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Democrat Russian Collusion Delusionist Adam Schiff Still Howling at the Moon, Insists There’s ‘Evidence of Collusion’ Against ‘Deeply Unpatriotic’ Trump
by John Gage
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., insisted Wednesday there is “direct evidence” of collusion against President Trump, even as Republicans are calling for retribution against him for making unfounded claims.
During an interview on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Schiff said there is proof in plain sight.
“I think what you see in the public record is direct evidence. When the Russians, through an intermediary, offered dirt on the Clinton campaign as part of what’s described as the Russian government effort to help the Trump campaign, and Donald Trump’s son — who played a pivotal role in the campaign — says, ‘if it is what you say it is, I’d love it,' and sets up a meeting to receive that,” Schiff said. “That is very direct evidence of collusion."
Schiff said Trump’s actions during the campaign were “unpatriotic” even if they turn out to not be illegal.
“Whether it’s criminal or not,” Schiff said, referring to his repeated claims that Trump colluded with Russia. “It’s deeply unpatriotic, unethical, and corrupt.”
Trump called for Schiff’s resignation last week for "knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking" following the conclusion of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, which according to a summary from Attorney General William Barr, found no direct evidence of collusion with the Russia government by the president.
All Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee called for him to step down as chairman.
Dick Morris: Democrats’ New Phony Issue? Pre-Existing Conditions
Mandel Ngan / GeDemocratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Mandel Ngan / Getty Images)
Republicans must be smart, for once. Don’t hand the Democrats a phony issue with which to beat us over the head.
In crafting a Republican replacement for Obamacare, in the wake of the real possibility that Obamacare will be, finally, thrown out by the courts, the GOP plans must explicitly require that pre-existing conditions be covered in all government-subsidized policies. If not, the Democrats will use the issue to win elections for years to come.
As the Democrats seek to pivot away from their failed accusations about Russian collusion, they are focusing on health care, using Trump’s proposals to change Obamacare to stoke panic about the coverage of pre-existing conditions. They are trying to mobilize their base by painting a picture of millions of Americans denied adequate coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
But don’t fall for it. Here are the facts:
Both parties embrace coverage for pre-existing conditions. The difference is that Republicans want to allow insurance companies to offer plans that do not cover pre-existing conditions as long as everyone who wants to do so can buy a policy that does cover them. Democrats do not want to offer people the choice of cheaper plans with no protection against pre-existing conditions. They want there to be only plans that cover them.
Democrats say that allowing companies to offer both kinds of policies — as opposed to requiring pre-existing conditions to be covered — would lead many cost-conscious consumers to choose to do without the coverage for pre-existing conditions, leaving them bereft later on. They also accuse the Republicans of skimming off the healthier people with plans that do not cover pre-existing conditions, driving the cost of those that do even higher.
So both parties want to require that all companies offer policies that cover pre-existing conditions but the GOP wants to allow them to offer a choice of some plans without this protection
While there is a case for the Republican point of view that people should have a choice, it is a political mistake to insist on it. Democrats will be able to portray Republicans as blocking coverage for pre-existing conditions. They will make this their political rallying cry. Better to deny Democrats this foothold and require that all policies cover pre-existing conditions.
The Democratic embrace of the issue of pre-existing conditions comes after their previous obsession — covering the uninsured — no longer works. The number of uninsured has dropped from 44 million before Obamacare to less than 27 million today. And ten million of those still without insurance are here illegally. Why should a health insurance card be the only valid form of legal documentation they have?
With only 17 million uninsured citizens or legal immigrants — less than five percent of the country (and many of those uninsured by choice) — the Democrats needed to find a new excuse to scare people — and they found it in the issue of coverage of pre-existing conditions.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are seeking to make an issue of Trump’s efforts to invalidate the Obamacare law by arguing that it was only originally affirmed by the Supreme Court under Congress’ power to tax. The administration argues that without the fine for not having insurance, included in the original law but since stripped out, there is no tax in Obamacare and hence nothing on which to hang its constitutionality
But the emotional clout of the Democratic position all revolves around the issue of coverage of pre-existing conditions. We all peer into our past — more as we get older — and find pre-existing conditions that stoke our fear of losing coverage. Closely allied to this terror is the worry that insurance companies will drop us when we get sick without protections about pre-existing condition coverage.
