Twitter Attaches Warning to Trump Campaign’s Pro-Life Video

Twitter attached a warning reserved for graphic, gory, or violent content to a pro-life video from the Trump campaign, prompting accusations of censorship against the social media giant.

Hours before Trump is scheduled to become the first sitting U.S. president to attend the annual March for Life, his official campaign account posted a video showing couples with newborns and a pregnant woman looking at an ultrasound of her baby.

"Life is the greatest miracle of all. We see it in the eyes of every new mother who cradles that wonderful, innocent, and glorious newborn child in her loving arms," Trump says in the video. "Let us work together to build a culture that cherishes innocent life."

The video was flagged as containing "sensitive material," despite showing no sexual, violent, or hateful imagery.

Such warnings are reserved for graphic or hateful content.

"You may not post media that is excessively gory or share violent or adult content within live video or in profile or header images. Media depicting sexual violence and/or assault is also not permitted," the social media giant says in its guidelines. "Our aim is to limit exposure to sensitive images and videos and to prevent the sharing of potentially disturbing types of sensitive media."

The Trump campaign said Twitter’s content warning amounted to "censorship" and an attempt to hinder pro-life messages on the site.

"Twitter’s censorship of the video launching President Trump’s pro-life coalition is a perfect example of the left stomping on any idea they don’t like," spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said. "This video shows children and families and highlights the sanctity of life. President Trump is the most pro-life President ever and his support for unborn children cannot be silenced."

Not all videos discussing abortion have been flagged as potentially "sensitive." Planned Parenthood videos featuring women discussing their abortions automatically play for any user.

Friday’s episode is not the first time social media platforms have removed or hidden pro-life messages. In June, Twitter banned activist Lila Rose from posting videos on the site. In 2018, Facebook blocked pro-life organizations from advertising on the site.

A spokeswoman for Twitter said the video was flagged "in error" and the settings have since been changed.

Trump is scheduled to address the March for Life at noon.

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Thanks to Rep. Sylvia Garcia, the barn door now is open on the Bidens and the Democrats

Much of the day Thursday at the impeachment show was spent on how innocent the Bidens are of any wrongdoing re: Ukraine.  Rep. Sylvia Garcia had fancy charts and graphs to demonstrate her point:  There was absolutely nothing wrong with Hunter Biden trading on his name to make $50 – 80k a month on the board of a verified corrupt gas company in Ukraine, nor was there anything wrong with Joe’s quid pro quo, that the prosecutor investigating that company be fired or a billion dollars in aid would not be forthcoming.  

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Perhaps Rep. Garcia should have read Peter Schweizer’s new book Profiles in Corruption before assembling her power-point lecture.  The Bidens are among the most corrupt politicians in the US.  And Schweizer’s sources, unlike those of our mainstream media,  are not anonymous but hard copy documents.  She might have waited a bit longer for the documents now released that show that Obama met with Ukrainian prosecutors, US embassy officials and faux-whistleblower Eric Ciaramella in January 2016 to discuss Burisma and Hunter Biden’s role there.  George Kent, the Democrats’ own witness, had  voiced his concern about Hunter Biden’s position there but was rebuffed by a Biden aide.   Ciaramella?  Rep. Garcia’s overarching defense of the Bidens will very likely come back to haunt the congresswoman from Texas as will Biden’s memo to the media not to report on or address the “conspiracy theory” that there was something corrupt about his family’s dealings with Ukraine and Burisma.  Biden obviously thinks he can control what the left media will investigate; he thinks this because it has always worked in the past.  That is probably why the NYT never reported on the Obama WH meeting with the Ukrainian prosecutors who were investigating Hunter Biden and Burisima and had been since 2014.

Garcia then contended that President Trump made “the phone call” in July, the transcript of which we are all familiar with, because he was threatened by Biden’s rise in the polls!  Does any sentient person believe that?  Of course not.  If there is anyone who knows polls are meaningless it is Donald Trump and his supporters.  And Joe Biden was never, will never be, a threat to Trump’s re-election.  He does not know what state he is in from day to day.  He thinks we don’t need “standing armies” and that we should be “helping” communist China!  

The man is dangerously oblivious of all things relevant to our national security.  It is hard to imagine Biden even going the distance and becoming the Democrat nominee.  So Rep. Garcia’s entire theory is seriously flawed.   We also all know, as do they,  that what Trump was concerned with was not the 2020 election but the 2016 election, since Ukraine’s interference to benefit Clinton was beginning to be reported, specifically by Politico in January 2017.  

 But Garcia opened the door even wider than Schiff did  to further discussion of the Bidens’ financial malfeasance.   They will have a very difficult time explaining, let alone defending, the many get-rich-quick schemes in which they were involved.  

