Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told Fox News&#8217;s Shannon Bream on Thursday night that he was not upset with the Trump administration&#8217;s decision to eliminate Iranian terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani last week and that his only frustration was over the lack of details that Senators were given about next steps.
&#8220;I’ve spoken to the president, we’re on great terms,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;He understands my position. He understands that I support him, I support the fact that he, more than any other president in my lifetime and in your lifetime, has shown great respect and restraint in exercising his commander in chief power. I respect it.&#8221;
&#8220;My frustration there was that the briefers paid inadequate attention to giving us the details necessary to assess the situation and where it goes,&#8221; Lee continued. &#8220;And more importantly, on the next steps, on what level of authorization they need to obtain from Congress and under what circles. They were completely refusing to engage on that issue.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, so on the next step, it wasn’t about necessarily, your frustration wasn’t necessarily about the intelligence that you were given about the Soleimani strike, it was about the next step and what role Congress should be playing?&#8221; Bream asked.
&#8220;Yes, yes exactly. I’ve never said that their attack on Soleimani was wrong. Never once,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;In fact, I’ve acknowledged — I’m willing to accept the proposition that it was good for the American people, that it was safe, that it enhanced their safety. And I’ve never challenged their basis for doing it.&#8221;
&#8220;But they should have given us more information on it so we could assess it. And more importantly, they should have engaged on the topic of where we go from here,&#8221; Lee continued. &#8220;Instead they refused even to acknowledge that we had an appropriate role and that was shameful. It was unconstitutional. It was wrong of them to do that.&#8221;
&#8220;The House today has passed a non-binding resolution essentially taking a swipe at the president, what he can and can’t do moving forward without congressional action,&#8221; Bream responded. &#8220;Nancy Pelosi defended that and she said, ‘this is not toothless, this is Congress making a statement,’ but it really has no binding effect on the president.&#8221;
&#8220;I know you’re more interested on the Senate side getting involved in what Tim Kaine, a Democrat, has proposed moving forward,&#8221; Bream continued. &#8220;What is that? Why would you sign on?&#8221;
&#8220;The Kaine resolution, as he’s agreed to amend it for me, is completely non-controversial,&#8221; Lee responded. &#8220;All it says is that moving forward, setting aside what happened with Soleimani, it doesn’t address that at all, moving forward, if we were to engage in more hostilities between the U.S. Military and the government of Iran, the executive branch needs to go to Congress and get authorization from Congress to do that. I don’t think anyone disagrees with that. We also make a carve out there for any attack that is necessary to repel an attack on the United States. And that’s well understood that — that’s established in the constitutional law. No one should fear that.&#8221;

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Senator Ted Cruz wants Democrats to publicly declare their feelings on the Trump Administration&#8217;s mission to kill Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, and his office reports that they have constructed and are circulating a Senate resolution praising the attack.
<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ted-cruz-senate-resolution-praising-soleimani-mission">According to Fox News</a>, Cruz wants Senate Democrats &#8212; including a handful of contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination &#8212; to go on the record on where they stand regarding Soleimani, particularly given that many have expressed concerns and reservations in the wake of the drone strike that left Solemani and a handful of Iranian and Iraqi military officials dead.
Per the senator&#8217;s aides who spoke to Fox News on Friday, Cruz&#8217;s resolution is &#8220;structured and worded the same way as a 2011 resolution commending the Obama Administration&#8221; for locating and eliminating terror mastermind and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
The resolution, the outlet says, praises “the members of the military and intelligence community who carried out the mission that killed Qasem Soleimani.”
Cruz has been a staunch defender of the Administration&#8217;s decision to target Soleimani &#8212; a decision that President Donald Trump said came about because the intelligence community reported that Soleimani, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of members of the United States military in several Middle East conflicts, was planning &#8220;imminent and sinister attacks&#8221; against American interests inside Iraq. The head of Iran&#8217;s Qud&#8217;s Force, the president added, was looking to destabilize Iraq.
“Soleimani made the death of innocent people his sick passion,” Trump said Friday. &#8220;[W]hat the U.S. did yesterday should have been done long ago.&#8221;
Democrats have, to no one&#8217;s surprise, been critical of Trump&#8217;s decision, sounding the alarm of &#8220;World War III&#8221; and accusing the Administration of failing to have a long-term plan following the strike or considering the consequences of eliminating a major player in Middle East conflict.
Several Democrats, including Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), have accused Trump of &#8220;assassinating&#8221; a &#8220;government official&#8221; in violation of international conventions and have vowed to exercise control over Trump&#8217;s mission and any further military actions. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, has pledged to introduce a Senate resolution of his own, cutting the Trump Administration off from pursuing any further action against Iran until a new &#8220;use of force&#8221; authorization can be drafted and approved by Congress (something rather unlikely given the partisanship in Congress and particularly in the Democrat-controlled House).
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) are reportedly drafting their own competing resolution to Cruz&#8217;s, also condemning the Trump Administration&#8217;s decision to engage in a &#8220;war&#8221; with Iran.
&#8220;The Senate must not let this President march into another war in the Middle East without debate and authorization from Congress,&#8221; Durbin tweeted on Saturday. &#8220;Yesterday I joined <a class="PrettyLink profile customisable h-card" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/timkaine" data-mentioned-user-id="172858784" data-scribe="element:mention">@timkaine</a> to introduce a resolution preventing Pres. Trump from starting a war with Iran all on his own.&#8221;
Kaine added that Congress should &#8220;stop President Trump from entangling America in yet another unnecessary war in the Middle East.”
So far, a more intense conflict has not materialized, and experts are quick to point out that there is much room between a few strategic attacks and an all-out global war, headlined by a conflict between the United States and Iran. Iran has, reportedly, continued a string of air attacks on U.S. military bases in Iraq &#8212; missile strikes have been ongoing in that region for some months.

