Texas Lt. Governor Calls out ‘Accomplices’ in Death of Mollie Tibbetts

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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R) accused the political left, CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, as well as Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera of being “accomplices” in the death of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts.

Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old Mexican national, has been charged with first degree murder in the death of Tibbetts, 20, who was to begin her sophomore year at the University of Iowa this month. According to federal authorities, Rivera was in the country illegally, the Des Moines Register reported.

In an appearance on Fox News on Thursday, Patrick alleged that the political left and certain news media outlets are playing politics with the immigration issue and it is costing people’s lives.

“On the left, it’s pure politics. They’re playing with people’s’ lives,” he said. “The blood is on Chuck Schumer’s hands and every Democrat, and the Republicans who won’t change the rules.”

“The CNNs, MSNBCs, most of the print media in this country and Democrats are all accomplices in the death of this young girl and the death of everyone else,” Patrick declared.

“Even Geraldo Rivera,” Patrick continued. “I’ve never met the guy. I seem to like him. Seems like he has a good heart. I saw him here on Fox saying, ‘I feel badly about this but…’ There is no ‘but.’”

“I’ll be happy to debate Geraldo Rivera any time, any place, anywhere on this issue.”

On FNC’s “Hannity” on Wednesday night, Rivera said, “I totally understand the anger that so many people are expressing and feeling over this horrible case and my heart breaks for the Tibbetts’ family.”

“It is sad for what this family suffered, and it is sad because it will fuel the malignant, false notion that this terrible, savage crime is characteristic of this population,” he argued.

Rivera accepted Patrick’s challenge to a debate, tweeting “anytime, anyplace,” and suggesting they do it on Sean Hannity’s program.

“@DanPatrick claims outrageously that I’m effectively an accomplice to horrifying murder of #mollytibbetts because I beg compassion & mercy for undocumented immigrants,” he wrote. “How dare he make so false an allegation? He is fear-mongering & I accept his challenge for debate.”

Rivera alleged that Patrick is trying to play politics with the issue, tweeting, “Enough jingo rhetoric to gain votes rather than heal this wound & fix this problem.”

Patrick responded via Twitter saying “Hannity” as a debate forum works for him.

He related, “I will fly to NYC for a 30 minute face to face.” (For more from the author of “Texas Lt. Governor Calls out ‘Accomplices’ in Death of Mollie Tibbetts” please click HERE)

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Watch: CNN Asks Americans About Cohen, Manafort. Doesn’t Go as Planned.

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CNN traveled to a county in North East Pennsylvania that voted for former President Barack Obama twice and asked voters what they thought about the recent legal drama facing the Trump administration surrounding Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen. The voters did not care.

CNN’s Jason Carroll asked three Democrats, three independents, and one Republican about the recent legal developments regarding Trump’s former campaign chairman and former personal attorney.

Registered Democrat Anne Marie Lenahan said that the economy is so strong that she doesn’t have a problem overlooking allegations about Trump’s infidelity, “unless the money came from campaign funds” . . .

Registered Democrats Richard and Eileen Sorokas, who voted for Obama twice, said they wanted to get rid of political correctness, that they are happy with the direction of the stock market, and they see the drama with Manafort and Cohen as a sideshow.

Registered Republican Bob Sellon noted that the ongoing investigations were supposed to be about Russian interference in U.S. elections and he hasn’t seen anything notable come from it. (Read more from “Watch: CNN Asks Americans About Cohen, Manafort. Doesn’t Go as Planned.” HERE)

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Trump Hits Mueller for Multiple Conflicts of Interest in Overseeing Russia Investigation

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President Donald Trump listed multiple reasons Thursday why Robert Mueller should not be serving as special counsel in the Russia investigation.

“When you see Mueller with the conflicts, he is so conflicted,” Trump told “Fox & Friends” co-host Ainsley Earhardt.

“Comey’s his best friend,” Trump added, referring to former FBI Director James Comey. “He had a really nasty business transaction with me, which he never reported. I’ve been talking about, he never reports it.”

“He wanted the FBI job that Christopher Wray has,” Trump added.

Comey and Mueller served together in the Justice Department during the administration of George W. Bush.

According to Politico, “While (then-FBI director) Mueller technically reported to Comey as deputy attorney general, Comey, two decades his junior, treated Mueller as a close friend and almost mentor.”

The two had known each other for years prior, as they rose through the ranks as prosecutors in the DOJ.

