Sen. Ted Cruz announced Friday that he intends to vote for Republican candidate for president Donald Trump.
“This election is unlike any other in our nation’s history,” Cruz wrote in a post to Facebook. “Like many other voters, I have struggled to determine the right course of action in this general election.”
“After many months of careful consideration, of prayer and searching my own conscience, I have decided that on Election Day, I will vote for the Republican nominee, Donald Trump.”
Cruz cited two reasons for this decision. One, that last year he promised to support the Republican nominee, “and I intend to keep my word.” Two, “Hillary Clinton is wholly unacceptable—that’s why I have always been #NeverHillary.”
Sen. Cruz then laid out several specific areas of policy that “inform” his decision. He lists the Supreme Court, repealing Obamacare, the Obama/Clinton war on coal, immigration, national security, and internet freedom among the policy issues that make Mr. Trump a preferable choice for the presidency.
On the Supreme Court, Cruz said that he secured an “explicit commitment” from Donald Trump “to nominate only from that list” of justices the Trump campaign has released.
Read Cruz’s full statement below:
(For more from the author of “Here’s Why Ted Cruz Will Vote for Donald Trump” please click HERE)
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Speaking in Pittsburgh Thursday, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump delivered remarks focused on law and order amidst the violent riots that have swept Charlotte, N.C..
“Many Americans are watching the unrest in Charlotte unfolding right before their eyes,” Trump said at Shale Insight, a convention of natural gas industry officials. “Our country looks bad to the world, especially when we are supposed to be the world’s leader.”
Trump said that violence and rioting has no place in our communities:
“We honor and recognize the right of all Americans to peacefully assemble, protest, and demonstrate. But there is no right to engage in violent disruption or to threaten the public safety and peace of others.”
He pledged to bring such violence and crime to a “very rapid end” should he be elected president:
“The people who will suffer the most as a result of these riots are law abiding African-American residents who live in these communities where the crime is so rampant. It’s their jobs, housing market, schools, and economic conditions that will suffer. And the first duty of government is to protect their well-being and safety.”
“Crime and violence is an attack on the poor and will never be excepted in a Trump administration, never ever,” said Trump.
Ultimately, Donald Trump called for “more law enforcement, more community engagement, more effective policing,” citing former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani’s controversial crime-fighting efforts as a good example. (For more from the author of “Trump Condemns Charlotte Riots, Says They Hurt Black Communities Most of All” please click HERE)
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Evangelical Christians of multiple races mixed their faith in God with their faith that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump can heal the nation on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, Trump appeared at the Midwest Vision and Values Pastors Leadership Conference in Cleveland.
“I want to thank the African-American community because, I don’t know if you’ve been watching, but the poll numbers are going like a rocket ship,” Trump said. “I fully understand the African-American community has suffered from discrimination.”
Trump said America’s cities must be rebuilt.
“It breaks my heart to see any American left behind or to see a city like Cleveland that has had so many struggles, and that there are many wrongs that still must be made right,” the GOP nominee said.
After Trump spoke to the assembled crowd, Pastor Darrell Scott, a co-host of the event, spoke to Trump.
Scott said a “nationally known” pastor, whom he did not identify, had warned Trump “that if you choose to run for president, there’s going to be a concentrated Satanic attack against you.”
“He said there’s going to be a demon, principalities and powers, that are going to war against you on a level that you’ve never seen before, and I’m watching it every day,” Scott said, referring to the opposition Trump’s candidacy has spawned.
Scott’s wife, Belinda, then led the group in prayer as they gathered around Trump.
“Now God, I ask that you would touch this man, Donald J. Trump. Give him the anointing to lead this nation,” she prayed.
The meeting was open to clergy or all faiths and political ideologies.
“I think it’s good he’s open to hearing from clergy,” said Pastor Mike Wingerd of Emmanuel Assembly of God. “I’m very glad he’s concerned about religious freedom.”
Scott, who led the session, had spoken for Trump at the Republican National Convention.
“America is a melting pot, a country of diversity. We stand poised to make history, by standing together as Americans, as one. We are here as Americans regardless of race, creed or color. We are here as those who hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and that we are endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” he said.
“The truth is the Democratic Party has failed us,” Scott said. “At home, our debt has grown, we are spiritually empty and we are more divided now than we have ever been before. Abroad, we are neither respected, we’re not feared by our adversaries, and our friends cannot count on us either. This is their legacy, and we need to make a sharp turn. We need to put into practice the great ideas and principles that our country was founded on, and which, after God, are the source of strength that has made this nation great.” (For more from the author of “As Trump Offers Cleveland New Hope, Pastors Pray to Protect Him From ‘Satanic Attack'” please click HERE)
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The mainstream media has been breathlessly running headlines like this one from The Chicago Times, “Trump signed improper charity check supporting Florida attorney general,” alleging that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bribed Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (another Republican) in order to avoid prosecution. For three years now, zealous reporters have tried to find a smoking gun revealing impropriety in Trump’s campaign donation.