Meanwhile, the bobble-heads on CNN and MSNBC wax rhapsodic on Schiff’s theatrical debut: ”dazzling” (Jeffrey Toobin), “powerful and forceful” Wolf Blitzer, ”virtuoso performance (Joe Scarborough); there are more and they are all distastefully obsequious.  

 

 

This insincere kind of “Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.” (Burke)  Schiff and his fans on the Left should not take any comfort from such benighted, self-serving sources. 

Then there is Rudy Guiliani.  The splenetic left media love to mock him but he is about to drop a boatload of info on the corruption in Ukraine that is not going to land on Trump but on the Bidens and all those diplo-thugs who think they should be running  American foreign policy rather than the President.  

The most mystifying aspect of the Left’s obsession with removing President Trump from office is what exactly is its motivation.  Yes, prior to the election they were certain they could derail Trump, so yes, they were stupefied when Hillary lost.  But everyone knows by now that the Russia hoax was just that, a hoax cobbled together with a cast of characters from the Clinton campaign and her hired guns (Fusion GPS and Perkins-Coie) to the reprobates at the upper realms of the FBI, the DOJ and CIA.  None of  their investigations have yielded fruit and still they keep digging the hole in which they have already found themselves.  

What is it they so maniacally fear about this man who, in spite of them, has accomplished so much good in just three years?  Is it his promise to drain the swamp which would mean uncovering all their shady money deals that have for generations made them all wealthy while in office? Perhaps.  It is more likely that because he is not a politician but an authentic American patriot who believes this country was founded on great principles, is still a grand and successful experiment, and that but for the intervening presidencies of Marxist socialist utopians like Obama, can be great again.  How dare he!  What an upstart, they think!  We run this place, not some self-made interloper from outside the beltway or Ivy League.

Whatever the reason for the Left’s psychopathy regarding President Trump, they have now gone so far over the edge of sanity it is quite likely they will be unable to come back as a legitimate party.  The fact that Pelosi and Schumer have allowed the odious, prevaricating and self-aggrandizing Adam Schiff to carry on like his home is in a tree and that only one or two Democrats have objected to their impeachment crusade to unseat the man proves the party is lost forever.  That horse has left the barn, as has the one that will take the Bidens down and out.   How will it all end?  “It’s the natural law of karma, we create our own destiny by our own thoughts, words and deeds for good or ill. (Midsomer Murders)

Much of the day Thursday at the impeachment show was spent on how innocent the Bidens are of any wrongdoing re: Ukraine.  Rep. Sylvia Garcia had fancy charts and graphs to demonstrate her point:  There was absolutely nothing wrong with Hunter Biden trading on his name to make $50 – 80k a month on the board of a verified corrupt gas company in Ukraine, nor was there anything wrong with Joe’s quid pro quo, that the prosecutor investigating that company be fired or a billion dollars in aid would not be forthcoming.  

YouTube screen grab

Perhaps Rep. Garcia should have read Peter Schweizer’s new book Profiles in Corruption before assembling her power-point lecture.  The Bidens are among the most corrupt politicians in the US.  And Schweizer’s sources, unlike those of our mainstream media,  are not anonymous but hard copy documents.  She might have waited a bit longer for the documents now released that show that Obama met with Ukrainian prosecutors, US embassy officials and faux-whistleblower Eric Ciaramella in January 2016 to discuss Burisma and Hunter Biden’s role there.  George Kent, the Democrats’ own witness, had  voiced his concern about Hunter Biden’s position there but was rebuffed by a Biden aide.   Ciaramella?  Rep. Garcia’s overarching defense of the Bidens will very likely come back to haunt the congresswoman from Texas as will Biden’s memo to the media not to report on or address the “conspiracy theory” that there was something corrupt about his family’s dealings with Ukraine and Burisma.  Biden obviously thinks he can control what the left media will investigate; he thinks this because it has always worked in the past.  That is probably why the NYT never reported on the Obama WH meeting with the Ukrainian prosecutors who were investigating Hunter Biden and Burisima and had been since 2014.

Garcia then contended that President Trump made “the phone call” in July, the transcript of which we are all familiar with, because he was threatened by Biden’s rise in the polls!  Does any sentient person believe that?  Of course not.  If there is anyone who knows polls are meaningless it is Donald Trump and his supporters.  And Joe Biden was never, will never be, a threat to Trump’s re-election.  He does not know what state he is in from day to day.  He thinks we don’t need “standing armies” and that we should be “helping” communist China!  

The man is dangerously oblivious of all things relevant to our national security.  It is hard to imagine Biden even going the distance and becoming the Democrat nominee.  So Rep. Garcia’s entire theory is seriously flawed.   We also all know, as do they,  that what Trump was concerned with was not the 2020 election but the 2016 election, since Ukraine’s interference to benefit Clinton was beginning to be reported, specifically by Politico in January 2017.  

