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No, Michael Moore, Hillary Will Never Be ‘America’s Pope Francis’

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Activist filmmaker Michael Moore’s latest documentary, “Michael Moore in TrumpLand,” has been the trending talk of both Hollywood and Washington, DC, since its release last week. In the film, Moore discusses Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rise to political prominence, then lays out a case for a Hillary Clinton presidency.

And because I know most won’t subject themselves to an hour-long Hillary PR fest — after all, you could just watch the mainstream media if you were looking for that that — I watched it to see what all of the hype was about. Much of it is what you’d expect from a Moore film: hyperbolic, foul-mouthed hippie socialism. But there was one part that absolutely confounded me: when Moore compares Clinton to Pope Francis.

The filmmaker suggests that Francis “kept quiet” on controversial matters like the LGBT movement (he didn’t) and his criticism of capitalism while he was a cardinal during the junta era in Argentina. But on the day he was appointed, Francis became the “people’s pope” — a universal symbol of unity (read: progressivism) in the church.

“He must have kept quiet all those years,” Moore says. “But he’s thinking, he’s planning. He gets all these other cardinals to think he’s some conservative a**hole from some South American dictatorship.”

Pope Francis rose to eminence, according to Moore, because “he bided his time.” Clinton, he argues, has done the same, allowing her husband and even President Barack Obama to take credit for her political ideas. But this presidency could be “her Pope Frank moment.”

“What if Hillary becomes our Pope Francis?” Moore asks his audience. “What if all this time … this has been part of her long game?”

The multi-millionaire filmmaker claims that Clinton was never taken seriously as a young politician. She was ridiculed for her appearance and discriminated against because she was a woman. Until now, the American people have simply failed to notice all of the good things she’s done to improve the lives of citizens.

Moore goes on to paint a picture of a President Hillary Clinton who champions radically progressive issues by signing executive order after executive order — from allowing all illegal immigrants to remain in the country, to releasing all nonviolent drug offenders from prison, to banning high fructose corn syrup. But none of this will happen, he warns, unless the American people “get behind her” and don’t “abandon her” like they have in the past.

Moore’s portrayal of Clinton as a holy figure stands in clear contrast with his depiction of Donald Trump as a fiendish tyrant, more diabolical and dangerous than any individual the country has ever witnessed. He calls Trump a “human Molotov cocktail” that appeals particularly to lower-class white men because he challenges “the system that stole their lives from them.”

According to “TrumpLand,” male Trump supporters are like dying dinosaurs, roaring at the top of their lungs because they believe having a woman in the White House will secure their demise. But there’s good news, he claims: Hillary — and all women, for that matter — are harmless. Moore claims that men are responsible for all that is wrong with the world. They built the first smokestacks, after all. They’re more likely to commit murder, rape, or carry out mass shootings.

“Whatever you’re afraid of does not wear a dress … Or a pantsuit,” he says.

I have news for Michael Moore: Hillary Clinton will never be “America’s Pope Francis.” It’s not because she’s a woman, or because she wears pantsuits, or even because she’s unlikeable. It is because Hillary Clinton has a thoroughly documented history of cronyism and class warfare, of attacking religious freedom and dismembering the family, of money-grubbing and power-grabbing.

Moore’s therapeutic, spiritual, secularist approach may convince some Americans to vote for his saintly rendering of the Democratic presidential nominee. But anyone who dares to hold Moore’s claims against the real Hillary Clinton will see how utterly absurd this comparison truly is.

Clinton is not some wild-card candidate with an obscure past who’s full of surprises. She’s revealed her character time and time again — and it’s been consistently terrible. If there’s one thing Pope Francis and Hillary have in common, it’s the fact that they both have public track records. Those who really want to research the truth about these public figures can readily do so. Those who don’t are free to blindly wander around Michael Moore’s “Lala land.” (For more from the author of “No, Michael Moore, Hillary Will Never Be ‘America’s Pope Francis'” please click HERE)

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There Is No Place for Me in Hillary’s America

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I consider myself a patriot, someone who believes in the Constitution, the rule of law and representative government.

Under a President Hillary Clinton, none of those will any longer exist.

Electing Hillary will mean, quite literally, the end of the United States as it was originally designed.

