Trump Announces His Decision on Declaring National Emergency

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Speaking during a border security round table Friday afternoon at the White House, President Trump said that for the time being, he will not be declaring a national emergency as the government shutdown drags on. . .

“What we’re not looking to do right now is national emergency,” he continued. “I’d rather not do it.” . . .

President Trump maintains he has the authority to declare a national emergency. Republicans on Capitol Hill are split on the issue.

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A Media That Twists Facts to Demean President Trump

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The news coverage of the border crisis and President Trump’s speech to the nation proves the agenda-driven media can be the enemy of the people.

The left-wing media is so intent on destroying President Trump that it enthusiastically twists and manipulates facts without any regard for the consequences of an insecure border to Americans or the damage of harming the credibility of the president.

Before and after President Trump’s speech, the anti-Trump media was actively trying to undermine the president. The talking heads on MSNBC led the way. The morning before the nationwide address, “Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski wanted to silence President Trump by urging networks not to broadcast the prime-time address because they were confident the president was going to lie.

“Why in the world would the networks run Donald Trump’s address tonight when we know that Donald Trump is going to be using it to spread these lies?” asked Scarborough.

Brzezinski passionately responded, “Do they want to run the promise of more lies, more misleading statistics, more twisting of reality, mindless confrontation, all for the sake of defending Trump’s dark, twisted fantasy of a wall on the Mexican border to fight an enemy that doesn’t exist, except in the most fevered swamps of American politics — do they want to do that for ratings?”

She added that “the networks should refuse to turn over the airwaves to Donald Trump tonight for what they know, objectively, to be a steady stream of lies.”

The MSNBC segment on the president’s address the following morning opened with a video montage mocking him. The editors used a series of video clips from a rally speech where the president was joking about being presidential, and after each joke, they spliced in video from the president’s nationwide address from the Oval Office. Pure propaganda, with the goal of demeaning President Trump.

The remainder of the segment was a discussion. The co-hosts and assembled anti-Trump cheerleaders reiterated the conclusion from the morning before, that the speech did not merit a prime-time address and did not justify the wall. Notably absent was any identification of the “steady stream of lies” that Brzezinski was so confident would be delivered.

MSNBC was not alone in the effort to demean President Trump. The Washington Post had a “fact-checker” standing by to analyze statements made by the president.

During the address, President Trump said 266,000 aliens were arrested “with criminal records” during the last two years. The fact-checker determined the arrest “numbers add up” but said the statistic was misleading because it “includes all types of crimes, including nonviolent offenses such as illegal entry or reentry.”

So even when the president is correct, he is wrong, because according to The Washington Post, a crime is only a crime when it is violent. The “analysis” did not disprove the number of “charged or convicted of 100,000 assaults, 30,000 sex crimes, and 4,000 violent killings.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) fiscal year 2018 report provides a list of charges and convictions from arrests, including 80,730 DUIs, 76,585 dangerous drugs, and 50,753 assault.

The statement that President Trump made that Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., voted for a “physical barrier” before he was president was also a problem for the fact-checker. That too was misleading because “the fence they voted for is not as substantial as the wall Trump is proposing.”

Wrong. During the speech, President Trump stated he would yield the concrete wall for a “steel barrier.”

The fact-checker also challenged the president’s statement that 90 percent of heroin comes from the southern border. The focus of the challenge was that “virtually all of it comes through legal points of entry” and not between the ports of entry. The fact-checker concluded that therefore “Trump’s wall would do little to halt drug trafficking.”

Wrong. While it’s true that nine times the amount of heroin comes through the ports of entry as between the entry points, a significant amount of dangerous drugs gets into the U.S. around the ports of entry. In fiscal year 2018, the Border Patrol seized 10,382 pounds of methamphetamine, 6,423 pounds of cocaine and 332 pounds of fentanyl — over an eighty percent increase from the prior year.

Keep in mind these are the drugs that were seized. Who knows how many pounds escaped border agents?

Just on the basis of drugs brought in and crimes committed by illegal aliens, there is a border crisis. By mocking President Trump and twisting the facts to minimize the security risk to Americans from a porous border shows the media can be the enemy of the people. (For more from the author of “A Media That Twists Facts to Demean President Trump” please click HERE)

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Claim: CNN Declined Local News Border Report Because It Showed Walls Work

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CNN responded to KUSI, calling its accusation a “non story.”

