TOM FITTON: “Mueller is Setting Up His Own Justice Department, Shut it Down”

MISSION CREEP.

President of conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, Tom Fitton has repeatedly called for the Mueller witch hunt of Trump and his associates to be shut down as it is unconstitutional and unsupervised.

Mueller’s team of lawyers is so big and powerful now that Fitton described it as the Special Counsel’s ‘own Justice Department’. This is all thanks to AG Jeff Sessions recusing himself.

In response to a Daily Beast article titled “Bob Mueller Brings on ‘Tough’ Guy Stephen Kelly to Handle Capitol Hill”, Fitton said, “Bob Mueller setting up his own Justice Department. Shut it down.”

The Daily Beast article says Mueller has now brought on a liaison to Capitol Hill:

Having hired a host of seasoned federal prosecutors for his probe of the president’s associates, Bob Mueller has now brought on a liaison to Capitol Hill.

Stephen Kelly, formerly the longtime congressional affairs chief for the FBI, has joined the probe, according to several sources familiar with his new role.

“Stephen Kelly is exactly who I would hire if I wanted to share as little information with Congress as possible,” said a Hill staffer who has interacted with Kelly in his new role as Mueller’s congressional liaison.

Robert Mueller also just hired his SEVENTEENTH liberal hack lawyer to investigate Trump. The latest hack is an Obama/Hillary donor.

Fitton is right. Mueller has essentially set up his own Justice Department; he’s the one doing all the investigating while Trump’s Justice Department sits idly by doing absolutely NOTHING.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller added his 16th radical left-wing lawyer to his team in early August as he continues to investigate Trump’s personal finances under the guise of a ‘Russia probe’.

Greg Andres is the 16th lawyer to be added to Mueller’s team. He worked under Eric ‘Fast N’ Furious’ Holder from 2010 to 2012. No bias here though. This is a completely fair investigation as Paul Ryan says.

Here is a look at the 15 other attorneys who will investigate Trump.

    • Rush Atkinson, an attorney on detail from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section at the Department of Justice
      — Donated $200 to Clinton in 2016
    • Peter Carr – DOJ spokesman under Barack Obama.
    • Andrew Goldstein, a public corruption prosecutor on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York
       Worked under Trump-basher Preet Bharara in the liberal New York southern district.
    • Adam Jed, an appellate attorney on detail from DOJ’s Civil Division.
      —  Defended Obamacare at the DOJ.
    • Rober Mueller – Special Counsel Team leader.

— Best friend to fired leaker James Comey.

  • Lisa Page, an attorney on detail from the FBI’s Office of the General Counsel and a former trial attorney with the Criminal Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section
    —  Investigated Ukrainian oligarch Dmitry Firtash, a one-time business partner of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, at the DOJ.
  • Elizabeth Prelogar, an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General.
    –Fluent in Russian; former law clerk to Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.
  • James Quarles, a former partner at WilmerHale and a former assistant special prosecutor for the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
    –Former assistant special prosecutor on the Watergate Special Prosecution Force.
  • Jeannie Rhee, a former partner at WilmerHale who has served in the Office of Legal Counsel at DOJ and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.
    — Rhee is a Clinton Foundation Lawyer and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel under Barack Obama.
  • Brandon Van Grack, an attorney on detail from the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
    — Led a grand jury inquiry in Northern Virginia scrutinizing former Trump associate Michael Flynn’s foreign lobbying.
  • Andrew Weissmann, who is on detail from the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section and who has served as general counsel at the FBI and as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
    — Weissmann donated $2,300 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2008, $2,000 to the DNC in 2006 and at least $2,300 to the Clinton campaign in 2007.
  • Aaron Zebley, a former partner at WilmerHale who has previously served with Mueller at the FBI and has served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.
    — Worked with Robert Mueller at the WilmerHale firm.

These other Mueller attorneys have less conspicuous political leanings:

  • Aaron Zelinsky, an attorney on detail from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Maryland.
    — Worked under Assistant AG Rod Rosenstein in Maryland.
  • Zainab Ahmad, a top national security prosecutor on detail from U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York.
  • Michael Dreeben, an appellate attorney on detail from the Office of the Solicitor General, described by former colleagues as one of the brightest criminal law experts of the past two generations.

