Former Republican U.S. Representative Mia Love announced on Monday that she will be joining CNN as a commentator and made her first appearance on &#8220;New Day,&#8221; in which she criticized the Trump administration&#8217;s handling of the shutdown.
&#8220;A new year brings new opportunities for elevated conversations about issues that matter,&#8221; Love tweeted. &#8220;My time in Congress has ended but the chance to engage Americans is only the beginning &#8211; I&#8217;m excited to join CNN to offer a different principled and unleashed perspective.&#8221;
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A new year brings new opportunities for elevated conversations about the issues that matter. My time in Congress has ended but the chance to engage Americans is only beginning &#8211; I&#8217;m excited to join CNN to offer a different, principled and unleashed perspective.
&#8212; Mia Love (@MiaBLove) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiaBLove/status/1082323618447667200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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After two weeks of vote-counting, Love narrowly lost her re-election bid for Utah&#8217;s 4th Congressional District in November to Rep. Ben McAdams (D-UT). <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/20/us/politics/mia-love-utah-loses.html">According to The New York Times</a>, McAdams won by about 700 votes in the district, which has fewer than 15% of voters registered as Democrats.
&#8220;Mia Love gave me no love, and she lost,&#8221; Trump said to reporters days after the election. &#8220;Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia.&#8221;
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<a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/mia-b-love/">According to FiveThirtyEight</a>, Love voted for policies favored by Trump nearly 96% of the time.
Love, whose family immigrated from Haiti, was previously the mayor of Saratoga Springs and the first black Republican woman elected to Congress. 
On Monday morning, CNN host Brian Stelter tweeted about Love&#8217;s new gig. &#8220;Straight from Capitol Hill to CNN: former lawmakers Mia Love and Luis Gutierrez are CNN commentators, starting today,&#8221; Stelter wrote.
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Straight from Capitol Hill to CNN: former lawmakers Mia Love and Luis Gutierrez are CNN commentators, starting today <a href="https://t.co/roQyjzhpo8">pic.twitter.com/roQyjzhpo8</a>
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In her first CNN appearance as a commentator, she was introduced on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;New Day,&#8221; where she discussed everything from the new Congress to the government&#8217;s partial shutdown.
Love said her new role allows her to have more time and &#8220;no restraints.&#8221; 
&#8220;I say unleashed, and being able to just go out and speak your mind and actually get things done by getting the American public involved,&#8221; she said.
About the shutdown, Love said it was &#8220;set to fail right when it started.&#8221;
&#8220;People in a room, you have a president that says: &#8216;If you don&#8217;t give me a wall, I will own the shutdown.&#8217; Of course, I thought the Democrats were like, &#8216;Great take it, deal done. We don&#8217;t have to give you a wall and you can own the shutdown,&#8217;&#8221; Love said. &#8220;There was no leverage, there was nothing that would even set the precedent for a really good deal or compromise. In Congress &#8212; in the House, we actually had a pretty good comprehensive bill that had a border wall, it had border security, it had helping people at the borders, helping families stay together at the borders, it had a fix for DACA, which is something that we have worked together as a daughter of parents who immigrated to this country, this has been very important to me and getting Republicans to get along with that. We actually had a really good comprehensive bill that we couldn&#8217;t get through.&#8221;
Love added, &#8220;We&#8217;re leaving everything in the hands of the administration, that&#8217;s where it shouldn&#8217;t be. Whenever you consolidate too much power in the White House, it&#8217;s doomed to just fail.&#8221;
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Welcome <a href="https://twitter.com/MiaBLove?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MiaBLove</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/RepGutierrez?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepGutierrez</a> to the CNN family! The former members of Congress made their debut as CNN commentators on New Day this morning. <a href="https://t.co/7NtwOXPSSG">pic.twitter.com/7NtwOXPSSG</a>
&#8212; New Day (@NewDay) <a href="https://twitter.com/NewDay/status/1082302714208534529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2019</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: Republican Former Rep. Mia Love Joins CNN, Hits Trump Admin

