Ethics Complaint Filed Against Adam Schiff

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Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz (R) announced Wednesday that he has filed a formal complaint against fellow congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), accusing his colleague of several instances of “unprofessional and divisive behavior.”

Schiff has been a longtime critic of President Donald Trump, and has taken the lead in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into the president. . .

In Gaetz’s letter to the Ethics Committee — who have been quite busy the past few weeks — he referred to Schiff’s self-described “parody” account of a phone conversation between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a “wildly-inaccurate and distorted ‘retelling'” that “grossly misrepresent[ed] the content of the call to the American people.”

Gaetz also pointed to a March 2017 interview where “Mr. Schiff claimed to have ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of President Trump and his campaign ‘colluding’ with Russia.” The Florida congressman continued, “As the report from Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III has made clear, Mr. Schiff’s claim was baseless and untrue; to date, Chairman Schiff has not justified his statement.” (Read more from “Ethics Complaint Filed Against Adam Schiff” HERE)

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WATCH: California Wildfire Is Dangerously Close to the Reagan Library

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Firefighters are doing their best to contain a rapidly moving wildfire in Simi Valley, California, that threatens the Reagan Presidential Library.

Fox News reports that mandatory evacuations were ordered in the area Wednesday morning as the Ventura County Fire Department works to fight off the blaze and protect the library where President Ronald Reagan is buried with first lady Nancy Reagan.

Firefighters and trucks have surrounded the library, with protection measures being taken on the Air Force One-side of the facility, according to a spokesperson. Reagan Library Executive Director John Heubusch told FOX11 the blaze was “circling the library” and that fire crews are “fighting it as best they can.”

“It’s the closest this library has ever come to this danger,” he told FOX11. “So this is really serious stuff. So far they seem to be on top of it.”

Employees who are on the scene – along with the fire and police personnel – told Fox News the move to close the library is being taken as a precaution.

Reagan Presidential Library spokeswoman Melissa Giller told the Associated Press the portion of the library housing archives faces away from the fire.

CNN video captures just how close the wildfire is to the library.

Fox11 is following this developing story with live updates you can check out here.

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Ilhan Omar’s Reason for Not Condemning the Armenian Genocide Is Getting Criticism From the Left and Right

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The following is an excerpt from Blaze Media’s Capitol Hill Brief email newsletter:

In what was meant to be taken as a jab at Turkey over the country’s recent actions in Syria, an overwhelming majority of the House of Representatives voted to pass a resolution condemning the Ottoman Turks’ World War I genocide of Armenians. Turkey has long disputed the use of the term “genocide” to describe what happened.

Rep. Ilhan Omar — who has previously faced criticism over her closed-door 2017 meeting with Turkey’s dictator — voted “present” and was only one of two Democrats not to vote in favor of the resolution. Her reason for doing so is drawing a lot of criticism.

Omar defended the move in a statement saying, “I believe accountability for human rights violations—especially ethnic cleansing and genocide—is paramount. But accountability and recognition of genocide should not be used as cudgel in a political fight.” She also said, “A true acknowledgment of historical crimes against humanity must include both the heinous genocides of the 20th century, along with earlier mass slaughters like the transatlantic slave trade and Native American genocide.”

The explanation was panned both on social media — including by left-leaning pundits — and in her home state of Minnesota. Rev. Tadeos Barseghyan, pastor at St. Sahag Armenian Church in St. Paul, voiced his disappointment with Omar, asking “Is there a right or wrong time to … stand up for justice that she claims to be a champion for?”

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A Man Held In One Of China’s Internment Camps Was Beaten To Death By A Drunk Police Officer

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Last year, a Uyghur man imprisoned in one of China’s labor camps died. Chinese officials claimed he died from a heart attack.

But Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported that the man, referred to only as Ghalipjan, was actually beaten to death by a drunk police officer while in custody. Ghalipjan, 35, was detained in Pichan county in one of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s (XUAR) internment camps. RFA estimates that more than “1.5 million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities accused of harboring ‘strong religious views’ and ‘politically incorrect’ ideas since April 2017” have been detained in the labor camps.

China claims the camps are education facilities to reduce terrorism, but as The Daily Wire previously reported, the centers are run like third-world prisons where detainees are regularly sexually assaulted, tortured, experimented on, and given little to no food — all while living in deplorable conditions.