Trump told Reuters earlier this week that he is concerned the two men could be setting a perjury trap for him if he were to agree to be interviewed by special counsel prosecutors.

“So if I say something and he (Comey) says something, and it’s my word against his, and he’s best friends with Mueller, so Mueller might say: ‘Well, I believe Comey,’ and even if I’m telling the truth, that makes me a liar. That’s no good.”

One avenue of inquiry Mueller has reportedly been pursuing is whether Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey in May 2017.

The president’s reference to a “nasty business transaction” involved club dues at Trump’s golf course in northern Virginia of which Mueller was a member.

The dispute prompted the then-FBI director to end his membership, The New York Times reported.

Finally, Trump pointed to his decision not to hire Mueller as FBI director as another conflict of interest.

According to CNN, Trump interviewed Mueller to potentially replace Comey, but decided against him. A day later, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named Mueller as special counsel.

The president has repeatedly characterized the team Mueller has chosen as “angry” Democrats.

Earlier this week he tweeted, “Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his whole group of Angry Democrat Thugs spent over 30 hours with the White House Councel, only with my approval, for purposes of transparency. Anybody needing that much time when they know there is no Russian Collusion is just someone looking for trouble.”

He continued, “They are enjoying ruining people’s lives and REFUSE to look at the real corruption on the Democrat side – the lies, the firings, the deleted Emails and soooo much more! Mueller’s Angry Dems are looking to impact the election. They are a National Disgrace!”

In a May tweet, Trump questioned why the Mueller’s “13 Angry and heavily conflicted Democrats” are not investigating Hillary Clinton.

Politifact confirmed in March that at least 13 of the 17 lawyers on Mueller’s team are Democrats, six of whom contributed to Clinton.

Of the four remaining attorneys, the fact checker could not determine their party affiliation.

According to The Wall Street Journal one prosecutor — Andrew Weissmann — attended Clinton’s election night party in November 2016. (For more from the author of “Trump Hits Mueller for Multiple Conflicts of Interest in Overseeing Russia Investigation” please click HERE)

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Want to See Real Campaign Finance Violations? Look at These Creeps in Congress

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If President Trump and his former attorney violated campaign finance laws, as many on the Left allege, then several members of Congress have likely done so as well, LevinTV host Mark Levin said on the radio Wednesday.

Levin made the point in a segment that addressed gaping holes in the Left’s narrative around the recent news of former Trump attorney Michael Cohen striking a plea deal with federal prosecutors.

If spending a lot of money to make oneself look better in an upcoming election violates campaign finance laws, Levin explained, then there are a lot of members of Congress in jeopardy. He reminded listeners of the so-called “hush fund” which was money set aside for lawmakers to settle sexual harassment and similar lawsuits. He added that lawmakers who used those funds did something far worse than Cohen because they used taxpayer money, as opposed to private funds.

Levin had a simple solution for these congressmen. “Let’s drag these little bastards out of Congress and let’s prosecute them, then,” Levin thundered.

Listen:

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CROWDER CONFRONTS: Violent Antifa ‘ICE’ Killer!

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Steven Crowder confronts a vocal miscreant who’s openly called for the deaths of ICE agents and Betsy Devos.

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It’s Getting Dumber: Chuck Schumer Desperately Tries to Block Judge Kavanaugh Because of Michael Cohen

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In light of yesterday’s conviction of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort and lawyer Michael Cohen’s guilty plea, Democrats are losing their minds.

A number of Democratic Senators cancelled their meetings with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh today, citing President Trump’s ties to Manafort and Cohen as the reason why. Then, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took things a step further a declared Kavanaugh’s nomination should be halted indefinetely.

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Jury Reaches Verdict in Manafort Case

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A federal jury in Northern Virginia on Tuesday reached a guilty verdict in 8 of the 18 counts of bank and tax fraud brought against former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

CNBC reported that the jury found Manafort guilty of five counts of tax fraud.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s legal team called 27 witnesses in the trial, including Manafort’s former business associate Rick Gates, who also worked on President Donald Trump’s campaign in 2016.

Gates entered a plea agreement earlier this year admitting to conspiracy and making false statements to federal investigators.

He has not yet been sentenced.

All the charges brought against Manafort and Gates are not related to their work on the Trump campaign, but they are connected to consulting work they did for Ukraine and other matters.

Fox News reported earlier on Tuesday that the 12 member jury had passed a note to presiding Judge T.S. Ellis asking, “If we cannot come to consensus on a single count…what does that mean for the final verdict?”

