On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz stated that the Congressional investigations into the president “look like they’re going too far.” He further stated that if he were one of the people who received a letter or subpoena from Congress, he would consider bringing a lawsuit.
Dershowitz said, “A balance has to be struck between the legitimate function of Congress to investigate. The framers didn’t intend for Congress to become yet another prosecutorial branch, yet another investigative branch. They’re supposed to pass laws, and so, it seems to me these investigations look like they’re going too far.”
He added, “If you go back to the cases in the 1950s, the courts sometimes did say, look, Congress, you’ve gone too far. This is not within your legitimate function. And so, if I were one of the people who got a letter or a subpoena, I would at least think about the possibility of bringing a lawsuit and suggesting that Congress is abusing its oversight function.”
For decades, Kellyanne Conway has lived and worked within the swamp of Washington, DC, yet as White House Senior Counselor to President Donald Trump, she remains in a tumultuous West Wing that has spat out seasoned Washington professionals, hardened generals, passionate reformers, and even a “killer” Wall Street banker.
The swamp is hungry, she explained in an interview with Breitbart News, pointing to a “staff infection” in Washington from Republican campaigns who never left town — even when they lost elections.
“It’s like that plant in The Little Shop of Horrors,” she said, referencing a fictional man-eating plant to describe the climate of the swamp. “Folks are unwittingly standing by one moment and gobbled up by it the next.”
Despite her long professional relationship with the president, there are no reports of Special Counsel Robert Mueller calling her in to testify. There appears to be little to no interest among Democrats for her testimony — no interest in hearing from Trump’s campaign manager at hearings about alleged collusion between the campaign and Russia. She does not even appear on the list released Monday of the 81 Trump-connected Americans that Democrats are investigating.
Maybe it’s because she’s not important enough to know anything significant, as her detractors suggest on background, or maybe it’s because she knows enough about Washington to navigate the swamp.
I spoke with Conway after Trump’s once braggadocious personal lawyer Michael Cohen, who once vowed to take a bullet for the president, spent the day berating his former boss on camera.
“This behavior is churlish, it denigrates the office of the president, and it’s simply un-American,” Cohen said to the cameras. ”And it’s not you.”
It’s been a long day in Washington as it began with the president meeting Kim Jong-un for nuclear negotiations and ended with the Michael Cohen show.
When I arrived for the interview, Conway had the wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the hearing playing in the background in her West Wing office.
She paused to listen to Democrat Chairman of the Oversight Committee Elijah Cummings and Republican Jim Jordan wrap up their closing statements before sitting down to talk about her role in the White House.
Conway has known the president almost as long as Cohen, as they both served on the board of Trump World Tower in New York. Cohen was the treasurer of the board, as his legal advice earned him points with the boss. Conway worked with Trump in a similar fashion — joining the board after her husband George impressed him (George Conway now spends his days on Twitter criticizing the president — much to the delight of the leftist “Resistance”).
Cohen self-imploded after the election. Despite his pledged loyalty, he failed to get a job in the White House, he missed his chance to use his connections to the president to cash in, and now he’s going to jail for other business failures — despite his attempt to avoid prison by betraying the president.
Now he is desperate to please a different boss — the newly empowered House Democrats, the Resistance, and the establishment media.
For hours, Cohen fulfilled every media and Democrat fantasy by describing the president as a racist, a con-man, a cheat, and a liar.
The president and most of his staff, however, were in a much different time zone — twelve hours ahead in Vietnam for the summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. Cohen was running the show on cable.
The Republican National Committee launched a rapid response effort, and the president’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump spent the day ripping him on Twitter. But Conway was the only senior staffer left in the West Wing to go on television to defend the president.
Conway is used to the slings and arrows from the left and the media, but a growing number of former administration officials in Washington, sources “close to Trump” or sources “familiar with the family’s thinking,” express doubts about her loyalty or usefulness to the administration.
These sources are often hesitant to go on the record, not exactly eager to risk vengeance from someone close to the president.
