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Harry Reid Praises Trump as ‘a Very, Very Smart Man’

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Harry Reid had high praise for President Trump calling him “smart” and hard to beat in a recent appearance.

“I used to think that Donald Trump was not too smart. I certainly don’t believe that anymore,” the former Senate majority leader told David Axelrod in an interview preview that aired Friday on CNN. “I don’t think he’s intellectually a powerhouse, but he is basically a very, very smart man. No matter what the subject, any argument he involves himself in, it’s on his terms.”

The 79-year-old Nevada Democrat said the Democratic presidential contenders should not be under the illusion that Trump would be beaten easily in 2020.

In August, he warned that his party’s presidential candidates were taking far-left positions that were hurting their chances of beating Trump. He specifically pointed to “Medicare for all” and decriminalized border crossings as two potentially hazardous positions for Democrats.

Reid held his Nevada Senate seat from 1987-2017 and was the leader of the Democratic conference from 2005 to 2017. He announced he would not be running for reelection in 2016 after an injury left him blind in one eye. Sen. Chuck Schumer from New York is now the leader of the Senate Democrats. (Read more from “Harry Reid Praises Trump as ‘a Very, Very Smart Man'” HERE)

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Harry Reid Asked Obama to Help Menendez Donor

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Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid personally asked the Obama administration to help a Florida eye doctor who was accused of paying Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, according to the Department of Justice.

The senator asked Reid in November 2011 to pressure the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to drop its ruling against Dr. Solomon Melgen, wherein the agency claimed the eye doctor over-billed Medicaid for $8.9 million, Bloomberg reports.

Reid called a former Obama aide to reportedly try and apply pressure on the administration to intervene in the case, but the aide refused to get involved in the matter after he realized the case involved a single doctor and a federal agency.

Menendez is set to appear before a judge in early September along with Melgen, who is charged with bribing the senator with large sums of money, extravagant trips and campaign fundraisers at his 6,500-square-foot home in North Palm Beach, Fla., in exchange for his assistance in navigating government disputes. (Read more from “Harry Reid Asked Obama to Help Menendez Donor” HERE)

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Harry Reid Admits Unspoken Truth: Democrats Are Getting Old

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Retirement or the presidential campaign trail in 2020? Oddly enough, that’s a choice some 2020 presidential prospects for the Democratic Party may have to consider.

he conundrum was pointed out by none other than the 77-year-old outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (F, 2%) Washington fixture for the last three decades who retired this month.
During a practice question and answer session with aides before appearing at his last luncheon with Senate Democrats, Reid made some pointed comments about the elderliness of his party’s potential 2020 presidential prospects.

New York Magazine reported:

Another aide brought up Joe Biden’s recent remark that he was thinking about running for president in 2020. “Would you support him?” she inquired.

“It depends on who’s running,” Reid replied. “It appears we’re going to have an old-folks’ home. We’ve got [Elizabeth] Warren; she’ll be 71. Biden will be 78. Bernie [Sanders] will be 79.”

Come to think of it, it might be kind of fun to watch Biden host bingo in the Villages as a 2020 fundraiser. (Warren and Sanders would probably complain the system is rigged.)

Putting that aside, it’s a wonderful thing that Leader Reid said this now, so Republicans don’t have to later.

If anyone with an “R” behind their name had said it, they’d be called “ageist.” Now it’s a bit of common ground Republicans finally may have found with Reid during his final days in Washington. Ha. (For more from the author of “Harry Reid Admits Unspoken Truth: Democrats Are Getting Old” please click HERE)

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Fearmongering Harry Reid Is Spewing Lies About Obamacare

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Democrats have lied about Obamacare from the beginning, but outgoing Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., apparently intends to tell the biggest lie of all as he exits the Washington scene.

In an interview about whether Republicans in Congress would make good on their promise to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Reid said, “You get rid of Obamacare, people are going to die.”

President Barack Obama’s promise that if we liked our doctor we could keep our doctor turned out not to be true, and so did his pledge that health care premium costs would go down. As millions of Americans eventually found out, they went up.

But a politician failing to keep his promises, as egregious as those two were, pales in comparison to Reid’s outrageous and baseless comments that “people are going to die” if the failing law is repealed and replaced.

