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The Republican National Committee raised a record-breaking $13.8 million in March, pushing its total haul for the first quarter of 2018 to $39 million.
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Remember that caravan that the mainstream media — and Mexican officials — said was no longer heading to the U.S.-Mexico border?
Yeah, they arrived at the border.
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The multi-million dollar lawsuit comes just one week after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly told President Trump he is not the target of either the special counsel’s Russian meddling and collusion probe, or the target of the investigation into his personal attorney Michael D. Cohen.
According to the Washington Post, who first reported the DNC’s lawsuit, it does not name Trump as a defendant, but alleges that various Russian contacts with the campaign amounted to collusion — a theory pushed by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) for months.
In addition, former FBI Director James Comey’s new book — which was highly anticipated in light of allegations of obstruction of justice — has not yielded the smoking gun Trump critics had hoped for.
“I have one perspective on the behavior I saw, which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal,” Comey wrote in his book.
However, the DNC could be hoping that the lawsuit will invigorate the Russian collusion theory, helping to raise funds ahead of the election. Democrats for months have been soliciting donations based off of the Mueller probe.
The DNC is alleging, in a complaint filed in federal district court in Manhattan, that top Trump campaign officials “conspired” with the Russian government and its military spy agency to hurt Hillary Clinton and help Trump, but hacking the email servers of the Democratic National Committee and disseminating them, according to the Post.
DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement: “During the 2016 presidential campaign, Russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in Donald Trump’s campaign.”
“This constituted an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,” he said.
The DNC argues that the cyberattack undermined its ability to communicate with voters, collect donations and operate effectively as its employees faced personal harassment and death threats.
The Post noted that suing Russia presents legal challenges, since other nations have immunity from most U.S. lawsuits. The suit reportedly seeks an acknowledgment from the defendants that they conspired to infiltrate Democrats’ computers, steal information, and disseminate it to influence the 2016 election — essentially, the Democrats’ core collusion claims.
The lawsuit is targeting president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., son-in-law Jared Kushner, his campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Manafort’s deputy, Rick Gates, Trump confidant Roger Stone, former Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos.
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The deputies, 29-year-old Sgt. Noel Ramirez and 25-year-old Taylor Lindsey, were eating at Ace China restaurant around 3 pm when the gunman opened fire on them through a window. Both deputies were killed.
The Washington Post quoted Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office saying, “Both our heroes had simply sat down to eat while on duty. There was no crime in progress, no disturbance. The suspect appears to have walked to the front of the business and shot both men without warning. Two holes in the window are visible tonight.”
Gilchrist County Sheriff Robert Schultz addressed the incident, saying, “I don’t have answers to why this happened.
Responding deputies found the gunman dead outside the restaurant, he was identified as 59-year-old John Highnote.
NPR reports Sheriff Schultz refused to confirm whether Highnote killed himself. Rather, Schultz said, “I want this to be about those deputy sheriffs, I think that you can respect that. The world’s full of cowards, and the world’s full of heroes. We need to highlight those heroes, and what they gave.”
Although no motive for the shooting was reported, Schultz did address the energy many protesters expend in criticizing law enforcement. He said, “What do you expect happens when you demonize law enforcement to the extent that it’s been demonized? The only thing these men were guilty of was wanting to protect you and me. They just wanted to go get something to eat. And they just wanted to do their job.”
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Two Gilchrist County, Florida deputies were gunned down on Thursday while they ate lunch at a local Chinese restaurant, according to WOGX-TV.
Sgt. Noel Ramirez, 30, and Deputy Taylor Lindsey, 25, were eating lunch at a Trenton, Florida Chinese restaurant when a man — later identified as 59-year-old John Hubert Highnote — reportedly walked up to the eatery’s exterior and fired shots at the two officers through the window.
The gunman’s bullets struck both Ramirez and Lindsey and the two officers died at the scene.
CNN reported that Highnote simply “shot both men without warning.” He was purportedly discovered dead outside the business.
“Both our heroes had simply sat down to eat while on duty,” Gilchrist County Sheriff Bobby Schultz said. “There was no crime in progress, no disturbance.”
“Two holes in the window are visible tonight,” Schultz added.
Schultz spoke reverently of the deputies, calling them the “best of the best,” according to WOGX.
