Trump Lashes Out At Fox News Coverage

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President Trump on Thursday lashed out after a segment on Fox News’s “Your World with Cavuto,” in which RealClearPolitics associate editor A.B. Stoddard compared former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s debate performance to “cringe-worthy” moments Trump has had on the debate stage.

“There were many bombs,” Stoddard, a former associate editor at The Hill, said on Fox News, while analyzing Bloomberg’s debate performance.

“I think he’s uncoachable. I think that Donald Trump had disastrous debate performances, many answers were so cringe-worthy you just couldn’t believe he was still standing on the stage, and he’s president so I don’t think debates kill off normal candidates who do not have a billionaire juggernaut machine,” Stoddard added.

Trump promptly took to Twitter to attack the commentator, as well as host Neil Cavuto, while taking a swipe at former Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), who is now on the board of Fox News.

“Could somebody at @foxnews please explain to Trump hater A.B. Stoddard (zero talent!) and @TeamCavuto, that I won every one of my debates, from beginning to end. Check the polls taken immediately after the debates. The debates got me elected. Must be Fox Board Member Paul Ryan!” Trump tweeted.

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Study: Taxpayers In Low-migration States Pay $454M A Year For Illegal Aliens, Anchor Babies

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Taxpayers in the ten states with the smallest foreign-born populations are still burdened by a cost of about $454 million every year to pay for various social services for illegal aliens and their United States-born children.

A study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) analyzes the cost of illegal immigration and the anchor baby population to American taxpayers who live in the ten least immigrant-populated states, including New Hampshire, Mississippi, Alaska, Maine, North Dakota, West Virginia, South Dakota, Vermont, Montana, and Wyoming.

The research reveals that even in low-migration states, the cost to American taxpayers is still significant. Of the total 415,000 foreign-born residents living in these ten states, about 88,000 are illegal aliens — indicating that illegal aliens represent more than 20 percent of foreign-born residents.

Those 88,000 illegal aliens across these ten states, along with about 35,000 of their U.S.-born children, are costing American taxpayers about $454 million every year, with each illegal alien costing anywhere between $4,000 and $6,000.

“To put that figure into context, that $454 million expenditure is more than 200 times what the state of Montana budgets for its entire Veterans Affairs program and it is 2.5 times the total sum that West Virginia invests in its state university,” the FAIR study notes. (Read more from “Study: Taxpayers In Low-migration States Pay $454M A Year For Illegal Aliens, Anchor Babies” HERE)

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Mike Bloomberg’s Supremely Materialistic, Anti-Human Ideology

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. . .Begin with Bloomberg’s disturbing warmth toward China’s regime. Bloomberg News has, according to insiders, spiked stories that were critical of the regime. Bloomberg also kicked off his current presidential run by praising China’s environmental record and lauding the way the government holds power, in addition to rejecting the idea that Xi Jinping is a dictator, suggesting that a majority of the population approves of his rule.

At best, Bloomberg is saying that individual liberty and free expression can be suppressed, so long as the guy suppressing them could, in theory, find public support for it — and by “support,” he’s not necessarily referring to a free election. That’s unnerving, coming from a guy running to become president.

In this context, consider his Big Gulp bans, his smoking bans, his trans-fat bans, and his tireless campaign to outlaw guns. Bloomberg clearly rejects the notion that ordinary people should be allowed to make their own mistakes. Treating adults as adults and respecting their self-determination is not something Bloomberg believes in.

So, how then to understand his massive support for Planned Parenthood, his 100% pro-choice record on abortion, and his call to deregulate abortion clinics? Just go back to his workplace conduct.

Telling an expectant mother to kill her baby, mocking a new mother’s desire for quality child care, cursing whenever a female employee gets pregnant, and publicly denigrating marriage among professional women all reflect a clear and consistent mindset: The women who worked for him were worker bees. Their humanity, their fertility, their love, and their human attachments were all impediments to productivity. He saw these women as means to his ends of profit. (Read more from “Mike Bloomberg’s Supremely Materialistic, Anti-Human Ideology” HERE)

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It’s Time To Focus On The GOP Debate

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While everyone in conservative media seems fixated on commenting on the Democrat primary debates, they are missing the raging internal GOP debates. No, there is no high-profile debate stage for Republicans this year, and Donald Trump is running for the presidential nomination essentially unopposed. But there is a behind-the-scenes fight for the heart and soul of the Trump presidency that will determine what sort of second term may be waiting for Trump’s base at the other side of this election cycle.

