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Left-wing comedian Samantha Bee traveled to Hong Kong to meet with pro-democracy protesters committed to holding “China accountable for their actions,” airing her interviews on Wednesday’s edition of Full Frontal. It came as quite a shock to the vehemently anti-Trump Bee that the protesters actually liked the President and Republican Senator Marco Rubio.
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PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Coahuila – A local judge faces a formal review of her decisions to release cartel members for suspicious reasons. One of those freed was a leading gunman who took part in last month’s large-scale invasion of Coahuila, which led to 23 deaths.
Last month, approximately 150 gunmen from the Cartel Del Noreste faction of Los Zetas rolled into Villa Union, clashing with police and shooting at the local city hall. Moments later, state police and CDN-Zetas fought in a series of shootouts that killed 17 gunmen and four officers. As the gunmen left the town, they kidnapped innocent civilians, including two local firefighters, who they reportedly killed in the aftermath.
Authorities later arrested more than a dozen gunmen and some collaborators. As part of the pending investigation, one of the leading shooters was previously arrested by Coahuila State Police. State Judge Maritza Flores then ruled the arrest illegal and ordered an immediate release. This week, officials required Maritza Flores to present herself before superiors in Saltillo as part of a review into her “suspicious” decisions, various law enforcement sources revealed to Breitbart Texas.
Police and court information obtained by Breitbart Texas from Investigation Case File # 1998/2019 revealed that earlier this year, Fuerza Coahuila agents arrested two suspects inside a house in Piedras Negras in the Palmas I neighborhood and seized 91 packets of methamphetamine and 53 packets of cocaine. However, when authorities prosecuted the case as documented by Penal Cause # 1230/2019, Judge Maritza Flores said the officers violated the rights of the suspects, declared their detention illegal, and ordered releases from custody. Judicial records revealed that one of the two freed took part in the CDN-Los Zetas invasion of Coahuila.
Maritza Flores is the same judge with a history of releasing members of the CDN-Zetas in her court. In late 2017, Maritza Flores ordered the release of 10 CDN hitmen behind a series of gruesome murders in Piedras Negras. Flores also ordered the release of a leading cartel assassin named Jose Antonio “El Scarface” Hernandez Rangel who fled to Texas after carrying out several murders in in the same border city. U.S. authorities arrested and prosecuted the man on immigration charges before turning him over to Mexican counterparts for further criminal proceedings.
Editor’s Note: Breitbart Texas traveled to the Mexican States of Tamaulipas, Coahuila, and Nuevo León to recruit citizen journalists willing to risk their lives and expose the cartels silencing their communities. The writers would face certain death at the hands of the various cartels that operate in those areas including the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas if a pseudonym were not used. Breitbart Texas’ Cartel Chronicles are published in both English and in their original Spanish. This article was written by “J.M. Martinez” from Coahuila.
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Democrat presidential candidates hold 63 million Americans who voted for President Donald Trump in contempt, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) observed Friday during an interview with Alex Marlow, host of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily.
Scalise said, “They have disdain. It’s not just for President Trump; it’s for the 63 million Americans who voted for President Trump, the forgotten men and women, people in the Rust Belt who have been left behind by the liberal elites in Washington.”
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Scalise added, “You listened to all the people on the stage last night. I didn’t even [need to] watch the debate last night to know that none of them have had any record of success on any of these issues. Their economic plans would wreck what is the greatest economy in the entire world.”
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) was an improvement over the previous status quo of the North American Free Trade Act (NAFTA), stated Scalise.
“President Trump went and negotiated a better deal with Mexico and a better deal with Canada,” Scalise said. “Barack Obama couldn’t get a better deal with any of our allies because they kept taking advantage of us. You look at what happened in NATO. President Trump came in and made our NATO allies, they’re good friends, but they were taking advantage of us. They weren’t paying their fair share of two percent of their GDP that every country agreed to after World War II. President Trump finally has them stepping up and doing more of their part.”
Scalise continued, “If you don’t like NAFTA, this is a better deal than NAFTA, and if you like NAFTA, this is a better deal than NAFTA. The president went and negotiated a really good deal for American workers. The real win is for American workers, who are going to get well over 160,000 new jobs in our economy right off the bat. Plus you get the ability to sell products in countries like Canada that you couldn’t sell [before].”
