JERUSALEM, Israel — Leaders of the White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative gathered on a rooftop overlooking the Temple Mount on Tuesday to salute President Donald Trump’s success in moving the U.S. embassy to Israel’s capital city — and to thank the faith community for their role in making it happen.

The president created the Faith and Opportunity Initiative earlier this month under Executive Order 13831 “to assist faith-based and other organizations in their efforts to strengthen the institutions of civil society and American families and communities.”

Pastor Paula White, who is spearheading the initiative, praised the work that Christian and Jewish leaders had done to advocate for the embassy move. She also lauded the work of White House officials Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, as well as U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.

Ralph Reed, leader of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, called the embassy move “an incredible moment in history, something that we as Americans cherish.” He referred to Jerusalem as the “ancient, eternal, and indivisible capital of Israel.”

He also commented: “I don’t think that it was an accident that the first trip that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made … was to Israel.”

Former Rep. Michele Bachmann declared her “thanks and appreciation for the faithful rabbis and the faithful pastors who for the past decades faithfully preached the Word of God.”

She added: “Without that, there perhaps wouldn’t have been the political will to do this. President Trump acted out of his heart, I believe, and because of his love for the Jewish state, but also because the heart of the American people was with this move.”

Pastor Jim Garlow of California’s Skyline Church declared: “Where people know, love, and read the Bible, they stand with the Jewish people and the nation of Israel.”

He added: “Donald Trump does not come from amidst us. … [But] God knew what Israel needed.”

Later, he added: “You watch — he’ll be another Cyrus,” referring to the Biblical ruler of Persia, who permitted the Jews to return from exile to rebuild their temple.

“[Trump] has done more for religious liberty and Israel than any president we’ve ever had.”

Lourdes Aguirre of the Latino Coalition for Israel said that President Trump’s message in moving the U.S. embassy had been consistent with his message of peace.

She said that the humanitarian work Christians do in Syria, in coordination with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), is possible in part because of President Trump’s support.

“We are protected because the President of the United States stands for peace for all religions, for all faiths,” she said. “When our president came to the Middle East, he called upon everyone to unite, and to go against one common enemy: the terrorists.”

Ramiro Pena, pastor of Christ the King Church in Waco, Texas, praised Israel’s example of religious freedom: “As Americans, as peace and freedom-loving people, we celebrate the only true democracy in the Middle East. Where there is freedom, there is freedom to worship God as conscience dictates.”

“I have never seen in my lifetime what this president has accomplished in one year,” said Jay Strack, president and founder of Student Leadership University.

He stressed that the love Americans felt for Israel did not mean that they did not love the Palestinians, too — and added that most Israelis care for the Palestinians as well.

Strack said of President Trump: “He has a heart that is strangely warmed by the word of God.”

 

President Donald Trump spoke at the Annual Peace Officers Memorial Service on Tuesday and called for the death penalty for criminals who killed police officers.

“We must end the attacks on our police and we must end them right now,” Trump said. “We believe criminals who kill our police should get the death penalty. Bring it forth.”

Trump spoke at the ceremony which memorialized 199 slain members of law enforcement, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC as part of National Police Week.

He specifically recognized the family of slain New York City Police Officer Miosotis Familia, calling them up to the podium to give them hugs and shake their hands.

Familia was shot and killed in July 2017, specifically targeted for wearing the police uniform in New York City by a man who had anti-police rants on Facebook.

Her partner, Officer Vincent Maher, gave Trump a challenge coin from his precinct and offered a tribute to his slain partner.

Maher said that despite getting injured, she volunteered to return to patrol one of the roughest areas of New York City.

“She may have been lost that night but she saved a lot of lives in return, because of her memory and everything that transpired after the fact,” he said.

Trump hugged Familia’s 90-year-old mother Adrianna Valoy.

“You’re representing something very important,” Trump said, praising the family. “She loved the department.”

He acknowledged that it was a painful day for families who lost loved ones but urged them to know the love that the nation had for them.

“We will never forget our heroes ever,” Trump said.

He shared a personal message to young children who lost their parents.

