Attorney General Bill Barr testified before the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday morning.
During his testimony Barr told the committee he believes a border barrier is needed on the southern border.
This was good news for the American people.
AG Bill Barr: I personally believe that an important part in securing the southern border is to have a barrier system on the border. And I think that that will help in not only narcotics interdiction but also in suppressing human trafficking.
Turning Point USA director of urban engagement Brandon Tatum told Breitbart News Democrat politicians — such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasi0-Cortez — “don’t care about black people or people in general” and use fake accents to pander to a group of people in an attempt to “get power and votes.”
Tatum offered his remarks in a Sunday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Sunday with host Amanda House.
“I don’t know what [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] is doing, but it’s disrespectful,” said Tatum of the rookie congresswoman’s fake accent that she was heard using in front of a black audience at Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference on Friday.
“There is no reason in the world that a person has to be so fake that they need to create an accent to try to pander to a group of people,” continued the urban engagement director, “First of all, she’s using a southern accent in a northern area, so, she’s wrong in all ways.”
“But this is just an example of what the liberals are doing, and what the Democrats are doing, and how they really don’t care about black people or people in general,” said Tatum, “They just pander to get power and votes.”
House noted that former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is also known to have adopted a fake accent. “What is the strategy behind this type of performance?” inquired the Breitbart News Sunday host.
“Unfortunately, I believe that some of this stuff must work,” said Tatum, “I feel like the reason why these people continue to do this pandering type of behavior MS-13is because somebody’s buying into it — I think that it’s embarrassing, but unfortunately, some people are still swayed and get convinced.”
Tatum added that he has seen people get upset on both sides of the aisle over Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s fake accent, which he refers to as “fraudulent behavior.”
House and Tatum went on to discuss a second Democrat politician, Robert “Beto” O’Rourke, who had recently stated that granting amnesty to illegal aliens would make the Angel families in the United States “demonstrability safer.”
“To me, [Robert ‘Beto’ O’Rourke] is one of the fakest politicians that has jumped into this clown car of Democrats running for president,” said Tatum, adding that the illegal aliens O’Rourke had been referring to “aren’t the ones that are creating Angel Moms.”
“The criminals, the people who are MS-13 gang members, they are the ones creating Angel Moms,” affirmed Tatum, “Giving them amnesty is not going to make them not criminals.”
“I believe that Beto is losing major ground in Texas — spewing rhetoric like that to Angel Moms, people who have lost their loved ones to these convicted felons and these people that have been deported five or six times? That’s not going to bode well,” added Tatum.
Tatum, who works for Turning Point USA, a conservative student organization active on high school and college campuses across the country, also offered his remarks in response to an incident last week, in which an 11-year-old student was reportedly told by her teacher that she could not choose President Donald Trump as the subject for her “hero” project.
Believe it or not, these people [school staff] are doing this on a day-to-day basis, whether it’s high school, whether it’s college, they are demonizing conservatives — and the reason that I have such a problem with this, is that we’re not talking about Hitler — we’re not talking about somebody with a track record of murdering people and being a hateful, devilish individual. We’re talking about a person, who, politically, people just don’t like. President Trump, responsible for the lowest unemployment, for five million people getting off food stamps, we have a great economy, he’s securing the border — and for [the left] to compare Donald Trump to somebody as despicable as Hitler — is absolutely asinine.
“If [Turning Point USA] didn’t exist, these kids would be losing battles every day,” added Tatum, “[The teacher] is supposed to be an educated person who is speaking life into young people, and she’s doing something that’s so partisan and ignorant — This is an example of what’s going on all over the country.”
Populist Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has added several new parties to his European Parliament alliance, announcing the inclusion of conservatives and populists from Finland, Denmark, and Germany.
The populist “supergroup” set to be headed by the Italian deputy prime minister also contains the Danish People’s Party (DF), the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD), and the True Finns party, with Salvini meeting with key figures from all three parties in Milan on Monday, Il Giornalereports.
The new additions come after Salvini had already secured the cooperation for the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the French National Rally (RN) led by former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
Salvini announced that his new group would set their sights on the goal of a “new Europe” and accused “bureaucrats and do-gooders” of “burying the European dream.”
Italy’s Matteo Salvini Named as Face of New Sovereignty Populist Supergroup https://t.co/XprBCHNjkx
One of the main pillars of the group will be combatting mass illegal migration, with every party that has signed on already having anti-mass migration policies in their party manifestos.