 But Garcia opened the door even wider than Schiff did  to further discussion of the Bidens’ financial malfeasance.   They will have a very difficult time explaining, let alone defending, the many get-rich-quick schemes in which they were involved.  

Meanwhile, the bobble-heads on CNN and MSNBC wax rhapsodic on Schiff’s theatrical debut: ”dazzling” (Jeffrey Toobin), “powerful and forceful” Wolf Blitzer, ”virtuoso performance (Joe Scarborough); there are more and they are all distastefully obsequious.  

 

 

This insincere kind of “Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.” (Burke)  Schiff and his fans on the Left should not take any comfort from such benighted, self-serving sources. 

Then there is Rudy Guiliani.  The splenetic left media love to mock him but he is about to drop a boatload of info on the corruption in Ukraine that is not going to land on Trump but on the Bidens and all those diplo-thugs who think they should be running  American foreign policy rather than the President.  

The most mystifying aspect of the Left’s obsession with removing President Trump from office is what exactly is its motivation.  Yes, prior to the election they were certain they could derail Trump, so yes, they were stupefied when Hillary lost.  But everyone knows by now that the Russia hoax was just that, a hoax cobbled together with a cast of characters from the Clinton campaign and her hired guns (Fusion GPS and Perkins-Coie) to the reprobates at the upper realms of the FBI, the DOJ and CIA.  None of  their investigations have yielded fruit and still they keep digging the hole in which they have already found themselves.  

What is it they so maniacally fear about this man who, in spite of them, has accomplished so much good in just three years?  Is it his promise to drain the swamp which would mean uncovering all their shady money deals that have for generations made them all wealthy while in office? Perhaps.  It is more likely that because he is not a politician but an authentic American patriot who believes this country was founded on great principles, is still a grand and successful experiment, and that but for the intervening presidencies of Marxist socialist utopians like Obama, can be great again.  How dare he!  What an upstart, they think!  We run this place, not some self-made interloper from outside the beltway or Ivy League.

Whatever the reason for the Left’s psychopathy regarding President Trump, they have now gone so far over the edge of sanity it is quite likely they will be unable to come back as a legitimate party.  The fact that Pelosi and Schumer have allowed the odious, prevaricating and self-aggrandizing Adam Schiff to carry on like his home is in a tree and that only one or two Democrats have objected to their impeachment crusade to unseat the man proves the party is lost forever.  That horse has left the barn, as has the one that will take the Bidens down and out.   How will it all end?  “It’s the natural law of karma, we create our own destiny by our own thoughts, words and deeds for good or ill. (Midsomer Murders)

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Exclusive—‘You F*cking C*nt’: Stephanie Grisham Inundated with Sexist Hatred, Threats as Establishment Media Pile On

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham has seen an increased level of overtly hateful messages and sexist threats since the establishment media have intensified criticisms of her in recent weeks, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.

“F*ck you,” one person wrote in red ink to Grisham in one such message.

“c*nt,” read a postcard addressed to “Stephanie C*nt Grisham” at the White House.

“You were remembered in prayer,” another note, with the implication that she was going to be killed, sent to Grisham read.

One person sent her a teddy bear covered in what looked like blood. The teddy bear never made it to her, as the Secret Service intercepted it before it was delivered to her—and all she got was a photo of the maimed teddy bear.

The White House provided Breitbart News with these and other samples of hate-filled vitriolic messages Grisham has been receiving—most sent to the White House address, but some she has been receiving at her home address—in recent weeks and months.

They have intensified as CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times have published a steady stream of attacks against her, whining that she has not done an on-camera briefing since taking the job. All three outlets have engaged in a series of hits ripping her, and as they have done so, the threats against her have increased.

Breitbart News is publishing images of the threats here, and redacting personally identifying information that could reveal who sent them to the White House or Grisham’s personal address. They include postcards, letters, social media messages, and even the apparently bloodied teddy bear. These images are graphic in nature, filled with vile and disgusting language, and are just a small sample of the broader attacks Grisham has endured since taking the job as President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary.

Grisham, one of Trump’s top aides who has been at the president’s side since early in the 2016 presidential campaign, told Breitbart News for this story that she understands part of the job is dealing with unprecedented opposition, but the media hatred directed at her is making it worse.

Several top allies of the president, including a number of women who work throughout the administration and on the president’s re-election campaign, as well as other outside allies of the White House, defended Grisham from this hateful vitriol in exclusive statements to Breitbart News on Thursday evening as well.

