Authorities say the man responsible for a mass shooting at a naval air station in Pensacola on Friday morning is a Saudi national who was attending flight school at the base. A few hours after the shooting, which officials say they are investigating as a potential terror attack, Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud called President Trump to disavow the suspect&#8217;s &#8220;barbaric&#8221; actions.
Just before 7 a.m. on Friday morning, a gunman (whose name is here withheld according to Daily Wire policy on naming mass shooters) opened fire in a classroom in the center of the campus of Pensacola&#8217;s Naval Air Base. The suspect wounded ten people, three of whom died, before he was shot dead by sheriff&#8217;s deputies.
Amid reports that the shooter was a Saudi national, Trump tweeted out statements on the latest developments, including his conversations with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and with Saudi Arabia&#8217;s King Salman.
&#8220;Just received a full briefing on the tragic shooting at NAS Pensacola in Florida, and spoke to [Gov. DeSantis],&#8221; Trump tweeted a few hours after the attack Friday. &#8220;My thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families during this difficult time. We are continuing to monitor the situation as the investigation is ongoing.&#8221;
Trump then retweeted a post from Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz providing updates on the situation. Gaetz has been giving the public updates on the situation throughout the day, including reports that the suspect was allegedly a &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-attacker-at-florida-military-base-was-member-of-saudi-military-was-an-act-of-terrorism-congressman-says">Saudi Arabian military official</a>.&#8221;
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NAS Pensacola is a huge source of pride for all of Northwest Florida. It is the home of naval aviation. It is the home of the Blue Angels. In our home, this is who we are.
Thank you for keeping Pensacola in your hearts and in your prayers as we deal with this difficult day. <a href="https://t.co/PcvS70GcQh">pic.twitter.com/PcvS70GcQh</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1202987933130743814?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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About two hours later, Trump posted a pair of tweets summarizing his call with King Salman, who condemned the individual who committed the heinous crime and expressed his sympathy for the victims and their families.
&#8220;King Salman of Saudi Arabia just called to express his sincere condolences and give his sympathies to the families and friends of the warriors who were killed and wounded in the attack that took place in Pensacola, Florida,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;The King said that the Saudi people are greatly angered by the barbaric actions of the shooter, and that this person in no way shape or form represents the feelings of the Saudi people who love the American people.&#8221;
Along with appearing on news outlets to discuss the shooting, Rep. Gaetz posted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-attacker-at-florida-military-base-was-member-of-saudi-military-was-an-act-of-terrorism-congressman-says">video message</a> Friday citing reports that the shooter was a Saudi Arabian military official and calling for a more thorough vetting process for officials from other countries that could similarly pose a risk to Americans.
&#8220;Major news organizations are now reporting the information that we began to learn earlier this morning that it was a Saudi Arabian military official in Pensacola, in our community for training, who committed these murderous acts and this terrible, terrible violence at NAS Pensacola,&#8221; says Gaetz in the video post (below). &#8220;I think it’s important for us to know a little bit about why Saudi Arabian officials are in our community.&#8221;
&#8220;Training is a critical part of the mission that we engage in in NAS Pensacola,&#8221; he continues. &#8220;One way that we leverage that training is to ensure that our allies around the world are capable and familiar with U.S. systems, that they’re comfortable working with U.S. officers, and that we have an interoperability in our lexicon and in the way we engage in battle.&#8221;
&#8220;This event represents a serious failure in the vetting process and in the way in which we invite these people into our community,&#8221; he asserts. &#8220;So today, as we learn more as the investigation continues to unfold … I’m going to be very active in working with the Department of Defense and the Department of State to ensure that we have extreme vetting for the people that come into our country on our bases and in our communities.&#8221;
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We&#39;re learning a Saudi Arabian military member in Pensacola committed these murders.
I&#39;m working with the <a href="https://twitter.com/DeptofDefense?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DeptofDefense</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/StateDept?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@StateDept</a>, and <a href="https://twitter.com/DHSgov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DHSgov</a> to ensure there&#39;s extreme vetting for people who come to our country and train on our bases. <a href="https://t.co/LUhSE6UAHO">pic.twitter.com/LUhSE6UAHO</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1203019241626185730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2019</a></blockquote>
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British GQ has officially joined the ranks of the NBA and Blizzard Entertainment in publicly acting out of fear of &#8220;offending&#8221; the human rights-violating Chinese government.
One of the most significant stories of 2019 has been influential western entities caving to China amid the ongoing pro-Democracy protests in Hong Kong against the authoritarian communist regime. The NBA, following the leads of commissioner Adam Silver and Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James, infamously cowered to China after one team executive dared to express support for the pro-Democracy protesters on social media. The backlash was swift and severe, as it was for gaming company Blizzard after it punished a popular professional player for likewise showing support for the pro-freedom demonstrators.
Now, as reported by <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/gq-worst-dressed-removal">BuzzFeed News</a>, British GQ has gotten in on the caving to China action, quietly pulling two international leaders from their &#8220;World&#8217;s Top 10 Worst Dressers&#8221; list — leaving the list conspicuously two names short — out of what a spokesperson later admitted was fear of causing &#8220;unintended offense.&#8221;
&#8220;During the course of this week, other news websites, <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7757029/Boris-Johnsons-adviser-Dominic-Cummings-crowned-worlds-WORST-dressed-man-GQ.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">like the Mail Online</a>, picked up on the list, spreading the word about whom British GQ thought were the world’s 10 worst dressers,&#8221; BuzzFeed reports. &#8220;But on GQ’s own website, something was different. The &#8216;top 10&#8217; list had become a &#8216;top 8&#8217;. Missing were two individuals: China’s president Xi Jinping and king of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn.&#8221;
&#8220;It is not Hong Kong&#8217;s courageous freedom fighters that Xi Jinping should have a problem with. It&#8217;s his tailor,&#8221; the entry for the Chinese president pulled from the digital version of the article read. &#8220;Xi gets totalitarian style cues from his hero, the mass murderer Chairman Mao, who enforced a dour and plain dress code for the Communist Party.&#8221;
The likewise deleted critique of Vajiralongkorn read: &#8220;How many others living deities do you know with a penchant for really tight crop tops, hipster jeans and fake tattoos? The answer is none. And that&#8217;s because no other exist.&#8221;
While it pulled the entries for those two international figures, British GQ chose to leave on its list U.S. President Donald Trump, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson&#8217;s chief adviser Dominic Cummings, among others.
So what motivated the glaring removal of the two world leaders? A spokesperson at Condé Nast, the mass media company that owns GQ, told BuzzFeed that management ordered the two leaders pulled from the unflattering list out of fear of causing &#8220;unintended offense.&#8221;
Sources at GQ&#8217;s parent company told BuzzFeed that if the piece had been a &#8220;hard-hitting piece of journalism,&#8221; management would have stood by the inclusion of critical references to the two leaders. But since the worst dressed list was intended to be a &#8220;light-hearted list meant for a UK audience,&#8221; management ordered the two figures to be digitally disappeared, maintaining that the potential fallout simply wasn&#8217;t worth it.
With local editions of some of its magazines in both China and Thailand, Condé Nast decided that it was wiser to just delete the entries than to open up the possibility that the unenviable list would stir up unnecessary problems globally.
&#8220;We are conscious that digitally published stories travel globally and can gain traction where they lack the necessary context and can cause unintended offense,&#8221; a spokesperson for the media company told BuzzFeed, noting that the full story still remains in the printed edition of the magazine.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lebrons-lakers-lose-amid-pro-hong-protests-china-state-tv-blackout">LeBron’s Opening Game Hit With Protests; China State TV Blacks Out NBA</a>