Scalise went on. “The bigger message is for everybody else around the world; it says that we can close deals. The president can go and negotiate a better deal, but until Congress ratifies it, it doesn’t happen. Pelosi should’ve had this on the [House] floor six months ago. It would’ve passed overwhelmingly like it did yesterday, but she held it up because of her obsession with impeaching him, like she’s held up so many other things that matter to families.”
“For China, yesterday, this was not a good day,” concluded Scalise, describing American trade deals with Canada, Mexico, Japan, and European states as measures decreasing U.S. dependency on Chinese exports.
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Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) praised Breitbart News in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX).
“By God’s grace, we’ve got a few outlets like Breitbart that are willing to share the truth,” said Johnson while reflecting on recent interviews he had done with CNN and MSNBC regarding Democrats’ impeachment push against President Donald Trump.
Johnson described the acrimony he perceived from CNN and MSNBC figures during his interviews with them.
“I spent a lot of time over the last week … going into those lions’ dens,” said Johnson, referring to CNN and MSNBC. “I think I did six or seven CNN and MSNBC shows, for example, over the last four or five days to go and present our case. Now, you know going into those arenas, that it’s [going to be] a hostile interview. Some of these [interviews] we put on our Facebook page.”
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Johnson continued, “You go watch, but they’re just seething with just, it’s almost like a hatred that some of these hosts cannot even hold back, and these are journalists, right? The idea that you would come into their arena — they want you to come on — but the fact that you would stand there, answer the questions, and refute their nonsense with facts is a great frustration to them.”
“As I’ve said to our colleagues, this is the most important time ever to go into those quote-unquote mainstream or drive-by media venues, because if we don’t go share our version of — the real truth — our version of the facts, they will never hear it, because it’s an echo chamber over there,” added Johnson. “So I’m trying to encourage conservatives, constitutional conservatives, to go into these places where we’re not expected. Sometimes you’ve got to take a few incoming bullets, but you still get the message out.”
Johnson noted that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is required to deliver the articles of impeachment, as passed by the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives, to the Senate given the text of the resolution.
“What’s interesting about this is Nancy Pelosi’s own resolution — this is the Democrat resolution that they drafted, everybody can pull this up on the Internet and read it for themselves — it says in the third and fourth lines of the resolution, ‘Resolved … that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited in the United States Senate,’” explained Johnson. “S0, by their own resolution that they passed by that majority vote last night, they are required to deliver this — to exhibit it — to the Senate.”
Johnson went on, “Now, it doesn’t have a timeline on there, but obviously it’s presupposed that because they were breathless in their sense of urgency over the last week, remember, they had to get this done, ‘Donald Trump is an existential threat to the Constitution and the country,’ it was presumed that, of course, they would deliver it.”
Johnson concluded, “As someone said today, Nancy Pelosi currently has a grenade in her hand with the pin pulled, and she doesn’t know what to do with it, and so we’re in a real interesting constitutional quandary. How long can she hold it? I don’t know. If she holds it too long, you might suppose that Mitch McConnell and the Senate, if he were in a court, he would bring a motion to dismiss for want of prosecution that they didn’t bring it over, but it’s not even a live issue in the Senate, yet, because they’ve not yet delivered it. So we don’t even know what’s going to happen. That’s a long, complicated answer to a very simple question that everyone on Capitol Hill is asking themselves right now.
Pelosi said on Wednesday she would not commit to delivering the articles of impeachment to the Senate.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged his support to unionize the fast food giant McDonald’s on Thursday, claiming it was a vital step to correct power imbalances in the American economy.
Biden, who often touts himself as a “union man” on the campaign trail, made the promise while speaking at a rally organized by the progressive organization Fight for 15 in Los Angeles, California. During his remarks, which came only hours before the Democrat presidential primary debate, the former vice president channeled his more progressive rivals when stating that fight for $15-an-hour was about more than economics.
“It’s not just the numbers, and by the way there’s been a war on fast food workers for a long, long time,” the former vice president said, before lambasting companies like Chuck E. Cheese that require their workers to sign non-compete agreements.
“It’s all about depressing the wages for working people,” Biden said. “Folks, look we’re in a situation now where we find ourselves in a position, where you are the victims of power, a significant amount of power.”