Second terms of Republican presidents don’t work out well for conservatives. It’s truly hard to remember a good second term from a GOP president since Calvin Coolidge (and that was his first and only elected term). Bush’s second term was essentially the forerunner to Obama’s presidency on almost every major issue. Reagan was better, but we got a failed amnesty bill.

Contrary to what loyal GOP voters think – that re-election against the onslaught of the media will push the Republican president into righteous principled governance – Republican presidents tend to move leftward and lose steam in their second term. The GOP swamp is already chomping at the bit to promote amnesty, another expansion of foreign workers to displace Americans, a massive pro-criminal bill, a global warming agenda, and endless new entitlement and spending programs during a second term. Those with the elitist swamp mindset are all over the White House and executive branch, and the leadership in Congress is nearly identical to the leadership that turned off Republican voters last decade and prompted them to vote for Trump in the first place.

Take a look at the Cabinet-level officials in this administration and count how many of them are cut from the “MAGA” cloth and support an America-first agenda. If you get ambitious, go down to the deputy secretary and agency-head level as well. You’ll be able to count the number of true believers in Trump’s original campaign message on one hand, perhaps two if you go down low enough. Every day, they work with swampy Republicans in Congress and the business interests, donors, and trade associations on the outside who prop them up to promote everything Trump voters detest.

This GOP debate – something much more important than Elizabeth Warren sparring with Mike Bloomberg – played out between Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday. And unlike with the Democrat debate, conservative influencers can actually sway the outcome of this debate and determine whether we will have a party and a Trump second term more in line with Chip Roy – or with Lindsey Graham. The gulf between a Chip Roy and a Lindsey Graham is greater than the gulf between Graham and Bloomberg. In fact, Graham and Bloomberg agree on an awful lot of issues.

Following revelations that Lindsey Graham, who is chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other high-profile GOP senators and administration officials are trying to get Trump to buy into a massive amnesty and foreign worker proposal, Rep. Chip Roy sent him a letter expressing his concern. Noting our dangerous border and criminal alien crisis, Roy admonished Graham that there “should be no amnesty considered as we should be squarely focused on re-establishing actual operational control of our border, which we currently do not have.”

Roy, who once served as a staffer on the committee Graham now chairs, currently has a bill calling for the destruction of the Carrizo cane, vegetation that grows up to 25 feet tall along the Rio Grande River, where the cartel scouts and smugglers hide out, and for building access roads for Border Patrol along the river. In the letter to Graham, Roy lays out what GOP leaders should be focused on:

Dangerous cartels are at war in Tamaulipas along the Mexico-Texas border, maintaining operational control along much of the border. We have not taken the steps necessary to treat cartels like the terrorist actors they are. Only a little over 100 miles of actual fencing has been completed, largely on areas that already had at least barriers. Narcotics flow is as bad as it has ever been, with fentanyl now littering our cities across the country. We are relying on Mexico to hold the line for us – which is tenuous at best. We have not fixed Flores or ended catch-and-release policies, we have not fixed our asylum laws from the potential of abuse, and we have not fixed TVPRA to allow for the safe and easy return of children and immigrants to their homes. Border Patrol and ICE need more resources and beds. We have vast areas of the border which are overrun by cane and have no roads allowing navigation along the Rio Grande. I could go on, but to be clear, we’ve taken maybe 5 steps of 100 needed to actually secure the border.

Indeed, those were Trump’s campaign promises. But this language that Roy is speaking may as well be Swahili to swamp Republicans and the special interests that seem to have home field advantage both in Congress and at the White House. They don’t consider victims of crime, illegal immigration, human and drug smuggling, or the American worker in their calculous. That is not the language they speak. The question for conservatives is whether we will enjoy a second term where the MAGA agenda is the native language or not.

Will we have a second term that prioritizes the needs of American taxpayers and workers over the open-borders cartel?

Will this be a second term where we finally control our immigration system from espionage, terrorism, trade secret theft, and labor exploitation, or will we continue serving the gods of Big Education, Big Ag, and Big Tech who suck us dry to the benefit of China, India, and Saudi Arabia?