Republicans should not allow Democrats to play this card. By covering pre-existing conditions — and permitting no other type of plan — they defang the issue and take from the Democrats their leading selling point.
The Democrats also deride Trump’s efforts to permit insurance plans to be offered that do not cover the full range of conditions. They call it “junk coverage.” But there is no way they can convince Americans that it is OK to charge higher premiums so that every medical procedure (including addiction recovery and maternity benefits for men) has to be covered even if it drives up premiums or necessitates every larger federal subsidies.
Republicans, in designing their alternative to Obamacare, need to bend on the issue of pre-existing coverage but need not waiver on the right to buy policies with less than complete coverage for all illnesses.
If the GOP drafters of the Republicans’ health care plan follow these guidelines, they can navigate these waters without running aground and truly make the Republicans the party of health care.
Report: Ilhan Omar Under Investigation for Misuse of Campaign Contributions
By Molly Prince
Report: Ilhan Omar Under Investigation for Misuse of Campaign Contributions
By Molly Prince
Democratic Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a probe into her campaign spending after complaints alleged that she misused contributions for personal use, according to a report published Monday.
The Minnesota Campaign Finance Board is investigating Omar after state Rep. Steve Drazkowski filed two complaints that she spent nearly $6,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
Some of the improper expenditures include payments to Omar’s divorce attorney and spending on travel to Boston and Estonia.
“I had observed a long pattern,” Drazkowski told WJLA.
“Representative Omar hasn’t followed the law.
“She’s repeatedly trampled on the laws of the state in a variety of areas and gotten by.
The campaign finance allegations come on the heels of a separate incident where the freshman congresswoman had to return $2,500 in speaking fees, according to The Pioneer Press.
Omar accepted payment from Normandale Community College and Inver Hills Community College in 2017, despite Minnesota House rules barring lawmakers from accepting speaking fees from entities with business at the Legislature.
Authorities have reportedly completed the investigation but have not yet compiled their findings or issued rulings.
Omar, along with fellow Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, became America’s first Muslim congresswomen when sworn into office in January.
Her time in office has been embroiled in allegations of anti-Semitism — though Omar has defended the anti-Semitic statements, such as ones invoking Allah to expose Israel’s “evil doings,” and she is on record stating Israel is not a democracy.
She also gave an interview to television host Ahmed Tharwat,who referred to Israel as the “Jewish ISIS” and mocked how Americans speak about al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.
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Trump announces Second Step Act to help ex-prisoners find work
by Steven Nelson
Trump announces Second Step Act to help ex-prisoners find work
by Steven Nelson
President Trump announced plans Monday for a Second Step Act focused on easing employment barriers for formerly incarcerated people.
"We are proving we're a nation that believes in redemption," Trump said at a White House event celebrating people released under the First Step Act, which he signed in December.
Trump said the "second step" legislation will feature a $88 million funding request for prisoner social reentry programs.
"Today, I'm announcing that the Second Step Act will be focused on successful reentry and reduced unemployment for Americans with past criminal records, and that's what we're starting right away," Trump said.
The First Step Act passed with broad bipartisan support, but after a bruising intra-Republican fight, with hardliners led by Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., and supported by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions opposing criminal sentencing reductions.
Trump said formerly incarcerated people are up to five times as likely to be unemployed and that the new legislation would seek to close the gap. He did not identify bill sponsors, but several Republican senators attended the event, including Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a leading prison and sentencing reform advocate.
During his remarks, Trump went off-script to thank Walmart, which last month interviewed and then hired Catherine Toney, whose crack cocaine sentence was shortened by the First Step Act.
Toney, standing over Trump's shoulder Trump the event, gave brief remarks thanking Jared Kushner for calling Walmart's corporate offices to help her get a job at her local Alabama Walmart.
Trump said his administration would also "encourage employers to adopt second chance hiring practices."
One speaker at the event, former prison inmate and Georgetown University law professor Shon Hopwood, was introduced by Trump as a current teacher of his daughter Tiffany Trump.
"I think you're going to be rewarded in a way you cannot even imagine," Hopwood told Trump.
