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Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe

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President Donald Trump on Friday night granted a presidential pardon to the controversial former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Arpaio, 85, who once led the Maricopa County sheriff’s department, was found guilty last month of criminal contempt for violating the terms of a 2011 court order in a racial profiling case. He lost a re-election bid last year.

Trump earlier this week held out the possibility of a pardon for Arpaio, but at a campaign-style rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, Trump hinted that Arpaio would be “just fine,” immediately prompting speculation that a presidential pardon was imminent.

The US Constitution gives presidents wide latitude for pardons and does not require them to check with the Justice Department beforehand. “The President executed his lawful authority and we respect his decision,” the DOJ said on Friday. (Read more from “Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe” HERE)

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Trump Hits out at Senator Who Questioned His ‘Stability’

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President Donald Trump finally responded to Sen. Bob Corker’s assessment that he’s not shown ‘the stability nor some of the competence’ it takes to lead the country with a warning shot on Twitter this morning that referenced the Republican’s upcoming election.

Trump intimated that he’d give Corker the ‘Jeff Flake’ treatment and endorse one of his Republican challengers if he keeps up the criticism . . .

‘Strange statement by Bob Corker considering that he is constantly asking me whether or not he should run again in ’18. Tennessee not happy!’ Trump said in an ominous tweet.

Flake said Wednesday that Trump was ‘inviting’ a challenger of his own in 2020 with his recent behavior.

Trump traveled to Flake’s home state on Tuesday for a rally where he took aim at Arizona’s two sitting senators. Both are Republicans. (Read more from “Trump Hits out at Senator Who Questioned His ‘Stability'” HERE)

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Trump Fires Back at the ‘Fake News’ Media

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The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported by the mainstream media. This week, President Donald Trump fired back at the “fake news” media for complaining about the different tones he used in his back-to-back speeches.

Hillary Clinton is still in the news and she’s complaining about losing the election in her new book “What Happened.” ESPN mixed sports and politics when it asked a radio announcer to switch games because of his name—Robert Lee. While many football players protest the national anthem, Jacksonville elementary students showed a true act of patriotism.

We covered all of this and much more on this week’s top 10 must-see moments. Check out the video. (For more from the author of “Trump Fires Back at the ‘Fake News’ Media” please click HERE)

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Which Republicans Helped This Oppo Research Firm Investigate Trump?

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One of the biggest mysteries looming over the Trump-Russia saga is the identity of the political donors who hired opposition research firm Fusion GPS to investigate Donald Trump.

Almost no information has been provided in press reports about a Hillary Clinton ally who, last June, reportedly hired Fusion GPS to investigate the former real estate magnate. Fusion would go on to hire former British spy Christopher Steele to carry out that investigation. He compiled a 35-page dossier of uncorroborated allegations about Trump’s activities in Russia that BuzzFeed News published in January.

Some clues have been released regarding a Republican who reportedly hired Fusion GPS. According to news reports, that client is a major GOP donor who was adamantly opposed to Trump. They reportedly hired Fusion GPS in Sept. 2015 and paid the Washington, D.C.-based firm nearly $1 million to investigate Trump.

Determining the identity of the donors has proved difficult. Glenn Simpson, the co-founder of Fusion GPS and a former Wall Street Journal reporter, isn’t saying. During a 10-hour interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Simpson declined to identify any of his clients, citing confidentiality agreements. (Read more from “Which Republicans Helped This Oppo Research Firm Investigate Trump?” HERE)

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CNN: Everyone Who Voted for Trump Is a ‘White Supremacist by Default’

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CNN used the voices of a few professors and activists to assert anyone who voted for President Donald Trump is a white supremacist in a news report Wednesday, and to blame these “ordinary” people for the violence in Charlottesville.

Trump voters helped advance white supremacy by giving them room to operate, CNN reported based on the assertions of others in a piece headlined, “‘White Supremacists by default’: How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible.”

“It’s easy to focus on the angry white men in paramilitary gear who looked like they were mobilizing for a race war in the Virginia college town,” CNN reported. “But it’s the ordinary people — the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative’s anti-Semitism — who give these type of men room to operate.”

CNN put the weight of the assertion on the views of what they described as “activists, historians and victims of extremism,” but made no visible effort to question their assertions or provide a counter point of view. Fordham University professor Mark Naison’s, for example, is quoted prominently in the piece accusing tens of millions of Americans of being white supremacists.

“We are a country with a few million passionate white supremacists — and tens of millions of white supremacists by default,” Naison told CNN. He’s a political activist and history professor. He compared all Trump voters to “nice people” who facilitated the horrific violence of the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda by looking the other way. (Read more from “CNN: Everyone Who Voted for Trump Is a ‘White Supremacist by Default'” HERE)

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Many Dismissed Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Tweets. Big Mistake.

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President Donald Trump tweeted on July 26 that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the United States military. Tweets alone don’t change policy, so some in the media assumed the president was just blowing smoke.

Today, it’s clear that Trump meant what he said and intends to carry it out. A White House memo was sent to the Pentagon on Wednesday directing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to deny admittance to transgender individuals, and to stop paying for medical treatment regimens for currently enlisted transgender people.