“They were men of integrity,” Schultz described. “They were men of loyalty. They’re God-fearing, and they loved what they did and were very proud of it.”
“I [can] sit here in front of all of you and say that I loved them,” Schultz admitted. “And they were loved by all.”
Ramirez served as an officer for approximately seven years at the time of his death. Lindsey served for three years.
The Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office shared an update on Facebook specifying that there is “no apparent motive” at the time of their posting.
“At this point, it remains an active criminal investigation with no apparent motive or indications as to why this tragedy occurred,” the office wrote on Facebook.
Schultz also noted that there were many things he wanted to say that he shouldn’t.
“I will say this,” Schultz revealed, according to CNN. “We’re not going to make this … a political issue. Other than the fact, what do you expect happens when you demonize law enforcement to the extent that it’s been demonized? Every type of hate, every type of putdown that you can think of.”
“The only thing these men were guilty of was wanting to protect you and me,” he added.
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Details from the newly-released memos written by former FBI director James Comey suggest that CNN prompted Comey’s briefing of Donald Trump on the Democrat-funded Steele dossier that the network then used as a rationale to report on some of the unverified and salacious allegations in the document.
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New York Times reporter Amy Chozick writes in her new memoir that she cried after finishing her article on how Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election to Donald Trump.
Chozick covered Clinton for a decade during stints at the Wall Street Journal and now at the New York Times, which meant covering her ultimately doomed presidential bids in 2008 and 2016. Her experiences and insights make up her new book Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling.
According to the Washington Post review of her book, "the day after the 2016 election, Chozick sat in her cubicle and wrote the "how she lost" story. "Then I finally cried," she writes."
That article was entitled, "Hillary Clinton’s Expectations, and Her Ultimate Campaign Missteps." Chozick wrote in the postmortem:
Her campaign had built-in contradictions and challenges. She wanted to make history as the first female president, but she did not want to play it up so much so that she would turn off men. She vowed to help the little guy, but she accepted millions of dollars for speeches to Wall Street. She wanted to bring the country together, but she suffered from a stubbornly high number of voters who did not trust or like her.
Chozick acknowledged standing and applauding when Clinton walked into a town hall she covered in 2008, leading to an admonishment from a fellow reporter: "What the hell are you doing?"
Chozick frets in the book about her relationship with Clinton, mourning at one point to her husband that, "she really, really hates me." She also viewed herself as a symbol of Clinton’s distrust of the press.
"Ours was destined to be an impossible, tortured, and unrelentingly tense relationship weighed down by old grudges and fresh grievances," Chozick writes. "To Hillary, I was a big ego with no brain and no amount of cordial small talk could make up for the bad blood between her world and mine."
She also writes critically, as others have, of Clinton’s lack of a clear message in her White House bid, according to the Washington Post:
If there was a single unifying force behind her candidacy, it was her obvious desire to get the whole thing over with." On Clinton’s ambition: "Her only clear vision of the presidency seemed to be herself in it." On how Trump threw Clinton off message: "Hillary had berated our pea-size political brains for being uninterested in policy. Now, Trump had made her as devoid of substance as he was."
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Former Attorney General Eric Holder let the cat out of the bag Tuesday night during a visit to the very friendly confines of MSNBC, acknowledging he is “thinking” about a 2020 presidential run to challenge President Donald Trump.
MSNBC host Chris Hayes threw out the possibility of Holder running for the White House, hoping his guest would bite and he did just that – whether this was rehearsed beforehand or not is up to you to decide.
“I’m not sure I’ll get the most honest answer from you,” Hayes said to Holder, before turning to MSNBC contributor Matt Miller, who was Holder’s spokesperson in office.
“Is he running for president. Is Eric Holder running?” he asked.
Miller joked about wanting to know if he will have to quit his job and move to Iowa, prompting Holder to reply if Miller “will promise to be my press secretary, I might consider it.”
“You are considering it,” Hayes asked.
“I’m thinking about it, but I am focusing on the work I’m doing with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee trying to deal with gerrymandering,” Holder said.
Run, Eric, run. Go ahead; make our day. Rumors of a Holder bid were not diminished by the news that he is headed for New Hampshire to attend an event considered a must for presidential contenders:
Speculation about a potential presidential run for former Attorney General Eric Holder has heated up after he announced he would speak at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ annual “Politics & Eggs,” an event that many former candidates once attended.
