RussiaGate Was 100% Fake SpyGate Is 100% Real

Threader  "Because Democrats and DNC Media won't tell you the truth about it, here's what actually happened the last 4 years.

1) The SpyGate plotters started spying on Donald Trump and his team back in 2015. They claim they started in late July 2016 is 100% a lie.

2) To launch their counterintelligence investigations of FOUR SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS close to Trump, the FBI fakes its probable cause to the FISA Court, alleging it has good, solid verified evidence that Carter Page, Gen Flynn, Papa D and Manafort are Russian agents.

3) To get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign, then after Trump won the election, his transition team, and then after Trump entered the White House, his Presidency itself, the FBI used a fake Trump/Russia dossier that came from a Clinton political operative, Steele.

4) The FBI then renews the Page warrant 3 times, so they were doing 'legal' electronic spying on Trump & his close associates for 11 months, from Oct '16 to Sept '17.
All during this time, the FBI keeps STUMBLING OVER EXCULPATORY EVIDENCE it hides from the FISA Court.

5) Kevin Clinesmith, the FBI lawyer in charge of handling the FISA warrant renewals, gets caught by DOJ IG investigators having tampered with a CIA email.

The FBI had asked the CIA if Page's claims of being a CIA contact in communication with then was true.
"CIA said YES. . . .

Much, much more here  

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If only Trump had been president when Benghazi was attacked:

How on earth can the liberals not see the comparison between Trump in this case and Obama-Hillary with Benghazi?

President Trump’s ‘Benghazi’ Has Ended Much Better Than Hillary Clinton’s Did

". . . (READ: Trump Administration Pummels Iranian Proxy Militia in Retaliation for the Death of a US Defense Contractor)

"As I wrote at the time, this placed Iran in the position of having to carry out some sort of retaliatory action, or they would lose face with their proxies, but, at the same time, they had to calibrate it so they would not set off an overt military confrontation with the US. That reaction is now underway. This is RedState’s coverage of the action so far

BREAKING: US Embassy in Baghdad Is Under Attack, Gunshots Heard

NY Times and AP Call Iranian-Backed Militia Attacking U.S. Embassy ‘Iraqi Mourners’

Oh Please, Take a Seat! Obama Adviser Ben Rhodes Attacks Trump Policy on Iran as Iran-Backed Militia Attack Our Embassy

Overwhelming Proof Emerges That Iran Is Behind the Attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq

This Is How It’s Done: Apache Helicopters And Marines Respond to Protect Personnel at US Embassy in Baghdad

"The Washington Post reports today on the men leading the mob action directed against the US Embassy. This one stands out:

Also in attendance Tuesday was Hadi al-Amiri, a former transportation minister, who is considered Tehran’s man in Baghdad. Amiri heads the Badr Organization, which is one of the largest pro-Iran militias in Iraq and is part of the PMF. It was originally founded in the 1980s to fight for Iran against then-President Saddam Hussein as part of the Iran-Iraq war.  . . .

More that you did not see at Benghazi:
82d Airborne Division Reaction Force Is En Route to Support Baghdad Embassy

. . . "This is the statement issued by Defense Secretary Mark Esper:

“At the direction of the Commander in Chief, I have authorized the deployment of an infantry battalion from the Immediate Response Force (IRF) of the 82nd Airborne Division to the U.S. Central Command area of operations in response to recent events in Iraq.

Approximately 750 soldiers will deploy to the region immediately, and additional forces from the IRF are prepared to deploy over the next several days.

This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action taken in response to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities, such as we witnessed in Baghdad today. The United States will protect our people and interests anywhere they are found around the world.”

And the liberal anti-Trumpers call this "Trump's Benghazi"!
Trump not just a "new sheriff in town; we finally have a sheriff, period.

