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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
CONFIRMED: Fusion GPS Paid Journalists Amid Trump-Russia ‘Collusion’ Hysteria
November 21, 2017 by Joshua Caplan
On Tuesday, a federal court unsealed Fusion GPS’s bank records, shining new light on Russia-related payments made by the firm behind the infamous ‘Trump dossier.’
Judge Richard Leon, a Bush-appointee, unsealed the records, showing 112 transactions involving Fusion GPS.
“Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the Clinton campaign and DNC, paid Fusion a total of $1,024,408 between May 24, 2016 and Dec. 28, 2016, the records show,” reports Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller.
Ross adds, “The largest payment was made just before the election. Perkins Coie made a $365,275 payment to Fusion GPS on Oct. 28, 2016, according to the records.”
Daily Caller reports:
The unsealed documents also reveal details of the House committee’s requests for records related to Fusion’s payments to journalists.
The document shows that the committee sought records related to “five Fusion payments to research and Russia expert [name redacted], and production of three additional payments.”
[…]
The unsealed filings show that Fusion argued against releasing records related to payments to journalists.
The records raise new questions as to who is the mysterious ‘Russia expert,’ that Fusion GPS made various payments to. At the very least, the involvement of the expert, with the firm demonstrates more cooperation between the Clinton-linked group and Russia.
The bank records show that Fusion GPS paid journalists for work amid the Trump-Russia ‘collusion,’ hysteria.
The firm claims the journalists were paid to do work that was separate from the now discredited ‘Trump dossier.’
The journalists have not yet been identified.
Washington Examiner reports:
One of the documents filed by the company this week was an affidavit from one of Fusion GPS’s co-founders, Peter Frisch. That affidavit said, in part, “[The House Intelligence Committee] has also demanded records related to transactions between Fusion GPS and certain journalists — i.e., Request Nos. 66, 68-69, 107-112. Those requested records involve transactions that are not pertinent to work related to Russia or Donald Trump.”
[…]
Fusion GPS didn’t deny that some payments went to reporters, but argues that these payments were made to help the company with research.
“Fusion GPS is a research firm set up by former investigative journalists,” Fusion GPS’s lawyer, Josh Levy, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “As such, it sometimes works with contractors that have specialized skills seeking public information. Contractors are not permitted to publish any articles based on that work, and Fusion GPS does not pay journalists to write stories.”
As The Gateway Pundit previously reported, the House Intelligence Committee suspected journalists may have been paid to report on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) demanded Fusion GPS, submit its banking records to the House Intelligence Committee so it can investigated if payments made to the research firm where funneled to reporters.
BREAKING: Major Congressional Harassment Scandal, Victims Were "Blackballed"
The major Congressional harassment scandal first broken by Mike Cernovich's team and ScuzzFeed, sorry BuzzFeed, may unravel an enormous amount of corruption and sleaze in D.C. I say "Unseal the Deals" and subscribe to Mike Cernovich's YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/DangerAndPlay
This was another solid research win for Cernovich.
Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure
South Lawn
3:16 P.M. EST
Q Mr. President, are you ready to talk about Roy Moore at all?
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, I'll be talking about him. I can tell you one thing for sure: We don't need a liberal person in there, a Democrat -- Jones. I've looked at his record. It's terrible on crime. It's terrible on the border. It's terrible on the military. I can tell you for a fact, we do not need somebody that's going to be bad on crime, bad on borders, bad with the military, bad for the Second Amendment.
Q Is Roy Moore, a child molester, better than a Democrat? He's an accused --
THE PRESIDENT: Well, he denies it. Look, he denies it. I mean, if you look at what is really going on, and you look at all the things that have happened over the last 48 hours, he totally denies it. He says it didn’t happen. And, you know, you have to listen to him also. You're talking about, he said 40 years ago this did not happen. So, you know --
Q Are you going to campaign for Roy Moore?
THE PRESIDENT: I'll be letting you know next week. But I can tell you, you don’t need somebody who's soft on crime, like Jones.
Q Mr. President, what is your message to women, sir, during this pivotal moment in our country where we're talking about sexual misconduct? You've had your own allegations against you. What do you say to women?
