Here we go again: letter emerges casting doubt on NY Times "reports"

When you call a former reputable newspaper "fake news," you're wandering into dangerous territory. The one freedom most important for national freedom is that of the press, and naturally free speech and the right to protect ourselves to ensure it. But it's no secret that whenever the media makes a mistake, it is always in the same direction--it first accuses the president or those on the right of wrongdoing, only later to retract the story after the world has read the lies. And the retractions are often buried somewhere in the paper where it's hardly read.

It's "here we go again" with the New York Times. [H/T Daily Wire]

A letter emerged into the light of day late on Monday from the Australian government. It disputed the New York Times report claiming that President Trump "pushed" Australia to help AG William Barr investigate the origins of the Mueller Russia investigation. The former newspaper was trying to "discredit" the investigation in what they said was an example of the president of "using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests."

The letter stated:

Dear Attorney General,

I refer to President Trump’s announcement on 24 May that you will investigate the origins of the Federal Bureau of Investigations probe into Russian links to the 2016 US election. 

I note that the President referred to Australia, the United Kingdom and the Ukraine as potential stakeholders. Moreover, I note that he has declassified intelligence material to support your investigation. 

The Australian Government will use its best endeavors to support your efforts in this matter. While Australia’s former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, The Hon. Alexander Downer, is no longer employed by the government, we stand ready to provide you with all the relevant information to support your inquiries. 

The Acting White House Chief of Staff, The Honorable Michael Mulvaney, has been copied on this letter. 

Yours sincerely,
The Hon Joe Hockey

The current development came to light after the Times suggested it was a scandal for the president to ask Australia to cooperate with an ongoing investigation by the Department of Justice into the Russian investigation regarding the 2016 presidential election.

Shortly after The Times’ report was published, a source at the DOJ pushed back on it, telling Fox News: “The countries have been helpful. There was no pressing required.”

“The president was letting the heads of other countries know that the attorney general would be contacting the appropriate law enforcement entities in each country, according to the DOJ official. When Barr was in Italy last week, he did talk to law enforcement officials there about Durham’s review, Fox News was told,” the network added. “The DOJ official also stressed that this has been a routine procedure in diplomacy and that Barr would not usually reach out to his direct counterpart in another country unilaterally. Instead, usually there would be an introduction of sorts made at the head-of-state level.”

The load of new information regarding the DOJ’s investigation included recent reporting from The Washington Post, which attempted to cast AG Barr in a negative light for conducting his job, claiming that he was trying to help Trump “discredit” Mueller’s investigation.

They are doing this in an attempt to neutralize Barr's credibility so when he finds nothing impeachable, they can claim he's in Trump's back pocket.

The new and relevant information from The Post’s report was the revelation that Barr has been in contact with British intelligence officials and has traveled to Italy as a part of the ongoing investigation.

“Barr has already made overtures to British intelligence officials, and last week the attorney general traveled to Italy, where he and Durham met senior Italian government officials and Barr asked the Italians to assist Durham, according to one person familiar with the matter,” The Post reported. “It was not Barr’s first trip to Italy to meet intelligence officials, the person said. The Trump administration has made similar requests of Australia, these people said.”

In May, Trump said regarding AG Barr: “And I hope he looks at the U.K., and I hope he looks at Australia, and I hope he looks at Ukraine. I hope he looks at everything because there was a hoax that was perpetrated on our country.”

The DOJ’s investigation into the origins of the Russia probe is being led by U.S. Attorney John Durham.

The games have begun and Joe Hockey has dropped the puck.


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Hunter Biden's China chicanery includes Whitey Bulger's nephew, John Kerry's stepson, a village idiot and the town wh*re

Former vice president Joe "It's a Big F***ing Deal" Biden's son Hunter, partnered with former mob boss and currently dead, Whitey Bulger's nephew and former secretary of state John "Hair Plugs" Kerry stepson, for his sweetheart business deal with Bank of China, according to Peter Schweizer in his latest book.

It's possible, Schweizer believes, that the reason Joe is so ready to placate China is because of Hunter's relationship with the $1.5 billion private equity investment between the bank and Hunter's company in a deal that was signed just weeks after Joe brought Hunter along on an "official trip" to China back in 2013.

Also in 2013, Hunter joined the U.S. Naval Reserve and was able to receive an age-related waiver since he was over the cut-off age of 42. As fortune would have it, he was also able to receive a waiver due to a past drug-related incident. He was granted a direct commission as a Naval ensign and served in public affairs in Norfolk, Virginia . In 2014 he was thrown out of the Navy for testing positive for cocaine but claimed he ingested it involuntarily. However, he declined to fight the discharge.

Hunter's brother, Beau, died of brain cancer May 30, 2015 and soon after Hunter, who was married at the time, had an affair with Beau's widow in 2016 until they broke it off the following year as Hunter moved on to "greener fields" to plow.

Uncle Whitey

In terms of the $1.5 billion deal with Hunter's company, he partnered with the Thornton Group, and not the Billy Bob Thornton Group but the one headed by James [aka Jimmy] Bulger, son of MA state senator Billy Bulger. James was named after his now deceased uncle, James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious mobster/murderer that put him on the FBI's Most Wanted list, and who was snuffed in prison.

Hunter also partnered with Chris Heinz, the son of ketchup queen Teresa Heinz Kerry, making him the stepson of John Kerry. Chris and Hunter control Rosemont Seneca Partners, a private equity firm that received billions of investment bucks from, you guessed it, China.

A representative for Heinz claims Chris' involvement in the deal has been "misreported." He says that neither he nor his firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, had any role in the deal. He says an unaffiliated second firm, Rosemont Seneca Bohai, is the firm doing business with Bank of China, and that Heinz is not involved. The representative also says the closest Heinz has come to being in China is a Chinese restaurant called Sum Ting Wong.

Schweizer's book, Secret Empires, should be required reading for people who want to better understand how political elites accumulate wealth by their political power.