. . . This is how things are done and it is a clear sign that professionals, not the Ben Rhodes story hour crew in the Obama National Security Council, are in charge. A major incident was prevented through prior planning, the US demonstrated that it will not hesitate to kill Iranian-hired militias when they kill Americans, the deployment of additional US forces to the US embassy was timely and the measured response told the militias that it was time to wind their street theater down, and we avoided the public affairs disasters of either a US embassy being sacked and Americans killed and taken hostage or US troops stacking up dead, unarmed demonstrators inside the embassy compound.The next time people make snide remarks about wanting adults to be in charge, you can remind them that they are.

Meanwhile Biden wants to challenge the President to a push-up competition. 

Iran Dominates in Iraq After ["Barack and I"] Handed the Country Over’  From the NY Times yet.

Impeachment Fallouts

Victor Davis Hanson  "Impeachment is shaping up as unpredictably explosive, but not in the way imagined. There are lots of things that we do know about the present impeachment of Donald Trump — and we know that there are even more areas that remain unknown. Quietly, the approval ratings of Trump have been rising to pre-impeachment levels and are nearing a RealClearPolitics average of 45. Support for impeaching Trump and/or removing him is not increasing as the House Democrats expected. It is essentially static, or slowly eroding, depending on how polls phrase such questions. Apparently, an exhausted public did not see “Ukrainian” impeachment as a one-off national crisis akin to the Nixon inquiry and the Clinton impeachment and trial that merited national attention. The impeachment vote instead is being confirmed in the public mind as part of a now boring three-year impeachment psychodrama (from impeachment 1.0, the Logan Act, the emoluments clause, the 25th Amendment, and Michael Avenatti/Stormy Daniels comedies to Robert Mueller’s “dream team” and “all-stars”). The progressive logic of the current jump-the-shark monotony is to become even more monotonous, the way that a driller leans ever harder on his dull and chipping bit as his bore becomes static."' . . .

Ted Cruz Demolishes Mayor Pete's Malicious Lie About the Founders and Slavery

Buttigieg should know these things — he majored in history and literature at Harvard. Yet the identity politics narrative simplifies the complex history of the Founders, painting them as evil rich old white oppressors. Perhaps Mayor Pete has allowed himself to get infected by a little too much "woke"ness.

Buttigieg tells kids the writers of the Constitution didn’t realize slavery was bad 
"Has anyone had enough of condescending moralist St. Pete Buttigieg, one of our more imperious Democrat candidates for president? Recently, he said Jesus would have likely been fine with abortion, late-term, whatever. He continuously claims he is the great Christian and appears to want to show the rest of us how to live as Christians. What he is preaching is not anything I learned in catechism classes.
"St. Pete told school kids in a video today that “the people who wrote the Constitution did not understand that slavery was a bad thing.” Aside from his condescending attitude towards the great men who wrote our Constitution and fought for freedom at great cost, Buttigieg didn’t even bother to learn a little about how the Founding Fathers felt about slavery." . . .

Ted Cruz Demolishes Mayor Pete's Malicious Lie About the Founders and Slavery 
. . . "Ted Cruz rebuked Buttigieg by posting a string of direct quotes from the Founders.
"Slavery is an evil of Colossal magnitude & I am utterly averse to the admission of slavery into the Missouri Territories. It being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law," Cruz quoted from John Adams, a Founding Father and the second president.
" Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature," he quoted from Benjamin Franklin, who was a member of an abolitionist society. "Neither my tongue, nor my pen, nor purse shall be wanting to promote the abolition of what to me appears so inconsistent with humanity and Christianity."
. . . 
" 'Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold a bill of Rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?" Cruz quoted from Alexander Hamilton, an abolitionist and the first secretary of the Treasury.
" 'It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished," John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, wrote. "The honor of the States as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. ... To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused. ' "

New York’s Bail Reform Policies Are Setting Anti-Semitic Attackers Free to Attack Again

Legal Insurrection  "In the aftermath of the horrific machete attacks at a Monsey, New York synagogue that left five Jewish people injured Saturday night, Democrats are predictably pointing fingers at President Trump, who they blame for the stabbings.

"Prominent New York Democrats in particular have done much of the finger pointing, as NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio demonstrated during an interview with Fox News’ Ed Henry on Sunday.