Perhaps what Reid should consider are the real-life stories of people who have lost their lives because of Obamacare.

People like Frank Alfisi, who was refused dialysis in the emergency room because of a new Medicare regulation put in place via Obamacare. Or Julie, a mother of four, who delayed seeking medical attention waiting for her new government-approved insurance to kick in because her family’s private health care had been canceled. Or Linda, a Nevada woman who was delayed in getting treatment for a brain tumor because of enrollment snafus in her state’s Obamacare exchange.

Though Reid offered no proof for his comments, he seemed to suggest that repealing the unaffordable Affordable Care Act would cause the health care insurance marketplace to collapse—and that this was the GOP’s plan, stating, “Can you think of … something more cold and calculated than that.”

Yet, it is because of Obamacare that next year, 33 states will have fewer insurers offering individual coverage on the exchanges than they did this year.

The country’s largest health care provider, UnitedHealthcare, announced last April that it was pulling out of the majority of the exchanges due to high costs. Humana also says it is cutting back, and Blue Cross Blue Shield has already moved to reduce its offerings in several states.

If Reid is so concerned about the collapse of the health care marketplace, perhaps he and his pal House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should have read the Obamacare bill before they, without one Republican vote, passed it.

And let’s be clear about one other matter.

The majority of new health care enrollments via Obamacare came by putting people on Medicaid. And as studies show, not only do patients with Medicaid receive poorer care than those who have private insurance, but because of low reimbursement rates, more and more doctors are refusing to accept Medicaid patients, meaning individuals on Medicaid are having a harder time finding primary care doctors and specialists to treat them.

So just because someone has been given a Medicaid card with their name on it doesn’t mean they are able to get the health care they need. All Obamacare has done is added millions more people to a program that was already failing the people it is supposed to serve.

Democrats’ refusal to see the truth about Obamacare and how it is hurting the American people is one of the main reasons Republicans won the presidency and retained control of both the House and Senate.

Somebody needs to tell Harry. (For more from the author of “Fearmongering Harry Reid Is Spewing Lies About Obamacare” please click HERE)

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Did Harry Reid Take a $2 Million Bribe? The Feds Won’t Let Investigators Find Out

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There are allegations that outgoing U.S. Senator Harry Reid, D-Nev. (F, 2%) may have accepted a massive bribe to push a bill legalizing online poker nationwide in 2010. And the federal government has reportedly “stymied” the investigation into those allegations.

Tom Harvey and Jennifer Dobner report for The Salt Lake Tribune that Davis County Attorney Troy Rawlings is investigating the origins of a $2 million cashier’s check with connections to an online poker company that was laundered through “Mail Media LTD” — an outfit for laundering online-gambling funds — and may have landed in a Marshall Islands bank account in the name of a holding company “to benefit, or even bribe, Harry Reid, the once-powerful majority leader.”

According to their reporting, “state and federal investigations, court filings and public records requests — including audio recordings of interviews and thousands of pages of transcripts, summaries by investigators, emails, requests for evidence and other materials — show that the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI failed to pursue a vigorous investigation of this money and any potential tie to Reid.”

The matter was brought to Rawlings’ attention when “disgraced” businessman Jeremy Johnson confessed that the money came out from a now-defunct business where Johnson and his cohorts illegally processed payments for poker companies. Johnson told FBI agents and Rawlings that Sen. Reid was going to get “a little something extra” in exchange for political help.

Rawlings’ investigation into the route of the $2 million check picked up the trail from two former Utah attorneys general of interest, with the officials’ suspicious actions motivating Rawlings to further pursue the case. Harvey and Dobner of the Tribune report:

The available evidence contains no direct connection between the money and the Nevada Democrat, only that Rawlings wants to dig into that possibility.

Federal authorities have stymied his effort, leaving Rawlings to wonder why. Were agents ordered to steer clear of that money trail? And, if so, by whom? In short, was there a cover-up? […]

Even at the state level, though, Rawlings’ push for funding for a grand jury also has stalled. Attorney General Sean Reyes’ office has not turned over any funds for such an inquiry despite months of negotiations.

Johnson had claimed to authorities at the time of Reid’s contentious 2010 reelection bid against Republican Sharon Angle, his company SunFirst was asked to distribute poker funds to Reid through various donors at a July 6, 2010 fundraiser.

