Top Republicans in Washington, D.C., and right-wing media personalities have started to sour on Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for not using his power as chairman to call for public hearings to get to the bottom of how the Russia investigation started and for not calling on Kurt Volker, former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine, to testify in front of the committee while Democrats in the House push for impeachment.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) called out Graham during an interview Monday evening on Fox News over Graham&#8217;s inaction.
&#8220;Senator Graham has the power, he&#8217;s the chairman of a powerful committee, the Judiciary Committee, and yes, I&#8217;ve encouraged him publicly and privately to do this,&#8221; Paul said. &#8220;He needs to go ahead and exercise his power, we&#8217;ve been waiting a long time on this.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of us want to see it get started, we want to see subpoenas, and we don&#8217;t want to see everything done in secret on the House side and then they parse out what they want to parse out,&#8221; Paul added. &#8220;Most of those people that are testifying over there could easily be asked to testify over here.&#8221;
Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson also highlighted multiple promises that Graham has made on cable news but has not followed through on.
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Tucker Carlson and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) call out <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LindseyGrahamSC</a> for not using his power as chairman of Judiciary Committee to call for public hearings on the Russia probe and to get those testifying to the Democrat-controlled House to testify in public<a href="https://t.co/D5U49wFDtQ">pic.twitter.com/D5U49wFDtQ</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1186446522054955009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
Paul was not the only top Republican to call out Graham on Monday over his inaction.
&#8220;Since Republicans don’t control the House, Senator Graham is in a unique position to call hearings, collect documents, and bring in witnesses on a range of important issues—FISA abuse, impeachment-related issues like Ukrainian election meddling, etc,&#8221; a top House GOP source told The Daily Wire. &#8220;He talks a lot on TV about taking action, but he never actually does anything, and Republicans realize that. It’s a shame because he could really make a difference if he actually did some work.&#8221;
Former White House officials and sources close to Graham also told The Daily Wire that they were becoming increasingly angered by Graham&#8217;s inaction.
&#8220;I’m deeply disappointed in Lindsey,&#8221; a former senior White House official told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I always thought he was someone you could count on, he sure proved me wrong.&#8221;
&#8220;I never knew him to be the type to make empty promises, especially when the stakes are so high,&#8221; a source close to Graham told The Daily Wire. &#8220;I am sick of walking around town making excuses for him.&#8221;
Trump called out Republicans on Monday while speaking to reporters, saying: &#8220;Republicans have to get tougher and fight.&#8221;
&#8220;We have some that are great fighters, but they have to get tougher and fight because the Democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the election, which is coming up, where we’re doing very well,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;I think the Democrats fight dirty. I think the Democrats are lousy politicians with lousy policy.”
“They want open borders. They don’t care about crime. They want sanctuary cities. They don’t care about drugs,&#8221; Trump added. They don’t care about almost anything. They don’t care about USMCA.”
Trump then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unloads-on-romney-for-basically-being-worse-than-a-democrat">took a shot</a> at weak Republicans, like Senator Mitt Romney (UT), for not sticking with the party when the going gets tough.
“[Democrats have] two things they have: They’re vicious and they stick together,” Trump said. “They don’t have Mitt Romney in their midst. They don’t have people like that. They stick together. You never see them break off. You never see somebody go out and [do their own thing].”
Trump&#8217;s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., also called out Graham on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Paging <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC" data-focusable="true">@LindseyGrahamSC</a>. Your country needs you.&#8221;
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Paging <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LindseyGrahamSC</a>. Your country needs you. <a href="https://t.co/061L1roAjg">https://t.co/061L1roAjg</a>
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) <a href="https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1186330888113655809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>

Lindsey Graham

Top Republicans Sour On Lindsey Graham: ‘He Never Actually Does Anything’

Rand Paul

Democrat presidential candidate Robert Francis &#8220;Beto&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke repeatedly suggested on Sunday during an MSNBC interview that President Donald Trump was inspired by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and misrepresented Trump&#8217;s previous statements and policies.
&#8220;President Trump, perhaps inspired by Goebbels and the propagandists of the Third Reich, seems to employ this tactic that the bigger the lie, the more obscene the injustice, the more dizzying the pace of this bizarre behavior, the less likely we are to be able to do something about it,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke said.
Moments later, Al Sharpton, apparently surprised by O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s comments, sought to make sure that he heard O&#8217;Rourke correctly.
&#8220;Did I hear you correctly say that perhaps [Trump] was influenced by Goebbels and the Third Reich in terms of telling a big lie?&#8221; Sharpton asked. &#8220;I just want to make sure that&#8217;s what I heard you say.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s right,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke responded.
&#8220;There is so much that is resonant of the Third Reich in this administration, whether it is attempting to ban all people of one religion and saying that Muslims are somehow inherently dangerous or defective or disqualified,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke claimed.
&#8220;The things that he says about immigrants committing crimes, being rapists, being predators, and animals, seeking to dehumanize them, that&#8217;s how we get them in cages,&#8221; O&#8217;Rourke continued.
O&#8217;Rourke falsely claimed that Trump called  &#8220;white supremacists and neo-Nazis and Klansmen ‘very fine people’&#8221; and then blamed Trump for the tragedy in the El Paso, Texas, Walmart earlier this year.
WATCH:
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Robert Francis O&#8217;Rourke claims that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels inspires President Donald Trump
Al Sharpton asks O&#8217;Rourke if that&#8217;s what he really said, to which O&#8217;Rourke responded: &#8220;That&#8217;s right&#8221;
Nearly everything O&#8217;Rourke says in this clip is a complete lie <a href="https://t.co/nZPrWQJMO0">pic.twitter.com/nZPrWQJMO0</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1186142596281724928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
Many of O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s claims were categorically false.
Trump never called Muslims &#8220;defective&#8221; or &#8220;disqualified,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2016/aug/08/tim-kaine/tim-kaine-falsely-says-trump-said-all-mexicans-are/">nor did he</a> call all immigrants &#8220;rapists&#8221; as O&#8217;Rourke suggested.
&#8220;When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://time.com/3923128/donald-trump-announcement-speech/">said</a>. &#8220;They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.&#8221;
While his remarks certainly caused controversy, it&#8217;s important to note that Trump did differentiate between those who were criminals and those immigrants who &#8220;are good people.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments are also not completely without merit.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) <a href="https://www.ice.gov/doclib/about/offices/ero/pdf/eroFY2018Report.pdf">reported</a> that for Fiscal Year 2018, the agency arrested more than 105,000 convicted criminal illegal aliens which had convictions for:
<ul>
<li>55,109 illegal alien convictions for dangerous drugs</li>
<li>54,630 illegal alien convictions for drunk driving</li>
<li>29,987 illegal alien convictions for assault</li>
<li>9,834 illegal alien convictions for burglary</li>
<li>8,094  illegal alien convictions for weapon offenses</li>
<li>4,975 illegal alien convictions for sex offenses (not involving assault of commercialized sex)</li>
<li>4,423 illegal alien convictions for robbery</li>
<li>3,740 illegal alien convictions for sexual assault</li>
<li>1,641 illegal alien convictions for homicide</li>
<li>1,294 illegal alien convictions for kidnapping</li>
</ul>
Trump also <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/the-charlottesville-lie/">never called</a>  &#8220;white supremacists and neo-Nazis and Klansmen &#8216;very fine people.'&#8221; This claim has been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/">debunked</a> numerous times, even by people who are highly critical of the president like CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper.
Regarding O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s claim that the El Paso attacker was inspired by Trump, Washington Examiner columnist Byron York <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/has-anyone-actually-read-the-el-paso-manifesto">writes</a>: &#8220;But the question is, was he inspired by President Trump? It is hard to make that case looking at the manifesto in its entirety.&#8221;
York notes that the attacker &#8220;had little use for Republicans&#8221; and &#8220;was most angry about what he had seen in the recent Democratic presidential debates.&#8221;
On Monday, O&#8217;Rourke tripled down on his claim during an appearance on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer,&#8221; telling Blitzer to &#8220;find me a better analogy&#8221; than comparing Trump to Hitler.
O&#8217;Rourke repeated many of the same claims from his MSNBC interview during his interview on CNN.
WATCH:
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Beto on his likening Trump to Hitler: “Find me a better analogy” <a href="https://t.co/2b3bbwSU3s">pic.twitter.com/2b3bbwSU3s</a>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1186396350075887616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>

Beto O&#8217;Rourke

Robert Francis O&#8217;Rourke Triples Down: Trump Just Like Hitler, Nazi Germany

Beto O'Rourke

Donald Trump

President Donald Trump slammed Utah Republican Senator Mitt Romney on Monday while talking to the press about the Democrat party, saying that the Democrats &#8220;don’t have people like&#8221; Romney who go against the party.
&#8220;You said that Republicans need to get tougher and fight,&#8221; a reporter said to Trump. &#8220;What are you talking about, Mr. President?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think the Democrats fight dirty. I think the Democrats are lousy politicians with lousy policy,&#8221; Trump responded. &#8220;They want open borders. They don’t care about crime. They want sanctuary cities. They don’t care about drugs. They don’t care about almost anything. They don’t care about USMCA.&#8221;
&#8220;I think they&#8217;re lousy politicians. But two things they have: They&#8217;re vicious and they stick together,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;They don’t have Mitt Romney in their midst. They don’t have people like that. They stick together. You never see them break off.  You never see somebody go out and [do their own thing].&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s shot at Romney comes a day after a report revealed that Romney <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-total-loser-romney-mocked-after-using-secret-twitter-account-to-defend-himself-report-suggests">used a secret Twitter account to defend himself from criticism online</a>. Romney later  confirmed that the account, which was named Pierre Delecto, belonged to him.
WATCH:
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President Donald Trump on Democrats: “They&#8217;re vicious and they stick together. They don&#8217;t have Mitt Romney in their midst. They don&#8217;t have people like that. They stick together. You never see them break off, you never see somebody go out and [do their own thing]” <a href="https://t.co/TWSXGdSd5r">pic.twitter.com/TWSXGdSd5r</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1186343662562598912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
Trump went on to hammer the Democrats&#8217; attempts to impeach him and the conduct of Democrat House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
&#8220;This thing is all about a letter that was perfect. You never hear [about] the letter anymore. It was all about whistleblowers,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;You never hear &#8212; what happened to the whistleblowers?  They&#8217;re gone, because they&#8217;ve been discredited.  What happened to the informant? And where&#8217;s the IG?  Why didn&#8217;t the IG read the letter, read the transcript? I would have declassified it for him, if I had to do that. Why didn’t he read this and then see that the whistleblower&#8217;s account was totally different than the letter? Then he would&#8217;ve said, &#8216;Oh, there&#8217;s no problem here.&#8217; The whistleblower gave a false account.&#8221;
&#8220;So do we have to protect somebody that gave a totally false account of my conversation?&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;Do we have to protect the informant? Now, I happen to think there probably wasn’t an informant. You know, the informant went to the whistleblower, the whistleblower had second- and third-hand information. You remember that.  It was a big problem.&#8221;
&#8220;But the information was wrong. So was there actually an informant? Maybe the informant was Schiff,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;It could be Shifty Schiff. In my opinion, it&#8217;s possibly Schiff. Why didn’t Schiff say that he and his staff, or his staff, or a whole group &#8212; why didn&#8217;t he say that he met with the whistleblower? He knew all about the whistleblower. Why didn’t he say?&#8221;
&#8220;He&#8217;s a crooked politician. Very bad for our country. This whole thing is very bad for our country,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;In the midst of that, I&#8217;m trying to get out of wars. But we may have to get into wars too.  We may have to get into wars. We&#8217;re better prepared than we&#8217;ve ever been. If Iran does something, they&#8217;ll be hit like they&#8217;ve never been hit before. I mean, we have things that we&#8217;re looking at.&#8221;
&#8220;But can you imagine I have to fight off these &#8212; these lowlives at the same time I&#8217;m negotiating these very important things that should&#8217;ve been done during Obama and Bush and even before that,&#8221; Trump concluded. &#8220;So that’s where we are right now.&#8221;

