Posts

Trump: What Ukraine’s President Just Said ‘Should End This Democrat Scam’ (VIDEO)

/0 Comments/in , /by

Comments by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a press conference Thursday “should end this Democrat Scam,” President Trump says — if the Democrats and their allies in the media weren’t committed to it.

“The President of the Ukraine just stated again, in the strongest of language, that President Trump applied no pressure and did absolutely nothing wrong. He used the strongest language possible,” Trump tweeted Thursday. “That should end this Democrat Scam, but it won’t, because the Dems & Media are FIXED!”

In a “press marathon” Thursday, President Zelensky, the world leader on the other end of the line during the famous July 25 call that sparked the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry, once again stressed that “there was no blackmail.”

As evidence, Zelensky pointed to the fact that his government didn’t even know that the U.S. was withholding $391 million in military aid until weeks after the call. . .

“The Ukrainian government didn’t know it was being held up in Washington by Trump, according to the two Ukrainian officials,” Miller reported. “Nearly a month after the call — which Zelensky has since described as ‘good’ and Trump has called ‘perfect’ — the Ukrainian government was left stumped when they received word that the aid had in fact been suspended.” (Read more from “Trump: What Ukraine’s President Just Said ‘Should End This Democrat Scam’” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Trump Pardons World War II Scientist

/0 Comments/in , /by

President Trump has granted a posthumous pardon to World War II scientist Zay Jeffries, who helped the U.S. develop artillery shells capable of piercing German tanks’ armor during World War II, the White House announced Thursday.

Jeffries was convicted in 1948 of engaging in anticompetitive conduct that violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. He died in 1965 at age 77.

“One of America’s leading scientists, Dr. Jeffries was crucial to the United States war effort in World War II,” the White House said. “His efforts enabled the United States to develop artillery shells capable of piercing the armor of German tanks, and his contributions to the Manhattan Project helped end the war in the Pacific theater.”

While he was indicted in 1941, Jeffries still “proved vital to the war effort, prompting Secretary of War [Henry] Stimson to take the extraordinary step of requesting, with President Roosevelt’s approval, that the attorney general defer any prosecution until after the war,” according to the White House.

“When the Department of Justice returned to the case in 1947, it grounded its legal theory on a Supreme Court precedent that did not exist when Dr. Jeffries was originally indicted,” the White House said. (Read more from “Trump Pardons World War II Scientist” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

WATCH: Biden Calls for Impeachment – Here’s How President Trump Responded

/0 Comments/in , /by

The man at the center of the famous phone call that sparked the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry is now officially calling for the impeachment of his potential 2020 presidential opponent.

After several of his fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls announced their full support of impeaching President Trump for asking his Ukrainian counterpart to “look into” alleged corruption involving Biden and his son, the former vice president has made it official: He now believes Congress should impeach Trump. . .

In response, Trump fired off a tweet pointing to the issue at the heart of his much-analyzed phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and suggesting that Biden was only getting behind the impeachment push because he is being rapidly overtaken in the polls by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

“So pathetic to see Sleepy Joe Biden, who with his son, Hunter, and to the detriment of the American Taxpayer, has ripped off at least two countries for millions of dollars, calling for my impeachment – and I did nothing wrong,” he wrote. “Joe’s Failing Campaign gave him no other choice!”

Trump followed that tweet up with a video highlighting the corruption claims against Biden and calling for Americans to push back against the Democrats’ efforts to “overturn the election.”

(Read more from “Biden Calls for Impeachment – Here’s How President Trump Responded” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Here’s How a Formal Vote on the Impeachment Inquiry Could Help Republicans and Hurt Democrats Ahead of 2020

/0 Comments/in , /by

The Democratic-led impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump poses serious risks to former Vice President Joe Biden and a possible roadmap for Republicans trying to defend the president.

If history is any indication, then Democrats could give House Republicans the ability to subpoena testimony from Biden or his son, Hunter Biden. The majority parties who sought to impeach former presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton granted their minority opponents such powers. . .

Even if Pelosi gives Republicans a vote, then she still might not allow them the power to subpoena, Julian Epstein, former attorney for the committee during Clinton’s impeachment, told reporters.

Denying them that opportunity would likely give Trump and his defenders a new issue to find fault with, namely that House Democrats are denying the president due process. “It could spell those things out or doesn’t have to,” Epstein said, adding: “it gives them a soapbox on which to argue process.”

The inquiry is a result of Trump’s decision in July to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the claim that Biden pressured the country into firing a prosecutor who was looking into Hunter’s business ties. There is no evidence that Biden made the move to protect his son from a probe. (Read more from “Here’s How a Formal Vote on the Impeachment Inquiry Could Help Republicans and Hurt Democrats Ahead of 2020” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

WATCH: Hillary 2020? Maybe We Need ‘Rematch’ with Me and Trump

/0 Comments/in , /by

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked that maybe there should be a “rematch” between her and President Trump, and “obviously, I can beat him again.”