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On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Andrew Klavan Show,&#8221; Klavan talks about President Trump&#8217;s response to Iranian agression and Tim Kaine&#8217;s accusation that Trump is lying about Iran. Video and partial transcript below: 
Donald Trump has a tendency, as we all know, to react big. The first thing out of his mouth when this bombing took place in Saudi Arabia is, &#8220;We&#8217;re locked and loaded.&#8221; Then he starts to [think], &#8220;Wait a minute, ehhh I don’t know.&#8221;
He&#8217;s not a war guy. He doesn&#8217;t want to go to war and who can blame him? Who does? &#8230; John Bolton has been talking behind closed doors and saying how dumb Trump is about not standing up to Iran, and if we don&#8217;t stand up to them, they just get worse. There&#8217;s some wisdom to that. But Trump tries to figure this out, and what&#8217;s interesting about Trump, and what gives him such problems, is that he thinks out loud.
He doesn&#8217;t go into his room and stroke his chin and consider — as you&#8217;ve got the microphone in his face, you&#8217;re listening to the guy&#8217;s mind work. So here he is talking about why he appointed O&#8217;Brien.
<blockquote>REPORTER: [Unintelligible].
TRUMP: No, I actually think it&#8217;s a sign of strength. We have the strongest military in the world now, and I think it&#8217;s a great sign of strength. It&#8217;s very easy to attack, but if you ask Lindsey [Graham], ask him, &#8220;How did going into the Middle East, how did that work out? And how did going into Iraq work out?&#8221; So we have a disagreement on that and you know, there&#8217;s plenty of time to do some dastardly things. It&#8217;s very easy to start, and we&#8217;ll see what happens. We&#8217;ll see what happens. I think we have a lot of good capital. If we have to do something, we&#8217;ll do it without hesitation.</blockquote>
&#8230; You know he&#8217;s thinking out loud, which is always kind of unnerving with Trump. He&#8217;s always kind of going back and forth and we hear him going back and forth, and again, that&#8217;s unnerving. It&#8217;s unsettling. But basically what he&#8217;s saying, Mike Pompeo, the secretary state behind the scenes, is trying to build a coalition with the U.N. trying to work with our allies to get some help on this. The Israelis are starting to say, you know, Iran is a real threat to us and we may have to go in and Pompeo is telegraphing, saying out loud that we will support the Israelis, they have a right to defend themselves, we&#8217;re on their team no matter who wins the election over there; no matter who builds the coalition, we&#8217;re going to be with Israel. Trump said we&#8217;re with Israel, not with Netanyahu — we support Israel. He&#8217;s going to stick with that, obviously.
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Big choices. It&#8217;s never cut and dry, it&#8217;s never black and white, you never know when to go in and when not to. We certainly should not be on the ground at war with Iran, but whether we punish them, whether we start to get a little tough with them, is an open question, especially if we can get allies involved on a strike. Again, there&#8217;s absolutely no way we want to be invading Iran — that would be a terrible, stupid thing to do. But still, you know, some targeted airstrikes might not be a bad idea.
But compare all that [with] Democrats. Compare this to Tim Kaine? This guy came within an ounce of being Vice President of the United States of America, all right. Listen to whose fault he thinks it is.
<blockquote>KAINE: They&#8217;re going around saying the attack was unprovoked. The U.S. is provoking Iran. We were in a diplomatic deal with them that allowed them to sell their oil. We pulled out of the deal, the U.S. pulled out, and we&#8217;ve punished their oil economy and so Iran — again, Iran’s not a good actor. You don&#8217;t have to like this, but we are provoking Iran every day with the sanctions and with military action, and they&#8217;re responding. We need to stop the provocation and the United States needs to return to trying to be a diplomatic broker.
INTERVIEWER: Are you suggesting that Iran had to do this attack, when you&#8217;re saying the attack was somehow provoked, do you somehow victim blame for this?
KAINE: No, what I&#8217;m saying is — I have voted for sanctions on Iran in the past and they&#8217;re a bad actor. But when the administration says the attack was unprovoked, that&#8217;s what LBJ said about the Gulf of Tonkin back in Vietnam, and it was a lie. And the administration is lying to the American public by saying this was an unprovoked attack.</blockquote>
The guy reminds me of Alvin the Chipmunk, except without the testicles. I mean, the guy is really, you know, he uses this opportunity to attack the president, who is certainly the one person who is not to blame here. I don&#8217;t know what he&#8217;s trying to get across there, that we&#8217;re not supposed to put sanctions on Iran? That we&#8217;re supposed to follow through with Obama&#8217;s plan to give them a path to nuclear weapons? That we&#8217;re just supposed to be resigned to that and let that go and not try to bring them into line by force because they&#8217;re not going to understand it?
Let&#8217;s take a look at the Iranians, for a minute. Let&#8217;s take a look at Iran&#8217;s foreign minister Mohammad Zarif, he was asked — this is a CNN exclusive. He was asked how he would respond to an attack, and just listen. I mean, when you look at this guy — and again remember, Yemen is a proxy war — when you look at this guy, is this the sort of guy that we want to make excuses for?
<blockquote>REPORTER: What would be the consequence of an American or a Saudi military strike on Iran now?
ZARIF: An all-out war.
REPORTER: You make a very serious statement there, sir.
ZARIF: Well, I make a very serious statement about defending our country. I&#8217;m making a very serious statement that we don&#8217;t want war, we don&#8217;t want to engage in a military confrontation. We believe that a military confrontation based on deception is awful. We&#8217;ll have a lot of casualties, but we won&#8217;t blink to defend our territory.
REPORTER: Put yourself in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s shoes. If there was an attack on Iranian sovereign territory, with cruise missiles launched from Saudi Arabia, what would Iran&#8217;s response be?
ZARIF: Well, they&#8217;re making that up. Why do they want to make that up that it was from Iranian territory? The Yemenis have announced responsibility for that, they have provided information about that. They have answered all the Saudi disinformation campaign about the fact that they launched this attack against Saudi Arabia in self-defense.</blockquote>
I always wonder why these guys don’t just burst into flame. You know, just look at that man with his dead eyes saying, &#8220;We will kill everyone and it&#8217;s a lie.&#8221; And we never do anything but we, yes well we fired off, &#8220;Why would they make that up?&#8221; That we fired the rockets from our territory, just because we fired the rockets from our territory?
I mean these guys are like almost like some kind of cartoon villain, and Tim Kaine is blaming Donald Trump, who he just hates, using this for political capital. It really is awful &#8230;
Trump speaks out loud, and thinks out loud, and it is very unnerving to watch him do it — it creates a lot of uncertainty, and it creates a lot of trouble. He&#8217;s actually doing the right thing. You do not want to strike until it&#8217;s absolutely necessary. It’s still an open question whether it&#8217;s absolutely necessary. Obviously, Iran wants us to hit them and wants to draw us into this fight, so I don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s necessarily the right thing to do. If you do finally decide you gotta pull your gun: Pull [it] and kill him, and get out and walk away.
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KLAVAN: Trump Thinks Out Loud, So Tim Kaine Stops Thinking

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Former pharmaceutical executive Alex Azar was confirmed as the Secretary of the Health And Human Services by the Senate on Wednesday. His confirmation vote was 55-43, split mostly along party lines. 
Azar plans to focus the HHS Department on tackling Obamacare as it crumbles under financial strain, according to a Washington Free Beacon <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/senate-confirms-alex-azar-new-secretary-health-human-services/">report</a>. 
Azar told the Senate, &#8220;The Affordable Care Act has failed millions of Americans who have lost the plans they liked and the doctors they liked.&#8221;
Democrats criticized his stance on Obamacare, with Virginia Senator Tim Kaine claiming that he wants to &#8220;sabotage&#8221; the Affordable Care Act.
&#8220;The Trump administration&#8217;s determination to destroy the Affordable Care Act through executive action has destabilized our health care system and threatened coverage for millions,&#8221; the former vice presidential candidate crooned. 
Azar defended his position. &#8220;What I do not support is forcing 6.7 million Americans to pay $3 billion of penalties to not buy something they don&#8217;t want to buy through a mandate upon them, 90 percent of whom make $75,000 a year or less.&#8221;
Azar also touted his experience in the pharmaceutical industry, saying that he can help create policy that would lower prices of prescriptions. 
He told the Senate, &#8220;Through my experience helping to implement Part D and with my extensive knowledge of how insurance, manufacturers, pharmacy and government programs work together, I believe I can bring skills and experiences to the table that can help address these issues.&#8221;
Utah GOP Senator Orrin Hatch praised Azar&#8217;s nomination. &#8220;You&#8217;re one of the best public servants that I&#8217;ve seen in the whole time that I&#8217;ve been here.&#8221; 
Alex Azar previously served as United States Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush administration. 
Previous HUD Director Tom Price resigned in September 2017 after being criticized for using public and private transportation during his tenure.

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A Minnesota rally in support of Donald Trump turned violent and chaotic in March 2016. As many as 125 counter-protesters charged the rally at the state capitol, hurling smoke bombs, punching people, spraying pepper spray into Trump supporters&#8217; faces and blasting fireworks.
Anarchists were the most violent. A small group of counter protesters wore all-black clothing, hiding their faces with bandanas and goggles, police said.
Linwood &#8220;Woody&#8221; Kaine, a son of U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who at the time was the running mate of Hillary Clinton, was there &#8212; somewhere. The <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2017/05/26/tim-kaines-son-woody-kaine-charged-with-7-others-who-crashed-trump-rally/">Pioneer Press</a> in Minnesota reported exactly what happened.
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Security officers saw five people dressed in black leaving the Capitol, including one who threw a smoke bomb inside, according to complaints filed by the city attorney&#8217;s office. They went to a nearby spot and &#8220;tried to change their appearance by doing things like taking off their black clothing, putting on different jackets or hats, and turning their clothing inside out,&#8221; the complaints said.
When police approached, they scattered and ran. Steve Frazer, who was then a St. Paul police senior commander, chased a man who was later identified as Woody Kaine.
Frazer grabbed Kaine by the arm, but the young man &#8220;began to spin out of his clothing to get away,&#8221; the court document continued. Other officers arrived and Kaine &#8220;was swinging his arms and pushing at Sr. Cmdr. Frazer in an attempt to get away,&#8221; the complaint said. Police said in March that they had to use a &#8220;knee strike&#8221; and a chemical spray to arrest Kaine.
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Kaine, 25, of Minneapolis, was charged with three misdemeanors, but two of the charges &#8212; concealing his identity and fleeing a peace officer &#8212; were dismissed December 11. Kaine pleaded guilty to obstructing legal process/interfering with a peace officer and was sentenced on Thursday to &#8212; probation, and a $236 fine.
A spokesman for Kaine&#8217;s father said the son was not involved in the melee.
&#8220;While some were charged for disruptive activity at the rally, Woody behaved peacefully there and faced no such charges,&#8221; Miryam Lipper, a spokeswoman for Sen. Kaine, said by email. &#8220;He has pled guilty to a misdemeanor in connection with actions during an arrest after leaving the rally.&#8221;
But not so, the Associated Press reported. &#8220;A criminal complaint said Kaine and others changed into black clothing during the rally and entered the Capitol. The complaint said Kaine was among those who ran away and resisted arrest.&#8221;
Well, somebody&#8217;s not telling the truth. Wonder who it is?

