True or not, the leftist slander machine must be resisted

Anybody who stands against the leftist demagoguery seems to pay a high price. We must stand by conservatives who are being destroyed by the left. TD

"Democrats, Fake News Media and Law Firm Perkins Coie Try to Take Down Honest Jim Jordan with Disgusting, Scurrilous Charges"

. . . "The Reddit post continued by noting that Perkins Coie has numerous sinister actions involving the Democrat Party, for example –

…Perkins-Coie was the hub used by the Democratic Party to funnel money to Fusion GPS.

Obama for America paid $972,000 to Perkins Coie from April 2016 to August 2017. The payments were presented as “Legal Services” but it’s highly suspected the money was financing the phony Steele Dossier. Hillary for America paid $5.1million to Perkins Coie. The DNC paid $5.4million to the Perkins Coie.

Source 3 – http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/29/obamas-campaign-gave-972000-law-firm-funneled-money-fusion-gps/

Perkins Coie is also the law firm you can thank for producing the “original” Obama long form birth certificate. You know the birth certificate that proves Trump, Arpaio and all of us are crazy ’cause he’s truly an American citizen.

Source 4 – http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/04/perkins-coie-judith-corley-got-obamas-birth-certificate.html

Perking Coie, home of Bob Bauer, the man who hid Manchu44’s previous life and threatened to sue anyone who would pursue BHO personal history and other information contained in the sealed documents.

Bauer Source 1 – http://mobile.wnd.com/2012/09/obama-lawyer-warned-against-certifying-eligibility/

Bauer Source 2 – https://www.govtslaves.info/2014/02/fec-obamas-campaign-paid-5-million-law-firm-keep-records-sealed/

Bret Baier Grills Jim Jordan on Abuse Allegations: Are You Saying This is a Conspiracy? . . . “ 'Okay, but you know there are others,” Baier pointed out. “It’s not just him.” The Fox News host pointed out that multiple wrestlers who praised Jordan, also maintained that he definitely knew about the abuse. 
“ 'Not true,” Jordan replied to their claims. He added that “the timing is suspect,” as the allegations came as he’s being floated to serve as the next House Speaker." . . .
Lucianne comments: "Surprisingly to me, Jordan´s responses to Bret Baier don´t exactly inspire confidence that he had not at least heard rumors."

Demand From Liberals: Democrats Must Stay United Against Trump's SCOTUS Pick

Legal Insurrection

Guy Benson  "For weeks, Left-wing groups have been preparing for war against the president's forthcoming Supreme Court nominee, signaling furious opposition to any of the names on Trump's widelyreported short list. Activists are insisting that all 49 senate Democrats stick together to vote 'no,' a wall of solidarity that could help sway just two wavering Republicans to derail the selection.

"It's an uphill battle, even if Chuck Schumer manages to keep his whole team on the same side. Both Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, the GOP moderates who'd most plausibly break ranks, joined Mitch McConnell and all of their partisan colleagues to detonate the Reid Rule in order to confirm conservative Neil Gorsuch to the High Court last year. Each has a long history of voting to confirm judicial picks -- and not just from Republican presidents, in Collins' case. Unless Trump shocks everyone and picks somebody out of deep right field, or his nominee self-destructs, it's highly likely that all GOP members of the upper chamber will be on board. If that's the case, it'd be all over but the shouting -- and it may be a lot of shouting:

Under particular pressure to side with the president are the three red-state Democrats who voted for Justice Neil Gorsuch last year and face difficult reelection campaigns: Sens. Joe Manchin, Heidi Heitkamp, and Joe Donnelly. Keeping them in the Democratic fold — in the face of withering pressure from a liberal base that expects nothing less — amounts to the biggest challenge of Schumer’s 18-month tenure as Democratic leader. The New Yorker has preferred to take a hands-off approach to his moderate members, rather than twisting arms on big votes. Yet it’s far from clear that will work this time. “The message from grassroots groups is pretty clear: that if Democratic leadership can keep their caucus unified in doing no harm, we can aim our firepower on Republicans like Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski and bring full pressure to bear in their states,” Adam Green, co-founder of the activist Progressive Change Campaign Committee, said in an interview.

