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Spin, spin, spin… Via Daily Wire: On his radio program Thursday, conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh offered a one-sentence summary of the 400+ page final report by Robert Mueller that took two years to compile: “We found no evidence of collusion between the Russians and the Trump campaign, period, and we don’t have enough to say […]
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To understand a political scandal fully, one must take into account all of the interests of those involved. The problem is that these interests are rarely revealed—which is precisely why it is so tempting for partisans, particularly if they are at a political disadvantage, to resort to scandal to attack their opponents.
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Don Jr., Natalia Veselnitskaya
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 448-page report was released to the public Thursday morning following AG Bill Barr’s press conference.
The report was lightly redacted — only 855 redactions were made to Mueller’s report.
Mueller’s report addressed the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Don Jr., Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner and other Trump associates and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Donald Trump Jr. was totally exonerated and Mueller’s report CRUSHED fake news CNN, Lanny Davis and Michael Cohen’s lies, conspiracy theories and propaganda surrounding the meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
Recall, Trump’s former lawyer-turned-rat Michael Cohen claimed in a 2017 Senate Intel testimony that Donald Trump had foreknowledge of the meeting at Trump Tower between his son, Kushner and Veselnitskaya.
In July of 2018, CNN rolled out another “bombshell” story using anonymous sources wherein they reported Michael Cohen claimed Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with Veselnitskaya in advance.
The CNN story quickly turned into a dumpster fire because Michael Cohen’s lawyer Lanny Davis admitted he lied to the media when he claimed he confirmed a CNN report with anonymous sources about President Trump’s foreknowledge of the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016.
CNN said in its report that Cohen was ready to spill the beans to Mueller that Trump not only knew about the meeting with Veselnitskaya, but approved it.
As usual, CNN was reporting fake news and curiously Lanny Davis himself confirmed to being one of the anonymous sources at the time it was published.
CNN never retracted or corrected their fake news story — but Mueller’s report just crushed their propaganda machine.
“Michael Cohen recalled that Trump Jr. may have told candidate Trump about an upcoming meeting to receive adverse information about Clinton, without linking the meeting to Russia,” the report stated. “According to written answers submitted by President Trump, he has no recollections of learning of the meeting at the time, and the Office found NO DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT HE WAS MADE AWARE OF THE MEETING — OR ITS RUSSIA CONNECTION — BEFORE IT OCCURRED.”
The report further stated that “Veselnitskaya made additional efforts to follow up on the meeting, but the Trump Transition Team did not engage.”
Curiously, Mueller’s report completely omitted the fact that Natalia Veselnitskaya’s PR partner, FUSION GPS, was working for Hillary Clinton.
The report also leaves out that Veselnitskaya met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson before and after the Trump Tower meeting.
Should we expect any different? This report was written by a team of Trump haters so it is obvious that it was written with an anti-Trump, pro-Hillary bias.
“TOLD YA!!!” Don Jr. tweeted Thursday afternoon.
TOLD YA!!!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
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The 22-year-old spent three days in hospital in Iraq’s southern Misan province last summer before succumbing to her wounds, recalled sheikh Haydar Saadoun.
“A university classmate from a different tribe had proposed, but her relatives refused,” said Saadoun, an official from the Bani Lam tribe in the town of Amarah in Misan.
“They said they had rights over her because of ‘nahwa’,” he said, referring to a tribal custom that authorises the men of a clan to reject marriage proposals to a female member.
They arranged for her to wed her cousin instead.
“He was already married, had fathered multiple children and was illiterate, while Mariam was going to university,” Saadoun said.
Wearing a modern three-piece suit under a traditional cape, he told AFP he tried to dissuade Mariam’s fiance but was overruled.
“He told me: ‘I’ll break her nose. I’ll marry her and rub her face in it’,” Saadoun recounted.
Iraqi society remains largely conservative, bound by tribal traditions and religious customs practised from its sprawling capital Baghdad to far-flung rural provinces.
In the country of nearly 40 million, clan names can carry weight in securing work, a spouse and even votes.
They often trump government institutions, as tribes look to their own mediation methods to resolve disputes instead of the official court system.
– ‘Accept your fate’ –
Women and girls often suffer under these patriarchal systems, with many forced to marry against their will, subject to domestic abuse and deprived of an education.
The southern provinces of Misan and Basra, where tribal influence is widespread, have the highest rates of child marriage in Iraq, the United Nations’ children’s agency UNICEF said in 2018.
In Misan, 35 percent of married women between 20 and 45 said they wed as teenagers, and in Basra the rate is 31.5 percent.
