Newsom disses Israel and Netanyahu, says Trump's strikes due to his 'grift'

In a vicious attack on President Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the longstanding U.S.-Israel alliance, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a serious rethink of American support for Israel, smeared the Jewish state as an apartheid regime, and took vicious swipes at Trump, 

The comments came during an appearance with former Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor at an event promoting Newsom's autobiography, "Young Man in a Hurry." When asked whether Democrats should reconsider U.S. military aid to Israel given Netanyahu's leadership, Newsom didn't hold back.

"Well, he's making that easy right now," Newsom began, launching into an attack on Netanyahu. "The issue of Bibi is interesting. Because he's got his own domestic issues. He's trying to stay out of jail. He's got an election coming up. He's potentially on the ropes. He's got folks, the hard line, that want to annex the West Bank."

Newsom then channeled the notoriously anti-Netanyahu New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to push the tired leftist falsehood that Israel is heading toward "an apartheid state," adding, "For two years, they haven't even been able to solve the Hamas question in Israel."He went on to imply that Trump's actions against Iran were driven purely by Israeli influence.

"In so many ways, that influence in the context of the conversation of where Trump ultimately landed on this is pretty damn self-evident," said Newsom. "When you bring two aircraft carriers out there and you assemble the kind of military force that Trump did over the last few weeks, it didn't surprise me ultimately that they moved that direction."

When directly asked, "Do you think, looking down the road, that the United States should consider, maybe, you know, rethinking our military support for Israel?" Newsom feigned heartbreak.

"It breaks my heart because the current leadership in Israel is walking us down that path where I don't think you have a choice but that consideration."

He then pivoted to what he called "the grift and the corruption" tied to regional politics, dragging in Trump family members by name, including Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner. 

"The fact that we are in this now, a regional war. All these proxies and all the grift and the corruption that also marks a huge part of this," he said. "And that's a real conversation we need to have, this Board of Peace. In the piece that the Witkoff family is getting, in the piece that Kushner is getting, in the peace that Trump Jr. is getting."

Newsom's remarks represent the predictable anti-Israel turn from a Democrat desperate to signal virtue to the progressive base, even as he wraps it in crocodile tears about a broken heart. The governor's willingness to echo smears of Israel as an apartheid state while questioning aid amid ongoing threats shows just how far the party has drifted from its once-stalwart support for America's closest Middle East ally. And throwing in baseless jabs at the Trump family for good measure? 

That's just par for the course in the current Democratic playbook.

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Obama minions desperate to discredit Israel's intel on Iran deal

Former President Barack Obama's national-security team of minions are throwing everything they can against the recent Israeli intelligence presentation to see what folks believe regarding the Iran nuclear deal.

His former national-security spokes-dude Tommy Vietor said, "After years of bashing U.S. intelligence agencies for getting Iraq WMD wrong, Trump is now cooking up intel with the Israelis to pus us closer to a conflict with Iran. A scandal hiding in plain sight."

Dude, get over yourself.

Another Obama administration deputy national-security adviser and failed novelist and short story writer Ben Rhodes said, "By reminding everyone of the well-known pre-Iran Deal history, Netanyahu inadvertently made the case for why the Iran Deal needs to stay in place. Without it, all the restrictions on Iran's program and the inspections regime that verify compliance go away."

Clever use of bad logic.

If inspections were to be announced a month in advance to Iran, and our not being allowed to inspect military facilities for nuclear proliferation, how can the deal be any good? 

The idea the Iran said if we pull the deal, they'll go back to enriching their uranium and develop nukes, proving they lied about using the uranium for energy generation rather than weapon production.

Ironically, both Vietor and Rhodes contradict each other in their arguments for keeping the deal. Vietor says that Netanyahu can't be making stuff up with Trump to get us into a war with Iran,. While Rhodes reminds us of the undisputed facts known to all of us about "the pre-Iran Deal history."

You can't have it both ways.

Trump is absolutely right saying the Iran deal is the worst deal he ever saw. Perhaps it's the worst deal in the entire history of the world and even the galaxy.


