Dem Rep Defends Shocking Remarks, Adds Trump Jr Should Have Been Aborted

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Democratic Alabama State Rep. John Rogers went viral on Thursday for making some awful remarks about abortion.

“Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later,” he stated while filibustering a pro-life bill in Alabama. “You bring them in the world unwanted, unloved, you send them to the electric chair. So, you kill them now or you kill them later.”

Just about everyone, including Donald Trump Jr., rebuked Rogers for his callousness. He concluded that what Rogers said was even worse than Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s infamous comments on babies who survive abortions.

How did Rogers respond? With another shocking remark.

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Trump’s New Border Directives May Stop Fanning the Flames. But It’s Time to Douse Them

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The situation along the southwestern border has long surpassed unsustainable or emergency levels and has ventured into uncharted, untenable waters. Looking back, the situation at the border that led to the five-week partial government shutdown now appears to be child’s play. What started out, around this time last year, as confusion over radical court rulings regarding prosecutions at the border and children being separated from parents has morphed into a full-scale invasion and the breakdown of our duly passed immigration laws. Now is not the time for blame, half-truth, or half-measures. It’s the time to decisively act! Nibbling around the edges on peripheral aspects of this issue might have worked to stem the greater tide a year ago, but the present situation calls for a complete shutoff at the border.

On Monday, the White House announced a new directive for the DHS and the attorney general to establish fees for asylum requests, to end work permits for those coming in at the border, and to establish regulations to adjudicate claims within 180 days. These measures are either vague, long overdue, and/or deal with the tangential aspects of the invasion and further accede to the premise that we can adjudicate our way out of this invasion.

The DHS not only releasing hundreds of thousands of aliens, but providing them with work permits was an egregious policy of the Obama administration and was never even promulgated in a formal regulation. It should never have been continued by this administration. Yet the Trump administration handed out 750,000 work permits to bogus asylum seekers or those presumed to have a credible fear. And that was just through last September, before the large numbers began coming over. Even now, the president is calling on DHS to “propose regulations” barring work permits rather than immediately terminating Obama’s policy today. And while getting rid of this horrible policy is certainly a welcome move, it merely removes one gratuitous act of fanning the flames; it doesn’t extinguish the flames by flatly denying all credible fear at the border, as is within the president’s power.

Charging fees for applications could theoretically deter many of those migrants who lack any funds (after spending it all on cartel smugglers), but few of them are actually applying for asylum anyway and are still being released rather than returned or detained. Also, absent a directive to place all these people in expedited removal and dispose of their credible fear claims with a rocket docket in tent cities, it’s unlikely enforcement personnel will deport those who simply lack the funds to pay the fee, although that point is still unclear.

As for adjudicating the cases within 180 days, again, the president is not required to adjudicate bogus claims. In fact, he has the full power to immediately turn them down at the border, and immigration law requires that any appeal be dispensed with ideally within 24 hours and at most within seven days. That is current law. A mix of empowering Border Patrol to immediately deny credible fear claims, the creation of tent cities and a rocket docket for appeals, use of expedited removal, and the discretion to rewrite Flores and implement the changes would solve this problem within seven days. Absent those reforms, nothing will change, and claimants won’t be deported even within 180 days.

Nothing in this directive explicitly excludes these measures, and they might very well be a part of the plan, but the wording provides us with no new insight. It’s possible the administration might be biding time to implement something more robust but didn’t want anything definitive on paper so that the ACLU can’t get a head start crafting lawsuits.

Either way, these are all debates about how to plow ahead with the asylum process in the long run. What we need is a complete shutoff of all immigration requests at our border, a power the president holds absolutely and unconditionally, in order to deal with the catastrophe now. In addition, we need several backup plans both to enforce the shutoff and as alternatives if the administration chooses to abide by the inevitable illegal universal injunction from the next California judge.

Below are recommendations made within the framework of current statutes in the Immigration and Nationality Act to implement my 10 ideas to deter, defend, and demagnetize.

1. When Congress gave the president power (8 U.S.C. § 1182(f)) to shut off all or any form of immigration for any amount of time at will when he believes it’s “determinantal to the interests of the United States,” it certainly never envisioned anything near this obvious and severe. Between empowering our enemies in the cartels, flooding the country with drugs and gangs, creating strategic diversions, the public charge, the birthright citizenship, the diseases, the sex trafficking and stash houses, and the money-making for evil-doers, we have overshot the criterion of “detrimental” by a factor of one thousand. It’s time for the president to immediately announce, in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f), the closing of the country (southwestern border, northern border, both coasts, and interior ports of entry) to any and all aliens who do not already possess a U.S. immigrant or nonimmigrant visa (or who are from a Visa Waiver Program (VWP) country) and a passport, and a who are not inadmissible per the section, as determined by CBP. This means no new defensive asylum applications will be accepted, as was the case with the Haitians in 1993 when the Supreme Court upheld this power in Sale v. Haitian Centers Council Inc.

