There’s Another Explanation for Peter Strzok’s March 2016 Texts Than Setting up Trump

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Yesterday, George Papadopoulos suggested in a tweet that text messages between disgraced former FBI agent Peter Strzok and his colleague and “companion,” FBI attorney Lisa Page, implicated Joe Mifsud in the plot to spy on the Trump campaign.

As the former Trump campaign advisor noted in the tweet, he first met Mifsud—the supposed Russian agent who later told Papadopoulos the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton—in Rome on March 14, 2016.

Papadopoulos later passed Mifsud’s claim to Australian diplomat Alexander Downer over drinks in a London bar. Then, following WikiLeaks’ release of the Democratic National Committee emails in July 2016, the FBI pegged Papadopoulos’ statement to Downer as evidence that Trump operatives had foreknowledge of WikiLeaks’ hack. The FBI responded by launching Crossfire Hurricane on July 31, 2016, to investigate the Trump campaign’s supposed collusion with Russia.

However, over the last year, the FBI’s proffered explanation for launching Crossfire Hurricane has fallen apart. Similarly, contrary to Democrats’ attempts to portray Mifsud as a Russian agent, the evidence instead suggests that Mifsud has various connections with Western intelligence agencies. These revelations, coupled with the FBI’s admitted use of sources connected to the Trump campaign, led many to surmise that Mifsud was working as an informant, feeding information to Papadopoulos in order to entrap Trump.

Papadopoulos sees the messages exchanged between Strzok and Page as confirmation of this theory, stressing that on March 16, 2016, the FBI colleagues exchanged texts stating: “Our guy is talking,” and “Rock on.” Again, Papadopoulos first met Mifsud on March 14, 2016, and as he made clear in a second tweet, he met with Mifsud from March 14 to 16, 2016. (Read more from “There’s Another Explanation for Peter Strzok’s March 2016 Texts Than Setting up Trump” HERE)

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Sexual Assault Claims Against Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown Put His Post-Kavanaugh Hypocrisy on Display

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It’s amazing how putting a shoe on the other foot can change a man.

Let’s take Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, as an example. He’s running for re-election in a state President Trump won in 2016. The campaign of his GOP opponent, Jim Renacci, claims that he’s recently been accused of sexual misconduct by an unnamed woman.

Now let’s take a look at how this has changed Brown’s reactions to uncorroborated allegations of sexual misconduct.

First off, here’s what he said after Christine Blasey Ford testified about her allegations against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh last month:

“Dr. Ford’s courage is inspiring and I am very grateful to her for coming forward to tell her story, even in the face of deep personal cost. She was moving, heartfelt and honest,” Brown tweeted, adding that this “was a powerful moment for our country.”

In contrast, Brown responded to the allegations put out by the Renacci campaign Thursday night by telling a local newspaper, “Renacci should be ashamed of this. He’s clearly a desperate candidate just doing whatever he can do to upend everything. There’s no truth to those.”

So here’s a question: Where exactly is the line between the moving, heartfelt, honest, and powerful and the desperate and shameful? After all, the accusations both came from sources with clear partisan motives, both have so far presented the same amount of corroborating evidence, and both became public at the 11th hour of a major political event. So why the disparate treatment?

It’s almost as if evidence and the presumption of innocence are things we ought to continue to value. Maybe. Just a thought. (For more from the author of “Sexual Assault Claims Against Dem Sen. Sherrod Brown Put His Post-Kavanaugh Hypocrisy on Display” please click HERE)

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How the GOP Has Taken Ownership of Obamacare

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Republicans have not only betrayed their promise to repeal Obamacare, they have made Obamacare popular. They have championed its three core elements while refusing to even make the case against all its vulnerabilities and are now running on preserving it. While we are all focused on the results of November 6, we must gird up for a longer battle that, if not waged and won, will ensure we never have health care freedom in America, because a consensus for government-run monopolies is close to fruition.

Republicans are making Obamacare great again

Republicans, with their pre-existing condition of political stupidity, have committed such malpractice that they’ve managed to own all the liabilities of Obamacare and the status quo dumpster-fire health care system, while also raising the ire of voters who want handouts, as if they are somehow going to repeal Obamacare. In doing so, they have turned “repeal and replace” into “cut and paste” and “root and branch” into “plant and fertilize.” By refusing to show how the Obamacare regulations, subsidies, and Medicaid expansion have created an unhealthy monopoly of insurers and health administrators, forced doctors into early retirement, and made insurance for all those not subsidized completely unaffordable, they have permanently ceded the playing field and created a consensus for all those provisions. And indeed, almost every Republican is running on preserving and expanding them.