"We condemn (fill in the blank)"

On SCOTUS Nominee, Trump Should Deliver More of the Same

Being a liberal is easy; being conservative takes real guts; a high pain threshhold

Boynton Beach homeowner says he was attacked over President Trump flag in yard  . . . "The driver of the car then told Good he had to remove his flag. When Good told him no, he said the driver punched him in the face.

"Good said he instinctively tried to punch the man back, but the man drove off with Good’s arm stuck in the car, and Good was then dragged for about 30 feet." . . . 

That awkward moment when a CNN commentator cheers a criminal act against a minor.  . . . "He’s just another partisan hack weaponizing the news in service of an agenda.
"If he was wondering why we call them ‘fake news’… this is yet another clear example of what we mean." . . .

Al Sharpton, Donna Brazile Push Dems to Double Down on Harassing Trump Officials  . . . "When President Trump accused her of calling for "harm to my supporters," Waters shot back, insisting she only supported "peaceful protest."

"I did not call for harm for anybody. The president lied again," the congresswoman told MSNBC. While Waters did not advocate for violence against Trump cabinet members, she did urge protesters to harass them and deny them sleep and peace — which certainly constitutes harm, as Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders can tell you.

"This call for harm has turned Waters into a celebrity among liberals, according to the black leaders who signed the letter this week." . . .

Waters is the same who refused to condemn the Rodney King riots and the massive beating of white truck driver Reginald Denny.

“Never forget that Maxine Waters embraced Damian Williams, the infamous thug who hurled a chunk of concrete at truck driver Reginald Denny and performed a victory dance over this innocent man’s battered body

JIM JORDAN AND HIS ACCUSERS, PART TWO [CORRECTED AND UPDATED]

Power Line  "Yesterday, I discussed the allegation that, decades ago, Jim Jordan did not take action to curb sexual harassment of wrestlers he was coaching at Ohio State. Jordan says he didn’t know about the harassment, but two former wrestlers say he did.

"Unfortunately for the anti-Jordan forces, the two wrestlers — Dunyasha Yetts and Mike DiSabato — turn out to be, respectively, a convicted criminal and an guy who recently was charged with a crime. Their credibility is negligible.

*"It’s also worth noting that the two ex-wrestlers are represented by the law firm of
*Perkins, Coie. [Note: this is incorrect; see below] That’s the Seattle-based operation that served as the go-between between Hillary Clinton’s campaign and Fusion/GPS, as they colluded with Russians to put together the phony dossier for use against Donald Trump.

"That caper is only part of the law firm’s longstanding relationship with Democrats and the left. To cite just one example, Perkins, Coie helped inflict Al Franken on the nation when, quite likely via voter fraud, he became a U.S. Senator.

"The firm’s involvement in this matter is a sign that the left has undertaken a concerted effort to bring Jim Jordan down, and that the sudden emergence of allegations centering on events from at least 25 years ago has nothing to do with what happened (or didn’t happen) back then. This is the Jim Jordan equivalent of the Trump dossier.

*NOTE: Perkins, Coie is involved in this matter, but it isn’t representing the ex-wrestlers. Rather, it reportedly has been hired by Ohio State to investigate whether the allegations against the doctor (who committed suicide some years ago) and whether enough was done to protect the students.

"This puts the hyper-partisan law firm (one reader who has dealt with Perkins, Coie in every election cycle for years describes it as “the legal goon squad of the Democrats”) in charge of investigating Jim Jordan on behalf of Ohio State. There should be no expectation that the investigation will be fair as it relates to Rep. Jordan, an arch-enemy of partisan Democrats.

"How did Perkins, Coie come to be tapped for the investigation? Did Ohio State not know of the firm’s close relationship with the Democrats? Or did those in charge of selecting counsel want a hyper-partisan firm to investigate Jordan?"
*"Beyond legal advice"? 