Mitt Romney

Trump Unloads On Romney For Basically Being Worse Than A Democrat

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) was mocked Sunday evening after a new report revealed that he appears to have used a secret Twitter account to defend himself against critics online.
During an <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/10/mitt-romney-middle-impeachment-fight/600373/">interview</a> with The Atlantic, Romney made the revelation that he had a secret Twitter account:
<blockquote>
“That’s kind of what he does,” Romney said with a shrug, and then got up to retrieve an iPad from his desk. He explained that he uses a secret Twitter account—“What do they call me, a lurker?”—to keep tabs on the political conversation. “I won’t give you the name of it,” he said [emphasis added], but “I’m following 668 people.” Swiping at his tablet, he recited some of the accounts he follows, including journalists, late-night comedians (“What’s his name, the big redhead from Boston?”), and athletes. Trump was not among them. “He tweets so much,” Romney said, comparing the president to one of his nieces who overshares on Instagram. “I love her, but it’s like, ah, it’s too much.”
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Hours later, Slate published a report that appears to have identified Romney&#8217;s secret Twitter account: Pierre Delecto.
Slate identified what appears to be Romney&#8217;s secret Twitter account by identifying which of Romney&#8217;s family member&#8217;s had the smallest followings on the platform and then going through their accounts to find it and then using a variety of other techniques to add validity to the claim that it was his secret account.
&#8220;This account joined the site in July of 2011, just one month after Romney announced his run for president,&#8221; Slate <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/mitt-romney-has-a-secret-twitter-account-and-it-sure-looks-like-its-this-one.html">wrote</a>. &#8220;The majority of people it follows are either political reporters, politicians, political operatives, or pundits.&#8221;
CNN investigative reporter Andrew Kaczynski <a href="https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1186052980195364866">noted</a> that the account followed &#8220;a lot of Romney 2012 aides.&#8221;
The most hilarious part of the story is the fact that Romney had compared President Donald Trump to one of his nieces, suggesting that Trump was an immature child, while Romney appeared to be using a secret Twitter account to defend himself against criticism — which is childish and cowardly.
In May, far-left Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin, who falsely describes herself as &#8220;conservative,&#8221; tweeted a link to an article on Romney and wrote: &#8220;Inside Romney&#8217;s Trump strategy – his strategy is nonconfrontation verging on spinelessness&#8221;
Romney appears to have responded to her tweet by writing: &#8220;Jennifer, you need to take a breath. Maybe you can then acknowledge the people who agree with you in large measure even if not in every measure.&#8221;
In June, leftist Soledad O&#8217;Brien tweeted about Romney: &#8220;Utter lack of a moral compass.&#8221;
Romney appears to have responded by O&#8217;Brien by writing: &#8220;Only Republican to hit Trump on Mueller report, only one to hit Trump on character time and again, so Soledad, you think he&#8217;s the one without moral compass?&#8221;
Earlier this month, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume suggested that Romney was &#8220;an unreliable ally.&#8221;
Romney appears to have responded to Hume&#8217;s tweet by writing: &#8220;Loyal to principle trumps loyalty to party or person, right Brit?&#8221;
Online, Romney was widely mocked over the apparent revelation that he was using a secret Twitter account to defend himself from criticism.
Republican strategist Arthur Schwartz tweeted: &#8220;What a total loser.&#8221;
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What a total loser.
This Sure Looks Like Mitt Romney’s Secret Twitter Account<a href="https://t.co/S1nVCNHKlL">https://t.co/S1nVCNHKlL</a>
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) <a href="https://twitter.com/ArthurSchwartz/status/1186075118549852160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
New York Times reporter Mike Isaac <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1186057167863861249">tweeted</a>: &#8220;I think the saddest version of the anon-alt-burner account is the one used to defend yourself in public&#8221;
Isaac noted how cringeworthy some of the tweets were that Romney appears to have &#8220;liked&#8221; from his stealth Twitter account.
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god these favs are brutal <a href="https://t.co/QyORGBvCZp">pic.twitter.com/QyORGBvCZp</a>
— rat king (@MikeIsaac) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1186064016747053058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2019</a></blockquote>
UPDATE: Romney has confirmed that the Twitter belongs to him.
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Just spoke to <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MittRomney</a> on the phone, and asked him about Pierre Delecto. His only response: &#8220;C&#8217;est moi.&#8221; Updated my story accordingly: <a href="https://t.co/kcfIopokWh">https://t.co/kcfIopokWh</a>
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) <a href="https://twitter.com/mckaycoppins/status/1186093210214510593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 21, 2019</a></blockquote>

‘A TOTAL LOSER’: Romney Mocked After Using Secret Twitter Account To Defend Himself, Report Suggests

Twitter

The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/10/20/us/ap-us-trump-jr.html">Associated Press</a> stealthily edited an article on Sunday that defended Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, from attacks leveled against them from President Donald Trump&#8217;s son, Donald Trump Jr.
&#8220;You know what the difference between the Bidens and us are?&#8221; Trump Jr. said last week on Fox News. &#8220;We were international business people before politics and we gave up doing all new deals going forward. We didn&#8217;t become, magically, international business people because of our political position. We put that all aside. For years –&#8221;
The Associated Press highlighted other criticisms that Trump Jr. has launched against Biden and his son before writing:
<blockquote>Trump Jr. has pushed back, suggesting that his criticism of Hunter Biden was not for having a famous father, but rather for trading access to his father’s office to enrich himself. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden.</blockquote>
A short time later, the Associated Press edited the report, without adding an update or correction on the article, writing [emphasis added]:
<blockquote>Trump Jr. has pushed back, suggesting that his criticism of Hunter Biden was not for having a famous father, but rather for trading access to his father’s office to enrich himself. Neither Biden has been charged with wrongdoing.</blockquote>
Biden&#8217;s presidential campaign has been on a downward trend over the past couple of months as questions about his fitness for office have increased and as Trump has rapidly escalated attacks on him over allegations of corruption surrounding his involvement with a Ukrainian gas company that employed his son, Hunter.
In 2018, &#8220;with video cameras rolling, Biden described how he threatened Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in March 2016 that the Obama administration would pull $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees, sending the former Soviet republic toward insolvency, if it didn’t immediately fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/436816-joe-bidens-2020-ukrainian-nightmare-a-closed-probe-is-revived">reported</a>. &#8220;The prosecutor he got fired was leading a wide-ranging corruption probe into the natural gas firm Burisma Holdings that employed Biden’s younger son, Hunter, as a board member.&#8221;
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours,&#8221; Biden recalled telling Poroshenko. &#8220;I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’”
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired,&#8221; Biden continued.
Hunter Biden admitted during an interview last week that he has benefited from his father being vice president.
&#8220;If your last name wasn&#8217;t Biden, do you think you would&#8217;ve been asked to be on the board of Burisma?&#8221; Hunter Biden was asked during an interview with ABC News.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. Probably not,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a lot of things that would have happened in my life if my last name wasn&#8217;t Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;It is impossible for me to be on any boards without saying that I’m the son of the vice president of the United States — lots of things would not happen in my life if my name wasn’t Biden,&#8221; Hunter Biden added.

Associated Press

Associated Press Secretly Edits Article Defending Bidens From Trump Jr. Criticism

