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scumbag-Schiff Show' Roundup: Public Hearings,
Giuliani, Whistleblower Trouble
Nate Jackson
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Trump grants clemency to 2 Army officers
accused of war crimes, restores rank to
Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher
By Melissa Leon and Lucas Tomlinson
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump has granted clemency to two Army officers accused or convicted of war crimes... and restored Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher to the rank of chief petty officer after he was docked a pay grade after being convicted of posing for a photo with a dead Islamic State ISIS fighter, the White House announced Friday. Army 1st Lt. Clint Lorance could be released from the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, as soon as Friday evening, six years after being found guilty of second-degree murder. Maj. Matt Golsteyn, a former Green Beret, will have the murder charge against him dropped. "Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency Full Pardon for Army First Lieutenant Clint Lorance, an Executive Grant of Clemency Full Pardon for Army Major Mathew Golsteyn, and an order directing the promotion of Special Warfare Operator First Class Edward R. Gallagher to the grade of E-7, the rank he held before he was tried and found not guilty of nearly all of the charges against him," the White House said in a statement Friday night. Lorance was six years into serving a 19-year sentence at Fort Leavenworth for ordering his soldiers to open fire and kill three men in Afghanistan. Lorence’s supporters say he killed Taliban fighters. Nine members of his unit testified against him, saying the men were innocent. Gallagher, a 15-year SEAL whose case garnered national attention, was found not guilty of murdering an ISIS fighter in Iraq in 2017 but was convicted in July of a lesser charge of posing for a photo with the dead ISIS prisoner's corpse. His punishment included a reduction in rank from chief petty officer to 1st class petty officer, which would have cost him about $200,000 in retirement funds. His family and defense team were fighting to have his rank restored. "There are no words to adequately express how grateful my family and I are to our president, Donald J. Trump, for his intervention and decision," Eddie Gallagher said in a public statement Friday night. "We would also like to thank the American people for their unwavering support during this very difficult time for my family and I -- we can never thank you enough." "I truly believe that we are blessed as a nation to have a commander in chief that stands up for our war fighters, and cares about how they and their families are treated," he said....
Dan’s Powerful Interview with President Trump
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Today’s Top “Impeachment” Hoax News Stories
By Pamela Geller
{ gellerreport.com } ~ Here’s what you need to know about the party of treason’s coup to unseat our President... “Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Thursday that the United States Ambassador Gordon Sondland did not link financial military assistance to a request for Ukraine to open up an investigation into former vice president and current Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden,” Ryan Saavedra reports... “Clever: By having witnesses go through closed-door hearings first, Dems can get a sense of what witnesses have to say privately and then tailor their questions for maximum impact during the public spectacle,” the New York Post editorial board writes. “Trouble is, even rehearsals don’t seem to help . . . No matter how many auditions they hold, it’s no substitute for hard evidence.”... “There must be some confusion. Under the U.S. Constitution, it is the president of the United States who determines foreign policy. How can President Trump be ‘at odds with foreign policy’ when he’s the one who determines it?” Sharyl Attkisson writes. “Trump’s enemies may cheer on the idea of diplomats and other officials choosing to oppose or undermine his wishes. But based on our Constitution, the dissenting diplomats are the ones who are at odds with “official foreign policy”— not the other way around.”... “For those who find the hearings far from riveting but watch out of obligation or amusement, here’s a modest suggestion to pass the hours productively: Count the important things your representatives could and should be doing otherwise,” Michael Goodwin writes. Fix immigration, pass USMCA, rebuild infrastructure—take your pick..
Jeremy Corbyn Poses a Potent
Threat to Western Security
by Con Coughlin
{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ With the British general election now well underway, Britain's allies need to give serious consideration about how they would deal with Jeremy Corbyn... the Labour party's hard left candidate, in the event of him becoming prime minister. The prospect of Mr Corbyn entering Downing Street is of particular concern for the US given the current level of close cooperation that currently exists between Washington and London, especially regarding national security issues. As one highly influential American security source told me earlier this week, "A Corbyn government would not just be a disaster for Britain. It would be a disaster for the US and other Western allies who work closely with London on a whole range of global security issues." One of the pillars of the so-called "special relationship" between London and Washington, for example, are the close ties they share on military and intelligence cooperation. Britain's nuclear deterrent relies heavily on American technology to enable the Royal Navy's fleet of specially-adapted submarines to fire Trident missiles armed with nuclear warheads. It is a similar picture on the intelligence-sharing front, where the close level of cooperation between the American and British intelligence services forms the bedrock of the elite Five Eyes intelligence network, with Canada, Australia and New Zealand being the other members of an alliance that was originally established during the Second World War. Consequently, serious questions are now being asked in Washington and other key Western capitals about the likely implications of a Corbyn victory in next month's general election and whether, with the Labour leader resident in Downing Street, they will be able to maintain the same level of military and intelligence-sharing cooperation. By far the most likely casualty of a Corbyn government would be the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network, where there is a strong likelihood that other member states of the alliance will be deeply reluctant to share highly sensitive material with a British prime minister who has spent his entire political career openly associating with regimes and groups that are utterly hostile to the West and its allies....
