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Trump Suggests He Could Pull Out of Iran Deal

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President Donald Trump said Monday at the U.N. that he will be making a decision regarding whether to scrap the Iran nuclear deal “very soon.”

Trump’s comments to reporters came as he sat down for a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who strongly opposes the Obama administration-championed international agreement.

According to the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the United States must certify in October whether Iran is in compliance with the deal.

Asked by a reporter whether he plans to keep the U.S. in the agreement, Trump responded, “You’ll see very soon.”

In an address before a joint session of Congress in 2015, Netanyahu contended that the deal “doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb, it paves Iran’s path to the bomb.”

While aboard Air Force One on Thursday, Trump restated his disapproval of the agreement’s terms, a view he expressed multiple times as a presidential candidate.

“But I will say this, the Iran deal is one of the worst deals I’ve ever seen, certainly at a minimum the spirit of the deal is just atrociously kept. But the Iran deal is not a fair deal to this country. It’s a deal that should have never ever been made. And you’ll see what we’re doing in a couple of weeks,” he said of his decision regarding American participation in the agreement.

Trump added that Iran has “violated so many different elements” of the deal and the United States is “not going to stand for what they (Iran) are doing.”

“Every 90 days, the U.S. President must certify to Congress that Iran is keeping up its end of the deal,” CNN reported. “If Iran doesn’t comply, US, European Union, and UN nuclear-related sanctions on the Iranian economy would be reinstated.”

Last fall, the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency found that the Islamic Republic produced too much heavy water, a material which is used to cool reactors that produce plutonium.

In February, Iran conducted ballistic missiles tests, which, while they were not in violation of the nuclear deal, did violate a U.N. resolution passed just days after the agreement was signed.

Iran is “called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology,” according to the text of the resolution.

Iran argued that the missiles could not carry nuclear weapons.

After Trump’s Monday comments at the U.N., Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told CNN the U.S. would pay a price if it pulls out of the agreement.

“Exiting such an agreement would carry a high cost for the United States of America, and I do not believe Americans would be willing to pay such a high cost for something that will be useless for them,” he said.

“Given that Mr. Trump’s actions and reactions and policies are somewhat unpredictable, we have thought long and hard about our reactions,” Rouhani added.

He said any response from Iran would come “quite swiftly” and “probably within a week,” adding that “if the US wants to increase the tensions it will see the reaction from Iran.” (For more from the author of “Trump Suggests He Could Pull Out of Iran Deal” please click HERE)

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Ex-Secret Service Warns: Trump ‘in Genuine Danger’

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Dan Bongino is best known to American conservatives today as a former congressional candidate, talk-show host and fiery commentator.

But the position he says he will always be proudest of is that of “Special Agent, United States Secret Service.”

And the man who once guarded the commander in chief has a terrifying warning in his new book “Protecting The President” – Donald Trump is in jeopardy unless there is reform.

“The president of the United States is in genuine danger if the Secret Service doesn’t change course soon and evolve with the rapidly changing threat environment,” Bongino writes. “The threats to the White House and the president are swiftly evolving in this new era of weaponized drones, micro-sized video surveillance technology, vehicle attacks on civilians, small arms tactical assaults, and technologically advanced and difficult-to-detect explosives. And if the decision makers in the Secret Introduction Service refuse to evolve with this series of threats, then, tragically, we may suffer the first loss of a president since John F. Kennedy.”

Bongino describes the agency as suffering an “existential” crisis and reeling from recent scandals. And the former agent has provided a sober, detailed look at how one of America’s elite law enforcement agencies has sabotaged itself. (Read more from “Ex-Secret Service Warns: Trump ‘in Genuine Danger'” HERE)

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VIDEO: Trump Pegs Hillary Clinton With a Golf Ball in Retweet

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Serious work beckons, but so does Twitter, and on Sunday morning the temptation to share a fan’s GIF that showed Mr. Trump golfing and the ball striking Hillary Clinton proved too much to resist.