The fact that CNN booked a KUSI reporter in November does not speak at all to why CNN rejected a KUSI report this week.

Original story:

A local news station in California published a report Thursday claiming that CNN rejected a story on the border wall debate because the report confirmed that President Donald Trump is right and walls work.

From KUSI:

SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Thursday morning, CNN called the KUSI Newsroom asking if one of our reporters could give them a local view of the debate surrounding the border wall and government shutdown.

KUSI offered our own Dan Plante, who has reported dozens of times on the border, including one story from 2016 that was retweeted by former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, and posted on DrudgeReport.com.

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We believe CNN declined a report from KUSI because we informed them that most Border Patrol Agents we have spoken to told us the barrier does in fact work.

We have continuously been told by Border Patrol Agents that the barrier along the Southern border helps prevent illegal entries, drugs, and weapons from entering the United States, and the numbers prove it.

This is beyond fake news or liberal bias. This is a malicious rejection of the facts by CNN to oppose the Trump administration politically.

CNN does not conduct journalism. CNN conducts partisan opposition to the Republican Party. Every criticism of CNN the president issues is justified. (For more from the author of “Claim: Cnn Declined Local News Border Report Because It Showed Walls Work” please click HERE)

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Report of Bounty Hunters Buying Phone Location Data Leaves U.S. Senators Seething

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Senate Democrats called on federal agencies Wednesday to investigate the practice by major telecommunications companies of selling location data generated by subscribers’ mobile devices following an undercover investigation by a security reporter that shed new light on a black market trade.

In a report Tuesday, Motherboard reporter Joseph Cox described the process he underwent to acquire the location data of a mobile phone from a source in the bail bond industry. For $300, he was able to acquire the location of the phone with little to no fuss. The data he received reportedly included longitude and latitude coordinates accurate up to roughly 0.3 miles.

According to Cox, the source claimed to have received the data from a firm called Microbit. While posing as a potential customer, he was able to confirm that Microbit was geolocating phones on behalf of bail bondsman. The firm received the data from a location “aggregator” called Zumigo, which had in turn purchased it directly from T-Mobile.

Senators Kamala Harris, Ron Wyden, and Mark Warner called on the appropriate federal agencies to investigate, namely the Federal Communications Commission.

T-Mobile told Gizmodo in response to the Motherboard story that it had “blocked access to device location data for any request submitted by Zumigo.” The company also stated that it was working to fulfill its promise made last summer to sever ties with third-party data aggregators. “We are nearly finished with that process,” it said. (Read more from “Report of Bounty Hunters Buying Phone Location Data Leaves U.S. Senators Seething” HERE)

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Dems’ New ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Is About as Gun-Illiterate as You’d Expect

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Not to be outdone by gun control promoters in the House, a group of anti-gun senators released a new “assault weapons” ban earlier this week.

“Americans across the nation are asking Congress to reinstate the federal ban on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,” reads a press release from sponsor Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. “If we’re going to put a stop to mass shootings and protect our children, we need to get these weapons of war off our streets.”

Legislative text still wasn’t available at the time of this writing, but a first look at some of the outlined portions of it shows that it would be about as effective at curbing gun violence as Feinstein’s 1994 weapons ban (which wasn’t).

Since the term “assault weapon” has no intrinsic meaning either in the gun world or the legal world, the definition means whatever the anti-gun politician using it wants it to mean. So what makes something an “assault weapon” in this case?

The bill “bans any assault weapon that accepts a detachable magazine and has one or more military characteristics including a pistol grip, a forward grip, a barrel shroud, a threaded barrel or a folding or telescoping stock.”

So the bill wouldn’t outright ban all semi-automatic weapons (as some have already suggested); rather, it would just affect semi-automatics that have certain features, most of which are aesthetic or ergonomic in nature and none of which affect how the gun itself fires. They’re all also features typically found on a modern sporting rifle (known as an AR-15), which has been the anti-gun crowd’s big boogeyman for the last few years.

But those features can look pretty scary if you don’t know what you’re looking at. That’s why we put together the Firepower 101 series last spring.

