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Republican Donor Sues GOP for Fraud

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A retired attorney in Virginia Beach is so incensed that Republicans couldn’t repeal the Affordable Care Act that he’s suing to get political donations back, accusing the GOP of fraud and racketeering.

Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court, saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they weren’t going to be able to overturn the law also known as Obamacare.

The GOP “has been engaged in a pattern of Racketeering which involves massive fraud perpetrated on Republican voters and contributors as well as some Independents and Democrats,” the suit said. Racketeering, perhaps better known for use in prosecuting organized crime, involves a pattern of illegal behavior by a specific group.

The lawsuit lists as defendants the Republican National Committee and Virginia’s two national GOP committee members, Morton Blackwell and Cynthia Dunbar, as well as the Republican Party of Virginia and state party Chairman John Whitbeck.

In an email, Blackwell dismissed Heghmann’s complaint as a “frivolous, nuisance suit that should be thrown out of court by any judge.” (Read more from “Republican Donor Sues GOP for Fraud” HERE)

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Who Are the Top Candidates to Replace Gen. John Kelly at DHS?

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With the appointment of Gen. John Kelly as President Trump’s chief of staff, the top vacancy at the Department of Homeland Security has again opened up.

Since the George W. Bush administration created the DHS in 2001, the DHS secretary has engaged in a variety of roles. But in the Trump era thus far, the department has seemingly been refined to focus on border security, illegal immigration, and Islamic terror issues.

Here’s a look at the potential candidates to become the next homeland security chief.

Rick Perry

Bloomberg reported Wednesday that Energy Secretary Rick Perry has emerged as a possibility for the post. His position on immigration, however, might disagree with president’s nationalist base. As governor of Texas, Perry supported programs that allowed illegal immigrants to obtain in-state tuition. In the 2012 Republican presidential primary, Perry controversially said his rivals didn’t have enough “heart” on the immigration issue.

Rep. Michael McCaul

Before Gen. Kelly was appointed as DHS head, Texas Rep. Michael McCaul was rumored as a frontrunner for the post. McCaul, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, is regarded by immigration hawks as a “pro-amnesty” politician who isn’t liable to make good on President Trump’s campaign promise to secure the border. Nonetheless, Politico recently described McCaul as a “leading candidate” for the job, citing several White House officials.

Jeff Sessions

The sitting attorney general and former Alabama senator has fallen out of favor with the president, leading some to believe he would be better suited at DHS. Sessions has long been seen as an ally to the president’s nationalist supporters on border security and immigration.

Elaine Duke

While the search for an official replacement continues, deputy secretary Elaine Duke will continue to lead DHS as its acting director. She has worked in government (in both Democrat and Republican administrations) for almost 30 years as a civil servant.

Kris Kobach

Like AG Sessions, the Kansas secretary of state is a border and immigration hawk. He is currently leading President Trump’s commission on voter fraud.

Who else?

Other reported candidates for the position include Homeland Security Adviser Tom Bossert, acting ICE director Thomas Homan, former DHS deputy secretary James Loy, and Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas.

Before Trump assumed office, potential nominees for the post originally included Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, N.J. Governor Chris Christie, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, California Rep. Duncan Hunter, former Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Smith Walker, Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, and Ambassador John Bolton. (For more from the author of “Who Are the Top Candidates to Replace Gen. John Kelly at DHS?” please click HERE)

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Disturbing Pelosi Tie to GOP Congressman Shooting

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When a Bernie Sanders-loving, leftist gunman shot Rep. Steve Scalise and three others during a GOP baseball practice June 14, the U.S. Capitol Police elite tactical team mistakenly headed to Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s house several miles away, according to an internal investigation by the department.

The scene of the shooting was at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in Alexandria, Virginia.

But the Capitol Police team instead headed for Pelosi’s waterfront home on 30th Street in Georgetown, which is 7.2 miles, or a 20-minute drive, north of the baseball stadium.

Now Capitol Police have opened an internal investigation to determine why the officers were directed to Pelosi’s house, reported Bloomberg, which cited “two people familiar with the matter” who requested anonymity “to speak about the sensitive incident.”

“The Alexandria incident continues to be an ongoing investigation. We do not comment on ongoing investigations,” Eva Malecki, a Capitol Police spokesperson, told Bloomberg Monday. (Read more from “Disturbing Pelosi Tie to GOP Congressman Shooting” HERE)

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The REAL Reason for GOP Hypocrisy

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So, when it was impossible to repeal or replace or do anything about Obamacare because President Obama was in the Oval Office with his veto pen?