The tweet stoked outrage online, generating more than 11,000 replies, many of which condemned the president’s promotion of violent imagery toward Mrs. Clinton, who, as a former first lady, has lifetime Secret Service protection.

But it was also celebrated by Trump supporters, who admonished “crooked Hillary” and accused Mr. Trump’s critics of lacking a sense of humor.

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Trump Faces Major Week as He Addresses UN for the First Time

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President Donald Trump has a pivotal week ahead of him as he is scheduled to address the United Nations General Assembly for the first time in office.

Trump’s appearance at the U.N. will come amidst concerns over North Korea’s missile program, continued unrest in Venezuela, increasing tensions between the U.S. and Russia, the ongoing civil war in Syria, and a whole host of global issues.

The president has a packed schedule. He will meet with world leaders Monday to discuss U.N. reforms, sit down with the heads of France and Israel to discuss concerns about Iran’s behavior, among other issues. He’ll then host a working dinner with Latin American leaders.

The U.S. has sanctioned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said at a press briefing Friday that it is “unlikely” that Trump will “speak with President Maduro.” (Read more from “Trump Faces Major Week as He Addresses UN for the First Time” HERE)

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Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Denying Funds to Sanctuary Cities

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s rules requiring so-called sanctuary cities to help enforce federal immigration laws in order to receive funding.

U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced new rules governing DOJ law enforcement grants, The Chicago Tribune reports.

The city of Chicago sued the Trump administration last month over the DOJ’s threat to withhold those grants from “sanctuary cities,” which are cities that refuse to help federal authorities enforce immigration laws.

Leinenweber said in his 41-page ruling that Chicago had shown a “likelihood of success” in its arguments that Sessions exceeded his authority in July when he announced that the DOJ would withhold public safety grants to sanctuary cities. (Read more from “Federal Judge Blocks Trump From Denying Funds to Sanctuary Cities” HERE)

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FACT CHECK: Was There Violence on Both Sides of Charlottesville?

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President Donald Trump reiterated Thursday his claim that “both sides” were to blame for the violence in Charlottesville, prompting The New York Times to relitigate the statement.

Were both sides violent?

Verdict: True

Regardless of blame regarding who started the violence or who perpetrated the most violence, it is true that both sides committed violence during the Charlottesville fiasco.

Fact Check:

Casting Trump’s assertion that both the white supremacists and the antifa protesters share blame in the violence as a false claim, The New York Times reports that antifa protesters “clashed with” and “resisted” the white supremacists. The report does not, however, address whether one or both sides were in fact violent during the protests.

(Read more from “FACT CHECK: Was There Violence on Both Sides of Charlottesville?” HERE)

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Susan Rice’s Unmasking Lies and How Obama Torched a US Ally

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Former national security adviser Susan Rice told House Intelligence Committee investigators that she spied on the crown prince of the UAE, and in doing so, unmasked the names of top Trump officials, CNN reported Wednesday.

“Unmasking” is the term used to describe uncovering the names of people (specifically in this case, American citizens) that are gathered as part of foreign surveillance collection efforts. Obama administration officials such as Rice, UN Ambassador Samantha Power, CIA director John Brennan, and others have been accused of unmasking Americans in a manner that neglects proper procedure.

Rice’s explanation for using the highly controversial espionage tactic generates more questions than answers. Her most recent explanation reveals that the Obama administration had a troubling relationship with what is supposed to be one of our Arab allies and also leaves many wondering why she was spying on Americans just one month before leaving office.

What happened to US-UAE relations under the Obama administration?

The United Arab Emirates is a major partner in the U.S. coalition against the Islamic State and is commonly seen as a crucial ally in the larger war against global jihadism. The small Gulf nation hosts some 3,500 American military personnel at its Al Dhafra Air Base.

Susan Rice’s decision to spy on a prominent UAE figure reminds us that Team Obama’s foreign policy had a habit of gathering information on countries that are considered close allies and altering long-held alliances, not for the better.