In one tribal custom known as “fasliya”, women are married off as restitution for blood spilt between two tribes.
Karima al-Tai, a women’s rights activist in Misan, said the custom had ravaged her own family.
“Twenty years ago, a conflict broke out between my tribe and another. During the fighting, a man from the other clan was killed,” said Tai, 50.
Calling for a truce, Tai’s tribe offered “five virgins” to the opposing tribe — including her cousin, Sahar, who was married off to the victim’s brother.
Over “20 years of hell” Sahar was bullied and harassed by her husband’s family, Tai recalled. Even her children were publicly branded “children of the fasliya”.
But when Sahar asked her family for help, said Tai, “her relatives would tell her, ‘you’re a fasliya. Accept your fate’.”
“Fasliya” is still being practised. In 2015, a tribe in the southern province of Basra married off 50 girls and women to another tribe under a truce.
– ‘Modern slavery’ –
With no family support or access to outside help, some Iraqi women and girls have turned to suicide.
A 2017 study of 62 attempted self-immolation cases in Basra found that family problems, including marital issues, were the precipitating factor in 80 percent of the cases.
Authorities in Misan said 198 women had attempted suicide over the past two years, and 14 of them lost their lives.
But details are scarce. Mental health problems in Iraq remain taboo, and efforts to discuss them with tribal leaders have seen little success.
Even Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the top religious authority for most Iraqi Shiites, called last year for an end to “nahwas” and other tribal practices, to no avail.
The customs were criminalised in Iraq’s 1959 personal status law, which was strictly implemented under Saddam Hussein’s brutal rule.
Marrying a woman by force under “nahwa” is punishable by three years in jail for a cousin and 10 years for a more distant relative.
But as the central government lost influence across swathes of Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion, tribal power structures took precedence.
Now, “this law is not applied because no woman would file a complaint against her own family,” said lawmaker Intissar al-Juburi.
And efforts to introduce tough laws to protect women have been hampered by political stalemates and an emphasis on security and economic issues.
Meanwhile, tribal customs are becoming further entrenched, according to Maytham al-Saadi, a professor at Misan University.
“In the past, fasliyas would be proposed only in cases needing blood money, but in recent decades they’ve been used to end the simplest disputes between tribes,” he said.
“It’s modern slavery.”
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One Park City High School (PCHS) student is facing 18 criminal charges after releasing bear spray inside the school’s lecture hall hours before a Turning Point USA event. The chemicals from the bear spray ended up injuring nearly twenty students and staff members, and sending one person to the hospital.
Conservative PCHS student and Turning Point USA member Jonathan Mount — who had also been injured as a result of the bear spray incident — shared his story in a recent op-ed with Park Record. In his piece, the conservative student shared his personal story, and extended a hand of forgiveness, offering the suspect the chance to meet with him and spend time with his family.
“I am one of the kids who was sickened by bear spray at Park City High School,” said the student, introducing himself in his op-ed, “I am Jewish and gay, and also a conservative who is a member of the group that was scheduled to host an event in the PCHS lecture hall and may have been targeted by the release.”
“I would like to share my story,” said Mount, who then went on to divulge the details of his family background, and why he believes in conservative values.
“My mother is Jewish,” said Mount, “Her family escaped persecution by socialists in Germany and communists in Russia, luckily before World War II. My father’s family is from a poor, rural area in Alabama. His grandparents were sharecroppers. His parents grew up picking cotton and didn’t have electricity or running water.”
The student then shared how his mother ended up becoming an orthodontist, while his father, at age seventeen, “got on a Greyhound bus alone and took the 24-hour trip to Boston to enroll in MIT,” and later survived the 9/11 terrorist attacks, “only to die eight years later from what some have labeled a ‘9/11 related illness,’ although we will never know that for sure.”
The student, who is very proud of his parents, described them as “the poster children for the American dream,” who paid it forward with donations to educational organizations to help children who are struggling. “We believe we are good people, and, I think, most people who know us would say the same,” said Mount.
“Yet my brothers and I have been called racists and Nazis in our respective schools, including here at PCHS,” continued the student, “Why? Because we believe the United States is the greatest country in the world. Because we believe capitalism, while not perfect, has lifted hundreds of millions of people around the world out of poverty.”
“And hundreds of millions have been oppressed or murdered in the name of socialism and communism, added Mount, “Because we believe that people should be rewarded for hard work and perseverance, not handed things on a silver platter. Because we believe that the 1st Amendment applies to all speech, including those who call Jewish-Americans like ourselves Nazis.”