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Rashida Tlaib defends "Impeach the M****rF***er" Shirts

Repulsive anti-Semitic Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) was seen on video after her election victory standing with her young son and making her  now infamous statement about President Trump to "We're going to go in and impeach the motherf****r." One has to wonder what was going through her son's head when she spewed that word, but it's clear that as a congresswoman, she is nothing more than a disgusting person.

Rather than being contrite about her vulgarity, Tlaib's reelection campaign has printed up t-shirts stating: "Impeach the MF." She says the shirts bring a sense of "levity" and liberation to her supporters and says that it's a "mistake to try to equate t-shirts with the destruction of our democracy."

Where is the "levity?" What is funny about calling the President of the United States such a disgusting name? And what is funny about an elected official being the one responsible for such vulgarity?

Tlaib proudly tweeted her reelection campaign’s shirts featuring the infamous remark she made on her first day in office.

So, before having any congressionally privileged knowledge about Trump as to whether he was guilty of the Russian collusion [under Obama's administration], she was calling for his impeachment.

Here is the tweet Tlaib posted:

“We’re going to go in and impeach the motherfucker” pic.twitter.com/oQJYqR78IA
— Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) January 4, 2019

Now I cannot use that word in my blog, but as a quote from a prominent Democrat, they may allow it--Twitter certainly didn't have a problem with it since it went against Trump.

Anyway, Tlaib got her wish as the House of Representatives, led by her fellow anti-Semite Alexandria Obviously-Communist, has gone forward in calling for the impeachment of our duly elected president.

It's a case in which they have the person they wish to target and have been looking for a crime to pin on him. This has been going on ever since Trump beat Hillary Clinton, who still has not conceded the election results and will hopefully jump into the 2020 race.

It's prosecutorial malpractice and should be called out by the public as such. Imagine if that was you they didn't like.

The vulgar t-shirts were met with backlash and Tlaib's "Squad" member felt she needed to reaffirm how seriously she takes impeachment. She tweeted:

If there is anyone who takes impeachment seriously it is myself & the people I fight for everyday. Whether or not you agree with the expression, the t-shirts are to bring levity to my supporters. A senior in my district said, “It feels liberating.” (2/4)
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) September 27, 2019

She also fights for Hamas as well as the Boycott Divest and Sanction against our ally, Israel and is friendly with known Islamic terrorists.


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4 Ohio inmates refuse to wait for Biden to release them

OHIO -- Four Ohio inmates escaped from jail by overpowering two female guards using a makeshift weapon. It is believed they had help from the outside and didn't have the patience to wait and see if former Vice President Joe Biden would win the nomination and eventually the presidency so they could be released since they did not commit murder.

The guys escaped from the Gallia County Jail, according to authorities. Sheriff Matt Champlin said they used a homemade weapon and had help from "at least one individual on the outside."

The escapees was successful in opening a secure door and escaping.

They were identified as Brynn Martin, 40; Christopher Clemente, 24; Troy McDaniel Jr., 30; and Lawrence Lee III, 29. All four escapees are to be considered extremely dangerous.

According to records, Martin was being held on charges of failure to appear and escape; Clemente for aiding and abetting another person in the commission of a crime; Lee was being held on a charge of identity fraud; but it's unclear what charge McDaniel was being held on.

If these men had only waited until the Democratic nominee was determined, it's quite possible any one of them would have allowed them to go free if they were to win the 2020 presidential election [G_d forbid]. This is especially true should Biden win.


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Study: Owning a gun has little to do with fear

TALLAHASSEE — A recent study out of Florida State University suggests that owning a firearm does not indicate the owner does so due to a fear or phobia. In fact, gun owners tend to report less fear than their counterparts. [H/T Study Finds]

The study's co-author, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, a sociology doctoral candidate at the university says, “There’s a lot of popular rhetoric in the media and among politicians as to why people own guns. The biggest claim is that they’re cowards. So, we wanted to see if owning guns was truly a symptom of fear.”

The researchers used a standard test to measure the level of fear gun owners have in comparison to non-gun owners. Specifically, they investigated phobias and victimization tendencies.

The first analysis investigated whether or not gun ownership was a result of fear. It was found that for the most part, fear was not related to the probability of owning a gun, however, there were some exceptions: adults who reported fear of animals or a potential mugging were actually less likely to own a gun. 

On the other hand, adults who reported being afraid of getting caught in a random or mass shooting situation were more likely to own a gun.

The next part of the research explored the fears of current gun owners. Contrary to popular leftist beliefs, it was found that gun owners report fewer phobias and fears of becoming a victim than non-gun owners. These findings were consistent across a variety of fears and phobias, including fear of heights, animals, or being mugged.

“There’s little evidence to suggest that gun ownership is an effect of fear,” Dowd-Arrow says. “However, gun ownership may be associated with less fear because firearms help their owners to feel safe, secure and protected in a world they perceive to be uncertain and potentially dangerous.”

And what's wrong with that?

The study is published in the scientific journal SSM – Population Health.

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NYC wants to fine New Yorkers for their free speech rights

Speaking in a derogatory way about a person or group of people is disgusting but there used to be a time when our words were protected by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. You could say anything as long as you didn't call for violence, and sure, a lot of what was said was horrible, rude, vulgar and wrong, but you had the constitutional right to say it.

Now the New York City's Commission on Human Rights said on Thursday that New Yorkers in the Big Apple could face a fine up to $250,000 for using the words "illegal alien . . .  with the intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person."

It's unclear if the same fine would hold for actual illegal aliens but the fine details have not been totally explained.

"Hate has no place here," a tweet from the City of New York read. By that, they also mean "free speech has no place here." 

Once they criminalize two words, it's a baby step to criminalize more.

And illegal alien is not derogatory--it's explanative. A person who is in a country unlawfully, [without proper authorization] is in the country illegally. If they are from a different country, they are alien to the country they are in. They are by definition, illegal aliens.