The complaints are varied. She’s not in charge of communications, but she communicates. She’s not in charge of policy, but she’s political. She’s not in charge of staff, but she is keenly aware of what the staff is doing. She is kind and works to earn your trust, but some question if you can trust her.
Former Special Assistant to the president, Cliff Sims, took a direct shot at Conway in his tell-all book published in January. In one chapter, Sims revealed he witnessed Conway leaking to reporters in real time via text message.
In my conversation with Conway, she did not deny talking to reporters behind the scenes, explaining it as one of the strengths that she brought to the administration.
“It’s a tough balance,” she explained. “I try to lend support to what press and comms are doing while respecting that they take the lead on those matters.”
Many Trump supporters might prefer that the administration entirely ignore the “fake news” media, but Conway argues that the president is the one that wants her to communicate with them.
“It’s part of my job to provide information to the press, yet I don’t speak to them as much as the president might like or as much as they would like,” she said. “Fortunately, the president communicates directly with the American people through his various platforms.”
But is Conway a professional communicator or one of the “leakers” described by the president?
She had a lot to say to the leakers, many of whom have left the building, but she claimed it was easy to identify the sources.
“They act like we don’t know and that we don’t see,” she said. “The West Wing is a very small place.”
Leakers fall into three categories, according to Conway.
First, she says that leakers attempt to misdirect attention from themselves by calling other people leakers. Second, they’re rarely comfortable speaking publicly with the press. Third, she says that leakers believe it helps cover their tracks if they constantly berate the “fake news” in front of their colleagues.
But the ultimate tell, according to Conway, is any sudden drop of negative press attention directed their way.
Conway suggested she could blow up the entire Washington information game — but warns that it might put some reporters in an uncomfortable spot.
“I’ve often told reporters that if I reveal the true leakers that have been in this administration, I’d be forced to reveal the ‘leakees,’ too,” she says, referring to the reporters who receive the leaks. “That normally compels them to shift topics to the weather.”
After his book was published in January, Cliff Sims appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to promote it. Hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the once prominent prom king and queen of the swamp, were delighted with the latest gossip about Conway.
During the interview, Sims details his own challenge for her.
“All she has to do is tell every reporter in Washington, DC, she can publicly say, ‘if I’ve ever trashed the president off the record to you, I release you from the off-the-record binds,’” he said.
“That would be a very very long line of reporters,” Scarborough smirked.
But Conway has little interest in responding to “Joe and Mika” or Sims, who the president berated on Twitter after his appearance on their show.
“Working women spend so much of their careers amassing power. Information is power,” she said. “Why surrender it so freely?”
Despite the chaos, the leaking, and the bitterness of the first 500 days described in the Sims book, Conway appears unaffected by the latest round of criticism.
She remains among the few high-ranking former campaign officials still in the West Wing, which includes Steve Miller, social media director Dan Scavino, and, of course, the family — Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Oddly enough, former Governor Chris Christie released his own tell-all book on the same day as Sims. He has nothing but praise for Conway.
“She knew how to speak to Donald Trump,” Christie wrote, recalling her work on the campaign. “She could get a point across without being caustic but was still frank and direct.”
Conway steered away from any questions about her accomplishments in the campaign or the West Wing, carefully redirecting all credit to the president.
She said she was puzzled why some served in the administration despite professing misery in their high-ranking positions.
“The moment that you see it as more of a burden than a blessing, you should seriously consider moving on, because the president is right, many people would love to have these jobs,” she said.
The list is long.
Top aides such as Mike Flynn, Reince Priebus, Gary Cohn, John Kelly, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer, Joe Hagin, and H.R. McMaster were either forced out, quit out of frustration, sold out, or were fired. And don’t forget Anthony Scaramucci, who flamed out after a crass phone call with a reporter.
How is it that Conway has survived so long?
“I’ve been around my share of emotional and egotistical men, so maybe I’m an accidental expert on them,” Conway said, referring to her career. “Surviving them is easy; thriving in this environment is the true reward.”