The former vice president argued that power imbalance would not be rectified by simply raising the wage to “$15 at minimum,” but by improving the “dignity of workers.”
“There is only one way you can fight back power,” he said. “That is with more power, and that’s union power… we should unionize McDonald’s.”
Biden added that if he was elected president in 2020, there would “never” be “a better friend in the White House for working people and for unions.”
“The fight for 15 is about a lot more than $15 an hour … this is about a fight for your dignity. You should be able to and we should unionize McDonald’s” – Vice President @JoeBiden speaking to striking workers ahead of LA #DemDebate. #FightFor15 #UnionsForAll pic.twitter.com/qZVLVvwDsw
— Fight For 15 (@fightfor15) December 19, 2019
The former vice president is not the only 2020 Democrat to express support for unionizing the fast food giant. Progressive firebrands like Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have advocated for collective bargaining rights for McDonald’s employees since at least 2018.
On Thursday, Biden even echoed some of the same language about “power” imbalances that Warren used earlier this year when unveiling a wide reaching proposal to grant fast food workers the ability to unionize.
“We cannot have a truly democratic society with so little power in the hands of working people,” Warren said in October. “We cannot have sustained and inclusive economic growth without a stronger labor movement.”
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ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MARYLAND — Flanked by two fighter jets and in front of a giant American flag, President Trump on Friday signed the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that officially created the Space Force, the sixth and first new military branch since 1947.
“For the first time since Truman, we will create a brand new American military service,” Trump said. “You will witness the birth of the Space Force. That’s a big moment and we’re all here for it.”
“Space is the world’s newest warfighting domain,” Trump said. “American superiority in space is absolutely vital.”
The creation of the Space Force marked the achievement of one of the president’s top national priorities. The new branch will reside inside the Air Force.
The president thanked Vice President Mike Pence for his work in helping to establish the Space Force. Trump also announced the appointment of Air Force Gen. James Raymond as the new Space Force commander: “He will now join the Joint Chiefs.”
To mark the historic moment, the president signed the bill in a giant aircraft hangar at the Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland surrounded by an audience of young service members, Pentagon officials, and other distinguished guests.
One airman told Breitbart News it was a “historic moment” to watch the creation of the Space Force.
At the signing were members of Congress and the top civilian and military leaders in each military service.
The NDAA, a yearly bill that authorizes the Pentagon’s budget, also established a 3.5 percent pay raise for members of the military, the largest pay raise in a decade.
The bill also pays for scores of new aircraft, tanks, and ships. It also eliminates the widow’s tax for fallen service members and authorizes paid parental leave for federal civilian workers. The bill also allows for members of the military to sue for medical malpractice in cases after 2017.
The Senate passed the bill on Thursday, sending it to the president. It authorizes $783 billion for defense spending for 2020. The bill was passed on a bipartisan basis, 11-81.
With the bill, Trump declared the rejection of “American decline.” Trump has raised spending for the military to new levels, after a decade of deep cuts under sequestration. He signed a defense bill authorizing $716 billion for the military in 2018, and $700 billion in 2019.
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Who’s really committing obstruction? It’s not Trump.
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President Donald Trump ripped Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday for withholding the articles of impeachment from the Senate, stating that was engaged in a “quid pro quo” and suggesting that she should be impeached.
Trump’s tweet comes as Pelosi continues to hold the partisan articles of impeachment against Trump from going to the Senate because she is worried that the political trial would be biased in favor of the president.
“Nancy Pelosi is looking for a Quid Pro Quo with the Senate,” Trump tweeted. “Why aren’t we Impeaching her?”
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The grassroots resistance to Virginia Democrats’ extreme anti-Second Amendment agenda has exploded as nearly 90% of the counties in the state have declared themselves to be sanctuary cities in response to the Democrats’ anti-freedom agenda.
More than 100 cities, towns, and counties have passed resolutions in preparation for Democrats taking over the state who had indicated a desire to confiscate semi-automatic firearms from law-abiding citizens.
“The National Rifle Association has voiced support for the movement on social media but has not been actively organizing its supporters to attend local meetings,” The Free Beacon reported, adding, “thousands of people [are] expected to show up for a pro-gun rally in the state capital next month.”
Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), a pro-gun group, is planning a massive protest on January 20, 2020, on the steps of the state Capitol.
VCDL President Philip Van Cleave told the Free Beacon that Democrats in the state do not “realize the magnitude of what they’re looking at,” and that this massive resistance that has sprung up across the state has “been like a freight train” in terms of the how hard of an impact it has had on state politics.
“[Democrats] truly don’t understand it,” Van Cleave said. “They think that money’s coming in from the National Rifle Association, some big organization is behind this. It’s not that at all.”
“It’s mostly grassroots,” Van Cleave continued. “Localities have passed this that weren’t even on our radar. It’s like a grass fire that the grassroots had started and then we went in and threw some more gasoline and a match on it to make it burn even brighter.”
“We’re gonna say you’ve got the partisan map then you’ve got the gun-owner map,” Van Cleave added. “In essence, this is a referendum saying ‘no more gun control.’ This is clearly not what the election was about and these people want to make sure you understand that. You need to stay away from their gun rights.”
The movement has picked up so much momentum that Virginia Democrat Attorney General Mark Herring, who has openly admitted to wearing racist blackface and refused to resign, said that it is his opinion that the new sanctuary cities mean nothing in legal terms.
“It is my opinion that these resolutions have no legal effect,” Herring said on Friday. “It is my further opinion that localities and local constitutional officers cannot nullify state laws and must comply with gun violence prevention measures that the General Assembly may enact.”
Virginia House Majority Leader Todd Gilbert responded to Herring’s letter with a statement:
My statement on the Attorney General’s “opinion” today: pic.twitter.com/S5oLgJY4nx
— Todd Gilbert (@cToddGilbert) December 20, 2019
The issue has become so severe in Virginia that at least one Sheriff in the state has promised to deputize his citizens if Democrats go through with their extreme anti-freedom agenda.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced the push toward extreme gun control measures in large part to get media attention off of himself over his racist scandal in which a KKK and blackface photo appeared in his yearbook.
The tactic of pushing gun control in response to dealing with charges of racism is a common theme among leftist politicians as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently did the same thing, promising to ban semi-automatic rifles and allowing cities to ban handguns.
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On Monday, former New York City Mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg tweeted out a wildly misleading campaign ad.
Above the video, Bloomberg wrote: “21 students are shot every day – because of Trump’s unwillingness to act. Between protecting the NRA and our children, he’s made his choice. Which is why we need to beat him.”
The video, which was uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, features various clips of President Trump speaking about gun safety before on-screen text reads: “Here’s every school shooting since Trump took office.”
The video then lists hundreds of “school shootings,” eventually reaching the number 263.
Here’s the problem – “school shooting” is a subjective phrase with no commonly understood objective definition. What this means in practice is that any time a firearm is discharged at or near a school, it can be labeled a “school shooting.”
One could argue that in the minds of many Americans, a “school shooting” is a mass-casualty incident in which one or more active shooters open fire in a school with the express and singular intent of killing as many innocent people as possible.
This widespread definitional perception of “school shooting” could be the result of the way in which the media covers mass-casualty shootings at high schools and universities such as Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Parkland.
Regardless, because of this perception, there will be some who see Bloomberg’s video and come to the conclusion that there have been 263 mass-casualty shootings at schools and universities since President Trump came into office.
This is not true.
Among the “school shootings” listed in Bloomberg’s video are multiple suicides (at least one of which just happened to take place in a school parking lot) and unintentional firearm discharges. A mass-casualty event like the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting in which ten people were murdered is listed alongside these other incidents as though in the same vein.
Here are some of the “school shootings” in the Bloomberg list:
The incidents above are listed in the video alongside mass-casualty shootings. It appears likely that Bloomberg is getting his information from Everytown for Gun Safety – an organization he founded.
[In the video, the “shootings” appear just as school names. Not definitively knowing the source of Bloomberg’s information, I used a search engine to cross-reference the school names with news articles pertaining to shootings.]
Democratic candidate Andrew Yang made a similarly misleading gun crimes claim in August when he released his plan to combat gun violence.
In the plan, it states:
Gun violence is a scourge in this country. … After the tragedies in El Paso and Dayton, there have been 255 mass shootings in 2019 – more than days have passed in the year. Our children are twice as likely to die from gun violence than cancer.