The judge responded that this would not be “exceptional” and said the jury could reach a “partial verdict.”

Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy told Fox News that Mueller’s team could retry Manafort on the counts to which the jury was not able to reach a verdict.

But, he added, “It’s always good news for the defense if the jury can’t resolve the case.”

In May, Ellis upbraided Mueller’s prosecutors suggesting they lied about the scope of the Russia investigation, and the true purpose of the criminal case against Manafort, which is to bring down Trump.

“You don’t really care about Mr. Manafort,” Ellis said. “You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead you to Mr. Trump and an impeachment, or whatever.”

Renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz argued last month that Mueller is squeezing Manafort in hopes of making him “sing” or even “compose” against Trump.

“I used to teach my first year criminal law students that if you commit a crime in America always commit a crime with someone more important than you are so you can flip on them and they can’t flip on you. That’s what’s going on here,” Dershowitz said.

Manafort also faces charges in federal court in Washington, D.C., regarding failing to register as a foreign agent.

That trial is slated to start next month. (For more from the author of “Jury Reaches Verdict in Manafort Case” please click HERE)

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Video: Ted Cruz Just Summed up His Immigration Views in Four Words

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Ted Cruz has been out on the campaign trail this week, taking his race seriously just as he said he would.

Yesterday while giving a speech, Cruz summed up his immigration views in so simple a way that even liberals can understand.

Here’s more from KRIS TV:

Senator Ted Cruz brought his statewide campaign tour to Corpus Christi Saturday to speak with voters. It comes during one of the most talked-about campaigns this election season in his race against Congressman Beto O’Rourke. . .

“In the Senate race, there is no political race in the country with a starker divide between the two candidates,” Cruz said. “My opponent, Congressman Beto O’Rourke, is not doing what Democrats usually do in the general election. He’s not pretending to go to the middle, he’s not pretending to be moderate.”

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Watch: Trans Activist Slanders ‘Conservative A**Hole’ Ben Shapiro for ‘Catcalling’ Ocasio-Cortez, Gets Everything Wrong

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In a fallacy-filled YouTube video posted last week, intersectional feminist and transgender activist Riley J. Dennis gushes over Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and goes off on Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro for allegedly believing he’s “entitled” to a debate with the democratic socialist.

For those who aren’t up to speed, Shapiro, in response to Ocasio-Cortez saying Republicans are “scared” of her, offered $10,000 to the open socialist’s campaign or to charity if she were to discuss her views with him on his Sunday Special show, or debate the issues. Bizarrely, Ocasio-Cortez responded by accusing Shapiro — a nerdy (sorry, boss) Orthodox Jew who literally wrote the book condemning our oversexed culture — of “catcalling” her. . .

Echoing the same absurd talking points of the Left, Riley spewed lie after lie about Shapiro, whom he referred to as a “conservative a**hole,” before the heated shpiel turned into a rant about how he doesn’t like conservatives asking him to debate his beliefs.

“Today we’re talking about debates, and whether or not you have the right to other people’s time,” Riley starts the video. “The reason we’re talking about this is because recently some conservative a**hole on the Internet demanded that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez debate him,” he said. . .

Of course, this is a lie. Shapiro merely called out Ocasio-Cortez for calling him sexist and claiming he had bad intensions without any evidence; he didn’t continuously harass her as Riley suggests. “Discussion and debate are not ‘bad intentions.’ Slandering someone as a sexist catcaller without reason or evidence does demonstrate cowardice and bad intent, however,” replied Shapiro, adding, “But sure, go with ‘the Orthodox Jew who has never catcalled a woman in his life is ACKSHUALLY a sexist catcaller for asking for a discussion or debate.’ I’m sure your media sycophants will eat it up.” [Narrator: They did.]

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Argument Over Parking Spot Turns Deadly

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An argument over a parking space turned deadly Sunday night outside a crowded metro Atlanta Walmart, Channel 2 Action News reported.

Fadil Delkic, 49, was fatally shot about 5:30 p.m. in the parking lot of the Walmart on Scenic Highway in Snellville, according to the news station.

Troy Dennis Hunte, 27, of Grayson, has been charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with the deadly shooting.

According to Channel 2, witnesses said the shooter and the victim argued about a parking space before the gunfire erupted. A single shot was fired, police said.

The scene was so chaotic, shoppers told the news station that families became separated. Some believed there was an active shooter situation, Channel 2 reported.

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