Salvini also highlighted the threat of radical Islamic terrorism during the conference saying, “the danger for Europe does not come from the past, but from Islamic terrorism.”
He also gave his stance on Turkey’s future relationship with the European Union saying the country “will never be in Europe.”
The Danish People’s Party’s top candidate for the European Parliament Peter Kofod commented on the summit saying, “We have been thinking a lot about forming a group that more closely unites some of the common interests of national conservative parties.
“The intention is that after the election, we will start negotiations with a view to forming a new, large group of parties that are similar to us.”
“We want to fight the current EU federalism. EU co-operation can move two ways: There is Macron’s path that goes towards a federal superstate with social union, common defence, etc. And then there is the Europe of nations that is about securing the influence and interests of the nation states,” Kofod added.
President Donald Trump criticized a San Francisco judge for blocking his policy to require migrants requesting asylum to remain in Mexico, rather than be released into the United States to await their court hearing.
“A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL!”
Judge Richard Seeborg blocked the new set of rules after a group of asylum seekers and their advocates sued the federal government.
According to the Seeborg, the policy fails to protect the migrants from “risk to their lives” during their stay in Mexico.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders also criticized the judge.
“A liberal activist judge in San Francisco ruled the United States and Mexico can’t work together to address asylum issues at the border,” she wrote on Twitter. “It’s sad that Mexico is now doing more to secure our border than Democrats.”
A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the U.S. OUT OF CONTROL! https://t.co/XF8o3jMDle
A liberal activist judge in San Francisco ruled the United States and Mexico can’t work together to address asylum issues at the border. It’s sad that Mexico is now doing more to secure our border than Democrats – President Trump will do whatever it takes to keep Americans safe.
The Mueller report is ove. The economy is simply humming.
And President Trump’s job approval rating, according to Rasmussen’s daily tracking, is now 53%.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. (see trends).
That’s a figure that corresponds with President Trump’s economic performance. The U.S. jobless rate, for instance, just printed out at 3.8%.
And it’s also a number to give President Trump’s presidential rivals for 2020 a distinct cause for indigestion.
Lastly, it’s also a change. Up until now, the president’s approval ratings have always been below water. Now, when it counts, they’re heading for landslide numbers territory.
Rasmussen doesn’t go into details as to why the public seems to be warming to President Trump, so it’s fun for the rest of us to speculate on why this sudden turnaround has happened. I’ll give a few theories:
The economy of course. With 3.8% unemployment and optimism up, it’s a recipe for presidential approval numbers to rise. Note the previous cool detail that Latino and Black support are up, with Latino support above 50% from past polls. Something is being done right.
The Mueller special counsel’s investigation is over and President Trump has been cleared of the collusion-with-Russia rap. That hasn’t persuaded Democrats such as the perpetually dazed-looking Rep. Adam Schiff to let go of that smelly old bone, but that’s the beauty of it. The fact that they can’t let go or give it a rest is precisely why the public is siding with Trump.
The 2020 presidential race itself. With Democrats presenting a clown car full of candidates, each of a different color and all of the same flavor, all of them promoting the same old stale socialism of the 1960s academic world, who could be against Trump?
The behavior of the crazy Democrats, the so-called ‘vanguard’ – with their wild promotion of a “green new deal,” (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) their anti-semitism, (Rep. Ilhan Omar) and their profanity (Rep. Rashida Tlaib), the Democrats are coming off as out of touch and living in lunacy land. It doesn’t help that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is unable to rein them in. The very inability to rein them in makes the Republican candidate that much more attractive than the Democratic candidate on discipline grounds alone. It’s worth noting too that the vanguard is sucking the air out of political airtime of the Democratic moderates who were elected in red districts, undercutting them.
The border. President Trump’s steadfast and reasonable bid to gain control of the U.S. border has moved to the front of the national debate – and the public is with him. The crazy steps the Democrat have taken to haul in all comers to the U.S. side, vetted or not, is a vote-loser for Democrats. Trump by contrast, has held firm.
There may be other reasons, and it’s all good. Whatever they are, Trump is doing something right.
The Mueller report is ove. The economy is simply humming.
And President Trump’s job approval rating, according to Rasmussen’s daily tracking, is now 53%.
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove.
The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1. (see trends).
That’s a figure that corresponds with President Trump’s economic performance. The U.S. jobless rate, for instance, just printed out at 3.8%.
And it’s also a number to give President Trump’s presidential rivals for 2020 a distinct cause for indigestion.
