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Turns out the smear-attack on Rep. Jim Jordan was phony all along


Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio congressman who was spotted as a star by President Trump at a rally last week, is finally getting some vindication.


Turns out that an earlier smear-attack on him, put on by the left about how he supposedly ignored sexual abuse as a coach earlier in his career, reported copiously by the press, was fake and phony all along. Just as Thomas Lifson suspected from the get-go, calling it the work of “the left’s personal destruction machine.” Turns out the person who leveled the original charge has since recanted. According to the Daily Caller:



A former Ohio State University wrestler is recanting his claims that Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan knew of sexual abuse allegations against a university physician when he coached wrestling at the school over 20 years ago.


“At no time did I ever say or have any direct knowledge that Jim Jordan knew of Dr. Richard Strauss’s inappropriate behavior,” Mark Coleman, a former MMA fighter who wrestled at Ohio State when Jordan coached there, said in a statement.


“I have nothing but respect for Jim Jordan as I have known him for more than 30 years and know him to be of impeccable character.”


Coleman is the first former OSU wrestler to recant his claims that Jordan knew about sexual abuse at the hands of Dr. Richard Strauss, an OSU physician accused of molesting dozens of student-athletes.


So there was nothing to it all along. Yet the press, which so loudly reported the original lie, has just minimally covered this recantation. Will they now report the recantation with as much vim and vigor as they did the original charges? If they don’t, it’s proof positive that the whole thing was a setup all along and they were its gullibly willing accomplices, led along by their loathing of President Trump. That’s some record.


As for Jordan, who was the victim of a tremendous injustice, as former Reagan Labor secretary Ray Donovan once put it: Where do I go to get my reputation back?


Jordan joins a long line of effective GOP legislators and jurists who had their careers damaged and often cut short by phony charges – Rep. Tom DeLay, Sen. Ted Stevens, Gov. Sarah Palin, Judge Clarence Thomas and others. Fortunately, it was caught soon enough. But because the pattern is getting so well defined in the press, one can only hope the public starts noticing just how untrustworthy these press blitzes have become and what the end-game really is.


Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio congressman who was spotted as a star by President Trump at a rally last week, is finally getting some vindication.


Turns out that an earlier smear-attack on him, put on by the left about how he supposedly ignored sexual abuse as a coach earlier in his career, reported copiously by the press, was fake and phony all along. Just as Thomas Lifson suspected from the get-go, calling it the work of “the left’s personal destruction machine.” Turns out the person who leveled the original charge has since recanted. According to the Daily Caller:


A former Ohio State University wrestler is recanting his claims that Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan knew of sexual abuse allegations against a university physician when he coached wrestling at the school over 20 years ago.


“At no time did I ever say or have any direct knowledge that Jim Jordan knew of Dr. Richard Strauss’s inappropriate behavior,” Mark Coleman, a former MMA fighter who wrestled at Ohio State when Jordan coached there, said in a statement.


“I have nothing but respect for Jim Jordan as I have known him for more than 30 years and know him to be of impeccable character.”


Coleman is the first former OSU wrestler to recant his claims that Jordan knew about sexual abuse at the hands of Dr. Richard Strauss, an OSU physician accused of molesting dozens of student-athletes.


So there was nothing to it all along. Yet the press, which so loudly reported the original lie, has just minimally covered this recantation. Will they now report the recantation with as much vim and vigor as they did the original charges? If they don’t, it’s proof positive that the whole thing was a setup all along and they were its gullibly willing accomplices, led along by their loathing of President Trump. That’s some record.


As for Jordan, who was the victim of a tremendous injustice, as former Reagan Labor secretary Ray Donovan once put it: Where do I go to get my reputation back?


Jordan joins a long line of effective GOP legislators and jurists who had their careers damaged and often cut short by phony charges – Rep. Tom DeLay, Sen. Ted Stevens, Gov. Sarah Palin, Judge Clarence Thomas and others. Fortunately, it was caught soon enough. But because the pattern is getting so well defined in the press, one can only hope the public starts noticing just how untrustworthy these press blitzes have become and what the end-game really is.




