US Bomber Flies Over Korean Peninsula During Military Exercises With South

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The U.S. Seventh Air Force flew a B-1B supersonic bomber over South Korea on Wednesday as a part of a joint aerial exercise with the South’s military, South Korean officials confirmed.

South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the U.S. bomber simulated land strikes on military grounds near the eastern coast, proving its ability to “punish” the North’s aggression.

“Through the drill, the South Korean and U.S. air forces displayed the allies’ strong intent and ability to punish North Korea when threatened by nuclear weapons and missiles,” the JCS said.

The drill involving the B-1B Lancer bomber was part of a five-day joint training exercise called “Vigilant Act,” Reuters reported.

The Seventh Air force has sent other strategic military assets, including six F-22 and 18 F-35 stealth fighter jets. About 12,000 U.S. military personnel are participating in the drill, which started Monday. (Read more from “US Bomber Flies Over Korean Peninsula During Military Exercises With South” HERE)

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New Immigration, Gun Charges Filed Against Illegal Alien Acquitted in Kate Steinle Trial

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Federal officials filed a new set of immigration and gun charges Friday against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate, the illegal immigrant found not guilty last week in the murder of Kate Steinle.

“A federal grand jury indicted Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate today for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, and for being an illegally present alien in possession of a firearm and ammunition,” according to a statement released by the Department of Justice.

If convicted of either charge, he could face a maximum of ten years in jail.

Zarate was acquitted of first and second degree murder and involuntary manslaughter on Thursday. He also was found not guilty by assault with a semi-automatic weapon. However, he was found guilty of possession of a firearm by a felon.

Steinle was walking with her father and a family friend on a pier in San Francisco in July 2015 when she was fatally shot, collapsing into her father’s arms. (Read more from “New Immigration, Gun Charges Filed Against Illegal Alien Acquitted in Kate Steinle Trial” HERE)

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Pentagon Warns It’s Getting Ready for Transgender Recruits

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President Trump announced in July the U.S. military would end the practice initiated by President Obama a year earlier of recruiting and accepting transgenders for its ranks.

So why is the Pentagon revealing this week it is taking steps “to be prepared to accept transgender recruits on Jan. 1”?

It’s mainly because of the well-funded legal teams pursuing lawsuits against the nation and the activist judges who affirm their complaints. Ironically, they have decided that while the Barack Obama administration was allowed to arbitrarily change the U.S. military rules on the issue, President Trump is not allowed to change them back.

According to the Washington Examiner, the announcement from the Pentagon follows recent decisions by several judges in Washington and Maryland that halted the orders from the president to the military to phase out transgender service and gender-reassignment surgeries.

Pentagon spokesman Dave Eastburn told the news organization that the Department of Defense now is “taking steps to be prepared to initiate accessions of transgender applicants for military service on January 1, 2018, per recent court orders.” (Read more from “Pentagon Warns It’s Getting Ready for Transgender Recruits” HERE)

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More Fake News? White House Denies Trump Records Subpoenaed

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday disputed reports by Bloomberg and Reuters citing an anonymous source saying special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed President Trump’s bank records, expanding the probe of Russian influence in the 2016 election to the president’s personal finances.

“We confirmed that the news reports [that] the special counsel had subpoenaed financial records related to the president are completely false,” Sanders told reporters at the daily briefing.

“No subpoena has been issued or received. We have confirmed this with the bank and other sources. I think this is another example of the media going too far and too fast and we don’t see it going in that direction,” she said.

Bloomberg earlier reported Mueller was widening his probe to include Trump’s business dealings with Deutsche Bank AG, issuing a subpoena to the bank to submit documents on its relationship with Trump and his family.

Bloomberg said Deutsche Bank for months has rebuffed calls by Democratic lawmakers to provide more transparency over the roughly $300 million Trump owed to the bank for his real-estate dealings prior to becoming president. (Read more from “More Fake News? White House Denies Trump Records Subpoenaed” HERE)

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Conyers Announces Retirement, Endorses Son to Succeed Him

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Rep. John Conyers on Tuesday announced his retirement from Congress while at a Michigan hospital, saying he is endorsing his son, John Conyers III, for the seat he has held for more than a half century amid growing sexual-misconduct allegations.

“I’m retiring today,” the 88-year-old Michigan Democrat said in a phone interview with a local radio station from a Detroit hospital, where he has been since last month after experiencing chest pains. “I want everyone to know how much I appreciate [their] support.”

Conyers, the longest-serving congressman, made the decision two weeks after sexual harassment allegations first surfaced and after returning last week to his Detroit-area district to discuss his political future with family and advisers.

The most recent accusations surfaced Monday and allege Conyers slid his hand up a woman’s skirt and rubbed her thighs while they sat next to each other in church during a service more than a decade ago.

The latest accusation comes amid mounting claims and after Conyers was hospitalized. (Read more from “Conyers Announces Retirement, Endorses Son to Succeed Him” HERE)

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Saudis Lurking Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Plan

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President Donald Trump is getting ready to do something big and risky in the Middle East – something no other president has dared to do.

So big, and so risky, that it could either spark a new Palestinian uprising, or lead to the long coveted but elusive peace pact that every president since Jimmy Carter has tried to broker.

According to published reports, Trump is planning to announce Wednesday the U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Israel and move the American Embassy there from Tel Aviv within six months.