 The city's announcement ticked off a list of offensive ways to address immigrants -- including threatening to call the authorities on them for being in the country illegally, or harassing someone for having "limited English proficiency." Both situations are not unlawful, but the uber left New York City wants lawbreakers to be happy and free.

"Threatening to call ICE when motivated by discrimination, derogatory use of the term 'illegal alien,' and discrimination based on limited English proficiency are unlawful discriminatory treatment under the NYC Human Rights Law," the announcement read. So by that statement, the NYC Commission on Human Rights is implying that they can know what is in a person's mind/heart that motivates them to use a perfectly legal term, or to exercise their free speech rights.

It clarified that calling ICE with a "discriminatory motive" was a violation, but it didn't specify what NYC would consider a call to ICE would be that lacked a "discriminatory motive."

"Fines of up to $250,000 can be assessed for each act of willful discrimination, and damages are available to complainants," the leftist city said.

"The NYC Commission on Human Rights ... defines discrimination on the basis of perceived or actual immigration status and national origin under the New York City Human Rights Law in public accommodation, employment, and housing," the announcement read.

This explains why Democrats want to eliminate voter ID and allow illegal aliens sanctuary from the law.

Notice that politicians never have to be personally involved with the decisions they make--only we must--and that was even true with Obamacare.

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Feds raid office of Dem. Senator Martin Sandoval

ALL OVER THE PLACE, ILLINOIS -- Federal agents executed multiple search warrants Tuesday to search multiple locations tied to Sen. Martin Sandoval (D-IL).

At least six agents were seen by a representative for BlueRoomStream (a streaming service for events at the Illinois State Capitol) at the Democrat's Springfield office and others were seen at his 5800 block of West 35th Street in Cicero, according to NBCChicago.com.

"FBI personnel are engaged in an authorized law enforcement activity at the Illinois State Capitol," a spokesman for the FBI's Chicago office said in a statement, but declined to provide more details.

Sandoval has been in office since 2003 and is a member of the Senate Democratic Caucus leadership, as well as chair of the Senate Transportation Committee. It was not immediately clear what the agents sought at his offices, and no criminal charges have been filed against Sandoval, who did not immediately respond to request for comment.

Last month, photos came to light from his political fundraiser showing an attendee pretending to shoot a person wearing a President Trump mask. Of course, this drew the ire of people who view the presidency of the United States as a position to be respected, people often referred to as patriots.

"I reject any suggestion of violence towards the president or anyone else," Sandoval said in a statement at the time, but failing to admonish those responsible. Then he added that he had "absolutely no knowledge that this regrettable exchange... took place." And that the moon landing was a fake.

A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service Chicago office said the agency was "aware of the fundraiser" but declined to say if the ongoing investigation involved the traitorous photos taken by the Democrats.

The raids at Sandoval's offices were the latest in a long string of FBI searches at various locations tied to state and local Democratic political figures who apparently suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, a psychological disorder characterized by irrational hatred and the inability to process political reality.

Martin Sandoval

The home of Kevin Quinn, a former top aide to Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, a lifelong Democrat and the brother of 13th Ward Ald. Marty Quinn, was raided in May, according to multiple sources. Madigan's statehouse seat is one of two within the boundaries of Sandoval's Senate district.

Chicago Ald. Ed Burke, a Democrat, was indicted in May on multiple charges of corruption, with authorities alleging he had used his position to steer business to his private law firm specializing in property tax appeals.

The indictment of Burke came after former Ald. Danny Solis, yet another Democrat and whose sister was an aide to two-time presidential election loser Hillary Clinton, was also the subject of a federal criminal investigation in 2014, secretly recorded a number of conversations with Burke using an electronic listening device.

And in June, federal agents also executed a search warrant at the ward office of Democrat Ald. Carrie Austin, reportedly related to the zoning of the area surrounding her Far South Side home.

No Republicans have been hurt in writing this post.

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The think tank of "The View" claim "impeachment will unify the country"

ABC's political brain trusts

The Current Events special ed class known as "The View," had another of their brain-storming sessions in front of a group of clapping seals and concluded that "impeachment hearings [of President Trump] will unify the country." They also concluded that putting their cigarettes out on the carpet makes the carpet stronger.

Of greater concern is why co-host Meghan McCain continues to be on the same panel with these cretins.

Co-host of ABC's situation comedy, "The View," Sunny Hostin, a veritable motherlode of political data prevarication said, "I think impeachment hearings will unify the country.”

The other cretin co-host Joy Behar echoed, “I do, too,” upon which she surreptitiously wiped her index finger on the bottom of the desk when she thought nobody was watching.

The cerebral exchange began when McCain said that the announcement by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that a launch toward impeachment would occur was bad news for three people and good news for one. She stated:


I will say, do you know who’s having the best day today? Elizabeth Warren. Because Joe Biden is involved in this; his son is involved in this; President Trump is involved with this; her poll numbers are rising; it just came out that she’s officially first in New Hampshire by 2%. There’s a feather [she did not mean a feather from a Native American headdress] that’s just dropped, and I will say that this is the best political day for her.

Then this exchange followed:

Behar: Can I just say that during Watergate, the country was not on board then for impeachment either, and most of the Republican Party, it took a long time for them to get on board.

Hostin: And he had a 60% approval rating going in.

Behar: He was very popular. And I recall watching; every day it was in television and it was right there for everybody to see all the crimes that Nixon committed. And now we’ll see all the crimes that Trump has done before.

Behar: I don’t think the people out there are watching this the way we do, the way newspeople do, the way political junkies do. The average person in Kansas and Iowa and all these states you’re talking about, they’re busy with their lives. Now watch it every day and see what he did and then come to your conclusion about whether he’s destroying this country or not.

Co-host Abby Huntsman, who referred to Pelosi as “Nancy”: Also, to that point, when Nancy came out yesterday, within 15 minutes $250,000 were (sic) given to the Trump campaign.

