Trump Reacts to Impeachment and Issues a Warning to Democrats; Trump Tears up the Clinton Impeachment Playbook; Dems Trying to Impeach Trump Still Show up to His Christmas Party

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By Townhall. Speaking from the Oval Office Friday afternoon during a meeting with Paraguay President Abdo Benítez, President Trump reacted for the first time to Democrats on the Judiciary Committee approving two articles of impeachment against him.

“It’s a witch hunt, it’s a sham, it’s a hoax. Nothing was done wrong. Zero was done wrong. I think it’s a horrible thing to be using the tool of impeachment, which is supposed to be used in an emergency and it would seem many many years apart, to be using this for a perfect phone call where the President of that country [Ukraine] said there was no pressure, didn’t even know what we were talking about, it was perfect, the relationship was perfect, I’ve done much more for them than Obama did for them,” he said. “It’s a scam, it’s something that should not be allowed and it’s a very bad thing for our country and you are trivializing impeachment and I’ll tell you what, someday they’ll be a Democrat president and they’ll be a Republican house and I suspect they’re going to remember it.”

“When you use impeachment for absolutely nothing other than to try and get political gain, now with that being said, as you know my poll numbers have been through the roof. Fundraising for the Republican Party has gone through the roof, we’re setting records…because the people are disgusted. People are absolutely disgusted,” he continued. “I’ve watched these Democrats make fools of themselves. Absolutely fools of themselves.”

President Trump also noted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was “duped” in an interview during POLITICO’s Women Rule Summit in Washington D.C. this week. During questioning she admitted House Democrats have been trying to impeach him for nearly three years. (Read more from “Trump Reacts to Impeachment and Issues a Warning to Democrats” HERE)

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Trump Tears up the Clinton Impeachment Playbook

By Politico. After the House Judiciary Committee voted to approve articles of impeachment, the president strode to a White House microphone, declared “profound remorse” for his actions and begged forgiveness.

“What I want the American people to know, what I want the Congress to know, is that I am profoundly sorry for all I have done wrong in words and deeds,” he said.

The year was 1998. The president was Bill Clinton. A banner headline in The New York Times the next day read “Panel, on party lines, votes impeachment; Clinton voices remorse, invites censure.

Twenty one years and one day after that print edition, the same committee again voted along party lines to impeach a president. But this time, the man in the Oval Office sent a different message. (Read more from “Trump Tears up the Clinton Impeachment Playbook” HERE)

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House Dems Attend Trump’s Holiday Party Amid Impeachment

By Axios. Half a dozen House Democrats attended the White House Congressional Ball last night while their colleagues on the Judiciary Committee worked late into the night on articles of impeachment, according to two sources familiar with the event. . .

Antonio Delgado (NY-19): Trump won the district in 2016. Delgado is a first-term congressman and defeated a Republican incumbent in a close contest. Delgado is also the first African-American or Hispanic representative from upstate New York. His staff did not respond to requests for comment.

Susie Lee (NV-3): Trump won the district in 2016. Lee is a first-term congresswoman who managed to keep the seat in Democrats’ hands in a close general election race. Lee’s staff previously said she’s undecided on impeachment. A spokesperson confirmed that Lee attended the ball, saying it was a way to demonstrate that “she’s committed to being a bipartisan problem solver through and through.”

Elaine Luria (VA-2): Trump won the district in 2016. Luria is Navy veteran and a first-term congresswoman who unseated a Republican incumbent in a tight race. Her staff did not respond to requests for comment.

Jim Costa (CA-16): Trump lost the district in 2016. Costa has served in Congress since 2005, in the 20th and now the 16th districts. He represents an agricultural area. Costa could not be reached for comment.

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Yes, Virginia, the Governor Really Can Use the National Guard to Enforce Gun Control

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With dozens of Virginia counties declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, some Democratic lawmakers have said the governor should use the National Guard to enforce future gun control legislation – but can he?

Virginia Democrats, who control the legislature and governorship, have proposed several measures including an “assault weapons” ban, universal background checks, and a red flag law. In response, 75 counties vowed they will not enforce future gun control legislation. Virginia Democratic Rep. Donald McEachin told the Washington Examiner on Thursday that Gov. Ralph Northam “may have to nationalize the National Guard to enforce the law” if local authorities refuse to do so themselves. . .

