Donald Trump: Impeachment Effort a ‘Coup’ to Take Power From the People

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By Breitbart. President Donald Trump accused the Democrats on Tuesday of conducting a “coup,” to remove him from office. . .

As I learn more and more each day, I am coming to the conclusion that what is taking place is not an impeachment, it is a COUP, intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their God-given rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!

Trump deployed his latest defense as the establishment media and Democrats grow increasingly critical of his rhetoric responding to the whistleblower’s complaint and the subsequent impeachment effort launched by the Democrats.

Trump said during private remarks at a reception in New York City after the United Nations General Assembly:

We’re at war. These people are sick, they’re sick and nobody’s called it out like I do. I don’t understand, people are afraid to call it out, they are afraid to say that the press is crooked, we have a crooked press, we have a dishonest media.

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Donald Trump Sets Twitter Record as White House Fights off Impeachment Inquiry

By USA Today. It’s not your imagination: President Donald Trump is tweeting more.

Amid calls for his impeachment and preparations for his reelection bid, Trump tweeted or retweeted nearly 800 times during an eventful September, about 100 posts beyond what he published in any previous month of his presidency, according to a USA TODAY analysis. His monthly tweet frequency has steadily risen for months.

The president tweeted in his own words 500 times last month, twice his average monthly frequency in 2018.

His September slew of tweets came in response to calls for his impeachment based on his efforts to encourage Ukrainian officials to investigate his political rival Joe Biden, 2020 Democratic presidential frontrunner. . .

In more than 320 tweets and retweets since the story broke of a whistleblower report on Trump’s phone call in July with Zelensky, Trump used or repeated the word “treason” five times and the word “Ukraine” more than four dozen times. (Read more from “Donald Trump Sets Twitter Record as White House Fights off Impeachment Inquiry” HERE)

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Police Officer Suspended for Turning Over Illegal Alien to ICE

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A county police department in Virginia announced Tuesday that one of their officers was suspended for turning an illegal alien over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after determining the individual had dodged a deportation hearing. . .

The officer reportedly encountered the illegal alien when responding to a traffic accident on September 21, during which he discovered that the individual did not have a Virginia driver’s license. After running the person’s information through the Department of Motor Vehicles system, the officer discovered ICE had issued an administrative violation against the individual for failing to appear at a deportation hearing.

The officer verified the warrant and then called the listed ICE agent, who came to the scene and took the alien into custody. The individual was released several hours later with an ankle monitor.

Fairfax County has a policy that limits the police department’s cooperation with ICE. Officers cannot check the immigration status of an individual unless they are booked in jail for another crime, and they may not detain individuals based solely on a civil immigration violation. (Read more from “Police Officer Suspended for Turning Over Illegal Alien to ICE” HERE)

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Federal Judge Blocks State Abortion Ban

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A federal judge temporarily blocked Georgia’s abortion ban Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Steve Jones temporarily blocked the implementation of the law, which was scheduled to go into effect Jan. 1. Jones’s actions follow a June lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union, Planned Parenthood, and the Center for Reproductive Rights, according to WSB-TV Atlanta. . .

Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed H.B. 481, the “fetal heartbeat bill,” in March. It outlaws abortions in Georgia after a fetal heartbeat is detected and makes exceptions in cases of rape and incest if the woman files a police report, and when the mother’s health is at risk.

“We are currently reviewing Judge Jones’ decision,” Candice Broce, director of communications and deputy executive counsel for Kemp, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “Despite today’s outcome, we remain confident in our position. We will continue to fight for the unborn and work to ensure that all Georgians have the opportunity to live, grow, and prosper.”

“Today is a tremendous victory for the women of Georgia and for the Constitution,” said ACLU of Georgia legal director Sean Young. “Politicians have no business telling women or couples when to start or expand a family. This case has always been about one thing: Letting her decide.” (Read more from “Federal Judge Blocks State Abortion Ban” HERE)

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Pompeo Accuses Dems of ‘Bullying’ State Employees; Pompeo Now ‘Fact Witness’ in Impeachment Inquiry

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By Fox News. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is fighting back against House Democrats seeking to depose five State Department officials over the Trump-Ukraine controversy.