2. Advertise #1 on radio, in print ads, handbills, and billboards in the Northern Triangle. This is what the Obama administration did to shut down the flow of UACs from Central America in 2014.

3. Return any alien entering illegally from a contiguous country to that country using the Alien Exit Transfer Program and those from non-contiguous ones to their country of origin. For aliens who return to the U.S. in violation of 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) or 1326 or in the event of legal challenges to #1, return to 100 percent zero-tolerance prosecutions. Use military lawyers to prosecute these cases to free up ICE attorneys to represent the government in asylum and removal proceedings. To insure there are no 2018-style repeats of lost or misplaced children, perhaps assign family members shared alien registration numbers with a dash and suffix for children apprehended with an accompanying adult. Use hospital-style bands for both adults and children with their names and AR numbers on them during processing.

The DHS should work with the U.S. Marshals to incarcerate adults geographically proximate to children for prompt reunification after criminal proceedings.

Consider turning over the confirmed children of aliens who engaged in dangerous behavior to amenable state Child Protective Services and reimbursing them for the costs of caring for those children. This will make it clear to the country that illegal alien criminals are certainly no better than American criminals whose children are brought into the custody of Child Protective Services.

4. In preparation for a rocket docket and airlift deportation of the next group of Central Americans in the pipeline, the DHS and Department of Defense should establish tent cities right near Air Force bases along the southwest border and within easy transportation distance to the bases’ flight lines. Examples include Goodfellow, Lackland, and Laughlin in Texas; Holloman and Kirtland in New Mexico; Luke and Davis-Monthan in Arizona; and as a last resort, anything in California. Provide tents for court proceedings, areas for consulting with counsel, sleeping, eating, medical care, and schooling for children, plus bath and toilet facilities.

5. Detain aliens in accordance with 8 U.S.C. § 1222(a) for health screenings and observations. The Flores Settlement Agreement should not be seen as trumping the statute, and while the government obtained an exemption to the five-day release requirement to process family units per Flores v. Lynch, the agreement only specifies release must be to the “least restrictive setting.” Additionally, defensive “asylum seekers” are, by their very nature, inadmissible aliens subject to expedited removal under 8 U.S.C. §§ 1182(a)(6)(C) for misrepresentation or (a)(7), lacking required immigration documents. They are also subject to mandatory detention per 8 U.S.C. § 1225(b)(1)(A)(i) and (b)(1)(B)(iii)(IV) respectively at a minimum, until such time as they’ve received a favorable credible fear determination.

Additionally, as the aliens are technically also inadmissible public charges per 8 U.S.C. § 1182(a)(4) and flight risks, they should remain detained through the duration of their proceedings, until either being granted asylum or removed from the U.S.

If for whatever reason release should be necessary, do not allow catch-and-release of any alien who has received a favorable credible fear determination who has not completed an I-589, Application for Asylum and Withholding of Removal, and assign them a court summons to the immigration court nearest to where they entered the U.S. illegally or the port of entry where they were deemed inadmissible. They should not be allowed to venture over to the interior court of their choosing.

6. Prosecute false or misleading claims of fear, statements made relative to the asylum application, etc. per 18 U.S.C. § 1001. Also, inform all aliens that if their applications are found to be frivolous, they will be permanently barred from any relief from deportation, per 8 U.S.C. §1158(d)(6).

7. Have the attorney general establish by regulations additional limitations and conditions, consistent with 8 U.S.C. § 1158(a)(2)(C), under which an alien shall be ineligible for asylum under paragraph (b)(1). That could include a regulation stating that anyone who uses criminal smuggling or cartel groups or caravans to come here is ineligible for asylum.

8. Use already withheld foreign aid as a carrot to get Northern Triangle countries to agree to become each other’s safe-third country as required by § 1158(a)(2)(A), e.g., Guatemala and Honduras for El Salvador; El Salvador and Honduras for Guatemala; and El Salvador and Guatemala for Honduras. In other words, promise to restore and possibly even increase aid if they agree to such an arrangement, which would instantly shut down any asylum claims. They could also get extra points for cooperating logistically with the air lifts.