Haiti

House Republicans

The United States government issued a stern warning to Americans in Haiti Monday, instructing visitors and missionaries to &#8220;shelter in place&#8221; and make no attempt to leave the country until violent protests against the Haitian government have died down.
<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/07/08/u-s-embassy-in-haiti-warns-americans-to-shelter-in-place-as-violent-protests-escalate.html">Fox News reports that protesters</a>, angry over the rising price of commodities like gasoline, and a recent government proposal to hike prices even further to cover budget deficits, have been raging through the capital city of Port-au-Prince, destroying buildings, looting stores, and setting fires. Three people have been killed, all protesters.
The Prime Minister of Haiti, Jack Guy Lafontant, issued an order Sunday night establishing price controls, but the change doesn&#8217;t seem to have quelled the violence.
Around 120 Americans are believed to be stranded in a Port-au-Prince hotel targeted Sunday by protesters in an arson attack. Hundreds of other Americans, members of Christian missions and youth groups, are scattered across the Caribbean nation.
&#8220;Do not travel to the airport unless you confirmed your flight is departing,&#8221; the State Department cautioned in a statement to travelers late Sunday. &#8220;Flights are canceled today and the airport has limited food and water available.&#8221;
&#8220;Telecommunication services, including internet and phone lines, have been affected throughout Haiti. It may be difficult to reach people through normal communication methods,&#8221; the communication continued, adding that the State Department is &#8220;closely monitoring the situation and remain in close contact with Haitian authorities to verify the welfare and whereabouts of U.S. citizens in the area.&#8221;
Missionaries returning to Port-au-Prince from more remote areas of the island nation face a bevy of dangers, including <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/09/americas/haiti-church-groups-stranded/index.html">what CNN termed &#8220;impromptu checkpoints&#8221;</a>: roadblocks, set up by protesters, designed to prey on Americans and other foreigners moving through the country.
&#8220;They were on a bus with the owners of the mission, the leaders, our adults, three armed guards. And they just kept getting stopped by road blocks and people asking for money. And that&#8217;s when they decided that, at that point, it was just &#8230; it wasn&#8217;t worth it, to try to make it to the airport,&#8221; one parent of a youth group missionary told the news network.
The groups are keeping their parents and relatives updated on their safety through social media.

U.S. Embassy In Haiti Warns Americans To &#8216;Shelter In Place&#8217; After Violent Protests Leave Missionaries Stranded

British aid agency Oxfam has come under fire after 26 of their agents were accused of hiring prostitutes during relief work following the 2010 earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. 
The British Parliament cut funding to Oxfam last week following the allegations that their aid staffers had engaged in sexual misconduct, three of whom were accused of threatening a witness to the liaisons with sex workers outside of the city of Port-au-Prince according to <a href="http://www.voanews.com/a/oxfam-sexual-misconduct-report/4260564.html">VOA News</a>. 
Both the British government and the European Union provided Oxfam with close to $45 million each in funding in 2017.
Oxfam International executive director Winnie Byanyima, along with other company directors, testified before the British parliament, where they profusely apologized for the sexual misconduct on <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/oxfam-sexual-misconduct/4262264.html">Tuesday</a>. 
&#8220;This is about aligning our people with the values of Oxfam. Some hideous men came to our organization and abused the trust of the British people,&#8221; Byanyima said. &#8220;They support us. But they were able to get away, to get a recommendation to leave. This was wrong. So, we are going to change the culture.&#8221;
The revelations of illegal activity against Oxfam followed a report on the activities of the aid workers in 2011. Prime Minister Theresa May expressed outrage over the report, declaring in a statement, &#8220;We will not work with anybody who does not meet the high standards that we set and we believe are important.&#8221;
Besides Oxfam, other international organizations, such as Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders, have also come under scrutiny for allegedly allowing their aid workers to engage in illegal activities while working in third world countries. 
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British Aid Workers Accused Of Sexual Misconduct In Haiti, Threatening Witnesses