"In 2009, President Obama appointed Robert Bauer, the chair of the firm's Political Law practice, to become his White House Counsel."
"Living alumni of the firm include the 16th Lieutenant Governor of Washington Cyrus Habib, foMargaret McKeown and Ronald M. Gould, and Oregon State Representative Chris Garrett."rmer Attorney General of Washington State Rob McKenna, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges 

JIM JORDAN AND HIS ACCUSERS, Part 1

"Whatever the reason, it should require more credible witnesses than Yetts and DiSabato for their allegations to be taken seriously."

Power Line  "Two former Ohio State University wrestlers are accusing Rep. Jim Jordan of ignoring sexual misconduct by a university physician more than two decades ago when he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State. There’s no claim that Jordan engaged in such misconduct, the claim is that he knew about, but failed to take action to stop, sexual harassment by a team doctor.

"Jordan denies knowing about the doctor’s misconduct. The question, then, isn’t what Jordan did; it’s what he knew. That’s usually a difficult kind of inquiry.

"In Jordan’s case, the two accusers are highly suspect. According to Chuck Ross at the Daily Caller, one of them, Dunyasha Yetts, served prison time for a $1.8 million fraud scheme that involved bilking professional athletes using phony documents.

"The other accuser, Mike DiSabato, has been accused by the widow of a Marine killed fighting in Iraq of intimidating and bullying her over a memorial fund set up in her husband’s name. The fund was supposed to help Ohio-based athletes, Olympic hopefuls and the families of fallen soldiers.

"Instead, according to Ms. Mendoza, DiSabato used it to finance a mixed martial arts venture. When the widow complained, the former wrestler tried to intimate her, she alleges. “I question the intent, the authenticity, the verity, that Mike DiSabato shares in any of his words or actions,” Ms. Mendoza says.

"In addition, to his problem with the Mendoza widow, DiSabato had an ugly run-in with Bret Adams, a sports agent who represents former Ohio State and NFL football star Chris Spielman. Earlier this year, DiSabato was arrested on charges of telecommunications threats against Adams. And Adams has sued DiSabato for defamation, alleging that the former wrestler falsely told business associates that Adams was racist and sexist.

"Apart from the obvious credibility problems of the accusers, the timing of their allegations raises suspicion. Jordan has been a high profile member of Congress throughout this decade. And there is no claim that he paid anyone to hush things up.

"So why are these allegations against him, involving matters at least 25 years old, suddenly emerging now? The reason may be some combination of the fact that Jordan taking a lead role in vigorously criticizing the FBI and his emergence as a potential contender for Speaker of the House.

"Whatever the reason, it should require more credible witnesses than Yetts and DiSabato for their allegations to be taken seriously."

The left’s personal destruction machine turns its focus on Jim Jordan

Thomas Lifson  "Jim Jordan has been one of the most effective investigators in pursuing the cabal that weaponized the FBI and intelligence agencies to fight the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump.  Rather than answer him with facts and documents, the left is out to destroy him, which tells anyone paying attention that he is on to something.

"This campaign began to tar him with scandal, no matter how far-fetched.  George Rasley explains at Conservative HQ:

NBC News published an article on Tuesday, quoting Mike DiSabato and Dunyasha Yetts, two former Ohio State University wrestlers, claiming that when Jim Jordan worked as assistant wrestling coach at OSU, he ignored sexual abuse carried out by a university physician named Richard Strauss. ...

Jordan, a two-time NCAA wrestling champion, denied back in April that he knew about Strauss's alleged activities.  But Yetts told NBC News that Jordan was either a "liar" or taking part in a cover-up of the abuse.  DiSabato called Jordan a "coward."

Jordan, a leading House conservative and candidate for Speaker, has vehemently denied the allegations, saying that he was never told of sexual abuse against athletes during his stint at OSU, which stretched from 1986 to 1994.  He said he would have taken action had he known about any abuse by Strauss, who killed himself in 2005. ...

