President Trump became the first sitting president in U.S. history to attend a UFC fight on Saturday night. However, CNN’s Brian Stelter would like to know who invited the Commander-in-Chief, and why?
In a tweet captioning an MMA reporter announcing Trump’s arrival at UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden, Stelter posed the question to his followers:
I’m curious to find out: Who invited Trump to this UFC fight, and why? https://t.co/suBz8W4C6U
Why, this would be a curiosity for Stelter in general is a good question. Why he would pose this question about Trump’s attendance at a combat sports event given Trump’s long history of supporting and promoting combat sports, coupled with his very good and public relationship with UFC President Dana White, might be an even better question.
But, since Stelter is curious.
“UFC president Dana White has praised Trump for backing the UFC early on—including agreeing to host fights at his venues and watching from the front row. ‘Nobody took us seriously. Nobody. Except Donald Trump. Donald was the first guy to recognize the potential we saw in the UFC,’” Bloomberg’s Tim O’Brien reports.
In other words, Trump was integral in the development of the UFC. Also, when you’re the president of the United States, you get invited places, it doesn’t really require explanation.
UFC 244 featured a fight between Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal, for the Baddest Motherf*cker in the Game, belt. Earlier in the week, Masvidal praised Trump for being a “bad motherf*cker in his own right.
“No matter what your views are on Trump as a president, the guy’s a bad mother f*ucker, man,” Masvidal said. “The money that he’s made, the obstacles that he’s conquered — he’s a bad mother f*cker in his own way, you know, no matter what your political views are.”
UFC title contender Jorge Masvidal: No matter what your views are on Trump as president, the guy’s a bad mother fu*ker man😎 pic.twitter.com/rboFCFvMxK
David Krayden at Daily Caller noted The New York Times is once again describing the national anthem as a wildly divisive song. Media liberals also think "God Bless America" is controversial, when they weren’t quoting radicals saying that song was "a whitewash of everything wrong in America." Times reporter Julia Jacobs reported on Wednesday on the "divisive" trend of TV stations returning to broadcasting a national-anthem video in the wee hours of the night.
The CIA leaker’s attorney on Sunday Mark Zaid told CBS’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan that his client is willing to answer questions from GOP lawmakers.
Ciaramella is willing to answer “written questions” from Congress. His lawyers know they must hide his identity (although we all know it’s him) or their case collapses.
These people are evil.
NEW: Mark Zaid, the lawyer representing the whistleblower, wrote on Twitter that they had offered the GOP a “direct opportunity to ask written questions of the whistleblower” without compromising his or her identity. https://t.co/4quMDl3ZF7
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said on Sunday that he was not aware of the offer made to Congressman Nunes for the ‘whistleblower’ to talk to House Republicans.
“I have never received that offer, and I’m the lead Republican,” McCarthy said.
The CIA snitch’s lawyer Mark Zaid refused to confirm Paul Sperry’s Real Clear Investigations report exposing pajama boy Eric Ciaramella as his client.
However, attorney Mark Zaid lashed out at Paul Sperry in a statement and said publishing Ciaramella’s name “is at the pinnacle of irresponsibility and is intentionally reckless.”
Just because Ciaramella filled out a whistleblower form, doesn’t mean he is guaranteed anonymity.
33-year-old Ciaramella is a registered Democrat, worked for Obama, worked for Biden, worked for CIA Director John Brennan, he’s a vocal critic of Trump and he helped initiate the ‘Russia collusion’ hoax investigation.
“Everyone knows who he is. CNN knows. The Washington Post knows. The New York Times knows. Congress knows. The White House knows. Even the president knows who he is,” said Fred Fleitz, a former CIA analyst.
Police have arrested five members of a far-left extremist group in Milan after they broke into vacant public housing and illegally gave it away to migrants.
The five individuals, three Italian nationals, a Romanian, and an Angolan, are members of the far-left Autonomous Committee of Ambitanti Barona (CAAB). CAAB claims to fight against evictions and for the right to housing, Il Giornalereports.
Police allege that the group broke into uninhabited publically-owned apartments and then illegally assigned them to migrants. The new occupants pay the group between €700 and €1,400 in what investigators have labelled as bribes.
The migrants, who mostly come from non-European Union states, were also expected to take part in demonstrations against evictions and were often at the front of protests in which the group clashed with Milan police.
Investigators were tipped off to the group’s activities by a 43-year-old Moroccan migrant who had become disillusioned with CAAB’s activities and stopped showing up to demonstrations and meetings.
Former Olympic Village Becomes Migrant No-Go Zone Run by Far-Left Groups https://t.co/obfsBis0hg
Eventually, the migrant was called on by members of CAAB to explain his absence and lack of communication. He was then allegedly physically attacked until another man, a 32-year-old, defended him.
CAAB responded to the arrests, calling them a “political attack” and claimed that the Moroccan started the physical altercation.
“As the Barona Autonomous Committee, we reject every single accusation and send it back to the sender: occupying houses for money is a mafia practice, which speculates on people’s problems, and we fight it every day,” the statement said.