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Great Britain

Theresa May

Shortly after the president entered the Trump International Golf Club on Monday morning (Martin Luther King Jr. Day), a group of Haitian Americans gathered at Southern Boulevard bridge in West Palm Beach, Florida.
The gathering, which began at approximately 10 a.m. EST, was a protest against alleged remarks made by the president about Haitian immigrants during a meeting on Thursday.
The location of the protest was chosen in part because it runs along the most direct route from the Trump International Golf Club to Mar-a-Lago. Additionally, the spot &#8220;is directly across from the corner where President Trump&#8217;s most loyal fans station themselves to cheer the president&#8217;s motorcade,&#8221; reports <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/local/trump-palm-beach-protesters-gather-martin-luther-king-day/j3O9dQ9Yuy5EllR4lHA8xJ/">Palm Beach Post</a>.
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Haitian groups gathering near Mar-a-Lago to protest President Donald Trump&#8217;s reported comments about their homeland being a &#8220;s***hole country&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/CBS12?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CBS12</a> <a href="https://t.co/iP9VmhGQQz">pic.twitter.com/iP9VmhGQQz</a>
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As the group ballooned to as many as several hundred, they marched across the Southern Boulevard bridge toward Mar-a-Lago. While some protesters demanded an apology and waved flags, others prayed, according to <a href="http://www.wpbf.com/article/woman-catches-hooded-man-looking-into-her-home-in-terrifying-video/15161307">WPBF</a>.
One of the individuals who organized the protest, local attorney Byrnes Guillaume, told The Daily Wire that there were three components to the march: &#8220;Number one, we demanded an apology from the president. Number two, we wanted his immigration policies to be unbiased. Number three, we wanted like-minded people to register and vote.&#8221;
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Group is eager to begin march across the Southern Blvd bridge is West Palm Beach . <a href="https://t.co/DrtA7RUp8F">pic.twitter.com/DrtA7RUp8F</a>
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Guillaume said that after marching across the bridge toward Mar-a-Lago, the group marched back, at which point they engaged verbally with counter-protesters.
Karin Fahrenholz, who happened to be at the scene for an unrelated matter, was quoted by WPBF:
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The protest appears to have ended without incident, and President Trump is scheduled to leave Palm Beach on Monday afternoon.
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Haitian Americans March Across Bridge To Mar-A-Lago In Protest Of Trump’s Alleged ‘S***hole’ Remarks

Donald Trump

On Thursday night, supposed comedian and late-night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, who fancies himself as the leading opponent to the Trump Administration, decided to chime in on the controversy from the president&#8217;s alleged comments about Haiti and assorted African nations earlier in the day, when Trump reportedly referred to the poverty-plagued nations as &#8220;s***holes.&#8221;
Kimmel started like this:
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They are all big days, but President Trump today. He rejected a bipartisan deal for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program which is the program that protects young immigrants brought to the United States as children, people like Melania Trump, who wound up here. And apparently, what Trump objected to in the bipartisan plan was the senators from both sides wanted to restore protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and a handful of African countries. They had to be rescued from difficult situations in those countries.
Not only did Trump reject the plan, he said, and &#8212; and before I share what he specifically said, I would like you to keep in mind this is an actual quote from the actual president of the United States.
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Kimmel then played a clip of CNN&#8217;s Jim Acosta discussing The Washington Post&#8217;s story regarding Trump&#8217;s alleged &#8220;s***hole&#8221; comment, in which the Post reported that Trump said the U.S. should import more people from countries like Norway.
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I&#8217;m sure the fact that countries he described as s***holes are mostly populated by people of color, and the immigrants he wants from Norway are not, is a coincidence, because if it wasn&#8217;t, it would mean we voted for a racist, like a real one, and we&#8217;d have to get pitchforks and chase him out of the White House. I also assume the White House would deny he said that. They did not. They just tried to spin it. It really is unfathomable. You just can&#8217;t believe that this is the guy running our country. The only silver lining, and this is a small silver lining. The only silver lining action we got to hear Wolf Blitzer say this all day.
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Kimmel then played a montage of Blitzer saying &#8220;s***hole&#8221; repeatedly. He followed by resorting to the usual leftist talking points, adding, &#8220;What an s-hole. That would make a great alarm clock. So anyway, thanks Vlad Putin, you really got us good.&#8221;

Kimmel: Trump Is A Racist. Grab Your Pitchforks.