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West Point administrators have dropped a motto that had become a part of the fanfare surrounding the Army football program since the mid-1990s after officials discovered that the phrase traced back to white supremacist biker and prison gangs.
Starting in the mid-&#8217;90s the phrase &#8220;God Forgives, Brothers Don&#8217;t&#8221; became a slogan embedded in some of the Army Black Knights official iconography, particularly a black skull-and-crossbones flag which contained the acronym &#8220;GFBD&#8221; inscribed on the upper lip of the skull (flag shown in image above).
The phrase, administrators learned in September, originated with white supremacist biker gangs and the infamous neo-Nazi prison gang, Aryan Brotherhood.
In response, the administration and athletic programs took immediate action, pulling all references to the loaded slogan from any official school displays and promotional materials.
&#8220;West Point officials and members of the athletic department said they were unaware that the phrase links to motorcycle gangs and Aryan Brotherhood sects until that connection was brought to their attention in September,&#8221; <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/28232249/army-football-program-dropped-motto-white-supremacist-origin">ESPN</a> reported Thursday.
Upon learning about the origins of the phrase, Army Head Football Coach Jeff Monken addressed the team in September, Athletic Director Mike Buddie told ESPN.  The slogan, Monken told the players, was being removed immediately.
Monken, said Buddie, was &#8220;mortified&#8221; to discover the roots of the motto, while the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy described the whole thing as &#8220;embarrassing.&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s embarrassing, quite frankly,&#8221; said Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams, as reported by ESPN. &#8220;Once I found out about this goofiness, I asked one of our most senior colonels to investigate,&#8221; he added.
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Image above: Army West Point head coach Jeff Monken sings the alma mater following the game between the Army West Point Black Knights against University of Massachusetts Minutemen on November 9, 2019 at Michie Sadium in West Point, New York. (Photo by Nicole Fridling/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Prompted by Williams&#8217; order, military officials conducted a two-month investigation into how the racially charged phrase came to be used by the school.
As detailed in the executive summary of the investigation, officials concluded that it was introduced without any knowledge of its problematic origins and thus its inclusion since the &#8217;90s in the school&#8217;s programs was &#8220;benign.&#8221; Use of the motto had nothing to do &#8220;with the views or beliefs of white supremacist groups or any other disreputable organizations with which they might also be associated,&#8221; the report stresses.
According to investigators, the slogan was first used by players in the early &#8217;90s simply to symbolize &#8220;toughness, tenacity, camaraderie and accountability.&#8221; Some of the players appear to have picked it up from a film starring famous former NFL linebacker Brian Bosworth titled &#8220;Stone Cold,&#8221; which tells the story of an undercover cop who joins a Neo-Nazi biker gang from the south called &#8220;The Brotherhood.&#8221;
Investigators were able to track down the cadet who first used the phrase and he told them that he wasn&#8217;t aware of the phrase&#8217;s white supremacist origins. While the phrase appeared on a few T-shirts in the early &#8217;90s, it wasn&#8217;t until 1996 that it first appeared on an official team flag, the report states.
Top image: Jeff Monken, Head Coach of the Army Black Knights waves a flag in the locker room after defeating the Navy Midshipmen at Lincoln Financial Field on December 8, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images)
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While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced Thursday that the Democrats are officially moving forward on drafting articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, three among the Democratic ranks have signaled that they&#8217;ll vote against it, while the only Republican that Democrats hoped would allow them to label the effort &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; has signaled he will likewise reject the effort. In other words, the Democrats appear poised to ram through an entirely partisan and increasingly unpopular impeachment against bipartisan opposition.
&#8220;After weeks of hearings, hyperbole, and histrionics over Ukraine-Gate, have House Democrats advanced the case for impeachment?&#8221; asked <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/12/05/cnn-three-house-dems-signal-opposition-impeachment-perhaps-gettable-republican/">Ed Morrissey</a>. in a piece for Hot Air published Thursday night. &#8220;Not only have they not moved the polling, they may have lost ground — in their own caucus. CNN’s Manu Raju caught up with the two House Democrats who voted against authorizing the inquiry to find out whether they support Nancy Pelosi’s call to advance articles of impeachment. Not only do they remain unconvinced, a third Democrat has begun throat-clearing on potential opposition.&#8221;
In his piece on the Democrats potentially losing ground after their much-maligned hearings, Morrissey highlights a series of <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1202703312979660800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202703312979660800&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2Fed-morrissey%2F2019%2F12%2F05%2Fcnn-three-house-dems-signal-opposition-impeachment-perhaps-gettable-republican%2F">tweeted reports</a> by CNN&#8217;s Raju, who presents some unwelcome news to Democrats hoping to solidify their own ranks and win over anyone on the other side.
&#8220;Rep. Jeff Van Drew, one of two Democrats to vote against formalizing the impeachment inquiry, told me he plans to vote against all the articles of impeachment &#8216;unless there&#8217;s something that I haven&#8217;t seen, haven&#8217;t heard before,'&#8221; Raju reported Thursday. &#8220;Van Drew warned Democrats to &#8216;be careful what you wish for&#8217; and he added that impeachment &#8216;is tearing the nation apart. … And I want to bring people together.&#8217; Van Drew said he would have preferred a censure vote so they could &#8216;move on.'&#8221;
Raju also spoke with Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, the only other Democrat who opposed initiating the impeachment inquiry. Asked if he will vote to impeach Trump, Peterson <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1202703441505767442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202703441505767442&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2Fed-morrissey%2F2019%2F12%2F05%2Fcnn-three-house-dems-signal-opposition-impeachment-perhaps-gettable-republican%2F">told Raju</a>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have an idea what they&#8217;re doing.&#8221;
Peterson, Morrissey notes, is &#8220;running for re-election in an R+12 district that Donald Trump won by thirty points in 2016.&#8221;
So the two Democrats who voted against the inquiry to begin with appear to be standing firm in their opposition to impeachment. That&#8217;s bad enough, but losing another one is obviously worse. That might be happening with Democratic Rep. Dan Kildee (MI), Morrissey notes. The Michigan Democrat told Fox News Thursday that most of his constituents don&#8217;t want him wasting time on impeachment.
&#8220;Mostly I hear they want us to work on issues like the prescription drug prices and trade, and the economy,&#8221; Kildee told Martha MacCallum. “Mostly the American people want us to work on the issues that affect them at the kitchen table every day.”
&#8220;I’m really going to withhold judgment on any of that,&#8221; he said of impeachment, though he noted his concern about some of Trump&#8217;s Ukraine requests and potential &#8220;obstruction&#8221; allegations.
&#8220;This is a moment we have to be very clear, but also cautious to not get ahead of ourselves,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I want to see what those articles include.&#8221;
As for the lone Republican Democrats have been eyeing as a potential &#8220;yes&#8221; vote, Florida Rep. Francis Rooney, Raju also <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1202687124333617153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202687124333617153&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2Fed-morrissey%2F2019%2F12%2F05%2Fcnn-three-house-dems-signal-opposition-impeachment-perhaps-gettable-republican%2F">spoke with him</a> and found some similar skepticism about the partisan impeachment. Rooney slammed the Democrats for their &#8220;rush to judgment&#8221; on the issue and said they should have &#8220;gone to court to fight for first-hand witnesses,&#8221; as Raju put it.
&#8220;You have all these people, the John Dean types, who are in the room with the president,&#8221; Rooney told Raju. &#8220;We ought to hear from them. That bothers me, I gotta say.&#8221;
That failure alone &#8220;might be&#8221; enough for him to vote no, he said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jobs-report-presents-terrible-news-for-democrats-as-they-push-forward-on-partisan-impeachment">Jobs Report Presents Terrible News For Democrats As They Push Forward On Partisan Impeachment</a>

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For the Democratic Party, the better the economy, the more difficult it will be for them to succeed in their primary goal: to dethrone Donald Trump in 2020. In that light, the latest jobs report presents a bunch of very bad news for the party so desperate to see Trump go down.
That the excellent economic news comes one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that her party was officially moving forward on drafting articles for their entirely partisan impeachment — public support for which has been waining — doesn&#8217;t help.
Just how good for the American people/bad for the Democrats are the November jobs numbers? Here are the highlights of the expectations-smashing figures via <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jobs-report-november-2019-labor-department-225145709.html">Yahoo Finance</a>:
<blockquote>The U.S. economy added <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">far more jobs than expected in November</a> and the joblessness rate edged down to a 50-year low, as the domestic labor market continued to fire on all cylinders. &#8230;
Change in non-farm payrolls: +266,000 vs. +180,000 expected and +156,000 in October
Unemployment rate: 3.5% vs. 3.6% expected and 3.6% in October
Average hourly earnings month over month: +0.2% vs. +0.3% expected and +0.4% in October
Average hourly earnings year over year: +3.1% vs. +3.0% expected and +3.2% in October</blockquote>
That 3.5% overall unemployment rate matches the lowest figure in 50 years, dating back to 1969.
&#8220;The total labor force participation was nearly unchanged at 63.2%, just a hair below October’s 63.3%, which had reflected the largest share of the working population employed or looking for work since 2013,&#8221; Yahoo notes.
In its official report on the November numbers (full report below), the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> also provides the breakdown on key demographics, showing the continued excellent numbers across the board, particularly for minorities who are experiencing record-low unemployment under the Trump administration:
<blockquote>Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.2 percent), adult women (3.2 percent), teenagers (12.0 percent), Whites (3.2 percent), Blacks (5.5 percent), Asians (2.6 percent), and Hispanics (4.2 percent) showed little or no change in November.</blockquote>
The new report also includes upward revisions to payroll figures for both September and October, revised up 13,000 and 28,000 to 193,000 and 156,000, respectively, raising the three-month average increase to 205,000.
The release of the stellar jobs report comes one day after Speaker Pelosi held a press conference <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-pelosi-makes-it-official-we-will-impeach-trump-responds">announcing</a> that she has ordered the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee to begin drafting articles of impeachment against Trump.
The move is politically risky as Democrats have failed to convince any Republicans to join their effort, while recent polls have consistently shown either a plateauing of public support for impeachment or, more often than not, a decline. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bowmanmarsico/2019/12/05/more-on-impeachment-polls/#4ddbe3d448f9">Forbes</a> provided an update on some recent polls on Thursday:
<blockquote>In <a href="http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/11/25/rel13a.-.trump,.impeachment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/11/25/rel13a.-.trump,.impeachment.pdf">CNN’s November 21-24 poll</a>, 50% said President Trump should be impeached and removed from office. The responses were identical to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6508707-Trump-Impeachment.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6508707-Trump-Impeachment.html">CNN’s mid-October poll</a>. When asked whether they felt strongly or not strongly, 91% of those who supported impeachment and removal said they felt strongly, as did 89% of those who felt strongly that he shouldn’t be impeached. In <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us11262019_uaov53.pdf/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us11262019_uaov53.pdf/">Quinnipiac’s late November poll</a>, 45% of registered voters said he should be impeached and removed; 48% didn’t think so. In their <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3645" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3645">late October poll</a>, those responses were 48% to 46%.</blockquote>
Below is the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a> official November report (formatting adjusted):
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in November, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 3.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in health care and in professional and technical services. Employment rose in manufacturing, reflecting the return of workers from a strike.
This news release presents statistics from two monthly surveys. The household survey measures labor force status, including unemployment, by demographic characteristics. The establishment survey measures nonfarm employment, hours, and earnings by industry. For more information about the concepts and statistical methodology used in these two surveys, see the Technical Note.
Household Survey Data
Both the unemployment rate, at 3.5 percent, and the number of unemployed persons, at 5.8 million, changed little in November. (See table A-1.)
Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult men (3.2 percent), adult women (3.2 percent), teenagers (12.0 percent), Whites (3.2 percent), Blacks (5.5 percent), Asians (2.6 percent), and Hispanics (4.2 percent) showed little or no change in November. (See tables A-1, A-2, and A-3.)
The number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks or more), at 1.2 million, was essentially unchanged in November and accounted for 20.8 percent of the unemployed. (See table A-12.)
The labor force participation rate was little changed at 63.2 percent in November. The employment-population ratio was 61.0 percent for the third consecutive month. (See table A-1.)
The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons, at 4.3 million, changed little in November. These individuals, who would have preferred full-time employment, were working part time because their hours had been reduced or they were unable to find full-time jobs. (See table A-8.)
In November, 1.2 million persons were marginally attached to the labor force, down by 432,000 from a year earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months. They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey. (See table A-16.)
Among the marginally attached, there were 325,000 discouraged workers in November, down by 128,000 from a year earlier. (Data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. The remaining 921,000 persons marginally attached to the labor force in November had not searched for work for reasons such as school attendance or family responsibilities. (See table A-16.)
Establishment Survey Data
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in November. Job growth has averaged 180,000 per month thus far in 2019, compared with an average monthly gain of 223,000 in 2018. In November, notable job gains occurred in health care and in professional and technical services. Employment also increased in manufacturing, reflecting the return of workers from a strike. Employment continued to trend up in leisure and hospitality, transportation and warehousing, and financial activities, while mining lost jobs. (See table B-1.)
In November, health care added 45,000 jobs, following little employment change in October (+12,000). The November job gains occurred in ambulatory health care services (+34,000) and in hospitals (+10,000). Health care has added 414,000 jobs over the last 12 months.
Employment in professional and technical services increased by 31,000 in November and by 278,000 over the last 12 months.
Manufacturing employment rose by 54,000 in November, following a decline of 43,000 in the prior month. Within manufacturing, employment in motor vehicles and parts was up by 41,000 in November, reflecting the return of workers who were on strike in October.
In November, employment in leisure and hospitality continued to trend up (+45,000). The industry has added 219,000 jobs over the last 4 months.
Employment in transportation and warehousing continued on an upward trend in November (+16,000). Within the industry, job gains occurred in warehousing and storage (+8,000) and in couriers and messengers (+5,000).
Financial activities employment also continued to trend up in November (+13,000), with a gain of 7,000 in credit intermediation and related activities. Financial activities has added 116,000 jobs over the last 12 months.
Mining lost jobs in November (-7,000), largely in support activities for mining (-6,000). Mining employment is down by 19,000 since a recent peak in May.
In November, employment in retail trade was about unchanged (+2,000). Within the industry, employment rose in general merchandise stores (+22,000) and in motor vehicle and parts dealers (+8,000), while clothing and clothing accessories stores lost jobs (-18,000).
Employment in other major industries&#8211;including construction, wholesale trade, information, and government&#8211;showed little change over the month.
In November, average hourly earnings for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 7 cents to $28.29. Over the last 12 months, average hourly earnings have increased by 3.1 percent. In November, average hourly earnings of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees rose by 7 cents to $23.83. (See tables B-3 and B-8.)
The average workweek for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was unchanged at 34.4 hours in November. In manufacturing, the average workweek increased by 0.1 hour to 40.5 hours, while overtime decreased by 0.1 hour to 3.1 hours. The average workweek of private-sector production and nonsupervisory employees held at 33.5 hours. (See tables B-2 and B-7.)
The change in total nonfarm payroll employment for September was revised up by 13,000 from +180,000 to +193,000, and the change for October was revised up by 28,000 from +128,000 to +156,000. With these revisions, employment gains in September and October combined were 41,000 more than previously reported. (Monthly revisions result from additional reports received from businesses and government agencies since the last published estimates and from the recalculation of seasonal factors.) After revisions, job gains have averaged 205,000 over the last 3 months.