RFA reports that it received a letter from a source that said Ghalipjan’s mother was told the day he died that it was due to a heart attack from an undiagnosed heart condition. The authorities told her that he was sent to a nearby hospital. Ghalipjan’s family went to the hospital to see his body and found he still had a defibrillator attached to his chest. Family members were not allowed to inspect his body.

“Communist Party cadres from No. 1 village in Pichan’s Lamjin (Lianmuqin) township, where Ghalipjan lived with his wife and five-year-old child, oversaw the burial of the young man on the same night that he died, and inexplicably denied family members the right to wash his body according to Muslim funerary traditions,” RFA reported from the letter. (Read more from “A Man Held In One Of China’s Internment Camps Was Beaten To Death By A Drunk Police Officer” HERE)

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Top Turkish Ally Donates to Ilhan Omar’s Campaign

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A top ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met far-left Democrat Ilhan Omar (MN) last month and donated a large sum of money to her campaign, a revelation that comes one day after Omar refused to sanction Turkey for their actions in northern Syria and refused to recognize the Armenian Genocide, which was committed by Turkey.

Halil Mutlu, who is the co-chairman of the Turkish American Steering Committee (TSAC), donated $1,500 last month to Omar’s campaign.

“Founded in 2015, TASC has orchestrated a public relations push to cast doubt on whether the Ottoman empire committed genocide against Armenians more than a century ago,” The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (DCNF) Chuck Ross reported. TSAC is “a U.S.-based nonprofit that has for years waged public relations campaigns in support of Turkish government policies and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan … [and] maintains close ties to Erdogan, routinely hosting the Turkish president during his visits to the U.S., including on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last month.”

The DCNF added that Mutlu, who is reportedly Erdogan’s cousin from Connecticut, made the $1,500 contribution to Omar’s campaign on at the end of last month and was featured in a photograph with her.

On Tuesday, Omar was one of the only members of Congress that did not vote to recognize the Armenian Genocide and was the only Democrat member of Congress to vote against sanctioning Turkey for their actions in northern Syria. (Read more from “Top Turkish Ally Donates to Ilhan Omar’s Campaign” HERE)

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WATCH: Pentagon Releases Video of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi Raid

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The Department of Defense released video of the U.S. military raid that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and provided more details of the raid during a press conference on Wednesday.

U.S. Central Command Commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, Jr. explained a group of people left al-Baghdadi’s compound when the U.S. special forces approached.

“The group was treated humanely at all times and included 11 children. I want to make it clear that despite the violent nature of the raid and the — and the high-profile nature of this assault, every effort was made to avoid civilian casualties and to protect the children that we suspected would be at the compound,” said McKenzie.

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Impeachment Could Shut Down the Government; White House: Impeachment Resolution Denies Trump Due Process

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By Daily Caller. The ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump could shut down the government since the Senate has yet to pass 12 spending bills, The New York Times reported.

None of the bills have reached the Senate floor yet, and a possible impeachment trial “gives added urgency” for the lawmakers to fully fund the government, Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins said, according to The NYT. The impeachment inquiry is in the House and a vote has not been scheduled yet.

“It used to be that we frequently finished up the appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year,” Collins said, reported The NYT. “A potential impeachment trial gives added urgency to our making as much progress as possible on the appropriations bills … before we could be presented with the articles of impeachment.”

Funding might be extended into early 2020 so that resources don’t dry up in the case that senators have to spend time on an impeachment trial, which wouldn’t allow them to focus on legislative work as much. Lawmakers have had issues agreeing on the Trump administration’s spending, including efforts to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

“I would hope the senators accept the responsibility that they have to complete their work,” said Democratic New York Rep. Nita M. Lowey, chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, according to The NYT. (Read more from “Impeachment Could Shut Down the Government” HERE)

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White House: Impeachment Resolution Denies Trump Due Process

By Washington Examiner. The White House rejected as unfair a resolution by Democrats that will formalize an impeachment inquiry that began last month.

The resolution, which could pass the House as early as this week, outlines some rights for Republicans but keeps most power with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has been deposing witnesses in closed-door hearings.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in an Oct. 8 letter that the White House would not cooperate with the impeachment proceeding because it lacked authorization by a House floor vote.

By introducing the resolution, Democrats hope to remove a key Republican argument that the proceeding is illegitimate. But White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham contended it changes little in terms of the inquiry being stacked against Trump.