“Because we believe that the 2nd Amendment is a right, and most gun owners are law-abiding citizens,” continued the student, “Because we believe that there is a crisis at our southern border. Because we believe that radical Islamic extremists should be called out by name. Because we don’t believe illegal immigrants should have the right to vote.”
Mount concluded his piece by stating that “the possibility that a student sought to stifle free speech at PCHS by targeting a club hosting a conservative speaker” hurt more than the pain he had endured from the bear spray chemicals, but that nonetheless, he would like to invite the student and his family to spend time with him and his family.
“I think that would do more to ‘teach him a lesson’ than anything the courts could order.”
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The major seizure occurred when a 37-year-old Mexican national attempted to enter the United States through the Mariposa International crossing at Nogales, Arizona. During a search of the vehicle, CBP officers located approximately 74 pounds of heroin and 50 pounds of fentanyl, estimated to have a combined street value of $2.6 million, according to a media release.
The Port of Nogales is experiencing major seizures to include a record-breaking bust in February when the Mariposa entry seized 254 pounds of fentanyl and 395 pounds of methamphetamine during a regular inspection of an 18-wheeler. The seizure of fentanyl was the largest ever recorded at a U.S. port of entry.
In late February, CBP officers seized approximately 350 pounds of hard drugs consisting of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and fentanyl worth $6.1 million at the Dennis DeConcini Crossing.
In March, officers seized approximately 320 pounds of methamphetamine, 32 pounds of marijuana along with heroin, fentanyl, and cocaine worth $1.3 million during four vehicle inspections.
Robert Arce is a retired Phoenix Police detective with extensive experience working Mexican organized crime and street gangs. Arce has worked in the Balkans, Iraq, Haiti, and recently completed a three-year assignment in Monterrey, Mexico, working out of the Consulate for the United States Department of State, International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Program, where he was the Regional Program Manager for Northeast Mexico (Coahuila, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Durango, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas.) You can follow him on Twitter. He can be reached at robertrarce@gmail.com.
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Attorney General Bill Barr exonerated the Donald Trump campaign in collusion with Russian operatives during the 2016 election.
Attorney General Bill Barr did not find the Trump campaign colluded in Russian efforts to tamper with the 2016 election.
The Special Counsel report completely exonerated President Trump on the junk charges brought against him by a corrupt Democratic operatives inside the DOJ and FBI.
FOX News investigative reporter Catherine Herridge later reported that the Mueller report released this morning admitted to the Mueller investigation there were no pee-pee tapes. It was complete fiction.
Catherine Herridge: I want to draw your attention to pages 27 and 28. It deals with some allegations that were made in the Steele dossier that there were compromising tapes involving then candidate Trump (the pee-pee tapes). And what it states is that this information was communicated that tapes existed to Michael Cohen shortly after the election and he shared that information with the president. Now the Russian businessman then went on to be interviewed by the special counsel where he said the information that he had, he was told the tapes were fake but this was never communicated to Michael Cohen.
The Special Counsel then hid this from Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen.
The deep state is corrupt and ruthless.
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The Democratic Party is fracturing as left-wing lawmakers begin to embrace socialism, but Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan said that he’s “concerned” about the growing popularity of socialism in his party.
The Ohio representative and 2020 hopeful was asked about the growing trend of socialism in the Democratic Party on CNN’s “New Day.”
“I’m concerned about it because if we are going to decarbonize the economy, it’s not going to be some centralized bureaucracy in Washington, D.C., that’s going to make it happen,” Ryan said Wednesday.
Ryan explained that the free market, along with “part targeted government investments,” will lead the way toward cleaner energy.
“It’s going to be part targeted government investments that do need to be robust,” Ryan said.
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“But it’s going to be the free market that at the end of the day is going to make that happen.
“They have the magic of the free market. They have the innovation, the creativity, the profit motive.”
Ryan’s stance is in stark contrast to several far-left lawmakers who support the “Green New Deal,” an extremely expensive, centralized government program to reduce the use of fossil fuels.
I’m proud to co-sponsor @AOC and @EdMarkey‘s Green New Deal. We must aggressively tackle climate change which poses an existential threat to our nation.
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 7, 2019
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It’s important to note that a self-described socialist, freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, crafted the Green New Deal.
But that obviously wouldn’t be a problem for 2020 hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders, who is also a self-described socialist.
That’s not to say Ryan has abandoned the left’s platform. He also rails against “income inequality” like any other left-wing politician, but he’s at least smart enough to know that capitalism works.
2020 hopeful @RepTimRyan says he’s “concerned” about socialism and the Democratic Party.