A press release from Holder’s officer announced Wednesday that on June 1, the Obama administration official would be the featured guest speaker at the annual breakfast event.
According to the press release, “the Politics & Eggs series is a forum for presidential candidates, political leaders, and other political analysts and commentators as they visit New Hampshire, home of the nation’s first presidential primaries.”
We could once again witness the spectacle of a progressive liberal, this time the A.G. of the most opaque administration in history, invoking racism to criticism of his policies and documented criminality, a role he filled well in defense of President Obama:
In an interview with the New York Times published over the weekend, Holder accused those who want to know who authorized the Fast and Furious gun-running operation of being racially motivated.
The 60 congressmen, two senators, two sitting governors, and all the major presidential candidates who have openly called for Holder’s resignation are not concerned in his view about how two U.S. agents and hundreds of Mexicans got killed with U.S. guns.
No, according to Holder, they are motivated by the color of Holder’s and President Obama’s skin[.] …
“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” Holder said, according to the Times. “Both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”
It was once said that politics is the last refuge of scoundrels. Obama and Holder changed that to charges of racism. But playing the race card doesn’t cover up their crimes. President Barack Hussein Obama and then-attorney general Eric Holder conceived and ran a gun-running operation called Fast and Furious that resulted in the deaths of U.S. agents Jaime Zapata and Brian Terry. ATF special agent John Dodson attempted to spread the truth on the Obama administration’s effort to supply Mexican drug lords with semiautomatic weapons:
ATF Special Agent John Dodson is a national hero who in 2011 blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration’s gun-running operation to Mexico.
Testifying before Congress, he disclosed that his supervisors had authorized the flow of semiautomatic weapons into Mexico instead of interdicting them, weapons that found their way into the hands of Mexican drug cartels with deadly results.
Dodson has put his intimate Fast and Furious knowledge into a book titled “The Unarmed Truth.” It provides the first inside account of how the Obama administration permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, guns used in the murder of two federal agents and hundreds of Mexican citizens[.] …
The operation was exposed when Brian was killed in December 2010 by an illegal immigrant [sic] working for the Sinaloa Cartel near Nogales, Ariz., just 10 miles from Mexico. Two Fast and Furious weapons were found at the murder scene.
Two such weapons also were used to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico on Feb. 15, 2011[. They c]ame from suspects who were under ATF watch but not arrested at the time[.] …
“Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals, this was the plan. It was so mandated,” Dodson, then attached to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Phoenix office, testified before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Government Reform and Oversight Committee on June 15, 2011.
“Rather than conduct enforcement actions, we took notes, we recorded observations, we tracked movements of these individuals for a short time after their purchases, but nothing more,” Dodson testified.
“Knowing all the while, just days after these purchases, the guns that we saw these individuals buy would begin turning up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico, we still did nothing.”
Democrats did their best to hide the truth about Fast and Furious, with A.G. Holder, the only Cabinet member ever to be held in contempt of Congress, arguably lying to Congress about his knowledge and involvement and repeatedly saying he “didn’t get the memo.” American citizens and Mexican nationals to this day are in jeopardy from criminals using weapons the Obama administration funneled to them. As Fox News reported about Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo”:
A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.
A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car or, as it was intended, take down a helicopter[.] …
Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that ‘El Chapo’ would put his guardsmen on hilltops to be on guard for Mexican police helicopters that would fly through valleys conducting raids. The sole purpose of the guardsmen would be to shoot down those helicopters, sources said.
As for Holder’s claim that he wasn’t in the loop, the paper trail indicated otherwise:
Somewhere, Scooter Libby must be scratching his head. He was indicted and convicted simply because his recall of when a meeting occurred differed from others. He didn’t lie about a gun-running operation that led to the deaths of two American agents and at least 200 Mexicans.
But Attorney General Eric Holder did, according to memos obtained by CBS News and Fox News.
They show Holder lied to Congress on May 2, 2011, when he was asked about when he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Fast and Furious gun-running operation. He told House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa he was “not sure of the exact date, but I probably learned about Fast and Furious over the last few weeks.”
Holder learned of the operation as early as July 2010 in a memo from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center informing him of an operation run by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force out of the Phoenix ATF office, under which “straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug cartels.”