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An individual identified as an aviation student from Saudi Arabia who opened fire at a naval air base in Pensacola, Florida, has been confirmed dead, while at least ten victims have been transported to nearby hospitals after suffering injuries related to the shooting. At least three of the shooting victims have died.
According to the <a href="https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2019/12/06/breaking-active-shooter-reported-base-nas-pensacola/4351773002/">Pensacola News Journal</a>, a spokeswoman from Escambia County Sheriff&#8217;s Office (ECSO) confirmed Friday morning that the active shooter who opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola is dead. &#8220;ECSO spokeswoman Amber Southard confirmed the shooter was dead just before 8 a.m. Friday,&#8221; the Journal reports.
In an update on the developing story, the <a href="https://apnews.com/1102076110d04018176b4f7f12017347">Associated Press</a> reports that a U.S. official says the suspect &#8220;was an aviation student from Saudi Arabia and authorities are investigating if the shooting was terrorism-related.&#8221; (UPDATE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-attacker-at-florida-military-base-was-member-of-saudi-military-was-an-act-of-terrorism-congressman-says">Attacker At Florida Military Base Was Member Of Saudi Military, ‘Was An Act Of Terrorism,’ Congressman Says</a>) 
Authorities say the shooting took place in a classroom building on the base and was first reported at 6:51 a.m.
According to Sheriff David Morgan, a total of 11 people were injured, four of them, including the shooter, having died from the wounds.
A spokesperson for Baptist Hospital has confirmed that seven patients who suffered injuries related to the shooting are being treated at the hospital. Early reports that some of the victims were transported to Sacred Heart Hospital were incorrect.
&#8220;Two ECSO deputies are among those injured and are hospitalized,&#8221; the Journal reported in a 9:45 a.m. update. &#8220;One was shot in the arm and one was shot in the knee. The deputy who was shot in the knee is undergoing surgery.&#8221;
The updates follow earlier reports that at around 7:00 a.m. authorities were working to &#8220;take down&#8221; an active shooter on the base, as the Journal first reported.
&#8220;Amber Southard, spokeswoman for the ECSO, said little information is available at the moment, but shots have been fired on base and a heavy law enforcement presence is there to eliminate the threat,&#8221; the outlet reported in a 7:30 a.m. update to its original report. &#8220;Scanner traffic for Escambia County Fire and Rescue indicated 10 patients are being transported to local hospitals.&#8221;
&#8220;Three medical helicopters are in route and several military ambulances have also been seen in the area,&#8221; the Journal noted.
A spokesman for NAS Pensacola confirmed to <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/06/pensacola-shooter-nas-pensacola-base-locked-down-florida/4351814002/">USA Today</a> that the active shooter was reported around 7 a.m. Friday, prompting both gates to be closed and the base to go on lock down.
&#8220;The reports come two days after a <a class="gnt_ar_b_a" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/04/pearl-harbor-shooting-naval-shipyard-injured-lockdown-lifted/2615172001/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-t-l="|inline|intext|n/a">U.S. Navy sailor shot three people</a>, then killed himself at Pearl Harbor,&#8221; USA Today notes.
According to NAS Pensacola&#8217;s <a href="https://www.cnic.navy.mil/Pensacola">website</a>, the base employs more than 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel.
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On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-two-undocumented-housekeepers-took-on-the-president--and-revealed-trumps-long-term-reliance-on-illegal-immigrants/2019/12/04/3dff5b5c-0a15-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html">The Washington Post</a> published another hard-hitting investigative report designed to diss Donald Trump and his family by detailing the claims of illegal immigrants formerly employed by the now-First Family. The Post&#8217;s latest Trump-disparaging piece was met with a blistering response from the White House, which called the report &#8220;fabricated tabloid trash&#8221; that is emphatically &#8220;not journalism.&#8221;
&#8220;It was important for Sandra Diaz to be invisible,&#8221; the Post&#8217;s lengthy hit-piece begins. &#8220;Before entering the Trump family villa, she would tie back her hair, pull on latex gloves and step into delicate paper shoe coverings. She knew not to wear makeup or perfume that might leave the faintest trace of her presence. As Donald Trump&#8217;s personal maid, Diaz was dealing with a fussy celebrity owner who presided like a monarch over the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster long before he was elevated to president.&#8221;
Diaz was also an illegal alien, the Post underscores — &#8220;an immigrant from Costa Rica working illegally for Trump with a fake Social Security card she had bought for $50.&#8221;
The Post goes on to inform its readers that over the last year its reporters went through the effort of speaking with 48 people &#8220;who had worked illegally for the Trump Organization at 11 of its properties in Florida, New Jersey, New York and Virginia.&#8221;
Why did the Post dedicate all the time and resources to speaking to nearly 50 of the illegal immigrant former employees of Trump and his family? The most obvious answer is what these now ex-Trump employees have said previously to the Post and other outlets:
<blockquote>When they spoke in articles in The Post, The New York Times and other publications beginning last December, it was not for money — as some of their shocked and frightened colleagues assumed &#8211; or really for politics, they said, but to highlight what they consider a glaring hypocrisy.</blockquote>
But another reason, which becomes increasingly clear as the piece progresses, is that these former employees were able to give the Post a bunch of juicy gossip about &#8220;monarch&#8221; Trump and his &#8220;royal&#8221; family, like these gems:
<blockquote>Trump&#8217;s undocumented workers were forced to smile at stomach-churning comments from wealthy members once he became president. &#8220;You&#8217;re still here? How come we can&#8217;t get rid of you? I&#8217;m going to call Trump, you [expletive] Mexican,&#8221; Gabriel Juarez, who had been head waiter for a decade at one of Trump&#8217;s New York golf clubs, said a member told him jokingly.
It fell to them to scrub off the anti-Trump graffiti scrawled across the mirrors in the men&#8217;s locker room at Bedminster one day, and grit their teeth through pep talks by supervisors who they said echoed the boss&#8217;s stump speeches: &#8220;Now don&#8217;t forget, let&#8217;s make Mar-a-Lago great again.&#8221; &#8230;
Those who cooked and served Trump knew that he liked his cheeseburgers well done and his Diet Coke in small glass bottles with a plastic straw that no one could be seen touching.
Trump loved Tic Tacs. But not an arbitrary amount. He wanted, in his bedroom bureau at all times, two full containers of white Tic Tacs and one container that was half full. The same rule applied to the Bronx Colors-brand face makeup from Switzerland that Trump slathered on &#8211; two full containers, one half full — even if it meant the housekeepers had to regularly bring new shirts from the pro shop because of the rust-colored stains on the collars. A special washing machine in the laundry room was reserved for his wife Melania Trump&#8217;s clothing.
Donald Trump liked Irish Spring bar soap in his shower. But his housekeepers quickly learned not to throw out his soap even if it had worn down to the tiniest sliver: Trump decided when he wanted something discarded. When that happened, with clothes or newspapers, he would toss them on the floor.</blockquote>
In response to the Post&#8217;s &#8220;Trump hypocrisy&#8221; piece, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham offered her assessment of the paper&#8217;s brand of investigative reporting.
&#8220;The assertions made for this story are not only false, they are a disgusting attempt at invading the privacy of the First Family,&#8221; she wrote.&#8221;This is not journalism — it is fabricated tabloid trash.&#8221;
The Post, which includes Grisham response in its piece, swiped back by noting that Grisham &#8220;did not specify which details were inaccurate&#8221; and &#8220;declined to answer questions about Trump&#8217;s longtime employment of undocumented workers and how it squares with his rhetoric about illegal immigration.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-pelosi-makes-it-official-we-will-impeach-trump-responds">Pelosi Makes It Official: We Will Impeach; Trump Responds</a>

