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Flynn's Sentencing Delayed by Berating Judge
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by Political Editors  
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Government Shutdown Update: 
Trump Rejects Senate Plan
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by JIm E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Update – Paul Ryan confirms Trump will NOT sign the Senate spending deal... Update – House Republican leadership and Freedom Caucus members are currently meeting with the President: A deal is also being floated for Democrats to obtain wall funding: No word on if this deal is being taken seriously. Update – Now Republican leadership is considering a spending bill with full wall funding. Update – House Republicans are apparently revolting against the Senate spending plan, upending leadership’s plans. It appears many are unwilling to fold on the wall funding and are standing by President Trump. Talks have gone back and forth, but the latest news is that President Trump is considering a veto of the spending bill if it doesn’t include wall funding...
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Defense Secretary James Mattis to retire 
at the end of February, Trump says
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by Elizabeth Zwirz 
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump said Thursday evening that Defense Secretary James Mattis will be retiring in February... in a shock announcement adding to the list of the president's outgoing Cabinet members after his second year in office. Mattis will step down "with distinction" after serving in his role for two years, the president said on Twitter. "During Jim’s tenure, tremendous progress has been made, especially with respect to the purchase of new fighting  equipment," Trump tweeted. "General Mattis was a great help to me in getting allies and other countries to pay their share of military obligations. A new Secretary of Defense will be named shortly. I greatly thank Jim for his service!" A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that Mattis was not pushed out of his role and this was not a forced resignation. "He informed his staff after returning from the White House this afternoon," Pentagon spokesperson Dana White said. Fox News is told that Mattis met with Trump at 3 pm and later called his staff together for a meeting a little after 5 pm... I hate to see Mattis leave.
House Freedom Caucus to Launch 
Last Ditch Effort For Trump’s Border Wall
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by Rusty
{hepoliticalinsider.com} ~ The Freedom Caucus is planning a special session on the floor of the House Wednesday evening in what is being considered the last chance effort... to get funding for President Trump’s border wall. The order will include speeches from some of Trump’s closest allies urging their colleagues to find a path to funding the proposed wall at the southern border. Sources tell Breitbart News that the “strategy is to amend any spending bill brought up in the House to fund Trump’s border wall and close various asylum loopholes.”The move comes as the President himself has backed away from demanding a government shut down if he is not granted the $5 billion he deems necessary for the wall’s construction. A short-term continuing resolution that Trump is expected to sign keeps the government operating until February, well past time when Democrats will regain control of the House. The resolution does not fund the wall. Reports have said Senator John Cornyn expects the President to sign a ‘clean’ bill, but the Freedom Caucus doesn’t intend to concede just yet. The House Freedom Caucus features some of the President’s biggest supporters. If anyone can turn impassioned speeches into action, it’d be his allies. Chairman Mark Meadows, at one point a consideration as Trump’s Chief of Staff, has lambasted the continuing resolution, viewing it as a clear-cut victory for the Democrat Party...
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Border Patrol Agents Shut Down Tunnel 
Construction at Border With Mexico
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by Paul Crookston
{freebeacon.com} ~ Border Patrol agents foiled the construction of a cross-border tunnel for smuggling contraband that was discovered Monday during a tunnel sweep in cooperation with Mexican law enforcement... The tunnel was about 50 feet long and 2 feet wide by 2 feet tall, and while it was incomplete, it was apparently designed for smuggling, the Tucson Sector Border Patrol said in a statement. Most of it, about 44 feet, was on the U.S. side of the border. "Tucson Sector Border Patrol continues to work closely with strategic partners in Mexico to detect tunnels under construction to prevent the movement of illegal contraband or persons across the border," U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. The two cities of Nogales, in Arizona and Mexico, have an international waterway for controlling flooding, and the tunnel's entrance was submerged under it. The tunnel ended underneath a parking lot, its exit not yet constructed and structural shoring and digging tools lying inside. Authorities plan to fill the tunnel with concrete...
Trump Begins Withdrawing Troops From Syria  
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by Saagar Enjeti
{dailycaller.com} ~ President Donald Trump has begun withdrawing troops from Syria, claiming victory in the war against the Islamic State... White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Wednesday.  “We have started returning United States troops home as we transition to the next phase of this campaign,” Sanders declared. “The United States and our allies stand ready to re-engage at all levels to defend American interests whenever necessary, and we will continue to work together to deny radical Islamist terrorists territory, funding, support, and any means of infiltrating our borders.” Trump seemingly confirmed the report in a Wednesday morning tweet.“The Coalition has liberated the ISIS-held territory, but the campaign against ISIS is not over,” Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said Wednesday. “We have started the process of returning U.S. troops home from Syria as we transition to the next phase of the campaign. For force protection and operational security reasons we will not provide further details. We will continue working with our partners and allies to defeat ISIS wherever it operates.”...
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Texas City Featured in scumbag-Al Gore’s ‘Inconvenient Sequel’
Lost Millions in Its Green Energy Gamble
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Former Vice President scumbag-Al Gore hailed the city of Georgetown, Texas, for powering itself with only solar and wind energy, but now the city is losing millions on its green energy gamble... Georgetown’s bet against fossil fuel prices cost the city-owned utility nearly $7 million this year, and prompted officials to look for a way out of their long-term contracts for solar and wind energy. “It’s costing them big time,” Bill Peacock, vice president of research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told The Daily Caller News Foundation in an interview. “This doesn’t appear to be the first time they’ve lost money, just the first time it was big enough to have to go public with it.” Georgetown made national news after being featured in  scumbag-Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Sequel,” which was released in 2017. The film followed up on scumbag-Gore’s inaccurate 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth.” “I think Georgetown is already a trailblazer,”  scumbag-Gore said during his 2016 visit to learn about Georgetown’s plan to get 100 percent of its energy from wind and solar power. But energy prices plummeted in recent years, particularly natural gas prices, meaning the city lost money selling power back to the market. Georgetown Budget Manager Paul Diaz told city councilors in late November the utility had lost $6.84 million. City officials are looking for ways to make up the shortfall...
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Graham Slams Trump’s Plan to Withdraw Troops From Syria:
It’d Be ‘scumbag/liar-nObama-Like Mistake’
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by Cameron Cawthorne  
{freebeacon.com} ~ Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Wednesday released a statement criticizing President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Syria, calling it an "scumbag/liar-nObama-like mistake."... The Wall Street Journal and Reuters, followed by others, reported on Wednesday that Trump planned to "immediately" remove U.S. troops from northern Syria. Trump appeared to confirm these reports on Twitter by saying that the United States "defeated" the Islamic State in Syria. "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency," Trump tweeted." If these media reports are true, it will be an scumbag/liar-nObama-like mistake made by the Trump Administration," Graham wrote in a statement. "While American patience in confronting radical Islam may wane, the radical Islamists’ passion to kill Americans and our allies never wavers." Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, went on to say that the withdrawal "would be a big win" for ISIS, Iran, Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russia...
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Flynn's Sentencing Delayed by Berating Judge
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by Political Editors:  U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Tuesday delayed sentencing former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn at the request of his attorneys. The events leading up to the judge’s decision were bizarre to say the least. Following Sullivan’s instructionlast week to dirty cop-Robert Mueller and the Justice Department to provide documents related to the FBI’s interview of Flynn to the court, many were speculating that Flynn’s guilty plea may have been in doubt, which would have certainly served as a reprimand against dirty cop-Mueller.