Will we have a second term of clamping down on the cartels and drug traffickers or one that continues misdiagnosing the drug crisis, going easy on traffickers, and harming pain patients?

Will we have a second term that cuts all the programs Trump promised in his budget blueprint and bring welfare reform, or will we have a second term creating new entitlements?

Will we have a second term where Republicans finally take on the health care cartel and the endless Medicaid handouts for big conglomerates and insurance companies that are destroying private practice and boxing out consumers and instead promote health care freedom by cutting out the middlemen? Or will this be another term of Republicans promoting endless Medicaid, while warning about the next rung of socialism from the Democrats that they will inevitably join in a few years?

Will this finally be the term where Republicans in Congress and the executive branch take back stolen power from the unelected courts, or will this be another shell game of promoting judicial supremacism while losing our country to district judges and the ACLU?

Will this be another term where Republicans pass gun control while releasing violent felons from federal prison, or a term where we protect law-abiding citizens by locking up the bad guys and arming the good guys?

Will we have a second term of House Appropriations committee chairs like Kay Granger who will fund increased bureaucracies and Planned Parenthood, but not more ICE officers? Or will conservatives finally focus on GOP primaries and support people like Chris Putnam, her primary challenger?

The ball is in the court of those who claim to be conservative and hold sway with the White House. Trump cares deeply about the priorities of conservative leaders and, nine times out of ten, will listen to their requests. But just what are their priorities? (For more from the author of “It’s Time To Focus On The GOP Debate” please click HERE)

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FBI Had Dirt That Could Have ‘Unraveled’ Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Entire Network’ More Than A Decade Ago

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Feds In Florida Knew About The Victim Central To Jeffrey Epstein’s Indictment 11 Years Earlier

By The Blaze. Federal agents in Florida were aware of key allegations of childhood sexual abuse against Jeffrey Epstein over a decade ago, ABC News revealed Thursday.

According to court documents, a woman had come forward with detailed accounts of abuse against Epstein and was set to appear before a grand jury in the original federal investigation against the billionaire hedge fund manager in Florida. But after Epstein secured a favorable deal with prosecutors that resulted in him serving 18 months in county jail, the case was closed and the allegations went unheard — until last year.

Here’s the scoop from ABC News:

A woman whose allegations of childhood sex abuse in New York were central to last year’s indictment of Jeffrey Epstein was questioned by the FBI and subpoenaed for testimony by federal prosecutors in Florida more than a decade ago in connection with the first federal investigation into Epstein’s alleged child sex trafficking, according to court documents and multiple sources familiar with the events.

But the woman, who was 19 at the time of her initial contact with federal agents in 2008, did not appear before a grand jury in West Palm Beach, as the subpoena commanded. Before her testimony could be secured, Epstein cemented a controversial and once-secret non-prosecution agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami by pleading guilty to two state prostitution charges for which he was sentenced to 18 months in a county jail … with the deal done, the federal grand jury was suspended, the investigation halted, and the subpoena to the woman, ultimately, withdrawn.

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FBI Had Dirt That Could Have ‘Unraveled’ Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Entire Network’ More Than A Decade Ago

By Law and Crime. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had dirt on Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago–but he was bailed out by federal prosecutors in Florida before authorities had the chance to act on that information. . .

The woman’s identity is currently being shrouded out of respect for privacy but she was identified in 2019 by the Southern District of New York (SDNY) in Epstein’s indictment as “Minor Victim-1.” Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who represented three Epstein victims, told ABC the FBI “could have unraveled the entire network from New York to Paris to New Mexico.”

“In or about 2002, Minor Victim-1 was recruited to engage in sex acts with Epstein and was repeatedly sexually abused by Epstein at the New York Residence over a period of years and was paid hundreds of dollars for each encounter,” the SDNY filing notes. “Epstein also encouraged and enticed Minor Victim-1 to recruit other girls to engage in paid sex acts, which she did. Epstein asked Minor Victim-1 how old she was, and Minor Victim-1 answered truthfully.”

The man whose child sex abuse empire was allegedly enjoyed by several of the world’s most popular and powerful men in art, politics and finance was, of course, pronounced dead by suicide in Aug. 2019 under extremely suspicious circumstances soon after being apprehended by New York authorities. Justice, it seems, had eluded his dozens of victims for the final time. . .