“Until nationalized, it’s a creature of the state. So that’s what leads me to believe that, yes, the governor can activate the National Guard to enforce even a state law,” Gary Solis, a military law professor at Georgetown University, told the Washington Examiner. . .

The Posse Comitatus Act places strict limitations on how the military can be used to enforce the law, but the National Guard’s unique status as a state unit is an exception. Many governors have activated the National Guard to enforce the law in the past.

In 1954, Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus directed the National Guard to “preserve the public peace” by turning away black students during the court-mandated integration of Little Rock’s Central High School. President Eisenhower reversed that decision by federalizing the state’s entire guard, ordering it to protect the students. (Read more from “Yes, Virginia, the Governor Really Can Use the National Guard to Enforce Gun Control” HERE)

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Singer Taylor Swift Calls out George Soros in Award Speech

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Pop singer Taylor Swift called out billionaire investor George Soros in a Thursday speech, saying the Democratic megadonor and his family bankrolled the exploitation of her music.

Swift’s attack came amid a public feud with music executive Scooter Braun. She said Soros’s financial backing of Braun’s purchase of the rights to her music catalog “enabled” Braun to mistreat her. Braun has cited those rights to block Swift from performing her own songs.

“The fact is that private equity enabled this man to think, according to his own social media post, that he could ‘buy me.’ But I’m obviously not going willingly,” Swift said while accepting the Woman of the Decade award at Billboard’s “Women in Music” event.

“After I was denied the chance to purchase my music outright, my entire catalog was sold to Scooter Braun’s Ithaca Holdings in a deal that I’m told was funded by the Soros family, 23 Capital, and the Carlyle Group,” Swift said.

“Yet to this day, none of these investors have bothered to contact me or my team directly to perform their due diligence on their investment, on their investment in me. To ask how I might feel about the new owner of my art, the music I wrote, the videos I created, photos of me, my handwriting, my album designs,” she continued. (Read more from “Singer Taylor Swift Calls out George Soros in Award Speech” HERE)

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Senator Gives High-End Estimate That ‘Five to Ten’ Republicans Will Vote for Trump Impeachment; Democrats Grilled Over How They Ended Impeachment Hearing; Democrat Congressman WATCHES GOLF During Impeachment Hearing

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By Newsweek. Democratic senator has claimed as many as “five to ten” of his Republican colleagues could vote to impeach President Donald Trump if articles of impeachment are brought before the chamber.

Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal told MSNBC on Wednesday that “five to ten” GOP senators voting with Democrats was a “high-end” prediction, but suggested his estimate could rise further should “unpredicted evidence” emerge in the impeachment inquiry.

The senator’s prediction on MSNBC’s Hardball show yesterday came as the House Judiciary Committee held a debate on the articles of impeachment unveiled by Democrats on Tuesday. . .

Asked for a ‘high end’ number of Republican senators who would vote for conviction of the president, were he to be put on trial, Sen. Blumenthal told MSNBC: “I would give the high-end probably five to ten. I think that’s a realistic number. (Read more from “Senator Gives High-End Estimate That ‘Five to Ten’ Republicans Will Vote for Trump Impeachment” HERE)

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Democrats Grilled Over How They Ended Impeachment Hearing

By Daily Wire. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, a New York Democrat, announced an apparent change in scheduling on voting to move forward with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump late on Thursday night and was subsequently blasted by the Republicans for not even bringing them in to discuss their schedules.

“It has been a long two days of consideration of these articles [of impeachment] and it is now very late at night,” Nadler said. “I want the members on both sides of the aisle to think about what has happened over these last two days and to search their consciousnesses before we cast our final votes.

“Therefore the committee will now stand in recess until tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. at which point I will move to divide the question so that each of us may have the opportunity to cast up or down votes on each of the articles of impeachment and tell history to be our judge,” Nadler continued. The Committee is in recess.”

Ranking Member Doug Collins slammed Nadler, “Mr. Chairman, there is no consulting from the Ranking Member on your schedule for tomorrow in which you just blown up schedules for everyone? You chose not to consult the Ranking Member on a schedule issue of this magnitude? This is kangaroo court that we’re talking about.”

“It’s Stalinesque,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) shouted. “Let’s have a dictator, it was good to hear about that.”