Son Of Prominent Democrat Gets No Jail Time After Arrest At Violent Anti-Trump Rally

The Great Pervert Purge has begun in the Washington Capitol &#8212; and more heads will be rolling any day now.
So far this week, three elected federal lawmakers have fallen to sex charges: Rep. Al Franken (D-MN), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ).
Now, one senator wants to open the floodgates. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) is asking the Senate to give him information about sexual harassment claims and settlements against senators and their staffers.
&#8220;I plan to publicly disclose this information because I believe it will provide some insight into the scope of the problem and help determine solutions for preventing and addressing future incidents,&#8221; Kaine wrote in his request to the Senate Office of Compliance, which handles congressional workplace complaints.
The Virginia Democrat said sexual misconduct would continue in Congress if reports of such actions are hidden away, as they are now. The Office of Compliance has a complicated procedure for women to report sexual misconduct &#8212; one that is more geared toward keeping the alleged perpetrator masked than helping the victim
The office last month released data showing more than $17 million in taxpayer funds was paid to settle cases of sexual harassment (and racial discrimination) last year involving lawmakers and staff.
&#8220;This pervasive problem continues to serve as a barrier to ensure true gender equality. At a more personal level, it signals the failure of our society to guarantee even the basic safety and dignity of our colleagues, classmates, friends, family, and neighbors,&#8221; Kaine wrote in a statement on Thursday.
&#8220;Indeed, how we respond establishes the standard for others. A lax or indifferent response, marked only by symbolic changes, signals that we consider the issue a low priority. But a strong response that seeks to establish true accountability will hopefully encourage others to follow,&#8221; he said.
The House Ethics Committee has also asked the office to release information about House members and staffers.
But not all info would be released. While Kaine pledged &#8220;transparency,&#8221; he said information that would &#8220;breach any confidentiality agreement between the parties or the identities of the survivors and the accused&#8221; would not be released.
It&#8217;s been a busy week on Capitol Hill.
Franken faced allegations from eight women before he took the Senate floor on Thursday to announce that while he&#8217;s always been &#8220;a champion of women,&#8221; he was going to step down rather than wait for a Senate Ethics Committee to rule on the matter. Rep. John Conyers, the longest serving member in the House, faced numerous allegations that he sexually accosted former staffers, and even paid one $27,000 to keep quiet. And Rep. Trent Franks, well, he says he&#8217;s leaving office because he asked two former staffers if they&#8217;d act as surrogate mothers, but rumors have swirled for years about the pug-faced lawmaker, so who knows.
That makes two Democrats and a Republican &#8212; in a week.
There are others in the cloak room, like Rep. Ruben Kihuen, Nevada Democrat. Last year, a 25-year-old woman left her job on his campaign because she says he repeatedly propositioned her for dates and sex. Kihuen said on Friday, &#8220;I sincerely apologize for anything that I may have said or done that made her feel uncomfortable,&#8221; but added that Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) knew about the allegations before he ran for office.
And The New York Times last week reported that Rep. Blake Farenthold, Texas Republican, used $84,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment claim against him.
Chaos is descending on Capitol Hill, but there is method in the madness. Democrats had to sacrifice Franken if they hope to derail Judge Roy Moore, a Senate candidate in Alabama who has been accused of sexual misconduct. They couldn&#8217;t seek to hold Moore to high standards if they turned a blind eye toward Franken.
Talk show host Laura Ingraham succinctly summed up the Democrats&#8217; goal.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve come down with a sudden case of feverish morality, but what it really is nothing more than a political calculation by the Dems. It sets the precedent for the Democrats to try to drive Roy Moore from office should he win the Alabama Senate race. And, two, this is the next step in the quest to impeach President Trump,&#8221; she said on Fox News.
So this is over. Not by a long shot.

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The media went apoplectic over President Trump <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19486/after-north-korea-builds-nuclear-warhead-trump-ben-shapiro">declaring</a> that he would rain down &#8220;fire and fury&#8221; on North Korea for their repeated threats to strike America as they developed a nuclear warhead that could be placed on a missile. Defense Secretary James Mattis all but backed up Trump&#8217;s statement by <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/19544/no-bluff-mad-dog-mattis-says-north-korea-must-back-ben-shapiro">threatening</a> North Korea to stop their belligerent actions or else face &#8220;the end of its regime and the destruction of its people.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s rhetoric may have been evocative, but politicians calling for some sort of military strike against North Korea is nothing new. Here are six politicians who have called for such strikes.
1. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain <a href="https://www.axios.com/mccain-trumps-threat-to-north-korea-very-very-very-serious-2470752413.html">slammed</a> Trump over his &#8220;fire and fury&#8221; remarks since he wasn&#8217;t sure if Trump would be willing to back them up, but McCain has called for military strikes against North Korea numerous times. In 1994, McCain <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/sep/29/barack-obama/one-obama-example-is-just-too-old/">said</a> that the United States would have &#8220;to militarily disable that nuclear capability&#8221; if China and Japan refused to enforce sanctions against North Korea and that North Korea would face &#8220;the threat of extinction&#8221; if matters became dire with the regime.
In 2003, McCain excoriated the Bush administration for taking military strikes against North Korea off the table, writing in <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/09/cooler-foreign-policy-heads-than-trump-h">The Weekly Standard</a> that America must show that it&#8217;s willing to &#8220;do whatever it must to guarantee the security of the American people.&#8221;
As recently as April, McCain <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/30/mccain-north-korea-missiles-237803">said</a> it would be &#8220;foolish&#8221; to take military strikes against North Korea off the table.
2. Bill Clinton. In 1993, then-President Clinton threatened a massive strike against North Korea if they obtained nuclear weapons.
&#8220;It would mean the end of their country as they know it,&#8221; said Clinton.
Ironically, <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9020/whos-blame-north-koreas-nuclear-test-7-things-you-aaron-bandler">Clinton basically handed the North Koreans nukes</a> with his asinine nuclear deal.
3. Jeb Bush. During a February Republican presidential debate, the former Florida governor <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=111472">said</a> that &#8220;if a preemptive strike is necessary to keep us safe, then we should do it&#8221; when it comes to North Korea.
4. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Graham seemed to back Trump&#8217;s comments on Wednesday, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/09/politics/lindsey-graham-cbs-interview-north-korea-nuclear-threat/index.html?sr=twCNN080917lindsey-graham-cbs-interview-north-korea-nuclear-threat0927AMVODtop">telling CBS</a>, &#8220;President Trump has basically drawn a red line. Saying that he&#8217;ll never allow North Korea to have an ICBM missile that can hit America with a nuclear weapon on top. He&#8217;s not going to let that happen.&#8221;
Graham acknowledged that a war with North Korea would get ugly, but he argued that he doesn&#8217;t &#8220;want to live for the next 50 years under that threat&#8221; of North Korea being armed with an intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a nuke.
5. Vice President Mike Pence. Back in April, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-mike-pence-s-warning-to-north-korea-1492605388-htmlstory.html">Pence issued a warning to North Korea</a>:
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&#8220;The United States of America will always seek peace but under President Trump, the shield stands guard and the sword stands ready,&#8221; Pence told 2,500 sailors wearing blue fatigues and Navy baseball caps on a sunny, windy morning aboard the carrier at the U.S. Yokosuka naval base in Tokyo Bay.
&#8220;Those who would challenge our resolve or readiness should know, we will defeat any attack and meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and effective American response,&#8221; Pence said.
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6. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). During <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=119012">the vice presidential debate</a>, Kaine said that &#8220;a president should take action to defend the United States against imminent threat&#8221; should North Korea be poised to launch a nuke toward the United States.
<a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/09/cooler-foreign-policy-heads-than-trump-h">H/T:</a> Reason
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<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/14444/5-things-you-need-know-greatest-fake-news-reveal-ben-shapiro">Rachel Maddow&#8217;s fake news reveal</a> unearthed the shocking revelation that President Donald Trump paid $38 million in taxes in 2005 &#8211; a massive blow to the Democrats&#8217; campaign talking point that Trump didn&#8217;t pay any taxes. It is truly ironic that Maddow of all people would be the one to cause Democrats to eat their words.
Here are nine times Democrats claimed Trump paid no taxes.
1. Hillary Clinton. At the first 2016 general election debate, Clinton <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/09/28/donald-trumps-defense-of-not-paying-taxes-is-remarkable/?utm_term=.c54b624a01c9">criticized</a> Trump for not releasing his tax returns, speculating that Trump didn&#8217;t &#8220;want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he&#8217;s paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody&#8217;s ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn&#8217;t pay any federal income tax.&#8221;
Trump responded, &#8220;That makes me smart,&#8221; giving legs to Clinton&#8217;s talking point, but ultimately Clinton was inadvertently proven wrong by Maddow.
2. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). &#8220;When Hillary said you haven&#8217;t been paying taxes, he [Trump] said, &#8216;That makes me smart,'&#8221; Kaine <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kaine-rips-trump-avoiding-taxes_us_57f40440e4b04c71d6f07a8f">said</a> at the lone 2016 vice-president debate. &#8220;So it&#8217;s smart not to pay for our military. It&#8217;s smart not to pay for veterans. It&#8217;s smart not to pay for teachers. And I guess all of us who do pay for those things, I guess we&#8217;re stupid.&#8221;
3. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA). &#8220;The last time Donald Trump&#8217;s taxes were made public, it turned out that Donald Trump paid nothing in federal taxes,&#8221; Warren <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/284274-warren-on-trumps-taxes-maybe-hes-just-a-lousy-businessman">said</a> in a MoveOn.org vide. &#8220;Zero, zero taxes before. For all we know, he&#8217;s paying zero taxes today.&#8221;
4. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). &#8220;Trump goes around and says &#8216;Hey, I&#8217;m worth billions, I&#8217;m a successful businessman, but I don&#8217;t pay any taxes,&#8221; Sanders <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-taxes_us_57f1127be4b082aad9bbbf27">said</a> on CNN&#8217;s State Of The Union in October. &#8220;But you, you make 15 bucks an hour, you pay the taxes, not me. That is why people are angry and want real change in this country.&#8221;
Sanders may not technically be a Democrat but he caucuses with them and ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016; therefore he qualifies for this list.
5. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO). &#8220;The revelation that came out yesterday that he took a billion dollar loss and didn&#8217;t have to pay corporate taxes for 18 years,&#8221; DeGette <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/10/02/new-york-times-reports-on-leaked-trump-tax-returns-gowdy-wants-fresh-look-at/">said</a> on an October Fox News appearance. &#8220;While it might be legal, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s going to sit well with those millions of Americans who have been having to pay taxes for all of these years.&#8221;
DeGette would likely claim that her use of the term &#8220;corporate taxes&#8221; makes her statement justified; however, her statement following that phrase about how most Americans who do pay taxes would be miffed by it Trump not paying taxes is a clear implication that Trump either paid little in taxes or none at all. But since Trump paid $38.5 million in taxes in 2005, DeGette&#8217;s statement is clearly not correct.
6. Howard Dean. 
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Trump&#8217;s 1995 taxes show a $916 million loss, suggesting he could have paid no federal taxes for up to 18 years <a href="https://t.co/R6eOpVx1wJ">https://t.co/R6eOpVx1wJ</a>
&#8212; Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) <a href="https://twitter.com/GovHowardDean/status/782389630838640640">October 2, 2016</a></blockquote>
7. Chris Matthews. Matthews, <a href="http://www.biography.com/people/chris-matthews-21051451#early-life">the former Tip O&#8217;Neill aide and Jimmy Carter speechwriter</a>, <a href="http://truthfeed.com/fake-news-debunked-chris-matthews-suggests-trump-doesnt-pay-taxes/57380/">ranted</a> on MSNBC on Thursday: (emphasis bolded)
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&#8220;President Trump wouldn&#8217;t release his tax returns during his campaign, but political pressure&#8217;s building for the president to just that, at least turn it over to the Intelligence Committee so they can look at it. We&#8217;re going to talk about that, and a lot more in &#8216;Hardball.&#8217; By the way, he&#8217;s not going to give away those tax returns. We can pound on that door, and pound on that door, and he ain&#8217;t giving them away, because there&#8217;s a lot in there he doesn&#8217;t want us to know, like how about not paying taxes?&#8221;
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Ironically, <a href="https://heatst.com/politics/the-place-for-tax-woes-nine-msnbc-personalities-had-tax-liens-filed-against-them/">Matthews has had some tax problems of his own.</a> 
8. Robert Reich. Bill Clinton&#8217;s former Labor Department Secretary wrote <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/the-real-scandal-of-trump_b_12299822.html">an October Huffington Post piece</a> titled, &#8220;The Real Scandal Of Trump Paying No Taxes.&#8221; In the piece, he wrote that tax write-offs &#8220;could have allowed him [Trump] to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for 18 years.&#8221;
Reich argued that this highlighted a rigged system for the wealthy. But this argument failed in light of Trump&#8217;s 2005 tax returns.
9. The New York Times editorial board. The Times&#8216;s editorial board &#8211; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/23/opinion/presidential-endorsement-timeline.html">which hasn&#8217;t endorsed a Republican for president since Dwight Eisenhower in 1956</a> &#8211; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/opinion/mr-trumps-stupid-excuses-on-taxes.html?action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;region=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&amp;_r=0">speculated</a> in September that Trump won&#8217;t release his tax returns because he &#8220;pays little or no tax&#8221;:
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Many voters were shocked when Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, disclosed that he paid an average of just 14 percent of his income in taxes. Mr. Trump might pay even less, perhaps even zero. Real estate developers like Mr. Trump can take advantage of numerous deductions, credits and other tax loopholes that allow them to minimize how much tax they owe. In fact, Mr. Trump has boasted about avoiding taxes, telling George Stephanopoulos of ABC in May, &#8220;I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.&#8221;
Tax records from New York City also show that Mr. Trump has, as recently as this year, received a property tax credit that is available only to families earning less than $500,000 a year. His campaign has said that the credit was issued in error. But he has received the same credit in the past. It also appears that Mr. Trump paid little or no personal income taxes in some years in the early 1990s and late 1970s, according to news accounts based on documents from gambling regulators in New Jersey.
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Trump Paid $38 Million In Taxes In One Year Alone. Here Are 9 Times Democrats Claimed Trump Paid No Taxes.

