Cohen Lawyer: CNN Got ‘Bombshell’ Report Mixed Up

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A CNN report last month that Michael Cohen has information that President Trump was aware of the infamous Trump Tower meeting before it occurred got “mixed up” and was inaccurate, Cohen attorney Lanny Davis said Wednesday night.

“So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with the Russians beforehand or even after?” CNN’s Anderson Cooper asked Davis.

“No, he does not,” replied Davis, a longtime Clinton insider who started representing Cohen earlier this summer.

Davis’s bombshell statement severely undercuts a July 27 CNN report that Cohen was willing to tell Special Counsel Robert Mueller that he was in a meeting when Donald Trump Jr. told his father about an offer to meet with a group of Russians who wanted to provide dirt on Hillary Clinton. . .

The report also opened up the possibility that Trump and Trump Jr. publicly lied about the Trump Tower meeting. Trump has said publicly that he did not know about the meeting until a year after it occurred. Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee last September that his father did not know about the meeting. (Read more from “Cohen Lawyer: CNN Got ‘Bombshell’ Report Mixed Up” HERE)

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Oh My: New Poll Shows Big Trouble for Dems in Crucial Senate Race

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Last week, we told you about the mess in which Democratic Florida Sen. Bill Nelson finds himself, having claimed without evidence that the Russians have penetrated his state’s voter registration systems. This assertion has been hotly contested by the FBI, DHS, and Floridian election officials — including in Democratic counties. It also earned the little-known incumbent Four Pinnochios from the Washington Post’s fact checker. Meanwhile, Gov. Rick Scott, the GOP nominee in the race, has run an aggressive campaign, building a broad and diverse coalition of support. Nelsons floundering and Scott’s hard work seem to be breaking through with voters:

Still 11 weeks from their election showdown, Republican Gov. Rick Scott has opened up a six-point lead on Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in Florida’s U.S. Senate race, a new poll finds. The poll from the Florida Atlantic University Business and Economic Polling Initiative gives Scott 45 percent, Nelson 39 percent, with 16 percent of voters still undecided in a head-to-head match-up in the Nov. 6 general election. The trend is going Scott’s way. The last FAU-BEPI poll, released in July, had Scott leading Nelson 44-40 percent.

Four of the last six public polls in this race give Scott the lead, including the two most recent surveys. There’s still a long way to go — and national events may shake up the status quo in a host of races, especially in a year that seems to favor the out party — but Democrats are clearly starting to worry about Nelson’s vulnerability:

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Lawyer for the Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Mollie Tibbetts Lied in Court

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Yesterday the attorney for Cristhian Bahena Rivera, the illegal alien accused of murdering Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts, claimed during a court appearance his client was in the country legally and that he had been unfairly targeted by President Trump.

The government is incorrectly promoting the idea that Rivera is not in Iowa legally, attorney Allen Richards of Tama said in a court document asking for a gag order in the case.

“Sad and sorry Trump has weighed in on this matter in national media which will poison the entire possible pool of jury members,” Richards wrote, referencing a statement from the president citing Tibbetts’ death as an example why “immigration laws are such a disgrace.”

Rivera has lived in Iowa for four to seven years, working at Yarrabee Farms, a Brooklyn-area farm owned by Eric Lang, the brother of Craig Lang, a prominent Republican.

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Rivera’s attorney lied to the court as the cameras were rolling and chose to bring politics into the case with hopes of helping his illegal alien client. (Read more from “Lawyer for the Illegal Alien Accused of Killing Mollie Tibbetts Lied in Court” HERE)

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Education Department Seriously Considering Funding for Armed Teachers in Schools

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Education Secretary Betsey DeVos is reportedly considering a proposal that would allow states to use federal grant funding to pay for armed teachers in schools. The proposal was first reported by The New York Times:

In its research, the Education Department has determined that the gun purchases could fall under improving school conditions, people familiar with the department’s thinking said. Under the current guidelines for that part of the grant, the department encourages schools to increase access to mental health counseling, establish dropout prevention programs, reduce suspensions and expulsions and improve re-entry programs for students transitioning from the juvenile justice system.

But the department began exploring whether to expand the use of the support grants after the school shootings in Parkland, Fla., and Santa Fe, Tex., prompted states to inquire about alternatives.

The proposal, which hasn’t been produced yet by the Department of Education, shouldn’t come as a surprise. Earlier this year the idea was discussed by DeVos as an option during a press conference.

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Appeals Court Sides With Abortion Clinics, Blocks Alabama’s Dismemberment Abortion Ban

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A federal appeals court in Alabama found Wednesday that the state’s ban on the “dilation and evacuation” abortion procedure, dubbed a “dismemberment” abortion by its opponents, is unconstitutional.