(Read more from “Hillary 2020? Maybe We Need ‘Rematch’ with Me and Trump” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

The Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Worked for a 2020 Democratic Candidate

/0 Comments/in , /by

Well, this is rather interesting. And by interesting, I mean the whole Trump impeachment circus looks like more of a joke with every passing day. We all know what got us here. President Trump had a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in July. There was supposedly some quid pro quo nonsense, with Trump threatening to withhold military aid unless Ukraine opened a corruption probe into Hunter Biden’s position at an energy company; Biden has zero experience in the energy sector. He’s also the son of former Vice President and 2020 candidate Joe Biden. The allegation is that Hunter sat on the board selling access. Is there truth to it? All we know is that Joe gets very, very upset when people talk about it.

The White House released a transcript of the call. There was no quid pro quo. There was nothing illegal. This came about because some whistleblower, who is reportedly a CIA agent, heard some other people say that this call was felonious in nature. It isn’t. It’s based on second-hand accounts. It’s fraught with errors. And this person was cited for political bias against Trump. This person is also a registered Democrat, but beyond that, we now know that this person worked with a 2020 Democrat (via Washington Examiner):

In an Aug. 26 letter, the Intelligence Community’s inspector general, Michael Atkinson, wrote that the anonymous whistleblower who set off the Trump-Ukraine impeachment fight showed “some indicia of an arguable political bias … in favor of a rival political candidate.”

A few weeks later, news reports said the whistleblower’s possible bias was that he is a registered Democrat. That was all. Incredulous commentary suggested that Republicans who were pushing the bias talking point were so blinded by their own partisanship that they saw simple registration with the Democratic Party as evidence of wrongdoing. . .

Now, however, there is word of more evidence of possible bias on the whistleblower’s part. Under questioning from Republicans during last Friday’s impeachment inquiry interview with Atkinson, the inspector general revealed that the whistleblower’s possible bias was not that he was simply a registered Democrat. It was that he had a significant tie to one of the Democratic presidential candidates currently vying to challenge President Trump in next year’s election.

(Read more from “The Trump-Ukraine Whistleblower Worked for a 2020 Democratic Candidate” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

WATCH: Trump Describes Writing Letters to Families of Killed Soldiers in Emotional Speech

/0 Comments/in , /by

President Donald Trump defended his decision to remove American forces from Syria during a press conference Monday, emotionally describing how he has to write letters to the families of fallen soldiers.

“It’s time to come back home. But I can understand the other side of it, but if you go by the other side that means we should never, ever come home. We should never, ever come home and you know, I have to sign letters often to parents of young soldiers that were killed and it’s the hardest thing I have to do in this job,” Trump said.

“I hate it. I hate it. Afghanistan, I signed one the other day. Iraq. Syria. They get blown up by mines. They get taken out by a sniper,” the president said, continuing, “And I have to write letters, and we make each letter different. Each person is different. We make them personal.”

He continued, “But no matter what you do it’s devastating. The parents will never be the same. The families will never be the same. People are killed. Many people are still being killed. It’s going to go on for perhaps a long time. And, we’re willing to do what we have to do but there has to be an end game.” (Read more from “Trump Describes Writing Letters to Families of Killed Soldiers in Emotional Speech” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

House Dems Subpoena Pentagon and White House Budget Office

/0 Comments/in , /by

The chairmen of three Democrat-led House committees have sent out a new batch of subpoenas to Trump administration officials as part of the ongoing impeachment investigation against President Donald Trump.

Monday’s subpoenas went out to the Department of Defense’s recently confirmed Secretary Mark Esper as well as White House Office of Management and Budget acting Director Russell Vought and are for documents related to Ukraine military aid. The legal demands were sent by the Democratic chairmen of the House Intelligence, Oversight, and Foreign Affairs Committees — Reps. Adam Schiff, Calif., Elijah Cummings, Md., and Elliot Engel, N.Y., respectively.

“Pursuant to the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, we are hereby transmitting a subpoena that compels you to produce the documents set forth in the accompanying schedule by October 15, 2019,” the chairmen wrote in letters to Esper and Vought.

The news release from the three top Democrats explains that the documents are necessary to evaluate “the extent to which President Trump jeopardized national security” by withholding foreign aid and asking Ukrainian officials to look into the matter of a since-scuttled investigation of a company that employed former Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter.

The release cites one story from the Washington Post and another from the New York Times that the funds were halted ahead of President Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

According to the Times story, Trump “personally ordered his staff to freeze more than $391 million in aid to Ukraine” ahead of the phone call” and “issued his directive to Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, who conveyed it through the budget office to the Pentagon and the State Department, which were told only that the administration was looking at whether the spending was necessary,” according to two administration officials.

