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Democrat ‘Election Deniers’ Try To Overturn Election Of Their Own Party Vice Chair

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For years, Democrats have decried Republicans as “election deniers,” even using the phrase to justify lawfare against then-former President Donald Trump. But as it turns out, when elections don’t go their way suddenly the process is flawed and democracy is negotiable.

On Monday, the credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) voted to overturn the results of an election that led to 25-year-old David Hogg being selected as a party vice chair. (Hogg survived the 2018 Parkland School shooting.)

But the DNC committee argued the election did not follow proper parliamentary procedures. The decision “will put the issue before the full body of the Democratic National Committee,” according to The New York Times. The DNC will then decide “whether to force Mr. Hogg and a second vice chair, Malcolm Kenyatta, to run again in another election later this year,” according to the report.

The committee moved to deny the election results after one of the losing vice chair candidates, Kalyn Free, claimed the party “had wrongly combined two separate questions into a single vote, putting at a disadvantage the female candidates because of the party’s gender-parity rules,” according to The Times. (Read more from “Democrat ‘Election Deniers’ Try To Overturn Election Of Their Own Party Vice Chair” HERE)

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John Kennedy Compares Qatar to Hannibal Lecter as Trump Continues Middle East Tour

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Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said he doesn’t completely trust Qatar as an ally following President Donald Trump‘s visit to the Middle Eastern country.

Qatar gifted the United States a $400 million jet that Trump accepted, immediately raising ethical and constitutional concerns.

“American foreign policy is an enduring struggle between values and interests. We know American values, freedom, the rule of law, personal responsibility, merit, and equal opportunity, but not all countries, most countries, don’t share those values. Take Qatar, for example, they don’t share any of those values,” Kennedy said Thursday on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. “Do I trust Qatar? Of course not. They will eat your liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”

Kennedy was referencing the movie Silence of the Lambs, in which the main character, Hannibal Lecter, describes eating a human liver with fava beans and a glass of Chianti. (Read more from “John Kennedy Compares Qatar to Hannibal Lecter as Trump Continues Middle East Tour” HERE)

Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

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The Supreme Court is hearing its first set of Trump-related arguments in the second Trump presidency. The case stems from the executive order President Donald Trump issued on his first day in office that would deny citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily. The executive order marks a major change to the provision of the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to people born in the United States, with just a couple of exceptions.

Immigrants, rights groups and states sued almost immediately to challenge the executive order. Federal judges have uniformly cast doubt on Trump’s reading of the Citizenship Clause. Three judges have blocked the order from taking effect anywhere in the U.S., including U.S. District Judge John Coughenour. “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour said at a hearing in his Seattle courtroom.

The Supreme Court is taking up emergency appeals filed by the Trump administration asking to be able to enforce the executive order in most of the country, at least while lawsuits over the order proceed. The constitutionality of the order is not before the court just yet. Instead, the justices are looking at potentially limiting the authority of individual judges to issue rulings that apply throughout the United States. These are known as nationwide, or universal, injunctions. (Read more from “Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Case Over Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order” HERE)

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Videos: Trump Receives Grand Reception as First U.S. President to Officially Visit Qatar

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President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to officially visit Qatar on Wednesday, and he received a grand reception suited to the historic occasion.

Trump departed Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for Qatar, marking his embarkment on the second leg of his trip to the Middle East this week.

Qatari F-15s met Air Force One in the sky and escorted it to Doha.

The emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, greeted Trump on the tarmac when he arrived in the capital. (Read more from “Videos: Trump Receives Grand Reception as First U.S. President to Officially Visit Qatar” HERE)

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‘Dumbest F**king Thing’: Democrats Are Absolutely Furious at Lawmaker Trying to Impeach Trump

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Democratic Michigan Rep. Shri Thanedar brought seven articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the House floor Tuesday night, forcing the House to vote on them by Thursday and placing him in a precarious position among other Democrats.

Thanedar’s articles of impeachment, which he announced on April 28, have reportedly been met with rebuke from several of his fellow Democrats, with House Minority Whip Katherine Clark saying party leadership plans to block the measures. Meanwhile, Democratic Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who represents a neighboring district, sharply criticized Thanedar’s legislative record, without appearing to mention the articles, and endorsed his far-left primary opponent Democratic Michigan State Rep. Donavan McKinney.

While on the floor, Thanedar noticed his impeachment files as privileged, forcing the House into a Thursday deadline to vote on them. However, it is likely lawmakers from both parties will back a motion to table the impeachment articles, effectively killing Thanedar’s effort.

Clark, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, said in a Democratic Caucus meeting that the party’s leadership in the lower chamber plans to table the backbench Michigan lawmaker’s articles on Wednesday afternoon, NOTUS reported citing two people familiar with her comments.

Democratic New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, who notably served as a manager during Trump’s 2019 impeachment, called Thanedar’s measures “idiotic” and “horrible” during the same meeting, according to an anonymous source quoted by NOTUS. (Read more from “‘Dumbest F**king Thing’: Democrats Are Absolutely Furious at Lawmaker Trying to Impeach Trump” HERE)

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House GOP Calling for Action Against Dems Accused of ‘Storming’ ICE Facility

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House Republicans are warning that consequences are in store for three Democratic colleagues the Trump administration accused of “storming” a detention facility in defense of illegal immigrants last week.

