Kanye Says He Asked ‘Jesus Is King’ Employees Not To Have Premarital Sex, Hits Porn

Kanye West asked people working on his new album “Jesus is King” to refrain from premarital sex, the musical talent said Thursday, during an interview with Zane Lowe of Beats 1. West also talked about the over-saturation of porn in our culture, stating bluntly that it’s “not okay.”

“When collaborating with others on ‘Jesus Is King,’ West set up some lifestyle guidelines that they would have to abide by in order be part of the project,” Billboard reported. “Yeezy asked others to fast during portions of creating and also not partake in any premarital sex at times, which he knew would receive some blowback once it became public.”

“There were times where I was asking people not to have premarital sex while they were working on the album,” West told Lowe, noting, “When people pray together and fast together, the power is increased.”

The 42-year-old explained that he no longer views himself as a “slave” to the music industry, but as a “free” “son of God” spreading the gospel.

“Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me,” said West. “I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessey had done for me, but now I’m letting you know what Jesus has done for me, and in that I’m no longer a slave, I’m a son now, a son of God. I’m free.”

The “Gold Digger” rapper revealed that he first interacted with porn at just five years old, and it quickly became a habit he had to kick.

“My dad had a Playboy left out at age five and it’s affected almost every choice I made for the rest of my life from age five to now, having to kick the habit,” he told Lowe. “It just presents itself in the open like it’s okay. I stand up and say, ‘You know, it’s not okay.’”

West’s Christian identity has become increasingly public, including his new album set for release on Friday having the appropriate title of “Jesus is King.”

As noted by The Daily Wire, California-area pastor Adam Tyson revealed during a podcast last week that West told him he has been “radically saved” by Christ.

“[Kanye] said, ‘About five weeks ago, I got radically saved,’” Tyson told Christian outlet Apologia, XXL magazine reported. “He just started telling me a little about his testimony.”

According to the pastor, West told him that he was raised as a Christian but began “chasing all the things of this world” after hitting it big in the music industry. “He would say the devil basically brought him to a place where he just felt like he was in bondage to his sin. So he said, ‘I got delivered.’”

“One time, he (West) told me that he wasn’t going to rap,” Tyson recalled. “I said, ‘Why not?’ He said, ‘Well, that’s the devil’s music.’ I said, ‘Hey, man. Rap is a genre. You can rap for God’ I think he was already thinking about it a little bit, but I just definitely said, ‘Hey, bro. I think you need to use your talents that God’s given you and use that platform for God.’”

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GET YOUR POPCORN READY – Four Different Reports Released Last Night Indicate the Days Ahead Will be Devastating for the DEEP STATE!

Last night was historic.  The news coming out on four fronts indicates that the Deep State should be very worried.  Those of us uncovering the many corrupt actions taken by President Obama’s Deep State have been looking forward to this day for some time!

Last night it was as if the planets aligned against the Deep State.  On four different fronts it’s now clear that the crooks in the Obama Administration should be very worried.

1. The FISA Report

The first event reported is that the DOJ IG’s FISA report is about to be released.  FOX News reported yesterday the following –

Justice Department Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz told Senate and House lawmakers Thursday that the process of finalizing his report into potential Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) abuses ahead of the 2016 presidential election was “nearing completion,” according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

The “lengthy” draft report “concerns sensitive national security and law enforcement matters,” Horowitz wrote in the letter, adding that he anticipated “the final report will be released publicly with few redactions.”

Horowitz noted that he did not anticipate a need to prepare or issue “separate classified and public versions of the report.”

Of course this is nothing new to those of us who have been following the Russia Hoax scandal.  We knew this was eventually going to come out.  The news overnight is that the report “will be released publicly with few redactions”.  This means that negotiations over redactions were either mute or they weren’t happening.

Many of us thought that the “Deep State was Deep Sixing” the FISA report.  Perhaps they were.  But another theory is that the DOJ IG may have been held back from releasing his report until a time when it would not impede AG Barr’s investigation by his DA John Durham into the Deep State actions before and after the 2016 election.  Had IG Horowitz released his document before all the players in Durham’s investigation were questioned, they might have altered their testimonies based on Horowitz’s report.