And interestingly enough, looking through the articles about the allegations you can't find any mention of head coach Russ Hellickson's name, who would have been the logical person to whom allegations of abuse should have been reported, if they occurred.

"Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller checked out the bona fides of the two accusers and found ample reason to doubt their integrity:" . . .

Pompeo Trip to North Korea: the Make-or-Break Moment

Will weaning Kim Jong-un off of his addiction to building nuclear weapons require a second summit?

Gordon G. Chang  "Secretary of State Mike Pompeo leaves for Pyongyang Thursday, his third trip to the North Korean capital.

"Pompeo’s upcoming visit will be the make-or-break moment in President Trump’s campaign to disarm the militant regime of Kim Jong-un.

"When Pompeo returns, the world should know whether the Trump administration’s fundamental assumption—that Kim has made a strategic decision to give up his nuclear arsenal—is correct.

"If that assumption is not correct—and at this moment it does not appear to be so—then Trump will have to do something he jokingly said in Singapore that he would not do: admit he was wrong about the North Korean leader.

"Unfortunately, it appears the president will make no such admission. Instead, it looks like he has chosen to retreat, backing away from demands that the North give up its most destructive weapons.

"At the moment, color Pompeo optimistic. “For decades, the North Korean leadership—Chairman Kim, his father, and grandfather alike—believed the nuclear program was their security out; it provided them with regime stability and security,” he said to Hugh Hewitt during his MSNBC interview conducted June 22. “And we’ve now flipped that narrative. I believe we have convinced him that that nuclear program, in fact, presents a threat to him and that giving up that program is the path towards a brighter future for the North Korean people.' ” . . .

Also: How Trump is Reshaping American Foreign Policy

Trump’s policies are shaping America’s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don’t exhibit a consistent strategy.

Federal Lawsuit Filed Against Obama, Holder, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and BLM Leaders for Inciting Hatred, Violence Against Cops

Hollywood Conservatives For Trump

"Former President Barack Obama and members of his radical administration should regret their actions at that time and their hostility during the Trump administration. That includes supporting Black Lives Matter, from which today’s ANTIFA (Anti-Fascist) emanates.

"Obama and his minions –especially Attorney General Eric Holder — were extremely adamant about pushing the cop-hating and white-hating mentality that was the catalyst in further dividing Americans, but now it seems to all have backfired. It failed to work for Hillary Clinton who compared U.S. cops to Islamic terrorists and complained that white cops are racists.

"A conservative activist is in the process of holding Obama and his black extremist peers responsible for the hate that they have built through their idiotic persistence.

"Former prosecutor Larry Klayman is sick and tired of the cop-killing and extreme animosity towards police. He recently filed a lawsuit against a group of defendants that he believes are responsible for instigating the hateful crime spree. Some of the people named in the lawsuit are extremely well-known, and conservatives have been trying to hold these guys responsible for years.

"Former President Barack Obama, his former Attorney General Eric Holder, Al Sharpton, and Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam are all under attack in the lawsuit. His claim is that all of the men have “incited violence and in fact have a direct link to what happened in Dallas.”

"The lawsuit specifically claims that every single one of these men have violated law enforcement officers’ civil rights. They are also being charged with aiding and abetting murder, in addition to promoting terrorism. “If these scumbags are found guilty they will be forced to pay a grand total of $2 billion in damages, which doesn’t even begin to fix all of the damage they have done. Too many lives have been taken at the hands of Black Lives Matter members, and $2 billion doesn’t replace even one of the lives taken from us,” said one former police officer who says he’s glad he retired when he did.

"The issues going on today can be tracked back to the very beginning of Obama’s presidency. He consistently forced the matter of racism in the United States, causing blacks to become extremely angry and wreak havoc all over the country.

"Klayman maintained that Obama and his allies worked extremely hard to challenge law enforcement, claiming police brutality whenever they could in order to inspire Black Lives Matter members to attack our men and women in blue. Obama actually went so far as to call police who responded to an incident that Henry Louis Gates Jr. was involved in “stupid.” He even met with the most violent anti-police leaders of the Black Lives Matter."