THE PRESIDENT: Let me just tell you, Roy Moore denies it. That's all I can say. He denies it. And, by the way, he totally denies it.
Q Mr. President, what is your message to women? This is a pivotal moment in our nation's history.
THE PRESIDENT: Women are very special. I think it's a very special time because a lot of things are coming out, and I think that's good for our society, and I think it's very, very good for women. And I'm very happy a lot of these things are coming out, and I'm very happy it's being exposed.
Q Should Al Franken resign now?
THE PRESIDENT: I don’t know -- look, I don’t want to speak for Al Franken. I don’t know what happened.
Q What about John Conyers?
THE PRESIDENT: I just heard about Conyers two minutes ago.
As far as Franken is concerned, he's going to have to speak for himself. I'd rather have him speak for himself.
Q What did you say to Vladimir Putin, sir?
THE PRESIDENT: We had a great call with President Putin. We're talking about peace in Syria -- very important. We're talking about North Korea. We had a call that lasted almost an hour and a half. We've just put out a release on the call. But we're talking very strongly about bringing peace for Syria. We're talking about very strongly about North Korea and Ukraine.
Q The AT&T-Time Warner merger, sir -- what do you think about it?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I'm not going to get involved in litigation. But, personally, I've always felt that that was a deal that's not good for the country. I think your pricing is going to go up. I don’t think it's a good deal for the country. But I'm not going to get involved. It's litigation.
Thank you, everybody. Have a very great Thanksgiving.
Q Do you believe Roy Moore's denials? Do you believe him?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, he denies. I mean, Roy Moore denies it. And, by the way, he gives a total denial. And I do have to say, 40 years is a long time. He's run eight races, and this has never comes up. So 40 years is a long time. The women are Trump voters; most of them are Trump voters. All you can do is, you have to do what you have to do. He totally denies it.
Q Mr. President, do you believe Congress should release the names of lawmakers who have settled on sexual harassment claims?
THE PRESIDENT: I do. I really do. I think they should. Thank you. Have a good Thanksgiving, everybody.
END
ISIS Calls for Barron Trump’s Assassination
Tuesday, November 21, 2017 | Video
Location of First Son's school revealed.
By Adan Salazar | Infowars.com Tuesday, November 21, 2017
President Donald Trump’s 11-year-old son Barron is reportedly being targeted for assassination by ISIS supporters, the Washington Free Beacon reports.
In chatter found on the Telegram encrypted messaging app, pro-ISIS groups have shared details about Barron, including the name and location of the school he attends, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
“The initial message, sent on Nov. 21 by an ISIS supporter on Telegram, ‘called for the assassination of Barron Trump, and shared the name of the school that Barron attends along with a Google map pinpointing its location,’ according to MEMRI, which shares images of this messages with reporters,” reports the Free Beacon’s Adam Kredo.
One Telegram user, who goes by the name Dak Al-Munafiqeen – which in Arabic means, “striking the hypocrites” – wrote that “Barron Trump goes to this school in Washington.”
Memri reveals, “The post was followed by a photo of Barron Trump.”
“To widely disseminate the call for assassination, several pro-ISIS Telegram channels have shared and forwarded the post,” according to MEMRI.
In the past, ISIS supporters have used the Telegram app to call for attacks on France and to celebrate terror attacks in the UK and abroad.
Thanksgiving at the White House, Then and Now
NOVEMBER 21, 2017 AT 7:04 PM ET BY THE WHITE HOUSE
November is an opportune time to reflect on America's sacred traditions. While other holidays celebrate important values – Independence Day stokes our patriotism, for example, and Memorial Day reminds us solemnly of sacrifice – perhaps no day invites as much calm, personal reflection as does Thanksgiving.
President George Washington issued the first Thanksgiving proclamation, designating Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of public thanksgiving for
the first time under the new Constitution. Thanksgiving Day became a unified national celebration under President Abraham Lincoln, who declared the last Thursday in November to be regularly commemorated as Thanksgiving Day. In his proclamation, President Lincoln implored the war-torn nation to seek peace, harmony, and tranquility in the midst of what would become America’s deadliest war.