2. AG Barr and John Durham’s Investigation into Deep State crimes

Last night we also received word that AG Barr’s Justice Department’s review into the actions of Deep State players before and after the 2016 election by DA John Durham has turned into a criminal investigation.  The far-left New York Times broke the story –

For more than two years, President Trump has repeatedly attacked the Russia investigation, portraying it as a hoax and illegal even months after the special counsel closed it. Now, Mr. Trump’s own Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all began.

Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move gives the prosecutor running it, John H. Durham, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges.

Over the past few years especially, the New York Times was used by Deep State crooks in the Obama Administration to push narratives damaging to President Trump.  This was really no exception as the next paragraph in the Times’ piece claims that the criminal investigation is happening because “Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies”. Of course the Times can’t refer to Donald Trump as the President.

What this piece does tell us is a few things.  One, some individuals in the Deep State (i.e. two people familiar with the matter) likely want to get out to their cohorts that Durham is now running a criminal investigation.  Perhaps this is to allow them time to prepare for their impending indictments.  What the Times doesn’t tell us is how long Durham has been running a criminal investigation.

If Durham has been running a criminal investigation for some time, perhaps there are already indictments in the works.  We really don’t know.  What this also may indicate is that IG Horowitz can now release his IG report because Durham has met with all the individuals he needs to meet with to begin indictments for criminal activity.

3. Sidney Powell’s filing Regarding General Flynn’s case

We also found out late last night that Sidney Powell is aware of numerous documents and actions by Obama’s Deep State that have been withheld from General Flynn that are damning to the government’s case.  These are so damning that she is asking the court to dismiss the case against General Flynn.

What we learned is that among other things, former Deep State and FBI attorney Lisa Page altered the 302 document materially in a manner that implicated General Flynn for lying to the FBI.  She then lied about making the edits. Page of course was the paramour of the most corrupt FBI Agent in history, Peter Strzok.

We also learned from General Flynn’s attorney Powell that Obama’s former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was involved in the felony release of General Flynn’s phone call with a Russian diplomat before the 2017 Inauguration.

Both of these bombshells related to Page and Clapper were dropped tonight.  It is likely that they were dropped now because the information is no longer information that can impact Durham’s criminal investigation, indicting Clapper may have been interviewed already.  On the other hand, perhaps the information on Clapper and Page is already locked and loaded and there is no harm in this information now being released.

We may find out that the recent delays and redactions by the DOJ in regards to Flynn’s case and the IG’s FISA report may have been to prevent the Durham investigation from being derailed rather than the typical Deep State redactions and delays we have been accustomed to in the recent past.  Time will tell.

4. Recent Reports regarding Obama VP Biden’s pay-for-play scandals

We also learned last night that Joe Biden during the time he was Obama’s VP, partook in actions resulting in payments to him and his son Hunter.  These payments go beyond the Ukraine and China.  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani claimed previously that Biden was suspect of a pay-for-plan scandal in Romania.  NBC News last night posted this piece –

In the final year of the Obama administration, an American lawyer traveled to Romania to meet with a businessman accused of orchestrating a corrupt land deal.

The businessman was Gabriel “Puiu” Popoviciu, a wealthy Romanian real estate tycoon. The lawyer brought in to advise him was Hunter Biden, the son of then-Vice President Joe Biden, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Hunter Biden’s work for Popoviciu in 2016 went unreported at the time, but Joe Biden’s involvement in Romania was very much public. The vice president was among the leading voices pushing the government to crack down on corruption.

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, listens as U.S. Vice President Joseph "Joe" Biden speaks during a 21st Century Cures Act signing ceremony in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2016. The bill makes new investments to address the recent opioid epidemic, accelerate discoveries in cancer research and take important steps to improve mental health and the Food and Drug Administrations drug development process. Photographer:

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If this is anything like the Bidens’ actions in the Ukraine and China, it is suspect and likely criminal.  Rudy Giuliani claimed that Obama, the Chicago ‘pol’, ran a pay-for-play sham his entire time in office.  Rudy said his VP was making millions and his Secretary of State Hillary was making hundreds of millions.  Rudy expressed this shortly after Joe DiGenova’s statements about New York Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrat Party on the Ingraham Angle a couple of weeks ago –

The biggest question left unanswered is why would the Democrats and their Deep State work so hard to prevent candidate Trump from becoming President and then try to end his Presidency prematurely? Why would they put in place a phony Russian sham Special Counsel and then morph into a fake Ukraine impeachment, both of which are bogus?