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After a Los Angeles judge gave the go-ahead for a pared-down version of his lawsuit, Bill Nye &#8220;The Science Guy,&#8221; who is not actually a scientist, is officially heading to court against The Walt Disney Company.
As reported by <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/bill-nye-science-guy-headed-trial-disney-1259788">The Hollywood Reporter</a>, Nye is accusing Disney of shortchanging him to the tune of tens of millions of dollars for how the company handled the profits from his popular 1990s series &#8220;Bill Nye The Science Guy.&#8221; Disney, says Nye, owes him some $28 million.
His complaint, which has been amended four times now, was finally allowed to go forward on Wednesday. A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge, Dalila Lyons, said a limited version of his complaint could head to trial, which the court scheduled for May 2020.
While Judge Lyons rejected Disney&#8217;s attempt to have the punitive damages dismissed, the judge nixed Nye&#8217;s attempts to nail Disney on a breach of fiduciary duty toward him.
&#8220;In Nye&#8217;s fourth amended complaint, he estimates $28 million in damages from the way that Disney allegedly shortchanged him on profits from his 1990s television show,&#8221; THR reports. &#8220;He&#8217;s also seeking punitive damages arising from how Disney has &#8216;a long and consistent pattern of under-reporting revenue and improperly applying deductions.'&#8221;
Disney says Nye is misinterpreting the contract and maintains that he failed to take action quickly enough to have any viable legal complaint now.
As <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/disney-aims-send-bill-nye-science-guy-lawsuit-black-hole-1214155">THR</a> reported in May during the summary judgment phase of the suit, Disney filed a motion for summary adjudication maintaining that &#8220;claims arising from profit participation statements issued before 2012 are barred by an incontestability provision setting the countdown clock at 24 months.&#8221;
Disney lawyers say that since Nye had suspicions of being &#8220;cheated&#8221; of profits back in the &#8217;90s but failed to file a lawsuit at the time, waiting until August 2017 to finally take action, he has blown his chance at a successful case. &#8220;This is the very reason statutes of limitations exist,&#8221; Disney said in the May memorandum.
Nye countered by arguing that Disney provided him quarterly profit statements that lacked enough detail for him to be able to assess their accuracy. His claim that Disney actually owes him $37 million is based on what he says is a false promise from the company that he would be given access to necessary records when he chose to invest in an audit of the show&#8217;s revenues.THR provides more details on the deal Nye claims Disney has violated;
<blockquote>According to court documents, a Disney subsidiary agreed to pay Nye 50 percent of net profits on Bill Nye the Science Guy, but of course, the definition of net profits included caveats related to fees, expenses and other costs. Nye also got a per-episode fee of about $12,500, reimbursement for his developmental costs, a $50,000 royalty if his likeness was used at a theme park and, perhaps most important and somewhat unusual, the rights to the Science Guy character reverted to Nye after his old children&#8217;s show ended.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brilliant-minds-bill-nye-taps-aoc-save-humanity-amanda-prestigiacomo">Brilliant Minds: Bill Nye Taps AOC To Save Humanity From Climate Change, Income Inequality</a>

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A day after the House Judiciary Committee&#8217;s impeachment hearing, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi made it official Thursday morning: the Democrats are moving forward on drafting articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
&#8220;The president’s actions have seriously violated the Constitution,&#8221; Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday. The president, she claimed, &#8220;leaves us no choice but to act.&#8221;
&#8220;Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our Founders, and our heart full of love for America, today I am asking our chairmen to proceed with the articles of impeachment,&#8221; said Pelosi, in comments reported by <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/05/pelosi-asks-house-judiciary-committee-to-proceed-with-articles-of-impeachment-against-trump.html">CNBC</a>.
While the speaker addressed the media for over five minutes, she notably took no questions.
The drafting of the impeachment articles is now up to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY).
Within minutes of her announcement, both President Trump and the White House responded.
After having issued a taunting series of tweets to the Democrats early Thursday in which he said, &#8220;if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast,&#8221; Trump responded to Pelosi&#8217;s statement by pushing back on her claim about the Founders and suggesting that the Democrats&#8217; impeachment push has actually been a big &#8220;win&#8221; for Republicans.
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&#8220;The Do Nothing, Radical Left Democrats have just announced that they are going to seek to Impeach me over NOTHING. They already gave up on the ridiculous Mueller &#8216;stuff,&#8217; so now they hang their hats on two totally appropriate (perfect) phone calls with the Ukrainian President,&#8221; Trump tweeted shortly after Pelosi&#8217;s announcement. &#8220;This will mean that the beyond important and seldom used act of Impeachment will be used routinely to attack future Presidents. That is not what our Founders had in mind. The good thing is that the Republicans have NEVER been more united. We will win!&#8221;
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&#8230;.This will mean that the beyond important and seldom used act of Impeachment will be used routinely to attack future Presidents. That is not what our Founders had in mind. The good thing is that the Republicans have NEVER been more united. We will win!
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White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham also issued a defiant and optimistic response to Pelosi and her fellow Democrats.
&#8220;[Speaker Pelosi] &amp; the Democrats should be ashamed,&#8221; wrote Grisham. &#8220;[President Trump] has done nothing but lead our country &#8211; resulting in a booming economy, more jobs &amp; a stronger military, to name just a few of his major accomplishments. We look forward to a fair trial in the Senate.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SpeakerPelosi</a> &amp; the Democrats should be ashamed. <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> has done nothing but lead our country &#8211; resulting in a booming economy, more jobs &amp; a stronger military, to name just a few of his major accomplishments. 🇺🇸 We look forward to a fair trial in the Senate.
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Trump started off Thursday by issuing a statement to the Democrats.
&#8220;The Do Nothing Democrats had a historically bad day yesterday in the House,” Trump wrote in a pair of taunting tweets early Thursday morning. “They have no Impeachment case and are demeaning our Country. But nothing matters to them, they have gone crazy. Therefore I say, if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business.”
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&#8230;..trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business. We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is. I was elected to “Clean the Swamp,” and that’s what I am doing!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202573673863008256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi&#8217;s decision to move forward with submitting articles of impeachment against the president followed the House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday in which four law professors gave their expert opinions on whether or not Trump&#8217;s alleged actions were impeachable.
Only one of the witnesses, George Washington University Law School&#8217;s Jonathan Turley, was a Republican-requested witness. While the three Democratic witnesses all maintain the Democrats&#8217; pro-impeachment arguments, Turley — a self-described Trump critic who voted against Trump in 2016 and for both Barack Obama and Bill Clinton — argued that there is indeed an &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-professor-jonathan-turley-congress-committing-high-crime-and-misdemeanor-in-impeachment-without-going-to-courts">abuse of power</a>&#8221; going on, but by the Democrat-led Congress, not Trump, and that impeaching on such thin evidence sets a &#8220;dangerous&#8221; precedent.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-republicans-raise-your-hand-question-at-impeachment-hearing-goes-viral">WATCH: Republican’s ‘Raise Your Hand’ Question At Impeachment Hearing Goes Viral</a>
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Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz built on his reputation for being a thorn in the Democrats&#8217; side during the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings on Wednesday. Among several moments that ended up generating some buzz online is a question Gaetz asked the expert witnesses invited to testify Wednesday that drove home a larger point that Republicans have been making all along.
&#8220;So let&#8217;s see if we can get into the fact,&#8221; said Gaetz. &#8220;To all of the witnesses: If you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the Schiff report, please raise your hand.&#8221;
After none of the witnesses — a collection of law professors, only one of which was called by Republicans — raised their hand, Gaetz said, &#8220;And let the record reflect: no personal knowledge of a single fact.&#8221;
The fiery congressman then got to his point: &#8220;And you know what, that continues on the tradition that we saw from [Intelligence Committee Chairman] Adam Schiff. Where Ambassador [William] Taylor could not identify an impeachable offense. Mr. [George] Kent never met with the president. Fiona Hill never heard the president reference anything regarding military aid [to Ukraine], Mr. [David] Hale was unaware of any nefarious activity with aid, Colonel [Alexander] Vindman even rejected the new Democrat talking point that &#8216;bribery&#8217; was invoked here. Ambassador [Kurt] Volker denied that there was a &#8216;quid pro quo.&#8217; Mr. [Tim] Morrison said there was nothing wrong on the call.&#8221;
&#8220;The only direct evidence came from Gordon Sondland, who spoke to the President of the United States, and the president said, &#8216;I want nothing, no quid pro quo.'&#8221;
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&quot;To all of the witnesses: if you have personal knowledge of a single material fact in the Schiff report, please raise your hand.&quot;
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As Gaetz points out, Sondland, the only witness who presented first-hand testimony about Trump&#8217;s orders on the Ukraine aid and investigations, testified during the Schiff-led inquiry that during a call with Trump in which he asked for clarity about his directives on the U.S. military aid to Ukraine, Trump made clear that he wants &#8220;nothing,&#8221; &#8220;no quid pro quo&#8221; — only that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky &#8220;do the right thing.&#8221;
&#8220;It was a very short abrupt conversation, he was not in a good mood, and he just said, ‘I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing,’ something to that effect,&#8221; Sondland told the committee. &#8220;So I typed out a text to Ambassador Taylor and my reason for telling him this was not to defend what the president was saying, not to opine on whether the president was being truthful or untruthful, but simply to relay I’ve gone as far as I can go. This is the final word that I heard from the president of the United States.&#8221;
Gaetz&#8217; &#8220;raise your hand&#8221; moment was highlighted by the White House, which tweeted out a clip of the exchange. &#8220;Democrats are calling as witnesses the kind of people who would name the minor child of the President as a punchline in a committee hearing,&#8221; the White House wrote.
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Gaetz&#8217; fellow congressman Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) also pointed out the moment.
&#8220;As [Rep. Matt Gaetz] exposed, all 3 of the Democrats&#8217; witnesses have NO personal knowledge of a single material fact in the Schiff Report &#8211; and all 3 have comments or contributions in their history that call their objectivity into question,&#8221; wrote Biggs, along with a clip of Gaetz&#8217;s &#8220;no personal knowledge of a single fact&#8221; comments. &#8220;This is a complete sham.&#8221;
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As <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMattGaetz</a> exposed, all 3 of the Democrats&#39; witnesses have NO personal knowledge of a single material fact in the Schiff Report &#8211; and all 3 have comments or contributions in their history that call their objectivity into question.
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&mdash; Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1202334615102480385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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As noted by <a href="https://pjmedia.com/trending/rep-matt-gaetz-just-brought-a-blow-torch-to-the-impeachment-hearings-and-set-a-glorious-bonfire/">PJ Media</a>, Gaetz&#8217;s &#8220;raise your hand&#8221; moment was not his only memorable comments of the hearings Wednesday. &#8220;His questioning also saw Karlan explain that she’d given more money to Hillary Clinton’s campaign because &#8216;I&#8217;ve been giving to a lot of charities recently because of all the poor people in the United States.'&#8221;
Gaetz also called out Stanford University Professor Pamela Karlan for using Trump&#8217;s 13-year-old son as a punchline during her testimony.
&#8220;So while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,&#8221; quipped Karlan in a line that resulted in instant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-impeachment-witness-pamela-karlan-takes-a-shot-at-barron-trump">blowback</a>, including from <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-melania-responds-to-democrat-impeachment-witness-taking-shot-at-barron">First Lady Melania Trump</a>.
&#8220;When you invoke the president’s son’s name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument — it makes you look mean,&#8221; Gaetz told the professor.
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&quot;When you invoke the president’s son’s name here, when you try to make a little joke out of referencing Barron Trump, that does not lend credibility to your argument- it makes you look mean.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImpeachmentHearing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImpeachmentHearing</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ImpeachingHearings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ImpeachingHearings</a> <a href="https://t.co/tHk3mcBioH">pic.twitter.com/tHk3mcBioH</a>
&mdash; Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1202338642334830594?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-to-democrats-if-youre-going-to-impeach-me-do-it-now-fast">Trump Has Taunting Message For Democrats After ‘Historically Bad’ Hearing: ‘Do It Now, Fast’</a>

