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FBI Issues Shock Trump Message, Media Stunned
Ben Baker
The FBI and the Justice Department have had more than a year to investigate the allegations of collusion between President Trump and Russia and the corruption made infamous in the Trump dossier.
According to The Washington Examiner, officials from both agencies have made stunning statements regarding the dossier. Both the FBI and Justice Department have stated they cannot verify or corroborate any of the claims of collusion made in the dossier.
The dossier was financed by Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and put together by former British spy Christopher Steele. Allegedly, the dossier contained evidence that President Trump and his campaign team had collaborated with Russia to win the election.
In addition to the allegations of collusion were a number of claims that Mr. Trump had participated in various vile acts and “sex parties” while in Russia.
In addition to the allegations of collusion were a number of claims that Mr. Trump had participated in various vile acts and “sex parties” while in Russia.
Many, if not all, of the allegations within the 35-page dossier cited anonymous sources within Russia. One claimed that President Trump’s aide, Michael Cohen, met with Russian lawyers to cover up Paul Manafort’s work in the Ukraine. The alleged meeting has since been debunked. It cited a “Kremlin insider” as its source.
On August 24, 2017, the US House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena to the FBI and Justice Department to determine how many, if any, of the allegations within the dossier, have been confirmed after more than a year’s worth of investigation.
The committee specifically requested, “any documents, if they exist, that memorialize DOJ and/or FBI efforts to corroborate, validate, or evaluate information provided by Mr. Steele and/or sub-sources and/or contained in the ‘Trump Dossier.’”
Sources familiar with the subpoena say that neither the Justice Department nor the FBI has provided any documentation to the committee. Furthermore, in meetings with congressional staff, officials from both departments have stated they have been unable to verify any of the accusations within the dossier regarding collusion.
The only thing that appears to be remotely true is that Russia was attempting to interfere in the 2016 election. There is no evidence to suggest that President Trump or his team was in any way involved in that effort.
This revelation, from two departments who’ve been involved in the investigation from the beginning, strongly contradicts statements made by Democrats who seem to believe, wholeheartedly, that the dossiers allegations are true.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), regarding the dossier’s validity told reporters “A lot of it has turned out to be true.”
Yet the FBI and Justice Department’s inability to turn over documentation of the dossier’s validity, when they were asked almost three months ago by subpoena–and after more than a year of investigation to determine its credibility, strongly suggests there’s little — if anything — factual about the dossier.
Considering that the dossier’s creation was funded entirely by President Trump’s opponents in the 2016 election, chiefly Hillary Clinton’s campaign, it’s validity simply must be called into question.
For now, the dossier appears to be nothing more than a collection of baseless allegations made by Democrats in an effort to cause the American people to question Mr. Trump’s integrity and ability to lead, in the hopes it would turn the election in favor of the Democrats.
For now, the dossier appears to be nothing more than a collection of baseless allegations made by Democrats in an effort to cause the American people to question Mr. Trump’s integrity and ability to lead, in the hopes it would turn the election in favor of the Democrats.
Given the illegitimate Kremlin-derived sources used in the dossier to discredit Mr. Trump, it would appear the only evidence of collusion with Russia meant to influence the election rests with Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
NFL legend Herschel Walker offers perfect alternative to anthem protesters
By Bryan Chai
Herschel Walker has always been known for two things.
First, he was one of the most freakishly athletic players to ever step foot on the gridiron. He scooped up the 1982 Heisman trophy playing for the Georgia Bulldogs.
Second, he was part of one of the most lopsided deals in NFL history when the Dallas Cowboys traded him to the Minnesota Vikings for a bevy of draft picks that helped fuel the Cowboy’s Super Bowl wins in the ’90s.
Now, Walker may be known for one more thing: being unabashedly opposed to national anthem protests.
On an interview Monday with “Fox and Friends,” Walker lambasted the current trend of players choosing the national anthem as their platform to protest.
On an interview Monday with “Fox and Friends,” Walker lambasted the current trend of players choosing the national anthem as their platform to protest.
But he also offered a perfect alternative to anthem protesters.
“Guys, let me tell you this — our flag is very special, and black lives matter, but what we should do is go to Washington after the season and protest there instead,” Walker said. “We have young men and women fighting for the flag. And we have to respect the White House.”
Walker insisted that President Donald Trump was a “good man” and that people needed to “give him a chance.” Walker has had close ties with Trump since 1982 when he was a member of the USFL’s New Jersey Generals, which Trump owned for two seasons.