Someone wrote in a handwritten postcard to Grisham with a postmark in Texas:

I am tired of lies. I am tried of racism. I am tired of the swamp. I am tired of ‘alternative facts.’ I am tired of cover for the Drumpf. I am tired of bully tactics. I am tired of rapists. I despise dictators. I wonder will you kiss the ring? the ass? The Putin-lover, the dictator-lover? You have already, I know. Are you going to kick out journalists? Are you a Sarah Sanders wannabe? Will you always praise the racist in chief? Are you a racist? I know… you don’t care either, do you? Watch your pussy.

Another postcard with a return address sticker with a woman’s name and an address in Michigan printed on it, addressed to Grisham, said:

AKA Braindead Lying Twit Pretending to be a Press Secretary a la Fox News” in “America’s House of Treason” with the White House address, called her a “treacherous b*tch,” referred to Grisham’s predecessor Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “F*ck-a-Me,” and said anyone who works in President Trump’s White House has their “brains melt into puddles of turds.”

Another message addressed to Grisham said it is a “pity you choose a corrupt misogynist and racist over your country.”

“And you’re not even doing your job,” the message continued. “A true parasite.”

That one ends with a not-too-subtle threat: “Praying that Satan takes you home soon.”

Three other postcards sent via Touchnote–a service by which people can send postcards via an online service–include one calling her a “despicable piece of sh*t;” another that addresses her as “you f*cking c*nt” and says “people paid with taxpayer dollars to defend a criminal president deserve strong language like that;” and a third postcard says, “Here’s some strong language you deserve. How can you stand yourself you filthy piece of shit.”

Others include postcard photograph memes that call her a “c*nt,” a “bloody c*nt,” and urge her to “shut the fuck up u bloody c*nt.”

That’s not to mention all the hate she’s received via social media platforms, including a message that asks her “exactly what mental disorders” she was born with, saying she is a “highly f*cking ignorant moronic c*nt” whose “mother certainly would have done the world a favor if she had had an abortion” and hopes that Grisham’s “tubes are tied.”

Another asks her if President Trump had to “grab your p*ssy” in order for her to get the White House press secretary job, calling her a “silly c*nt” and threatening to make a “meme of you giving him a blowjob.”

“I hope your kids see it,” the hate messenger added.

Another person called Grisham a “f*cken c*nt,” “pure human trash,” and said “your family for generations will be embarrassed because of you.”

There are several more messages, including multiple vitriolic letters like one where the author—the letter is signed by someone who identifies themself as a man from south Florida—writes to Grisham that the letter author is “sure the president is pleased to have replaced the previous lying whore with one who is equally unqualified—except perhaps in the area of giving blow jobs to the head man, so to speak.”

“You are sucking on the part of him that has the most brains,” the author continued in the letter to Grisham. “Comparable in size to yours which apparently resides in your pussy. You people are a bunch of fascist pigs.”

All of these hate-filled and vulgar messages and attacks come as the establishment media—from CNN’s Anderson Cooper, among many other CNN staffers, to the Washington Post’s media blogger Erik Wemple, to the New York Times’ media reporter Michael Grynbaum and others at the Times, among many others—continue to attack Grisham for not holding any press briefings like her predecessors Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sean Spicer did.

It all started with a CNN piece in August 2019, a month into Grisham’s tenure in the job. Then CNN doubled down in November. That led to the New York Times hit in early January, which sparked more CNN attacks from Cooper and then eventually a regularly-updated ongoing “Grisham Watch” blog from Wemple in the Washington Post.

In August 2019, CNN staffers Kate Bennett and Kaitlan Collins published a piece on the organization’s website titled: “The White House has a new press secretary, remember?”

The piece from the CNN staffers noted that some had hoped Grisham would reinstate press briefings on camera, which ended towards the end of Sanders’ tenure, but that Grisham was leaning against doing so.

The CNN staffers wrote in the article, which quoted Grisham on the record as explaining the many things she did for the press in lieu of an on-camera briefing that people like CNN staffer Jim Acosta use to try to cause confrontation to drive television ratings:

Once a standard weekday ritual, it has now been 165 days [40 of which were Grisham’s at the time of the publication of this Aug. 2019 CNN article] since the last official White House press briefing, and Grisham has shown no sign of returning to the podium. She chalks it up to just one of many examples of how the Trump presidency has broken any semblance of normalcy.

She cites the number of times she has met with the White House Correspondents’ Association leadership (four), how many unscheduled daily press visits to her office she gets (35 or so, but some aren’t received, she said), the ramped up number of official White House press releases that have come from her office since the first week of July (225) and that she has gaggled, once, aboard Air Force One. All of the activities listed fall under the realm of typical responsibilities of a White House press secretary.

Then, later, CNN writer Oliver Darcy—who writes about media for the network—on Nov. 11, 2019, really kicked things into high gear.

“White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has yet to hold a briefing with reporters, but finds time for Fox News,” was Darcy’s Nov. 11 headline.

