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BUSTED: Mount Vernon Debunks Politico’s Fake News Story About Trump’s Visit to Washington’s Estate

How many times will the liberal media have to endure getting hit in the face with their shoddy reporting about the Trump White House? Seriously, how many stories have been utterly gutted for being straight trash? From the oodles of bombshells that were nothing burgers about Russian collusion to the bust of MLK Jr.being removed from the Oval Office, the list of fake news stories is extensive. So, it shouldn’t shock us that Politico was caught red-handed trying to bash Trump for being uninterested in a tour of Mount Vernon when French President Emmanuel Macron visited last April. Supposedly, sources said this tour was “truly bizarre,” with Trump being unengaged, asking why George Washington didn’t name any real estate after him (via Politico) [emphasis mine]:

During a guided tour of Mount Vernon last April with French president Emmanuel Macron, Trump learned that Washington was one of the major real-estate speculators of his era. So, he couldn’t understand why America’s first president didn’t name his historic Virginia compound or any of the other property he acquired after himself.

“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said, according to three sources briefed on the exchange. “You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”

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Yeah, if there’s one thing that we know about anonymous sources in the anti-Trump resistance era is that they’re usually wrong. And Mount Vernon made that clear in a statement released today:

Mount Vernon President Doug Bradburn and Regent Sarah Coulson escorted the presidents and first ladies on a tour of the Mansion on April 23, 2018. During the tour, all parties were interested and engaged in the story of George Washington and his beloved home. Conversations touched on topics like business dealings, real estate, and related matters that were of relevance and interest to the touring parties, and questions were asked by both leaders with curiosity and respect. Comments pulled from sources who were not present for the tour do not properly convey the tone and context in which they were delivered.

(Read more from “BUSTED: Mount Vernon Debunks Politico’s Fake News Story About Trump’s Visit to Washington’s Estate” HERE)

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Poll Shows Trump Economic Approval Drastically Rising

A little over a month ago, we highlighted a Gallup poll showing President Trump’s job approval on the economy bouncing to an all-time high of 56 percent. Though his overall ratings were (and remain) substantially lower — which is undoubtedly a major strike against his re-election prospects — a clear majority of voters have been pleased with his handling of an extremely important issue. That Gallup numbers came out in early March. As we approach mid-April, NBC reports on a fresh ‘battleground’ poll that mirrors the same result, perhaps with a slight improvement:

Voters’ attitudes about the economy will be the driving force in the next presidential election, according to the first Georgetown Institute of Politics and Public Service “Battleground Poll” of the 2020 cycle…While President Trump’s overall unfavorable rating has remained steady at 55 percent since he announced his candidacy in 2015, 58 percent of voters approve of the job he has done on the economy…Gender will play a role in 2020, with men saying they’ll vote Republican by a 9-point margin while women say they’ll vote Democratic by an 18-point margin on a generic Congressional ballot. This gender gap has been mainly caused by a decline in support for Republicans among married white women and white women overall. On the issue of the economy, however, President Trump still has a 58 percent approval from white women and a 63 percent approval from married white women.

(Read more from “Poll Shows Trump Economic Approval Drastically Rising” HERE)

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Senator Admits Obama Admin Could Have Legitimately Spied on Trump Campaign

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Thursday that there was still a possibility that the Trump campaign was surveilled by the government in a legitimate fashion.

“Clearly the foreign intelligence surveillance act was used against the Trump campaign,” said Graham to CNN’s Manu Raju.

“That’s a form of surveillance,” he explained. “It is, surveillance is fine, but it’s legal, it’s authorized. Counter-intelligence investigation was opened up against the Trump campaign. That by its nature, surveillance is fine.”

“I think what Mr. Barr is saying is that this didn’t happen in the Clinton campaign, there was no counterintelligence investigation I know of against the Clinton campaign there was no FISA warrants opened up against her people,” Graham said. “The question is why did the government open up a counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign, and was the FISA warrant legit?” . . .

The comment seemed to go against an earlier statement from the president, who seemed absolutely certain that the Obama administration had illegally spied on his presidential campaign. (Read more from “Senator Admits Obama Admin Could Have Legitimately Spied on Trump Campaign” HERE)

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Kris Kobach’s Legal Expertise Offers Trump Homeland Security Solution

President Trump is decrying federal judges who have routinely blocked his immigration reform agenda, as former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is considered for the top position at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) precisely for his longtime legal expertise.

During conversations with the media on Tuesday, Trump slammed a recent decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg in San Francisco, California that blocks the administration’s implementation of the “Remain in Mexico” policy whereby border crossers and illegal aliens seeking asylum in the country are returned to Mexico until their court hearings.

“We have a judge that just ruled, incredibly, that he doesn’t want people staying in Mexico,” Trump said in the Oval Office. “Figure that one out. Nobody can believe these decisions we’re getting from the 9th Circuit. It’s a disgrace.”