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After the rather disastrous House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing on Wednesday — which included only one Republican-requested witness allowed by the Democrats and was highlighted by a Democrat witness using the president&#8217;s 13-year-old son&#8217;s name as a punchline — President Trump issued an early morning message to his political opponents in the House Thursday: &#8220;if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast.&#8221;
&#8220;The Do Nothing Democrats had a historically bad day yesterday in the House,&#8221; Trump wrote in a pair of tweets early Thursday. &#8220;They have no Impeachment case and are demeaning our Country. But nothing matters to them, they have gone crazy. Therefore I say, if you are going to impeach me, do it now, fast, so we can have a fair trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business.&#8221;
&#8220;We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I was elected to &#8216;Clean the Swamp,&#8217; and that’s what I am doing!&#8221;
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&#8230;..trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business. We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is. I was elected to “Clean the Swamp,” and that’s what I am doing!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1202573673863008256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump has taken the unorthodox approach to the impeachment inquiry of opting not to have his lawyers participate with the House&#8217;s hearings. Instead, Trump&#8217;s team is gearing up for the Republican-controlled Senate&#8217;s hearings and what, as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-gears-up-for-aggressive-effort-to-defend-trump-in-the-senate-as-house-moves-toward-impeachment-vote/2019/12/04/e596a606-16b1-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html">The Washington Post</a> reported Wednesday, a plans to offer an &#8220;aggressive&#8221; approach to pushing back against Democrats&#8217; impeachment arguments.
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&#8220;The White House signaled Wednesday that it will aggressively defend President Trump in a near-certain Senate impeachment trial in the coming weeks, as legal experts called by House Democrats testified in a contentious hearing that Trump’s Ukraine dealings constitute an impeachable offense,&#8221; the Post reports.
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&#8220;Eric Ueland, the White House director of legislative affairs, told reporters that Trump &#8216;wants his case made fully in the Senate,&#8217; previewing a strategy that would include live witnesses on the floor, rather than videotaped depositions that were entered into evidence during President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial in 1999,&#8221; the Post explains.
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&#8220;In this instance, we believe very strongly — given the fatally flawed process in the House — that if they were to elect against our better advice [and] send over impeachment to the Senate, that we need witnesses as part of our trial and a full defense of the president on the facts,&#8221; said Ueland.
The rationale for the Trump camp&#8217;s decision to shun the House&#8217;s impeachment hearings was reiterated during the hearing Wednesday, Republicans repeatedly underscoring the lack of a &#8220;fair&#8221; process under the Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler-led hearings, particularly the inability of Republicans to call their own witnesses. In laying out the rules for the inquiry, Schiff imposed the requirement for Democrats to approve any witnesses the Republicans wanted to call. The result, as demonstrated Wednesday, has been an almost entirely Democratic witness list.
As for the &#8220;historically bad&#8221; hearing Wednesday, the most viral moment, and the lowest point for Democrats, came during the testimony of Stanford Law School Professor Pamela Karlan, who dropped what appeared to be a pre-scripted joke using Trump&#8217;s 13-year-0ld son&#8217;s name as the punchline.
“So while the president can name his son Barron, he can’t make him a baron,&#8221; Karlan quipped.
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The bad joke resulted in massive blowback, including a rebuke from First Lady Melania Trump. &#8220;A minor child deserves privacy and should be kept out of politics,&#8221; said Melania. &#8220;Pamela Karlan, you should be ashamed of your very angry and obviously biased public pandering, and using a child to do it.&#8221;
Amid criticism from both the right and left, Karlan issued a backhanded pseudo-apology later in the day. &#8220;I want to apologize for what I said earlier about the president’s son. It was wrong of me to do that,&#8221; said the Democratic witness. &#8220;I wish the president would apologize, obviously, for the things that he’s done that’s wrong, but I do regret having said that.&#8221;
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Surveillance footage recently released by the Emeryville Police Department shows a disturbing incident that occurred at an outdoor shopping mall near San Francisco on Black Friday that involved an off-duty highway patrol officer being choked unconscious and a woman being repeatedly shoved and threatened by a group of teens.
&#8220;A group of juveniles were arrested on Black Friday after assaulting a woman and an off duty CHP officer, according to authorities,&#8221; the Bay Area&#8217;s <a href="https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/police-juveniles-arrested-after-assaulting-victim-off-duty-officer-in-emeryville/">KRON</a> reported Monday.
The incident took place at around 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 29, after the woman said she returned to the Emeryville&#8217;s Bay Street Mall, where she believed her cell phone was stolen by a group of teens.
As seen in the surveillance footage, the woman, who is wearing a white coat, approaches the group that she believes to have robbed her. When she walks over to ask them to give her the cell phone back, the situation quickly becomes violent.
The video (below) shows one of the teens, a male in a white hoodie and red hat, suddenly shove the diminutive woman, who refuses to back down despite being greatly outnumbered. Another male teen, wearing a black jacket, moves right in front of the woman in a threatening manner, refusing to let her question his peers. The teen who had shoved the woman soon joins his friend in the black jacket and the two walk threateningly toward the woman, compelling her to momentarily turn away.
While this is taking place, multiple bystanders can be seen failing to take any action despite the clearly escalating situation and the threat posed to the woman. When the male in the white hoodie shoves the woman again, a few people who also appear to be teens finally intervene. The woman still refuses to give up her quest to get back her phone. With tension mounting again, a man, who turned out to be a Chicago Highway Patrol officer, steps in to try to de-escalate the situation.
&#8220;After a few minutes, the off-duty officer, wearing civilian clothes, approaches and talks to the woman, then gestures toward the teens, possibly taking photos of them on his own phone, the video shows,&#8221; <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article237996109.html">The Sacramento Bee</a> reports. &#8220;Yanking off his hat and sweatshirt, at least one teen charges the man and a wild brawl erupts, the video shows.&#8221;
The situation gets so dire for the off-duty officer, that he attempts to run, but the group of teens chase him down and continue to punch and shove him.
&#8220;Some of the teens appear to try to intervene while others join in as the chaotic fight moves down a pedestrian walkway, into landscaping and then back onto the walkway, the video shows,&#8221; the Bee reports. &#8220;Several teens can be seen beating the off-duty officer, sometimes as he’s on the ground.&#8221;
Eventually one of the teens allegedly choked the officer until he became unconscious. When he regained consciousness, KRON reports, the officer pepper sprayed one of the more aggressive suspects.
&#8220;He was punched. He was kicked. He was taken to the ground. He was choked. He lost consciousness for a minute, came back, was able to defend himself,&#8221; detective Jaime Pardo told CBS News-affiliate <a href="https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/12/02/teens-arrested-assault-off-duty-chp-officer-female-shopper-emeryville-bay-street-mall/">KPIX</a>.
As the surveillance footage shows, eventually, security officers, wearing yellow vests, arrive on the scene and try to restore order.
Emeryville police officers ended up arresting two of the teens, a 14-year-old and 16-year-old, on suspicion of assault. Authorities are seeking six other teens involved in the incident.
According to <a href="https://abc7news.com/off-duty-chp-officer-assaulted-at-emeryville-shopping-mall/5730159/">ABC 7</a>, the officer who was assaulted reportedly drove himself to a hospital for treatment.
Surveillance video below via <a href="https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article237996109.html">The Sacramento Bee</a>:
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been making the rounds over the last few months selling various books she&#8217;s co-written and teasing a third presidential run, to the consternation of many of her fellow Democrats. The twice-failed candidate&#8217;s media tour landed her this week on famous talk radio host Howard Stern&#8217;s Sirius/XM program, where she was asked to go on the record about the decades-old rumors about her &#8220;lesbian affairs.&#8221;
The exchange, pointed out by <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/04/hillary-clinton-dismisses-lesbian-rumors-on-howard-stern-i-actually-like-men/">Breitbart</a> Wednesday, occurred during Stern and Clinton&#8217;s discussion about how she first began to date her future philandering husband, former President Bill Clinton. Hillary told Stern she had to break off another relationship in order to date Bill and made sure to underscore just how &#8220;very attractive&#8221; that boyfriend was.
The boyfriend she dumped for Bill was &#8220;a good guy&#8221; and &#8220;so handsome, really handsome,&#8221; like &#8220;a Greek god,&#8221; said Clinton.
She then dropped the comment that gave Stern his chance to go there on the lesbian rumors.
&#8220;Well, contrary to what you might hear, I actually like men,&#8221; said Hillary.
&#8220;Raise your right hand,&#8221; said Stern. &#8220;You’ve never had a lesbian affair.&#8221;
&#8220;Never, never, never!&#8221; said Clinton, laughing. &#8220;Never even been tempted.&#8221;
&#8220;I dated a lot of different people, and I liked a lot of them,&#8221; Hillary added, making clear that those &#8220;people&#8221; only included males. &#8220;I was pretty popular. I was ok popular … boys were not my problem.&#8221;
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Along with her continued teasing of yet another presidential run, given legs by flagging poll numbers and a fumbling campaign by frontrunner Joe Biden, Clinton and her husband have made headlines of late for some problematic connections.
On Tuesday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-convicted-pedophile-used-in-mueller-investigation-indicted-for-funneling-millions-in-illegal-contributions-to-hillary-doj-says">George Nader</a> — a convicted pedophile who served as a witness to special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s &#8220;Russia collusion&#8221; investigation because of his alleged contact with Trump advisers — was indicted by the Justice Department &#8220;on campaign finance charges for allegedly using straw donors to conceal contributions to Trump’s 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/03/george-nader-mueller-indicted-campaign-finance-075046">Politico</a> reported Tuesday.
&#8220;Nader embarked on the scheme in a bid to gain influence in Clinton’s circle while reporting to a foreign official, according to the Justice Department,&#8221; the outlet reports. &#8220;Among his alleged co-conspirators is Ahmad &#8216;Andy&#8217; Khawaja, the CEO of a payments processing company, according to the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-ceo-and-seven-others-charged-multi-million-dollar-conduit-campaign-contribution" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">news release</a> announcing the unsealing of the indictment, which was made by a grand jury in the District of Columbia. Nader conspired with Khawaja to secretly fund $3.5 million in donations that were made in the name of Khawaja, his wife and his firm, Allied Wallet Inc., according to the indictment.&#8221;
&#8220;Khawaja <a href="https://variety.com/2016/biz/news/tim-kaine-hillary-clinton-hollywood-1201832746/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">co-hosted</a> an August 2016 fundraiser for Clinton alongside the likes of Univision owner Haim Saban, basketball legend Magic Johnson and movie mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg,&#8221; Politico explains. &#8220;Khawaja conspired with six others to conceal his excessive contributions, according to the indictment. Campaign finance records show that the others, who were also indicted, donated to Clinton and to various Democratic committees.&#8221;
The indictment was handed down on the same day that the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7748467/Bill-Hillary-Clinton-frequent-guests-Jeffrey-Epsteins-New-Mexico-ranch.html">The Daily Mail</a> detailed new claims about the alleged connections between the Clintons and another convicted pedophile: recently deceased accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
&#8220;Bill and Hillary Clinton stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘baby-making ranch’ almost every year after they left the White House, according to the disgraced financier’s estate manager,” the outlet reports. &#8220;The former president was Epstein’s closest ‘celebrity mate’ and the Clintons, along with daughter Chelsea, visited Zorro Ranch ‘a whole bunch of times’, a former contractor who ran the IT system at the property told DailyMailTV in an exclusive interview.&#8221;