Since then, American Presidents have often used Thanksgiving proclamations to express their hopes for peace and well-being at home and abroad. "This year we have special and moving cause to be grateful and to rejoice,” President Woodrow Wilson said in 1918, mere days after the end of World War I. “God has in His good pleasure given us peace. . . . Complete victory has brought us, not peace alone, but the confident promise of a new day as well in which justice shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the nations."
Some Presidents spend Thanksgiving at the White House; others celebrate at Camp David or private family residences. The menu includes traditional Thanksgiving foods along with regional favorites, depending on the preferences of the First Family.
Turkey, of course, is a staple – but not the National Thanksgiving Turkey, which traditionally receives a Presidential pardon. Turkeys have been sent as gifts to American Presidents from as early as the 1870s, sometimes arriving in elaborate crates and costumes. By the 1920s, the influx of these turkeys had increased so greatly that President Calvin Coolidge discouraged Americans from sending them, reported a 1923 New York Times article. Eventually, however, the tradition resumed, and President Coolidge received not only turkeys, but quail, ducks, geese, rabbits, and a deer.
The most unusual gift was a raccoon, which was not served for dinner but became a Coolidge family pet.
In the 1940s, farmers and manufacturers began to send birds to the White House as a means of promoting the poultry industry. Sparing the turkey from becoming dinner became a tradition under President Ronald Reagan, but President George H. W. Bush was the first to formally grant the bird a Presidential pardon, taking a cue from the animal rights activists picketing nearby.
The tradition of selecting and pardoning a National Thanksgiving Turkey continues to this day. On Tuesday, November 21, President Donald J. Trump delivered the 2017 turkey pardon to a bird named “Drumstick.” Before pardoning the bird, President Trump delivered remarks in the Rose Garden, urging Americans toward greater unity and thanking the Armed Forces, police, and first responders for their service.
"As we gather together with our families on Thanksgiving and give thanks for our many blessings, we are reminded of the national family to which we all belong as citizens of this incredible country,” the President said. “This Thursday, as we give thanks for our cherished loved ones, let us also renew our bonds of trust, loyalty, and affection between our fellow citizens as members of a proud national family of Americans.”
The President and First Family wish all Americans a peaceful, happy, and healthy start to this holiday season.
Muslim College Basketball Player Grabs Ball and Shoots Baskets During National Anthem; Get’s Kicked Off Team; ACLU Defending Him
November 21, 2017 by Jim Hoft
Rasool Samir is a college ball player at Garden City Community College.
During the national anthem Rasool sat on the bench. Then he picked up a ball and started shooting baskets during the anthem.
FOX News reported:
Jim Howard, of Garden City, Kansas is a red-blooded, American patriot and a faithful supporter of the athletic program at the local community college.
For 32 years he’s volunteered with the booster club – keeping scorebooks, holding fundraisers, running the chain gang for football – and even providing a place for players to have a Thanksgiving meal.
He was in the stands on Nov. 1 for the season-opener of the Garden City Broncbusters basketball team. And when the announcer asked everyone to stand for the national anthem, he dutifully joined the crowd and stood at attention.
That’s when he noticed a lone player seated on a bench at courtside – Rasool Samir, a 19-year-old Muslim red-shirt…
…As the crowd began singing about the bombs bursting in air and the rocket’s red glare, the Muslim basketball player grabbed a ball, walked onto the court and began shooting baskets.
Rasool was later kicked off the team.
The far left ACLU is defending his Rasool’s right to shoot baskets during the National Anthem.
In direct violation of his First Amendment rights, Rasool Samir was kicked off the basketball team at Garden City Community College for not observing the national anthem.
We’re demanding answers. https://t.co/XNXFBr18fo
— ACLU of Kansas (@aclukansas) November 15, 2017
Rasool said it was against his religion to stand for the National Anthem.
Garden City Community College boots Muslim student for disrespecting the Nat'l Anthem.
