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President Donald Trump will deliver remarks at the Second Step Presidential Justice forum on Friday.

The president is scheduled to speak about signing successful criminal justice reform legislation at Benedict College at 2:15 PM EDT.

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Trump pollster John McLaughlin released a poll on Thursday on the latest coup attempt to remove President Trump from office.

McLaughlin posted his findings on Twitter.

52% majority says impeachment is political to stop @realDonaldTrump reelection only 36% legal 47%-33% say @POTUS shudn’t cooperate n 59%-33% say it’s a waste n Dems need to work w/ Reps to solve nations problems. https://t.co/P8vfPtIb47

— John McLaughlin (@jmclghln) October 24, 2019

This is the most honest poll we have seen on the subject.

From the poll:

52% of Americans see it as a political stunt.

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On Thursday’s episode of “The Andrew Klavan Show,” Klavan talks about the difference between heroism and basic civic responsibility. Video and partial transcript below: 

I’m probably too charitable, but I like to think that the editors of Vanity Fair sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, in a cold sweat, remembering how they once put Beto O’Rourke on the cover of their magazine. O’Rourke, who somehow became a Democrat hero by losing to Senator Ted Cruz in Texas, has now revealed himself to be a desperate panderer who trails the field of socialist presidential hopefuls, like an annoying younger brother who won’t go home but just keeps hanging around saying stupid things that embarrass you in front of your friends. 

Beto was recently questioned about a really stupid thing he said by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. 

BLITZER: You said the other day in an interview with Al Sharpton [that] President Trump, perhaps inspired by Goebbels and the propagandist of the Third Reich, seemed to employ this tactic that the bigger the lie, the more obscene the injustice. The more dizzying the pace of this bizarre behavior, the less likely we’re able to do something about it. Is that not going too far, to make a comparison between the president of the United States and the Nazis? 

O’ROURKE: Find me a better analogy. 

He can’t find a better analogy than Hitler. Some of you may remember Hitler, the guy was an absolute riot in those YouTube videos from the movie “Downfall.” But in real life, he caused the deaths of over 65 million people, some of them in a mass extermination campaign so evil even the devil was impressed. 

In fact, if Trump were even a little tiny bit like Hitler, Beto wouldn’t be saying Trump was like Hitler, because [then] Trump would be like Hitler, and no one would be saying much of anything against him, not to mention the fact that Wolf Blitzer’s chair would be empty. There are no Hitlers in American presidential history — not a single one, not even close. Beto can’t find a better analogy because, well, for one thing, he’s an idiot. But for another, he’s a spoiled American who has never faced political evil in his whole spoiled American life, but is nonetheless looking to cast his absurd presidential bid in a heroic light it in no way deserves. 

Now there are, of course, individual heroes in America and everywhere, and everywhere else — people who risk their lives for the good people. Pete Buttigieg served as a naval intelligence officer at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. That’s pretty heroic — too bad about the crappy policies. But there are no political heroes in America because this is not a politically heroic moment. We’re not facing oppression, we’re not facing fascism. We weren’t facing those things under Obama either.

As I said at the time, we faced incompetence. We face government creep, we face a mainstream press that has been corrupted by crony capitalism so that the media’s corporate interests and the interests of big government align. And as always, we face the slow collapse of our extraordinarily free Republic under the weight of slavish human nature.

We are called upon to have enough courage to speak up, to have our videos restricted on YouTube, to get shadow banned on Twitter, to get blacklisted from Hollywood, to get our grades marked down by Leftist professors, to lose sponsors to offend China, maybe at the very worst, to lose our jobs by not toeing the left-wing line. That’s not heroism, that’s basic civic responsibility in a democracy. 

Heroism is when you risk your life against evil, which we don’t have to do here because our government is incompetent, overbearing, overspending, and stupid — but evil it ain’t. You can tell it’s not evil because when you say it’s evil, you don’t wake up dead like you do in China, or Russia, or North Korea, or evil places like that.

All our political heroism is fake, and fake heroism causes real danger. The idea that the opposition is evil makes you overreact to election losses. It makes you break the rules of civil engagement, it tempts you to engage in violence where debate is called for, and to hate your fellow Americans instead of seeking to understand what they’re trying to say. 

I support President Trump’s thus far impressively successful presidency, and most especially I support his shakeup of cultural business as usual. I’m appalled by Adam Schiff’s McCarthyite attempts to unseat Trump by non-electoral means, but Adam Schiff is the congressman of my district in California, and you don’t see the cops bursting into the Daily Wire to shoot me down or carry me away when I criticize him. He is a seriously schmuck dude, in my opinion, but he’s not evil. And I’m not a hero for criticizing him. 