It may be that they didn’t want anyone to know how corrupt they were.  It may be that the amount of money the Obama Administration made in pay-for-play schemes around the world will shock the average American.  Is this why we constantly hear – Follow the money?

Get your popcorn ready.  This is going to be devastating!

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In the age of leftism

Christopher Columbus is a warmonger.

NBA players are profiteers of a communist regime.

Democratic 2020 candidates propose elimination of mandatory HIV disclosures.

Canada elects a substitute drama teacher for prime minister. 

Third-trimester abortions of fully formed babies are legal.

Calling someone an “illegal alien” (a legal term), carries a fine of up to $250,000. 

There are 72 genders. 

Climate change will kill us in 12 years unless we kill our transportation and cows and turn to cannibalism. 

A violent, anarchist group that beats up people is called “anti-fascist” or Antifa.” 

Up to 100,000 illegals cross the border monthly, bringing with them MS-13 thugs and narcotics.  Democrats call it a “manufactured crisis.”

Israel is an apartheid state.

Benjamin Netanyahu is Hitler.

The Holocaust has two equally credible debate positions: 1) it happened 2) it didn’t happen.

Teachers are required to present LGBT content to junior high school kids. 

Women march with vaginas on their heads. 

Illegal aliens can obtain driver’s licenses.

A child with Asperger’s lectures U.N. adults on climate fluctuations as a man-made phenomenon. 

The P.M. of Canada invents a new word: “peoplekind.”

Al Gore, the man who predicted there will be no icebergs by 2013 in a video, is awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. 

Democrats perpetuate world’s greatest lie: the president of their country is a “Russian spy.”

Democrats attempt to remove a president because he is looking into corruption. 

Socialism, a failed and murderous ideology, is at the forefront of American politics.  

Bartenders are elected to government posts and demand abolition of all prisons to end an “American apartheid.”

A sharia law Islamist who married her brother to circumvent American laws is now an American congresswoman.

The House fails to pass a resolution against anti-Semitism by its own members.  Because those members are Muslim.

Liberal American Jews write proclamations against a president who is raising Jewish grandchildren and recognizes Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jews. 

Islam, an ideology of jihad, is called a “religion of peace.”

A congresswoman publicly calls her president “m———–.”  Then sells T-shirts to the public with the same.

Actors advocate punching faces, beheading presidents, and burning the White House to the ground.

The P.M. of Canada pays $10.5 million to a terrorist who killed and maimed Americans.  He then repatriates him to Canada. 

Mahmoud Abbas calls for street stabbings of Israeli citizens and pays a monthly $2,500 stipend to terrorists’ families.  The E.U. sustains this murderer to the tune of $250,000,000 annually.

Fashion designers refuse to dress the first lady.

The pope washes the feet of Muslims.

A sharia law–follower heads up 21st-century feminism.

LGBT locks hands with throw-gays-off-rooftops Islam.

Communist flags are flown on American soil.

Harvard curtails the enrollment of Asian-American students.

A new gender, “X,” appears on Canadian passports.

The head of the biggest intelligence organization in the world, the FBI, leaks information to the press.

A secretary of state destroys her electronic devices with a hammer, deletes 33,000 emails, and becomes the 2016 candidate for the presidency.

In the era of the #metoo, the DNC selects a presidential candidate who helped settle her husband’s rape and assault charges and provided legal defense to a rapist of a disabled 12-year-old . 

Men, with higher testosterone levels and higher muscle-to-fat distribution, declare themselves female.  They win martial arts, track and field, swimming, and weightlifting competitions in female categories.

Israel is called an aggressor as it defends its borders against Hamas terrorists.

The mayor of London announces that terror is part of living in a big city.

Europe forces a migration of what’s left of European Jewry to Israel due to skyrocketing anti-Semitic crime by Muslims, all the while mumbling, “Never Again.”

A man with lipstick demands Brazilian wax jobs of female employees in salons.  He sues them if denied service.

U.K. police, arresting Muslim grooming gang and hate crime criminals, report them as “Asians.” 