Trump is an innocent man and he is being investigated by almost 20 left-wing lawyers while Hillary Clinton is freely walking around after decades of corruption and proof of pay-to-play while she was Secretary of State. Let that sink in.

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The Uniparty, unmasked 

It is hard to underestimate the furious rage of conservatives who, whether or not they supported Trump during the campaign, used to believe in the Republican Party.  No more.  The Republicans have a majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican in the White House.  Are they doing their job as members of the majority party?  Absolutely not.  Of course, some of them are trying, but to no avail; they are a righteous minority, too few in number to win.  The leadership, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, are intransigent to the point of being traitors to the constituents who put them in office.  There are plenty of other traitors as well.  Clearly, they never meant to actually repeal the disastrous Obamacare.  They voted to repeal it all those times only because they knew that Obama would veto their bills.  So we conservatives have learned an important lesson: there is only one party in Congress, and it is the Establishment Party, and it is a swamp thing. 

The Establishment Party has no principles, no core beliefs.  They ascended to their positions of power via the usual channels: family wealth, power, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and by selling their souls.  This path to power does not describe every person in Congress – just enough of them to stop Trump from implementing the campaign promises that won him the presidency.  The bad ones, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, virtually all of the Democrats, are doing their usual damage.  Then we have Ryan, McConnell, Bob Corker, John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, etc.  Traitors to their party all.  There are many more.

They pretend to be conservatives but are Republicans in name only.  With each passing day that Obamacare goes un-repealed, the tax system goes un-reformed, and illegal immigration remains unrestricted, as long as so many of these so-called Republicans continue to sabotage President Trump’s agenda, the one he was elected to implement, we conservatives are more certain of their treachery.  Women like Collins and Murkowski have no intention of ever limiting the damage done by Planned Parenthood.  The rest of these RINOs have no intention of helping Trump be the successful president he is trying to be.  He is an outsider, and they cannot have that.  They mean to submarine him just as surely as do the odious, open-borders, pro-unrestricted abortion, Obamacare-loving, tax-everyone-more Democrats.

Many of us who voted for Trump did so with some trepidation; we had other candidates in mind, and he was an unknown quantity, a loose cannon.  But once he became the candidate, we got on board.  No voter who was paying attention could vote for Clinton, the most corrupt candidate ever to seek the office.  Thanks to a thoroughly biased media and skewed polling, we had little hope he would win.  But he did.  It was a miracle, one that saved the nation from further descent into the tyranny of the radical left that used to be the liberal Democratic Party.  It is no longer liberal; it has become fascist in the real sense of the word, totalitarian and autocratic.  They even want to criminalize speech with which they disagree.  The Democratic Party today is anti-Constitution (see Pelosi encouraging illegal immigration), anti-free speech, anti-American, anti-science (they embrace the silly notion that man affects the climate of a planet that is 4.5 billion years old).  It is the party of racism, in that it sees race everywhere and has made white privilege a scourge Caucasians must bear as a scarlet letter.  But “race is an idea, not a fact.”  Most Americans could not care less about skin color.  We are all a mixture of many ethnicities and proud of it.  Only the left sees skin color and sexual orientation as badges of victimhood.  Leftists have made it a status to be sought.  They teach victimhood as a platform to be embraced. 

Leftists have long been abrogating history to present themselves as the good guys, the anti-racists.  But that is a big lie.  They are the racists, the inventors of identity politics, the notion that we are not valuable as individuals, only as members of one or another minority group.  It was the party of Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, that ended slavery, the Democrats who were the Confederacy.  It was the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s.  Those laws were passed by Republicans.  It was the Democrats who undermined Reconstruction and imposed the odious Jim Crow laws in the South.

The Democrats were and still are the racists.  Now they see fomenting it in subsequent generations as their path to power, to votes.  The nonsense being taught in college classes, designed and implemented by the left, amounts to a criminal enterprise, not to mention child abuse.  The academic class has reinstituted segregation as some kind of refuge for oppressed minorities who are not oppressed at all.  They live in the freest, fairest, least racist nation on the planet.  The Establishment Party that tyrannizes us from D.C. is responsible.  They all see it and do nothing to stop it.  They apparently approve.

