Schiff Explodes After Trump Fires Intelligence IG Who Told Congress Of Ukraine Call

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"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff reacted to President Donald Trump’s firing of Michael Atkinson, the inspector general for the U.S. intelligence community who raised concerns with Congress about Trump’s phone call with Ukraine which led to his impeachment.
"In a letter dated Friday, Trump formally notified the intelligence committees of both the Senate and House.
"Schiff tweet posts Trump’s letter saying his actions “puts our country and national security at even greater risk.”
"“This is to advise that I am exercising my power as President to remove from office the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community, effective 30 days from today,” the president wrote.
"“It is extremely important that we promote the economy, efficiency, and the effectiveness of Federal programs and activities.”
"“The Inspectors General have a critical role in the achievement of these goals,” the president continued." . . .

Home Depot Co-Founder Tells Maria: ‘Congress Should’ve Been Investigating Pandemic, Not Impeaching Trump’

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"Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus went on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” today and shamed the hysterics on the left side of the political aisle.
"He said the Democrats should have been investigating the outbreak in China and making preparations rather than waste the time for the fool’s errand of impeaching Trump.
"He also took a veiled shot at Adam Schiff who is already salivating over the investigations he plans to launch.
"“I think that look this president has been hit with something that no president has ever had to deal with. I just resent the people that are going after him now. They are already talking about another impeachment. I hate to tell you that, that Adam Schiff is already investigating this,” Bernie said.
"Bartiromo: “You are hitting on something that is really important because, for three years, Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff were looking for ghosts of Russia collusion. In doing so in terms of getting the country all crazy over the potential of collusion between the president and the Russians, they completely missed the bigger, much more dangerous actor, and that is China.' ” . . .

Is the bad and self-negating behavior of so many of Trump’s enemies setting him up for an even more impressive victory in the fall?

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Victor Davis Hanson  "As the coronavirus outbreak begins to reach its zenith, it remains unclear whether the measures taken to stem its tide will prove sufficient, insufficient, or an overreaction. What is certain, however, is that a number of individuals and entities have behaved shamefully and demonstrated no capacity for leadership or usefulness in this moment.

"Nancy Pelosi: Gone are the mythologies that Nancy Pelosi was a pragmatic liberal voice of reason among the otherwise polarizing American Left, honed after years of paying her dues to the Democratic Party, as the mother of five dutifully ascended the party’s cursus honorum.
"It does not matter whether her political and ethical decline was a result of her deep pathological hatred of Donald Trump. Who cares that her paranoia arose over the so-called “Squad” that might align with socialist Bernie Sanders to mesmerize Democrats to march over the cliff into McGovern-like oblivion? All concede that very few octogenarians have the stamina and clarity to put in the 16-hour work-days and transcontinental travel required by a Speaker of the House.
"Instead, all that matters is that for a nation in extremis she is now puerile, even unhinged—and increasingly dangerous." . . .

The sad state of what is called "journalism"

People in enemy-controlled Europe couldn't trust news sources there; they had to smuggle radios in to hear the BBC and Voice of America. But, unlike now, people knew who the enemy press was. TD

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Study: While CNN Bashes Trump, They Barely Covered Virus Outbreak  "CNN’s latest Trump-bashing narrative is something to the tune of: Everyone knew the coronavirus was a serious problem in January, and everyone was taking it immensely seriously except for President Trump and his incompetent administration. Yet a Media Research Center analysis finds CNN’s own coverage of the virus in January and early February was incredibly deficient, as the liberal cable network was reluctant to devote much time to anything unrelated to Trump’s impeachment." . . .

"It’s obvious CNN was too obsessed with impeachment to waste time on the outbreak in its early stages. The network relegated nearly all of its early coronavirus coverage to small news briefs, which generally were squeezed into the last few minutes of any show that bothered to cover it.

"Now that it’s become a massive crisis, CNN has taken every opportunity to pan the President’s supposed lack of seriousness at the beginning of the outbreak. Their hammering of this narrative is ironic, considering they were too engrossed in promoting the Democrats’ impeachment agenda in January to give this story the attention it deserved."

American media keep repeating China's coronavirus talking points  "It should not be this easy for Chinese Communist Party propaganda to make its way into major American newsrooms." . . .

Reporters Without Masks Grill Trump About Not Wearing a Mask

Brzezinski on Trump Pushing Hydroxychloroquine: ‘There’s Got to Be Some Sort of Financial Tie’  "Journalism" has devolved into rumor-gossip klatches. 

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For her to be so juvenile and petty during a time of crisis like this only hurts her credibility with the viewers. Even most regular Democrats that I talk to admit that Trump is handling this situation well. Maybe they'll finally open their eyes to the bias of the MSM.

The most useful phrase ever: "This, too shall pass"

Don Sucher  . . . "And then there is that ever-present fear. Fear for loved ones. Fear for our own selves and our futures as we expected them to unfold. Fears for society as a whole. A society that is changing before our eyes -- and with that, the possibly greater fear that the society which we loved, or at least in which we felt comfortably secure, may never return.

Wars, pestilence and famine have always brought these things; have always been a part of the human experience -- just as much as has been heat and cold and damp.

"But just as modern life has to a large degree shielded most of us from the effects of those things - that heat and cold and damp -- so most of us have to a remarkable degree been shielded, not only from the direct threat of wars, pestilences and famines, but even from the idea that such could be our lot.

"This morning missive shall not end with The Answer, for no such singular "answer" exists. But it does end with an admonition: That each of us -- you, me, our families, our neighbors, our communities our states, and our nation -- should work to make the best of these current realities. To learn from them. To equally be willing to lead and to follow. To put forth ideas, yes, but not to sneer at the ideas of others. To realize that while each of our lives is important -- central to us as living beings -- that there is also an overall "good" that must be kept keenly in mind. To realize and accept that the weak will now require extra help, and that those who are strong will have to use that strength - and possibly allow some of it to be stripped away -- for our common survival." . . .

All will pass, I suppose, except for Hollywood and media liberals. OK Go even made a video proclaiming this:

Anti-Trump School Assignment: “Republicans are using misleading names for the coronavirus that hurt Asian Americans”

Todd Starnes  . . . "The lesson focused on a story written by the Texas Tribune titled, “Asian Americans say some politicians stoking stigma with coronavirus.”
"Attached to the story was a quiz that included blatant anti-Trump and anti-Republican statements.
“ 'Read the following claim,” the lesson stated. “Republican leaders have used insensitive language based on unfounded rumors when referring to the coronavirus. Which sentence from the article provides the BEST support for the above statement?”

"Among the choices:

"His comment referenced a now-debunked myth that the outbreak began after a woman in China ate bat soup.

"Coryn later said that he meant to say that the Chinese government was to blame, not Chinese people or Chinese culture.Yet experts say that this kind of language encourages people to view the disease in simplistic geographic or racial terms.

"When the Ebola outbreak emerged in 2014, Africans were the primary target of bias.

Laney told me she could not believe the school would assign eighth graders such a politically-charged lesson.

“I was speechless and completely appalled that the school system would allow this kind of garbage to be brainwashed into our kids,” she said.

"She told me she called the school superintendent in Putnam County and was assured the lesson would be removed and the teacher would be spoken to." . . .

I saw this diagram myself in my niece's Ventura County middle school textbook, teaching the students where to get the best news source:

CNN?  Enquirer?

And in this corner, ladies and gentlemen....

Standing against these opponents.....

...we have: