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The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier
by Michelle Malkin
 
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 Two-Fold Trouble Filling Administration Posts 
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After President Donald Trump's inauguration, he set about appointing the most conservative administration since Ronald Reagan — more conservative, in fact. He's accomplished some important policy changes, not least of which is reining in the regulatory beast. And yet his administration, from even before Day 1, has been beset by distraction and phony scandal. Most of that — 95% of it — is fomented by leftists determined to undermine his agenda and delegitimize his very presidency. Still, that leaves 5%, and we have on occasion chalked that up to Trump's tendency to say dumb stuff, primarily on Twitter, that amounts to self-inflicted damage. For example, his trouble with James Comey really grew when he attacked his already fired FBI director on Twitter. In general, rather than accomplishing his agenda, he fuels DemoMSM fires of distraction, all because he still thinks he controls the realty-TV script. He doesn't, even as president.
          That's playing out in one particularly important way — his difficulty in filling administration posts. The Washington Post reports, "Republicans say they are turning down job offers to work for a chief executive whose volatile temperament makes them nervous. They are asking head-hunters if their reputations could suffer permanent damage, according to 27 people The Washington Post interviewed to assess what is becoming a debilitating factor in recruiting political appointees. The hiring challenge complicates the already slow pace at which Trump is filling senior leadership jobs across government."
          Two yuge caveats. First, as the administration disputes this, saying there are procedural delays in vetting applicants, and there are people, in the words of Press Secretary Sean Spicer, "knocking down my door" to apply for jobs. Second, the report comes from The Washington Post, which also today celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. Think they're not itching to relive the glory days? So take what they report with a major grain of salt.
          That said, there are also two sides to this coin. Senate Democrats are delaying confirmations at a record pace, and leftists in general are raising such a stink as to block others entirely. Dr. Mark Green withdrew from consideration for Army secretary after the Rainbow Mafia went after him. It's all part of the derail-Trump's-agenda campaign. But Trump is also moving slowly and putting up red flags for potential recruits. When he's poorly running a realty-TV administration and publicly undermining his own officials, there's less incentive for qualified individuals to take the risk. ~The Patriot Post
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Klayman, Dennis Montgomery File for TRO Vs
Comey, FBI, NSA, CIA, Allege Obstruction
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Larry Klayman with his client, whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, moved on Tuesday for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against former FBI Director James Comey... the FBI, and the NSA and CIA, among other defendants. The case involves allegations that James Comey, in concert with the other defendants, buried an FBI investigation, caused by whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, a former NSA/CIA contractor, into mass illegal surveillance on not just President Trump, but the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, 156 judges, and even Klayman. Montgomery came forward to Comey years ago with 47 hard drives containing classified information, under grant of immunity, and even was interviewed under oath by FBI agents Walter Giardina and William Barnett...http://rickwells.us/klayman-montgomery-file-tro-comey-fbi-nsa-cia-obstruction-justice/
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Dem Senator Connects the Dots From Russia
to Steve Scalise to liar-nObamaCare.
You Will Be Disgusted
by streiff
{redstate.com} ~ Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Tuesday that Senate Republicans are using the investigation into Russian election meddling and last week’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice as “cover” to try to move their healthcare bill... Somehow I really find in hard to believe that the GOP are using all of this stuff as cover for moving an liar-nObamaCare bill. In particular, I really find it extraordinary, given the way that the media have dropped any coverage of a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter (yes, I know, that is a redundancy) shooting Steve Scalise, that anyone could claim the Scalise shooting was cover for anything... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/06/20/chris-murphy-scalise-cover-for-oba/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Democrats….The REAL Russian Connection
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by Joe Messina
{lidblog.com} ~ Democrats in DC are great at deflection. It’s amazing that mainstream media can only find “anonymous” reports of “alleged” illegal actions that can’t be corroborated by anyone or anything except other anonymous sources... Mainstream media can’t find anything wrong with any actions of any Democrats no matter how much proof is offered, but are looking for a conviction against any allegation made against a Republican. They still don’t get it! Let’s start with the leaked information about a Russian dossier that would bury President Trump! Many mainstream sources reported that the dossier had information that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump. The dossier would prove that the Trump team and Mr. Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election...They seem to over look the fact that liar-nObama interfered in the Israeli election.  http://lidblog.com/real-russian-connection/
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6th District Defends the Wall,
Jon Ossoff Invasion Fails
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by Brent Scher
{freebeacon.com} ~ Democrat Jon Ossoff's expensive bid to flip Georgia's Sixth Congressional District fell short on Tuesday as he lost to Republican Karen Handel... who he had defeated by 28 percentage points in the election's first round of voting two months ago. The election was called by CNN shortly after 10:00 p.m., with Handel collecting 52.6 percent of the vote with just over 65 percent of precincts reporting, according to the network's vote count. NBC projected the race soon after. Georgia's sixth district was flooded with record levels of spending for the special election to fill Republican Tom Price's congressional seat... http://freebeacon.com/politics/6th-district-defends-wall-jon-ossoff-invasion-fails/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8aa1af377e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8aa1af377e-45611665
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44 Year DOJ Policy Prohibits Mueller
From Criminal Proceedings Against Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Sean Hannity reveals an old DOJ that was recently uncovered by his guest, Mark Levin, “which suggests that a sitting president cannot be indicted in criminal cases.”... The memo reads in part, “In 1973 the Department concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.” It continued, “We believe that the conclusion reached by the Department in 1973 still represents the best interpretation of the Constitution.” It states, “We believe that the Constitution requires recognition of a presidential immunity from indictment and criminal prosecution while the president is in office.” Mark Levin sets the topic of the discussion as the attempt by the left to create a perception that President Trump obstructed justice. Levin says, aside from the fact that President Trump didn’t and can’t obstruct justice, the questions of the frenzied media as to whether Muller will investigate President Trump or not is nothing more than media insanity... http://rickwells.us/levin-44-year-doj-policy-prohibits-mueller-criminal-proceedings-trump/
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The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier
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by Michelle Malkin
{wnd.com} ~ We may never know what brutal torture and malign neglect American student Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea's dictatorship before losing his life this week at the age of 22.

