A new report on Tuesday night alleges that House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) appears to have &#8220;mischaracterized&#8221; evidence that was used in House Democrats&#8217; impeachment investigation.
The problem stems from a letter that Schiff sent to House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) last week that summarizes &#8220;a trove of evidence from Lev Parnas, an indicted former associate of Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani,&#8221; Politico <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/schiff-may-have-mischaracterized-parnas-evidence-documents-show/ar-BBZchl2?ocid=st2">reported</a>. &#8220;In one section of the letter, Schiff claims that Parnas &#8216;continued to try to arrange a meeting with President Zelensky,&#8217; citing a specific text message exchange where Parnas tells Giuliani: &#8216;trying to get us mr Z.&#8217; The remainder of the exchange — which was attached to Schiff’s letter — was redacted.&#8221;
Politico added, &#8220;But an unredacted version of the exchange shows that several days later, Parnas sent Giuliani a word document that appears to show notes from an interview with Mykola Zlochevsky, the founder of Burisma, followed by a text message to Giuliani that states: &#8216;mr Z answers my brother.&#8217; That suggests Parnas was referring to Zlochevsky not Zelensky.&#8221;
Democrat officials did not dispute the suggestion that Schiff&#8217;s claim was false.
A Republican aide told Politico that the false claim was at best the result of sloppy work.
“The most charitable view of the situation is that [Schiff’s] staff committed the equivalent of Congressional malpractice by not looking more than an inch deep to determine the facts before foisting this erroneous information on his colleagues and the American public,” one senior GOP aide told Politico. “But given the selective redactions and contextual clues, it seems as though Chairman Schiff sought to portray an innocuous meeting with Ukrainian oligarch Mykola Zlochevsky as an insidious one with the President of Ukraine simply because both of their surnames start with the letter Z.”
Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) responded to Schiff&#8217;s false statement by <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1219815889077403648">writing</a> on Twitter: &#8220;Schiff’s sham impeachment is littered with mischaracterizations, falsehoods, &amp; political desperation. The more Schiff speaks to the American people, the more the support for impeachment is obliterated in the court of public opinion.&#8221;
Schiff, who is Democrat impeachment manager for the Senate trial, was accused GOP National Spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington of fabricating quotes while delivering remarks today.
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Watch Schiff make up more fake dialogue 
It was bad enough he made up the President&#39;s phone call in the House, now he&#39;s fabricating what the president of Ukraine said (no pressure) in the Senate
Democrats have no case, so they just make schiff up <a href="https://t.co/R2nNJrCiZt">pic.twitter.com/R2nNJrCiZt</a>
&mdash; Elizabeth Harrington (@LizRNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizRNC/status/1219809311280521216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During the Intelligence Committee&#8217;s impeachment investigation, Schiff <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-adam-schiff-makes-up-quotes-from-trumps-ukraine-call">fabricated</a> quotes from President Donald Trump&#8217;s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and was later forced to apologize for his dishonest characterization of Trump&#8217;s remarks.
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) responded at the time by writing: &#8220;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.&#8221;
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When you don’t have facts on your side some just make it up. The opening statement by their ring leader was <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FullofSchiff?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FullofSchiff</a>. House Dems blatantly lying to justify their impeachment inquiry is horribly timed, poorly written and badly intentioned.
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepLeeZeldin/status/1177255520715071488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) responded: &#8220;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;
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We now have both the transcript and the complaint.
Anyone who reads them will see they prove what we already knew: <a href="https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepAdamSchiff</a> and his cronies will peddle conspiracy theories and distort the truth to attack our President.
It’s wrong.
&mdash; Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1177259492767150081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Stefanik responded: &#8220;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.&#8221;
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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.
&mdash; Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) <a href="https://twitter.com/EliseStefanik/status/1177213478043639808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump responded: &#8220;Rep. Adam Schiff totally made up my conversation with Ukraine President and read it to Congress and Millions. He must resign and be investigated. He has been doing this for two years. He is a sick man!&#8221;
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Rep. Adam Schiff totally made up my conversation with Ukraine President and read it to Congress and Millions. He must resign and be investigated. He has been doing this for two years. He is a sick man!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1177575947358412800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 27, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Adam Schiff

BREAKING: New Documents Show Democrat Adam Schiff Mischaracterized Evidence In Impeachment, Report Suggests

Virginia Democrats began to ram through their gun control agenda on Tuesday after tens of thousands of peaceful pro-Second Amendment activists protested in the state&#8217;s capital at the start of the week.
&#8220;The day after a massive gathering of gun-rights activists at the Virginia Capitol, the state Senate on Tuesday advanced legislation that would allow authorities to take guns away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others,&#8221; the Associated Press <a href="https://wtop.com/virginia/2020/01/virginia-senate-advances-red-flag-gun-law-despite-rally/">reported</a>, adding that Virginia Democrats also killed GOP-backed measures including &#8220;a bill to allow people to carry concealed handguns without a permit and to repeal a limit on carrying weapons in churches and other places of worship.&#8221;
The move by Virginia Democrats comes a day after 22,000 protesters flooded the streets of Richmond to protest Democrats&#8217; extreme anti-freedom agenda, which has included proposals for confiscating legally owned firearms from law-abiding citizens.
“The grassroots resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda has exploded as nearly 90% of the counties in the state have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities in response to the Democrats’ anti-freedom agenda,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/resistance-to-virginia-democrats-extreme-anti-second-amendment-agenda-surges-to-new-heights">reported</a> in November. “More than 100 cities, towns, and counties have passed resolutions in preparation for Democrats taking over the state who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrats-filing-proposals-to-begin-confiscation-of-lawfully-owned-firearms-second-amendment-reporter-says">indicated</a> a desire to confiscate semi-automatic firearms from law-abiding citizens.”
The reaction to Democrats&#8217; agenda in the state has been so intense that The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/civil-war-ii-gun-control-could-push-virginia-counties-to-join-west-virginia">reported</a> on Tuesday that lawmakers in West Virginia are now considering accepting counties that want to leave Virginia.
<blockquote>West Virginia lawmakers are scrambling to let rural Virginia counties join the Mountain State amid conservative voter anger with the new Democratic majority in Richmond and its push for gun control and other liberal initiatives.
In a building fight that echoes the Civil War-era split of the Old Dominion that created West Virginia in 1863, 40 of 100 West Virginia House delegates have signed on to legislation that would accept revolting Virginia counties and towns.</blockquote>
West Virginia Del. Gary Howell told The Examiner that the idea initially started out as a long shot but “has turned into a real thing.”
Howell introduced <a href="http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hcr8+intr.htm&amp;yr=2020&amp;sesstype=rs&amp;i=8&amp;houseorig=h&amp;billtype=cr&amp;fbclid=IwAR0r2XHdXE1bcic8oO2NAL2481Bcne2cwRZG0Kgg5qhVr9SzVEXDoiM5jD4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HCR 8</a> to the West Virginia legislature, which states in part:
<blockquote>These tensions have been compounded by a perception of contempt on the part of the government at Richmond for the differences in certain fundamental political and societal principles which prevail between the varied counties and cities of that Commonwealth.
In the latest, and most evident, in this string of grievances, the government at Richmond now seeks to place intolerable restraints upon the rights guaranteed under the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution to the citizens of that Commonwealth.
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In a spirit of conciliation, the legislature of West Virginia hereby extends an invitation to our fellow Virginians who wish to do so, to join us in our noble experiment of 156 years of separation from the government at Richmond; and, we extend an invitation to any constituent county or city of the Commonwealth of Virginia to be admitted to the body politic of the state of West Virginia.</blockquote>
President Donald Trump commented on Monday&#8217;s pro-Second Amendment rally, writing on Twitter: &#8220;I will NEVER allow our great Second Amendment to go unprotected, not even a little bit!&#8221;
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I will NEVER allow our great Second Amendment to go unprotected, not even a little bit!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1219351907627667456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ralph Northam

Virginia Democrats Give Finger To Gun Activists, Advance Gun Control. West Virginia Looks At Taking Counties From Virginia, Report Says.