Hunter Biden

Joe Biden

Ukraine

White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Stephanie Grisham hit back at CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper on Sunday after Cooper ran a segment mocking her late last week.
&#8220;I think CNN has lost sight of the fact that we are human beings,&#8221; Grisham <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/stephanie-grisham-responds-anderson-cooper-hamilton-mulvaney-theater-2019-10">said</a> in response. &#8220;Just as Anderson Cooper has a job to do, working for a company he is proud of, so do I.&#8221;
&#8220;I also imagine he has a personal life, where he has to juggle quite a bit – and the same goes for me,&#8221; Grisham added.
Cooper, who portrays himself as an unbiased news anchor, repeatedly mocked Grisham, saying: &#8220;Ooh, Stephanie. You got to increase your vocabulary, I mean, your criticism. Theater now has been used twice. I mean, Grisham clearly doesn&#8217;t get to Broadway enough if she, you know, thinks those press conferences are theater.&#8221;
&#8220;I am a single mom who (proudly) holds three roles in the White House, and I am doing the very best I can,&#8221; Grisham said in response. &#8220;But I definitely don&#8217;t get to Broadway enough.&#8221;
Cooper&#8217;s segment attacking Grisham came shortly after Grisham hit CNN over the network&#8217;s extreme left-wing bias, which was further revealed this last week after James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released more undercover sting videos on CNN.
&#8220;America needs real journalism. Real journalists don&#8217;t have an agenda,&#8221; Grisham tweeted. &#8220;They gather and present the news in an unbiased manner. They report the facts – and let the citizens decide. But audio of @CNN meetings, captured by @Project_Veritas, expose a very real agenda.&#8221;
&#8220;CNN President Jeff Zucker personally instructed his network&#8217;s producers to cut newsworthy stories in favor of additional anti-Trump coverage,&#8221; Grisham continued. &#8220;He demanded one anchor &#8216;just [expletive] nail&#8217; Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during an interview, a CNN insider says.&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
CNN President Jeff Zucker personally instructed his network&#8217;s producers to cut newsworthy stories in favor of additional anti-Trump coverage.
He demanded one anchor “just [expletive] nail” Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during an interview, a CNN insider says.
— Stephanie Grisham (@PressSec) <a href="https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1185309999028944896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
WATCH:
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&#8220;Ms. Grisham clearly doesn&#8217;t get to Broadway enough if she thinks those press conferences are theatre.&#8221; 🎭
On the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ridiculist?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Ridiculist</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/andersoncooper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AndersonCooper</a> pokes fun at some of the recent turns of phrase offered by rarely seen White House press sec. Stephanie Grisham.<a href="https://t.co/rc8u65KR2R">https://t.co/rc8u65KR2R</a> <a href="https://t.co/C3mu3s7agb">pic.twitter.com/C3mu3s7agb</a>
— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) <a href="https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1185372772807168000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
The following is the <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/18/acd.01.html">transcript</a> from Cooper&#8217;s segment mocking Grisham:
COOPER: Time now for &#8220;The Ridiculist.&#8221; And tonight, we commend the bravery of White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, who finally got a brief furlough from West Wing Witness Protection. Grisham popped her head out this morning to check in with her supervisors over at Fox News. Though, it seems like she saw her shadow and [is] now back under ground for six more weeks of stonewalling.
The rarely seen press secretary who, since taken that job over the summer, has actually yet to hold a formal news briefing, appeared on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221;
By the way, I just want to point out, it&#8217;s &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; it&#8217;s got an ampersand. It&#8217;s not &#8220;Fox ‘N Friends,&#8221; you know, like Kibbles &#8216;N Bits or Shake &#8216;N Bake, that&#8217;s what I thought it was, so I checked. You can, you know, take that off your list of great unknowns.
Grisham&#8217;s appearance came less 24 hours after acting Chief of Staff Mick &#8220;Great Muffet Keeper&#8221; Mulvaney&#8217;s news conference, which drew huge reviews ranging from not helpful to a confession.
Now, for her part, though, Grisham said that Mulvaney did everything a good accomplice should.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) STEPHANIE GRISHAM, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: He did a great job. He mentioned the same message over and over and over. And now, the media, of course, is, you know, we put a statement out clarifying some of the things that the media got themselves in a tizzy over.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Tizzy. Damn, Grisham&#8217;s a truth teller. I mean, you know what, let the chips fall where they may. Stephanie don&#8217;t care. Does everybody working for the President have to debase themselves and lie like he does? Apparently so.
I thought John Grisham was a great story teller, but I got to say, Stephanie Grisham may have him beat. In the alternative universe version of what happened, Mulvaney stayed on message, did a great job, and the White House only had to clarify his statement because the media was in such a tizzy.
Frigging media, always in a tizzy over silly little things like using the presidency for corrupt personal gain, using American taxpayer money to coerce a desperate leader of a country under attack by Russians to dig up dirt damaging President Trump&#8217;s political opponents in the upcoming election, that&#8217;s nothing.
Stephanie had more criticism for the press today, though. It turns out what she said was actually something she&#8217;s workshopped before on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends.&#8221;
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GRISHAM: I think as evidenced by yesterday with Mick, it was again more theater. It is about people wanting to be on TV and making names for themselves. It had become, again, theater, and they weren&#8217;t being good to his people.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COOPER: Ooh, Stephanie. You got to increase your vocabulary, I mean, your criticism. Theater now has been used twice.
I mean, Grisham clearly doesn&#8217;t get to Broadway enough if she, you know, thinks those press conferences are theater. Maybe on one of these seven days a week she&#8217;s not doing her job, she can catch maybe a matinee of &#8220;Hamilton.&#8221; Just tell them Mike Pence sent you – probably get free tickets.
Also, I hate to break it to her but TV reporters are already on TV. So, no need to try to get on TV because that&#8217;s where they work, on TV. It&#8217;s tough to grasp, but it&#8217;s actually how the entire TV medium works. I am on TV right now.
Newspaper reporters, they are covering the White House, so they probably already made a name for themselves. You know what I mean? It&#8217;s a position – it used to be kind of an exalted position – people wanted to be there covering it because important things happened at the old White Houses. Holding the President and his staff to account, that&#8217;s not theater. Theater is, I don&#8217;t know, the president spending taxpayer dollars on a military parade for the purpose of fluffing his own ego, that would be theater. Theater is, you know, campaigning next to a pile of steaks that you claim your company sells but, in fact, someone on your staff bought them at a nearby butcher.
Theater – remember when that happened? I can&#8217;t believe that actually happened. The steaks used to be sold, I&#8217;m in a tizzy, used to be sold at a sharper image when he actually sold steaks. Theater is standing in front of bunch of novelty size stacks of paper and telling the American people you&#8217;re not going to have anything to do with your family business, which you then spend your presidency pushing money toward.
Stephanie Grisham can say whatever she wants from her perch on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; but you know what? When she finally exits the stage as all the president&#8217;s people seem to do, whether they want to or not, let&#8217;s see whether the president is in a tizzy or not when he delivers her review on &#8220;The Ridiculist.”

Stephanie Grisham

Stephanie Grisham Hits Back At CNN’s Anderson Cooper For Mocking Her

Anderson Cooper

State Department investigators concluded their investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton&#8217;s private email server and found nearly 600 security violations, according to newly released government documents.
The results from the investigation were disclosed in a letter last week to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) from Bureau of Legislative Affairs Assistant Secretary Mary Elizabeth Taylor.
The investigation, which was finished along with the report in early September, <a href="https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6499137/2019-10-17-State-Dept-to-CEG-Classified-Emails.pdf">found</a> that 38 individuals were culpable for 91 security violations along with 497 additional security violations that were found where no individual was found to bear culpability.
&#8220;For current and former officials, culpability means the violations will be noted in their files and will be considered when they apply for or renew security clearances,&#8221; the Associated Press <a href="https://www.apnews.com/14b14afc5d8647858489a2cf5385c28d">reported</a>. &#8220;For current officials, there could also be disciplinary action, though it&#8217;s unclear how they could potentially be reprimanded.&#8221;
The State Department began reviewing Clinton&#8217;s emails in 2016 &#8220;after declaring 22 emails from Clinton&#8217;s private server to be &#8216;top secret,'&#8221; the Associated Press added.
The State Department&#8217;s investigation commenced after the FBI decided not to challenge Clinton at the conclusion of its criminal investigation into her private email server. Clinton was the Democratic Party nominee for president at the time.
The FBI&#8217;s decision to not charge Clinton with a <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/367528-comeys-original-clinton-memo-released-cites-possible-violations">felony</a> has come under intense scrutiny after it was revealed that anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok &#8220;edited a key phrase that removed possible legal implications,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/363194-former-fbi-agent-changed-comeys-language-of-clinton-email-use-to">reported</a>.
&#8220;One source told [CNN] that electronic records reveal that Strzok changed the language from &#8216;grossly negligent&#8217; to &#8216;extremely careless,&#8217; scrubbing a key word that could have had legal ramifications for Clinton,&#8221; The Hill added. &#8220;An individual who mishandled classified material could be prosecuted under federal law for &#8216;gross negligence.'&#8221;
Anti-Trump FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who was allegedly romantically involved with Strzok, reportedly <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lisa-page-said-fbi-discussed-charging-hillary-clinton-with-gross-negligence-in-2016-and-doj-told-them-no">testified</a> last year that FBI officials discussed charging Clinton, but were ultimately denied by Obama&#8217;s Justice Department.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with Clinton&#8217;s husband, former President Bill Clinton, in June 2016 on a tarmac in Phoenix, Arizona.
Lynch refused to recuse herself from the investigation after meeting with former President Clinton on the tarmac, and said that she would accept whatever former FBI Director James Comey recommended in the case.
The criminal investigation into Clinton&#8217;s use of a private email server was ultimately reopened after the FBI found emails pertinent to the investigation on Anthony Weiner&#8217;s laptop.
Weiner was married to Clinton&#8217;s top aide, Huma Abedin, and was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/29/us/politics/fbi-hillary-clinton-email.html">under investigation</a> by the FBI over sexual communications that he had with a minor, which ultimately landed him in prison.
Clinton went on to lose the 2016 election and has spent the last three years blaming nearly everything in existence for her loss to President Donald Trump.
Clinton has gone as far as to recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hillary-clinton-trump-is-an-illegitimate-president/2019/09/26/29195d5a-e099-11e9-b199-f638bf2c340f_story.html">claim</a> that Trump is an &#8220;illegitimate&#8221; president, which strongly suggests that she has still not accepted the results of the 2016 election, something that she explicitly warned Trump against doing in 2016.
“To say you won’t respect the results of the election, that is a direct threat to our democracy,” Clinton <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/24/clinton-calls-trump-a-sore-loser.html">said</a> in October 2016. “The peaceful transfer of power is one of the things that makes America America.”
“And look, some people are sore losers, and we just got to keep going,” she added.

Hillary Clinton

Investigation Into Hillary&#8217;s Emails Concludes, Nearly 600 Security Violations Found

