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Trump Campaign Trolls Dems With ‘Witch Hunt’ Halloween Event

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Along with “Fake News Media,” among President Trump’s favorite phrases is “Witch Hunt.” So what better theme for a Trump campaign Halloween party?

On Wednesday, the Trump campaign held a “Witch Hunt Party” in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania featuring social media stars Diamond and Silk, two of Trump’s most vocal supporters, Bloomberg’s Mario Parker reports.

The event was hosted by American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp and his wife, former White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp, and held at the Spooky Nook Sports recreation center in Manheim, Parker notes. . .

“I think it’s been a witch hunt. The whole Russia collusion and anything before it and anything after it,” Lane told Parker. “It’s the swamp versus him. It’s the elite, the deep state.”

With reports about his campaign’s aptly themed Halloween party circulating, Trump slammed the Democrats’ “witch hunt” again on Thursday morning.

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Impeachment Could Shut Down the Government; White House: Impeachment Resolution Denies Trump Due Process

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By Daily Caller. The ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump could shut down the government since the Senate has yet to pass 12 spending bills, The New York Times reported.

None of the bills have reached the Senate floor yet, and a possible impeachment trial “gives added urgency” for the lawmakers to fully fund the government, Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins said, according to The NYT. The impeachment inquiry is in the House and a vote has not been scheduled yet.

“It used to be that we frequently finished up the appropriations bills before the start of the fiscal year,” Collins said, reported The NYT. “A potential impeachment trial gives added urgency to our making as much progress as possible on the appropriations bills … before we could be presented with the articles of impeachment.”

Funding might be extended into early 2020 so that resources don’t dry up in the case that senators have to spend time on an impeachment trial, which wouldn’t allow them to focus on legislative work as much. Lawmakers have had issues agreeing on the Trump administration’s spending, including efforts to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico.

“I would hope the senators accept the responsibility that they have to complete their work,” said Democratic New York Rep. Nita M. Lowey, chairwoman of the House Appropriations Committee, according to The NYT. (Read more from “Impeachment Could Shut Down the Government” HERE)

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White House: Impeachment Resolution Denies Trump Due Process

By Washington Examiner. The White House rejected as unfair a resolution by Democrats that will formalize an impeachment inquiry that began last month.

The resolution, which could pass the House as early as this week, outlines some rights for Republicans but keeps most power with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who has been deposing witnesses in closed-door hearings.

White House counsel Pat Cipollone said in an Oct. 8 letter that the White House would not cooperate with the impeachment proceeding because it lacked authorization by a House floor vote.

By introducing the resolution, Democrats hope to remove a key Republican argument that the proceeding is illegitimate. But White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham contended it changes little in terms of the inquiry being stacked against Trump.

“The resolution put forward by Speaker Pelosi confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote,” Grisham said. “This resolution does nothing to change the fundamental fact that House Democrats refuse to provide basic due process rights to the Administration” (Read more from “White House: Impeachment Resolution Denies Trump Due Process” HERE)

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Trump Allies Charge Lt. Col. Vindman Is Disrespecting Chain of Command With Testimony; Schiff Stopped Impeachment Witness From Answering GOP Questions

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By Washington Examiner. President Trump’s allies denounced Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman for breaking ranks as he became the first current White House official to testify during impeachment proceedings.

Vindman, a Ukraine-born policy expert, outlined in prepared remarks his disagreement with Trump’s attempts to force investigations into Democrats, saying, “I did not think it was proper,” and that Trump’s actions could endanger national security.

A former Trump National Security Council official said it’s wrong for Vindman, as an active-duty member of the Army, to criticize the commander in chief on policy.

“How is an active-duty military officer allowed to go to a different branch of government to take down the president with scurrilous claims?” he said. “I think the Army should be very concerned about what this means for discipline in the force. Basically, you have a political disagreement so you vomit mutiny.”

Jason Miller, a Trump ally who served in top communications roles for the 2016 Trump campaign and presidential transition, said Vindman clearly holds views on Ukraine policy that are at odds with Trump’s. (Read more from “Trump Allies Charge LT. Col. Vindman Is Disrespecting Chain of Command With Testimony” HERE)

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GOP reps say Schiff stopped impeachment witness from answering certain GOP questions

By Fox News. House Republican leaders, in a fiery news conference Tuesday, said House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., prevented a witness in the latest impeachment hearing from answering certain questions from Republican members.

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, told reporters that Schiff shut down a Republican line of questioning during a hearing with Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the latest current or former Trump administration official to come before Congress in relation to the impeachment probe.