James O&#8217;Keefe&#8217;s Project Veritas released new bombshell undercover footage on Tuesday that appeared to show another paid member of 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign promoting violence against political opponents and against successful people.
The undercover video produced by Project Veritas allegedly shows Martin Weissgerber, South Carolina field organizer for the campaign, talking about wanting to kill wealthy people and wanting to throw Republicans into camps.
Qutoes from the video provided by Project Veritas include:
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<li>“Let’s force them (billionaires) to build roads … rebuild our roads, rebuild our dams, rebuild our bridges. Let’s force them to do that.”</li>
<li>“Well, the gulags were founded as re-education camps. … What will help is when we send all the Republicans to the re-education camps.”</li>
<li>“I’m already on Twitter, following numerous groups around the country that are ready to organize yellow vest protests. I’m ready … I’m ready to start tearing bricks up and start fighting. … I’m not — no cap, bro. I’ll straight up — I’ll straight up get armed, I want to learn how to shoot, and go train. I’m ready for the f***ing revolution, bro. … I’m telling you. Guillotine the rich.”</li>
<li>“I think I was radicalized from the day; first day I was born … my dad, is a Marxist. Like, straight-up from Belgium … he took part in Paris &#8217;68 and all that, which is really cool. … I’ve always made it, I’ve always been unapologetic about it since I was younger, I always said, you know I’m a Communist … in my house, we had, you know Das Kapital, Engels, and Marx and all that sh*t. … I’m a Communist that believes in direct democracy, direct communes on everything. Pretty much, anarcho-syndicalism. Unions everything. I hope, but I don’t know how effective that is in addressing climate change, for instance.”</li>
<li>“Oh, yeah. My dad is real; my mom is, but my mom is really left as well. But she can’t make her views known, because she works for WBUR, which is NPR, so she’s more held back. But you know … But then I went, I started studying it. That’s what I studied in college, I studied Russian his–., Soviet history … I became the resident Marxist. … But, yeah, I’m all about the complete seizure of the means of production, nationalizing everything.”</li>
<li>“I only learned this sh*t in college when I started studying the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was not horrible … I mean, for women’s rights, the Soviet Union — I think — the most progressive place to date in the world.”</li>
<li>“The first gulag that was opened; have you heard about Belomorkanal? They dug a canal; the plan was, in 1922, I think, to dig a Canal from the White Sea all the way to Saint Petersburg &#8230; a long way, if you look on a map … and, the whole point — it was going to be called the Belomorkanal, and I read — I spent a whole semester actually studying primary accounts from the Belomorkanal. The whole point of the Belomorkanal, there were no machines allowed. They forced the people to dig with shovels and hoe the whole canal, right? You should see the people writing about their time at the Belomorkanal. There’s this one guy, he was a thief from Georgia who had been captured. He was sent to the Belomorkanal to work and in his writing, like ‘I reject all thievery, I reject that past life.’ He said, capitalism made me into this thief, because when there’s poor people, there’s going to be crime. He said, ‘I went to the Belomorkanal and I worked.’ He became a shock worker, which is what they call the leading workers, people who always met the quota and exceeded the quota … and, like people came from America to work at the Belomorkanal for the Soviet project, the communist project. It was a beautiful thing.”</li>
<li>“Leave it to the Soviets to make the most badass f***ing, most effective gun in the world … AK-47 &#8230; the destroyer of imperialism and coloniali[sm] … that’s why I want to get it [AK-47] tattooed on me.”</li>
<li>“So, do we just cease — do we just dissolve the Senate, House of Representatives, the judicial branch, and have something Bernie Sanders and a cabinet of people, make all decisions for the climate? I mean, I’m serious.”</li>
</ul>
The stunning footage comes a week after Project Veritas released footage of Sanders campaign Iowa field organizer Kyle Jurek allegedly making numerous <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-bernies-a-legit-socialist-masquerading-as-a-democratic-socialist">inflammatory</a> statements, including <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-campaign-staff-people-who-push-back-on-revolution-should-expect-a-violent-response">promoting violence</a> against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bernie-staff-free-education-about-indoctrinating-people-gulags-not-bad-cities-burn-if-trump-wins">political opponents</a>.
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BREAKING: 2ND PAID STAFFER PRAISES GULAGS
South Carolina <a href="https://twitter.com/BernieSanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BernieSanders</a> Field Organizer <a href="https://twitter.com/martinthemanic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@martinthemanic</a>: &quot;I&#39;ll straight up get armed&#8230;I&#39;m ready for the &quot;f**king revolution&quot;; &quot;Guillotine the rich&quot;; &#39;send Republicans to re-education camps&#39;
FULL RELEASE 12:00PM<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Expose2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Expose2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/tUCeKEY6aM">pic.twitter.com/tUCeKEY6aM</a>
&mdash; James O&#39;Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1219620664505593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Attend MLK Rally At South Carolina Capitol Dome

Another Bernie Staffer Allegedly Promotes Violence: Kill The Rich, Put Republicans In Camps

2020 Election

Bernie Sanders

James O'Keefe

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) repeatedly demonized successful business owners in an interview during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday, literally arguing that business owners were lazy slave owners who profit off the backs of minorities who are &#8220;dying&#8221; because the business owners are successful.
Ocasio-Cortez made the extreme remarks when she was asked why successful business owners were &#8220;the enemy of health care.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you didn’t make those widgets, did you?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez began. &#8220;Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you. You didn’t make those widgets.&#8221;
&#8220;You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real slave, real modern-day slavery, uh, depending on where you are in terms of food production,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;You made that money off the backs of undocumented people. You made that money off the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage.&#8221;
&#8220;You made that money off the backs of single mothers and all these people who are literally dying because they can’t afford to live and so no one ever makes a billion dollars,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;You take a billion dollars and all of that to say, is that it’s, and I’m not here to villainize and to say that billionaires are inherently morally corrupt – but they are, I mean, I think there is a case, but um, but, it’s not to say that, it’s to say that this system that we live in, life in capitalism, always ends in billionaires. If you don’t do it, someone else will. It’s who decides to make that choice is just kind of up to, you know, circumstance.&#8221;
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AOC on why successful businessmen don’t deserve their wealth: “You didn’t make those widgets! You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real modern-day slavery; you made that money off the backs of undocumented people &#8230;&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Y2w3nSfezo">pic.twitter.com/Y2w3nSfezo</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1219370971779555334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez has a history of making wild and largely unsubstantiated claims during this event as she claimed last year that being a billionaire is &#8220;immoral&#8221; and suggested that the world was going to end in 12 years if her radical socialist agenda was not adopted.
“I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,” Ocasio-Cortez said without evidence. “And your biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II.”
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> on millennials and social media: &quot;We’re, like, the world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change&quot; <a href="https://t.co/HjhbVyfFN4">pic.twitter.com/HjhbVyfFN4</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1087550417653940224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez also said that government should dictate how well people are able to live by limiting the success of those who are hard working and successful.
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY):
-Government should determine how well people live -Wants “moral technology” -People striving to be highly successful is bad -A world that allows billionaires is “immoral” <a href="https://t.co/RyycflBQLa">pic.twitter.com/RyycflBQLa</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087591902579384320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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“Do we live in a moral world that allows for billionaires?” leftist Ta-Nehisi Coates asked. “Is that a moral outcome in and of itself?”
“No, it’s not,” Ocasio-Cortez responded. “It’s not.”
The Daily Wire also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-snaps-world-could-end-12-years-algorithms-ryan-saavedra">reported</a> at the time that Ocasio-Cortez &#8220;also suggested that the U.S. needed to pay &#8216;reparations&#8217; like Germany did &#8216;after the Holocaust&#8217; if it wants to heal: &#8216;Until America tells the truth about itself, we are not going to heal.'&#8221;
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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests that the U.S. needs to pay “reparations” like Germany did “after the Holocaust” if it wants to heal: “Until America tells the truth about itself, we are not going to heal” <a href="https://t.co/NlFWwtFH4u">pic.twitter.com/NlFWwtFH4u</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1087631204067684353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  And Bernie Sanders Attend Green New Deal Rally At Howard University

AOC Demonizes Business Owners: They’re Lazy Slave Owners, Employees ‘Literally Dying’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Democratic Socialism

Socialism

A new investigative technology that is being used by top U.S. law enforcement officials is assisting investigators in taking down alleged child sex predators, murders, identity thieves, and other serious criminals.
In a report over the weekend, The New York Times called the facial recognition tool pioneered by Clearview AI a &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221; technology because of the way that it works and the extreme accuracy of the software.
The tool works by running whatever photo law enforcement has of a person of interest through a database of publicly available images, which means that the photos are on the open internet and are not collected from any protected sources, including private social media accounts.
The tool is being used by top law enforcement officials to help solve everything from &#8220;identity theft [and] credit card fraud&#8221; to  &#8220;murder and child sexual exploitation cases,&#8221; The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/18/technology/clearview-privacy-facial-recognition.html">reported</a>. &#8220;According to a Clearview sales presentation reviewed by The Times, the app helped identify a range of individuals: a person who was accused of sexually abusing a child whose face appeared in the mirror of someone’s else gym photo; the person behind a string of mailbox thefts in Atlanta; a John Doe found dead on an Alabama sidewalk; and suspects in multiple identity-fraud cases at banks.&#8221;
The Times noted one specific case that highlighted just how effective the tool is at helping investigators:
<blockquote>In February, the Indiana State Police started experimenting with Clearview. They solved a case within 20 minutes of using the app. Two men had gotten into a fight in a park, and it ended when one shot the other in the stomach. A bystander recorded the crime on a phone, so the police had a still of the gunman’s face to run through Clearview’s app.
They immediately got a match: The man appeared in a video that someone had posted on social media, and his name was included in a caption on the video. “He did not have a driver’s license and hadn’t been arrested as an adult, so he wasn’t in government databases,” said Chuck Cohen, an Indiana State Police captain at the time.
The man was arrested and charged; Mr. Cohen said he probably wouldn’t have been identified without the ability to search social media for his face. The Indiana State Police became Clearview’s first paying customer, according to the company.</blockquote>
Clearview <a href="https://clearview.ai/">highlighted</a> instances in which their technology was used to quickly assist law enforcement officials in their investigations when time was of the essence.
One of the biggest cases that the company could reveal in which their technology was used to assist law enforcement was in New Jersey as part of <a href="https://www.mycentraljersey.com/story/news/crime/2019/10/31/nj-crime-19-alleged-child-predators-charged-in-operation-open-door/4109080002/">Operation Open Door</a>, a multi-agency undercover sting operation that led to the arrest of 19 alleged online child predators.
Another instance in which the technology was used was last August in New York City when a man caused a <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/16/pair-of-pressure-cookers-shut-down-lower-manhattan-subway-station/">bomb scare</a> by leaving two rice pressure-cookers in the Fulton Street subway station. Using the technology, law enforcement officials were able to rapidly <a href="https://nypost.com/2019/08/23/rice-cooker-subway-scare-suspect-larry-griffin-in-plea-talks-lawyer/">identify</a> the suspect and were able to locate him and take him into custody.
Clearview says that it has helped top law enforcement officials &#8220;track down hundreds of at-large criminals, including pedophiles, terrorists and sex traffickers.&#8221;
The Times article highlighted the potential privacy concerns that typically surround new technology that is used by law enforcement to assist in their investigative efforts.
To navigate relevant legal issues, Clearview hired Paul D. Clement, a United States solicitor general under President George W. Bush, who did not have concerns about the app&#8217;s legality, as he told law enforcement agencies that the technology does “not violate the federal Constitution or relevant existing state biometric and privacy laws when using Clearview for its intended purpose.”
Clearview, which was Australian American tech entrepreneur founded by Hoan Ton-That, noted their technology is being used by law enforcement to help &#8220;exonerate the innocent, identify victims of child sexual abuse and other crimes, and avoid eyewitness lineups that are prone to human error.&#8221;

Unrecognizable police officer arrests individual for traffic violation

‘Groundbreaking’ Clearview AI Technology Used To Take Down Alleged Child Sex Predators

