Sources Reveal the Disturbing Order Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Gave Cops During Trump Protests

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Republican front-runner Donald Trump has been the target of vitriolic attacks from all sides — including the GOP establishment, the media, and of course, the left. The Chicago rally that was cancelled last week underscores the malevolence behind the planned protests and, as it appears, the mayor’s office may have contributed to the chaos as the Democrat at the helm of the city wasn’t all that anxious to keep the peace and maintain order.

Paid protesters from Black Lives Matter (BLM), anarchists and Occupiers, as well as supporters of Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders came together to cause the mayhem when they clashed with Trump fans before the rally that had been scheduled at the University of Illinois facility. According to conservative pundit and author Ann Coulter — herself an avid Donald Trump supporter — sources inside the Chicago Police Department disclosed a stunning order supposedly given by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Apparently, however, some officers didn’t get the memo, as a handful of arrests were reportedly made during the very tense and highly charged clashes between Trump supporters and protesters.

The billionaire businessman eventually called off the event, stating, “After speaking with law enforcement, I just thought it would be a wise thing for us to postpone this rally.”

One Windy City policeman who wished to remain anonymous posted that the media failed to report on the level of chaos that occurred prior to the event that Trump decided to postpone. Sanders’ backers were reportedly throwing debris at Trump supporters and running through parking lots breaking the windows of cars bearing Trump bumper stickers. (Read more from “Sources Reveal the Disturbing Order Chicago’s Rahm Emanuel Gave Cops During Trump Protests” HERE)

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GOP Will Confirm Obama’s SCOTUS Pick

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By Cheryl Chumley. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid tapped into tea party-type fears about the Republican leadership’s ability to stand fast in the face of President Obama’s storm of demands, and put out a Twitter message saying bluntly: Yes indeed, the GOP is already on its way to caving on Merrick Garland.

Garland was announced as Obama’s pick for the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia’s sudden death.

He wrote: “Republicans are backing down so quickly that they’re already bargaining about what month they will fully cave and confirm Obama’s nominee,” Mediaite found.

And in another tweet just four minutes later, Reid wrote: “No question in my mind that Sen. McConnell will cave, and President Obama will fill this vacancy this year” . . .

On an MSNBC appearance with host Chris Matthews, Reid called the Republican Party’s attempt to hold off hearings on any Obama nomination to the court a “hurtful” move for the country. (Read more from “Harry Reid: GOP Will Confirm Obama’s SCOTUS Pick” HERE)

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Prediction: Garland Will Be Confirmed

By Allahpundit. Crafty of O to wait until the morning after Trump’s backbreaking wins last night to stick McConnell with this. Now Senate Republicans will face maximum pressure from both sides.

If they cave and decide to give Garland a hearing after all, Republican voters who are still cool to Trump might decide to vote for him in a burst of “burn it all down” rage. A betrayal here hands Trump the nomination — assuming there’s any doubt that he’s already on track to win it. If, on the other hand, McConnell stands firm, he’s blowing an opportunity to confirm a nominee who’s likely to be more “moderate” than what President Hillary will offer next year. The conventional wisdom on Trump right now is that he’s a dead duck in the general election barring some sort of national crisis. I don’t agree with it, but it’s not out of left field: His favorable rating, for instance, is toxic and it’s an open question whether he could organize a national campaign capable of matching Hillary’s. If McConnell agrees with that CW, that Hillary’s a prohibitive favorite to win and that the backlash to Trump will hand Democrats the Senate, then refusing to confirm Garland now clears the path for Democrats to nominate and confirm a young hyper-liberal justice next year. Garland is already in his 60s and is no far-lefty; if Hillary wins big, liberals will insist that she exploit her mandate by engineering a new Warren Court. (Garland, ironically, clerked for the most liberal member of the Warren Court but he hasn’t followed the same trajectory as a judge.) So what do you do if you’re Mitch the Knife? Accept a quarter-loaf here by confirming a guy whose centrist credentials will be used to show just how unreasonable and obstructionist the GOP is in blocking him? Or risk having no loaf at all when Democrats win this fall and ram through whoever they want? (Read more from this story HERE)

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When Judge Napolitano Saw Obama’s Supreme Court Pick, He Dropped a BOMBSHELL Obama Will Hate

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By Stephen Conway. President Obama has named Merrick Garland as his nominee to succeed Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Garland, a federal appeals judge for the District of Columbia, came out on top of a short list of potential nominees devised by the president.

“It’s not a responsibility I take lightly,” Obama said of his choice during a Rose Garden ceremony Wednesday.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judiciary analyst for Fox News, said during an appearance on the network this morning that the nomination is a “lose-lose” for the President.