In a letter and in tweets on Tuesday, Pompeo accused those Democrats of attempting to “intimidate” and “bully” the State Department’s foreign service officers (FSOs) and said depositions being sought by Congress are “not feasible.”

The “requested dates for depositions are not feasible,” Pompeo wrote, claiming the lawmakers have not given the employees enough time to prepare and voicing concern that they’re trying to prevent State Department counsel from participating in the depositions. Pompeo said Executive Branch counsel would have to be present.

“Let me be clear: I will not tolerate such tactics, and I will use all means at my disposal to prevent and expose any attempts to intimidate the dedicated professionals whom I am proud to lead and serve alongside at the Department of State,” Pompeo tweeted in response to the Democrats’ demand for depositions.

In turn, the Democratic chairmen of the three House committees — House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif. and Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md. — accused Pompeo of “intimidating” witnesses. (Read more from “Pompeo Accuses Dems of ‘Bullying’ State Employees” HERE)

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Dems Suggest Pompeo Now ‘Fact Witness’ in Impeachment Inquiry

By Fox News. Reps. Eliot Engel, Adam Schiff and Elijah Cummings, the chairmen of three House committees, informed the State Department in a fiery letter late Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might now be a “fact witness” in their ongoing impeachment inquiry, after Pompeo accused Dems of trying to “bully” foreign service officers into testifying.

Saying Pompeo “now appears to have an obvious conflict of interest” because he “reportedly participated” in President Trump’s fateful July call with Ukraine’s president, the Democrats also warned that Pompeo could run afoul of obstruction and whistleblower law — crimes, the Democrats noted, that could carry multiyear prison terms. A source familiar with the situation told Fox News that Pompeo was indeed in on the July 25 call at the center of the impeachment drive.

Pompeo “should not be making any decisions regarding witness testimony or document production in order to protect himself or the president,” the Democrats wrote. “Any effort by the secretary of the department to intimidate or prevent witnesses from testifying or withhold documents from the committees shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry.” (Read more from “Dems Suggest Pompeo Now ‘Fact Witness’ in Impeachment Inquiry” HERE)

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The FBI’s Annual Crime Report Is Out, and the Anti-Gun Crowd Won’t Like It

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation released its Uniform Crime Report for 2018 on Monday, and the numbers indicate that more people were killed by knives than rifles.

The annual report touts an overall drop in violent crime for the second consecutive year, according to the Bureau’s news release on the numbers. However, the numbers specifically on homicides in the United States offer some insight into America’s ongoing gun control debate.

Due to multiple shooting massacres that took place in August, gun control proponents have once again turned their animus toward semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15. Perhaps the most salient example of this is 2020 Democratic candidate Beto O’Rourke’s pledge, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.”

However, as has been the case in previous years, the numbers show that rifles in general — including semi-automatics as well as others — only account for a fraction of a percent of the total homicide rate in the United States.

Here’s what the FBI’s 2018 homicide numbers show us:

Overall, the number of homicides dropped from 15,195 in 2017 to 14,123 in 2018. The overall number of people murdered with guns dropped as well.

10,265 were committed with firearms, out of which handguns accounted for 6,603.

Rifles were used in 297 homicides, shotguns in 235, and “other guns” in 167.

2,963 homicides were listed as “firearms, type not stated.”

What does this show us? According to the available information, rifles accounted for just 2.1 percent of total homicides last year — and 2.9 percent of gun homicides.

Once again, deaths from knives and “personal weapons” like hands, fists, and feet were higher than the number of homicides committed with rifles. More than five times as many murders were committed with knives (1,515) as with rifles, and more than twice as many people were killed with “personal weapons” (672). Other years included in the FBI report’s table — which spans 2014-2018 — show similar disparities between the same weapon types.

Again, these numbers are just for rifles as a whole. There’s no further breakdown for what kind of action or cosmetic features the rifles had.