The Constitution will be de facto obsolete; the rule of law will be arbitrarily applied dependent upon one’s financial status or political clout; and we will have a government driven by crony capitalism and political expediency, benefitting only the rich and powerful, and one conspicuous for corruption, fraudulent elections and pseudo-representation.

Under Hillary’s open borders policy, the United States of America will be neither United nor America. It will not be a melting pot, a nation guided by the notion of E Pluribus Unum, but a collection of simultaneous arguments, where the only thing we have in common is our differences.

It will mean a president, who is, without any doubt, hopelessly corrupt and a pathological liar.

It will mean that the organs of government will not be used to enforce the law, but to enforce the political whims of Hillary Clinton, courtesy of the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service.

Because, when blatant and outrageous lies are no longer sufficient to soothe the electorate into complacency, such a government must begin to curtail freedom and oppress the people in order to pursue its policies and remain in power.

For me, one who traveled in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the Cold War, Hillary’s approach to government has a familiar ring.

In “Mountain of Crumbs”, a memoir of childhood in the 1960s and 1970s propaganda-soaked Soviet Union, Elena Gorokhova explains the meaning of “vranyo”, the Russian word for “a white lie or half-truth:”

“In Russia we played the ‘vranyo’ game on a daily basis. The government lied to us, we knew they were lying, they knew we knew they were lying, but they kept lying anyway and we pretended to believe them.”

“In practice vranyo provided a coping mechanism for both unbearable tragedies and petty annoyances. Can’t feed your starving children? Tear up a piece of bread to make a mountain of crumbs and declare it an abundance of food.”

Or declare: the failed Obamacare a success, a moribund economy as booming, a world wracked by Islamic terrorism as safer, illegal immigration as beneficial or the Clinton Foundation as honest.

Angelo Cordevilla provides an insightful comment about the 2016 election:

Never before has such a large percentage of Americans expressed alienation from their leaders, resentment, even fear. Some two-thirds of Americans believe that elected and appointed officials — plus the courts, the justice system, business leaders, educators — are leading the country in the wrong direction: that they are corrupt, do more harm than good, make us poorer, get us into wars and lose them. Because this majority sees no one in the political mainstream who shares their concerns, because it lacks confidence that the system can be fixed, it is eager to empower whoever might flush the system and its denizens with something like an ungentle enema.

Hillary Clinton represents that wrong direction, the constipated status quo, while Donald Trump provides a laxative.

The United States under Hillary Clinton will become ungovernable. Millions of Americans, those “basket of deplorables,” who are the bedrock of the country will simply “tune out” the federal government and the media.

Without the Constitution, the rule of law, representative government, a recognizable culture or even defined borders, there is no reason to be patriotic and little reason to participate.

America will become Hillary’s dystopia, the ideological and the incompetent leading the unwilling to do the undesirable. (For more from the author of “There Is No Place for Me in Hillary’s America” please click HERE)

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Sellin holds a Ph.D. is a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel, a command and control subject matter expert, trained in Arabic and Kurdish, and a veteran of Afghanistan, northern Iraq and a humanitarian mission to West Africa. He receives email at [email protected].

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Donald Trump and the Alt-Right: How Dead Is That Moose?

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As I said on a recent British Christian radio show, I would vote for a dead moose strapped to a car hood to stop Hillary Clinton. She has told the UN that Christian beliefs on abortion will have “to be changed” because they threaten the “fundamental rights” of women. That’s legal language, a promise that the U.S. will correct a human rights “violation” under international law. Her profoundly corrupt foundation has taken tens of millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, where rape victims are tortured. Her closest aide, Huma Abedin, is a Muslim Brotherhood ally. Clinton’s policies would flood America with jihadists and “rapefugees.” Her team is trying to infiltrate and destroy my church. Do I really need to go on? Voting to stop her is an act as justified as halting a home invader.