There are obvious exceptions among the Republicans – Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louis Gohmert, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, Mark Meadows, Dave Brat, Jim Jordan, and a few others, heroes all – but they are a minority, and they are openly reviled and discriminated against by their own colleagues and Republican pundits like Karl Rove.  Most of the others just want to go along to get along, to stay in office, to enjoy the perks.  They don’t want to rock their oh, so privileged boat.  They need to be voted out of office.

This entrenched establishment is ignoring the Constitution, ignoring their constituents, and destroying what for over two hundred years was the most amazing experiment in civilization, freedom, federalism, and democracy in the world, which is why so many people risk their lives to come here.  Words cannot adequately express the anger we conservatives feel toward our faux Republicans, the establishment bunch.  They should all be ashamed of themselves for their vacuity and their submission to their baser instincts.

It is hard to underestimate the furious rage of conservatives who, whether or not they supported Trump during the campaign, used to believe in the Republican Party.  No more.  The Republicans have a majority in both houses of Congress and a Republican in the White House.  Are they doing their job as members of the majority party?  Absolutely not.  Of course, some of them are trying, but to no avail; they are a righteous minority, too few in number to win.  The leadership, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, are intransigent to the point of being traitors to the constituents who put them in office.  There are plenty of other traitors as well.  Clearly, they never meant to actually repeal the disastrous Obamacare.  They voted to repeal it all those times only because they knew that Obama would veto their bills.  So we conservatives have learned an important lesson: there is only one party in Congress, and it is the Establishment Party, and it is a swamp thing. 

The Establishment Party has no principles, no core beliefs.  They ascended to their positions of power via the usual channels: family wealth, power, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and by selling their souls.  This path to power does not describe every person in Congress – just enough of them to stop Trump from implementing the campaign promises that won him the presidency.  The bad ones, Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, virtually all of the Democrats, are doing their usual damage.  Then we have Ryan, McConnell, Bob Corker, John McCain, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Jeff Flake, etc.  Traitors to their party all.  There are many more.

They pretend to be conservatives but are Republicans in name only.  With each passing day that Obamacare goes un-repealed, the tax system goes un-reformed, and illegal immigration remains unrestricted, as long as so many of these so-called Republicans continue to sabotage President Trump’s agenda, the one he was elected to implement, we conservatives are more certain of their treachery.  Women like Collins and Murkowski have no intention of ever limiting the damage done by Planned Parenthood.  The rest of these RINOs have no intention of helping Trump be the successful president he is trying to be.  He is an outsider, and they cannot have that.  They mean to submarine him just as surely as do the odious, open-borders, pro-unrestricted abortion, Obamacare-loving, tax-everyone-more Democrats.

Many of us who voted for Trump did so with some trepidation; we had other candidates in mind, and he was an unknown quantity, a loose cannon.  But once he became the candidate, we got on board.  No voter who was paying attention could vote for Clinton, the most corrupt candidate ever to seek the office.  Thanks to a thoroughly biased media and skewed polling, we had little hope he would win.  But he did.  It was a miracle, one that saved the nation from further descent into the tyranny of the radical left that used to be the liberal Democratic Party.  It is no longer liberal; it has become fascist in the real sense of the word, totalitarian and autocratic.  They even want to criminalize speech with which they disagree.  The Democratic Party today is anti-Constitution (see Pelosi encouraging illegal immigration), anti-free speech, anti-American, anti-science (they embrace the silly notion that man affects the climate of a planet that is 4.5 billion years old).  It is the party of racism, in that it sees race everywhere and has made white privilege a scourge Caucasians must bear as a scarlet letter.  But “race is an idea, not a fact.”  Most Americans could not care less about skin color.  We are all a mixture of many ethnicities and proud of it.  Only the left sees skin color and sexual orientation as badges of victimhood.  Leftists have made it a status to be sought.  They teach victimhood as a platform to be embraced. 

