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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Democrat Debate: Michael Bloomberg Being Attacked From All Sides by Candidates

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By USA Today. Bernie Sanders slammed Michael Bloomberg’s wealth in an extended debate over taxes and what he described as the “grotesque level of income and wealth inequality” in the United States.

“That’s wrong, that’s immoral,” Sanders said, noting that Bloomberg’s wealth vastly overshadows the earnings of virtually all Americans.

The back-and-forth was ostensibly over the nation’s tax code, and a desire from Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to raise taxes on the wealthy. Bloomberg said he was proud of the money he has earned – “I work very hard for it,” he said – and added that he strongly opposed the tax proposals supported by the liberal wing of the party. . .

In a question about how his policies would affect small, minority-owned businesses, Biden brought up the discriminatory housing practice known as “redlining.”

It wasn’t redlining, but the greed of Wall Street, that caused the 2008 financial crisis, Biden said. That was an allusion to comments Bloomberg made in 2008 in which he said the crisis was started because banks were pressured to end redlining. (Read more from “Democrat Debate: Michael Bloomberg Being Attacked From All Sides by Candidates” HERE)

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Bloomberg Under Siege at Chaotic Debate Debut, as Warren Attacks Field in Bid to Revive Campaign

By Fox News. Elizabeth Warren shamed Mike Bloomberg for allegedly calling women “fat broads.”

Amy Klobuchar asked Pete Buttigieg if he was calling her “dumb.”

Bloomberg swiped at Bernie Sanders by quipping that “the best-known socialist in the country happens to be a millionaire with three houses.”

The Democrats’ showdown Wednesday night in Las Vegas repeatedly put Bloomberg in his primary rivals’ crosshairs as the surging billionaire made his debate-stage debut. But the conflagration quickly expanded into an all-out melee and easily the most aggressive debate of the nomination season to date, as each of the candidates took sharp and often personal shots at one another.

The fight started out white-hot when, in her first turn at the microphone, Warren asserted that she would support whoever wins the nomination, but warned that Democrats “take a huge risk if we just substitute one arrogant billionaire for another.” (Read more from “Bloomberg Under Siege at Chaotic Debate Debut, as Warren Attacks Field in Bid to Revive Campaign” HERE)

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Trump ‘Offered Pardon’ to Assange If He Denied Russia Leak, Court Hears

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By Breitbart. US President Donald Trump promised to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange if he denied Russia leaked emails of his 2016 election rival’s campaign, a London court was told on Wednesday.

Assange’s lawyer Jennifer Robinson said in a document Trump relayed the offer through former US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, the UK’s domestic Press Association news agency reported.

The revelation came at a case management hearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court before Monday’s formal start of Washington’s extradition request for him to face espionage charges.

If found guilty in the United States, he could be jailed for 175 years.

Assange’s defence cited a statement from Robinson in which she said that Rohrabacher had been to see Assange and said “on instructions from the president, he was offering a pardon or some other way out, if Mr Assange… said Russia had nothing to do with the DNC leaks”. (Read more from “Trump ‘Offered Pardon’ to Assange If He Denied Russia Leak, Court Hears” HERE)

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White House: Press Reports that Trump Offered Pardon to Assange, “Total Lie”

By Maegan Vazquez, Livvy Doherty, Claudia Rebaza and Angela Dewan. [I]n a statement released Wednesday, Rohrabacher said he had never spoken to Trump about Assange and that the visit was “my own fact finding mission. . . At no time did I offer a deal made by the President, nor did I say I was representing the President.”

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham dismissed Fitzgerald’s claim as “a total lie.” “The President barely knows Dana Rohrabacher other than he’s an ex-congressman. He’s never spoken to him on this subject or almost any subject. It is a complete fabrication and a total lie. This is probably another never ending hoax and total lie from the DNC,” Grisham said in a statement to CNN on Wednesday. . .

[Rohrabacher, a] former aide to Ronald Reagan, who served in the House for nearly three decades, said he tried to take Assange’s message directly to Trump but was denied a meeting by White House chief of staff John Kelly. (Read more from “Trump ‘Offered Pardon’ to Assange If He Denied Russia Leak, Court Hears” HERE)

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36-Year-Old Woman Calls 911 Over Parents Cancelling Phone Plan

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Police arrested a 36-year-old Ohio woman last week after she would not stop calling 911 to tell police that her parents had canceled her cellphone plan, WEWS-TV reported.

On Feb. 13, Seloni Khetarpal of Canton, Ohio, “repeatedly” called police demanding that officers respond to the situation by coming to her home, court documents say.

During the first call, police reportedly warned her that the regional emergency dispatch should be dialed only in the case of an actual emergency requiring police assistance — but she didn’t listen. Hours later, Khetarpal called again insisting that the police do something.

According to court documents, she was “belligerent” and insisted that her parents canceling her phone plan was a legitimate issue.

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George Zimmerman Sues Warren and Buttigieg Over Their Tweets

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George Zimmerman, the man who shot and killed Trayvon Martin, is suing two Democratic presidential candidates over their incendiary tweets about the movement that grew out of his case.

The infamous Florida man was charged with murder after he engaged in an altercation with the seventeen-year-old Martin, and ended up shooting him and killing him in 2012.

Zimmerman was acquitted for the murder of Martin in 2013, but activists have hounded him and made the case into a social justice cause. . .

“We need to end gun violence and racism,” she added. “And we need to build a world where all of our children—especially young Black boys—can grow up safe and free.”

The lawsuit accused the politicians of tweeting simply “for political gain in misguided and malicious attempts to bolster their standings amongst African-American voters, all at Zimmerman’s expense.”

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Hospitals to Deny Care to ‘Racist’ or ‘Homophobic’ Patients

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Patients deemed to be “racist” or “homophobic” will be denied care in NHS Trust hospitals under new rules set to take effect in April.

“Currently, staff can refuse to treat non-critical patients who are verbally aggressive or physically violent towards them,” reports Sky News. “But these protections will extend to any harassment, bullying or discrimination, including homophobic, sexist or racist remarks.” . . .

What is determined to be “racist” or “homophobic” is anyone’s guess, since many elderly patients will be totally unfamiliar with modern politically correct speech codes and could be deemed to have behaved in a racist or homophobic way even if they didn’t maliciously intend to.

As Jack Montgomery highlights, “In late 2017 an NHS patient who requested a female nurse to carry out a cervical smear complained when the hospital sent a person with “an obviously male appearance… close-cropped hair, a male facial appearance and voice, large number of tattoos and facial stubble” who insisted “My gender is not male. I’m a transsexual.”

The line between critical and non-critcal care is also up for debate. Will refusal to treat a patient because they said something someone deems offensive result in accidental deaths? (Read more from “Hospitals to Deny Care to ‘Racist’ or ‘Homophobic’ Patients” HERE)

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