She offered some insight about working for Trump, dismissing many of the tropes developed by the media.
“He easily detects and deflects nonsense,” she says.
Success on the Trump team is not about the kamikaze loyalty displayed by so many former Trump officials, she explained. And it’s not about being the most frequent or last person in the room on every issue. Despite what you might have heard, non-stop flattery of the president does not save you from exile. She claims that Trump is not convinced by people “puffing themselves out to impress him” in person or on TV.
“When I appear on TV, my primary audience is neither the president nor the press,” Conway said. “It is the people.”
For Conway, it appears, success lies in knowing your strengths in the administration and using them wisely.
Trump’s loyal supporters treat her like a celebrity, despite public mockery from the Washington political class.
As she walked through the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last weekend, fans flocked to watch her participate in an interview before turning with a smile to greet them and snap some selfies.
Conway earned celebrity status in the world of Trump supporters, as she frequently appears on television to defend the president, despite public derision from the anchors who keep inviting her back. Her panel appearance at CPAC, however, focused on promoting the dangers of the opioid crisis and crediting the president for his unprecedented attempt to address it.
“The president acknowledges and appreciates those of us who are here for the right reasons,” Conway explained. “He prefers the company of people who are happy warriors like him.”
Conway said she did not consider herself a swamp creature, despite years of working in politics and media in Washington, DC. A swamp creature, she argues, is someone that leverages their power and influence for easy money and political status.
She reminds critics that she had a chance at post-election riches after her role in the biggest electoral upset in modern political history but chose to serve the president instead, at his request. That decision landed her in the center of the swamp for the foreseeable future, but she appears comfortable.
“There’s a huge difference between studying and understanding the swamp and diving into the quicksand of the swamp,” she explains.
Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arrested more than 20 illegal aliens in New York city who had been released from custody in accordance with their sanctuary policies.
New York authorities refused an ICE request to “hold” the illegals until they could be picked up. But ICE followed through and arrested the illegals anyway.
“The sanctuary city politics of this city continue to put the safety of New York residents at risk,” Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ERO NY, said in the press release. “We need our elected officials to stop the rhetoric. The fact remains that ICE makes this city safer by removing criminal aliens and public threats off the street so they are unable to reoffend, victimizing our city residents.”
The agency listed 12 examples of the crimes the illegal immigrants committed, many including violent acts. A Guyanese national was arrested in the Bronx for “Assault 2nd, Assault 3rd, Reckless Endangerment, Menacing, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.” A Mexican national was arrested for robbery. A Spanish national was arrested for assault, harassment, menacing, and possession of stolen property. Another Mexican national was arrested in Manhattan for assault and “criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation.” Another Mexican national was arrested in Kew Gardens for assault, injuring an 11-year-old, and harassment. A Colombian national was arrested in Kew Gardens for strangulation, assault, and harassment. A Guatemalan national was arrested in Spring Valley for rape. A Salvadoran national, associated with the violent MS-13 gang, was arrested for DWI (flashback to when Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said illegal aliens shouldn’t be deported for driving while intoxicated). Another Colombian national was arrested for assault and intent to cause serious physical injury.
Other examples include drug and tax fraud crimes.
If you look closely at these cases, you will probably find that this was not the first brush with the law these people experienced. Many are violent criminals who should be, at the very least, locked up. The fact that they are in the US illegally and are given a get out of jail free card is unconscionable.
The bottom line is that local law enforcement believes they have better things to do than look after criminal illegal aliens in jail until ICE can pick them up. And the politicians don’t want them deported at all. This is the basis of all sanctuary policies at the state and local level.
Looking at the charges against the illegals picked up by ICE, they are not “serious” offenses by themselves. But crimes against people and property by illegals should always be considered serious because they are totally unnecessary. No one should be hurt by someone who has no right being here in the first place.
Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency arrested more than 20 illegal aliens in New York city who had been released from custody in accordance with their sanctuary policies.