Leftists have long been abrogating history to present themselves as the good guys, the anti-racists.  But that is a big lie.  They are the racists, the inventors of identity politics, the notion that we are not valuable as individuals, only as members of one or another minority group.  It was the party of Lincoln, the founder of the Republican Party, that ended slavery, the Democrats who were the Confederacy.  It was the Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s.  Those laws were passed by Republicans.  It was the Democrats who undermined Reconstruction and imposed the odious Jim Crow laws in the South.

The Democrats were and still are the racists.  Now they see fomenting it in subsequent generations as their path to power, to votes.  The nonsense being taught in college classes, designed and implemented by the left, amounts to a criminal enterprise, not to mention child abuse.  The academic class has reinstituted segregation as some kind of refuge for oppressed minorities who are not oppressed at all.  They live in the freest, fairest, least racist nation on the planet.  The Establishment Party that tyrannizes us from D.C. is responsible.  They all see it and do nothing to stop it.  They apparently approve.

There are obvious exceptions among the Republicans – Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louis Gohmert, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, Mark Meadows, Dave Brat, Jim Jordan, and a few others, heroes all – but they are a minority, and they are openly reviled and discriminated against by their own colleagues and Republican pundits like Karl Rove.  Most of the others just want to go along to get along, to stay in office, to enjoy the perks.  They don’t want to rock their oh, so privileged boat.  They need to be voted out of office.

This entrenched establishment is ignoring the Constitution, ignoring their constituents, and destroying what for over two hundred years was the most amazing experiment in civilization, freedom, federalism, and democracy in the world, which is why so many people risk their lives to come here.  Words cannot adequately express the anger we conservatives feel toward our faux Republicans, the establishment bunch.  They should all be ashamed of themselves for their vacuity and their submission to their baser instincts.

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Breaking: KJU Drops “Declaration of War” Statement after Trump’s Speech to UN

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Breaking: KJU Drops “Declaration of War” Statement after Trump’s Speech to UN

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In a rare statement on camera after President Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech at the United Nations, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un said Thursday that Trump’s remarks constituted a “declaration of war” and promised the “highest level of hard line counter measure in history” in response.

In a rather ironic statement, given the fact that he was threatening war over words, Kim also called Trump “mentally deranged.”

“His remarks remind me of such words as ‘political layman’ and ‘political heretic’ which were in vogue in reference to Trump during his presidential election campaign,” Kim said, according to the Guardian. Trump, Kim said, should “be considerate of whom he speaks.”

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“Now that Trump has denied the existence of and insulted me and my country in front of the eyes of the world and made the most ferocious declaration of a war in history that he would destroy the DPRK, we will consider with seriousness exercising of a corresponding highest level of hard line counter measure in history.”

“His remarks … have convinced me, rather than frightening or stopping me, that the path I chose is correct and that it is the one I have to follow to the last,” Kim said..

“As a man representing the DPRK and on behalf of the dignity and honor of my state and people and on my own, I will make the man holding the prerogative of the supreme command in the U.S. pay dearly for his speech,” Kim said, referring to the North by its official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.”

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He saved the best for last, assuming you find Kim’s attempts at being tough funny: “I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged U.S. dotard with fire.” Righty-o, big guy.

Kim’s remarks came just days after Trump issued a powerful challenge to the world in his speech before the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.

“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea,” Trump said. “Rocket Man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. The United States is ready, willing and able, but hopefully this will not be necessary. That’s what the United Nations is all about; that’s what the United Nations is for. Let’s see how they do.”

Well, how the United Nations does is certainly going to be up for debate. However, Donald Trump did well enough to get Kim Jong Un to pitch a hissy fit on the world stage. In my book, that counts as pretty darn good.

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McCain Saves Obamacare Again, Tanks Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill

McCain Saves Obamacare Again, Tanks Graham-Cassidy Obamacare Repeal Bill

22 Sep, 2017
22 Sep, 2017

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said in a statement on Friday that he will oppose the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill. McCain’s vote against Graham-Cassidy effectively tanks renewed efforts to repeal Obamacare.