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Howard Stern Asks Hillary To Go On The Record: ‘You’ve Never Had A Lesbian Affair&#8230;’

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George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has been &#8220;highly critical&#8221; of President Trump and has consistently voted for Democratic presidents, but he has a strong warning for the House Judiciary Committee on the first day of its impeachment hearings: While President Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart was &#8220;anything but perfect,&#8221; the Democrats have simply failed to obtain the adequate evidence to make a case for such a serious action as removing the sitting president of the United States. To push this impeachment forward, Turley warns, is &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
The four impeachment witnesses for the Judiciary Committee-led hearing Wednesday are all law professors, and three of them, selected by Democrats, are expected to heartily endorse the Democrats&#8217; impeachment effort.
Only the lone Republican-selected witness allowed by the Democrats to testify Wednesday, Turley — a self-described Trump critic and Democratic voter — will push back agains the Democrats&#8217; impeachment campaign.
The impeachment &#8220;is not wrong because President Trump is right,&#8221; says Turley in his 53-page <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=0000016e-d0e8-dc46-a9ff-ffeb787a0000&amp;nname=huddle&amp;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b4be0000&amp;nrid=0000014c-2414-d9dd-a5ec-34bc52a40001&amp;nlid=630309">opening statement</a>. While Trump&#8217;s famous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was &#8220;anything but perfect,&#8221; Turley argues, and a case for impeachment &#8220;could be made,&#8221; &#8220;it cannot be made on this record,&#8221; as all of the evidence has been second-hand at best.
After explaining that he&#8217;s been &#8220;highly critical of President Trump, his policies, and his rhetoric, in dozens of columns,&#8221; and voted against him in the 2016 election — and for both Bill Clinton and Barack Obama before that — Turley makes the case that what the Democrats are doing by pushing forward with the partisan impeachment of Trump is actually &#8220;dangerous&#8221;:
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<blockquote>I would like to start, perhaps incongruously, with a statement of three irrelevant facts. First, I am not a supporter of President Trump. I voted against him in 2016 and I have previously voted for Presidents Clinton and Obama. Second, I have been highly critical of President Trump, his policies, and his rhetoric, in dozens of columns. Third, I have repeatedly criticized his raising of the investigation of the Hunter Biden matter with the Ukrainian president. These points are not meant to curry favor or approval. Rather they are meant to drive home a simple point: one can oppose President Trump’s policies or actions but still conclude that the current legal case for impeachment is not just woefully inadequate, but in some respects, dangerous, as the basis for the impeachment of an American president.
To put it simply, I hold no brief for President Trump. My personal and political views of President Trump, however, are irrelevant to my impeachment testimony, as they should be to your impeachment vote. Today, my only concern is the integrity and coherence of the constitutional standard and process of impeachment. President Trump will not be our last president and what we leave in the wake of this scandal will shape our democracy for generations to come. I am concerned about lowering impeachment standards to fit a paucity of evidence and an abundance of anger. If the House proceeds solely on the Ukrainian allegations, this impeachment would stand out among modern impeachments as the shortest proceeding, with the thinnest evidentiary record, and the narrowest grounds ever used to impeach a president.7 That does not bode well for future presidents who are working in a country often sharply and, at times, bitterly divided.</blockquote>
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Of course, Turley&#8217;s fellow expert witnesses called to testify by Democrats Wednesday disagree. In fact, University of North Carolina&#8217;s Michael Gerhardt believes that not only are Trump&#8217;s actions impeachable, they&#8217;re &#8220;worse than the misconduct of any prior president.&#8221;
&#8220;The president’s serious misconduct, including bribery, soliciting a personal favor from a foreign leader in exchange for his exercise of power, and obstructing justice and Congress are worse than the misconduct of any prior president,&#8221; the law professor asserts in his prepared remarks, as reported by <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/04/trump-impeachment-next-phase-removal-075013">Politico</a>.
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&#8220;If Congress fails to impeach here, then the impeachment process has lost all meaning,&#8221; Gerhardt declares.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nadler-drops-rare-cuss-word-while-prepping-fellow-democrats-for-impeachment-hearing">Nadler Drops ‘Rare Cuss Word’ While Prepping Fellow Democrats For Impeachment Hearing</a>
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Trump-Critic Impeachment Witness To Democrats: Sorry, You Just Don’t Have The Evidence To Impeach

House Democrats are bracing for the next phase of their impeachment campaign — and the tension has inspired one of the key figures on the left side of the aisle to get a little &#8220;blunt,&#8221; resorting to what Politico describes as a &#8220;rare cuss word&#8221; that caused his fellow Democrats to “sit up in their chairs.”
House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) offered a rather unorthodox, at least for him, message to his fellow Democrats the day before his panel takes the lead on the impeachment inquiry.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to take any sh**,&#8221; said Nadler during the closed-door, all-Democrat meeting Tuesday morning that kicked off a six-hour &#8220;dress rehearsal&#8221; held in the Ways and Means Committee hearing room, where the Intelligence Committee held their impeachment hearings.
The S-bomb, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/03/nadler-judiciary-impeachment-074985">Politico</a> explains, is &#8220;a rare cuss word from the lawyerly Manhattan Democrat that prompted some lawmakers to sit up in their chairs, according to multiple people in the room.&#8221;
&#8220;Nadler’s warning shot referred to likely GOP antics to try to undermine the first impeachment hearing in the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday,&#8221; Politico explains. &#8220;But it wasn’t lost on Democrats that Nadler’s message could also apply to those in his own party who have closely scrutinized his role in the House&#8217;s impeachment probe.&#8221;
The no-&#8220;sh**&#8221; mock hearing conducted by Nadler included former Capitol Hill staffers &#8220;brought in to play GOP attack dogs on the committee, including Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and ranking member Doug Collins of Georgia,&#8221; Politico notes.
The outlet also notes that Nadler&#8217;s team ate tacos for lunch.
Nadler&#8217;s &#8220;prep session&#8221; came on the eve of the House Judiciary Committee-led impeachment hearings, which begin Wednesday and promise to provide a little more fireworks than the rather anticlimactic public hearings helmed by the much-maligned chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA), whose office had contact with the whistleblower prior to the submission of the complaint that sparked the inquiry.
As Politico explains, Nadler&#8217;s uncharacteristic language was prompted by the increased pressure on him to make sure the Democrats don&#8217;t fumble the impeachment ball — though Republicans maintain it&#8217;s way too late for that.
During Nadler&#8217;s practice session, the Democrats released their report on the impeachment hearings, but a day earlier, Republicans beat them to the punch and unloaded on the Democrats&#8217; &#8220;basement bunker&#8221; tactics and &#8220;failed&#8221; impeachment case.
&#8220;The Democrats are trying to impeach a duly elected President based on the accusations and assumptions of unelected bureaucrats who disagreed with President Trump’s policy initiatives and processes,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-impeachment-report-heres-all-the-evidence-democrats-are-ignoring">Republican impeachment report</a>, released on Monday, reads. &#8220;They are trying to impeach President Trump because some unelected bureaucrats were discomforted by an elected President’s telephone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. They are trying to impeach President Trump because some unelected bureaucrats chafed at an elected President’s ‘outside the beltway’ approach to diplomacy.&#8221;
“The Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, led by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, is merely the outgrowth of their obsession with re-litigating the results of the 2016 presidential election,” the report states. “Despite their best efforts, the evidence gathered during the Democrats’ partisan and one-sided impeachment inquiry does not support that President Trump pressured Ukraine to investigate his political rival to benefit the President in the 2020 presidential election. The evidence does not establish any impeachable offense.”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/limbaugh-more-evidence-media-has-failed-miserably-to-sell-impeachment-to-the-american-public">Limbaugh: More Evidence Media Has ‘Failed Miserably’ To Sell Impeachment To The American Public</a>