And that’s truly the biggest point of contention for many. What the players say they are actually protesting is something that can be talked out in a productive manner.
But if people feel abjectly disrespected by actions taken during the national anthem, it’s almost impossible for anything productive or constructive to come from that.
Walker pins the blame for the national anthem protests on one person specifically.
“I absolutely think the protests are so upsetting, and I blame the commissioner,” Walker said. He believes NFL commission Roger Goodell could and should have done more to nip this issue in the bud.
“I know people are going to be angry when I say it, but he should have stopped the protests at the very beginning,” Walker said.
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https://twitter.com/foxnews/status/932588938425925632 …Walker also took aim at Marshawn Lynch, the Oakland Raiders running back who sat for the American national anthem and stood for the Mexican national anthem Sunday prior to his team’s game in Mexico City against the Patriots. Walker echoed Trump’s sentiments that suspensions should be doled out for sitting or kneeling during the national anthem.
“I said guys should be suspended at the beginning. I don’t care what people say. The national anthem is the United States of America,” Walker said. “You never protest [the flag].”
Walker said he felt “insulted” by Lynch, and he believes the running back was treating this all “as a joke.”
Walker was on “Fox and Friends” to promote an awesome giveaway for members of the military or domestic first responders as part of the True American Hero Truck Giveaway contest. The promotion, organized by Rocky Ridge Trucks, features the grand prize of a free custom made and hand-painted 2018 Chevrolet Silverado 1500, worth $80,000.
Homeless Vet Dies on the Street with No Family to Lay Him to Rest – That’s When High Schoolers Step In
By Tracy Mastaler
When a homeless Army veteran died recently on the streets of Boston, students from a local high school stepped in to ensure that the man received a proper sendoff.
Upon learning that no family members or friends would be attending Army veteran John T. Fitzmaurice’s funeral, students from Catholic Memorial High School partnered with a local ministry and a funeral home to make plans to give him a final farewell.
“We have a lot of veterans in my own family so I know the sacrifice he made for the country and I know the service he committed in the years he committed to serving our country,” said Will Padden, president of the senior class at Catholic Memorial.
“John in this case needed a family and we were there to be John’s family,” said Padden.
Prior to Fitzmaurice’s burial, a full mass was held for him in the chapel at the high school, WBZ-TV reported.
The Rev. Chris Palladino volunteered to officiate the service and he gave a eulogy for Fitzmaurice.
A homeless veteran recently passed away on the streets of Boston. He died with no living family members or friends –…
Many Catholic Memorial students attended the mass and participated in the funeral.
At the conclusion of the service, a group of seniors carried Fitzmaurice’s flag-draped coffin to the waiting hearse.
A soldier played taps for Fitzmaurice and he was buried with full military
honors, according to Fox News.
The experience served as a lesson for the students at Catholic Memorial.
“For us paying homage to a veteran, to bring him to our campus, to provide the burial rights he deserves, and to honor his legacy and to help our boys realize we have to stand with those who are marginalized,” said the school’s president, Peter Folan.
In a comment on Facebook, one user wrote, “powerful and beautiful – thank you to the Catholic school who just SHINES what beautiful souls who make a difference – RIP now to this soldier, he must be smiling down on all those wonderful students!”
According to Breitbart News, students at other American schools have volunteered to give proper sendoffs to military veterans without loved ones.
In 2015, students at the University of Detroit Jesuit School began an ongoing pallbearer ministry program where high school students serve as pallbearers for “unclaimed” veterans and non-veterans, NBC’s Today reported.
“The students’ service is so important because they realize how they can give back to the people of our community who have given so much to us,” said faculty member Todd Wilson. “They believe that, through being a pallbearer at the funerals of veterans, the homeless, the socially poor and others, they are … offering a final tribute to a person’s life journey.”
Many Catholic Memorial students attended the mass and participated in the funeral.
At the conclusion of the service, a group of seniors carried Fitzmaurice’s flag-draped coffin to the waiting hearse.
A soldier played taps for Fitzmaurice and he was buried with full military
honors, according to Fox News.
The experience served as a lesson for the students at Catholic Memorial.
“For us paying homage to a veteran, to bring him to our campus, to provide the burial rights he deserves, and to honor his legacy and to help our boys realize we have to stand with those who are marginalized,” said the school’s president, Peter Folan.