McCain said in a statement:

I cannot in good conscience vote for the Graham-Cassidy proposal. I believe we could do better working together, Republicans and Democrats, and have not yet really tried. Nor could I support it without knowing how much it will cost, how it will effect insurance premiums, and how many people will be helped or hurt by it. Without a full CBO score, which won’t be available by the end of the month, we won’t have reliable answers to any of those questions.

This is the second time McCain saved Obamacare from repeal in the Senate. He first tanked Obamacare in August when he and Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-ME) voted against the “skinny” Obamacare repeal bill. The measure failed by one vote.

McCain added that he takes no pleasure in derailing legislation sponsored by his friends Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy and hopes that Congress can strike a bipartisan deal on the future of health care.

McCain concluded his statement by saying, “I hope that in the months ahead, we can join with colleagues on both sides of the aisle to arrive at a compromise solution that is acceptable to most of us, and serves the interests of Americans as best we can.”

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Ex-CIA Agent Valerie Plame Tweets Article Blaming Jews For ‘Driving America’s Wars’

Ex-CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson claims she was just being “thoughtful,” by re-Tweeting an openly anti-Semitic article titled, “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars.”

Plame serves on the board of the Ploughshares Fund, an organization that advocated for the Iranian nuclear deal, and who, along with her husband Joe Wilson, was among the top donors to Hillary Clinton’s Presidential campaign. Earlier this year, she tried to organize a campaign to buy Twitter, so that she could remove “hateful” President Donald Trump from the social platform.

Ironic.

The article is worse, even, than it appears from the headline. According to the author, American Jews must “recuse themselves” from any conversation about the Middle East, and media organizations should be “required to label” Jewish commentators.

“What makes the war engine run is provided by American Jews who have taken upon themselves the onerous task of starting a war with a country that does not conceivably threaten the United States,” the author writes, in his vomitous screed.

Plame, apparently unconvinced that her overt anti-Semitism was a problem, tried to justify posting the article. In a series of follow-up Tweets, Plame claimed she wasn’t endorsing the article’s obscene viewpoint, just deeply considering whether Jews were responsible for all global violence. She intended to be “provocative,” she says.

Oddly enough – or perhaps not oddly at all – this isn’t the first time Valerie Plame has shared an article by this same author. Back in 2014, when she was still a darling of the liberal establishment, Plame Tweeted another one of his articles, that one criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his tough stance on Israeli security. Plame commented, “Well put.”

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Shocking Courtroom Allegations Emerge In Weiner’s Underage Sex Scandal

Just when we thought we’d heard it all about the despicable and depraved Anthony Weiner, out comes another revelation.

In court papers filed this week before the Sept. 25 sentencing of the child sex predator, prosecutors say the former Democratic congressman repeatedly convinced an underage girl — just 15 years old — to strip naked and fondle herself while he watched over Skype.

What’s more, the girl “made clear that she was not just a minor — she was, in fact, only ​​15 years old,” the New York Post reports. “That did not stop Weiner,” the feds wrote.

“During the latter two Skype sessions, on February 18 and 23, 2016, and in a Shapchat communication on March 9, the defendant used graphic and obscene language to ask the Minor Victim to display her naked body and touch herself, which she did.”

Weiner, 53, also sent the girl an “obscene message” using an app called Confide, in which he described “what he would do to her, if she were 18,” court papers say.

“Part and parcel of these disturbing — and criminal — exchanges, the defendant also sent the Minor Victim adult pornography,” according to the feds.

​Prosecutors noted that ​Weiner “has acknowledged an interest in legal, adult, teen-themed pornography” which they said makes his claim that the girl’s age wasn’t a factor in his attraction ring “hollow.”

The feds also said that Weiner’s professed rehabilitation echoed his response to the sexting scandals that forced him to resign from Congress in 2011 and torpedoed his political comeback bid during the 2013 mayoral race.

“On prior occasions, as here, Weiner has followed the same pattern: he initially denied his conduct; he suffered personal and professional consequences; he publicly apologized and claimed reform,” prosecutors Amanda Kramer and Stephanie Lake wrote.

“Yet, he has, on multiple occasions, continued to engage in the very conduct he swore off, progressing from that which is self-destructive to that which is also destructive to a teenage girl — a minor the law recognizes as needing protection.”

