destroy capitalism, the doomsayers simply switched gears, and invented a clever new trick to frighten voters with terrifying scenarios of imminent environmental calamity. Since runaway warming wasn’t happening, they concocted the specious narrative that extreme weather events, every one of them, are caused by, you guessed it: climate change. Almost overnight, climate change was made the scapegoat for every severe hurricane, drought, flood, heat wave and blizzard that appeared, as if such unpleasant things had never before occurred. Following is a prime example...
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Indoctrination Education: Public Schools 
Are Now Programming Facilities
By John Klar
{ americanthinker.com } ~ When I was in eighth grade, a teacher announced we were going to study capital punishment. The methodology for this process was that the class was divided randomly in half, and each side was assigned the task of writing an essay: one half pro, one half con... After we had completed our essays, the students engaged in open debate about this complex issue. Perhaps this sort of objective process of critical thinking is still practiced in some American schools, but it surely seems scarce. In its place, secular liberalism, and "progressivism," have become the Church of the American State, administered through public schools. When Roe v. Wade was decided, the schools may have taught that abortion was legal, but they did not instruct children that it was moral — that was left to parents in the home. By the time marriage was redefined so two men could claim it together as a constitutional liberty, the landscape had clearly changed — not only are children being instructed that homosexuality is the moral equivalent of heterosexuality in conflict with numerous faith and cultural traditions, but they are being taught that they can select their gender orientation  and gender "identity." In Vermont, young children are offered transgender hormone treatment in preparation for transgender surgeries — and if the parents disagree, a court order can bypass them. Today's children are being institutionally indoctrinated to be unreflective, uncritical automatons of the liberal cause — on immigration, climate change, abortion, and whatever the progressive cause du jour demands. Preying on children is not just for predators anymore. For instance, school walk-outs to ban firearms are not balanced with school walk-outs to uphold the vital Second Amendment and its protections against tyranny. Those who label Donald Trump a tyrant do not teach children to study both sides and consider the importance of an armed citizenry when society is threatened with a tyrant. The "climate justice warriors" have now taken America's schoolchildren hostage in their battle to impose their tyrannical carbon tax on the citizenry.  They encourage children to block traffic, lie in the streets, skip school — because "the world will end in 11 years!"  They are not studying both sides of the anthropogenic climate change debate, let alone critically assessing effective responses. Even if the climate is changing from human activity, and even if the world will implode in 11 years, the carbon tax is an ineffective, patently regressive, and inegalitarian measure. This would make a good two-sided essay assignment for critical young minds to weigh...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/01/indoctrination_education_public_schools_are_now_programming_facilities.html   
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The Iran Protests
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The latest protests in Iran by people angry over the Iranian military’s missile launch that “unintentionally” downed a Ukrainian jetliner killing many Iranians, Canadians and others, is different from past protests over rigged elections, rising gas prices, and what Americans like to call “voter suppression.”

This time, the protests are over a much wider area of the country. This time, there were no “death to America” or “death to Israel” chants. Video showed demonstrators refusing to walk on U.S. and Israeli flags. This time, anger was directed at the theocratic regime’s handling of the missile strike. This time, a president of the United States tweeted his support for the protesters in English and in Farsi and warned “the world is watching.” That’s something President scumbag/liar-nObama failed to do when demonstrations over a rigged election broke out in the summer of 2009 and the regime began killing and imprisoning protesters. scumbag/liar-nObama, opting at first for a wait-and-see approach, once violence reached its zenith, was finally forced to declare, “The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings and imprisonments of the last few days,” and strongly condemned “these unjust actions.” Of course, his statement was too late to have much, if any, effect on the regime’s actions.

Democrats were nearly silent about the latest protests. Democrats once boldly voiced opposition to totalitarian regimes. When Democrats do comment it is often without substance or meaning.

Interviewed on ABC’s “This Week” last Sunday, House Speaker liar-Nancy Pelosi appeared to minimize the significance of the demonstrations. Host George Stephanopoulos asked her if she supported the demonstrations and whether it would be good for the regime to collapse. She replied: “The protesters are protesting — as I understand it, this brand of protesters — about the fact that that plane went down. And many students were on that plane and these are largely students in the street.”

Come again?

The lunatic left, which increasingly dominates the Democratic Party, predictably took Iran’s side against their own country. Actress Rose McGowan tweeted: “Dear #Iran. The USA has disrespected your country, your flag, your people. 52 percent of us humbly apologize. We want peace with your nation. We are being held hostage by a terrorist regime. We do not know how to escape. Please do not kill us. #Soleimani.”

A.J. Caschetta responded to McGowan and many others on the far left in National Review magazine: “While it may be tempting to dismiss McGowan’s attempts at wit, her line of reasoning, however faulty, is echoed by nearly all the Democrats on the campaign trail and by virtually every Middle East specialist in the media and in academia. Her apologetic plea for peace and her moral equivalency between Trump’s "terrorist regime” and “#Soleimani” differ from tweets of her erudite allies only in the number of polysyllabic words and historical references. Otherwise they are quite similar, in some cases practically identical.“

Why aren’t the Democratic presidential candidates asked if they share such views? Perhaps it is because those asking the questions don’t want to do anything that would harm the chances of one of the Democrat presidential candidates beating President Trump in the November election. Does that sound too harsh? Consider that 92 percent of media coverage of the president has been negative, according to a study by the Media Research Center, a politically conservative content analysis group based in Reston, Virginia.

Could the protests in Iran follow the pattern of other freedom movements, like Solidarity in Poland, or demonstrations that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union? Or, could they end in a stalemate with increasingly brutal repression, as in Venezuela?

It’s too early to say, but the least that should be expected is that people who enjoy the blessings of liberty, including the right to say very foolish things, support the efforts of others who want to free themselves from totalitarian oppression. If they won’t, perhaps they should pick what they think is a better country and live there.   

~The Patriot Post

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