In a comment on Facebook, one user wrote, “powerful and beautiful – thank you to the Catholic school who just SHINES what beautiful souls who make a difference – RIP now to this soldier, he must be smiling down on all those wonderful students!”
According to Breitbart News, students at other American schools have volunteered to give proper sendoffs to military veterans without loved ones.
In 2015, students at the University of Detroit Jesuit School began an ongoing pallbearer ministry program where high school students serve as pallbearers for “unclaimed” veterans and non-veterans, NBC’s Today reported.
“The students’ service is so important because they realize how they can give back to the people of our community who have given so much to us,” said faculty member Todd Wilson. “They believe that, through being a pallbearer at the funerals of veterans, the homeless, the socially poor and others, they are … offering a final tribute to a person’s life journey.”
USA Launched Multiple Airstrikes Against ISIS
Ben Baker
Following the successes in the fight against ISIS, the US military is applying the same tactics against an old enemy.
According to The Washington Examiner, in the fight against ISIS President Trump, had the US military attacking their finances by conducting airstrikes on oil refineries. Now the military is using airstrikes to target Taliban’s drug labs, cutting off their revenue streams.
Under former-President Barack Obama, the US military was barred from using airstrikes offensively against the Taliban. Such attacks could only be used defensively, and could only strike close to forces on the ground.
President Donald Trump, however, has permitted the US military to utilize airstrikes to go after the financial lifeblood of its enemies. The Taliban’s primary revenue stream is $200 million a year in opium sales, so the US military is going after their drug labs.
US Forces Afghanistan Commander Gen. John “Mick” Nicholson says this authority granted by President Trump is making a huge difference in the Middle East. “These new authorities give me the ability to go after the enemy in ways that I couldn’t before … to use airpower in the most effective way, going forward. We’re hitting the Taliban where it hurts, which is their finances,” he said.
Previously, the war was fought seasonally. Ground troops would engage in battle during the spring and summer, known as “fighting season,” then break for the winter when such warfare is impractical. With airstrikes, the US can continue to hammer away at the enemy year round.
Gen. Nicholson believes the best way to combat the Taliban is a three-pronged effort: 1) Supporting Afghan forces fighting the Taliban with airstrikes similar to how ISIS was fought, 2) Cutting off revenue streams that will drain their war chests, and 3) Using upcoming local elections to enact social change which should hinder recruitment and outside support for the Taliban.
Cutting off the Taliban’s ability to participate in the drug trade would be devastating to their bottom line. Roughly 85 percent of the world’s heroin is tied to the Taliban. They have 400-500 drug labs pumping out more drugs every year as part of a $60 billion industry from which they reap $200 million in profits.
Cutting off the Taliban’s ability to participate in the drug trade would be devastating to their bottom line. Roughly 85 percent of the world’s heroin is tied to the Taliban. They have 400-500 drug labs pumping out more drugs every year as part of a $60 billion industry from which they reap $200 million in profits.
This cash flow gives the Taliban the resources it needs to recruit followers, obtain arms and ammunition, supply its troops, and further its terroristic campaign, all while spreading harmful drugs into neighboring countries.
As of Sunday, at least 10 of these labs have been destroyed, one of which contained 50 barrels of opium worth millions of dollars according to US intelligence reports.
Gen. Nicholson believes attacking their drug labs will limit the Taliban enough that the Afgan government will go from controlling 66 percent of the population to 80 percent. “These new authorities give me the ability to go after the enemy in ways that I couldn’t before … to use airpower in the most effective way, going forward. We’re hitting the Taliban where it hurts, which is their finances.”
Coming from the business world, President Trump understands that an organization like the Taliban live and die by their bottom line. With a surplus of funds, they can expand their operations, better arm themselves and spread their power and influence. But if they are suffering financial losses every year, they are forced to operate on less, which limits their abilities and halts expansion efforts.
Coming from the business world, President Trump understands that an organization like the Taliban live and die by their bottom line. With a surplus of funds, they can expand their operations, better arm themselves and spread their power and influence. But if they are suffering financial losses every year, they are forced to operate on less, which limits their abilities and halts expansion efforts.
No doubt the Taliban is hoping to seize more control and influence in the vacuum left by ISIS’ collapse. Hopefully, with the US military and Afghan forces coordinating to take out their drug labs, they will lack the resources to take advantage of the void, allowing local government powers to step in.
Conservative talk-show host Mark Levin speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Mark Levin Gets His Own Show On Fox News
AMBER ATHEY Media Reporter
Conservative radio host Mark Levin is reportedly getting his own weekly show on Fox News.