In the piece, Darcy counted up the number of times Grisham had appeared on various conservative media platforms—and contrasted that with not holding a briefing. Buried in the story is a quote from Grisham, who cooperated with his story and noted that it was the president’s decision to cancel the briefings. She told to Darcy she will “hold a press briefing when the President wants me to.”

“That is ultimately his decision,” Grisham said to Darcy. “The briefings, which are meant to inform the public, were becoming a spectacle.”

Those attacks in 2019 laid the groundwork for an intensification of media attacks in early 2020. When the new year hit, on Jan. 10, the New York Times’ Grynbaum and Katie Rogers published a co-bylined attack on Grisham headlined: “Stephanie Grisham: Trump’s Press Secretary Who Doesn’t Meet the Press.”

The sub-headline suggested that Grisham was abandoning the country at a time when the nation was on the brink of war with Iran—a war that never materialized.

“A presidency in crisis, a nation on the brink of war — and a White House press secretary who was largely out of sight,” the sub-heading read.

The narrative in Grynbaum’s and Rogers’ piece was similar to that started by CNN in 2019.

they wrote in the Times:

It’s not every day that the White House press secretary is offered $200,000 to appear on camera and explain the president’s decisions — any of them — to the public. But as one of the most consequential weeks in President Trump’s tenure draws to a close, the world beyond the Beltway is beginning to notice that Stephanie Grisham — unlike her predecessors, colleagues and boss — does not appear to relish the talking-to-the-public part of her job. In six months as press secretary, Ms. Grisham has held zero briefings for reporters.

That Times piece paved the way for bigger guns at CNN to join their lower-level colleagues from the 2019 stories, where anchor Anderson Cooper started going after Grisham in several broadcasts.

In Cooper’s “The Ridiculist” segment that evening, Jan. 10, he ripped Grisham for not holding on-camera televised press briefings.

“Grisham is making more than $150,000 a year, she doesn’t have time to step into that small, dank little room with all that free press sitting around. There’s no telling what they might ask,” Cooper said.

Cooper then launched into a conspiracy-laden tirade claiming Grisham was actually “trying to secretly and subtly subvert the president” as a “deep-cover asset for the resistance inside the White House.”

CNN, and Cooper, continued the attacks in subsequent days.

After that, the Washington Post’s media blogger started publishing a series he called “The Grisham Watch” where he tracked Grisham’s daily movements—including her trips to the bathroom.

Several Trump supporters were outraged that Wemple would publish such things:

But Wemple has continued the attacks and published a number of stories asking Grisham for her daily movements and activities around the White House, with which she has cooperated, providing him a detailed account of her activities on some days including trips to the restroom.

But as these media attacks intensify, so has the hate-filled, vitriolic, and potentially dangerous messages and packages from critics of the Trump administration.

Grisham, for her part, is taking it in stride but criticized the establishment media in an exclusive statement to Breitbart News for refusing to hold themselves accountable and refusing to hold themselves to the same standards they project onto others.

“Being the President’s spokesperson makes me a public figure, and that comes with a lot of attention–often negative,” Grisham told Breitbart News. “That’s always been a part of the job, especially for Republicans. But the media’s coverage of this President and his staff has escalated the negativity to unprecedented levels, as evidenced by my predecessor being the first press secretary to have a Secret Service detail. The media say they are here to ‘hold the powerful accountable,’ which is a noble goal. But who holds the media accountable? They circle the wagons to protect each other–even though their ‘mistakes’ always go in one direction–but pile on the people who don’t share their views. There are consequences for this, especially for those of us who find ourselves in their crosshairs.”

The first family is appreciative of Grisham’s work in the job and what she has to go through to serve the country and the president.

Donald Trump, Jr., the president’s eldest son, told Breitbart News for this story that the attacks on Grisham are totally uncalled for—and he thinks rational Americans should speak up in her defense.

“The media are so consumed by Trump Derangement Syndrome that they’ll do anything to advance their ideology and agenda, even if that means putting their political opponents’ lives in danger,” Trump, Jr., said. “The media called me a traitor for two solid years, then when the Russia hoax was exposed, they just moved on to the next hit job. But their hysteria contributed to me becoming the second most threatened individual in the country, according to the Secret Service. Stephanie’s tough as nails. But she deserves the vocal support of every rational American who’s sick of the media’s irresponsible attacks.”

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer also defended Grisham. “Attacks and threats of violence have no place in our country,” Spicer told Breitbart News.

Several top women inside the Trump administration and who work for the president’s re-election campaign have also gone on record to defend Grisham from these horrific attacks.

“The White House Press Secretary should never be threatened for simply carrying out her job,” State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus told Breitbart News. “Stephanie is a public servant, a patriot, and an exemplary role model for aspiring female communicators. And she’s my friend. We’d be lucky to have more women like her in this administration.”

Pentagon Press Secretary Alyssa Farah similarly stood up for Grisham.