“The resolution put forward by Speaker Pelosi confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote,” Grisham said. “This resolution does nothing to change the fundamental fact that House Democrats refuse to provide basic due process rights to the Administration” (Read more from “White House: Impeachment Resolution Denies Trump Due Process” HERE)

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Trump Allies Charge Lt. Col. Vindman Is Disrespecting Chain of Command With Testimony; Schiff Stopped Impeachment Witness From Answering GOP Questions

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By Washington Examiner. President Trump’s allies denounced Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman for breaking ranks as he became the first current White House official to testify during impeachment proceedings.

Vindman, a Ukraine-born policy expert, outlined in prepared remarks his disagreement with Trump’s attempts to force investigations into Democrats, saying, “I did not think it was proper,” and that Trump’s actions could endanger national security.

A former Trump National Security Council official said it’s wrong for Vindman, as an active-duty member of the Army, to criticize the commander in chief on policy.

“How is an active-duty military officer allowed to go to a different branch of government to take down the president with scurrilous claims?” he said. “I think the Army should be very concerned about what this means for discipline in the force. Basically, you have a political disagreement so you vomit mutiny.”

Jason Miller, a Trump ally who served in top communications roles for the 2016 Trump campaign and presidential transition, said Vindman clearly holds views on Ukraine policy that are at odds with Trump’s. (Read more from “Trump Allies Charge LT. Col. Vindman Is Disrespecting Chain of Command With Testimony” HERE)

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GOP reps say Schiff stopped impeachment witness from answering certain GOP questions

By Fox News. House Republican leaders, in a fiery news conference Tuesday, said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., prevented a witness in the latest impeachment hearing from answering certain questions from Republican members.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told reporters that Schiff shut down a Republican line of questioning during a hearing with Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the latest current or former Trump administration official to come before Congress in relation to the impeachment probe.

“When we asked [Vindman] who he spoke to after important events in July — Adam Schiff says, ‘no, no, no, we’re not going to let him answer that question,”‘ Jordan said.

Jordan went on to say that Schiff seemed to be breaking his own rules for the hearings, implying the chairman was acting almost as a “lawyer” for Vindman.

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Man Repeatedly Raped Teen Girl, Forced Her to Have Abortion. Abortion Clinic Never Reported Rape

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A young Florida teenager who went missing for nearly a year allegedly was raped and forced to abort her unborn baby by a man twice her age, according to police.

Now, questions are being raised about whether the abortion facility reported the suspected abuse to authorities.

The Sun Sentinel reports police found the 15-year-old girl and her alleged abuser, Christopher Johnson, 30, of Davie, Florida, last week after the girl’s mother found pornographic images of her daughter online. . .

Police said they found paperwork from an abortion facility in Johnson’s apartment. It is not clear if the abortion facility, which is not named in reports, alerted authorities about the suspected abuse of the young girl. . .

The reports raise questions about whether the girl may have been found sooner if the abortion facility had reported the suspected abuse to authorities. It is not clear if it did. The abortion industry has a history of failing to protect abuse victims. (Read more from “Man Repeatedly Raped Teen Girl, Forced Her to Have Abortion. Abortion Clinic Never Reported Rape” HERE)

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‘No Trick-Or-Treat’ Signs for Sex Offenders’ Homes Are Halted by Judge

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On Tuesday a judge ruled in favor of a group of sex offenders who sued the Butts County Sheriff’s Office for posting ‘No Trick-or-Treat’ signs in their yards.

A federal judge granted an injunction to stop the Georgia deputies from placing warning signs in the yards of registered sex offenders to deter children from trick-or-treating at their homes, according to Fox 5 Atlanta. Three sex offenders argued it was a violation of their rights to free speech and privacy.

Sheriff Gary Long said he took the action to keep children safe on Halloween. “I WILL do everything within the letter of the Law to protect the children of this Community,” Long posted to Facebook.

However, Judge Marc Treadwell found the sheriff’s move went beyond the letter of the law, according to Fox 5. “The sheriff’s decision is not based on any determination that the plaintiffs are dangerous. Nor is the sheriff’s sign-posting founded on Georgia law. Rather, the sheriff’s decision is based solely on the fact that the plaintiffs’ names remain on Georgia’s registry of sex offenders,” the judge wrote in his ruling. He declined to award the plaintiffs any damages. (Read more from “‘No Trick-Or-Treat’ Signs for Sex Offenders’ Homes Are Halted by Judge” HERE)

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