To the Liberal Media’s Dismay, There Will Be No Disastrous War With Iran; Trump Says Democrats Would Have Leaked Soleimani Attack Plans

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By The Federalist. . .Mainstream outlets, suffering mightily from Trump derangement syndrome, practically rooted for a wider conflict with Iran in the hopes it might damage Trump, then evinced genuine disappointment when Iran backed down after half-heartedly lobbing a few short-range ballistic missiles in the direction of U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, which inflicted no casualties.

But just think what could have been! Three days ago, The Atlantic’s David A. Graham wrote a piece headlined, “It’s 2003 All Over Again,” in which he argues the recent killing of Iranian general Suleimani by U.S. missile strike last week is just like the runup to the 2003 invasion of Iraq under George W. Bush. . .

What a difference two days make. After a face-saving missile attack on an Iraqi airbase that houses some U.S. troops, which American officials were apparently told about in advance by Iraqi intermediaries, the fight seems to have gone out of Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif tweeted Tuesday night that Iran had “concluded proportionate measures” and that it does not “seek escalation”—an admission by Tehran that President Trump had called its bluff and the ayatollahs aren’t willing to risk a broader conflict. . .

On Wednesday, Trump confirmed that no U.S. troops were injured in the missile attack and that Iran now “appears to be standing down.” Instead of ratcheting up the bellicose rhetoric, Trump gave the Iranians an off-ramp, saying America “is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it,” and calling for new multilateral negotiations to replace the defunct 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

So far, all of this is very unlike the leadup to the Iraq War, let alone the beginning of World War III. To the media’s dismay, Trump isn’t turning into Bush, and Iran isn’t turning into Iraq. In fact, the entire saga has been deterrence-through-strength 101. Trump surgically took out the world’s number-one terrorist and successfully managed a de-escalation with Iran, but all the liberal media can muster in response is fear-mongering, dissimulation, and what amounts to a collective sneer at Trump and his supporters. (Read more from “To the Liberal Media’s Dismay, There Will Be No Disastrous War With Iran” HERE)

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Trump, at Ohio Rally, Says Democrats Would Have Leaked Soleimani Attack Plans

By Fox News. Flush with campaign cash and facing down a possible Senate impeachment trial, President Trump headlined his first major rally of the election year Thursday in Ohio — and almost immediately, the president capitalized on his order to take out Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani after the military leader was said to have orchestrated an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

In unequivocal terms, Trump slammed House Democrats’ nonbinding War Powers Resolution, which passed earlier in the day in a rebuke to the Soleimani strike. Trump went on to suggest that Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and “little pencil-neck” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., would have tipped off the media about the operation had they known about it.

“They’re saying, ‘You should get permission from Congress, you should come in and tell us what you want to do — you should come in and tell us, so that we can call up the fake news that’s back there, and we can leak it,'” Trump said. “Lot of corruption back there.”

The president added that it would have been impractical to have alerted Congress, given the “split-second” nature of the decision to kill Soleimani.

Separately, Trump said he hoped former Vice President Joe Biden would become the Democrats’ presidential nominee, and pledged he would highlight what he called the Bidens’ corruption all throughout the campaign.

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Federal Prosecutor Wrapping up Investigation Into Clinton Foundation

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A federal investigation into matters related to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is nearly complete.

U.S. Attorney John Huber’s two-year-plus inquiry, which has been shrouded in mystery compared to other politically charged investigations involving federal law enforcement, has not led to any criminal charges or any “known impacts,” according to the Washington Post.

Within Huber’s purview was the FBI’s corruption investigation into the 2010 Uranium One deal and allegations that Clinton orchestrated a “quid pro quo.” The sale of Uranium One, a Toronto-based company with U.S. mine holdings, to Russian state-owned Rosatom was the focus of great controversy and scrutiny from Republicans who claimed that Clinton helped coax a nine-agency review board not to block the deal and that the Clinton Foundation may have stood to benefit from it.

Huber, who hails from Utah, was tasked by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate a list of allegations by Republicans in Congress. During his review, Huber examined documents and spoke with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock, Arkansas, who were involved in an inquiry into the Clinton family’s foundation. (Read more from “Federal Prosecutor Wrapping up Investigation Into Clinton Foundation” HERE)

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House Approves Resolution to Limit President Trump’s Authority to Take Military Action Against Iran

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By The Blaze. A congressional resolution to limit President Donald Trump’s authority to take military against Iran without Congress passed the House of Representatives on Thursday.