Along with Israel (a major target of the Obama administration’s espionage operations), the UAE fiercely opposed Obama’s controversial nuclear accord with the terrorist regime in Iran. Obama’s embrace of the Islamist Arab Spring was also viewed in Abu Dhabi as a major blunder, one that could have ramifications for its monarchy and the entire Gulf region.

The fact that a top official such as Rice felt the need to spy on an ally instead of simply reaching out and asking about its intentions says all you need to know about how the previous White House alienated the UAE and other allies.

UAE-based papers cheered the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president, not just based on some encouraging foreign policy initiatives that he proposed, but out of glee that the past administration (and its pro-Tehran, pro-Muslim Brotherhood policies) had left power.

There is nothing unusual about wanting to meet with the incoming administration

Rice claimed that part of the reason for her spying was that it was a mystery why the crown prince of the UAE, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, came to New York during the presidential transition period. To even a casual foreign policy observer, it’s obvious why one of the most influential leaders in the Arab world wanted to meet with Donald Trump during the transition period. Rice’s “explanation” doesn’t pass the smell test.

The UAE is a vital U.S. ally, and it is in the best interests of both nations that its leaders become acquainted prior to transitions in office. There is nothing scandalous about such a visit. Rather, it’s standard protocol.

Two sources privy to the meeting (who chose to remain anonymous for diplomatic reasons) tell Conservative Review that the crown prince’s meeting with Trump advisers last December focused on bolstering the diplomatic relationship and included a dialogue on how to improve counter-terrorism cooperation and regional stability.

Why would the crown prince travel halfway around the world to open up a back channel between the U.S. and Russia?

It takes about 15 hours one-way to travel by air from Dubai to New York. That’s a long trip for an influential monarch with a tight schedule, who would seemingly get nothing substantial out of acting as an unnecessary intermediary between the Trump transition and Russia.

From a practical standpoint, it’s hard to make sense of the speculation in CNN’s report that the meeting was a follow-up to help the incoming Trump administration set up a back channel with Russia.

Trump was one month and a few days away from assuming commander-in-chief duties; he didn’t need an intermediary of any kind. And even if the incoming Trump administration wanted to use the meeting to help facilitate a coming detente with Russia, it’s hardly a reason for the outgoing administration to spy on its political opponents.

Susan Rice was unmasking American citizens a month before leaving office

It is widely understood that the authority to unmask the names of American citizens should only be used in extreme circumstances particularly vital to our national security. But the casual use by Rice (and according to reports, many other Obama White House officials) has led experts to entertain the possibility that she was instead engaged in Watergate-level political espionage.

Rice lied on national television. Should we believe her now?

In April, Susan Rice appeared on MSNBC with Andrea Mitchell and wholly denied she knew anything regarding the unmasking of Trump officials.

“I know nothing about this,” Rice said. “I was surprised to see reports from [House Intelligence Committee] Chairman [Devin] Nunes on that count today … So today, I really don’t know to what Chairman Nunes was referring. But he said that whatever he was referring to was a legal, lawful surveillance and that it was potentially incidental collection on American citizens.”

It turns out that Rice knew exactly what was going on, as evidenced by her testimony provided in the CNN report.

This is the same person who appeared on every cable news show and repeatedly called the Benghazi attacks a “spontaneous reaction” to a “hateful and offensive” YouTube video, when nothing could be further from the truth.

The Obama White House national security adviser had a history of lying to the American public. Why should congressional investigators believe Rice now? (for more from the author of “Susan Rice’s Unmasking Lies and How Obama Torched a US Ally” please click HERE)

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Trump’s GOP Amnesty Will Bring in Millions of … Democrat Voters

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Last year, President Trump promised that the days of people coming here illegally to get citizenship are over. Well, now those days are only beginning and will continue in perpetuity. Trump is in the process of building an open border, and the American citizen will pay for it in the form of crime, welfare, education, health care, and a permanent Democrat majority in Texas, Arizona, and Florida.