News aggregator Matt Drudge tweeted the news out on Tuesday, explaining that Levin’s show will feature “legal, political, social commentary.”
“Expect fireworks,” Drudge asserted.
Levin is currently the host of the syndicated radio show The Mark Levin Show and worked in the Ronald Reagan administration as the chief of staff to Attorney General Ed Meese. Levin is also the founder of the media company Conservative Review and hosts a show on CRTV.
Matt Drudge previously broke the news that Laura Ingraham would be getting her own primetime show on Fox News.
Fox News has confirmed that Levin will be hosting “Life, Liberty & Levin” starting in February of 2018. The show will air on Sunday at 10 PM.
“The hour-long program will feature Levin’s lively in-depth and long-form interviews and powerful debate style with consequential guests covering history, philosophy, and economics,” Fox News said in a statement. “Levin will also capitalize on his extraordinary knowledge and compelling perspective as a constitutional lawyer to discuss the American founding, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution.”
Video: MSNBC's Mika Goes Off on Both Clintons, Plus a Ted Kennedy Flashback
On MSNBC's Morning Joe, liberal co-host Mika Brzezinski had an interesting reaction to a correspondent's report regarding the ongoing war of words between President Trump and Hillary Clinton. The NBC News reporter played audio of Mrs. Clinton attacking Trump as a sexual predator, then quoted from the president's tweet firing back at his defeated opponent's conspiratorial sore-loserdom. Brzezinski marveled at Clinton's self-unawareness, apologizing -- then instantly withdrawing the apology -- as she urged the former first lady to "stop talking about this topic unless Bill Clinton wants to come forward and apologize." Watch:
“I think the hold that the Clintons had on the Democratic is over,” she said. “I think people are feeling like they finally can speak their minds about it all, but they didn’t for a long time.” Well yeah, but the idea is that they only feel free to 'speak their minds' now because the Clinton era is over, and there's very little to lose at this point. Brzezinski also went after New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the elected Democrats who have abruptly decided -- years after the fact, and long after she needed to feel "honored" by his support -- that Bill Clinton's multiple accusers deserve to be believed: "One of the reasons why we, and I mean me and Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrats, lost is because Bill Clinton’s behavior was accepted. It was pushed under the rug and even women defended him...I know but he continues to flourish today and his wife ran for president even though these women who accused him were attacked in the media, were maligned or settled. That’s a different standard than we’re holding other people who were accused of the same behavior or less today. And this is why we have Trump. It’s all connected."
I somehow doubt a mere apology would suffice for someone like Juanita Broaddrick, but an acknowledgement that Bill's rampant predations were not fever dream hallucinations of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" would be a constructive step toward rooting out normalized sexual harassment and endless partisan hypocrisy (which, of course, is not confined to the Left). I do, however, want to revisit a point I made yesterday about the Left's adulation of Ted Kennedy, despite his indefensible act and cover-up at Chappaquiddick -- and in spite of well-known rumors and reports of his extraordinary mistreatment of women. I tweeted an except from a 1990 GQstory, which described the time that Kennedy and fellow Senate Democrat Chris Dodd brazenly assaulted a waitress at a DC restaurant:
“I think the hold that the Clintons had on the Democratic is over,” she said. “I think people are feeling like they finally can speak their minds about it all, but they didn’t for a long time.” Well yeah, but the idea is that they only feel free to 'speak their minds' now because the Clinton era is over, and there's very little to lose at this point. Brzezinski also went after New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, one of the elected Democrats who have abruptly decided -- years after the fact, and long after she needed to feel "honored" by his support -- that Bill Clinton's multiple accusers deserve to be believed: "One of the reasons why we, and I mean me and Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrats, lost is because Bill Clinton’s behavior was accepted. It was pushed under the rug and even women defended him...I know but he continues to flourish today and his wife ran for president even though these women who accused him were attacked in the media, were maligned or settled. That’s a different standard than we’re holding other people who were accused of the same behavior or less today. And this is why we have Trump. It’s all connected."
