TPUSA Heads to Baltimore to See If the City Is Rat Infested. Here’s What They Found.

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Ever since President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to chide Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) about the state of Baltimore, which sits in the heart of his district, political pundits have debated just how bad the city truly is.

CNN’s Victor Blackwell got emotional when he heard Trump’s comments about his hometown. A current Baltimore resident, however, confirmed one thing: the city really is rodent infested and Cummings has done nothing to help residents out over the last 20+ years he’s been in office.

Turning Point USA’s Chief Content Creator, Benny Johnson, hit the streets of Baltimore to talk to residents about their experiences and to set the record straight.

“Rats are a community problem that must be addressed by all residents. When a rat infestation exists at one location it may easily spread to adjacent properties,” the website states. “To help alleviate this problem, Baltimore County has hired a licensed exterminator to treat areas affected by this issue. We will be treating homes with alley access. Notification signs of when treatment will begin will be placed at the main street entrances of your community.”

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He’s Caught Stealing American Flag from Business. but the Owner — a Veteran and Former Cop — Has a Better Idea Than an Arrest.

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A 19-year-old teen was caught on surveillance video stealing an American flag from a Missouri business early Thursday morning — but Bill Hoaglin, the owner of Beacon Car & Pet Wash, had a better idea in mind than an arrest, KTVI-TV reported. . .

Hoaglin posted the surveillance footage on Facebook, which led to people identifying Keaton Chandler, the station said. . .

Hoaglin told the outlet that Chandler offered to return the flag if Hoaglin removed the Facebook footage. But Hoaglin, a former cop of 18 years who specialized in community issues, offered Chandler a deal: Return the flag and avoid criminal charges by carrying out a symbolic punishment, Yahoo Lifestyle said.

“I sent my daughter to Walmart to purchase more than 150 miniature American flags for Keaton to pass out to customers,” Hoaglin added to the outlet. . .

For nearly five hours Chandler distributed every single flag to customers, Yahoo Lifestyle reported, adding that Hoaglin noted that Chandler “said he would do whatever it takes.” (Read more from “He’s Caught Stealing American Flag from Business. but the Owner — a Veteran and Former Cop — Has a Better Idea Than an Arrest.” HERE)

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Media Pounces on Edited Video of Ilhan Omar’s Comments Against White Men — but the Unedited Version Is Worse

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A viral video of comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is being criticized by the left and the media because it was unfairly edited, but the unedited version is arguably worse.

The edited video appears to show Omar advocating for increased surveillance on white males in the United States rather than Muslims because they are a greater threat.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was among those who shared the video, adding, “I am sure the media will now hound every Democrat to denounce this statement as racist. Right?”

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Many criticized Rubio for posting an edited video that misrepresented her full remarks. In the unedited version, she adds the hypothetical “if fear were the driving force” to her statement.

“And so if fear was the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men,” she says in the unedited version.

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Border Patrol Official Makes Stunning Claim About U.S. Citizen Detained by CBP

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Brian Hastings, Chief of Law Enforcement at the U.S. Border Patrol, made a stunning claim on Thursday about the U.S. citizen who was detained by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three weeks, saying that the individual never claimed to be an American.

Hastings remark came in response to a question from Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) about the detained U.S. citizen, Francisco Erwin Galicia, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on some of the Trump administration’s policies on the border.

“I can give you some preliminary: the individual came through the Falfurrias checkpoint, he came through with the other illegal aliens, the individual claimed to be a Mexican national who was born in Reynosa, Mexico,” Hastings said. “Throughout the process, and while he was with Border Patrol, he claimed to be a citizen of Mexico with no immigration documents to be in or remain in the U.S.”

“Upon further investigation, we also found he had a border crossing card and that border crossing card he had used 53 times to cross the border into the U.S. which gives us further indication that he was not a U.S. citizen,” Hastings continued. “At no time in Border Patrol custody did he say that he was a U.S. citizen.”

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WATCH: Baltimore Resident Confirms Trump’s ‘Racist’ Claims About the City

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By Townhall. President Donald Trump chided Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Saturday for shouting down acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan over conditions in detention camps during a hearing last week.

While all of Cummings’ so-called “accomplishments” look great to the Democratic Party, one of his residents, Michelle, completely agrees with what President Trump said.

“What he [President Trump] said was definitely true,” Michelle said in a video. “He [Cummings] hasn’t done anything for us for the last, I think he’s been in office over 20 years?”