“It’s dangerous to appoint somebody to the court with a 19-year track record,” said Napolitano, pointing out that such a long record gives opponents plenty of rulings to criticize. “This is not a win for President Obama.”

Napolitano went on to say that Garland is the most conservative appointee a Democrat president has nominated. That could frustrate Senate Republicans, who must pledge to block the nominee of someone who is relatively conservative in nature. (Read more from “When Judge Napolitano Saw Obama’s Supreme Court Pick, He Dropped a BOMBSHELL Obama Will Hate” HERE)

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Democrats Plan Push to Force Hearings on Supreme Court Nomination

By Mike DeBonis and Juliet Eilperin. Democrats began laying out an aggressive strategy Thursday to get Judge Merrick Garland considered by the Senate and seated on the Supreme Court, over what appears to be implacable Republican opposition.

The approach, which is being implemented in part by a well-organized group led by former aides to President Obama, involves targeting vulnerable GOP Senate incumbents for defeat by portraying them as unwilling to fulfill the basic duties of their office. The idea is to so threaten the Republicans’ Senate majority that party leaders will reconsider blocking hearings on Garland’s nomination.

“You’re going to be surprised at how hard we’re going to work to make sure this is on the front pages of all the papers,” Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters after meeting with Garland on Thursday.

At the White House, Obama held a conference call with thousands of supporters across the country while senior adviser Valerie Jarrett met on Capitol Hill with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters he had no details of a specific request Obama was making on the call. “But I think the president sent a pretty clear signal, though, that this a high priority of his, and he hoped that this would be a priority that people all across the country would share,” he said. (Read more from “Democrats Plan Push to Force Hearings on Supreme Court Nomination” HERE)

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GUN-BANNER JOHN KASICH: His Horrible, Terrible, Awful Track Record on the Second Amendment

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John Kasich is more than a presidential “candidate” that has no legitimate chance to win the Republican nomination.

He’s more than a big government Republican who loves the federal takeover of education known as “Common Core”.

He’s also more than a rabid pro-Amnesty advocate for open borders.

Despite his newfound respect for the Second Amendment, he’s also a gun control advocate who once joined with the Clintons to pass the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban.

Ohio Governor John Kasich learned of last October’s shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, which left 10 dead, during a televised interview. While informing him of the shooting, an NBC reporter called Kasich a “supporter of gun control” who once earned an F rating from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

The Republican presidential candidate immediately corrected him. “I’ve received an A rating since I’ve been governor,” said Kasich, who won his first gubernatorial term in 2010. “You can strip all the guns away, but the people who are gonna commit crimes or have problems are always gonna be able to have the guns,” he added. “People feel like, ‘I’d like to be able to protect myself.’”

In 1993, following a different mass shooting, Kasich saw the issue another way. After a man used an automatic pistol to fatally shoot eight people at a San Francisco law firm, he was one of 215 House members to vote for a ban on assault weapons that became law in 1994. It was that vote that earned Kasich the failing NRA grade.

Kasich is the prototypical GOP establishment drone, who is staying in the race — not to win — but to try to take the nomination process to the convention where insiders will try to steal the trophy from Donald Trump or Ted Cruz.

A vote for Kasich is a vote for chaos. (For more from the author of “GUN-BANNER JOHN KASICH: His Horrible, Terrible, Awful Track Record on the Second Amendment” please click HERE)

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In Secret Meeting, Conservative and GOP Operatives Made Plot to Do This to Trump

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A third-party candidate, well known to the conservative movement, might be a viable option for stopping Republican front-runner Donald Trump, conservative activists and Republican Party operatives determined in a meeting early Thursday.

The meeting was reported by the Washington Post, which quoted Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) saying he’s “worried about the kind of damage that Trump could cause to our party.”

“It’s certainly not too late,” Franks said as he left the breakfast held at the Army and Navy Club in Washington. “You could get another party on the ballot. If you did that, you’d need a movement conservative to be the candidate” . . .

Others in the meeting told the Post a third party poses logistic and financial problems. The consensus was that the best way to stop Trump was to unite behind Cruz in the remaining primary and caucus states. (Read more from “In Secret Meeting, Conservative and GOP Operatives Made Plot to Do This to Trump” HERE)

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Rubio’s Exit Leaves Trump With an Open Path to 1,237 Delegates

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Donald J. Trump’s series of victories on Tuesday extended his delegate lead and forced Senator Marco Rubio of Florida out of the presidential race. Mr. Trump’s path to winning enough delegates to secure the Republican nomination is not assured, but he is in a strong position.

Here are some ways the Republican nominating contest could unfold. Try adjusting the sliders to see how the outcomes change. Each line in the chart represents one possible outcome.

If Mr. Trump maintains his current level of support in the remaining races, he would almost certainly secure the nomination.