That said, we need to know just how long the moose has been dead, since it’s oozing all over our car. Yes, there is Donald Trump’s personal squalor. But the only difference between him and John F. Kennedy is a live microphone — and the lack of reporters willing to turn aside as the president’s mistresses shuttle back between him, his brother, and various Mafia dons. Bill Clinton has credibly been accused of forcible rape. So let’s have no lectures about the “dignity” of the presidency. That beast died in the barn a long time ago. If you want a respectable head of state where grabby demagogues can’t sully that elevated office, set up a constitutional monarchy. The Brits, Swedes and Danes seem pretty fond of theirs. I bet we could snag a Habsburg.

The Alt-Right: Trump Whisperers

What really worries me about Donald Trump is what some of his most fervent Alt-Right supporters may be telling him: That Christianity is a self-destructive suicide cult that’s destroying Western society. It demands open borders, affirmative action, massive welfare programs that transfer wealth to recent immigrants, legal or not, and will end up exposing any Christian country to mass colonization by thuggish, theocratic Muslims.

Where would the neopagans and atheists of the Alt-Right get such crackpot ideas? Maybe from the words of some U.S. Catholic bishops, “progressive” evangelicals funded by George Soros, and a goodly number of orthodox evangelicals who take most or all of the stances I listed above, but who are also pro-life and pro-marriage. (That’s nice of them!)

The Alt-Right is the repulsive shadow cast by the preening of left wing Christians — the equal and opposite heresy such as Screwtape loves to gin up, to make sure that half of our ship is under water, while the other half is on fire.

The Other Faction of Margaret Sanger Fans

The Alt-Right, unhinged from real Christian doctrines — like equality before God, the brotherhood of man, and charity toward all — has proved to be a nasty reptile indeed. Let’s set aside the online trolls who send Jewish conservatives little cartoons of those writers dying inside a gas chamber. Dismiss as sociopaths those who troll National Review writer David French and his wife, referring to the child they adopted from Ethiopia as a “simian” (or worse), and calling French a “cuckold” or “race traitor.”

Let’s focus on those who want to rehabilitate “eugenics,” and rejigger our country’s welfare policies to discourage the birth of children to blacks and Latinos. Or how about those who go ever further, and wish to keep abortion legal, because they want to cut down the number of non-white children? Just reading what these people write will make you want to take a shower. If they sound like Margaret Sanger, that’s because they admire her ideas and want to carry them out, with a slightly different emphasis than Hillary Clinton.

Could the Alt-Right Lose the Election for Trump?

That we know, but could it be that the Alt-Right also is having a deeply destructive impact on the struggling Trump campaign, by blocking the candidate from genuinely appealing to conservative Christians? How else to explain his failure to highlight the frequent attacks on religious liberty, which is a burning issue for millions of Christians? How else to explain his bizarre failure to show genuine contrition when caught on tape saying grotesque things about a woman? Has he no idea what effect this has on many millions of Christian voters?

We are one of his natural constituencies, as the former majority now targeted by elites for official discrimination. But will he listen to us and shape his policies accordingly? A number of evangelical leaders have worked long hours speaking to Donald Trump, explaining our deep concerns about religious liberty, the First Amendment Defense Act, and solid protections for Christian schools, hospitals, and charities. When pressed, he has promised to support us and denounced the Johnson Amendment. But it has always seemed slightly grudging — especially compared to Hillary Clinton’s full-throated support of partial birth abortion and transgender madness. Trump has never spoken out in defense of beleaguered North Carolina, for instance, whose women and girls might lose their last shred of privacy in bathrooms and locker rooms, if the rich and haughty LGBT movement has its way.

Despite media caricatures, there’s no evidence that Trump holds Alt-Right views. He held conventional liberal views from much of his adult life. But have Alt-Right-sympathizing staffers convinced Donald Trump that Christianity really is nothing but pie-in-the-sky-when-you-die? That, say, showing contrition and asking for forgiveness is not noble and endearing, but ignoble and effeminate?

This is admittedly speculative, but how else to explain why Trump has not said and done such obvious things to appeal to Christian voters? If this is right, then it’s past time for him to correct course, shove aside the embittered tribalists, and embrace the real concerns of people of faith. If he doesn’t, millions of us might decide to sit out this ugly, embittered election. (For more from the author of “Donald Trump and the Alt-Right: How Dead Is That Moose?” please click HERE)

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New Project Veritas Video Reveals How Pay for Play Creates Access to Clinton, Obama

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Gaining access to Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama is a simple matter of cutting a check, according to a new video released by Project Veritas. (Mild language warning.)