New York authorities refused an ICE request to “hold” the illegals until they could be picked up. But ICE followed through and arrested the illegals anyway.
“The sanctuary city politics of this city continue to put the safety of New York residents at risk,” Thomas R. Decker, field office director for ERO NY, said in the press release. “We need our elected officials to stop the rhetoric. The fact remains that ICE makes this city safer by removing criminal aliens and public threats off the street so they are unable to reoffend, victimizing our city residents.”
The agency listed 12 examples of the crimes the illegal immigrants committed, many including violent acts. A Guyanese national was arrested in the Bronx for “Assault 2nd, Assault 3rd, Reckless Endangerment, Menacing, and Criminal Possession of a Weapon.” A Mexican national was arrested for robbery. A Spanish national was arrested for assault, harassment, menacing, and possession of stolen property. Another Mexican national was arrested in Manhattan for assault and “criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation.” Another Mexican national was arrested in Kew Gardens for assault, injuring an 11-year-old, and harassment. A Colombian national was arrested in Kew Gardens for strangulation, assault, and harassment. A Guatemalan national was arrested in Spring Valley for rape. A Salvadoran national, associated with the violent MS-13 gang, was arrested for DWI (flashback to when Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey said illegal aliens shouldn’t be deported for driving while intoxicated). Another Colombian national was arrested for assault and intent to cause serious physical injury.
Other examples include drug and tax fraud crimes.
If you look closely at these cases, you will probably find that this was not the first brush with the law these people experienced. Many are violent criminals who should be, at the very least, locked up. The fact that they are in the US illegally and are given a get out of jail free card is unconscionable.
The bottom line is that local law enforcement believes they have better things to do than look after criminal illegal aliens in jail until ICE can pick them up. And the politicians don’t want them deported at all. This is the basis of all sanctuary policies at the state and local level.
Looking at the charges against the illegals picked up by ICE, they are not “serious” offenses by themselves. But crimes against people and property by illegals should always be considered serious because they are totally unnecessary. No one should be hurt by someone who has no right being here in the first place.
In some remarkable rubberizing backflips, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is busy trying to “change the narrative” about border enforcement, to claim that it’s entirely the work of racism.
As if asking everyone to be follow the same set of rules in the name of one rule of law for everyone, is now ‘racist.’ Get a load of her tweets:
If we’re so concerned about implied tropes, why aren’t we concerned about this one?
Where was the concern last week when 26 Dems voted for a GOP amendment to expand ICE powers rooted in the racist + false trope that Latino immigrants are more dangerous than US born citizens? https://t.co/KNzRDWJH4z
Comade Ocasio-Cortez is still thinking about her “list.”
The border crisis of mass illegal crossings isn’t a matter of Latinos being dangerous, (although cartel members who rape women who pay them to take them across and who have zero fear of the long arm of U.S. law would involve some good candidates). It’s about rule of law. Shall we have an open border or shall we vet people who want to come here and allow them in through a legal process? Congress is the U.S. branch of government that sets legal immigration quotas, what I want to know is why she isn’t working to expand them instead of encouraging break-ins as an immigration policy. Anyone who would break into a house would be called a burglar. How is that different from someone who breaks into another country and expects free stuff handed to them on a platter? It’s as if Ocasio-Cortez wants the burglars, and anyone crossing her on this is a racist.
This is truly twisted logic.
As the estimable Seb Gorka tweeted in response:
How about this “trope?”
Did you know 52% of ICE agents are Latino?
Of course you didn’t, you’re @AOC. You’re “Da Boss!”
In some remarkable rubberizing backflips, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is busy trying to “change the narrative” about border enforcement, to claim that it’s entirely the work of racism.
As if asking everyone to be follow the same set of rules in the name of one rule of law for everyone, is now ‘racist.’ Get a load of her tweets:
If we’re so concerned about implied tropes, why aren’t we concerned about this one?
