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Trump Just Folded On The Government
Shutdown: Big Mistake
{finance.townhall.com} ~ Trump appears to have folded in the shutdown showdown, if the latest Fox News interview by Sarah Sanders is any indication... Sarah suggested that Trump will find the funding by other means; what those means are is not clear, and it’s always a possibility that Trump will outright contradict Sarah Sanders on twitter, as is his wont. If Trump has actually thrown in the towel, he’s made a mistake. He bought the rhetoric of the media and the Democrats that both say Republicans would be to blame for the shutdown. The media always, always, blames Republicans for shutdowns, regardless of which party holds the presidency and how reasonable their demands might be. Trump didn’t help his case, of course, when he decided to have an impromptu debate with scumbag/clown-Schumer and Pulosi, and preemptively took responsibility for the shutdown. Trump shouldn’t have said “I will be proud to shut down the government,” he should’ve said “I will not sign any bill that does not provide funding for the border wall,” and then gone on to the usual shtick about how we need to stop the crime and so on. He decided to put the blame on himself, but it is by no means obvious that the blame should be on him. He could have very well made the argument that it is unreasonable to sign a bill that spends billions and billions on all manner of things except border security, and that the obstinence of the Democrats in opposing the wall puts the responsibility on them. That being said, the right move is still for Trump to force the issue. You can see the rage bubbling on social media over Trump’s failure to follow through on the wall. It was his defining campaign promise and so far, we’ve seen nothing but “prototypes” and small expansions of existing fences. Remember, Trump said “we will build a wall, and Mexico will pay for the wall.” Some of Trump’s diehard supporters were convinced that Mexico would actually, literally pay for the wall; that is now recognized as extremely unlikely. So that half of Trump’s main promise is now broken. If Trump is unable to fulfill the other half of his promise, his re-election will become far more difficult – particularly if his base recognizes that he squandered opportunities to force the issue, like the one in front of him right now. It would have been good politics for Trump to refuse any bill that does not provide his requested $5 billion in wall funding. Personally, I think the wall is a dumb idea, and is basically just a PR strategy - but $5 billion is a very modest figure, and the only real reason Democrats oppose it is because they would be in political trouble if they supported it. The amount of money isn’t the problem, it’s what the money is being spent on. As of this writing, PredictIt puts the probability of a government shutdown before Christmas at 18%. The President has made a mistake by allowing the Democrats to dictate the narrative, and his supporters might very well punish him for it....
scumbag-Comey Surrenders to House
Republicans, Calls It ‘Striking a Deal’
by Ken Klukowski
{breitbart.com} ~ Former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey surrendered his attempts to block a subpoena to testify under oath before the U.S. House... shortly after it became likely that a federal judge was going to humiliate him by rejecting his “brazen demand” because Supreme Court precedent makes clear that federal courts lack the authority to block such a subpoena from Congress. The House Judiciary Committee has been asking for months for scumbag-Comey to testify under oath. Lawmakers have serious questions regarding the FBI’s decisions regarding investigating scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and the campaign of President Donald Trump, including what scumbag-Comey announced and did not announce, when he announced it, and why he attempted to usurp the role of the U.S. attorney general in deciding whether to charge scumbag/liar-Clinton with a crime. After scumbag-Comey refused to cooperate, Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte (R-VA) issued a subpoena requiring scumbag-Comey to appear for a closed-door session under oath on Wednesday, December 5. The reason for a closed-door hearing is that lawmakers have only five minutes each in open hearings, during which time an experienced politician and lawyer like scumbag-Comey can often wait out the clock for items they do not want to fully disclose. There are no time limits in a closed-door hearing, so each lawmaker or committee lawyer can keep drilling until he or she gets a full answer. Republicans added that they would release the entire transcript of the hearing this week, so there was no good reason not to agree to the full-length questioning session....
Will Peyton Manning Run For
Lamar Alexander’s Senate Seat?
by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Tennessee Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander announced he would not seek re-election in 2020 and rumblings that a very famous alumnus from the Volunteer State could step in... to fill his seat have already begun. Peyton Manning, an NFL legend and former University of Tennessee quarterback, has been mentioned as a possible candidate for the seat by several pundits. It has also been speculated by at least one current representative. Manning’s name has popped up occasionally in such discussions, most recently as a replacement for rino-Bob Corker who is also slated to retire. He is an active Republican in the Bush/Establishment mold. In a 2017 article by the Intelligencer, Peyton is discussed as a possible rino-Corker replacement but noted he was “more likely to wait until 2020, when Senator Lamar Alexander, who will be 80 on Election Day, faces reelection.”Alexander’s retirement certainly opens that door wide... https://thepoliticalinsider.com/peyton-manning-lamar-alexander/?utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_12_18_2018&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI.
