op ed review 8/26
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
Bad week for President Trump. Manafort convicted of tax issues, Cohen
forced to plead guilty to a campaign violation that may not even be a crime. Pat Buchanan sums it up: “we are in for a
hellish year.”
Giddy CNN and MSNBC say the word ‘Impeachment’ 222 Times in
One Day! Watch the funny video.
What they think of you:
NYT columnist: “Donald Trump's 'beastly base' is 'enemy of the Republic.'”
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/24/charles-blow-new-york-times-columnist-says-trumps-/
For
some reason The Hill
thought this was a good headline for their readers: “Voters must eradicate the Trump
plague from American politics.”
Democrat congressman jokes about President Trump drowning in
the Potomac River.
MSNBC, CNN ignore bombshell development in Mollie Tibbetts
case on day of bad news for Trump: Tibbets murdered by illegal alien.
Elizabeth Warren To Tibbetts’ Family: You Need To Focus On
‘Real Problems’ Like Immigrant Family Separations
“How Many Dead Americans Will Make Liberals Care?”
In a blow to Obamacare, a five-state coalition won an $839
million judgment against the federal government.
But this is not good:
“Fox poll finds Obamacare more popular than tax cuts” ???
Turns out the FBI never examined vast majority of emails on
Weiner's laptop, despite Comey's assurances……"There was no real
investigation and no real search."
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34972/bombshell-report-fbi-never-examined-vast-majority-james-barrett
Guess who was in charge of the email examination: Clinton fixer and Trump hater, Peter Strzok.
Trump administration cuts aid to Palestinians by more than
$200 million after they refused to stop the “martyr’s fund”: rewards to families of suicide bombers.
Target CEO raves about the state of the economy: “This is
the best consumer environment 'I've seen in my career'”
“Trump's policies could enable America's economy to outpace
China's”
U.S. Steel to Invest $750M at Indiana Plant Thanks to Trump
Tariffs: ‘We Are Experiencing a Renaissance’
New study shows the U.S. is leading the world in reducing
CO2 Emissions, while Paris Accord nations break promises.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/34848/study-us-leads-world-reducing-co2-emissions-while-james-barrett
Obama appointed federal court judge who just turned a room
full of foreigners into American citizens tells them to “take a knee.” First piece of advice to them is boycott the
American flag they have just been handed.
Parents fight back after school drops Pledge of Allegiance
for student-authored oath to ‘global society’
3 weeks after 75 people were shot in Chicago's most violent
weekend in 2018, only one alleged shooter has been charged.. Reasons: failure of witnesses and victims to cooperate,
distrust of the police, and the challenges of entrenched gang warfare.
Welfare generation: 52.1%
of Kids Live in Households Getting Means-Tested Government Assistance.
“Democrats seek to make Republican scandals an election
issue” with help from the mainstream media.
44% of all Federal criminal convictions are to “non-citizens.”
More Than 700,000 Overstayed Visas in 2017
Muslims Hold Massive Rally at Vikings USBank Stadium —
Chanting “Allahu Akbar”
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COLUMN OF THE WEEK
Was Hillary The Real Colluder?
It's beginning to look as if claims of monstrous collusion
between Russian officials and U.S. political operatives were true. But it
wasn't Donald Trump who was guilty of Russian collusion. It was Hillary Clinton
and U.S. intelligence officials who worked with Russians and others to entrap
Trump. That's the stunning conclusion of a RealClear Investigations report by
Lee Smith, who looked in-depth at the controversial June 2016 Trump Tower
meeting between officials of then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign staff and a
Russian lawyer known to have ties with high-level officials in Vladimir Putin's
government.
The media have spun a tale of Trump selling his soul to the
Russians for campaign dirt to use against Hillary, beginning with the
now-infamous Trump Tower meeting. But "a growing body of evidence ...
indicates that the meeting may have been a setup — part of a broad effort to tarnish the Trump campaign
involving Hillary Clinton operatives employed by Kremlin-linked figures and
Department of Justice officials," wrote Smith.
Smith painstakingly weaves together the evidence that's
already out there but has been largely ignored by the mainstream media, which
have become so seized with Trump-hatred that their reporting even on routine
matters can no longer be trusted. But he adds in more evidence that the Justice
Department only recently handed over to Congress. And It's damning.
Memos, emails and texts now in Congress' possession show
that the Justice Department and the FBI worked together both before and after
the election with Fusion GPS and their main link to the scandal, former British
spy and longtime FBI informant Chris Steele. As a former British spook in
Moscow, Steele had extensive ties to Russia. That's why he was picked as the
primary researcher to compile the "unverified and salacious" Trump
dossier, as former FBI Director James Comey once described it.