The Democrats have lost their minds, the press has lost its integrity, even some on the Right have lost their sense of basic decency, all in the name of fake heroism. 

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Waaaay back around 2001 or 2002, when Hugo Chavez was still a rising autocrat in Venezuela, I was at a conference on Latin America’s outlook in New York, shortly before I made my first trip to Argentina.

The New York conference was held in a classy wood-paneled room, featured prominent Latin American and Latin Amercan-focused bankers and it addressed a Wall Street audience.

Several leading lights in finance were there, but one stood out: A woman whose name I’ll never forget, Ruth Krivoy, a former Venezuelan central banker who scared the heck out of the audience (an emerging-markets hedge fund manager I knew there later told me it scared even him) by warning that Venezuela’s mission under its current regime would eventually be to threaten and destabilize all of Latin America, particularly its best-run states.

Now its name is coming up, in exactly this context. Here are the stories, first, from the New York Times:

On Thursday, the President Sebastián Piñera of Chile boasted that his country was an oasis of stability in Latin America. “We are ready to do everything to not fall into populism, into demagoguery,” he said in an interview published in The Financial Times.

The next day, protesters attacked factories, torched subway stations and looted supermarkets in Chile’s worst upheaval in decades, eventually forcing Mr. Piñera to deploy troops to the streets. By Wednesday, at least 15 people were dead, and a clearly rattled Mr. Piñera had spoken of “war against a powerful and implacable enemy.”

And, from the Telegraph of London:

Brazil has deployed 5,000 troops to its beaches amid mounting fury at the government’s inaction over the worst oil spill in the country’s history.

The environmental catastrophe began in early September when large quantities of oil inexplicably washed ashore.

The mysterious spill has continued and has now touched more than 1,000 miles of Brazil’s coast, polluting some of the country’s most picturesque beaches and destroying local marine life.

Now public anger is rising over the Brazilian government’s failure to stem the flow – or indeed establish the oil’s source. In response, local officials have resorted to urging volunteers to aid the cleanup mission.

In both cases, Venezuela’s name has come up. In Chile’s, the argument is that Venezuela is doing some destabilizing through Marxist agitators. In Brazil’s, the accusation is that there was some kind of oil-dumping sabotage.

And coincidence of coincidences, both countries are led by conservative leaders who have done their darndest diplomatically to check the regime of Nicolas Maduro. They’ve also both been hit by floods of fleeing Venezuelan refugees and taken some steps to halt it.

Now they’re both experiencing unrest, and it’s got Venezuela’s name on it.

I have not looked at this closely yet, but it positively reeks of Chavista aggression, done in that sneaky way of Marxist activists. I’ve criticized these Latin democracies for not sending in Marines of their own and hosing the hellhole out.

Now, the argument for it grows strong, really strong. If it’s as true as it looks, the Venezuelan regime is trying to kill them. Time to strike back, hard, and absolutely kill it off.

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Waaaay back around 2001 or 2002, when Hugo Chavez was still a rising autocrat in Venezuela, I was at a conference on Latin America’s outlook in New York, shortly before I made my first trip to Argentina.

The New York conference was held in a classy wood-paneled room, featured prominent Latin American and Latin Amercan-focused bankers and it addressed a Wall Street audience.

Several leading lights in finance were there, but one stood out: A woman whose name I’ll never forget, Ruth Krivoy, a former Venezuelan central banker who scared the heck out of the audience (an emerging-markets hedge fund manager I knew there later told me it scared even him) by warning that Venezuela’s mission under its current regime would eventually be to threaten and destabilize all of Latin America, particularly its best-run states.

Now its name is coming up, in exactly this context. Here are the stories, first, from the New York Times:

On Thursday, the President Sebastián Piñera of Chile boasted that his country was an oasis of stability in Latin America. “We are ready to do everything to not fall into populism, into demagoguery,” he said in an interview published in The Financial Times.

The next day, protesters attacked factories, torched subway stations and looted supermarkets in Chile’s worst upheaval in decades, eventually forcing Mr. Piñera to deploy troops to the streets. By Wednesday, at least 15 people were dead, and a clearly rattled Mr. Piñera had spoken of “war against a powerful and implacable enemy.”

And, from the Telegraph of London:

Brazil has deployed 5,000 troops to its beaches amid mounting fury at the government’s inaction over the worst oil spill in the country’s history.

