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John Kerry Calls for Trump to RESIGN

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John Kerry is spending a lot of time in foreign countries these days actively agitating against the president of the United States.

So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday, the former secretary of state called on President Trump to resign from office.

Asked whether he would have any words of advice for the president if he had the opportunity to talk to him directly, Kerry responded:

“I can’t play that. I just — I would — but I know that — you see, because he doesn’t take any of this seriously. He doesn’t have the ability to have that kind of conversation,” Kerry started, before concluding that he would tell the president: “Resign.”

Earlier in the conversation, the Obama administration official claimed that “people will die” because the Trump administration pulled out of the Paris climate accords, a decision that saved the American taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars.

“People will die because of the president’s decision,” Kerry said at a “The Future of Our Oceans” panel.

This is far from the first time that John Kerry has registered his displeasure with the president. In fact, Kerry has frequently attempted to foil this administration’s American foreign policy. In the past year, Kerry has advised rogue adversarial regimes on how to get the best of the Trump administration

In September, Kerry was spotted in Europe advising representatives from the terrorist regime in Iran on how to thwart U.S. sanctions. President Trump condemned the disgraced former secretary of state, describing his actions as “illegal.”

Last year, the former secretary of state was advising Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on how to thwart President Trump’s Middle East initiatives.

“Hold on and be strong,” Kerry told an adviser to the Palestinian president, insisting that the Palestinians should not “yield to President Trump’s demands.” (For more from the author of “John Kerry Calls for Trump to RESIGN” please click HERE)

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Trump’s Not Kidding When He Promises ‘Cutting-Edge’ Missile Defense

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Thursday at the Pentagon, President Trump released his administration’s long-awaited Missile Defense Review (MDR). In his announcement, Trump promised “nothing less for our nation than the most effective, cutting-edge missile defense systems.” Indeed, the steps called for in this review will go a long way to toward employing new technologies to address next-generation threats and strengthening U.S. and allied security.

The missile threats to the United States and its allies have significantly increased in recent years. North Korea may now be able to reach the continental United States with a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Despite the curbs on Iran’s nuclear program, Tehran’s missile program continues to advance, making it the most sophisticated in the Middle East. . .

To these ends, the new MDR promises to beef up the number of radars and interceptors for existing U.S. missile defense systems. Most importantly, however, it also promises to pursue next-generation technologies. You cannot hit what you cannot see, and a new space-based sensor layer will allow the United States to track new enemy cruise and hypersonic missiles (President Obama published a “Ballistic” Missile Defense Review, but this document drops the first word in recognition of the broader array of missile threats now facing the United States).

Existing missile defenses use ground-based missiles to intercept an incoming enemy missile. It is like hitting a bullet with a bullet. But Trump’s new missile defense review calls for exploring directed energy interceptors. The idea would be for drones armed with lasers to hover in international airspace. If Pyongyang, for example, launches a missile in the future, drones will zap it with a laser in its most vulnerable boost phase. . .

The U.S. test record across all missile defense systems since 2001 is 86 successful intercepts in 105 attempts. New technologies such as lasers promise to drastically reduce the cost per shot of future defenses. Finally, the greatest threat to international security is not U.S. defenses, but Russian and Chinese efforts to tear down the U.S.-led international order. Putting Moscow and Beijing on notice will bolster, not undermine, global stability. (Read more from “Trump’s Not Kidding When He Promises ‘Cutting-Edge’ Missile Defense” HERE)

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Trump Team Sets 2020 Plans in Motion. Here’s What’s Happening.

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By Townhall. President Donald Trump and his team are gearing up for the 2020 election and part of that preparation includes fending off any potential GOP challengers. To help combat the threat, Trump’s team on Friday made the announcement that former White House official Nick Trainer will lead delegation and party efforts, the Associated Press reported.

One of Trainers primary tasks will be making sure Trump allies are sent to the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina next year. The last thing the president’s team wants is for Never Trumpers to make an appearance. He’ll also work with three regional directors to organize state-by-state delegation selection. (Read more from “Trump Team Sets 2020 Plans in Motion. Here’s What’s Happening.” HERE)

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New Trump Campaign Hires to Focus on Convention Delegates, Party Organization

By Politico. President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign continues to grow, adding a handful of aides devoted to ensuring the 2020 GOP convention is free of any anti-Trump mayhem.

According to a campaign news release announcing the hires set to be made public Friday, the group will also be “tasked with organizing the country’s state, county and local Republican parties, managing the delegate selection and ballot access process, and executing the national convention whip operation.”