So Eric Holder knew about Fast and Furious months before Brian Terry’s murder. He not only knew about it, but even bragged about it to Mexican officials during a trip to Mexico:
A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying “the president has directed us,” including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed[.] …
The video shows Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, who would resign nine months later after less than a year’s service, telling reporters at a Department of Justice briefing of major policy initiatives to fight the Mexican drug cartels.
“The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels,” Ogden begins, “and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan.”
At the president’s direction, Ogden said, the administration’s plan included DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner,” of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part.
As we have noted, Attorney General Eric Holder himself gave a speech to Mexican authorities in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on April 2, 2009, taking credit for Gunrunner as well as Fast and Furious for himself and the Obama administration.
Holder told the audience: “Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner.”
Fast and Furious wasn’t the only stain on Eric Holder’s record. As deputy A.G. under Janet Reno, Eric Holder played a key role in the forced return at gunpoint to Cuba of young Elian Gonzalez, a far cry from how he and other progressive liberals say alien children fleeing oppression should be treated:
Eric Holder made a very emotional plea the other day when he announced the Obama administration program “Justice AmeriCorps,” intended to provide emergency legal representation to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors flooding across our open southern border from Central America.
“How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation,” the attorney general said, explaining a program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for minors brought here by drug cartels and other human traffickers.
How we treated Cuban waif Elian Gonzalez, who had survived a perilous raft journey that killed his mother to flee the communist tyranny of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of Democrats and Holder, who applauded and engineered the forcible return of Elian at gunpoint to Cuba[.] …
It was then-Deputy Attorney General Holder who invented the “legal” cover for federal agents to forcibly enter the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians, American citizens all, so he could be returned to the warm embrace of Castro in communist Cuba.
Holder was also involved in Bill Clinton’s pardon of international criminal Marc Rich, pleading ignorance about Rich’s past, just as he pleaded in the Fast and Furious investigation that he “didn’t get the memo“:
After Eric Holder was involved in the pardoning of international fugitive Marc Rich, he confessed to not doing a thorough check of Rich’s history and background. When he criticized Arizona’s immigration law, SB1070, he admitted to not even reading the law. Now, with dead bodies and illegal weapons piled up high in Fast and Furious, Holder says he didn’t read the memos[.] …
“I do not and cannot read them from cover to cover,” Holder said in a letter to Republican Reps. Issa and Lamar Smith and Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democrat Reps. Elijah Cummings and John Conyers and Sen. Patrick Leahy.
We assume Holder reads the morning paper and has heard of the 40 assault weapons illegally purchased under the Phoenix ATF’s Fast and Furious operation that somehow wound up in the home of Sinaloa cartel enforcer Torres “the Jaguar” Marrufo. If he has, we suspect his reaction might have been akin to that of another famous sitcom character, Steve Urkel: “Did I do that?”
This is no sitcom, but rather a major tragedy – and a major crime. Marrufo is the enforcer for Sinaloa Cartel chieftain Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant working for the Sinaloa cartel just 10 miles from the Mexico border near Nogales, Ariz.
Run, Eric, run. Your campaign would be an opportunity to hold you and the president you served responsible for the lies about Fast and Furious, the withholding of documents under the guise of “executive privilege,” something even extended to Holder’s wife, and the entire cover-up of why Brian Terry had to die.
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If President Trump could hand-select his 2020 Democratic opponent, he could do no better than former Obama attorney general Eric Holder, the only Cabinet official held in contempt of Congress for withholding documents in the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal. He is the poster child for the Deep State corruption that festered under Obama and the politicization of both the DOJ and FBI.
The former A.G., who is arguably responsible for the homicide of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, murdered by guns Holder and Obama funneled to Mexican drug lords, is in fact considering such a bid:
Former Attorney General Eric Holder let the cat out of the bag Tuesday night during a visit to the very friendly confines of MSNBC, acknowledging he is “thinking” about a 2020 presidential run to challenge President Donald Trump.
“I’m not sure I’ll get the most honest answer from you,” Hayes said to Holder, before turning to MSNBC contributor Matt Miller, who was Holder’s spokesperson in office.
“Is he running for president. Is Eric Holder running?” he asked.