According to the press release, the legislation would also ban so-called “assault pistols,” which are defined as handguns that weigh over 50 ounces unloaded. If that sounds obtuse and silly, it’s because it is. Weight itself doesn’t necessarily make a gun more dangerous. A violent gangbanger or armed robber can do a lot more damage with a light, compact semi-automatic handgun than an antique flintlock pistol.

It also would ban pistol stabilizing braces that magically “transform assault pistols into assault rifles” because they allow shooters to “fire more accurately.” Of course, if accuracy was what made something an “assault weapon,” stabilized pistols aren’t really where someone would want to start banning. Hunting and competition rifles are designed to be far more accurate.

It also bans magazines and other “ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds,” but current owners would be able to keep their existing magazines. This, of course, would do little more than put law-abiding gun owners at a disadvantage against non-compliant criminals who still won’t have to reload as often when committing violent crimes.

However, to give credit where credit is due, the bill would exempt all guns and magazines affected by the legislation that are lawfully owned at the time of passage. That would seem like a fairly obvious exception to include, but the Trump administration’s recent bump stock ban didn’t even allow that.

Feinstein has introduced this bill into a Senate with a 53-47 Republican majority, so it’s pretty much just for show until either that math changes or something motivates 13 Republicans to go along with it. (For more from the author of “Dems’ New ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Is About as Gun-Illiterate as You’d Expect” please click HERE)

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Church Draws Backlash for Sign: ‘Bruce Jenner Is Still a Man’

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A Northern California church sparked outrage over a sign that read: “Bruce Jenner is still a man. Homosexuality is still sin. The culture may change. The Bible does not.”

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The church, Trinity Bible Presbyterian Church, is located in Lake Shastina, Calif., which is about an hours’ drive from the Oregon border.

Protesters gathered in front of the church on Sunday to denounce what they called “hate and slander” and to “show our love and support for the LGBT community,” according to a Facebook page that organized the event.

Justin Hoke, the church’s pastor, wrote on Facebook Wednesday that the sign’s Plexiglass had been destroyed and the letters had been stolen.

The protesters denied having destroyed the sign, The Sacramento Bee reported. Hoke posted a picture on his Facebook Thursday of the sign back up with plaster covering the letters, writing: “It’s not pretty, but it’s back up.” (Read more from “Church Draws Backlash for Sign: ‘Bruce Jenner Is Still a Man’” HERE)

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Pack of MS-13 Illegal Aliens Released by Judge Stab 16-Year-Old

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When you bring in hundreds of thousands of young males from the most violent countries through a lawless border, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the results. It’s called the Long Island effect. The latest victim of our “unaccompanied alien child” policy and judicial amnesty is a 16-year-old boy who was stabbed almost to death by three “Dreamers” who were members of MS-13, according to local police. They were all released by a federal judge.

WABC in New York reported yesterday that on Wednesday, a group of illegal aliens believed to be tied to MS-13 attacked a 16-year-old boy and stabbed him in the back outside a Burger King.

According to police, three suspects were arrested and charged with assault. Here are their profiles:

Ramon Arevalo Lopez, 19, entered illegally in December 8, 2016, and was apprehended by DHS in October 2017. He should have been thrown out of the country, but he was released by a federal judge.

Nobeli Montes Zuniga, 20, and Oscar Canales Molina, 17, “entered the country illegally as unaccompanied minors.” Molina was apprehended by the feds in July 2017 but was also released by a federal district judge in November 2017.

We have a lot of our own inherent violence in this country, but now we have “animals,” as Trump rightfully calls them, being released into our country and committing completely avoidable violence.

This is the big lie the media is not telling you about the border flow. When you see pictures of 16- and 17-year-old “children” coming here and wrongly being treated as refugees, being released by judges, and placed in our communities, many of them are your 19- to 20-year-old MS-13 members committing the most gruesome crimes just a year or two later. Not all of them, but way too many.

