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Jackson Lee Sunk by #MeToo Trouble
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Sarah Sanders: Roger Stone Indictment
'Has Nothing to Do With The President'
by Susan Jones
{cnsnews.com} ~ "I can tell you the specific charges brought against Mr. Stone don't have anything to do with the president,"... White House spokewoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told CNN’s “New Day” on Friday morning, shortly after longtime Trump associate Roger Stone was arrested at his Florida home on charges of obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering. Asked for her reaction, Sanders said, "Real simple, this has nothing to do with the president and certainly nothing to do with the White House. This is something that has to do solely with that individual, and not something that affects us in this building. "Sanders noted that the Special Prosecutor’s case aginst Roger Stone is "about whether or not he made false statements." "We'll let the courts make that decision,” Sander said. “I think a bigger question is, if this is the standard, will that same standard apply to people like scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton, scumbag-James Comey, scumbag-Clapper? Will we see these same people who we know have also made false statements, will that same standard apply? That's a question that we'll see what happens on that front."....
A Perfect Storm of Media Malpractice
by GEORGE NEUMAYRCongress’ Nonpartisan Research Arm Says Trump Could
Have DOD Build A Wall Without State of Emergency
or Congressional Approval
by Luke Rosiak
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a paper internally that suggests President Donald Trump may have the authority to use Department of Defense resources... to build a wall without obtaining congressional approval or declaring a state of emergency. CRS, Congress’s in-house research arm, internally published a paper Jan. 10 titled “Can the Department of Defense Build the Border Wall?,” which The Daily Caller News Foundation has obtained. Another statute that authorizes the Secretary of Defense to assist civilian law enforcement with counterdrug activities may provide some authority for the construction of barriers along the border. 10 U.S.C. § 284 (Section 284) provides that the Secretary of Defense “may provide support for the counterdrug activities or activities to counter transnational organized crime” of any law enforcement agency, including through the “construction of roads and fences and installation of lighting to block drug smuggling corridors across international boundaries of the United States.” … Use of Section 284 would not require a declaration of a national emergency under the NEA. However, the DOD’s Section 284 authority to construct fences appears to extend only to “drug smuggling corridors,” a condition that may limit where DOD could deploy fencing.“Drug corridors” are not defined in law, according to a congressional aide. The president has suggested using executive authority as a workaround to the stalemate that led to the partial government shutdown. House Democrats have refused to allocate $5.7 billion Trump requested to build part of a wall along the southern border, and the president has refused to support legislation opening the government that does not include border wall funding. Trump said Jan. 4 that he has considered using a “state of emergency” to build the wall. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley urged Trump not to declare a state of emergency, expressing concerns about overreach and setting a precedent that Democrats could also use when in power...Sen. Graham Says commie-Ocasio-Cortez
‘Hell Bent’ on Turning US into ‘Venezuela’
by hannity.com
{hannity.com} ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham escalated his war-of-words with Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday... saying the Democratic-Socialist would like to spend America’s “last 12 years as Venezuelan socialists.” “Even worse news, commie-Ocasio-Cortez and her new socialist colleagues seem hell-bent on making sure that our last 12 years will be spent as Venezuelan socialists, not Americans,” tweeted Graham.The Senator was referencing commie-Ocasio-Cortez’ comments this week that claimed the world would likely end in 12 years if the US doesn’t address climate change.France and Germany: "We Are Committed
to the Emergence of a European Army"
by Soeren Kern.
Jackson Lee Sunk by #MeToo Troubleby Political Editors: Wednesday brought another scalp of the #MeToo movement, and this time it was a black woman. Democrat Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee resigned as chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and “temporarily” gave up her gavel as chair of the House Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime, though she’ll retain her House seat — for now. Why? There are, according to The Daily Wire, “claims that she retaliated against a former staffer who accused a Congressional Black Caucus aide of sexual assault.”
The Wire lays out the sequence of events:
The staffer, who goes by the name “Jane Doe” in the complaint, claims she was drugged and then raped by a prominent aide to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation after a group event several years ago, when she was an intern for the group (the alleged perpetrator, she says, was her intern coordinator). Although Doe went to the police at the time and had a rape kit completed, she chose not to pursue the case any further.
Years later, while working as a staffer in Jackson Lee’s office, Doe found herself faced with the possibility of working alongside her alleged attacker; Jackson Lee’s office was floating the former CBC Foundation aide as a potential addition to the office. She approached Jackson Lee’s chief of staff to voice her concerns, and added that she planned on now pursuing legal action against her alleged attacker, if possible.
Jackson Lee’s chief of staff allegedly told Doe he would take her concerns to the congresswoman, but no meeting on the subject was ever set. Instead, two weeks later, Jane Doe was fired.
After a week of mounting pressure to step aside, Jackson Lee finally did. She insists she’s innocent and that she’ll be “exonerated,” but the very fact of her actions says there’s something to these accusations. We also know the Democrat Party has a very checkered history regarding the treatment of women. Yet they continue to throw stones from their glass house. ~The Patriot Post
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