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Democrat Rep. Danny Davis has gone on record singing the praises of extremist Louis Farrakhan who he called an “outstanding human being” in an interview with the conservative Daily Caller.

Davis hails from Illinois’ 7th Congressional District which includes a chunk of murder-ridden Chicago and is one of the luminaries of the Congressional Black Caucus. Unlike his CBC cohorts, at least Davis gets some credit for being open about his admiration for an anti-Semitic black identity extremist.

Farrakhan’s name has been in the news as of late following the revelation that the CBC covered up a 2005 picture of the sinister minister with a beaming Barack Obama out of fear that it would prematurely abort Barry’s presidential chances.

Shortly after the publication of that damning photo at a radical black website, a freelance writer found video footage of several CBC members including Maxine Waters warmly embracing Farrakhan in 2006.

Here’s @RepMaxineWaters greeting @LouisFarrakhan in New Orleans in 2006 to talk strategy. I write about the meeting in Tuesday’s @WSJopinion: https://t.co/Z3w9cpLTnf pic.twitter.com/DvVJqBCDf9

— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) January 30, 2018

Jeryl Bier penned an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal on “The Democrats’ Farrakhan Problem” in which he pointed out how so many black Democrats enjoy a cozy relationship with a man so thoroughly racist and militant that even the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has labeled him as a hatemonger.

Davis’s warmth for Farrakhan is widely shared by his fellow self-segregating racial ghouls in Congress who aren’t as openly proud of it and likely fear that expressing such feelings would be politically damaging so they keep it on the down low.

Democratic Congressman Claims Louis Farrakhan Is An ‘Outstanding Human Being’ https://t.co/GF4i9mmN3K pic.twitter.com/ZXvBCMxUyP

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 6, 2018

Via The Daily Caller “Democratic Congressman Claims Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan Is An ‘Outstanding Human Being’”:

Democratic Illinois Rep. Danny Davis defended Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as an “outstanding human being” on Monday.

Farrakhan is known for embracing radically anti-Semitic and anti-white views, as even the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center has acknowledged. Farrakhan’s history of racially extreme comments includes blaming Jews for the September 11 attacks, saying white people “deserve to die” and praising Adolf Hitler as a “very great man.”

Davis, who has been in Congress since 1997, defended Obama for meeting Farrakhan and was open about his own ties to the hate group leader in an interview with The Daily Caller on Monday.

“I personally know [Farrakhan], I’ve been to his home, done meetings, participated in events with him,” Davis told TheDC.

“I don’t regard Louis Farrakhan as an aberration or anything, I regard him as an outstanding human being who commands a following of individuals who are learned and articulate and he plays a big role in the lives of thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of people,” he emphasized later.

Davis told TheDC “it wouldn’t be anything out of the ordinary” for him to meet with Farrakhan and said that Farrakhan isn’t considered a fringe character in his hometown of Chicago.

When asked about Farrakhan’s history of anti-Semitic comments, Davis was dismissive and said that many people in politics have a history of inflammatory comments.

A spokesperson for the CBC did not return multiple requests for comment on Farrakhan.

For those unfamiliar with Rep. Davis, he made news late last year when he backed efforts by the California chapter of the NAACP to change the national anthem because it was racist.

Dem Rep ‘Sees Nothing Wrong’ With Changing The Anthem https://t.co/6JXHUy6PrI pic.twitter.com/4WCrooI010

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) November 9, 2017

He was also one of the CBC members who boycotted President Trump’s State of the Union address last week.

The congressman’s official statement explained why he wasn’t attending:

Congressmen Danny K. Davis (D-IL 07) today announced he will boycott the 2018 State of the Union address by President Trump in Washington and meet instead with constituents in Chicago to examine the State of Our Union and the State of Our Communities and listen to the Democratic response to the SOTU.

Citing the escalating racist, chauvinistic, jingoistic, divisive rhetoric and actions of the President, Davis proclaimed “I cannot in good conscience stand silently by and watch generations of struggle for equal rights, for civil, human and voting rights, for the rights of women, for social and economic justice be undone from the highest office in the land.  Therefore, during the President’s 2018 State of the Union Address, I will be in Chicago meeting with constituents from the 7th Congressional District to explore the Peoples’ State of the Union.”

It’s easy to see how this game works by now. Trump is a racist who uses divisive rhetoric but this guy is not.

At a Customs and Border Protection roundtable last week, President Donald Trump threatened countries that fail to stem the rise of drugs with a loss of aid from the United States, according to The Hill.

The remarks, which took place at the Customs and Border Protection National Training Center in Virginia, highlighted the administration’s battle on border security in ways unrelated to illegal immigration.

“I want to stop the aid. If they can’t stop drugs from coming in, ’cause they can stop them a lot easier than us. They say, ‘oh we can’t control it.’ Oh great, we’re supposed to control it,” Trump told gathered officials, according to CNN.

“So we give them billions and billions of dollars, and they don’t do what they’re supposed to be doing, and they know that. But we’re going to take a very harsh action.”

“These countries are not our friends,” Trump added.

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“You know, we think they’re our friends and we send them massive aid.

“I won’t mention names right now, but I look at these countries, I look at the numbers we send them — we send them massive aid and they’re pouring drugs into our country and they’re laughing at us,” he continued.

“So I’m not a believer in that. I want to stop the aid.”

However, Trump seemed to name the countries later, arguing that El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico could do a better job with intercepting drugs.