“Stephanie works tirelessly every day to advance the Trump Administration’s agenda and communicate the President’s priorities to the American people,” Farah told Breitbart News. “She’s highly professional, loyal, and an invaluable member of the Administration.”

Several women leaders on Trump’s re-election campaign also defended Grisham. Trump’s newly named national finance chair of the Trump Victory Finance Committee Kimberly Guilfoyle was one.

“Never before in American history have women been more empowered than right now under President Trump, and the left hates it,” Guilfoyle said. “Now their allies in the media are committed to smearing the strong women who are working to advance his agenda. Stephanie Grisham is truly a patriot who is as skilled as she is brilliant. As a woman, I am proud of the work she continues to do on behalf of this great county.”

Senior adviser to the president’s 2020 re-election campaign Katrina Pierson added that this is why people, including the president, think the media are “the enemy of the people.”

“Honestly this is why the fake news media is the enemy of the people,” Pierson said. “The character assassination of the president and those around him by the fake news media is what contributes to the hostility and the danger that follows when being demonized by a once-credible media establishment. The attacks from the fake news media have real world consequences, and here you see an example of those. There are at least 63 million Trump supporters who have families who are real people with real emotions and real lives. Many of them go through this on a regular basis and it’s unacceptable. There’s an old saying that if you’re not taking flak, you’re not over the target so my friend Stephanie appears to be very effective. She’s tough and a fighter. They won’t make her back down.”

Jenna Ellis, an attorney for President Trump, added that no public servant should have to go through what Grisham has endured here.

“No public servant should EVER have to endure disgusting personal threats on their safety,” Ellis told Breitbart News. “Our country was built upon the idea of peaceful assembly and public discourse. But the radical left won’t tolerate anyone they disagree with, and they absolutely hate President Trump for his bold championing of conservative American values. The media is only amplifying the hatred and viciously vilifying anyone associated with President Trump hoping to bully us to back down and stop fighting for liberty. I have two words for you: WE WON’T.”

Arthur Schwartz, a GOP strategist outside the White House who is a close ally of the president and first family, added that this behavior further exposes the establishment media.

“The President’s election exposed the media for being completely out of touch with the America that they are supposedly covering,” Schwartz said. “It was a total embarrassment and they’ve been lashing out ever since–hoaxes, conspiracy theories, angry attacks. It’s really been something to watch the media destroy the little bit of credibility they had left. But the unfortunate side effect of this reckoning is that their attacks hurt the people they target and sometimes even put them in physical danger. It’s irresponsible, at best, and sometimes flat out malicious. In Stephanie’s case, they could care less that she’s a working mom whose risen to her position by sheer tenacity. If she were a Democrat she’d be a media darling. But since she works for Trump they want to tear her down.”

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Rudy Giuliani Threatens To Go Public with Evidence of Biden ‘Corruption’ in Ukraine

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is launching what he says is an effort to prove there was corruption in former Vice President Joe Biden’s dealings with Ukraine.

Giuliani, who is now an attorney for President Donald Trump, announced his plans Thursday.

“Everything I tried to tell the press last March is now coming out, and more,” he tweeted. “I will now start to reveal the evidence directly to you, the People.

“The Biden Family Enterprise made millions by selling public office. Then when Joe was Obama’s Point Man, they ALL made millions.”

He followed up the tweet with an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends.”

As vice president, Biden, currently the front-runner in the Democratic presidential primary race, intervened in Ukraine to urge the dismissal of a prosecutor who was investigating an energy company that was paying a large sum to his son.

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Trump has insisted that Biden acted to protect his son and that was evidence of corruption. Biden has said that he acted in partnership with U.S. allies to get rid of a prosecutor who himself was corrupt.

“I never went to look for dirt on Joe Biden,” Giuliani said on “Fox & Friends.” “It was handed to me. It was handed to me almost a year and a half ago. It involved Ukrainian corruption.”

Giuliani said his sources told him that within Ukraine, efforts were underway to help steer the 2016 election in favor of Democrat Hillary Clinton.

He said officials within the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine were in on the scheme.

“The embassy was involved in gathering dirt on Trump, on Trump Jr., and Manafort,” he said, referring to Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son, and Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign manager, who had dealings with Ukraine long before he joined the Trump campaign and has been convicted of fraud in connection with those activities.

“I’m going to present, over the next two to three weeks, shocking crimes at the highest levels of both governments,” he said, denigrating allegations against Trump being made in his Senate impeachment trial as “phony stories.”

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“I started investigating Biden two years ago,” when there was at best a vague expectation of a Biden 2020 candidacy, Giuliani said. “It looked to me like he couldn’t cross the street, much less run.”

During the interview, Giuliani said he can prove there was a “Biden bribe” and that the head of Burisma Holdings — the energy company that hired Hunter Biden — “was buying Joe Biden to protect his company.”