The bottom line is that we need a plan to deter, defend, and demagnetize our porous border, and these are some of the statutes that can be used to prepare such a plan. Throwing more money at a “humanitarian crisis” to further treat, process, and incentivize this invasion with a supplemental funding bill is not the answer. Applying current law is the answer. (For more from the author of “Trump’s New Border Directives May Stop Fanning the Flames. But It’s Time to Douse Them” please click HERE)

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FBI Attempted to Use ‘Attractive’ Woman for Information From Trump Aide

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After two years, over 2,800 subpoenas, and nearly 500 search warrants and witness interviews, Special Counsel Robert Mueller “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” While the “Trump-Russia collusion” conspiracy theory that has largely driven the mainstream news cycle for two years is dead, the story behind the investigation is getting juicier by the day.

More details about how U.S. intelligence attempted to infiltrate, or “spy” on, the Trump campaign have come to light, including that the FBI used an “attractive” female undercover investigator in an ultimately fruitless attempt to draw out some relevant “collusion”-related information from Trump aide George Papadopoulos.

“The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia?” The New York Times reported Thursday. “The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government investigator posing as a research assistant, according to people familiar with the operation. The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence inquiry opened that summer to better understand the Trump campaign’s links to Russia.”

The role of the woman, who told Papadopoulos her name was “Azra Turk,” is “one previously unreported detail of an operation that has become a political flash point in the face of accusations by President Trump and his allies that American law enforcement and intelligence officials spied on his campaign to undermine his electoral chances,” the Times notes.

Trump has decried the FBI’s investigation into his campaign as “Spygate” — and the name seems more appropriate with each new revelation. The Times admits as much, noting that the “Azra Turk” wrinkle could give Trump and his defenders “ammunition” about their “spying” allegations. (Read more from “FBI Attempted to Use ‘Attractive’ Woman for Information From Trump Aide” HERE)

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White House May Be Looking to Make NSA Wiretapping Permanent

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The White House is reportedly seeking to make a temporary surveillance law, that enabled the National Security Agency to collect cell phone metadata in bulk, permanent in December, even though the NSA has abandoned the program.

The Washington Post and Greenwich Time both report that the White House has been discussing plans to extend a 2015 revision to the USA Patriot Act, which allowed the NSA to collect “metadata” from Americans’ cell phones without warrants.

The program, revealed by then-NSA contractor Edward Snowden, was designed to help the NSA ferret out Americans who had contact with terror cells abroad, and collected basic information about millions of telephone calls made between Americans at home and abroad.

Snowden, of course, is now living in exile in Russia after revealing the metadata collection program, then known as PRISM, to journalists from The Guardian. Snowden had come into contact with information about the program while working for a string of defense contractors who either helped develop or administer the program.

At the time PRISM was revealed, the government contended that the metadata collection program did not require law enforcement to pursue individual warrants since the information gleaned from the program didn’t contain details of what was said in the calls themselves — just date, time, duration, and destination information. Several courts, over the years, have disagreed, chipping away at the program and the government’s self-given blanket permission to spy on American citizens, but only when the plaintiff has provided proof that they were the subject of a warrantless NSA wiretap. (Read more from “White House May Be Looking to Make NSA Wiretapping Permanent” HERE)

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DOJ Sets Pelosi Straight After Attack Against AG Barr

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that Attorney General William Barr lied to Congress, something she noted would be a “crime.” The Department of Justice has called these accusations “baseless,” “reckless,” “irresponsible,” and “false.”

On Wednesday, Barr testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. He had been asked to answer questions related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on the investigation into whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election.

During the hearing, Senate Democrats accused Barr of covering for President Donald Trump instead of respecting the integrity of the investigation. Barr told the committee that Trump “fully cooperated with Mueller’s investigation,” a point Democrats contested since Trump himself refused to be interviewed by Mueller. Also under scrutiny was Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, which Mueller had said in a letter did not adequately reflect his results. The full Mueller report, with redactions, was released more than three weeks after Barr’s summary.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, told Barr in the hearing that “America deserves better” than him and that he “should resign.”

Barr, who had appeared before the Senate committee voluntarily, opted not to return for a second day of questioning on Thursday before the House Judiciary Committee. So that hearing proceeded without Barr, with a ceramic chicken sitting on the table near where he would have sat — a mocking gesture from Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn.

While several Democratic leaders have accused Barr of going out of his way to defend Trump, Pelosi took things one step further.

“What is deadly serious about it is the attorney general of the United States of America is not telling the truth to the Congress of the United States. That’s a crime,” she said.