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One of Sen. Tim Kaine&#8217;s (D-VA) children was arrested for rioting against President Donald Trump.
The Pioneer Press <a href="http://www.twincities.com/2017/03/07/son-of-sen-tim-kaine-one-of-six-arrested-during-trump-rally-at-state-capitol-last-weekend/">reports</a> that 24-year-old Linwood Michael Kaine, who goes by the name &#8220;Woody,&#8221; was one of five people arrested on Saturday for second-degree rioting during the &#8220;March 4 Trump&#8221; rally. A number of anti-Trump protestors attempted to cause disarray at the pro-Trump rally; during which somebody chucked a smoke bomb that hit a 61-year-old woman in the forehead.
At that point, the rally descended into chaos; fights occurred, a &#8220;chemical irritant&#8221; was used, but eventually order was restored when the anti-Trump rioters left.
Linwood Kaine was among the five people whom police suspected of lighting &#8220;fireworks inside the Capitol.&#8221; Kaine rejected orders by the police to get down on the ground.
&#8220;The officer was able to get ahold of Mr. Kaine, but he got up, squared off with the officer and the officer tried to take him to the ground again,&#8221; St. Paul police spokesman Steve Linders told the Pioneer Press. &#8220;He then was taken to the ground, but continued to resist, at which point another officer deployed a knee strike to get him to cooperate with the officers and put his hands behind his back. After the strike, Mr. Kaine cooperated and was taken into custody without further incident.&#8221;
Senator Kaine released a statement to the Pioneer Press that read, &#8220;We love that our three children have their own views and concerns about current political issues. They fully understand the responsibility to express those concerns peacefully.&#8221;
Linwood Kaine is the youngest of the Kaine children. It is unknown what exactly his role was with the anti-Trump disruptors.
The Daily Caller also <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/07/tim-kaines-son-arrested-for-rioting-against-trump/">noted</a> that the far-left Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had announced that they were going to counterprotest the rally, although it also unknown if Kaine was involved with SDS.
The anti-Trump disrupters reportedly didn&#8217;t have a significant impact on the rally.
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Tim Kaine’s Kid Just Got Arrested For Protesting Against Trump

Left-wing Politico <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/democrats-real-people-lessons-234198">reported</a> that Senate Democrats will &#8220;hold lessons on how to talk to real people,&#8221; in an article published on Wednesday.

In an event hosted by David Brock &#8211; a Clinton loyalist and founder of Media Matters for America &#8211; entitled &#8220;Hold Trump Accountable,&#8221; Democrats will attend political strategy seminars hosted by Center for American Progress (CAP) CEO Neera Tanden and Priorities USA CEO Guy Cecil.

The event included political strategy segments on &#8220;speaking to those who feel invisible in rural America&#8221; and &#8220;listening to those who feel unheard.&#8221; 

Senate Democrats will also be advised by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA) on how to &#8220;go around Republicans by trying to work with [President Donald Trump]&#8221; in a seminar entitled &#8220;Triangulating Trump.&#8221;

Sen. Dianne Feinsten (D-CA) will &#8220;prep Democrats on how to engage against Republicans over Trump&#8217;s Supreme Court pick.&#8221;

Reporters were not allowed to attend the event.

In December, Brock <a href="https://americanbridgepac.org/david-brock-announces-american-bridge-trump-administration-accountability-war-room/">announced a project</a> with American Bridge 21st Century &#8211; a leftist political agitation organ of the Democrat Party &#8211; to presumably ensure that the Trump administration would be &#8220;accountable, transparent, and held in check.&#8221;

Describing the project as the formation of a political &#8220;war room,&#8221; Brock warned of the Trump administration having &#8220;a minister of disinformation operating from the West Wing with ties to a proto-fascist media empire that is nothing more than a pro-Trump propaganda machine.&#8221; 

Brock promised to combat &#8220;Trump&#8217;s unprecedented willingness to lie and his infrastructure to propagate those lies.&#8221; The political &#8220;war room,&#8221; he added, would &#8220;fact-check administration statements in real-time.&#8221;

Despite being a neo-Marxist and Democrat-aligned agitation outlet, CAP <a href="https://ssl1.americanprogress.org/o/507/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=1818">enjoys nonprofit status</a> as a 501(c)(3) charity. Donations to such charities offer tax deductions to donors.