I somehow doubt a mere apology would suffice for someone like Juanita Broaddrick, but an acknowledgement that Bill's rampant predations were not fever dream hallucinations of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" would be a constructive step toward rooting out normalized sexual harassment and endless partisan hypocrisy (which, of course, is not confined to the Left). I do, however, want to revisit a point I made yesterday about the Left's adulation of Ted Kennedy, despite his indefensible act and cover-up at Chappaquiddick -- and in spite of well-known rumors and reports of his extraordinary mistreatment of women. I tweeted an except from a 1990 GQstory, which described the time that Kennedy and fellow Senate Democrat Chris Dodd brazenly assaulted a waitress at a DC restaurant:
The details in this piece are surreal; hadn't read it in a few years. Ted Kennedy's legacy was celebrated during the 2012 DNC, which also relentlessly attacked GOP's supposed "war on women." #Flashback #LionOfTheSenate #WaitressSandwich
There were many other anecdotes and vignettes in that piece. Here's another:
In a downtown office, a former congressional page tells of her surprise meeting with Kennedy three years ago. She was 16 then.
It was evening and she and her 16-year-old page, an attractive blonde, were walking down the Capitol steps on their way home from work when Kennedy's limo pulled up and the senator opened the door. In the backseat stood a bottle of wine on ice. Leaning his graying head out the door, the senator popped the question: Would one of the girls care to join him for dinner?
No. How about the other? The girls said no thanks and the senator zoomed off. Kennedy, the formal page said, made no overt sexual overtures and was "very careful to make it seem like nothing out of the ordinary." It is possible that Kennedy did not know that the girls were underage or that they were pages and, as such, were under the protection of Congress, which serves in loco parentis.
Nevertheless, the former page said she did find Kennedy's invitation surprising. "He didn't even know me," she says. "I knew this kind of stuff happened, but I didn't expect it to happen to me."...A former mid-level Kennedy staffer, bitterly disillusioned, recalls with disgust one (now ex-) high-ranking aide as "a pimp…whose real position was to procure women for Kennedy." The fellow did have a legitimate job, she says, but also openly bragged of his prowess at getting attractive and beddable dates for his boss.
It was evening and she and her 16-year-old page, an attractive blonde, were walking down the Capitol steps on their way home from work when Kennedy's limo pulled up and the senator opened the door. In the backseat stood a bottle of wine on ice. Leaning his graying head out the door, the senator popped the question: Would one of the girls care to join him for dinner?
No. How about the other? The girls said no thanks and the senator zoomed off. Kennedy, the formal page said, made no overt sexual overtures and was "very careful to make it seem like nothing out of the ordinary." It is possible that Kennedy did not know that the girls were underage or that they were pages and, as such, were under the protection of Congress, which serves in loco parentis.
Nevertheless, the former page said she did find Kennedy's invitation surprising. "He didn't even know me," she says. "I knew this kind of stuff happened, but I didn't expect it to happen to me."...A former mid-level Kennedy staffer, bitterly disillusioned, recalls with disgust one (now ex-) high-ranking aide as "a pimp…whose real position was to procure women for Kennedy." The fellow did have a legitimate job, she says, but also openly bragged of his prowess at getting attractive and beddable dates for his boss.
After I sent the message embedded above, Katie tweeted a reminder of just how extravagant the 2012 DNC's celebration of toward Kennedy's memory was:
Katie Pavlich ✔@KatiePavlichThe DNC played a seven minute long tribute video for him in which they sprawled "Women's Rights Champion" across the screen https://twitter.com/guypbenson/status/932630991763623936 …
2:26 PM - Nov 20, 2017
Fact check: True. This clip played to rapturous applause at Barack Obama's second nominating convention, a major theme of which was Mitt Romney's supposed 'hostility' toward women. The punchline comes at the 40-second mark:
If you're wondering why so many conservatives are skeptical of Democrats' newfound disapproval of misconduct from powerful liberal men within their ranks, this could be exhibit A. I'll leave you with this insanity:
David Rutz ✔@DavidRutzThis is impressive commitment to the brand by one @matthewjdowd, my goodness.http://ift.tt/2AUB97G …
More on the Kennedy’s --- BOMBSHELL: Shocking New Detail Found In JFK Files, This Is Massive
Mark Prvulovic
The idea that the Kennedy assassination was an orchestrated plot is one that many considered a conspiracy theory. However, it appears there might be some truth to it after all.
Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby, who shot and killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, told an FBI informant to “watch the fireworks” just hours prior to President Kennedy’s assassination,according to The Daily Mail.
The nightclub owner commented on the morning of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination to an FBI informant that implied he knew well in advance what was about to take place, according to the newest batch of declassified JFK documents from the Trump administration.