“He lied to Congress. If anybody else did that, it would be considered a crime. Nobody is above the law.”

But the DOJ scoffed at Pelosi’s accusations. Justice Department spokeswoman Kerri Kupec told CNBC that Pelosi’s “baseless attack on the Attorney General” was “reckless, irresponsible and false.” Conservative Review has reached out to the Department of Justice for further comment. (For more from the author of “DOJ Sets Pelosi Straight After Attack Against AG Barr” please click HERE)

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Venezuela’s Freedom Demonstrators Join a Long Line of Oppressed People Who Were Stripped of Their Guns

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“You have to understand, in Venezuela, gun ownership is not something that is open to everybody. So if the military have the guns, they have the power, and as long as Nicolás Maduro controls the military, he controls the country.”

That was a statement from MSNBC’s Kerry Sanders Tuesday as Venezuelans took to the streets to demand an end to the tyrannical socialist regime of dictator Nicolas Maduro. His words, while they might have very well raised some blood pressure among the hosts and higher-ups at the network, are a stark reminder for freedom-loving people everywhere of how critical the right of self-defense is to human liberty.

Sanders’ admission happened on the same day that unarmed civilian protestors were plowed over by one of Maduro’s armored vehicles and as defected military members fired back on Maduro forces in order to protect protesters.

And this all happened to a people who were stripped of their ability to defend themselves against their own government. In 2012, the country’s legislature passed a sweeping gun ban that outlawed private firearms ownership.

“Venezuelans are now defenseless against a government that runs roughshod over their civil liberties, while also destroying their economic livelihood,” reads a January post from the Mises Institute. “As if it weren’t enough, everyday Venezuelans must put up with rampant crime and the constant threat of colectivos, Venezuela’s infamous pro-government paramilitary units.”

A 2018 report from Fox News found that several oppressed Venezuelans regretted their country’s gun ban after years of socialist oppression. “Guns would have served as a vital pillar to remaining a free people, or at least able to put up a fight,” a 28-year-old English teacher told the outlet.

But, lest we forget, what the world watched happen on Tuesday isn’t without historical precedent.

The Soviet Union confiscated and banned guns to consolidate its control over multiple Eastern European countries. The Third Reich’s genocide was largely assisted by Nazi Party gun control measures in the 1930s. The Cambodian genocide was also preceded by strict gun control policies. The Armenians slaughtered in 1915 were rendered largely defenseless by Ottoman Empire gun laws.

That is not to say that what’s happening in Venezuela is equivalent to genocide (there are the legal thresholds for that), and it’s not to say that gun control always precedes tyranny or crimes against humanity as a rule. But what history does show us, time and time again, is that people are a whole lot easier to oppress when there’s zero chance they’ll be able to fire back when you send in government agents to oppress them.

This is the kind of easy-to-oppress population that King George III’s forces were trying to create for themselves when they went searching for patriot weapons and powder caches at Lexington and Concord in 1775. And that’s precisely why they were met with gunfire from privately owned muskets when they showed up and demanded that the patriot militiamen drop their weapons and disperse.

And that’s why we have the right to keep and bear arms codified into our Bill of Rights, no matter how much the rest of the world or how many of our own citizens scoff at its existence, and it’s why any freedom-loving people should think twice before doing anything to disarm themselves. (For more from the author of “Venezuela’s Freedom Demonstrators Join a Long Line of Oppressed People Who Were Stripped of Their Guns” please click HERE)

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Mount Everest Is Covered in Garbage and Dead Bodies

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6,613 pounds of trash — more than 3 tons — have been collected from Mount Everest since mid-April, with plenty more to go, according to recent reports.

Four dead bodies have also been located during the campaign to clean the mountain, which began on April 14 out of Nepal, according to The Himalayan Times. Officials expect they will remove a total of 11 tons of garbage by the end of the 45-day campaign period, USA Today reported on Thursday. . .

“Our goal is to extract as much waste as possible from Everest so as to restore glory to the mountain. Everest is not just the crown of the world, but our pride,” Dandu Raj Ghimire, Nepal’s tourism director, said according to The Hindu.

Nepal’s tourism department, local government and other mountaineering groups are working together for the campaign, which is the first of its kind, The Himalayan Times reported.