Protestors against anyone Trump chooses for the Supreme Court

Granite Grok

"That’s right. They handed out pre-printed signs to whoever answered the Craigslist ad and had them fill in the name of the person they had to #Stop once they found out who that was. It didn’t matter who.

"If that does not epitomize the brain-dead, left-wing zombie protester and quantify the value of their mindless and now constant opposition to (insert name of person or thing here) I don’t know what does."

 Conrad Black: Nominating Amy Barrett Would Be Political Genius 
"The desperation of the Democrats to stop the apparently inexorable rise of a president they so completely discounted and despised, and assumed they could remove or emasculate just by turning up the volume and activity of their media organ monkeys, may drive them to accidental suicide over the latest Supreme Court vacancy. I have no standing at all to intuit whom the president may nominate. But if, as I suspect, it is Judge Amy Barrett, it would be a tactical masterpiece on the level of Napoleon’s conduct of the Battle of Austerlitz, or Hannibal at Cannae."

Some Seattle Police Leaving Over City’s Far Left Politics

Legal Insurrection

“It’s just depressing to serve in a place where many City Council members who are coming out at times with negative comments about the police”

"The city of Seattle is known for its progressive politics, and has drifted even further left in recent years. Some members of the city police force are saying that this has come into conflict with law enforcement and are even leaving the force as a result.

"The FOX News Insider reports:

Seattle Police Union VP: Officers ‘Fed Up’ With City’s Politics Are Leaving the Force

A Seattle Police Officers Guild official says many officers are leaving the city’s police department because they’re “fed up” with Seattle’s politics.

Rich O’Neill, the group’s vice president, said Sunday on “Fox & Friends” that “a number of issues” are weighing down on the city’s officers, causing them to find work elsewhere.

According to Q13 FOX, 41 officers have left the city’s police department this year, many of whom frustrated by the city’s politics.

O’Neill said Sunday that Seattle Police Department officers have not received a pay raise in more than four years, even while the city is “booming.”

“The number of officers on the street [is] pretty much the same as the 1970s, which is just alarming,” he said.

O’Neill told Q13 FOX that local officials “are allowing certain crimes to go on without accountability.”…

O’Neill said that as many officers leave the department, it’s difficult to find people who want to join the force because of “all the anti-police rhetoric that’s out there.”

"Anti-police sentiment has been a staple of the far left for years but reached new heights in recent years with the Black Lives Matter movement.

"One member of the Seattle City Council, Kshama Sawant, is a socialist who rose to prominence during the Occupy Wall Street protests. She is mentioned in a recent report by Q13 FOX:

The union says Councilmembers Mike O’Brien and Kshama Sawant have been very critical of the police department. They say Sawant calling two officers murderers quickly after an officer-involved shooting was inappropriate.

. . .

“Worker bees on the street, they don’t feel appreciated. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life,” the source said.

"Are the people of Seattle OK with this? And more importantly, what is the end game here? Is the city’s far left council prepared to operate with a limited police force?"

  Seattle Times

Iran has completely stopped harassing US ships now that strong Trump replaced weakling Obama

Published on Sep 20, 2016

Thomas Lifson  "For all the concessions President Obama was offering Iran for his “nuclear deal” -- $150 billion, for instance – Iran treated the US with contempt, harassing and even taking into custody US ships in the Persian Gulf. The adage that weakness is provocative was proven true as (via the Daily Caller):

During the final years of the Obama administration, Iranian gunboats regularly harassed U.S. ships, with three dozen such interactions occurring in 2016. (snip)

The worst incident occurred in January 2016, when the Iranians captured two U.S. Navy riverine patrol boats and 10 sailors.

Riverine patrol boat of the type that was captured by the Iranians

"But that’s nothing but a humiliating memory now that America has a president who won’t stand for it:

During President Donald Trump’s first year in office, the number of annual incidents dropped to 14, a decrease of about 60 percent. So far in 2018, there has not been a single case of harassment, the U.S. Navy told Fox News.