The environmental catastrophe began in early September when large quantities of oil inexplicably washed ashore.

The mysterious spill has continued and has now touched more than 1,000 miles of Brazil’s coast, polluting some of the country’s most picturesque beaches and destroying local marine life.

Now public anger is rising over the Brazilian government’s failure to stem the flow – or indeed establish the oil’s source. In response, local officials have resorted to urging volunteers to aid the cleanup mission.

In both cases, Venezuela’s name has come up. In Chile’s, the argument is that Venezuela is doing some destabilizing through Marxist agitators. In Brazil’s, the accusation is that there was some kind of oil-dumping sabotage.

And coincidence of coincidences, both countries are led by conservative leaders who have done their darndest diplomatically to check the regime of Nicolas Maduro. They’ve also both been hit by floods of fleeing Venezuelan refugees and taken some steps to halt it.

Now they’re both experiencing unrest, and it’s got Venezuela’s name on it.

I have not looked at this closely yet, but it positively reeks of Chavista aggression, done in that sneaky way of Marxist activists. I’ve criticized these Latin democracies for not sending in Marines of their own and hosing the hellhole out.

Now, the argument for it grows strong, really strong. If it’s as true as it looks, the Venezuelan regime is trying to kill them. Time to strike back, hard, and absolutely kill it off.

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BREAKING – new @SidneyPowell1 filing in the Flynn case. Lisa Page edited the Flynn 302. James Clapper told WaPo reporter Ignatius to basically "take the kill shot on Flynn" THREAD cc @KerriKupecDOJ pic.twitter.com/YqEIsMUAiu — Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) October 25, 2019 Here’s the link to the motion to dismiss. Via Twitchy: We have shared several threads […]

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Update to this story. Looks like they’re going to have to scramble to explain all this. Via Fox News: In explosive new court filing from Michael Flynn’s legal team alleges that FBI agents manipulated official records of the former national security adviser’s 2017 interview that led to him being charged with lying to investigators. It’s […]

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Facebook is launching a “News” tab today, which will provide stories from hundreds of news organizations. This is the second time the social media site tried to decide what is news for its users. The first time exploded under allegations of bias against the right. “Facebook’s service will include some human curation by a small editorial team of journalists, who will select top stories” according to The Washington Post. Much like asking “who fact-checks the fact-checkers,” the question of “who curates the curators” will likely be…

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The high-profile family court case over whether or not a child will undergo gender “transition” despite his father’s objections has reached a pause — for the moment — but that shouldn’t be the end of the energy that formed around it.

Thursday afternoon, news broke that the judge in the James Younger custody case out of Texas — in which a jury had decided in favor a mother who wants to subject her seven-year-old son to transgender transition — had granted the father a co-equal say in his son’s health care. However, the actual results of that arrangement for the child are yet to be seen, and given the simultaneous gag order placed on the father, the mother has a strong starting point to nonetheless force her plans.

But just because the case is paused for now doesn’t mean the issue is going away, either for this child or any other in similar circumstances, and those who stood up to speak out about it would be foolish to act as if this outcome answered anything definitively about the question of putting minors through transgender treatment.

How many other children will end up subject to this sort of thing with no public pushback because their parents aren’t in the middle of an acrimonious custody battle? How many will end up subject to it against a parent’s wishes?

We don’t let children smoke, drink, get tattoos, or make other decisions that they’re too young to make, yet some members of our society think it acceptable and even laudable to allow and even encourage minors to go through with procedures that will leave them sterile and scarred.

Let’s be clear about what we’re talking about. Christian Post has reported a considerable amount about the gruesome realities of transgender procedures, especially for kids. Here’s a sampling:

• “My once beautiful daughter is now 19 years old, homeless, bearded, in extreme poverty, sterilized, not receiving mental health services, extremely mentally ill, and planning a radial forearm phalloplasty, a surgical procedure that removes part of her arm to construct a fake penis,” said the mother of a teenage girl who ran away and was taught how to inject testosterone by a pediatric endocrinologist.
• A doctor warns that “when you give puberty blockers to a pubertal-aged child, what you’re doing is sideswiping them out of the physiological development that puberty is intended to create and facilitate. You are taking calcium out of the bones of girls which cannot be introduced later; you’re putting them at risk for osteoporosis. On top of that, you’re taking the ovaries and testicles, which have not yet started to mature to the stage of fertility, and you’re cutting them off at the knees, essentially making them sterile.”
• “Among the images shown [at a U.K. protest] was that of a young woman’s surgically scarred chest and mid-section after a double mastectomy where the nipples were removed — euphemistically called ‘top surgery’ — to appear as male. And a picture of a forearm where surgeons removed layers of skin and tissue down to a patient’s muscle and bone to construct a pseudo-penis. The procedure is called a radial forearm phalloplasty.”

