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On Wednesday the Trump Administration released the White House transcript of President Trump’s call with President Zelensky of Ukraine.

In the transcript released today President Zelensky brought up Rudy Giuliani and his investigations with President Trump.

It was Zelensky who brought up the Biden investigation and NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP!

President Trump then asked Zelensky to look into the 2016 election including information on Crowdstrike.

The President did not ask President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden as was widely reported by the lying mainstream media.

The transcript sent shock waves through the Democrat Deep State.

The transcript revealed President Trump is going after the origins of the Trump-Russia witch hunt.

Trump is going after the Deep State — Trump said he was going to clean the swamp and he meant it.

Foreign Policy expert Tony Shaffer says this is what the left is most worried about.

Based on the panicked calls I got from a @washingtonpost reporter yesterday – every 30 minutes – who wanting me to discuss the #Crowdstrike issue, this is what the left is most worried about – Catherine Herridge does a great job here with @LouDobbs breaking down why… https://t.co/sNm5S8TaNz

— Tony Shaffer (@T_S_P_O_O_K_Y) September 26, 2019

Rush Limbaugh focused on this bombshell from the transcript on his Wednesday show.

Now, just a little bit more about CrowdStrike ’cause I have paid attention, there’s not a single — I haven’t seen a single report focus on CrowdStrike in this transcript. Now, I know why the Democrats are ignoring it. The Democrats are bent out of shape that Trump even knows about CrowdStrike. They think Trump’s an idiot. With Trump specifically zeroing in on CrowdStrike the Democrats have learned today, after reading that transcript, what Trump is really doing here.

Trump is soliciting assistance from allies all over the world to help Barr prove the scam run against him. That’s what’s going on. That’s what the Democrats have learned today with that word “CrowdStrike” being in the transcript. CrowdStrike, the founder of CrowdStrike is a Russian emigre who hates Putin with a purple passion. It seems to color CrowdStrike’s security work.

Prime example being when CrowdStrike claimed that the Russians had hacked the Ukraine artillery software during the time Russia was invading Ukraine. CrowdStrike claimed the Russian hack caused the Ukrainians to fire on their own troops, killing thousands of them. They were dead wrong about it! And that’s a massive thing to be wrong about. Because the only problem was Ukraine said there was no such hack and no such battle and there were no such casualties.

They said that CrowdStrike had made all of it up. And guess what? CrowdStrike withdrew its report and admitted that it was wrong. Now, this, whether it sounds like it or not, don’t doubt me, this is highly relevant to this entire Russian collusion story, which is why Trump was asking about it and why the Democrats don’t want the Ukrainians to reinvestigate it.

The reference to CrowdStrike, mark my words, is momentous in this transcript today. I know damn well the whistleblower didn’t tell the Democrats about that or they would have a different strategy laid out for this. Because another thing — don’t doubt me on this — what this really means, folks, is that Trump — he was asking for assistance on Biden, but it’s all related. What Trump actually was asking the president of Ukraine to do was to help the attorney general.

President Trump is going after the criminal deep state.
He’s going after the criminals who lied and put America through the Trump-Russia witch hunt.
President Trump is going to clean the swamp.

This has Democrats scared to death.

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Here is the opening statement by ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes at the House Intelligence Committee Hearing.

Nunes Opening Statement for Whistleblower Disclosure Hearing
September 26, 2019

I want to congratulate the Democrats on the rollout of their latest information warfare operation against the President, and their extraordinary ability once again to enlist the mainstream media in their campaign.

This operation began with media reports—from the prime instigators of the Russian collusion hoax—that a whistleblower is claiming President Trump made a nefarious “promise” to a foreign leader. The released transcript of the call has already debunked that central assertion, but that didn’t matter. The Democrats simply moved the goalposts and began claiming that there doesn’t need to be a quid pro quo for this conversation to serve as the basis for impeaching the president.

Speaker Pelosi went even further when asked earlier if she’d put the brakes on impeachment if the transcript turned out to be benign. She responded, “We have many other candidates for impeachable offenses.” So there you go—if their whistleblower operation doesn’t work out, the Democrats and their media assets can always drum up something else.

And what other information has come to light since the original false report of a “promise” being made? We’ve learned the following:

• The complaint relied on hearsay evidence provided by the whistleblower.
• The Inspector General did not know the contents of the phone call at issue.
• The Inspector General found that the whistleblower displayed “arguable political bias” against Trump.
• The Department of Justice investigated the complaint and determined no action was warranted.