An atmosphere of hate has been developing in this country over the last few years. A lot of it is emanating from Washington and it’s having an effect on all of us,” he said.

When asked if he was blaming Trump, he said, “not just the president,” but said “we need a different tone, starting in Washington … that encourage this country to actually find some unity and some common ground” that he does not think the country has had in recent years.

"Governor Andrew Cuomo also didn’t waste any time blaming the president for the recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks on Jewish people in New York state, first in a quick situational update given Sunday morning to reporters – without directly mentioning Trump by name:" . . .

Hanukkah stabbing suspect was kicked out of US Marine Corps boot camp in 2002 'fraudulent enlistment' one month after joining

Military law defines fraudulent enlistment as a 'knowingly false representation or deliberate concealment as to' a recruit's qualifications. That could involve a recruit failing to disclose certain medical conditions, past drug use or an arrest record, including cases that are sealed because the recruit was a juvenile or for other reasons.

Trump Mocks Pelosi With Video Of San Francisco Homeless Crisis…

Weasel Zippers

Donald J. Trump  @realDonaldTrump
Crazy Nancy Pelosi should spend more time in her decaying city and less time on the Impeachment Hoax! https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1210781228149817355 …

Impeachment Backfiring, California To Lose Congressional Seat For First Time In History

Tony Branco

 Analyzing America   "The latest U.S. Census reveals that the 2020 decennial count may cause California to lose a seat in Congress, according to the Wall Street Journal.

"This would be the first time in California’s history.
"Other “Sun Belt” states may gain congressional representation.
"Political power is shifting away from the Northeast and Midwest toward the Southeast and Southwest.
"Residents seem to be moving to states with warm weather, strong job growth, cheaper housing and, in some cases, lower taxes." . . .

Gabbard Shares What She Believes Impeachment Will Mean for the 2020 Election (And It's Not Good for Dems)

New Census Data Suggests Previous Report Wrong, Republican States Gaining Seats In Congress . . . “Based on Monday’s figures, Texas is poised to gain two congressional seats, while Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon are each expected to gain one,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “Eight states are likely to lose one seat: Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, West Virginia and California. It would be California’s first such loss since it became a state in 1850.” . . .
 .  .  . "Perhaps the biggest takeaway from The Wall Street Journal’s report is the revelation 
that California will lose a congressional seat for the first time since 1850. 
 "The Los Angeles Times reported earlier this month that California’s population was set to decrease for the first time in over 100 years:" . . .

Disturbing moment a group of seven teens launch a savage attack on Orthodox Jew walking in Brooklyn - the 14th incident of anti-Semitic violence recorded in New York in four weeks

UK Daily Mail

• The incident occurred in Crown Heights on December 24 as a Jewish man, who has not been identified, was walking down Lincoln Place near Albany Avenue
• The man can be seen attempting to avoid the teens' path, but as he begins to walk past them one of the assailants throws a folding camping chair at his head
• Startled, the man attempts to walk away from the group but is chased by two of the teenagers, who run toward him and then take it in turns to punch him
• Meanwhile, a third member of the group can be seen picking up the folding chair from the ground and running back toward the victim and throwing it again
• The same group of teenagers were also recorded on surveillance camera carrying out a second brutal attack on a 56-year-old Jewish man moments later
• The attack is the 14th reported incident of anti-Semitic violence in New York since December 8 

Obama Was the Most Anti-Semitic President in History, So Let’s Stop Pointing Fingers at Trump

Does this shed some light on America's relationship with Israel during Obama's presidency?