Now The New York Times says there’s almost certainly no smoking gun to find.
A Matter of Days
The US Supreme Court recently held in the landmark public corruption case, McDonnell v. U.S., that bribery requires that the person giving the donation get something for it. According to the Federal Code (18 U.S. Code § 201), not only must something of value have been offered to a public official, but it must be shown to have influenced that public official’s behavior for the contributor’s benefit.
The train of events began when several attorneys general filed complaints against Trump a few years ago, claiming that he fraudulently marketed Trump University’s real estate and wealth-building seminars. On September 13, 2013, a Florida newspaper published the story that Bondi’s office was investigating Trump and might join the other attorneys general in a suit.
Four days after that, Bondi’s PAC received $25,000 from Trump. (Several months later, Trump threw a $3,000 a plate fundraiser for her at Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and she’s become a prominent supporter.)
Complaints were filed with local authorities and the FBI’s public corruption unit alleging bribery to stop Bondi’s office from investigating him too. But after Bondi’s office released 8,000 documents in response to a public records request, even The New York Times admitted that the check had been written and signed four days before the story broke in the media that Bondi’s office was considering investigating Trump University.
Additionally, the Times reports about Trump’s donations in Florida that “he has contributed at least $375,000 to state and federal candidates and political committees here since 1995, accounting for 19 percent of the roughly $2 million he has given to campaigns nationwide, other than his own.” Bondi said she personally solicited the donation from Trump, who had already contributed $500 to her campaign in July.
The Times isn’t giving Trump a clean bill of health, however. The press had reported in 2010 that “the attorneys general of Florida and Texas had gotten complaints from Trump University students. “His contribution, therefore, could have been a pre-emptive investment to discourage Ms. Bondi from joining the New York case.”
No Evidence of Bribery
In the article , the Times said it could find no evidence in the released records that Bondi herself even was aware of the initial review being done by her office. This was not unusual. Most of the complaints came to her predecessor, who said he had not known about them, the Times reported, as did his two top deputies and others in the consumer protection division.
In fact, the chief of the consumer protection section wrote in an internal email in 2011 that the office was holding off on any investigation of Trump University. When Mark Hamilton, a lawyer in the consumer protection division, heard about the media outcry in 2013, he advised the office that any lawsuit filed by the New York Attorney General against Trump University would apply to Floridians, so there was no need for the Florida AG to duplicate the work.
Now, Trump did make a mistake in writing the check from his charitable organization, not his personal account, which he blamed on a staff clerical error, and reimbursed his charity with $25,000 in personal funds. He also paid a $2,500 fine to the IRS over the mistake.
Mac Stipanovich, who the Times describes as “a longtime Florida Republican strategist and lobbyist who disdains Mr. Trump and has never worked with Ms. Bondi,” observed, “The optics are terrible even though there is not a shred of evidence that Pam Bondi solicited a bribe or that Donald Trump provided one.”
Although the Times has (mostly) cleared Trump, most of the rest of the mainstream news outlets are still claiming he behaved improperly and they are exaggerating the seriousness of the check confusion. Fortunately for Trump, the top newspaper in the country, which is left-leaning, has told a different story. (For more from the author of “BOMBSHELL: The New York Times Dispels 3-Year-Long Accusation That Trump Bribed Fla. AG Bondi” please click HERE)
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By Bryan Fischer. Voters who have wondered where Donald Trump stands on the abortion issue need wonder no longer.
Trump today made perhaps the most pronounced pro-life move a presidential nominee has ever made by declaring a specific pro-life platform for his presidency and putting a prominent and unapologetic pro-life leader in charge of his pro-life coalition . . .
Here are [some of] the specific things he pledges to do if elected president:
Nominating pro-life justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Signing into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide.
(Read more from “Trump Makes YUUUGE Pro-Life Commitment” HERE)
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Donald Trump Calls for Permanently Banning Taxpayer Funding of Abortions
By Steven Ertelt. Donald Trump today has issued a call to make permanent the Hyde Amendment that bans almost all federal taxpayer funding of abortions and is credited with saving the lives of over 1 million Americans from abortion. Trump-‘s call comes as Hillary Clinton is campaigning in reversing Hyde and forcing Americans to fund free abortions for women with their tax dollars.