Where was the concern last week when 26 Dems voted for a GOP amendment to expand ICE powers rooted in the racist + false trope that Latino immigrants are more dangerous than US born citizens? https://t.co/KNzRDWJH4z
Comade Ocasio-Cortez is still thinking about her “list.”
The border crisis of mass illegal crossings isn’t a matter of Latinos being dangerous, (although cartel members who rape women who pay them to take them across and who have zero fear of the long arm of U.S. law would involve some good candidates). It’s about rule of law. Shall we have an open border or shall we vet people who want to come here and allow them in through a legal process? Congress is the U.S. branch of government that sets legal immigration quotas, what I want to know is why she isn’t working to expand them instead of encouraging break-ins as an immigration policy. Anyone who would break into a house would be called a burglar. How is that different from someone who breaks into another country and expects free stuff handed to them on a platter? It’s as if Ocasio-Cortez wants the burglars, and anyone crossing her on this is a racist.
This is truly twisted logic.
As the estimable Seb Gorka tweeted in response:
How about this “trope?”
Did you know 52% of ICE agents are Latino?
Of course you didn’t, you’re @AOC. You’re “Da Boss!”
Vaccine skeptics under siege
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2019
Watch out. Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley have locked their sights on the next targets of a frightening free speech-squelching purge: independent citizens who dare to raise questions online about the safety and efficacy of vaccines.
I’m vaccinated. My children are up to date. There’s no dispute that vaccines have saved untold lives. But over the years, I’ve voiced my concerns about vaccine claims and government coercion in my newspaper columns and blog posts. These concerns include my objections to Gardasil mandates for schoolchildren in Texas and California; schools’ threatening parents with jail time for refusing chickenpox shots for their kids; ineffectiveness of the flu vaccine; contamination issues at vaccine plants abroad; lack of data on vaccines’ long-term and synergistic effects on children; and pharma-funded politicians’ financial conflicts of interest.
In 2004, I recounted my family’s firsthand experience with bully doctors who balked at even the mildest questioning of the wisdom of the newborn hepatitis B immunization. When my husband and I asked if we could simply delay this particular shot, as the vaccine is for a virus that is contracted mostly through intravenous drug use and sexual contact, my son’s pediatrician angrily kicked us out of her practice.
Does this informed skepticism make me and other like-minded parents public health menaces, as the World Health Organization has proclaimed? Are we “sociopaths,” as a journalist at The Atlantic once sneered? Apparently so.
At a Senate hearing on Tuesday, Washington state’s public health secretary, John Wiesman, demanded that the feds launch a national campaign to counter “anti-vaccine” groups that are spreading what he condemned as “false information.” Weisman called for increased funding from the Centers for Disease Control to combat opponents of the state’s push to prevent parents from opting their children out of immunizations for personal or philosophical reasons. Health officials have blamed vaccine critics’ social media influence for recent measles outbreaks. So Wiesman further urged Twitter, Facebook and Google to “use whatever mechanism they have available to stop promoting pseudoscience.”
Let’s be clear: Misinformation of all kinds abounds on the internet. The world’s most influential “mainstream” media websites and celebrity social media accounts, for example, recklessly fanned the flames of the recent Covington Catholic High School and Jussie Smollett hate crime hoaxes. No one in Washington has called for the boycott of The Washington Post or TMZ over their false and misleading stories. But for some reason (hint: pharmaceutical big business), politicians and government bureaucrats are now hell-bent on deplatforming any and all dissenters who challenge mandatory vaccine regimens.
Under pressure from Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Amazon pulled the documentaries “Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe,” “Man Made Epidemic” and “Shoot ’em Up: The Truth About Vaccines” from its Prime Video streaming service. Last week, Google-owned YouTube moved to demonetize “anti-vaccine” channels, tweak algorithms to suppress vaccine “conspiracy” videos and combat “vaccine hesitancy.” Pinterest blocks users from using the search terms “vaccine,” “vaccinations” and “anti-vax,” no matter the quality of the results. Facebook plans to downgrade vaccine skeptics’ content on newsfeeds, recommended user groups and ads.