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Giuliani traced what he said was a timeline that showed the extent of Ukrainian efforts to investigate Burisma — efforts that he said were cut short when the prosecutor was dismissed.

During the segment, the show’s hosts asked Giuliani about his methods in uncovering the evidence Giuliani said he has amassed.

“They way I approached it has benefitted the American people,” he said.

“When the vice president of the United States corrupts the president of another country, that is about as horrendous a crime as you can find,” Giuliani said.

During the interview, Giuliani said Ukrainian sources that have shared information with him were in fear that the normal channels of reporting about corruption were controlled by officials loyal to Clinton and that he had no choice but to freelance his own investigation.

“Am I going to cover it up the way the Democrats and the media cover it up? Absolutely not. I prosecuted too many corruption cases to sit by and watch my country sold out by a vice president,” he said.

Giuliani said that next week, through a podcast, he will start presenting witnesses he has on tape.

He has said he wants to see a full investigation and trial.

“I would love to see a trial. I’d love to be a witness — because I’m a potential witness in the trial — and explain to everyone the corruption that I found in Ukraine, that far out-surpasses any that I’ve ever seen before, involving Joe Biden and a lot of other Democrats,” he said Sunday, according to the New York Post.

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TUNE OUT: 3 Million Viewers Flee Big Three’s Impeachment Coverage

The ratings are in for the first day of the Democratic House Managers impeachment arguments in front of the Senate, and the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) collectively lost about three million viewers who would have been expected to watch their normal fare of daytime soap operas.

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Illinois Election Official Admits ‘Error’ Allowed Non-Citizens To Vote in 2018

The Illinois State Board of Elections confirmed Tuesday that not only were 574 non-U.S. citizens accidentally registered to vote in 2018, but 16 of those individuals actually voted.

Henry Haupt, a spokesperson for Secretary of State Jess White, said in a statement that the error was a programming malfunction, according to WCIA, but now Illinois House representatives are calling for White to be held accountable.

Illinois state law allows immigrants who aren’t citizens to receive a driver’s license or state identification, but both state and federal law deny non-citizens the right to vote in American elections.

Non-citizens who vote can face serious consequences, including immediate deportation.

“If that person voted, that’s a huge problem when it comes to the federal government,” Republican Illinois Rep. Tim Butler of Springfield said earlier this week.

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“That’s a deportable offense for this person. And if that’s the case, that’s something that’s on the Secretary of State’s office for allowing that offense to happen.”

Haupt explained the error was due to a programming malfunction in the Automatic Voter Registration process, which was initially rolled out in July 2018, according to WTTW.

The process automatically registers eligible citizens to vote when they apply for or renew a license or ID, unless they opt out.

“For whatever reason that technological programming error did not properly remove the individuals,” Haupt told WCIA. “The individuals who are applying for driver’s license were inadvertently pooled into the automatic voter registration.”

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“We discovered an error, and we fixed it,” Haupt continued. “And then we notified the State Board of Elections and the local election authorities and the individuals that were impacted.”

Once those individuals were erroneously registered to vote, they were likely sent many pamphlets and brochures in the mail from voting officials and political campaigns.

The State Board of Elections confirmed on Tuesday that 16 of the 574 non-citizens voted in 2018, according to WGN-TV, with two individuals voting in multiple elections.

There is currently no evidence that the error had any major affect on the outcome of the elections. Officials were working Tuesday to determine where the voters were located.

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On Dec. 18, 2019, Butler and four other House representatives called for White, the State Board of Elections and others involved to testify in an investigative hearing.

“This is an absurd lack of compliance with state law, surfacing less than three weeks from the opening of early voting for our state’s 2020 general primary election,” the letter sent to Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan of Chicago read.

“Given this, we are requesting an immediate hearing of the House Executive Committee to investigate this situation and to hear testimony directly from Secretary of State Jesse White, officials of the State Board of Elections, representatives from our local election authorities, and others concerned with this situation.”

Butler maintains that even if White’s office didn’t know about the programming error, White needs to be held responsible.

“We have to have complete confidence that our offices are doing the right thing,” he told WCIA, “and that goes for the Secretary of State. He may or may not have known about this. I have no idea.

“But he needs to be held responsible for it. It’s his operation that allowed this to happen.”

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Virginia Democrats Ignore 20,000-Strong Crowd, Move ‘Red Flag’ Laws Forward

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Virginia Democrats Ignore 20,000-Strong Crowd, Move ‘Red Flag’ Laws Forward

Second Amendment supporters gather in front of the Virginia state Capitol during a rally against gun control in Richmond on Jan. 20, 2020.Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty ImagesSecond Amendment supporters gather in front of the Virginia state Capitol during a rally against gun control in Richmond on Jan. 20, 2020. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)

More than 20,000 people marched on Richmond, Virginia, on Monday in a show of unity for Second Amendment rights. The state’s Democratic lawmakers didn’t seem to care, pushing a gun control bill forward only one day after the rally.