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Former Obama advisers tell Trump how to handle Iran protests

Some key advisers to former "Lead from Behind" President Obama have attacked President Trump for supporting the Iran protests taking place for the past week. 

Valerie Jarrett, who left her heart in Tehran, Iran, was mute on the subject. That may be due to perverted allegiances to the Islamic Republic of Iran and her fear of being uncovered.

In 2009, the "Green Revolution" threatened Iran's theocratic regime, and Obama along with his administration lead from behind by not leading and not supporting the protesters. In effect, the Obama "behinders" supported the regime by not taking a stance. In fact, Obama said "we respect Iranian sovereignty and want to avoid the United States being the issue inside of Iran."

So of course, Obama's pussyfooting allowed the regime to consolidate power and put the revolution down. This was done selfishly, for Obama's crappy nuclear deal, which he believed was more important than the human rights of Iranian citizens. 

Proof that Obama is an immoral, self-serving megalomaniac.

President Trump is openly and vigorously supporting the protests and is 'attack-tweeting' against the regime:

Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime's corruption & its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people's rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching! #IranProtests

The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most...pic.twitter.com/W8rKN9B6RT

--Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2017

Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. The world is watching! pic.twitter.com/kvv1uAqcZg

--Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2017 

Big protests in Iran. The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered on terrorism. Looks like they will not take it any longer. The USA is watching very closely for human rights violations!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2017

Iran, the Number One State of Sponsored Terror with numerous violations of Human Rights occurring on an hourly basis, has now closed down the Internet so that peaceful demonstrators cannot communicate. Not good!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 31, 2017

Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 1, 2018

But some of Obama's people reject Trump's thinking and evidently think the former failed president's approach was better. And they're correct--if you're will to pray toward Mecca or die.

Former National Security Advisor Susan "It-Was-A-Video" Rice tweeted a New York Times op-ed by former Obama aide Philip Gordon, "How Can Trump Help Iran's Protesters? Be Quiet." 

Gordon contended that supporting the protesters and taking steps to end the Iran nuclear deal will delegitimize Iran's internal opponents.

How Can Trump Help Iran’s Protesters? Be Quiet. https://t.co/w0MNlWMkxG"— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) December 31, 2017

John "Hair-plugs" Kerry had to pontificate his two cents tweeting:

With humility about how little we know about what’s happening inside Iran, this much is clear: it’s an Iranian moment and not anyone else’s. But the rights of people to protest peacefully and voice their aspirations are universal and governments everywhere should respect that.— John Kerry (@JohnKerry) December 31, 2017 

Ben Rhodes the former Deputy National Security Advisor who majored in English in college and an aspiring novelist, had nothing new to add in attacking President Trump. He criticized Americans who think the U.S. should encourage the protests:

The Iranian people are rightfully demanding dignity, less corruption, more opportunity, and greater control over their lives. In looking at US twitter, it seems lost on too many that this is about what Iranians want for Iran, and not about us.

— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) December 31, 2017 

Tommy "Dude" Vietor, a former cool guy spokesboy for the National Security Council went to his default mode of sarcasm:

Trump loves protestors as long as they’re not American.— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) December 31, 2017

Former UN Ambassador and closet Communist Samantha Power, criticized Trump's immigration policy in this clever tweet:

We stand with the Iranian people so much that we won't let them come here. https://t.co/fzbv8idiiJ

       --Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) January 1, 2018

But not every Obama minion was on board with the anti-Trump sentiment. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates admitted, in his 2014 book "Duty:  Memoirs of a Secretary at War," that while he had to be persuaded that "too powerful an American voice on behalf of the protesters might provide ammunition for the regime," he later rejected his words and said, "In retrospect, I think we could and should have done more, at least rhetorically." (328)

Maybe it's Obama's turn, along with his former administration, to just shut up.


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Developing: FBI Re-Opens Hillary Clinton private server investigation

The FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of her illegal private server while incompetently serving as secretary of state. This new revelation comes after new emails were discovered in an unprecedented turn of events just 11 days before the presidential election.

FBI [Political] Director James "I'm With Hillary" Comey wrote to top members of Congress that the FBI has "learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to the investigation."