Rasool Samir claims it's against his religion to stand for the flag. NEWSFLASH, Rasool:
The Anthem isn't abt religion. It's abt being American. Don't like it? LEAVE! https://t.co/N0ksu1wmVI— T. Zerilli-Edelglass (@TeresaEdelglass) November 18, 2017
'ANCHOR ABORTIONS' JOINING 'ANCHOR BABIES' AS RESIDENCY STRATEGY?
WND
Case before Supreme Court could open new 'rights' for illegals
Children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens, known as anchor babies, are automatically granted citizenship.
Now a new benefit may be developing for illegal-alien girls and women who are pregnant. The American Civil Liberties Union recently tricked the Department of Justice, arranging for taxpayers to fund an abortion for an illegal-alien teen.
More cases are in the pipeline that could create a “right” to taxpayer-paid abortion for illegal-alien girls and women.
WND reported the original case is being submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court because of the ACLU’s deception.
In that case, involving a 17-year-old pregnant illegal alien in Texas, court arguments were made at the district and appeals court levels.
When the appeals court said the abortion should proceed, ACLU lawyers told the DOJ they would arrange the procedure for the following day.
Instead, they summoned an abortionist to his business at 4:15 a.m. that very day to do the taxpayer-funded abortion.
The abortion was rushed, according to a new DOJ filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, because government attorneys were preparing to ask the high court to review the case after Democratic-appointed appellate judges effectively created a right to abortion for illegal aliens.
While the abortion on the illegal-alien teen already has been carried out, the precedent must be overturned, they argue.
The Washington Times reported Justice Department lawyers said they had been preparing to ask the Supreme Court to take up the case, “but the ACLU’s speedy abortion for the girl identified in court documents only as ‘J.D.’ short-circuited that.”
The brief reads: “The government planned to seek an emergency stay from this court before Ms. Doe could obtain an abortion. Ms. Doe’s appointment was changed so that instead of obtain counseling at 7:30 a.m. on October 25, she would undergo an abortion at 4:15 a.m. that morning, just hours before the government planned to file its stay application.”
Now the Washington Times is reporting a surge in pregnant illegal-alien girls.
“At least 420 pregnant Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) have been caught and put into government care over the last year, and 43 pregnant illegal immigrant girls were still in custody of the Health and Human Services Department as of Oct. 17, Jonathan White, the department’s director for children’s programs, said in court documents,” the report said.
“Of the 420 girls seen in fiscal year 2017, 18 requested abortions and 11 had them. Another five rescinded their request for an abortion, and two were turned over to sponsors in the U.S. before a final decision was made, Mr. White said, meaning they were outside of government custody.”
The Trump administration is in battle with the ACLU over the issue.
In a column for the Examiner, Margot Cleveland noted the government contends the Texas teen’s lawyers should be forced to prove why disciplinary action should not be taken against them, either by the court or the state bars to which they belong “for what appear to be material misrepresentations and omissions to government counsel designed to thwart this court’s review.”
The government filing said the government had asked to be kept informed of the timing of the abortion procedure, and “one of the respondent’s counsel agreed.”
It was on Oct. 25 that the DOJ was planning to file an appeal with the Supreme Court.
But even as paperwork was being prepared, the ACLU announced “Jane Doe” had had an abortion.
The abortion had been authorized by six Democratic-appointed judges on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, who were blasted by a variety of organizations for creating a new “right” to abortion at taxpayer expense even for those who have broken U.S. laws to enter the country.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, said, “We are deeply saddened to learn that Jane Doe’s child has been aborted.
“Our thoughts are foremost with the young girl, who has now been saddled with the death of her child before she has even reached her 18th birthday – a terrible burden for anyone to carry, much less at such a tender age and so far from home. We ask that the pro-life community and all compassionate Americans keep her and her child in their prayers.”
She continued: “We unequivocally reject abortion advocates’ narrative that justice has been done in this case. Instead the extreme agenda of the abortion lobby and the ACLU has claimed two victims and made a cruel mockery of the ‘American dream.’ We will continue to oppose all efforts to impose a so-called constitutional right to abortion and turn the United States into a sanctuary nation for abortion.”
