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The Oval Office Wall Brawl
by Nate Jackson
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Former FEC Commissioner: Trump Did
Not Violate Campaign Finance Laws
by Mike Brest
{dailycaller.com} ~ Former FEC Commissioner Hans Von Spakovsky debunked the argument that President Donald Trump broke campaign finance laws... by paying women he allegedly had affairs with prior to becoming president. The president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was sentenced to three years in jail on Wednesday for a litany of crimes, including making an illegal campaign contribution amounting to $130,000 to Stormy Daniels, who alleges she slept with Trump in 2006, so she would keep quiet about the affair. Despite the guilty plea, Spakovsky said that Trump should not be worried because it would have to be a “campaign-related expense” for the contribution break any campaign finance laws. He also pointed out that the only other time the Justice Department tried to say payments like these were campaign-related expenses was with John Edwards. Donations to Edwards’ campaign actually went to paying his mistress, a woman who worked for the campaign and ended up having his child. A jury, however, ruled that Edwards’ donations were not a campaign-related expense....
The Federal Judge Overseeing Michael Flynn’s
Sentencing Just Dropped A Major Bombshell
by Margot Cleveland
{thefederalist.com} ~ On Tuesday, attorneys for Michael Flynn filed a sentencing memorandum and letters of support for the former Army lieutenant general in federal court... The sentencing memorandum reveals for the first time concrete evidence that the FBI created multiple 302 interview summaries of Flynn’s questioning by now-former FBI agent Peter Strzok and a second unnamed agent, reported to be FBI Special Agent Joe Pientka. Further revelations may be forthcoming soon following an order entered late yesterday by presiding judge Emmet Sullivan, directing the special counsel’s office to file with the court any 302s or memorandum relevant to Flynn’s interview. Flynn, who served briefly as President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, pleaded guilty more than a year ago to making false statements to federal investigators during a January 24, 2017 interview. During that interview, Strzok and presumably Pientka questioned Flynn about a telephone conversation the Trump advisor had with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. While Flynn’s sentencing memorandum methodically laid out the case for a low-level sentence of one-year probation, footnote 23 dropped a bomb, revealing that the agents’ 302 summary of his interview was dated August 22, 2017. As others have already noted, the August 22, 2017 date is a “striking detail” because that puts the 302 report “nearly seven months after the Flynn interview.” When added to facts already known, this revelation takes on a much greater significance... http://thefederalist.com/2018/12/13/federal-judge-overseeing-michael-flynns-sentencing-just-dropped-major-bombshell/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=482cb9eac8-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-482cb9eac8-83771801Testimony: Mexico’s ‘narco’ crisis
by Roger F. Noriega
{aei.org} ~ Thank you, very much, Mr. Chairman for the opportunity for me to offer my views on the high stakes involved in the US-Mexico relationship... particularly regarding the threat posed by Mexican organized crime organizations that are a part of an aggressive and sophisticated global crime network. This hearing is particularly timely because Mexico has a new president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who assumed power on December 1st with a clear mandate to fight corruption but whose thoughts of subduing narcoviolence with an “amnesty” and antipoverty programs are not reassuring. For the last 20 years, the percentage of cocaine entering the United States transiting Mexico has never dipped below 90 percent—sustaining a public health and criminal justice crisis that has a $200 billion annual impact on US society. The Mexican people see the problem another way: The demand for cocaine, heroin, and other drugs by US consumers sustains criminal groups that have attacked the rule of law, weakened institutions, and caused terror and death since the “war on drugs” began 50 years ago. We must face this threat as partners. The United States could not begin to stop illicit drug trafficking without Mexico’s help. And, Mexico would pay a very dear price if it gave way to criminals who do much more damage than traffic drugs northward. Worse yet, if the rule of law in Mexico were any weaker than it is today, the negative impact on economic growth and social stability would be felt in both countries. We share robust trade, financial and commercial ties, integrated supply chains, and cultural ties. The border is where we are joined, not divided. Over one million legal border crossings between the two countries occur each day, while $1 million worth of trade takes place each minute between the US and Mexico....
Suspected Terrorist Leading
Migrant Group Demanding Entry Into US
by Peter Hasson
{dailycaller.com} ~ A suspect in a 1987 bombing that wounded six American soldiers in Honduras is leading a group of migrants... demanding entry into the United States. Alfonso Guerrero Ulloa organized a march of approximately 100 migrants to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, Mexico, on Tuesday, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Ulloa delivered a letter to the consulate on behalf of the migrants, asking for either entry into the U.S. or a payment of $50,000 per person. “It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Ulloa told the Union-Tribune. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.” Ulloa has lived in Mexico since 1987 after fleeing Honduras in the wake of a bombing that wounded six soldiers. Ulloa was suspected of planting a bomb in a Chinese restaurant, but received asylum from Mexico, whose government described the suspected terrorist as a “freedom fighter.”....