Every year, Congress is forced to fight the battle to protect Americans from being forced to pay for abortions with their tax dollars. Democrats annually fight the pro-life budget provision and hope they can eventually reverse it should they take control of both the White House and Congress.
That has led to pro-life groups calling to the adoption of a permanent law putting Hyde in place long-term and making it more difficult for pro-abortion forces to reverse. Today, Trump announced his support for such a law.
The call for banning taxpayer funding of abortions comes in a new letter from Trump. Trump commits to a new policy: “Making the Hyde Amendment permanent law to protect taxpayers from having to pay for abortions.” (Read more from “Donald Trump Calls for Permanently Banning Taxpayer Funding of Abortions” HERE)
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump ruffled a few feathers, including those of former congresswoman and shooting survivor Gabrielle Giffords, when he pointed out what he perceived to be rival Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy on Second Amendment issues.
Giffords, who was a Democratic U.S. representative from Arizona when a would-be assassin shot her in the head, took exception to the rhetoric Trump used during a speech in Miami this week.
After insisting Clinton wants to dismantle the constitutional right to bear arms, Trump suggested the former first lady’s security guards should get rid of their guns first.
“They should disarm,” he told a crowd of supporters. “Right? I think they should disarm immediately. Take their guns away. She doesn’t want guns … let’s see what happens to her.”
He went on to assert the result would be “very dangerous.”
Trump made a similar point the same day on Twitter.
Crooked Hillary wants to take your 2nd Amendment rights away. Will guns be taken from her heavily armed Secret Service detail? Maybe not!
Along with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, Giffords put public pressure on the brash billionaire to apologize.
In a statement following Friday’s speech, the couple described Trump as “dangerously unfit” to serve as president, citing his comments about Clinton’s bodyguards as the latest evidence.
The joint statement noted Trump’s previous acknowledgement that he regrets some of his more incendiary rhetoric, expressing a desire he will “immediately renounce these comments, apologize to Hillary Clinton, and acknowledge that once again he has gone dangerously too far.”
Other public figures joined the couple in their dismay over the statement.
.@realDonaldTrump tells Miami crowd take away Clinton's "bodyguards" and let's see what happens to her. What?? And they both have USSS
The Giffords-Kelly statement was not the only official denouncement of its kind. In a statement from campaign manager Robby Mook, the Clinton campaign not only criticized Trump’s comments but alleged the GOP nominee “has a pattern of inciting people to violence.” (For more from the author of “Critics See Potential for Violence in Trump’s Call to Disarm Clinton Bodyguards” please click HERE)
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Yesterday a bomb went off in the Chelsea section of New York City, after an earlier bomb went off in Seaside, New Jersey. Donald Trump announced the bombing at his next scheduled event. The media went into a frenzy because Trump called a bombing a bombing before city officials confirmed.
They even asked Hillary Clinton about Trump’s remarks right after she called the incident a bombing herself on her campaign plane.
It is not irresponsible to call a bombing a bombing. That is in fact what happened and what social media networks were calling it. What the media don’t realize is that Americans are sick and tired of being lied to.
Almost contemporaneously to Trump calling it a bombing, the mayor of New York, Bill DeBlasio, was quick to rule out terrorism even before authorities had conducted a full investigation. You don’t see Clinton attacking him. No, she’s talking about how she’s in contact with him.
So let’s recap the past 24 hours: a bombing at a Marine Corps 5K in Seaside, New Jersey; a bombing in the Chelsea area of New York City; the discovery of a secondary Al-Qaeda-style pressure cooker bomb in NYC; and a jihadist stabbing spree at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. But of course the media aren’t incredulous at DeBlasio calling the bombing “intentional” but not terrorism.
Is there any wonder why Trump has taken a lead in the presidential race? People are hungering for their leaders to speak the truth about terrorism, not to continue to obfuscate and lie. (For more from the author of “Media Upset With Trump’s Honesty Around NY Bombing” please click HERE)
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The first wave of polling after Hillary Clinton’s literal collapse over the weekend has started to be released. It’s a Trump rout. In the 11 polls released today, Trump leads seven and tied in two. Voters are reacting to their gut instincts after Clinton was caught lying about her health and giving Trump higher levels of support.
Here’s a quick snapshot of the recent polling as aggregated by RealClearPolitics.
In that polling are some state jumps. The most significant being in Ohio and Iowa. Polls in both of those states have shown large gains for Trump versus prior polling.
The words “SHOCK POLL” are probably the most overused in the political commentary business. But what just got released in Iowa fits that bill. A Monmouth poll released today in Iowa shows Trump with an eight-point lead. This is a jump from its previous poll. The poll was taken from Monday, September 12 to Wednesday, September 14, 2016.