The court filing further notes Weiner’s hypocrisy in having co-sponsored a 2007 bill aimed at forcing convicted perverts to list their email and instant-message addresses on the National Sex Offender Registry.

“In public remarks in support of the bill, the defendant recognized that “the Internet is the predator’s venue of choice today,” court papers say.

In May, Weiner pleaded guilty to transferring obscene material to a minor. He faces up to 10 years in prison when sentenced Monday, but several court watches say he could get as little as two years.

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Afghan Migrant Arrested for ‘Honour Killing’ His 14-Year-Old Sister

Afghan Migrant Arrested for ‘Honour Killing’ His 14-Year-Old Sister

21 Sep, 2017
21 Sep, 2017

An 18-year-old migrant from Afghanistan has been arrested in the Austrian capital of Vienna after police alleged he stabbed his own 14-year-old sister to death in an apparent honour killing.

The 18-year-old is said to have killed his sister on Monday after getting into a heated argument with her because she had complained to her parents about not wanting to go to school.

The young Afghan claimed he had “exploded” after his sister had shouted at their parents and physically pushed him, Kronen Zeitung reports.

Office for Youth and Family spokesman Petra Mandl disagreed with the assessment saying that schooling was very important to the girl and she had wanted to leave the household and live elsewhere. Mandl claimed the girl was under stress from her family who enforced traditional values in the household and say the girl visited a crisis centre to talk about it before she was killed.

The 18-year-old Afghan is not unknown to police in Vienna and is said to have a criminal history consisting of several crimes including fraud, theft, and uttering threats.

According to reports, the young migrant skipped out on court dates relating to previous crimes and a judge ordered the police to take him from his home on September 11th but they were unable to find him at his home in Vienna’s heavily migrant-populated district of Favoriten.

Defence lawyer Astrid Wagner said the young man expressed “regret” and claimed that he did not mean to kill his sister, just to hurt her.

The killing is the latest in a list of migrant perpetrated murders in the Austrian capital in recent years. The most notorious case occurred last year when a cleaning lady was bludgeoned to death by a failed asylum seeker whilst on her way to work in the migrant-populated district of Ottakring.

Another case in 2016 saw a migrant from Gambia, who was slated for deportation, kill a young American woman who had let him stay at her home to avoid being repatriated. The migrant strangled the young woman to death after she rejected his sexual advances.

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USA Today Deeply Triggered by Border Wall that Supposedly Ruined a Golf Course

USA Today Deeply Triggered by Border Wall that Supposedly Ruined a Golf Course

21 Sep, 2017
21 Sep, 2017

USA Today Sports has found another reason to attack President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall, with the story of a Texas golf course that was cut in half by a border fence erected to prevent people from crossing into the U.S. illegally.

The Fort Brown Memorial Golf Course in Brownsville, Texas, was shut down several years after the border fence was erected across a portion of the former owner’s property, the paper reported.

The paper lamented the closing of the course saying, “It remains to be seen whether President Trump will be successful in delivering on his campaign promise to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, but such a barrier has already made this historic golf course in Texas’ deepest south unworkable and doomed.”

The fence was erected after the passing of the Secure Fence Act passed in 2006, long before Donald Trump jumped into politics.

“I had a business, the community had a place people could meet and socialize and enjoy life, and golf had an affordable spot,” the course’s former owner, Bob Lucio, told USA TODAY Sports. “Now it is like it never even existed.”

Lucio added that he began losing customers in 2009 when the government began to erect the fence on his property which butted up against the Rio Grande River.

“The government did what they did — they forced it on everybody,” Lucio told the paper. “In 2009 they actually started building the fence. It hurt our business right away. We slowly started to lose our membership.”

While USA Today focused heavily on the U.S. government as the reason the golf course finally closed in 2015, there was one other hint tucked down in the article.

