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Morris & McGann: Hey, Fusion GPS, What Happened to the Other $855,908 Hillary Paid You?
by DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
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It’s time for a public accounting of exactly how Fusion GPS spent close to a million dollars of unreported campaign expenditures in its quest to discredit and destroy Donald Trump.
We know that the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC secretly funneled $1,024,408 to Fusion GPS through the Perkins Cole law firm to pay for dirt on Donald Trump.
And we know that $168,500 of that money was then paid by Fusion to British ex-spook Christopher Steele to create his highly discredited and unverifiable dossier about Donald Trump’s alleged activities in Russia.
What we don’t know is what Fusion GPS did with the remaining $855,908.
That’s a lot of money.
And how it was spent is still a big secret, even though it was money from a federal campaign.
It’s time for all of that to come out.
A key part of the post-Watergate campaign finance reforms required campaigns to divulge precisely how they spend their money. Even as the new laws ended the days of suitcases of cash turned over in secret, they forced a transparency that makes corrupt payments, impermissible payments, or even embarrassing payments easier to expose and stop.
Except when you cleverly use a conduit for spending money on things you want to keep secret and don’t want to disclose.
That’s exactly what the Clinton campaign did. No one was supposed to know about their involvement in the dirty tricks. The campaign lawyer actually lied to the press about the campaign’s involvement. And, using the cutout of a law firm, Fusion has concealed where the money the Clinton campaign gave it went and what it paid for.
We have no idea who was paid from that the balance — $855,908.
But we do know that some of it went to make nine payments to at least three unnamed journalists. What exactly were they paid for?
Fusion refuses to say who they were and even which organs they worked for. It claims that the reporters were only hired by them to conduct “research.”
Is that credible?
Maybe they were paid to spot typos, too.
Who were they?
And beyond those three journalists, who else did Fusion GPS pay? And what did any other payees do for the money?
Did Fusion hire additional “opposition researchers”? More ex-spooks? Did the money find its way to other foreigners to quietly pass along more unverified, un-investigated gossip about Trump to the media?
Did it pay sources for the often false “intelligence,” as was the custom of Christopher Steele?
How much of the money did Fusion keep for itself?
The compilation of a dossier that Steele has admitted was based, in many parts, on “unsolicited sources” — and the hawking of that admittedly uninvestigated information to the press in order to influence the election was no less of an intrusion on our electoral process than the alleged Russian hacking.
We need to know who was behind this.
It’s time for complete transparency.
It’s Happening: Trump Set to Make Major Announcement About Israel
Reports confirm that President Donald Trump will formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel next week, following through on a promise he made several times on the campaign trail.
Axios reports that two sources with “direct knowledge” of the situation have confirmed that the Republican president will make the major announcement Wednesday.
The White House is still not confirming the news.
“The president has always said it is a matter of when, not if,” a White House spokesman said. “The president is still considering options and we have nothing to announce.”
The move would mark a historic turning point for American-Israeli relations, as the two countries are major allies on the world stage and Israeli leaders have long sought out official recognition of Jerusalem by the United States.
The move, however, would likely strain peace talks between Israel and Palestine, as the fight for control of the holy city has long been at the heart of the ongoing conflict.
White House adviser and son-in-law to the president, Jared Kushner, has taken the lead on fomenting a peace deal between the two factions.
Along with recognizing the capital, the Trump administration is currently mulling whether to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Speaking at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the United Nation’s vote that paved the way for the creation of Israel, Vice President Mike Pence reiterated his administration’s stance on the embassy move.
“While for the past 20 years, Congress and successive administrations have expressed a willingness to move our embassy, as we speak, President Donald Trump is actively considering when and how to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” Pence declared.
A 1995 law passed in Congress has called for the relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv, the country’s commercial capital, to Jerusalem. However, a clause within the legislation allowed for the sitting president to sign six-month delays of the move.
Every president since Bill Clinton has opted to keep signing the waiver — to the disappointment of Israeli leaders.
Things have been remarkably different since the arrival of Donald Trump, a Republican who campaigned last year on better relations with the Jewish State and, since becoming president, has already had a much better relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than his predecessor.
Axios reports that two sources with “direct knowledge” of the situation have confirmed that the Republican president will make the major announcement Wednesday.
The White House is still not confirming the news.
“The president has always said it is a matter of when, not if,” a White House spokesman said. “The president is still considering options and we have nothing to announce.”