PJ Media  "I’ve previously written about how the Democratic Party has embraced anti-Semitism and defended rabid anti-Semites in their party. But as anti-Semitism becomes increasingly mainstream in the Democratic Party, rather than addressing the problem, Democrats are deflecting, trying to paint anti-Semitism as a Trump problem. Rep. Eric Swalwell recently alleged in an op-ed in the Jewish magazine Forward that Donald Trump is “embracing anti-Semitism.” Because Trump, who has a daughter who’s a converted Jew and Jewish grandchildren, is obviously an anti-Semite, or something.
"In the wake of the Hanukkah celebration stabbing in Monsey, New York, rather than blame the attacker, Democrats chose to blame Trump — who has done more for Israel and the Jewish people in three years than his predecessor did in two terms.
"The left is deliberately trying to whitewash Obama’s record of anti-Semitism, and the welcoming of anti-Semites into their party. When Barack Obama entered the national stage and rose to become the Democratic Party’s nominee in 2008, defending him at all costs mattered more than exposing his hateful roots and record." . . .

Most poisonous Obama relationship: Jeremiah Wright or Al Sharpton?  2014:

"Al Sharpton is now an advisor to and go-to guy on race relations for Obama, including on Ferguson.

"And you didn’t think it could get any worse than Obama having Jeremiah Wright as a spiritual advisor for much of his adult life, until the political heat got too hot." . . . 


Longtime Democrat Regrets Campaigning For Obama As Farrakhan Pic Surfaces  "A 13 year-old photo of Barrack Hussein Obama smiling with Louis Farrakhan has surfaced. Farrakhan is a known anti-semite, black supremacist and anti-gay enthusiast.

"The photo was taken in 2005. It was soon realized that the photo would reduce Barrack’s chances of getting the nomination. And now a life-long Democrat is is openly regretting campaigning for Obama after learning about the picture." . . .
[Alan] "Dershowitz said if he had known about the Obama/Farrakhan photo, he would not have campaigned for Obama. In an interview with FOX News, Dershowitz slams Farrakhan as a “virtulent anti-Semite and anti-American.” He claims Farrakhan is a “horrible, horrible human being” and is quoted as saying in regards to Obama:

“If I had known that the President had posed willingly with Louis Farrakhan when he was a Senator, I would not habe campaigned for Barack Obama.”“We should have nobody in public office associating with a bigot like Farrakhan.”

UPDATED: Gunman from Texas church shooting identified as 43-year-old man with criminal record

Update: How White Settlemant got it's name: "The city got its name because it was the lone settlement of white pioneers amid several Native American villages in the Fort Worth area in the Texas Republic territory in the 1840s.^[4][5] On October 14, 2005, city leaders, citing hurdles in attracting businesses,^[6] announced a plan to have local voters decide on a possible name change for the town from White Settlement to West Settlement. In the November 8 election, the name change was overwhelmingly rejected by a vote of 2,388 to 219.^[5][7] The oldest street in White Settlement is White Settlement Road. This original trail led from the fort to the "white settlement" about eight miles west into Native American territory. The area was called "white" because it was a settlement of "white" homesteaders, as opposed to other settlements in the vicinity that were composed of both white and Native American residents. As the Native Americans were forced from the area and the settlement moved westward, the road followed. This was the only public road in White Settlement's early history.^[8]

"Two members of the city's West Freeway Church of Christ were killed by a gunman on December 29, 2019, during a morning service. The shooter was in turn killed by two members who shot him.^{[9]" . . .}

Washington Examiner  "The gunman from the shooting at West Freeway Church of Christ was identified as Keith Thomas Kinnunen, a 43-year-old male from River Oaks, Texas, with a long criminal record.
"A security volunteer killed Kinnunen after he opened fire and killed two during a church service on Sunday morning. Kinnunen had several previous felonies on his record, including charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon from 2009 and theft in 2013.
"He was also charged with possession of an illegal weapon in New Jersey after he was spotted surveilling an oil refinery with a 12-gauge shotgun by authorities. Kinnunen had an outstanding warrant for his arrest in Oklahoma at the time of the incident. He claimed he was homeless at the time of the New Jersey arrest, but acknowledged that he was from Texas. The FBI noted that he had been "relatively transient” for the past several years.

"Additionally, Kinnunen had two arrests from 2009 and 2015 for unpaid traffic tickets in the state of Texas." . . .

Gunman Kills Two at a Texas Church, Is Killed by Armed Churchgoers  . . . "While USA Today does not include Farmer’s full statement, the Wall Street Journal does.