McCain: It was $1 million all day yesterday.

Hostin: I suspect that will change.

Huntsman: By the way, impeachment, if you think this country is divided right now, if you think that politically we’re in a bad place, you wait until we have impeachment hearings. It’s going to get farther — people are going to get further and further —

Hostin: I think impeachment hearings will unify the country.

Behar: I do, too.

Duh.

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Warren's private prison hypocrisy

Warren making the soon-to-be-announced
racist hand gesture

Sen. Elizabeth "Dances with Palefaces" Warren (D-MA) says that she wants to ban private prisons from operating because "no one should make a profit locking people up." She never explains why that's somehow a plausible fact when  similar claims about drug companies involved in producing lethal injection solutions aren't challenged. But it sounds good and she's going to stick by her statement.

Question: So why did the senator invest in private prisons and make a money from them in the past?

Answer: Because she, like many politicians, particularly those on the left, are hypocrites and liars.

Warren invested as much as $50,000 in a Vanguard Group fund that owned hundreds of millions of dollars worth of shares in high level private prison companies, the fund being the largest shareholder of the U.S.A's. largest private prison corporation.

In 2013, she cashed out and opened a different retirement account.

Warren had invested in Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 run by the Vanguard Group. They invested over 30 percent of their funds in their domestic stock index fund and the company was the top shareholder of Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), one of the largest of GEO Group, both private prison companies, according to data from the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Vanguard owned more than 12 million CCA shares and nearly 9 million GEO Group shares, which were worth roughly $456 million and $216 million, respectively, in March 2013.

CCA, now called CoreCivic, was already the country's largest owner of private prisons in 2013, according to an annual report. 

Now this isn't meant to disparage private prison management corporations because the private sector tends to overwhelmingly outperform the public sector in most areas [education being an good example].

The point is, Warren will say anything that she believes needs to be said to secure the Democratic presidential nomination.

The Warren campaign did not respond to request for comment.

"There should be no place in America for profiting off putting more people behind bars or in detention," Warren wrote in a June Medium post. "That's why I will shut down the use of federal private detention facilities by ending all contracts that the Bureau of Prisons, ICE, and the U.S. Marshals Service have with private detention providers."

Her idea can be depicted in the fact that California has decriminalized shoplifting in the state and guess what--it has increased substantially. 

"No one should make a profit locking people up, and no one should have a financial incentive to lobby Congress to lock up even more people," Warren said at a Sept. 16 rally in New York's Washington Square.

Except that those who are locked up are being locked up because they have committed crimes. If you decriminalize crimes your statistics will improve but criminal behavior will increase. 

The left thinks backwards--they see success in education, for example, not in terms of outcome, but in terms of how much money is spent on education. And they see private prison corporations as the miscreants rather than the criminals.

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MI synagogue vandalized with anti-Semitic grafitti

Hancock, Michigan -- A local synagogue was recently the site of an anti-Semitic attack of Nazi swastikas and spray painting that is now being investigated by law enforcement. [H/T Daily Mining Gazette]

The defacement of the house of worship was reported on Saturday around noon by a man bringing his daughter home from a soccer match, according to David Holden, president of Temple Jacob.

“She spotted the writing on the front of the synagogue, then he pulled in to investigate and called the Hancock police,” he said.

Multiple swastikas were spray-painted on the synagogue, as well as the symbol of the SS, a Nazi paramilitary organization.

After the police contacted Holden, they walked around the building to check for more vandalism. Thankfully, nothing was harmed inside, Holden explained. He believes the graffiti may have been spray-painted during the night over the past week, and police told him that this is what they too believed.

Seeing the graffiti was disappointing, Holden said. But he was encouraged by the level of community support afterwards. Four groups came by Saturday afternoon to help them clean the symbols off.

Rabbi Martyn Adelberg, who has served the Beth Israel Sinai Congregation for almost 20 years, told The Journal Times that “to the best of my knowledge, nothing like this has ever happened before.”

Rabbi Adelberg meant locally, not nationally--in that respect it has become an epidemic, but an epidemic that has been alluded to by the left as free speech.

Anti-Semitic graffiti was also found Sunday spray-painted on the Beth Israel Sinai Congregation, 3009 Washington Ave. in Racine, Wisconsin.

The graffiti — which included a swastika, the rune “S” symbol associated with Nazi Secret Service (or Schutzstaffel), and the word “JUDE,” which is the German word for Jew — was found by members of the congregation on Sunday.

During the Nazi regime in Hitler's Germany, Jews were forced to wear the word 'Jude' on their outer garments or the Star of David to indicate their religion and to be later rounded up for unspeakable horrors that some deny ever happened.


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BREAKING: The Ukraine-Trump transcript is out

The White House has released the transcript of President Trump's phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky from July. There was no mention of US aid, thus there appears to be no indication of a quid pro quo, or a "you do this for that." In other words, there is no indication of Trump leveraging military aid in order to force Zelensky to do his bidding.

The transcript, which was declassified the previous day, is considered to be a solid rendition of the July 25th phone call which took place from 9:03 a.m. to 9:33 a.m.

The call begins with Trump congratulating Zelensky on his winning the election. The conversation eventually broaches the subject of Joe and Hunter Biden.

“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” Trump said. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it…It sounds horrible to me.”

The Democrats have accused Trump of pressuring Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden even before reading the transcript and the whistleblower's complaint. [This tactic is in the spirit of Nancy Pelosi's saying of Obamacare that Congress should pass it so that we can know what's in it.]

The transcript shows Zelensky suggesting to Trump the Biden matter would be looked into by a new prosecutor. “He or she will look into the situation specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue, the issue of the investigation of the case is actually the issue to restore the honesty so we will take care of that and we will work on the investigation of the case.”

The president told Zelensky he wanted his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Attorney General Bill Barr to get involved.