Some customers stopped going to the golf course because, “they could sometimes hear gunfire from a drug cartel turf war raging on the Matamoros side.” From the article, “I didn’t know what war sounded like. I never went to war,” former member Bob Prepejchal said, remembering a wild Thursday afternoon when a peaceful round was interrupted by sounds of carnage. “When the (Mexican military) helicopters (were) flying and hovering over and let go of these rockets, it was unbelievable what it sounded like. Then there are those electronic Gatling guns … they were just raining down shells like crazy, and it went on for a while.”

Along with the drug war came skyrocketing insurance costs for his golf course and it all eventually forced him to declare bankruptcy.

Despite the drug gangs chasing customers away and the impossibly expensive insurance costs, the paper and the course owner felt it was all more about politics.

“I don’t get it,” Lucio said. “I didn’t get it then, and I still don’t. I have lived here all my life, and we used to celebrate our joint history with Mexico. When I put my time into the course, it was because I thought I’d be here forever.”

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Networks Could Lose $200 Million if NFL Ratings Slide Continues

Networks Could Lose $200 Million if NFL Ratings Slide Continues

21 Sep, 2017
21 Sep, 2017

If NFL fans continue to turn away from football, the TV networks could lose as much as $200 million in earnings, according to a new report.

After ratings for Week Two crashed, adding to the angst already felt by a poor showing in Week 1, industry insiders and analysts are sounding the alarm.

A new report claims that CBS, ESPN, Fox and NBC could take a $200 million hit to their estimated $2.5 billion in NFL advertising earnings if fans continue to turn off the TV, the The Hollywood Reporter noted recently.

The worries over earnings are not allayed by the fact that this season’s Week Two is the lowest mark for CBS since 1998. And the first two games of the season are down double-digits at a multi-year low compared to last year.

Guggenheim Securities analyst Michael Morris told THR that he had hoped the 2017 season would be better than last year, but admitted that “early results do not support this optimism.”

“Since the NFL season opened Sept. 7, shares of NBC parent Comcast are off 9 percent, ESPN parent Disney has seen its stock drop 3 percent and shares of CBS are down 5 percent,” THR wrote. “Only shares of 21st Century Fox have risen in that time frame, up 2 percent.”

Not only do analysts see a fall in ad revenue, but this decline may also result in falling stock prices for the networks.

Still, despite the declines, analysts also note that the NFL is TV’s biggest draw. However, as customer media consumption trends change, the NFL’s favored nation status among smaller quantities of viewers, may not be enough to stave off severe belt-tightening.

“Since the NFL season opened Sept. 7, shares of NBC parent Comcast are off 9 percent, ESPN parent Disney has seen its stock drop 3 percent and shares of CBS are down 5 percent,” THR wrote. “Only shares of 21st Century Fox have risen in that time frame, up 2 percent.”

Fans are leaving the league in droves, and several recent polls and studies show that political activism accounts for a big reason why.

In a poll last year, 44% of fans said they would stop watching the NFL if protests against the national anthem continued. In addition, a J.D. Power survey showed fans citing the anthem protests as the main reason they stopped watching NFL games.

Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston.

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Chamber of Commerce ‘Urges’ Trump, Congress to ‘Quickly’ Pass Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

The United States Chamber of Commerce is urging President Trump and Congress to “quickly” pass a widespread amnesty plan that would not only allow 800,000 illegal aliens to obtain a pathway to U.S. citizenship, but could also trigger a chain migration of at least four to six million foreign nationals flooding into the country.

In a letter by Senior Vice President Neil Bradley, obtained by Breitbart News, the Chamber of Commerce – big business’ largest lobbying arm – demands a quick for the 800,000 illegal aliens currently shielded by the Obama-created Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, saying “the clock is ticking.”

The Chamber of Commerce letter in full reads:

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urges Congress to act quickly to provide permanent relief for the approximately 800,000 individuals who will be negatively impacted by the rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, commonly referred to as DACA.

Since 2012, individuals have enrolled in the DACA program in good faith, gaining the legal ability to attend school and work. As a result, they have become even further integrated into our communities and the nation’s economy. DACA recipients are our friends, our neighbors, and our coworkers. According to some estimates, approximately 700,000 are employed in the U.S., performing a wide variety of jobs across the economy.

If the DACA program is allowed to end, eventually none of these individuals will be legally allowed to remain—let alone work—in the U.S.