The Virginia Senate, now dominated by Democrats, moved SB240 forward by giving it preliminary approval Tuesday, according to WHSV-TV in Harrisburg.

The commonwealth’s Senate previously passed three other pieces of gun control legislation, restricting citizens’ rights by limiting the frequency of gun purchases and their ability to resell without performing a background check.

SB240 is now primed to compound the damage being done to the Second Amendment in Virginia.

The bill would create a “red flag” system that authorities could use to strip citizens of firearms without so much as a trial or the gun owner being able to give his or her input.

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After leaving the Senate, the bill must be approved by the House of Delegates. From there, it will land on Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam’s desk, where he will likely act as a rubber stamp for any gun control legislation.

Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase sounded off against the legislation, noting that we are now in “scary times for our liberties.”

“Read this entire Bill for yourself,” Chase wrote on Facebook.

“The version of SB240 that passed out of committee would grant the government the authority to seize a person’s firearms ex parte,” she said. “An ’emergency substantial risk order’ would be issued without a hearing or other opportunity for the target of the order to be heard and present evidence.”

Thankfully, Virginians still have a glimmer of hope.

Counties and towns across the commonwealth have declared themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, vowing to never uphold unconstitutional laws that come from the Democratic leadership in Richmond.

So far, 136 localities have doubled down on protecting their citizens’ rights, according to the Virginia Citizens Defense League.

The sanctuary movement was so successful in the Old Dominion that other jurisdictions across the country are taking the lead of those in Virginia, declaring themselves a haven for the right to bear arms.

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While a few counties in other states might be a minor annoyance for gun-grabbing politicians, for Virginia, it’s a virtual rebellion of civil disobedience.

The commonwealth’s Democrats might succeed in pushing through gun control laws, but with towns and counties unwilling to comply and elections on the horizon, the time to pay the piper is swiftly approaching.

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Media Reports: Expanded Security Travel Ban Includes Nigeria, Diversity Lottery

President Donald Trump is preparing to widen his travel ban to include a broader range of countries — and to expand the penalties for countries that do not update their airline security measures.

The current ban curbs the award of visas to the many citizens of countries that do not implement updated security measures. The improved measures are intended to help U.S. officials identify a few potentially dangerous individuals who try to fly into the United States.

“The list of countries is not yet final and could be changed,” according to Politico. “But nations under consideration for new restrictions include Belarus, Myanmar (also known as Burma), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania, according to two people familiar with the matter.”

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal:

The countries wouldn’t necessarily face blanket bans on travel to the U.S., but could have restrictions placed on specific types of visas, such as business or visitor visas, administration officials said.

Some countries could be banned from participating in the diversity visa lottery program, which awards [each year 50,000] green cards to people in countries with low levels of immigration to the U.S. President Trump has called for an end to that program, saying it lets undesirable people into the U.S., and he has proposed reorienting the existing visa system toward skilled workers instead.

Trump’s deputies will likely argue the countries do not track likely terrorists and may do little to prevent illegal migration and visa overstays. For example, the Department of Homeland Security’s 2018  “Entry/Exit Overstay Report” revealed some 30,000 Nigerians — 15 percent of the 196,000 Nigerian visitors in 2018 — stayed past their visa’s expiration.

The new regulations will likely be released on Monday.

The countries covered by the first round of curbs are mostly chaotic Muslim countries — Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Iran, Libya — plus North Korea.

The reform was approved by the Supreme Court in June 2018 amid furious resistance from pro-migration groups and establishment outlets, many of whom portrayed the policy as a “Muslim ban.”

The new list includes three mostly-Muslim countries — Sudan, Kyrgyzstan, and Eritrea. Nigeria has a huge population of roughly 100 million Muslims, while Myanmar has a small Muslim population, but both countries are trying to suppress Muslim armed groups.

Belarus is an isolated country between Poland and Russia, and it was part of the USSR.

 

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Diversity and Inclusion Insanity

It’s nearly impossible to have even a short conversation with a college administrator, politician or chief executive without the words diversity and inclusion dropping from their lips. Diversity and inclusion appear to be the end-all and be-all of their existence. So, I thought I’d begin this discussion by first looking up the definition of diversity.

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The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez School of Economics

On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y.), sat for a discussion with author Ta-Nehisi Coates. She dropped a number of shocking statements — statements that elicited nothing but murmurs of agreement from Coates. AOC claimed: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars.” How, pray tell, are American billionaires responsible for such massive theft? According to AOC, the very mechanisms of capitalism mandate such theft.

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