“I want you to know that your moms and dads were among the bravest Americans to ever live. When danger came, when darkness fell, when destruction loomed they did not flinch, they were not afraid, they did not falter,” Trump said.

Trump recalled the stories of Officer Charles Hartfield who was killed while he responded to the Las Vegas shooting at a country concert in October.

“He gave his life so that so many others could live,” Trump said.

Trump also paid tribute to Rogelio Martinez, a border patrol agent who was killed in Texas in November 2017. He called for more tough action against criminal gangs and drug dealers.

“We don’t want it any longer, we’ve had it. Enough is enough,” Trump said.

He explained that his administration had their own version of a “catch and release” program for illegal immigrants.

“It’s called we catch them and we release them in the country they came from,” Trump said as the audience applauded. “We’re getting them out or we’re putting them in prison.”

 

 

 

There is no question the New York Daily News harbors a bitter and unabashed enmity toward President Donald Trump and his entire family, which the paper takes great delight in displaying at any given opportunity.

Thus, it was no great surprise (though no less disgusting) when the Daily News launched an utterly despicable and hateful — some might even suggest anti-Semitic — attack on Ivanka Trump following her participation Monday in the grand opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.

The cover of the Daily News featured a picture of a smiling Ivanka Trump at the event next to an inset picture of Palestinian protesters in Gaza carrying a wounded individual away from the border fence guarded by the Israeli Defense Forces.

The headline on the cover read “Daddy’s Little Ghoul” and featured a subhead which read: “55 slaughtered in Gaza, but Ivanka all smiles at Jerusalem embassy unveil.”

Deplorable https://t.co/EMGX6xPzva

An early look at Tuesday’s front… pic.twitter.com/ZAK1Vk5ACW

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 15, 2018

The description of the photo read, “A seemingly oblivious First Daughter Ivanka Trump puts on glamorous face for U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem on Monday while 50 miles away in Gaza, protesters remove one of injured in bloody clashes with Israelis.”

The obvious and thoroughly atrocious implication here is that Trump was somehow taking delight in, if not actually bearing some responsibility for, the deaths and injuries of the Gazan protesters, who the Daily News neglected to mention were coerced, pushed and led into foolishly charging the well-guarded border fence by the Hamas terrorists who rule Gaza with an iron grip.

The paper also declined to mention that gunfire coming back across the border from Israeli troops was in response to rocks, makeshift bombs, molotov cocktails, incendiary kites and scattered gunfire first sent across the border by Hamas terrorists hidden inside the crowd of protesters/rioters.

But let’s take a moment to really look at that horrific headline used to describe the president’s daughter, who is a convert to Judaism and was part of the contingent of American officials sent to Jerusalem to help open the new embassy with our nation’s friend and ally.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the word “ghoul” is an Arabic origin word used to describe “a legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses.” A secondary meaning for that word is “one who shows morbid interest in things considered shocking or repulsive.”

Both of those definitions, in the context of Trump’s smiling while Gazans are “slaughtered” by Israeli troops, are damning indictments which imply she was “robbing the graves” of Palestinians, “feeding on the corpses” of dead protesters or morbidly delighting in the “shocking and repulsive” treatment they received.

Then we throw in the Arabic/Judaic connection, and the whole thing takes on the appearance of an anti-Semitic smear, with Trump as the “legendary evil” Jewish woman doing all of those horrific things to the poor Muslim protesters, who again were guided into their actions by Hamas terrorists.

Now take another step back and consider — and you’ll really have to use your imagination for this part — if the embassy move had occurred under former President Barack Obama’s administration, and one of his daughters had attended the grand opening event and been similarly smeared with a disgustingly loaded racial term by a right-wing publication.

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We all know the ferocity with which that publication — and probably every subscriber or casual reader in that publication’s history as well — would be subjected to by the outraged leftist media mob. They’d have been hounded and shamed out of business, and not without legitimate reason.

Alas, this is the leftist-adored New York Daily News we are talking about, and the evil, hated Trumps they so despise. As a result, the vast majority of the liberal media will avert their gaze from this vomitous cover and ignore the sickening implications, even as some of them know how truly disgusting it really is.

