Friday, June 5, 2026

JUDICIAL WATCH: Emails Reveal Rosenstein’s Secret Anti-Trump Loyalties

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‘I am with Mueller. He shares my view. Duty calls. Sometimes the moment chooses us…’

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein/IMAGE: Fox 11 Phoenix via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Judicial Watch said Wednesday that documents obtained in an open-records request revealed some of the secretive machinations of former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein during the early days of the Trump presidency.

Rosenstein was revealed last year to have suggested wearing a wire in meetings with President Donald Trump and to have discussed with then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe the possibility of invoking the 25th Amendment to declare Trump ‘unfit’ for office.

He officially resigned in May, shortly after the conclusion of the Mueller investigation that he oversaw for nearly two years.

Yet, the disclosure of two weeks’ worth of emails from May 2017 revealed to an even greater degree how Rosenstein went above and beyond the scope of his duties in engaging those who sought to undermine and damage the new president.

“These astonishing emails further confirm the dishonest corruption behind Rosenstein’s appointment of Robert Mueller,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton in a press release.

Just days before Rosenstein hired Mueller, the former FBI director, to lead the Russia collusion investigation as special counsel, the deputy attorney general wrote in an email with the subject “I assume you realize” that “The boss and his staff do not know about our discussions.”

Other messages underscored the recently appointed DAG’s concerns for discretion, fearful that his own job was on the line—along with pressure from anti-Trump politicians and activists to appoint a special counsel while touting his “apolitical” reputation.

In a May 16 message to Mark Filip, who had previously served as a deputy attorney general under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Rosenstein wrote, “I am with Mueller. He shares my view. Duty calls. Sometimes the moment chooses us.”

Also included in the correspondence were messages with reporters from The Washington Post and the New York Times, in which Rosenstein provided “off the record” background and offers feedback on story drafts.

Fitton said they “show a shockingly cozy relationship between Mr. Rosenstein and anti-Trump media reporters.”

The documents begin on May 8, the day Rosenstein submitted a memo (he later claimed he was pressured to write it) advocating for the firing of Obama-era FBI Director James Comey.

The request ends on May 22, five days after Mueller was appointed to investigate claims of Russian collusion within the Trump campaign.

In addition to the firing of Comey and hiring of Mueller, the period also covers the span of Rosenstein’s infamous meeting with McCabe and other crucial events that set the foundation for subsequent—and ongoing—attacks on Trump’s executive authority.

Although Mueller may have known early on that there was no evidence of collusion, he remained tight-lipped until March 2019, allowing Democrats in the November 2018 midterm election to retake the House of Representatives on promises of impeachment and assurances that the special counsel investigation would yield incriminating evidence.

Mueller’s report produced no such evidence for impeachment. However, House Democrats, undeterred, formally launched an impeachment investigation in September based on entirely unrelated and still unsubstantiated claims.

Hillary Claims She Is a ‘Fun Person’; Lost Election Because She Was ‘Too Serious’

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‘I take responsibility for everything I didn’t do as well or my campaign didn’t do as well…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Sounding increasingly like someone on the campaign trail, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed to the women of ABC’s “The View” that she was a “fun person” and regretted  that in her 2016 presidential campaign “I think I probably came across as too serious.”

While her personal qualities likely played a role in her defeat by President Donald Trump, Clinton’s more than a quarter-century in the national spotlight has yet to reveal any solid evidence of her fun-loving warmth and charisma.

In her partnership with former President Bill Clinton, she often has been seen as the ambition-driven counterbalance to his unmitigated id.

The Clintons unwittingly re-emerged in media discussions over the summer after pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein‘s reported suicide became the most recent in a long list of unexplained deaths linked to people within their sphere of influence who may have had compromising information.

However, with developments that House Democrats were launching an impeachment probe against Trump, Hillary Clinton sprang into action last week, booking appearances on a broad swath of newscasts and talk-shows, all while fueling broader speculation about her intentions.

Ostensibly there to plug a forthcoming book with her daughter, Chelsea, Clinton instead spent her nearly full segment on “The View” discussing impeachment and taking baseless potshots at the president, noted the Media Research Center.

She also paused for a few moments of self-aggrandizement, reflecting on her historical legacy as the first female candidate to lose a presidential election.

The heavy weight of that responsibility was the latest in a litany of excuses—including racism and now debunked claims of Russian collusion—that she has called upon to explain her failure.

“I really believed that my job—especially as a woman and the first woman to go as far as I did—that I had to help people feel good about a woman in the Oval Office, a woman commander in chief,” Clinton said, according to The Hill.

