Trump Reacts to FBI Decision on Clinton Emails

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who on Saturday had tweeted that the system was “rigged” and that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton would not face charges for using a private email server to send and receive classified data, continued that theme Tuesday after the FBI announced its recommendation that Clinton would not face charges.

“FBI director said Crooked Hillary compromised our national security. No charges. Wow! ‪#RiggedSystem,” Trump tweeted, moments after firing off an initial reaction.

“The system is rigged. General Petraeus got in trouble for far less. Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment,” he tweeted. David Petraeus, a former general and director of the CIA, last year was found guilty of mishandling classified materials after he admitted giving information to his biographer and girlfriend, Paula Broadwell.

Trump had mentioned the email scandal in a Fourth of July tweet.

“Crooked Hillary Clinton is ‘guilty as hell’ but the system is totally rigged and corrupt! Where are the 33,000 missing e-mails?” he tweeted.

Trump was not the only high-profile Republican who took to Twitter Tuesday.

“Hillary may not be POTUS, but she’ll be on the Winter Olympic team for ice skating, no one has successfully skated on more thin ice than her,” tweeted former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

The FBI slammed Clinton for being “careless” with classified information, but recommended that no charges be filed against her. FBI Director James Comey said that investigators found no intent to mishandle classified material.

“To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions,” he added. (For more from “Trump Reacts to FBI Decision on Clinton Emails” please click HERE)

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Rudy Giuliani Reveals Why Hillary Clinton Still Might Face Criminal Charges

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On Tuesday morning, FBI Director James Comey reported the findings of the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s handling of classified emails on her personal email servers. While Comey called Clinton’s decision to maintain private email servers and to send and receive some 110 emails containing classified information “extremely careless,” he ultimately decided not to recommend to Attorney General Loretta Lynch that criminal charges be filed against the Democratic presidential candidate.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a former prosecutor himself, told Fox News he is “so disappointed” in Comey’s decision. “She violated 18 USC section 793,” Giuliani concluded.

Giuliani, however, said the case is still not closed. “Now the interesting thing is the statute of limitations will not have run out on this,” the former New York mayor noted.

Giuliani concluded that if Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is elected president, he could appoint an aggressive attorney general to charge Clinton. “If Trump should win and appoint an attorney general who’s got the courage to do it, they could bring this indictment,” he said.

Trump himself made a similar point in a speech in November.

“You better remember: There’s a six-year statute of limitations on that crime,” he said. “So Hillary’s running for a lot of reasons. One of them is because she wants to stay out of jail. Because I am sure — and first of all, everybody gets a fair shake with me — but I am sure whoever the attorney general is, you’ve got a lot of years left on that crime. That’s a crime.”

“If I win, we’re going to look into that crime very, very seriously, folks,” he added. “She’s watching right now and she’s saying to herself, ‘Man, I better win.’”

In his concluding comment, Giuliani said that Clinton “should have at least resigned as a candidate, on the grounds that if she can’t pass a top security clearance, she can’t be president of the United States.” (For more from the author of “Rudy Giuliani Reveals Why Hillary Clinton Still Might Face Criminal Charges” please click HERE)

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House GOP to Promote Muslim Brotherhood, Gun Control Agenda This Week

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In case you thought congressional Republicans would be infused with a fresh sense of constitutionalism, patriotism, and moral clarity on the heels of this Independence Day weekend, think again. House Republicans will continue their dyslexic response to Orlando by validating the Left’s entire premise regarding homeland security and guns.

Last week, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (A, 97%) conducted a hearing which revealed that the Department of Homeland Security, at the behest of Muslim Brotherhood organizations, is deleting critical counter-terrorism research that would have connected many Muslim Brotherhood leaders to global Islamic terror networks and could have prevented some of the recent attacks. When Cruz asked Jeh Johnson, Secretary of Homeland Security, about this at a subsequent hearing, the lead homeland security officer vehemently denied having any knowledge of the cover-up and adamantly declined to investigate it.