“[Her] experience with Epstein fit within what is now known to have been a common pattern for the abuser,” the lawsuit reads. “He would find vulnerable young girls who needed money and slowly test their boundaries—first asking them to remove their own clothes and massage him and then, over time, he would escalate his conduct, touching them in ways that would become more invasive, violent, and painful. As these children grew to rely financially on Epstein, he would only cause them more and more harm.” (Read more from “FBI Had Dirt That Could Have ‘Unraveled’ Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Entire Network’ More Than A Decade Ago” HERE)

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Trump Appoints LGBT Activist as First Openly Gay Member of Cabinet

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President Donald Trump appointed Richard Grenell, former ambassador to Germany, as acting director of national intelligence on Thursday. He will now oversee the nation’s 17 spy agencies. Grenell replaces Admiral Joseph Maguire who led the DNI since last August.

Although conservative reaction to Trump’s appointment of the LGBT activist has been muted, Grenell was an early proponent of gay marriage. He signed onto a United States Supreme Court legal filing supporting homosexual marriage two years before the SCOTUS ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which required states to recognize same-sex marriage.

Grenell is also credited with an international campaign to coerce other nations to remove prohibitions on sodomy from their legal codes. The Family Research Council criticized this effort, calling it “‘cultural imperialism’ by imposing policies . . . on other countries with different cultures, traditions, and values.” But Grenell claimed Trump’s support and even bragged that evangelical Vice President Mike Pence was “fully on board” with his plan.

A number of third world nations affected by Grenell’s campaign have pushed back, with the archbishop of the Church of Uganda stating that “homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture” and that it is a perversion of the created order regarding family. Uganda Christian News agreed, stating that “the Bible describes homosexuality as an immoral and unnatural sin (Leviticus 18:22; 20:13; Romans 1:26-27; 1 Corinthians 6:9).”

China Deploys 40 Incinerators to Wuhan Amid Fears of Coronavirus Death Toll ‘Cover up’

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By Daily Star. China has reportedly deployed 40 industrial incinerators to the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak Wuhan.

Chinese media reports that the furnaces have been shipped to the city amid ongoing fears the death toll is being covered up.

NTD reports that the cabins are for the disposal of animal carcasses, while China Ship news reports the incinerators are for medical waste. . .

The mobile incinerators can reportedly destroy up to five tons of waste every single day – and can burn its load in as little as two seconds. . .

Reportedly the incinerators have been sanctioned for the use by the Chinese military after a test in Golmud, Qinghai in January. (Read more from “China Deploys 40 Incinerators to Wuhan Amid Fears of Coronavirus Death Toll ‘Cover up'” HERE)

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China Records Drop in New Coronavirus Cases; Two Deaths Reported From Quarantined Ship

By Reuters. China reported a dramatic drop in new coronavirus infections on Thursday although scientists warned the flu-like pathogen may spread even more easily than previously believed, while more passengers disembarked a quarantined cruise ship off Japan.

Two elderly passengers from the quarantined Diamond Princess ship had died of the disease, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported. The passengers were a man and a woman in their 80s, NHK said, citing an unidentified government source.

South Korea reported a spike in infections, with 23 new cases linked to a church congregation, up from 14 on Wednesday, in what health officials called a “super-spreading event”.

A 61-year-old woman known as “Patient 31” is suspected of passing the disease to others who attended religious services at a church in the central city of Daegu.

Hundreds of people are believed to have attended services with the woman in recent weeks at a branch of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testimony, a religious movement founded in 1984 by South Korean Lee Man-hee, who is revered as a messiah by followers. (Read more from “China Records Drop in New Coronavirus Cases; Two Deaths Reported From Quarantined Ship” HERE)

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Family Speaks Out: Buttigieg’s Brother-in-law Says ‘Everything Pete Is Pushing’ Is ‘Anti-God’

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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s brother-in-law, Pastor Rhyan Glezman, slammed the Democratic hopeful for his comments Tuesday night, when the candidate claimed he doesn’t see “any compatibility” between supporting President Trump and the teachings in Scripture after declaring that God “does not belong to a political party.”

“Yeah, in the height of intellectual dishonesty for Pete to make claims that there’s no compatibility with being a Christian and voting for Trump, [when] Pete, in fact, is the one who is pushing agendas and rhetoric that is against, clearly against Scripture,” Glezman said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Wednesday.