After Tuesday’s contests, no other candidate retains a real chance of capturing the delegates required to win the nomination outright. Mr. Rubio dropped out, Gov. John Kasich of Ohio is too far behind, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas would need to win the vast majority of the remaining delegates — a near impossibility. (Read more from “Rubio’s Exit Leaves Trump With an Open Path to 1,237 Delegates” HERE)

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Cleveland One Step Ahead of Trump’s Convention Riots Prediction

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Cleveland will be ready should Donald Trump’s prediction come true of riots at the Republican National Convention if he’s denied the presidential nomination, security officials say.

Though the Ohio city won’t say whether Trump’s remarks have it reconsidering security for the July 18-21 gathering, preparations for possible unrest are well under way. The convention is designated a national special-security event, like Pope Francis’s visit last year and the Democrats’ nominating meeting in Philadelphia in July.

“It’s going to be a secure event,” said Kevin Dye, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, the lead agency coordinating with federal, state and local law enforcement.

Trump, the billionaire New York developer whose popularity soared after he attacked Mexicans and Muslims, faces the prospect of a convention floor fight if he’s leading in delegates but falls short of a majority. Trump said Wednesday on CNN that he thinks “you’d have riots” if the party denies him the nomination despite a large lead in delegates. (Read more from “Cleveland One Step Ahead of Trump’s Convention Riots Prediction” HERE)

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Documents Reveal That 73 U.S. Airport Employees Linked to Terrorists

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Documents recently obtained by WFXT-TV through a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that 73 private employees at nearly 40 airports nationwide have been identified with potential ties to terrorists.

The 73 reportedly flagged employees still were allowed to work at the airports because the Transportation Security Administration did not yet have access to all of the terrorism-related databases used during the vetting process, a report from the Homeland Security Inspector General’s Office stated last year. Although this original 2015 report did not reveal where the 73 airport workers were employed, since its release, the TSA said that it has been given access to all terror-related databases, according to WFXT.

Charlie Leocha, chairman of the consumer traveler advocacy group Travelers United, told WFXT that the employees, whose identities have not yet been publicly released, could be anyone from a supervisor at an airport store to an airline employee with access to luggage . . .

Michael England, the TSA’s national spokesman, issued a statement in which he claimed that the compiled evidence does not suggest that the 73 DHS employees are on the U.S. government’s consolidated terrorist watch list. (Read more from “Documents Reveal That 73 U.S. Airport Employees Linked to Terrorists” HERE)

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John Boehner Just Made His Presidential ‘Endorsement’… For Someone Who Isn’t Even Technically Running

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Former House Speaker John Boehner says he would back successor Rep. Paul Ryan to be Republicans’ presidential nominee if the party cannot settle on one from the remaining field of three during its July convention, Fox News confirmed Wednesday.

Boehner, who resigned in September 2015, voted Tuesday in the Ohio GOP primary for Gov. John Kasich and backs him for president right now.

But Boehner, a former Ohio congressman, said at a Futures Industry Association conference in Florida: “If we don’t have a nominee who can win on the first ballot, I’m for none of the above. So I’m for none of the above. I’m for Paul Ryan to be our nominee,” as reported first by Politico.

Ryan, the Wisconsin lawmaker who succeeded Boehner, was the party’s 2012 vice presidential candidate. And he is frequently mentioned as the GOP establishment’s last, best-possible hope toward keeping outsider candidate Donald Trump from securing the party nomination. (Read more from “John Boehner Just Made His Presidential ‘Endorsement’… For Someone Who Isn’t Even Technically Running” HERE)

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Obama’s Supreme Pick Tied to TWA 800, OKC Bombing

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Da Noive! President Barack Obama has chosen to nominate United States Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.

We are told he is a “moderate,” but we know how that works. The other “moderates” on the high court somehow manage to march their way in lockstep to the officially designated liberal position on every single major case. Can anyone name an exception?

But that is the least of my objections. Whatever his merits, Garland served as Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick’s “principal deputy” during the two most corrupt years in American political history – the years leading up to Bill Clinton’s reelection in 1996 – and that service alone should kill his candidacy . ..

My newest book on the subject, “TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-up, And the Conspiracy,” spells out Gorelick’s role in all its unseemly detail. The book will be published before the crash’s 20th anniversary in July, but I would be happy to share an advanced copy with any U.S. senator who wants to know the truth.

In sum, Gorelick and the Clintons pulled off the most successful cover-up in American peacetime history. As a reward, the otherwise unqualified Gorelick was named vice-president of Fannie Mae in 1997, in which job she made more than $25 million during the next six years. (Read more from “Obama’s Supreme Pick Tied to TWA 800, OKC Bombing” HERE)

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