“And so I may have overcorrected a little bit,” she said, “because sometimes people say, ‘Oh, why can’t you be like that, or why weren’t you like that?’”

In classic Clinton form, she followed up on this deflection of responsibility by asserting that she took full ownership for her campaign’s shortcomings in not letting people see the true Hillary.

“I did feel a heavy sense of responsibility, and it was such that maybe I wasn’t as loose or open as I could have been,” she said. “So I take responsibility for everything I didn’t do as well or my campaign didn’t do as well.”

An ongoing investigation within the Justice Department, which is expected to conclude in the next month, has centered on whether Clinton’s campaign may, in fact, have been the source of salacious smears against Trump during and after the election.

Also at issue is whether Clinton—who was revealed in leaked emails to have colluded with the Democratic National Committee—may also have been in cahoots with the Obama intelligence apparatus to investigate Trump while clearing her in a notorious State Department scandal regarding the use of a private, unsecured server to send and receive classified emails.

Shockingly, even after the nearly two-year-long Mueller investigation concluded there was no evidence to support claims of Russian collusion with Trump, the left-wing co-hosts of “The View” joined Clinton in continuing to peddle the false narrative, which campaign advisers Robbie Mook and John Podesta were instrumental in helping craft.

The Ukrainian Embassy acknowledged recently that it also worked closely with a DNC staffer and activist to spread claims of Trump’s ties to Russia in order to benefit Clinton.

After “View” co-host Sunny Hostin interjected that Clinton should not “take responsibility for Russia,” the latter claimed “there were unprecedented events in this election—in the last election, I mean—that were beyond my understanding and nearly anybody else’s.”

Clinton noted that many were skeptical when her campaign first unveiled the accusations.

“When we started talking in the summer of 2016 about the Russians, you know I think most of the press and the public goes, ‘What is she talking about? You can’t go around making excuses,’” she said. “They didn’t understand the attack that we were, unfortunately, suffering,”

While then-President Barack Obama was criticized for not going after the alleged foreign cyber-interference more aggressively, the FBI did use a dossier of unverified Russia innuendo, commissioned by Clinton’s attorneys, to wiretap and spy on officials with the Trump campaign.

In spite of it all, Clinton declared that she was stoic and not the least bit bitter about her loss, and that she had no designs on another run.

“And at the end of the day who wins, wins and who doesn’t, doesn’t,” she philosophized. “Or you could lose because of hacking and theft of material.”

Left-Wing Media LOSING In Its Effort to Dupe Public on Ukraine

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‘Almost nothing he’s done has come as a surprise to the American public, which is why we see such little change in his job rating…’

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Adam Schiff, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings / IMAGE: ABC News via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The Left’s Ukraine lies are starting to lose the narrative battle as more information reveals evidence of former Vice President Joe Biden‘s role in a corrupt quid-pro-quo deal that prompted President Donald Trump to seek the country’s support investigating his aspiring 2020 presidential rival.

Breitbart reported that a plurality of Americans—more than 40 percent, based on recent polling—believe that Biden corruptly coerced Ukrainian officials to fire a prosecutor whose investigation into a major energy company threatened to ensnare his son.

This public sentiment, supported by substantial facts and evidence, runs contrary to repeated mainstream media claims that there is no proof that the Bidens were implicated in the corruption probe.

“The American people know the media lie,” observed Breitbart’s John Nolte. “Knowing that, they seek information elsewhere, and discover truths and information the establishment media are desperate to hide from them.”

The resulting credibility crisis also casts doubts on other fraudulent attempts to spin House Democrats’ flimsy case for impeachment, which is evocative of their previously debunked allegations of Russian collusion.

Pollsters or Fraudsters?

Among the misleading headlines being circulated nonstop, media outlets have claimed a dramatic shift in support for impeachment.

Based on polls that significantly oversampled Democrats, sites like CBS News falsely claimed that the majority of Americans now support charges against the president.

On the other hand, left-leaning pollsters whose numerology fails to cross the 50-percent threshold have continued to hype an increase, however slight, in support for impeachment—again, largely driven by Democrats alone.

A recent poll by Monmouth University found that Trump’s job approval was steady and, in fact, up a percentage point from August following the impeachment charade.

“I’ve been saying this for a long time. Fundamental opinion about Donald Trump has been baked in from the very start of his presidency,” said Patrick Murray, director of the independent Monmouth University Polling Institute.

“Almost nothing he’s done has come as a surprise to the American public, which is why we see such little change in his job rating,” Murray said. “The question is whether those who want Trump out of office are willing to wait until 2020 and that’s where we see a small shift.”