Double Standard: Only scumbag/liar-nObama
Can Obliterate His Own Citizens
by Mark Christian and Joe Herring
{americanthinker.com} ~ Anwar al-Awlaki was an American citizen who chose to advocate terrorism and built a career on orchestrating activities intended to weaken, injure, and ultimately overthrow the government of the United States... He was a member of numerous subversive groups, dating back to his college days. He was an avowed Islamist, who pledged to do all in his power to subjugate the world, and everyone in it, under Islam, by any means necessary. As an able propagandist, Awlaki became a valuable recruiter for terror groups. By any objective measure, the man was an enemy of his own nation. Awlaki was a fiery Islamic preacher. His words were unreservedly anti-American. They inflamed Islamic passions. Awlaki wielded words as weapons. He met his demise in 2011, on the receiving end of an American drone strike in Yemen ordered by then-president Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. That strike also killed Awlaki's American-born 16-year-old son. While there were a few bleats and squawks from various civil libertarians on the left and right over the assassination of not one, but two American citizens without due process of law, the issue grew stale quickly as the media sensed that their favorite son (scumbag/liar-nObama) might be harmed politically with further reporting. Fast-forward to the present day, and while keeping the circumstances of Awlaki's death in the forefront of your mind, ask yourself why so many on both sides of the aisle are now exercised over Saudi Arabia allegedly doing the exact same thing to a Saudi national, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi national guilty of every crime and a few more! for which Awlaki paid with his life....
The Oval Office Wall Brawl
by Nate Jackson: “It’s like a manhood thing for him,” incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of President Donald Trump and the border wall. “As if manhood could ever be associated with him. I was trying to be the mom. I can’t explain it to you. It was so wild. It goes to show you: You get into a tinkle contest with a skunk, you get tinkle all over you.” Pulosi’s schoolyard taunts were in response to a testy Oval Office meeting with the president, Vice President Mike Pence, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag/clown-Schumer. Before we dissect that meeting, however, just imagine for a moment if Trump had insulted Pulosi’s womanhood…
The meeting was televised, and it was certainly quintessential reality TV — a genre in which the president thrives. To mix metaphors, it was also a New Yorker-style rhetorical brawl, and Trump holds his own in those too.
Trump was savvy to bring in the TV cameras. “It’s called transparency,” he explained when Pulosi complained and asked that they be removed. Trump wanted the American people to see that he and his party are serious about border security, while Democrats would rather fling the door open wide for millions of illegals.
Trump wants $5 billion for the border wall, which the House gave him earlier this year. Senate Democrats were willing to give only $1.6 billion; now they’re apparently pulling back to $1.3 billion, and none of that is even for an actual wall. Yet Pulosi had the gall to insist they were negotiating “in good faith.” We’d hate to see bad faith.
scumbag/clown-Schumer blamed Trump for any coming shutdown, even though, as Trump repeatedly noted, it is 10 Senate Democrats who are the roadblock to a compromise. Nevertheless, unlike most Republicans who are afraid of their own shadows, Trump owned it. “I am proud to shut down the government for border security, scumbag/clown-Chuck,” he declared. “People in this country don’t want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down. I won’t blame you for it.”
Once upon a time, Democrats like scumbag/clown-Schumer and Pulosi, as well as scumbag/liar-Bill and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, thought building a wall along the southern border was the responsible thing to do for a sane immigration policy. In the last few years, however, Democrats have done a 180, and Pulosi now calls the wall “immoral.” Demo Party leaders shamelessly exploit immigrants and their children for political gain, while Trump and his supporters actually want to solve the problem of illegal immigration.
As the White House email “1600 Daily” put it, “The Democrats’ priority is clear: They would rather keep the U.S. border open to illegal immigrants than keep the Government open to serve American citizens.” Of course, it remains to be seen if either side sticks with their ultimatums, or if this was just partisan showmanship for the cameras.
~The Patriot Post
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Comments
Bonnie
so much for the rule of law. scumbag/clown-schumer things he know every answer without thinking.
THE PRES HAS EVERY RIGHT TO KEEP ANYONE OUT OF THIS COUNTRY PERIOD
SEE ART IV SECT 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION. AND 8 USC 1182 F
AS FOR SCHUMER HE SHOULD HAVE GIVEN IN AND THEN IN THE FUTURE COME BK AND SAID UM I NEED ............................................... BUT HE BLEW IT.