As the Daily Caller noted here: “Forty-eight current Republican senators supported the 2015 Obamacare repeal bill, including Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.”

Then? Then the unexpected, as explained here by Republican Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey recently. The headline: “Sen. Pat Toomey on health care delay: I didn’t think Trump would win presidency.”

The story says, in part: “‘I didn’t expect Donald Trump to win. I think most of my colleagues didn’t. So we didn’t expect to be in this situation,’ Pat Toomey, R-Pa., said Wednesday […] The Pennsylvanian senator isn’t the only GOP lawmaker working on health care who also wasn’t expecting the Trump presidency. ‘I didn’t think President Trump had a chance at winning,’ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said in an interview with a local Kentucky TV station in December 2016.”

And now? Now that there is in fact a President Trump sitting at Obama’s old desk, pen in hand and ready to sign a repeal of Obamacare? Again, the Daily Caller: “Two Republicans senators who voted to repeal Obamacare in 2015 now say they will not support a similar bill by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […] Now Murkowski and Moore Capito oppose the McConnell measure.”

The utter hypocrisy here is breathtaking. This is a flat-out betrayal of one of the biggest GOP promises since the days of opposition to slavery.

There is room for disagreement on how to go about the repeal. This amounts to a discussion of whether the glass is half full or half empty. Is the GOP bill cementing Obamacare in place — as per Senator Rand Paul? Or is it a move, however tepid, toward a free-market system?

When it says of the “Obamacare Republicans”: “The Obamacare Republicans ran on fiscal discipline but they rejected the best chance for entitlement reform in a generation. They campaigned against deficits—and some like Mr. Moran and Nevada’s Dean Heller have endorsed a balanced-budget amendment—yet they dismissed a $1.022 trillion spending cut. They denounced Obamacare’s $701 billion in tax increases but then panicked over repealing ‘tax cuts for the rich.’”

Particularly startling in all this mess was this comment, again per the WSJ, from Utah’s Senator Mike Lee: “Mr. Lee opposed the first draft of the bill in part because it ‘included hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the affluent.’ He opposed the new version for ‘not repealing all of the Obamacare taxes.’”

One can only be gobsmacked that any Republican United States Senator has picked up the class warfare thinking of the Obama Left by protesting against “hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the affluent.”

So, what do we have here when all is said and done? (And it must be noted, there are kudos for Texas Senator Ted Cruz and his ceaseless efforts to get something done that has some relation to principle.)

What we have is one very, very confused Republican Party.

The party of the free market is making it abundantly clear that it is really the party terrified of the liberal media and Democrats picturing them as so many Ebenezer Scrooges for wanting to take away a new entitlement … in spite of the fact that said entitlement is crashing and burning around them and is surely at the root of some future national financial calamity, as was witnessed with the infamous Community Reinvestment Act that eventually contributed to the financial collapse of 2008.

Note well that the CRA, passed in 1977 at the instigation of President Jimmy Carter, passed the House by a vote of 384-26, with 18 of those 26 nays coming from Republicans. Other than those 18 — conservatives of the day with names like California’s John Rousselot and Bob Dornan, Ohio’s John Ashbrook, and Illinois’ Phil Crane — the rest of the House Republicans sided with Jimmy Carter, Tip O’Neill, and liberals.

Decades later, of course, the financial house of cards they set in motion crashed. As Mark Levin notes in “Rediscovering Americanism”: “The progressives’ interference with the housing market through the Community Reinvestment Act resulted in the collapse of that market, a calamitous disaster for millions of homeowners who lost the equity in their homes or lost their homes outright.”

Exactly. But now, as in 1977, progressives have interfered with a giant chunk of the American economy, this time the American health care system. And as demonstrated in the GOP-controlled Senate, there are Republicans today, as in 1977, all too willing to side with the progressives as they buy in to the same reasoning for not repealing Obamacare that they bought in passing the CRA.

The idea was succinctly and fatuously expressed this time by West Virginia’s Shelley Moore Capito: “As I have said before, I did not come to Washington to hurt people.”

Except, of course, she is. Obamacare has ruined health insurance for many Americans, and, yes, as noted here, it has even proved fatal for some. (In that cited case of Long Islander Frank Alfisi, who was denied needed dialysis because of Obamacare rules, at his death, Mr. Alfisi’s daughter was told by her father’s doctor, “You can thank Mr. Obama for this.”)