The measure passed with a vote of 224 to 194.

Three Republicans voted for the measure, while eight Democrats voted against it. Independent Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) also voted in favor.

The measure says that the president should end military action in Iran after 30 days if he does not receive congressional approval.

Trump tweeted Thursday morning that he wanted all Republicans to vote against the measure.

“Hope that all House Republicans will vote against Crazy Nancy Pelosi’s War Powers Resolution,” he tweeted. (Read more from “House Approves Resolution to Limit President Trump’s Authority to Take Military Action Against Iran” HERE)

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Eight Democrats Vote Against Curbing Trump War Powers in Iran

By Washington Examiner. A small pack of House Democrats voted against a nonbinding resolution to curb President Trump’s authority to use military force against Iran.

The measure, which directs Trump “pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution to terminate the use of United States Armed Forces to engage in hostilities in or against Iran,” passed in a 224-194 vote on Thursday. . .

Eight Democrats broke ranks and voted against it:

Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey
Kendra Horn of Oklahoma
Joe Cunningham of South Carolina
Elaine Luria of Virginia
Ben McAdams of Utah
Stephanie Murphy of Florida
Anthony Brindisi and Max Rose of New York

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WATCH: Pelosi Says Eliminating Soleimani Is Like Assassinating the U.S. Vice President; Security Guard Charged With Threatening to Kill Trump in Retaliation for Soleimani

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By Breitbart. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday defended her opposition to the elimination of Iran’s top general and terrorist mastermind Qasem Soleimani by likening the action to a hypothetical assassination of the vice president of the United States.

The speaker expressed outrage upon the death of Soleimani, describing the Trump administration’s actions as “provocative and disproportionate.”

She doubled down on those sentiments during a press conference on Thursday, likening the elimination of the terrorist, who was responsible for the death of hundreds of Americans and injuries of thousands more, to an assassination of the vice president of the United States.

“The argument would be made that, putting the shoe on the other foot, if the United States had a high level — maybe the second most important person in the country — assassinated wherever, the United States might consider that an assault on our country,” she stated.

(Read more from “WATCH: Pelosi Says Eliminating Soleimani Is Like Assassinating the U.S. Vice President” HERE)

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Florida Security Guard Charged With Threatening to Kill Trump in Retaliation for Soleimani

By Fox News. A Florida security guard is accused of threatening to kill President Trump in retaliation for a U.S. airstrike that killed Iran’s top military general last Friday.

Chauncy Lump, 26, from the Fort Lauderdale area, faces federal charges of threatening to kill the president and remained jailed Thursday with bond set at $100,000, according to court documents filed Wednesday by the Secret Service.

Agent Lucas White wrote that shortly after Trump announced last week that a U.S. airstrike had killed Qassem Soleimani in Iraq in retaliation for plotting numerous terrorist attacks, Lump, under the name “BlackMan vs. America,” began livestreaming a seven-minute video on Facebook.

During that video, agents say Lump made several threats against the president – who was staying at his Mar-a-Lago club, less than an hour away – while periodically displaying a loaded AK-47 semi-automatic rifle. (Read more from “Florida Security Guard Charged With Threatening to Kill Trump in Retaliation for Soleimani” HERE)

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Trump Critics Blame Him for Iran Reportedly Shooting Down Ukrainian Plane

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By Daily Caller. Critics of President Donald Trump blamed the president for the Iranian military reportedly shooting down a Ukrainian airplane with 176 people on board.

The Ukrainian flight crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran early Wednesday morning, killing all people on board. American and Canadian authorities said Iran is believed to have hit the plane with an anti-aircraft missile, and footage obtained by The New York Times shows a projectile hitting the plane shortly after takeoff. . .

“No American paid a price for President Donald Trump’s decision to kill Iran’s Qassem Soleimani. But it looks like 176 other people did, including 63 Canadian citizens and many more Iranian nationals en route to Canada,” wrote The Atlantic’s David Frum, who was a vocal supporter of the Iraq war. . .