The Ukrainian President denies being pressured by President Trump.
So, once again, this supposed scandal ends up being nothing like what we were told. And once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces, and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story, with no regard to the monumental damage they’re causing to our public institutions and to trust in government, and without acknowledging all the false stories they propagated in the past, including countless allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 election. We’re supposed to forget about all those stories but believe this one. In short, what we have with this storyline is another Steele dossier.

I’ll note here that, in the Democrats’ mania to overturn the 2016 elections, everything they touch gets hopelessly politicized. With the Russia hoax it was our intelligence agencies, which were turned into a political weapon to attack the president. And today, the whistleblower process is the casualty. Until about a week ago, the need to protect that process was a primary bipartisan concern of this committee. But if the Democrats were really concerned with defending that process, they would have pursued this matter with quiet and sober inquiries, as we always do for whistleblowers.

But that would’ve been useless for them. They don’t want answers, they want a public spectacle. And so we’ve been treated to an unending parade of press releases, press conferences, and fake news stories.

This hearing itself is another example—whistleblower inquiries should not be held in public at all, as our Senate counterparts, both Democrats and Republicans, obviously understand—their hearing with Mr. Maguire is behind closed doors. But again, that only makes sense when your goal is to get information, not to create a media frenzy.

The current hysteria has something else in common with the Russia hoax. Back then, they accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russians when the Democrats themselves were colluding with Russians in preparing the Steele dossier. Today, they accuse the president of pressuring Ukrainians to take actions that would help himself or hurt his political opponents. And yet, there are numerous examples of Democrats doing the exact same thing. For example:

• Joe Biden bragged that he extorted the Ukrainians into firing a prosecutor, who happened to be investigating Biden’s own son.
• Three Democrat senators wrote a letter pressuring the Ukrainian general prosecutor to reopen investigations it reportedly froze on former Trump campaign officials.
• Another Democratic senator went to Ukraine and pressured the Ukrainian President not to investigate corruption allegations involving Biden’s son.
• According to Ukrainian officials, Democratic National Committee contractor Alexandra Chalupa tried to get Ukrainian officials to provide dirt on Trump associates and tried to get the former Ukrainian President to comment publicly on their alleged ties to Russia.
• Ukrainian official Serhiy Leshchenko was a source for Nellie Ohr, wife of Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, as she worked on the anti-Trump operation conducted by Fusion GPS and funded by the Democrats.
• And of course, Democrats on this very committee negotiated with people they thought were Ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of Trump.
  As you see, it’s a reliable rule of thumb in these information operations that whatever the Democrats accuse you of doing, they’re doing themselves.

People can reasonably ask why the Democrats are so determined to impeach this president when in just a year they’ll have a chance to vote him out of office. In fact, one Democratic congressman—one of the first to call for Trump’s impeachment—gave us the answer when he said, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the president, he will get reelected.”

Yes, winning elections is hard, and when you compete you have no guarantee you’ll win. But the American people should have a say in all this, and they made their voices heard in the election. This latest gambit by the Democrats to overturn the people’s mandate is unhinged and dangerous.

They should end this entire dishonest, grotesque spectacle and get back to solving problems, which is what every member of this committee was sent here to do. Judging by today’s charade, however, the chances of that happening anytime soon are zero to none.

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Another year, another record. Inbound tourist arrivals for Israel over the past 12 months were expected to reach 4.6 million by the end of next week, setting a new record and building on a similar boom recorded in 2018, the Tourism Ministry said Thursday.

The big numbers come in direct defiance of efforts by the anti-Israel, Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement which seeks to isolate the Jewish state and endless reports of violence in other parts of the troubled Middle East.

It also comes on the heels of a successful hosting of the Eurovision song contest finals in May and a rush in visitors over that period driven by a global advertising campaign.

The new figures show an 18 percent increase compared to the period between September 2017 and September 2018, when 3.9 million visited. It marked the third consecutive year that numbers have climbed to a new level – and then some.

Over the past week, an estimated 82,000 tourists arrived in Israel, and another 24,000 are expected to arrive ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on Sunday night, the ministry said.

“These impressive increases are a direct result of the strenuous work and revolutionary changes made by the Tourism Ministry, with an emphasis on expanding accommodation options in the country and reducing the cost of vacationing in Israel,” Tourism Minister Yariv Levin said in the statement.