“When we asked [Vindman] who he spoke to after important events in July — Adam Schiff says, ‘no, no, no, we’re not going to let him answer that question,”‘ Jordan said.

Jordan went on to say that Schiff seemed to be breaking his own rules for the hearings, implying the chairman was acting almost as a “lawyer” for Vindman.

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Top Ukraine Expert on National Security Council Plans to Testify; Official Set To Back Up Many Of Whistleblower’s Claims

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By Townhall. The National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman of the Army, who heard President Donald Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, plans to provide details of the call to impeachment investigators on Tuesday, the New York Times reported. Vindman will be the first White House official who listened in on the conversation to testify before investigators.

According to his written statement, he was in the Situation Room with other colleagues from the NSC and the office of the Vice President when the call took place. He said he had concerns about the call and reported them to the NSC’s lead counsel once it concluded.

“I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine,” Vindman said in his opening statement. “I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained.” (Read more from “Top Ukraine Expert on National Security Council Plans to Testify” HERE)

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White House Official Who Listened to Trump Call Set to Back up Many of Whistleblower’s Claims: Report

By Daily Caller. An official on the National Security Council will tell lawmakers Tuesday he reported concerns about President Donald Trump’s position toward Ukraine to a top White House lawyer, according to a draft of his statement.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, will be the first White House official appearing for a Democrat-led impeachment inquiry of Trump who listened in on the president’s July 25 phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president.

Vindman will say he was “worried” about the pressure Trump put on Zelensky to open investigations into Burisma Holdings, an energy company linked to Hunter Biden, according to his opening statement, which The NYT first reported.

Vindman, an Army officer who served in the Iraq War, will also tell lawmakers that he raised concerns twice with John Eisenberg, the top lawyer on the National Security Council. (Read more from “White House Official Who Listened to Trump Call Set to Back up Many of Whistleblower’s Claims: Report” HERE)

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Never Trump Moron Sides With ISIS Over Donald Trump

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Max Boot, the fedora adorning dimwit who pens political op-eds over at Washington Post, used his platform on Monday to denigrate the sitting president of the United States and show his support for the now-dead leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In his column titled, “Al-Baghdadi’s death could have been Trump’s finest hour. He messed it up anyway,” . . .

Here’s the key portion of Boot’s column:

A president who has never heard a shot fired in anger reveled in Baghdadi’s last moments, even claiming “he died like a coward … whimpering and crying and screaming all the way.” Trump could not possibly have heard “whimpering and crying” on the overhead imagery because there was no audio, and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper and Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, pointedly refused to confirm those details. The assertion that Baghdadi died as a coward was, in any case, contradicted by the fact that rather than be captured, he blew himself up.

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Trump Orders Federal Government to End All NYT, WaPo Subscriptions, General Calls Him ‘Mussolini’

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A decorated retired US Army general has compared Donald Trump to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and said the president’s actions over the past week are a watershed moment for America.

Mr Trump ordered his administration to cancel subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post at the start of the week, a move that Barry McCaffrey called ‘deadly serious’.

The four-star general wrote: “The White House Trump statement telling the entire Federal Government to terminate subscriptions to the NYT and Wash Post is a watershed moment in national history.

“No room for HUMOROUS media coverage. This is deadly serious. This is Mussolini.” (Read more from “Trump Orders Federal Government to End All NYT, WaPo Subscriptions, General Calls Him ‘Mussolini'” HERE)

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Trump Goes off on Campaign Spying, Accuses Obama of TREASON

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By Daily Wire. The Obama White House, President Trump allegedly told author Doug Wead, was engaged in a “treasonous” act when it was “spying on my campaign.”

“What they did was treasonous, OK? It was treasonous,” Trump told Wead in comments reported by the Washington Examiner and included in Wead’s upcoming book, “Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency.”

“The interesting thing out of all of this is that we caught them spying on the election,” said Trump. “They were spying on my campaign. So you know? What is that all about? I have never ever said this, but truth is, they got caught spying. They were spying. Obama.”

Trump’s accusation echoes the language of Attorney General William Barr, who famously described the Obama administration’s surveillance of Trump associates as “spying” before slightly walking back the claim.

“I think spying did occur,” Barr told congressional investigators in testimony in April. “But the question is whether it was predicated — adequately predicated. I’m not suggesting it wasn’t adequately predicated, but I need to explore that. I think it’s my obligation. Congress is usually very concerned about intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane.” (Read more from “Trump Goes off on Campaign Spying: Obama’s ‘Treasonous’ Acts Against Me Even Worse Than We Thought” HERE)

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Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of TREASON over 2016 campaign ‘spying’ as feds run ‘criminal investigation’ into origins of Russia probe

By Daily Mail. . .The Justice Department hasn’t said what crimes are being investigated or who its targets are. But calling the matter a ‘criminal’ probe instead of an internal administrative inquiry allows prosecutors to convene a grand jury and subpoena witnesses.