In this video, Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe describes an undercover operation where his group bought a shell company that sent $20,000 to a Democratic operation called Americans United for Change (AUC). Top Democratic operative Robert Creamer and AUC were told that the money was rerouted through Belize. According to Creamer, the cash would likely gain O’Keefe’s “donor” access to both the Democratic presidential nominee and the current occupant of the White House.

O’Keefe said AUC returned the donation after the first in the current Project Veritas video series was released earlier this month. According to The Washington Times, however, AUC president Brad Woodhouse claims the money was returned because “it was discovered that this was a Donald Trump-funded James O’Keefe scam,” and “the last thing we want to be associated with is a character like O’Keefe, who has been convicted and successfully sued for his illegal tactics and fraudulent activities.”

A spokesperson for AUC did not immediately return The Stream’s attempt to clarify whether AUC would have returned the possibly illegal donation if it was not affiliated with O’Keefe’s organization. O’Keefe notes AUC held onto the money for a month before discovering his involvement.

The video is the fourth in a series that appears to show Creamer, former AUC operative Scott Foval and others engaging in illegal and disruptive actions to help Clinton win the White House in November.

The first video, released in mid-October, catches Foval and Creamer discussing how they incite violence at GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s rallies. The second presents the Democrats’ possibly illegal Get Out The Vote efforts, while the third video shows evidence of illegal coordination between Clinton’s campaign and outside groups.

Foval was fired from AUC after the first video was released, and Creamer resigned from Democracy Partners, a group he founded. Both men and both groups have denied any wrongdoing. (For more from the author of “New Project Veritas Video Reveals How Pay for Play Creates Access to Clinton, Obama” please click HERE)

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New Wikileaks Releases Show Clinton Staffers Worried About Her ‘Head’ in 2015

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Long before it became an issue in the 2016 campaign, the health of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton concerned two senior staffers, emails just released by Wikileaks reveal.

Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta asked in a September 26, 2015 e-mail, “How bad is her head?” The question was the only thing he asked campaign spokesperson Jennifer Palmieri in the message, which had the subject line, “Any sense of whether and when she wants to talk?”

Palmieri responded: “Don’t know. Huma left here about an hour ago. I just pinged again to ask about prep, haven’t heard back. She leaves at 6 pm for DC.”

That exchange was preceded by more than five months by an e-mail from close Clinton aide Huma Abedin. In a lengthy exchange about a Super PAC used by soon-to-be Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush and how the campaign should talk about “dark money in politics,” Abedin told Podesta, Palmieri, campaign manager Robby Mook and others, “She’s going to stick to notes a little closer this am, still not perfect in her head.”

Clinton’s only official event that day, according to the campaign’s website, was a roundtable event in New Hampshire.

It is unclear what spurred Abedin’s comment. She may have meant only that Clinton did not have had her notes memorized or was tired —or she may have been expressing a larger concern with Clinton’s health.

The health of both elderly candidates has been an undercurrent of the 2016 presidential season. Trump is 70, and has released relatively little information about his health. A year younger, Clinton has fallen on multiple occasions in the last seven years, including a very public collapse in September that her campaign attributed to pneumonia and exhaustion. Clinton also had a concussion in 2012, and broke fractured her arm in 2009.

Clinton has been targeted by Wikileaks for some time, including a release this week that showed her staffers were concerned that President Barack Obama may have lied when he said in early 2015 that he found out from the news that his former Secretary of State was improperly and illegally using a private server. Obama had exchanged e-mails with Clinton on the server before making the comments.

The Clinton campaign has steadfastly refused to address the information revealed by the many Wikileaks releases, declaring them untrustworthy because they were illegally procured and possibly tied to the Russian government. (For more from the author of “New Wikileaks Releases Show Clinton Staffers Worried About Her ‘Head’ in 2015” please click HERE)

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Hillary’s Climate of Hate

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\Who are the haters? Who are the autocrats? Who are the serial abusers of power?

Only one presidential candidate has wielded the sledgehammer of government against personal enemies.

Only one presidential candidate has exploited a spouse’s public office to exact revenge on political dissenters.