Joining the campaign will be former White House official Nick Trainer and David Huguenel, who most recently worked at the Republican consulting firm Jamestown Associates. Former RNC officials Josh Findlay and Ashley Walukevich will also be coming aboard. (Read more from “New Trump Campaign Hires to Focus on Convention Delegates, Party Organization” HERE)

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Former Democratic Adviser Has a Proposal to End the Shutdown That Includes Wall Funding, but There’s a Catch

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It’s the longest government shutdown in American history. When will it end? Nobody knows. House Democrats and President Trump are not budging from their positions that set off this chain of events. Trump wants $5 billion for a border wall. Democrats don’t want to give him one cent. One side wants to secure our borders, curb illegal immigration, human trafficking, and the transportation of narcotics. The other side doesn’t. For the Left, it’s all about sticking it to Trump. And so, the shutdown drags on. So, what could break the impasse? How about giving Trump everything he wants in terms of border wall funding in exchange for…the Robert Mueller protection bill Democrats, and some Republicans, have been clamoring about? Now, Morley Winograd, a senior policy adviser to former Vice President Al Gore, floated the idea, which for argument’s sake—isn’t necessarily that off base in terms of having a discussion. At the same time, Winograd thinks the shutdown is a way to distract us from the pending Mueller report (via Brookings):

To end the government shutdown, the Democrats should give Trump what he wants—$5 billion for the wall—and insist in return on what the country needs: complete protection of the Mueller investigation and the full public disclosure of its report.

President Trump’s shutdown is nothing more than a shiny bauble to distract the American public from the real threat to the president’s future—Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation and his forthcoming report. The president has insisted that he will not agree to reopen parts of the federal government, even those agencies whose functions have nothing to do with border security unless Congress appropriates $5.7 billion to start fulfilling his most well-known campaign promise to create a wall on the Mexican border. Even as this idea has morphed from Mexico paying for the wall to U.S. taxpayers picking up the tab, and from a concrete barrier to a set of steel slats, Trump has continued to insist his presidency depends on its construction.

There is a simple way to get past Trump’s latest PR stunt and end the government shutdown at the same time.

The House Democrats should pass all the remaining appropriations bills that have passed both the House and the Senate at least once already—but with just a few amendments. The first change would be to add up to $5.7 billion for construction of an effective barrier on the southern border as Trump has insisted upon. The second set of changes would be to insert and amend the current bipartisan Senate bill designed to protect Robert Mueller’s investigation and his ultimate report.

(Read more from “Former Democratic Adviser Has a Proposal to End the Shutdown That Includes Wall Funding, but There’s a Catch” HERE)

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National Emergency? Trump Will Make ‘Major Announcement’ on Border Crisis

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Is it coming tomorrow? House Democrats are still holding the line on denying President Trump his border wall. The $5 billion proposal led to the current shutdown, now the longest in American history. Trump wants to at least get part of the border wall built. Democrats are not in a bipartisan mode. They just retook the House on the overarching promise to fight this White House not work with it.

As the two sides dig in, the crisis at the border is worsening. Yes, we do have a crisis on the southern border. The Washington Post and The New York Times reported on it. Former President Barack Obama even said there was a crisis. With another migrant horde setting off for the U.S. border, something has to get done.

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GROUNDED: Nancy Pelosi Tried to Go Overseas During the Shutdown, President Trump Just Killed the Trip

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President Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday afternoon informing her an upcoming taxpayer funded, military escorted trip overseas has been postponed.

“Dear Madame Speaker. Due to the Shutdown, I am sorry to inform you that your trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed. We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event it totally appropriate. I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown. Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative,” President Trump wrote. . .

The trip was part of a larger congressional delegation through the Department of Defense and President Trump denied her military aircraft. According to Fox News, Pelosi was scheduled to leave at 3 p.m. eastern on Thursday afternoon. The letter was sent at 2:20 p.m. An Air Force bus is currently sitting outside House offices, waiting to take lawmakers to the airport. Many of them are on the bus.

(Read more from “GROUNDED: Nancy Pelosi Tried to Go Overseas During the Shutdown, President Trump Just Killed the Trip” HERE)

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WATCH: Rep. Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump of ‘Blackmailing’ Senator in Shocking Interview

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In a shocking interview with CNN, far-left Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) doubled down on claims she made Wednesday on Twitter that President Donald Trump is “blackmailing” Sen. Lindsey Graham into supporting his immigration reform plans.

Omar began peddling the conspiracy theory Wednesday, announcing on Twitter that Graham had been “compromised” and that he could not be trusted, echoing another conspiracy-peddling account excoriating Graham for supporting Trump’s proposal for a border wall after speaking out against Trump’s “travel ban” that greatly reduced visas granted to citizens of countries known to sponsor or fund terrorist organizations.

Instead of responding to the immediate backlash of criticism warning Omar not to cash in on vicious rumors, Omar accepted an appearance on CNN for Thursday morning, where she doubled down on her accusations.