"The change by the former bullies is completely understandable:

Trump commented on this issue on the campaign trail, saying, “With Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats, and they make gestures at our people, that they shouldn’t be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water.”

The first incident of the Trump administration occurred in July 2017. A U.S. Navy warship fired a warning shot at an Iranian gunboat that came within 150 yards of the American vessel.

The Navy publicly acknowledged the changes in Iran’s behavior in March.

“It seems like they’ve absolutely made a conscious decision to give us more space,” Navy Cmdr. William Urban, spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, told reporters. “That is definitely a change in their behavior.”

“ 'Peace through strength” is not an empty slogan, it is a strategy that works."

Feb 11, 2016: Iran Mocks US Sailors in Revolution Day Parade
. . . "Iranian state media released images yesterday that it said shows one of the U.S. sailors weeping while in detention. The State Department expressed its “disgust” at Iran’s decision to release that footage in a statement to ABC News. Last month, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he was “very, very angry” after Iran first released footage of the U.S. sailors and said the U.S would not have done the same to the Iranians, had the roles been reversed." . . .

Iran Harassed The US Navy Under Obama. Here’s Why It Stopped Under Trump  . . . "The “openly acknowledged there was a shift that happened roughly around the time we had our political transition,” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Business Insider. “There was a status quo and the status quo changed.”
. . . "Instead, rushing U.S. ships and putting them on the defensive, as well as capturing sailors, works mainly for propaganda purposes for Iran, whose authoritarian regime controls the media and pushes a heavily anti-U.S. agenda." . . .

Democrats attack Jim Jordan; will this nation ever become sickened over the character of Democrats?

 I picture Obama-Soros fingerprints all over this. TD

This drops as Jordan is high in the running to succeed Paul Ryan for speaker and is being very tough pressing the FBI for answers about their surveillance and their bias against the Trump campaign. What a coincidence…  Via Weasel Zippers

Jim Jordan Accusers Have Sketchy History, Timing Of The Stories Suspect

• One accuser, Mike DiSabato, is also being accused of bullying the widow of a Marine over a memorial fund set up in her husband’s name.
• DiSabato is also facing a defamation lawsuit.
• The other accuser, Dunyasha Yetts, served prison time for a $1.8 million fraud scheme

"Two former Ohio State University wrestlers accusing Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan of ignoring sexual misconduct by a university physician more than two decades ago have a history of failed business dealings, lawsuits, harassment allegations, and in the case of one accuser, an 18 month prison sentence for fraud.

"One of the former wrestlers, Mike DiSabato, is also being accused by the widow of a Marine who was killed in combat in Iraq of intimidating and bullying her over a memorial fund set up in her husband’s name.

“ 'I question the intent, the authenticity, the verity, that Mike DiSabato shares in any of his words or actions,” Karen Mendoza, the wife of Ray Mendoza — a former teammate of DiSabato’s who was killed in 2005 — said in a statement.

NBC News published an article on Tuesday, quoting DiSabato and Dunyasha Yetts, another former OSU wrestler, claiming that when Jordan worked as assistant wrestling coach at OSU, he ignored sexual abuse carried out by a university physician named Richard Strauss." . . 

NBC did note that Yetts served time in prison for a $1.8 million fraud scheme.

. . .  "Jordan is also receiving support from Russ Hellickson, who was OSU’s head wrestling coach when Jordan served as an assistant.

"Hellickson said in a statement issued through Jordan’s congressional office that neither he nor Jordan ignored sexual abuse of OSU wrestlers.

“ 'Neither Jim nor I would sidestep or avoid challenges for our wrestlers just because the circumstances were painful or uncomfortable — in fact, those are the kind of circumstances that motivated Jim the most,” reads the statement.

“ 'At no time while Jim Jordan was a coach with me at Ohio State did either of us ignore abuse of our wrestlers. That is not the kind of man Jim is, and it is not the kind of coach that I was,” said Hellickson, who called Jordan “the most honorable man I have ever known.' ” . . .