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Trump is right about Baltimore — and the Democrats know it

By New York Post. . .Predictably, the Left—including most of cable news—rushed to condemn Trump as a racist. Speaker Nancy Pelosi — whose father was once mayor of Baltimore — called Cummings “a beloved leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague. We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership.” Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted, “Donald Trump’s tweets are ugly and racist.” Beto O’Rourke called him “the most openly racist president we’ve had in modern history.” Senator Bernie Sanders chimed in, too.

The operative rule in politics these days seems to be that any criticism of a non-white politician from anywhere to their right is, by definition, a racist attack. Nothing Trump said pertained in any way to Elijah Cummings’s skin color or ethnicity, only to his failure as a legislator and political leader to do anything to improve his district. The real question is: Is he right? . . .

By any measure of systemic urban collapse, Baltimore is, as Trump said “very dangerous & filthy.” Among the largest 30 American cities, Baltimore has the highest crime rate, and is a close second to Detroit for the highest rate of violent crime. But for murders, Baltimore is second to no other city, with more than 50 homicides per 100,000 people. That puts Charm City in the ranks of Jamaica, Venezuela, and El Salvador in terms of lethality. . .

Some have suggested that it’s unfair for the president to blame Elijah Cummings for his district’s woes, since congressmen don’t control local issues like trash pickup or law enforcement. But Cummings is a Democratic powerbroker in Baltimore, which has been run by a succession of failed mayors—one of whom stole gift cards meant for poor children, and another who “sold” thousands of copies of her unreadable book to the public hospital system. Local state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby is credited with bungling the investigation into the death of Freddie Gray. Cummings is an integral part of a corrupt, dysfunctional political machine that is directly responsible for Baltimore’s misery. (Read more from “Trump is right about Baltimore — and the Democrats know it” HERE)

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State Senator Threatened Repeatedly After Calling for Epstein Investigation, Calls Capitol Police

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By Tampa Bay Times. Florida Sen. Lauren Book has reached out to Capitol police after receiving an anonymous warning connected to her demand for a state inquiry into Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw’s handling of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s lenient work release program, the Miami Herald has learned.

Book, a vocal advocate for child sexual assault survivors, said she also received more than a dozen calls from Bradshaw’s political supporters asking her to back off on her call for an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement into Bradshaw.

On Monday, Book, a Democrat, wrote a letter to Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis asking him to authorize a probe into how Epstein, accused of molesting dozens of underage girls and a registered sex offender, was permitted to leave the Palm Beach County Jail and spend much of his 2008-2009 incarceration in an office in West Palm Beach. . .

“I’ve received countless phone calls saying ‘Little girl you don’t know what you’re getting into,’ and telling me that I should just stop,’’ said Book, a child sexual abuse survivor herself who has worked to pass strict sex offender laws in Florida. . .

The pressure against Book came on the same day that Epstein, 66, was found injured in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, where he is awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges brought earlier this month by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. His arrest stemmed from alleged behavior with underage girls dating back more than a decade in New York and Florida. Epstein was taken into custody July 6 after arriving at New Jersey’s Teterboro Airport from Paris on his private jet. (Read more from “State Senator Threatened Repeatedly After Calling for Epstein Investigation, Calls Capitol Police” HERE)

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Judge signs protective order over materials feds to turn over to jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein

(Editor’s note: the materials covered by the protective order likely include images of other powerful individuals committing illegal acts)

By ABC News. Federal prosecutors in New York overseeing the case against millionaire Jeffrey Epstein are preparing to hand over highly-sensitive investigative material to the financier’s defense attorneys after a federal judge on Friday granted the government’s request to place a protective order on the documents.

Prosecutors sought the order because, they said in court filings, they intends to produce documents and materials that could … “affect the privacy and confidentiality of individuals…[and that] would impede, if prematurely disclosed, the Government’s ongoing investigation of uncharged individuals.”

When Epstein secured a non-prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors in southern Florida in 2008 over a previous investigation, the much-criticized deal also immunized any and all potential co-conspirators, known or unknown, and also included the names of four women who had been suspected by authorities of having facilitated or participated in alleged crimes against children. (Read more from “Judge signs protective order over materials feds to turn over to jailed financier Jeffrey Epstein” HERE)
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Epstein Investigation reveals Pedophile Moved Massive Amounts of Money out of Bank Earlier this Year; Was he Tipped Off?

By Chris Spargo. It was revealed earlier this week that Epstein managed to move money out of the country earlier this year from accounts he had at Deutsche Bank – despite the company severing all ties with the pedophile.

The New York Times reports that even baking officials failed to realize the possible financial crimes being committed by Epstein until after the fact, believing that the company had closed out all his accounts late last year.