H/T <a href="https://twitter.com/burgessev">Burgess Everett</a> at <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/democrats-real-people-lessons-234198">Politico</a>

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Politico: Democrats Studying ‘How To Talk To Real People’

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Just after FBI Director James Comey made his first press announcement declaring that though Hillary indeed sent and received classified information on her secret personal server he was not recommending prosecution, vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine praised Comey as &#8220;wonderful.&#8221; Kaine&#8217;s feelings on the Obama-appointed director are sure to have changed this week after Comey declared the case officially re-opened after his agents found a reported <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/laptop-may-include-thousands-of-emails-linked-to-hillary-clintons-private-server-1477854957">650,000 more emails</a> on devices that were supposed to have been handed over to them already. Yowza.
In the clip (below), Kaine, who apparently has zero access to a crystal ball and at the time was brimming with confidence that the email scandal was finally over, tells Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier about just what kind of great man the FBI Director is.
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&#8220;What I do know is this,&#8221; Kaine told the host, &#8220;there was an extensive investigation by the FBI under the direction of a wonderful and tough career public servant, Jim Comey. Jim was in the US Attorny&#8217;s Office in the Eastern District of Virginia when I was the mayor of Richmond and he&#8217;s somebody with the highest standards of integrity.&#8220;
On ABC&#8217;s Sunday show, This Week, Kaine seemed to have changed his tune on the high praise of Comey, telling host and Clinton shill George Stephanopoulos that the FBI Director&#8217;s letter to Congress re-opening the investigation was an &#8220;unprecedented move&#8221; and was a &#8220;violation of two protocols.&#8221; Those protocols being: 1) the disclosure of information from an ongoing investigation and 2) the public pronouncement about a potential investigation into a candidate immediately prior to an election.
Kaine&#8217;s full interview with Stephanopoulos, below:

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Exit thought from Director Comey:

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Flashback: VP Nominee Tim Kaine Calls FBI Director Comey ‘Wonderful’

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Following Wednesday&#8217;s final presidential debate, DNC Chair Donna Brazile was grilled by Fox News&#8217; Megyn Kelly regarding a recent WikiLeaks revelation suggesting that Brazile had colluded with the media to protect Hillary Clinton.
In the WikiLeaks release of hacked emails allegedly from the account of Clinton campaign chair, John Podesta, a March 12, 2016 email from Brazile titled &#8220;<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10091/watch-megyn-kelly-eviscerates-dnc-chair-donna-frank-camp">From time to time I get the questions in advance</a>&#8221; includes a Clinton/Sanders debate question Brazile received ahead of the event that she says &#8220;worries&#8221; her for Clinton.
The question is as follows:
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&#8220;19 states and the District of Columbia have banned the death penalty. 31 states, including Ohio, still have the death penalty. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, since 1973, 156 people have been on death row and later set free. Since 1976, 1,414 people have been executed in the U.S. That&#8217;s 11% of Americans who were sentenced to die, but later exonerated and freed. Should Ohio and the 30 other states join the current list and abolish the death penalty?&#8221;
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The next day, primary debate co-moderator Roland Martin sent an identical question to CNN.
As Daily Wire <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10091/watch-megyn-kelly-eviscerates-dnc-chair-donna-frank-camp">previously reported</a>:
<blockquote>
&#8220;Martin initially denied that he&#8217;d shared the question with anyone, but when Politico confronted him with an email stating otherwise, he suddenly recalled sending questions to CNN, but said he didn&#8217;t recall contacting Brazile. In the debate, which was held the very next day, March 13th, Clinton was asked about the death penalty.&#8221;
</blockquote>
In her interview with Kelly, Brazile spun big time. After nearly four minutes of discussion, during which time she employed multiple excuses, Brazile finally claimed that the emails were &#8220;doctored.&#8221; That one stuck, and Kelly let Brazile off the hook.
Now, Errata Security&#8217;s Robert Graham is claiming that he has evidence that the email was not doctored. According to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/10/24/tech-blogger-finds-proof-dnc-chiefs-emails-werent-doctored-despite-claims.html">Fox News</a>, he and other security experts ran the email through a program that verifies authenticity, and found that it was unaltered:
<blockquote>
&#8220;DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is a system employed by many email servers, including HillaryClinton.com, to verify emails to recipients and avoid spam filters. The system sends a DKIM &#8216;key&#8217; to the receiver to verify the sender and confirm the email hasn&#8217;t been tampered with.&#8221;
</blockquote>
What Graham found was that <a href="http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/10/yes-we-can-validate-wikileaks-emails.html#.WA5iYNj3afD">Brazile&#8217;s email is indeed authentic</a>. In his blog post, he offered an open challenge to anyone who could prove otherwise, setting the stakes at $600:
<blockquote>
&#8220;&#8230;if you can forge an email that validates correctly as I&#8217;ve shown, I&#8217;ll give you 1-bitcoin. It&#8217;s the easiest way of solving arguments whether this really validates the email&#8211;if somebody tells you this blogpost is invalid, then tell them they can earn about $600 (current value of BTC) proving it. Otherwise, no.&#8221;
</blockquote>
Vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has also <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10146/watch-out-tim-kaine-and-donna-brazile-wikileaks-frank-camp">questioned the validity</a> of a particular email &#8220;that talked about the fact that there was some deal that I was gonna be VP a year in advance.&#8221; He told NBC political reporter Kailani Koenig that such an idea was &#8220;completely false&#8230;either the person sending that email didn&#8217;t know what he or she was talking about or the content of it was manipulated.&#8221;
The email to which Kaine seems to be referring was sent on July 15, 2015, by Erick Mullen, a managing director at Mercury PR firm. <a href="https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/25445">Mullen writes</a>: &#8220;Won&#8217;t stop assuring Sens Brown and Heitkamp (at dinner now) that HRC has personally told Tim Kaine he&#8217;s the veep. A little unseemly.&#8221; He and John Podesta then trade a few jokes about the latter being Clinton&#8217;s veep.
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Robert Graham ran the email through the DKIN verification program, and found that it had indeed been altered:
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That being said, Graham told Daily Wire that &#8220;a large number of factors&#8221; can contribute to an email coming up as &#8220;modified,&#8221; including &#8220;Google changing its signing key.&#8221;
Despite the Kaine email having been modified in some way, the Donna Brazile email stands as verified. What excuse will Brazile come up with now?

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Security Blogger Shows Donna Brazile Email Not ‘Doctored’

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DNC Chair Donna Brazile has been on the defensive ever since WikiLeaks released an email from their Podesta file implying collusion between the media, Brazile, and the Clinton campaign. In the email, titled &#8220;From time to time I get the questions in advance,&#8221; Brazile asks the Clinton campaign about a debate question that &#8220;worries&#8221; her.
The question, which dealt with the death penalty, was identical to the question co-moderator Roland Martin sent to CNN the day before the March 13th primary debate between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
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After a protracted discussion with Fox News&#8217; Megyn Kelly Wednesday in which Brazile tested out several defenses unsuccessfully, she <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/10091/watch-megyn-kelly-eviscerates-dnc-chair-donna-frank-camp">finally questioned</a> the legitimacy of the emails themselves, suggesting they&#8217;d been &#8220;doctored.&#8221;
Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) has also questioned the authenticity of the leaks, telling NBC political reporter <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/kailanikm/status/789223637035483138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">Kailani Koenig</a>:
<blockquote>
&#8220;Generally, if people are engaging in cyber-attacks against United States to steal documents and then use them to destabilize an election, why would you assume that the content, &#8216;Oh, but we&#8217;re gonna be scrupulously honest about not tinkering with the content.&#8217; In fact, I would plead the working assumption should be the reverse. Hold on a second here&#8212;if you&#8217;re trying to influence an election at the end, why would we assume any of it&#8217;s true?
One of the bits of email concerned me and it was an email that talked about the fact that there was some deal that I was gonna be VP a year in advance. That is completely false&#8230;either the person sending that email didn&#8217;t know what he or she was talking about or the content of it was manipulated.
That&#8217;s the one email with respect to me and I can tell you it&#8217;s categorically untrue, so I gotta wonder about the whole body of these emails. You know, what is the truth to untruth ratio?&#8221;
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Kaine&#8217;s been saying hacked Wikileaks emails might not be accurate, so asked him whether he had any examples or had heard if one wasn&#8217;t real <a href="https://t.co/G2S38VS0TM">pic.twitter.com/G2S38VS0TM</a>
&#8212; Kailani Koenig (@kailanikm) <a href="https://twitter.com/kailanikm/status/789223637035483138">October 20, 2016</a></blockquote>
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After a protracted discussion with Fox News&#8217; Megyn Kelly Wednesday in which Brazile tested out several defenses unsuccessfully, she finally questioned the legitimacy of the emails themselves, suggesting they&#8217;d been &#8220;doctored.&#8221;

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It appears that the folks at WikiLeaks don&#8217;t like their content being questioned, and have come forward with a tweet that&#8217;s equal parts cryptic, and unnervingly specific:
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We have a suprise in store for <a href="https://twitter.com/timkaine">@TimKaine</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/donnabrazile">@DonnaBrazile</a>.
&#8212; WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789226617495248896">October 20, 2016</a></blockquote>
What this &#8220;surprise&#8221; actually is remains to be seen, but whatever it is, Brazile and Kaine will surely be put on the defensive after its release.