Law Enforcement

Two-time failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton viciously attacked Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders in an interview published on Tuesday, saying that no one likes him or the people who surround him and that she has advised nearly all of the other candidates except for Sanders.
Clinton made the remarks in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (THR), which partially centered around the new four-part Hulu series &#8220;Hillary,&#8221; which is set to premier at Sundance.
THR asked Clinton: &#8220;In the doc, you&#8217;re brutally honest on Sanders: &#8216;He was in Congress for years. He had one senator support him. Nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done. He was a career politician. It&#8217;s all just baloney and I feel so bad that people got sucked into it.&#8217; That assessment still hold?&#8221;
Clinton responded, &#8220;Yes, it does.&#8221;
Clinton then laid the dagger into Sanders, saying, &#8220;it&#8217;s not only him, it&#8217;s the culture around him. It&#8217;s his leadership team. It&#8217;s his prominent supporters. It&#8217;s his online Bernie Bros and their relentless attacks on lots of his competitors, particularly the women.&#8221;
&#8220;And I really hope people are paying attention to that because it should be worrisome that he has permitted this culture — not only permitted, [he] seems to really be very much supporting it,&#8221; Clinton continued. &#8220;And I don&#8217;t think we want to go down that road again where you campaign by insult and attack and maybe you try to get some distance from it, but you either don&#8217;t know what your campaign and supporters are doing or you&#8217;re just giving them a wink and you want them to go after Kamala [Harris] or after Elizabeth [Warren]. I think that that&#8217;s a pattern that people should take into account when they make their decisions.&#8221;
Clinton later told THR that she has &#8220;practically&#8221; talked to and advised all the Democrat presidential candidates who are running, except for Sanders.
The Democrat Party and the media have started to launch an all out offensive in recent weeks aimed at destroying Sanders.
The attacks escalated earlier this month when Democrat presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s campaign planted a story at CNN, days ahead of the CNN presidential debate, accusing Sanders of telling Warren that he did not believe that a woman could be elected president.
During the debate, CNN activist Abby Phillips took Warren&#8217;s side on the issue and completely dismissed Sanders&#8217; claim that Warren was lying.
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CNN: “Sen. Sanders, I do want to be clear here, you’re saying that you never told senator Warren that a woman could not win the election?&quot; SANDERS: &quot;That is correct.&quot; CNN: “Sen. Warren, what did you think when senator Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BZ1NajmQE9">pic.twitter.com/BZ1NajmQE9</a>
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Left-wing MSNBC host Joy Reid ran a whole segment on the issue on her Saturday show when she brought on a body language expert to declare that Sanders was the one who was lying because he was &#8220;turtling&#8221; in his interaction with Warren after the debate.
Leftist writer Meagan Day responded by writing: &#8220;This is unhinged. Genuinely divorced from reality. I know there’s a big push to move on but if the mainstream media is gonna broadcast this fraudulent garbage then I don’t feel particularly compelled to drop it.&#8221;
Sanders National Press Secretary Briahna Joy Gray added: &#8220;This campaign is owed an apology. What are they going to do next, phrenology? This is why no one trusts the media. These people are digging their own professional graves.&#8221;
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This campaign is owed an apology. 
What are they going to do next, phrenology? 
This is why no one trusts the media. These people are digging their own professional graves. <a href="https://t.co/ykpCUrWgAl">https://t.co/ykpCUrWgAl</a>
&mdash; Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) <a href="https://twitter.com/briebriejoy/status/1218593839633633286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate In Flint

Hillary Attacks Bernie: ‘No One Likes Him’ Or ‘His Prominent Supporters,’ Has ‘Culture’ Problem

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) demanded during an interview on Monday that billionaires give up control of their companies and give up the power that they have earned if they want to be considered &#8220;ethical.&#8221;
“If Jeff Bezos wants to be a good person, you turn Amazon into a worker cooperative,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;You know, like, not what do I do with all of this money that I have created with this unjust system and, if, usually you’re a billionaire that means that you control a massive system.&#8221;
&#8220;It means that you own oil supplies, it means that you control textiles, it means that you have a massive labor force under your control and to be ethical if you’re a billionaire today the thing that you need to do is give up control and power,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;So, I don’t want your money, as much as we want your power.&#8221;
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AOC says she wants this clip getting out there: <a href="https://t.co/qV8sTcxqqM">pic.twitter.com/qV8sTcxqqM</a>
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During the same Martin Luther King Jr. Day event, Ocasio-Cortez repeatedly demonized business owners, declaring that they are lazy slave owners who profit off the backs of their employees who she claimed, without evidence, &#8220;literally dying because they can’t afford to live.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks in response to a question about why she thinks that business owners are the enemy of health care.
&#8220;Well, you didn’t make those widgets, did you?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez began. &#8220;Because you employed thousands of people and paid them less than a living wage to make those widgets for you. You didn’t make those widgets.&#8221;
&#8220;You sat on a couch while thousands of people were paid modern day slave wages, and in some cases real slave, real modern-day slavery, uh, depending on where you are in terms of food production,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;You made that money off the backs of undocumented people. You made that money off the backs of black and brown people being paid under a living wage.&#8221;
&#8220;You made that money off the backs of single mothers and all these people who are literally dying because they can’t afford to live and so no one ever makes a billion dollars,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;You take a billion dollars and all of that to say, is that it’s, and I’m not here to villainize and to say that billionaires are inherently morally corrupt – but they are, I mean, I think there is a case, but um, but, it’s not to say that, it’s to say that this system that we live in, life in capitalism, always ends in billionaires. If you don’t do it, someone else will. It’s who decides to make that choice is just kind of up to, you know, circumstance.&#8221;
During the same event, Ocasio-Cortez tried to gaslight the audience by falsely claiming that the Democrat party was a conservative party and that it was not a leftist party.
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a left party in the United States,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. &#8220;The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center or center-conservative party. We do not advocate, we can&#8217;t even get a floor vote on Medicare for All, not even a floor vote that gets voted down, we can&#8217;t even get a vote on it. So this is not a party.&#8221;

Women&#8217;s March 2019 &#8211; New York City

Ocasio-Cortez To Billionaires: ‘Give Up Control And Power,’ ‘We Want Your Power’

Trump legal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor and self-described liberal Democrat, fired back at CNN on Monday after the left-wing network accused Dershowitz of making contradictory claims between the impeachment of President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton.
CNN highlighted an August 1998 interview with Dershowitz on CNN during the summer leading up to Clinton&#8217;s impeachment.
&#8220;It certainly doesn&#8217;t have to be a crime if you have somebody who completely corrupts the office of president and who abuses trust and who poses great danger to our liberty, you don&#8217;t need a technical crime,&#8221; Dershowitz said at the time. &#8220;We look at their acts of state. We look at how they conduct the foreign policy. We look at whether they try to subvert the Constitution.&#8221;
CNN <a href="https://outline.com/kHdrFT">reported</a>:
<blockquote>But on Sunday he told CNN&#8217;s Brianna Keilar on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; that in his defense of Trump he would cite former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Curtis in saying the framers of the Constitution intended for impeachable conduct to mean &#8220;criminal-like conduct.&#8221;
Dershowitz also asserted on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; that both obstruction of Congress and abuse of power do not meet the constitutional criteria for impeachment.</blockquote>
Dershowitz quickly debunked CNN&#8217;s attempt to suggest that he made contradictory statements, telling MSNBC, &#8220;It&#8217;s the same argument. You need criminal-type behavior akin to treason and bribery. It doesn&#8217;t have to be a technical crime because at the time that the framers wrote the constitution there was no criminal code.&#8221;
Dershowitz fired back again on Twitter, writing, &#8220;There is no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now. I said then that there doesn’t have to be a &#8216;technical&#8217; crime. I have said now there must be &#8216;criminal-like&#8217; conduct, or conduct &#8216;akin to treason and bribery.'&#8221;
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There is no inconsistency between what I said during the Clinton impeachment and what I am saying now. I said then that there doesn’t have to be a “technical“ crime. I have said now there must be “criminal-like” conduct, or conduct “akin to treason and bribery.”
&mdash; Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlanDersh/status/1219312502271438848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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During an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-law-professor-alan-dershowitz-democrats-impeachment-greatest-nightmare-founders-had">interview</a> on Sunday, Dershowitz pushed back on former Clinton official George Stephanopolous’ suggestion that the articles against Trump contained crimes.
“The articles of impeachment are two non-criminal actions, namely obstruction of Congress and abuse of power, and those &#8230; would have to be voted on by the Senate,&#8221; Dershowitz said.
“Let me press that, though,” Stephanopolous said. “Is it your position that President Trump should not be impeached even if all the evidence and arguments laid out by the House are accepted as fact?”
“That’s right,” Dershowitz responded. “When you have somebody who, for example, is indicted for a crime – let’s assume you have a lot of evidence – but the grand jury simply indicts for something that’s not a crime, and that’s what happened here, you have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence, that could go both ways, but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress.”
“Those are both the kinds of things that led Hamilton and Madison – talk about nightmare – to regard that as the greatest nightmare, number one, giving Congress too much power to allow the president to serve at the will of Congress,” Dershowitz continued. “And number two, as Hamilton put it, the greatest danger is turning impeachment into a question of who has the most votes in which House, and rather than having a consensus and a broad view of impeachable conduct.”