A sane Republican Party would immediately pursue this issue, and the failure to do so belies our failed homeland security policy. Instead, Republicans plan to pass an “anti-terror package,” which actually validates the very Muslim Brotherhood agenda endangering our homeland. The House will vote on H.R. 5611, which would grow the fledgling department even more by creating the Office for Partnerships to Prevent Terrorism to engage the Muslim community in pursuit of counter-terrorism strategies. This bill mirrors Rep. Michael McCaul’s R, Texas (D, 60%) “Countering Violent Extremism” bill which passed the House Committee on Homeland Security last year and appoints a new assistant secretary that will be unaccountable to Congress. The bill tasks the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties office of DHS, which serves as ground zero for Muslim Brotherhood influence on this administration, with dispensing the grant funds. The legislation also uses inaccurate liberal talking points with regards to the nature of the Islamic threat and lone wolf attacks.

After taking incoming fire from conservatives for echoing and legitimizing the Muslim Brotherhood agenda, this new bill scrubs all references to “violent” extremism and indeed uses the term Islamic extremism. This is a complete dog and pony show. The problem with the existing policies of DHS are not limited to the nomenclature. House leaders could use the term “Islamic” to appease conservatives, but, absent a wholesale makeover of the department’s personnel and a complete ban on Muslim Brotherhood participation, the new funds and offices will be used to expand the existing dangerous policies. It’s akin to throwing more money and resources at a fire department that has already been infiltrated by arsonists.

If Republicans were serious about fixing the problem, they would bar any grant funds from going to groups implicated in the Holy Land Foundation trial. They could mandate reforms to the counter-terrorism training for federal law enforcement officers in light of Phil Haney’s expose showing how the DHS and FBI scrubbed all fact-based training in Islamic history and Islamic law for the purpose of formulating threat assessments.

Immediately following the Orlando attack, I listed eight ways Republicans can go on offense. Sadly, they’ve chosen to go on offense for Democrats. In addition to expanding DHS offices that Obama will stock with Muslim Brotherhood sympathizers, the bill contains a provision expanding the power of the Attorney General to deny gun purchases to those listed on random terror watch lists. Although this provision is not nearly as sweeping as the Democratic proposal, the entire premise of focusing on this non-sequitur is offensive. It’s preposterous to focus on lists that never net potential terrorists while there are known individuals or groups affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood who are given security clearances in our homeland security agencies. Also, the minute Republicans pass this bill, the Obama administration could expand the watch list to include anyone, perhaps even political enemies.

The sad irony is that the Senate will actually focus on something worthy this week – going after sanctuary cities and instituting mandatory minimum sentences for illegal aliens who re-enter the country after being deported. The latter bill is Ted Cruz’s “Kate’s Law,” addressing the many criminal aliens that continue to re-enter the country, including the one who killed Kate Steinle in San Francisco last year. Wouldn’t it be prudent to have both houses of Congress focus on the same messaging this week and put the Democrats on defense? Instead, House Republicans will allow Democrats to continue distracting the public with their gun control agenda. Alas, after the Senate undermined conservatives for the past two weeks, it must be too much to ask that both chambers actually stay on message for one week. (For more from the author of “House GOP to Promote Muslim Brotherhood, Gun Control Agenda This Week” please click HERE)

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Clinton Already Thinks She’s President

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[Yesterday], Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama shared a moment in the campaign spotlight in North Carolina. Obama’s active support of Clinton is not what has stirred controversy. Rather, the controversy is the in which Obama and Clinton traveled to North Carolina together.

Clinton and Obama flew on one of the most magnificent aircrafts on earth – Air Force One. The plane is 4,000 square feet and has three floors. It has a medical suite that can function as an operating room, walk in freezer and enough space to feed 100 people at a time. It comes with a private bedroom, kitchen and office that is surrounded by the most sophisticated military equipment on earth.

This flying wonderland, however, costs the American taxpayers nearly $200,000 per hour. Clinton’s luxurious travel conditions seem almost hypocritical for a candidate who argues that her greatest strength is her passionate “commitment to helping people.” Yet, she travels to campaign stops at a cost per hour that is four times the median household income in the United States.

By law, Clinton will have to reimburse the government for “her” share of the travels. Still, those will be only a few thousand dollars, a fraction of the actual costs. This is perfect fodder for the liberal media; we would expect them deplore such extravagance from the candidate of the people. Instead, they defend the use of the jet by defending Obama.

The Washington Post acknowledges that the president is on call “24 hours a day and seven days a week, and he has to fly on Air Force One.” The article, like many in the liberal press, have long argued that all recent presidents have used Air Force One to campaign.