But despite the facts, the question of what to do about the AR-15 and other widely used semi-automatic rifles — sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” — will likely remain as one of the main focus points in America’s ongoing debate about guns and the Second Amendment. (For more form the author of “The FBI’s Annual Crime Report Is Out, and the Anti-Gun Crowd Won’t Like It” please click HERE)

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Two Republicans Are Suing Over the Cancelled 2020 Primary

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Two South Carolina Republicans, including a former U.S. House member, have sued the state GOP over its decision last month to cancel its 2020 primaries, the Charleston Post and Courier reports.

Filed in Richland County on Tuesday, the lawsuit claims that party officials say that party officials’ decision to cancel their 2020 primary was a violation of the law as well as party rules.

“This case is about the failure of the State Executive Committee of the Republican Party of South Carolina to follow South Carolina law, the Republican Party’s own rules, and the South Carolina Constitution,” the complaint reads. “The result of that failure will be that plaintiffs [former GOP Rep.] Bob Inglis and Frank Heindel … will be deprived of the ability to vote for the candidate of their choice in South Carolina’s famous (and particularly influential) ‘First in the South’ primary.”

The plaintiffs go onto claim that while applicable rules and laws “don’t necessarily require a political party to hold a presidential preference primary election in all presidential election years,” they do “require that if a party wishes to cancel its primary, it must observe certain democratic safeguards that ensure that a party’s supporters—and not just a small junta of party bosses—support canceling the primary, and the party must instead choose which candidate it will support at its state convention.”

Leaders of the South Carolina GOP decided to forgo a 2020 primary in favor of supporting incumbent President Donald Trump almost unanimously in early September, just a day before former governor and U.S. House member Mark Sanford announced a primary bid against the president.

“As a general rule, when either party has an incumbent President in the White House, there’s no rationale to hold a primary, just as South Carolina Republicans did not hold one in 1984 or 2004, and Democrats did not in 1996 and 2012,” a party statement said at the time. “With no legitimate primary challenger and President Trump’s record of results, the decision was made to save South Carolina taxpayers over $1.2 million and forgo an unnecessary primary.”

Back in July, a statement from South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick dismissed the potential of a Sanford primary run as a “vanity project.”

“The last time Mark Sanford had an idea this dumb, it killed his Governorship,” the statement said, referring to Sanford’s 2009 fiasco when he claimed to be hiking when actually going to visit his mistress in Argentina. “This makes about as much sense as that trip up the Appalachian trail.”

Also challenging Trump for the nomination are former Rep. Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld. The pair held their own debate last week, which neither Trump nor Sanford attended.

Other state Republican parties have also canceled their 2020 primaries, including Kansas, Arizona, Nevada, and Alaska. (For more from the author of “Two Republicans Are Suing Over the Cancelled 2020 Primary” please click HERE)

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Maxine Waters: Impeachment Not Good Enough, President Must Be Imprisoned; If Pompeo Defies Subpoenas, I Hope ‘We Can Drag Him in or We Can Arrest Him’

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By The Blaze. One of the first House Democrats to openly call for President Donald Trump’s impeachment now says it’s not good enough and would rather see him locked up all by himself instead.

In a Tuesday afternoon tweet, Rep Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said that she had had enough of the president’s “filthy talk of whistleblowers being spies & using mob language implying they should be killed.” . . .

President Trump has been the subject of emboldened calls for his impeachment from Washington Democrats in the wake of the controversy over a whistleblower from the intelligence community’s report about a late July phone call between the U.S. president and the president of Ukraine.