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Watch Out Tim Kaine and Donna Brazile, WikiLeaks Has a ‘Surprise in Store’ for You

WikiLeaks

Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) was asked by anchor Bret Baier if Obama lied regarding his knowledge of Hillary&#8217;s private email:
Before speaking to Kaine, Baier played two clips in which President Obama claims he had no knowledge of Clinton using a private email for official business while acting as Secretary of State. In the first clip, the president said that he learned about the email &#8220;at the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports.&#8221; In the second, when asked the more simple: &#8220;Did you know about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s use of a private email server while she was Secretary of Sate?&#8221; Obama replied: &#8220;No.&#8221;
<blockquote>
BAIER: &#8220;At the same time, Senator, he [Obama] was using a pseudonym, and an email address to communicate with Secretary Clinton. And there is communication, and there are emails from staff that suggest they wanted to hold that back, and were talking about what to do. Did the president lie there?&#8221;
KAINE: &#8220;Well, I don&#8217;t know, because if&#8211;I actually do not know. If he&#8217;s communicating by email with Hillary, does he know that it&#8217;s a private server? I don&#8217;t exactly know that if I send somebody an email, exactly what their set-up is. I don&#8217;t really think about that much, and I can&#8217;t imagine that the president, with all that&#8217;s on his mind, would either.&#8221;
</blockquote>
Kaine&#8217; response here is interesting in that it contradicts the question being asked.
Kaine says that with everything the president has on his plate, wondering about a private email probably wouldn&#8217;t cross his mind. However, if that were the case, why would Obama have used a pseudonym? Did he have the presence of mind to disguise his name, but not also the presence of mind to question Clinton&#8217;s lack of a .gov email address?
Uncovered in the FBI&#8217;s <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/hillary-clinton-emails-fbi-228607">investigation into Hillary Clinton</a> was an email allegedly sent to the former Secretary of State by President Obama using a pseudonym. The State Department won&#8217;t release the June 28, 2012, email, saying it&#8217;s protected under &#8220;presidential communications privilege.&#8221;
However, when the FBI interviewed Clinton aide Huma Abedin on April 5, 2016, and showed her the email, she reportedly said: &#8220;How is this not classified?&#8221; The FBI report notes that Abedin &#8220;expressed her amazement at the president&#8217;s use of a pseudonym and asked if she could have a copy of the email.&#8221;
This situation brings with it several questions.
If Obama had no knowledge of Clinton&#8217;s private email, why did he use a pseudonym when communicating with her? Why can&#8217;t the June 28, 2012, email be released&#8211;even in redacted form? What&#8217;s being kept secret under &#8220;presidential communications privilege?&#8221;
Given Abedin&#8217;s reaction during her interview, wondering how it was possible that such an email wasn&#8217;t classified, it&#8217;s possible that President Obama, using a pseudonym for undisclosed reasons, participated in Clinton&#8217;s &#8220;extreme carelessness.&#8221;
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Tim Kaine Says ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked if Obama Lied About His Knowledge of Hillary’s Private Email

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If you didn&#8217;t watch Tuesday night&#8217;s vice presidential debate, don&#8217;t worry! You didn&#8217;t miss all that much. The entire spectacle was far less entertaining than the slugfest between pathological liar Hillary Clinton and loud-mouthed bully Donald Trump. 
In short, a policy-literate Mike Pence trounced buffoonish aggressor Tim Kaine with a better handling of facts and details and far more grace and class. 
However, as The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ben Shapiro <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/9706/6-takeaways-last-nights-vp-debate-ben-shapiro">noted</a>, the debate won&#8217;t shift the dial on this election all that much. Ultimately, voters will cast their ballots for the two individuals at the top of the ticket. That said, public opinion was fairly clear about Tuesday night&#8217;s winner, among other things.
Here are 5 stats you need to know about the VP debate: 
1. &#8220;48% of voters who watched the debate [said] Pence did the better job while 42% [thought] Kaine had the best night,&#8221; according to the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/politics/mike-pence-tim-kaine-vp-debate-poll/index.html">latest CNN/ORC poll</a>. Polls from both left and right-wing media outlets found about the same results. Moreover, analysts and media observers across the political spectrum reached a rare consensus over this match: Pence overwhelmingly won the debate.
2. Roughly two-thirds of voters who watched the debate said Pence&#8217;s overall performance was better than expected, according to the same poll. Only 14% said he performed worse than expected. As for Kaine, the viewing public felt as though he dramatically underperformed. A robust 43% felt he did worse than expected. Only 38% said he exceeded expectations. It&#8217;s worth noting that both men are still relative unknowns on the national stage. Aside from the party conventions, Tuesday night was likely the first time most voters across party lines really got a long look at both VP candidates.
3. A majority (58%) of viewers thought Kaine defended his candidate better, according to the highly-cited CNN-ORC poll. Only 35% thought Pence did a more effective job at defending Donald Trump. This one is self-evident. It&#8217;s really hard to defend many of the statements made by Trump, who habitually shoots from the hip and has a penchant for late night tweets. For much of the debate, Pence had to pretend that Trump either didn&#8217;t exist or existed in some alternative sane universe just to stay on message.
4. Pence was seen by viewers as far more likeable. A majority (53%) felt as though Pence was the more likeable on stage. Only 37% thought felt that way about Kaine. Both men enjoy higher likeability numbers than their respective presidential candidates. 
But Kaine&#8217;s likeability took a hit Tuesday night, following his media-obsessed &#8220;nice guy&#8221; shtick over the last few weeks. CNN <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/05/politics/mike-pence-tim-kaine-vp-debate-poll/index.html">reports</a>:
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His unfavorable rating rose from 28% among this same group of debate watchers when they were interviewed pre-debate to 40% after, while his favorability number held about even at 55%. For Pence, his favorability rating bumped up 7 points to 57%, from 50% pre-debate. His unfavorable numbers held about even 40%.
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5. Kaine was flat-out rude, interrupting his opponent more than 70 times, according to analysis by <a href="http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/vice-presidential-debate-election-2016/">FiveThirtyEight.com.</a> Pence only interrupted his opponent 40 times. Kaine&#8217;s laughable &#8220;tough-guy&#8221; routine would have likely been more convincing if he wasn&#8217;t the walking incarnation of every dad joke ever. But his handlers at the Clinton campaign clearly didn&#8217;t get the memo. They thought they could dispatch a machismo attack-dog. It didn&#8217;t work. Not only did Kaine interrupt Pence a number of times, but he interrupted the debate moderator endlessly. In effect, he came off like an annoying weasel, eager to defend his grotesquely corrupt candidate by any means necessary. Judging from the polls, the viewing public didn&#8217;t like that tactic all that much.

5 Stats You Need to Know About the VP Debate

During Tuesday night&#8217;s vice presidential debate, Indiana Governor Mike Pence shined a spotlight directly on former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine&#8217;s extreme abortion position. Pence said he could not understand &#8220;with Hillary Clinton and now Senator Kaine at her side is to support a practice like partial-birth abortion&#8230;the very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me.&#8221;
Kaine maintained that &#8220;we really feel like you should live fully and with enthusiasm the commands of your faith. But it is not the role of the public servant to mandate that for everybody else.&#8221; First off, that isn&#8217;t even accurate &#8211; Kaine stands with a candidate who has said that millions of Americans must change their religious persuasions in order to encompass her views of LGBT rights. But beyond that, pro-life doesn&#8217;t require religious belief, it requires scientific belief: unborn children are still children.
Kaine didn&#8217;t acknowledge that. Instead, he said that he supported Roe v. Wade, which he mischaracterized as allowing &#8220;American women to consult their own conscience.&#8221; That&#8217;s not what Roe does. It allows American women to define someone else&#8217;s life &#8211; their baby&#8217;s life &#8211; as non-life for whatever purpose they choose.

Of course, he also now says he wants to reject the so-called Hyde Amendment, which means that it isn&#8217;t just women making decisions for their babies, it&#8217;s us subsidizing them. So the whole &#8220;let&#8217;s agree to disagree thing&#8221; doesn&#8217;t even apply.
Then, most disgustingly, the Catholic Kaine quoted the &#8220;gospel of Matthew&#8221; to tear into Donald Trump&#8217;s nutty declaration months ago that women should be prosecuted for abortion. Now, Trump was wrong on that. But Kaine quoting the New Testament in order to defend the killing of the unborn is not merely disgusting, it&#8217;s blasphemous &#8211; it&#8217;s taking the name of God in vain, if you&#8217;re a religious Christian.
Kaine continued along those lines: &#8220;That&#8217;s what we ought to be doing in public life. Living our lives of faith or motivation with enthusiasm and excitement, convincing over, dialoguing with each other about important moral issues of the day but on fundamental issues of morality, we should let women make their own decisions.&#8221;
Except that as a society, we don&#8217;t. Women don&#8217;t get to commit murder because they decide to do so. Women can&#8217;t hold slaves. Women can&#8217;t redefine away inconvenient humans simply because they have &#8220;different moral judgments.&#8221; By relegating the status of fellow human beings to the &#8220;do what you feel&#8221; category of government, Kaine undermines any concept of a government worth defending; no government that refuses to defend human life is worthy of existence.

