Pete Buttigieg Kicks off His Latino Outreach Campaign With a Slogan Popularized by Communists

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Struggling with low poll numbers among Latino voters, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s campaign launched a Hispanic outreach effort on Monday that included a series of policy plans, websites, and online videos in English and Spanish.

Buttigieg announced the initiative on his social media accounts by invoking a Spanish-language slogan that is raising eyebrows among Latino leaders. The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, tweeted “El pueblo unido, jamás será vencido” (“the people united, will never be defeated”), a protest chant that is famously connected to Latin American communists. The saying was also featured in several campaign communications, including as a call-to-action on a Latino website.

For decades, Americans have rallied to declare el pueblo unido, jamás será vencido — the people united, will never be defeated. To join us and learn more, text TOGETHER to 25859.

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It is difficult to overstate the degree to which Buttigieg’s Spanish-language campaign slogan is associated with left-wing radicals in Latin America. Last month, at a meeting titled, “An Anti-Imperialist Gathering of Solidarity Against Neo-Liberalism,” the Cuban government’s National Assembly broke out into the chant when the country’s communist president took the stage.

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Report: Democrats Have the Votes to Impeach President Trump; Dems Preparing to Undermine Trump Victory in 2020

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By Breitbart. House Democrats now have the votes to impeach President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday.

The Wall Street Journal‘s Siobhan Hughes, Lindsay Wise, and Natalie Andrews wrote Monday evening:

By Monday afternoon, at least 18 from the 31 Democratic-held districts that Mr. Trump won in the 2016 presidential race had announced they would support the abuse-of-power and obstruction of Congress charges, according to a Wall Street Journal survey, with two saying they are opposed.

In other words, given the recent surge over the weekend into early this week of announcements of support for Articles of Impeachment from a number of vulnerable House Democrats who had been holding out until now, the Democrats have crossed the threshold necessary to impeach the president–barring any unforeseen surprises. (Read more from “Report: Democrats Have the Votes to Impeach President Trump” HERE)

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Democrats Preparing to Undermine Trump Victory in 2020

By Washington Examiner. Democrats are laying the groundwork to undermine the legitimacy of Donald Trump’s presidency if he wins in 2020, arguing foreign interference helped him get into the White House in the first place and then stay there.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff last week explained House Democrats’ expedited impeachment schedule against Trump for abuse of power and obstructing Congress, with House floor votes now set for Wednesday.

“The argument, ‘Why don’t you just wait?’, amounts to this: Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election?” Schiff told reporters.

“Why not let him have foreign help one more time?” added the California Democrat, who led the intelligence panel’s investigation into whether Trump improperly leveraged U.S. military aid to pressure Ukraine into digging up political dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden, a top-tier 2020 Democratic White House candidate.

Democrats have not been shy about using the word “cheat” in reference to Trump’s 2016 campaign, which former special counsel Robert Mueller’s federal Russia inquiry found was boosted in part by Russian meddling. Though Mueller’s 22-month investigation failed to uncover evidence Trump’s team welcomed the foreign assistance, some prominent Democrats make it seem otherwise. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, often laments on the campaign trail that Trump should never have been allowed to come “within cheating distance of the Oval Office.”

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CNN Impeachment Poll Has Bad News for Democrats: Support Among Democrats Drops by Double Digits

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By Daily Wire. A new CNN impeachment poll released on Monday found that not only is support for impeachment and removal underwater nationwide, but that support has dropped among Democrat voters by double-digits.

“Support for impeaching Trump and removing him from office stands at 45% in the new poll, down from 50% in a poll conducted in mid-November just after the conclusion of the House Intelligence Committee’s public hearings,” CNN reported. “Opposition to impeachment and removal stands at 47% in the new poll, up from 43% in November.”

CNN added, “Support for impeachment and removal among Democrats has dipped from 90% in November to 77% now.”

The news comes after Tom Bevan, Co-Founder and President of Real Clear Politics, reported on Monday that the new Real Clear Politics average — which averages out the top national polls — showed that public support for impeachment was underwater with 47.3% opposing impeachment while 46.7% support it.

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Impeachment Support Collapses with Public as Trump Approval Ties Record High

By Daily Wire. Multiple new polls that have been released in recent days show that public support for impeachment has fallen to a record low and opposition to impeachment has surged to a record high which comes as President Donald Trump’s approval rating tied a record high in a separate poll. . .

A new poll from USA Today, whose editorial board recently endorsed impeachment, found that “in the wake of combative impeachment hearings, those surveyed oppose by 51%-45% a Senate vote to convict Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.”

