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Mulvaney vows Dems will 'never' see Trump's
tax returns, despite renewed push
by Gregg Re
{ foxnews.com } ~ Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney told "Fox News Sunday" in an exclusive interview that Democrats will "never" see President Trump's tax returns... days after a House Democrat committee chairman made the unprecedented demand that the IRS provide the documents. Mulvaney's comments marked an apparent escalation in the White House's rhetoric on the issue. On Wednesday, Trump responded with a dismissive taunt to Democrats' renewed push for his tax information, but suggested he might be willing to provide the information pending the conclusion of an audit. "Oh no, never -- nor should they," Mulvaney told Bill Hemmer, who is filling in for host Chris Wallace, when asked if Democrats will ever see the president's tax returns. "That’s an issue that was already litigated during the election. Voters knew the president could have given his tax returns. They knew that he didn’t and they elected him anyway." Mulvaney added that Democrats "know" they won't get the returns, and "just want attention on the issue because they don’t want to talk to us about policy." A "fundamental" purpose of tax law, Mulvaney continued, is to protect the privacy of tax filers. "If they don't get what they want in the dirty cop-Mueller report, they're going to ask for the taxes," Mulvaney said. "If they don't get what they want in the taxes, they're going to ask for something else. It doesn't surprise anybody."... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mulvaney-dems-will-never-see-trumps-tax-returns .
Larry Kudlow -vs- Margaret Brennan
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ National economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow appears on Face The Nation to discuss issues with the U.S-Mexico border... and possible economic ramifications if the security issues are not addressed. Additionally, Kudlow discusses the USMCA trade deal and the status of current negotiations with China..
Netanyahu says 'no' to Palestinian state
by israelnationalnews.com: In an interview with the editor of a conservative Israeli weekly, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that he has already told White House adviser... Jared Kushner and US Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt that there can be no Palestinian state. In the interview, published this Friday in Hebrew, Makor Rishon editor Hagai Segal raised the issue of US President Donald Trump's “Deal of the Century” which, he said, would “probably be on the table immediately after the elections.” But Prime Minister Netanyahu said that he did not know when the Americans would present the plan. “I asked that question in a visit to Washington now, and I did not get an answer: If they had wanted to present the plan right after the elections, they would have said so. In any event, I stated my guidelines for the plan. I will not accept any plan that uproots even a single settlement or settler,” Hagai Segal: Could there be Palestinian sovereignty over Jewish settlements? Netanyahu said. Netanyahu: “Certainly not. Not even a single one. Governance west of the Jordan River will remain in our hands. We have the responsibility for governing from a security point of view over the entire area. That is our condition. We will not commit suicide to win a positive article in the New York Times, which will not last more than two hours. "....
Turkey: Erdogan Pledges to Convert Byzantine Cathedral Hagia Sophia into a Mosque
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Addressing a rally ahead of the March 31 municipal elections in Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to convert the Hagia Sophia museum... originally a Byzantine cathedral, into a mosque. Erdogan repeated this statement the following day during a televised interview. "Hagia Sophia will no longer be called a museum," he declared. "Its status will change. We will call it a mosque." Erdogan took the opportunity to respond to foreign officials critical of his intention to violate the former church by venting against Israel. "Those who remain silent when Al Aqsa mosque is attacked, trampled and its windows smashed cannot tell us what to do about the status of Hagia Sophia," he said, referring to clashes between Palestinian-Arab rioters and Israeli police on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism and the location of the Al Aqsa mosque. Hagia Sophia, however, has nothing to do with either Al Aqsa or Israel. Destroying churches to use as mosques is also not new to Turkey, both during and preceding Erdogan's rule. Islamic supremacists have, in fact, been engaging in this practice since the Turkish invasion and takeover of Asia Minor in the 11th century... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14018/turkey-erdogan-hagia-sophia-mosque .