Democrat Candidates Are Floundering
Democrat Candidates Are Floundering
We all knew the Democrat field of presidential candidates was too crowded (in the same way the Republican field of 2016 was over-stuffed), and the stress is beginning to show. How does one stand out when each candidate parrots the other?
The answer is to either out-left the other guy, take a standout contrarian position, or be super-intersectional. But each candidate is having problems at the moment – even those commonly considered to be at the top of the polls.
Joe Biden hasn’t even officially declared his candidacy yet (though everyone knows he is planning to run), and his team is reportedly now in crisis mode over the allegations by former Nevada assemblywoman Lucy Flores.
In response, Stephanie Carter, wife of former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, whose picture is often included in the montage of “creepy Biden” images, insists that all was not as it looked at the time.
Later, we went to the White House for the swearing in and I was feeling self-conscious and tentative (not a normal state for those who know me) about the fall — and perhaps about how much our life might change. As we walked in the room, reporters were staged and a young woman from Huffington Post shouted to me to ask if I was doing all right — I was somewhat thrown (did I not look all right?) but quickly remembered news of my fall on the ice had traveled. By the time then-Vice President Biden had arrived, he could sense I was uncharacteristically nervous- and quickly gave me a hug. After the swearing in, as Ash was giving remarks, he leaned in to tell me “thank you for letting him do this” and kept his hands on my shoulders as a means of offering his support. But a still shot taken from a video — misleadingly extracted from what was a longer moment between close friends — sent out in a snarky tweet — came to be the lasting image of that day.”
As I arrived home to my apartment that night, I was starting to get a sense from incoming texts that that picture was picking up steam. I got on the elevator and must have been too lost in thought to notice someone next to me. As I got off the elevator, the young woman started walking down my hall (which I found odd since there are few apartments leaving very few doors she could be going to) and began to feel her footsteps pick up close to mine. As I reached my door, I turned around to find her practically on top of me. When I confronted her, she said she was a reporter from the New York Post and did I have a comment about that picture. I quickly went inside and locked the door.”
It didn’t stop the next day, or the day after or the day after that. Friends tried to comfort me — they knew we had known Joe and Jill Biden for many years, long before he had become vice president, and that this presumption on the part of reporters wasn’t the type of attention I wanted. Ash tried to joke that it was the only way people knew that he had been sworn in. At his first available opportunity, he told the press that we had been friends with the Bidens for years and it wasn’t at all what people thought. But that didn’t stop people I had not heard from since high school sending me messages — usually with some joke or demanding to know what he had said to me.”
Meanwhile, when I next saw the Bidens, I told them I felt awful that after he had generously taken time out of his day to swear in an old friend, his attempt to support me had become a joke and even more — supposed proof positive that he didn’t understand how to respect women. I thought it would all blow over if I didn’t dignify it with a response. But clearly that was wishful thinking.”
I have no problem accepting Stephanie Carter’s defense of Joe Biden. The problem is, she’s just ONE of MANY creepy moments that were clearly NOT images of an “old friend giving moral support in a trying moment.” Go ahead and excise her photo from the collection. The point is that there is still a collection. And his fellow Democrats are more than happy to toss Biden under the bus.
As I arrived home to my apartment that night, I was starting to get a sense from incoming texts that that picture was picking up steam. I got on the elevator and must have been too lost in thought to notice someone next to me. As I got off the elevator, the young woman started walking down my hall (which I found odd since there are few apartments leaving very few doors she could be going to) and began to feel her footsteps pick up close to mine. As I reached my door, I turned around to find her practically on top of me. When I confronted her, she said she was a reporter from the New York Post and did I have a comment about that picture. I quickly went inside and locked the door.”
It didn’t stop the next day, or the day after or the day after that. Friends tried to comfort me — they knew we had known Joe and Jill Biden for many years, long before he had become vice president, and that this presumption on the part of reporters wasn’t the type of attention I wanted. Ash tried to joke that it was the only way people knew that he had been sworn in. At his first available opportunity, he told the press that we had been friends with the Bidens for years and it wasn’t at all what people thought. But that didn’t stop people I had not heard from since high school sending me messages — usually with some joke or demanding to know what he had said to me.”