Geraldine Hart, police commissioner of Suffolk County, New York, indicated last May at the president’s roundtable on MS-13 violence in Long Island that the entirety of the MS-13 crisis over the past few years is because of the UACs and that Long Island has it bad because it was the largest recipient of UACs in the nation. “MS-13 sustains itself by constantly recruiting new members, and particularly minors,” said Hart last May 23 with Trump in attendance. “MS-13 members recruit children placed in communities in Suffolk County through the UAC program.” She noted that since 2014, “4,965 UACs have been placed in Suffolk County, making it the largest recipient of UACs in the nation. While the vast majority of these children live law-abiding lives, many of them are susceptible to gang recruitment.”

This reflects the deep problem of criminal aliens coming across our border. It is true that there are a lot of known bad people who come through, but there are also a lot of troubled youth who might not have a paper trail flagged in our international databases, but are very much at risk, particularly when they come in such large numbers and settle in gang-saturated areas. Of all people, Rod Rosenstein explained this dynamic well at that same Long Island roundtable:

“We’re letting people in who are gang members. We’re also letting people in who are vulnerable. Many of these alien children, who have no parents, no family structure — we’re releasing them into communities where they’re vulnerable to recruitment by MS-13. And so some of these kids who come in without any gang ties develop gang ties as a result of the pressure that they face from people that they confront in the communities.”

None of these people are victims of a “severe form of trafficking,” and almost none of them are in the country without any adult relative, the two conditions for eligibility to be treated as a UAC. They are, in fact, self-trafficking themselves in order to reunite with other illegal aliens in this country! They are taking advantage of us, empowering the drug cartels, and serving as the fresh blood of the transnational gangs working for the cartels. They should be repatriated back to their home countries, but instead, we now have judges implementing a greater degree of amnesty than all of the legislative amnesties we’ve successfully defeated.

Thanks to the courts rewriting statutes to include the very evil the UAC statute was designed to combat, 98.2 percent of all Central American teens who came in fiscal year 2017 still remain in our communities.

Think about all of the avoidable crimes that are committed because we refuse to deny entry to or to deport these people. Now the legal system is illegally treating these people like American citizens in all aspects of criminal law. Many of them are released if local judges and sanctuary jurisdiction law enforcement believe the crime wasn’t severe enough. Newsday is reporting that the three stabbers already have swanky lawyers representing them who are claiming their clients are not MS-13 members and are peaceful and innocent.

While everyone is certainly entitled to due process for criminal convictions, there is a broader question to be answered here. We won’t know all the facts about this attack until there is a trial, but we do know they are here illegally. Why then were they not deported when the Suffolk County database had them flagged for being MS-13? Look at how clogged our criminal justice system gets because we refuse to deport the people we can before they commit crimes.

This is a growing trend. A month ago, six MS-13 members were indicted in Lynn, Massachusetts, for killing a boy they suspected was cooperating with law enforcement. They used such force, like “chopping wood,” that the knife was bent, according to prosecutors. According to prosecutors, “At least two of the six defendants have felony records. At least two of the six defendants were previously in immigration custody but were released and went on to commit … murder.” Why weren’t they deported, and why would a judge let them go? The Boston Herald reports that, in the case of at least one, according to the feds, the lawyer “succeeded in convincing an immigration court that he was not in a gang, was not violent, did not pose a threat to the public.”

Sound familiar?

Every illegal alien crime, by definition, is avoidable because we should be enforcing our laws and getting rid of the immigration magnets. But we now have a ubiquitous crisis of known criminal aliens who are let go and are allowed to continue ratcheting up the severity of their crimes. It’s bad enough that we are too weak on sentencing for Americans and so many bad people are on the streets. But when it comes to illegal alien crime, shouldn’t we all agree they should be immediately deported after committing their first crime?

This is why the border issue is not really about the border. It’s about all our communities. Most of the recent invaders are not staying near the border; they are passing through to other states, particularly in the East Coast. At this point, perhaps the only thing that will stop this travesty is when it arrives next door to where the political elites live. (For more from the author of “Pack of Ms-13 Illegal Aliens Released by Judge Stab 16-Year-Old” please click HERE)

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After 18 Employees Skip Work to Attend Immigration Rally, They Receive Brutal Lesson From Their Boss

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By The Blaze. After 18 employees at a Tennessee-based painting company skipped work this week to attend a pro-immigration rally, they received a brutal lesson about right-to-work laws they won’t soon forget.