Comey did not go into a description of the emails in question, saying only that they surfaced "in connection with an unrelated case." [Possibly a "case" involving the nation's distrust and disdain for him, and believing him to be a political hack who doesn't deserve the respect the position of FBI Director normally deserves. But who knows?]

Comey told lawmakers the investigative team briefed him on the information a day earlier, "and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."

It's amazing that an investigation needs to be launched in order to determine whether a document is classified or not. It's also amazing that when Clinton mentioned, in the last debate, the response time to launch in a nuclear attack, that nothing was done. And it's really amazing that Hillary Clinton is allowed to attend government briefings on secret information--based on her enormous experience, it should be obvious that she will somehow mention the content publicly.

Comey said the FBI could not yet assess whether the new material is significant and he will not predict how long it will take to complete "this additional work."

You can bet it will take as long as Clinton needs it to take, given Comey's recent history, when in July he basically said that Clinton's was careless enough to be indicted, but she didn't mean any harm and should be left to run the country, like she ran the State Department.

Comey has come under fierce criticism, as well he should. Lawmakers and a New York  real estate mogul claim the investigation minimized Clinton's handling of classified information.

Trump spoke to a wildly cheering group of supporters in Manchester, N.H. and praised the FBI for having the "courage" to "right the horrible mistake that they made." He said that he hopes that mistake will be "corrected."

"Hillary Clinton's corruption is on a scale we have never seen before," Trump said. "We must not let her take her criminal scheme into the Oval Office."

House Speaker Paul Ryan said of the decision:

"Yet again, Hillary Clinton has nobody but herself to blame. She was entrusted with some of our nation's most important secrets, and she betrayed that trust by carelessly mishandling highly classified information. This decision, long overdue, is the result of her reckless use of a private email server, and her refusal to be forthcoming with federal investigators. I renew my call for the Director of National Intelligence to suspend all classified briefings for Secretary Clinton until this matter is fully resolved."

Former Obama administration spokesman and guy who called Bret Baier "dude" tweeted this demand of the FBI:

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Tommy Vietor 

✔@TVietor08

How many emails did the FBI find? Get your butt in gear, read them, assess them, form a conclusion. Letting this hang is so irresponsible.

1:40 PM - 28 Oct 2016

 
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The emails in question are not from WikiLeaks, so it's going to be hard for Hillary's BS hustlers to sluff this one off by blaming Russian hackers.

I can't wait to find out what happens next, but I'm not holding my breath for an indictment. So far, the Clintons have been "judgment-proof."

Happy October!

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Dude, Two Years Not Too Late

Former White House Spokesliar, Tommy Vietor was interviewed by Fox News' Brett Baier a few nights ago. The interview was on the Benghazi talking points and young Tommy denied that he remembered the role he played in the now famous (and some call "smoking gun") e-mail that was sent to Susan Rice to "PREP" her for the Sunday morning talk shows that she was to appear on.

"Dude, that was like two years ago," the former chewing gum aficionado told Baier.

"Dude, it's the thing that everybody's talking about," Baier shot back. Tommy looked as uncomfortable as a bomb-defuser with the DTs. 

Tommy said that he was in the Situation Room during the attack but Obama was not there. Vietor said: "It is well known that when the attack was first briefed to him, it was in the Oval Office and he was updated constantly." But when pressed for Obama's physical location in the White House, Tommy said that he didn't know Obama's whereabouts in the night because he didn't have a "tracking device" on him.

It's easy to see the arrogance in Tommy Vietor--it's recognizable in many of those who speak for Obama. Jay Carney acts as though you're stupid for not believing him, and Marie Harf is no different. Clearly, the Obama administration treats the American public as if we are stupid, but it is only the Obama robots who actually are.

Here is the tweet that Tommy Vietor sent out before appearing on Fox: 

Tommy Vietor @TVietor08

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Guessing @BretBaier invited me to come on @SpecialReport to talk #Benghazi as a #TBT thing since it happened in 2012 but tune in!

5:15 PM - 1 May 2014

#TBT is for "Throwback Thursday." How utterly juvenile and arrogant.

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