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NOW STATES LAUNCH ASSAULT ON LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR
WND EXCLUSIVE
New cases seek to accomplish what Obama failed to do
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Little Sisters at the Supreme Court (Image courtesy Becket Fund)
Remember the Little Sisters of the Poor, the Denver-based order of Catholic nuns who fought a years-long battle against the Obama administration over rules that forced them to fund abortion and contraception for employees?
The U.S. Supreme Court decided 8-0 in the nuns’ favor in 2016, sending the case back to lower courts for a resolution.
The case, Zubik v. Burwell, erupted when pro-abortion bureaucrats put in place by Obama demanded religious employers pay for optional services that terminate the life of an unborn child.
Obama claimed the government can force religious organizations to provide contraception coverage in their health plans even if the coverage violates sincerely held beliefs. But in a hugely embarrassing ruling for Obama, the Supreme Court ruled that the case had to be returned to the lower courts, and Daniel Blomberg, an attorney with the Becket Fund, explained it put the Little Sisters “in a place that we can get to a solution that frankly isn’t a win-loss; it’s a win-win.”
He said at the time the Supreme Court protected the Little Sisters “from having to violate their religious beliefs or pay massive fines.”
Now, however, Becket lawyers representing the Little Sisters are back in court, once again defending the nuns from a demand that they pay for abortion services.
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But this time the demands are coming from individual states. So far, cases have been filed by California and Pennsylvania.
Last month, the federal Health and Human Services agency issued a new rule protecting religious nonprofits like the Little Sisters, who dedicate their lives to caring for the elderly poor, from providing services such as the week-after pill, which violates their religious beliefs.
That means the long and complicated federal case likely will end soon.
But shortly after the new rule was issued, California and Pennsylvania sued to take away the religious exemption the Little Sisters just won.
The nuns, Becket said, are “asking the court to ensure that they can continue their vital ministry of caring for the elderly poor without violating their faith.”
Beckett said that, sadly, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra “think attacking nuns is a way to score political points.”
“These men may think their campaign donors want them to sue nuns, but our guess is most taxpayers disagree,” said Mark Rienzi, Becket’s senior counsel. “No one needs nuns in order to get contraceptives, and no one needs these guys reigniting the last administration’s divisive and unnecessary culture war.”
Becket said California admits that many of its own programs provide contraceptives to women who want them.
“California never filed suit over the much larger secular exemptions created by the Obama administration for big corporations – exemptions that applied to tens of millions more people than the religious exemption,” Becket argued. “California’s own mandate does not even apply to the Little Sisters of the Poor. And California has not identified a single actual person who had contraceptive coverage but will lose it because of this new rule.”
Despite all this, Becket said, California is asking a judge to find that the Little Sisters should be forced to comply with the federal mandate, not a state mandate, or pay tens of millions of dollars of government fines.
Pennsylvania is arguing the same points.
When the Trump administration changed Obama’s rules, it was because it wanted “to provide conscience protections for individuals and entities with sincerely held religious beliefs … and to minimize burdens in our regulation of the health insurance market.”
Becket Attorney Daniel Blomberg told WND and Radio America when the Supreme Court ruling was released that the Supreme Court doesn’t want groups such as the Little Sisters to be in the government’s cross-hairs, as they were under the Obama administration.
“Several lower court decisions had gone the wrong way, and they were forcing the Little Sisters to choose between their faith and fines, and they were massive, crushing fines,” he said at the time. “The Supreme Court today said, ‘No, we’re not going to do that. We’re going to send this back down to get reconsidered because the government has admitted it has other ways of accomplishing its mission without forcing the sisters to violate their beliefs.”
Listen to the WND/Radio America interview with Daniel Blomberg:
Daniel Blomberg calls Supreme Court's ruling on Little Sister of the Poor a 'win-win'
When Trump moved to remove Obama’s abortion-funding requirement, public-interest groups praised him.
“This interim rule, if issued as written, is an important step in acknowledging the importance of conscience rights for all Americans,” the Susan B. Anthony List organization said in a statement then.
“The taking of human life is the antithesis of health care. No one, including religious orders like the Little Sisters of the Poor, or groups like Susan B. Anthony List should be forced to be complicit in the provision of abortion inducing drugs and devices.”
Copyright 2017 WND
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