The move would mark a historic turning point for American-Israeli relations, as the two countries are major allies on the world stage and Israeli leaders have long sought out official recognition of Jerusalem by the United States.
The move, however, would likely strain peace talks between Israel and Palestine, as the fight for control of the holy city has long been at the heart of the ongoing conflict.
White House adviser and son-in-law to the president, Jared Kushner, has taken the lead on fomenting a peace deal between the two factions.
Along with recognizing the capital, the Trump administration is currently mulling whether to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Speaking at an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the United Nation’s vote that paved the way for the creation of Israel, Vice President Mike Pence reiterated his administration’s stance on the embassy move.
“While for the past 20 years, Congress and successive administrations have expressed a willingness to move our embassy, as we speak, President Donald Trump is actively considering when and how to move the American Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,” Pence declared.
A 1995 law passed in Congress has called for the relocation of the embassy from Tel Aviv, the country’s commercial capital, to Jerusalem. However, a clause within the legislation allowed for the sitting president to sign six-month delays of the move.
Every president since Bill Clinton has opted to keep signing the waiver — to the disappointment of Israeli leaders.
Things have been remarkably different since the arrival of Donald Trump, a Republican who campaigned last year on better relations with the Jewish State and, since becoming president, has already had a much better relationship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu than his predecessor.
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“The Trump administration is far better than Obama was. Obama was very clearly resentful to our Prime Minister Netanyahu, an attitude that most regular Israelis took as a direct and personal insult,” said David Ha’ivri in an exchange with The Western Journal.
Ha’ivri is an Independent Strategist who lives in Shomron, Israel (West Bank), and follows the region’s politics closely.
“On that point alone, Trump is the total opposite, he clearly admires Netanyahu and is very warm to him, Israelis feel that friendship.”
Beyond not giving recognition to Jerusalem and continually punting on the relocation of the U.S. embassy, former President Obama developed a souring relationship with the Israeli prime minister after pushing through the Iran Deal, a 2015 international agreement that opened economic doors to Iran in the hopes that the rogue regime would discontinue its nuclear program.
Netanyahu had vehemently lobbied against the deal to no avail. However, the Israeli leader found a friend in opposing it: then-candidate Donald Trump. The Republican presidential contender threatened to walk away from the deal and has still considered that option since entering office.
According to Ha’ivri and other Israelis, there is still more they’d like to see the current administration do to better relations. The Shomron-based strategist has been disheartened by certain inactions by Trump.
“I am disappointed to see the current administration and its special envoys continue efforts to revive the failed Oslo two state delusion and engage with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its terror funding Palestinian Authority.”
“I would like to see the US government stop all funding to the thugs of the PA/PLO and instead support sincere programs for peace and coexistence which have been silenced by those thugs for the past two decades,” Ha’ivri continued.
Nevertheless, the expected moves by the Trump administration are considered major for Israel, the U.S’s strongest ally in the Middle East.
While recognizing Jerusalem as the capital city is all but certain, lingering doubt remains as to whether Trump will move the embassy or choose to sign another six-month delay, giving him more time to hash out logistics.
But according to White House officials, moving the embassy is a matter of “when, not if.”
Jason Hopkins is The Western Journal’s Washington, D.C., correspondent.
Ha’ivri is an Independent Strategist who lives in Shomron, Israel (West Bank), and follows the region’s politics closely.
“On that point alone, Trump is the total opposite, he clearly admires Netanyahu and is very warm to him, Israelis feel that friendship.”
Beyond not giving recognition to Jerusalem and continually punting on the relocation of the U.S. embassy, former President Obama developed a souring relationship with the Israeli prime minister after pushing through the Iran Deal, a 2015 international agreement that opened economic doors to Iran in the hopes that the rogue regime would discontinue its nuclear program.
Netanyahu had vehemently lobbied against the deal to no avail. However, the Israeli leader found a friend in opposing it: then-candidate Donald Trump. The Republican presidential contender threatened to walk away from the deal and has still considered that option since entering office.
According to Ha’ivri and other Israelis, there is still more they’d like to see the current administration do to better relations. The Shomron-based strategist has been disheartened by certain inactions by Trump.
“I am disappointed to see the current administration and its special envoys continue efforts to revive the failed Oslo two state delusion and engage with the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and its terror funding Palestinian Authority.”
“I would like to see the US government stop all funding to the thugs of the PA/PLO and instead support sincere programs for peace and coexistence which have been silenced by those thugs for the past two decades,” Ha’ivri continued.