There is a serious problem here — a problem that has nothing to do with health care. The problem? Far too many Republicans have been politically gulled into buying the progressive argument about the role of government, because they fear being painted as an elected version of Scrooge or, worse — because they genuinely buy in to leftist/progressive dogma about the role of government.

This is in complete opposition to the founding principles of the country, not to mention those of the GOP. And it produces disasters like refusing to repeal Obamacare or going along with disasters waiting to happen, like the Community Reinvestment Act. As Rush Limbaugh has asked in the wake of this disaster: “What’s the point of voting Republican?”

In sum, too many Republicans (most prominently, today, Senators Murkowski and Capito) are ignoring the wisdom of Ronald Reagan.

“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”

(For more from the author of “The REAL Reason for GOP Hypocrisy” please click HERE)

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House Votes for Transgender Military Fighting … The Weather

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If you had told me 10 years ago that there’d be a vote in the U.S. Congress over whether to fund sex-change operations in the military and to task our military to fight against the weather, I’d have said such an initiative would garner the support of a handful of the most extreme Democrats from New York and San Francisco. Yet after yesterday’s votes in the House, we’ve now reached a point when not to support these absurdities is the minority view in Washington.

It also demonstrates just how far to the Left the entire body politic has moved and explains why conservatives, through their soft bigotry of low expectations, have tolerated so many acts of political adultery from the GOP — as long as they are half a step to the right of the Democrats.

Yesterday afternoon, the House convened a marathon session to vote on a series of amendments to the FY 2018 defense bill (NDAA), which authorizes $688 billion for the Pentagon and related defense spending. As I warned in June, the NDAA provides us with a unique opportunity to end the egregious social engineering in our military, some of which is being dealt with by the Trump administration and some of which, unfortunately, is not. In other words, the policies are more important than the debate over spending figures. There are two amendments that are worth highlighting.

Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., proposed an amendment to strip out recently inserted language tasking the military with fighting … the weather! At a time when we are confronted with Islamic jihadists, Iran, North Korea, and China, the House Armed Services Committee added a provision to the NDAA making it the mission of the military to “address combatant commander requirements resulting from climate change over the next 20 years.” Sadly, this effort is broadly supported by Sec. of Defense James Mattis and the other liberals still running the Pentagon. Yet Perry’s effort to strip out the provision and actually focus the military on … you know … fighting the enemy, failed by a vote of 185-234. Every Democrat and 46 Republicans voted against the Perry amendment and for a global warming brigade.

After focusing our military on fighting the weather, what else can we do to destroy their morale and turn the pride of the nation into a laughingstock in the eyes of the enemy?

Well, we can create a transgender brigade and pay for sex-change operations and hormone therapy in the military. Rep. Vicki Hartzler, R-Mo., proposed an amendment to bar the funding of sex-change operations in the military. Yet once again, 24 Republicans joined every Democrat to uphold taxpayer-funded castration in the military.

Here are the 24 Republicans:

Amash (MI-03)

Bergman (MI-01)

Coffman (CO-06)

Comstock (VA-10)

Cook (CA-08)

Costello (PA-06)

Curbelo (FL-26)

Denham (CA-10)

Dent (PA-15)

Faso (NY-19)

Fitzpatrick (PA-08)

Issa (CA-49)

Katko (NY-24)

Knight (CA-25)

Lance (NJ-07)

LoBiondo (NJ-02)

MacArthur (NJ-03)

Mast (FL-18)

Reed, T. (NY-23)

Reichert (WA-08)

Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27)

Shuster (PA-09)

Stefanik (NY-21)

Tenney (NY-22)

It’s not just the absurdity of debasing our military and the logistical nightmare of promoting transgenderism in the military. By covering sex-change operations with taxpayer funding, this means someone can sign up for the military and secure an immediate paycheck but delay deployment for as long as two years of his tenure. Such a person gets at least two years after the surgery for hormone therapy and must be certified “stable” in his or her new gender before deployment, all the while taking up the slot of someone without a terrible mental disorder who could be deployed to defend this country.