Does any of this sound like something that should be left up to a child’s decision-making capacity?

There are legislative solutions that have been proposed. There is further research that has been asked for on the subject. Those things shouldn’t end up forgotten and lost in the next news cycle. These efforts should still be pursued with the persistence and determination that comes with fights against grave injustice.

The national attention to the Younger custody case has heated up an iron. It’s time for conservatives to strike it.

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Larry Johnson released an excellent report a few days ago at the Gateway Pundit where he lists the eight cases in the Mueller report where the Deep State tried to tie President Trump and his campaign and administration to Russians.  Of these eight events, six were set ups by the Deep State.

Parts of Johnson’s post follow which are damning indictments of the Deep State –

Thanks to Robert Mueller we have clear evidence of a conspiracy against Trump. Mueller’s investigation of Trump “collusion” with Russia prior to the 2016 Presidential election focused on eight cases:

Proposed Trump Tower Project in Moscow—

George Papadopolous—

Carter Page—

Dimitri Simes—

Veselnetskya Meeting at Trump Tower (June 16, 2016)

Events at the Republican Convention

Post-Convention Contacts with Russian Ambassador Kislyak

Paul Manafort

One simple fact emerges–six of the eight cases or incidents of alleged Trump Campaign interaction with the Russians investigated by the Mueller team, the pitch to “collude” with the Russian Government or Putin originated with FBI informants, MI-6 assets or people paid by Fusion GPS, not Trump or his people. There is not a single instance where Donald Trump or any member of his campaign team initiated contact with the Russians for the purpose of gaining derogatory information on Hillary or obtaining support to boost the Trump campaign. Not one.

Simply put, Trump and his campaign were the target of an elaborate, wide ranging covert action designed to entrap him and members of his team as an agent of Russia.

We do not need to say anything about Dmitri Simes, who was unfairly smeared by even being named as target in the investigation. And the “non” events at the Republican Convention, were pure nonsense.

Johnson next lists the six cases where Mueller attempted to tie President Trump to Russia – All of which were Deep State ‘set ups’ where multiple people were involved in multiple efforts to align the Trump team with Russia –

THE PROPOSED TRUMP TOWER PROJECT IN MOSCOW, according to Mueller’s report, originated with an FBI Informant–Felix Sater. Mueller was downright dishonest in failing to identify Sater as an FBI informant. Sater was not just a private entrepreneur looking to make some coin. He was a fully signed up FBI informant. Sater’s status as an FBI snitch was first exposed in 2012. Sater also was a boyhood chum of Michael Cohen, the target being baited in this operation. Another inconvenient fact excluded from the Mueller report is that one of Mueller’s Chief Prosecutors, Andrew Weissman, signed the deal with Felix Sater in December 1998 that put Sater into the FBI Informant business.

All suggestions for meeting with the Russian Government, including Putin, originated with Felix Sater. The use of Sater on this particular project started in September 2015.

GEORGE PAPADOPOLOUS. Papadopolous was targeted by British and U.S. intelligence starting in late December 2015, when he is offered out of the blue a job with the London Centre of International Law and Practice Limited (LCILP) , which has all the hallmarks of a British intelligence front. It is Joseph Mifsud, working for LCILP, who introduces the idea of meeting Putin following a lunch with George in London.

And it is Mifsud who raises the possibility of getting dirt on Hillary. During Papadopolous’ next meeting with Mifsud, George writes that Mifsud:

leaned across the table in a conspiratorial manner. The Russians have “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, he tells me. “Emails of Clinton,” he says. “They have thousands of emails.”

More than three weeks before the alleged Russian hack of the DNC, Mifsud is peddling the story that the Russians have Clinton’s emails. Conspiracy?

CARTER PAGE. The section of the Mueller report that deals with Carter Page is a total travesty. Mueller and his team, for example, initially misrepresent Page’s status with the Trump campaign–he is described as “working” for the campaign, which implies a paid position, when he was in fact only a volunteer foreign policy advisor. Mueller also paints Page’s prior experience and work in Russia as evidence that Page was being used by Russian intelligence, but says nothing about the fact that Page was being regularly debriefed by the CIA and the FBI during the same period. In other words, Page was cooperating with US intelligence and law enforcement. But this fact is omitted in the Mueller report. The Christopher Steele dossier was used as “corroborating” intel to justify what was an illegal FISA warrant. The FBI lied about the veracity of that dossier. Conspiracy?