Meanwhile, when I next saw the Bidens, I told them I felt awful that after he had generously taken time out of his day to swear in an old friend, his attempt to support me had become a joke and even more — supposed proof positive that he didn’t understand how to respect women. I thought it would all blow over if I didn’t dignify it with a response. But clearly that was wishful thinking.”
I have no problem accepting Stephanie Carter’s defense of Joe Biden. The problem is, she’s just ONE of MANY creepy moments that were clearly NOT images of an “old friend giving moral support in a trying moment.” Go ahead and excise her photo from the collection. The point is that there is still a collection. And his fellow Democrats are more than happy to toss Biden under the bus.
None of Biden’s potential rivals defended him following Flores’ allegations. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she believed Flores and that Biden “needs to give an answer” about what occurred. New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said, “Lucy Flores felt demeaned, and that is never okay. If Vice President Biden becomes a candidate, this is a topic he’ll have to engage on further.” Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said, “I believe it’s important to listen and take seriously any incident like this.”
Team Biden is completely underprepared if they weren’t ready for this kind of allegation to appear.
Bernie Sanders is holding strong at or near the top of the polls, and he still can’t give cohesive answers on the hows and whys of his policy platform.
Tom Elliott @tomselliottSanders: Mark my words, as president I'll lower prescription drug prices 50 percent. "You can repeat this, play this tape over when I'm elected president."
Margaret Brennan: How?
Sanders: ...
Brennan: -- So that Medicare for All plan of yours is popular ...
Good thing the media is there is give the old guy some cover. Bernie is in a tight spot – he’s actually having to compete with other hard-left candidates, and if he doesn’t have a coherent plan for any of his socialist pipe dreams, another candidate will.
Elizabeth Warren’s campaign is in some financial trouble, as her finance director has quit the campaign.
She was the first major candidate to announce; she has set the pace on policy, unveiling a series of far-reaching proposals on child care, taxes and the role of large technology companies; and she defied the pleas of her longtime finance director and declared that she would stop pursuing big donations altogether, leading to his resignation.”
But as the first fundraising deadline arrives at midnight on Sunday, Ms. Warren — who last year was widely considered a would-be front-runner — finds herself in a political vise. Her rivals on either ideological flank will raise substantially more money in the first quarter than she does, and her focus on policy has not yet translated in the polls.”
Ms. Warren’s early troubles reflect the broader challenges confronting the vast Democratic field, all vying for money and attention as they seek to dethrone President Trump. Harvesting online donations does not come easily to non celebrity candidates, and the party’s long standing fascination with youthful charisma — along with its current, Trump-driven fixation on electability — can outweigh qualities like experience or policy expertise.”
However, Warren does have a war chest *cough* that she can borrow from.
Ms. Warren has good reason to remain optimistic — or at least not to panic just yet. Even if she struggles to raise money in the early going, she can finance her ambitious campaign thanks to the $10 million aides say she has transferred from her Senate campaign account.”
And the contours of the 2020 race are nothing if not uncertain. Ms. Warren does not face the sort of unease within factions of the party that Mr. Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. do, and presidential history is littered with examples of candidates who surged late when other contenders unraveled.”
But as the first fundraising deadline arrives at midnight on Sunday, Ms. Warren — who last year was widely considered a would-be front-runner — finds herself in a political vise. Her rivals on either ideological flank will raise substantially more money in the first quarter than she does, and her focus on policy has not yet translated in the polls.”
Ms. Warren’s early troubles reflect the broader challenges confronting the vast Democratic field, all vying for money and attention as they seek to dethrone President Trump. Harvesting online donations does not come easily to non celebrity candidates, and the party’s long standing fascination with youthful charisma — along with its current, Trump-driven fixation on electability — can outweigh qualities like experience or policy expertise.”
However, Warren does have a war chest *cough* that she can borrow from.
Ms. Warren has good reason to remain optimistic — or at least not to panic just yet. Even if she struggles to raise money in the early going, she can finance her ambitious campaign thanks to the $10 million aides say she has transferred from her Senate campaign account.”
And the contours of the 2020 race are nothing if not uncertain. Ms. Warren does not face the sort of unease within factions of the party that Mr. Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. do, and presidential history is littered with examples of candidates who surged late when other contenders unraveled.”