Top White House Economist Says Socialism
Poses Grave Threat to Economy
by restoreamericanglory.com: According to Kevin Hassett, the chairman of President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, there is no greater threat facing the U.S. economy than the rise of socialism... In a speech at the National Review Institute last Friday, Hassett argued that it is up to experts and economists to point out the problems with the socialist ideas being bandied about by top Democrats. “I think the challenge going forward is to sort of respond to these proposals that are getting further and further to the left,” Hassett said.The economist worried that if entrepreneurs and wealthy capitalists saw confiscatory tax rates coming down the pike, they could decide to sit on their capital instead of investing it in a robust, thriving economy. “If in two years, there is going to be a 70 percent marginal tax rate on everything—there are people who are advocating policies like that—then maybe you should put your plans on hold right now if you are a forward-looking, rational firm,” he said. Hassett said that the booming economy under Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. In addition to a boost from the Republican tax cut plan of 2017, he said that entrepreneurs and investment bankers were responding to the “idea that the war on business was over.” In other words, a Republican government has successfully removed the handcuffs that were shackled on the economy during the scumbag/liaqr-nObama recovery. With the removal of those handcuffs – reduced taxes, eradicated regulations, and incentives to stay in the U.S. – the economy has responded with near-record levels of employment, a stock market in the stratosphere, and consumer confidence of a type not seen since before the recession... http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/top-white-house-economist-says-socialism-poses-grave-threat-to-economy/ .
dirty cop-Mueller Express Fails to
Deliver, Democrats Head for the Abyss
by Clarice Feldman
{ americanthinker.com } ~ As the long-running dirty cop-Mueller Witch Hunt pulled into the station empty, the one thing that held together the disparate factions of the Democratic Party -- the thought that dirty cop-Mueller would hand them grounds for impeachment... was lost and a “Gadarene stampede” in Conrad Black’s fine phrase, descriptive of a pack of crazed swine heading for the abyss has followed. To be sure, those who believed dirty cop-Mueller would save them from the Trump revolution didn’t give up entirely. Tom Maguire had some fun at the expense of the diehards: The Walls Are Closing In On Trump Again! After a brief respite the media is back to Waiting For The dirty cop-Mueller Report: sources NOT on dirty cop-Mueller's now-disbanded team tell the Times that some of the team think the Barr summary went too easy on Trump. This is impressive 'sources say other sources say' journalism. High school -- the wonder years! As in, I wonder why Times reporters never outgrew that. Whatever. dirty cop-Mueller ran a tight ship for two years but now his gang is dispersed. Some are back in private practice and no one is worried that dirty cop-Mueller will fire them for chatting a bit. We'll see the report soon enough. Another week or two of staring down their rabbit hole won't hurt the Democrats any. Victor Davis Hanson sets the historical background: An investigation that for two years had reconciled the irreconcilable serves no longer as a source of Democratic unity. We are going to see hard-left Democrats and socialists force their mostly unpopular agenda on politicians and candidates from their own party. And they are now putting their identity-politics money where their mouth is by openly discouraging candidates on the basis of their race and gender.[snip] With the end of the dirty cop-Mueller investigation, thousands of government documents, mostly unredacted, will be released. The result may be that the hunters of Trump soon become hunted by federal prosecutors. Sworn statements of scumbag/liar-nObama administration officials in the Justice Department, CIA, FBI and other bureaucracies will contradict newly released documents. To escape punishment, all of these players in the Russian collusion delusion may now begin to turn on one another after being so united in going after Donald Trump...
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Nancy Pulosi's Perv Problem
Michelle Malkin
{ townhall.com } ~ If you're a sleazy male Democrat, you can always count on Nancy Pulosi to run interference for you and your pervy proclivities. While she has soaked up plaudits as a champion for women most recently as the VH1 Trailblazer Honors recipient last month for International Women's Day, what she really deserves is Cheerleader of the Year Award from the Democratic Bad Boys Club.
The latest beneficiary of her soft-glove treatment is former Vice President and potential 2020 Democratic presidential aspirant loose lips-Joe Biden -- a.k.a. the veep creep. She gently advised him to "pretend you have a cold" and joked during a Politico interview that he should emulate her "straight-arm" policy of keeping distance from others. Giggle, giggle, blink, blink. Reporters laughed along.