Miller joked about wanting to know if he will have to quit his job and move to Iowa, prompting Holder to reply if Miller “will promise to be my press secretary, I might consider it.”
“You are considering it,” Hayes asked.
“I’m thinking about it, but I am focusing on the work I’m doing with the National Democratic Redistricting Committee trying to deal with gerrymandering,” Holder said.
Run, Eric, run. Go ahead; make our day. Rumors of a Holder bid were not diminished by the news that he is headed for New Hampshire to attend an event considered a must for presidential contenders:
Speculation about a potential presidential run for former Attorney General Eric Holder has heated up after he announced he would speak at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics’ annual “Politics & Eggs,” an event that many former candidates once attended.
A press release from Holder’s officer announced Wednesday that on June 1, the Obama administration official would be the featured guest speaker at the annual breakfast event.
According to the press release, “the Politics & Eggs series is a forum for presidential candidates, political leaders, and other political analysts and commentators as they visit New Hampshire, home of the nation’s first presidential primaries.”
We could once again witness the spectacle of a progressive liberal, this time the A.G. of the most opaque administration in history, invoking racism to criticism of his policies and documented criminality, a role he filled well in defense of President Obama:
In an interview with the New York Times published over the weekend, Holder accused those who want to know who authorized the Fast and Furious gun-running operation of being racially motivated.
The 60 congressmen, two senators, two sitting governors, and all the major presidential candidates who have openly called for Holder’s resignation are not concerned in his view about how two U.S. agents and hundreds of Mexicans got killed with U.S. guns.
No, according to Holder, they are motivated by the color of Holder’s and President Obama’s skin[.] …
“This is a way to get at the president because of the way I can be identified with him,” Holder said, according to the Times. “Both due to the nature of our relationship and, you know, the fact that we’re both African-American.”
It was once said that politics is the last refuge of scoundrels. Obama and Holder changed that to charges of racism. But playing the race card doesn’t cover up their crimes. President Barack Hussein Obama and then-attorney general Eric Holder conceived and ran a gun-running operation called Fast and Furious that resulted in the deaths of U.S. agents Jaime Zapata and Brian Terry. ATF special agent John Dodson attempted to spread the truth on the Obama administration’s effort to supply Mexican drug lords with semiautomatic weapons:
ATF Special Agent John Dodson is a national hero who in 2011 blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious, the Obama administration’s gun-running operation to Mexico.
Testifying before Congress, he disclosed that his supervisors had authorized the flow of semiautomatic weapons into Mexico instead of interdicting them, weapons that found their way into the hands of Mexican drug cartels with deadly results.
Dodson has put his intimate Fast and Furious knowledge into a book titled “The Unarmed Truth.” It provides the first inside account of how the Obama administration permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, guns used in the murder of two federal agents and hundreds of Mexican citizens[.] …
The operation was exposed when Brian was killed in December 2010 by an illegal immigrant [sic] working for the Sinaloa Cartel near Nogales, Ariz., just 10 miles from Mexico. Two Fast and Furious weapons were found at the murder scene.
Two such weapons also were used to murder Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico on Feb. 15, 2011[. They c]ame from suspects who were under ATF watch but not arrested at the time[.] …
“Allowing loads of weapons that we knew to be destined for criminals, this was the plan. It was so mandated,” Dodson, then attached to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Phoenix office, testified before Rep. Darrell Issa’s House Government Reform and Oversight Committee on June 15, 2011.
“Rather than conduct enforcement actions, we took notes, we recorded observations, we tracked movements of these individuals for a short time after their purchases, but nothing more,” Dodson testified.
“Knowing all the while, just days after these purchases, the guns that we saw these individuals buy would begin turning up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico, we still did nothing.”
Democrats did their best to hide the truth about Fast and Furious, with A.G. Holder, the only Cabinet member ever to be held in contempt of Congress, arguably lying to Congress about his knowledge and involvement and repeatedly saying he “didn’t get the memo.” American citizens and Mexican nationals to this day are in jeopardy from criminals using weapons the Obama administration funneled to them. As Fox News reported about Mexican drug kingpin “El Chapo”:
A .50-caliber rifle found at Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s hideout in Mexico was funneled through the gun-smuggling investigation known as Fast and Furious, sources confirmed Tuesday to Fox News.