Is there junk science on the “anti-vaccine” side? Sure. But you can’t address this issue without also addressing the problem with physicians and public health flacks who are unwilling to discuss the full risks of vaccines as well as their benefits; pro-vaccination groups that provide incorrect information about vaccines’ duration of protection; physicians who refuse to care for children who are not “fully” vaccinated; and the comparative risk-benefit ratios of different vaccines.
As for efficacy, consider this new data: A recent whooping cough outbreak at the private Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles last week resulted in 30 students contracting the illness, all of whom were vaccinated. Of 18 unvaccinated students, none caught the disease. Will pointing this out on my Facebook and Twitter accounts bring down the Silicon Valley ban hammer?
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who happens to be a physician and parent himself, was the lone voice of dissent at the Senate hearing this week. While acknowledging that the benefits of vaccines generally outweigh their risks, he noted the plain truth that “it is wrong to say there are no risks to vaccines.” He added that over $4 billion has been paid by the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program for adults and children who have been injured or died as a result of receiving federally recommended childhood vaccines.
Is it unacceptable fearmongering to raise that point? How about to share information on vaccine manufacturers’ astonishing exemption from product liability? Or to point parents to new research findings on brain injuries caused by vaccines, which can be found at VaccinePapers.org? Or to link them to a recent statement by the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, which “strongly opposes federal interference in medical decisions, including mandated vaccines.”
When it comes to protecting our children, skepticism is always the best medicine. We need more free speech, not less. Those who seek to suppress debate and discussion in the name of the “public good” are the true health threats.
Turns out Amy Klobuchar isn’t the only Democratic presidential candidate with a revolting personality.
Aides are reportedly struggling to put openly socialist Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders through some kind of charm school. According to the Atlantic Monthly:
The senator from Vermont fought his staff for weeks as they pushed him to get more personal, and be a little less gruff, as he launched his second presidential campaign. He didn’t think talking about himself was just stupid—he thought it risked undermining the mission.
But they finally convinced him that the mission was going to fail if he didn’t. So he spent the weekend in Brooklyn and Chicago launching his campaign with rallies meant to emphasize the experiences that made him who he is—the son of a paint salesman who fled from anti-Semitism in Poland, and the student at the University of Chicago whose activism led him to get on a bus in 1963 and travel to hear the “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.
They’re trying to Clintonize the old-line socialist, making him into an oily oozing snake-oil salesman, in a bid to get him more votes.
Good luck with that one on Sanders, because it amounts to a denial of “who he is.”
The reality is, Sanders is a socialist. He’s not one of these new socialists, who barely know the meaning of the term, he’s a socialist dating back from the days when voters abhorred socialism. Sanders didn’t care then what dissenters thought of him, and he sure as heck doesn’t care now. This is a man who cut his teeth on hardcore old-line socialism, spending his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, never mind the grayness and lines and shortages and Wendy’s fashion shows of fashion. This was what he liked.
It’s cold-blooded, it’s icy, it’s the image of a commissar and the show-trial lists he has with him. The aides’ efforts are not unlike trying to charm-school Leonid Brezhnev or Alexei Kosygin into seeming human. It’s what socialism always looks like, up close.
What’s more, Sanders hasn’t changed any, all that’s changed is that Millennials (a lot of them anyway) view him as the cuddly grumpy grandpa they never had. They don’t notice the coldness, the ends-justify-the-means philosophy, the hard stances. Someone like Sanders could put you in a Gulag no problem were he ever to win enogh power to do it.
Now the aide are trying to pretty the man up, repackaging him as a nice guy, someone who’s normal. He’s never been normal. Socialism is his pole star and Commissar Bernie is no different from any other socialist viewed worldwide.
Turns out Amy Klobuchar isn’t the only Democratic presidential candidate with a revolting personality.