Those frustrations with pro-migration attorneys and activist judges, insiders tell Breitbart News, are precisely the reason Kobach is uniquely fit to lead DHS considering his background of legal expertise on immigration dating back to the early days of President George W. Bush’s administration. . .

Kobach, they assert, can carry out the president’s initiatives, as he has championed mainstream immigration reforms like E-Verify, an Entry/Exit system, and a sustainable immigration court process. (Read more from “Kris Kobach’s Legal Expertise Offers Trump Homeland Security Solution” HERE)

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Trump’s Border Wall Is Finally Happening

By The Blaze. The Pentagon announced Monday that the first of contracts to build the border wall proposed by President Donald Trump have been awarded and construction will begin shortly. . .

The announcement named SLSCO Ltd., a company from Galveston, Texas, as the major recipient of $789 million for the construction of “border replacement wall” in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The contract is to be completed by October 2020.

Barnard Construction Company from Montana was also awarded $187 million by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct “primary pedestrian wall replacement” in Yuma, Arizona. That project is also estimated to be completed by October 2020.

A spokesman for the Department of Defense told The Hill in a statement that “30-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate” would be constructed in the Santa Teresa contract. For the Yuma contract, “18-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate” would be constructed. (Read more from “Trump’s Border Wall Is Finally Happening” HERE)

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Pentagon Awards First Border Wall Contracts Using Diverted Funds

By CBS News. Mr. Trump visited the border and toured construction projects along the border last week. Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, the head of the Army Corps of Engineers, predicted that by “around December of 2020, the total amount of money that we will have put in the ground in the last couple of years will be about 450 miles. That’s probably about $8 billion, in total about 33 different projects.”

The funding for the contracts announced Tuesday comes from $1 billion the Pentagon reprogrammed from counter-narcotics programs, which the Pentagon can accomplish without congressional approval or a national emergency declaration. The move has drawn blowback from members of Congress, with lawmakers saying it violates a longstanding understanding not to reprogram funds without congressional sign-off.

In February, Congress tried to block Mr. Trump’s declaration, with 12 Republicans joining all Democrats in the Senate in a rebuke to the president. However, the president vetoed the joint resolution blocking the national emergency, and the House did not have enough votes to override a veto. (Read more from “Pentagon Awards First Border Wall Contracts Using Diverted Funds” HERE)

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Shocker: Liberals Make HUGE Admission About Trump Tax Cuts

President Donald Trump is shaking up the Department of Homeland Security. DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has been fired. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Kevin McAleenan is taking over the department. But we still have a border crisis. And even left-wing Looney Tunes, like Bernie Sanders, aren’t into the whole open borders idea. Yet, while DHS is being shaken up, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has decided to pick a fight with the Trump White House, attacking top adviser Stephen Miller, who reportedly is behind this retooling at the department, for being a “white nationalist.” Miller is Jewish, so that just doesn’t make sense. Yes, the Left can engage in linguistic gymnastics, it still doesn’t negate or minimize that this line of attack is straight trash and pure idiocy. Also, given Miller’s religious background and Omar being an alleged anti-Semite, it’s no shocker that she’s found another Jewish person to attack. . .

Concerning dispatches from the liberal bubble, liberals are now openly admitting to misinforming Americans about the Trump tax cuts, in which 80-90 percent of Americans received tax relief. Even Bernie Sanders admitted this, and this will remain for the next decade. Vox’s Matt Yglesias wrote, “Nobody likes to give themselves credit for this kind of messaging success, but progressive groups did a really good job of convincing people that Trump raised their taxes when the facts say a clear majority got a tax cut.”

Storm sees China as a threat. They have a massive army, nuclear weapons, and a monstrous economy. Yes, they’re challenging the United States. This has been going on for quite some time, though this falls by the wayside due to the amount of Russia hysteria we’ve endured for the past two years. Now, there’s a fear that they could tap into the many underwater cables that provide cross-continental Internet to spy on American data and voice traffic. He explains more in the episode. (Read more from “Shocker: Liberals Make HUGE Admission About Trump Tax Cuts” HERE)

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Trump Approval Hits High Not Reached Since Mueller Probe Began

As Attorney General William Barr works with the special counsel’s team to finalize redactions on the “Russia collusion” report — which “did not establish that members of the Trump Campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities” — President Trump’s approval number in Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll has reached a high the president hasn’t enjoyed for over two years, before the Trump-Russia probe was first authorized.

Rasmussen reported Tuesday that their daily tracking poll found Trump at +8% in approval and holding a 1-point edge among those who feel “strongly” one way or the other.

“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Forty-five percent (45%) disapprove,” the pollster reports. “The latest figures include 37% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 36% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of +1.”