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National Committeewoman Harmeet K. Dhillon tweeted, “Breathtaking bigotry, homophobia from a member of Congress. It’s not funny, and puzzling why Dems get away with outdated stereotypes and dumb conspiracy theories like this.”

(Read more from “WATCH: Rep. Ilhan Omar Accuses Trump of ‘Blackmailing’ Senator in Shocking Interview” HERE)

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Senate Rejects Resolution to Block President Trump From Lifting Sanctions on Russia

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The Senate failed to advance a bill to prevent President Donald Trump from lifting sanctions on three Russian businesses. Eleven Republicans joined 46 Democrats to vote for cloture on the bill, but they fell three votes short of the 60 votes needed to end debate. . .

In April, the Trump administration placed U.S. sanctions on three businesses connected to an oligarch associated with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, had also been cited by prosecutors as a financial supporter of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s alleged criminal activity in Ukraine. Deripaska accused Manafort and Rick Gates (Trump campaign’s former deputy chairman) of disappearing with $26 million of his money.

In December, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was lifting sanctions on these three businesses. Sanctions on Deripaska will remain.

“Treasury sanctioned these companies because of their ownership and control by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, not for the conduct of the companies themselves. These companies have committed to significantly diminish Deripaska’s ownership and sever his control. The companies will be subject to ongoing compliance and will face severe consequences if they fail to comply,” Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin said in the department’s news release. (Read more from “Senate Rejects Resolution to Block President Trump From Lifting Sanctions on Russia” HERE)

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Study: Here’s Just How Insanely Biased News Reporting on Trump Was in 2018

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No one with any hint of objectivity would say that news networks not named Fox News were “fair and balanced” when it came to President Trump in 2018. But a new study by a conservative media watchdog found that the “Big Three” networks were even more shamelessly biased against the president last year than most would think possible for outlets that present themselves as nonpartisan news sources.

The Media Research Center, which has been closely tracking news bias against Trump since he first took office, released their final 2018 report this week documenting a truly remarkable degree of one-side reported.

Since he was inaugurated on January 20, 2017, MRC has been tracking “every moment of coverage of President Trump on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts,” which a total of some 23 million viewers watch on average every night. And what they’ve found since they first started watching is amazingly consistent: the media’s spin on all Trump-related stories has been “incessantly hostile: 90% negative, vs. just 10% positive (excluding neutral statements).” That matches the historically biased coverage MRC reported in 2017.

NewsBusters summarizes what MRC analysts found over the first half of his first term:

As has been the case since the President took office, the tone of network coverage has been exceptionally hostile, ranging from 82% negative in April 2017 (after Trump was praised for a missile strike punishing Syria for a chemical weapons attack) to 96% negative in February 2018 (when the news agenda focused on the Russia investigation, demands for gun control, and a White House aide accused of domestic abuse).

(Read more from “Study: Here’s Just How Insanely Biased News Reporting on Trump Was in 2018” HERE)

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Trump Derangement Syndrome: Family Wanted Woman’s Obituary to Include Line Partially Blaming Trump for Her Death

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By Townhall. An 87-year-old diehard Democrat, Frances Irene Finley Williams, in Kentucky passed away the day before November. And the family says President Donald Trump had a large part to do with it. In fact, Williams told her daughter in early 2018 that, “If I die soon, all this Trump stuff has had an effect.”

When Williams passed, her family decided to make a rather strange move: they added a line in her obituary to place partial blame on Trump for the woman’s death, the Courier Journal reported.

“Her passing was hastened by her continued frustration with the Trump administration.”

The obituary with the line was submitted to a local paper by the Cremation Society of Kentucky, which handled Williams’ arrangements. It was accepted but then, just days before the obituary was set to run, it was rejected. According to the newspaper, the obituary would be accepted if the line about Trump was removed. (Read more from “Trump Derangement Syndrome: Family Wanted Woman’s Obituary to Include Line Partially Blaming Trump for Her Death” HERE)

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Obit Blaming Trump for Hastening Woman’s Death Should Have Published

By Courier Journal. . .Art Williams said his mother would have appreciated the line.

She was the type who liked to put politicians’ yard signs in her front yard just to rile her eastern Jefferson County neighbors, whom she assumed were arch-conservatives.

A couple of days before the obituary was to appear in the print edition of the Courier Journal, he learned it had been rejected. He was told it could run, however, if the family removed the line about Trump.

An email from a Gannett office in Wisconsin that handles obituaries said, “we are not able to publish the obituary as is, due to the negative content within the obituary text.”

The family dutifully struck the sentence about Trump from the obit. Family members and friends attended the visitation and memorial service — none of them wearing blue jeans, shorts, flip-flops or tennis shoes. (Read more from “Obit Blaming Trump for Hastening Woman’s Death Should Have Published” HERE)

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