Some might observe that most Republicans indeed voted against this insanity and that this was the work of just 24 Republicans. But notice the closeness of the vote – 209-214. When Republican leaders want a certain outcome, such as passing a phony health care bill or a Democrat budget, they make sure they get the votes. They do everything short of waterboarding conservative members to fall in line. No such whipping took place with these votes. In fact, all but a handful of Republicans were probably relieved the amendment was voted down and just voted no because they knew it wouldn’t pass. Leadership couldn’t care less about any of our priorities.

As we watch Republicans move so far to the Left on health care in a matter of just a few months, these votes provide a background into just how successful Democrats are in pushing the Republican Party to the Left. Just a few years ago, Paul Ryan was talking about making even Medicare and existing government-run programs more free market. Now, almost every Republican believes in destroying the market in even the little remaining private sector. Then again, a party that can’t stand up for the most self-evident truths of natural law and natural science in the military during a time of international peril most certainly cannot understand or articulate free market health care.

We now live in a society where both parties essentially believe it’s settled science that weather changes are immutably driven by human behavior, but a Y chromosome can really be changed to an X. (For more from the author of “House Votes for Transgender Military Fighting … The Weather” please click HERE)

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CONFIRMED: Another “Suicide” Connected With DNC Emails, Alleged Russian Hackers

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A Republican donor and operative from Chicago’s North Shore who said he had tried to obtain Hillary Clinton’s missing emails from Russian hackers killed himself in a Minnesota hotel room days after talking to The Wall Street Journal about his efforts, public records show.

In mid-May, in a room at a Rochester hotel used almost exclusively by Mayo Clinic patients and relatives, Peter W. Smith, 81, left a carefully prepared file of documents, including a statement police called a suicide note in which he said he was in ill health and a life insurance policy was expiring.

Days earlier, the financier from suburban Lake Forest gave an interview to the Journal about his quest, and it began publishing stories about his efforts in late June. The Journal also reported it had seen emails written by Smith showing his team considered retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, then a top adviser to Republican Donald Trump’s campaign, an ally. Flynn briefly was President Trump’s national security adviser and resigned after it was determined he had failed to disclose contacts with Russia.

At the time, the newspaper reported Smith’s May 14 death came about 10 days after he granted the interview. Mystery shrouded how and where he had died . . .

In the note recovered by police, Smith apologized to authorities and said that “NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER” was involved in his death. He wrote that he was taking his own life because of a “RECENT BAD TURN IN HEALTH SINCE JANUARY, 2017” and timing related “TO LIFE INSURANCE OF $5 MILLION EXPIRING.”

(Read more from “CONFIRMED: Another “Suicide” Connected With DNC Emails, Alleged Russian Hackers” HERE)

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Markwayne Mullin: Just another power-drunk RINO with no ideals

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Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., is the antithesis of a citizen legislator our founders had in mind when they called for a new nation founded upon new principles 241 years ago.

After “praying” for a number of months about breaking his term-limit pledge, Mullin made it official this week: He will seek a fourth term to represent Oklahoma’s Second District, a clear violation of two term-limit pledges he made in 2012 to serve just six years in the House.

What was his rationale? What did his prayers tell him?

“It’s important for Oklahoma to have people in a position to make a difference. The only way we can do that is to have people in key places.”

No, he is doing nothing on cutting spending, repealing Obamacare, and securing the border; that doesn’t seem to matter. What matters to Mullin is that he has become a member in good standing of the Ryan-McCarthy leadership team and now serves on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Too bad he didn’t use his seat on that all-powerful committee with jurisdiction over health care to demand full repeal of Obamacare. Instead, he went along with leadership from day-one to break the ultimate pledge to the voters on health care. Thus, why not break the term-limit pledge to continue in office so he can now better manage Obamacare than the Democrat he beat in 2012? After all, Mullin is now a deputy whip — a big boy in the failed Ryan leadership team. Yay, Oklahoma influence!

In 2012, Mullin was very clear about the purpose of the term limit pledge. He declared,
“I don’t want to be up there (in Washington) and become part of the problem,” and that “if we can’t accomplish anything in six years, it’s a waste of time anyway.”

He was right, in some sense. Once you are not part of the solution after six years, you will invariably become part of the problem. The swamp wants socialized medicine, and that includes the leadership in both parties. Sadly, this president has not offered leadership on health care and has accepted many of the premises of the Left.

Therefore, we need Republicans in Congress who actually understand the source of the health care problem and the free market solutions needed to restore freedom, prosperity, and economic independence.