Warren was done the minute she was forced to admit that her DNA test didn’t live up to her hype, and that she had used that alleged Native American ancestry claim for her own benefit. She won’t be the candidate, but she stands a fair chance of being named someone’s VP eventually.
Inexplicably and dangerously, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke continues to be A Thing, a media creation for those desperate to find the next Obama. And when you have media outlets like the Associated Press slobbering all over Beto’s one outfit, it’s easy to understand why.
Neato.
Holy Mother of all the facepalm. Look, AP, you can fangirl over him all you want, Beto’s married. Of course, once they got mocked on Twitter, the AP did a stealth edit. Screenshots are forever, AP.
If you thought the Republican 2016 primary cycle was vicious, it’s going to look like the Teddy Bear Picnic compared to the Democrat primary debates. Those first debates are only three months away. Brace yourselves – and stock up on popcorn.
Written by Deanna FisherGM Removes Made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer from Detroit Ballpark After Backlash from American Workers
John F. Martin/Chevrolet JOHN BINDER
Multinational automaker General Motors (GM) removed its made-in-Mexico red Chevrolet Blazer SUV from a display at Detroit, Michigan’s Comerica Park this week after backlash from American workers.
GM had perched the made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer on an enormous Chevrolet display — alongside the Chevrolet Silverado which is made in Fort Wayne, Indiana — in Comerica Park for the Detroit Tigers’ opening day this week.
GM executives’ decision to display the Chevy Blazer for opening day at Comerica Park came after the corporation decided to lay off thousands of American workers of the last two years, and most recently shuttered the Lordstown, Ohio, assembly plant — resulting in the immediate layoff of about 1,600 U.S. workers at the plant and experts predicting more than 8,000 Americans laid off from supporting industries in the area.
Comerica Park is the home of the Detroit Tigers, one of the country’s oldest baseball franchises. GM has featured its vehicles on the Chevrolet Fountain at centerfield for 10 years. The made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer, though, quickly came under fire from Detroit locals.
“When you have people that are being put out of work that you should stand behind your product, stand behind the people that support you and put it on display,” Detroit resident Katie Cesarz, who believes the display is insensitive to American GM workers, told WXYZ-TV Detroit.
“This is Detroit, Motor City,” a resident told WXYZ-TV Detroit. “Why do we have a car from Mexico?”
The display of the made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer also garnered immediate backlash from United Auto Workers (UAW) members and state representatives.
“It’s very distasteful for people,” a UAW worker at GM’s Detroit plant told the Detroit Free Press. “We’ve done outings to Tigers games. I don’t know if that’ll change or not based on the product sitting on the marque. We have a lot of pride.”
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), who represents the district that includes Lordstown, Ohio called GM’s display of the made-in-Mexico Chevy Blazer a “slap in the face” to American workers and those whom GM has laid off over the last few years to outsource production to foreign countries.
“It’s a slap in the face for American workers to showcase foreign-made cars alongside America’s pastime,” Ryan said in a statement. “This tone-deaf display is an insult to their tireless work and dedication to this company. GM should know and do better.”
Following the uproar from American workers, GM decided to scrap the Chevy Blazer display and changed it out for a Chevy Traverse, which is made in the U.S.
While GM has laid off its American workforce in Lordstown, and plans to lay off thousands of more Americans this year by closing its Detroit-Hamtramck and Warren Transmission plants in Michigan, as well as the Baltimore Operations plant in Maryland, GM is ramping up production of electric cars in China and offshoring to foreign countries to cut hundreds of millions in labor costs to widen their profit margins.
In Poland, GM builds the Buick Cascada coupe but sells the vehicle in the U.S. Similarly, GM is manufacturing its Buick Envision compact SUV and Cadillac CT6 sedan in China while manufacturing the Chevrolet Cruze, the Chevrolet Equinox SUV, the Chevrolet Trax compact SUV, the Chevrolet Silverado, the GMC Sierra, the Chevrolet Blazer SUV, and the GMC Terrain SUV all in Mexico.
As has been seen with other working and middle-class American communities, outsourcing and offshoring of U.S. manufacturing industries and jobs to cut labor costs for corporate executives has devastated entire regions of the country.