“I will have Mr. Giuliani give you call and I’m also going to have Attorney General Barr call and we will get to the bottom if it. I’m sure you will figure it out,” he said.

Before the transcript was released, Democrats accused Trump of improperly using his office to pressure another country to investigate one of his chief Democratic rivals. Trump has denied wrongdoing and has repeatedly referred to the impeachment push as a partisan “witch-hunt.”

No Democrat, however, mentioned the Steele dossier, created by a former foreign spy, Christopher Steele, and paid for by the Clinton campaign with the purpose of finding "dirt" on Trump.

 No Democrat mentioned the "hot mic" moment when then President Obama told Dmitry Medvedev that after the 2012 election, he would have "more flexibility."

The country has become dangerously polarized.



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Trump to release unredacted phone call transcript and perhaps whistleblower complaint

Fourth down or white power sign? Or neither?

President Trump announced Tuesday that he has now authorized the release of the transcript of the phone conversation he had with Ukrainian President and former comedian Volodymyr Zelensky.

There has also been credible talk that he will also authorized the release of the whistleblower complaint as the Democrats are jumping up and down like rabid monkeys calling for impeachment inquiries--some are even calling for impeachment with no evidence of wrongdoing, unlike the "hot mic" former president Obama had with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev when Obama told him that he would have more flexibility after the 2012 election.

Trump took to Twitter and posted:

“I…have authorized the release tomorrow of the complete, fully declassified and unredacted transcript of my phone conversation with President Zelensky of Ukraine. You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call. No pressure and, unlike Joe Biden and his son, NO quid pro quo!”

The very thought that Trump is willingly releasing the transcript seems to indicate that there is no there there. So there, Nancy and Chuck.

The result of this latest political show may yet bring to light exactly what took place with former VP Joe Biden who even bragged that he withheld money from Ukraine to force them to remove a judge from a trial of the same company Biden's son Hunter worked for and made more money than he is worth.

It's never dull in the Trump presidency.

Here's the thing: if there's a quo with the quid, then Trump is in trouble, but it seems highly doubtful that this is the case.


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Dem wins honors now faces election fraud charges

Michigan -- Sherikia Hawkins, 38, was honored earlier this year with an award from the state's Democratic Party. Now she faces six felony charges for allegedly forging records and marking valid absentee ballots as invalid during the 2018 election.

The Democratic award winning clerk of Southfield was busted Monday after the Oakland County Clerk's office discovered discrepancies in voter counts while certifying absentee ballots. State police [often referred to as "pigs" by Democrats] investigated and found that 193 voter files were improperly listed as invalid.

“Our elections are the foundation of our democracy, and under my and Attorney General [Dana] Nessel’s administration there will be no tolerance for any actions that undermine that foundation — anywhere, anytime, by any person or official,” Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a fellow Democrat and former Dean of Wayne State University, said in a statement. Crain's named Benson one of Michigan's "Most Influential Women" in 2018.

According to court documents, Michigan police found that the absentee voter files were changed in the city’s computer system to say they either had no signature or no return date, when they had both valid signatures and return dates. Police stated that after Oakland County Election Director Joseph Rozell found that Hawkins had submitted altered reports, his staff found the original ones in a trash can at the election division office, proving that Ms. Hawkins isn't all that bright when it comes to covering up her alleged crime. Allegedly.

Sherikia Hawkins is now facing election fraud charges and if found guilty, she ought to be deported to a country that has no free and fair elections. Just sayin',

Benson insisted that the alleged fraud did not affect the outcome of the election, which is, of course, totally irrelevant.

“All valid votes in the election were ultimately counted and the final official vote total was accurate,” she said, according to The Detroit News.

Hawkins’ arrest comes just months after she was honored on May 18 at the Michigan Democratic Party’s Legacy Dinner, where she received the Dingell/Levin Award for being a brave Democratic soldier in the fight against the Republican Party and free elections. [I made the last part up.]

In 2017, Hawkins was listed among the "40 under 40" by the Michigan Chronicle, according to a government bio from her previous role as Pontiac city clerk.

Hawkins has been charged with falsifying records in violation of state election law, forgery of a public record, misconduct in office and three counts of using a computer to commit a crime. The top count carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison but it's more likely she'll get 14 days based on the recent powderpuff sentences being handed out for outrageous behavior by the left.

She was arraigned on Monday and released on $15,000 bond, according to a state press release. Hawkins has a probable cause conference set for Sept. 30, and another hearing scheduled for Oct. 15.

If convicted, she plans to run for state senate upon her release and has received the endorsement of Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Jerrold Nadler.

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AOC: wants you taxed but doesn't pay her own taxes

"This country was founded on abortion rights"

Rep. Alexandria Ostentatiously-Communist (D-NY) proposal of the Green New Deal [GND] would not merely kill all the farting cows, but it would have American families virtually working to pay taxes and even that would not be enough to keep the country from going bankrupt.

Yes, she wants us to pay our taxes to have her socialism, but now there's a tax warrant against the History 1.01 dropout and economics "genius." The warrant remains open over six months after her office claimed the unpaid state taxes would be promptly paid back.

Don't hold your breath, New York.

The tax warrant from the State of New York was issued in July 2017 against Brook Avenue Press, a Bronx-based children’s books publisher the Democratic rising star founded in 2012, for $1,618.36 in unpaid corporate taxes. You would think she'd take care of that debt but no, she's special and privileged.

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A tax warrant is issued by the state against businesses if they "fail to timely resolve" their tax debt and not respond to notices regarding their debt, according to the New York Department of Taxation and Finance.

It was the New York Post that initially spotted AOC's delinquent tax situation in March and her spokesman said at the time that this was news to them and that the tax balance would be paid right away.

Former Ostentatiously-Communist's spokesman Corbin Trent told The Post her lawyers were looking into the matter in a story back in March 23. They admitted the taxes remained unpaid.