“Innocent civilians are now dead because they were caught in the middle of an unnecessary and unwanted military tit for tat,” [Pete] Buttigieg wrote on Twitter.

Rodericka Applewhaite, a rapid-response staffer on Buttigieg’s campaign, cited the mayor’s blame-shifting as evidence “that Pete would be the kind of Commander-in-Chief that’s principled enough to avoid tragedies like this,” referring to the downed flight.

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176 People Reportedly Dead From Plane Crash in Iran, Country Refusing to Give Black Box to Boeing

By Daily Caller. A Boeing 737 plane taking off from Iran and heading towards Ukraine crashed near Tehran minutes after taking off, killing everyone on board Wednesday morning.

A total of 167 passengers and nine crew members died as a result of the crash. Iran recovered the plane’s black box and is reportedly refusing to give it over to Boeing, according to Business Insider, who cited the local Mehr news agency.

The Boeing 737’s black box could hold details about why the plane crashed. (Read more from “176 People Reportedly Dead From Plane Crash in Iran, Country Refusing to Give Black Box to Boeing” HERE)

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Dark Money Has Bolstered Bernie’s Campaign From the Start

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An outside dark money group has boosted presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders since announcing his campaign last February.

Sanders founded Our Revolution, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group that can accept unlimited contributions without disclosing the identities of its donors, in 2016, and one campaign finance expert believes the group’s work to help Sanders achieve his presidential aspirations could be violating the law.

“Any entity established by a federal officeholder can only raise and spend money under federal contribution limits for any activities in connection with a federal election,” Paul S. Ryan, a campaign finance expert with the watchdog group Common Cause, told the Associated Press. “Our Revolution was undoubtedly established by Sen. Sanders, is subject to these laws — and is seemingly in violation of them.”

Campaign finance laws state that groups “directly or indirectly established” by federal officeholders such as Sanders can’t “solicit, receive, direct, transfer, or spend funds” for federal electoral activity that exceeds the limitations of the law, which in Our Revolution’s case would be $5,000 per election.

Our Revolution, however, has sent dozens of emails in recent weeks to its supporters touting the work it’s doing to get Sanders elected. The group’s chairman, Larry Cohen, detailed in an email Monday how he had spent a week in Iowa mobilizing 5,000 volunteers to caucus for Sanders. (Read more from “Dark Money Has Bolstered Bernie’s Campaign From the Start” HERE)

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More Chinese Students Arrested for Photographing Naval Base

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There was once a time when we wouldn’t take immigrants from countries with which we had hostile relations. Now, our number-one strategic adversary, Red China, is also the number-one source of immigrants and foreign students. There is no way we can vet hundreds of thousands of students and immigrants a year to ensure China is not sending them here to engage in espionage. Indeed, there are scores of people arrested every year on espionage charges. How many are we not catching?

On Monday, two Chinese students from the University of Michigan appeared in federal court on charges of entering Naval Air Station Key West in Florida with the intention of photographing defense installations. Yuhao Wang and Jielun Zhang were arrested last Saturday when they drove through a restricted area of the naval base in Key West after they were told to turn around. After half an hour, U.S. Navy Security Forces found them and discovered pictures on their cell phones and Nikon cameras of U.S. military structures on Fleming Key.

This comes just two weeks after another Chinese student, Lyuyou Liao, was arrested for taking pictures of another annex of the base. Liao, like so many of these students, had a full scholarship paid for by the Chinese government.

The question is how much of our national security are we willing to sacrifice to the gods of open borders? In the case of foreign students, it’s really the god of public education, which is being subsidized happily by the Chinese. The universities get cash from the Chinese government, while the Chinese get operatives and intelligence officers into the country to work in academic fields and occupations. The rest of the American people lose.

The arrest of these students comes on the heels of the attack at the naval base in Pensacola by a Saudi military student. It’s shocking how it took security 30 minutes to locate these Chinese nationals who ran through a checkpoint. Yet despite Trump’s promise to arm soldiers on bases from the “first day” of his administration, even these attacks on military bases have not prompted that change.