The small shift he was referencing was an uptick to 44 percent supporting impeachment (the number in the buildup to the Mueller Report was, similarly, at 42 percent) versus 52 percent who currently opposed charging Trump.

Liberal Media Losing the Effort to Dupe Public on Ukraine
GRAPHIC: Monmouth University Polling Institute

Monmouth noted that it regularly asked the question before the latest developments and compared it with data from the lead-up to former President Richard Nixon‘s Watergate investigation.

Unlike the steady trend lines in Trump’s case, Nixon saw a sharp rise in impeachment support and an equally strong dip in job approval.

The obvious reason is that Democrats’ constant hyperbolic claims against the current president have helped to inoculate him from their attacks, even when the bulk of the media may have complicitly followed the marching orders of their liberal masters.

Biden Gets ‘Ukrained’

Meanwhile, perhaps the biggest casualty of the Ukraine scandal has been Biden, who looks increasingly guilty as evidence continues to surface showing his true ties to the Burisma energy company that had his son Hunter on its payroll.

The Monmouth poll found that 42 percent of the public believed Biden forced the Ukrainian government to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma, while 37 percent say he didn’t.

Unfortunately, it is one of several areas in the survey where misinformation is evident, as Biden previously acknowledged in a 2018 panel that he did, in fact, exert the pressure by threatening to withdraw a $1 billion loan guarantee.

Moreover, Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani has maintained in interviews that he has documentation, including sworn affidavits from the fired prosecutor and others, that acknowledge Hunter Biden was connected with the Burisma investigation.

Even more damning is a photo of the two Bidens playing golf with another Burisma board member, Devon Archer, despite Joe Biden’s claim that he never discussed business dealings with his son.

And Fox News’s Jesse Waters pointed out that many other left-wing members of its board seemed clearly to have been added for their political connections and influence rather than their energy and foreign policy expertise.

Hunter Biden—who was facing a dishonorable discharge from the Navy after failing a drug test when Burisma brought him on—drew a monthly paycheck of $50,000 despite having no background in energy policy or Eastern Europe to speak of.

The former veep has responded, while on the campaign trail, by hectoring media to “ask the right questions” and deflecting back to attacks on Trump for having the audacity to look into his potential crimes during the Obama administration.

“I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings,” Biden told Fox News in September.

“I know Trump deserves to be investigated,” Biden continued. “He is violating every basic norm of a president. You should be asking him why is he on the phone with a foreign leader, trying to intimidate a foreign leader. You should be looking at Trump.”

Biden Perpetuates Charlottesville Lie on 'Colbert' Show
Joe Biden / IMAGE: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert via Youtube

Likwise, Biden’s fellow Democratic party members, including primary rival Sen. Kamala Harris, have desperately called on those digging into the scandal to leave Biden alone and focus on Trump.

To be sure, Biden has many apologists and sympathizers in the media who have continued to lay cover for him, explaining that his lashing out is justified since he is being “Ukrained,” as a recent Associated Press article claimed, in the same way failed presidential candidates John Kerry and Hillary Clinton were innocent victims unable to live down their respective campaign scandals.

Even so, Biden continues to lose ground in the primaries to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who has benefited from a parallel media effort to rehab her negative image and normalize her radical policy positions.

“I think [Biden’s] going to have to talk a lot more about what his son was doing in Ukraine,” New Hampshire Democrat Ellen Bowles told the Associated Press. “I just feel that he’s going to get tainted by that somehow.”

Antifa Shouts Down Elderly Woman Crossing Street w/ Walker as ‘Nazi Scum’

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‘Free speech is a cornerstone of our democracy and can never—and will never—be denied…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Canada’s world-renowned friendliness is under assault—by Antifa.

A group of radical leftist protestors recently blocked the path of two elderly citizens, one using a walker, from attending an event hosted by conservative leader Maxime Bernier, founder of the People’s Party of Canada.

Ironically, the topic of the discussion at the Mohawk University event was about free speech and censorship.

Forming a three-person human wall in the crosswalk and shouting “Nazi scum off our street,” the masked protestors did more to confuse than to intimidate, arousing the curiosity of several spectators while others came and went around them, according to video posted by The Spec.

Still, they continued to target the elderly couple, blocking their ability to pass for approximately a minute until police arrived and quickly disperse them, escorting the couple into the building.

Four arrests were made for breaching the peace—two from each opposing side in the protest, according to the Clarion Project.

The woman’s son, David Turkoski, later posted a video response from her on Twitter.