Clearly, that is something lost on Mullin and the leadership hacks (although, to be fair, Mullin did tell some voters in 2012 that he thought the solution to the health care problem is single payer). In that sense, Mullin has fulfilled one campaign promise, because the only logical outcome of the GOP bill will be single payer, albeit a version of it that is perversely blamed on repeal of Obamacare … instead of Obamacare itself.

Yet, Mullin tersely dismissed his act of political adultery with the typical “nobody is perfect” strawman: “I don’t think there’s one person that’s never changed their mind six years apart from each other or how they would approach things.”

In many respects, Markwayne Mullin embodies the Republican Party. There is nothing so righteous as a Republican out of power, and nothing so perfidious as a Republican in power. They are all good at talking the talk and inveighing against the system when Democrats are in power.

But, in reality, they have no fixed principles and do not subscribe to the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence. Thus, their political positions are solely about strategic posturing to beat Democrats in pursuit of power, not to defeat the Democrat ideology. They just want a seat at the table.

Therefore, Mullin is placing such high value on being in leadership and having key committee assignments. This is not about repealing Obamacare, downsizing the federal government, reforming the courts, protecting our sovereignty, and reestablishing an America-first foreign policy. This is about the perks that come with the office.

Mullin is one of the House members who purchased stock of Innate Immunotherapeutics on Inauguration Day, after Rep. Chris Collins, R-N.Y., the largest stockholder and a member of its board, reportedly urged several GOP lawmakers to invest in the pharmaceutical company.

Mullin sits on the E&C subcommittee overseeing health care, which has oversight over the FDA at a time when the FDA was considering approval of an experimental drug produced by Innate. This is awfully suspicious for a member of Congress who has not made any major stock investments since taking office.

We seem to observe more coincidences in personal investments than coincidences that lead to conservative policy outcomes. God has a way of leading people to the priorities they pursue through their free will, and conservative ideals are not exactly the pursuit of members like Mullin — at least, not beyond campaign season.

For now, it looks like eastern Oklahoma voters will have a choice in the upcoming primary as to which priorities and what sort of influence they are looking for in Republicans. Jarrin Jackson, a West Point graduate and combat veteran, will likely seek a rematch with Mullin in the primaries.

With conservatives increasingly feeling the disappointment of a vacuous era of GOP control in Congress, the 2018 primaries will be the last recourse to try to leverage conservative outcomes, such as repeal of Obamacare. It offers the last great opportunity to repeal and replace those politicians who have made peace with Obamacare. And in the case of OK-2, voters will have a chance to replace a man who, by his own admission, shouldn’t even be on the ballot. (For more from the author of “Markwayne Mullin: Just Another Power-Drunk RINO With No Ideals” please click HERE)

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Standing Together Against Evil

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As long as the media, entertainers, and other public figures blatantly mock God, authority and laws, we will continue to witness horrific manifestations of evil like we saw in the attack on GOP representatives and senators in Alexandria, Virginia. If Americans continue to cast aside the principles upon which freedom stands, the blessings freedom offers will be lost. There is no substitute for the power of transforming truth that sets us free and keeps us free.

This latest senseless and evil act was not caused by the election of President Trump, his administration, or what he is trying to accomplish for America. The worthy goals he seeks to fulfill are, in fact, necessary to help bring such evil action under control.

It is perfectly appropriate and essential for our nation’s leaders to call for prayer and divine guidance. This call from President Trump, Senator Schumer, Speaker Paul Ryan and others is the right immediate step. Do not accept the foolishness of any individuals or media personalities who attack these calls as somehow unconstitutional or out of place. Prayer is in perfect harmony with the heart of our founding fathers, the spirit of our Constitution, and that which is essential for the future of freedom.

Evil is a Present Reality

Every one of us is distracted by evil, often defeated by evil, divided by evil and, tragically, sometimes destroyed by evil. Evil is a present reality; and calling good evil, or evil good, or light darkness does not solve the problem. Evil affects every one of us on the planet in this present age and will until we are in the kingdom to come, where there will be no evil. Although we are all distracted by it, often deceived, and defeated by it, this individual shooter at the baseball field was sold out to and controlled by evil.

Many of the active forces we witness around the world are acts perpetrated by people who have sold out to evil, and those forces must be resisted and destroyed. This is the rule of God-ordained authority and government of the people, by the people and for the people. (Read Romans 13:1-4.)

