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by Deanna Fisher
It’s official – Senator Bernie Sanders swears he is the only candidate who can
defeat Donald Trump, so he’s running for president.
‘Bob Kraft Not The Biggest Name Involved’ In Florida Prostitution Case, ESPN's Schefter Reports
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By RYAN SAAVEDRA @REALSAAVEDRA
ESPN's Adam Schefter reported on Friday that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is "not the biggest name involved" in a prostitution case in South Florida.
"On Friday morning, police in Jupiter, Florida charged prominent New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft — who is worth an estimated $6.6 billion — with soliciting prostitution at a local spa," The Daily Wire reported. "Local police claim that there is inculpatory video evidence.
Following the news about Kraft, Schefter reported on ESPN's "SportsCenter" that Kraft is supposedly not the biggest name involved.
"There are people down there in that area I’m told who say this story is going to heat up and get a lot worse," Schefter reported. "I don’t mean involving Robert Kraft, I’m talking about with all the human trafficking that has gone on down there, I’m also told that Robert Kraft is not the biggest name involved down there in South Florida, and we will see what police turn up in the report."
"We got 25 names today, there are 175 more names coming," Schefter later said. "Now some will just be regular people whose names we don’t know. But there could be other names that we do know, and that’s how it was explained to me."
Schefter concluded by saying, "I was speaking and texting with someone who lives down there, and they told me it’s going to get a lot worse down there, that there will be other people involved, that everyone down there is very nervous right now, that there are people being arrested that are prominent members of society down there."
WATCH:
While 25 people have been charged so far, including Kraft, law enforcement officials expect to charge approximately 100 men in the case, according to WPTV.
"Jupiter Police chief Daniel Kerr said Kraft was charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution, and that a warrant for his arrest is with the state’s attorney’s office and will be sent to Kraft’s home in Massachusetts," Deadspin reported.
A spokesperson for Kraft responded to the matter in a statement, saying: "We categorically deny that Mr. Kraft engaged in any illegal activity. Because it is a judicial matter, we will not be commenting further."
"The NFL owner was charged with paying for sexual services at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter," TCPalm reported. "The spa was among 10 shut down in the Orlando area, Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast after a several-month investigation revealed women there were in'sexual servitude,' according to arrest records."
"Mr. Kraft was said to have patronized a spa called Orchids of Asia in Jupiter, a small storefront business in a strip mall that also includes a nail salon, a surf shop and a Thai restaurant," The New York Times reported. "The police said Mr. Kraft visited twice, dropped off by a driver. The mall, anchored on one end by an Outback Steakhouse, is near lushly landscaped gated communities — and less than five miles from Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter."
In a separate report, the TCPalm noted that the charges were the culmination of a six-month investigation that "revealed human traffickers were luring vulnerable girls to massage parlors in Indian River County, where they were coerced into working as prostitutes."
"These girls are there all day long, into the evening. They can't leave and they're performing sex acts," Vero Beach Police Chief David Currey said. "Some of them may tell us they're OK, but they're not. We know that… even though we may have charges on some of them, we'd rather them be victims."
"Some of them are trying to make a better life for themselves," Currey continued. "These people truly are stuck."
The 25th Amendment Talk Isn’t The Real Scandal; The Spygate Coup Attempt Is DEEP STATE COUP: The Greatest Constitutional Crisis Since the Civil War The 25th Amendment Talk Isn’t The Real Scandal. The Spygate Coup Attempt Is
The true scandal is not the swirling gossip that Rod Rosenstein mentioned the 25th Amendment, but what has been front and center for more than two years: It’s the dossier, stupid!
By Margot Cleveland
By Margot Cleveland
Last week when Andrew McCabe launched his Orange Man Bad tour, he stunned the public with claims that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein suggested using the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office. Reaction on the hill came quickly, with Sen. Lindsey Graham calling the claim “beyond stunning.”
Graham, the new chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised an investigation, telling CBS’s “Face the Nation”: “There’s an allegation by the acting FBI director at the time that the deputy attorney general was basically trying to do an administrative coup, take the president down [using] the 25th Amendment process. The deputy attorney general denies it. I promise your viewers the following: that we will have a hearing about who’s telling the truth, what actually happened.”
But the supposed consideration of the 25th Amendment shouldn’t be the focus of the outrage. After all, that amendment, which allows the vice president plus a “majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide” to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” is part of our constitutional system. Its stringent requirements for removing a president ensure it cannot be used to execute a soft coup by political opponents.
The true scandal is not the swirling gossip that Rosenstein mentioned the 25th Amendment, but what has been front and center for more than two years: It’s the dossier, stupid!