Britt Farmer, the church’s senior minister, said the volunteers had contained the incident.

“We lost two great men today, but it could have been a lot worse and I am thankful that our government has allowed us the opportunity to protect ourselves,” he said.

. . . . Under Texas law, weapons are allowed into places of worship unless there is signage posted stating otherwise.

"Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn said that “today, evil walked boldly among us. But let me remind you, good people raised up and stopped it before it got worse.”

"Texas governor Greg Abbott issued a statement in which he expressed his gratitude to the heroic parishioners who “acted quickly to take down the shooter and help prevent further loss of life.' ” . . .

FBI: Hanukkah Stabbing Suspect Kept Antisemitic Journal, Fixated on Hitler

Breitbart

. . . "Thomas, of Greenwood Lake, N.Y., has pleaded not guilty to five state counts of attempted murder and one count of burglary stemming from a machete-wielding attack at the home of a Hasidic Jewish rabbi during a [Hanukkah] party late Saturday.

"He was ordered held on $5 million bail with his next court appearance Friday.

"Meanwhile, federal prosecutors for the Southern District of New York also weighed in with additional hate crime charges against Thomas, a 37-year-old African-American man.

"FBI investigators said they found journal entries allegedly written by Thomas in which he expressed anti-Semitic views, referencing Adolf Hitler and “Nazi culture.”

"They said another journal entry allegedly stated that “Hebrew Israelites” had victimized “ebonoid Israelites,” which the FBI took to mean African-Americans claiming descent from the ancient tribes of Israel. . . .

"Ebanoid"?

Hanukkah Menorah Vandalized in New Jersey amid Wave of Antisemitic Attacks

. . . "NJ Advance Media reports the Mendham Borough menorah was knocked over and five of its light bulbs were broken on Friday. The Hanukkah display, which is inside a public park, has since been repaired.

“ 'Any act of vandalism directed at any religion, race, gender or age should never be tolerated in our towns. This incident is being investigated by our Police Department in cooperation with the Sheriff’s Department, and all appropriate protocols will be followed,” a statement reads from Borough Mayor Serrano Glassner.

"Detective Chris Irons told NJ Advance Media that the incident is being investigated as a possible “bias crime,” the first in Mendham Borough for 2019. No arrests have been made in connection to the incident." . . .

Fads in my day were Elvis dress and DA haircuts. Today they seem to be the destruction of monuments commemorating out-of-favor-with-the left causes. 

Democrats Must Live with Consequences of Their Foolish Impeachment Farce

Conrad Black

It’s showtime. Let the fools’ carnival of unfeasible candidates elevate the designated Democratic piñata for this successful if edgy president to hammer through the election campaign.

"The NeverTrump campaign has sputtered to a ludicrous and pitiful end with this year. Having dragged its media lackeys and the dwindling curiosity of the country through an absurd burlesque of a “solemn, sad,” impeachment process—without alleging any actual illegalities—the NeverTrump campaign has rushed through in a procedural Star Chamber because of the “urgency” of removing the president before the country reelects him. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will not send the articles of impeachment to the Senate until Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) promises to go to court and oblige administration witnesses to testify, a step the trained Democratic seals of the House declined to take because of the urgency of trial and removal of the president.

"Finally, the revelation appears to have been noticed by the speaker, just ahead of the arrival of Santa Claus, that the Democrats have no case against the president, are slipping in the polls, and that the last stand of the argument that a moral imperative makes Trump clearly unfit to serve in the great office to which he was elected, has crumbled. 
"Trump grates on the nerves of many—including many supporters—but that is not an impeachable offense. The country will punish a party that puts its own rabid partisan antagonism ahead of the national interest in effective government. The Democrats have no case for impeachment so they can’t go forward. They cannot possibly imagine there is any smoking gun anywhere to unsettle this administration. And as the country enters a presidential election year, they can’t get anyone except their lickspittles in the national political media drooling again about any legal threat to this president." . . .

Tony Branco