USA Today’s poll also showed “Trump defeating former vice president Joe Biden by three percentage points, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders by five points, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren by eight points. In hypothetical head-to-head contests, Trump also led South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg by 10 points and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg by nine.”

Separately, a new poll from Quinnipiac University, whose polls often paint Trump in the worst possible light, said that Trump’s approval rating surged to the highest it has ever been in their polling at 43% — which is fairly low compared to the highs that Trump has registered in other polls. (Read more from “Impeachment Support Collapses with Public as Trump Approval Ties Record High” HERE)

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Poll: Over Half of Voters Say Senior Law Enforcement Officials Illegally Targeted Trump

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A Rasmussen poll released Monday found 52 percent of likely U.S. voters say senior law enforcement officials broke the law in seeking to prevent Donald Trump from becoming president in 2016.

The telephone and online survey results showed 39 percent of voters say it is unlikely law enforcement officials broke the law in targeting Trump.

“These findings are virtually unchanged in surveying since February of last year,” Rasmussen Reports notes.

What has changed, however, is the percentage of voters who say the senior law enforcement officials who targeted Trump should be jailed if found guilty of breaking the law.

A plurality (43 percent) of respondents say the officials should be jailed – up from 25 percent in February, while 22 percent say officials who acted illegally should simply be fired. (Read more from “Poll: Over Half of Voters Say Senior Law Enforcement Officials Illegally Targeted Trump” HERE)

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SEE IT: Climate Activists Try to Stop Freight Train Hauling Coal

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An environmental reporter in Massachusetts posted a video on Twitter late Monday that she said showed a freight train hauling coal being met with a group of climate change activists on a dark track.

The train was seen moving slowly through Worchester, Mass., and about a dozen activists with small lights could be seen surrounding the tracks. The train’s horn was blaring, but the activists appeared to continue to give it chase. The train was headed to New Hampshire, the reporter wrote.

Miriam Wasser, a reporter for WBUR, Boston’s NPR station, posted the clip and wrote that the train was alerted about people on the track after a call to the emergency hotline. It was unclear if the activists were part of a organized group. (Read more from “SEE IT: Climate Activists Try to Stop Freight Train Hauling Coal” HERE)

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Judge Denies Michael Flynn’s Allegations of FBI Ambush, Sets Sentencing for January

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Nearly a year after delaying his initial sentencing, Judge Emmett Sullivan has rejected attempts by former White House national-security adviser Michael Flynn to throw out his previous guilty plea due to prosecutorial misconduct, and set Flynn’s sentencing for January 28.

In a 93-page decision issued Monday, Sullivan rejected claims from Flynn’s defense team that the former three-star general was trapped by FBI agents during questioning over his contacts with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to one count of lying to federal agents, only later claiming that he was deliberately manipulated by the FBI in a set-up.

“The sworn statements of Mr. Flynn and his former counsel belie his new claims of innocence and his new assertions that he was pressured into pleading guilty to making materially false statements to the FBI,” Sullivan wrote.

The judge also denied a bombshell claim by Flynn’s team that the FBI tampered with notes from the interview and deliberately withheld exculpatory information from Flynn. Flynn’s defense had argued that the government was required to turn over the original interview document under the Brady rule, which established the government’s obligation to turn over evidence that can be useful for the defense.

In November, the Department of Justice admitted that it had indeed misattributed notes to former FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who was one of two agents to conduct the interview, encouraging Flynn’s allies to believe a positive decision was forthcoming. (Read more from “Judge Denies Michael Flynn’s Allegations of FBI Ambush, Sets Sentencing for January” HERE)

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The Ukraine Whistleblower Is Another James Comey; Slippery Former FBI Director Gets Nailed

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By Washington Examiner. Democrats don’t want us to confirm the identity of the so-called whistleblower in their impeachment drive, because then we’ll realize that we’ve seen this exact same scenario play out before: A career government employee believes it’s up to him or her to save the republic and stop President Trump.

The inspector general report out of the Justice Department last week showed that this pattern started as far back as 2016, when FBI agent after FBI agent self-identified as a hero and began spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign in hopes of uncovering a conspiracy with Russia.

They each lied, fabricated, and willingly relied on what they knew was faulty information for the purpose of pursuing a sham investigation of the president into something that has since been debunked.