Incessant homelessness, soup kitchens, syringes, and feces on the street corners are part of wealthy living in the state of California. 

White vans and self-wielding knives murder innocents at Christmas markets. 

Democrats want to eliminate the 2nd Amendment.

A woman who fabricated a lie to gain entry to Harvard is at the top of the Democratic presidential candidacy polls.

A man who endorsed the American Communist Party is running for president of the United States. 

A man who gifted $150 billion to a country that oppresses women, traffics narcotics, and sponsors terror is given a Nobel Peace Prize.

With nuclear North Korea, Islamist Iran, and over one billion living in nuclear communist China, Texas-economy-sized Russia is the worst evil on Earth.

American liberal Jewry votes for a president who, at the U.N., calls for Israel’s 1967 borders and orchestrates resolution #2334, claiming Israel illegitimate in Jewish hands.  Twice!

In a time of surging stocks, record employment, record female work participation, and economic prosperity in the most capitalist country in the world, capitalism is scorned. 

In the age of unhinged leftism, tell me again how Trump offends you…

Christopher Columbus is a warmonger.

NBA players are profiteers of a communist regime.

Democratic 2020 candidates propose elimination of mandatory HIV disclosures.

Canada elects a substitute drama teacher for prime minister. 

Third-trimester abortions of fully formed babies are legal.

Calling someone an “illegal alien” (a legal term), carries a fine of up to $250,000. 

There are 72 genders. 

Climate change will kill us in 12 years unless we kill our transportation and cows and turn to cannibalism. 

A violent, anarchist group that beats up people is called “anti-fascist” or Antifa.” 

Up to 100,000 illegals cross the border monthly, bringing with them MS-13 thugs and narcotics.  Democrats call it a “manufactured crisis.”

Israel is an apartheid state.

Benjamin Netanyahu is Hitler.

The Holocaust has two equally credible debate positions: 1) it happened 2) it didn’t happen.

Teachers are required to present LGBT content to junior high school kids. 

Women march with vaginas on their heads. 

Illegal aliens can obtain driver’s licenses.

A child with Asperger’s lectures U.N. adults on climate fluctuations as a man-made phenomenon. 

The P.M. of Canada invents a new word: “peoplekind.”

Al Gore, the man who predicted there will be no icebergs by 2013 in a video, is awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. 

Democrats perpetuate world’s greatest lie: the president of their country is a “Russian spy.”

Democrats attempt to remove a president because he is looking into corruption. 

Socialism, a failed and murderous ideology, is at the forefront of American politics.  

Bartenders are elected to government posts and demand abolition of all prisons to end an “American apartheid.”

A sharia law Islamist who married her brother to circumvent American laws is now an American congresswoman.

The House fails to pass a resolution against anti-Semitism by its own members.  Because those members are Muslim.

Liberal American Jews write proclamations against a president who is raising Jewish grandchildren and recognizes Jerusalem as the eternal capital of the Jews. 

Islam, an ideology of jihad, is called a “religion of peace.”

A congresswoman publicly calls her president “m———–.”  Then sells T-shirts to the public with the same.

Actors advocate punching faces, beheading presidents, and burning the White House to the ground.

The P.M. of Canada pays $10.5 million to a terrorist who killed and maimed Americans.  He then repatriates him to Canada. 

Mahmoud Abbas calls for street stabbings of Israeli citizens and pays a monthly $2,500 stipend to terrorists’ families.  The E.U. sustains this murderer to the tune of $250,000,000 annually.

Fashion designers refuse to dress the first lady.

The pope washes the feet of Muslims.

A sharia law–follower heads up 21st-century feminism.

LGBT locks hands with throw-gays-off-rooftops Islam.

Communist flags are flown on American soil.

Harvard curtails the enrollment of Asian-American students.

A new gender, “X,” appears on Canadian passports.

The head of the biggest intelligence organization in the world, the FBI, leaks information to the press.

A secretary of state destroys her electronic devices with a hammer, deletes 33,000 emails, and becomes the 2016 candidate for the presidency.

In the era of the #metoo, the DNC selects a presidential candidate who helped settle her husband’s rape and assault charges and provided legal defense to a rapist of a disabled 12-year-old . 