White House Press Secretary and Communications Director Stephanie Grisham appeared on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; on Friday morning, where she touched on a wide range of issues, including the recent meeting that Democratic leaders had with President Donald Trump.
&#8220;I&#8217;ll tell you what. I was in that meeting,&#8221; Grisham said. &#8220;The president walked in. He greeted everybody, as he does, and Speaker Pelosi started out the meeting – it was actually quite bizarre. She had no intentions of sitting there. We had military people. We had people there to brief them. And she was not going to listen.&#8221;
&#8220;She got up. She stormed out. Her focus was getting to the cameras,&#8221; Grisham continued. &#8220;It was funny to watch Schumer chase after her. I think he was a little worried that if he didn&#8217;t leave with her, that she would get angry with him.&#8221;
&#8220;The president was measured. He stayed behind and he worked with the Democrats who actually remained behind, too,&#8221; Grisham concluded on the issue. &#8220;And we continued the briefing, and that was it. Again, this president has work to do. We&#8217;re not going to be swayed by all of the Dems and the theater that they continue to perform every day.&#8221;
News of the meeting went instantly viral as Trump tweeted out a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s meltdown inside the room, writing: &#8220;Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown!&#8221;
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Nervous Nancy&#8217;s unhinged meltdown! <a href="https://t.co/RDeUI7sfe7">pic.twitter.com/RDeUI7sfe7</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1184597281808498688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
Outside the White House, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer addressed the media about what transpired, claiming that Trump called Pelosi a &#8220;third-rate politician&#8221; and told Democratic leaders regarding Syria, &#8220;There are communists involved, and you guys might like that.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Wide-ranging interview with Stephanie Grisham on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FoxAndFriends?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FoxAndFriends</a>. <a href="https://t.co/yVZch7hJZp">pic.twitter.com/yVZch7hJZp</a>
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonrantz/status/1185383753004138496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
The following is the full transcript of White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham&#8217;s interview on &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; provided via Fox News:
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The economy is booming. Our people are prospering. Our country is thriving. And our nation is stronger than ever before. But the more America achieves, the more hateful and enraged these crazy Democrats become.
You know, I really don&#8217;t believe anymore that they love our country. I don&#8217;t believe it.
CROWD (chanting): Four more years. Four more years. Four more years. Four more years.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVE DOOCY, FOX HOST: I think he likes that part.
BRIAN KILMEADE, FOX HOST: Right.
AINSLEY EARHARDT, FOX HOST: Four more years.
KILMEADE: Twenty-eight minutes now before the top of the hour.
Stephanie Grisham was there last night during the fun. And I imagine it seems like fun for just about everyone. We’ve had reporters there. And she joins us right now as White House press secretary among your many jobs.
Stephanie, how hard was it for the president to turn the page on what he left in Washington, and the chaos from the day before with the speaker leaving the meeting along with Senator Schumer, and go onto that stage and put that behind him?
STEPHANIE GRISHAM, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: It wasn&#8217;t hard at all. The president is still working for this country. He went to Texas yesterday for an official event. He opened up a workshop, a new Louis Vuitton workshop that is supposed to bring 1,000 jobs into Texas. And then he went to that amazing rally. Full. More than 20,000 people there. He&#8217;s got no problem with continuing to work on behalf of the American people, talking about all that he&#8217;s doing for the American people. And the rest in Washington is just noise. It&#8217;s just the Dems doing what they do.
DOOCY: Well, what they&#8217;re doing right now is there&#8217;s this impeachment inquiry, which Congress has not voted on, and the president has made it very clear, he said, look, you know, he said the president says he&#8217;s never done anything wrong as president and they&#8217;re just trying to re-litigate the 2016 election that they lost and they don&#8217;t like it.
GRISHAM: That&#8217;s absolutely what they&#8217;re doing. It&#8217;s comical. You know, I mean, I was with the president on the campaign, of course, and then watching since the day we took office they have been throwing temper tantrum after temper tantrum trying to undo. And really it&#8217;s only gaining momentum. And the people of this country know what the Dems are doing. They&#8217;re tired of it.
And, like I said, the president&#8217;s just going to still continue to work. He&#8217;s going to work on immigration, on health care, on bringing jobs to this country, on the economy, on the opioids crisis. He is a man who has a goal. He&#8217;s been successful all along. And the Dems are certainly not going to stop. It&#8217;s the JV.
EARHARDT: So, Vice President Pence and Secretary Pompeo returned to Washington this morning. The president was touting the ceasefire. And then overnight there were more bombings and there was smoke in the air. Our reports are that civilians are losing their lives in this one city. They&#8217;re shelling. Smoke, machine gunfire. How is the president going to respond to this?
GRISHAM: You know, I want to just say that the president, as president, has an obligation to look out for the troops and to protect this country. And when President Erdogan made it clear that he was going to invade, the president acted decisively to pull our military out of harm&#8217;s way.
Now, he sent a delegation over and they were successful in a cease-fire, but that takes time. I&#8217;m not going to get into operations on the ground, of course. I&#8217;ll leave that to the Department of Defense. But the president is to protect our country. He is putting America first. He&#8217;s always said that. We&#8217;re not going to be in these never-ending wars anymore. And, again, as for the cease-fire, I&#8217;m really, really happy that our delegation was successful. And we&#8217;ll leave it at that.
KILMEADE: Stephanie, a couple of things. We know what happened at the White House the other day, or there&#8217;s two different accounts of what took place. And you say the president was calm, cool, and collected. Nancy Pelosi said he had a meltdown. Now she says she wants all the meetings recorded. Will you record every meeting for the speaker?
DOOCY: Yes, that worked out so well once upon a time.
GRISHAM: Well, I mean, we would love for these impeachment inquiries to be transparent as well. We&#8217;d love for those meetings to be recorded or for us to have access to that. So maybe once she agrees to opening up this kangaroo court of hers, we could record the meetings that happen in the White House.
I&#8217;ll tell you what. I was in that meeting. The president walked in. He greeted everybody, as he does. And Speaker Pelosi started out the meeting – it was actually quite bizarre. She had no intentions of sitting there. We had military people. We had people there to brief them, and she was not going to listen.
She got up. She stormed out. Her focus was getting to the cameras. It was funny to watch Schumer chase after her. I think he was a little worried that if he didn&#8217;t leave with her, that she would get angry with him.
I was in the meeting. The president was measured. He stayed behind and he worked with the Democrats who actually remained behind, too. And we continued the briefing, and that was it.
Again, this president has work to do. We&#8217;re not going to be swayed by all of the Dems and the theater that they continue to perform every day.
DOOCY: Well, I think that picture that we&#8217;re looking at right there is now Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s official Twitter picture where she is doing that right there next to the president.
Speaking of the president, yesterday it was announced that apparently the G-7 Summit, which is going to be next year, during the summer –
GRISHAM: Yes.
DOOCY: Is going to be at Doral –
GRISHAM: Correct.
DOOCY: Which is the golf course resort owned by his family. And a lot of people are saying, number one, in the summer it&#8217;s really hot in Florida. Just telling you ahead of time. But the other thing is, you know, while the president might say, I&#8217;m not making any money off this thing, the promotional value, the marketing value is off the chart.
GRISHAM: I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s the case. I&#8217;ll tell you what, the way the media, the mainstream media, is covering it, I don&#8217;t know that the Trump Organization would agree with that. I will tell you this, we –
DOOCY: But everybody knows about it now.
GRISHAM: Well, everybody knew about it before the president took office. I mean the Trump brand is known everywhere. And I do want to say this, we had members of our military office, Secret Service, advance teams, we had several people, the State Department, go out to 10 different states and look at 12 different sites. Doral was one of those sites. All of them came back and made the recommendations to the president that Doral is the perfect place to hold such a summit.
You&#8217;ve got to imagine the things that go into looking at these sites. You need hotel rooms that will allow for the foreign delegations to come and their staff. Transportation needs to be nearby. Airports, hospitals, helicopter landing zones. We had one site that we looked at, I won&#8217;t name what site it was or what state was it is, but the altitude could have make people sick and oxygen tanks would have been brought in. So there&#8217;s a lot that goes into these things.
KILMEADE: Denver.
EARHARDT: Colorado.
GRISHAM: Nope. Wrong.
KILMEADE: OK.
DOOCY: In the mountains. Somewhere in the mountains.
KILMEADE: Not New Mexico. Stephanie, why didn&#8217;t you do the press conference yesterday? Why did Mick Mulvaney? And will we see you do these press conferences, which is traditionally what the While House press secretary does?
GRISHAM: You know, right now, I&#8217;ve said this a bunch, if the president ever wants me to go out and take that podium, I will happily do it. I think as evidenced by yesterday with Mick, it was, again, more theater. It is about people wanting to be on TV and making names for themselves.
And Mick took 30 – he was over there for more than 30 minutes. He took probably 40 questions. People were talking over one another. He did a great job. He mentioned the same message over and over and over and now the media, of course, is, you know, we put a statement out clarifying some of the things that the media got themselves in a tizzy over.
But to answer your question, sure, I&#8217;ll do it if I need to, but this president speaks for himself every day. He offers opportunities for the press corps to ask him questions every day. And there really is no better spokesperson than the president.
I&#8217;m doing TV interviews. I am doing many, many print interviews. I am out there to defend and talk about all of the accomplishments of this president. And I will continue to do that. It seems to be working right now.
EARHARDT: Stephanie, the energy secretary, Rick Perry, told the president he plans to resign. Last night at the rally the president was complimenting him. So it seems – it appears that they still have an amicable relationship. What&#8217;s going on there? Why did he decide to step down? And what happens next?
GRISHAM: Absolutely. So as the president said, he&#8217;s known about this for months. This was the plan for Secretary Perry all along, that it was time. He&#8217;s been with us from the beginning. And there&#8217;s going to be some next steps for him. I&#8217;m not going to get ahead of him, but he&#8217;s going to go on to great things and we wish him really, really well.
KILMEADE: Right. So in other words –
(CROSSTALK)
DOOCY: So did Ukraine have anything to do with his departure?
GRISHAM: Absolutely nothing. No, this was in the works for quite a while. As I said, the president&#8217;s known about it. Nothing like that. We wish him well.
KILMEADE: Right. And he says that – the president said they already have somebody for the position already. Could you tell us who it is?
GRISHAM: No, I cannot get in front of that. No way.
KILMEADE: All right, do you want to tell Steve and then Steve could tell me later?
DOOCY: Good idea.
GRISHAM: Sure, I&#8217;ll do that after we&#8217;re done here.
KILMEADE: Oh, after we&#8217;re done. OK.
DOOCY: But the energy secretary has to have a lot of energy, right? We know that part.
GRISHAM: Yes.
DOOCY: All right.
GRISHAM: Like everybody in this administration.
DOOCY: We could figure that out.
KILMEADE: All right.
DOOCY: Stephanie Grisham, thank you very much for joining us from the bureau today.
GRISHAM: Thank you guys for having me.
EARHARDT: Thanks, Stephanie.

Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham Shreds Pelosi Over Antics In Meeting With Trump

Nancy Pelosi

Syria

Turkey

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris claimed during a Friday interview on CNN that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani had &#8220;broken many laws,&#8221; but, when pressed on what specific laws she thinks that he has broken, Harris struggled to give any examples.
Harris appeared on &#8220;Anderson Cooper 360°&#8221; where she was asked about recent reports <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/giuliani-counterintelligence-probe/index.html">alleging</a> that Giuliani is under federal investigation over his business dealings in Ukraine after two men that he was allegedly connected to were arrested by federal authorities.
After Harris claimed that Giuliani had &#8220;broken many laws,&#8221; Cooper asked her: &#8220;What are the specific laws you believe Giuliani has broken or may have broken?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; Harris answered. &#8220;We&#8217;re going to find out.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Kamala Harris claims that Rudy Giuliani has &#8220;broken many laws&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper asks her what laws he has broken
Harris responds: &#8220;Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/N2dUg7b2av">pic.twitter.com/N2dUg7b2av</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1185379995130175488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2019</a></blockquote>
Harris&#8217; remarks come as she has struggled in the polls, standing at only 5.4% according to the <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html">RealClearPolitics</a> average.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/01/politics/kamala-harris-restructure-presidential-campaign/index.html">reported</a> at the start of the month that Harris planned to &#8220;restructure her struggling presidential campaign,&#8221; adding that the moves &#8220;represent the clearest sign to date that Harris, who has seen her poll numbers consistently fall over the last three months, feels changes are needed to jumpstart her presidential bid and streamline an operation that one source said has been bogged down by bureaucratic hurdles.&#8221;
Harris&#8217; latest attempt to stay relevant in the news has been <a href="https://reason.com/2019/10/15/kamala-harris-demands-that-warren-promise-to-ban-trump-from-twitter/">calling</a> for Twitter to ban President Donald Trump, which almost certainly will not happen.
Partial <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1910/18/acd.01.html">transcript</a> of Harris&#8217; interview on CNN:
<blockquote>COOPER: First of all, just what&#8217;s your reaction to this latest reporting about Giuliani trying to override the Ukraine embassy and the State Department to get a visa for this former prosecutor?
HARRIS: Yes. Anderson, it&#8217;s further evidence of corruption by this administration, and the personal attorney of the president of the United States clearly implicitly being given permission to act as though he is an arm of the government and the State Department. And it&#8217;s a violation of an extraordinary number of rules and ethical laws about what – who should do what. And I&#8217;m just glad to see the process is beginning to really do the investigation into Rudy Giuliani. He has clearly broken many laws.
And, you know, I was listening to the report as you were playing it. And it also raises for me questions about, again, who knew what in the administration. As I&#8217;ve been thinking about it, clearly, there are questions to be asked of the chief of staff. We have talked about Mick Mulvaney, but I frankly think that we should also be asking of John Kelly and Reince Priebus, because clearly, for a long time now, we&#8217;ve been talking about bad behaviors coming from the administration and coming from the desk of the President of the United States.
COOPER: What are there specific laws you believe Giuliani has broken or may have broken?
HARRIS: Well, I, I, I don&#8217;t know. We&#8217;re going to find out. But I don&#8217;t – I think the range includes not only abuse of power and perhaps misstatement and mischaracterization of his role and responsibilities, but I also really do wonder just instinctively whether there&#8217;s been bribery associated with Giuliani&#8217;s conduct. I think there are a number of questions to be asked. And once the facts are transparent and have been available for Congress at the very beginning to see, I think we&#8217;ll know the laws that have been broken.</blockquote>