“They’re coming in — they’re pouring in from other — El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, all over,” Trump said.

“They’re just pouring into our country. And we’ve stopped it, but the laws make it very tough.”

The remarks came in the same week as the president’s State of the Union address, in which he promised to be “much tougher on drug dealers and pushers.”

“My administration is committed to fighting the drug epidemic and helping get treatment for those in need, for those who have been so terribly hurt,” Trump said.

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However, for dealers, traffickers and the countries that make life easier for them, it’s clear that the Trump administration plans to play hardball.

That could be very bad news for a lot of countries, particularly ones that don’t want to work with the president on border security.

Trump might not have wanted to name names, but they know who they are.

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In the wake of the past week’s memo scandal, all eyes have been on former FBI Director James Comey and special counsel Robert Mueller.

There are growing questions about anti-Trump bias and possible illegal activity within the bureau… but lost in the shuffle is another player who may be far from innocent: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Rosenstein is one of the officials who gave his word to Congress that there was no widespread bias within the Department of Justice. As that claim seems increasingly untrue, however, the top justice official may be the one facing serious questions next.

For now, Donald Trump was the one fielding questions on Friday. After the scathing memo alleging negligence and bias within the FBI was released, reporters naturally asked the president to comment.

“Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump described the findings ‘a disgrace,’ adding, ‘People should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that,’” reported the Independent Journal Review.

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Then the media asked the president if he still had confidence in Deputy AG Rosenstein. Trump threw out a scathing response.

“You figure that one out,” he shot back, with a look and tone that was clearly frustrated.

That answer is Trump Speak for “of course not, why did you even ask that?” It’s a good point: After all that we now know about bias and the memo, why would Trump still have confidence in a figure at the center of the scandal?

Trump isn’t the only one who is exasperated with excuses coming out of the Department of Justice, particularly from Rosenstein. In December, Trey Gowdy unloaded on Rosenstein during a congressional session.

“What in the hell is going on with the Department of Justice and the FBI?” Gowdy bluntly asked Rosenstein.

“Those who are supposed to make sure there are no conflicts of interest seem to have a few of their own!” Gowdy continued, before listing off examples of bias within the FBI… and that was even before the scathing memo came out.

At the time, Rosenstein offered weak assurances that the country should just trust him.

“What I recommend you tell your constituents is that Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, and Chris Ray are accountable, and that we will ensure no bias is reflected,” the deputy attorney general responded.

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If the now famous House Intelligence Committee memo is correct, however, Rosenstein was significantly biased the whole time… and his fingerprints are all over the FBI wiretapping and dossier scandal.

The memo states that Rosenstein was one of the key officials who signed off on FISA warrant applications on behalf of the DOJ.

That means that even while knowing that the so-called Russian dossier was flimsy or even fabricated — and knowing full well that it came from a biased anti-Trump source — the deputy attorney general still endorsed a wiretap against American citizens at Trump Tower.

Rosenstein may try to pretend that America has his word, but it doesn’t seem to be worth much anymore. The nation deserves answers, and Comey, Mueller, and Rosenstein need to start explaining their actions.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) has “quietly” put an end to most work at the Office for Access to Justice (ATJ), one of the lesser initiatives of the Eric Holder era, according to a Thursday New York Times report.

The tiny ATJ was founded in 2010 under then-Attorney General Eric Holder. Its last published organization chart, from 2015, shows only three appointees and their support staff. ATJ distributed grants and drafted “statements of interest” aimed at supporting the right to competent legal representation for the poor and indigent secured by the U.S. Constitution and the Supreme Court’s famous 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright.

In 2014, however, ATJ also provided $1.8 million to left-wing open-borders groups like the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, the George Soros-funded Equal Justice Works, and the New York Immigration Coalition to provide lawyers for so-called “unaccompanied children” who surged across the southern border that year in their immigration hearings. This week, even the notoriously liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the idea that the Constitution requires the government to pay for lawyers for these child aliens.

The Civil Rights Division leaders of the Obama administration are dejected at the news ATJ was being all but shut down. “Sessions’ shutting down the Access to Justice Initiative sadly speaks for itself,” Vanita Gupta, President Barack Obama’s Civil Rights Division chief, told the Times.

Gupta is a self-described “critical race” theorist, who once wrote that “the rule of law,” “colorblindness,” “equal justice for all,” and “equal protection,” are merely “code words” for a legal system “contingent upon … racial power” and that treating criminal defendants as individuals without respect to race “is how we have managed to rationalize racism.” She has been broadly critical of the direction Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken DOJ, criticizing him, for example, for his “unwillingness to recognize the history of this country is rooted in immigration.”

Another of Obama’s civil rights attorneys, Sharon McGowan, told the NYT, “Ever since he became attorney general, Sessions has advanced positions that are irreconcilable with where we are as a country.”

McGowan now works for Lambda Legal, the left-wing law firm now leading the charge to force states to allow men who “identify” as women into ladies’ restrooms and vice versa after the DOJ pulled out of these lawsuits when Sessions took office.

The office was never a major recipient of DOJ resources but appears to have been sidelined to the point of irrelevance in the Sessions era. The New York Times notes that Maha Jweied, ATJ’s acting director, resigned this month and has not been replaced. No major ATJ project or accomplishment has been posted to the office’s website since President Donald Trump took office last year.

The Department of Justice did not respond to Breitbart News’s request for comment on ATJ’s future.