Mr. Ruby, who was eventually charged with killing Lee Harvey Oswald before the FBI managed to interrogate him, asked an FBI informant if he would like to “watch the fireworks” with him as Kennedy’s motorcade drove through downtown Dallas just a few hours before the killing took place.
Two days later, Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald while he was transferred from the city to county jail. This interaction between Mr. Ruby and the FBI informant was not relayed to the Bureau until March 1977, 14 years after the event occurred.
“The informant stated that on the morning of the assassination, Ruby contacted him and asked if he would ‘like to watch the fireworks,'” an FBI record dated April 6, 1977, said. “He was with Jack Ruby and standing at the corner of the Postal Annex Building facing the Texas School Book Depository Building at the time of the shooting.
Immediately after the shooting, Ruby left and headed toward the area of the Dallas Morning News Building.”
CBS News reports that the informant, who was revealed to be Bob Vanderslice, told the FBI in 1977 that Jack Ruby said nothing to him after the assassination took place, but that Mr. Vanderslice did get to know the nightclub owner better while he was in the Dallas County Jail.
Democrat Sexual Predators Could Give Victory to Judge Roy Moore
Written by Bob Adelmann
In an “unscientific” poll conducted by the Trussville (Alabama) Tribune on Monday, Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore is leading his Democratic opponent Doug Jones by 58 percent to 35 percent. The Tribune quizzed 2,741 readers in Trussville and surrounding towns in the suburbs of Birmingham (total population: 70,000) 80 percent of whom told the Tribune that they were not buying into the media depiction of Moore as a sexual predator.
Evangelical Christians in Alabama aren’t either. Several national evangelical leaders, including Franklin Graham, head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, and Jerry Falwell, Jr., president of Liberty University, have expressed their support for Moore while others believe Moore is being unfairly persecuted for his faith by the mainstream media and particularly the Republican establishment.
Moore himself made clear that he was their target, telling Breitbart News over the weekend, “I believe with all my heart that Mitch McConnell [the Senate Majority Leader] and the establishment are in cahoots with the Democrats to stop this campaign. They have taken a calculated risk for two years with a Democrat [Doug Jones] and [then will] try to elect another Republican in two years. They want me out. So that’s what’s going on.”
Instead of rolling over, Moore has taken the Republican establishment on, effectively proving that in at least two cases, the mainstream media got essential facts in their charges against him grossly wrong. In a campaign statement issued on Monday, Moore’s campaign headquarters “unveiled statements from key witnesses that completely bust the story of [two of Moore’s accusers of sexual impropriety] and further reveal an unconscionable bias on the part of state and national press to hide the truth from Alabama voters who will undoubtedly see through the ‘fake news’ and elect Judge Moore for the man that they have always known him to be.”
Not only are Alabamans not buying into the media’s false frenzy but they are stepping to the plate financially to support Moore’s campaign. Moore’s campaign chairman Rich Hobson told ABC News that they have “raised more than $1 million in the last 10 days since the falsehoods came out. And that’s without the support of the NRC (National Republican Committee).”
Moore’s campaign ironically is being helped along by real and provable sexual predations by Democrats. First, there were the revelations about the charges levied against Harvey Weinstein for sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape. These opened Pandora’s Box because of Weinstein’s close connections to top people in the Democrat Party and Hollywood. Next came Senator Al Franken, whose sexual escapades came to light last week, which were covered by The New American’s journalist Selwyn Duke. According to Duke, these were just the most obvious and most recent of sexual predations linked to Democrats:
On the liberal side we have Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Weiner, Ben Affleck, directors James Toback and Oliver Stone, journalist Mark Halperin, NPR editor Michael Oreskes, Congressman John Conyers, Vox Media editorial director Lockhart Steele, New York Times correspondent Glenn Thrush, CBS’s Charlie Rose, and Al Franken — and the list goes on.
Even that list is too short. On Monday it was confirmed that Michigan Democrat John Conyers, the longest-serving member of the House of Representatives, settled a complaint for $27,000 in 2015 from a woman who alleged that she was fired because she wouldn’t “succumb to [his] sexual advances.”
All of which is redirecting attention away from Moore and onto the much more serious and provable accusations involving Democrats. The Real Clear Politics (RCP) Average in the Moore vs. Jones race shows Jones ahead of Moore by a scant (and statistically insignificant) 0.2 percent.