Aides are reportedly struggling to put openly socialist Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders through some kind of charm school. According to the Atlantic Monthly:
The senator from Vermont fought his staff for weeks as they pushed him to get more personal, and be a little less gruff, as he launched his second presidential campaign. He didn’t think talking about himself was just stupid—he thought it risked undermining the mission.
But they finally convinced him that the mission was going to fail if he didn’t. So he spent the weekend in Brooklyn and Chicago launching his campaign with rallies meant to emphasize the experiences that made him who he is—the son of a paint salesman who fled from anti-Semitism in Poland, and the student at the University of Chicago whose activism led him to get on a bus in 1963 and travel to hear the “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.
They’re trying to Clintonize the old-line socialist, making him into an oily oozing snake-oil salesman, in a bid to get him more votes.
Good luck with that one on Sanders, because it amounts to a denial of “who he is.”
The reality is, Sanders is a socialist. He’s not one of these new socialists, who barely know the meaning of the term, he’s a socialist dating back from the days when voters abhorred socialism. Sanders didn’t care then what dissenters thought of him, and he sure as heck doesn’t care now. This is a man who cut his teeth on hardcore old-line socialism, spending his honeymoon in the Soviet Union, never mind the grayness and lines and shortages and Wendy’s fashion shows of fashion. This was what he liked.
It’s cold-blooded, it’s icy, it’s the image of a commissar and the show-trial lists he has with him. The aides’ efforts are not unlike trying to charm-school Leonid Brezhnev or Alexei Kosygin into seeming human. It’s what socialism always looks like, up close.
What’s more, Sanders hasn’t changed any, all that’s changed is that Millennials (a lot of them anyway) view him as the cuddly grumpy grandpa they never had. They don’t notice the coldness, the ends-justify-the-means philosophy, the hard stances. Someone like Sanders could put you in a Gulag no problem were he ever to win enogh power to do it.
Now the aide are trying to pretty the man up, repackaging him as a nice guy, someone who’s normal. He’s never been normal. Socialism is his pole star and Commissar Bernie is no different from any other socialist viewed worldwide.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has slammed accusations that his country is anti-Semitic, saying that mass migration has led to a true rise in anti-Semitism in Western Europe.
The Hungarian leader’s remarks came after he was questioned about anti-semitism in Hungary and accusations of anti-Semitism over his campaigns against the influence of left-wing billionaire George Soros in an interview with Germany’s Welt.
“The international aspect doesn’t interest me all that much. Hungarian Jews enjoy the protection of the government. Also, we conduct a consistently pro-Israeli foreign policy,” Orbán said and added, “Because we are convinced that the existence of a Jewish state is not only important for European Jews but that the security of Israel is a key question for the stability of Europe.”
Admitting that Hungary has had an anti-semitic Christian right in the past, the Hungarian prime minister said, “we have done away with that.”
Hungary PM: Soros Responsible for Increasing Anti-Semitism in Europe by Encouraging Islamic Immigration https://t.co/kOHPKIM2ER
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) May 19, 2018
“Today antisemitism has assumed a new character: The enmity against Jews and against Israel is carried into our societies by migration,” he said and noted that anti-Semitism is rising in Western Europe and decreasing in Central Europe.
Several reports in recent months have backed up the Hungarian leader’s claim including reports from both Germany and France that revealed a substantial rise in anti-Semitic incidents over the last year.
On Soros himself, Orbán labelled the Hungarian-born billionaire “the ugly face of globalism,” adding, “On the one side stands Hungary, represented by its elected political representatives. On the other side, the international NGOs financed by Soros and elected by no-one, who want us to follow a different migration policy.”
Orban: Islam and Open Borders Will Divide EU into ‘Two Civilisations’ https://t.co/PrTyhusf4S
Orbán and his party Fidesz are also seeing pushback from the European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary group in the European Parliament.
Last month, members of the Swedish Moderate Party called for Fidesz to be removed from the group and this week the EPP began measures to expel the party.