There have been three polls released in Ohio over the past two days. Trump leads in all of them. All of them were taken, at least in part, after Hillary’s collapse over the weekend. CNN/ORC and Bloomberg both show Trump with a five-point lead, and Suffolk shows the lead at three points. Clinton leads in only one poll of the state taken in September. That CBS/YouGov poll is looking more and more like an outlier.
Hillary Clinton’s comments calling half of Trump’s supporter “deplorables,” and her being caught lying about her health have combined to move the needle in Trump’s favor. What seemed like a sure thing for a Clinton win just three short weeks ago is now a competitive race. If the election were held today, it is anyone’s guess who would win. (For more from the author of “Trump Just Had a Monster Polling Day” please click HERE)
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Donald Trump received a standing ovation coming and going at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., on Friday.
The theme of Trump’s speech was the centrality faith must play if America is to reclaim its heritage of greatness.
Academy Award winning actor Jon Voight introduced the candidate saying, “If God allows truth to be said and heard, we will see Donald Trump as the next president of the United States of America. He will lift the dark cloud that hovers over us now.”
“Our media culture often mocks and demeans people of faith,” Trump observed. “Your values of love, charity and faith built this nation.”
He promised, “In a Trump administration, our Christian heritage will be respected like never before. That includes religious liberty.”
Trump stated that faith in God has “the power to heal, the power to unite, the power to make all of us live better lives.”
“Our faith in God will lead us back to unity,” he believes.
A pledge that the GOP nominee made that particularly appealed to the Values Voter crowd was to repeal the so-called Johnson Amendment, which threatens churches and religious organizations with the loss of their tax exempt status if they take positions regarding political candidates.
Trump promised repealing the Johnson Amendment, which was passed in the 1950s, would be easy.
He joked that the repeal of the measure is “the only way I’m getting to heaven.”
Another issue that really resonated with the summit attendees was his commitment to support school choice.
“As your president, I will be the biggest cheerleader for school choice you’ve ever seen,” the candidate stated.
“School choice also means parents can home-school their children,” he said, which generated resounding applause.
Trump sees school choice as central to his new civil rights agenda, which he has proposed to help lift minorities out of poverty.
He said school choice is clearly the right thing to do, and there is one reason Hillary Clinton opposes it: “She is controlled like a puppet by special interests.”
Trump also addressed the future of the United States Supreme Court, noting that the next president will not only be replacing the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat, but as many as four others.
He contended if, “You pick the wrong people [for the high court] you won’t recognize your country.”
The candidate argued the stakes could not be higher: “It will determine whether we remain a constitutional republic.”
Trump closed reiterating that he believes the key to uniting a divided America is a renewal of faith, which recognizes that we are all God’s children, made in His image.
He stated, “Together we will make America believe again, we will make America united again, and we will make America great again.” (For more from the author of “Trump Contends Faith in God Key to Reuniting Country, Restoring Greatness” please click HERE)
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Hillary Clinton is world-renowned as a “habitual and serial liar”. She’s also an exteremely arrogant woman who will continue Barack Obama’s divisive and hateful behavior, only she won’t be as charming about it. She appears nasty and aloof because that is who she is. And this latest video confirms it.
The sad thing is half the country is just fine with this. Hillary could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and it wouldn’t matter.
Her arrogance is why she had a personal server and continues to lie about it. The American people are beneath her.
At a New York fundraiser, she demonized “half” of Trump’s supporters as “baskets of deplorables” who are “racists, sexists, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it”. The rest are just “baskets” of pathetic people who think “the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them.”
She called Trump followers “irredeemable”.
How dare she characterize people that way — half are haters and the other half are childlike idiots That is so insulting and condescending, words hardly can describe it. She has given it new meaning.
The only thing that is deplorable is her arrogance. It’s breathtaking.
We no longer have immigration, we have a welcomed invasion of illegal immigrants and unvetted asylum seekers but if we complain, we’re xenophobes and racists. If we want a private bathroom, we’re homophobes, and if we say a thing about a woman, we’re sexists. Expect to hear a lot of that last accusation if she wins the presidency.
She tried to walk it back today, saying she was “grossly generalistic”. You simply can’t take something like that back.
Look at this next brief clip. The first is Hillary behaving incredibly arrogant towards a congressman. She failed to properly supervise her embassies, particularly a most endangered one and she’s arrogant about it. In the next, she throws her support behind Soros’s anti-police, deceitful and violent hate group, Black Lives Matter – calls them “dignified”.
This is “deplorable” for traditional Americans who are being disposed and replaced. (For more from the author of “HILLARY’S ROMNEY MOMENT: More Than 47% of Trump Supporters Are Scum, According to Your Abuela” please click HERE)
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