“Free speech is a cornerstone of our democracy and can never—and will never—be denied,” she said.

Bernier supports tighter immigration and opposes the globalist, politically correct “cult of diversity” being pushed by disgraced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

Despite claiming to advocate for multiculturalism, Trudeau recently was revealed to have worn racially offensive brownface on multiple occasions as an adult prior to following his famous father into politics.

Like Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who brazenly defied calls to resign earlier this year, Trudeau has sought to ride out the scandal, insisting that his virtue-signaling words are more important than his past actions.

The rise of aggressive—albeit, often anonymous—left-wing protestors is another way in which Canada has tragically followed in the footsteps of its southern neighbor.

Since the 2016 election of President Donald Trump in the United States, armed Antifa protestors have continued to lash out in places like Berkeley, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; and Charlottesville, Va.—fomenting heightened tensions and often resorting to violent physical attacks on innocent victims.

In at least one instance, Antifa-connected activists in Minnesota staged a fake rally, attempting to lure conservative opponents of Rep. Ilhan Omar by creating a phony Facebook event, and then smashed the windshield of a woman who questioned and documented their actions.

And in another episode, an Antifa mob actually assaulted one of its own members who made the mistake of carrying an American flag to a demonstration.

Dem. Attorneys Continue Attack on Nuns over Obamacare Contraception Exemption

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‘This is a nonsensical political battle that has dragged on six years too long…’

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Little Sisters of the Poor / PHOTO: Becket

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A Supreme Court ruling and executive policy change in their favor haven’t stopped a group of Catholic nuns from being hounded by left-wing lawyers in blue states that seek to force them to fund abortions against their beliefs.

According to Becket, the religious-liberties nonprofit that is representing the Little Sisters of the Poor, the nuns were back in court to again seek protection from a contraception mandate with a writ of certiorari.

“It has been six long years since we began our legal battle against government mandates that threaten our ministry,” said Mother Loraine Marie Maguire in a press statement.

“We hope we have finally reached the end of this arduous process, that the Supreme Court will reaffirm their previous decision, and that we will soon be able to keep our focus on the elderly poor,” she said.

In a May 2016 SCOTUS ruling, the Pittsburgh-based religious order was exempted from the Health and Human Services mandate—part of the controversial Obamacare package—after the high court overturned lower decisions that would have forced it to pay millions of dollars in penalties, Becket said

The following year, the Trump administration put in place a new policy, which offered blanket exemptions for religious-based nonprofits like the Little Sisters.

However, radical leftist attorneys general in blue-leaning states—including their own Pennsylvania—sued to challenge the policy change and seek an injunction on it. That lawsuit threatened to take away the nuns’ hard-fought earlier legal victory.

“That nationwide injunction has stagnated other cases, and it conflicts with the judgments of many courts that have issued final orders affirmatively requiring comparable exemptions,” said the Little Sisters’s latest legal filing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Trump case.

Becket noted that in a separate lawsuit, in which California sued the nuns to attempt to take away their exemption, the state admitted that there were other ways of supplying contraception to those who needed it without forcing the sisters to go against their religious beliefs.

Moreover, adding to the evidence that the state was targeting the nuns specifically for religious persecution, it ignored many larger exemptions for large corporations that were established under the Obama law—including Exxon, Pepsi, Visa, the City of New York and the U.S. military.

“This is a nonsensical political battle that has dragged on six years too long,” said Becket President Mark Rienzi.

“These states have not been able to identify a single person who would lose contraceptive coverage under the new HHS rule, but they won’t rest until Catholic nuns are forced to pay for contraceptives,” he said.  “It is time for the Supreme Court to finally put this issue to rest.”

She’s ‘Likable’ Now: Progressives, Media Seek to Normalize Elizabeth Warren

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‘Warren’s major advantage is how few Democratic voters she has alienated…’

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Elizabeth Warren / IMAGE: The Late Late Show with James Corden via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the liabilities continue to mount for longtime Democratic primary front-runner Joe Biden, left-wing operatives and their media lapdogs are engaged in active efforts to ‘normalize’ Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.

Biden remains the leader in many polls and is strong with core constituent groups like black voters, but concerns are growing over his role in a major Ukraine conspiracy, penchant for false statements and his creepy violations of personal space.

While Biden’s popularity numbers have remained largely unchanged after taking a hit in the first debate (when Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., confronted him over his past support of racist policies), Warren has gained ground with a socialist message that appeals to younger Democratic voters.

Democratic strategist Michael Gordon told the left-wing magazine Newsweek that it was the same sort of underdog momentum that helped President Donald Trump coast to victory three years ago.