The day the last newspaper rolls off the press at the New York Daily News and this sub-par excuse for a media outlet — which is barely fit to line a birdcage — closes its doors for the last time can’t come soon enough.

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Likely voters have repeatedly told pollsters that immigration is their biggest priority heading into the 2018 midterm elections, while tax cuts are one of the least important issues.

While the Republican establishment is attempting to run their re-election campaigns on tax cuts, Republican voters and swing voters have said tax cuts are not their top priority but rather wage-boosting cuts to immigration.

In a March poll, swing voters were asked, “What is the most important issue to you in deciding how to vote in this year’s midterm election,” Independents say immigration is their third most important issue. Meanwhile, taxes are dead last as an issue for swing voters.

Likewise, half of swing voters at the time, 50 percent, said the GOP tax cuts that were passed last year have “no impact” on their midterm election vote.

The March poll found that Republicans say immigration is more important than taxes, healthcare, and gun policy when it comes to their vote in the midterm elections. The economy is the only issue that is as much of a priority for Republican voters as immigration.

A month before, Republican voters told pollsters that reducing immigration to the U.S. was a bigger priority than repealing and replacing Obamacare, destroying ISIS, and passing an infrastructure bill.

The only issue that outpaced reducing immigration levels as the biggest priority for Republican voters was stimulating American jobs, which can be directly tied to immigration.

For Trump voters, reducing immigration to the country is more important than repealing and replacing Obamacare, passing tax reform, and even building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to help stem illegal immigration.

Republican voters said again in March that reducing immigration was a bigger priority for them than tax cuts, repealing Obamacare, getting the U.S. out of the Iran Deal, destroying ISIS, and expanding family leave.

Second biggest issue for GOP voters (including those who didn’t even vote for Trump): Reducing illegal and legal immigration. https://t.co/CD9WsH7zVw

— John Binder ? (@JxhnBinder) February 22, 2018

Immigration is so important to Republicans in March polling that it even surpassed the economy and jobs as being the biggest issue.

The latest polling from April revealed a similar trend among GOP likely midterm voters. When asked to rank the biggest priorities for the U.S., 47 to 40 percent of GOP voters say immigration and national security are the leading issues in their opinion.

Meanwhile, only 11 percent of GOP voters said taxes were the most important issue in the country, ranking lower than more obscure issues like school safety and defense spending.

About 45 percent of President Trump’s supporters say immigration is the most important issue in the country, while only 11 percent of Trump supporters say the same of taxes.

Not only are GOP voters and swing voters wanting immigration to be the leading issue of the midterm elections, rather than tax cuts, but both voting blocs are also vastly supportive of Trump’s plan to cut legal immigration levels in half.

Currently, the U.S. admits more than 1.5 million illegal and legal immigrants every year. Trump’s plan would cut legal immigration to the U.S. to raise the wages of America’s working and middle class.

In the latest poll by the Polling Company, a majority, 52 percent, of swing-voters said they wanted the 250,000 visas allotted to “chain migrants” — the foreign relatives of newly naturalized citizens — eliminated altogether rather than handed over to businesses to allow them to import an additional flood of foreign workers.

“52% of swing-voters said they wanted the 250,000 visas allotted to ‘chain migrants’ — the foreign relatives of newly naturalized citizens — eliminated rather than handed over to businesses to allow them to import an additional flood of foreign workers.” https://t.co/2usvJiqJzB

— John Binder ? (@JxhnBinder) May 6, 2018

Harvard-Harris polling found that 66 percent of voters — or nearly two out of three — said they support a plan by the Trump administration to almost cut legal immigration in half by ending the process known as “chain migration,” as well as the Diversity Visa Lottery, and building a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The Polling Company survey also revealed that nearly 70 percent of GOP likely midterm voters want legal immigration reduced to anywhere between zero to 250,000 admissions a year, a major reduction to current mass immigration levels that have led to poor job growth, stagnant wages, and increased public costs to offset the importation of millions of low-skilled foreign nationals.