Public housing for migrants has been a significant issue in many Italian cities, including in Sesto San Giovanni. Earlier this year, the city’s right-wing Mayor Roberto Di Stefano reversed a leftist policy of giving migrants priority for housing over local Italians.
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Boris Johnson has done his first really, really bad thing since becoming Prime Minister.
It’s bad, at least, if you think the job of a Conservative leader is to stand up for stuff like innovation, prosperity, moral principle – and for the little guy who wants lower energy prices, a higher standard of living, and a jobs and an economic future for his kids…
…Really great, though, if you think canny politics is to blow with the wind, allow your policies — Blair- and Cameron-style — to be dictated by whatever random focus group you spoke to last, ignore the evidence, stifle entrepreneurship, and give an almighty boost to the kind of people who are always going to hate you.
I’m talking, of course, about the Conservatives’ announcement that they are going to ban fracking for shale gas. And also about their even more fantastically stupid announcement that they are going to invite 30,000 randomly chosen people to take part in a ‘citizens’ assembly’ on the ‘climate emergency’.
In the short term, I can see, these eye-catching initiatives might make a sort of sense.
It’s possible that the fracking ban might win over a few swing voters — and stymie the Brexit Party — in a few of the northern seats where fracking is an issue.
Here’s a map of the ’17 election results.
There is a streak of Labour seats across the northwest of England, coinciding with some potential fracking sites, perhaps.
But how pleased will they be with Labours anti-jobs, anti-industry, anti-cheap energy, anti-Brexit policies? pic.twitter.com/Eu14pluz0y
And it might be that when they hear about the ‘citizens’ assembly’ at least two — and possibly as many as three — Extinction Rebellion supporters might hover their pencil for all of half a second over the Conservative box on their ballot paper before they go to themselves ‘Naahh!’ and waste their vote on Green or Labour or Lib Dems instead.
But in most other respects this is a disastrous unforced error for the Conservatives.
First, it will reinforce the impression many right-wing voters have that this is just the same old, squishy, crony-capitalist, nervous, ideology-free Conservative Party of the Cameron and May eras — and that Boris’s claims to be reinvigorating it are just a sham.
Second, it rewards and panders to an increasingly aggressive and demanding green movement — as currently represented by Extinction Rebellion and Greta Thunberg — whose aims are utterly inimical to anything a Conservative administration might reasonably aim to achieve. Conservatives have always been natural conservators but the modern environmental movement has other aims entirely: it’s explicitly anti-capitalist, it rejects economic growth and it sees any form of compromise as weakness to be exploited. This was why when I met the Godfather of Environmentalism, James Lovelock, the other day he told me: “I am not a green.” Nor should anyone else be if they have an ounce of common sense. Why pander to these extremists?
Third, it defeats part of the object of leaving the European Union. Isn’t one of the reasons people voted to leave that they wanted to be free of all those burdensome regulations imposed on Britain by the EU’s unelected commissars — regulations which are killing jobs, stopping businesses growing, and driving up the cost of living? Sure there’s nothing wrong with having strong environmental protection laws in place: but isn’t the point of having these decisions made by our own people, rather than foreign bureaucrats, that an element of transparency is involved? That is, if we’re going to have red tape imposed on us, shouldn’t we, from now on, be shown the justifications for this red tape?
Fourth, shale gas and oil have worked wonders for the U.S. economy, making America energy-independent, making its industry more globally competitive, and bringing down the cost of living for consumers. What possible reason could the United Kingdom have for not wanting to follow suit, especially since some of Britain’s shales are actually deeper — and potentially more productive — than those in the States? Boris Johnson has been campaigning on an optimistic message of giving Britain a brighter, wealthier future outside the EU as an independent trading nation. Shale gas could — and ought — to be one of the main pillars of his economic plan.
Fifth, one of the reasons successive Conservative governments have proved so disappointing since the Eighties is that, unlike Margaret Thatcher, they never had the courage or the conviction to argue difficult cases for causes which they nonetheless believed would benefit Britain. The reason that fracking is a hard sell is not — contra Britain’s mainstream media which routinely, lazily describes it as ‘the controversial process known as fracking’ — that there’s anything wrong or dangerous with the process. It’s simply that green propaganda (some of it funded by Russia, which has its own gas to sell and doesn’t want its clients producing their own) has been allowed to proceed largely unchecked, which means a lot of people have got needlessly frightened. Scare stories about water tables being polluted, about ‘earthquakes’ (in reality barely noticeable tremors), about methane leaks causing global warming or making your kitchen taps catch fire are easily debunked: but successive governments have had no appetite to do so, which means that fracking has a terrible, but thoroughly undeserved, public image. If Boris Johnson persists with this kind of moral cowardice then it augurs very ill for the kind of Conservative administration he intends to lead.
A handful of sensible people are quite properly appalled by what Boris is doing here:
The decision to halt shale gas will eventually be seen as a historic mistake. It followed the same script as genetically modified foods: well funded and unprincipled opposition resulting in environmentally more damaging alternatives getting their way. https://t.co/yIiceu9Ewo
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