Deutsche Bank now wants to make sure that none of the money being moved by Epstein was used to fund or in any way support the sex trafficking of underage females.

Epstein was making transactions as recently as May, and multiple sources said that once executives became aware of this potentially illegal activity it was reported to a federal agency that polices financial crimes. (Read more about the financial revelation from the Epstein investigation HERE)

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Trump: ‘This Was Treason’ — ‘This Should Never Be Allowed to Happen to Our Country Again’

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By Breitbart. In an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, his first since former special counsel Robert Mueller testified before the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, President Donald Trump decried the Mueller “fake witch hunt.” . . .

“This should never happen to another president of the United States again,” Trump said on Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Channel’s “Hannity.” “This is an absolute catastrophe for our country. This was a fake witch hunt, and it should never be allowed to happen to another president again. This was treason. This was high crimes. This was everything as bad a definition as you want to come up with. This should never be allowed to happen to our country again.” (Read more from “Trump: ‘This Was Treason’ — ‘This Should Never Be Allowed to Happen to Our Country Again’” HERE)

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Trump: Mueller Made Biden ‘Look Like a Dynamo’

By The Hill. President Trump took aim at former special counsel Robert Mueller and Joe Biden late Thursday, renewing his criticism of the former vice president’s age while suggesting that Mueller’s appearance before House lawmakers on Wednesday made Biden look like a “dynamo.”

“Sleepy Joe is okay, but he’s fading, I think he’s fading fast,” Trump said of Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign inan interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “The only good thing about Mueller is that it made Joe Biden look like a dynamo.”

Trump’s remarks came in his first interview since Mueller appeared before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees to testify on his more than 400-page report, which detailed his investigation into Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.

Mueller’s performance in his back-to-back hearings drew widespread criticism among those who questioned his grasp of his own investigation.

While many Democrats publicly praised his testimony before the House panels, some privately expressed a sense of disappointment in Mueller’s, at times, shaky performance. (Read more from “Trump: Mueller Made Biden ‘Look Like a Dynamo'” HERE)

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Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured in Cell After Possible Suicide Attempt; Epstein’s Trips to Clinton White House Revealed, Proving Bill LIED

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By New York Post. Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found in his cell on Tuesday nearly unconscious with injuries to his neck after a possible suicide attempt, sources said.

Epstein was discovered by guards sprawled out on the floor at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, where he’s being held without bail on sex-trafficking charges, according to law enforcement sources. . .

Investigators believe Epstein may have done it to himself either on purpose or as a ploy to get transferred out of the jail, sources said.

It was also possible that Epstein was attacked by another inmate, the sources added. (Read more from “Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein Found Injured in Cell After Possible Suicide Attempt” HERE)

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Accused Quadruple Murderer, Ex-Cop Facing Death Penalty, Inexplicably Put in Same Jail Cell with Epstein

By Matt Spillane. Nicholas Tartaglione, a former Briarcliff Manor police officer charged in a quadruple homicide in Orange County, was allegedly questioned about how accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was found injured in his Manhattan jail cell this week, according to nbcnewyork.com. . .

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Investigators talked to Tartaglione, who is also being held at MCC, as they also look into the possibility that Epstein might have been assaulted, NBC reported. Tartaglione denied having anything to do with Epstein’s injuries, according to NBC.

Bruce Barket, Tartaglione’s lawyer, told NBC that Tartaglione and Epstein get along well, and that his client did not assault the financier. Barket said the two men have been complaining about rodents, flooding, and food in the jail, according to NBC, which reported that Epstein is now on suicide watch.

Tartaglione made headlines recently after correction officers confiscated an illicit cellphone that was found in his cell on July 3, according to court records. He claimed his cellmate had tossed it to him as correction officers approached the cell, prosecutors said. (Read more from this story about pedophile Jeffrey Epstein HERE)

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Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House Multiple Times in Early ’90s

By The Daily Beast. . .Now, a Daily Beast investigation has uncovered ties between Epstein and the Clinton administration that date back to the president’s earliest days in the White House, casting doubt on the oft-circulated narrative that the two only began associating after Clinton left office. . .

How Epstein entered Clinton’s orbit remains unclear. When the president released his initial statement on Epstein, he did not explain the multiple other trips he appears to have taken on the financier’s plane—including one flight to Westchester with Epstein, his alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell, and an “unnamed female.” . . .

In late September of 1993, Bill and Hillary Clinton hosted a reception for supporters who had contributed to recent White House renovations. The nearly $400,000 overhaul—which included new gold draperies and a 13-color woven rug for the Oval Office—was funded entirely by donations to the White House Historical Association, a private organization that helps preserve and promote the White House as a historical monument. . .