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Watch: Democrat Congressman Watches Golf During Impeachment Hearing

By Daily Wire. Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond (LA) was accused of watching the President’s Cup golf tournament during the Democrats’ impeaching hearing on Thursday night in the House Judiciary Committee.

The incident, noticed by GOP Rapid Response Director Steve Guest, appears to show Richmond not taking the Democrats’ impeachment hearing seriously as he was clearly focused on the golf tournament.

Guest tweeted out a video showing Richmond watching golf, adding, “What on earth is Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond watching on his laptop during this impeachment markup? To me, it looks like Rep. Richmond is watching the President’s Cup golf tournament. Richmond’s actions are a DISGRACE.”

In the video posted by Guest, Richmond can be seen at the bottom of the screen, right above CNN’s “BREAKING NEWS’ chyron, wearing a light gray suit.

In a second tweet, Guest zoomed in and the video clearly shows, although blurry, that Richmond was watching golf.

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WATCH: 14-Year-Old Boy Brutally Beaten on School Bus Over His Support for President Trump

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A 14-year-old boy was hospitalized last month after being beaten by multiple suspects on his ride home from school. According to a parent of the unnamed victim, he was attacked for voicing his support for President Donald Trump and for wearing a “Make American Great Again” hat. . .

In a Twitter post from Nov 21, an individual purporting to be the boy’s parent wrote, “I am sitting in the hospital with my 14 year old kid because he was just jumped by 8 black kids on the school bus, I guess that’s what happens when a kid wears a #Trump hat to school.” The parent added, “earlier in the day they poured milk all over his head.”

In a follow-up tweet on Thursday, the parent posted video footage of the beating, saying, “My attorney @FoyeWalkerPA said it’s okay to release the video,” and warned that it is graphic.

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Prince Andrew Accuser Makes Public Plea for Help If ‘Something Happens’; Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App

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By Fox News. Virginia Roberts Giuffre pleaded for the public’s help in the event that “something happens” to her, noting “in no way, shape or form am I suicidal.”

The 35-year-old woman posted her cryptic message to Twitter late Tuesday in response to someone else’s tweet, writing in part: “Too many evil people want to see me quieted.”

Giuffre, who has repeatedly accused Prince Andrew, Duke of York, of having sex with her when she was 17, is one of the alleged sex trafficking victims of financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. . .

A spokesperson for Royal Communications later said in a statement to FOX Business the duke “unequivocally regrets” his association with Epstein and “emphatically denied” reports that Andrew ever had any sort of relationship with Giuffre.

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Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App

By Daily Beast. Harvard biologist George Church already had to apologize for palling around with Jeffrey Epstein even after the financier pleaded to guilty to preying on minors a decade ago. Now he’s raising eyebrows again—with plans for a genetics-based dating app.

In an interview with 60 Minutes, Church said his technology would pair people based on the propensity of their genes, when combined in children, to eliminate hereditary diseases.

“That sounds like eugenics,” Fordham adjunct ethics professor and science journalist Elizabeth Yuko, who studies bioethics, told The Daily Beast on Monday. (The tech and science news site Gizmodo called Church’s idea “an app only a eugenicist could love.”)

Yuko compared the app, as described, to the Nazi goal of cultivating a master race: “I thought we realized after World War II that we weren’t going to be doing that,” she said. . .

Epstein had a twisted take on genetics, hosting scientific conferences at which he expressed his desire to propagate his own genome by impregnating up to 20 women at a time at his New Mexico ranch, like cattle stock. (Read more from “Epstein-Funded Scientist George Church Is Creating a Genetics-Based Dating App” HERE)

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SCHIFF SLIP: Adam Schiff Reveals Real Reason for Trump Impeachment; ‘It’s All a Lie!’: Constituents Scream at Democrat Over Impeachment (VIDEO)

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By Daily Wire. On Tuesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) made a slip-up seemingly revealing the real reason Democrats are ramming clearly partisan impeachment proceedings down the nation’s throat: Trump, according to Democrats like Schiff, is an illegitimate president that was not supposed to win in 2016 and must be stopped before 2020.

“Schiff, a California Democrat, strongly suggested in a press conference Tuesday that Trump colluded with the Russians to undermine the 2016 election and win the White House,” The Washington Examiner posted, though a two-year investigation from special counsel Robert Mueller showed there was no highly-hyped “Russian collusion” with President Trump.