             However, what transpired was anything but a criticism of the FBI. Instead, Sullivan proceeded to blast Flynn for “treasonous” acts before backtracking somewhat as he delayed the sentencing until March.
               Sullivan berated Flynn, stating, “All along, you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security advisor to the president of the United States. That undermines everything this flag over here stands for. Arguably, you sold your country out.” But after a short recess, he walked it back, saying, “I’m not suggesting [Flynn] was committing treason. I was just curious if he could have been charged. Lots of conspiracy theories out there. … I was just trying to determine the benefit and the generosity of the government. Don’t read too much into the questions I ask.” For the record, Sullivan never served a day in uniform.
               Ironically, Sullivan’s statements even caught dirty cop-Mueller’s team off guard, as it was they who pushed back against the judge’s suggestion of treason, asserting, “The government has no reason to believe [that Flynn] committed treason.” Flynn was not guilty of being an “unregistered agent,” and when even the prosecution pointed that out, Sullivan walked back his accusation.
               Consider constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley’s assessment: “When you read these [FBI interview report] 302s, this is a rather anemic crime that borders on the pathetic. I mean [Flynn] gets a call [while] on vacation; he talks to the Russian ambassador. None of that is strange or unprecedented, and certainly not unlawful.”
               Meanwhile, this was an enlightening exchange from scumbag-James Comey’s testimony Tuesday: Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) told Comey, “You were so concerned that Michael Flynn may have lied … to the vice president of the United States, but … once you got that confirmed … you didn’t believe that it was appropriate to tell the president of the United States.
               scumbag-Comey replied, “That is correct. … We had an open investigation, criminal investigation, counterintelligence investigation. There was no way I would discuss that with the president.”
               By the way, scumbag-Comey also recently admitted that sending agents to interview Flynn outside of normal protocol was “something I probably wouldn’t have done or maybe gotten away with in a more … organized administration.” He explained, “If the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, and there would be discussions and approvals and who would be there. I thought: ‘It’s early enough, let’s just send a couple guys over.’”
               Former U.S. Attorney Joe diGenova hit Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s FBI deep-state operatives, declaring, “Michael Flynn was framed to get Donald Trump. [Former scumbag/liar-nObama FBI officials] Sally Yates, scumbag-James Comey, Peter Strozk, [and] Andrew McCabe all planned it. What you are watching play out in an American courtroom is one of the most disgraceful events in American criminal justice.”
               Even a few MSM talkingheads are starting to figure this out. ABC News legal analyst Dan Abrams declared that Flynn “got railroaded.” Abrams lamented, “I have sympathy for Michael Flynn now. And it’s fair to say that at this hearing he got railroaded. This judge … was just being vindictive.”
               So where does this leave things? Sullivan granted Flynn’s request for a delay in sentencing as he is still cooperating with Mueller in an investigation into two of his former business partners who were indicted Monday for violating lobbying rules. As for the theory that Sullivan was about to throw out Flynn’s plea deal over FBI entrapment, that was shown to be completely wrong. In fact, this latest development seemingly serves only to further strengthen dirty cop-Mueller’s hand.  

~The Patriot Post  

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