Kamala Harris

Harris Claims Giuliani Has ‘Broken Many Laws’, Can’t Name Any

Rudy Giuliani

Serious gun fire erupted on the streets of Culiacan, Sinaloa, after Mexican law enforcement officials reportedly captured Ovidio Guzman, the son of convicted Sinaloa cartel drug lord Joaquín &#8220;El Chapo&#8221; Guzmán.
Journalist Robert Arce was the first to report the unredacted mugshot of Ovidio Guzman who &#8220;sought to take control of the Sinaloa cartel along with his older brother, Ivan Archivaldo Guzman Salazar, after their father was captured and extradited to the United States in 2017,&#8221; according to the <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-10-17/chaos-in-mexico-as-el-chapos-son-a-leader-of-the-sinaloa-cartel-is-reportedly-captured">Los Angeles Times</a>.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
SCOOP: Here is the unredacted mugshot of Ovidio Guzman, the son of convicted Sinaloa Cartel drug lord El Chapo, who was just arrested in Culiacán, Sinaloa <a href="https://t.co/ILD5XICR48">pic.twitter.com/ILD5XICR48</a>
— Robert Arce (@robertrarce) <a href="https://twitter.com/robertrarce/status/1184987109947363328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
In his report at Breitbart, Arce <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/border/2019/10/17/el-chapos-son-captured-sinaloa-cartel-assaults-police-hq-for-rescue-attempt/">wrote</a> that sources confirmed that the arrest is what &#8220;sparked an intense deployment of Sinaloa Cartel gunmen to the scene of the incident and later the offices of the Federal Prosecutor’s office in [an] attempted rescue effort.&#8221;
A source told The Daily Wire that family members of military personnel were being warned that truckloads of cartel gunmen were searching for the relatives of Mexican army personnel in retaliation for the capture of El Chapo&#8217;s son.
On social media, numerous posts showed intense gun fire erupting around the city as innocent bystanders rushed to find cover.
Cartels appear to have set fire to numerous vehicles in a road block that they set up in an effort to prevent backup from Mexican authorities from arriving on scene.
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Continúan las agresiones en <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a>. <a href="https://t.co/3sHdy8d750">pic.twitter.com/3sHdy8d750</a>
— Juan Pablo Pérez Díaz (@PerezDiazMX) <a href="https://twitter.com/PerezDiazMX/status/1185005020355293184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nuevo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nuevo</a>: Fuentes de la SEIDO señalan que el detenido es Ovidio Guzmán López.
Se espera su arribo a la Ciudad de México.
En un intento por detener su traslado, quemaron autos para usarlos como barricadas. <a href="https://t.co/zonxKKU3ZH">pic.twitter.com/zonxKKU3ZH</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184975977975300099?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
Other footage showed what appeared to be automatic fire:
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Así las cosas al norte de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a>. Momentos exactos de la balacera captados por el compañero reportero Policiaco, Ernesto Martínez. <a href="https://t.co/o53uBLqCWr">pic.twitter.com/o53uBLqCWr</a>
— Juan Pablo Pérez Díaz (@PerezDiazMX) <a href="https://twitter.com/PerezDiazMX/status/1184946085468332032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
Other photos showed vehicles that were apparently destroyed by the cartels:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a> zona de guerra. Enrique Cabrera y Enrique Félix Castro. <a href="https://t.co/OUzFLtk08X">pic.twitter.com/OUzFLtk08X</a>
— Juan Pablo Pérez Díaz (@PerezDiazMX) <a href="https://twitter.com/PerezDiazMX/status/1184967639640076288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
Bystanders trying to flee the area after intense gun fire breaks out:
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Reportan enfrentamientos entre militares y hombres armados en <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a>.
No se sabe el origen del enfrentamiento. <a href="https://t.co/s4iFLTl4Nm">pic.twitter.com/s4iFLTl4Nm</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184954604657827841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
A man opens fire using what appears to be a .50 caliber sniper rifle:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/M%C3%A1s?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Más</a>: El enfrentamiento inició en el Sector Tres Ríos, pero se ha extendido a otros puntos de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a>.
Vean el tipo de armas que se están usando. <a href="https://t.co/sLXtMeUTHk">pic.twitter.com/sLXtMeUTHk</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184955221161730054?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
Other video showed cartel gunmen armed with .50 caliber machine guns mounted on top of trucks driving around the area:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/M%C3%A1s?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Más</a>: Otro video de los hombres armados que participan en las balaceras en <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a>. <a href="https://t.co/UNDnnYR0yX">pic.twitter.com/UNDnnYR0yX</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184958364993933313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
More intense gun fire:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Nuevo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Nuevo</a>: Versiones a través de whatsapp y radio, señalan que autoridades federales detuvieron a Iván Archivaldo Guzmán, hijo de “Él Chapo” Guzmán.
Los enfrentamientos siguen. <a href="https://t.co/vsEiNhFFz5">pic.twitter.com/vsEiNhFFz5</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184960633202192387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
The Mexican military arrives on scene:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/M%C3%A1s?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Más</a>: Sigue el despliegue de militares por <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a>. <a href="https://t.co/Eoyna6wZXZ">pic.twitter.com/Eoyna6wZXZ</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184963628564434945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
Innocent bystanders hide in a supermarket as gunfire erupts:
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/M%C3%A1s?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Más</a>: En medio del miedo y el caos, habitantes de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a> intentan resgardarse de las balaceras en un centro comercial. <a href="https://t.co/l6rrNgf9nU">pic.twitter.com/l6rrNgf9nU</a>
— Carlos Zúñiga Pérez (@Carloszup) <a href="https://twitter.com/Carloszup/status/1184967879478972416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 17, 2019</a></blockquote>
The fighting continued into the night:
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Al norte de <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Culiac%C3%A1n?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Culiacán</a> sector Humaya siguen las balaceras. <a href="https://t.co/zJw1K8CJFo">pic.twitter.com/zJw1K8CJFo</a>
— Juan Pablo Pérez Díaz (@PerezDiazMX) <a href="https://twitter.com/PerezDiazMX/status/1185006815651565568?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 18, 2019</a></blockquote>
The Los Angeles Times added that the Sinaloa Cartel – which has long been the most prolific drug trafficking organization in the world – has faced increasing challenges to its dominance from the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The CJNG is suspected to be behind a massacre on Monday in the western Mexican state of Michoacan.
&#8220;The federal public security ministry said 14 police were killed, though its Michoacan state counterpart reported that 13 officers were confirmed dead and three injured,&#8221; <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-violence/more-than-a-dozen-police-killed-in-ambush-in-violent-mexican-state-idUSKBN1WT23A">Reuters</a> reported.
Reuters added that photographs of the crime scene &#8220;showed large placards signed by &#8216;CJNG&#8217; left on police vehicles.&#8221;
CJNG reportedly warned law enforcement in the area to not support rival criminal organizations.

Mexico Drug Cartel Violence

WATCH: El Chapo&#8217;s Son Arrested In Mexico, Cartel Violence Erupts

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Drugs

Mexico

In a new undercover sting video released on Thursday by James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas, a production supervisor at CNN suggested that he wants President Donald Trump to die &#8220;hopefully soon.&#8221;
The remarks were included in a nearly 16-minute long video in Project Veritas&#8217; third installment of its undercover sting video series on CNN, which the group has dubbed &#8220;Expose CNN.&#8221;
Highlights from the video include [emphasis added]:
Gerald Sisnette, Field Production Supervisor at CNN:
<ul>
<li>“This is a story that’s not gonna go away … The only way this will go away is when he [Trump] dies. Hopefully soon.”</li>
</ul>
Patrick Davis, Manager of Field Operations at CNN:
<ul>
<li>“… I hate seeing what we were and what we could be and what we’ve become. It’s just awful … I mean, we could be so much better than what we are … And the buck stops with him [Zucker].”</li>
<li>“I haven’t listened to a 9AM call in about 15 years. I just stopped. Just, I can’t listen to it. It’s all bulls**t. It’s all just a bunch of bulls**t. And I wish that wasn’t the case.”</li>
<li>“And you learn it in journalism school, we’re supposed to be middle of the road, that’s our job. Now it’s just infotainment is all it’s become.”</li>
<li>“We don&#8217;t, even though we&#8217;re totally left-leaning, we&#8217;re not, we don&#8217;t wanna admit it.”</li>
</ul>
Scott Garber, Senior Field Engineer at CNN:
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<li>“We used to cover news. We used to go out and do stories … But Trump is more important.”</li>
</ul>
Adia Jacobs, CNN Technical Operations Supervisor:
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<li>“When Zucker took over it wasn’t until Trump that we ended up being all Trump all the time.”</li>
</ul>
Mike Brevna, Floor Manager at CNN:
<ul>
<li>“It’s the Trump Network, dog. It’s like everything is all Trump … they[&#8216;re] not even thinking about anybody else. They sold themselves to the devil.”</li>
</ul>
Christian Sierra, CNN Media Coordinator:
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<li>“… [C]onflict is what sells, nobody wants to hear one-minute canned statements … Because conflict drives clicks … create clicks, get more money.”</li>
<li>“It&#8217;s always about the money.”</li>
</ul>
WATCH:
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The third installment of &#8220;Expose CNN&#8221; comes after the the first round of leaked videos hit the news on Monday, where CNN President Jeff Zucker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/project-veritas-video-cnn-head-appears-to-admit-network-pushing-impeachment-has-personal-vendetta-against-trump-employee-says">told</a> employees that he wanted everything to be about the “moves towards impeachment.”
In the video, Zucker also said that he wanted his employees to &#8220;knock off&#8221; their friendliness toward Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
In the video, Neville said that Zucker “has a personal vendetta against Trump” and that he “blatantly hates Trump” and that it impacts CNN’s news coverage of the president.
Neville added: “But then you have higher up executives, like Zucker and other people, who are saying, ‘Well, we gotta make profits.’ So, you end up with things like — I don’t know if you heard this, but this week they had like a f***ing game show to, like, decide what dates they’re, it’s gonna be this debate.”
Sierra said that after Trump won, “the mood was just so sour the whole day” at CNN&#8217;s offices.
“Cooper hates him &#8230; Don Lemon hates him,” Sierra continued. “Cuomo doesn’t like him” and Jake Tapper “doesn’t like him either.”
Sierra later said that the network does not cover Democrats and Republicans the same way during interviews.
“We’re tough on the Republicans,” Sierra said. “More so than the Democrats. Our Democratic interviews are like softballs, compared to the Republicans … if you notice like every time, we ask questions to Republicans, like it’s always a little tougher than when we do get the Democrats.”