Only one presidential candidate has a quarter-century track record of taxpayer-subsidized demagoguery and class warfare.

And as the most recent undercover investigation by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas revealed this past week, only one presidential candidate has been directly linked to a scheme to foment chaos and violence at her opponent’s rallies.

Ignore the kindly grandma with the “Stronger Together” backdrop warbling about her happy family and singing the praises of diversity and inclusion. Look beyond the carefully manufactured semblance of bipartisanship and moderation.

Remember history — or rather, “herstory.”

Hillary Clinton isn’t just a nasty woman. She’s a ruthless hatemonger devoted wholly to two corrupt pursuits while on the federal teat: tearing down and cashing in.

To clueless millennials, “bimbo eruptions” might sound like a Trumpism. But it was vintage Team Hillary’s misogynistic moniker for horndog Slick Willie’s accuser outbreaks in the 1990s.

Respect for women? This is the snarling elitist who attacked Gennifer Flowers, a paramour of her cheating husband, as a “failed cabaret singer” whom she would verbally “crucify” if she had the chance.

Just how vindictive can Crooked Grandma be? Ask the people who know her best. David Watkins, a former top administrative aide from Arkansas in the Clinton administration, laid out the then-first lady’s central role in the crony-motivated White House travel office firings.

The Clinton’s old pal, Hollywood producer Harry Thomason, had pushed for wholesale dismissal of travel office staff in favor of their connected friends.

“We both know that there would be hell to pay,” Watkins informed Chief of Staff Thomas McLarty if “we failed to take swift and decisive action in conformity with the First Lady’s wishes.”

Indeed, Hill unleashed hell. Watkins was sacked under the guise of punishment for using a government helicopter as transportation to a golfing event — something that’s a privilege for presidents, not peons.

He was far from alone. Bill and Hill’s IRS (two for the price of one, don’t forget) targeted conservative think tanks and nonprofits. Bill and Hill’s FBI improperly and illegally accessed the files of countless citizens who inconveniently ruined the Clinton narrative.

And the woman who just weeks ago mauled millions of Trump supporters nationwide as “irredeemable” and “deplorable” is a pro at sweeping demonizations.

Remember: She made a name for herself attacking life-saving drug companies as greedy profiteers in the 1990s, even as she and her husband raked in their campaign donations.

Money-grubbers never change. While walloping drug companies again last year, she took more money from the nation’s top-15 largest pharmaceutical firms than all the other GOP candidates combined.

The two-faced, split-tongued politician who mocked Trump for calling out America’s rigged system came to power decrying the “vast right-wing conspiracy” to deflect from that blue dress her husband stained. She’s a menace to alternate media, to entrepreneurs, to honest, hard-working people, to the rule of law, public safety and national security.

When you tune out the manufactured noise and distractions, when you ignore the media squirrels and engineered scuffles, when you rip up the gender card and contemplate nearly 25 years of the politics of personal destruction and private enrichment — not to mention the standalone disqualifying scandals of Benghazi, Emailgate and the WikiLeaks disclosures — the choice should not be difficult.

You can take a gamble on the imperfect businessman who has never held public office. Or you can go with the guaranteed continuation of Hillary Clinton’s entrenched climate of hate and culture of corruption. Left, right or center, if you are opposed to Clintonian history repeating itself, you’ll take your chances with Trump. I am. (For more from the author of “Hillary’s Climate of Hate” please click HERE)

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How Hillary Pandered to the Press

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The WikiLeaks email trove is revealing more than the servility of “objective” reporters trying to please Hillary Clinton and her aides. It’s revealing the press strategy of Clinton and her aides — how they seek to praise reporters, even as they arrogantly stonewall them.

One internal campaign email exchange is salient. It discusses Clinton speaking at a Syracuse University event for the Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, which is so named for the deceased liberal New York Times political correspondent Robin Toner. Clinton had been invited as a keynote speaker.

Her aides discuss how she should try to please the journalists she’d been ignoring by mocking her tendency to avoid journalistic scrutiny. Press secretary Nick Merrill liked the draft of jokes that was sent around as a strategy that never surrenders, saying, “What I liked about it is that it provided a rare opportunity for her to show some contrition and self-awareness but do it under the guise of humor so as not to cede any ground.”