“The enclosed subpoena demands documents that are necessary for the Committees to examine this sequence of these events,” the chairmen wrote, “and the reasons behind the White House’s decision to withhold critical military assistance to Ukraine that was appropriated by Congress to counter Russian aggression.”

The subpoena schedule for Vought and Esper includes documents, meetings, and communications going back to Jan. 1, 2019.

In prepared congressional testimony given last week, former U.S. envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker told Hill investigators that he became aware of a hold on financial assistance to the country about a week before the phone call “and immediately tried to weigh in to reverse that position.”

However, he also testified, “As I was confident the position would not stand, I did not discuss the hold with my Ukrainian counterparts until the matter became public in late August.”

“The issue of a hold placed on security assistance to Ukraine also came up during this same time I was connecting [a Zelensky aide] and [Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy] Giuliani,” the former envoy said elsewhere in the statement. “I did not perceive these issues to be linked in any way.” (For more from the author of “House Dems Subpoena Pentagon and White House Budget Office” please click HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

President Trump Is Going to Pull U.S. Troops out of Syria – Here’s What Republicans Are Saying

/0 Comments/in , /by

President Trump weighed in on his administration’s decision to begin pulling U.S. troops out of northern Syria ahead of a Turkish military operation in the region, saying it was time for Americans to “get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars.”

(Read more from “President Trump Is Going to Pull U.S. Troops out of Syria” HERE)

_______________________________________________

White House Clarifies: Donald Trump Moving 50 Troops Within Syria, Not out of the Country

By Breitbart. A Senior White House official clarified Monday that President Donald Trump was not immediately withdrawing troops from Syria, after Trump’s phone call with the Turkish president.

“This does not constitute a withdrawal from Syria. We’re talking about a small number of troops that will move to other bases within Syria,” the official noted, citing 50-100 troops in the region.

The White House arranged for an official to brief reporters in a call after Republicans in the foreign policy establishment universally condemned Trump’s decision, announced on Sunday night and promoted on Twitter on Monday morning. (Read more from “White House Clarifies: Donald Trump Moving 50 Troops Within Syria, Not out of the Country” HERE)

_______________________________________________

Here’s What Republicans Are Saying About Trump’s Decision to Pull Troops from Syria

By The Daily Caller. Republicans took to Twitter on Monday in response to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull U.S. troops from northern Syria.

The decision will allow Turkey to invade the country and potentially attack Kurdish fighters, who allied with the U.S. to defeat ISIS, according to a New York Times report.

Some Republicans who often side with Trump opposed the decision. South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham — who has been a staunch supporter of the president in recent years — for example, went on a Twitter rampage Monday expressing his disapproval of the move, which he called “sad” and “dangerous.”

“I don’t believe it is a good idea to outsource the fight against ISIS to Russia, Iran, and Turkey. They don’t have America’s best interests at heart. The most probable outcome of this impulsive decision is to ensure Iran’s domination of Syria. The U.S. now has no leverage and Syria will eventually become a nightmare for Israel,” Graham began.

(Read more from “Here’s What Republicans Are Saying About Trump’s Decision to Pull Troops from Syria” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE

Hillary Compares Decision to Not Divorce Bill to Parenting a Transgender Child

/0 Comments/in , /by

. . .[T]he two-time presidential loser said that staying with her husband despite his infidelity and lies was the “gutsiest” act of her life.

“Oh, boy, I think the gutsiest thing I’ve ever done, well, personally — make the decision to stay in my marriage. Publicly, politically run for president. And keep going. Just get up every day and keep going,” Clinton told “Good Morning America” on Tuesday. . .

“You know, for some people that I’ve known the right thing was take your kids and go, clean out your bank accounts, don’t look back. For other people, you know, get into a negotiation and figure out whether you want to stay,” she said. “In my case, after really hard, hard thinking about it, counseling, praying, all the things that I did and that we went through, I just decided it was the right decision for me but that doesn’t mean it was an easy decision. It was a really hard decision.”

Then she said her decision was similar to parents deciding how to handle a situation in which their children told them they are transgender.

“Sometimes when your child has an issue — I had a friend a few years ago who called up and said ‘I don’t know who to talk to about this, but my little girl wants to be a boy. What do I do?’ And, you know, several of us kind of — we didn’t know what to do, we never had a friend who’d faced that before. Several of us kind of read everything and talked to people and gave her advice and it was really gutsy for her to say OK, ‘I’m going to respect the feelings of my child as hard as it is for me to understand this.’ (Read more from “Hillary Compares Decision to Not Divorce Bill to Parenting a Transgender Child” HERE)

Follow Joe Miller on Twitter HERE and Facebook HERE