The Salt Lake Tribune documents the following events thereafter:

Reid, according to Johnson, told the crowd — including Bitar, Ifrah and Poker Players Alliance Executive Director John Pappas — that he was switching positions and would now support legislation to ensure that online poker was legal at the federal level. Pappas said in an interview that he didn’t remember what Reid said at the meeting.

In his multiple accounts of the meeting, and specifically in a February 2014 interview with two FBI agents, Johnson has said, “Harry Reid is going around meeting people and saying ‘Hi’ and I was standing next to one of Ray’s entourage and I’m like, ‘How did you guys get Harry Reid to go against his own constituents and do this?’ and he’s like, ‘Well, let’s just say he’s getting a little something extra in his retirement fund.'”

Attorney Troy Rawlings has asked federal agencies for evidence linking Reid to this bank account. But while they have been happy to investigate other figures of interest, they have blocked efforts to gain information about the Democratic Senate minority leader: “Rawlings said he has been told by federal authorities to ‘forget Harry Reid.’”

A month after Sen. Reid’s reelection in 2010, he began campaigning in Congress to legalize online poker.

According to Tom Harvey and Jennifer Dobner, “Reid’s spokeswoman did not return emails and a phone message seeking comment for this story. Previously, his office called any bribery allegations “unsubstantiated” and accused Rawlings of grandstanding to advance his political career.” (For more from the author of “Did Harry Reid Take a $2 Million Bribe? The Feds Won’t Let Investigators Find Out” please click HERE)

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Liar Harry Reid Makes Wild FBI Claims. Does Anyone Believe Him?

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The corrupt, buffoonish Nevada senator, Harry Reid, D-Nev. (F, 2%) is at it again. You remember in 2012 when Reid said that Mitt Romney “hasn’t paid any taxes for 10 years,” a claim that the Washington Post gave “Four Pinocchios.” Now, Senator Reid is saying that the FBI is withholding information about Donald Trump and Russia, in the wake of the FBI reopening the probe into Hillary Clinton’s emails. Reid’s claim has a serious ring of déjà vu.

Here’s what Vox is reporting Reid is saying:

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says that FBI Director James Comey is sitting on ‘explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government.’

Comey isn’t telling the American public what he knows about Trump and the Russians, Reid says. But, he says, Comey seems eager to dish dirt on Hillary Clinton.

How can Reid expect the American public to believe him, after defending his previous lie to CNN with, “Well, Romney didn’t win, did he?”

Chris Cilliza of the Washington post called Reid’s answer to CNN “appalling.”

And yet the clip above shows Reid, in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, not only refusing to apologize for the claim but defending it — in a very weird way.

‘Romney didn’t win, did he?’ Reid said in response to Bash’s question of whether he regretted what he had said about Romney.

Think about that logic for a minute. What Reid is saying is that it’s entirely immaterial whether what he said about Romney and his taxes was true. All that mattered was that Romney didn’t win.

It was a rare glimpse into the tactics of the Left. A win-at-all costs mindset that has little regard for truth permeates everything they do. While we know that Hillary Clinton did, in fact, use a home-based email server — and that the server processed classified information — nothing has ever been disclosed about a secret Trump and Russia link.

When pressed about the connection, all Reid’s camp would say is: “There have been classified briefings.”

That raises the question. If the briefings are classified, and did in fact happen, isn’t Reid breaking the law? Something he is now accusing Comey of doing?

Reid, of course, has been no stranger to corruption. Judicial Watch (JW) has put him on their “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” list time and time again. In March of 2015, when Reid decided against running for reelection, JW highlighted the corruption scandals Reid has alleged involvement in.

JW highlights that in 2006, Reid allegedly violated: “Senate rules by concealing a seven-figured payoff on a suspicious land deal orchestrated by a longtime friend known for political bribery and mob ties.” In 2012, Reid was allegedly “embroiled in an influence-peddling scandal involving a Chinese “green energy” client of a Nevada law firm run by his son Rory.” Then, in 2013, Reid allegedly took “more than $130,000 in illegal campaign funds from a shady donor, Harvey Whittemore, who eventually went to jail.” And lastly, Reid allegedly “abused his authority to pressure the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to expedite a $115 million foreign investor visa deal critical to his son’s casino client.”