The Clintons never cede any ground and never relinquish their kung-fu grip on their own narrative and imagery. “Guise of humor?” Their contempt for their friends is astounding. The media may not like this, but it doesn’t stop their never-ending cooperation, hence the contempt.

Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri proposed that they “pretend everyone in the audience is a serious, on the level journalist trying to get the story right and cover serious issues in an absurdly difficult environment where speed and mass appeal are over valued.”

And she scripted the rest of the media-pandering approach: “Have her commend them on how hard they all work in this difficult environment to tell the facts, unearth important stories … if (Clinton) acknowledges that and says she and all thoughtful people appreciate the struggle the reporters in the room face, and how (important) it is that they keep at it, how needed they really are — (I) think that would go over really well.”

Clinton did exactly that. First, she admitted she was a control freak with the press, saying, “My relationship with the press has been at times, shall we say, complicated.” And she proclaimed: “I am all about new beginnings: a new grandchild, another new hairstyle, a new email account. Why not a new relationship with the press? So here goes. No more secrecy. No more zone of privacy.” She joked that they all had a nondisclosure agreement from her lawyer under their chairs.

Clinton slathered on praise. “You are facing fundamental questions that may not fit into 140 characters but are nonetheless vital to our democracy,” she said. “Too many of our most important debates occur in what I call an evidence-free zone, ideology trumping facts, made-for-cable shoutfests, Twitter storms, drowning out substantive dialogue and reporting that often leads to shallower more contentious politics and even no, or not the best, public policy.”

Clinton closed her remarks with a pitch for the media elite. “We need, more than ever, smart, fair-minded journalists to challenge our assumptions, push us toward new solutions and hold all of us accountable,” she said.

The result? A standing ovation.

Never mind that the Clintons resist at every turn any half-hearted efforts to hold them accountable for all of their scandalous behavior. The only journalism they really respect is the “journalism” that rips their enemies apart or blatantly promotes them as they dishonestly see themselves — as incredibly smart and compassionate public servants with no moral flaws worth noticing. (For more from the author of “How Hillary Pandered to the Press” please click HERE)

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New Wikileaks Release Shows Obama Knew About Clinton Email Use, May Have Lied to Public

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More than 18 months ago, President Barack Obama said he learned of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s e-mail practices “the same time everybody else learned it, through news reports.”

Within hours, Clinton aide Cheryl Mills told campaign chairman John Podesta that “we need to clean this up — he has emails from her — they do not say state.gov.”

While it has been known for some time that Obama knew of Clinton’s use of a private e-mail and even corresponded with her on it, this is the first evidence that Democratic operatives were concerned that the president had lied to the public.

A White House spokesman denied Tuesday that Obama had been dishonest:

“What the president said was an entirely factual response,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters during gaggle in Los Angeles, where the president was attending fundraisers.

“I recognize that some of the president’s critics have attempted to construct some type of conspiracy about the communication between the president and the secretary of state,” Earnest continued. “But they’ve failed to put forward a conspiracy that withstands any scrutiny, so I guess they are back to recycling thoroughly debunked conspiracies.”

Shortly after Obama addressed the e-mail issue in March 2015, Earnest insisted that Obama was unaware that Clinton was engaged in practices that violate federal policy and law. Mills’ comment indicates that this may not be the case.

Earnest also reiterated the Democratic talking point about not trusting the veracity of the e-mail leak. “I can’t verify the integrity of these emails,” he said, describing the e-mails as “stolen” and released “to undermine our democracy.” (For more from the author of “New Wikileaks Release Shows Obama Knew About Clinton Email Use, May Have Lied to Public” please click HERE)

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Clinton Accuser Rips CNN as Network Trumpets Another New Poll

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As CNN on Monday breathlessly announced yet another poll from media sources bearing good news for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, there was one very loud, dissenting voice.

Kathleen Willey, who accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct while she was a White House aide, started an avalanche of attacks against CNN by delivering a succinct denunciation of the network.

The flareup started innocuously, with CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeting out a preview of coming attractions.

A little while later, Willey pounced.

Tapper’s reaction seemed puzzled.