Lastly, it’s also a change. Up until now, the president’s approval ratings have always been below water. Now, when it counts, they’re heading for landslide numbers territory.
Rasmussen doesn’t go into details as to why the public seems to be warming to President Trump, so it’s fun for the rest of us to speculate on why this sudden turnaround has happened. I’ll give a few theories:
The economy of course. With 3.8% unemployment and optimism up, it’s a recipe for presidential approval numbers to rise. Note the previous cool detail that Latino and Black support are up, with Latino support above 50% from past polls. Something is being done right.
The Mueller special counsel’s investigation is over and President Trump has been cleared of the collusion-with-Russia rap. That hasn’t persuaded Democrats such as the perpetually dazed-looking Rep. Adam Schiff to let go of that smelly old bone, but that’s the beauty of it. The fact that they can’t let go or give it a rest is precisely why the public is siding with Trump.
The 2020 presidential race itself. With Democrats presenting a clown car full of candidates, each of a different color and all of the same flavor, all of them promoting the same old stale socialism of the 1960s academic world, who could be against Trump?
The behavior of the crazy Democrats, the so-called ‘vanguard’ – with their wild promotion of a “green new deal,” (Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) their anti-semitism, (Rep. Ilhan Omar) and their profanity (Rep. Rashida Tlaib), the Democrats are coming off as out of touch and living in lunacy land. It doesn’t help that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is unable to rein them in. The very inability to rein them in makes the Republican candidate that much more attractive than the Democratic candidate on discipline grounds alone. It’s worth noting too that the vanguard is sucking the air out of political airtime of the Democratic moderates who were elected in red districts, undercutting them.
The border. President Trump’s steadfast and reasonable bid to gain control of the U.S. border has moved to the front of the national debate – and the public is with him. The crazy steps the Democrat have taken to haul in all comers to the U.S. side, vetted or not, is a vote-loser for Democrats. Trump by contrast, has held firm.
There may be other reasons, and it’s all good. Whatever they are, Trump is doing something right.
On Monday’s episode of "The Michael Knowles Show," the host discusses Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s attempt to pander to an audience by mimicking a stereotyped accent. Knowles suggests this is yet more evidence that the freshman New York lawmaker is a "fraud." Transcript and video below.
WH Press Sec. Sarah Sanders (Screenshot)
Mexico is now doing more the help protect the U.S. from illegal immigration than Democrats in America, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
A CNN news anchor and three MSNBC guests spread the false impression on the air that President Donald Trump referred to immigrants as "animals" last week.
The confusion stemmed from an unverified Twitter user identified as Mark Elliott, who tweeted out a short clip of Trump Friday and accused him of referring to asylum seekers by the insulting moniker.
However, the clip was from May 2018, and Trump was responding to a question about the transnational street gang MS-13. Nevertheless, multiple news outlets and politicians ran with the idea he had referred to all immigrants as "animals" last year as well.
Despite the clip being old and well-known in political circles due to its litigation last year, dozens of politicians—including presidential candidates–journalists, and celebrities shared the tweet and expressed outrage over it.
It spilled over onto television, too, with CNN anchor Jim Sciutto asking a Republican guest Monday morning if Trump was helpful on border policy when "referring to immigrants as animals."
Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden said on MSNBC Friday night that "this afternoon" Trump had referred to people coming across the border as "animals." Former Democratic National Committee CEO Jess O’Connell told MSNBC on Saturday, "You saw just this week, he compared immigrants to animals."
Also on Saturday, liberal Daily Beast writer Jonathan Alter referred to Trump’s comments "yesterday" as "truly shameful."
"He compared people going to the border to animals," Alter said. "Now anybody who has studied any history knows that when you start calling people animals, when you dehumanize them that way, that’s when the killing begins."
Sciutto and MSNBC spokespersons did not respond to Free Beacon requests for comment on whether they would correct the record.
Elliott deleted the viral tweet on Monday and apologized for not being "more accurate."
I have learned that Trump’s comments were in response to a specific question about MS-13 members and not about asylum seekers more broadly. I have chosen to delete the tweet, but am copying it here. My apologies for not being more accurate. pic.twitter.com/oDTdNvzSdq
On Sunday’s Up with David Gura on MSNBC, during a panel discussion of President Donald Trump criticizing U.S. immigration policy during a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition, host Gura invited Lynn Sweet — Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times — to complain about Jews who have responded favorably to Trump’s rhetoric that was earlier in the segment likened to Nazi Germany.
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