This abortion method takes place between 15 and 18 weeks of pregnancy and is the most common method of second trimester abortion in the state of Alabama. It was banned in 2016 but that ban was immediately challenged by the abortion providers West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa and the Alabama Women’s Center in Huntsville. . .

“The State has an actual and substantial interest in lessening, as much as it can, the gruesomeness and brutality of dismemberment abortions,” they write. “That interest is so obvious that the plaintiffs do not contest it.” . . .

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was disappointed in the ruling but was glad that the Court acknowledged the barbarity of the procedure.

“I am disappointed that the 11th Circuit sided with the lower court in this case, but it is encouraging that the court recognized the State’s important and legitimate interests in ending barbaric abortion procedures–in this case, procedures that literally tear apart babies living inside their mothers’ wombs,” he said in a statement. (Read more from “Appeals Court Sides With Abortion Clinics, Blocks Alabama’s Dismemberment Abortion Ban” HERE)

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Elizabeth Warren’s Reaction to Mollie Tibbetts’ Murder Might Just Get Trump Re-Elected

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Channeling the collective thought of the Washington D.C. establishment, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., does not believe the alleged murder of Mollie Tibbetts by an illegal immigrant is a “real” problem.

Speaking to CNN Wednesday, Warren said she was “sorry” for Tibbetts family, but pivoted away from talking about crimes committed by illegal immigrants to talk about the Trump administration’s former policy of separating families at the border.

“I’m so sorry for the family here and I know this is hard, not only for the family but for the people in her community, the people throughout Iowa,” Warren said. “But one of the things we have to remember is we need an immigration system that is effective, that focuses on where real problems are.”

“Last month I went down to the border and I saw where children had been taken away from their mothers,” she continued. “There was no plan for how they would be reunified with their children. I think we need immigration laws that focus on people who pose a real threat, and I don’t think mamas and babies are the place that we should be sending our resources.”


What Warren doesn’t seem to understand is that Mollie Tibbetts has been permanently separated from her family by a crime that was 100 percent preventable if the United States had a secure border. Tibbetts’ suspected killer, Cristhian Rivera, entered the United States illegally from Mexico and somehow managed to pass a federal E-Verify check.

But the would-be 2020 presidential candidate is not alone on the Left in downplaying the importance of the Mollie Tibbetts story. Fox News is under attack for devoting more coverage to the arrest of Tibbetts’ suspected murderer Tuesday than to the conviction of former Trump aide Paul Manafort and and the guilty plea of Michael Cohen to multiple federal crimes. An MSNBC guest dismissed the story as some “girl in Iowa” that “Fox News is talking about.” NeverTrump pundit Rick Wilson snarkily referred to the murder of an American citizen as “a local crime story.”

Mollie Tibbetts could have been anyone’s daughter. Her murder could have happened to any one of us, and the fact that people in the media and the Washington D.C. bubble don’t see why that’s far more relevant to most Americans is exactly why Donald Trump is president and exactly why he’ll continue to be president as long as he promises to do something about it.

Everyone knows that Donald Trump is a serial adulterer. Everyone knew before he was president that he associated with sleazy people like Michael Cohen. He became president in spite of his moral failings because he talked about the issues like illegal immigration that other politicians downplayed or ignored for years.

The media and politicians like Elizabeth Warren are still downplaying theses issues. And they’re going to help Trump survive an impeachment attempt by doing so. (For more from the author of “Elizabeth Warren’s Reaction to Mollie Tibbetts’ Murder Might Just Get Trump Re-Elected” please click HERE)

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Apple Removes Facebook’s Security App From the App Store

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Apple has removed Facebook’s Onavo security app from the App Store because it does not comply with its privacy rules.

“We work hard to protect user privacy and data security throughout the Apple ecosystem,” an Apple spokesperson said in an email to CNBC on Wednesday. “With the latest update to our guidelines, we made it explicitly clear that apps should not collect information about which other apps are installed on a user’s device for the purposes of analytics or advertising/marketing and must make it clear what user data will be collected and how it will be used.”

According to a Wall Street Journal story on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter, Apple officials told Facebook last week that Onavo violated the company’s rules on data collection by developers, and suggested last Thursday that Facebook voluntarily remove the app.

Facebook acquired Israel-based Onavo in 2013, snapping up the free security app that lets users access a virtual private network, or VPN, to browse the web and download apps with a greater degree of privacy. Facebook in the past has offered that service to users without clearly disclosing that it owns the app, and has collected data about what other types of apps those customers use.