“You can be hostile to concentration of wealth, you can be hostile to income inequality … We can’t be hostile to the free-enterprise system. That’s how we get past China.” pic.twitter.com/ahlwI09rqb
— New Day (@NewDay) April 17, 2019
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“You can be hostile to concentration of wealth, you can be hostile to income inequality, you can be hostile to greed,” Ryan said.
“We can’t be hostile to the free-enterprise system.
“That’s how we get past China.”
Ryan is right — free-market solutions work well, and historical evidence shows that socialism and communism don’t work.
The left’s push for socialism is becoming alarming, and more Democrats such as Ryan need to stand up against it.
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Donald Trump Jr. loves mixing it up on Twitter.
He did just that on Thursday, shortly after the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his probe into whether President Trump or members of his campaign colluded with Russia to alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
“TOLD YA!!!” Trump Jr. wrote.
TOLD YA!!!
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
The president’s son also had some fun with the media and Democrats, who have breathlessly covered the story for the last 22 months.
“Live look at the media/Dems taking one more crack at the Hoax this morning,” he wrote in another post.
Live look at the media/Dems taking one more crack at the Hoax this morning. pic.twitter.com/DRlOZD1lAG
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
And he hit CNN’s Brian Stelter.
I guess Brian doesn’t want anyone watching CNN’s meltdown. I get it. If I were in his shoes I wouldn’t either. I almost feel bad for them. https://t.co/tDiLxi61JP
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
He also said: “It’s so much fun hate-watching CNN right now. I don’t normally take joy in other people’s misery, but after the lies and discord they sowed for the past 3 years about my family and me I’ll make an exception today. BetterLuckNextHoax guys.”
It’s so much fun hate-watching @CNN right now. I don’t normally take joy in other people’s misery, but after the lies and discord they sowed for the past 3 years about my family and me I’ll make an exception today. #BetterLuckNextHoax guys. https://t.co/3X2HT0ow9M
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
And he bashed CNN’s Jake Tapper. “Fake Jake can’t help himself. By far the most thin skinned guy in the game.”
Fake Jake can’t help himself. By far the most thin skinned guy in the game. https://t.co/CSGDDx95DG
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
Trump Jr. also expressed shock that some Americans are disappointed that the president of the United States did not collude with Russia.
“I never thought I’d see the day that Democrats would be distraught and in tears that their President DID NOT COLLUDE WITH THE RUSSIANS. Just shows that they don’t really care about America, they care only about power,” he wrote.
I never thought I’d see the day that Democrats would be distraught and in tears that their President DID NOT COLLUDE WITH THE RUSSIANS.
Just shows that they don’t really care about America, they care only about power.
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
And Trump Jr. said: “At this stage, anyone continuing this fake charade against @realDonaldTrump is doing the bidding of the Russians. They are the ones causing division & dissension— the stated goal of Putin. They should stop colluding with the Russians & start working with President Trump to #MAGA.
At this stage, anyone continuing this fake charade against @realDonaldTrump is doing the bidding of the Russians. They are the ones causing division & dissension— the stated goal of Putin. They should stop colluding with the Russians & start working with President Trump to #MAGA
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 18, 2019
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Attorney General Bill Barr stated that the Mueller Special Counsel did not find the Trump campaign colluded in Russian efforts to tamper with the 2016 election. The Special Counsel report completely exonerated President Trump on the junk charges brought against him by a corrupt Democratic operatives inside the DOJ and FBI.
This was a devastating blow to Democrats, liberal media hacks and Deep State operatives.
Arguably the most corrupt President in US history, Barack Obama, got away with eight years of crimes while President. The list goes on and on…. giving billions to Iran, giving guns to ISIS and creating a quagmire in the Middle East, bombing and overthrowing governments like Libya, destroying American healthcare with Obamacare, giving guns to Mexican cartels used to kill American border agents, lying to the American people over and over, and then spying on the opposing party’s candidate and then attempting an coup to have President Trump removed after he won the election.
Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Secretary of State, helped bomb Libya for no good reason and bragged about the murder of it’s leader –
Bill and Hillary also created the Clinton Foundation which is probably the most corrupt entity in US and world history. Corporations like Uranium One and AGT International donated millions to the Clintons who in turn promoted these organizations. As a result 20% of US uranium went to Russia (Uranium One) and some of the US’s most advanced defense technology went to Russia and China (AGT International).
Rudy Giuliani stated years ago that the Clinton Foundation ‘is a fraud’ and should be investigated as a racketeering enterprise –
Where are the investigations into Obama and the Clintons? The level of anger from good Americans for not seeing any justice regarding the former corrupt President and his corrupt Secretary of State is at record heights.
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