A Return to Righteousness and Unity

Right now, it is critically important that everyone who has a relationship with God the Father and Creator pray fervently for a supernatural awakening and a return to true righteousness and unity that only truth can make possible. The invitation from God, “Come now, and let us reason together,” is an invitation to the entire nation to come and reason together. Though our “sins be as scarlet they will become as white as snow.”

There is no substitute for repentance and a return to God. “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him” (Isaiah 59:19).

The heated rhetoric must cease on all sides. Instead of name-calling we must be calling on the name.

God still promises, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land” (2 Chron. 7:14). There is hope for the healing God freely offers to those who follow that glorious pathway. (For more from the author of “Standing Together Against Evil” please click HERE)

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No, a KS GOP Rep. Did Not Threaten Colleague With Firearms

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This may be the dumbest story you read about today, but it’s gaining traction with the Left, so here we go …

A conservative state lawmaker in Kansas, Rep. John Whitmer, R, is under fire for tweeting a joke that – in context – is completely anodyne.

Kansas lawmakers voted Thursday on a bill that would exempt state mental hospitals, community mental health centers, and the University of Kansas Health System from a concealed carry law passed in 2013, establishing these places as gun-free zones.

Before voting on the bill, for reasons that are unclear, Republican lawmaker Rep. Stephanie Clayton tweeted that she was “so scared” about the upcoming vote.

Clayton, a liberal Republican, voted in favor of creating the gun-free zones. Conservative lawmakers in Kansas had ridiculed the legislation with the slogan “a sticker doesn’t make you safe,” a reference to the inability of a gun-free zone sticker to make a place safe from criminals with firearms.

Rep. Clayton does not care for that argument.

So Rep. Whitmer decided to have some fun with Clayton and tweeted a joke.

See, it’s funny because real conservatives understand that Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms makes us safer. So, if Clayton feels unsafe, there’s no need to worry since 25 state lawmakers are packing on the floor of the House, making the area safe from harm.

And the liberal media is running with the “Republican lawmaker threatens colleague with guns before vote” story, and Whitmer was pressured into deleting his tweet.

Per The Daily Kos, emphasis mine:

The tweet, aimed at a fellow legislator was in response to an ongoing debate regarding notifications on the doors abut gun free zones. The message was also a lot more profound: a man physically larger than a female legislator reminding her he and others are carrying a gun, and she’s on what they view as the wrong side of a piece of legislation. Talk about intimidation.

Raw Story picked up the Daily Kos’ version of events.

A Republican state representative in Kansas raised some eyebrows on Thursday when he reminded one of his Republican colleagues that he was carrying a gun on him just before she was set to vote on a bill that would have allowed state psychiatric hospitals to bar people from carrying guns inside hospital grounds.

And now fellow lawmakers are calling for Whitmer to be sanctioned for a joke. Not a threat. A joke.

The Daily Kos and Raw Story won’t be the last liberal outlets to run with the “gun-toting conservative threatens fellow lawmaker before vote” lie. But now you know the context of this story and can expose this fake news. (For more from the author of “No, a KS GOP Rep. Did Not Threaten Colleague With Firearms” please click HERE)

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GOP House Candidate Body Slams Reporter

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The race to fill Montana’s sole seat in the U.S. House of Representatives took a violent turn Wednesday, and a crew from the Fox News Channel, including myself, witnessed it firsthand.

As part of our preparation for a story about Thursday’s special election to air on “Special Report with Bret Baier,” we arranged interviews with the top two candidates, Republican Greg Gianforte and Democrat Rob Quist. On Wednesday, I joined field producer Faith Mangan and photographer Keith Railey in Bozeman for our scheduled interview with Gianforte, which was to take place at the Gianforte for Congress Bozeman Headquarters . . .

During that conversation, another man — who we now know is Ben Jacobs of The Guardian — walked into the room with a voice recorder, put it up to Gianforte’s face and began asking if he had a response to the newly released Congressional Budget Office report on the American Health Care Act. Gianforte told him he would get to him later. Jacobs persisted with his question. Gianforte told him to talk to his press guy, Shane Scanlon.

At that point, Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him. Faith, Keith and I watched in disbelief as Gianforte then began punching the reporter. As Gianforte moved on top of Jacobs, he began yelling something to the effect of, “I’m sick and tired of this!” (Read more from “GOP House Candidate Body Slams Reporter” HERE)

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