You'd think she would have gotten the tax bill done by now since her salary is $174,000 for some crazy reason.

The Bronx County Clerk confirmed in a phone call with the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday that the Brook Avenue Press tax warrant remains open and that a satisfaction of judgement has yet to be filed in the matter.

New York state dissolved the commie congresswoman's company in 2016 using a procedure reserved for corporations that fail to pay taxes for at least two years or fail to file tax returns.

AOC reported that she was the founder of Brook Avenue Press in her financial disclosure report filed with the House of Representatives this past May.

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Outside positions Ocasio-Cortez reported are pictured above.

As a socialist and member of Congress, AOC has called for taxing people up to 70% on income earners at the "tippy tops" to fund the GND, a bill that was not signed by even one member of Congress, including the person who co-sponsored it. Not one.

But when it was AOC who was to pay Uncle Sam, 70% was a bit too steep--heck, even paying anything by her was a bit too steep. In fact, she supported a bill that would provide tax deductions for business start-up costs back in 2012.

If the Democratic Party had no hypocrites, there would be no Democratic Party

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Woman bites camel's junk at petting zoo

Perhaps she thought it was a biting zoo rather than a petting zoo, but a woman bit a camel's snow globes at a Louisiana truck stop petting zoo  and was cited for criminal trespassing, according to reports.

The woman is a Florida resident and was chasing her dog when she crawled into Caspar’s enclosure at the Tiger Truck Stop on I-10 in Grosse Tete, The Baton Rouge Advocate reported Sunday. Caspar is the friendly camel whose biznads were chomped on by the woman.

She told deputies she bit the 600-pound beast when he sat on her and it was obvious what she needed to do to escape.

“She said: ‘I bit his balls to get him off of me, I bit his testicles to get him off of me,’” Iberville Parish Deputy Louis Hamilton Jr. told the paper.

Forgetting about the woes of the camel, the woman was brought to a hospital, perhaps for a chipped tooth, but maybe not.

Deputies gave her and her husband summonses on the trespassing charge and for not having their dog on a leash, according to The Advocate.

“The camel did nothing wrong,” Hamilton told the paper. “They were aggressive. The camel was just doing its normal routine” [which is to sit on intruders until help arrives.]

The truck stop once featured a tiger, causing a bit of controversy. "I'd like to see her bite that tiger's wrinkle purse," Joseph Blowe said.

Pamela Bossier, the truck stop manager, said the tiger had never attacked anyone, nor have the zoo’s other wild animals, including Caspar. In fact, they had a monkey who used to help pump gas but was fired for flinging its feces at customers who tried to pump their own gas.

“He’s really a gentle giant,” Bossier told the paper referring to the camel.

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Poway synagogue suspect "defending our nation against Jews"

The admitted shooter in the Poway synagogue shooting told a 911 operator right after the massacre that he pulled the trigger to save white people from Jews. 

As a white person, I never saw Jewish people as dangerous, but people who shoot people based on some crazy notion about their group identity are the ones of whom to be afraid.

A judge was expected to rule Friday whether a 20-year-old former college student should stand trial on charges of firing an assault rifle inside a synagogue, killing one woman and injuring three, including a rabbi and an 8-year-old girl of whom he believed the world needed to be saved from.

The suspect who admitted to the shootings at the Southern California synagogue last spring was heard on a 911 recording played Thursday at a preliminary hearing that he did it to save white people from Jews. The hearing was held to determine whether the trial should go forward. I think that would be a good idea.

The shooting took place at the Chabad of Poway synagogue on the last day of Passover.

“I’m defending our nation against the Jewish people, who are trying to destroy all white people,” the scumcrumpet, whose name will not be used here, is heard saying on the 911 call. He told the 911 operator he believed he had killed people and gave detailed descriptions of the San Diego intersection where he was parked shortly before he was taken into custody.

He never explained, nor gave any examples, how Jewish people are trying to destroy anyone.

The FBI reported that hate crimes increased by 17% in 2017 and the largest spike was anti-Semitic hate crimes. In the DOJ 2017 Hate Crime Statistics it was reported that there were more than 7,100 hate crimes and they were motivated mostly by race/ethnicity with religious bias following right behind. 

The FBI report shows there was a nearly 23% increase in religion-based hate crimes. There was a 37% spike in anti-Jewish hate crimes and this led the statistics for religious groups.

The recording was played at the hearing where witnesses also included a combat veteran who confronted the suspect and a medical examiner who described the wounds of the woman who was killed.

The alleged shooter, 20, has pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted murder, and an unrelated arson charge at a mosque. The murder charge, classified as a hate crime, would make him eligible for the death penalty if convicted, but prosecutors have not said what punishment they will seek.

Oscar Stewart, an Iraq combat veteran, testified that as the gunfire erupted he moved toward the suspect and screamed at him. The shooter dropped his rifle and ran away like a frightened coward.

“People were falling over each other. It was chaos,” Stewart said. “I screamed (to everyone) ‘Get down! Get out here.’”

He explained that he saw the shooter in the lobby fire two rounds and then walked toward him.

“He was firing in front of me … I was paying attention to the rifle,” Stewart said.

As the gunman struggled to reload, Stewart relied on combat training to yell at the assailant to try to rattle him, and rattle him he did.

“I told him I was going to kill him … I screamed it out really loud. I kept screaming at him,” Stewart said before the suspect dropped the rifle and ran.

During the 911 call, the shooter admitted, without prompting, that he would leave his AR-15 rifle on the passenger seat and step out of the car once law enforcement arrived, and became agitated that police had yet to arrive.

“You guys are taking a long-ass time,” he is heard saying.

San Diego Police Officer Jonathan Wiese testified that when he arrived the alleged shooter got out of the car, kneeled to the ground when ordered, and allowed himself to be handcuffed.

“His first statement was, ‘How’s your day going?’” Wiese said. He said the white supremacist then asked if he knew “what the Jews have done to our race.”