Men, with higher testosterone levels and higher muscle-to-fat distribution, declare themselves female.  They win martial arts, track and field, swimming, and weightlifting competitions in female categories.

Israel is called an aggressor as it defends its borders against Hamas terrorists.

The mayor of London announces that terror is part of living in a big city.

Europe forces a migration of what’s left of European Jewry to Israel due to skyrocketing anti-Semitic crime by Muslims, all the while mumbling, “Never Again.”

A man with lipstick demands Brazilian wax jobs of female employees in salons.  He sues them if denied service.

U.K. police, arresting Muslim grooming gang and hate crime criminals, report them as “Asians.” 

Incessant homelessness, soup kitchens, syringes, and feces on the street corners are part of wealthy living in the state of California. 

White vans and self-wielding knives murder innocents at Christmas markets. 

Democrats want to eliminate the 2nd Amendment.

A woman who fabricated a lie to gain entry to Harvard is at the top of the Democratic presidential candidacy polls.

A man who endorsed the American Communist Party is running for president of the United States. 

A man who gifted $150 billion to a country that oppresses women, traffics narcotics, and sponsors terror is given a Nobel Peace Prize.

With nuclear North Korea, Islamist Iran, and over one billion living in nuclear communist China, Texas-economy-sized Russia is the worst evil on Earth.

American liberal Jewry votes for a president who, at the U.N., calls for Israel’s 1967 borders and orchestrates resolution #2334, claiming Israel illegitimate in Jewish hands.  Twice!

In a time of surging stocks, record employment, record female work participation, and economic prosperity in the most capitalist country in the world, capitalism is scorned. 

In the age of unhinged leftism, tell me again how Trump offends you…

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Michael Flynn’s Lawyers Claim Lisa Page Altered FBI Interview Record to Frame Him

Lawyers for former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn reportedly filed a motion on Thursday in which they allege that the Department of Justice manipulated a document to frame their client and is withholding exculpatory evidence.

The apparent “sealed” filing, dated October 24, 2019, was posted to social media on Thursday evening.

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The filing by Flynn’s new legal team, which took over the case several weeks ago, argues that the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an “ambush-interview” of Flynn in the White House not to discover any evidence of criminal activity, but to coax him into making false statements.

When Flynn’s new lawyer Sidney Powell first made those allegations in September, prosecutors replied that she was indulging in “conspiracy theories” and noted his client had already pleaded guilty to the crime of lying to the FBI in 2017. Flynn has been awaiting sentencing since then, and even told the sentencing judge in 2018 that he would not claim FBI misconduct, despite growing evidence that they had departed from normal practice in interviewing him and had only completed their “302” — the report of their meeting — after he had already been forced to resign from his position in the administration over the allegations.

The new defense filing alleges that the government is refusing to turn over a mountain of potentially exculpatory evidence, some of which has begun to emerge in the media — either through leaks or through ongoing inquiries into the origins of the probe into alleged Russia “collusion” with the Trump campaign, later found not to exist.

That evidence, Flynn’s legal team alleges, includes an apparent admission by former FBI lawyer Lisa Page — who resigned after being discovered having an affair with agent Peter Strzok, with whom she shared anti-trump texts — that she had edited the 302 — something that she allegedly told FBI investigators she did not recall, the filing states.

The edits, the filing alleges, were substantive: they included a claim that Flynn said he did not discuss any sanctions with the Russian ambassador. Flynn’s lawyers allege he merely told the FBI he did not recall, and that the claim he said otherwise was added only after a transcript of his discussion with the ambassador had been leaked to the media.

In a footnote, the filing adds that former FBI general counsel James Baker “is believed to be the person who illegally leaked the transcript of Mr. Flynn’s calls to [Washington Post reporter David] Ignatius.” It also alleges that former National Intelligence Director James Clapper told Ignatius to “take the kill shot on Flynn.”

The filing emerged hours after reports that the Department of Justice had shifted its investigation of the origins of the Russia probe to become a criminal investigation under the supervision of prosecutor John H. Durham.

Flynn was subject to surveillance — allegedly in response to claims that he might have violated the Logan Act, an archaic and rarely-enforced law barring private citizens from diplomacy — during President-elect Donald Trump’s transition to office. Flynn’s name was then unmasked in the transcript of his telephone conversation with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, which was then leaked illegally.

