Military Members on Pence Detail Reassigned for Bringing Women to Hotel

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The U.S. military detail assigned to Vice President Mike Pence’s communications team has been removed from White House duties after being caught on video bringing women back to their hotel in Latin America, according to three U.S. defense officials.

The service members — who were from the Army as well as one from the Air Force — didn’t register the women when they brought them in, the officials said . . .

A White House official told NBC News that Pence had not left the U.S. when the incident occurred. His staff became aware of the problem when they saw security camera video of the members of the detail bringing the women into the secure area, the officials said.

The service members — who were senior members of the services, according to one of the officials — were brought back to the United States and removed from the White House detail once the allegations surfaced. (Read more from “Military Members on Pence Detail Reassigned for Bringing Women to Hotel” HERE)

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Baltimore Police Commissioner Admits Heavy Policing Kept Violence at Bay

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Baltimore’s state attorney and the city’s police commissioner admitted that police officers using heavy policing tactics in the past helped keep Baltimore’s murder count down.

Baltimore is currently struggling with one of its highest murder counts in years, something that could have been influenced by a change in policing tactics, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis implicitly acknowledged in an exclusive interview with the Baltimore Sun Wednesday.

Years ago, the city had tamped down on the violence and brought the homicides down to less than 200 in a year by using “heavy handed police tactics” that are now frowned upon, the two noted in the interview. (Read more from “Baltimore Police Commissioner Admits Heavy Policing Kept Violence at Bay” HERE)

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Which Republicans Helped This Oppo Research Firm Investigate Trump?

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One of the biggest mysteries looming over the Trump-Russia saga is the identity of the political donors who hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump.

Almost no information has been provided in press reports about a Hillary Clinton ally who, last June, reportedly hired Fusion GPS to investigate the former real estate magnate. Fusion would go on to hire former British spy Christopher Steele to carry out that investigation. He compiled a 35-page dossier of uncorroborated allegations about Trump’s activities in Russia that BuzzFeed News published in January.

Some clues have been released regarding a Republican who reportedly hired Fusion GPS. According to news reports, that client is a major GOP donor who was adamantly opposed to Trump. They reportedly hired Fusion GPS in Sept. 2015 and paid the Washington, D.C.-based firm nearly $1 million to investigate Trump.

Determining the identity of the donors has proved difficult. Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS and a former Wall Street Journal reporter, isn’t saying. During a 10-hour interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Simpson declined to identify any of his clients, citing confidentiality agreements. (Read more from “Which Republicans Helped This Oppo Research Firm Investigate Trump?” HERE)

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D.C. Refuses to Comply With Gun-Carry Ruling

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The District of Columbia has filed an emergency appeal requesting a hearing in a case recently won by the Second Amendment Foundation that struck down the city’s “good reason” requirement for obtaining a concealed-carry permit.

By making residents and non-residents prove they have a “good reason” to carry a firearm, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier has been able to deny 99 percent of all carry applications.

But the city’s leaders have refused to abide by the July 26 decision of a three-judge panel in Wrenn vs. District of Columbia, which ordered them to stop the unconstitutional “good reason” excuse for denying permits.

The district is seeking further delays, requesting a full-court hearing in the case.

The move was not unexpected, said Alan Gottlieb, executive vice president and founder of the Bellevue, Washington-based Second Amendment Foundation, which brought the case against the city. (Read more from “D.C. Refuses to Comply With Gun-Carry Ruling” HERE)

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Schumer Inadvertently Reveals Democrats Number 1 Worry

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In a head-spinningly illogical non-sequitur, top Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer has managed to reveal what his party is most worried about from the Trump administration.

That would be the Presidential Advisory Commission on Voter Integrity, which President Trump established by executive order in May.

But Schumer insisted Thursday that Trump dismantle his commission dedicated to investigating voter fraud. What reason did he cite?

Well, you see, it all has to do with white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Charlottesville.

In a post on the Medium website, headlined “After Charlottesville, It’s Time to End the Assault on Voting Rights,” Schumer wrote: “Under the guise of voter fraud, which experts agree is practically non-existent, conservative forces in the administration, cheered on by white-supremacy-stoking publications like Breitbart News, are reviving the old playbook of disenfranchising minority voters. (Read more from “Schumer Inadvertently Reveals Democrats Number 1 Worry” HERE)

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CNN: Everyone Who Voted for Trump Is a ‘White Supremacist by Default’

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CNN used the voices of a few professors and activists to assert anyone who voted for President Donald Trump is a white supremacist in a news report Wednesday, and to blame these “ordinary” people for the violence in Charlottesville.

Trump voters helped advance white supremacy by giving them room to operate, CNN reported based on the assertions of others in a piece headlined, “‘White Supremacists by default’: How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible.”

“It’s easy to focus on the angry white men in paramilitary gear who looked like they were mobilizing for a race war in the Virginia college town,” CNN reported. “But it’s the ordinary people — the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative’s anti-Semitism — who give these type of men room to operate.”

CNN put the weight of the assertion on the views of what they described as “activists, historians and victims of extremism,” but made no visible effort to question their assertions or provide a counter point of view. Fordham University professor Mark Naison’s, for example, is quoted prominently in the piece accusing tens of millions of Americans of being white supremacists.

“We are a country with a few million passionate white supremacists — and tens of millions of white supremacists by default,” Naison told CNN. He’s a political activist and history professor. He compared all Trump voters to “nice people” who facilitated the horrific violence of the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda by looking the other way. (Read more from “CNN: Everyone Who Voted for Trump Is a ‘White Supremacist by Default'” HERE)

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Many Dismissed Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Tweets. Big Mistake.