This should shock anyone who ever voted for a Republican any time since 2010. What’s worse than Democrats winning is Republicans permanently adopting their views and ratcheting us further down the path to socialism.

We haven’t had a semblance of a free market in health care for decades, and that is why health care and medical insurance (which are not the same) are convoluted and so expensive. Obamacare just exacerbated every element that broke the system to begin with. Voters are justifiably unhappy with the status quo and are concerned about health care. Along with immigration, health care has consistently ranked as the top issue for this election.

Where is the GOP vision?

Where is the vision of health care that would eliminate the insurance cartel from its position between you and your doctor?

Where are all the victims of Obamacare talking about premiums tripling over a few years to $20,000-30,000 per year for a family? Where are all the ads from doctors lamenting the paperwork that pushed them out of business? Where are all the ads showing the health care cartel getting rich, destroying private practice, and buying up all the hospitals, insurers, and pharmacies under a handful of corporate masters, all enabled by the pot of money created by the Medicaid expansion? Why is nobody showing how the Medicaid expansion is fueling the opioid crisis?

The only thing never discussed in this health care debate is actual health care. While Republicans unfortunately never had a holistic vision on health care because it’s not a serious conservative party, they don’t have to reinvent the wheel. They did this successfully for three election cycles. And all the factors hurting doctors and patients that we all once talked about have gotten even worse over the past few years.

A recent survey of 8,774 physicians conducted by the Physicians Foundation found that morale in the profession is lower than ever. Here are the key findings:

Thanks to the monopoly created by Obamacare and the crushing red tape of owning your own practice, the number of physicians who identified as independent practice owners plummeted from 48.5 percent in 2012 to 31 percent in 2018.

62 percent are pessimistic about the future of medicine, 78 percent feel burned out, 46 percent are planning a career change, and 49 percent would not recommend the profession to their children.

Doctors cited Obama’s “electronic health records” regulation, insurance requirements, and loss of clinical autonomy as the three biggest challenges to their success – even ahead of the medical malpractice problem.

Doctors reported that 23 percent of their time is spent on paperwork.

Republicans could have been riding high on health care

Several weeks after the 2016 election victory, I laid out a strategy for repealing Obamacare the day of the inauguration, “root and branch.” Republicans could immediately have grabbed the bull by the horns with the most capital they had had in a generation and would have had two years to deal with the issue. Instead, they created the worst outcome of all – preserving Obamacare and all its vices under their leadership and owning its fallout while giving other voters the perception they will take away entitlements. As my buddy John Hayward brilliantly put it, “Republicans have always had a rare gift for paying the political price associated with revolutionary change without actually accomplishing anything revolutionary. They’re savaged for actions they were intimidated out of taking.”

It’s pretty clear that over the past few weeks, the smart-set consultants – the same consultants who are politically illiterate on immigration – got into a room and told all the candidates to run on the Democrat language, premise, focus, and philosophy of “protecting pre-existing conditions.” Every single Republican Senate candidate suddenly began running ads extolling the virtues of what essentially destroyed insurance in America.

Really? Why are we legitimizing and emphasizing the core premise behind Obamacare and not focusing on the fundamentals of health care? What’s the macro-message that comes across to voters?

This is how you make Democrat premises popular. Who needs Democrats when Republicans serve as better messengers for their misleading talking points than Democrats do with their off-putting belligerence? At this point, why not just run Christine O’Donnell ads of “I’m not a witch?”

Republicans win either by uprooting a Democrat premise or ignoring it and focusing the debate elsewhere, not by getting into a bidding war on their terms. And even if somehow they pull off a win on this messaging, what in fact have we won? If “owning the libs” means winning by owning their policies, count me out. (For more from the author of “How the GOP Has Taken Ownership of Obamacare” please click HERE)

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Father Claims 13-Year-Old Son Arrested for Sexual Assault Was Falsely Accused out of Revenge for Using ‘Black’ Bitmoji

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The father of a 13-year-old Colorado Springs middle-schooler who was recently arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting female classmates says his son was falsely accused out of revenge after the boy was termed a “racist” for using a black cartoon character Bitmoji on messaging app Snapchat.