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Racism

You have no doubt heard about the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25767/was-trumps-shole-commentary-racist-ben-shapiro">latest </a>Donald Trump Outrage. It is reported that Trump, during negotiations over the immigration deal, referred to certain African countries and Haiti as &#8220;s***hole countries.&#8221; He then asked, allegedly, &#8220;why we need more Haitians&#8221; to come here as immigrants.
The White House rather noticeably refused to deny these reports at first. Finally, this morning, Trump issued a vague denial, <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951793123985973248">claiming </a>that he used &#8220;tough language&#8221; but &#8220;this was not the language used.&#8221; So it seems apparent that he either said &#8220;s***hole&#8221; or something similar to it.
Predictably, the Left, the media, and some on the Right have been, shall we say, extremely displeased with the president. CNN went to full on Apocalyptic Freak Out Mode, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25772/watch-cnn-writes-trump-shole-live-tv-ryan-saavedra">calling </a>Trump a &#8220;s***hole&#8221; on air, and <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/watch-cnns-don-lemon-declares-president-racist-and-people-color-warned-you-779291">declaring </a>him racist. These were news anchors, by the way, making these unbiased proclamations. A law professor at Yale even suggested that Trump could be <a href="http://An offense against the spirit animating the Reconstruction Amendments">impeached </a>for his salty language because he committed &#8220;an offense against the spirit animating the Reconstruction Amendments.&#8221; And on and on it goes. You know the drill by now.
Here is what I&#8217;ll say about the whole thing. Three points:
1) The Left obviously is in no position to lecture anyone for &#8220;vulgar and offensive&#8221; language. These are the same people who spent eight years calling their political opponents &#8220;teabaggers.&#8221; &#8220;S***hole&#8221; is a PG-13 term. &#8220;Teabagger&#8221; is X-rated. It&#8217;s also a personal attack on actual people, as opposed to an attack on the general conditions of a country. And let&#8217;s not forget the time they donned vagina hats and marched through the streets with signs referring rather explicitly to their &#8220;p*ssies.&#8221; I could go on at great length citing examples of the gleeful vulgarity that has spewed from the mouths of the people now so scandalized by the &#8220;s&#8221; word.
I&#8217;ve seen many on the Left lament that Trump has &#8220;coarsened the culture&#8221; to such an extent that our children can&#8217;t even watch the news anymore. A <a href="https://twitter.com/farhip/status/951643999042981889">reporter </a>for the Washington Post worried that &#8220;s***hole&#8221; will be &#8220;all over the schoolyard tomorrow&#8221; because our kids will have learned of the term, for the first time, from Donald Trump.
I agree that the culture is too coarse and our children are too exposed to it. But &#8220;s**t&#8221; is the least of our problems, I&#8217;m afraid to say. Your child is far more scandalized by the pop songs you let her listen to all day than she is by the words the president uses in a closed door meeting at the White House. Yet if I were to point out that pop music is inappropriate, you&#8217;d scoff at me and call me a Puritan. Something doesn&#8217;t add up here.
I grew up during the Clinton years. I was not allowed to be in the room when my Dad watched the news; precautions that, sadly, had little effect. I still heard all about Clinton&#8217;s vulgar exploits in school the next day. Before I graduated elementary school I had learned about dress stains and creative uses for cigars, among other tidbits. &#8220;S***hole&#8221; would have been laughably tame compared to the moral corruption I suffered as a young boy thanks to the degenerates these Leftists, with their virgin ears, placed in the White House.
2) I don&#8217;t think Trump&#8217;s comments were racist, and I don&#8217;t think the point he was making was particularly incredible or shocking. In his untactful way, he seemed to be communicating two facts: First, that third world countries are dilapidated and miserable. &#8220;S***hole&#8221; is an uncharitable way of referring to them, but there is no pleasant way to describe a nation like Haiti. Would &#8220;hellhole&#8221; be better? Whatever word you use, the point remains. These are awful places.
Second, our immigration system should favor those immigrants who will add something useful to society. The media can faint like wilting flowers all they want, but a great many people in the United States agree with the president. They see that we are deep in debt, the Welfare State is bankrupting our children, our cities are overrun with crime and poverty, and they do not want to import immigrants who will contribute to any of those problems. White or black or in between. The race is not the concern here. The concern is far more practical and logical, and it&#8217;s exactly the concern that should be primary for the President of the United States.
I believe that we should reach out and help the poor and unfortunate. But we cannot invite all of them here to live with us, because, after a while, we will become just like the places they left. My family does what it can to help the homeless in our community, but we have never welcomed them into our house to sleep in the guest bedroom. That&#8217;s because our first job is to protect our own children. We must help the less fortunate in a way that does not jeopardize our ability to perform our first and most essential duty. This really is not a radical concept.
3) With all of this said, the real issue still remains: the immigration deal itself. The irony is that liberals may well get an immigration deal they want, but they&#8217;ll still be angry because of the language Trump used. And conservatives may be backstabbed in the deal, but they won&#8217;t notice because they&#8217;ll be too busy defending Trump&#8217;s language. Both parties would do well to keep their eyes on the real prize. And conservatives should not allow themselves to be so swept off their feet by Trump&#8217;s un-PC approach that they let him get away with betraying his campaign promises.