“Just everything that Pete is pushing is, it’s anti-God. I’m just gonna be honest with you,” Glezman said. “Nothing lines up with Scripture for him to make cases like to say that you cannot be a Christian and vote for Trump. He’s the one that is openly contradicting God’s word over and over.” . . .

Glezman also reacted to a clip of Buttigieg on “The View” addressing partial-birth abortion, in which co-host Meghan McCain asked the candidate about the topic, saying Democrats — including pro-life Democrats — want to know where his “line is.” . . .

“I’m just in a state of lament when you hear that we have someone running for commander in chief who can’t make a moral decision on whether to keep a child after it’s already been born or to have it killed,” Glezman told Tucker on Wednesday. “What kind of moral suggestions is he going to be given if he can’t come to an understanding of that? It’s just, it’s alarming.” (Read more from “Family Speaks Out: Buttigieg’s Brother-in-law Says ‘Everything Pete Is Pushing’ Is ‘Anti-God'” HERE)

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WATCH: Bernie Sanders Won’t Answer Questions About His Medical Records; Bernie Thinks Online Attacks From Bernie Supporters Might Be the Russians

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By Daily Caller. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders dodged answering a question Wednesday on why he has not released his full health records.

The Vermont senator pointed out at a presidential debate Wednesday night that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has also had health issues.

“Sen. Sanders, when you were here in Las Vegas in October, you were hospitalized with a heart attack,” one of the debate moderators said. “Afterwards you pledged to make quote all your medical records public.”

“You’ve released three letters from your doctors, but you now say you won’t release anything more. What happened to your promise of full transparency?” the moderator continued. . .

“Let me tell you what happened. First of all, you’re right, and thank you, Las Vegas, for the excellent medical care I got in the hospital two days,” he said[.]

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Bernie Sanders Suggests Online Attacks From Bernie Supporters Might Be the Russians

By Daily Caller. Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders suggested Wednesday that online attacks attributed to his supporters, known as “Bernie Bros,” might be the Russians trying to “divide” Americans.

Sanders made the argument during the Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas after taking criticism for not doing more to prevent his supporters from attacking others online.

“We have over 10.6 million people on Twitter and 99.9% of them are decent human beings, are working people, are people who believe in justice, compassion and love,” Sanders began, adding that the vast number of attacks and ugly remarks could really be attributed to a very small percentage of people.

“I disown those people, they are not part of our movement,” Sanders continued, noting that his own campaign staffers were not immune from attacks. “Let me also say — what I hope my friends up here will agree with — is that if you look at the wild west of the Internet, talk to some of the African American women on my campaign … And find the vicious, racist, sexist attacks that are coming their way as well. So I would hope that all of us understand that we should do everything we possibly can to end the viciousness and ugliness on the Internet. Our campaign is about issues. It’s about fighting for the working families and the middle class. It is not about vicious attacks on other people.” (Read more from “Bernie Sanders Suggests Online Attacks From Bernie Supporters Might Be the Russians” HERE)

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Bloomberg’s Cash Financing ‘Overtly Political’ Agendas in State AG Offices, West Virginia’s Morrisey Claims

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Billionaire Democrat Michael Bloomberg has bankrolled a network of climate-change lawyers who are operating out of the offices of attorneys general in liberal states, West Virginia state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey claimed Tuesday, calling the Bloomberg setup “absolutely outrageous.”

“[W]hat you are doing is, you’re outsourcing who is running the government to people who are not accountable to the voters,” Morrisey said during an appearance on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle.” “It’s unacceptable on so many levels.”

There would be public and media outrage if a corporation like ExxonMobil decided to fund similar attorneys, but for the opposite reasons, Morrisey added.

“I’d like to take a moment just to point out, what would the other side think if the Republican attorneys general were to bring 25 lawyers in [who] were paid by ExxonMobil, and they report both to the attorney generals and they report to ExxonMobil? People would find that to be absolutely unacceptable because it’s unethical.”

Morrisey said what Bloomberg is doing equates to the “outsourcing of law enforcement powers.” (Read more from “Bloomberg’s Cash Financing ‘Overtly Political’ Agendas in State AG Offices, West Virginia’s Morrisey Claims” HERE)

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