He was backed by Director-General of the Ministry of Tourism Amir Halevi who applauded the momentum in the tourism industry, adding it, “creates opportunities and we are happy with the trend of increasing numbers of entrepreneurs who see tourism as an economic growth engine and invest in Israel.”

Jerusalem traditionally leads the nation as the most sought-after tourist stop, 40 percent of tourists coming in are landing on return visits and the majority of them are Christians [61 percent] followed by Jewish tourists [22 percent].

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The United States must recognize China as a "real enemy" in its dealings with the country, Washington Free Beacon senior editor Bill Gertz told The Epoch Times.

The U.S. took a "30-year gamble" in the hopes that trading with China would neutralize the communist state, an assumption that has been an"utter disaster," according to Gertz. The economic benefits the regime has reaped through growing financial ties to American industries have only emboldened communist party leaders.

"We had this idea that if we engage with China, and by engage, I mean do business with them, and if we moderate our policies and we don’t criticize China and if we’re nice to the communist regime in Beijing, that this would create a benign non-communist power," Gertz said while discussing his new book, Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China’s Drive for Global Supremacy.

The United States has made many mistakes with China, Gertz said. He said President Bill Clinton’s decision to institute a nuclear cooperation program with China was one of the most serious.

"Within a very few short years of that program, the CIA concluded in a public assessment that secrets related to every deployed nuclear warhead in the U.S. arsenal was stolen by China through espionage," Gertz said, adding that China then sold these secrets to Pakistan, which in turn shared them with North Korea, Iran, and Libya.

"We’re still dealing with the aftereffects of that," Gertz said.

Gertz concluded that the United States needs to fundamentally change the way it approaches China and "liberate the Chinese people" from communism.

"We’ve gone part of the way by identifying China as a strategic competitor or adversary, but not as a real enemy," he said. "And I think that we need to do that first. We need to be clear on the nature of the threat."

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Western progressives are no doubt horrified that, on Wednesday, Israeli president Reuven Rivlin tasked current prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with forming Israel’s next government. Netanyahu has until Oct. 24 to form a governing coalition of at least 61 of the 120 members in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament. Currently, 55 members of the Knesset have recommended Netanyahu for prime minister, while the premier’s rival, Benny Gantz, has secured 54 recommendations. Rivlin, who said Netanyahu has a better chance of obtaining the necessary support, originally offered Gantz and Netanyahu an opportunity to form a unity government, under which the political rivals would rotate as prime minister. Both men refused the offer.

Progressives are horrified because they believe Netanyahu is, along with President Trump, responsible for destroying the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and thus any hope of a two-state solution. Earlier this month, for example, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) described Netanyahu’s stated intention to apply Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley—a step that Israel has the legal right to do and that Gantz, too, has said he would take as prime minister—as "the nail in the coffin to a two-state solution or any peace deal." Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Calif.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) similarly said at the time that Netanyahu would "shatter what is left of a two-state solution" and "make a two-state solution nearly impossible."

Never mind that the Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state—thus rejecting the foundation of a two-state solution—and that they have repeatedly rejected offers of statehood, including remarkably generous Israeli proposals. Netanyahu is still the problem.

Progressives also regard Netanyahu as a foreign Trump, a corrupt and racist authoritarian destroying liberal democracy. In March, Sanders warned against equating "anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel," and in a speech last year, the senator accused "Israel’s Netanyahu government" of giving non-Jewish citizens "second-class status." Even establishment, centrist Democrats seem to share progressives’ antipathy for Netanyahu—antipathy that led left-wing members of Congress to call on Israelis to vote against the premier.

These voices fail to recognize that Gantz as prime minister would be Netanyahu-lite—a man with very similar positions on security and foreign and defense policy, just with less flair for the dramatic. Gantz would bomb Hamas in Gaza, strike Iranian targets across the Middle East, and not change Israeli policy toward the Palestinians in the West Bank in any meaningful way. "Jerusalem will always be Israel’s undivided capital, and the Jordan Valley will always be our eastern security border," he said in March. The main differences between the two men concern internal matters, most of which should not particularly concern the West.

Ironically for progressives, a Gantz premiership would reveal that they really hate the Jewish state, not just Netanyahu, whom they could no longer use as their bogeyman. Look at how progressives single out Israel’s treatment of religion and its approach to the Palestinians while ignoring all other comparable examples: logically, how can one reach a different conclusion?