When trying to determine if yet another one of Harry Reid’s outlandish claims has merit, remember to look at his past actions. When you do, you can chalk this one up to “Well, (insert name of political opponent here) didn’t win, did he?” (For more from the author of “Liar Harry Reid Makes Wild FBI Claims. Does Anyone Believe Him?” please click HERE)

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Harry Reid’s Senate Tirade Against Trump Looks Like Another Violation of Senate Ethics Rules

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Last week, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) went on a tirade on the Senate floor blasting Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He referred to him as a “spoiled brat,” “a con artist” and a “human leech who will bleed the country.”

His speech likely violated Senate ethics rules. Members of both the Senate and the House are prohibited from conducting political campaign activity in a federal building. The applicable ethics rule states, “The General Appropriations statute, 31 U.S.C § 1301, provides that official funds are to be used only for the purposes for which they were appropriated. No official resources may be used to conduct campaign activities.”

This wouldn’t be the first time Reid has attacked the Republican presidential nominee from the Senate floor right before the election. In 2012, he accused Mitt Romney in a speech of not paying taxes for most of the past 12 years, and directly addressed his campaign for president, “This week we learned Mitt Romney only wants to be president of half of the United States. If Mitt Romney were president, he wouldn’t waste time worrying about the 47 percent of Americans who he believes are victims, who Romney believes are unwilling to take personal responsibility.”

A senior Senate Republican aide told The Hill, “He’s campaigning on the Senate floor. It’s the taxpayer-funded Senate floor. The speech had nothing to do with the Senate. It was a pure campaign speech. You couldn’t give it in the rotunda. You couldn’t give it in my office. It’s a taxpayer-funded building.” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) piled on after Reid’s speech, continuing the criticism of Romney.

Selective enforcement

Unfortunately, no one seems willing to enforce this ethics rule when it comes to members of Congress. According to The Hill, the ethics rules have been narrowly “interpreted as a ban on receiving or soliciting campaign contributions in Senate buildings,” ignoring the overall prohibition against campaigning generally. Yet they aren’t even the same statute. While 31 U.S.C § 1301 generally prohibits political campaign activities, 18 U.S.C § 607 specifically prohibits soliciting campaign funds on federal property. There is also another narrow ethics rule that is enforced, a prohibition on using video of congressional proceedings in a campaign video. Consequently, Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was found to have violated this rule, and he took down the offending video.

The laws appear to be selectively enforced — against underlings not so fortunate to be members of Congress. Federal employees and appointees of the executive branch have similar restrictions under the Hatch Act, which prohibits them from engaging in partisan political activity on federal property or while on duty. The Office of Special Counsel found in July that Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro violated the Hatch Act when he promoted Hillary Clinton for president during an interview with Katie Couric in April. He was considered to be on Clinton’s short list for a possible presidential running mate at the time, and he even said on air that his statement was made in his personal capacity, but it didn’t matter.

If allowed to continue, Reid’s speeches against Trump will no doubt influence the election. A powerful Senate majority leader using his bully pulpit to denounce the presidential candidate, which is broadcast on C-SPAN and repeated throughout the news, will carry significant weight with American voters — the precise thing the Hatch Act and congressional ethics rules were drafted to prohibit.

Time for an investigation

Senator Reid should not be above the law. Castro’s actions were far less egregious than Reid’s, yet he was found in violation of the Hatch Act while almost no one other than Megyn Kelly of Fox News has questioned the propriety of Reid’s speeches. It is long overdue for Congress to start policing itself, instead of protecting fellow members in some kind of good old boys’ club. This contributes to why Americans have such a low approval rating of Congress. There needs to be an investigation by the Senate Rules Committee into Reid’s speeches and he must be prohibited from making any more campaign speeches against Trump prior to the election. Otherwise, what’s to stop Republican members of Congress from giving speeches against Hillary Clinton? Clinton would be wise to condemn Reid’s actions. (For more from the author of “Harry Reid’s Senate Tirade Against Trump Looks Like Another Violation of Senate Ethics Rules” please click HERE)

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Watch: Tom Cotton Eviscerates Harry Reid on Senate Floor for ‘Cancerous’ Leadership

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Senator Tom Cotton (B, 80%) took to the floor of the Senate today and ripped apart the “bitter, vulgar, incoherent ramblings” of Senate Democrat Minority Leader Harry Reid (F, 2%).