He reportedly has the backing of Saudi Arabia, home base of Islam’s prophet and most holy mosque, to make this move. That in itself, gives pause to some Christian leaders who would otherwise be jubilant about finally recognizing Israel’s right to Jerusalem.

Trump on Tuesday told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan’s King Abdullah that he plans to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. Trump also reportedly called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi and Saudi King Salman to inform them of his decision. (Read more from “Saudis Lurking Behind Trump’s Jerusalem Plan” HERE)

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Islamist Suicide Plot to Assassinate Prime Minister Foiled

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A terror plot to assassinate Prime Minister Theresa May has been foiled, Sky sources have confirmed.

Sky’s Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt said: “It’s the latest in a number of terror plots that police and MI5 believe they’ve foiled this year.

“I understand that the head of MI5, Andrew Parker, briefed Cabinet ministers today, such is the seriousness of what they believed they have uncovered.

“It is in essence an extreme Islamist suicide plot against Downing Street. Essentially police believe that the plan was to launch some sort of improvised explosive device at Downing Street and in the ensuing chaos attack and kill Theresa May, the Prime Minister.

“This is something which has been pursued over several weeks at least by Scotland Yard, MI5 and West Midlands Police. (Read more from “Islamist Suicide Plot to Assassinate Prime Minister Foiled” HERE)

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Russia Banned From Winter Olympics

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Russia’s Olympic Committee has been banned from the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and ordered to pay $15m in costs after making what the International Olympic Committee called an “unprecedented attack on the integrity of the Olympic Games and sport”.

Tellingly the IOC also accepted, for the first time, that the Russian state had been involved in widespread institutional doping by banning the then minister of sport, Vitaly Mutko, and his then deputy minister, Yuri Nagornykh, from any participation in all future Olympic Games.

It is the first time the IOC has imposed a ban on a country competing under its own flag for doping. Russia’s athletes were, however, thrown a lifeline by the IOC president, Thomas Bach, who confirmed they would be able to compete in South Korea in February provided they were not involved in a massive state-sponsored doping programme that corrupted the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Such athletes will have to compete under the Olympic flag and in a uniform bearing the name “Olympic athlete from Russia”. If any Russian athlete wins a gold, the Olympic anthem will be played at the medal ceremony.

Mutko, who is now deputy prime minister for sport, tourism and youth policy and the head of the organising committee for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, rejected suggestions there had been systematic doping only last week. Fifa also released a statement on Tuesday insisting Mutko’s ban does not affect planning for next summer’s finals.

The IOC’s decision was announced after its 14-person executive committee spent Tuesday afternoon poring over the final report of the Schmid commission, which has been examining whether there was an “institutional conspiracy” by Russian officials within the ministry of sport to corrupt the London 2012 Olympics and the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. (Read more from “Russia Banned From Winter Olympics” HERE)

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Russian Lawyer Who Met Don Jr. Submits Senate Testimony — There’s Just One Problem

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The Russian lawyer who attended the infamous Trump Tower meeting denied interacting with the founder of Trump dossier research firm Fusion GPS that same day, in direct contradiction to what the opposition researcher told Congress last month.

Natalia Veselnitskaya told the Senate Judiciary Committee in written testimony submitted last month that she did not have contact with Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson on the day of the June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting.

But her denial is inconsistent with previous reporting and with what Simpson, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, told the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) in a closed-door interview last month.

“Did you have contact with Glenn Simpson on June 8, 9, or 10, 2016?” reads one of the 94 questions posed to Veselnitskaya by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“No, there had been no contacts with him on [sic] specified dates,” Veselnitskaya said in her written testimony, which was submitted electronically on Nov. 20 and published on Tuesday by NBC News. (Read more from “Russian Lawyer Who Met Don Jr. Submits Senate Testimony — There’s Just One Problem” HERE)

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GOP Bill Would Land Sanctuary City Officials in Prison

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A Republican congressman will introduce a bill Monday that would punish any elected official who shelters illegal immigrant criminals from deportation.

Rep. Todd Rokita, R-Ind., will introduce the “Stopping Lawless Actions of Politicians (SLAP) Act,” a bill that would impose criminal penalties for elected officials who obstruct federal immigration enforcement officers. Anyone convicted under Rokita’s proposed law would be subject to a $1 million fine and up to five years of prison.

“The American people are rightfully infuriated watching politicians put their open-borders ideology before the rule of law, and the safety of the people they represent. Politicians don’t get to pick and choose what laws to comply with. Americans are dying because politicians sworn to uphold the law refuse to do so,” Rokita said in an email press release. “It’s time the federal government gets serious about enforcing immigration laws and holding politicians accountable who conspire to break them.”

“This elitist mentality that everyone is not equal under the law must come to an end. These politicians want one set of rules for hard working Americans, but a different set of rules for illegal immigrants, and themselves,” the press release stated.

Rokita’s bill comes days after illegal immigrant Jose Ines Garcia Zarate was acquitted of murder charges in the 2015 killing of Kate Steinle. Prior to Steinle’s death, Zarate, who had been previously deported to Mexico five times, was released from jail by San Francisco officials despite a federal request to detain him for deportation.

San Francisco’s sanctuary city policy was directly responsible for putting Steinle’s killer on the streets. Rokita’s bill will target the local officials who created this lawless sanctuary city policy and others like them around the country. (For more from the author of “GOP Bill Would Land Sanctuary City Officials in Prison” please click HERE)

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