We are pleased to see the strong expressions of support within Congress and the Trump administration to provide permanent relief to DACA recipients that will protect them from deportation and put them on a track toward lawful permanent residency and, perhaps eventually, citizenship.

The statements of support must now be turned into a legislative solution. The clock is ticking.

We urge you to expeditiously work through the reasonable disagreements over the scope and details of a legislative solution as well as the inclusion of provisions to increase border security. The Chamber stands ready to work with you and the administration to ensure that the legislation crafted is consistent with fundamental American principles and the best interest of the nation and the American economy.

The Chamber of Commerce joins pro-mass immigration billionaires, the Koch brothers, who are major GOP establishment donors, as well as establishment politicians like Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in their call for amnesty.

The Trump administration announced the end to DACA, via Attorney General Jeff Sessions, weeks ago, but has since waffled on the issue, with Trump going as far as praising the illegal aliens shielded by DACA.

The Chamber of Commerce has long opposed Trump’s populist-economic nationalist ‘America First’ agenda, coming out in April to oppose reforms to the H-1B visa, where hundreds of thousands of foreign workers can be imported to the U.S. to take American jobs, as Breitbart Texas reported.

Like the Chamber of Commerce, the Koch brothers, through their group ‘Libre Initiative,’ said this week that they were “encouraging” Congress to quickly pass an amnesty for illegal aliens, as Breitbart News reported.

The Koch brothers, despite strong opposition to Trump’s agenda, have managed to infiltrate White House discussions and potential policy initiatives in the administration in the form of Marc Short, who now serves as Trump’s Legislative Affairs Director.

Prior to joining the Trump White House, Short led the ‘Never Trump’ movement inside the Koch brothers’ pro-immigration organizations, as Breitbart News reported.

In May 2016, during the height of the Republican presidential primary, where Trump was taking the country by storm on his populist and economic nationalist agenda, Short was heading an effort to derail the then-front-runner.

At the time, National Review exclusively reported that Short was leading an effort inside the Koch brothers’ organizations to take down Trump and his agenda, partly by supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who infamously helped author the Gang of Eight amnesty bill:

On a frigid Tuesday in February, a team of top political operatives from the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, the umbrella group that controls political activities for the sprawling donor network led by billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, arrived in Kansas for a meeting that they hoped would turn the tide of the presidential campaign.

They’d set aside $150 million to spend on paid media alone, to be spread across campaigns at the federal, state, and local levels. Yet they had not been authorized to spend a dime on the White House race.

Marc Short, then president of Freedom Partners, wanted to change that. He led a faction inside the Koch network that had become convinced of the need to neutralize Donald Trump before his momentum made him unstoppable. Fresh off Trump’s landslide victory in New Hampshire one week earlier, and staring down another likely Trump win in South Carolina that Saturday, Short and his lieutenants had come to Wichita to present Charles Koch with a detailed, eight-figure blueprint for derailing the Republican front-runner on Super Tuesday, when eleven states would vote. They hoped to get the green light to hammer Trump with ads in the states where he was most vulnerable.

Just a week after Short’s efforts to lead a full-fledged Koch-funded operation against Trump, he signed onto the Rubio campaign.

After Short left the Koch’s Freedom Partners, he praised the open borders, billionaire donors, saying, “Charles and David have built an amazing network of donors and activists, and their investments in future generations will pay huge dividends.”

Over the weekend, Short questioned what the definition of a “wall” truly is under Trump’s administration, as Breitbart News reported. Though building a border wall along the southern border was Trump’s key tenet of his America First agenda, Short said the wall is actually “a myriad of different structures.”

“I think that what the definition of a wall is, is something that we all need to have a serious conversation,” Short told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

DACA recipients currently hold upwards of 700,000 U.S. jobs. An ultimate end to the program – with DACA recipients not getting amnesty – could result in a 700,000 job stimulus for American workers. This would amount to nearly 30,000 new U.S. job openings for American workers every month once the program is officially phased out.

Although screening for DACA was previously touted as being sufficient in keeping criminals out, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) revealed that more than 2,100 recipients had their status revoked for being criminals or gang members.

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

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