An even bigger issue here of course is our massive Chinese immigration. We bring in roughly 369,548 Chinese foreign students a year, together with 80,000 more on immigrant visas. In other words, there are about as many Chinese students in the U.S. as the entire university enrollment in the state of Maryland. As John Binder of Breitbart observes, taken together, that means we have admitted more people from China as immigrants and long-term visa holders in recent years than from any other country, including Mexico. Knowing that China directly uses immigrants for asymmetrical warfare against us, why is there no outcry to end this policy? The director of national intelligence warned in the latest Worldwide Threat Assessment, “China’s intelligence services will exploit the openness of American society, especially academia and the scientific community, using a variety of means,”

Last November, the Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on investigations published a bipartisan report warning how 10,000 Chinese nationals conduct research in the Department of Energy’s National Labs. The report found that foreign-born researchers working for various U.S. scientific research agencies were being paid by China under the Thousand Talents Plan run by the communist government. The report concludes, “American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years,” as Chinese plants ensure we pay for the rope to hang ourselves.

The report’s authors note that despite the Chinese government openly announcing in 2008 its intent to recruit overseas researchers with access to advanced research and technology, the FBI did not make it a prior to monitor until mid-2018, years into the mass migration from China. In the words of the authors, it allowed China to go “from brain drain to brain gain.”

How in the world do we vet people who were selected by the Chinese communists for espionage and intellectual property theft, among the many well-meaning Chinese students or scientists? How can we vet hundreds of thousands every year? Well, we don’t. The report found that agencies and department conducting scientific research like the National Institutes of Health and the State Department do not “systematically track visa applicants linked to China’s talent recruitment plans.” The Department of State denies just five percent of visas scrutinized for violations of export control laws.

The Senate report cites another report claiming that “so many [Chinese] scientists from Los Alamos have returned to Chinese universities and research institutes that people have dubbed them the ‘Los Alamos club.’” It doesn’t take a large percentage to create national security problems when we admit hundreds of thousands every year.

China’s use of foreign students and workers to spy on enemies extends to cultural subversion and stifling of academic research as well, and it’s not limited to the United States. Just before the U.K. elections, the British Parliament published a report warning about the “alarming evidence” that China’s Confucius Institutes, the arm of the Communist Party promoting Chinese influence in foreign universities, serves as academic malware to stifle research on college campuses through tremendous influence.

“There is clear evidence that autocracies are seeking to shape the research agenda or curricula of UK universities, as well as limit the activities of researchers on university campuses,” warned the report from the British Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. “Not enough is being done to protect academic freedom from financial, political and diplomatic pressure.” This has also been a systemic problem in universities in Australia and New Zealand.

At its core, the racket of elite university heads working with elite politicians to allow China to subvert and spy on us from within, all for some money and influence, is the perfect example of what is wrong with today’s disloyal elites in western democracies. They might desire more money, but what about our security and culture?

The president has unilateral authority to shut off, restrict, regulate, or modify our policy on visas from any given country when he believes it’s in the “national interest.” National interest takes into account a lot more than lining the pockets of universities. Trump has an opportunity to begin slowing down visas from China and demanding greater vetting and conditions placed on their applications.

Unfortunately, it’s not just a problem from China. As I reported before, Iranian nationals who came here as foreign students have been caught passing on trade secrets to Iran. We continue to bring in a lot of foreign students even after the so-called travel ban, although not as many as from China. For the 2018-2019 academic year, there were still over 12,000 Iranian foreign students here, despite the moratorium. We bring in 1.1 million foreign students overall, often from countries with whom we share hostile or “complicated” relations. In the 1990s, that number hovered around 400-500K. Foreign student visas are not capped at all, so as long as foreign countries subsidize the program and the universities accept them, we more or less greenlight their visas. How anyone can look at this and see no problems, given the volatile world we live in, defies basic common sense.

It would be difficult for any country today to beat us militarily. But what they can do is rot us from within. Our irresponsible immigration and visa policies serve as the biggest conduit for their asymmetrical warfare, and it’s 100 percent avoidable. Our federal government doesn’t have the ability to remake other countries in our mold, but it sure has the ability – indeed, the solemn responsibility – to prevent them from remaking us in theirs. (For more from the author of “More Chinese Students Arrested for Photographing Naval Base” please click HERE)

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New Photos of Clinton With Alleged ‘Sex Slave,’ Epstein Madam Emerge

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By Daily Wire. On Wednesday, The Sun (U.K.) released new photos of former President Bill Clinton in connection to now-deceased registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in a “world exclusive.”