Nevertheless, the expected moves by the Trump administration are considered major for Israel, the U.S’s strongest ally in the Middle East.
While recognizing Jerusalem as the capital city is all but certain, lingering doubt remains as to whether Trump will move the embassy or choose to sign another six-month delay, giving him more time to hash out logistics.
But according to White House officials, moving the embassy is a matter of “when, not if.”
Jason Hopkins is The Western Journal’s Washington, D.C., correspondent.
Op-Ed: I am a Cherokee woman. Elizabeth Warren is not.
"As Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not."
REBECCA NAGLE
For 72 hours this week, news headlines focused on President Donald Trump’s offensive usage of the name “Pocahontas” when he referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) at an event to honor Navajo Code Talkers on Monday.
As a young Cherokee woman, one would assume that I would take Warren’s side in standing up against Trump’s racist remark. Following the incident, Warren lambasted the president, telling MSNBC that Trump has done “this over and over thinking somehow he’s going to shut me up with it. It hadn’t worked in the past, it is not going to work in the future.”
A real Native American hero, right?
Wrong.
She was not a hero to me when she failed to foster a haven of support for Native students within Harvard University’s alienating Ivy League culture. She is not a hero for spending years awkwardly avoiding Native leaders. She is not a hero because, despite claiming to be the only Native woman in the U.S. Senate, she has done nothing to advance our rights.
She is not from us. She does not represent us. She is not Cherokee.
The controversy over Warren’s identity stems from the 1990s, when Warren was a professor at Harvard Law School. The university promoted her and celebrated her as the first minority woman to receive tenure. When the Boston press dug up these reports during Warren’s campaign for Senate in 2012, she stated she didn’t know why Harvard had promoted her as Native American. It appears that Warren categorized herself as “Native American” during a time when the minority status served her career and later dropped the marker after gaining tenure.
“…as Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not.”
In defending her supposed Native identity, Warren has drawn from both racist stereotypes and easily refutable stories about her family. At a 2012 press conference Warren stated that her family knew her grandfather was “part” Cherokee because “he had high cheekbones like all of the Indians.” Cherokee genealogists have pored through her family history to find that “None of her direct line ancestors are ever shown to be anything other than white, dating back to long before the Trail of Tears.” To add insult to injury, despite Warren’s public claims of Native American heritage, she has decidedly avoided talking with Native leaders and, in 2012, refused to meet with a group of Cherokee women at the Democratic National Convention.
As Cherokee Nation citizen and community activist David Cornsilk told me, “We don’t get to celebrate her, because we don’t know her. She is not related to us, she does not live in our community. She is not our conduit to the Senate. We are not celebrating her in the Tribal newspaper. Elizabeth Warren is nothing to us, so we have no inroad to that powerful operation that affects our daily lives.”
Warren’s misrepresentation of her heritage has major consequences for Native Americans, who have little visibility not only in politics, but in American culture at large. Warren’s claims of Cherokee identity make her the only representation of Cherokees that the average American will likely ever see. I challenge non-Native readers to name another Cherokee leader in elected office. Or any Native American holding elected office in the United States. Or a contemporary Native American author. A Native American movie star. A Native American athlete. Or any famous Native people who are alive today. What is beyond maddening is that, as Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not.
As a mixed Native woman, I have to relive the racist stereotypes Warren spits out to defend her alleged Native identity everyday. People constantly ask me, what part Cherokee are you? Who in your family was Cherokee? That’s so nice that you embrace your Native heritage.
I am not part Cherokee. There is not one member of my family who was Cherokee. I am Cherokee. I am an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation and a member of my home and urban Indian communities. We are living, real, and whole people; not fractions of Indians who used to be real.
“We are living, real, and whole people; not fractions of Indians who used to be real.”
“Non-Native people need to recognize their own limitations and that we, native people, are experts on our own communities. When they argue against us from a place of ignorance, they are actually dismissing us and disappearing us,” Cornsilk said.
As contemporary Native Americans, we live in the space between Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren, between the stereotypes that were created to excuse the wholesale slaughter of our people and the stereotypes that were created to excuse the wholesale appropriation of our identity and cultures. The Trumps and Warrens of the world leave very little space for us to exist — which, when you understand the history of the United States, makes perfect sense.