Trump Twitter CNN

WATCH: CNN Employee Appears To Say He Wants Trump To Die &#8216;Hopefully Soon&#8217;

Project Veritas

Democrat House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff reportedly pressed U.S. special representative to Ukraine Kurt Volker in a secret meeting on October 3 to say that President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President and current Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden.
&#8220;Volker denied that was the case, noting that Ukrainian leaders did not even know the aid was being withheld, and that they believed their relationship with the United States was moving along satisfactorily, without them having done anything Trump mentioned in his notorious July 25 phone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,&#8221; The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/schiff-pressed-volker-to-say-ukraine-felt-pressure-from-trump">reported</a>. &#8220;When Volker repeatedly declined to agree to Schiff&#8217;s characterization of events, Schiff said, &#8216;Ambassador, you&#8217;re making this much more complicated than it has to be.'&#8221;
The central allegation that Democrats are claiming that Trump is guilty of is engaging in a quid pro quo with Ukraine, instructing them to investigate Biden in exchange for U.S. military support.
&#8220;Part of the other context is vital military support is being withheld from the Ukraine during this period, right?&#8221; Schiff asked, according to the Examiner.
&#8220;That was not part of the context at the time,&#8221; Volker said. &#8220;At least to my knowledge, they [Ukrainian leaders] were not aware of that.&#8221;
It was at this point that Schiff reportedly began to press Volker. According to the Examiner, Schiff and Volker engaged in the following back and forth dialogue:
<blockquote>[Schiff] asked Volker whether he would agree that &#8220;no President of the United States should ever ask a foreign leader to help intervene in a U.S. election.&#8221;
&#8220;I agree with that,&#8221; said Volker.
&#8220;And that would be particularly egregious if it was done in the context of withholding foreign assistance?&#8221; Schiff continued.
Volker balked. &#8220;We&#8217;re getting now into, you know, a conflation of these things that I didn&#8217;t think was actually there.&#8221;
Schiff wanted Volker to agree that &#8220;if it&#8217;s inappropriate for a president to seek foreign help in a U.S. election, it would be doubly so if a president was doing that at a time when the United States was withholding military support from the country.&#8221;
Again, Volker did not agree. &#8220;I can&#8217;t really speak to that,&#8221; he said. &#8220;My understanding of the security assistance issue is &#8212; &#8221;
Schiff interrupted. &#8220;Why can&#8217;t you speak to that, ambassador? You&#8217;re a career diplomat. You can understand the enormous leverage that a president would have while withholding military support from an ally at war with Russia. You can understand just how significant that would be, correct?&#8221;
Volker tried to go along without actually agreeing. &#8220;I can understand that that would be significant,&#8221; he said.
Schiff persisted. &#8220;And when that suspension of aid became known to that country, to Ukraine, it would be all the more weighty to consider what the president had asked of them, wouldn&#8217;t it?&#8221;
&#8220;So again, congressman, I don&#8217;t believe &#8212; &#8221; Volker began.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a pretty straightforward question,&#8221; Schiff said.
&#8220;But I don&#8217;t believe the Ukrainians were aware that the assistance was being held up &#8212; &#8221;
&#8220;They became aware of it,&#8221; Schiff said.
&#8220;They became aware later, but I don&#8217;t believe they were aware at the time, so there was no leverage implied,&#8221; Volker said.</blockquote>
Schiff has come under intense fire over the way that he has handled the House Democrats&#8217; attempt to impeach Trump.
During a congressional hearing in late September, Schiff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-adam-schiff-makes-up-quotes-from-trumps-ukraine-call">made up quotes</a> from Trump&#8217;s phone call with Ukraine, quotes that did not exist in the transcript of the call.
Schiff&#8217;s move garnered intense national criticism from top lawmakers and political commentators.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) tweeted: “When you don’t have facts on your side some just make it up. The opening statement by their ring leader was #FullofSchiff. House Dems blatantly lying to justify their impeachment inquiry is horribly timed, poorly written and badly intentioned.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) tweeted: “It is disturbing and outrageous that Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff opens up a hearing of this importance with improvised fake dialogue between President Trump and President Zelenskyy. We should focus on the facts.”
Fox News analyst Brit Hume tweeted: “If the conversation were as damning as Schiff et al would like, he would have simply read directly from it, instead of making up dialogue. Probably not surprising in light of the extravagant collusion claims he made for 2 years.”
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tweeted: “We now have both the transcript and the complaint. Anyone who reads them will see they prove what we already knew: @RepAdamSchiff and his cronies will peddle conspiracy theories and distort the truth to attack our President. It’s wrong.&#8221;
Schiff also came under intense fire after it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-schiff-knew-about-whistleblower-allegations-days-before-complaint-filed">revealed</a> that his staff had contact with the whistleblower before the whistleblower actually filed an official complaint form.
In a separate <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiffs-staff-includes-2-aides-who-worked-with-whistleblower-at-white-house">report</a>, the Examiner revealed that the whistleblower, a registered Democrat who had worked with Biden in the Obama White House, had also previously worked with two of Schiff&#8217;s current aides.

Adam Schiff

Schiff Pressured Witness To Say Trump Pressured Ukraine To Investigate Biden, Report Says

Far-left Democrat Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY), Ilhan Omar (MN), and Rashida Tlaib (MI) are reportedly going to endorse socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to be the Democrat nominee to face President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
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&#8220;Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, one of the most influential voices among young liberals and a rising Democratic star, plans to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for president and appear with him at a rally on Saturday, according to two people with knowledge of her plans,&#8221; The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democratic-presidential-hopeful-bernie-sanders-to-be-endorsed-by-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/2019/10/15/b2958f64-ef84-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The endorsement could be a blow for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who, like Sanders, is running on a platform of sweeping liberal change and who has emphasized her role as a female pioneer.&#8221;
In a statement circulated by the Sanders campaign, Omar wrote:
<blockquote>Bernie is leading a working-class movement to defeat Donald Trump that transcends generation, ethnicity, and geography. That is why he is fighting to cancel all student debt. That is why he is fighting to make all school meals universal. That is why he is fighting for a humane immigration policy that treats immigrants as human beings and not criminals. And it&#8217;s why Bernie is fighting to end our forever wars and truly prioritize human rights in our foreign policy &#8212; no matter who violates them. And it&#8217;s why I believe Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to take on Donald Trump in 2020.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
IT&#8217;S OFFICIAL: <a href="https://twitter.com/IlhanMN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@IlhanMN</a> has endorsed <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> <a href="https://t.co/b0MK2Dbygc">pic.twitter.com/b0MK2Dbygc</a>
— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) <a href="https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1184312134689120256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
CNN added that Tlaib would also endorse Sanders, as CNN Politics reporter Greg Krieg tweeted: &#8220;Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will also endorse Sanders, according to source.&#8221;
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
New: Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will also endorse Sanders, according to source. AOC will, as <a href="https://twitter.com/daveweigel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@daveweigel</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/WaPoSean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WaPoSean</a> first reported, will do the same on Saturday in NYC.
— Greg Krieg (@GregJKrieg) <a href="https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1184303508188794880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2019</a></blockquote>
The fact that the far-left trio of freshman congresswomen would endorse Sanders instead of Warren is a head-scratching decision, as Warren is considered by many to be a stronger candidate than Sanders.
Sanders, who is pushing 80-years-old, was just released from the hospital this month after suffering from a heart attack on the campaign trail. He is also the most openly socialist of the Democratic candidates.
&#8220;If Sanders were vying for a Cabinet post, he’d never pass an FBI background check. There’d be too many subversive red flags popping up in his file. He was a communist collaborator during the height of the Cold War,&#8221; The New York Post&#8217;s Paul Sperry <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">wrote</a> during Sanders&#8217; 2016 campaign. &#8220;While attending the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.&#8221;
&#8220;After graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as &#8216;America’s greatest Marxist,'&#8221; Sperry continued. &#8220;In the early &#8217;70s, Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies. Sanders took several &#8216;goodwill&#8217; trips not only to the USSR, but also to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our hemisphere.&#8221; (Read the rest of Sperry&#8217;s article in The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2016/01/16/dont-be-fooled-by-bernie-sanders-hes-a-diehard-communist/">here</a>.)
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-omar-tlaib-take-democrats-anti-ryan-saavedra">Far-Left Democrats Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib Are Normalizing Anti-Semitism In Democratic Party</a>
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Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib

Far-Left Trio Reveal Who They Are Endorsing For President: Report

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Bernie Sanders

Elizabeth Warren

Ilhan Omar

Rashida Tlaib

NBA megastar LeBron James attempted to explain his shocking remarks about free speech, Hong Kong, and China on Monday night but ended up digging himself in a deeper hole.
“We all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and you’re only thinking about yourself,” James told reporters when asked about the backlash that Houston Rockets’ General Manager Daryl Morey received for advocating for Hong Kong’s freedom.
“I don’t want to get into a … feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke,&#8221; James continued. &#8220;So many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually.”
James&#8217; comments went instantly viral, garnering more than 2.2 million views in a little over an hour after being posted to Twitter.
James tried to mitigate the fallout from his comments, which quickly became the #1 trend on Twitter, tweeting: &#8220;Let me clear up the confusion. I do not believe there was any consideration for the consequences and ramifications of the tweet. I’m not discussing the substance. Others can talk about that.&#8221;
James then suggested that he was somehow the victim of Morey&#8217;s tweet, writing: &#8220;My team and this league just went through a difficult week. I think people need to understand what a tweet or statement can do to others. And I believe nobody stopped and considered what would happen. Could have waited a week to send it.&#8221;
The NBA&#8217;s controversial decision to defend the Communist Party of China (CPC) gained serious national spotlight after Morey tweeted support for the protesters in Hong Kong.
Morey tweeted out a graphic a couple of weeks ago that stated: “Fight For Freedom Stand With Hong Kong.”
“The Houston Rockets suddenly find themselves in the middle of a geopolitical controversy that could put their chief front-office executive’s job in jeopardy,” The Ringer <a href="https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/nba/2019/10/6/20901828/daryl-morey-hong-kong-china-houston-rockets-tweet-controversy">reported</a>. “After general manager Daryl Morey expressed support in a since-deleted tweet for pro-democracy efforts in Hong Kong, the Chinese government, the Chinese Basketball Association, and various Chinese businesses quickly denounced Morey and moved to sever ties with the Rockets. As a consequence, league sources told The Ringer that Rockets ownership has debated Morey’s employment status and whether to replace him.”
NBA chief communications officer Mike Bass released the following statement:
<blockquote>We recognize that the views expressed by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable. While Daryl has made it clear that his tweet does not represent the Rockets or the NBA, the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them. We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.</blockquote>
Morey later apologized for standing with the protesters, tweeting: “I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China. I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event. I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives. I have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors have provided and I would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention. My tweets are my own and in no way represent the Rockets or the NBA.”
James&#8217; initial remarks stirred strong backlash online, as did his subsequent attempt to explain himself and paint himself as the victim of the situation.