“In the Republican Primaries, Trump was ahead. … People didn’t think voters would support him but they did—and he had the kind of enthusiasm that Warren is seeing now,” Gordon said.

“I think what’s happening with Biden is there’s just starting to appear a cumulative effect of his gaps and other controversies,” he added.

As it did with Trump prior to his election, the mainstream media also has embraced Warren—but under very different circumstances.

While many left-wing journalists, convinced of Hillary Clinton’s inevitable coronation, viewed Trump as a sideshow in the Republican primary, treating his sensationalist run as a joke, Warren has stumbled into their favor by default amid a field of highly flawed options.

“In public, Democrats are closing ranks around Biden,” Vanity Fair observed. “To do anything else would amount to siding with Trump, the real offender. But they’re already finding themselves tripped up by Biden’s troubles.”

The charisma now being projected onto Warren, however, is a far cry from the initial assessments that viewed her as unelectable due to her radical positions. Even Warren’s hometown paper, the liberal Boston Globe, encouraged her early on to skip the 2020 race.

One tell-tale sign of the shifting narrative is that Warren—who initially disavowed big-donor contributions as many well-heeled left-wing oligarchs placed their bets on other favorites—has begun poaching the major donors of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., whose fringe appeal remains too far outside the mainstream.

Warren has largely parroted Sanders’s anti-corporate platform but replaced his principled calls for accountability in politics with a more conventional brand of liberal demagoguery.

“Much of the press has begun to frame the race as one of Warren versus Biden, counting out the high rank of Sanders, and she is starting to pull away from him as the safer bet,” said Vanity Fair.

“For a party still plagued by 2016 rifts, Warren has adopted enough economic populism to mollify a lot of Sanders’s 2016 fans while checking enough social-justice-and-identity boxes to reach a lot of Hillary Clinton’s,” it said.

According to a recent poll by YouGov, Warren is now leading in two crucial primary states, New Hampshire and Iowa.

While voters remain diffident about the entire pool of candidates, “hardly any Democratic voters would be ‘disappointed’ if she became the nominee,” said the site.

The key factors, noted YouGov, are that Warren is more “electable” and “well liked” than the alternatives.

“Warren’s major advantage is how few Democratic voters she has alienated,” YouGov reported.

Republicans, meanwhile, have been consistent in their attitudes toward a Warren candidacy to take on Trump: They are begging for it.

“The far-left radical ideas that she’s bringing to the table are just not going to sell in most of America,” former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders recently told conservative talk-show host John Catsimatidis, according to Newsweek.

“And I think that is a great thing … for the country—because it helps make sure that we get four more years under this president,” Sanders said.

Hillary Clinton Is Reportedly Advising Elizabeth Warren's Campaign
Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton / IMAGE: CBS News

While Newsweek attempted to refute the statement, pointing to polls that show Warren beating Trump, conservatives counter that the reliance on polls where oversampling and other questionable practices frequently impose left-wing bias all but assured a repeat of the 2016 election.

Many see the Left’s echo chamber, in their zeal to sell Warren as a viable contender, glossing over her legion vulnerabilities.

Already Warren has been flustered repeatedly by Trump’s mocking of her fake heritage claims. An attempt to defuse the president’s attack last year resulted in a humiliating DNA test that showed she had less Indian blood than the average Caucasian American.

The fallout forced Warren to issue multiple apologies to the Cherokee Nation for having appropriated their culture. However, the story continues to simmer after documents revealed that she spent years fraudulently exploiting minority status for her professional benefit.

Warren registered as an American Indian with the Texas Bar Association and later identified as such in a series of academic positions with elite universities, including Harvard.

Despite calculated efforts to rehab her image, like chugging a beer on Instagram, Warren’s perceived inauthenticity among voters is likely to be a continuing problem, particularly when she faces Trump’s freewheeling, off-the-cuff rhetorical style in a one-on-one context.

A recent focus group in the crucial swing state of Wisconsin revealed that some uncommitted voters simply regard her as a “bitch.”

San Francisco Caves on Attempt to Blacklist Business Partners of ‘Terrorist’ NRA

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‘Some elected officials would rather silence opposing arguments than engage in good-faith debate…’

London Breed / IMAGE: KPIX CBS SF Bay Area via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) A group known for its strong defense of the Second Amendment found itself safeguarding the First Amendment as well during a recent stand-off with California‘s radical “sanctuary cities.”

The National Rifle Association celebrated a victory over San Francisco after the far-left city abandoned an attempt to blacklist vendors and contractors who did business with the gun-rights group.