Keith Bailey was accused of unwanted sexual touching and harassment from numerous female classmates, one of whom is seeking a restraining order against him. The filed restraining order complaint from a 13-year-old classmate alleges Keith “was aggressively grabbing my boobs and butt” at a park this summer and was “aggressively petting” her in a church van after she asked him to stop, says a report from the Colorado-Springs Gazette.

The accused eighth grader’s father, Dennis Bailey Jr., says his son was the victim of revenge-like falsified accusations after “‘he made a girl mad on Snapchat’ by using a black cartoon character as his Bitmoji, a picture that represents a character,” reports the Gazette. . .

“My 13-year-old son was arrested at school,” wrote Bailey on a crowdfunding page he set up for his son. “The whole thing started with him changing his avatar on snapchat to a black person. That triggered accusations of being racist and he started getting threats at school. Still, he refused to be bullied into changing it.”

“The first girl to get triggered and some of her friends all accused him of sexual assault at school,” he said. “I honestly believe that it’s completely fabricated but in the era of #metoo they led him away in handcuffs. After hours of intimidation from a school administrator, which no one even called us or let us know what was going on, they couldn’t coerce a confession out of him so they suspended him from school anyway, and called the cops and had him arrested.” (Read more from “Father Claims 13-Year-Old Son Arrested for Sexual Assault Was Falsely Accused out of Revenge for Using ‘Black’ Bitmoji” HERE)

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Black Conservatives Take Action in Key Republican Races

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As election day creeps closer, the Black Conservative Federation (BFC) is deploying hundreds of black conservatives to campaign in key states for national and local elections. . .

In a statement, BCF said it is committed to its goal of “expanding the Black conservative movement.”

The day was initially supposed to just take place in races in the Washington D.C.-metro area as a way to commemorate its two-year anniversary, but “the idea quickly evolved into a larger partnership with the Republican National Committee and state and local leaders to help ensure conservative candidates have the additional support they need in their final push across the finish line.”

“We’re taking it back old school and in the most grassroots way possible,” stated BCF President Diante Johnson. “Whether it’s phone banking, knocking doors, or sign waving, our goal is to have a Black conservative presence in key areas all around the country. This is an important election and BCF plans to do its part to help spread the red wave.” (Read more from “Black Conservatives Take Action in Key Republican Races” HERE)

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Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Brawl Aimed to Make Islam Off-Limits for UFC Trash Talk

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There are certain lines you can’t cross without a fight. Drop an N-bomb at a booty club and see what happens. Drop a G-bomb in the house of the Lord, or a B-bomb at yo’ mama’s house. There are bound to be consequences, like bruised feelings or reconstructive surgery. And if you mock the sacred values of a bear-wrestling Russian Muslim, like the current UFC lightweight champion, expect to feel the wrath of his righteous violence.

Khabib Nurmagomedov scored an impressive victory on Oct. 6 at UFC 229 in Las Vegas. The grappler submitted the mouthy Conor McGregor with a masterful rear naked choke, solidifying an unprecedented MMA record of 27 wins and 0 losses. Throughout the match, McGregor could be seen taunting his opponent, presumably making reference to skewered Middle Eastern snacks. The Irishman’s venom flowed like stout on tap, until the Russian’s serpentine arms forced him to stop breathing.

While the defeated Celt lay panting on the canvas, Khabib leapt over the the cage and launched a flying kick at McGregor’s corner man. This sparked off a mini riot. Explaining his actions in the post-fight press conference, Khabib said he wants to alter MMA: “He talk about my religion, he talk about my country, he talk about my father. … This is not trash-talking sport. … You cannot talk about this stuff. … Alhamdulillah. [‘Praise be to Allah.’]”

Not a big fan of free speech, this guy. But I dare you to call him a “snowflake” to his face.