Steele's dossier, for which Fusion reportedly received $1
million, was largely based on interviews with Russian officials. And who paid
that $1 million? As we and others have reported, it was Hillary Clinton's
campaign and the Democratic National Committee, then under Hillary's control. The
media knew all this, of course, but largely ignored it.
The great irony here is that, after more than two years of
investigating, the only real evidence of collusion with Russians at all points
to Hillary Clinton. It was she who hired Steele to dig up dirt on Trump using
Russian sources. But now, it turns out, it goes even deeper than that.
Events surrounding that now-famous June 2016 Trump meeting
suggest it, too, was a concoction of Hillary Clinton and her deep-state allies.
And that meeting was the basis for much of the later Russian collusion
"investigation," if it can even be called that.
Bruce Ohr, the No. 4-ranking official at the Justice
Department, "coordinated before, during and after the election" with
both Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson and with Steele, notes Smith.
This shouldn't come as a surprise, given that Ohr's wife
Nellie, a sometime employee of the CIA, was also working for Fusion GPS.
The FBI fired Steele in October 2016 after it discovered
that he leaked information to the press. But that meant nothing. Bruce Ohr
merely continued as the conduit from Fusion GPS for information related to
Steele's bogus Trump dossier. The FBI and Justice used information from that
35-page document as the pretense for the FISA wiretap on Trump aide Carter
Page. Far from being limited in scope, those wiretaps in essence provided a
backdoor key to the entire Trump campaign — and the basis for the Russian
investigation.
But an earlier investigation by RealClearPolitics showed
that as early as March 2016, the FBI, other Western intelligence sources and
Clinton campaign operatives contacted the Trump campaign about potentially
damaging information about Clinton. They were in effect live-trolling the
campaign. This is significant. Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Putin-connected
lawyer who contacted the Trump campaign about having dirt on Hillary Clinton,
was a client of Fusion GPS when she met with Donald Trump Jr. and others in the
Trump campaign.
And she was accompanied by a former Soviet military
counterintelligence official, now working as a lobbyist, named Rinat
Akhmetshin. Let that sink in for a moment. What's especially curious is that Fusion
GPS' Glenn Simpson admits he had dinner with Veselnitskaya both the night
before and the night after the Trump Tower meeting.
Any possibility there was no discussion of the meeting
between the two? Seems highly unlikely. Veselnitskaya herself subsequently
claimed that the talking points for her meeting with the Trump people were
provided to her by Simpson. Once in the meeting, she quickly dropped the
promises of having dirt on Hillary Clinton and instead brought up Russia's
long-standing desire to get rid of the Magnitsky Act, under which the U.S.
imposed sanctions on a number of Russian moguls and government officials. In
short, they were baiting a trap for the Trump campaign to make it appear as if
they were colluding with Russian officials.
Given the nonstop media coverage following leaks by the FBI
and Justice, it seems the meeting served its purpose: It sowed the seeds of
suspicion about the Trump campaign's supposed Russian collusion. The evidence
goes even deeper than what we have summarized here. We suggest you read Smith's
piece, linked above.
Congress, using the documents it pried out of the Justice
Department after repeated requests, is busy getting at what might turn out to
be the scandal of the century. And Congress is now doing the work the Justice
Department and FBI won't. "So here you have information flowing from the
Clinton campaign from the Russians," House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Rep. Devin Nunes told Fox News on Sunday.
Nunes, who heads Congress' investigation into the matter,
said it was likely that information "was handed directly from Russian
propaganda arms to the Clinton campaign, fed into the top levels of the FBI and
Department of Justice to open up a counterintelligence investigation into a
political campaign that has now colluded (with) nearly every top official at
the DOJ and FBI over the course of the last couple years. Absolutely
amazing."
We have to agree. If all that is true, it is
absolutely amazing. After all, these are serious felonies, using the federal
agencies to spy on a political opponent in league with a hostile foreign power.
As we said, the only real collusion appears to be on the
part of the Clinton campaign — aided by the Obama administration, CIA
chief John Brennan and a handful of high-level officials at the Department of
Justice and FBI.
What's next? It's possible the collusion investigation soon
will turn from Trump to Clinton. If so, it could lead to more resignations and
possibly jail time for those involved. That includes perhaps even Hillary
Clinton, who sits at the political epicenter of all this illegality.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“Let’s recall that the unfairness that blacks had to deal
with in America’s history was unequal treatment under the law. This is what
needed to be fixed, and this is what was fixed in the Civil Rights Act in 1964.