Tim Kaine Is An Abomination On Abortion

So, Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine is currently under the impression that the terror threat has greatly subsided since President Barack Obama took office. 
No, he actually said this&#8230; during the one and only 2016 vice presidential debate, on live TV. 
When pressed about the undeniable growing terror threat under President Obama&#8217;s reign, Kaine argued that the &#8220;terrorist threat has decreased,&#8221; laying out the killing of bin Laden and the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal as evidence of a safer America. 
&#8220;The terrorist threat has decreased in some ways because bin Laden is dead,&#8221; said Kaine. &#8220;[It] has decreased in some ways because the Iranian nuclear weapons program has been stopped. The terrorist threat to United States troops has been decreased in some ways&#8230; but there are other parts of the world that are challenging.&#8221;
Yeah, except not.
As <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/04/kaine-says-terror-threat-lower-than-ever-after-deadliest-years-since-911/">noted</a> by The Daily Caller:
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In the year 2014, a staggering 32,700 people were killed worldwide due to terrorism, more than double the amount killed in 2013 and three times as high as the number of deaths in 2009, when Obama took office. Deaths in 2015 were slightly lower. at 28,328, but that was easily enough to be the second-most this millennium.
While deaths declined slightly worldwide, deaths in the U.S. and Western Europe have remained at their highest since 2001. The past 12 calendar months have seen major attacks in Paris (130 killed), Nice (86 killed), San Bernardino (14 killed), and Orlando (49 killed), along with several smaller incidents.
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Of course, the rise of terrorism is, without question, linked to the disastrous foreign policy laid out by the Obama Administration, including&#8212;you guessed it&#8212;former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, your running mate, Senator Kaine.
The second dumbest thing Kaine uttered during Tuesday night&#8217;s debate also dealt with foreign policy. The Virginia senator actually <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/04/the-mike-pence-vs-tim-kaine-vice-presidential-debate-transcript-annotated/">defended</a> the early pull-out of troops in Iraq, which <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/385212/nyt-how-obama-contributed-rise-isis-mario-loyola">contributed to the rise of ISIS</a>&#8212;after blaming it on George W. Bush, of course.
&#8220;President Bush said we would leave Iraq at the end of 2011. And, Elaine, Iraq didn&#8217;t want our troops to stay, and they wouldn&#8217;t give us the protection for our troops. And guess what? If a nation where our troops are serving does not want us to stay, we&#8217;re not going to stay without their protection,&#8221; said Kaine, with a straight face.

The Dumbest Thing Tim Kaine Said in Last Night’s Debate

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Liveblogging the VP Debate so you can live a healthy and happy life. 
7:37 PT &#8211; Well, it&#8217;s over. The debate, not the republic, although you&#8217;re mileage may vary&#8230; Both candidates were strong. Both candidates focused, for the most part, on policy. It&#8217;s actually tragic that this isn&#8217;t the shape of the entire campaign. Our nation would be better with more men like these on both sides of the aisle. Kaine is the kind of man with whom it is a pleasure to disagree; Pence the kind it is a pleasure to agree with. The shame of it all is that they each had to defend the candidates on the top of their respective tickets. Or, more accurately, Kaine had to defend Clinton while Pence had to try to avoid the topic of Trump altogether. On the whole, Pence wins the night because PENCE IS ACTUALLY A CONSERVATIVE and, therefore can actually articulate conservatism. Kaine articulated leftism as best he could for someone who only half-way believes it. If there was no Donald Trump, Pence would be a walk away winner. Kaine never landed a solid shot on Pence &#8211; other than by extension. Trump was his target, and he did land a few blows, though nothing significant. For the most part, his attacks seemed contrived and bullying juxtaposed, as the were, to Pence&#8217;s grace and sincerity. 
On the whole, a good night for the GOP ticket. 
For those who were waiting for Ben Shapiro to take over the blogging duties &#8211; SO WAS I. Unfortunately, he was delayed after the sunset. We wish him a happy year 5777 on the Jewish calendar, but only because we are good Christians. Deep down, we&#8217;re offended that he left us all hanging tonight. He should be ashamed. 
7:34 PT &#8211; Final question: If you win, what specifically will you do to unify the country? 
Kaine: We&#8217;re stronger together, but Donald Trump sucks.
Pence: The best way to bring people together is through change in Washington DC. 
If Trump can keep the focus on that idea, he&#8217;ll win the presidency. It&#8217;s that simple. Unfortunately, Trump is even simpler than that and there are still fat girls he hasn&#8217;t insulted by name at 3am and, for g-d sake, SOMEONE NEEDS TO CALL SEAN HANNITY! 
7:26 PT &#8211; Both men speak well about their Christian faith and how they reconcile that with their political views. But Pence points out that Kaine, despite his personal Pro-Life views, is running with a woman who believes in partial birth abortion. Kaine sounds tortured as he defends Roe v Wade. It is, frankly, unconvincing. This man does not believe what he is saying. It&#8217;s tragic. 
7:23 PT &#8211; Breaking news: A Democrat just affirmed that a president has an obligation to take pre-emptive action against imminent threats. 
7:22 PT &#8211; North Korea just tested a nuclear weapon. What will you do to stop it from developing a nuclear arsenal and missile program?
Pence: We need to rebuild our military and marshal our allies in the Pacific.
Kaine: I PASSED SANCTIONS! 
Pence then goes on the attack by explaining the horrid fraud that is the Clinton Foundation. Clinton traded money for political favors.
Kaine, &#8220;I am glad to talk about the [Clinton] Foundation.&#8221; Political lie of the election so far. An angel in heaven literally just lost his wings. And then took a punch in his angel gut.
7:12 PT &#8211; Quijano interrupts Pence every single time he makes an attack. In other news, Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don&#8217;t. 
7:06 PT &#8211; Kaine: Ronald Reagan warned us about men like Donald Trump one day having nukes.
Pence: &#8220;Senator, please. That was even beneath you and Hillary Clinton, and that&#8217;s pretty low.&#8221;
6:58 PT &#8211; Pence asks the moderator if he can answer Kaine on cyber security. She reluctantly gives it to him. Fortunately Pence actually understands that cyber security is a great opportunity to hit Clinton on her private email server. Unfortunately, he spends the first half of his answer trying to suggest that Trump didn&#8217;t blow this same topic a week ago. By the time he pivots to attacking Clinton, he is out of time and the moderator doesn&#8217;t need an excuse to interrupt him and prevent him from actually landing any blows. This is the greatest missed opportunity of the night. When are Republicans going to learn YOU HAVE TO LEAD WITH THE GOOD STUFF. You have no friends. The moderators are always against you. You have to be better at this. 
6:48 PT &#8211; Moderator: Do you think the world is safer or less safe than it was eight years ago?
Kaine points out that, get this, HILLARY AND OBAMA KILLED BIN LADEN!
But he follows up with an actually solid line: &#8220;Donald Trump can&#8217;t start a Twitter war with Ms. Universe without shooting himself in the foot.&#8221; He continues his volley by smashing Pence with this &#8211; &#8220;Donald Trump believes that the world will be safer if more countries have nuclear weapons.&#8221;
Pence rightly points out that America is LESS SAFE than it was before Obama/Clinton came to office, but only after a weak-sauce jab at Kaine for rehearsing his lines in advance. Pence then credits Obama for getting Bin Laden, but reminds that Al Qaeda isn&#8217;t the current threat &#8211; the current threat is ISIS which was &#8220;conjured up out of the desert&#8221; after Barack Obama failed to negotiate a status of forces agreement in Iraq. It&#8217;s hard hitting. It&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s also boring. That&#8217;s both what recommends it, but also causes it not to penetrate in this forum. 
6:40 PT &#8211; Kaine tries to interrupt Pence on character, which is funny. Kaine realizes the joke, and points out that Pence is &#8220;too nice,&#8221; so he won&#8217;t interrupt him. Pence says, rightly, that Clinton is has leveled a horribly negative campaign in which she referred to half of Republican voters as a &#8220;basket of deplorables.&#8221;
Kaine pivots back to immigration by pointing out that GLITTER IN YOUR EYES! Kaine then runs for the doors.
6:35 PT &#8211; The moderator just raised the fact that Tim Scott a black South Carolina Senator, has commented on feeling the fear and anger of police bias. Undoubtedly she will ask a difficult follow up of Kaine on one of the most sensitive issues in the nation soon. Pence tries to answer with a sensitive, nuanced answer, but there is no room for that in American politics.
Kaine ably lashes out at Trump&#8217;s many boorish remarks on blacks, Mexicans and even John McCain. That&#8217;s right, America, the Democrats are now defenders of Republican lawmakers. They REALLY CARE about John McCain, you guys.
6:30 PT &#8211; Well, we&#8217;re a third of the way through. Has it been pretty? No. Has it been dull. G-d yes. Have we been drinking? Who&#8217;s asking? But I will say this, these two boring, boring men, when they are not interrupting each other because they have never watched a television, are actually discussing policy. Why aren&#8217;t they the actual nominees? This is much more edifying than anything we have seen so far.
6:25 PT &#8211; The moderator wants to know if it&#8217;s &#8220;fair&#8221; that Trump may not have paid more taxes than he actually owed under US law. This is a question for some reason. Pence points out that actual businessmen, as opposed to politicians, are using their money to create jobs. 
Kaine points out that Trump is breaking a major campaign promise by not releasing his tax returns. Pence weakly asserts, &#8220;He will!&#8221; Right. When? Painful. Kaine aptly points out the obvious, that Pence had to give Trump his own tax documents before he was allowed on the ticket. Once again, the moderator bails Pence out. It&#8217;s hard to believe, but there it is. 
6:20 PT &#8211; Pence has found his footing now and is performing well, pointing out the major failures of the Obama administration, saying of Kaine, &#8220;He is a very fitting running mate for Hillary Clinton,&#8221; Pence points out that a Clinton/Kaine administration would be more of the same.
Kaine replies with a ham-fisted line, saying the election is a choice between a &#8220;You&#8217;re hired&#8221; future or a &#8220;You&#8217;re fired&#8221; one. He then points out that a Clinton/Kaine administration would give people lots and lots of free stuff, artificially raise wages, and raise taxes.
6:15 PT &#8211; The two men are now talking over each other to such a degree that it&#8217;s difficult to follow. Moderator tries to get them back on track, but she has already lost control. 
6:12 PT &#8211; Mike Pence makes the mistake of blaming Hillary for Russian aggression. He is instantly interrupted by Kaine, who points out that Trump &#8220;loves Russia.&#8221; In a first for a Republican, Pence relies on the moderator to bail him out of the uncomfortable exchange. &#8220;When she was secretary of state, Senator, come on&#8230; the Clinton Foundation accepted donations from foreign governments.&#8221;
Kaine: &#8220;Governor Pence doesn&#8217;t think things are going very well in the world.&#8221; Pence: &#8220;Do you?&#8221;
6:10 PT &#8211; Quijano asks if Hillary Clinton can be trusted. Tim Kaine says that Hillary Clinton has always put others first, unlike Trump who built his career &#8220;off the backs of little guys.&#8221; This is clearly a reference to that time Donald Trump defrauded millions of charitable Americans out of their money on the promise of helping the people of Haiti. Oh wait&#8230;.
6:05 PT &#8211; Candidates Tim Kaine and Mike Pence have taken the stage. It&#8217;s hard to tell them apart. No, seriously. They are the same height, same build, both white guys&#8230; To make things worse, the Democrat is wearing a red tie, and the Republican a blue one. While it is certainly more accurate for the red commies to dress the part, it confuses the American audience. 
Tim Kaine opens with a reference to civil rights, pointing out that &#8211; shock &#8211; HILLARY CLINTON WOULD BE THE FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT. He then lists all of the positions he has held. One was missionary. I am not kidding.
6:00 PT &#8211; Moderator Elaine Quijano has taken the stage, announcing that this is &#8220;the only&#8221; vice presidential debate of election 2016. Thank g-d.
Now she is reciting the rules of the affair. It&#8217;s painful, but one expects it may be the most exciting part of the show&#8230;
5:50 PT &#8211; Good evening Mister and Missus America and all the ships at sea&#8230; Ah, the sea. We have such fond memories of ye, and all of the horrible things that happen upon you. They, even they, are better than this &#8211; watching a debate between the boring guy trying to be Donald Trump&#8217;s VP and the boring guy trying to be Hillary&#8217;s. 
If you&#8217;re tuning in to this liveblog, we accept your thanks for subjecting ourselves to this so that you don&#8217;t have to. I&#8217;m Jeremy Boreing, and I&#8217;ll be covering the first half of the debate until our fearless leader, famed cuck (((Ben Shapiro))), emerges from the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana at sundown and puts us out of our misery.