“It is unfortunate that in today’s polarized times, some elected officials would rather silence opposing arguments than engage in good-faith debate,” said William Brewer, one of the attorneys representing the NRA, in a press release.

In September, city officials enacted a resolution to investigate the NRA’s business ties after declaring it a “domestic terrorist organization.”

But facing a federal court challenge on First Amendment grounds, Mayor London Breed backed away from the measure.

Breed issued a memorandum last week that forbade municipal departments from taking steps “to restrict any contractor from doing business with the NRA or to restrict City contracting opportunities for any business that has any relationship with the NRA.”

Another challenge to a similar ordinance in Los Angeles continues to work its way through the court, which already denied the city’s motion to dismiss.

Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s CEO and executive vice president, said he hoped the legal battles sent a clear signal to those wishing to curtail American rights in service of an extremist political agenda.

“The NRA will always fight to protect our members and the constitutional freedoms in which they believe,” LaPierre said.

Biden on the Ropes as Trove of Records May Reveal Ukrainian Corruption

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‘Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempt to undermine our democratic processes…’

MURDOCK: Dems Should Be Wary of Befuddled 'Safe' Candidate Biden
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) As the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump deepens, one of the central questions will be whether he was justified in seeking to investigate a rival candidate’s potential criminality.

The House investigation launched by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., claims that Trump abused his power by asking Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy to help investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

Now, with the discovery of new documents that may undermine Biden’s narrative, two leading GOP senators say they intend to redouble their efforts to root out the scandals that prompted Trump to investigate in the first place.

Foreign Influence

Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., said a recently discovered trove of records may help implicate Biden in one of several shady dealings between Ukraine and the Democrats that closely mirrored Trump’s situation.

Biden, one of the frontrunners in the Democratic primary to take on Trump next year, previously acknowledged on tape that he had coerced the country into firing a prosecutor who happened to be investigating allegations of corruption surrounding his son Hunter.

However, the elder Biden denied that Ukrainian prosecutor-general Viktor Shokin’s probe into energy company Burisma—which had Hunter Biden on the payroll, drawing a salary of $50,000 a month—had anything to do with his decision to withhold a billion-dollar loan guarantee unless Shokin was fired.

Grassley-Graham Letter Sheds New Light on Steele Dossier, Nunes Memo
Chuck Grassley/photo by Gage Skidmore (CC)

Grassley and Johnson also noted that a Ukrainian activist, Alexandra Chalupa, was on the payroll of the Democratic National Committee while working closely with the Ukrainian Embassy to dig up dirt and spread false narratives about Trump’s ties to Russia that would benefit his opponent, Hillary Clinton.

On Friday, the two powerful Senate committee chairs sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr asking for an update on the U.S. Justice Department’s probe into these matters.

“Ukrainian efforts, abetted by a U.S. political party, to interfere in the 2016 election should not be ignored,” the Senators wrote in the letter. “Such allegations of corruption deserve due scrutiny, and the American people have a right to know when foreign forces attempt to undermine our democratic processes.”

An Expanding Probe

The DOJ investigation is believed to be part of a wide-sweeping examination led by special prosecutor John Durham into the circumstances behind the now-debunked Russia hoax that led to the nearly two-year Mueller investigation.

The Biden disclosures that are now unfolding as part of Trump’s impeachment inquiry could raise the stakes even more.

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John Durham / PHOTO: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut via Facebook

“According to the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney John Durham is ‘exploring the extent to which … Ukraine, played a role in the counterintelligence investigation’ during the 2016 election,” wrote the senators.

“However, the Justice Department has yet to inform Congress and the public whether it has begun an investigation into links and coordination between the Ukrainian government and individuals associated with the campaign of Hillary Clinton or the Democratic National Committee,” they said.

Durham, who reportedly has spent a considerable amount of time on the job in Europe, is expected to report his findings next month.

Collateral Damage

Meanwhile, Democrats may sense deep trouble for Biden.

Some have speculated that left-wing leaders see his political career as collateral damage in their fight with Trump. But among those circling the wagons are Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., who is a rival of Biden’s in the presidential nominating contests; and “View” co-host Joy Behar.

Joy Behar Fianlly Apologizes on Air for Anti-Christian Bigotry
Joy Behar (screen shot Washington Free Beacon/Youtube)

Behar complained on Friday’s show that any scrutiny of Biden’s criminal conduct should be off-limits because of long-ago personal tragedies in his life.