LeBron James

DISASTER: LeBron Tries To Explain China Remarks, Digs Deeper Hole

China

Hong Kong

NBA megastar LeBron James cowered to the Communist Party of China (CPC) on Monday while talking to reporters about the backlash that Houston Rockets&#8217; General Manager Daryl Morey received for advocating for Hong Kong&#8217;s freedom.
&#8220;We all talk about this freedom of speech, yes, we all do have freedom of speech but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you&#8217;re not thinking about others and you&#8217;re only thinking about yourself,&#8221; James said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get into a &#8230; feud with Daryl Morey, but I believe he wasn&#8217;t educated on the situation at hand and he spoke. So many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, and spiritually.&#8221;
&#8220;So, just be careful what we tweet and say and what we do even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech there can be a lot of negatives that comes with that too,&#8221; James concluded.
WATCH:
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LeBron James rips Daryl Morey, says Morey was uneducated. Says, “We do have freedom of speech, but there can be a lot of negatives that come with that too.” Really. <a href="https://t.co/ZTw6a3FZ5n">pic.twitter.com/ZTw6a3FZ5n</a>
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) <a href="https://twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1183921775647875072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
Morey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backfire-nba-houston-rockets-cower-to-communist-china-get-blasted-online">tweeted</a> out a graphic a couple of weeks ago that stated: “Fight For Freedom Stand With Hong Kong.”
“The Houston Rockets suddenly find themselves in the middle of a geopolitical controversy that could put their chief front-office executive’s job in jeopardy,” The Ringer <a href="https://www.theringer.com/platform/amp/nba/2019/10/6/20901828/daryl-morey-hong-kong-china-houston-rockets-tweet-controversy">reported</a>. “After general manager Daryl Morey expressed support in a since-deleted tweet for pro-democracy efforts in Hong Kong, the Chinese government, the Chinese Basketball Association, and various Chinese businesses quickly denounced Morey and moved to sever ties with the Rockets. As a consequence, league sources told The Ringer that Rockets ownership has debated Morey’s employment status and whether to replace him.”
NBA chief communications officer Mike Bass released the following statement:
<blockquote>We recognize that the views expressed by Houston Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey have deeply offended many of our friends and fans in China, which is regrettable. While Daryl has made it clear that his tweet does not represent the Rockets or the NBA, the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them. We have great respect for the history and culture of China and hope that sports and the NBA can be used as a unifying force to bridge cultural divides and bring people together.</blockquote>
Morey later apologized for standing up for freedom, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backfire-nba-houston-rockets-cower-to-communist-china-get-blasted-online">tweeting</a>: “I did not intend my tweet to cause any offense to Rockets fans and friends of mine in China. I was merely voicing one thought, based on one interpretation, of one complicated event. I have had a lot of opportunity since that tweet to hear and consider other perspectives. I have always appreciated the significant support our Chinese fans and sponsors have provided and I would hope that those who are upset will know that offending or misunderstanding them was not my intention. My tweets are my own and in no way represent the Rockets or the NBA.”
Reaction to James&#8217; statement late on Monday night exploded online with the video garnering over 1.5 million views in the first hour that it was posted to social media.
Binyamin Appelbaum tweeted: &#8220;Daryl Morey: Freedom is good. LeBron James: Daryl Morey is wrong.&#8221;
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Daryl Morey: Freedom is good.
LeBron James: Daryl Morey is wrong. <a href="https://t.co/9fOUdQqihl">https://t.co/9fOUdQqihl</a>
— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) <a href="https://twitter.com/BCAppelbaum/status/1183922585484038146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
Chuck Ross tweeted: &#8220;Wonder which re-education camp LeBron thinks Morley should attend.&#8221;
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Wonder which re-education camp LeBron thinks Morley should attend. <a href="https://t.co/qj5AwvAhCH">https://t.co/qj5AwvAhCH</a>
— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1183927033992232960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
Tommy Vietor tweeted: &#8220;Wow is this answer by @KingJames wrong and embarrassing for him. It&#8217;s one thing to duck the question. This is actively spreading disinformation.&#8221;
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Wow is this answer by <a href="https://twitter.com/KingJames?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KingJames</a> wrong and embarrassing for him. It&#8217;s one thing to duck the question. This is actively spreading disinformation. <a href="https://t.co/LfgjXMj3z7">https://t.co/LfgjXMj3z7</a>
— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) <a href="https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1183930388009238528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>
Dan McLaughlin tweeted: &#8220;Very clear by now the NBA has talking points on this &#8211; multiple players &amp; coaches have talked about being &#8216;educated&#8217; or knowing the &#8216;history&#8217; as if they need to read up on CCP propaganda to unsee what is in front of them.&#8221;
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Very clear by now the NBA has talking points on this &#8211; multiple players &amp; coaches have talked about being &#8220;educated&#8221; or knowing the &#8220;history&#8221; as if they need to read up on CCP propaganda to unsee what is in front of them. <a href="https://t.co/QI3rtcj8aZ">https://t.co/QI3rtcj8aZ</a>
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) <a href="https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1183922671693770752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2019</a></blockquote>

Lebron James

LeBron Bows To Communist China: Pro-Hong Kong Advocates Not ‘Educated,’ ‘Negative’ Things Come With Free Speech

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he is imposing sanctions on Turkey over their invasion into Syria, saying: &#8220;I am fully prepared to swiftly destroy Turkey&#8217;s economy if Turkish leaders continue down this dangerous and destructive path.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s statement comes after Turkey invaded northern Syria following the president&#8217;s decision to pull U.S. troops back from the area.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told CBS News&#8217; Margaret Brennan Sunday on &#8220;Face The Nation&#8221; that the decision to pull the troops back came after the administration learned that Turkey was planning on invading the area, regardless if U.S. forces were present.
&#8220;It became very clear to me that the Turks were fully committed to conducting this incursion. And I think Secretary Pompeo would tell you the same. I know General Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has heard the same,&#8221; Esper said. &#8220;The Turks were committed to doing this. This should not be a surprise. If you go back in time to when we first began this relationship with the- with the Syrian Kurds at that time in 2014 the Turks were protesting at that moment.&#8221;
&#8220;But do you actually believe Turkey would fire on U.S. forces?&#8221; Brennan asked. &#8220;We are NATO allies.&#8221;
&#8220;Well I don&#8217;t know whether they have &#8212; they would or they wouldn&#8217;t,&#8221; Esper responded. &#8220;We have reports already of indiscriminate fire landing near American forces.&#8221;
Fox News&#8217; Trey Yingst reported on Sunday that there were serious atrocities being committed by Turkey against civilians in the area.
&#8220;There is evidence today of war crimes being committed, civilians being targeted and ISIS prisoners escaping,&#8221; Yingst reported. &#8220;All of this, after the Trump administration made a decision to withdraw a group of American forces meant to deter such an invasion from occurring.&#8221;
&#8220;To give you a better idea about what is unfolding on the ground, Turkish forces have taken over a number of key roads in the area. On one occasion, a prominent Kurdish politician was stopped, reportedly dragged from the vehicle and executed on the spot,&#8221; Yingst continued. &#8220;The worst of humanity is unfolding today in Syria as President Trump tweets. Congress considers sanctions that wouldn’t actually be implemented until a later date and the world watches.&#8221;
Trump released the following statement on Twitter:
<blockquote>I will soon be issuing an Executive Order authorizing the imposition of sanctions against current and former officials of the Government of Turkey and any persons contributing to Turkey&#8217;s destabilizing actions in northeast Syria. Likewise, the steel tariffs will be increased back up to 50 percent, the level prior to reduction in May. The United States will also immediately stop negotiations, being led by the Department of Commerce, with respect to a $100 billion trade deal with Turkey.
This order will enable the United States to impose powerful additional sanctions on those who may be involved in serious human rights abuses, obstructing a ceasefire, preventing displaced persons from returning home, forcibly repatriating refugees, or threatening the peace, security, or stability in Syria. The Order will authorize a broad range of consequences, including financial sanctions, the blocking of property, and barring entry into the United States.
Since my first day in office, the Trump administration has worked tirelessly to preserve the safety and security of the United States and its citizens. The United States and our partners have liberated 100 percent of ISIS&#8217;s ruthless territorial caliphate. Turkey must not put these gains in jeopardy. Turkey must also prioritize the protection of civilians, particularly vulnerable ethnic and religious minorities in northeast Syria. Indiscriminate targeting of civilians, destruction of civilian infrastructure, and targeting of ethnic or religious minorities is unacceptable. Additionally, the return of refugees must be conducted in a safe, voluntary, and dignified manner.
Turkey&#8217;s military offensive is endangering civilians and threatening peace, security, and stability in the region. I have been perfectly clear with President Erdogan: Turkey&#8217;s action is precipitating a humanitarian crisis and setting conditions for possible war crimes. Turkey must ensure the safety of civilians, including religious and ethnic minorities, and is now, or may be in the future, responsible for the ongoing detention of ISIS terrorists in the region. Unfortunately, Turkey does not appear to be mitigating the humanitarian effects of its invasion.
As I have said, I am withdrawing the remaining United States service members from northeast Syria. As United States forces have defeated the ISIS physical caliphate, United States troops coming out of Syria will now redeploy and remain in the region to monitor the situation and prevent a repeat of 2014, when the neglected threat of ISIS raged across Syria and Iraq. A small footprint of United States forces will remain at Tanf Garrison in southern Syria to continue to disrupt remnants of ISIS.
The United States will aggressively use economic sanctions to target those who enable, facilitate, and finance these heinous acts in Syria. I am fully prepared to swiftly destroy Turkey&#8217;s economy if Turkish leaders continue down this dangerous and destructive path.</blockquote>
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Statement from President Donald J. Trump Regarding Turkey’s Actions in Northeast Syria <a href="https://t.co/ZCQC7nzmME">pic.twitter.com/ZCQC7nzmME</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1183833640507269120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>

Trump

Trump Admin Takes Action Against Turkey For Syria Invasion

A contractor working at CNN came forward on Monday and released videos that they recorded of CNN President Jeff Zucker appearing to admit that the network is pushing the agenda of the Democrat Party by making all their news coverage about &#8220;moves towards impeachment&#8221; and telling CNN employees that the only coverage he wants is &#8220;impeachment.&#8221;
The contractor, Cary Poarch, released the videos through James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas, which has a history of releasing damaging video content of left-wing figures and organizations admitting a wide range of things that often conflict with what they say publicly.
“I decided to wear a hidden camera … to expose the bias running rampant,” Poarch said.
Poarch recorded CNN company meetings where Zucker appears to admit that CNN is essentially pushing the agenda of the Democrat Party by giving non-stop coverage to impeachment and by stating that all news coverage is about &#8220;moving toward impeachment.&#8221;
“I want to stay with this, our top, top &#8212; our own reporters, our own political analysts, the top, the top [unintelligible] we have,&#8221; Zucker says. &#8220;All these moves are moves towards impeachment.&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just stay very focused on impeachment,&#8221; Zucker adds. &#8220;We&#8217;re moving towards impeachment &#8230; all these moves are moves towards impeachment.&#8221;
Zucker tells employees to &#8220;knock off&#8221; their friendliness toward South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
The videos also seem to demonstrate a culture of bias at CNN.
CNN media coordinator Nick Neville says on an undercover video that Zucker &#8220;has a personal vendetta against Trump&#8221; and that he &#8220;blatantly hates Trump&#8221; and that it impacts CNN&#8217;s news coverage of the president.
&#8220;He hates him,&#8221; Neville says, adding that Zucker&#8217;s hatred for Trump means that CNN is going to give &#8220;negative&#8221; news coverage to the president.
Neville later appears to lament the way that the network covers the news as entertainment, saying: &#8220;But then you have higher up executives, like Zucker and other people, who are saying, &#8216;Well, we gotta make profits.&#8217; So, you end up with things like &#8212; I don’t know if you heard this, but this week they had like a f***ing game show to, like, decide what dates they’re, it’s gonna be this debate.&#8221;
CNN floor manager Mike Brevna says that after Trump won the 2016 presidential election that people were &#8220;sobbing&#8221; around the office and people were &#8220;in shock.&#8221;
&#8220;That day, man, when I came in, everyone was silent,&#8221; CNN media coordinator Christian Sierra said. &#8220;Nobody wanted to talk. I&#8217;m like, like the mood was just so sour the whole day &#8230; . It was a f**king dreary day.&#8221;
Sierra admitted that CNN&#8217;s television personalities hate the president, saying: “Cooper hates him,” “Don Lemon hates him,” “Cuomo doesn’t like him,” and Jake Tapper “doesn’t like him either.”
Later Sierra admitted that the network does not cover Democrats and Republicans the same way during interviews.
&#8220;We’re tough on the Republicans,&#8221; Sierra said. &#8220;More so than the Democrats. Our Democratic interviews are like softballs, compared to the Republicans … if you notice like every time, we ask questions to Republicans, like it&#8217;s always a little tougher than when we do get the Democrats.&#8221;
David Chalian, CNN’s Vice President and Political Director, also appeared to attack Republicans, saying: &#8220;I think as big of a story as what President Trump has done here is the Republican’s sort of either delusional or defiant or silent responses.&#8221;
CNN has not issued a response to the Project Veritas videos as of publication.
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PART 1: CNN Insider Blows Whistle, Secretly Records Staff, Execs and Network President Jeff Zucker’s &#8220;Anti-Trump Crusade&#8221; and &#8220;Personal Vendetta&#8221; Against POTUS.
<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ExposeCNN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ExposeCNN</a>
Full video uploading now&#8230;sign up now to get each new tape first: <a href="https://t.co/kDe3HDdX2r">https://t.co/kDe3HDdX2r</a> <a href="https://t.co/KKfaK6hvgW">pic.twitter.com/KKfaK6hvgW</a>
— James O&#8217;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1183779313197469697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 14, 2019</a></blockquote>