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At a NATO summit reception at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was caught on a hot mic appearing to mock President Trump while chatting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron. Asked about the viral clip the next day, Trump offered a mixed assessment of the &#8220;two-faced&#8221; Trudeau before offering an explanation for why Trudeau probably isn&#8217;t &#8220;happy&#8221; with him.
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The exchange came after what the left-leaning <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-impeachment-inquiry-rages-at-home-trump-unsettles-the-world-stage-at-nato/2019/12/03/26f75d48-15f4-11ea-8406-df3c54b3253e_story.html">Washington Post</a> describes as Trump having &#8220;pronounced, prodded and pushed America’s allies into a state of unbalance — seizing the global stage to both bully and banter, all while keeping himself at the center of attention&#8221;:
<blockquote>Over the course of three one-on-one meetings with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Macron and Trudeau, Trump turned what were expected to be brief photo opportunities into his own personal daytime cable show. As the other leaders largely bore witness, the U.S. president — frequently affable, occasionally bored — held forth for a collective two hours, fielding questions on topics ranging from the impeachment investigation he left at home to the British election campaign he flew into here.</blockquote>
Asked about the viral video on Wednesday, President Trump took a swipe at Trudeau before offering some praise.
&#8220;Well, he’s two-faced,&#8221; said Trump, who&#8217;s famous for coining memorable epithets for his political enemies.
After smacking the Canadian PM, Trump did something a little unexpected: he praised him. &#8220;And honestly with Trudeau, he’s a nice guy,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;I find him to be a very nice guy.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth is I called him out on the fact that he’s not paying 2%, and I guess he’s not very happy about it,&#8221; said Trump. &#8220;He&#8217;s not paying 2%, and he should be paying 2%. It&#8217;s Canada, they have money, and they should be paying 2%. So I called him out on that, and I&#8217;m sure he wasn&#8217;t happy about it. But that’s the way it is.&#8221;
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JUST IN: Asked about video of NATO leaders caught on camera speaking candidly, President Trump says PM Trudeau &quot;is two-faced,&quot; but adds &quot;honestly, he&#39;s a nice guy.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/p8P5VAVOB8">https://t.co/p8P5VAVOB8</a> <a href="https://t.co/pbaDJpD0mC">pic.twitter.com/pbaDJpD0mC</a>
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Trump then announced on Wednesday that his scheduled press conference was <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1202218639547621377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1202218639547621377&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Farchives%2Fed-morrissey%2F2019%2F12%2F04%2Fcnn-ap-guess-whos-talk-nato-summit%2F">canceled</a> and he was heading back to Washington.
Trump&#8217;s reflexive &#8220;Two-Faced&#8221; Trudeau comment has been echoed by other Trudeau critics, including Ezra Levant, founder of Canadian outlet The Rebel, who tweeted in response to Trudeau&#8217;s Trump mockery:
“Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally.”
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Just like at the G7 meeting last year, Justin Trudeau was meek and obedient to Donald Trump when they were face to face. But the moment Trump left the room Trudeau bad-mouthed him. Here he is doing the same in London, mocking Canada’s greatest NATO ally. <a href="https://t.co/hGENrbnHg7">pic.twitter.com/hGENrbnHg7</a>
&mdash; Ezra Levant 🍁 (@ezralevant) <a href="https://twitter.com/ezralevant/status/1202013710153388032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 3, 2019</a></blockquote>
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While The Washington Post spends most of its coverage of the NATO summit trashing Trump&#8217;s performance, the paper also admits that his &#8220;freewheeling style&#8221; has ended up &#8220;yielding results,&#8221; as NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg highlighted.
&#8220;Stoltenberg — praising Trump’s “leadership on defense spending” as helping to add more than $130 billion to military coffers from Canada and European allies since 2016 — seemed to acknowledge the ways in which Trump’s often capricious, freewheeling style has simultaneously distressed allies while, at times, also yielding results,&#8221; the Trump-criticizing Post reported.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/canadas-justin-trudeau-mocks-trump-at-nato-summit-thats-ironic-coming-from-trudeau">Canada’s Justin Trudeau Mocks Trump At NATO Summit. That’s Ironic Coming From Trudeau.</a>
This article has been expanded to include more of Trump&#8217;s response to Trudeau.
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In a lengthy report published Tuesday that peels back the curtain on the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;Ukraine pressure campaign,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-ukraine-pressure-campaign-began-as-an-effort-to-undercut-the-mueller-investigation/2019/12/02/208204c8-12c9-11ea-9cd7-a1becbc82f5e_story.html">The Washington Post</a> ends up undermining the Democrats&#8217; attempts to focus public attention on President Trump&#8217;s request for Ukraine to &#8220;look into&#8221; his political opponent, rather than his attempt to prompt an investigation into alleged Ukrainian meddling in the 2016 election. What actually fueled the pressure campaign, which was headed up by Trump&#8217;s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, the Post details, was a desire to prove that special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s &#8220;Russian collusion&#8221; investigation was based on false premises.
&#8220;As 2018 came to a close, the special counsel investigation was bearing down on President Trump,&#8221; the Post&#8217;s latest Ukraine-themed report begins. &#8220;Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III had secured the cooperation of Trump’s onetime fixer, Michael Cohen, and appeared to be preparing to indict a longtime adviser, Roger Stone. Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was in jail after pleading guilty to multiple felonies, and Mueller’s prosecutors were pressing him to explain why he had given 2016 polling data to an associate with alleged ties to Russian intelligence.&#8221;
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&#8220;It was in this uncertain moment that Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said he had the idea to focus on Ukraine,&#8221; the Post continues. &#8220;That November, he received a tip from a former colleague that it was the Ukrainians who had conspired to help Democrats in 2016, Giuliani said in recent interviews.&#8221;
As the Post highlights, Giuliani has openly explained this rationale, including in a recent interview with Glenn Beck. &#8220;I knew they were hot and heavy on this Russian collusion thing, even though I knew 100 percent that it was false,&#8221; said Giuliani. &#8220;I said to myself, ‘Hallelujah.’ I’ve got what a defense lawyer always wants: I can go prove someone else committed this crime.&#8221;
Giuliani made a similar statement in a tweet last month. &#8220;The investigation I conducted concerning 2016 Ukrainian collusion and corruption, was done solely as a defense attorney to defend my client against false charges, that kept changing as one after another were disproved,&#8221; he wrote.
&#8220;Giuliani’s efforts to undermine the special counsel probe eventually snowballed into the current impeachment crisis gripping the capital — highlighting how the pressure Trump and his allies put on Ukraine originated as an effort to sow doubts about the Russia investigation,&#8221; the Post explains.
While the Post does its best to make Trump&#8217;s attempts to &#8220;sow doubts&#8221; about the Russian investigation sound insidious, as Mueller himself was forced to admit in the final report, the Democrat-pushed narrative that Trump&#8217;s campaign somehow &#8220;colluded&#8221; with the Russians turned out to be baseless. After a two-year investigation costing over $30 million, the special counsel revealed in its final report that &#8220;the investigation did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities.&#8221;
The Post&#8217;s report on team Trump&#8217;s belief that Ukraine was really the culprit in 2016 election meddling aligns with other evidence, including Mueller investigation <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newly-released-mueller-docs-trump-campaign-thought-ukrainians-not-russians-behind-democrat-email-hacks-trump-get-emails">documents</a> released in early November focusing on the special counsel&#8217;s interview in May 2018 with former Trump deputy campaign chairman Rick Gates. Trump advisers, said Gates, believed the hacking of the Democratic emails ultimately published by WikiLeaks was &#8220;likely carried about by the Ukrainians, not the Russians,&#8221; and that &#8220;the Democrats were pushing the Russia narrative&#8221; presumably for political purposes.
Trump has reiterated both publicly and privately his belief that corruption has plagued Ukraine. In a recent tweet, Trump explained his rationale for delaying U.S. security aid. &#8220;I held back the money from Ukraine because it is considered a corrupt country, [and] I wanted to know why nearby European countries weren’t putting up money also,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-heres-the-real-reason-i-held-back-money-from-ukraine-blocked-impeachment-testimony">tweeted</a> last week.
Fueled by this belief that Ukraine was corrupt and in part by his desire to undermine the premises of the Mueller investigation, Trump asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 — &#8220;<a title="www.washingtonpost.com" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-ukraine-call-reveals-a-president-convinced-of-his-own-invincibility/2019/09/21/1a56466c-dc6a-11e9-ac63-3016711543fe_story.html?tid=lk_inline_manual_16">the very day after Mueller testified </a>before Congress,&#8221; as the Post notes — to investigate alleged Ukrainian meddling.
“I would like you to do us a favor though because our country has been through a lot and Ukraine knows a lot about it,” Trump told Zelensky, as revealed in the transcript of the famous July 25 call. “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say Crowdstrike… I guess you have one of your wealthy people… The server, they say Ukraine has it. There are a lot of things that went on, the whole situation. I think you’re surrounding yourself with some of the same people. I would like to have the Attorney General call you or your people and I would like you to get to the bottom of it. As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do, it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.”
As almost an afterthought, Trump also asked Zelensky to &#8220;look into&#8221; allegations of corruption involving former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, and Ukrainian-based energy company Burisma Holdings.
“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,” Trump said. “So whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it … It sounds horrible to me.”
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Washington Post: Trump Effort To Pressure Ukraine Was Really About Undermining Mueller, Not Biden