After selling us out, not just last night with his Pelosi meeting but for the past two weeks of messaging on immigration, Trump is now trying to repair his status with the base on Twitter. After all, Twitter has become his go-to forum to hide his true policy outcomes and keep the base happy with political morphine. Yet his defensive statements are even more offensive to conservatives than the original reports.

There are no words to describe how offensive these pathetic straw-men talking points have been to conservatives for over a decade. We’ve been fighting this false narrative for years, and Trump was elected precisely because people were tired of Jeb Bush acolytes suggesting illegal aliens, on net, are better than Americans and not a fiscal, cultural, and security drain on America.

Within just a few months, Trump has not only adopted the policies of the Left, he has mastered their parlance, focus, false dichotomies, perverted sense of priorities, and straw-men arguments with a downright eerie degree of precision.

Then Trump reportedly said the following when asked about amnesty:

So Trump is now glorifying and idealizing DACA, a term that should be a four-letter word — the embodiment of America-last unconstitutional governance — as a legitimate baseline from which to craft policy. But there is an even bigger lie that will be propagated in the coming weeks.

Proponents of amnesty employ a stratagem whereby their broad messaging portends endless open borders and amnesty, but in order to get conservatives to support specific proposals, they try to isolate and minimize a small population. And of course, they tell us this small population, who should be allowed to stay and be given a path to citizenship, are all military veterans and superheroes. Trump will contend that this is only 800,000 people, but that is not what Democrats plan to pursue and that is not what will naturally flow from any amnesty. By definition, any amnesty, as history has shown, creates the conditions for broader amnesty, permanent open borders, halting of enforcement, immigration lawfare, and chain migration that is set irretrievably in motion by the original “sympathetic” amnesty.

Consider the following:

According to the Migration Policy Institute, the 2017 Senate version of the so-called Dream Act (Graham-Durbin) would grant 1.5 million immediate eligibility for green cards and another 1.8 million “conditional” status, which we all know would politically and legally turn into citizenship in short order. That is a total of 3.3 million.

Now remember, we didn’t even get to the kids yet. The “dreamers” are largely in their 20s and 30s. Immediately after securing their amnesty, the Left will come back and say: How can you then not give amnesty to all those who came after 2007 and are just children? That is approximately another million individuals, not including many of the recent (and continuous) arrivals from Central America.

How can you deport the parents of U.S. citizens? Hence, DACA engenders DAPA. According to the Migration Policy Institute, this includes roughly 3.6 million. And remember, since we refuse to even negotiate changes to birthright citizenship for illegals, more and more of the illegal immigrant population will have children here and become recipients of the inevitable amnesty for the parents. They are also immediately eligible for welfare on behalf of that child. Robert Rector estimated that this population alone would cost us $2 trillion. Including “dreamers,” we are now at easily over 7 million people eligible for the amnesty.

Now consider the following electoral dynamic playing out over the next 10 years. Democrats are already on a positive trajectory thanks to years of amnesty and open borders. But the same thing that happened to California after the 1986 amnesty will now happen in many other states, including Texas, Arizona, and Florida. There are an estimated 260,000 “dreamers” in Texas, as well as 559,000 eligible for DAPA. That is a total of 820,000 new voters over time, even before discussing chain migration. That is greater than the 807,000 margin of victory for Trump in Texas last year. The margin of victory in Arizona and Florida was close to 100,000 in each state, easily overwhelmed by any iteration of amnesty and citizenship.

But we’re just getting started. According to Jessica Vaughn’s analysis of chain migration, immigrants on average bring in 3.45 family members over their lifetime. Mexican nationals, who will be the overwhelming recipients of amnesty, have the highest rate of chain migration, topping out at 6.38 additional immigrants per person. At this point, we don’t need to analyze states like Texas any more. We’ll be talking about turning Wyoming blue.