Alan Dershowitz promoting his newest book, &#8220;The Case Against

Dershowitz Fires Back After CNN Claims He Made Contradictory Statements On Impeachment

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) made numerous false statements during an interview she gave at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event on Monday, claiming that the Democrat Party is not a &#8220;left&#8221; party and alleging without evidence that the pro-Second Amendment activists in Virginia were waving &#8220;Confederate flags.&#8221;
&#8220;You know, another thing that I&#8217;ve been really thinking and sitting with today is that, there&#8217;s this, um, gun rights protest that&#8217;s happening down in Richmond &#8230; but here&#8217;s the image that has struck with me the most about that, is that when we go out and march for the dignity and for the recognition of the lives of people &#8230; the whole place is surrounded by police in riot gear without a gun in sight,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;And here are all of these people flying Confederate flags with semi-automatic weapons and there&#8217;s almost no police officers at that protest.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim is weak at best as the overwhelming majority of images and video that was available online showed no Confederate flags at the rally. The Daily Wire also spoke to over half a dozen activists who attended the rally, all of whom said they did not see a single Confederate flag.
While there is certainly the possibility that a fringe protester may have had a flag that eluded media scrutiny, Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claim suggested that the flying of Confederate flags was a common occurrence at the rally, which is verifiably false.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s false claim lined up with what left-wing publications like CNN and MSNBC sought to cast the rally as: a white nationalist event. Yet, the event was completely peaceful, no incidents happened, and fringe groups were rejected.
NBC News, which pushed the false narrative that the protest was a white nationalist event, even later had to admit that it was false in an article <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tense-virginia-rally-gun-rights-supporters-chant-we-will-not-n1118811">titled</a>: “At tense Virginia rally, demonstrators reject extremists, defend law-abiding gun owners.”
The event also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/narrative-fail-minorities-lgbt-community-women-show-up-in-force-at-pro-gun-rally">attracted numerous</a> minorities, women, members of the LGBT community, and Democrats who believed in supporting the Second Amendment.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a> contrasts today’s gun rights march in Richmond with protests against Eric Garner’s killing: &quot;Why were there almost no police officers” despite protesters “flying confederate flags and [carrying] semiautamtic weapons”? <a href="https://t.co/JRL9B76EQW">pic.twitter.com/JRL9B76EQW</a>
&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1219363078241968128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Later in the interview, Ocasio-Cortez gas-lighted the audience by falsely claiming that the current Democrat Party is really a &#8220;center-conservative&#8221; party and is &#8220;not a leftist party.&#8221;
&#8220;We don&#8217;t have a left party in the United States,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez falsely claimed. &#8220;The Democratic Party is not a left party. The Democratic Party is a center or center-conservative party. We do not advocate, we can&#8217;t even get a floor vote on Medicare for All, not even a floor vote that gets voted down, we can&#8217;t even get a vote on it. So this is not a party.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez later admitted that there are far-left members of her party that are trying to drag the Democrats even further left.
Even the leftist New York Times editorial board <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html">said</a> in its endorsement of two Democrat presidential candidates this week that the current field of Democrats that are running in 2020 are “the most” far-left “in decades on issues like health care, the economy, and government’s allocations of resources.”
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&mdash; Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1219365820213669896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Boston Mayor, Activists Rally To Ask Jeff Flake To Reject Kavanaugh Nomination

AOC GASLIGHTS: Democrats Are ‘Conservative’; Virginia Gun Protesters Had ‘Confederate Flags’

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UFC champion Conor McGregor expressed strong support for President Donald Trump on Monday night, saying that he was a phenomenal president and possibly the greatest of all time.
McGregor&#8217;s remarks came in response to Trump tweeting: &#8220;It was exactly three years ago today, January 20, 2017, that I was sworn into office. So appropriate that today is also MLK jr DAY. African-American Unemployment is the LOWEST in the history of our Country, by far. Also, best Poverty, Youth, and Employment numbers, ever. Great!&#8221;
McGregor responded: &#8220;Phenomenal President. Quite possibly the USA 🐐. Most certainly one of them anyway, as he sits atop the shoulders of many amazing giants that came before him. No easy feet. Early stages of term also. Incredible. Congrats and Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day America.&#8221;
When people use a goat emoji in this context it means &#8220;Greatest Of All Time.&#8221;
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Phenomenal President. Quite possibly the USA 🐐. Most certainly one of them anyway, as he sits atop the shoulders of many amazing giants that came before him. No easy feet. Early stages of term also. Incredible. Congrats and Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day America 🇺🇸❤️🇮🇪
&mdash; Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheNotoriousMMA/status/1219461358967762944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Trump is largely liked in most of the sports world as players from nearly every major sports league, and many former coaches from professional and college sports, have <a href="https://www.forbes.com/pictures/gmei45gkde/20-sports-figures-who-ha/#4e84215d2ea6">endorsed</a> Trump.
Black Voices for Trump hosted a Martin Luther King Jr. celebration on Monday in Raleigh, North Carolina which focused on &#8220;the transformation of the black community as a result of President Trump’s pro-growth policies which have empowered African Americans across the country,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s campaign said in a statement to The Daily Wire.
“President Trump is continuing the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream by delivering for African American communities,” Clarence Henderson, Civil Rights Leaders and Black Voices for Trump board member, said in a statement. “Today’s event demonstrates the growing support for President Trump’s agenda. Under President Trump, black unemployment hit an all-time low, wages are growing at the fastest pace in a decade, the black poverty rate has reached its lowest point in history, and our cities are transforming thanks to Opportunity Zones. Our voice is finally being heard and now through Election Day 2020 we will secure a second term for President Trump so he can continue creating economic prosperity for generations to come.”
Trump&#8217;s approval rating among the black community is high and represents a drastic shift in how the Republican Party approaches minority communities.
&#8220;After two recent polls revealed the strong support President Trump has among black voters, with the <a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/11/huge-black-support-for-president-donald-trump-hits-34-in-both-emerson-and-rasmussen-polls/">Rasmussen poll showing</a> 34% percent and an <a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/trump-approval-among-blacks-above-34-percent-emerson-polls-shows_3155737.html">Emerson University poll</a> showing 34.5% support from black voters, another poll has been released showing the strong support for Trump among non-white voters,&#8221; The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-poll-shows-strong-non-white-support-for-trump">reported</a> last month. &#8220;An <a href="http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_1911181224.pdf#page=3">NPR/PBS and Marist poll</a> conducted November 11-15 found 33% of non-white voters approve of President Trump’s performance at his job.&#8221;
Real Clear Politics <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/10/18/could_trump_win_20_percent_of_the_african-american_vote_in_2020_138385.html">noted</a> the significance of Trump&#8217;s strong support among the black community in a 2018 report:
<blockquote>Even 20 percent African-American support for Trump would all but dismantle Democratic Party presidential hopes for 2020. Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election with 88 percent of the black vote. That was about a six-point falloff from Barack Obama’s share of the black vote in 2012.</blockquote>
Jack Brewer, a former NFL player who played for the Minnesota Vikings, New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-will-get-over-20-of-black-vote-former-nfl-star-says">told</a> The Washington Times last month, “Donald Trump will get over 20% of the black vote.”

UFC 205: Alvarez v McGregor

UFC Champion Conor McGregor: Trump ‘Phenomenal President’, Possibly ‘Greatest Of All Time’

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has announced on Monday that he is giving House Democrats&#8217; impeachment managers and President Donald Trump&#8217;s legal defense team 24 hours each to make their opening arguments stretched over a two day period starting this Wednesday.
&#8220;The President and the House of Representatives shall have until 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, to file any motions permitted under the rules of impeachment with the exception of motions to subpoena witnesses or documents or any other evidentiary motions,&#8221; McConnell&#8217;s resolution stated. &#8220;Responses to any such motions shall be filed no later than 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, January 22, 2020. All materials filed pursuant to this paragraph shall be filed with the Secretary and be printed and made available to all parties.&#8221;
&#8220;Arguments on such motions shall begin at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, and each side may determine the number of persons to make its presentation, following which the Senate shall deliberate, if so ordered under the impeachment rules, and vote on any such motions,&#8221; the resolution added.
&#8220;Following the disposition of such motions, or if no motions are made, then the House of Representatives shall make its presentation in support of the articles of impeachment for a period of time not to exceed 24 hours, over up to 2 session days,&#8221; the resolution continued. &#8220;Following the House of Representatives’ presentation, the President shall make his presentation for a period not to exceed 24 hours, over up to 2 session days. Each side may determine the number of persons to make its presentation.&#8221;
&#8220;Upon the conclusion of the President’s presentation, Senators may question the parties for a period of time not to exceed 16 hours,&#8221; the resolution continued. &#8220;Upon the conclusion of questioning by the Senate, there shall be 4 hours of argument by the parties, equally divided, followed by deliberation by the Senate, if so ordered under the impeachment rules, on the question of whether it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents. The Senate, without any intervening action, motion, or amendment, shall then decide by the yeas and nays whether it shall be in order to consider and debate under the impeachment rules any motion to subpoena witnesses or documents.&#8221;
&#8220;Following the disposition of that question, other motions provided under the impeachment rules shall be in order,&#8221; the resolution concluded. &#8220;If the Senate agrees to allow either the House of Representatives or the President to subpoena witnesses, the witnesses shall first be deposed and the Senate shall decide after deposition which witnesses shall testify, pursuant to the impeachment rules. No testimony shall be admissible in the Senate unless the parties have had an opportunity to depose such witnesses.&#8221;
The Senate will then vote on whether to convict or acquit the president on each article of impeachment at the end of the deliberations by the Senate.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer decried McConnell’s schedule, claiming without evidence that McConnell was trying to make it “much more difficult to get witnesses and documents” involved in the trial.
Schumer is making his claims in bad faith as he has previously dismissed the notion that witnesses should be involved in a Senate impeachment trial because they are supposed to be interviewed by the House, which did not call all of the witnesses in Trump’s case.
In 1999, during the impeachment of Democrat President Bill Clinton, a reporter asked Schumer, “You said that one of the reasons they didn’t call witnesses in the House was to accommodate Democrats. How do you respond to that?”
“Let me say this idea that they didn’t have to call witnesses in the House and they should call them in the Senate doesn’t make sense,” Schumer <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schumer-demands-witnesses-at-senate-trial-heres-what-he-said-during-clintons-impeachment">responded</a>. “You call witnesses before a grand jury and you call witnesses before a trial. So, there were some on my side, I was not among them, but some on my side who argued strongly that they outta call witnesses and they resisted it every step of the way.”
“There has not been a good explanation why 60,000 pages of testimony was good enough for the House but isn’t good enough for the Senate,” Schumer continued.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell

Senate Trial Schedule Released By McConnell Shows He’s Not Playing Games

The leftist American mainstream media tried to cast Monday&#8217;s pro-Second Amendment rally in Richmond, Virginia, as a white supremacist event that only extremists were planning on attending.
It turned out that entire narrative was widely false.
There were approximately 22,000 pro-freedom activists that showed up; the event concluded with no reported incidents occurring and only one arrest being made — a female who police say repeatedly ignored their warnings to remove a mask that she was wearing.
It is not clear if the person who was arrested, who was later released, was even a part of the pro-gun crowd or if she was part of the The Revolutionary Communist Party, whom Getty Images <a href="https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/the-revolutionary-communist-party-were-the-only-counter-news-photo/1194947111?adppopup=true">reported</a> were the only counter protesters who attended.
Even NBC News was forced to admit that the rally was peaceful and that law-abiding gun owners acted lawfully and peacefully in a piece <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tense-virginia-rally-gun-rights-supporters-chant-we-will-not-n1118811">titled</a>: &#8220;At tense Virginia rally, demonstrators reject extremists, defend law-abiding gun owners.&#8221;
NBC News&#8217; report comes after a leftist NBC News reporter falsely smeared gun owners ahead of the event by attempting to frame the narrative by claiming that the event was a &#8220;white nationalist rally.&#8221;
The reporter was later forced to delete his tweet after facing widespread backlash on Twitter.
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Ben Collins has deleted his tweet that smeared the many good gun owners who will show up to Richmond tomorrow to advocate for their Second Amendment rights. <a href="https://t.co/uK2aXeXj8n">pic.twitter.com/uK2aXeXj8n</a>
&mdash; Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) <a href="https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1219010422436700160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck tweeted out a video clip that showed the numerous false and deceptive statements that were made by far-left cable news networks CNN and MSNBC.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NEW?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NEW</a> MONTAGE from me showing how <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> spent their mornings hyping fears that &quot;white nationalists&quot; and &quot;extremists&quot; would cause &quot;violence&quot; at <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VirginiaRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VirginiaRally</a> for the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> like in 2017 at Charlottesville <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LobbyDay2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LobbyDay2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/wR91mMPfmR">pic.twitter.com/wR91mMPfmR</a>
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The rally was held in response to Virginia Democrats&#8217; extremist proposals seeking to destroy the freedoms of law-abiding citizens in the state.
The media tried to claim that the event was going to be attended by angry white conservative men and that violence was likely to break out, neither of which materialized.
Members of the LGBT community, Democrats, and gay rights supporters attended the event, declaring that &#8220;Gun Rights Are Gay Rights.&#8221;
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Protecting our Second Amendment rights in Virginia. Gun Rights Are Gay Rights. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithVirginia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithVirginia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBT</a> <a href="https://t.co/zp8alZR3Vp">pic.twitter.com/zp8alZR3Vp</a>
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The LGBT community even came out to support the pro-freedom movement at Virginia&#39;s Second Amendment rally
Total narrative fail for Democrats and media <a href="https://t.co/LuWRO7THug">pic.twitter.com/LuWRO7THug</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1219369337514913792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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“I know a lot of Democrats don’t consider guns to be a civil right. But I do,” says Miranda Smith, a 25-year-old programmer from Chesapeake <a href="https://t.co/QF0OhMcsIC">pic.twitter.com/QF0OhMcsIC</a>
&mdash; Graham Moomaw (@gmoomaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/gmoomaw/status/1219275065000415233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The black community showed up in large numbers in support gun rights, a fact that went widely under-reported by the media.
One black Second Amendment supporter told Breitbart News: &#8220;I do not support in any way, shape, or form Governor Northam&#8217;s and the Democrats&#8217; gun control. What I also don&#8217;t support is the fact that every news piece you&#8217;ve seen this weekend they&#8217;ve always brought up the issue of race as though it&#8217;s nothing but white rednecks and hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment, when actually black Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, Americans in general care about the Second Amendment. I work a gun store part-time and I can&#8217;t tell you the number of customers I see of all races, all colors, all creeds, who care about the Second Amendment and who just peaceably live their lives, enjoy their rights and the Second Amendment. So, that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m out here and big media, mainstream media be damned, if you take a good look at me you can see that I&#8217;m a black American and all I&#8217;m out here for is to enjoy my Second Amendment rights.  That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m here.&#8221;
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Pro-2A patriot slams Fake News about Virginia&#39;s gun rally: &quot;Every news piece you&#39;ve seen this weekend have brought up the issue of race as though it&#39;s nothing but white rednecks and hillbillies out here who care for the Second Amendment.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/zO5vxzJZzI">pic.twitter.com/zO5vxzJZzI</a>
&mdash; Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BreitbartNews/status/1219289173661831168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Other videos on social media showed black Americans expressing anger at the media for lying about the event and for hoping that bad things would have happened at the rally so they could push an agenda.
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The MSM told you that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/VirginiaRally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#VirginiaRally</a> pro-2A rally in Virginia was really a “white supremacist” rally that would be drought with violence. I guarantee you won’t see this man on <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MSNBC</a> or on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CNN</a> &#8211; when a black person carries legally they ignore them!<a href="https://t.co/GkUsjsIOTy">pic.twitter.com/GkUsjsIOTy</a>
&mdash; Chris Loesch (@ChrisLoesch) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisLoesch/status/1219386843587907585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&quot;I love this country.&quot;
&quot;It&#39;s about the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2ndAmendment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2ndAmendment</a>… It&#39;s not only a constitutional right issue, but it&#39;s also a civil right issue.&quot;
&quot;As an African American on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLKDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLKDay</a>, it&#39;s critically important that we preserve the ability to defend ourselves&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CX5LPX9kUd">pic.twitter.com/CX5LPX9kUd</a>
&mdash; Trump War Room &#8212; Text FIGHT to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1219320207593869312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Reporter: Why do you think it’s important for women to exercise the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SecondAmendment?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SecondAmendment</a>?
Richmond 2nd Amendment really attendee: “It’s definitely very important especially for women because it keeps us safe. I think that’s fundamental.” <a href="https://t.co/cJqO9XkXBg">pic.twitter.com/cJqO9XkXBg</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1219404297336774659?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hands down the WORST white supremacist rally I’ve ever seen! I mean they let me speak and everything. People shaking my hands and stuff. What would MLK do if he saw all of these people judging me by the content of my character instead of the color of my skin? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MLKDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MLKDay</a> <a href="https://t.co/ah0hDWGcCY">pic.twitter.com/ah0hDWGcCY</a>
&mdash; Antonia Okafor Cover (@antonia_okafor) <a href="https://twitter.com/antonia_okafor/status/1219404248687042562?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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I’m posting this just in case the media doesn’t. Are these the white supremacists that they were talking about? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithVirginia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithVirginia</a> <a href="https://t.co/RDM0ZiHjkv">pic.twitter.com/RDM0ZiHjkv</a>
&mdash; Bryson Gray (@SuriusVsVodka) <a href="https://twitter.com/SuriusVsVodka/status/1219350788394360833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Gun Rights Advocates From Across U.S. Rally In Virginia&#8217;s Capital Against Gun Control Legislation

NARRATIVE FAIL: Minorities, LGBT Community, Women Show Up In Force At Pro-Gun Rally

The ground swell of intense resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extremist anti-Second Amendment agenda exploded to new highs on Monday during a pro-freedom rally in Richmond as tens of thousands of armed pro-freedom activists attended the rally.
The event, held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, came in response to Democrats in the state pushing an extreme agenda that has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-controlled-virginia-working-on-confiscating-guns-from-law-abiding-citizens-governor-says">included</a> the idea of confiscating legally owned firearms from law-abiding citizens.
Initial estimates suggested at least 22,000 pro-gun activists attended the event, &#8220;6,000 on Capitol Square and 16,000 outside the security gates,&#8221; NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tense-virginia-rally-gun-rights-supporters-chant-we-will-not-n1118811">reported</a>.
Pictures and videos from the event showed the stunning level of support for the Second Amendment that showed up in Richmond:
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NEW THREAD OF PICTURES:<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Richmond?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Richmond</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Richmond2ARally?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Richmond2ARally</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Virginia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Virginia</a> (Last one got cut off) <a href="https://t.co/aLMKyIMFif">pic.twitter.com/aLMKyIMFif</a>
&mdash; Tanner B. Hirschfeld (@Hirschfeld4VA) <a href="https://twitter.com/Hirschfeld4VA/status/1219291388698820608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Protecting our Second Amendment rights in Virginia. Gun Rights Are Gay Rights. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2A?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#2A</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IStandWithVirginia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#IStandWithVirginia</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/LGBT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#LGBT</a> <a href="https://t.co/zp8alZR3Vp">pic.twitter.com/zp8alZR3Vp</a>
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Jay Lowe, a pro-freedom demonstrator who was in attendance, told NBC News: “So many people are misinformed and think you are safer because you take my guns away. My guns have never killed anybody. And I carry a lot.&#8221;
Lowe also pushed back on the fringe groups who wanted to attach themselves to the rally, and who were ultimately not successful.
&#8220;They are not the right. Conservatives are the right. We are not like those people,&#8221; Lowe said. &#8220;If there are Nazis here, white supremacists, they are not welcome by me. I do not want them on my side ever.&#8221;
The event was completely peaceful, despite Democrat Governor Ralph Northam&#8217;s emergency declaration and suggestion that the event could have been violent.
&#8220;The event’s peaceful procession marked a stark contrast to mainstream media portrayals of a rally filled with white nationalists and others prepared to do violence. The day’s rally concluded without a single incidence of mayhem or civil unrest,&#8221; The Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/thousands-peacefully-protest-for-gun-rights-in-richmond/">reported</a>. &#8220;Music, shared food, and chants of &#8216;USA!&#8217; made for a festive, fraternal atmosphere as marchers displayed their support for Second Amendment rights in Virginia.&#8221;
Democrats and the media have falsely claimed that their recent wins in Virginia, where they now control the entire government, was because they ran on the issue of gun control, but that is not true.
The Free Beacon&#8217;s Stephen Gutowksi <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/key-virginia-democratic-candidates-wont-say-if-they-support-governors-gun-confiscation-plan/">reported</a> in November:
<blockquote>A Washington Free Beacon review of the campaign websites of 17 Democrats running in hotly contested Virginia Senate and House of Delegates races found no mention of the governor&#8217;s plans. Eleven of the candidates mention broader support for gun control on their campaign websites, but emphasize measures other than new gun bans or confiscation. Six do not mention gun control at all.
Additionally, none of the 17 Democrats responded to questions about whether they would support Northam&#8217;s confiscation plan.
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In advance of the upcoming Virginia election, a number of prominent Democratic mega-donors and outside liberal groups have poured millions into the state. Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s Everytown for Gun Safety is a major outside contributor, as is Democracy PAC, which is funded solely by liberal billionaire and gun-control advocate George Soros.</blockquote>
The extreme proposals from Democrats has sparked a massive wave of pro-gun support at the local-level across the state.
“The grassroots resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda has exploded as nearly 90% of the counties in the state have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities in response to the Democrats’ anti-freedom agenda,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/resistance-to-virginia-democrats-extreme-anti-second-amendment-agenda-surges-to-new-heights">reported</a> in November. “More than 100 cities, towns, and counties have passed resolutions in preparation for Democrats taking over the state who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrats-filing-proposals-to-begin-confiscation-of-lawfully-owned-firearms-second-amendment-reporter-says">indicated</a> a desire to confiscate semi-automatic firearms from law-abiding citizens.”
The most recent figures from the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) state that 91 counties, 15 cities, and 30 towns in Virginia have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries.
Philip Van Cleave, president of the VCDL, told the Free Beacon&#8217;s Stephen Gutowski that the point of the rally was to send a message to Democrat lawmakers who are trying to destroy Virginian&#8217;s Second Amendment rights.
&#8220;We want to send a signal to the general assembly to walk away from all this gun control,&#8221; Van Cleave <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/thousands-peacefully-protest-for-gun-rights-in-richmond/">said</a>. &#8220;Walk away from that. And go do other things.&#8221;
President Donald Trump weighed in on Democrats’ extreme agenda on Friday, tweeting: “Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!”
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Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1218297464941314049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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On Monday, Trump doubled down on his support of the Second Amendment, writing: &#8220;I will NEVER allow our great Second Amendment to go unprotected, not even a little bit!&#8221;
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I will NEVER allow our great Second Amendment to go unprotected, not even a little bit!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1219351907627667456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Demonstrators Take Part In Virginia Citizens Defense League Lobby Day Rally