A .50-caliber is a massive rifle that can stop a car or, as it was intended, take down a helicopter[.] …
Federal law enforcement sources told Fox News that ‘El Chapo’ would put his guardsmen on hilltops to be on guard for Mexican police helicopters that would fly through valleys conducting raids. The sole purpose of the guardsmen would be to shoot down those helicopters, sources said.
As for Holder’s claim that he wasn’t in the loop, the paper trail indicated otherwise:
Somewhere, Scooter Libby must be scratching his head. He was indicted and convicted simply because his recall of when a meeting occurred differed from others. He didn’t lie about a gun-running operation that led to the deaths of two American agents and at least 200 Mexicans.
But Attorney General Eric Holder did, according to memos obtained by CBS News and Fox News.
They show Holder lied to Congress on May 2, 2011, when he was asked about when he knew about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Fast and Furious gun-running operation. He told House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa he was “not sure of the exact date, but I probably learned about Fast and Furious over the last few weeks.”
Holder learned of the operation as early as July 2010 in a memo from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center informing him of an operation run by the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force out of the Phoenix ATF office, under which “straw purchasers are responsible for the purchase of 1,500 firearms that were then supplied to Mexican drug cartels.”
So Eric Holder knew about Fast and Furious months before Brian Terry’s murder. He not only knew about it, but even bragged about it to Mexican officials during a trip to Mexico:
A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying “the president has directed us,” including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed[.] …
The video shows Deputy Attorney General David Ogden, who would resign nine months later after less than a year’s service, telling reporters at a Department of Justice briefing of major policy initiatives to fight the Mexican drug cartels.
“The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels,” Ogden begins, “and Attorney General Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan.”
At the president’s direction, Ogden said, the administration’s plan included DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives “increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner,” of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part.
As we have noted, Attorney General Eric Holder himself gave a speech to Mexican authorities in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on April 2, 2009, taking credit for Gunrunner as well as Fast and Furious for himself and the Obama administration.
Holder told the audience: “Last week, our administration launched a major new effort to break the backs of the cartels. My department is committing 100 new ATF personnel to the Southwest border in the next 100 days to supplement our ongoing Project Gunrunner.”
Fast and Furious wasn’t the only stain on Eric Holder’s record. As deputy A.G. under Janet Reno, Eric Holder played a key role in the forced return at gunpoint to Cuba of young Elian Gonzalez, a far cry from how he and other progressive liberals say alien children fleeing oppression should be treated:
Eric Holder made a very emotional plea the other day when he announced the Obama administration program “Justice AmeriCorps,” intended to provide emergency legal representation to the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors flooding across our open southern border from Central America.
“How we treat those in need, particularly young people who must appear in immigration proceedings, many of whom are fleeing violence, persecution, abuse or trafficking – goes to the core of who we are as a nation,” the attorney general said, explaining a program to provide 100 lawyers and paralegals for minors brought here by drug cartels and other human traffickers.
How we treated Cuban waif Elian Gonzalez, who had survived a perilous raft journey that killed his mother to flee the communist tyranny of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of Democrats and Holder, who applauded and engineered the forcible return of Elian at gunpoint to Cuba[.] …
It was then-Deputy Attorney General Holder who invented the “legal” cover for federal agents to forcibly enter the home of Elian Gonzalez’s legal custodians, American citizens all, so he could be returned to the warm embrace of Castro in communist Cuba.
Holder was also involved in Bill Clinton’s pardon of international criminal Marc Rich, pleading ignorance about Rich’s past, just as he pleaded in the Fast and Furious investigation that he “didn’t get the memo“:
After Eric Holder was involved in the pardoning of international fugitive Marc Rich, he confessed to not doing a thorough check of Rich’s history and background. When he criticized Arizona’s immigration law, SB1070, he admitted to not even reading the law. Now, with dead bodies and illegal weapons piled up high in Fast and Furious, Holder says he didn’t read the memos[.] …
“I do not and cannot read them from cover to cover,” Holder said in a letter to Republican Reps. Issa and Lamar Smith and Sen. Chuck Grassley and Democrat Reps. Elijah Cummings and John Conyers and Sen. Patrick Leahy.