It’s the dossier, its funding, its creation, and its use. It’s the leaks, the sabotage by political appointees and career DOJ and FBI agents, the media’s complicity, and the triggering of a special counsel, all with the end goal of removing the duly elected president by pressuring Trump to resign or face impeachment.
While we may never learn the full scope of this sting, what is known makes “Spygate”—for want of a better term—the worst political scandal in American history: A dossier funded by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign, and authored by a former British spy (Christopher Steele, who despised Trump), falsely claimed Trump and individuals connected to his presidential campaign conspired with Russia. The dossier was shopped to multiple media outlets and passed off to the Obama administration’s DOJ, FBI, and State Department, as well as several members of Congress and their staffers.
The FBI then used confidential human sources and other allies, such as Stefan Halper and Australian diplomat Alexander Downer, to target members of the Trump campaign to establish a pretext to launch an investigation of the Trump campaign and to obtain a secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act surveillance order on former campaign advisor Carter Page. Multiple governmental officials signed off on the Page FISA application without reading it, and the FISA court granted the surveillance order based on double-hearsay and claims made in the unverified dossier. That surveillance order gave the government access to past communications of Trump campaign members.
Following the election, Steele continued to feed the DOJ and FBI fake intel on Trump. However, because the FBI had terminated its relationship with Steele in early November upon learning that the former spy had leaked the dossier to the media then lied about doing so, Steele passed the information on to DOJ attorney Bruce Ohr. Ohr then relayed the Steele’s info to the FBI.
With the new year came more meddling: On January 5, 2017, FBI Director Jim Comey and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates briefed President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and National Security Advisor Susan Rice on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. The following day, Comey briefed president-elect Trump on the Steele dossier.
That briefing was quickly leaked to the media, providing the hook CNN sought to report on the existence and substance of the dossier. But as recently released emails reveal, the press—which had long possessed copies of the Steele dossier—purposefully fed the public only the most believable details to make the unverified allegations appear credible.
The Daily Caller exposed this reality, reporting that after BuzzFeed published the full Steele dossier, “CNN anchor Jake Tapper lit into BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith for the decision, calling it ‘irresponsible’ and ‘uncollegial,’” according to emails released as part of a federal lawsuit brought against BuzzFeed. “‘I think your move makes the story less serious and credible[.] I think you damaged its impact,’ Tapper wrote to Smith on Jan. 10, 2017, just after BuzzFeed published the dossier in full on its website.”
The FBI seemed content with these developments, though, with disgraced lead FBI Agent Peter Strzok suggesting in a text to Lisa Page that now that the dossier “is out, we use it as a pretext to go interview some people.”
The leaks also were not limited to CNN; rather, while Tapper was berating BuzzFeed’s editor, a staff writer for The New Yorker was emailing Rice seeking comment on a forthcoming story on Trump’s supposed Russia connections and the briefing Obama had received. Rice forwarded the email to Benjamin Rhodes, who promised to call the reporter the next day.
Rhodes, you will recall, served as Obama’s deputy national security advisor. In that role, Rhodes successfully created an “echo chamber” to sell the Iran deal to Americans by feeding know-nothing young reporters with the administration’s narrative that the billion-dollar payout would ensure Iran abandoned its nuclear ambitions. Whether Rhodes also had a role in peddling the Russia-collusion narrative is unknown.
The narrative took hold and the leaks continued, including a leak from a “senior U.S. government official” to the Washington Post’s David Ignatius. So on the heels of news breaking that the FBI had briefed both Obama and Trump on the dossier, the Post published a January 12 article revealing Trump’s incoming national security advisor and former campaign advisor, Michael Flynn, had called the Russian ambassador several times on December 29—the same day “the Obama administration announced the expulsion of 35 Russian officials as well as other measures in retaliation for the hacking.”
Flynn’s questioning by Strzok and his subsequent firing soon followed. Then when Trump spoke with Comey about Flynn, telling his FBI director that Flynn was “a good guy,” and “I hope you can let it go,” Comey scurried back to his office, drafted a memorandum of the conversation, later casting Trump’s comment as an attempt at obstructing justice.
Comey shared his supposed concerns over this conversation with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, Chief Counsel James Baker, and Chief of Staff Jim Rybicki, but would later tell the House judiciary and oversight committees that the group “didn’t feel we could go to Attorney General Sessions because he was about to be recused.” Instead, Comey testified that “the group decided to ‘hold on to it, keep the information close hold.’” When pushed on how he knew Sessions was about to recuse from the Russia investigation, Comey couldn’t say, though, adding to the view that Democrats had orchestrated Sessions’ recusal.
For all his concerns, Comey continued to privately assure President Trump that he was not a target of the Russia investigation. Yet Comey refused to acknowledge publicly what he confirmed privately to the president. So the Russia collusion narrative continued.
