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Trump Continues to Right Mueller Wrongs in 2nd Round of Presidential Pardons This Week

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned former campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, as part of a second round of clemency. The actions, in Trump’s final weeks at the White House, bring to nearly 50 the number of people whom the president...

Trump Vetoes Defense Bill That Didn’t Include Section 230 Overhaul

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump made good on his prior promise to veto a defense appropriations bill that Congress planned to use it as a vehicle to spread cancel culture, government waste and Chinese kickbacks. But with strong bipartisan support in Congress, it was unclear whether the move would have...

How $10M for Gender Programs in Pakistan Got Tied to COVID Relief

(Jon Miltimore, Foundation for Economic Education) Hours before lawmakers voted on a multi-trillion dollar government funding package that included a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill, congressional aides were spotted wheeling in the legislation. It ran 5,593 pages. “You’d have to read 560 pages an hour to finish it before midnight,” observed NBC...

Trump Issues Order to Block CIA, FBI from Obstructing Potential Durham Indictments

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump will allow special council John Durham's office to share classified information with a grand jury---a move that may herald the arrival of new, high-level indictments in the final month of Trump's first presidential term. The White House announced today that Trump signed an order on...

Pelosi Urges Trump ‘Sign the Bill’ After He Demands Higher Payments for Americans

(Headline USA) President Donald Trump has threatened to torpedo Congress’s massive COVID-19 relief and year-end package, upending a hard-fought compromise in the midst of deep economic uncertainty by demanding changes fellow Republicans have opposed. Trump assailed the bipartisan $900-billion bill and associated $1.3-trillion broader government funding package in a video he...

Ted Cruz Tells Trump to Send Paris Climate Accord, Iran Deal, to Senate

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., told President Donald Trump that he should send both the Paris Climate Accord and the Iran Nuclear Deal to the Senate for ratification as treaties, echoing an idea that the Wall Street Journal floated. If Trump sent the so-called executive agreements --- which now avoid the...

UPDATE: AOC, Pelosi Endorse Trump Call for $2K-per-Person After Veto Threat

UPDATE: Far-left New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joined Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York --- House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader, respectively --- in agreeing to President Donald Trump's call for $2,000-per-American payments in the economic stimulus. "Let’s do it," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted Tuesday...

Trump Issues Raft of Pardons, Including Two for FBI’s Russia-Hoax Victims

Entering into the final 30 days of his first term, President Donald Trump followed a long tradition of so-called lame-duck presidents in issuing pardons. Trump's pardons included two people convicted in connection with the FBI's Russia-collusion hoax, four Blackwater guards convicted of partaking in the killing of Iraqi civilians, and...

Burisma Lobbyist Pitched Ukrainian Prosecutor ‘High Level Access’ to Clinton Campaign

A newly uncovered cache of State Department records revealed that Joe and Hunter Biden may not have been the only high-level officials seeking quid-pro-quo arrangements from Ukrainian officials. Operatives close to the campaign of failed 2016 candidate Hillary Clinton also sought to build inroads with the country's top prosecutor that...

Trump Supporters Plan Alternate Inauguration to Compete w/ Biden’s

Thousands of supporters are planning a virtual “second inauguration” for President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 to compete with Democratic candidate Joe Biden’s presumptive ceremony. More than 60,000 people have signed dup to attend an event billed as “Donald J. Trump 2nd Presidential Inauguration Ceremony” on Facebook. “Disclaimer: We are a grassroots...

Bill de Blasio Doubles Down on ‘Mission’ to Redistribute Wealth and Combat Racism

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio doubled down on his “mission” to combat racism in the city by redistributing wealth. DE BLASIO: "I'd like to say very bluntly: our mission is to redistribute wealth." pic.twitter.com/bX6KaEKuWg — Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) December 18, 2020 Addressing the economic impact the coronavirus pandemic has had...

No. 2 GOP Sen.: Electoral College Challenge Will ‘Go Down Like a Shot Dog’

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. and the Majority Whip, warned his party members that efforts to challenge the Electoral College’s results in Congress will “go down like a shot dog” in the Senate. Thune has publicly and private pushed back on House Republicans’ efforts to nullify Electoral College votes certified by...
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