LIVEBLOGGING THE VP DEBATE: What Could Be More Exciting?

In case you needed more evidence that <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-hillary-clinton-president-bad-candidate-20160531-story.html">Hillary is bad at this</a>, I give you her anemic book sales:
As <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/295970-clintons-new-book-sold-fewer-than-3000-copies-in-first">reported</a> by The New York Times, the Democratic nominee sold fewer than 3,000 copies of her book, Stronger Together, in its first week on sale.
That&#8217;s bad. Like, really bad. For some perspective, Hill took <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/25/hillary-clinton-deleted-emails-using-program-intended-to-prevent-recovery/">BleachBit</a> to ten-times more emails than the number of books she sold.
The brilliantly conceived and crafted Stronger Together basically outlines policy proposals in roughly 250 pages&#8212;because Hillary can&#8217;t help but be cold and boring, even when trying to sell a book.
Hillary attempted to sell more copies by throwing her awkward but immensely more likeable running mate <a href="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPaZCyT8i53camB-7AhfkXwAXQVVoCfbyJR68fjwqullXdAshN">Senator Tim Kaine</a> on the cover. No such luck, of course. 
Here&#8217;s more bad news: According to New York Times&#8217; projections, Hillary will likely sell 9,000 copies in total! A book&#8217;s first week&#8217;s sales number typically accounts for a third of the total books sold.
The proceeds will go &#8220;to charity.&#8221; So, probably the Clinton Foundation, AKA her pantsuit pocket.
Rumors that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/politics/clinton-book-stronger-together.html?_r=0">2,912 copies</a> of Stronger Together were found stashed into a corner of Chelsea&#8217;s NYC apartment could not be substantiated&#8212;but do make sense.

Hillary Book Sale Numbers Will Make You Laugh. Really Hard.

At the 20th Annual Human Rights Campaign National Dinner this weekend, &#8220;Overheated&#8221; Hillary Clinton&#8217;s running mate Tim Kaine, a Catholic, acknowledged to LGBT activists that the church he attends does not accept the progressive view of same-sex marriage &#8212; but he predicted that would change soon enough.
&#8220;I was proud to join my Senate colleagues in an amicus brief in the Supreme Court supporting full marriage equality,&#8221; he <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/sen-tim-kaine-thinks-catholic-church-will-join-him-break-jesus-same-sex#.V9bS6voP4ZI.twitter">told</a> the room of nearly 4,000 LGBT supporters. &#8220;And how happy I was, how happy I was on the day that the court declared yet again that equal is equal just as love is love. How happy I was because sometimes in life you don&#8217;t get a chance to finish the unfinished business, but I have been given an opportunity to do it. And, you know, like many people of faith, including maybe many in this room, my support for marriage equality now &#8212; my full complete, unconditional support for marriage equality &#8212; is at odds with the current doctrine of the church that I still attend. But I think that&#8217;s going to change, too. I think that is going to change, too.&#8221;
The Democratic vice presidential nominee explained that he believed that the &#8220;current doctrine,&#8221; which has been held since the founding of the church, would eventually give way to modern progressive doctrine because all things in Creation are &#8220;good.&#8221;
&#8220;My church also teaches me about a Creator in the first chapter of Genesis who surveys the entire world including mankind and said, &#8216;It is very good. It is very good,'&#8221; he said. &#8220;Who am I to challenge God for the beautiful diversity of the human family? I think we&#8217;re supposed to celebrate, not challenge it.&#8221;
Kaine, of course, managed to work in a dig on Donald Trump, whom he slammed as being &#8220;no friend to this community, and he&#8217;s no friend to the value of equality.&#8221; Kaine did not specify exactly how Trump, whose largely pro-LGBT stances have often put him at odds with his own party, was not a &#8220;friend.&#8221; 
HotAir&#8217;s <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2016/09/12/kaine-pretty-sure-catholic-church-will-accept-progressive-gospel-sex-marriage/">Ed Morissey</a>, a Catholic himself, notes that Kaine appears to misunderstand the concept of doctrine in the Catholic Church. While a practice of the church may change, church doctrine is viewed as unchangeable. Morissey explains that at the 2014 Synods on the Family, from which he reported, the church leadership &#8220;only discussed same-sex marriage in the context of welcoming the children of such secular unions to the Gospel to ensure universal evangelism, while reminding gays and lesbians that they are welcome to join the church on the church&#8217;s terms, like any other voluntary association. The bishops rejected an attempt to allow for divorce and remarriage without a finding of sacramental nullity among heterosexual couples, let alone propose and discuss changing doctrine on the fundamental nature of marriage as a union of man and woman and a reflection of the creative power of Trinitarian life.&#8221;
Despite the liberal leanings of Pope Francis on the issue of immigration and capitalism and his <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/6956/pope-francis-church-needs-apologize-gays-james-barrett">overtures to the LGBT community</a>, he has consistently maintained the doctrine of sanctity of marriage and its definition as being between one man and one woman. He has also commented several times on homosexuality and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/4826/left-not-going-what-pope-francis-said-about-james-barrett">transgenderism</a>, both of which he described in terms consistent with Catholic teaching. In response to Kaine&#8217;s prediction, <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/terence-p-jeffrey/sen-tim-kaine-thinks-catholic-church-will-join-him-break-jesus-same-sex#.V9bS6voP4ZI.twitter">CNS News</a> provided a summary of Catholic doctrine and its scriptural basis:
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The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual acts are &#8220;intrinsically disordered&#8221; and contrary to the natural law and that: &#8220;Under no circumstances can they be approved.&#8221; The Catholic Church also teaches that marriage is the permanent union of one man and one woman as taught by Jesus Christ.
Matthew 19: 3-6 says the following:
&#8220;Some Pharisees approached Him, and tested Him, saying, &#8216;Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause whatever?&#8217; He said in reply, &#8216;Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator &#8220;made them male and female&#8221; and said, &#8220;For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh&#8221;? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no human being must separate.&#8217;&#8221;
The Catholic Catechism says of marriage:
&#8220;&#8217;God himself is the author of marriage.&#8217; The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator. &#8230;
&#8220;In his preaching Jesus unequivocally taught the original meaning of the union of man and woman as the Creator willed it from the beginning permission given by Moses to divorce one&#8217;s wife was a concession to the hardness of hearts. The matrimonial union of man and woman is indissoluble: God himself has determined it &#8216;what therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder.&#8217;&#8221;
The Catholic Catechism says of homosexual acts:
&#8220;Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that &#8216;homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.&#8217; They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.&#8221;
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