So how does that compare to Trump’s overall performance? It’s the best approval he’s experienced in Rasmussen’s poll since March 3 of 2017, when he likewise earned 53% approval, but performed less well in disapproval (47%). At that point, the president was likewise at +1 in the poll’s Approval Index rating. . .

Since being sworn into office on January 20, 2017, Trump’s highest approval he has ever achieved in Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll is 59%, a mark he hit six days after his inauguration. With just 31% disapproving, Trump was +28% in approval and +13% in the poll’s Approval Index rating (44% strongly approving, 31% strongly disapproving). But within just a few weeks, the newly sworn-in president’s approval was hovering in the low-50s; by the end of March, Trump’s approval had sunk to the low-40s, where it remained for most of the next year. (Read more from “Trump Approval Hits High Not Reached Since Mueller Probe Began” HERE)

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Trump Goes After Rep. Omar After Her Criticism of Stephen Miller

President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Rep. Ilhan Omar of targeting Jews after she called one of the president’s top aides, Stephen Miller, a white nationalist.

“‘What’s completely unacceptable is for Congesswoman [sic] Omar to target Jews, in this case Stephen Miller.’ Jeff Ballabon, B2 Strategic, CEO. @Varneyco,” Trump tweeted, referencing a segment on Fox Business Network.

Omar on Monday afternoon labeled Miller, known for pushing hard-line immigration and border security policies, a “white nationalist.” Miller, who is Jewish, has reportedly grown increasingly influential on immigration issues in recent days, including the purge of top Department of Homeland Security officials.

The Minnesota congresswoman has come under fire for controversial remarks she made about Israel and has been publicly rebuked by members of both parties for rhetoric panned as anti-Semitic. (Read more from “Trump Goes After Rep. Omar After Her Criticism of Stephen Miller” HERE)

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Is It Finally the Time? Trump Inches Closer to Openly Defying a Judicial Order.

By Daily Wire. On Monday, Judge Richard Seeborg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled against President Donald Trump’s “wait-in-Mexico” policy for prospective asylum-seekers arriving at our beleaguered southern border. The Washington Times reports:

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop its new policy of sending asylum-seekers who jumped the border back to Mexico to wait while their cases proceed, ruling Monday that the plan was likely illegal.

Known informally as the “wait-in-Mexico policy,” and officially as the Migrant Protection Protocols, the plan was a major part of the administration’s moves to try to stem the flow of immigrants crossing into the U.S. illegally.

Judge Richard Seeborg, an Obama appointee to the bench, said not only does the policy violate immigration law, but Mexico is so dangerous that making asylum-seekers wait there — even if they’re not from Mexico — is untenable.

It seems like the president has perhaps finally had enough. On Monday, CNN reported that Trump seems to be telegraphing to — if not outright instructing — executive branch subordinates to willfully defy a rogue judicial diktat that contravenes the nation’s protection of its security and sovereignty.

(Read more from “Is It Finally the Time? Trump Inches Closer to Openly Defying a Judicial Order.” HERE)

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Judge Blocks Trump Administration Policy of Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico

By NBC News. A federal judge in California issued an order Monday blocking the Trump administration’s policy of returning some asylum-seekers to Mexico while they wait for a court appearance.

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg’s nationwide ruling will not go into effect until Friday, to give the administration time to appeal.

Outgoing Homeland Security chief Kirstjen Nielsen announced the launch of the Migrant Protection Protocols in San Diego, the country’s busiest border crossing, in January. Under the policy, Customs and Border Protection officers and agents have the authority to turn around asylum-seekers crossing in the San Diego and El Paso sectors. Families seeking asylum had previously been allowed to stay in the United States while awaiting their court hearings.

A lawsuit filed on behalf of 11 asylum-seekers from Central America had argued that being sent back across the border could expose them to “undue risk to their lives or freedom.” (Read more from “Judge Blocks Trump Administration Policy of Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico” HERE)

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Actor Praises Trump for Supporting Black Agenda

Actor Isaiah Washington, who previously starred on “Grey’s Anatomy,” praised President Donald Trump for supporting the black agenda last week and slammed former President Barack Obama for not.

“Washington was at the White House to see the celebrate a prison reform bill, the First Step Act, which is focused on inmate rehabilitation,” The Daily Mail reported. “Congress passed legislation last year called the First Step Act that gives judges more discretion when sentencing some drug offenders and boosts prisoner rehabilitation efforts.”

“I voted for 44 twice. I even checked my emails in his Senate Office while lobbying for Salone to be given another chance to rebrand,” Washington tweeted. “Not once in 8 years was I given any support regarding Africa or the Black Agenda, but 45 invites me to the WH to celebrate the #FirstStepAct”

(Read more from “Actor Praises Trump for Supporting Black Agenda” HERE)

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