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Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh returned to the airwaves Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday to highlight evidence that the left-leaning media has &#8220;failed miserably&#8221; to win the American public&#8217;s support for the impeachment of Donald Trump.
&#8220;[O]ver the weekend, you know what I didn’t hear?&#8221; Limbaugh said at the start of his three-hour radio program Monday. &#8220;I didn’t hear anybody talk about impeachment. They are talking about the New England Patriots maybe floundering, people talking about Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals bragging about how much money they saved. Nobody’s talking about impeachment.&#8221;
And it&#8217;s not just that no one seems to really care to talk about the Democrats&#8217; big impeachment push, poll after poll has shown either no movement at all in public opinion, or, more often than not, a declining support in impeachment after the Democrats&#8217; conducted their anti-climactic public impeachment hearings.
Polling also shows support for Trump is up among minorities, Rush noted, while his base continues to back him more strongly than ever. As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-poll-shows-strong-non-white-support-for-trump">The Daily Wire</a> reported Monday, multiple polls have now shown Trump enjoying strong approval among minorities for a Republican:
<blockquote>After two recent polls revealed the strong support President Trump has among black voters, with the <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/huge-black-support-for-president-donald-trump-hits-34-in-both-emerson-and-rasmussen-polls/">Rasmussen poll showing</a> 34% percent and an <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-approval-among-blacks-above-34-percent-emerson-polls-shows_3155737.html">Emerson University poll</a> showing 34.5% support from black voters, another poll has been released showing the strong support for Trump among non-white voters. An <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_1911181224.pdf#page=3">NPR/PBS and Marist poll</a> conducted November 11-15 found 33% of non-white voters approve of President Trump’s performance at his job.</blockquote>
Meanwhile, Trump&#8217;s base appears to have only further solidified behind him in response to the impeachment inquiry. &#8220;One of the greatest failures of the media and the left is their inability to drive a wedge between Trump voters and Trump,&#8221; said Limbaugh. &#8220;Trump’s popularity among Republicans now remains at over 90%. This is almost unprecedented.&#8221;
The response from the &#8220;Drive-Bys&#8221;? Declare Republican voters who support Trump to be a &#8220;racial and religious cult,&#8221; as MNSBC&#8217;s Joy Reid did Saturday.
&#8220;A lot of ways, if you look at the Public Religion Research Institute numbers, you know it isn’t just a pejorative to say it’s a cult,&#8221; said Reid, as noted by Rush. &#8220;There’s a lot of evidence that it is a racial and religious cult of personality in which his base is solidly among the white evangelicals of almost worshiping and say that he’s the chosen one of God.&#8221;
&#8220;They’re at their wits’ end,&#8221; Limbaugh exclaimed. &#8220;I can’t emphasize enough the degree to which they know they have failed. And this is relatively new territory for them even though it’s been three years.&#8221;
&#8220;Their sole objective from the get-go has been to take Donald Trump out, to reverse the election results of 2016 however, whichever way they can,&#8221; said the talk radio host. &#8220;One of the ways they have tried to do it is to separate Trump voters from Trump. They have failed miserably.&#8221;
&#8220;Look how long it took ’em to get George Bush’s numbers down into the thirties, took ’em almost six years to do that,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Now, we’re into four years, and they haven’t budged Trump and even during this so-called presentation of all of this horrible news, Trump supposedly cheated, worked with the Russians, withheld money from Ukraine, whatever it is, whatever lies that they have perpetrated, not a single one of them has worked. They have not made a dent in either Trump’s overall approval number or support for Trump among his own base voters. And now they are at their wits’ end.&#8221;
In response, said Limbaugh, the Democrat-sympathizing media has resorted, like Reid, to &#8220;insulting&#8221; half the country. Inevitably, the insults &#8220;backfire&#8221; on them, yet they still &#8220;haven’t come to grips yet with the idea that they simply cannot shape public opinion and events with the ease they used to be able to do so.&#8221;
During the program Monday, Limbaugh also cheered Trump&#8217;s decision to turn down the invitation from Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to participate in the hearings. &#8220;You gotta love it, ladies and gentlemen,&#8221; said Rush. &#8220;The president of the United States has just told Jerry Nadler to go pound whatever it is he eats. He’s not showing up. These clowns schedule a so-called impeachment hearing. There aren’t gonna be any hearings.&#8221;
&#8220;They’ve got nothing, folks,&#8221; he stressed. &#8220;It’s totally bombed&#8230; They’ve fired everything they’ve got and it’s a big, fat zero. People are not even talking about it. They haven’t figured it out yet. I mean, they’re gonna still try to go through the motions. They’re gonna try to make it look like this is a deadly serious thing and that they’re gonna follow through on it, but it’s not gonna end up at all the way they have dreamed about it.&#8221;
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Limbaugh: More Evidence Media Has ‘Failed Miserably’ To Sell Impeachment To The American Public

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The increasingly ugly case against California Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter appears to have finally come to its inglorious end after the congressman reversed his previous position and pleaded guilty to campaign finance violation charges and one charge of conspiracy. The guilty plea comes after the congressman blamed his wife for egregious campaign spending violations amounting to some $250,000 and amid allegations of multiple affairs by the reportedly &#8220;cash-strapped&#8221; San Diego representative.
The <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/02/gop-rep-duncan-hunter-will-plead-guilty-to-swiping-250k-from-campaign/">New York Post</a> broke the news of Hunter&#8217;s guilty plea on Monday. &#8220;Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Ca.), who was hit with federal charges of illegally swiping more than $250,000 in campaign funds to cover personal expenses, will plead guilty in the case, his attorney told The Post on Monday,&#8221; the outlet reported.
Paul Pfingst, Hunter&#8217;s attorney, also told the Post Monday that as part of his plea deal, his client will plead guilty to a conspiracy count.
The case started back in August 2018, when Hunter and his wife Margaret, who were reportedly &#8220;<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/06/25/california-congressman-allegedly-funded-affairs-with-campaign-cash/">mired in personal debt</a>,&#8221; were charged with campaign finance violations amounting to $250,000 of campaign funds directed to personal expenses, which allegedly include Hunter&#8217;s multiple extramarital affairs.
After a year-long investigation, Hunter and his wife were charged with &#8220;wire fraud, falsifying records, campaign finance violations and conspiracy,&#8221; the Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/08/21/gop-congressman-indicted-for-campaign-finance-violations/">reported</a> in August 2018. &#8220;A 48-page indictment charged the Hunters with lavish spending from 2009 to 2016, including family vacations to Italy and Hawaii, school tuition, theater tickets and even dental bills.&#8221;
In response, Hunter blamed his wife, saying that he gave her full control of his campaign&#8217;s finances while he was deployed in Iraq as a Marine and she continued to control the money upon his return.
&#8220;[Margaret] was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did, that’ll be looked at too, I’m sure,&#8221; the congressman told Fox News in August. &#8220;But I didn’t do it. I didn’t spend any money illegally.&#8221;
While he admitted that his campaign &#8220;did make mistakes,&#8221; Hunter maintained that the money illegally directed to personal expenses was spent &#8220;not by me but by the campaign.&#8221; He also stressed that he paid back the money before the election.
The congressman&#8217;s reversal comes months after his wife pleaded guilty in June and agreed to help the investigation into her embattled husband.
Among the expenditures, the indictment charged, Hunter and his wife spent campaign funds on &#8220;family vacations to Italy and Hawaii, tuition for their children, theater tickets, groceries, restaurant bills, dental visits and even plane tickets for their pet bunny, Eggburt, to travel alongside them,&#8221; the Post details.
According to a motion filed by the Justice Department in California’s Southern District in June, Hunter also used campaign funds to pay for some of his affairs with politicos and a congressional staffer between 2010 and 2016.
&#8220;Carrying out all these affairs did not come cheap — Hunter spent thousands of dollars treating women to meals, drinks, and vacations, and traveling to and from their homes,&#8221; the motion reads, as the Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/06/25/california-congressman-allegedly-funded-affairs-with-campaign-cash/">reported</a>. &#8220;Given the pronounced financial difficulties the Hunters were facing, his use of campaign funds to pursue these relationships was necessary for Hunter to satisfy his desire for intimacy.&#8221;

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After Throwing His Wife Under The Bus, Rep. Duncan Hunter Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy, Spending Charges

In a development that is already causing some on the Left to hit the panic button, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was a Republican before he was a Democrat, has officially thrown his hat in the ring for the Democratic presidential nomination — and he has immediately made a splash in the polls, overtaking almost all of the other Democratic candidates. While most believe he has no shot of winning either the primary or the election, some are worried that the moderate billionaire&#8217;s presence in the primary will help get Donald Trump re-elected.
A new <a href="https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/472629-bloomberg-overtakes-harris-in-new-poll">Hill-HarrisX poll</a> released Monday found that Bloomberg comes into the Democrats&#8217; 2020 primary race ahead of all but four of the other candidates.
With 6% of the Democratic vote, Bloomberg further buries struggling California Sen. Kamala Harris, who sits at just 2% with Bloomberg in the picture, as well as entrepreneur Andrew Yang, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Julian Castro, and Tom Steyer, all of whom likewise manage just 2%.
The Hill/HarrisX poll found former Vice President Joe Biden maintaining a healthy lead over the other contenders with 31% support. Democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sits in second with 15%, less than half of the support Biden is drawing, while Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who briefly enjoyed the Democratic frontrunner status, is down another five points from mid-November to just 10%.
The only other candidate to beat out Bloomberg is South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D), who has gained two points in the poll since a few weeks ago and now sits at 9%, just a point below Warren. All the other Democratic candidates manage just 1% or less.
The survey comes as two candidates recently dropped out — former Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) and Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) — while billionaire Tom Steyer jumped in. 
Bloomberg&#8217;s entrance into the race has some on the Left worried about the larger implications. While he&#8217;s not widely consider a true contender, his status, economic resources, and more moderate political positions could end up impacting the race in negative ways for those wanting to see Trump do down.
In an op-ed for The Hill published Sunday, Paul Bledsoe explains why Bloomberg, while unable to win, &#8220;<a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/472486-bloomberg-cant-win-but-he-could-help-reelect-trump">could help reelect Trump</a>.&#8221;
&#8220;For most Democrats, rightly fixated on beating Donald Trump, <a class="rollover-people-link" href="https://thehill.com/people/michael-bloomberg" data-nid="440971">Michael Bloomberg</a>’s campaign for President is about the last thing they need,&#8221; writes Bledsoe. &#8220;The bitter irony is that Bloomberg, a mega-billionaire, lifelong Republican, and New York conservative, has no chance of actually winning this year’s populist-leaning Democratic nomination himself. But his candidacy holds a host of dangers for Democrats and could complicate their efforts to defeat Trump.&#8221;
Bloomberg&#8217;s presence in the Democratic primary &#8220;risks further dividing Democrats over issues of extreme wealth and economic fairness, emboldening far left candidates like Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and their supporters who see Bloomberg as the embodiment of the problem,&#8221; Bledsoe suggests. &#8220;In fact, Bloomberg’s money-fueled campaign seems to mirror or even legitimize Trump’s political approach of 2016.&#8221; 
Most &#8220;dangerous&#8221; for Democrats, Bledsoe argues, is Bloomberg’s potential to wage a &#8220;massive TV ad&#8221; campaign that may allow him to &#8220;purchase just enough support in the huge Super Tuesday and other now early mega-primaries to prevent the Democrats from giving any single candidate a majority of delegates.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-impeachment-report-heres-all-the-evidence-democrats-are-ignoring">Related: GOP Impeachment Report: Here’s All The Evidence Democrats Are Ignoring</a>

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