“The argument, ‘Why don’t you just wait?’, amounts to this: Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election?” Schiff said Tuesday, fending off criticism that the Democrats are not actually concerned about the truth due to their rush with impeachment. “Why not let him have foreign help one more time?”

Schiff’s latest admission comes in the concert with fellow Democrats, at various times since Trump’s election, stating that their mission is to remove Trump from office because of his politics. . .

This comes in stark contrast with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) claiming impeachment is a “somber” and “prayerful” process Democrats would rather not engage in. (Read more from “SCHIFF SLIP: Adam Schiff Reveals Real Reason for Trump Impeachment” HERE)

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‘It’s All a Lie!’: Constituents Scream at Democrat Over Impeachment During Town Hall

By Washington Examiner. Democratic Virginia Rep. Abigail Spanberger faced backlash from some of her constituents about the impeachment investigation during a town hall in her home district.

In the town hall over the weekend, Spanberger tried addressing the impeachment process, but she was interrupted by multiple people expressing their support for President Trump.

“My opinion of our inquiry is mine and mine alone. No one has pressured me to vote in any particular way from within the party. And I will not be pressured to vote in any particular way,” she said. “The allegations against the president are incredibly, incredibly serious,” she said, according to CNN.

“It’s a lie. It’s all a lie!” one man shouted. Someone else yelled, “You all have been trying to impeach this man since he got elected!” Another man asserted Trump “hasn’t done anything wrong,” while yet another man implored the congresswoman, “Let our votes count! Don’t take them away!”

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WATCH: TV Host Implies New Jersey Shooters Were ‘White Nationalists’… There’s Just One Problem

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“The View” co-host Joy Behar implied Wednesday that two shooters who killed three civilians and a police officer in a Jersey City, New Jersey, shootout on Tuesday were “white nationalists.”

The two shooters, one male and one female, were both African-American. The male shooter, 47-year-old David Anderson, reportedly posted anti-police and anti-Semitic rhetoric on his social media page and was once a follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, according to the New York Times. Members of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, per CNN, believe “blacks are the true descendants of biblical Jews.” Both Anderson and Francine Graham were killed during Tuesday’s shootout.

During a Wednesday “hot topics” round with fellow “The View” co-hosts and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Behar asked Christie to provide more detail about the shooting. . .

“It’s a really terrible thing, and we need to pray for this detective’s family,” Christie said. “Those five children lost their dad.”

“Yes,” Behar said. “You will concede that the nationals — these white nationalists have been let out of their holes.”

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Only Six Guns Surrendered on First Day of Gun Turn-In Program (VIDEO)

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Only six guns were surrendered on the first day of a Philadelphia “no questions asked” gun turn-in program over the weekend — yet KYW-TV said organizers are pleased with the results. . .

Victoria Greene’s son Emir Greene was murdered in 1997 when he was just 20 years old, the station said, so she founded the Emir Healing Center — and a few guns were turned in there Saturday.

“People might say, ‘Oh, that’s not many.’ But no, it is. It is. Because we’re talking about life and death,” Greene told KYW. “This is a new effort, but I think it’s really going to have some momentum.”

Damone Jones, senior pastor of Bible Way Baptist Church, told the station that gun violence has reached “epidemic” proportions.

“We’re at an epidemic stage at this point,” Jones noted to KYW. “If this is not an urgent situation now, based on how many children, now it seems like it’s every week there’s another child being shot.”

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Shocking Video of Python, Honey Badger and Jackals Fighting Each Other Goes Viral

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A shocking video of a python, honey badger and two jackals fighting each other has gone viral after a group of tourists recorded it on safari in Africa.

In the first few seconds, the honey badger and the jackals can be seen fighting over the python, dragging it along the ground in Chobe Park in Botswana. The jackals initially saved the life of the honey badger, but the honey badger quickly turns on the jackals. In the clip, the honey badger is seen chasing the two jackals away from the python before ultimately coming out on top in the showdown.

According to Chobe Park’s website, it is “home to Africa’s largest elephant population,” at approximately 120,000. “Buffalo can be easily found in equally large herds, while the river is home to a great number of hippos. Sticking with the bigger mammals, there are plenty of giraffe around, too,” the park wrote on its website.

The park, which offers a wide range of tours and safaris to explore, has a “considerable” lion population, in addition to the lion’s archenemy, the spotted hyena.

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