New impeachment czar will glue
together unwieldy White House strategy
by David M. Drucker & Steven Nelson
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Newly appointed White House aide Tony Sayegh will try to bring cohesion to a disorderly White House impeachment response amid internal backbiting... polls that have shown growing support for impeaching President Trump, and frustration on Capitol Hill that Republicans are not receiving clear marching orders. The Washington Examiner has learned that Sayegh, a former Treasury official, will work with the White House communications team, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and his staff, and other administration offices to develop and streamline a strategy to dispute allegations and make sure Republicans are on the same page. “I’m always the kind of guy who likes a strategy and a plan and a coordinated effort,” said Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican aligned with the president. Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was brought in to partner with Sayegh and will be the media face of the anti-impeachment campaign, with plans to leverage her legal background to discredit allegations by House Democrats that the president abused his power in his dealings with Ukraine. “Expect to see Pam on TV a lot,” an administration official familiar with the arrangement told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. “Tony will be managing a lot of the strategy.” Trump is still eschewing a war room, White House officials insist, instead tapping two field marshals, Sayegh and Bondi, to gel an effort that has been bogged down in an internecine struggle and blame game between acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Cipollone. “Pam and Tony are coming in to help the administration play offense,” the administration official familiar with the arrangement said. Cipollone is said to have favored Sayegh's addition. But sources say that there is no friction between Sayegh and Mulvaney... https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/new-impeachment-czar-will-glue-together-unwieldy-white-house-strategy .
Trump Admin To Seize Private Land
For Border Wall Construction
by JASON HOPKINS
{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Trump administration is reportedly preparing to submit court filings to take over private land on the U.S.-Mexico border... allowing border wall construction to move forward. White House senior adviser Jared Kushner met with administration and military officials Friday. He discussed government takeover of private land along the Texas border, according to a report by NBC. Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was reportedly in attendance, along with Robert Salesses and Kenneth Rapuano, both of whom serve as assistant secretaries for homeland defense. Lawyers for the Department of Defense and the Justice Department have prepared rights of entry letters, which will inform affected land owners that the U.S. government will be entering their property to asses the area, which will include soil testing and land surveys. In most domain cases, the government settles on a specific amount of money before it takes over land, but the administration has not yet confirmed how much it will compensate landowners, according to sources who spoke with NBC. However, the White House could file under the Declaration of Taking Act, a move that would likely hasten the time it takes for the government to buy border land. A group of Texas landowners who oppose border wall construction are fighting the Trump administration in court over the issue. “They are probably going to get the land in the end, but they are asking the court to dispense with the process that is typically afforded to landowners,” said Ricky Garza, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project. “We want to make sure that all of our clients are treated with basic human decency and with respect that’s been sorely lacking in the past by this administration.” The Texas Civil Rights Project represents five Texas property owners whose land is in the pathway of the planned border wall. Unlike the other southwest states, most of the land along the Texas-Mexico border are privately owned, according to Garza, making wall construction more difficult. The attorney added that there are hundreds of landowners who own property along the path of the planned border wall. The administration is expected to submit its court filing in the coming days, marking the latest development in President Donald Trump’s bid to build wall a massive wall between the U.S. and Mexico. Immigration officials are aiming to build well over 400 miles of new wall by the end of Trump’s first term... https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/15/donald-trump-seize-texas-border-land/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10951 .
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scumbag-Schiff Show' Roundup: Public Hearings,
Giuliani, Whistleblower TroubleNate Jackson: There are several noteworthy happenings on the impeachment front. Here’s the roundup:
The Democrats’ impeachment charade enters a new phase today: Public hearings. The Associated Press reports, “All on TV, committee leaders will set the stage, then comes the main feature: Two seasoned diplomats, William Taylor, the graying former infantry officer now charge d'affaires in Ukraine, and George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary in Washington.”
The Daily Signal notes four things to expect.
As has been the case from day one, the question isn’t really whether there was a quid pro quo but if President Donald Trump’s request violated the law or was impeachable. “Quid pro quo” is, roughly translated, Latin for “foreign policy.” (We kid — it’s literally “this for that.”) But Democrats and their Leftmedia allies want you to think it means Trump broke the law by temporarily delaying military aid to Ukraine for requested cooperation and favors. So it’s little wonder that a developing feature of the Democrats’ effort is the shift in terminology away from quid pro quo and toward “extortion” and “bribery.”
This is all done to obfuscate what is, at heart, a policy disagreement. Andrew McCarthy, who wrote a book on impeaching Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, says of the testimonies of several key people in the policy community: “It is the president, not the bureaucracy, who was elected by the American people.” He adds, “Bureaucrats are not free to substitute their judgments for the president’s.”
Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, is at the center of this fiasco. He published a Wall Street Journal op-ed rebutting the “false narrative built on selectively leaked testimony from Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff’s closed-door Intelligence Committee hearings.” Giuliani argues that Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky discussed only matters “of serious mutual concern.” One was Ukraine’s interference in the 2016 election by releasing documents related to Paul Manafort, whose short stint as Trump’s campaign manager was ended by that disclosure. The other was the possible corrupt dealings of loose lips liar-Joe and Hunter Biden, which Giuliani says include “documents showing that [Ukrainian energy company] Burisma transferred $900,000 to Rosemont Seneca Partners, a lobbying firm owned by Hunter Biden, and that the money was for lobbying loose lips liar-Joe Biden.” The elder loose lips liar-Biden, of course, already admitted his own quid pro quo regarding Ukrainian corruption investigations.
scumbag-Adam Schiff’s collusion conspirator, the whistleblower — widely identified as Eric Ciaramella — may be in legal trouble for soliciting a quarter-million dollars in illicit donations via GoFundMe. Remember, the whistleblower’s attorney, Mark Zaid, declared in 2017 that the “coup has started.”
Finally, The Washington Post has “five questions we still need answered.” It more or less outlines Democrat strategy going forward. Victor Davis Hanson, on the other hand, lists Ten Reasons Why Impeachment Is Illegitimate. The overarching reason? Because the Democrats’ strategy is transparently vindictive. ~The Patriot Post
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