Weeks earlier alleged shooter and obvious coward tried to burn down a mosque in Escondido, where seven people on a spiritual retreat were sleeping, according to an affidavit. They awoke to flames and managed to extinguish the fire.

The suspect allegedly scrawled the name of the person suspected of carrying out shootings at two New Zealand mosques that slaughtered 51 people earlier this year, so the left didn't have President Trump to blame on that atrocity.

In a posting on the dark web, the alleged shooter wrote: "As an individual, I can only kill so many Jews."

The day prior to the synagogue shooting, the suspect legally purchased an AR-15 rifle from a San Diego gun shop, according to federal charges. According to Rep. Shiela Jackson Lee (D-TX) the AR-15 fires 50 mm rounds, so not only can it kill people, it can take out entire synagogues, mosques and Hindu temples.

Jackson Lee's claim that the AR 15 is extremely heavy would only hold true if 6.5 to 7.5 pounds is considered heavy. One of the selling points to the AR 15 is its lightness and handling.

These are the people who many on the left rely on to provide them with accurate information regarding gun control issues. 

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Taylor Notso Swift gets woke scolded on animal abuse and bows out

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Singer Taylor Swift has been educated by the woke scold animal rights activists and has bowed out of performing at the 2019 Melbourne Cup because horses run there and that isn't nice for the race horses who would rather lollygag in the barn and get fat on hay.

Fox News called the horse racing event "controversial" but did not elaborate on the nature of the controversy but implying, perhaps, that it had to do with humans riding atop race horses to race in a horse race Down Under.

The event announced that Swift, 29, would be headlining in early September but then said on Saturday that she pulled out.

Swift's decision comes after animal rights activists criticized her on social media for "endorsing animal abuse" by agreeing to perform at an event that made animals that love to run, um, run.

Michael Gudinski from Mushroom Events, which organizes the Cup, said in a statement online, “Regrettably, Taylor is no longer able to make it to this year’s Melbourne Cup. Changes to her Asian promo schedule have made it logistically impossible for her to be here. To all of Taylor’s fans, we hope to see Taylor in Australia in 2020.”

Now let's go beat some horses to run faster.

Victoria Racing Club (VRC) Chief Executive Officer Neil Wilson added, “The VRC has learned that Taylor Swift is now unable to make the trip to Australia and therefore cannot be with us on Melbourne Cup Day. Obviously, this is disappointing for everyone. We understand how important the pre-Cup entertainment is and we look forward to providing an update shortly.”

We should all be thankful that our military has a hell of a lot more courage than our entertainers.

After Swift's name was attached to the event, animal rights group Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, took to Twitter asking her to cancel her performance with its #NupToTheCup hashtag.

Six horses have died while racing in the Melbourne Cup, including an Irish racehorse that was euthanized on the racetrack last year after breaking its shoulder.

"Taylor Swift has put money before compassion by agreeing to perform at the 2019 Melbourne Cup. An event where at least 6 horses have been KILLED over the past 6 years," the group wrote on Facebook.

They were not killed, they died doing what they loved, running swift.

Upon learning the news, Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses spokeswoman, Kristin Leigh, said she was happy about the decision. "The pressure on Taylor Swift to cancel her performance was significant. Her fans did not want to see her supporting animal abuse," she said. "She's easier than we thought," she failed to add.

No word at this time on who will replace Swift on November 5, but with her voice and her surname, it's a shame she'll be elsewhere. Perhaps she's thinking of running for office.


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Secret Service investigates teacher for alleged threat to our VP

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The U.S. Secret Service is charged with the protection of the president and vice president and are now looking into an allegation that a North Carolina high school teacher told her classroom of impressionable students that Vice President Mike Pence "should be shot in the head," according to many reports.

"The woman allegedly told her class at Cuthbertson High School in Union County that Pence should be 'shot in the head,' WJZY reported over the weekend," The Charlotte Observer wrote.

The teacher, who has not been identified, made the statement the same week Mr. Pence stopped in Union County to campaign for the GOP congressional candidate Rep. Dan Bishop.

Officials of Union County Public Schools say they are taking the allegations "very seriously" and the teacher has been placed on administrative leave according to a statement provided to WBTV and other news outlets. The Observer said the Secret Service is investigating.

It seems as if our national politics has become our national religion. People who still cannot get over the 2016 presidential defeat of Hillary Clinton and exhibit Trump Derangement Syndrome, in many cases have become dangerous and are willing to get physically violent as evidenced with Antifa, for one example. But a school teacher making such a violent statement should be disciplined and investigated.

The school district said in a statement: 

"Union County Public Schools is aware of the allegation of inappropriate comments made by a Cuthbertson High School teacher. District administrators are taking this allegation seriously and an investigation is being conducted. This is a personnel matter and information related to this alleged incident is protected by state law."

NBC Charlotte spoke with former FBI assistant director Chris Swecker regarding what the investigation might entail. “I’m sure they will eventually get around to going out and interviewing the teacher,” Swecker told the station.

Swecker explained that federal authorities will probably be trying to answer several questions to determine whether criminal charges will be filed. Americans have a First Amendment right to say almost anything they wish to say, but that right does not extend to making threats of violence or inciting violence.

Swecker explained that it must be taken into consideration as to whether the statement was an imminent threat and whether she has the means [weapons, for example] to carry out her words. Officials will also look into whether she has made other threats and if she has a criminal record--if she does, then why is she working in a public school?

“Whether it was actually an imminent threat, does she have weapons?” Swecker said. “Have other threats been made? Does she have a criminal record?”

The teacher's comments prompted criticism in the community.

"You should not be bringing in those type of viewpoints to your job," Union County GOP Chair Allison Powers told WBTV.