We assume Holder reads the morning paper and has heard of the 40 assault weapons illegally purchased under the Phoenix ATF’s Fast and Furious operation that somehow wound up in the home of Sinaloa cartel enforcer Torres “the Jaguar” Marrufo. If he has, we suspect his reaction might have been akin to that of another famous sitcom character, Steve Urkel: “Did I do that?”
This is no sitcom, but rather a major tragedy – and a major crime. Marrufo is the enforcer for Sinaloa Cartel chieftain Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed at the hands of an illegal immigrant working for the Sinaloa cartel just 10 miles from the Mexico border near Nogales, Ariz.
Run, Eric, run. Your campaign would be an opportunity to hold you and the president you served responsible for the lies about Fast and Furious, the withholding of documents under the guise of “executive privilege,” something even extended to Holder’s wife, and the entire cover-up of why Brian Terry had to die.
Daniel John Sobieski is a freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in Investor’s Business Daily, Human Events, Reason Magazine, and the Chicago Sun-Times among other publications.
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When Donald Trump wants to lawyer up, he doesn’t fool around. And now that the Mueller investigation has kicked into high gear over stuff it wasn’t even supposed to be investigating in the first place, he’s brought in a old friend from good ol’ Gotham.
According to the New York Post, Rudy Giuliani — the former presidential candidate and mayor of New York City during 9/11 — will be joining the president’s legal team and hopes to put an end to Mueller’s intrusions in “a week or two.”
Giuliani joins Ty Cobb and Jay Sekulow on the legal team dealing with Mueller.
For those of you who didn’t grow up or live in New York City before Giuliani was mayor, this move might seem a bit strange to you. However, Giuliani made his name as a tough-as-nails federal prosecutor, aggressively going after the mob in an era where doing so risked ending up with your bullet-riddled remains in the trunk of a ’78 Chrysler Cordoba abandoned on the Cross-Bronx Expressway.
In other words, the guy has guts. Whether that translates to success, at least in this case, remains to be seen.
“I’m going to join the legal team to try to bring this to a resolution,” Giuliani told the New York Post.
“The country deserves it. I’ve got great admiration for President Trump.
“I’ve had a long relationship with Bob Mueller. I have great respect for him. He’s done a good job.”
That’s the thing that might help Giuliani more than guts. When Rudy was mayor of the country’s largest city, Robert Mueller was head of the FBI. Given the fact that the two worked closely together over 9/11, they certainly have rapport.
“I don’t know yet what’s outstanding,” Giuliani said. “But I don’t think it’s going to take more than a week or two to get a resolution. They’re almost there.”
“I’m going to ask Mueller, ‘What do you need to wrap it up?’” he added.
Giuliani’s hiring came after the lead attorney in the Russia probe, John Dowd, resigned last month.
“I love the president and I wish him well,” Dowd said.
Giuliani was an ardent supporter of President Trump during the 2016 campaign season.
“What I did for New York City, Donald Trump will do for America,” the former mayor said at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland back in 2016.
“I have known Donald Trump for almost 30 years. And he has created and accomplished great things. But beyond that, this is a man with a big heart. Every time New York City suffered a tragedy, Donald Trump was there to help.”
Giuliani was even considered to be a frontrunner for attorney general or secretary of state in the Trump administration, but didn’t get either post. If he can tie a bow around the Mueller investigation, however, he’ll have done a lot more than he likely could have in either one of those positions.
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Supporters cheered, waving flags and supportive signs as the motorcade passed.
People are seen along the motorcade route as vehicles transporting President Donald Trump drive past in Key West Fla., Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Supporters hold placards as the motorcade carrying US President Donald Trump passes by en route to Joint Interagency Task Force South at Naval Air Station Key West on April 19, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
Some in the crowds, however, were not supporters of the president.
A woman uses a hoola-hoop while watching the motorcade carrying US President Donald Trump (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)
The president traveled to the Joint Interagency Task Force South at Naval Air Station Key West for a border security briefing with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Trump commented on the size of the crowds after the briefing.
“I hope you saw the crowds in Key West,” he told reporters. “I’ve never seen anything like that, it was really very inspirational, and what we just witnessed was incredible.”
He ignored questions about his personal lawyer Michael Cohen and the Robert Mueller Russian investigation.
“Even the media will have to say that was quite something,” he said.
A video of the crowd was later posted to Trump’s Instagram account.
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