In the irony of ironies, the establishment Republicans and corrupt Democrats who want so desperately to keep Moore out of the Senate are in fact building the case, and the momentum, for Moore to outlast Jones in the December 12 contest and take Jeff Sessions' place as junior senator from Alabama.
Photo of Bill Clinton: Whitehouse.gov
An Ivy League graduate and former investment advisor, Bob is a regular contributor to The New American magazine and blogs frequently at LightFromTheRight.com, primarily on economics and politics. He can be reached at badelmann@thenewamerican.com.
Alabama Poll: Judge Roy Moore Leads Radical Democrat Doug Jones by Six Points
by MATTHEW BOYLE
Associated Press
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — Judge Roy Moore, the conservative GOP nominee for the U.S. Senate in Alabama, maintains a solid lead over Democrat Doug Jones, a new poll obtained exclusively by Breitbart News shows.
The poll from WT&S Consulting of 11,641 likely voters conducted from November 18 to November 20, with a margin of error of 1.2 percent, has Moore at 46.4 percent—towering six points over Jones, who is stuck down at 40.5 percent—while 13.1 percent are undecided.
The survey includes 60.9 percent Republicans and 39.1 percent Democrats—approximately the margins by which President Donald Trump defeated failed 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton in Alabama.
“This survey shows Roy Moore tracking down slightly since the allegations were released by the Washington Post but still holding a 5.9 percent lead,” pollster John Wahl told Breitbart News.
“Undecided had the most significant increase while Doug Jones also gained some support over the last ten days. Polling has been all over the place in this special election for U.S. Senate. I have seen numbers ranging from Roy Moore being ten points up to him being eight points down, and that’s surveys conducted during the same time frame. There have even been polls where Barack Obama had a higher favorable rating than Donald Trump. Clearly, that does not properly represent the voting history we have seen in Alabama’s past elections. My objective with this survey was to get some clarity on where this race actually is. I wanted to survey a massive sampling of registered voters and let them speak for themselves. With 11,641 respondents, I feel we have accomplished that mission.”
Wahl’s firm has done some work for the Moore campaign this election cycle, but before the runoff in the GOP primary where Moore smoked appointed incumbent Sen. Luther Strange to win the nomination by nearly double digits.
This survey comes on the heels of a handful of others showing a closer race—or a Jones lead. A Fox News survey showed Jones with an eight-point lead, but that poll—which Wahl referenced in his quote—showed former President Barack Obama’s favorability as higher than Trump’s in Alabama, something entirely inaccurate. Online surveys that showed a tie between Strange and Moore walking into the runoff now also show a tie between Moore and Jones, even though their track record is not the best. Wahl’s polls in Alabama proved to be the most accurate ahead of the runoff, as they came within a percentage point of nailing the outcome; his last poll predicted Moore would win by 8.6 percent, and Moore actually won by 9.2 percent.
This survey comes after Moore has weathered one of the biggest scandals in recent GOP senatorial history, where the Washington Post and Gloria Allred have hit Moore in recent weeks with allegations of sexual misconduct. Several holes and inconsistencies in those stories have emerged, however, and Moore has powered through—all while Jones’s radical positions on major campaign issues have come to the forefront. Jones, who has attempted to present himself as a moderate, opposes President Trump’s border wall, plans to vote against tax cuts, supports full-term abortion and amnesty for illegal aliens, and believes in “limitations” on the Second Amendment—all while wrapping himself up in the LGBTQ community’s activist agenda—something that puts him at odds with mainstream voters in Alabama.
Moore’s team has battled the allegations vociferously by framing this as a fight between him and the Washington establishment led by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and now heading into Thanksgiving—with two full weeks of campaigning left after the holidays before the December 12 runoff—is aiming for something of a reset in the final weeks to focus on the agenda issues that matter to the voters rather than unfounded allegations with no evidence from decades ago.
WT&S’s last survey, conducted in the thick of the scandal, had Moore up ten percent over Jones—something that was in line with Emerson College Polling Society numbers released about the same time. Similarly, Emerson correctly predicted the runoff results.
Report: H.R. McMaster Trashed Trump at July Dinner, Said He Had Intelligence of a ‘Kindergartner’
by KRISTINA WONG
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National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster trashed President Trump at a dinner in July with Oracle CEO Safra Catz – mocking his intelligence, five sources told Buzzfeed in a report published on Monday.
McMaster reportedly called Trump an “idiot” and a “dope” with the intelligence of a “kindergartner,” according to the sources, four of whom told Buzzfeed they spoke with Catz directly.