Not only will the promise of amnesty cause a surge at the border, but many individuals will come on visas and overstay. We have no visa tracking in place. This will create a permanent cycle of no enforcement. It will be virtually impossible to decipher all the new illegal immigrants from the plethora of those eligible for legal status, thereby in practice halting all deportations. Even under current law, which is iron-clad, courts are blocking huge numbers of deportations, even of criminal aliens. Once we write a new amnesty statute, everyone will potentially be given the opportunity to present their case as to why they are a “dreamer” too. Thus, Trump can tout the limitations all he wants, but the lawfare and fraud behind litigating every last person into the criterion will grind enforcement to a halt.

The bottom line with amnesty is that it never works and never will work. It always leads to nothing but more and more illegal immigration and more and more amnesty. It can never work until all the enforcement measures are implemented years in advance.

Ironically, none other than Marco Rubio presciently warned about this lax attitude toward enforcement when he was running for Senate in 2009, before he betrayed his own campaign promise:

“If you grant amnesty, the message that you’re sending is that if you come in this country and stay here long enough, we will let you stay. And no one will ever come through the legal process if you do that.”

Then again, the MAGA man himself put it best during the Gang of 8 debate:

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Chuck Schumer Caught on Hot-Mic Making Comment About Trump

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Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was overheard Thursday discussing President Donald Trump with some of his aides.

“He likes us. He likes me, anyway,” Schumer was heard saying on the Senate floor by a nearby CSPAN microphone.

The CSPAN video containing the comments only showed the front of the Senate floor, making it unclear who Schumer was speaking to at the time.

Schumer’s comments were in response to a dinner he had with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Wednesday night at the White House with Trump.

“Here’s what I told him: ‘Mr. President, you are much better off sometimes stepping right and sometimes step left. You have to step just in one direction, you’re boxed,’” Schumer said.

Schumer’s remarks were in reference to Trump holding meetings recently with congressional leaders to find a bipartisan solution to the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

“He gets that. We are always going to work it out, and it will make us more productive too,” Schumer said.

Several conflicting reports have been issued since Trump met with Pelosi and Schumer Wednesday night to discuss immigration reform.

In a joint statement Wednesday night following their meeting, Pelosi and Schumer said Trump had agreed to support legislation keeping DACA in place without receiving guaranteed funding for the border wall in exchange.

Reports suggested that they had reached an agreement to pass DACA legislatively and only enhance border security measures without a border wall along the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Prior to leaving for Florida Thursday to examine the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Trump told reporters that he may accept increased border security measures rather than immediate funding for the wall.

“The wall will come later,” Trump said.

“We’re right now renovating large sections of wall, massive sections, making it brand new,” Trump said. “We’re doing a lot of renovations, we’re building four different samples of the wall to see which one we’re going to choose, and the wall is going to be built, it will be funded a little bit later.”

Trump sent out a series of tweets Thursday morning saying that no deal had been agreed to during the meeting.

“Does anybody really want to throw out good, educated and accomplished young people who have jobs, some serving in the military?” he tweeted.

He continued: “They have been in our country for many years through no fault of their own – brought in by parents at young age. Plus BIG border security.” (For more from the author of “Chuck Schumer Caught on Hot-Mic Making Comment About Trump” please click HERE)

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Celebrity Chef Details How He’d Poison President Trump

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TV foodie Anthony Bourdain told paparazzi outside an airport that if he was asked to cater a dinner for President Donald Trump, he would poison the food.

The former Food Network personality and current host of CNN’s Parts Unknown was caught outside LAX airport by a photographer for celebrity gossip website TMZ. Bourdain was asked whether or not he would go to North Korea to do a food show . . .

But then the TMZ stringer asked what Bourdain would serve if he was asked to cater a dinner for President Trump.

Bourdain answered simply, “Hemlock,” appearing to admit he would poison the president if given the chance. (Read more from “Celebrity Chef Details How He’d Poison President Trump” HERE)

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