Guests for the event, according to the invitation list, included the journalist and philanthropist Barbara Goldsmith, heiress Jane Engelhard, political consultant Cynthia Friedman, and “Mr Jeffrey Epstein and Ms. Ghislaine Maxwell.” Epstein and Maxwell do not appear on the ‘regret list,’ and there is a letter ‘A’ next to both of their names, indicating they planned to attend. A press release from the event, put out by Hillary Clinton’s office, lists Epstein as a White House Historical Association donor. . .

A letter from the following month reveals the extent of the financier’s generosity. Bernard R. Meyer, the executive vice president of the White House Historical Association, sent a note to Epstein’s Madison Avenue offices on Oct. 4, thanking him for his $10,000 contribution. The donation, Meyer wrote, would “assist in funding the costs of refurbishing the Oval Office in the West Wing and certain areas of the Executive Residence.” (Read more from “Jeffrey Epstein Visited Clinton White House Multiple Times in Early ’90s” HERE)

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Mueller Breaks His Silence in Least Satisfying Way for Lawmakers; Trump Lawyer Attacks ‘Idiot’ Mueller

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By Bloomberg. Robert Mueller maintained a disciplined silence for his entire 22-month investigation of Russian meddling and Donald Trump.

When he finally answered questions in public, the result was a halting and deeply unsatisfying event for lawmakers and the American public that may end up diluting the weight of his thorough 448-page report — and diminishing the reputation of the legendary lawman. . .

But rather than bring his sweeping investigation to life, as Democrats hoped, Mueller didn’t play the part he was cast. During more than five hours of public testimony, Mueller spoke softly, declined to read directly from his report and refused to elaborate in response to questions.

Mueller’s approach to the hearings contrasted starkly with the fast-paced, social-media savvy questions and posturing from lawmakers, at times creating awkward or boring moments.

The expectations Mueller was facing for this event may have simply been too high. Through his long silence, the former special counsel had become a mysterious and revered figure and, perhaps, the one person whose words could lead to Trump’s impeachment. (Read more from “Mueller Breaks His Silence in Least Satisfying Way for Lawmakers; Trump Lawyer Attacks ‘Idiot’ Mueller” HERE)

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Giuliani Attacks ‘Idiot’ Mueller

By Mediaite. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani was firing on all cylinders Wednesday morning when he tore into Special Counsel Robert Mueller (“idiot”) and Democrats (“idiots”) in a wild appearance on Fox & Friends.

Giuliani was on to talk about Mueller’s testimony on Capitol Hill, regarding President Donald Trump’s possible obstruction of the special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. As they started off by talking about Trump’s rage-tweets against Mueller, Giuliani wasted no time tearing into the special counsel’s “witch hunt, which is falling apart.” . . .

“He doesn’t pay much attention to it, he was the Wizard of Oz, he’s behind a curtain. From then on, it was ‘We’ll take it to Bob, we’ll ask Bob.’ After a while, I would say ‘don’t bother.’ I mean, you guys are deciding, don’t bullsh*t, don’t tell me.”

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Politifact’s ‘Fact Check’ on AOC Crying in Front of ‘Empty Parking Lot’ Is Utterly Hilarious

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Politifact is at it again! The left-wing fact-checker purporting to be unbiased made a mockery of themselves (again) with their latest rating concerning socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Politifact, creating their best damage control for the freshman congresswoman, rated the claim that Ocasio-Cortez cried in front of an empty parking lot for a photo-op as “false” because it was, in fact, a “road” with some parked cars, not a parking lot, that the elected Democrat cried in front of. . .

The Internet was not on the same page, and it got worse from there for the 29-year-old. When more photos came to light, it appeared she was crying in front of an empty driveway area where cars were parked. There were no migrants in AOC’s view, it appeared. As one might imagine, the mockery of AOC then hit fever pitch. . .

But thank goodness for the likes of nonpartisan fact-checkers like Politifact to set us all straight.

“No, this isn’t a photo of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez crying over a parking lot,” reported Politifact.

“Photographers at the scene who took photos of Ocasio-Cortez say she was not facing a parking lot,” the fact-checker’s “ruling” said. “Rather she was just beyond the toll plaza for the Tornillo facility, and she standing on a road that led to the Tornillo tent complex, which was in the line of her gaze, as she stood at the fence. Pictures by other outlets also confirm the location.” (Read more from “Politifact’s ‘Fact Check’ on AOC Crying in Front of ‘Empty Parking Lot’ Is Utterly Hilarious” HERE)

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