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China Folds to Trump’s Pressure, Quietly Removes Oil Tariff


China has removed crude oil from its list of items being slapped with a 25 percent tariff, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

It seems unusual for those used to America being an energy importer to hear about energy exports, particularly to a country as big as China. However, America’s role in petroleum production has steadily increased for quite some time now, meaning industry in China was about to feel a serious pinch.

“Over the past two years China has become the biggest buyer of U.S. crude-oil exports, last year taking a fifth of the total,” Chuin-Wei Yap wrote in the Journal.

Beijing had originally announced that oil was going to be on the list of items slapped with a 25 percent tariff issued in response to the Trump administration’s tariffs.

However, when the final list of $16 billion in tariffed goods was issued on Wednesday, oil was conspicuously absent.

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“China’s Ministry of Commerce didn’t explain the omission and didn’t immediately respond to questions,” Yap reported.

China still called the measures “unreasonable” and said they had taken the measures “to safeguard its legitimate rights and interests and the multilateral trading system.” However, the measure seemed to be more about safeguarding the interests of Sinopec Group, the state-owned Beijing-based energy giant.

“Sinopec did a lot of lobbying work with the government,” an individual with knowledge of the situation told Reuters. They said the petroleum manufacturer used its clout to move the decision of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Commerce.

“The U.S. will be the single largest source of new oil supplies outside OPEC. It’s in China’s interest to diversify supplies,” another source told Reuters.

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“Removing crude imports, worth roughly $8 billion annually based on Sinopec’s earlier forecast of 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) for 2018, also gives Beijing room to maneuver in future negotiations with Washington, especially as it may soon lose some Iranian oil shipments due to reimposed U.S. sanctions,” Reuters noted.

And that could mean big things in the trade war.

“The issue for the Chinese is that any tariff on U.S. exports, (including) oil, will likely hurt their economy disproportionately because they have to import,” Kenneth Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, told Reuters.

“U.S. exports will find a home regardless of how the global supply deck is reshuffled.”

Even though oil won’t be on the list when the new tariffs go into effect on August 23, diesel, kerosene, lubricants and propane will be included.

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However, this is a pretty major blink from China — and a huge win from the Trump administration.

If Beijing’s need for oil brings them to the table, that’s yet another bargaining chip the United States can use to get a more sane trade policy

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New Border Patrol chief sets the record straight on border separations, dismantles media narrative

President Donald Trump faced a tidal wave of backlash this summer over his administration’s “zero tolerance” illegal immigration policy. The media and Trump’s opponents alleged it was the catalyst behind thousands of family separations at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The media framed the narrative implying the separations were new. But according to newly appointed Border Patrol chief Carla Provost, that’s not true.

What did she say?

In fact, Provost said in an interview this week that the U.S. government has separated families at the border for decades.

“Under all four administrations I have worked under, we have separated families for different reasons,” she told TheHill.TV.

“Obviously, the welfare of the child is of utmost concern for us. And we are still separating if that is of concern. If the parent or the guardian has a serious, criminal history, we will still separate them as well,” she explained.

Indeed, the Trump administration never held a policy that mandated the separation of families at the border. Separation was merely a side-effect of his “zero tolerance” policy, which mandated every immigrant caught entering the U.S. illegally be criminally prosecuted. It was only then that minors were separated from their parents, since they couldn’t be placed in jail together.

Still, the policy mostly affected single adults, Provost said. Only 15 percent of illegal border crossers during the 45 days the policy was in place were families, she explained, according to The Hill.

Trump eventually gave in to unrelenting pressure and signed an executive order in June to end family separations. Nearly all separated children have since been reunited with their parents.

Provost assumed her role as Border Patrol chief this week. She is the first woman to ever hold the position. She had been serving as the acting chief since April 2017.

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Obama Center Breaks Pledge Not to Remove Trees in Jackson Park


The Obama Presidential Center has already started destroying dozens of age-old trees in Chicago’s Jackson Park, despite a pledge not to start removing trees until all legal paths are cleared.