Flynn’s subsequent prosecution for lying to the FBI was key to the “Russia collusion” theory, later found to have no substance after a lengthy investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller that took nearly two years to complete.

Critics have alleged that Mueller may have induced Flynn to plead guilty by suggesting that the government had more evidence of “Russia collusion” than it actually did.

This story is developing.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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Chutzpah: Jerrold Nadler, Adam Schiff Accuse Trump of Politicizing DOJ

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) issued a joint statement Thursday evening accusing President Donald Trump of politicizing the Department of Justice (DOJ) through a criminal investigation into the origins of the Russia probe.

Nadler, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, and Schiff, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, issued a statement via Twitter: “If the Department of Justice may be used as a tool of political retribution, or to help the President with a political narrative for the next election, the rule of law will suffer new and irreparable damage.”

The two Democrats were reacting to a report in the New York Times that the DOJ had “shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry.” The inquiry has been conducted by U.S. Attorney John Durham.

There is no evidence that the inquiry is being used as “political retribution,” though the Times took a similar line: “The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. … Mr. Trump has made clear that he sees the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies,” it reported (original link).

Neither Nadler nor Schiff addressed the substance of Durham’s investigation.

For years, Schiff claimed that there was evidence of collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential election, but an investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller turned up none.

Instead, Schiff and fellow Democrats sought to block or discourage investigations into the origins of the Russia investigation — including possible political bias by law enforcement and intelligence officials, and alleged criminal leaks of the names of Americans who were caught up in surveillance of foreign communications.

Nadler and Schiff did not acknowledge that their own efforts to press forward with an unauthorized “impeachment inquiry” might be seen as creating “a political narrative for the next election,” one that damages the rule of law.

Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He earned an A.B. in Social Studies and Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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New Report Shows ‘Egregious’ California Taxes Continue To Drive Out Big Earners

Watch the latest video at foxnews.com Democrats want to turn the whole country into California with taxes so there will be no place to run. Via Fox News: California’s tax plan is “so egregious” that residents of every socioeconomic background are leaving the state, host of Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne said Wednesday. California Democrats […]

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Shaq Defends American Values, Stands Up For Free Speech

As the NBA season tips off in the midst of controversy, former basketball star and reserve police officer Shaquille O’Neal stood up for free speech and Houston Rockets assistant general manager Daryl Morey.

"Whenever you see something wrong going on anywhere in the world, you should have the right to say ‘that’s not right,’ and that’s what he did," the four-time NBA champion said during Tuesday’s pregame show on TNT.

"As American people we do a lot of business in China. And they know and understand our values, and we understand their values," O’Neal said. "One of our best values here in America is free speech. We’re allowed to say what we want to say and we are allowed to speak up about injustices, and that’s just how it goes. If people don’t understand that, that’s something they have to deal with."

O’Neal’s defense of Morey distinguishes him from other basketball stars who have spoken out about the controversy. Superstar LeBron James said Morey was "misinformed" on the issue, and said he thought Morey was "not really educated on the situation" when Morey sent a tweet supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

O’Neal said that despite an "unfortunate" situation, he believed Morey was right to speak out.

"I just thought it was unfortunate for both parties, and then you’ve got people speaking when they don’t know what they’re talking about," he said. "But Daryl Morey was right."

"When it comes to business, sometimes you have to tiptoe around things," O’Neal continued. "Again, they understand our values and we understand their values. Here, we have the right to speak. Especially with social media, we’re going to say whatever we want to say when we want to say it."

The NBA has been embroiled in controversy since Morey sent a tweet with the slogan, "Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong" on Oct. 4. Morey was referring to the ongoing protests in Hong Kong that have become a source of conflict between the NBA and China.

Chinese state television did not air the opening night of NBA games this week, despite commissioner Adam Silver’s efforts to keep the league connected to the Chinese markets.

"I’m hoping that as two weeks have now gone by, and there seem to be further signals of de-escalation, that we can begin renewing those relationships," Silver told the Wall Street Journal.

ESPN reported that players from the Brooklyn Nets and the Los Angeles Lakers held a "tense" meeting with Silver during which several players voiced discomfort with being put in the middle of the controversy.