It was soon further bolstered when long-time Senate intelligence committee staffer James Wolfe shared details concerning the committee’s investigation into Page with his one-time mistress, reporter Ali Watkins. Watkins ran with these leaks, first at BuzzFeed and later when she moved on to The New York Times.
Here we have another newly exposed factoid from filings in the BuzzFeed case: BuzzFeed identified Watkins in court filings as one of the individuals who “conducted newsgathering in connection with the Dossier before BuzzFeed published the Article” on the dossier. This fact raises the question of whether Watkins received information from Wolfe concerning the dossier and, if so, what he leaked.
The most significant leak, however, came following Trump’s firing of Comey. After Trump terminated him, Comey gave several memoranda he had drafted while serving as the FBI director to a law professor friend. That friend then leaked the memos to The New York Times, in hopes of forcing the appointment of a special counsel.
Comey’s ploy worked, and the day after the Times ran the story, Rosenstein (who was in charge because of Session’s forced recusal) appointed Robert Mueller special counsel to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump.”
Mueller’s appointment helped cement the Russia collusion narrative in the public’s consciousness, but after nearly two years of stories, leaks, and fake news (such as the supposed meetings between Paul Manafort and WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy), Mueller has yet to reveal any evidence of illegal coordination. So the soft coup that started with the DNC and Clinton-funded dossier will soon fail.
But the intelligence community’s attempt to undo an election and the media’s willing assistance in those efforts represent the most undemocratic abuse of power ever seen in our constitutional republic. That is the real scandal, not Rosenstein’s purported passing mention of the 25th Amendment.
Margot Cleveland is a senior contributor to The Federalist. Cleveland served nearly 25 years as a permanent law clerk to a federal appellate judge and is a former full-time faculty member and current adjunct instructor at the college of business at the University of Notre Dame.
Happy 287th Birthday, George Washington!
Happy 287th Birthday, George Washington!
Without George Washington, there is no United States of America. Today, we honor the man who was truly the Father of Our Country.
287 years ago yesterday, George Washington was born. Despite an epic fake news moment by Katy Tur, Washington was a native Virginian.
Happy birthday to George Washington, born #OnThisDay in 1732 at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia! 
https://bit.ly/2GWkTcr #GWBirthday
https://bit.ly/2GWkTcr #GWBirthdayToday, his beloved home, Mount Vernon, where he is buried, celebrated his life.
George Washington did not seek to be “great.” He strove to be an example of good manners. But he possessed the capacity to inspire. And not just the men that served under him in the Continental Army. He earned the admiration of the other Founding Fathers and set the example that stunned the world – the ability to walk away from power.
And in death, Washington refused to become an idol. A crypt was built for his remains in the United States Capitol, and while Washington had said in his will that he wished to be buried at Mount Vernon, his widow Martha initially agreed. However, the delay in the contruction and the argument over the memorial meant that when the crypt was ready and Congress asked, the Washington family declined.
George Washington is the only man ever unanimously elected as president – twice. When he finally left public office, he left behind a farewell address that is still read in the Senate on his birthday every year. Washington’s wordsshould be read by all of us today – because it sounds a warning for us over 200 years later.
I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.
Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.
It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.
There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
May we all take a moment to reflect on the words of our first president and one of the greatest men in American history on his 287th birthday. Thank you, President Washington. Happy birthday.
Featured image: George Washington, John Trumbull painting, 1790, Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Featured image: George Washington, John Trumbull painting, 1790, Wikimedia Commons, public domain
Written by Deanna FisherJussie Smollett's alleged hoax got more media attention than my son, who was shot and killed in Chicago
By Carmia Tang | Fox News
Defamation lawyer Libby Locke says the 'Empire' actor Jussie Smollett could also be made to pay back expenses to the city of Chicago for resources used to investigate his case.
My son was shot and killed in Chicago – where is his national media attention?
My name is Carmia Tang. My only child, Jeremy Alexander Tang, was murdered in Chicago on Sept. 3, 2017.
JUSSIE SMOLLETT'S LAWYERS BLAST AUTHORITIES, SAY ACTOR WAS 'BETRAYED BY A SYSTEM THAT WANTS TO SKIP DUE PROCESS'
I am disgusted by the national media attention that the Jussie Smollett case has received. Meanwhile – right now – we have hundreds of mothers left with unanswered questions and unsolved cases.
Parents and families of gun violence victims matter too. Can we please get the same efforts and national media attention that Smollett got with his alleged attack?
If Jussie Smollett lied, he has wasted tons of taxpayer dollars and extremely valuable police time – and should be prosecuted to the fullest. Police resources were used for an awful hoax instead of an unsolved case like Jeremy's.
Jeremy was murdered just two weeks before his 21st birthday. He meant the world to me. He played football and water polo. He loved to dance. He was my heart and soul.