And these are the same people who mock straight-arrow Vice President Mike Pence of taking extra precaution around women!
For years, alert conservative women have so relentlessly documented freaky Uncle Joe's penchant for pawing members of the gentler sex that even mainstream media outlets were forced to pay attention. The cringe-tastic headlines and disturbing photo montages, which featured several young girls held hostage between loose lips-Biden's claws, could no longer be ignored:
"9 Times loose lips-Joe Biden Whispered in Women's Ears."
"loose lips-Joe Biden's Top 10 Creepiest Moments."
"17 times loose lips-Joe Biden acted like a total creep."
"The Audacity of Grope."
"loose lips-Joe Biden's woman-touching habit."
"VP loose lips-Joe Biden goes #FiftyShadesofGrey during last night's awkward Top Ten List."
But not until two Democratic women came forward this past week was loose lips-Biden forced to respond. Nevada Democrat Lucy Flores accused the hair-sniffing 76-year-old Beltway barnacle of making her feel "uneasy, gross, and confused" at a campaign event in 2014. Former Connecticut Democratic aide Amy Lappos described how loose lips-Biden "rubbed noses with me" at a private fundraiser in 2009 after grabbing her face with both hands. It was "absolutely disrespectful of my personal boundaries."
If these were women accusing Republican men of such behavior, Pulosi would be issuing scathing recriminations, not jokey etiquette tips. But Nan's nonchalance about her fellow Democrats' invasions of personal space is par for her cad-supporting course. I remind my readers of Pulosi's twisted track record:
In 2017, she defiantly stood by accused groper John Conyers calling him an "icon" who "has done a great deal to protect women" and downplaying his secret sexual harassment settlement with a former female staffer -- one of three former employees alleging sexual abuse.
In 2013, Pulosi refused to call on her old pal and former Democratic mayor Bob Filner of San Diego to resign after multiple women accused him of harassment and assault. One staffer claimed Filner had ordered her to "work without her panties on." Others alleged he forcibly kissed them. Another said she had contacted Democratic higher-ups in California about a half-dozen women. "What goes on in San Diego is up to the people of San Diego. I'm not here to make any judgments," Pulosi declared.
In 2011, Pulosi refused to condemn disgraced Rep. Anthony Weiner until his interactions with an underage girl in Delaware were exposed by conservative bloggers and confirmed by police. Only then did Pulosi rush from behind to lead the demands for Weiner's resignation.
In 2010, then New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa resigned amid a sordid sexual harassment scandal involving young low-paid male staffers he allegedly lured to his Capitol Hill playhouse for "tickle fights." Pulosi's office had been informed months before, by a staffer of former Democratic Rep. Barney Frank, of Massa's predatory and harassing behavior with multiple congressional employees. Massa's former deputy chief of staff and legislative director also contacted leading Democrats on the House Ethics Committee. Former House Majority Leader scumbag-Steny Hoyer also knew of Massa's misconduct. But Pulosi said and did nothing until allegations went public. A toothless House Ethics Committee investigation went nowhere.
Also in 2011, seven-term liberal congressman and former Democratic Rep. David Wu of Oregon was exposed by his own staffers, who revolted against their drunk-texting, tiger costume-wearing boss and pressured him to seek psychiatric help. House Democratic leaders, desperate to keep one of their own in office, ignored the pleas. Only after The Oregonian newspaper published allegations by a teenage girl who had complained for months to apathetic Capitol Hill offices of an "unwanted sexual encounter" with Wu did Pulosi make a show of calling for a House Ethics Committee investigation -- which went, you guessed it, nowhere.
Yet, just days ago in The New York Times, feminist Tina Brown heaped praise on creep-enabler Pulosi's unique leadership tied to her XX chromosomes -- a woman's "rich ways of knowing" that rejects "traditional male paths of ejaculatory self-elevation." Reality does not match the rhetoric.
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