Trump casually throws around the word “Pocahontas,” but few are aware of the traumatic history it evokes — one that mirrors the grim reality that Native women face everyday. The fictional Disney character Pocahontas is based on a real Powhatan teenager named Matoaka, who was actually kidnapped and held hostage by White settlers. She died in England at the age of 21. Today, four in five Native women will be raped, stalked or abused in our lifetime and nine out of 10 of the perpetrators are non-Native. If Warren wanted to be true to her supposed
Native identity, she would have done well to do more than just stand up for herself — she would have stood up for her people.
As one of the statistics — a Cherokee woman and a survivor — Elizabeth Warren does not speak for me.
Sen. Warren needs to accept responsibility for misappropriating Native identity for her own economic and political gain. To help her, I have drafted an apology, which she has my full permission to appropriate. Every last word:
I am deeply sorry to the Native American people who have been greatly harmed by my misappropriation of Cherokee identity. I want to especially apologize to the over 350,000 citizens of Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band. In my family, there is an oral history of being Cherokee, however, research on my genealogy going back over 150 years does not reveal a single Native ancestor. Like many Americans who grew up with family members claiming to be Cherokee, I now know that my family’s stories were based on myth rather than fact. I am not enrolled in any of the three Federally recognized Cherokee Tribes, nor am I an active member of any Cherokee or Native American community. Native Nations are not relics of the past, but active, contemporary, and distinct political groups who are still fighting for recognition and sovereignty within the United States. Those of us who claim false Native identity undermine this fight.
I am sorry for the real damage that Native Americans have experienced as the debate about my false identity has revived the worst stereotypes and offensive racist remarks, all while Native people have been silenced. I will do my part as a Senator to push for the United States to fully recognize tribal nations’ inherent sovereignty and uphold our treaty obligations to Native Nations. I will use my national platform to advance the rights of Native Americans and I commit to building real relationships in Indian Country as an ally and supporter.
Correction: An earlier version of this piece stated that Warren checked a “Native American” box on job applications. In fact, Warren listed herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory.
Rebecca Nagle is a Citizen of Cherokee Nation and a two spirit (queer) woman. She is currently a writer and organizer living in Baltimore, MD.
As a young Cherokee woman, one would assume that I would take Warren’s side in standing up against Trump’s racist remark. Following the incident, Warren lambasted the president, telling MSNBC that Trump has done “this over and over thinking somehow he’s going to shut me up with it. It hadn’t worked in the past, it is not going to work in the future.”
A real Native American hero, right?
Wrong.
She was not a hero to me when she failed to foster a haven of support for Native students within Harvard University’s alienating Ivy League culture. She is not a hero for spending years awkwardly avoiding Native leaders. She is not a hero because, despite claiming to be the only Native woman in the U.S. Senate, she has done nothing to advance our rights.
She is not from us. She does not represent us. She is not Cherokee.
The controversy over Warren’s identity stems from the 1990s, when Warren was a professor at Harvard Law School. The university promoted her and celebrated her as the first minority woman to receive tenure. When the Boston press dug up these reports during Warren’s campaign for Senate in 2012, she stated she didn’t know why Harvard had promoted her as Native American. It appears that Warren categorized herself as “Native American” during a time when the minority status served her career and later dropped the marker after gaining tenure.
“…as Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not.”
In defending her supposed Native identity, Warren has drawn from both racist stereotypes and easily refutable stories about her family. At a 2012 press conference Warren stated that her family knew her grandfather was “part” Cherokee because “he had high cheekbones like all of the Indians.” Cherokee genealogists have pored through her family history to find that “None of her direct line ancestors are ever shown to be anything other than white, dating back to long before the Trail of Tears.” To add insult to injury, despite Warren’s public claims of Native American heritage, she has decidedly avoided talking with Native leaders and, in 2012, refused to meet with a group of Cherokee women at the Democratic National Convention.
As Cherokee Nation citizen and community activist David Cornsilk told me, “We don’t get to celebrate her, because we don’t know her. She is not related to us, she does not live in our community. She is not our conduit to the Senate. We are not celebrating her in the Tribal newspaper. Elizabeth Warren is nothing to us, so we have no inroad to that powerful operation that affects our daily lives.”
Warren’s misrepresentation of her heritage has major consequences for Native Americans, who have little visibility not only in politics, but in American culture at large. Warren’s claims of Cherokee identity make her the only representation of Cherokees that the average American will likely ever see. I challenge non-Native readers to name another Cherokee leader in elected office. Or any Native American holding elected office in the United States. Or a contemporary Native American author. A Native American movie star. A Native American athlete. Or any famous Native people who are alive today. What is beyond maddening is that, as Native people, we are relegated to being invisible, while Warren is not.