The problem was that liberals wanted to use their agenda not to fix the law but
to change the country. And in the name of racial fairness, the era of big
activist government, financed with oceans of taxpayer funds, was born. But
government can’t fix anybody’s life. It can only make sure that the law
protecting life, liberty and property is applied fairly and equally. The
beginning of big activist government fostered the demise of personal
responsibility. … Making a child is not hard to do. Raising a child and
conveying the values and rules that make for a successful life and responsible
adulthood is. Particularly now that popular culture largely dismisses these
truths. And in black communities, politics and media is dominated by the left,
whose message for them is that life is unfair because of racism and the answer
is big government. … Black leaders need to start doing their job and convey
that marriage, work, education and personal responsibility are the only things
that will fix black America.”
Star
Parker
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BOOKS, FILM
New book details how former FBI Director James Comey and
special counsel Robert Mueller both “made millions” by selling insider expertise
to the highest bidder. Comey worked at Lockheed Martin and was given stock and
stock options worth “upwards of $30 million” on top of making $6 million in one
year.
Exclusive Excerpt from Ann Coulter’s new book “Resistance is
Futile! How the Trump-Hating Left Lost
Its Collective Mind”
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LEFTIST WATCH
The minions of the Left will never stop in their efforts to
undermine the Republic. They will try everything -- historical revisionism,
bald-face lies, blatant slander, racial discord, judicial usurpation of
presidential authority, political witch hunts, voter fraud, illegal
immigration, climate change, green energy, media disinformation, open borders,
transnational globalism -- to impose a vision on the world that in every
attempt, without exception, has led inexorably to tyranny, state-sanctioned
murder, economic collapse and human misery. The lessons of history have no
meaning for them. They regard themselves as uniquely exempt from the past, as
if they will triumph where their predecessors have miscarried and aborted. This
is why the Left cannot be treated with or engaged in reasonable discourse. No
counter-argument, no matter how factual, how meticulously researched, how
rational or sensible, can ever hope to gain purchase on minds steeped in
ideological prejudice or influence hearts shadowed by moral darkness….
Leftie billionaire Tom Steyer surges in 2020 presidential
election odds.
Conservative David Horowitz reports Visa and Mastercard cut off
payments to his think tank based on Southern Poverty Law Center labeling it a ‘Hate
Group’.
Memo reveals Soros-funded social-media censorship plan. Plotted with Google, Facebook to eliminate
'right wing propaganda'
“China Assigns Every Citizen A ‘Social Credit Score’ To
Identify Who Is And Isn’t Trustworthy. Country Determines Your Standing Through Use Of
Surveillance Video, Plans To Have 600 Million Cameras By 2020”
Venezuela´s economy in complete collapse – and the mother of
all human waves outward begins
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ISLAM
French police in the heavily migrant suburbs of Paris have
seized 32 sheep that were found in the garage of a pizzeria ahead of the
Islamic Eid al-Adha festival in which Muslims sacrifice animals.
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ARTICLES
David Horowitz: “A
few days ago, I had a dust-up on Twitter with National Review’s Jonah
Goldberg. Our conflict was about Trump’s fitness to be president…..The posture
of these NeverTrumpers is transparently self-serving. It preserves their
intellectual credentials as “conservatives,” and simultaneously takes them out
of the line of fire from an increasingly vicious Left whose goal is to destroy
Trump and his presidency, and—incidentally—conservative America. Sitting on the
fence affords them new career opportunities—appearances on CNN and MSNBC and
columns in the New York Times. All that’s required is that they avoid
taking sides in the political war that is engulfing the country.”
“Ignore the Noise, Mueller Still Has Nothing”
Fox’s Liz Peek: “Republican candidates in 2018 should be
talking about one thing, and one thing alone.”
Mueller and the Media Represent the Ancien Régime
“A Perfect Storm Threatens America's Survival”: 10.
Radical Islam 9. Lying, Evil, Greedy Politicians with Questionable
Loyalties. 8. Diversity/Identity Politics. 7. Fake News,
and Now Google. 6. Assault on the Second Amendment. 5. The Drug Crisis. 4. The Military as a Reflection of Our
Society 3.
Illegals, Homeless and Violence Overwhelming Our Cities. 2. The Education Disaster 1. Does Anyone Care?
Manafort's Purge Trial
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INTERESTING
13 times courts said Trump must
continue Obama’s lawless policies
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WISE
WORDS
“A wise and frugal government … shall restrain men from
injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of
labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.”
-Thomas
Jefferson
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