Weirton, West Virginia, for example, once boomed with 15,000 residents employed at steel mills. Free trade and outsourcing in the 1990s spurred mass layoffs in the American steel industry, leaving just 800 workers in the town still employed at steel mills.
American manufacturing is vital to the U.S. economy, as every one manufacturing job supports an additional 7.4 American jobs in other industries. Decades of free trade, with deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), has eliminated nearly five million manufacturing jobs from the American economy and resulted in the closure of nearly 50,000 manufacturing plants.
John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter at @JxhnBinder.
Hofstra University Students Demand Removal of Thomas Jefferson Statue
Hofstra University Students Demand Removal of Thomas Jefferson Statue
Wikimedia Commons ALANA MASTRANGELO
Students at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, demanded on Friday that the school remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson, arguing that it is not possible for the university to have the statue on campus while also being an institution that “prides itself on diversity and inclusion.” Students also called on the university to train its faculty and professors to behave in a more politically correct manner.
Students at Hofstra University in Long Island, New York, demanded on Friday that the school remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson, arguing that it is not possible for the university to have the statue on campus while also being an institution that “prides itself on diversity and inclusion.” Students also called on the university to train its faculty and professors to behave in a more politically correct manner.
Hofstra University students held their second annual “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!” protest of a Thomas Jefferson statue on campus on Friday, demanding that the university move the structure into a museum along with the “appropriate context.”
The Jefferson statue, which has also been subjected to acts of vandalism in the past, stands in front of the university’s student center — a location that some students have expressed frustration over, stating “it is unfortunate” that so many students and families “take photos and share hugs and smiles” in the presence of the Jefferson statue.
“So we just felt like, in addition to just, Thomas Jefferson being a slave owner and a um, sexual predator, and just, you know, awful, [the statue] is now an unavoidable thing,” said one student at an event on Friday, “it just doesn’t have a place, I think, on any college campus, like, there’s just no reason to, like, immortalize people who brutalize so many of the population.”
“I just don’t think that an institution that, you know, prides itself on diversity and inclusion, and like, offering such a rich liberal arts program can do both, like, I think you have to choose one or the other, and it seems like Hofstra is perfectly content with choosing Thomas Jefferson over literally everything else,” added the student.
Additionally, the event included demands for the university to train its staff on how to better interact with students, as several individuals went up to the podium to deliver their remarks detailing personal experiences with professors who make comments that the students have deemed unacceptable.
One student expressed her dismay upon seeing a professor post comments on Facebook in which he shared his opinion that “the university is wasting resources” by hiring a “Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer.”
“And so, I saw this, and was like, ‘hello?’ Like, what?” said the student, “So I explained, like, the actual, like, feeling of this campus, like, what it actually feels like to be a student of color and the actual situations that we’re dealing with, because the student population right now is 54 percent white and the faculty of the population is even less diverse, it’s 79 percent white.”
The student added that she had also been frustrated with the professor’s response to her. “He went on later to — just, pretty much invalidate everything that I said, like, what my experiences were, and just, told me that I was victimizing myself,” said the concerned student.
Students circulated a petition last year calling on the university to remove the Jefferson statue over concerns regarding “slavery, rape, and anti-black racism.” The petition also argues that too many students on campus end up encountering the statue as they “walk through the Student Center for a quick cup of coffee.”
The petition also states that “Jefferson’s values aided in the construction of institutionalized racism and justified the subjugation of black people in the United States,” adding that commentators in “white supremacist chat rooms” have also embraced the founding father.
The university responded to the students’ demands by informing them that the statue wasn’t going anywhere. “I have decided that the Thomas Jefferson statue will remain where it is,” said University President Stuart Rabinowitz in a statement last May.
“On the one hand, Thomas Jefferson articulated the best of our ideals in the Declaration of Independence and was a defender of freedom in helping to create a new nation: the United States of America,” continued Rabinowitz in his statement, elaborating on why he made the decision to keep the Jefferson statue.
Rabinowitz added that while not every founding father may have lived out “the dream they had sketched out,” their words were “far ahead of their time and certainly ahead of their actions.”