As a mixed Native woman, I have to relive the racist stereotypes Warren spits out to defend her alleged Native identity everyday. People constantly ask me, what part Cherokee are you? Who in your family was Cherokee? That’s so nice that you embrace your Native heritage.
I am not part Cherokee. There is not one member of my family who was Cherokee. I am Cherokee. I am an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation and a member of my home and urban Indian communities. We are living, real, and whole people; not fractions of Indians who used to be real.
“We are living, real, and whole people; not fractions of Indians who used to be real.”
“Non-Native people need to recognize their own limitations and that we, native people, are experts on our own communities. When they argue against us from a place of ignorance, they are actually dismissing us and disappearing us,” Cornsilk said.
As contemporary Native Americans, we live in the space between Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren, between the stereotypes that were created to excuse the wholesale slaughter of our people and the stereotypes that were created to excuse the wholesale appropriation of our identity and cultures. The Trumps and Warrens of the world leave very little space for us to exist — which, when you understand the history of the United States, makes perfect sense.
Trump casually throws around the word “Pocahontas,” but few are aware of the traumatic history it evokes — one that mirrors the grim reality that Native women face everyday. The fictional Disney character Pocahontas is based on a real Powhatan teenager named Matoaka, who was actually kidnapped and held hostage by White settlers. She died in England at the age of 21. Today, four in five Native women will be raped, stalked or abused in our lifetime and nine out of 10 of the perpetrators are non-Native. If Warren wanted to be true to her supposed
Native identity, she would have done well to do more than just stand up for herself — she would have stood up for her people.
As one of the statistics — a Cherokee woman and a survivor — Elizabeth Warren does not speak for me.
Sen. Warren needs to accept responsibility for misappropriating Native identity for her own economic and political gain. To help her, I have drafted an apology, which she has my full permission to appropriate. Every last word:
I am deeply sorry to the Native American people who have been greatly harmed by my misappropriation of Cherokee identity. I want to especially apologize to the over 350,000 citizens of Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the United Keetoowah Band. In my family, there is an oral history of being Cherokee, however, research on my genealogy going back over 150 years does not reveal a single Native ancestor. Like many Americans who grew up with family members claiming to be Cherokee, I now know that my family’s stories were based on myth rather than fact. I am not enrolled in any of the three Federally recognized Cherokee Tribes, nor am I an active member of any Cherokee or Native American community. Native Nations are not relics of the past, but active, contemporary, and distinct political groups who are still fighting for recognition and sovereignty within the United States. Those of us who claim false Native identity undermine this fight.
I am sorry for the real damage that Native Americans have experienced as the debate about my false identity has revived the worst stereotypes and offensive racist remarks, all while Native people have been silenced. I will do my part as a Senator to push for the United States to fully recognize tribal nations’ inherent sovereignty and uphold our treaty obligations to Native Nations. I will use my national platform to advance the rights of Native Americans and I commit to building real relationships in Indian Country as an ally and supporter.
Correction: An earlier version of this piece stated that Warren checked a “Native American” box on job applications. In fact, Warren listed herself as a minority in an Association of American Law Schools directory.
Rebecca Nagle is a Citizen of Cherokee Nation and a two spirit (queer) woman. She is currently a writer and organizer living in Baltimore, MD.
Trevor Noah: Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ Nickname For Warren Is Actually Pretty Woke
'He's hitting Elizabeth Warren for saying she was Native American, when she wasn't. Something she's never apologized for or owned up to.'
By Mary Katharine Ham
By Mary Katharine Ham
Trevor Noah, host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” tackled the “Pocahontas” controversy Wednesday. But in a departure from most of the media’s coverage of Trump’s nickname for Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Noah explained Warren’s part in it—the part where she claimed to be a Native American for decades with no evidence, gaining promotions and tenure in elite academia in part because her background added to the school's “diversity.”
Trump called Warren “Pocahontas” just this week, at an award ceremony honoring World War II’s surviving Navajo Code Talkers. Instead of simply criticizing Trump for turning what should have been a dignified ceremony into another presidential insult fest, which is fair, many decided “Pocahontas” itself is a racial slur, declining to explain why Trump calls Warren by that name.