Powers isn't calling for the teacher to be fired, but says the comment was inappropriate. "To just wish that kind of violence on anybody is just way out of bounds,” Powers said.
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Firas Obeid [whose name also spells: "die for bias"], a parent to two students at the school, said he doesn't necessarily support the vice president, but also said the comment was wrong. "This is the vice president of the United States. He's an elected official,” Obeid told the station. "Affiliation to a specific party does not entitle us to make a statement like that to anyone.” He is correct.

Union County, along with neighboring Mecklenburg County, are in the state’s 9th Congressional District where Bishop narrowly won a special election against Democrat Dan McCready this month. Trump and Pence both visited the district, along with Donald Trump Jr. 

Their visits pushed Bishop over the top, political analysts said, and this may have caused the teacher to lose her rational mind.

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Edgy rapper does a "Kathy Griffin" with Boris Johnson's head

A British rapper with the imagination of a guppy held a fake 'severed head' of British PM Boris Johnson at an award show, an event where self-congratulatory narcissists give themselves awards for pretending to make the world a better place.

The rapper, the brave, edgy Slowthai, [his friend calls him "Slowthink"] rapped his song "Doorman" at the 2019 Mercury Prize as he walked on stage holding a fake head of Johnson and shouted "F**k Boris!"

During the performance, the cool rapper took off his gangsta hoodie, revealing a t-shirt that read "F**k Boris," leading many to believe that Slowthai has sexual fantasies about the British Prime Minister.

“F**k Boris Johnson! F**k everything! And there ain’t nothing great about Britain," Slowthai later told the audience, still refusing to leave the country he pretends to hate and was only doing his exhibitionist routine for publicity.

Slowthai later released a statement doubling down on his politically charged performance.

"Last night I held a mirror up to this country and some people don’t like its reflection," the rapper bloviated. "Yet this is exactly where we’re being taken, cut off and at all costs. The people in power who are trying to isolate and divide us aren’t the ones who will feel its effects the hardest. They’re not the ones queuing at the food banks, not the ones navigating Universal Credit and not the ones having to deal with systematic oppression and hate crimes at the hands of privileged politicians who say what they want without fear and consequence.

"We as a people are not being looked after and our best interests are not being served by those in government – this is their job and they’re not doing it well enough. This ‘act’ was a metaphor for what this government is doing to our country, except what I did was present it in plain sight."

He added: "No Boris Johnsons were hurt in the making of this Slowthai performance. I don’t condone violence in any form." He just condones a whole lot of f*****g of "everything," to use his erudite statement.

His mother was not available to wash his mouth out with soap.

Johnson has become the face of the "Brexit" movement [which the majority of Britishers voted for] ever since he took office in July, vowing to leave the European Union on Oct. 31 with or without a deal.

The incident at the awards has stirred comparisons to the controversial 2017 photoshoot by American former semi-comic Kathy Griffin, who held a similar prop facsimile of President Trump's severed head.

It takes no courage to take a strong leftist stance, especially against the status quo.

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Activists protest and miraculously lower the global temperature by 3 degrees

More than 4 million people, mostly young school children who know more than adults, took to the streets to show their fists to the sky in a protest against global warming/climate change and maybe skip a math exam.

The most liberal cities, New York, LA, Chicago and others, allowed the kids to leave their classrooms with parents' permission to show solidarity to the cause and create good graphics for CNN and the other progressive networks.

In their brave efforts, the country lowered global temperature by 3 degrees celsius, although most American kids have no clue what 3 degrees celsius means in terms of temperature. They did this in spite of the world's worst polluters: China, Russia and India. Imagine, if US school kids can lower global temperatures by 3 degrees celsius, think about what Indian, Chinese and Commies can do if they too shake their fists at the sky.

When one of the kids in Mrs. Blumford's English class was asked by our reporter, Bobby Bagodounutz, what specific steps are needed to be done to save the planet she said, "It's protests like this that'll make a difference."

She refused to be specific.


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UPDATE: SUV driving in Woodfield Mall, mass casualty response

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BREAKING: Schaumburg, IL [3:30 p.m. ET] -- As this is being posted, there is an SUV doing damage in the Woodfield Mall, near Chicago.

Two people are reportedly injured and the driver is now in custody.

It appears possible the SUV crashed through a wall. We don't know if the vehicle hit anyone but two people are reportedly injured.

One witness told Fox News that shots have been fired but this has not been confirmed. Police with weapons drawn have fanned out inside the mall.

UPDATE: Authorities had been called for a "mass casualty response" for this incident. The car crashed into the Sears at the Woodfield Mall and began driving erratically through the shopping center. He drove through Sears and damaged several other stores including Forever 21 and Hollister.

Several photos show the man who drove the SUV being taken away and arrested.

CBS News Chicago reported, "A witness, Jason, was ordering ice cream when he saw the car only a few feet away, moving erratically/ He told his wife to get into the nearby Starbucks and he ran to the SUV, which had crashed into a pole. He opened the door and took the keys out of the ignition."

According to the Chicago Tribune, "Schaumburg police and fire officials were at the scene, as were FBI officials and officials from the Cook County Sheriff’s office, who were assisting local officials."

“The FBI is aware of the situation at Woodfield Mall and is assisting at the request of local law enforcement,” a statement read from the Chicago office of the FBI. “There is no known threat to public safety at this time.”

Witness Lateef Farooqui told CBS 2 that he was on the second floor when he saw the vehicle driving through the mall “like you would a shopping cart.” He says the SUV drove over a kiosk and then struck another store and then the driver jumped out but was captured by police.

The Village of Schaumberg tweeted: "@SchaumburgIL Police have reported that one vehicle has driven into one of the entrances at @WoodfieldMall. The subject is in custody. At this time, there is no evidence of an active shooter situation. Please avoid the area if possible."

@SchaumburgIL Police have reported that one vehicle has driven into one of the entrances at @WoodfieldMall. The subject is in custody. At this time, there is no evidence of an active shooter situation. Please avoid the area if possible.

It was originally reported that some people believed they heard shots being fired but this does not appear to be accurate.



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