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Democrat Leaders In House And Senate Refuse To Condemn Comey’s Incitement Of Violence Against Trump

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Democrats are not moved by former FBI Director James Comey’s beachcombing, social media post apparently calling for the assassination of President Trump. Try finding a Democrat condemning it.

In fact, The Federalist specifically asked Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Whip Rep. Katherine Clark, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar if they planned to condemn Comey’s post. No response.

Comey’s post was a photo of seashells in the sand set in the formation of numbers “86 47” captioned, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”

Of course, 47 is a nickname for President Donald Trump, the 47th president. There is a long tradition of referring to presidents by their number.

And as any beat cop knows, 86 is slang for “get rid of” or “assassinate.” They know, because law enforcement makes it a point to understand threatening language.

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Comey’s Latest Novel Might Be The Smoking Gun Proving He Intended To Threaten Trump

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Yesterday, James Comey caused quite the stir when he went on Instagram and posted a picture of a shell formation on the beach — obviously one he made — that spelled out “86 47,” which many interpreted as a threat on President Trump’s life.

Since then, everyone’s been arguing over the definition of “86.” As slang goes, it has a wide variety of uses, some of which are more innocent, such as when you run out of a menu item at a restaurant you “86” it or when you get kicked out of a bar for being too drunk or unruly you’re said to be “86’d.” But it is also been used by the Mafia and the military to refer to killing people, and well, it’s a little harder to swallow that the man who prosecuted the Gambino crime family wasn’t aware of its more sinister meaning.

However, it gets worse than that for Comey. After posting the offending shell photo, the very next post on Instagram was him posting the favorable Publisher’s Weekly review of his third crime novel, out next week. What’s it about, you ask?

Former FBI director Comey (Westport) reunites the protagonists of his first two legal thrillers for his strongest outing yet. U.S. attorney Carmen Garcia is trying to take down Samuel Buchanan, a far-right media personality with a popular podcast vilifying those he thinks are destroying America: intellectuals, immigrants, and people of color. Garcia believes Buchanan went far beyond the protection of the First Amendment when he singled out his enemies by name and suggested “something should be done” about them. His fans have obliged, killing or grievously injuring some of his foes. In a series of tense and exhilarating courtroom scenes, Garcia works with Deputy U.S. Attorney Nora Carleton to bring Buchanan down. Then, just as they’ve convicted him, a new threat emerges …

(Read more from “Comey’s Latest Novel Might Be The Smoking Gun Proving He Intended To Threaten Trump” HERE)

Inflation Numbers Showed Trump Was Right About Egg Prices And CNN Isn’t Taking It Well

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Data released Tuesday shows that egg prices dropped 12.7 percent last month — the “biggest monthly decline since 1984.” The report follows weeks of President Donald Trump telling Americans that egg prices were falling — welcome news after the cost of eggs rose for 17 out of the past 19 months, according to CNN. But the left-wing legacy outlet is scrambling to process the eggcellent news.

CNN’s David Goldman wrote Tuesday that “For months, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that egg prices are tumbling. It wasn’t true then, but it’s true now.”

Goldman continues:

“Despite Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins’ far more conservative estimate that egg prices would normalize in the summer, Trump last month said, ‘as you know, the cost of eggs has come down like 93, 94% since we took office.’ Those percentage declines Trump stated are not close to accurate – but we now know that consumer egg prices were, indeed, falling sharply when Trump made those remarks (the Consumer Price Index data wasn’t out yet to confirm or deny Trump’s claims).”

CNN admits egg prices “were, indeed, falling sharply when Trump made those remarks,” but a few sentences later bizarrely still claims the “timing of his claim” was wrong.

Translation: Trump said something that turned out to be true (egg prices fell), but because we didn’t have the same data at the exact moment Trump said it, he was wrong. (Read more from “Inflation Numbers Showed Trump Was Right About Egg Prices And CNN Isn’t Taking It Well” HERE)

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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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