Noah broke it to his audience that Trump is criticizing Warren for something “problematic, the kind of thing that we rightfully call each other out for every single day.”
He noted that all of Trump’s other nicknames are self-explanatory—”low-energy Jeb,” “Little Marco,” and “Lyin’ Ted”—but “Pocahontas” requires some background, and Noah offered it, running through how Warren lied about her ancestry for years, and the New England Genealogical Society batted down her claims in 2012. He even took a shot at one of Warren’s dumbest pieces of “evidence,” which she mustered desperately as questions intensified during her Senate run.
Warren claimed as evidence of her Native American background the fact she had contributed to a Native American cookbook called “Pow Wow Chow.” Unfortunately, that recipe was later found to be plagiarized. Noah missed her most egregious piece of “evidence”—a relative once told her “my Paw Paw had high cheekbones, like all the Indians do”—but his take on Warren is solid.
He ends with this: “As weird as it is to say, in his own racially offensive way, Donald Trump was being woke. And that’s unfortunately the truth…and the truth isn’t always something we want to hear.” The truth, even if it’s something we don’t want to hear. That sounds like it could be a motto for a whole profession.
Mary Katharine Ham is a senior writer at The Federalist.
Moore Accuser Caught Lying When News Surfaced That He Threw Her Brother in Jail
BY BENJAMIN ARIE
Facts and specifics used to matter to journalists. Even more importantly, they used to matter even more when serious allegations were brought up.
After all, if “innocent until proven guilty” disappears, then every person — including you — can have their life shredded based on hearsay and gossip.
It looks like a reliance on solid evidence has been thrown out the window, at least when it comes to the current accusations against Senate candidate Roy Moore.
Over the past several days, news outlets have been reporting unsubstantiated claims that a former police officer was told to protect cheerleaders from Moore.
The woman behind that accusation, Faye Gary, has also openly declared that Moore is a bigot and a racist… but it turns out that she was repeating her own “feelings” and opinions, not facts.
Even more shockingly, the mainstream media completely glossed over the fact that Moore was the prosecutor who sent Faye Gary’s criminal brother to prison 35 years ago.
Even more shockingly, the mainstream media completely glossed over the fact that Moore was the prosecutor who sent Faye Gary’s criminal brother to prison 35 years ago.
“The news media seemingly failed to vet Gary, with numerous articles and the MSNBC interview not mentioning that Moore was the prosecutor in an 1982 high profile case that sent her brother, Jimmy Wright, to prison on charges of possession of a controlled substance,” explained Breitbart News.
In other words, she has a clear personal bias and plausible motivation to slander the candidate. Media reports simply left this out.
WATCH: Retired Alabama police officer Faye Gary discuss Roy Moore on #AMR
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“Speaking in a Breitbart News interview on Wednesday, Gary falsely claimed that Moore ‘wanted to keep segregation here in the south,'” stated reporter Aaron Klein, who personally talked to Faye Gary.
“She then claimed that Moore ‘hates Jews. He hates blacks. He hates Muslims. He hates gays,'” continued the Breitbart journalist.
Those are serious claims. What is the evidence that they’re true?
Well… there isn’t any. When Breitbart pressed Gary for specifics about her accusation that Moore is a racist, she admitted it was her “personal feeling.”
“I don’t know exactly what he said about Jews, but he doesn’t like Muslims. I know he doesn’t like Muslims. It is my personal feeling that he doesn’t like blacks,” she declared.
Gee, what a mighty air-tight case. A woman whose criminal brother was put in prison by Roy Moore says the former judge is a racist and a bigot, because that’s her “feeling.”
And the same woman’s claim that she was told to keep Moore away from cheerleaders almost four decades ago? She admits it’s all completely based on a rumor — and not even one that involved anything illegal!
“On being asked as to who gave the instructions to stop Moore from being around the cheerleaders, Gary said they got this mostly from the rumors which spread around the city,” reported the International Business Times.
“The rumor was that Roy Moore likes young girls…. When they said that he liked young girls I thought he liked young girls who are in their 20s,” Faye Gary admitted. Emphasis added.
That’s what the mainstream media is running with: Feelings and rumors.
It’s incredibly difficult to view these anti-Moore claims with a straight face when they fall apart upon even casual investigation, and when the media is running random people’s opinions as fact.
Not a single one of these allegations would hold up in court. They don’t withstand basic scrutiny, and every new accusation seems even more far-fetched than the last.