Reid (D-NV) has been saying the bill, sponsored by Sen. John McCain, was “written in the dark of night” and has been “grinding the Senate to a halt all week long” saying there hasn’t been time to read the bill. Cotton accused Reid of slandering the National Defense Authorization Act in his speeches on the Senate Floor.

“It’s been public for weeks! And this coming from a man who drafted Obamacare in his office and rammed it through this Senate at midnight on Christmas Eve on straight party-line vote…that is an outrageous slander!”

Cotton noted that all the Democrats on the Armed Services Committee voted for the bill in committee and that the bill could have passed “unanimously” two days ago.

Further, Cotton blasted Reid for complaining that the Senate is not in session enough.

“Whatever you think about that, the happy by-product of fewer days in session in the Senate is that this institution will be cursed less with his cancerous leadership.”

Senator Reid dismissed Cotton’s comments on the floor later that day.

“I think it would distract from what we’re doing here today to go into the statements by the very junior senator from Arkansas,” Reid said. (For more from the author of “Tom Cotton Eviscerates Harry Reid on Senate Floor for ‘Cancerous’ Leadership” please click HERE)

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What’s Been Going on With Harry Reid the Past Couple Days?

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid has had a wild past few days. Reid told a fellow Democrat he wants him to lose, forgot how many grandchildren he has, and told Sen. Rand Paul on the Senate floor he can’t imagine how his “good father” feels about Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, Reid couldn’t stay on message and split with Sen. Chuck Schumer and other senior Democrats and said that Hillary Clinton if elected should re-nominate Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. That same day while speaking in the senate, he broke protocol and directly addressed the presiding officer, who at the time was Sen. Paul.

“Mr. President I’m sorry to direct attention to the presiding officer but I can’t imagine how the presiding officer must feel with Donald Trump being the leader of the Republican Party. I can’t imagine. I can’t imagine what your good father thinks of Donald Trump leading the Republican Party,” Reid said.

He added, “But I can imagine and I have a number of times.” Rand Paul has said he will support Trump while his father Ron has come out against the billionaire businessman . . .

The following day, Thursday, Reid let everyone have it. “Since the Republican leader is all in for Donald Trump, you can only assume he approves Trump’s calling immigrants rapists and murderers,” he said. He added that McConnell agrees, “with Trump’s view that women are dogs and pigs. You can only assume that he’s not repulsed by his behavior toward women.” (Read more from “What’s Been Going on With Harry Reid the Past Couple Days?” HERE)

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Despicable Weasel Harry Reid (Which Is the Term He Prefers, I Hear) Finally Breaks the Hypocrisy-Meter

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In advance of Harry Reid’s press call on the Supreme Court this afternoon, AR2 thought it was important to again point out his past hypocrisy and his tendency to play politics with this issue.

Remember, in 2005, Reid said on the Senate floor that nowhere in the Constitution “does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees ‘an up or down vote.’”

What’s even more ludicrous than his clear hypocrisy now is the fact that he refuses to acknowledge it. He was pressed on this by Chuck Todd on Meet The Press but continued to obfuscate and even claimed, “I’ve always, I’ve been very firm,” on this issue.
In the immediate aftermath of Justice Scalia’s death, Reid’s strategic calculation was already at work, trying to score political points by urging President Obama “to pick someone to pressure Senate Republicans:”

“Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and several other Democrats, for instance, want Obama to pick someone to pressure Senate Republicans — someone who they would ordinarily support but are only opposing now because it’s an election year.”

The bottom line is the Harry Reid does not care about the American people’s opinion and does not want them to have a voice in the make-up of Supreme Court. His deliberate political posturing is beneath the legacy of Justice Scalia and the American people should be very aware of his attempts to circumvent their voice from this process. (For more from the author of “Despicable Weasel Harry Reid (Which Is the Term He Prefers, I Hear) Finally Breaks the Hypocrisy-Meter” please click HERE)

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