In June, Facebook told Congress that it does not use Onavo data “for Facebook product uses” or to collect information about individuals, but it has admitted to using Onavo to gather broad information about which apps are popular and how people are using them, which it uses to improve its own products. (Read more from “Apple Removes Facebook’s Security App From the App Store” HERE)

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The Least Free State in America Won’t Surprise You

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By Daily Wire. On Tuesday, the Cato Institute released the latest edition of “Freedom in the 50 States,” which ranks states by how their public policies champion freedom fiscally, with regulations, and in ways affecting personal freedom. As the Courier-Express stated, “To determine the rankings, state and local government intervention was examined across a range of more than 230 policy variables — from taxation to debt, eminent domain laws to occupational licensing, and drug policy to educational choice.” . . .

The worst ten states were New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, Oregon, Maryland, Vermont, New Jersey, California, Hawaii, and New York. (Read more from “The Least Free State in America Won’t Surprise You” HERE)

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New York is the least free state in America, Cato Institute says

By WIVB. New York has ranked fiftieth in freedom for yet another year, according to the CATO institute.

The libertarian think tank releases an annual report, Freedom in the 50 States, which ranks states on how their policies promote fiscal, regulatory, and personal freedom.

“New York has been the least free state in the country for a long time,” the report said.

The CATO Institute has ranked the Empire State last in the nation since the year 2000.

The report singles out New York as the worst state in the nation when it comes to fiscal, regulatory, lawsuit, and land freedoms. (Read more from “New York Is the Least Free State in America, Cato Institute Says” HERE)

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Ratings for Anti-Trump MTV Video Music Awards Plummet to Record Low

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A downward rating trend among televised awards shows continued this week with the “MTV Video Music Awards.”

Despite a star-studded lineup, Rolling Stone reported the program set a new low for viewership numbers Monday night.

The trend follows a familiar trajectory, which has accelerated in recent years. In 2014, more than 10 million viewers tuned in. That number dwindled to just 5.23 million this year.

Whatever the cause, Nielsen Media Research found that this year’s ratings were the lowest for the awards show since tracking began 25 years ago.

Analysts note that the day of the week could have played some part in the lower ratings. In previous years the VMAs had been broadcast on Sunday nights.

Fox News reported that the average viewership for this year’s show was 2.25 million.

Year over year, that represents a 16 percent dip for the 2018 presentation, which was hosted by comedians Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish. The rate of decrease was slightly higher among viewers between 18 and 49, a coveted demographic for advertisers.

As The Western Journal previously reported, several presenters and performers tied their appearances to criticism of the Trump administration.

Hart took a few jabs at President Donald Trump’s stance on protests by NFL players, telling the audience Monday night that anyone watching would be “allowed to kneel” if they so desired.

“There’s no old white man that can stop you,” the host added.

He went on to rib the administration for its reputation for infighting and disorder among high-ranking staff.

Hart described the Video Music Awards as “basically like a typical day in the White House,” explaining that “beefs pop off, bad language, people run to the bathroom and send out crazy tweets.”

One of the program’s musical performers also attracted some attention for his Trump critique. Logic, a rapper whose real name is Robert Bryson Hall II, wore a shirt with the message “F— the Wall” during his performance.

MTV put a positive spin on the reports, citing a changing media landscape and the importance of digital viewership. In that arena, the network claimed success.

In a statement, MTV cited estimates of “some 141.6 million video streams of content related to the awards show for the past month,” or nearly twice the total reported in 2017.

With major developments breaking on the domestic and international stage on a daily basis, Rolling Stone noted that far more viewers opted to keep up with the news than the nominees of yet another award.

Both “World News Tonight” on ABC and “CBS Evening News” handily outperformed the Video Music Awards program, which was simulcast across the Viacom family of television networks. (For more from the author of “Ratings for Anti-Trump MTV Video Music Awards Plummet to Record Low” please click HERE)

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NYT Claims Ditching Obama-Era Rules Could Kill 1,400 per Year, Leaves out Important Details

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The New York Times sparked a social media ruckus when it reported Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to replace Obama-era coal plant regulations could lead to as many as 1,400 premature deaths a year from air pollution.

Liberal journalists went wild. “EPA admits Trump would sacrifice thousands of American lives to save a few coal plants,” ThinkProgress claimed. . .

At the end of the day, EPA is just estimating premature deaths based on current epidemiological studies that are still the subject of debate.

EPA’s regulatory analysis for the Affordable Clean Energy rule lays out three scenarios for how the agency expects coal-fired power plants to comply with more lenient regulations. In contrast to the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, new rules allow coal plants to increase heat-rate efficiency to cut emissions.

The New York Times reported that under the scenario that EPA “pegged as the most likely to occur, the health effects would be significant.” EPA “predicts its plan will see between 470 and 1,400 premature deaths annually by 2030 because of increased rates of microscopic airborne particulates known as PM 2.5,” The Times reported. (Read more from “NYT Claims Ditching Obama-Era Rules Could Kill 1,400 per Year, Leaves out Important Details” HERE)

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