“Don’t you think politically it’s dumb for the Republicans to go after Joe Biden’s son when he lost a son and daughter and wife?” she said. “I mean, people feel sorry for Joe!”

Behar followed up by misleading the viewing audience about the nature of Biden’s abuse of power, downplaying his Ukrainian extortion by focusing on Burisma’s hiring of Hunter Biden as the main offense, reported the Media Research Center.

“He didn’t do a thing,” Behar claimed. “Basically it boils down to nepotism and Trump’s got his whole family working in the White House! If you want to talk about nepotism!”

Radical Dems’ Giddy Behavior Undermines Pelosi’s Official Impeachment Narrative

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‘There is no joy in this. We must be somber, we must be prayerful and we must pursue the facts further to make a decision…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Some have begun to question the appropriateness of giddy celebrations by members of the radical Left over the decision to move forward with an impeachment investigation on President Donald Trump.

Democrats’ all-hands-on-deck effort to sell their impeachment hoax to the public has led to many Oscar-worthy contortions of reality.

“This is a very sad time for our country,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., at a festival Saturday in Austin, Texas.

“There is no joy in this,” Pelosi said. “We must be somber, we must be prayerful and we must pursue the facts further to make a decision as to, did this violate the Constitution of the United States?”

Yet, belying Pelosi’s disingenuous rhetoric that the probe is a solemn exercise of duty, impeachment hawks like Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Minn., and Adam Schiff, D-Calif., struck a tone of levity that may play well to their extremist bases could easily backfire with the public at large.

A Campaign Promise Fulfilled…

Rambling Tlaib Demands Trump Impeachment: The Time for 'Strategy' Is Over
Rashida Tlaib / IMAGE: MSNBC via Youtube

Scrapping their months of investigating other areas of Trump’s personal life and business dealings, Democrats are now focusing their energies on the new Ukraine conspiracy.

The second-hand complaint from an anonymous whistleblower—whose potential partisan biases were noted by Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson—not only relied upon hearsay and media reports as its primary sources, but also contained at least one factually inaccurate distortion of Trump’s July conversation with Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

“I saw the Russian movie, I’m not sure I’m going to like the Ukrainian knockoff,” quipped Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., last week on Fox News’s Sean Hannity show.

Regardless, the Left and its media lapdogs have insisted that the new investigation is different from the failed Russia probe and are now hyping impeachment as fait accompli.

All but a dozen partisan House Democrats already declared their positions in favor of it, even before evidence has been presented.

In the meantime, some have cavalierly sought to raise funds for their own 2020 campaigns using messages that suggest the attempt to oust Trump will mark the fulfillment of their previous campaign promises.

Tlaib has begun selling $29 T-shirts with “Impeach The MF” written on them to benefit her re-election effort. The slogan echoes her controversial shout at a MoveOn banquet on the evening that she was sworn into Congress.

Some in the liberal media chided Tlaib’s tone-deaf response—but not without working in their own backhanded digs at Trump.

“It’s exactly the sort of thing Donald Trump might do, if he were in Tlaib’s position,” wrote the Detroit Free Press, “and it diminishes her, and the seriousness of the task that awaits her and her colleagues, every bit as much as Trump has diminished his own office.”

Even far-left CNN anchor Jake Tapper wondered if it might be overkill during a panel discussion on Sunday’s “State of the Union.”

“Do those members of your party and do the ones who are especially gleeful about this moment, does that undermine the seriousness with which you and other colleagues of yours want to proceed?” Tapper asked Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich.,

Slotkin, a blue-dog, centrist Democrat from a more conservative part of Michigan than Tlaib’s Detroit district, disavowed the “vitriol” from her fellow party members without explicitly condemning it.

“I can’t speak on behalf of every other member of Congress,” she told Tapper. “I know that my district does not want me participating in the kind of vitriol that they see coming out of Washington generally, so that’s not what I’m going to personally be doing.”

Impeachment Fatigue?

Elissa Slotkin / IMAGE: MSNBC via Youtube

Already, some vulnerable Democrats are beginning to face the backlash.

At least three gubernatorial hopefuls in southern states like Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi found themselves in an uncomfortable spot having to answer for the radical Left’s outrageous power-play.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards openly denounced the impeachment efforts last Wednesday.

“This is at least a distraction that’s going to keep the federal government from actually governing, and you know it’s hard enough for them to do that anyway,” he told the Associated Press.

The same concern extends to congressional districts like Slotkin’s. Democrats fear the seats they won by in 2018 by flipping red districts may easily be lost again next year—especially if the public begins to sour on impeachment.