“Everything on Everest, other than rock and snow, will be brought back,” Tika Ram Gurung, secretary of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, said according to The Kathmandu Post. “The goal is to send the message that we should keep this mountain pollution free.” (Read more from “Mount Everest Is Covered in Garbage and Dead Bodies” HERE)

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Lefties Are Clinging to This ‘Bombshell’ Mueller Letter but They Get Stopped In Their Tracks

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By Daily Wire. After Attorney General William Barr sent his four-page letter to Congress with the key findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Mueller sent a letter to Barr explaining he was unhappy with how the media was characterizing what took place.

“The summary letter the Department sent to Congress and released to the public late in the afternoon of March 24 did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions. We communicated that concern to the Department on the morning of March 25,” Mueller wrote. “This is now public confusion about critical aspects of the results of our investigation. This threatens to undermine a central purpose for which the Department appointed the Special Counsel: to assure full public confidence in the outcome of the investigations.” . . .

Wednesday night, the Washington Post and New York Times clung to this narrative to Mueller criticized Barr’s letter on the investigation’s key findings. Their reports launched a news cycle focused solely on what was in the letter, despite both outlets omitting the full letter from their reports (coincidental? I think not).

House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows made an important point: why is the mainstream media clinging to this notion that Mueller was unhappy with the tone of his findings? The full report was made public two weeks ago. The point is rather moot.

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AG William Barr testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee over Mueller report handling

By Fox News. Attorney General William Barr testified Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee and faced questions over the handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report and accusations from Democrats that he sought to present the investigation’s findings in President Trump’s favor.

Barr was grilled over a Washington Post article that said Mueller contacted Barr to express concerns about the public summary his office put out in March. (Read more from “AG William Barr testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee over Mueller report handling” HERE)

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Merriam-Webster Adds Three New Transgender Terms to Dictionary

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By The Blaze. Merriam-Webster announced recently that it added hundreds of words to its dictionary, including three transgender terms.

Gender nonconforming, top surgery, and bottom surgery were among the 640 words that made it into the April update.

The more than 190-year-old company said that the revision “mirrors the culture’s need to make sense of the world with words.”

“It all begins, in each case, with evidence of words in use. Each word follows its own path at its own pace before its use is widespread enough to be included in a dictionary,” the company explained on its website. (Read more from “Merriam-Webster Adds Three New Transgender Terms to Dictionary” HERE)

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We Added New Words to the Dictionary in April 2019

By Merriam-Webster. The English language never sleeps, and neither does the dictionary. The work of revising a dictionary is constant, and it mirrors the culture’s need to make sense of the world with words. There are always new things to be named and new uses for existing words to be explained. A release of new words is also a map of the workings of a dictionary—you get to see what we’ve been up to—and of how words from different contexts come to reside in the same place. . .

[Some of the newly added words:]

Gender nonconforming: exhibiting behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits that do not correspond with the traits typically associated with one’s sex.

Top surgery: a type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person’s breasts are removed or augmented to match their gender identity.

Bottom surgery: a type of gender confirmation surgery in which a person’s genitalia are altered to match their gender identity.

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Ilhan Omar DEFENDS Socialist Venezuela, Puts Blame on U.S. For Chaos

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By The Blaze. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) put the blame of the failures of the socialist dictatorship in Venezuela squarely on the shoulders of the United States in an interview Wednesday.

Congressmember Ilhan Omar,” asked PBS anchor Amy Goodman, “if you can comment what’s taking place right now in Venezuela, the U.S. supported coup attempt against President Maduro.” . . .

“And we sort of set the stage for what we’re arriving today, this particular bullying and the use of sanctions to eventually intervene and make regime change,” she explained. “It really does not help the people of countries like Venezuela and it certainly does not help, it’s not in the interest of the United States.”

The Muslim member of Congress is one of the few Democrats who are speaking out against the U.S. efforts to recognize Juan Guaido as the democratic and constitutional interim president in Venezuela. Omar and others instead support the socialist dictatorship of Maduro, who has been using violence to stomp down protests.

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Venezuelans Take to Streets as Uprising Attempt Sputters

By AP. Venezuelans heeded opposition leader Juan Guaidó’s call to fill streets around the nation Wednesday but security forces showed no sign of answering his cry for a widespread military uprising, instead dispersing crowds with tear gas as the political crisis threatened to deepen.

Thousands cheered Guaidó in Caracas as he rolled up his sleeves and called on Venezuelans to remain out in force and prepare for a general strike, a day after his bold attempt to spark a mass military defection against President Nicolas Maduro failed to tilt the balance of power.

“It’s totally clear now the usurper has lost,” Guaidó proclaimed, a declaration belied by events on the ground. (Read more from “Venezuelans Take to Streets as Uprising Attempt Sputters” HERE)

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