“Look, there’s three possible disciplinary actions in Congress that the House can take,” Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters at his weekly press conference Wednesday.

He noted the House could censure, a symbolic rebuke with no further repercussions that requires a simple majority vote – a move Johnson said “probably does seem appropriate here.”

Johnson noted the Republican majority could also boot them off their committees, or even expel those lawmakers – though he noted that required a significantly higher threshold.

“Now, expulsion requires a two-thirds vote. That’s not likely with margins that are this small. But, you know, we’re looking at what is appropriate,” he said. (Read more from “House GOP Calling for Action Against Dems Accused of ‘Storming’ ICE Facility” HERE)

Trump Shares Plan for a Revamped Middle East

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President Donald Trump hailed progress toward peace across the Middle East in an address in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, urging the region to pursue economic development rather than Iran’s “self-destructive” path.

Trump made the comments during a speech in Riyadh shortly after meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump vowed to continue America’s strong partnership with the Saudi government and also condemned Western “interventionalist” policies that have brought disaster in the Middle East.

“If the responsible nations of this region seize this moment, put aside your differences and focus on the interests that unite you, then all humanity will soon be amazed at what we will see here in the geographic center of the world, and the spiritual heart of its greatest faiths,” Trump said.

“Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past, and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos; where it exports technology, not terrorism; and where people of different nations, religions, and creeds are building cities together, not bombing each other,” he added.

“It is crucial for the wider world to note, this great transformation has not come from Western interventionalists flying in with lectures on how to live or how to govern your own affairs. The gleaming marvels of Riyadh and Abu Dhabi were not created by the so-called nation-builders, neo-cons, or liberal non-profits like those who spent trillions failing to develop Kabul and Baghdad,” he continued. (Read more from “Trump Shares Plan for a Revamped Middle East” HERE)

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Qatar’s Offer of Gift of Presidential Jet to Trump Encounters Turbulence in Senate

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday promised Senate “scrutiny” of the proposed gift from the government of Qatar of a Boeing 747-8 valued at $400 million to be used as an Air Force One by President Donald Trump for the remainder of his term.

“I don’t think there’s anything official out there. This is a hypothetical, and I’m sure that if and when there is, it’s no longer hypothetical,” Thune, R-S.D., said at a press gaggle that included The Daily Signal.

“I can assure you there will be plenty of scrutiny of whatever that arrangement might look like,” the Senate Republican leader added.

“There are lots of issues around that I think will attract very serious questions if and when it happens,” Thune said.

On Sunday, the president confirmed reports that he had accepted the offer of a $400 million aircraft from the Qatari government. Boeing is currently under contract to deliver a new Air Force One, but the project has been delayed. The president characterized the Qatari gift as a result of good will between the two nations. (Read more from “Qatar’s Offer of Gift of Presidential Jet to Trump Encounters Turbulence in Senate” HERE)

Trump Is Right To Prioritize Refugees Who Will Make Better Americans

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On Monday, dozens of South Africans — primarily white Afrikaner farmers — arrived in the United States, having been granted refugee status by the Trump administration. The propaganda press responded by implicitly accusing the administration of hypocrisy and racial bias. Yet this criticism is not only disingenuous — it reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and limits of America’s refugee and asylum policies.

A new South African law means white farmers could have their land taken away without being paid for it. Though framed as a correction to apartheid-era injustice, the law has created an environment where racially motivated persecution may become institutionalized. In response, the Trump administration announced both an investigation into South Africa and the approval of refugee status for 60 individuals fleeing the persecution.

Under current U.S. law, a refugee is described as a foreigner who may face persecution in his home country on the basis of “race, religion, nationality, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group.”

The refugees will land in Virginia before taking up residence in 10 states, according to The Washington Post.

Teo Armus, writing for The Washington Post, framed the administration’s decision as a racially charged exception: “Trump shut out refugees but is making White South Africans an exception.” (Read more from “Trump Is Right To Prioritize Refugees Who Will Make Better Americans” HERE)

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Transgender Athlete Wins Girls’ High School Event As Battleground State School Rebels Against Trump’s Executive Order

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. . .As we all know, President Donald Trump inked an executive order to ban transgender athletes from female sports, but the problem is that we still have multiple states who are completely defying the order.

One of those states is Pennsylvania, where they had a trans runner stealing first place recently at the SOL American Conference Championships, specifically the 200-meter race that took place in Horsham.

Formerly known as Sean, Luce Allen won the championship after narrowly “beating” the runner who finished second place, a female. The margin of the finish was less than two-hundredths of a second. Footage from the event shows Allen appearing a lot larger, as well as more muscular, than the females participating.

The parents of Allen stated prior that it would be “cruel” to “force” a biological male to compete against other biological males, and that Allen should be permitted to participate in female running due to that being how the transgender “identifies.”

“My child is a female in her heart and soul, and according to her medical labs. Having her play sports with males would be cruel,” said Sarah Hansen, the mother of Allen, per the Philadelphia Inquirer. Via a lawyer, Allen issued a statement that read, in part, “If you remove the ability of trans people to compete with a team that corresponds with their gender, then you’ll strip them of their opportunity to develop as people.”

(Read more from “Transgender Athlete Wins Girls’ High School Event As Battleground State School Rebels Against Trump’s Executive Order” HERE)