The Post even highlights a quote from former President Ronald Reagan, who supposedly turned a campaign event into an official event (presidential candidates must reimburse part of the cost of Air Force One for campaign events) on a trip to Ohio, “[T]his is a bipartisan meeting, so I’m not going to tell you how proud I am of Congressman Bud Brown and what an invaluable all he’s been in the fight against big government in Washington.”

With a parting shot, the Post speculates that Trump may have reacted very differently to Reagan’s use of Air Force One. But the liberal media is comparing apples and oranges. Reagan was a sitting president, Clinton is not. While taxpayers should question the use of a taxpayer funds for a flying mansion during campaigns, a president does require protection. On the other hand, Clinton is not the President.

Perhaps traveling with the President to a similar location made sense. But where does it end?

It may not be unethical for Clinton to campaign on taxpayer dollars that are designated to the current president, but it certainly seems to violate the spirit of government ethics. The nominee for president should not already have access to funds made available to the executive office.

Who knows, maybe I’m just being ridiculous for assuming the word “ethics” and “Clinton” can coexist in the same article. I suppose we all know the answer to that. (For more from the author of “Clinton Already Thinks She’s President” please click HERE)

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Confused Who Has the Majority in Congress? You’re Not Alone.

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In 2014, Republicans won a majority in Senate. However, if you’ve been watching the Senate lately, you’d be forgiven for wondering who is actually in charge.

Democrats demand—and receive—amendment votes, while Republican amendments are stifled. Appropriations bills, ostensibly written by Republicans, come to the floor lacking any GOP priorities, while conservative efforts to amend the bill are set up to fail.

Even more troubling are the policies coming out of this Republican-led Senate. Appropriations bills are passed, but at higher spending levels than even President Barack Obama requested. Just this week, the Senate voted to bail out the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico—without considering any of the economic reforms supported by conservatives.

Things really took a turn last week, however, when the Senate Appropriations Committee advanced its 2017 foreign aid bill.

In a sign that principles were about to be shelved, all 16 Republicans and 14 Democrats on the committee unanimously supported an amendment by Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., to provide $500 million to the U.N. sponsored Green Climate Fund—the principle funding mechanism for Obama’s international climate change treaty.

For the record, this is the same treaty that the Obama administration imposed upon taxpayers without the advice and consent of the Senate, and the same funding mechanism that GOP Senators previously swore up and down that they would fight tooth and nail to oppose.

But the committee action got even worse with the passage of an amendment offered by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., to add $37.5 million to the United Nations Population Fund, which provides services for “international family planning and reproductive health”—that is, taxpayer funded abortion performed overseas.

In a Republican controlled committee, this amendment supporting abortion passed 17-13, thanks to the votes of Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; and Mark Kirk, R-Ill.

Most disturbing, however, was that the entire bill—containing language to fund abortion, and to fund the president’s climate change treaty—passed the committee 30-0.

Some will argue that this is just a committee process, and that the real consideration of the bill will be on the Senate floor, where all senators will have the opportunity to weigh in. Perhaps—but only if Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., allows senators to participate in an open process (which he has lately been loath to do).

If and when this bill hits the floor, we should expect that Republicans will stand up for what they’ve said they believe in, and vote to strike provisions of this bill that violate their principles.

Republicans may be in charge of the Senate, and Democrats may be in the minority. But it is getting increasingly difficult to tell the difference. (For more from “Confused Who Has the Majority in Congress? You’re Not Alone.” please click HERE)

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Huma Abedin Admits Hillary Burned Federal Records; WikiLeaks Dumps Hundreds of Clinton Emails

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By Daniel Halper. Hillary Clinton’s closest aide revealed in a deposition last week that her boss destroyed at least some of her schedules as secretary of state — a revelation that could complicate matters for the presumptive Democratic nominee, who, along with the State Department she ran, is facing numerous lawsuits seeking those public records.

Huma Abedin was deposed in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit into Clinton’s emails — but her admission could be relevant to another lawsuit seeking Clinton’s schedules.