The City of Chicago, the park district, and the Obama Center agreed to wait until a handful of lawsuits have developed before beginning preparations for construction, but the Chicago Sun-Times reports that the Obama Center’s promise has essentially been broken because the Chicago Park District has already begun destroying baseball diamonds and tearing out trees as part of the work associated with the Obama complex construction.

In January, the Obama Center promised that until the foundation had all permits secured and all lawsuits were satisfied, “there will be no trees removed or cut down.” But now, the Center claims that only the 19.3 acres upon which the center will sit is included in that promise, and the trees destroyed by the Park District are not on that acreage.

The Center’s claim is technically accurate. But the paper explains that the decades-old trees are being destroyed to make room for a track field that is being displaced by the impending construction of the Obama Center. One did not need to transpire without the other, so the moving of the track field is inextricably tied to the Obama Center, critics note.

The paper also points out that the Obama Center is impacting far and away more acreage and city facilities than just the area upon which the complex will eventually sit.

The Times wrote:

Since former President Barack Obama picked Jackson Park for his center in August 2016, a series of intertwined projects in and around Jackson Park has made the impact much larger than just the 19.3 acres to be occupied by the center, including retooling roadways and relocating athletic fields.

Despite claims by Obama representatives, the famed Jackson Park, designed by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1893, will see major alterations even though the park was placed on the federal National Register of Historic Places in 1972. And preservationists say the Obama Center is destroying the carefully planned parklands across the city’s Lake Shore region.

The claim that the Center will not force the city, state, or federal governments to spend tax dollars on the complex is also coming up false.

According to the Wall Street Journal, taxpayers are now being asked for nearly two hundred million dollars for costs resulting from the Obama Center.

“Now comes news that Illinois taxpayers will put up at least $174 million for roadway and transit reconfigurations needed to accommodate the Obama Center. If you don’t live in Illinois, you may be smirking — but you’ll be footing the bill, too,” the Journal reported on August 10. “Eighty percent of such spending is generally reimbursed by the federal government, and Illinois officials confirmed to me that they expect to receive $139 million from Washington if they request it.”

Former Obama chief of staff and current embattled Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks the $174 million in tax dollars to be spent on the center is “money well spent.”

Oddly, the city will not even enjoy rent money from the sprawling Obama Center because another sweetheart deal the city agreed to when it entered into the pact with the Obama Foundation maintains that the Center will pay only one dollar for the land. And that is one dollar only, in perpetuity–not per month or even per year, just one single dollar.

The one-dollar rent and the $174 million in taxpayer funds certainly do seem like great deals, indeed–but for Obama, not for the American people or the citizens of Chicago.

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Photos Surface of ‘Guardians’ Director James Gunn at Pedophilia-Themed Party


Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn attended a pedophilia-themed party, according to photographs surfacing online.

The Daily Caller’s Ian Miles Cheong appears to have been the first to find and publish the photos, seen below.

The now-disgraced Gunn was fired by the Walt Disney Co. last month after countless “jokes” about child rape were dug up on his Twitter account. The jokes were more than five-years-old and also mocked sensitive subjects such as AIDS, the Holocaust, Mexicans, and “ass raping” women.

As Breitbart News previously reported, these “jokes” included…

…a post about a monkey that “jerked off” on a child, high-school kids masturbating “in front of the others to show how fun it is,” his alleged experience of doing a “reading with a convicted pedophile,” and how he wants to make a “Hollywood film adaptation of The Giving Tree with a happy ending – the tree grows back and gives the kid a blowjob.”

Also found on Gunn’s website (which he apparently took down in a panic as the old tweets began to circulate) was a video he titled, “Video: 100 Pubescent Girls Touch Themselves,” which featured a chorus of what looks like high school-aged girls singing the pop tune “I Touch Myself,” a song about female masturbation.

Gunn added this comment to the video:

Huston Huddleston posted this video on my Facebook page with the note ‘I thought you’d appreciate this,’ My response: ‘Appreciate it?!! I just came all over my own face!!’