The photos purport to show Mr. Clinton with alleged Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell on board Epstein’s notorious private jet dubbed the “Lolita Express.”

Another image shows the former president with his arm around alleged “sex slave” Chauntae Davis, who is wearing a pilot hat she was allegedly ordered to wear to look professional, The Sun reported. . .

“It’s clear that Epstein was using this private jet and his wealth to get close to rich and powerful people,” Chauntae told the outlet. . .

“President Clinton knows nothing about the terrible crimes Jeffrey Epstein plead guilty to in Florida some years ago, or those with which he has previously been charged in New York,” a previously issued statement from Clinton said. “In 2002 and 2003, President Clinton took a total of four trips on Jeffrey Epstein’s airplane: one to Europe, one to Asia, and two to Africa, which included stops in connection with the Clinton Foundation. Staff, supporters of the Foundation, and his Secret Service detail traveled on every leg or every trip.” (Read more from “New Photos of Clinton With Alleged ‘Sex Slave,’ Epstein Madam Emerge” HERE)

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Bill Clinton Poses With Epstein’s ‘Pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell and a Sex Slave on Board Private Jet the ‘Lolita Express’

By The Sun. Bill Clinton poses side-by-side with suspected pimp Ghislaine Maxwell – as the pair board pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious private jet.

The former US President is seen smiling on the steps of the plane – dubbed the Lolita Express – next to Maxwell, in astonishing pictures exclusively obtained by The Sun.

In another image he has his arm round Epstein’s personal masseuse and sex slave Chauntae Davies – who had been ordered to wear a ‘pilot’ shirt to look professional.

Other never-seen-before images show Clinton traveling on the infamous Boeing 727 jet while playing cards and chomping on a cigar.

Now, for the first time, Chauntae Davies has revealed the extraordinary details of Clinton’s long distance flight to Africa with Maxwell and a number of other celebrities. (Read more from “Bill Clinton Poses With Epstein’s ‘Pimp’ Ghislaine Maxwell and a Sex Slave on Board Private Jet the ‘Lolita Express’” HERE)

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Defying Critics, Ivanka Trump Draws Applause at Tech Show

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U.S. presidential adviser Ivanka Trump on Tuesday touted government-industry collaboration to create jobs, drawing applause at a tech show that contrasted with the criticism she faced beforehand for her lack of tech experience.

The daughter of Republican President Donald Trump and a businesswoman, Trump spoke at the annual CES tech conference in Las Vegas in the face of backlash from some industry officials, including women, who challenged her tech qualifications.

She said a White House council that she co-leads will launch a nationwide year-long advertising campaign to encourage all pathways to jobs, including apprenticeships, and not just a college degree.

“We need to raise awareness about many options that exist,” she told the audience. Trump said the White House will release a national workforce strategy in the coming months. She said over 400 companies have committed to offering over 14 million training opportunities. . .

Conference organizers defended Trump’s participation, saying she leads White House efforts on job creation and economic growth through workforce development, skills training and entrepreneurship. (Read more from “Defying Critics, Ivanka Trump Draws Applause at Tech Show” HERE)

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New Republican Rep. Signs Petition to Force House Vote on Born-Alive Act

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New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who officially left the Democrat Party to become a Republican, has signed onto a discharge petition that would force a floor vote in the House on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act.

Liberty Counsel Action, a grassroots organization promoting pro-life and pro-family policy, announced confirmation of Van Drew’s signature on the discharge petition in a press release Tuesday.

The Born-Alive Act would require infants who survive elective abortion to receive the same medical care as other newborns of the same gestational age. The measure would make intentional neglect or murder by medical staff of an infant who survives abortion to be punishable.

“Rep. Van Drew’s signature on the discharge petition is a great victory for saving precious children who survive abortions,” Mat Staver, Liberty Counsel Action chairman, said in a statement. “Our supporters have been working tirelessly to encourage Rep. Van Drew and others to sign the discharge petition to bring the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act to the floor for a vote.”

In order to circumvent House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and force a floor vote on the measure, the discharge petition requires 218 signatures. Van Drew’s signature brings the total number of signatures to 204. (Read more from “New Republican Rep. Signs Petition to Force House Vote on Born-Alive Act” HERE)

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