Mainstream outlets like CBS News have repeatedly cited polls claiming the majority of Americans now support it, but invariably those polls oversample Democrats to Republicans by just enough to account for the difference.

Meanwhile, independents continue to be evenly split—if slightly opposed—according to CBS, whose unaffiliated respondents were 51 percent against impeachment and 49 percent in favor.

During Sunday’s CNN panel, Slotkin tried to deflect away from the dangerous topic of her partisan House colleagues by saying people were tired of all the bickering.

“I can only tell you why, after many, many months of being extremely judicious about this, I feel this is different,” Slotkin claimed.

“I think that the American people are exhausted by the back and forth, even just the basically conversation that we’re having here today,” she said.

A Familiar Refrain

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Adam Schiff / IMAGE: CSPAN via Youtube

Slotkin’s fellow panelists fired back, however, that the man who is supposed to be leading the investigation, Rep. Adam Schiff, was among the worst offenders.

Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, became Democrats’ top fundraiser earlier this year after falsely proclaiming to have knowledge of ‘smoking gun’ evidence that the Mueller Report would use to impeach Trump.

He again disgraced his leadership office on Friday by performing a dramatic interpretation of Trump’s call with Zelenskiy during a hearing with acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire.

In response, Trump called for Schiff’s resignation—and later called on him to be investigated for treason.

Slotkin again sought to veer the CNN panelists away from discussing Schiff, suggesting it was just more of the same finger-pointing that needed to change—without calling on her fellow Democrats to actually do so.

“This is what people associate with impeachment hearings, which is why it is up to us to present something that is different,” she said.

Speculation Rises on Clinton–Trump Rematch as Hillary Ups Public Appearances

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‘He is a clear and present danger to the things that keep us strong and free…’

Hillary Clinton Leaves Door Open for Another Presidential Run: 'I'd Like to Be President'
Hillary Clinton/IMAGE: American Mirror via Youtube

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) If Democrats’ master plan for impeachment entails throwing former Vice President Joe Biden under the bus, one unsavory character may be even more non grata.

But with a frenzy of media activity recently, it appears that Hillary Clinton, herself deeply implicated in possible scandals involving Ukraine, may allow her unbridled ambition to thwart their dreams of undoing the 2016 election so easily.

Zero Hedge openly speculated on the possibility, while the Drudge Report and Gateway Pundit strongly hinted at the possibility of another run, noting Clinton’s fully booked schedule of appearances—which included CBS News, the Stephen Colbert show and “The View.”

Zero Hedge also picked up on some of the specific verbiage (never something to take for granted with the Clintons) that hinted at a rematch, such as a pledge that what happened in 2016 “will not happen again.”

Already Clinton has waged a full-scale attack on President Donald Trump as an “illegitimate president,” “corrupt human tornado” and “cheap extortion racket” while praising House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., for launching the formal inquiry.

Meanwhile, her husband, impeached former President Bill Clinton, also supported the effort in more subdued language.

Hillary’s decision to take center stage is somewhat bold and brazen considering many investigations of Ukraine’s role in the last presidential election directly relate to her and may tie her campaign to illegal activity.

A DNC staffer, Alexandra Chalupa, acknowledged working directly with the Ukrainian Embassy to dig up dirt on Trump and his campaign adviser Paul Manafort that would throw the election toward Hillary.

The allegations promoted by Chalupa and the embassy officials may even have been linked with the now-discredited Steele Dossier, which falsely claimed that Russia had compromising information on Trump.

Another central question in the Ukraine case is whether the country played a role in hacking the servers of the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign, and also whether they may have been the final destination for some of the hardware.

In the July phone call between Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the U.S. president did ask for help from Kiev in locating the server and perhaps conveying it to the Justice Department, which is currently investigating the source of the Russia hoax.

Bookies seemed to agree with the speculation, noted Zero Hedge, placing Clinton seventh on their list of likely Democratic nominees, between Sens. Kamala Harris of California and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota.

The American Mirror also reported on the “rock-star treatment” she had received speaking before a progressive group, perhaps a testament to the weak pool of candidates in the race, which has helped to rehab Clinton’s image in their eyes while driving her once-radical politics toward the middle.

The rise of Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who currently tops the list of odds by a long-shot, has taken its toll on markets, said Zero Hedge, citing a strong correlation between her ascendancy and declines in the S&P 5oo.

Much speculation already has centered around whether another former first lady, Michelle Obama, might enter the race and prove a formidable opponent, even for Trump at his most robust and focused.

However, Obama has unequivocally declared that she will not run, even telling a child journalist that she did not have the interest.

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