Among the witnesses who could face subpoenas are former FBI director James Comey and former CIA head John Brennan.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller presided over a 22-month probe that netted no significant prosecutions related to unsubstantiated claims that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian agents to tilt the 2016 contest in the president’s direction.

Attorney General Bill Bar and Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham recently traveled to Europe and gathered evidence about intelligence activities that led to the Mueller operation, according to a DOJ official.

Trump believes people inside what would become his administration worked quietly to hamstring him as he fought Hillary Clinton for the White House. (Read more from “Donald Trump accuses Barack Obama of TREASON over 2016 campaign ‘spying’ as feds run ‘criminal investigation’ into origins of Russia probe” HERE)

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New Poll: Here’s How Many Voters Want Trump Impeached

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The number of registered voters who oppose the impeachment and removal of U.S. President Donald Trump, at 49 percent, is the same as those who are in favor, the results of a new NBC News/SurveyMonkey poll published on Friday show.

“Americans are evenly divided on whether President Donald Trump should be impeached,” NBC News pointed out, adding:

Voters are sharply divided along party lines. Nine in 10 Republicans and Republican-leaning independents are against impeachment and 89 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaners are in favor of impeachment. Independents who don’t lean toward either party are more split with a 53 percent majority saying Trump should be impeached and 44 percent saying he should not.

NBC News acknowledged the importance of keeping tabs on outliers, noting that the poll showed one in ten Democrats thinks Congress should not impeach Trump, and nearly the same number (nine percent) of Republicans believes he should be.

Nearly half of Democrats who believe Congress should not impeach and remove Trump and Republicans who do identify as moderate. (Read more from “New Poll: Here’s How Many Voters Want Trump Impeached” HERE)

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Only 7(!) Republican Senators Are Ruling out Removing Donald Trump

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Earlier this week, the conservative Daily Caller website asked the offices of each of the 53 Republican senators whether they opposed the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump. Just seven of them said yes. . .

The seven who did confirm they oppose impeachment to the Caller are: Sens. James Inhofe (Oklahoma), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi), Thom Tillis (North Carolina), Roger Wicker (Mississippi), Mike Rounds (South Dakota), Rob Portman (Ohio) and Jerry Moran (Kansas). . .

Of the 46 Republican senators who didn’t expressly reject impeachment, almost half — 22 — simply declined to comment to the Caller. Which, in and of itself, is telling! Many of the others criticized House Democrats for their impeachment inquiry but failed to rule out the possibility of voting to remove him from office if it came to that. . .

“The picture coming out of it, based on the reporting that we’ve seen, I would say is not a good one,” Sen. John Thune, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate told CNN’s Ted Barrett Wednesday morning regarding the testimony of US diplomat Bill Taylor this week. “But I would say also that until we have a process that allows for everybody to see this in full transparency, it’s pretty hard to draw a hard and fast conclusions.” (Read more from “Only 7(!) Republican Senators Are Ruling out Removing Donald Trump” HERE)

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Gay Louis Vuitton Designer Calls Trump a Joke, Homophobic After President’s Visit

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A top Louis Vuitton designer called President Trump “a total joke” and accused him of homophobia after the president toured a new Louis Vuitton facility in Texas. Before his rally in Dallas Thursday, Mr. Trump attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new workshop in Alvarado, Texas, where the luxury brand will manufacture leather goods like handbags. The president praised the company for brining nearly 500 new jobs to the area, but one Louis Vuitton designer was not happy about the president’s endorsement.

Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director for Louis Vuitton’s women’s collections, posted his opinion on Instagram Sunday, writing: “Standing against any political action. I am a fashion designer refusing this association.” Ghesquière also included two hashtags: #trumpisajoke and #homophobia.

Ghesquière, who is openly gay, shared this message with an image of an album cover, “High Energy,” by Evelyn Thomas. The 80s dance anthem about love lifting spirits was featured on the compilation album “Gay Classics, Volume 1: Ridin’ the Rainbow” in 1995. The designer’s message was loud and clear, he did not want his work to be associated with Mr. Trump. . .

Louis Vuitton, which is owned by French conglomerate LVMH, recently signed the Trump administration’s Pledge to America’s Workers, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reported. As part of the pledge, the brand has opened three workshops in the United States — two in California and the one in Johnson County, Texas — to manufacture goods labeled “Made in the USA.”

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