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Imploding: Ratings for CBS News Anchor Norah O’Donnell Are Still Tanking

It’s been a long time since the executives at CBS News have had something to cheer about in the ratings, and that trend continues despite the replacement of the previous Evening News anchor Jeff Glor with female host Norah O’Donnell. In addition, the network is paying O’Donnell at least $7 million per year, much more than the $2 million Glor received during the 18 months he sat in the anchor chair.

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Breaking: Republicans Storm Closed Impeachment Proceeding

Republicans trying to “storm the SCIF” pic.twitter.com/aDUiB73Ha0 — Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) October 23, 2019 According to Axios, they got in and the testimony was delayed. Via Daily Caller: House Republicans shut down a closed-door proceeding Wednesday by storming the room where lawmakers were questioning a defense department official involving the impeachment inquiry into President Donald […]

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Zogby Poll Shows Trump Taking Down 2020 Democrats Repeatedly – Best They Can Manage Is Warren Tying Him

President Donald Trump is down and out, at least if you listen to the establishment media. To hear the talking heads tell it, the president’s entire administration is unraveling, and he might as well resign right now to avoid impeachment or a bad 2020 loss.

But the actual voters may have something very different to say. Despite all the naysaying about Trump’s political future, there is currently a very good chance that he can win again next November, and poll results show far more in his favor than the left would like to admit.

On Monday, Zogby Analytics released a poll that showed Trump’s re-election chances when pitted against leading Democratic candidates. The polling group sampled close to 900 likely voters and asked them how they’d vote if the presidential election were held today.

The results are eye-opening. Despite the noise from liberals and the “Never Trump” crowd, the president came out of the poll with solid numbers, beating every Democratic challenger besides Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Even Warren only managed to tie Trump in the poll. Former Vice President Joe Biden, a fellow front-runner, had even lower numbers.

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Forty-seven percent of likely voters said they’d choose Trump over the former vice president, while 45 percent sided with Biden. Eight percent said they were undecided.

The reason the president is trumping Biden, at least in this poll? It’s all about that base.

Zogby explained that Trump won his “normal base,” a group that includes men, white voters, union voters and southern voters, but that the president had also “tightened the race” with independents, suburban voters and Hispanics.

Pause for a moment. Those details are worth a second look, as they expose the deep problems within the Democratic party. For decades, liberals worked tirelessly to present themselves as the party of the blue-collar American worker — especially union members.

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Yet as these poll results show, Trump has swooped in and won the support of union workers, and by a wide margin. The Zogby poll revealed that among union voters, the president wins 62 percent compared to Biden’s paltry 32. That’s huge.

But Trump’s impressive numbers go even beyond his base. Even among demographics in which Biden or other Democrats have an advantage over the president, Trump is closing the gaps and doing far better than the media narrative would have you believe.

Take the Hispanic vote, for instance. We’re supposed to believe that all Latinos hate Trump, can’t stand his immigration policies and see him as a racist bigot. But the numbers tell a different story.

Yes, Biden wins among Hispanics in the recent poll, but only barely. Forty-seven percent of Hispanics said they’d vote for Uncle Joe, but Trump is only four points behind with 43 percent — and the margin of error on the poll is 3.3 percentage points.

What about that Trump-Warren tie? Here’s where it gets complicated.

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“Of all the candidates, Warren is running the closest with President Trump at the moment,” the Zogby report said.

But for that match-up to actually happen in real life, Warren would, of course, need to win the Democratic nomination. She’s currently running behind Biden — who Zogby shows losing to Trump — in several national polls.

And if Warren is able to bump off Biden and accept the nomination this coming summer, she would almost certainly need to pivot away from her base and toward the center or have no hope of winning in November.

That might mean alienating some of the people who currently support her, such as voters under 30.

Of course, there’s some wisdom in not worrying too much about polls at all. As 2016 showed, the only poll that truly counts is held on election day.

The Zogby poll was one of the few that correctly predicted a tidal change toward Trump in the final months of the last presidential election. While some news outlets gave the political outsider a snowball’s chance in hell of defeating Hillary Clinton, Zogby was one of the few groups brave enough to say otherwise.

One thing is certain: Trump has proved his critics wrong over and over. It would be a mistake to discount him now, all the media jabbering notwithstanding.

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via The Western Journal

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