In the wake of the controversy and impeachment push from House Democrats last week, President Trump remarked that those who fed the information to the whistleblower were “close to a spy” and “You know what we used to do in the old days, when we were smart, right? The spies and treason? We used to handle it a little differently than we do now.” (Read more from “Maxine Waters: Impeachment Not Good Enough, President Must Be Imprisoned” HERE)

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Waters: If Pompeo Defies Subpoenas, I Hope ‘We Can Drag Him in or We Can Arrest Him’

By Breitbart. . .[Maxine] Waters said, “I do agree that this president has instructed those who we have been subpoenaing not to come before our committee, not to cooperate. It is outrageous in what he is doing. And now that we have more information, factual information, for example, that Pompeo was on that telephone call, he must respond to the subpoena. He must come forward, or he could be charged, I believe, with obstruction of the impeachment. And I don’t know everything that goes along with that, but I certainly hope that it means we can drag him in or we can arrest him.”

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‘Bidengate’ VIDEO: Joe Biden Brags to the Council on Foreign Relations About Withholding $1 Billion in Aid From Ukraine

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On Monday’s episode of “White House Brief,” Jon discussed a 2018 video in which former Vice President Joe Biden bragged about threatening to withhold $1 billion in aid from Ukraine unless Ukraine fired the lead prosecutor investigating Burisma, the company tied to Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

“Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, was a consultant and a board member for a Ukrainian energy company called Burisma,” Jon said. “Burisma is riddled with corruption charges and came under investigation by a prosecutor for corruption … after they start the investigation for corruption, Joe Biden gets on the phone with the president of Ukraine and says fire that prosecutor or else. Biden admits that he does this on tape.”

While speaking on a panel with the Council on Foreign Relations on Jan. 23, 2018, Biden bragged about withholding aid to Ukraine.

“I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and Yanukovych that they would take action against the state prosecutor and they didn’t. So they were walking out of the press conference, and I said we were not going to give them the $1 billion. They said you have no authority. You are not the president. The president said … I said call him,” Biden said. “I’m telling you, you are not getting $1 billion. I said you’re not getting $1 billion and I am going to be leaving here in six hours and if the prosecutor is not fired you are not getting the money. Well, son of a b**** … he got fired.” . . .

According to the Democrats, the Ukraine scandal involved Trump telling Ukraine that he would withhold money if he did not get dirt on Joe Biden. Jon asserted that it turns out that everything the Democrats claimed Trump said is what Biden said to the former president of Ukraine. (Read more from “‘Bidengate’ Video: Joe Biden Brags to the Council on Foreign Relations About Withholding $1 Billion in Aid From Ukraine” HERE)

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Teenage Boy Died While ‘Protecting’ Sister, 5, From Home Invasion

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A Florida teen found dead last week in a burglarized Port Charlotte home is being hailed a hero after his family said he died while protecting his 5-year-old sister.

The body of Khyler Edman, 15, was discovered by the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office after deputies canvassed the area following the arrest Ryan Clayton Cole, 27, for burglary. . .

After his arrest, police searched the area for more homes and that’s when they discovered Khyler’s body and his sister, “uninjured.”

“It is believed that Cole received his injuries inside the same residence during a violent encounter,” police said in a news release. . .

“On September 26th Khyler lost his life being a hero protecting his 5-year-old sister, when a man broke in our home in Port Charlotte,” [the family] said before adding that he “lost his life due to a senseless act of a stranger.” (Read more from “Teenage Boy Died While ‘Protecting’ Sister, 5, From Home Invasion” HERE)

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WATCH: Men Zoom Past Female Runner in World Athletics Championships Mixed Relay

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Over the weekend, history was made at the 2019 World Athletics Championships in Doha for its inclusion of the gender-mixed 4×400-meter relay.

As noted by The Telegraph, nations pack their teams with two male and two female runners each. Nearly all participating nations ordered their runners male-female-female-male, strategically placing their two fastest runners to start and end the race.

Poland, however, stacked their two male runners first and second, leaving their two female runners, Iga Baumgart-Witan and Justyna Swiety-Ersetic, to close out the relay.

While Poland gained an advantage off the bat with their male runners, the last leg showcased a top-notch female athlete with a 30-meter lead competing against top-notch male athletes — and the difference was stark.

The female runner was blown out by Michael Cherry, who represented the United States, in the last leg of the relay. All the other male runners, despite being disadvantaged by Swiety-Ersetic’s head start, also beat out the Polish runner.

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