The massive importation of low-skilled foreign nationals to the U.S. has translated to a cheap labor economy that has aided in keeping American mens’ wages stagnant for at least 44 years, as Breitbart News reported. Median earnings for American men working full-time were actually lower in 2016 than they were in 2007.

John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder. 

Costco stores in Citrus Heights, and Roseville, California, allegedly rejected a $500 donation for the Children’s Miracle Network because the donation came from a gun store.

Townhall.com reports that the donation was originally rejected by a Citrus Heights Costco, redirected to a Roseville Costco, then rejected by the Roseville location as well.

The donation came from the Sacramento Black Rifle (SBR) gun store. SBR “generously gives to the Children’s Miracle Network via the wholesale retailer” and “they get a banner in the store” in return. But this year’s donation to the Citrus Heights Costco was allegedly returned and the SBR banner was removed.

SBR manager Nick Armstrong said he was initially told problems arose after a Costco employee complained. He said he was later told it was a “customer complaint.”

Armstrong said word of the Citrus Heights’ rejection spread and representatives from Roseville Costco approached to say they would gladly take the donation for Children’s Miracle Network. He shifted the donation to them only to have them return it with a letter saying, “Pursuant to Costco Wholesale’s Regional Office direction. (Enclosed) please find your company check for $500.00 made out to COSTCO WHSE 00 representing a refund of your CMN banner donation made to Roseville Costco on April 3^rd, 2018.”

SBR owner Rob Adams said his store has given $500 a year to the Children’s Miracle Network through Costco for the past five years, but this year the money is suddenly unwanted.

Townhall reports that a Costco in Reno, Nevada, likewise rejected a $500 Children’s Miracle Network gift from SBR this year.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

According to a “diplomatic source” quoted by South Korean media, the United States knows where one of North Korea’s two uranium enrichment facilities is located and expects dictator Kim Jong-un to reveal the existence of both facilities to the world and invite international inspections.

According to a report by Korea Joongang Daily, the diplomatic source said Kim has “made up his mind to reveal such facilities as one of the big actions he plans to take” during his June 12 meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore.

The report suggests the two secret facilities in question are separate from the widely-known reactor at Yongbyon, and there might be more than two of them:

American nuclear weapons expert Siegfried Hecker, a professor emeritus at Stanford University, led a group of U.S. scientists to North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex in November 2010. He later said that one facility contained 2,000 centrifuges producing low-enriched uranium but that the facility could be easily be converted to produce HEU bomb fuel — and that parallel facilities could exist elsewhere.

They were the last group of U.S. scientists to make such a visit, and since then, North Korea’s HEU facilities and stockpile have been opaque.

“The United States views that besides the one or two secret facilities, there can be more secret HEU facilities in North Korea and it is in the process of confirming them,” said this source.

Another official indicated the exact location of such secret uranium enrichment facilities is a closely guarded secret and not confirmed, but there is a high likelihood of one being located underground near the Panghyon Airfield in Kusong, a city in North Pyongan Province, or in some other location in the province.

Another “diplomatic source in Washington” told Korea Joongang Daily that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will not accompany President Trump to Singapore, sending a signal to North Korea that it will be rewarded with phased relief from sanctions with each step toward denuclearization it takes. The denuclearization process would likely take several years to complete, so U.S. negotiators and inspectors will have to remain on guard for the kind of delaying tactics North Korea has often used in the past.

One of the sources for the Korean report intriguingly suggested the U.S. is not revealing exactly what it wants out of North Korea, including the structure of the international inspection regime that would verify denuclearization, because it does not want Kim to steal the spotlight at the summit by making a “big proposal” right up front.

Prior to the “diplomatic thaw” at the beginning of 2018, North Korea dramatically ramped up uranium enrichment and doubled the size of the facility at Yongbyon, giving it the capacity to produce up to six nuclear bombs per year.

National Security Adviser John Bolton suggested on Sunday that North Korea’s nuclear weapons be dismantled and sent to the U.S. Department of Energy research facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Bolton said denuclearization means “getting rid of the uranium enrichment and plutonium processing capabilities, it means addressing the ballistic missile issue, a lot of things like that.”