As The Daily Wire previously reported, Yang didn’t cite the source from which he obtained his information, however, the data line up identically with those of the Gun Violence Archive (GVA).
GVA’s criteria for what constitutes a mass shooting is different than what is established by an organization like Mother Jones, which has a stricter set of guidelines.
According to GVA:
GVA uses a purely statistical threshold to define mass shooting based ONLY on the numeric value of 4 or more shot or killed, not including the shooter. GVA does not parse the definition to remove any subcategory of shooting. To that end we don’t exclude, set apart, caveat, or differentiate victims based upon the circumstances in which they were shot. GVA believes that equal importance is given to the counting of those injured as well as killed in a mass shooting incident.
Mother Jones, which has one of the most comprehensive data sets on mass shootings available online, has a different set of criteria.
“Dating back to at least 2005, the FBI and leading criminologists essentially defined a mass shooting as a single attack in a public place in which four or more victims were killed. We adopted that baseline for fatalities when we gathered data in 2012 on three decades worth of cases,” states the website.
“In January 2013, a mandate for federal investigation of mass shootings authorized by President Barack Obama lowered that baseline to three or more victims killed. Accordingly, we include attacks dating from January 2013 in which three or more victims were killed,” Mother Jones continues, adding that their estimate may appear conservative because they don’t include shootings that result in fewer fatalities.
As a result of Yang’s usage of the GVA data without citation and explanation, his message about mass shootings is, intentionally or not, misleading.
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is refusing to transmit the articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump that the House of Representatives passed on Wednesday evening to the Senate for a trial.
She is, in the words of the articles, guilty of “obstruction of Congress.” And unlike President Trump, Speaker Pelosi has no constitutional basis whatsoever for refusing the request of one of the two houses that make up the legislative branch.
For weeks, Democrats have insisted that the president needed to be impeached and removed from office as soon as possible. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), in his House Intelligence Committee report, declared: “Given the proximate threat of further presidential attempts to solicit foreign interference in our next election, we cannot wait to make a referral until our efforts to obtain additional testimony and documents wind their way through the courts.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) argued at the December 9 hearing on that report: “We agree that when the elections themselves are threatened by enemies foreign or domestic, we cannot wait until the next election to address the threat.” He made the point again during the House debate on impeachment Wednesday: “The threat is urgent. If we do not act — now — what happens next will be our responsibility as well as his.”
And Speaker Pelosi herself, opening House debate on the articles of impeachment Wednesday, declared: “If we do not act now, we would be derelict in our duty.”
Yet just hours later, after House Democrats had done her bidding and impeached the president, Pelosi told journalists that she was not yet prepared to deliver the articles of impeachment to the Senate. She claimed not to have decided yet who the House “managers” of the trial in the Senate would be.
Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) are both complaining that Republicans will not offer a “fair trial” in the Senate — that is, a fair trial for the prosecution, not for the president.
Yet even Schumer himself, in arguing for additional witnesses to be called in the Senate, told CNN as recently as Monday morning: “We’re not trying to be dilatory. We’re trying to have the kind of justice America is known for, which is swift but fair justice.”
Now, however, Pelosi is dragging her feet, amidst reports that she will not transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate until early January.
It is not clear why the Senate needs to wait: Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution says clearly: “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments.”
Regardless of the formal transmission of documents, the Constitution allows the Senate to hold a trial as soon as an impeachment takes place in the House.
But Pelosi is claiming otherwise, apparently relying on the advice of left-wing law professors and the support of liberal legal analysts on cable news. She is no longer rushing the process; she is now obstructing it, knowing that there is no two-thirds majority for removal in the Senate, which may even dismiss the charges as unconstitutional.
Unlike Trump, who can cite text and precedent in resisting subpoenas, Pelosi’s delay is unlawful and unprecedented.
Nancy Pelosi is therefore guilty of obstruction of Congress.
She will fail, but just as the Democrats have told us for weeks that the president can be impeached for “attempting” to do something they consider wrong, Pelosi, too, can be held accountable to attempting to undermine the Constitution.
When Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell loses patience and moves to dismiss the impeachment, he should add another charge — against Pelosi, for contempt.
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