Skepticism is smart, and therefore we cannot say with certainty whether the claims against Moore are true or not. What is increasingly clear is that hearsay has replaced facts, and that should alarm anybody who values truth and clarity over one-sided witch-hunts.
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Left-Wing Media Bash Trump over ‘Merry Christmas’ Message
by DR. SUSAN
The Washington Post and other left-wing media are slamming the words of President Donald Trump at the lighting of the national Christmas tree.
Trump followed through with his campaign promise to keep the focus on the Christian message of Christmas.
The Christmas Story begins 2,000 years ago with a mother, a father, their baby son and the most extraordinary gift of all—the gift of God’s love for all of humanity.
Whatever our beliefs, we know that the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of his life...
“Melania and I are full of joy at the start of this very blessed season,” Trump said, “the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
Washington Post columnist Petula Dvorak, however, is protecting the legacy of former President Barack Obama, whom she writes was not a Grinch when it comes to wishing “Merry Christmas” and celebrating the holy day.
“He even signed an executive order giving federal employees Christmas Eve off” in 2012, she defends Obama.
Dvorak continues, complaining as well about Melania Trump’s choice of Christmas decorations:
But they’re saying it was President Trump who brought “Merry Christmas” back to the White House. Or at least that’s the story being peddled by Fox News, a handful of conservative bloggers and the White House itself.
The unveiling of first lady Melania Trump’s Christmas decorations this week — including an oddly stark and ominous hallway of bare, shadowy branches that launched a thousand memes — was hailed as some kind of victory for tradition. As though the Obamas did away with every scrap of Christmas cheer for the past eight years and ate tofurky under a Festivus tree. In kente cloth.
The columnist points to a “delightful montage” of the Obama family saying “Merry Christmas” provided by MSNBC.
In 2016, the New York Post offered a review of Obama’s annual Christmas cards, and observed he used the words, “Happy Holidays” or “Season’s Greetings” with no mention of the Christian message of Christmas.
In his final official Christmas card as president, Obama used the words, “Happy Holidays.”
“We wish you and your loved ones a joyous holiday season and wonderful new year,” the card read as it featured a photo of the Obama family in formal dress.
Dvorak claims conservatives have trumped up “the tiresome and ridiculous ‘war on Christmas’ narrative every time Trump ‘needed a quick cheer,’” Not to be confused with the “war on women” narrative the left streams out whenever Planned Parenthood is embroiled in yet another scandal.
“There is no war on Christmas,” Dvorak asserts, adding, however, that there is a war on Jews and Muslims, “fueled by our commander in chief.”
Interestingly, as the Christian celebration of Christmas approaches, Dvorak fails to mention the genocide of Christians around the world under radical Islamic terrorists, and the rise of anti-Christian sentiment and secularization in the United States that came to a peak during the Obama era.
As Breitbart News reported in January 2015, the year 2014 “saw more global persecutionof Christians than any other year in recent history, and can only be compared to the first centuries when Christians were hunted down as criminals in the Roman Empire.”
In March 2016 – when Christians in the Middle East were being terrorized and killed at the hands of Islamic State radicals – the Obama administration refused to call this Christian genocide.
“[T]he terror campaign being waged by ISIS and its affiliates against Christians and other religious minorities meets the definition of genocide” in international law, said Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
On the home front in 2012, Obama administration officials and the former president himself cut videos on behalf of Dan Savage and his “It Gets Better Project.” Among other things, Savage was known for his bullying of Christian teens at a national journalism conference.
The Obama administration’s HHS contraceptive mandate forced Christian religious groups like the Little Sisters of the Poor – a group that ministers to the elderly poor – to spend years in court fighting to maintain the same religious freedom to live their faith beliefs in the public square as they have always enjoyed under the Constitution – until Obama became president.
The point is for Christians, Christmas is not about the “words” used in greetings, or the glitter and bows on packages and trees. Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus and what that event has meant for the world.
“Americans have known Christmas as a time for prayer and worship, for gratitude and goodwill, for peace and renewal,” said Trump.
“We’re thrilled to think of the people, across the nation and all across the continents, whose spirits are lifted by the miracle of Christmas,” the president continued, adding that the birth of Jesus Christ “forever changed the course of human history.”
“There is hardly an aspect of our lives today that his life has not touched: art, music, culture, law, and our respect for the sacred dignity of every person everywhere in the world,” the president said.
G’ day…Ciao…
Helen and Moe Lauzier
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