The White House is expected to send additional guidance to the Pentagon in coming days to detail how to implement the ban. Mattis will have six months to get all of this done . . .

The White House memo gives Mattis and the Pentagon the discretion to consider an individual’s deployability when deciding whether or not to separate them from service.

Deployability is defined as the ability to serve in a war zone, participate in exercises or live on a ship for months at a time, and will be the legal basis used to make determinations on transgender individual’s fitness for military service. (Read more from “Many Dismissed Trump’s Transgender Military Ban Tweets. Big Mistake.” HERE)

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‘The View’ Co-Host Questions Hillary Clinton’s Aversion to Trump

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In her upcoming memoir, What Happened, former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton claims that future President Donald Trump made her “skin crawl” at a critical point in the 2016 election campaign.

But not everyone in the media is entirely convinced of Clinton’s aversion to Trump.

Jedediah Bila, cohost of The View, tweeted out Wednesday morning asking, “Did it crawl when you went to his 2005 wedding?”

Clinton is referring to the second presidential debate in St. Louis when Trump loomed close behind her and was very much in her physical space. The debate took place two days after an Access Hollywood tape revealed Trump boasting about groping and kissing women in 2005.

In excerpts read on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Clinton claimed the debate was “incredibly uncomfortable.”

Clinton said she wished she had asked the audience, “Well, what would you do?

“Do you stay calm, keep smiling and carry on as if he weren’t repeatedly invading your space? Or do you turn, look him in the eye, and say loudly and clearly: ‘Back up, you creep, get away from me! I know you love to intimidate women, but you can’t intimidate me, so back up’?” Clinton said.

Numerous critics found fault with Trump’s conduct during debates, when he hovered, interrupted and at some points became angry.

But as Bila pointed out on Twitter, images of Clinton and Trump together at his 2005 wedding to now-first lady Melania Trump are circulating.

Clinton said she “thought it would be fun” to attend the wedding but later found it “troubling” when Trump ran for president.

Clinton’s book is set for release on Sept. 12. (For more from the author of “‘The View’ Co-Host Questions Hillary Clinton’s Aversion to Trump” please click HERE)

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DHS Issues Warning to Four Countries Refusing to Cooperate on Deportations

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The Trump administration is threatening to halt some travel from four countries refusing to cooperate with the Department of Homeland Security on deportations.

DHS officials confirmed to Fox News that letters have been sent to the State Department seeking the suspension of visas for some of those countries’ citizens.

A State Department official explained to Fox News that “when we receive such notification, the Department of State works to implement a visa suspension as expeditiously as possible in the manner the secretary determines most appropriate under the circumstances to achieve the desired goal.” (Read more from “DHS Issues Warning to Four Countries Refusing to Cooperate on Deportations” HERE)

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Scary: Secret Service Claiming Its Ability to Protect Trump Is ‘Strained’

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The U.S. Secret Service is facing money problems — but that’s not President Donald Trump’s fault, the agency’s director said Monday in response to a report that the First Family was straining protective resources.

Secret Service Director Randolph “Tex” Alles said funding for roughly 1,100 agents working overtime in 2017 is not an issue “that can be attributed to the current Administration’s protection requirements alone, but rather has been an ongoing issue for nearly a decade due to an overall increase in operational tempo.”

His comments came after a report in USAToday, in which Alles was interviewed, that the agency’s funding problems were partly caused by the president’s large family and their multiple, oft-visited Trump properties both in the U.S. and overseas.

Alles told USAToday the agency is handling an unprecedented number of White House officials who need protection. Under Trump, 42 people have protection, including 18 members of the Trump family. That’s up from 31 during the Obama administration.

“The president has a large family, and our responsibility is required in law,” Alles told the paper. “I can’t change that. I have no flexibility.” (Read more from “Scary: Secret Service Claiming Its Ability to Protect Trump Is ‘Strained'” HERE)

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Trump to Rescind Obama Rule Forcing Doctors, Hospitals to Perform Gender Transition Treatments

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LGBT rights groups have raised alarm at the fact that the Trump administration is in the process of finalizing a policy that would rescind an Obama-era healthcare rule that opponents say requires hospitals, doctors and health insurers to cover or provide gender transition therapies and procedures.

The Hill reports that the Department of Justice is reviewing a proposed rule that has already cleared the Department of Health and Human Services that would rescind an HHS mandate instituted in 2016 that bars healthcare providers and insurers who receive federal tax dollars from denying treatment or coverage to patients on the basis of gender identity.

This mandate meant that procedures and services offered by hospitals and doctors to nontransgender patients for medical reasons — such as a hysterectomy — must be offered to transgender individuals if deemed “medically necessary.”

The rule was challenged in court by five states and organizations like the Christian Medical and Dental Associations and the Franciscan Alliance, which represent over 17,000 physicians. The lawsuit claimed that the rule would force doctors and hospitals to “perform controversial and sometimes harmful medical procedures ostensibly designed to permanently change an individual’s sex — including the sex of children.”

Additionally, the lawsuit claimed that the law would require faith-based hospitals and doctors to perform procedures for the purpose of sex reassignment even if they feel such acts would violate religious or moral convictions. (Read more from “Trump to Rescind Obama Rule Forcing Doctors, Hospitals to Perform Gender Transition Treatments” HERE)

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