WALSH: The Folks Who Wear Vagina Hats And Call Us &#8216;Teabaggers&#8217; Are Offended By Trump&#8217;s Vulgarity

President Trump on Friday denied that he said what every single news organization in the world says he said.
The Washington Post on Thursday reported that Trump told lawmakers during a meeting on immigration that the U.S. should block immigrants from &#8220;s***hole&#8221; countries like Haiti, El Salvador and some African nations. While the Post used unnamed sources &#8212; identifying them as &#8220;several people briefed on the meeting,&#8221; which means they weren&#8217;t even present &#8212; every media outlet ran with the report as if it were fact.
Trump said not so.
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The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used. What was really tough was the outlandish proposal made &#8211; a big setback for DACA!
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He said the brouhaha was &#8220;made up&#8221; by Democrats.
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Never said anything derogatory about Haitians other than Haiti is, obviously, a very poor and troubled country. Never said &#8220;take them out.&#8221; Made up by Dems. I have a wonderful relationship with Haitians. Probably should record future meetings &#8211; unfortunately, no trust!
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In its Thursday story, the Post said Trump &#8220;grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they discussed protecting immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to several people briefed on the meeting. &#8230; &#8216;Why are we having all these people from s***hole countries come here?&#8217; Trump said, according to these people, referring to countries mentioned by the lawmakers.&#8221;
At another point, the Post identifies its sources as &#8220;people familiar with the meeting.&#8221;
Trump tore into Democrats over the immigration talks and explained his stance on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).
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The Democrats seem intent on having people and drugs pour into our country from the Southern Border, risking thousands of lives in the process. It is my duty to protect the lives and safety of all Americans. We must build a Great Wall, think Merit and end Lottery &amp; Chain. USA!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951675713089888256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump said Democrats do not want to negotiate &#8212; he wants his proposed wall on the southern border to be a part of any deal to re-establish DACA.
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The so-called bipartisan DACA deal presented yesterday to myself and a group of Republican Senators and Congressmen was a big step backwards. Wall was not properly funded, Chain &amp; Lottery were made worse and USA would be forced to take large numbers of people from high crime&#8230;..
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&#8230;.countries which are doing badly. I want a merit based system of immigration and people who will help take our country to the next level. I want safety and security for our people. I want to stop the massive inflow of drugs. I want to fund our military, not do a Dem defund&#8230;.
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And Trump said Democrats plan to shutdown the federal government rather than negotiate.
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&#8230;.Because of the Democrats not being interested in life and safety, DACA has now taken a big step backwards. The Dems will threaten &#8220;shutdown,&#8221; but what they are really doing is shutting down our military, at a time we need it most. Get smart, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
&#8212; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/951790999784783872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2018</a></blockquote>
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TRUMP: I Didnt Say &#8216;S***hole Nations&#8217;; &#8216;Made Up&#8217; By Democrats