But it wasn't the first time the free-spirited Ohio native died.

More than a year before succumbing to the unknown illness or injury that left him in a coma thousands of miles away from home, Otto Warmbier's own countrymen murdered his reputation. His character. His humanity.

Click-hungry media ghouls knew nothing about Warmbier's small-town upbringing, his family life, politics, personality, disappointments or dreams. But they gleefully savaged a young man who made a mistake on a doomed trip to a totalitarian hell.

Warmbier's thoughtless taunters instantly transformed him into a bigger, badder villain than the barbaric DPRK goons who beat, starve, rape and kill enemies of the state for such offenses as listening to foreign radio broadcasts, possessing Bibles and disrespecting Dear Leader -- in Warmbier's case, by attempting to steal a propaganda sign that read "Let's arm ourselves strongly with Kim Jong-il's patriotism!" as a souvenir.

The Huffington Post published an acid rant by "Blogging While Black" writer La Sha titled "North Korea Proves Your White Male Privilege Is Not Universal." She rejoiced at Warmbier's sentence because, she gloated, it taught him that "the shield his cis white male identity provides here in America is not teflon abroad."

Instead of faulting a repressive socialist regime, La Sha blamed Warmbier for "being socialized first as a white boy, and then as a white man in this country." The HuffPo's megalomaniac millennial had the gall to compare her daily plight of living and breathing freely in America to Warmbier's captivity:

"The hopeless fear Warmbier is now experiencing is my daily reality living in a country where white men like him are willfully oblivious to my suffering even as they are complicit in maintaining the power structures which ensure their supremacy at my expense."

But it wasn't just babbling diversity bloggers who exploited Warmbier's imprisonment.

For a few cheap yuks, liberal black comedian Larry Wilmore plowed ahead with smug disregard to how Warmbier's parents, family and friends must have suffered as photos and videos of their son and loved one were plastered all over media. To canned laughter, Wilmore mocked Warmbier on his Comedy Central show with a graphic labeling him an "ASS," which spelled out a fake frat name, "Alpha Sigma Sigma."

"It's just tough for me to have much sympathy for this guy and his crocodile tears," Wilmore snarked as he roasted the "Frat Boy."

Left-wing website Salon added another layer to the white male-bashing echo chamber:

"This might be America's biggest idiot frat boy: Meet the UVa student who thought he could pull a prank in North Korea."

Not to be outdone, Affinity Magazine a "social justice" online magazine for teens stomped on Warmbier's grave after his death was announced:

"Watch whiteness work," the publication tweeted. "He wasn't a 'kid' or 'innocent' you can't go to another country and try to steal from them. Respect their laws."

This from a rag that had deified Black Lives Matter icons Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin as downtrodden youth whose extensive rap sheets must remain unmentioned at all costs.

Otto's saboteurs engaged in the very same bigotry and stereotyping they recklessly accuse everyone else of at every turn. The far left learned nothing from leaping to conclusions about the Duke lacrosse players or the wrongfully accused members of Phi Kappa Psi at University of Virginia -- where Warmbier was a junior double-majoring in commerce and economics.

By all accounts, Warmbier was a charismatic and caring human being whom one high-school classmate called "Everyone's friend." He was a lover of cultures and intellectually open-minded -- "a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds," according to his family.

Utterly consumed by malignant identity politics, the left-wing intelligentsia have become the intolerantsia. They are bent on dehumanizing individuals, fomenting racial, ethnic and class division in the name of "progressivism," and never taking responsibility for the damage done.

Contrast the no-regrets policy of these "Frat Boy"-bashers, with a former North Korean prison guard, Lim Hye-jin, who escaped recently and recounted the horrors of life in the camps.

"We were manipulated not to feel any sympathy for prisoners," she said. The guards of the totalitarian state "do not see them as human beings, just as animals." After realizing she had been brainwashed by ideological monsters, she spoke out.

"Now I know they were normal people, so I feel very guilty."

Will the short, slandered life and double death of Otto Warmbier prompt the American left's cruel character assassins to admit the same?

Soul-searching, alas, requires a soul.
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