“And still, today, the founding fathers represent the duality of the American character and the difficulty of our history: freedom and oppression, equality and injustice, in issues of race, gender, religion and origin, that we have dealt with since our founding and will deal with for years to come,” continued the university president.
“Yet in the documents most critical to our national character these men of their time laid out a vision of a world in which all people are created equal,” added Rabinowitz, “It is this vision we celebrate and honor in our Founding Fathers, even as we wrestle with their human and indefensible failings.”
“We shouldn’t have to ask for these things, none of them are really that radical,” said a student at the event on Friday, “College campuses all over the country are dealing with repercussions of slavery, and just, you know, historical trauma, and they’re dealing with that much better than Hofstra is.”
You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Twitter at @ARmastrangelo and on Instagram.
Conservative Tribune Investigative Journalist Uncovers Stunning Biden Docs… In Ukraine
“We shouldn’t have to ask for these things, none of them are really that radical,” said a student at the event on Friday, “College campuses all over the country are dealing with repercussions of slavery, and just, you know, historical trauma, and they’re dealing with that much better than Hofstra is.”
You can follow Alana Mastrangelo on Twitter at @ARmastrangelo and on Instagram.
Conservative Tribune Investigative Journalist Uncovers Stunning Biden Docs… In Ukraine
Former Vice President Joe Biden is often talked about as a front-runner for the Democratic nomination if he enters the race, but an incident involving Biden and Ukraine (partial map, center) could make him a target for other Democratic contenders. And in a party that just spent more than two years accusing President Donald Trump of collusion with Russia (partial map, right) that could mean trouble for Biden. (Getty Images; CIA Factbook maps)Simply put: Joe Biden has problems. Like, a lot of them. And some of them don’t even involve women who are creeped out by Biden’s handiness. In fact, some of them aren’t even in America at all.
I’m not sure if you’re familiar with John Solomon, but you should be. The investigative reporter has forgotten about more political corruption investigations than most other journalists have taken part in.
He’s also been one of the most consistently reliable reporters on the Russia “collusion” story and the attendant corruption and swampiness surrounding that debacle. So, of course, most of the mainstream media didn’t really pay it much mind.
His attention, most recently, has been on Joe Biden and some thorny issues in Ukraine — issues that could yet again throw some shade on Biden’s probable 2020 run for the presidency.
Biden, you may perhaps remember, was given the role as the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine after the 2014 revolution that ousted the pro-Moscow president at the time, one Viktor Yanukovych.
The then-vice president certainly made some waves in the former Soviet republic. In a 2018 speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, he used some inadvisable bluster to discuss how he threatened Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko with the possibility of quashing $1 billion in loan guarantees from the United States if the country’s Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin wasn’t canned.
“I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion.’ I’m going to be leaving here in, I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money,’” Biden recalled of the March 2016 meeting, according to a Solomon piece published Monday by The Hill.
“Well, son of a bitch, he got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time,” Biden said.
Shokin was indeed an unpopular man with both the United States and the Ukrainians for not bringing enough anti-corruption cases, sources told Solomon.
However, Solomon reported, they said Biden’s narrative misrepresents two important facts.
First, according to Solomon, the pressure was applied from late 2015 up to Shokin’s firing, indicating that this was a significant priority for Biden. Second, while Shokin’s unpopularity may have stemmed from the fact that he wasn’t investigating enough corruption, the vice president neglected to mention one anti-corruption probe Shokin actually was undertaking at the time of his firing: A probe of natural gas corporation Burisma Holdings, a company that sported Hunter Biden — the then-veep’s son — as a board member.
“U.S. banking records show Hunter Biden’s American-based firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, received regular transfers into one of its accounts — usually more than $166,000 a month — from Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015, during a period when Vice President Biden was the main U.S. official dealing with Ukraine and its tense relations with Russia,” Solomon noted in the Monday report.
“The general prosecutor’s official file for the Burisma probe — shared with me by senior Ukrainian officials — shows prosecutors identified Hunter Biden, business partner Devon Archer and their firm, Rosemont Seneca, as potential recipients of money.”
The new prosecutor general noted that board members can legally pay themselves for work done under Ukrainian law, but only if that work is beneficial to the company. Prosecutors never determined whether that was the case in the Bursima-Rosemont Seneca arrangement because, well, the prosecutor who was looking into it was fired.