Haitians resentful over the manipulative efforts of Bill and Hillary Clinton after the 2010 earthquake <a href="http://observer.com/2017/05/haitians-protest-hillary-clinton-commencement-speech-medgar-evers-college/">plan to protest</a> Hillary&#8217;s commencement speech and honorary degree June 8 at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York.
Komokoda, or the Committee to Mobilize Against Dictatorship in Haiti, which is protesting Clinton&#8217;s appearance, released a statement blasting Hillary for consistently using the black community to resurrect her reputation. They also urged the college&#8217;s president, Rudy Crew, to rescind the invitation. Their statement read:
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Every time the Clintons get in a bind, they run to the black community to whitewash their tarnished image. After Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in the Monica Lewinsky affair, he brought in Jesse Jackson and a host of black preachers to lead prayers with him at the White House. To divert attention from her &#8220;deleted emails&#8221; debacle, Hillary had Bill DeBlasio&#8217;s wife, Chirlane McCray, bring her to Brownsville, one of the most impoverished neighborhoods in Brooklyn, for a photo op with little black children. When newspaper editorials and cartoons were blasting her for her unending lies and demanding investigations and prosecutions, former New York City mayor David Dinkins brought her out for a keynote speech at his Dinkins Leadership &amp; Public Policy Forum at Columbia University. Today, for her resurrection from a shameful defeat by the last person most reasonable people felt could ever be president of the United States, the dirty work falls to Rudy Crew.
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Komokoda President Dahoud Andre said:
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They portray themselves [the Clintons] as friends of Haiti but their role in Haiti has been to pillage and plunder. For years we have been protesting Clinton because of her role in militarizing the police, in criminalizing black youth and building jails to incarcerate our youth. Many people in our community felt that it was a victory that Clinton didn&#8217;t win this past U.S. election.
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After the massive earthquake in 2010, Bill Clinton served as the United Nations Special Envoy to Haiti; Hillary was Secretary of State. As Jonathan Katz for <a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/clinton-foundation-haiti-117368">Politico</a> wrote in 2015, &#8220;Many of the most notable investments the Clintons helped launch, such as the new Marriott in the capital, have primarily benefited wealthy foreigners and the island&#8217;s ruling elite, who needed little help to begin with.&#8221;
But it was worse than that; the Clintons greased the way for the ascendance of former Haitian President Michel Martelly. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/10/hillary-clinton-needs-to-answer-for-her-actions-in-honduras-and-haiti/?utm_term=.24a4644b29a9">reported</a>, &#8220;Clinton reportedly pressured then-President René Préval with the <a href="http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2046634,00.html">loss</a> of U.S. and international aid unless the election results were changed to fit the OAS&#8217;s recommendation.&#8221;
Thus Martelly was elected in 2010, even though the election was tainted. Manolia Charlotin, a Haitian journalist based in New York, told The Washington Post, &#8220;What does that mean as to her approach to foreign policy? To have a secretary of state visit a country, to make a stop, and as a result of that meeting, you have an illegal selection of leaders? How does that decision promote the American views of democracy?&#8221;
For more details on the Clintons and their corruption vis-à-vis Haiti, see <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/437883/hillarys-america-secret-history-democratic-party-dinesh-dsouza-clinton-foundation">here</a>.

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