“If there was a schedule that was created that was her Secretary of State daily schedule, and a copy of that was then put in the burn bag, that… that certainly happened on…on more than one occasion,” Abedin told lawyers representing Judicial Watch, the conservative organization behind the emails lawsuit. (Read more from “Huma Abedin Admits That Clinton Burned Daily Schedules” HERE)
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WikiLeaks Releases Over 1,000 Clinton Iraq War Emails

By Lucas Nolan. WikiLeaks has released 1,258 of Hillary Clinton’s emails in relation to the Iraq war, preceding the British Chilcot report on the conflict set to be released later this week.

WikiLeaks tweeted a link to their email archive from their official Twitter page today. Wikileaks appears to have a substantial amount of information on Clinton, having already released a large archive of Clinton’s emails earlier in the year. Breitbart has previously reported on Julian Assange’s claims that Google is complicit in the managing of Clintons online media campaign.

Released only a week after Bill Clinton’s meeting with Attorney General, Loretta Lynch and a day after Huma Abedins admission that Hillary Clinton had burned daily schedules, the contents of Hillary’s released emails, containing multiple interactions between Clinton and multiple white house officials, could be extremely damaging to Clinton’s current presidential campaign. (Read more from “WikiLeaks Releases Over 1,000 Clinton Iraq War Emails” HERE)

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Trump Reportedly Has Narrowed His Vice President List to First Choice and Close Second

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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has said he would be announcing his running mate at the GOP convention in Cleveland later this month, but it appears he may have changed his mind and decided to do it sooner.

The Washington Post reports former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia is the New York billionaire’s top choice, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie right behind him.

This report comes on the heels of an interview Gingrich did with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace in which he claimed the Trump campaign had not spoken to him at all.

Despite this, a Trump campaign source told the Post that Gingrich is being “seriously considered,” and The New York Times reported that Christie has already received paperwork to be vetted.

The Post reported that Dallas pastor Robert Jeffress, who has become close with Trump during the campaign, said the GOP candidate has made it clear that he “wants someone who can help get his legislative agenda through Congress.”

“I think that is how he is going,” Jeffress said. “He’d be coming in as an outsider, and that has fueled his popularity. But he is the first to admit that he doesn’t know all the ways of Washington. So to actually push what he wants through, he’s willing to reach out and get somebody to lend a hand.”

Christie, a longtime friend of the Republican candidate, quickly endorsed Trump after dropping his own bid for president several months ago. Since that time, the governor has become one of the New York billionaire’s most loyal surrogates and trusted behind-the-scenes confidants.

In fact, he has been so loyal to Trump that following a press conference several months ago where the normally bombastic Christie was silent, social media blew up jokingly wondering if Christie had been taken hostage by the Trump campaign. The governor was quick go dispel those rumors. “I want everyone to know for those who were concerned: I wasn’t being held hostage,” he said.

Christie is a lot like Trump in that he is an outspoken personality from a Northeastern blue state, but he also has nearly two full terms as governor under his belt, which fulfills the businessman’s reported desire for government experience.

Gingrich fulfills that need as well, having been a longtime congressman and speaker of the House of Representatives. The Georgia-based Republican, who ran for his party’s nomination in 2012, was one of Trump’s biggest supporters early on. Gingrich is also similar to Trump and Christie in that he is widely known for speaking his mind.

In fact, he has even done so against Trump recently, something many believed would hurt his chances of being selected as the billionaire’s running mate.

Referring to the presumptive Republican nominee’s attacks on the federal judge ruling in the Trump University case who is of Mexican heritage, Gingrich called it “completely unacceptable,” adding, “I thought it was inappropriate what he said.” (For more from the author of “Trump Reportedly Has Narrowed His Vice President List to First Choice and Close Second” please click HERE)

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Security Ordered Tightened as Death Toll in Baghdad Hits 157

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As the death toll from the weekend truck bombing in Baghdad climbed to 157, Iraq’s embattled prime minister ordered new security measures, including abandoning the use of bomb-detection wands that U.S. experts pronounced worthless years ago.

But security forces were still using the devices Monday evening, as a string of smaller bombings in the capital killed 16 people and wounded dozens more.

Sunday’s suicide attack by the Islamic State group was the single deadliest bombing to hit Baghdad in more than a decade of war and insurgency.

Also Monday, five convicted terrorists were executed in Baghdad, the Ministry of Justice said in an announcement that appeared aimed at restoring faith in Iraq’s security forces in the wake of the devastating attack.