Is U.N. asking the world to
fund Palestinian terrorists' salaries?
by GIL HOFFMAN
{jpost.com} ~ The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the Palestinian Authority issued a joint statement on Monday... in which they launched a $350 million appeal to “address the critical humanitarian needs of Palestinians.” In the appeal, they called upon the international community to help in securing the requested funds for 2019 to provide basic food, protection, health care, shelter, water and sanitation to 1.4 million Palestinians, who have been identified as most in need of humanitarian interventions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and east Jerusalem. On Tuesday, the organization Palestinian Media Watch expressed outrage that the sum being raised by the UN and PA is equivalent to the $355 million dollars, which the PA allocated in its 2018 budget, to fund its payments to terrorists’ families. This sum includes payments to terrorists in prison, those released from prison and families of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks, including suicide bombers. “Instead of the UN asking donor countries to contribute $350 million to provide Palestinian ‘humanitarian needs,’ the UN should be joining the unequivocal call from many governments that the PA immediately stop squandering the $355 million dollars of its own funds on its ‘Pay for Slay’ policy that incentivizes and rewards terrorism, and instead spend that money on needy Palestinians,” said Maurice Hirsch, head of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch....
dirty cop-Mueller’s rush to sentence cooperating
witnesses may show his investigation is over
{patriotnewsalerts.com} ~ In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a lot of activity in Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller’s office lately concerning the sentencing of witnesses... in his investigation into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia — but that doesn’t mean dirty cop-Mueller is getting closer to indicting the commander in chief. In fact, in all likelihood, dirty cop-Mueller is wrapping up his investigation. What really has the media worried, though, is the fact that nothing has been announced regarding Donald Trump, and key witnesses are now being sentenced, something that is normally reserved for after the primary subject has been charged. Many will tell you that the fact that people like Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen were arrested and charged makes the time and money spent by dirty cop-Mueller all worth it. Let’s remember, though, that the initial purpose of this investigation was to find collusion with Russia. That did not happen — and it likely isn’t going to, based on the sentencing hearings being conducted by dirty cop-Mueller’s list of witnesses. Standard procedure in these cases generally leads to sentencing after the witnesses have testified in the case of the main subject — in this case, Donald Trump... https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/muellers-investigation-is-over/.
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dirty cop-Mueller’s Flynn Sentencing Memo
Is Another Dud for the Resistance
by Joe DiGenova
{townhall.com} ~ How many times in the last year and a half have we watched liberals clamor and cheer as if their hero, dirty cop-Robert Mueller, had actually uncovered something important?
This week, rabid anti-Trump voices in the media are giving the “this is it!” treatment to dirty cop-Mueller’s latest “bombshell”: the sentencing memo his Special Counsel’s Office had to submit for Gen. Michael Flynn, the former national security advisor whose family dirty cop-Mueller has harassed and threatened for almost two years.
The sentencing memo is just another complete failure on dirty cop-Mueller’s part to produce anything related to the supposed reason for his appointment: the non-existent “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russian hackers. It contains evidence of nothing except the fact that dirty cop-Mueller’s entire investigation is a vindictive, partisan farce intended to overturn the legitimate result of the 2016 presidential election that sent Donald Trump to the White House.
The memo recommends that the judge give Flynn a light sentence as a reward for the “substantial assistance” he provided to dirty cop-Mueller’s investigation. Liberals are treating that recommendation as if it could only have been given in exchange for the real goods, the bombshell that’s going to finally take President Trump down.
That’s completely wrong and misleading, just like every other gleeful prediction they’ve made about the President’s impending demise.
The federal sentencing guidelines in Flynn’s case call for 0-6 months -- exactly what dirty cop-Mueller is “graciously” recommending. dirty cop-Mueller did Flynn no favors. Quite to the contrary, the only reason Flynn is facing any threat to his liberty is dirty cop-Mueller’s insistence on prosecuting him -- and more importantly threatening his son with prosecution -- over “crimes” that would have been thrown out by any ethical prosecutor the moment they crossed his desk.
How many times in the last year and a half have we watched liberals clamor and cheer as if their hero, dirty cop-Robert Mueller, had actually uncovered something important?
First, they trumped up Flynn’s attempt to establish a rapport with the Russian ambassador before he took over as national security advisor into a violation of the Logan Act, an almost certainly unconstitutional law that has never yielded a conviction despite being on the books since 1799. Then, they said the paperwork filed for his work with the Turkish government was a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, an extraordinarily broad statute famous in Washington for its rare and selective enforcement.
Because the sentencing memo doesn’t actually contain anything damaging against President Trump, the media are focusing on the “criminal investigation” the memo mentions Flynn has cooperated with, even though that section of the memo is completely redacted.
We’ve seen this routine before: dirty cop-Mueller teases an upcoming “bombshell” revelation, and when the disclosure turns out to have nothing whatsoever to do with collusion, the media dutifully contorts the information to fit its predetermined conclusion that Donald Trump could only have won the presidency by cheating.
The latest “major development” from dirty cop-Mueller is just another disingenuous political attack job from the Office of Special Counsel, while there is still no single sign of collusion. It’s time for dirty cop-Mueller to wrap it up and close shop.
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