TRUMP TOWER MEETING (JUNE 9, 2016). This is another glaring example of a plant designed to entrap the Trump team. Mueller, once again, presents a very disingenuous account:

On June 9, 2016, senior representatives of the Trump Campaign met in Trump Tower with a Russian attorney expecting to receive derogatory information about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government. The meeting was proposed to Donald Trump Jr. in an email from Robert Goldstone, at the request of his then-client Emin Agalarov, the son of Russian real-estate developer Aras Agalarov.

The real problem is with what Mueller does not say and did not investigate. Mueller conveniently declines to mention the fact that Veselnitskaya was working closely with the firm Hillary Clinton hired to produce the Steele Dossier. Even the corrupt NBC News got these damning facts about Veselnitskaya on the record:

The information that a Russian lawyer brought with her when she met Donald Trump Jr. in June 2016 stemmed from research conducted by Fusion GPS, the same firm that compiled the infamous Trump dossier, according to the lawyer and a source familiar with the matter.

In an interview with NBC News, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya says she first received the supposedly incriminating information she brought to Trump Tower — describing alleged tax evasion and donations to Democrats — from Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS owner, who had been hired to conduct research in a New York federal court case.

Unfounded Conspiracy?

PAUL MANAFORT. If Paul Manafort had rebuffed Trump’s offer to run his campaign, he would be walking free today and still buying expensive suits and evading taxes along with his Clinton buddy, Greg Craig. Instead, he became another target for DOJ and intel community and the DNC, which were desperate to portray Trump as a tool of the Kremlin. Thanks to John Solomon of The Hill, we now know the impetus to target Manafort came from the DNC:

The boomerang from the Democratic Party’s failed attempt to connect Donald Trump to Russia’s 2016 election meddling is picking up speed, and its flight path crosses right through Moscow’s pesky neighbor, Ukraine. That is where there is growing evidence a foreign power was asked, and in some cases tried, to help Hillary Clinton.

In its most detailed account yet, Ukraine’s embassy in Washington says a Democratic National Committee insider during the 2016 election solicited dirt on Donald Trump’s campaign chairman and even tried to enlist the country’s president to help.

In written answers to questions, Ambassador Valeriy Chaly’s office says DNC contractor Alexandra Chalupa sought information from the Ukrainian government on Paul Manafort’s dealings inside the country, in hopes of forcing the issue before Congress.

Manafort was not colluding, but the Clinton campaign and the Obama Administration were colluding with Ukraine.

GENERAL MICHAEL FLYNN.  This is the biggest travesty. Flynn was being targeted by the intel community with the full collaboration of the FBI. Thanks to his new attorney, the Honey Badger Sidney Powell, there is an avalanche of evidence showing prosecutorial misconduct and an unjustified, coordinated effort by the Obama team to frame Flynn as catering to the Russians. It is a lie and that will be fully exposed in the coming weeks.

In summary, Johnson believes the Intel community and the DOJ/FBI may begin throwing each other under the bus in efforts to survive the sinking of the Deep State Titantic –

Any fair reporter with half a brain would see these events as pointing to a conspiracy. But not the liars at the New York Times. But the Times does tip us off to the upcoming mad scramble for life boats. It will it the FBI and DOJ against the DNI, the CIA and NSA. According to the Times:

It is not clear how many people Mr. Durham’s team has interviewed outside of the F.B.I. His investigators have questioned officials in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence but apparently have yet to interview C.I.A. personnel, people familiar with the review said. Mr. Durham would probably want to speak with Gina Haspel, the agency’s director, who ran its London station when the Australians passed along the explosive information about Russia’s offer of political dirt.

There is no abiding affection between the FBI and the CIA. They mix like oil and water. In theory the FBI only traffics in “evidence.” The CIA deals primarily with well-sourced rumors. But the CIA will argue they were offering their best judgement, not a factual conclusion. Brennan and Clapper will insist they were not in a position to determine the “truth” of what they were reporting. It is “intel” not evidence.

The Horowitz report will not deal with the CIA and NSA directly. Horowitz can only point out that the FBI folks insisted that they were relying on the intel community and had no reason not to trust them. This is likely to get ugly and do not be surprised to see the intel folks try to throw the FBI under the bus and vice versa. Grab the popcorn.

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