To his credit, McGregor refused to press charges, or to apologize for his words. As of this writing, the Nevada State Athletic Commission is holding Nurmagomedov’s $2 million purse. Next week they’ll consider indefinite suspension for both fighters. (After 2.4 million PPV purchases? I doubt it.) (Read more from “Khabib Nurmagomedov’s Brawl Aimed to Make Islam Off-Limits for UFC Trash Talk” HERE)

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Horror: Hospital Preps Assisted Suicide for Children, Might Not Inform Parents

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The oft-mocked “slippery slope” arguments from conservatives with regard to euthanasia are terrifyingly coming to fruition in Canada.

Last month, a group of medics from Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children outlined their plans for administering “medically assisted suicide” for patients under the age of 18 in the “near future.” The paper, published in the British Medical Journal, asserts their commitment to “patient confidentially” with such hypothetical children, stating that there will likely be cases where a “capable” child patient could undergo the “assisted suicide” without parents being informed first.

“This article explores the ethical challenges of providing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in a paediatric setting,” reads the paper’s abstract. “More specifically, we focus on the theoretical questions that came to light when we were asked to develop a policy for responding to MAID requests at our tertiary paediatric institution.”

“While MAID is currently available to capable patients in Canada who are 18 years or older—a small but important subsection of the population our hospital serves—we write our policy with an eye to the near future when capable young people may gain access to MAID,” the paper affirms, adding, “By providing a record of our in-progress thinking, we hope to stimulate wider discussion about the issues and questions encountered in this work.”

And parents might not be notified about their child’s “decision” to have doctors kill them. (Read more from “Horror: Hospital Preps Assisted Suicide for Children, Might Not Inform Parents” HERE)

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The Democrats’ Midterm Motto Seems to Be ‘the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves’

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The Democrats’ midterm motto seems to be: “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”

Last week, Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder suggested that being uncivil and even inflicting violence upon those with whom they disagree is the Democrats’ way forward. This is nothing new.

In total embrace of their inner totalitarian, the Democrat Party leadership has entered the final stages of the logical end to their political game. And just like their economic, social, and foreign policies, the final stage is violence against humanity.

The democratic socialists have called for extreme confiscation of wealth in order to create government programs to shift the economic power away from those who earn money toward those who do not. This leads to anger and resentment in those who produce toward those who do not and eventually to a refusal by the best of the best to play along. The refusal to comply leads to a crippling of the economy, which leads to unrest, which leads to the perfect opportunity for a dictator to take control.

Just this week, the results of President Trump’s tax cuts and lift of Obama’s grossly irresponsible regulatory restrictions and have been made clear. People are buying things again because economic optimism is on the rise. You don’t have that with totalitarian regimes. In fact, one of the key reasons we had such an economic downturn during the Obama presidency was because he told us in word and action that we were no longer going to be a prosperous nation. Obama told us we were going to have to pay out our wealth — that though we are an industrious people, we didn’t deserve to reap the rewards of our efforts. We were supposed to give away our wealth to appease the rest of the world, especially those who were hostile toward us.

The foreign policy of the democratic socialists was displayed in the Obama era. Appeasement of dictators, wholesale abuse of our traditional foreign policy, and high regard for the enemies of our Judeo-Christian civilization — we probably will never know to what extent that the Obama administration sold this nation’s values and paid off its enemies. Any president was going to have a very tough go of it after what the Obama regime put in place.

The democratic socialists have turned education on its head and have rejected the science of biology and accepted the phony-baloney gender-bender agenda. Critics of which have been forced to sit on the sidelines of academia, and all references to God have been expunged from mainstream education in America. Their priorities of exalting certain minorities and women have led to severe resentment in white men in America who have been unfailingly preached to about their privilege and skin color since birth.

College students, emboldened by their extreme narcissism, shut down free speech, screaming epithets and bruising eardrums, provoking people who would otherwise be peaceful. This is the spiral of the totalitarian mindset. In a fake play for victimization, they are trained to provoke and sabotage in order to produce the result of pushing people to their limits.

The democratic socialists provoke, sow discontent, rub raw the resentment and differences between us, embrace dictators, pick the wrong side of everything, exalt the crooked, and kill the innocent, and yet we are to believe that the people who voted against their eight years of downward spiral are the problem?

Every policy coming from the Left increases the likelihood of totalitarianism. Individuals tend to resent that, because we know we are supposed to be free: free to think the way we do, free to act within the law, free to enter into contracts, free to eat lunch without being accosted, free — because we’re Americans.