THE REBELLION EXPLODES: 22,000+ Pro-Gun Activists Flood Virginia’s Capital To Push Back On Democrat Extremism

The New York Times editorial board announced on Sunday that it was endorsing two Democratic presidential candidates for the party&#8217;s nomination – Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) – a decision that was quickly mocked online by critics.
&#8220;In a break with convention, the editorial board has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates for president,&#8221; the Times leftist editorial board wrote. &#8220;American voters must choose between three sharply divergent visions of the future.&#8221;
The Times immediately demonized everything that President Donald Trump has accomplished as racist and done out of &#8220;the veneration of a mythological past.&#8221;
The Times correctly noted that almost any one of the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates would be &#8220;the most&#8221; far-left &#8220;president in decades on issues like health care, the economy, and government’s allocations of resources.&#8221;
The Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/01/19/opinion/amy-klobuchar-elizabeth-warren-nytimes-endorsement.html">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>There are legitimate questions about whether our democratic system is fundamentally broken. Our elections are getting less free and fair, Congress and the courts are increasingly partisan, foreign nations are flooding society with misinformation, a deluge of money flows through our politics. And the economic mobility that made the American dream possible is vanishing.
Both the radical and the realist models warrant serious consideration. If there were ever a time to be open to new ideas, it is now. If there were ever a time to seek stability, now is it.
That’s why we’re endorsing the most effective advocates for each approach. They are Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar.</blockquote>
The Times joined the rest of the media in trying to put an end to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders&#8217; campaign, highlighting problems with his age, health, and style of politics. The Times wrote:
<blockquote>Mr. Sanders would be 79 when he assumed office, and after an October heart attack, his health is a serious concern. Then, there’s how Mr. Sanders approaches politics. He boasts that compromise is anathema to him. Only his prescriptions can be the right ones, even though most are overly rigid, untested and divisive. He promises that once in office, a groundswell of support will emerge to push through his agenda. Three years into the Trump administration, we see little advantage to exchanging one over-promising, divisive figure in Washington for another.
Good news, then, that Elizabeth Warren has emerged as a standard-bearer for the Democratic left.
Senator Warren is a gifted storyteller. &#8230;</blockquote>
The reaction to the Times endorsements appeared to be most negative, including from those on the political Left.
Varshini Prakash, executive director of the far-left Sunrise Movement, responded mockingly: &#8220;oh ya totally this makes sense&#8221;
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Left-wing activist Cameron Kasky wrote: &#8220;Which demographic is smaller: The amount of people who care about the NYT editorial board’s endorsement or the amount of people who saw &#8216;Dolittle&#8217; this weekend?&#8221;
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The amount of people who care about the NYT editorial board’s endorsement or the amount of people who saw “Dolittle” this weekend? <a href="https://t.co/nP0cwEJnvi">https://t.co/nP0cwEJnvi</a>
&mdash; Cam Kasky (@cameron_kasky) <a href="https://twitter.com/cameron_kasky/status/1219109110504984577?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Commentary Editor Abe Greenwald wrote: &#8220;The fear of being definitive, of saying no to one thing and yes to another, is one of the defining pathologies of the age.&#8221;
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The fear of being definitive, of saying no to one thing and yes to another, is one of the defining pathologies of the age. <a href="https://t.co/nrpNZTPJWb">https://t.co/nrpNZTPJWb</a>
&mdash; Abe Greenwald (@AbeGreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/AbeGreenwald/status/1219112621565259776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Radio host John Batchelor wrote: &#8220;&#8216;Why, sometimes I&#8217;ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.&#8217; Lewis Carroll&#8221;
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“Why, sometimes I&#39;ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Lewis Carroll <a href="https://t.co/QHOAqJYQlV">https://t.co/QHOAqJYQlV</a>
&mdash; John Batchelor (@batchelorshow) <a href="https://twitter.com/batchelorshow/status/1219108412061077512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Chris Martin Palmer wrote: &#8220;Literally seconds from cancelling my subscription.&#8221;
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Literally seconds from cancelling my subscription. <a href="https://t.co/rgrEnruAFr">https://t.co/rgrEnruAFr</a>
&mdash; Chris Martin Palmer (@ChrisPalmerNBA) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerNBA/status/1219116155865948162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Carol Roth wrote: &#8220;This is so patronizing and cringey&#8230; they can’t even pick one. &#8216;Oh, let’s be progressive and pick a woman! Well, we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Let’s pick both, they won’t mind&#8230;'&#8221;
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This is so patronizing and cringey&#8230; they can’t even pick one. “Oh, let’s be progressive and pick a woman! Well, we don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Let’s pick both, they won’t mind&#8230;” <a href="https://t.co/l6xxtPUCmD">https://t.co/l6xxtPUCmD</a>
&mdash; Carol Roth (@caroljsroth) <a href="https://twitter.com/caroljsroth/status/1219111096466001920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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New York Times Makes Odd Endorsement In Democratic Presidential Primary, Gets Mocked

Amy Klobuchar

Elizabeth Warren

New York Times

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) campaign has reportedly been researching the possibility of offering fellow contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) two top Cabinet positions if Sanders wins the nomination and the general election against President Donald Trump.
Multiple sources within the Sanders campaign <a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/01/17/sanders-warren-vice-president-treasury-secretary/">told</a> The Intercept, a hard-left publication that is plugged in to the far-left of the Democratic Party, that Sanders&#8217; campaign has been researching if they legally can make Warren vice president and treasury secretary at the same time.
The Intercept reported:
<blockquote>The answer is yes: There is nothing in the Constitution that bars the vice president from also serving as treasury secretary. Sanders has made no final decisions on a potential running mate or cabinet officers, and did not direct the inquiry, nor was he involved in it, as he considers such questions premature and presumptuous. &#8230; The research into the question of Warren’s dual eligibility reflects the political affinity that has long existed between the two — an affinity that was dealt a setback over the past week, as the pair clashed over the contents of a year-old private conversation. The sources were not authorized to speak publicly about internal deliberations.</blockquote>
The report says that Sanders was a big supporter of Warren&#8217;s efforts in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has been described as the most unaccountable governmental agency in the U.S. federal government.
The Daily Caller News Foundation <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/exclusive-gravy-train-flows-wide-and-deep-at-elizabeth-warrens-consumer-agency/">reported</a> in February 2017 that numerous government employees at the CFPB were making even more money than the top leaders in the U.S. Senate:
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<blockquote>The Senate majority and minority leaders are paid $193,000 annually. Two hundred and one CFPB employees outdo Sens. Mitch McConnell and Charles Schumer in pay.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Speaker of the House Paul Ryan of Wisconsin receives $223,000 per year, but that’s less than what 54 CFPB employees are paid.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Another 170 CFPB employees earn more than the secretaries of defense and state, the attorney general and the director of national intelligence. All cabinet salaries are capped at $199,700, but not at the bureau. Thirty-nine CFPB employees earn more than the $230,000 paid to Vice President Mike Pence.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>A total of 198 CFPB employees also earn more than their ultimate boss, Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellin, who is paid $201,700.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>Overall, 449 CFPB employees get at least $100,000 per year and 228 CFPB are paid more than $200,000, according to publicly available 2016 data.</blockquote>
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The Intercept further noted that the Sanders campaign’s interest in the dual position for Warren comes after their recent fight over an alleged conversation from December 2018 in which Warren claims that Sanders told her that a woman could not be elected president.
&#8220;Ideologically, Sanders and Warren are largely aligned when it comes to Wall Street, though Warren has concentrated more attention on bankers, meaning the two different skill sets could complement each other in the same administration,&#8221; The Intercept added. &#8220;Warren’s is the type of oversight and policymaking Sanders could envision leading from the perch at the Treasury Department, sources said, with the added power of being vice president, as well. Though no serious discussions have begun about a cabinet or running mate, the campaign wanted to know whether such a scenario was constitutionally permissible.&#8221;

Bernie Warren

Sanders’ Campaign Considering Warren For 2 Top Cabinet Positions If He Wins, Report Suggests