A separate inspector general report released back in August showed that former FBI Director James Comey is another one of these people. After Comey leaked confidential information to the news media by way of a third party, Comey “failed to live up to his responsibility” and “set a dangerous example” for other agents, the inspector general said. Comey defended the leaking as an act of patriotism, something he did out of “love for my country.” The inspector general slapped Comey on that point, stating that “strongly held personal convictions” are not an excuse for flouting FBI policy. (Read more from “The Ukraine Whistleblower Is Another James Comey” HERE)

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The Slippery James Comey Gets Nailed

By National Review. Twenty years ago, Bill Clinton gave us “it depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” James Comey has now given us it depends what the meaning of “vindicated” is.

The former FBI director sat down with Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday over the weekend, and it didn’t go well. Wallace repeatedly pressed Comey on critical findings in the Horowitz IG report, and Comey shimmied and dodged, in a master class in slipperiness and evasion. . .

All of these advantages were eroded or nonexistent on Sunday. The Horowitz report has dumped a prodigious amount of material about the investigations out into the public. While Chris Wallace obviously isn’t a law-enforcement professional, he knows the factual record and, as one of the best interviewers on TV, was relentless, yet fair in grilling Comey. . .

Off the bat, Wallace juxtaposed Comey’s claim that the IG report was a vindication with Michael Horowitz’s congressional testimony that no one who had anything to do with the FBI’s handling of the investigation should feel vindicated. . .

He relied repeatedly on such mincing distinctions. Questioned how he can square his past statement that the Steele dossier was “part of a broader mosaic of facts” supporting the Carter Page FISA application with Horowitz’s finding that it was “central and essential” in deciding to seek the FISA order, Comey said there was no contradiction. (Read more from “The Slippery James Comey Gets Nailed” HERE)

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Congress Set to Prohibit Sales of Tobacco Products to Anyone Under 21

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Sales of tobacco products to anyone under 21 would be banned under a year-end congressional spending bill likely to pass this week, congressional staffers said Monday.

The measure, which would include cigarettes and e-cigarettes, has bipartisan support and was introduced in May by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.). In November, President Trump told reporters he supported an increase in the tobacco-buying age to 21 from 18.

Public health advocates praised the move, saying it would help reduce kids’ access to vaping products. But they stressed much more action is needed to reverse the youth vaping surge. And several expressed concern that the White House will use the “Tobacco 21” measure, as it is called, to avoid imposing the ban on flavored e-cigarettes that Trump announced in September but subsequently backed away from. (Read more from “Congress Set to Prohibit Sales of Tobacco Products to Anyone Under 21” HERE)

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FISA Report Was so Bad That FBI’s Top Lawyer During Russia Probe Felt ‘Distressed’ After Reading It

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Former FBI general counsel James Baker said Monday that he felt “distressed” after reading the Justice Department inspector general’s report laying out “significant” errors and omissions in the bureau’s applications to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

In an interview on CNN, Baker went further in his critique of the bureau than did FBI Director James Comey, who said Sunday that he believed the FBI was “sloppy” in its efforts to obtain Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against Page.

“Sloppiness is completely unacceptable. That is not the way you operate in front of a federal court. I don’t know what word you want to use, it’s terrible, it’s unacceptable, it shouldn’t happen. That is not the way we should be filing matters in front of a federal court,” Baker told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.

“I was distressed about it. I was completely distressed about it,” Baker said of his response to the inspector general’s (IG) findings.

Baker has testified that he personally reviewed the FISA applications against Page, given their political sensitivity. (Read more from “FISA Report Was so Bad That FBI’s Top Lawyer During Russia Probe Felt ‘Distressed’ After Reading It” HERE)

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Is He Talking About Biden? Obama Says World Problems Are Due to ‘Old Men Not Getting out of the Way’

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Former President Barack Obama said Monday that most of the world’s problems are due to “old men not getting out of the way.”

Obama spoke at a private event on leadership in Singapore where he said that many issues the world faces stem from older men not knowing when to step down.

“If you look at the world and look at the problems, it’s usually old people, usually old men, not getting out of the way,” he said, the BBC reported.

“It is important for political leaders to try and remind themselves that you are there to do a job, but you are not there for life, you are not there in order to prop up your own sense of self importance or your own power,” the former president said.

Obama’s critique of elderly men in politics comes as the former president continues to refrain from endorsing former Vice President Joe Biden for president of the U.S. Biden has attempted to explain Obama’s silence by telling reporters in April that he asked Obama not to endorse him. (Read more from “Is He Talking About Biden? Obama Says World Problems Are Due to ‘Old Men Not Getting out of the Way’” HERE)

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