“[Catz] said the conversation was so inappropriate that it was jaw-dropping,” one source said.
McMaster also reportedly disparaged Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner at the dinner. McMaster reportedly said Kushner had no business being in the White House and should not be involved in national security issues.
Sources tell Buzzfeed the dinner took place on July 18 at the Washington, D.C. restaurant Tosca.
Oracle’s senior vice president for government affairs, Ken Glueck ,and a National Security Council spokesman “heatedly denied the comments” to Buzzfeed.
National Security Council Michael Anton told Breitbart News in a statement: “Actual participants in the dinner deny that General McMaster made any of the comments attributed to him by anonymous sources. Those false comments represent the diametric opposition of General McMaster’s actual views.”
Glueck, who attended the dinner, told Buzzfeed that “none of the statements attributed to General McMaster were said,” and that Catz “concurs entirely” with that.
But Buzzfeed reported that two sources told them that administration officials threatened to retaliate against those who knew of the dinner if they spoke to Buzzfeed. Glueck denied he made his statement under pressure.
The infamous dinner has been reported by several different outlets, most recently Axios in August. After that dinner, Republican mega-donor Sheldon Adelson decided to support a campaign alleging McMaster was anti-Israel, after speaking with Catz about the dinner.
Sources told Buzzfeed that the decision stemmed from comments McMaster made to Catz praising the Iran nuclear deal and describing Israel settlements in Palestinian territory as a major problem — two views antithetical to President Trump’s. McMaster previously worked at a think tank funded by George Soros that had helped push through the Iran nuclear deal.
Adelson said Catz told him about the dinner. “It certainly enlightened me quite a bit … Now that I have talked to somebody with personal experience with McMaster, I support your efforts.”
Catz, who is Israeli-born, has served on the executive committee of the Trump transition team, and has been floated for numerous posts in the Trump administration. She was reportedly alarmed by McMaster’s views and confided in others about the dinner.
Trump confidant Roger Stone spoke in detail about the dinner during a September 11 interview on the Alex Jones Show.
He said McMaster was attempting to recruit Catz — who has donated to both Democrats and Republicans — to chair the president’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
“McMaster became inebriated but during that time he took a call from the president,” Stone said, adding that when McMaster returned to the table “he had nothing but disparaging things to say about his boss.”
Stone then quoted McMaster as saying, “The president is a dope … he is incapable of understanding anything beyond 140 characters – the idea of this guy having the nuclear football is scary – I see my mission as preventing him from blowing up the globe.”
Catz was offended by the comments, told Adelson about the conversation, and Adelson associates tried to give the story to the New York Post, but Kushner had called Rupert Murdoch and spiked the story, according to Stone. He said Catz is refusing to talk to reporters but will if the president asks her about the meeting.
A sixth source who did not have details of the dinner told Buzzfeed that McMaster had made similar comments to him about the president’s intelligence in private, including that Trump lacked the “necessary brainpower” to understand matters before the National Security Council.
It is not the first time that McMaster has been caught disparaging Trump. He appeared at an invite-only conference in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Institute of the Study of War in September, and was reported to have “chuckled dismissively” when asked about Trump’s tweets on North Korea.
McMaster fired three National Security Council staffers: Derek Harvey, Rich Higgins, and Ezra Watnick Cohen — all officials who had worked on the Trump campaign, were seen as Trump loyalists, and NSC aides whom McMaster felt he could not control.
A source close to Harvey told Breitbart News earlier this year that McMaster had warned Harvey, a friend of his and a highly-respected retired colonel, to stop talking to Bannon. Days after Harvey was seen by McMaster’s top aide leaving Bannon’s office, he was fired from the NSC.
It has also been widely reported that McMaster has led the campaign to get Trump to stop using the term “radical Islamic terrorism.” McMaster also opposed Trump’s Riyadh summit earlier this year as too ambitious, and opposed decertifying the Iran nuclear deal. He also supported boosting the number of troops in Afghanistan by between 3,000 and 5,000 troops.
Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney issued a statement after Buzzfeed’s report calling for McMaster’s ouster.
“Ever since H.R. McMaster was appointed National Security Adviser to the President, his tenure has been marked by one debacle after another,” he said. “His many acts of insubordination and malfeasance should have cost McMaster his job long ago.”
“McMaster has made it a habit to publicly disrespect the president, and his contempt for Donald Trump disqualifies him from future service,” he said.
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