Carmia Tang with her son Jeremy Tang, who was shot and killed in Chicago September 3, 2017. (Courtesy of the author)
There are hundreds of mothers in Chicago in the same exact situation. I personally know some of them. Where is the national media attention and outrage for the 700 plus unsolved murders in Chicago?
My son is only a statistic, not a national news story. Doesn’t he deserve more than that? Don’t all of the other victims of murder and crime in Chicago deserve more than that?
Many people blame the community in Chicago and the code of silence for the unsolved murders but did we get 12 detectives on our cases? No. Were videos and evidence searched to the extreme like in the Smollett case? No.
Is the nation aware that the Illinois Crime Lab is currently backed up in processing over 13,000 cases of DNA for various crimes in Chicago?
At a Senate hearing last year they said it could take possibly up to five years to catch up on all these cases – leaving criminals left walking the streets of Chicago. They said they have low funding and staffing. But did you know, that in 2017 Chicago spent over a half a million dollars to clean the park up after Lollapalooza?
Parents and families of gun violence victims matter too. Can we please get the same efforts and national media attention that Smollett got with his alleged attack?
Christian group calls for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s resignation
Christian group calls for Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s resignation
by Ben Baird
Lorie Shaull / Creative CommonsMinnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D) anti-Semitic words and policies are finally catching up with her, and now an interfaith Christian group is demanding her immediate resignation.
Laurie Cardoza-Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations (PJTN), has worked tirelessly to defend Jewish minorities from persecution, a duty that she considers to be “a Biblical responsibility.” Responding to Rep. Omar’s most recent act of anti-Semitism, Cardoza-Moore is circulating a petition demanding that the freshman congresswoman resign without delay.
Take a look at the PJTN president’s impassioned plea:
“An unholy war”
“Ilhan Omar is waging an unholy war against the Jewish people from Congress… She should not be representing Americans,” Cardoza-Moore insisted in her recorded statement. “She is about to learn that the Jewish people don’t stand alone; millions of people of faith and conscience stand with the Jewish people. We will neither sleep nor slumber as she uses the heart of American democracy and freedom to defame God’s chosen people and God’s chosen land.”
Christians and Jews have been religious bedfellows for centuries, united by a shared religious heritage and complimentary value system. Many Christians have linked their support to an Old Testament passage that explains that God will bless those who treat the Jews with kindness and curse those who seek to do them harm.
According to National Review columnist Dennis Prager, who has participated in numerous “Night to Honor Israel” events from Christian churches: “[Christians] believe in supporting American allies and supporting countries that share their moral values. And, unlike the Left, they have moral problems with Islamism, not with Zionism.”
Indeed, Rep. Omar’s Islamism is an affront to Evangelicals like Cardozo-Moore. The Minnesota Democrat clearly embraces a fundamentalist version of Islam that demonizes Jews and attributes the success of worldwide Jewry to conspiratorial circumstances.
For instance, Omar was recently condemned by a bipartisan crowd of lawmakers for tweeting, “It’s all about the Benjamins,” to explain why her colleagues refuse to criticize Israel. Later, she feigned ignorance by suggesting that she wasn’t aware that her statement regarding Jewish money was a classic anti-Semitic trope.
Islamist allies
Omar also frequently makes common cause with card-carrying Islamists like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and has even appeared at the Muslim advocacy group’s charity galas and banquets. An offspring of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates, and was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a 2008 terror financing case.
Cardoza-Moore outlined Omar’s Islamist past in her statement seeking support for her “Million Signature March” petition.
“She supports the destruction of the State of Israel and is a virulent antisemite with close connections to the Muslim Brotherhood,” Cardoza-Moore wrote. “We cannot afford to stand by as she continues to sow religious hatred. We will continue to act as a firewall around the Jewish people, whenever Jew hatred arises, because their God is our God and their values are our values.”
BDS activist
In addition to mentioning Omar’s anti semitic statements, Cardoza-Moore pointed to her support for the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement,” a pro-Palestinian protest that seeks to delegitimize and demonize Israel — the lone democracy in a Middle East terrorized by autocratic and Islamist regimes.
“Ilhan Omar tricked her electorate into voting for her by lying about her support for Israel,” Cardozo-Moore further claimed. During an August primary, Omar was asked how she felt about the BDS movement, and she responded by declaring that it was “not helpful in getting that two-state solution.”
The now-safely-elected Omar has a different opinion on the subject, however. Just days after winning her congressional seat, Omar insisted that “my position has always been the same. I believe and [support] the BDS movement, and have fought to make sure people[‘s] right to support it isn’t criminalized.”
But while Omar’s opinion on the movement is apparently still up in the air, one thing is for certain: she has no place in our federal legislature.
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