Ukraine officials said Biden was undoubtedly aware of Shokin’s investigation because, as Solomon notes (among other things) “The U.S. embassy in Kiev that coordinated Biden’s work in the country repeatedly and publicly discussed the general prosecutor’s case against Burisma” and that “Biden’s office was quoted, on the record, acknowledging Hunter Biden’s role in Burisma in a New York Times article about the general prosecutor’s Burisma case that appeared four months before Biden forced the firing of Shokin. The vice president’s office suggested in that article that Hunter Biden was a lawyer free to pursue his own private business deals.”
As for the probe being conducted by Shokin, he told Solomon that before his firing, he had “specific plans” that “included interrogations and other crime-investigation procedures into all members of the executive board, including Hunter Biden.”
“I would like to emphasize the fact that presumption of innocence is a principle in Ukraine,” he told Solomon, declining to elaborate on what evidence he had.
“Most of the general prosecutor’s investigative work on Burisma focused on three separate cases and most stopped abruptly once Shokin was fired. The most prominent of the Burisma cases was transferred to a different Ukrainian agency, closely aligned with the U.S. embassy in Kiev, known as the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), according to the case file and current General Prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko,” Solomon wrote.
“NABU closed that case, and a second case involving alleged improper money transfers in London was dropped when Ukrainian officials failed to file the necessary documents by the required deadline. The general prosecutor’s office successfully secured a multimillion-dollar judgment in a tax evasion case, Lutsenko said. He did not say who was the actual defendant in that case.”
Unfortunately for Biden, Lutsenko — that “solid” prosecutor that Biden took credit for installing — has reopened the case just in time for the 2020 election, Solomon reported.
As he was reviewing the files of the case, the prosecutor general told Solomon, he discovered documents that say “members of the Board obtained funds as well as another U.S.-based legal entity, Rosemont Seneca Partners LLC, for consulting services.”
And part of his investigation includes Biden’s interference in the matter, as well, Solomon reported.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Biden had correlated and connected this aid with some of the HR (personnel) issues and changes in the prosecutor’s office,” Lutsenko told Solomon.
However, Solomon reported, the lead anti-corruption prosecutor under Lutsenko said that “(w)e don’t see any result from this case one year after the reopening because of some external influence,” declining to offer specifics.
So first off, is it “collusion” with a foreign government if you get a prosecutor who is investigating your son fired using American loan guarantees as a carrot and (mostly) stick? Asking for a friend.
That’s the great irony here. When it comes to that amorphous word “collusion” and how it relates to that troublesome area of the world, we can certainly prove plenty of it happened on the other side of the aisle.
Yes, I understand that the government in Ukraine isn’t an enemy of the United States the way that Putin’s Kremlin is, obviously. But if we want to talk about that, what about “colluding” with sketchy Russian intelligence officials to assemble a noisome dossier whose claims have turned out to be mere bunkum, all with money from the Democratic National Committee and the campaign of the 2016 Democrat nominee’s campaign?
Beyond that, it’s probably time to stop referring to Joe Biden as the unqualified favorite for the Democrat nomination. No major pollshave been taken, after all, since Lucy Flores, a former Nevada Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, published a New York magazine piece last week charging the former vice president with inappropriate behavior which, depending on your interpretation of it, may or may not have been sexual but was decidedly creepy.
And then there was the slow-motion disaster that was the idea of Biden’s offering the vice presidential spot to failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a clear sop to liberal voters not entirely convinced an old white man with a spotty record on intersectional issues is the proper choice for the party going forward.
The media might ignore the Ukraine investigation at first. After all, CNN and MSNBC devoted zero minutes of coverage to Flores’ charge on the day it was levied, and Solomon’s report is likely to meet the same fate for now.
However, it’s not something his adversaries in the Democrat field are going to ignore, which means even the liberal media will have to address it at some point.
And it’s yet another sign that the nomination process is going to be anything but smooth sailing for the former vice president.
And it’s yet another sign that the nomination process is going to be anything but smooth sailing for the former vice president.
Ciao…..G’day…….Helen & Moe Lauzier
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