Donald Trump Jr. told Fox News&#8217; Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) did not delay sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate because of anything pertaining to President Donald Trump, but allegedly to harm Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
While discussing the upcoming Senate impeachment trial, Trump Jr. said, &#8220;The other thing I think Nancy&#8217;s trying to do with the delay is prevent other people, like Bernie, from actually being on the campaign trail.&#8221;
&#8220;Right,&#8221; Bartiromo responded.
&#8220;In other words, to try to guarantee&#8230;” Trump Jr. continued.
&#8220;Once again, they&#8217;re colluding against Bernie Sanders,&#8221; Bartiromo responded.
&#8220;Yes,&#8221; Trump Jr. replied. &#8220;By the way, I love that they collude against themselves in this way, because the last time they colluded to rig the Democrat primary, it worked out perfectly for us because we got Hillary, and that was a godsend.&#8221;
Political analyst Ari Fleicher also believes that is what Pelosi was doing in delaying sending the articles of impeachment to the Senate, <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1215623354738065413">writing</a>, &#8220;Don’t rule out that the reason Pelosi hasn’t sent impeachment to the Senate is to hurt Warren and Sanders, and to help Biden. She knows she has no leverage over Sen. McConnell, but by timing the trial so it takes place during the Iowa lead-up, she has leverage over the liberals.&#8221;
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President Trump also agreed, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1218195021930926082">writing</a> on Twitter: &#8220;They are rigging the election again against Bernie Sanders, just like last time, only even more obviously. They are bringing him out of so important Iowa in order that, as a Senator, he sit through the Impeachment Hoax Trial. Crazy Nancy thereby gives the strong edge to Sleepy Joe Biden, and Bernie is shut out again. Very unfair, but that’s the way the Democrats play the game. Anyway, it’s a lot of fun to watch!&#8221;
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told Fox News&#8217; Maria Bartiromo: “This is the dirty little secret nobody is talking about: why the Speaker held these papers. This benefits Joe Biden. This harms Senator Sanders, who is in first place and could become their nominee.”
The Federalist ran a <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/16/is-impeachment-delay-how-democrats-are-rigging-iowa-against-bernie-again/">piece</a> recently that floated the same reason for Pelosi&#8217;s actions, writing: &#8220;Sanders, however, clearly has momentum at a critical point in the primary that will now be interrupted by the impeachment proceedings. The fact that the impeachment trial will trap Sanders, Warren, and Klobuchar in the nation’s capital for the final days before the caucus leave the state wide open to Biden and Buttigieg in the senators’ absence.&#8221;
The Federalist added, &#8220;Pelosi’s bizarre and politically unwise decision to delay impeachment until this crucial moment provokes the question, then, of whether Pelosi deliberately held up the impeachment trial to sabotage the far-left senators’ campaigns.&#8221;
The New York Times said in a report last week that the idea was a conspiracy theory and said there was no evidence suggesting that it was true.
Fleischer responded: &#8220;Conspiracy theory? My NYT-labeled &#8216;conspiracy theory&#8217; tweet re why Speaker Pelosi delayed sending impeachment to the Sen is more plausible than the Speaker’s own words. Everyone knows she had no leverage over McConnell. So why do it? To help Biden.&#8221;
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Conspiracy theory? My NYT-labeled “conspiracy theory” tweet re why Speaker Pelosi delayed sending impeachment to the Sen is more plausible than the Speaker’s own words. Everyone knows she had no leverage over McConnell. So why do it? To help Biden. <a href="https://t.co/1ZjUNq40OC">https://t.co/1ZjUNq40OC</a>
— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1218608891422027776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
&#8220;I, along with other Rs, made a plausible case. The NYT labels my case a &#8216;conspiracy theory.&#8217; When Ds cited the Steele dossier, or collusion, or Michael Cohen in Prague, the media typically called those &#8216;allegations&#8217;,&#8221; Fleischer responded. &#8220;Back to my tweet. It&#8217;s no conspiracy theory to say Pelosi delayed the trial so Warren and Sanders would be in DC while Biden (and others) are in Iowa. Nothing is more important to her than winning the WH. That&#8217;s not a conspiracy theory. It&#8217;s a good analysis.&#8221;
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Back to my tweet. It&#39;s no conspiracy theory to say Pelosi delayed the trial so Warren and Sanders would be in DC while Biden (and others) are in Iowa. Nothing is more important to her than winning the WH. That&#39;s not a conspiracy theory. It&#39;s a good analysis.
&mdash; Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/1218610657148506112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Donald Trump Jr.

Donald Trump Jr: Pelosi Had Devious Plan In Holding Articles Of Impeachment, Had Nothing To Do With Trump

Nancy Pelosi

Democrat presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) refused to answer a question from a CBS reporter on Sunday about whether it was acceptable for a presidential candidate to lie to the American public.
CBS News campaign reporter Zak Hudak asked Warren: &#8220;Is it disqualifying for a presidential candidate to lie to the American public about anything?&#8221;
“Uh, I would think that it, you know, how could the American people want someone who lies to them?” Warren responded. “Um, I think that, that we just do our best out there every day, and I hope that’s what happens with everyone.”
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“How could the American people want someone who lies to them?” <a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ewarren</a> says after I asked if it’s disqualifying for a presidential candidate to lie to the American people about anything <a href="https://t.co/b4AxH5Bq1m">pic.twitter.com/b4AxH5Bq1m</a>
&mdash; Zak Hudak (@cbszak) <a href="https://twitter.com/cbszak/status/1218971964443893760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The question comes as Warren has had to deal with her biggest weakness as a candidate: her dishonesty and insincerity.
The biggest lie that Warren is notorious for is her false claim that she was Native American, a false claim that she has peddled for decades yet had always refused to provided evidence proving her claim.
In October 2018, Warren took a DNA test and released the results thinking that they proved that she was Native American — they did not.
The friendly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/backfire-2nd-correction-made-elizabeth-warren-dna-ryan-saavedra">report</a> that Warren got from The Boston Globe contained math errors, which led to this correction:
<blockquote>Due to a math error, a story about Elizabeth Warren misstated the ancestry percentage of a potential 6th to 10th generation relative. The generational range based on the ancestor that the report identified suggests she’s between 1/64th and 1/1,024th Native American.</blockquote>
That wasn&#8217;t the only major error in the report.
The test <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/elizabeth-warrens-dna-match-is-to-latin-americans-not-native-americans">found</a> that Warren was potentially 1/1,024th Mexican, Colombian, or Peruvian — not Native American.
Another lie that Warren has had to contend with surrounded how she was going to pay for her government-run healthcare plan as numerous publications have flat out called her a liar over her claims that only billionaires will pay more for healthcare under her plan.
The Washington Examiner <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/elizabeth-warren-keeps-lying-through-her-teeth-about-medicare-for-all">wrote</a>, &#8220;If the math doesn&#8217;t make it clear on its own, let me make Warren&#8217;s performance clear: she is lying to you and she thinks that you are stupid.&#8221;
&#8220;This claim is a straight-up lie,&#8221; Reason Magazine <a href="https://reason.com/podcast/elizabeth-warren-is-lying-about-her-own-medicare-plan/">wrote</a>.
Another lie that Warren has had to deal with on the campaign trail is her false claim that she was fired from an elementary school teaching job because she was “visibly pregnant.”
“Minutes of an April 21, 1971, Riverdale Board of Education meeting obtained by the Washington Free Beacon show that the board voted unanimously on a motion to extend Warren a ‘2nd year’ contract for a two-days-per-week teaching job,” the Free Beacon <a href="https://freebeacon.com/politics/county-records-contradict-warrens-claim-she-was-fired-over-pregnancy/">reported</a>. “That job is similar to the one she held the previous year, her first year of teaching. Minutes from a board meeting held two months later, on June 16, 1971, indicate that Warren’s resignation was ‘accepted with regret.&#8217;”
Comments Warren made in 2007 also contradicted the claims that she has made on the campaign trail:
<blockquote>I was married at nineteen and graduated from college after I’d married, and my first year post-graduation I worked in a public school system with the children with disabilities. I did that for a year, and then that summer I didn’t have the education courses, so I was on an “emergency certificate,” it was called. I went back to graduate school and took a couple of courses in education and said, “I don’t think this is going to work out for me.” I was pregnant with my first baby, so I had a baby and stayed home for a couple of years, and I was really casting about, thinking, “What am I going to do?” My husband’s view of it was, “Stay home. We have children, we’ll have more children, you’ll love this.” And I was very restless about it.</blockquote>
Warren was also caught on camera <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elizabeth-warren-told-a-critic-that-her-son-went-to-public-school-thats-not-true">lying</a> to an African American woman, falsely claiming that she did not send her kids to private school.
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Holy shit. I have Warren on video lying about where she sent her kids to school.
Sarah Carpenter: &quot;I read that your children went to private schools&quot;
Warren: &quot;No my children went to public schools&quot; <a href="https://t.co/PEHr3jNvjx">pic.twitter.com/PEHr3jNvjx</a>
&mdash; Corey A. DeAngelis (@DeAngelisCorey) <a href="https://twitter.com/DeAngelisCorey/status/1197972004412051457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Warren has also been grilled over the last several days over her claim that Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders told her in a December 2018 meeting that a woman could never be elected president.
Warren&#8217;s claim, which was &#8220;anonymously&#8221; given to CNN to write a report on, was then brought up in CNN&#8217;s presidential debate immediately following CNN&#8217;s report.
The Federalist <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/19/reminder-elizabeth-warren-is-a-known-liar-who-will-lie-again-and-again-to-get-what-she-wants/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>Tuesday night’s CNN debate was a set-up. And that’s not some internet fever dream, it’s an observation shared by reporters from Rolling Stone and The Huffington Post to Fox News and The Daily Caller. Even late-night comedy picked up on the game.
The trap was set the day before, when the hosts of the debate published a story claiming that in 2018, during a private meeting between Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Sanders told Warren a woman can not win the presidency. Reporters have grown even lazier and more comfortable thinking readers are stupid, so the initial report cited four anonymous sources for a story about a one-on-one meeting denied by the Sanders campaign. It also included the hysterical line that Warren’s campaign “declined to comment,” despite the story coming from the candidate and being filled with anonymous Warren campaign comments.
CNN moderator Abby Phillip continued the trend of treating this alleged incident as fact the next night, dismissing Sanders’ denials and opting to ask Warren how the horrible, sexist things Sanders had said made her feel.</blockquote>
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&quot;You&#39;re saying that you never told Sen. Warren that a woman could not win the election?&quot;
Bernie: &quot;That is correct”
“What did you think when Sen. Sanders told you a woman could not win the election?&quot;
CNN basically called Bernie a liar.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNisGarbage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNisGarbage</a> <a href="https://t.co/7t2cOLS3iW">pic.twitter.com/7t2cOLS3iW</a>
&mdash; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1217464151255191552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 15, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This report has been updated to include additional information.

Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren Holds Town Hall In Des Moines

WATCH: Warren Confronted About Whether It’s Okay To Lie To The American Public

The Trump administration is set to honor World War II hero Ship’s Cook Third Class Doris Miller during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremony at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, by naming a future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier after Miller.
The decision was made by Thomas B. Modly, who was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-administration-appointee-tracker/database/">appointed</a> by President Donald Trump to Undersecretary of the Navy in 2017 and took over as Acting Secretary of the Navy last year after Trump fired Richard Spencer from the role in November.
In a statement, the U.S. Navy <a href="https://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=111881">wrote</a>:
<blockquote>This will be the second ship named in honor of Miller, and the first aircraft carrier ever named for an African American. This will also be the first aircraft carrier to be named in honor of a Sailor for actions while serving in the enlisted ranks.
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On Dec. 7, 1941, Miller was collecting laundry on the battleship West Virginia (BB-48), when the attack from Japanese forces commenced. When the alarm for general quarters sounded he headed for his battle station, an anti-aircraft battery magazine, only to discover that torpedo damage had wrecked it. Miller was ordered to the ship’s bridge to aid the mortally wounded commanding officer, and subsequently manned a .50 caliber Browning anti-aircraft machine gun until he ran out of ammunition. Miller then helped move many other injured Sailors as the ship was ordered abandoned due to her own fires and flaming oil floating down from the destroyed Arizona (BB-33). West Virginia lost 150 of its 1,500 person crew.
Miller’s actions during the attack earned him a commendation from then Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and the Navy Cross, which was presented to him personally by Adm. Chester Nimitz, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at the time.</blockquote>
“In selecting this name, we honor the contributions of all our enlisted ranks, past and present, men and women, of every race, religion, and background,” Modly said. “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed, ‘Everybody can be great &#8211; because anybody can serve’. No one understands the importance and true meaning of service than those who have volunteered to put the needs of others above themselves.”
Modly continued, “Doris Miller stood for everything that is good about our nation, and his story deserves to be remembered and repeated wherever our people continue the watch today.”
Miller, who died in 1943, <a href="https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/biographies-list/bios-m/miller-doris.html">described</a> firing the weapon, which he had not been trained to do, by saying, &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t hard. I just pulled the trigger and she worked fine. I had watched the others with these guns. I guess I fired her for about fifteen minutes. I think I got one of those Jap planes. They were diving pretty close to us.&#8221;
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In a historic moment just in time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, <a href="https://twitter.com/SECNAV?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SECNAV</a> announces that the newest <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/USNavy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#USNavy</a> aircraft carrier will be named USS Doris Miller <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CVN81?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CVN81</a>. Miller was the first African American to receive the Navy Cross. 
Full story: <a href="https://t.co/PTHsPudfLO">https://t.co/PTHsPudfLO</a> <a href="https://t.co/BPGGp3HGER">pic.twitter.com/BPGGp3HGER</a>
&mdash; U.S. Navy (@USNavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/USNavy/status/1218905809880522754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Navy&#8217;s new Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers are the largest and most powerful naval vessels in the world.
&#8220;The Gerald R. Ford-class is the future aircraft carrier replacement class for Enterprise and Nimitz-class aircraft carriers,&#8221; the Navy <a href="https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&amp;tid=200&amp;ct=4">said</a> in a statement. &#8220;The lead ship, Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), was commissioned in 2017. The Gerald R. Ford-class will be the premier forward asset for crisis response and early decisive striking power in a major combat operation. Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers and carrier strike groups will provide the core capabilities of forward presence, deterrence, sea control, power projection, maritime security and humanitarian assistance. The class brings improved warfighting capability, quality of life improvements for our Sailors and reduced total ownership costs.&#8221;

Dorie Miller Receiving Navy Cross

Trump Administration Honors Black World War II Hero In A Big Way

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has reportedly created a &#8220;kill switch&#8221; for President Donald Trump&#8217;s upcoming Senate impeachment trial that would allow for the president&#8217;s legal team to either seek an immediate verdict or a dismissal of the case if the trial descends into a circus spectacle.
&#8220;I am familiar with the resolution as it stood a day or two ago,&#8221; Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told Axios. &#8220;My understanding is that the resolution will give the president&#8217;s team the option to either move to judgment or to move to dismiss at a meaningful time&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;Hawley added that in the most recent draft of the organizing resolution he saw there was an option for the president&#8217;s counsel to make a motion in multiple places, including at the beginning of the proceedings,&#8221; Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/draft-mcconnell-rules-vote-dismiss-impeachment-trump-d381f127-56a8-49a5-81a5-638e52cbdf14.html">reported</a>. &#8220;Hawley added that if the final resolution does not allow Trump&#8217;s lawyers the option to dismiss or move to judgment at a &#8216;meaningful point&#8217; in the trial, he would be &#8216;very, very surprised,&#8217; and might not vote for the organizing resolution.&#8221;
Hawley told Axios that if the option to dismiss the case was not available to the Trump legal team that it would give House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) too much power over the proceedings.
On Sunday, Hawley confirmed those remarks in a tweet, <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1218899563429408770">writing</a>: &#8220;.@realDonaldTrump deserves the right during Senate trial to ask for a verdict or move to dismiss &#8211; otherwise trial will become endless circus run by Adam Schiff&#8221;
Trump has endorsed the idea on Twitter, writing: &#8220;Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, “no pressure” Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree!&#8221;
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Many believe that by the Senate giving credence to a trial based on the no evidence, no crime, read the transcripts, “no pressure” Impeachment Hoax, rather than an outright dismissal, it gives the partisan Democrat Witch Hunt credibility that it otherwise does not have. I agree!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1216448547777908737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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However, some top Republicans in the Senate are not hot on the idea of dismissing the trial because they believe that they have a solid case and that a motion to dismiss the trial could look weak.
“Our members generally are not interested in a motion to dismiss,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/13/us/politics/republicans-dismissal-impeachment-charges.html">said</a>. “They think both sides need to be heard. They believe the president needs to be heard for the first time in a fair setting.”
A source close to McConnell told Breitbart News: “My pal Cocaine Mitch is again proving his mettle when it comes to outmaneuvering leftist Democrats with this kill switch. If they even think about stepping out of line and being unfair in the slightest, it’s time to engage said kill switch and end this nonsense once and for all.”
Breitbart News noted that the term &#8220;Cocaine Mitch&#8221; comes from &#8220;a losing GOP primary candidate in West Virginia [who] once derisively nicknamed [McConnell] &#8216;Cocaine Mitch&#8217;—a nickname [McConnell has] since embraced as indicative of his tough persona—has a history of outsmarting Democrats in the Senate.&#8221;
Former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) said last week that he expects the trial to last approximately two weeks, adding, &#8220;God help us if it lasts six weeks.&#8221;

Mitch McConnell

McConnell Creates ‘Kill Switch’ To End Impeachment If It Becomes ‘Circus Run By Adam Schiff’

Republican Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase issued a warning on Friday to the thousands of Second Amendment advocates who are planning to attend an upcoming massive pro-gun rally in Richmond, saying that they are &#8220;being set up.&#8221;
The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) organized the event, which is being held on Monday, and &#8220;is traditionally known as &#8216;Lobby Day&#8217; in Virginia’s capital,&#8221; WTOP reported. &#8220;Tens of thousands are expected to show up for the event Monday in Richmond. Given the contentious nature of the issue, the prospect of such a large event has raised tensions. Earlier, [Virginia Democrat Governor Ralph] Northam declared a state of emergency. And recent arrests have further raised those tensions.&#8221;
In a Facebook post, Chase wrote: &#8220;Sadly, I am posting this, knowing that the Governor of Virginia has declared a State of Emergency in our state. I want you to be aware of how we are being set up. Does the Patriot Act ring a bell? Does the National Defense Authorization Act ring a bell?&#8221;
&#8220;If people show up wearing any kind of uniform, patch or other symbol on their clothing signifying they belong to a militia and something goes wrong, you could/will be held as a domestic terrorist,&#8221; Chase continued. &#8220;If anyone steps out of line, all it takes is one person, it may even be a government plant&#8230;.if that plant does anything to disrupt the rally, you could/will be arrested as a domestic terrorist.&#8221;
&#8220;The Governor, using the media has already set the stage for this to happen,&#8221; Chase continued. &#8220;He has already laid the groundwork to make the entire movement look like insurrection. It will be used to put the rest of the nation on notice of what will happen to you, if you resist. They have used the Southern Poverty Law Center over the last 15 years to lay the groundwork. They have labeled us as potential domestic terrorist for a long time now.&#8221;
&#8220;Anyone who has ever related to the 3%er&#8217;s, a militia, or just belonged to any Patriot group&#8230;the groundwork has been laid to brand you as a domestic terrorist,&#8221; Chase continued. &#8220;They have gone out of their way since the Obama years to [ensure] they had us labeled, but it didn&#8217;t start with Obama. It started with the Patriot Act under the Bush administration. We are being played by a well oiled machine, these things have been in the works for many years. They are kicking things into high gear. Military veterans were/are even listed as potential domestic terrorist[s].&#8221;
&#8220;We were told not once, but several times by the current President, &#8216;It&#8217;s Not Me they are after, It&#8217;s You, The American People,'&#8221; Chase concluded. &#8220;Their actions over the last three years have shown you he was right, they are coming after us full speed ahead and they aren&#8217;t even trying to hide it anymore. Sic semper tyrannis, keep your head on a swivel and know what&#8217;s going on around you at all times, at Lobby Day 1/20/20. Everyone be safe out there&#8230;.Thus always to tyrants.&#8221;
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The public outrage at Northam&#8217;s extreme anti-Second Amendment push has been intense as a majority of cities, towns, and counties in the state have declared themselves to be Second Amendment sanctuaries.
“The grassroots resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda has exploded as nearly 90% of the counties in the state have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities in response to the Democrats’ anti-freedom agenda,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/resistance-to-virginia-democrats-extreme-anti-second-amendment-agenda-surges-to-new-heights">reported</a> in November. “More than 100 cities, towns, and counties have passed resolutions in preparation for Democrats taking over the state who had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrats-filing-proposals-to-begin-confiscation-of-lawfully-owned-firearms-second-amendment-reporter-says">indicated</a> a desire to confiscate semi-automatic firearms from law-abiding citizens.”
President Donald Trump weighed in on Democrats&#8217; agenda on Friday, tweeting on Friday: &#8220;Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!&#8221;
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Your 2nd Amendment is under very serious attack in the Great Commonwealth of Virginia. That’s what happens when you vote for Democrats, they will take your guns away. Republicans will win Virginia in 2020. Thank you Dems!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1218297464941314049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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