A few years later, this same Huston Huddleston, after being charged with soliciting a minor to appear in child pornography, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography. He is now a registered sex offender.

Despite his objectively disturbing past behavior, ever since his firing, his fans, including the entire Guardians of the Galaxy cast, have been lobbying hard to convince Disney to re-hire Gunn to direct the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

None of Gunn’s defenders, though, has ever addressed Gunn’s connection to Huddleston, and the left-wing entertainment media have all coordinated in an effort to pretend the connection does not exist.

As a result, late last week, trial balloons were being floated to test the public reaction if Disney reversed itself. “Rumors” about the possibility of Gunn’s re-hiring were strategically leaked to the left-wing entertainment media.

According to the screenshots of the pedophilia-themed party, which appear to come from Gunn’s personal blog, the theme of the party was “To Catch a Predator,” which is the title of a popular NBC investigative series that ran from 2004-2008. Using hidden cameras, the show would catch alleged sexual predators who had arranged to have sex with children as young as 12.

One of the photos (Gateway Pundit has more) shows Gunn dressed as a Catholic priest posing with two young women dressed to look like children. One is in pigtails and pouting, another looks like she is about to cry as she holds a juice box and a doll. Father Gunn, who appears to be wearing eye makeup, looms over them.

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The second photo features Gunn, again dressed as a priest, next to a pigtailed young women sucking her thumb. Kneeling on the floor in front of Gunn is a man made up to look like a clown. He has his hands around the throat of the second young woman wearing what looks like a babydoll dress. The photo also features a large rabbit and a man (in pigtails?) yanking at his pants.

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Massachusetts Man Arrested for Allegedly Using Twitter to Solicit Murder of ICE Agents


Federal agents arrested a Massachusetts man in New York for allegedly using Twitter to solicit the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced Thursday morning that federal agents arrested Brandon Ziobrowski, 33, of Cambridge, at 7:15 a.m. for tweeting a threat saying he “would give $500 to anyone who kills an ICE agent.”

“I am broke, but I will scrounge and literally give $500 to anyone who kills an ice agent. @me seriously who else can pledge get it on this let’s make it work,” Ziobrowski allegedly tweeted July 2, according to NBC News.

Twitter later suspended his account at the request of law enforcement officials.

The suspect allegedly began posting threatening messages against politicians and law enforcement long before his alleged July tweet. He wrote in one tweet that he desired to “slit” Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) throat and began tweeting messages encouraging violence against members of law enforcement, according to the indictment.

The indictment also stated that he threatened ICE over Twitter in March.

Ziobrowski is accused of using interstate and foreign commerce to transmit a threat to injure another person, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. He is expected to appear in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday for his initial hearing.

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Economists See Growth Hitting 3% in 2018, a Triumph for Trump Over the Naysayers


It looks like Donald Trump was right after all.

When Trump took office with a promise to bring growth up to three percent, many said it could be done. Claims by President Trump and his economic team that they could boost growth to 3 percent were derired as fanciful, unrealistic, or deceptive.

But the most recent Wall Street Journal poll of economists reveals that the average estimate for growth in 2018 has reached 3 percent, up from 2.9 percent last month and up from 2.4 percent a year ago.

“The average forecast predicts by the middle of next year the unemployment rate will drop to 3.6%. If the forecast is realized, it would be the lowest unemployment rate in nearly 50 years,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

That would leave a lot of economic prognosticators with egg on their faces. To take just a few examples:

  • “The problem for the Trumpians is that we’ve had eight years of recovery,” Lee Branstetter, a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University, told Business Insider in February of 2017. “Now unemployment is well below 5%, and there’s just not a lot of slack in the US labor market. … It’s essentially mathematically impossible to get the growth they’re talking about.”
  • “Making up the difference from 2% to more than 3% looks like a pipe dream,” L.A. Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik wrote.
  • Marc Goldwein, the policy director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, told Planet Money that even if “you took the unemployment rate down to zero, you’d not even be close to 3 percent growth.”
  • Five Thirty Eight described 3 percent annual growth as “pure fantasy” and reported that “most economists see 3 percent as so unrealistic.”
  • “Economists are raising their growth expectations for this year and next, but don’t expect 3% growth during President Trump’s first term, according to a Philadelphia Fed survey published Monday,” Marketwatch reported.
  • “Sorry, Mr. Trump, but the only way to get to 3% growth is to hire more Mexicans,” columnist Rex Nutting wrote.
  • “Assuming 3% growth is, to put it generously, wishful thinking. Worse, it is deeply misleading–and potentially dangerous,” Simon Johnson declared.

Many of those who doubted Trump could achieve 3 percent growth now doubt the growth can be sustained. In fact, many economists who thought the U.S. would grow much slower in 2018 than it has been now project a slowdown in 2019 and 2020, with some even saying we risk a recession.

The Trump administration has even out-performed its own expectations. The first Trump budget projected that the economy would ramp up to 3 percent by 2021. So hitting 3 percent in 2018 would mean the Trump administration’s error was underestimating the near-term growth potential.

Still, it appears the Trump administration was closer to the mark than its critics. Faced with a barrage of skeptical questions from reporters when he announced the Trump 2018 budget, OMB direct Mick Mulvaney said reporters were wrong to insist the administration’s projections were overly-optimistic.

“That assumes a pessimism about America, about the economy, about its people, about its culture that we’re simply refusing to accept,” Mulvaney said. “We believe that we can get to 3 percent growth.”

And now so do the economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal.

 

 

 

 

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EXCLUSIVE: Right-Wing Street Artists Who Plastered Trump Stars on Hollywood Walk of Fame Issue ‘Warning’ to ‘Resistors’

A group of anonymous right-wing street artists multiplied President Donald Trump’s Walk of Fame star on Hollywood Blvd. following the destruction of his real one — and they now have a warning for “Resistors”. 

The artists, who describe themselves as a “rogue right-wing street outfit” that is “100% pro-individualism and meritocracy and 100% anti-identity politics” used 30 vinyl laminated Donald Trump stars to fill in blank squares along the path.

Working under the name The Faction, the anonymous artists are now issuing a “warning” to resistors about their “baby-tantrum tactics.”

The full statement provided to The Gateway Pundit by the artists reads as follows:

In Donald Trump’s “The Art of the Deal” the President instructs that if someone fucks you over, you have to fuck them back twice as hard. Because we Russian bots are learning machines, though, we may have taken it to the extreme. Rip up the President’s Walk Of Fame star or try to have it removed – like you’re the Mayor of West Hollywood or something — and thirty more will pop up. 
“Strike me down and I will become more powerful than you could ever imagine” Trump tapped into his typewriter when he wrote Star Wars. We are seeing his prophetic words play out as we speak. Or did you SpaceForce deniers think that movie was fiction? When are you going to realize that you’ve sided with the Empire?  
Keep it up, “Resistors”. We’re going to ride your baby-tantrum tactics all the way to victory in 2020 and beyond. Keep it up, “Resistors”. And your bathroom will be tiled with Trump Stars by the time he boards Marine One on January 20, 2025.  
The idiots pick-axing Trump’s star on the Walk of Fame are the same as the Whining Acostas and High-Pitch Stelters of the fake media. They don’t understand that the Real Trump has infected America with winning fever, and like his star has infected the Walk of Fame — literally massing around and isolating cancerous stars like Blubbering Rob Reiner and Crying Jimmy Kimmel — the fever is spreading.
 We are The Faction.

The artists also provided TGP with additional photos of the art.

It is rumored that Milo Yiannopolous funded the stars, but neither camp would confirm or deny the speculation. The speculation continued to gain steam after the controversial author and journalist posted a photo of the stars to his Instagram — vowing to make more.

imma make more of these stickers so you can all join in the fun

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Though they are extremely durable, it seems that they have already been peeled off as local businesses were worried about another maniac coming by with a pick ax.

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