Moreover, these anti-Israel activists, commentators, and politicians have a bizarre obsession with the Jewish state, demonizing and delegitimizing it when, by all relevant standards, other countries ruled by non-democratic regimes are far more deserving of such treatment. Indeed, they often say Israel governs by apartheid and commits ethnic cleansing, if not genocide, against the Palestinians. Such accusations are of course absurd. The Palestinian populations in Gaza and the West Bank have skyrocketed over the last 50 years, and Arabs comprise about 20 percent of Israel’s population. Israel, it seems, is remarkably bad at genocide and ethnic cleansing. And regarding apartheid, Israel’s election last week should—but won’t—put an end to such accusations. The Joint List, an alliance of Israel’s main Arab political parties, won the third most seats in parliament, only trailing Gantz and Netanyahu’s parties. And most of the Joint List’s members even recommended Gantz as prime minister—not because they like the former general, but because they loathe Netanyahu. Many of these Arab parties are deeply hostile toward Israel’s policies, yet they are comprised of Israelis who enjoy equal rights and can have a significant influence in government. Israel is failing miserably at instituting apartheid.

The success of Joint List raises a question that few people, especially Israel’s critics, have asked: Why don’t the Palestinians have a Joint List of Jewish parties?

There are two reasons, neither of which Israel’s haters want to hear. First, the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank, is authoritarian and does not hold elections—President Mahmoud Abbas is still serving a four-year term that began in 2005. Second, and more importantly, the Palestinians want a state free of Jews. This is the harsh reality: Israelis welcome Arabs in Israel—they just don’t want Palestinian terrorists to kill them—while Palestinians don’t want Jews in a future Palestine simply because they’re Jews. Look at Palestinian law, under which selling or attempting to sell land to Jews is a crime, punishable by hard labor, imprisonment, and even execution. Also under Palestinian law, the PA allocates hundreds of millions of dollars of its annual budget to reward terrorists who murder Jews and Israelis. Add the fact that Palestinian leadership refuses to accept Jews’ right to self-determination, and it would appear the Palestinians are actually the ones who want ethnic cleansing.

As Israel’s chaotic electoral politics play out over the next several weeks, progressives will fume about Palestinian rights—especially as Netanyahu is in position to remain prime minister. But, in the wake of Israel’s election, progressives who genuinely want a two-state solution should not direct their ire at Israeli leadership. Instead, they should direct their gaze toward the Palestinians, who do not even have regular elections and are the ones seeking a regime of apartheid. And that is just the PA, let alone Hamas, the only governing alternative for Palestinians, a genocidal organization whose sole purpose is to destroy Israel.

The truth is, no matter who heads Israel’s government, a two-state solution will remain elusive. Only when the Palestinians have their own Joint Jewish List winning seats in parliament will there maybe, just maybe be peace at last.

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The House Intelligence Committee led by shifty Rep. Adam Schiff and ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes is holding a committee hearing on the anti-Trump whistleblower report with DNI Director Maguire.

As Devin Nunes said in his opening statment: This operation began with media reports—from the prime instigators of the Russian collusion hoax—that a whistleblower is claiming President Trump made a nefarious “promise” to a foreign leader. The released transcript of the call has already debunked that central assertion, but that didn’t matter. The Democrats simply moved the goalposts and began claiming that there doesn’t need to be a quid pro quo for this conversation to serve as the basis for impeaching the president.

Rep. John Ratcliffe destroyed all hopes for impeachment during his questioning of DNI Maguire.

Ratcliffe: The Democrats are intent on impeaching President Trump for lawful conduct pic.twitter.com/w2SiSpQasG

— Jack Posobiec ?? (@JackPosobiec) September 26, 2019

Ratcliffe, who was asked by President Trump to take over the Director of National Intelligence but withdrew his name, tore into the liberal media lies and omissions.

Rep. Ratcliffe pointed out numerous errors, conjecture and lies in the whistleblower report on President Trump’s July conversation with President Zelensky from Ukraine.

Rep. Ratcliffe:  Chairman Schiff wrote a letter on September 13th accusing you of being part of an “unlawful coverup” and then the Speaker of the House took it one step further. She went on national TV and said not once but twice that you broke the law… You were publicly accused of committing a crime and you were also falsely accused of committing a crime. You were required as you noted to follow the opinion of the Justice Department, 11 page report, on whether or not you were required to report the whistleblower complaint. Correct?… So you were publicly accused and you were wrongly accused and yet here today I have not heard an apology. Welcome to the House of Representatives with Democrats in charge… The whistleblower is in fact wrong in numerous respect… The Democrats are intent on impeaching President Trump for lawful conduct… The whistleblower then goes on to say, ‘I was not a direct witness to the events described’ … In other words, all of this is secondhand information. None of it is firsthand information. The sources the whistleblower bases his complaints on include the Washington Post, The New York Times, Politico, The Hill, Bloomberg, ABC News and others. In other words, much like the Steel Dossier the allegations in whistleblower’s complaints are based on third-hand mainstream media sources, rather than first hand information

Rep. Ratcliffe DESTROYED the liberal hack and whistleblower.
It was an incredible drubbing of this latest Democrat clown show.