According to KTNV-TV, 18 employees at Nashville’s Bradley Coatings were fired after they informed their supervisors on Wednesday they were missing work the next day to attend the nationwide protest, “A Day Without Immigrants.”

The protest sought to show the significance that immigrants play in the U.S. workforce while protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

However, on Thursday when the employees didn’t show up to work, they learned that they had been terminated. . .

He added, “I would tell [my boss] he was unfair, after working for them for so many years, giving him our best. They could not understand that it was just one day. We were going to make up that day on a Sunday, but they didn’t understand that, and it was not the best way. They didn’t give us an opportunity and just told us we were fired.” (Read more from “After 18 Employees Skip Work to Attend Immigration Rally, They Receive Brutal Lesson From Their Boss” HERE)

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Company Fires 18 Employees After They Participated in ‘a Day Without Immigrants’

By KTNV. A total of 18 people were fired from a Tennessee business after joining the nation-wide protest “A Day Without Immigrants.”

The 18 employees at Bradley Coatings, Incorporated in Nolensville, Tennessee told their supervisors on Wednesday they’d be taking part in the nationwide movement. Then, on Thursday, they were told they no longer had jobs.

“We are the team leaders directly under the supervisors and they informed us last night that we could not go back to work and the boss said we were fired,” one employee said. . .

“Tennessee is an employment-at-will state which basically means an employer can end your employment at any time without reason or cause. Of course there are a lot of different stipulations, civil rights issues that could stop them from doing that,” Department of Labor and Workforce Development spokesman, Chris Cannon said. (Read more from “Company Fires 18 Employees After They Participated in ‘a Day Without Immigrants'” HERE)

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Links Emerge Between Fusion GPS-Tied Group Connected to False Flag Operation

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A nonprofit group linked to Fusion GPS and partially funded by George Soros worked in recent months with a technology company implicated in a scheme to use fake Russian bots during Alabama’s special Senate election.

The groups, the Democracy Integrity Project (TDIP) and New Knowledge, partnered before the 2018 midterms to track alleged Russian disinformation networks, a website the organizations collaboratively run shows.

Both organizations have links to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), which is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election, as well as possible Trump campaign collusion.

SSCI provided New Knowledge with data from various social media companies as part of an investigation into Russian disinformation networks, according to a report New Knowledge released Dec. 17. Two days later, news broke that New Knowledge’s chief executive was involved in a self-described “false flag” operation in the special election for a Senate seat in Alabama, as was another staffer who was the lead author on the Senate report.

TDIP is also linked to the Senate Intelligence panel. Its founder, Daniel J. Jones, was previously a staffer for Democrats on SSCI. He was also in contact in early 2017 with Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the Democratic vice chairman of SSCI. As part of TDIP’s own Trump-Russia investigation, the group hired Fusion GPS and Christopher Steele, the author of the anti-Trump dossier. (Read more from “Links Emerge Between Fusion GPS-Tied Group Connected to False Flag Operation” HERE)

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Democratic Rep. Says She Knows the Real Secret Goal That Trump Wants, and It’s Not a Border Wall

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Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that a deal could not be made with President Donald Trump to reopen the government because his real secret goal was to clear the U.S. of all immigrants and people of color.

Jayapal enthusiastically agreed to Hayes’ claims about Trump’s true goal for the border wall while referring to a statement made about “white supremacy” by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa).

“Donald Trump is at the border,” said Hayes, “and shutting down the government over this entirely ridiculous enterprise because he almost certainly correctly thinks his political fortunes are dependent on the Steve Kings of the world and the people who love him.”

“People animated by bigotry and fear,” Hayes continued, “people who have come to view their identity as existentially under threat from desperate Honduran moms in flip flops. Those people cannot be appeased, because what they want is not policy, what they want is an ethnically pure America, and thats why this impasse can’t be solved in any normal deal-making terms.” . . .

“He actually could have gotten funding a couple of years ago,” she explained, “or a year ago, for a wall, it was part of a deal that was proposed, not all of us agreed with that deal, but it was proposed to him and he turned it down because his ultimate goal, as you said, to make America pure in the sense of not having immigrants, not having folks of color here, and shutting down every form of legal immigration.”

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