Firefighters and medical teams were still uncovering bodies from the city’s Karada neighborhood Monday morning. Officials said a dozen people were missing and at least 60 of the dead were women and children. At least 190 people were wounded. (Read more from “Security Ordered Tightened as Death Toll in Baghdad Hits 157” HERE)

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Survey Finds Excess Health Problems in Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals

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Gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals reported more health problems than straight men and women, in a large U.S. survey.

For the first time since its launch in 1957, the National Health Interview Survey in 2013 and 2014 included a question about sexual orientation.

With nearly 69,000 participants, the survey revealed that lesbian, gay and bisexual adults “were more likely to report impaired physical and mental health, heavy alcohol consumption, and heavy cigarette use, potentially due to the stressors that (they) experience as a result of interpersonal and structural discrimination,” researchers wrote online June 28 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Overall, 67,150 survey respondents were heterosexual, 525 lesbian, 624 gay and 515 bisexual. The average age was about 47.

Gilbert Gonzales of the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville and colleagues found that compared to heterosexual women, lesbians were 91 percent more likely to report poor or fair health. Lesbians were 51 percent more likely, and bisexual women were more than twice as likely, to report multiple chronic conditions, compared to straight women. (Read more from “Survey Finds Excess Health Problems in Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals” HERE)

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Tim Tebow Does Something Kind. Some People Think It Shows How Awful He Is

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[Recently], Tim Tebow helped a woman whose husband suffered a heart attack on a flight from Atlanta to Phoenix. Although Tebow said nothing about it, a passenger’s Facebook post went viral, being shared 19,000 times and picked up by outlets like Sports Illustrated and US Weekly.

Richad V. Gotti wrote that on the flight an older man got sick and then fell unconscious. “Strangers from all over the world and every ethnicity [came] to the help of this man for over an hour!” he wrote.

Whether it was chest compressions, starting an IV, helping breathe life into this man, or praying everyone helped! I listened to shock after shock from the AED machine and still no pulse. No one gave up.

The Delta Airlines staff were “amazing,” he said. Then, “all of a sudden, I observed a guy walking down the aisle. That guy was Tim Tebow. He met with the family as they cried on his shoulder! I watched Tim pray with the entire section of the plane for this man.” The picture with his post shows Tebow with his arm around the woman’s shoulder comforting her.

When the plane finally landed in Phoenix, Tebow got the woman’s luggage and used the car waiting for him to take her to the hospital. He stayed with her until the doctors told her that her husband had died. And never said a word about it.

The Sports Illustrated story began “You already knew Tim Tebow was a good guy, but here’s even more evidence to prove it.” A Star News reporter wrote “Tebow’s unselfishness speaks volumes about his character. A lot of professional athletes are criticized for staying away from people. Tebow didn’t think twice about giving up his entire day for a stranger.”

TDS Sufferers Disagree

Hard to disagree, you would think. But not everyone thinks so.

Orlando Sentinel reporter David Whitley is annoyed with those who have what he calls “Tebow Derangement Syndrome,” or TDS.

The malady triggers foaming at the mouth among two groups. One believes Tebow would be a great pro quarterback if only the anti-Christian NFL hadn’t blackballed him. That has waned a bit as Tebow has drifted into other ventures.

The other group just hates him. That strain of TDS, he writes, “appears to have no cure.” He read the comments on the stories in the mainline media and found, apparently to his surprise, that while about 60% praised Tebow, 40% criticized him. Tebow critics hit at him with comments like “Tebow is the male equivalent of a Kardashian. Maybe he ought to change his name to Kim” and “Prayed? Give me a break. Get out of the way and let modern medicine take care of the sick. Idiot.”

Whitley was, as we said, annoyed. “Something tells me if that person had been Rob Gronkowski [the New England Patriot’s star tight end] the commenter would have been fine with the story,” he writes, and concludes the article: If Tebow’s actions make “you want to throw up, it says a lot more about you than it does Tim Tebow.”

It says you have a bad case of TDS and made you write mean, foolish comments on newspaper articles. Worse, it’s blinded you to kindness and stories that should make you a little happier — if you didn’t hate Tim Tebow so much. (For more from the author of “Tim Tebow Does Something Kind. Some People Think It Shows How Awful He Is” please click HERE)

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