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President Donald Trump tweeted on July 26 that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the United States military. Tweets alone don’t change policy, so some in the media assumed the president was just blowing smoke.

Today, it’s clear that Trump meant what he said and intends to carry it out. A White House memo was sent to the Pentagon on Wednesday directing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to deny admittance to transgender individuals, and to stop paying for medical treatment regimens for currently enlisted transgender people.

The White House is expected to send additional guidance to the Pentagon in coming days to detail how to implement the ban. Mattis will have six months to get all of this done . . .

The White House memo gives Mattis and the Pentagon the discretion to consider an individual’s deployability when deciding whether or not to separate them from service.

Deployability is defined as the ability to serve in a war zone, participate in exercises or live on a ship for months at a time, and will be the legal basis used to make determinations on transgender individual’s fitness for military service. (Read more from “Many Dismissed Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Tweets. Big Mistake.” HERE)

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Hurricane Threatens the Gulf Coast With a Biblical Flood Disaster

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It’s the tropical storms you think are dead but come back to life that you need to be truly afraid of.

One such storm, soon to intensify into Tropical Storm Harvey, is poised to pick up copious amounts of moisture from the bathtub warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, before making a slow-speed collision with the low-lying Texas coast this weekend.

Like the meteorological equivalent of a White Walker from Game of Thrones, Harvey had previously been a named storm that dissipated as it crossed Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula earlier this week.

The storm has the potential to drop colossal amounts of rain from Corpus Christi, Texas to Lafayette, Louisiana, with the flood-prone city of Houston in the middle of the threat zone.

Rainfall totals could exceed 20 or even 30 inches in some places, since the storm is expected to meander along the Texas coast once it makes landfall, moving less than 500 miles from Friday through Monday morning. (Read more from “Hurricane Threatens the Gulf Coast With a Biblical Flood Disaster” HERE)

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Where’s Coverage of Democratic Senator’s Corruption Trial?

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Government spending essential to eclipse viewing … Never let a crisis, or, seemingly, an astronomical observance, go to waste. That’s the message of Emily Atkin, who wrote in the New Republic, “Trump’s budget cuts could mess up your next solar eclipse viewing.” Apparently if the government doesn’t spend money it doesn’t have on satellites, you won’t be able to see an eclipse. This is absurd, unless her audience was astrophysicists who use the equipment.

Coverage gap … As I mentioned last week, Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is scheduled for trial on corruption charges on September 6, 2017. The jury selection in that trial starts today. While local newspapers like the NY Times and local television stations have covered jury selection, cable networks have been eerily silent. American Commitment president Phil Kerpen asks an important question on Twitter: “Any networks doing stand ups outside Menendez’s jury selection this morning?” I wouldn’t hold my breath, Phil.

What bombing plot? … Yesterday, a man was arrested for allegedly trying to blow up a confederate statue in Houston. According to NewsBusters, none of the broadcast networks covered the case. If this was someone they could pin to the Right, you know it would have been covered.

Attkisson: Good reasons people don’t trust media … Sharyl Attkisson, the former CBS investigative journalist forced out for trying to uncover the truth, recently wrote an op-ed in The Hill about why Americans don’t trust the media. She writes about how the blurred lines between opinion and straight news and the spiking of stories that don’t match favored narratives have destroyed journalistic integrity. Her prescription? Journalists need to go back to being objective voices searching for the truth, no matter where it leads.

Journolist lives? … You remember Journolist, right? The email list that many journalists were on that provided them with left-wing narratives to follow? Is it, or something like it, back? Nick Short, a team member on CRTV’s “Michelle Malkin Investigates,” noticed something rather odd on Twitter over the weekend. A bunch of folks started tweeting a May 1, 2017, story about the possibility of Trump aide Seb Gorka leaving over the weekend. As if it came from a coordinated source. This is a perfect example of the Beltway echo chamber.

Shedding tears for Gawker … Here’s one to prove Attkisson’s point. University of Maine Journalism Professor Michael Socolow pines for the return of Gawker, the defamation factory shut down after it lost a lawsuit against Hulk Hogan. Why? Mainly because Gawker was courageously fighting people like Donald Trump. No, really. Read the whole thing in the Washington Post. (For more from the author of “Where’s Coverage of Democratic Senator’s Corruption Trial?” please click HERE)

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Violent Leftist Group Plans to ‘Shut Down’ Berkeley March Against Marxism

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Two weeks after violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia and one week after violent protests in Boston, another violent clash is shaping up to take place in Berkeley, California.

Violent leftist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is rallying forces to “shut down” a planned march against Marxism in Berkeley, California. Berkeley has already been the site of repeated instances of political violence this year, predominantly by far-left actors.

BAMN is organizing to shut down what it claims is a “Neo-Nazi” rally in Berkeley on Saturday. The rally is titled “No to Marxism in America.” The rally organizer, a biological man who identified himself as a transgender woman to media outlets, claims the rally is not a “right-wing” rally, embraces diversity and is meant to oppose the spread of Marxism in Berkeley.

BAMN, which was founded by the openly-Marxist Revolutionary Workers League, has previously been involved in violent clashes in Berkeley and elsewhere. The group’s members are unapologetic about their use of violence as a political tactic. (Read more from “Violent Leftist Group Plans to ‘Shut Down’ Berkeley March Against Marxism” HERE)

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