Willey had one more shot.

Her tweet referred to Charles Ortel, a writer and financial expert who has been critical of the Clinton Foundation.

Willey, who first told her story of being sexually assaulted in 1998 as part of the investigation into Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, has returned to the national stage this year in support of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

She found support for her position on Twitter.

Trump has also questioned the accuracy of polls, roundly attacking them as an example of media bias.

“What they do is they show these phony polls where they look at Democrats, and it’s heavily weighted with Democrats. And then they’ll put on a poll where we’re not winning, and everybody says, ‘Oh, they’re not winning,’” Trump said Monday in Boynton Beach, Fla. “The truth is, I think we’re winning.”

Trump has indicated he sees media bias and dubious polling as an extension of a larger issue in the campaign.

“There is nothing the political establishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense. The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself,” he said earlier this month.

“The most powerful weapon deployed by the Clintons is the corporate media,” Trump added. “Let’s be clear on one thing: The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda. And their agenda is to elect the Clintons at any cost, at any price, no matter how many lives they destroy. For them, it is a war — and for them, nothing is out of bounds.” (For more from the author of “Clinton Accuser Rips CNN as Network Trumpets Another New Poll” please click HERE)

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WSJ: Top Clinton-Allied Group Gave $468,000 for Senior FBI Official’s Wife’s Campaign

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The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports that groups affiliated with top Hillary Clinton ally Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe contributed nearly $700,000 to help a State Senate candidate whose husband oversaw the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s e-mails.

According to WSJ:

The political organization of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, an influential Democrat with longstanding ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, gave nearly $500,000 to the election campaign of the wife of an official at the Federal Bureau of Investigation who later helped oversee the investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email use.

Campaign finance records show Mr. McAuliffe’s political-action committee donated $467,500 to the 2015 state Senate campaign of Dr. Jill McCabe, who is married to Andrew McCabe, now the deputy director of the FBI.

The Virginia Democratic Party, over which Mr. McAuliffe exerts considerable control, donated an additional $207,788 worth of support to Dr. McCabe’s campaign in the form of mailers, according to the records. That adds up to slightly more than $675,000 to her candidacy from entities either directly under Mr. McAuliffe’s control or strongly influenced by him. The figure represents more than a third of all the campaign funds Dr. McCabe raised in the effort.

McAuliffe was one of the people who convinced Dr. McCabe to run for office, according to the Journal. An office spokesperson told the newspaper that McAuliffe “supported Jill McCabe because he believed she would be a good state senator. This is a customary practice for Virginia governors. … Any insinuation that his support was tied to anything other than his desire to elect candidates who would help pass his agenda is ridiculous.”

The FBI likewise said there was nothing untoward about McAuliffe’s support for Dr. McCabe, who was the third-largest recipient of Common Good PAC in 2015.

The FBI said in a statement that during his wife’s campaign Mr. McCabe “played no role, attended no events, and did not participate in fundraising or support of any kind. Months after the completion of her campaign, then-Associate Deputy Director McCabe was promoted to Deputy, where, in that position, he assumed for the first time, an oversight role in the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s emails.”

FBI officials said that after that meeting with the governor in Richmond on March 7, Mr. McCabe sought ethics advice from the bureau and followed it, avoiding involvement with public corruption cases in Virginia, and avoiding any campaign activity or events.

Mr. McCabe’s supervision of the Clinton email case in 2016 wasn’t seen as a conflict or an ethics issue because his wife’s campaign was over by then and Mr. McAuliffe wasn’t part of the email probe, officials said.

However, Mr. McCabe was involved both directly and indirectly in the Clinton investigation from the time it was launched 15 months ago. He initially oversaw the FBI’s D.C. field office, “which provided personnel and resources to the Clinton email probe.” In February 2016, Mr. McCabe was promoted to the FBI’s second-highest post, where he was a senior member of the group overseeing the investigation into Clinton’s e-mail practices.

This is not the first accusation of improper action by McAuliffe. He is under investigation for possibly illegal donations by the same office formerly headed by Mr. McCabe. (For more from the author of “WSJ: Top Clinton-Allied Group Gave $468,000 for Senior FBI Official’s Wife’s Campaign” please click HERE)

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