EPP President Joseph Daul announced Tuesday that the group would decide this month whether or not Fidesz could stay.
“Twelve EPP member parties from nine countries have called for the expulsion or suspension of Fidesz, which will be discussed at the political assembly on March 20th,” Daul said and added, “Only the political assembly can exclude or suspend a member party, we can not anticipate the decision of the political assembly.”
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials report that agents and officers are referring an average of 55 migrants per day to hospitals. Over the past four years, this resulted in a taxpayer cost of $98 million.
U.S. Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings told reporters in Washington, D.C. Tuesday that Border Patrol agents are facing both national security and a humanitarian crises. The challenges have been brought on by the massive numbers of family units and unaccompanied minors.
“We are committed to addressing these humanitarian needs but the current situation is sustainable,” Hastings said regarding Border Patrol agents being pulled off the national security mission to assist migrants with medical needs. “The increased flow (of migrants) combined with the stress of the journey, the crowded conveyances, and flu season has resulted in significant increases in the medical referrals for Border Patrol.”
“Currently, the Border Patrol is sending an average of 55 people per day for medical care,” the operations chief explained. “During December, this was as high as 63.”
He said that if the trend continues, Border Patrol agents will refer 31,000 people for medical treatment this year. This is up from 12,000 in 2018 — an increase of 158 percent.
Hastings explained the impact on Border Patrol operations for these medical referrals.
“Since December 22, 2018, U.S. Border Patrol agents have spent over 57,000 hours at a hospital or medical facility,” he reported. “This equates to just under 5,700 shifts of hospital watch during these 72 days at a cost of $2.2 million in Border Patrol salaries.”
CBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told the reporters that since December, CBP interviewed 27,000 juveniles in the medical screening process. Certified medical practitioners have screened an additional 12,000, he stated.
The commissioner explained that the massive increase in migrant families and unaccompanied minors, particularly in the El Paso Sector, caused facilities to reach or exceed capacity several times during the first quarter. He said this impacts “both the efficiency of migrant processing and the quality of our care that we are able to provide the detained migrants.”
McAleenan said his agency is responding by creating a temporary central migrant processing center in the El Paso Sector in order to “protect the health and safety of the families and children in custody while streamlining operations and reducing the time we are holding families and children.”
“While our enhanced medical efforts and the creation of new facilities will assist with managing the increased flows,” the commissioner stated, “and while we’ll continue to do all that we can to address these increases in traffic safely and humanely, the fact is that these solutions are temporary and this situation is not sustainable.”
The commissioner called on Congress to act on fixing the laws that are drawing these migrants to the border and to provide the necessary funding to effectively secure the border.
“Remote locations of the United States border are not safe places to cross and they are not places to seek medical care,” he concluded. “The system is well beyond capacity and remains at the breaking point.”
Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior political news contributor for the Breitbart Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
Socialism is now a significant component of the reinvented Democratic party gaining momentum and visibility. Recently Democratic Presidental candidate Bernie Sanders held his first campaign rally in Brooklyn, New York amidst a crowd of cheering and enthusiastic supporters many of whom represent the youth and future of America.
Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) argued in favor of President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration at the southern border.
Kinzinger, who visited the border and saw the situation firsthand, said there is a “really bad situation” at the border because of the drugs and human trafficking.
“What I saw was a really bad situation, something I think is deserving of a national emergency — not because of the immigration issue, but because of the drugs and the human trafficking,” Kinzinger told host Alisyn Camerota. “If you think about the cartels, the Sinaloa and the Zetas, they basically make money on two things: One is trafficking humans, the other is trafficking drugs — both of which are over the border. I saw that lots of people die every year as a result of coyotes running and abandoning them. And so, I think it’s important to share that.”
Socialism is now a significant component of the reinvented Democratic party gaining momentum and visibility. Recently Democratic Presidental candidate Bernie Sanders held his first campaign rally in Brooklyn, New York amidst a crowd of cheering and enthusiastic supporters many of whom represent the youth and future of America.
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