CNN Jeff Zucker

PROJECT VERITAS VIDEO: CNN Head Appears To Admit Network Pushing Impeachment, Has ‘Personal Vendetta Against Trump,’ Employee Says

Media Bias

Walter Shaub, the Obama-appointed former director of the Office of Government Ethics, tried to manufacture controversy surrounding President Donald Trump&#8217;s eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, last week by suggesting that there was something potentially nefarious about China granting her a trademark for voting machines.
&#8220;China gave Ivanka Trump a trademark for voting machines while she was committing nepotism in the White House,&#8221; Shaub, who recently was a CNN contributor, wrote on Twitter. &#8220;America still waits for an explanation.&#8221;
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China gave Ivanka Trump a trademark for voting machines while she was committing nepotism in the White House. America still waits for an explanation.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) <a href="https://twitter.com/waltshaub/status/1182673790733553664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 11, 2019</a></blockquote>
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) noted that Ivanka&#8217;s business applied for the trademarks in 2016 and that the trademarks covered a multitude of items, not just voting machines.
&#8220;The newest Chinese trademarks cover fashion items including handbags, shoes, wedding dresses, and jewelry. (Ivanka’s business has previously relied on a Chinese manufacturer to supply handbags, shoes, and clothing.) The trademarks also cover items including nursing homes, sausage casing, and voting machines,&#8221; CREW reported. &#8220;Ivanka’s business applied for these trademarks in 2016.&#8221;
A further review of the application that Ivanka&#8217;s business <a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.citizensforethics.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/05191659/Ivanka-October-2018-China-Trademarks.pdf">filed</a> with the Chinese government shows that it was filed on March 8, 2016, which was months before then-presidential candidate Donald Trump even secured the GOP nomination for president.
Multiple sources that are highly connected in the Washington, D.C., political scene and who have extensive experience working in legal settings tell The Daily Wire that, while there are some people who genuinely have questions about the trademarks, Shaub is not one of them.
Rather, these sources allege that Shaub was being intentionally deceptive. They claim that he knows that trade infringement is so common in China that it is standard business practice for American businesses to trademark an entire batch of products, which in this case included the voting machines.
Even Snopes, a far-left fact-check website, reported, &#8220;Although Ivanka Trump’s now reportedly shut-down brand may hold a variety of trademarks in China, it’s unlikely she’ll be involved in manufacturing sausage casings or voting machines in the foreseeable future.&#8221;
Intellectual property theft, which includes trademarks, is a major problem in China as the communist nation has stolen massive amounts of intellectual property from the U.S. for decades, which has been something that the Trump administration has been addressing in its trade talks with China.
&#8220;IP theft — use of patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and copyrights without permission — may seem dry to many. But it represents big money. Intangible assets, which include IP, make up 80% of the value of S&amp;P 500 companies, according to the Harvard Business Review,&#8221; Forbes <a href="https://fortune.com/2019/03/01/china-ip-theft/">reported</a>. &#8220;IP theft may not seem the same as taking physical property, but it represents either a loss of opportunity or of competitive advantage that reduces the money a company could have made. The U.S. Trade Representative has estimated the annual loss to China at between $225 billion and $600 billion, according to CNN.&#8221;
&#8220;There are different ways Chinese companies reportedly obtain U.S. IP. Corporate espionage and cyberattacks are two, according to Axios,&#8221; Forbes added. &#8220;But so is forced technology transfers, in which the Chinese government compels companies investing in China to provide IP details and licenses.&#8221;

Walter Shaub

Ex-Obama Official, CNN Employee Tries To Manufacture Controversy Over Ivanka Trump Trademark, Sources Say

Barack Obama

Ivanka Trump

President Donald Trump&#8217;s outside legal defense team received bad news last week after a deal that they had reached with former South Carolina Republican Representative Trey Gowdy fell through due to lobbying rules.
The move, which was revealed on Tuesday, fell apart the next day &#8220;with lobbying rules prohibiting Mr. Gowdy from starting until January, possibly after the inquiry is over,&#8221; The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/13/us/politics/trey-gowdy-trump-impeachment.html">reported</a> on Sunday night. &#8220;Now, according to two people familiar with events, Mr. Gowdy is never expected to join the team. And Trump advisers are back to square one, searching for a different lawyer.&#8221;
Trump and Trump&#8217;s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, met with Gowdy on Tuesday at the White House where they discussed over lunch him joining the president&#8217;s outside legal defense team.
After the lunch, Trump signed off on the move to bring Gowdy on.
&#8220;But within 30 minutes of that statement’s going public, Mr. Gowdy alerted Mr. Trump’s lawyers to a problem. His law firm, Nelson Mullins, had concerns that his work would involve lobbying activity. There was a discussion about whether Nelson Mullins could still be used, but a Trump adviser said that decision had been put off until January, when Mr. Gowdy’s lobbying ban concludes,&#8221; The New York Times added. &#8220;Without Mr. Gowdy, who lost his paid contributorship at Fox News after the announcement, and with another of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Rudolph W. Giuliani, sidelined from appearing on television for the moment as he is drawn increasingly into the Ukraine matter at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, the president’s team remains outgunned in the fight for public opinion.&#8221;
&#8220;I have known Trey for years and worked with him when he served in Congress,&#8221; Trump attorney Jay Sekulow said in a statement on Wednesday. &#8220;His legal skills and his advocacy will serve the president well. Trey&#8217;s command of the law is well known and his service on Capitol Hill will be a great asset as a member of our team.&#8221;
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1182403387305988103">noted</a> late last week that Trump&#8217;s comments on Friday that Gowdy could not join until Friday &#8220;means Gowdy is unlikely to ever join in the capacity he was hired for,&#8221; adding that &#8220;someone in [the] West Wing badly wanted a win internally and put out Gowdy before it was a done deal. So it was quickly done yesterday and then had to be undone.&#8221;
Terry Sullivan, who ran Gowdy’s first congressional campaign in 2010, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/04b18b6b4917430f908678d05aa157b3">told</a> the Associated Press last week before the deal fell apart that it was &#8220;absolutely a super smart thing for the Trump [team] to do. Trey is ridiculously smart — not only a darn good attorney but a very compelling and convincing individual.&#8221;
Even Republicans who are often highly critical of the president, like &#8220;The View&#8221; co-host Meghan McCain, noted that the move to bring Gowdy onto Trump&#8217;s outside legal defense team was a big-time move by the president.
&#8220;He’s one of the great congressmen,&#8221; McCain <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2019/10/09/meghan-mccain-warns-democrats-trey-gowdy-bad-news/">said</a>. &#8220;He’s someone I have respected for years. You can laugh all you want, but the fact he’s joining Trump’s team is good news for Trump, and bad news for Democrats.&#8221;

Trey Gowdy

Trump’s Legal Defense Team Gets Bad News

Impeachment

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) blasted Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Sunday during an interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; saying that Schiff is trying to get the United States &#8220;drunk on his favorite cocktail.&#8221;
Zeldin&#8217;s remarks came in response to questions from guest host Jonathan Karl, who asked Zeldin about President Donald Trump&#8217;s request that Ukraine look into the corruption allegations surrounding Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden.
&#8220;So you’re OK with all the transcripts coming out?&#8221; Karl asked Zeldin, referencing the Trump administration releasing transcripts of its call to the president of Ukraine over the summer. &#8220;You want to see Fiona Hill, who’s testifying next week, you want to see all the people that the administration does not want to testify, you want those transcripts to be out?&#8221;
&#8220;No, the president wants there to be a process. The president is saying that there should be a vote for an impeachment inquiry, as you just pointed out with Congressman Himes, there should be a process,&#8221; Zeldin responded. &#8220;The minority parties should have subpoena power. The president should have counsel present. He should be able to cross-exam witnesses; he should be able to present evidence.&#8221;
&#8220;There should be a process, but instead what Adam Schiff wants is to get United States of America drunk on his favorite cocktail. There&#8217;s three ingredients,&#8221; Zeldin continued. &#8220;One is cherry-picking leaks, second is withholding facts, and three is just outright lying. I mean he is – he lied about his whistleblower contact; he lied when he gave his opening statement in front of the Acting Director of National Intelligence; he lied when he said that President Trump requested President Zelensky to, quote, manufacture dirt. Now, if we all had Ambassador Volker&#8217;s testimony, we would know that that&#8217;s not true. We would also know that it obliterated the quid pro quo charge, that fairytale, that President Trump supposedly demanded that there would be an investigation open against the Bidens in order to get aide from the United States to Ukraine.&#8221;
Zeldin added on Twitter: &#8220;Schiff just said his super secret depositions are analogous to grand jury proceedings &amp; that&#8217;s why it needs to be done out of public view in the Capitol basement. If that&#8217;s the case, then why is he publicly leaking anything at all said he thinks can possibly be spun in his favor?&#8221;
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Schiff just said his super secret depositions are analogous to grand jury proceedings &amp; that&#8217;s why it needs to be done out of public view in the Capitol basement. If that&#8217;s the case, then why is he publicly leaking anything at all said he thinks can possibly be spun in his favor?
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1183438644587220992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
In a separate interview, Zeldin highlighted the secrecy under which Schiff is conducting his push for impeachment, saying: &#8220;Why are we sitting inside of Adam Schiff’s bunker turning in our cell phones before we come in and being told that nothing here can be told to the American public?&#8221;
&#8220;The only thing the whistleblower has to add that’s new is information that frankly Adam Schiff and his staff don’t want us talking about,&#8221; Zeldin added.
Schiff has come under intense fire for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-adam-schiff-makes-up-quotes-from-trumps-ukraine-call">fabricating quotes</a> from Trump&#8217;s call with Ukraine, for allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bombshell-schiff-knew-about-whistleblower-allegations-days-before-complaint-filed">lying</a> about not having contact with the whistleblower prior to the whistleblower complaint being filed, and for the fact that two of his aides allegedly <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiffs-staff-includes-2-aides-who-worked-with-whistleblower-at-white-house">worked</a> with the whistleblower when the whistleblower worked in the White House during the Obama administration.
WATCH:
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Adam Schiff is trying to get the US drunk on his favorite cocktail:
There are three main ingredients: (1) Cherry-picking leaks, (2) withholding key facts, and (3) outright lying.
I discussed this AM on <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ThisWeekABC</a> w <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jonkarl</a> <a href="https://t.co/3A0OmgQapS">pic.twitter.com/3A0OmgQapS</a>
— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1183409598369337346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 13, 2019</a></blockquote>

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