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A former Oklahoma police officer made an impassioned defense of Second Amendment rights Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee, and breathed defiance in the face of Democrats who have supported taking away guns.

The hearing was part of effort in Congress to pass gun control laws — an effort that gained steam after this summer’s shootings in El Paso and Dayton.

This month, Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, a former congressman from Texas, said that if elected, he would push for a mandatory so-called “buyback” of AR-15s.

On Wednesday, Dianna Muller, who was with the Tulsa Police Department in Oklahoma for 22 years and founded The DC Project, a gun rights group,  told Congress that a ban on so-called “assault weapons” is bad policy.

“I find it ironic in today’s effort of criminal justice reform that you are taking steps to be lenient on people who have actually committed crimes against laws you created, while at the same time you are proposing more laws, like the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019, that turn ordinary, law-abiding citizens into criminals,” Muller said in a prepared statement that she delivered.

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“I submit that we work on holding people accountable for the laws that are already on the books before we pass any further legislation, that would only be a burden on the law-abiding. If these laws were the answer, Chicago, Baltimore, LA and even this city, would be the safest cities in America.”

Muller deviated from her prepared remarks to make the issue plain for the members of Congress she spoke to.

“Please don’t legislate the 150 million people just like me into being criminals. It has happened. You’ve already done it,” Muller said, citing the Trump administration’s move to make bump stocks illegal, according to Fox News.

“I was a bump stock owner, and I had to make a decision: Do I become a felon, or do I comply?” she said.

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She did once, she said. Not again.

Muller said if a so-called “assault” weapons ban is passed, “I will not comply.”

Muller said she was at the hearing to give voice to women who were victims of gun violence and who could not protect themselves because of anti-gun legislation

“Gun rights are women’s rights. That’s why I’m honored to be here, to be a voice for the millions of women who share my beliefs, but are not represented in mainstream media or are squelched on social media,” she said.

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Muller brought up the Parkland tragedy in Florida, in which 17 people were killed last February.

“If we learn anything from the Parkland tragedy, it is the repeated failure of government, laws and policy. Students ‘saw something and said something’ to school administration; law enforcement responded to the shooter’s residence more than 30 times, with no action taken,” she said. “The ultimate failure in Parkland was from the responding officers that fateful day. They remained outside while students were continuing to be murdered inside. Parkland reminds us that law enforcement has no constitutional duty to protect.”

“If you ask what would have stopped the Parkland shooter, it’s the same answer as in every shooting: being confronted with equal force,” she said.

Muller said that Congress should abide by common sense and not “a very well-organized, well-funded effort, assisted by the mainstream media, masterfully crafting campaigns to demonize guns and gun owners, and disarm our citizenry from politicians, mainstream media and our schools using their megaphones to paint gun owners as ‘deplorables’ or ‘domestic terrorists’ to now discriminating against gun owners.”

“Common sense tells us that banning ‘assault rifles’ will not stop the problem of mass murders. Common sense tells me that if you succeed in banning this gun, you will go after the next gun when the next tragedy happens,” she said. “My own experience with prior Assault Weapons Ban was it was ineffective. I saw zero impact on the streets and the FBI statistics confirmed it.”

Muller said accounts that emerge every day of citizens who use guns to protect themselves should prove that banning guns puts lives at risk.

“Any ban on firearms will inhibit a citizen’s ability to protect themselves and their families and their homes. Can you understand my hesitancy to support any laws that are designed to restrict or infringe on my God-given rights? The Constitution guarantees the government will not infringe on the right to keep and bear arms,” she said.

She then reminded the members of Congress at the hearing that allowing some people to be protected by guns and not others is a form of hypocrisy.

“Each of you is actually pro-gun. Everyday in this very building, you are surrounded and protected by men and women with firearms; some of you just are against me and others having firearms. What about ordinary Americans who don’t have the luxury of having someone else carry guns for us to protect us?” she said.

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