The path of the democratic socialists is one of violence, and there are no two ways about it. That’s why they are not embarrassed and will not pull away from their violent talk and action. If they somehow win in November based upon their actions on display for all to see, they will think violence is the way forward. If they lose in November, they will think violence is the way forward. They will not learn a lesson. They have only one song and know only one dance. There is no compromise with these people, and there should be no appeasement of them either. (For more from the author of “The Democrats’ Midterm Motto Seems to Be ‘the Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves’” please click HERE)

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Family of Student Allegedly Murdered by Illegal Alien Wants Justice for ‘Preventable Tragedy’

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Thursday night on Fox News, Laura Ingraham interviewed the aunt of an American who was violently murdered by an illegal immigrant.

The suspected killer of Cristin Vargas’ 20-year-old nephew, San Antonio college student Jared Vargas, is an illegal immigrant who had been previously arrested and had violated his probation. An immigration judge gave him a voluntary deportation order, but he was not removed from the country before becoming a suspect in Jared Vargas’ death.

Ingraham asked Cristin Vargas how her family reacts to those who say highlighting violent crimes by illegal aliens is a scare tactic.

“It’s completely disgusting and it’s outrageous,” Vargas said. She thanked Ingraham for the opportunity to share Jared’s story.

“Hard worker is an understatement. He was always working full-time and going to school, sometimes working two jobs. And he had an uncanny ability to balance family, friends, work, school, always smiling,” she said. “Just an awesome kid.”

Ernesto Esquivel-Garcia, 20, is the illegal immigrant accused of murdering Jared Vargas. He should have been deported. In March 2017, Esquivel-Garcia was arrested for drunk driving. ICE put an immigration detainer on him, beginning deportation proceedings that would take a year to be completed. He was released on bond by an immigration judge in April 2017 and given 12 months’ probation in January 2018 as a condition of his release. On May 10, a warrant for his arrest was issued for violating the terms of his release. Esquivel-Garcia was given a “voluntary departure” order to leave the country by July 20, 2018.

Two weeks later, on May 25, he was arrested by ICE for the outstanding warrant and handed to local authorities. For unknown reasons, local authorities returned him to ICE four days later, and somehow he was released and reminded of his July 20 departure deadline.

On June 16, Jared Vargas was last seen leaving his job at a bar. Esquivel-Garcia was also an employee there, working illegally and using a false identity. Two days later, Vargas’ body was discovered in his burning apartment. Esquivel-Garcia was arrested on the scene, and after speaking with witnesses, police charged him with murder, arson, and abuse of a corpse.

“It’s just really difficult for us to process now from the outside looking into this and just seeing all the systemic failures as far as coming here illegally, working here illegally, living here illegally, continuing to break laws, commit crimes, and ultimately taking Jared away from us,” Cristin said.

“We’re very strongly positioned that this was a preventable tragedy, a completely preventable tragedy, and I think that that’s what’s most difficult as we continue to grieve and try to make some sort of sense of this,” she added.

Chip Roy, Republican candidate for Congress in San Antonio’s congressional district, has emerged as a champion for the Vargas family, having reached out to them and offered his support as he seeks office. Roy has worked to publicize Jared Vargas’ story and has made illegal immigration and border security a major theme of his campaign.

Cristin Vargas told Ingraham that Roy has been a “very bright light” in their world.

“He listened to our story, he cares about our story, we’ve developed a personal relationship with him, and it’s been really helpful to us to have someone that’s actually advocating for us,” she said.

Esquivel-Garcia remains in custody as the family of Jared Vargas awaits justice for his murder. (For more from the author of “Family of Student Allegedly Murdered by Illegal Alien Wants Justice for ‘Preventable Tragedy’” please click HERE)

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Democrat Attacks Stay-At-Home Moms for ‘Leeching off Their Husbands’

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Democratic Senate candidate Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, once described stay-at-home moms as leeches in a 2006 interview.

“These women who act like staying at home, leeching off their husbands or boyfriends, and just cashing the checks is some sort of feminism because they’re choosing to live that life,” she told Scottsdale nightlife magazine 944. “That’s bulls**t. I mean, what the f*** are we really talking about here?” . . .

In one video, Sinema is seen grimacing and shaking her head after saying that she ran for a position in the Arizona state legislature.

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