KAMALA: Elite Forces Who Killed ISIS Terrorist Are Similar to Deep-State Whistleblowers

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‘You would have [thought] that he was talking about watching—and giving commentary on—a video game…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Piling onto the rampant politicization of the U.S. intelligence community, Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. claimed, without evidence, that the special forces who brought down a top ISIS terrorist were similar to deep-state, partisan operatives who have repeatedly sought to undermine President Donald Trump.

Harris, currently polling in the single digits in the Democratic presidential primary, has been a regular on the late-night talk shows of left-wing comedians Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert.

She returned to Meyers’s show on Monday and proceeded to flip the narrative on the killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the most wanted man in the world, by covert U.S. military operations over the weekend.

The death of al-Baghdadi drew obvious parallels to that of Al Qaeda ringleader Osama bin Laden in 2011, during Barack Obama’s presidency.

Reaction from the Left to al-Baghdadi’s death has been mixed, with some, like The Washington Post, eulogizing the Islamic fundamentalist as a pious “scholar” rather than a terrorist.

However, all have been unified in their efforts to deny Trump of any political capital that could be gained from the victory.

“First of all, I want to just praise our special forces, the American intelligence community,” Harris told Meyers.

“You know, I work closely with them in connection with my service on the Senate Intelligence Committee, and they tirelessly and selflessly do incredible work—and they never really get any credit for it as individuals,” she said.

Harris implied that the special forces were similar in their anonymity to members of the left-wing ‘Resistance’ embedded in the Washington, DC, bureaucracy, whom Trump has often accused of trying to thwart his promise to “drain the swamp.”

Congressional Democrats, currently conducting secretive House impeachment hearings based on the complaint of an anonymous CIA whistleblower, have subpoenaed several career civil-servants in the State Department to bolster the case that Trump sought an improper arrangement with Ukraine to expose misconduct by former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

Meanwhile, the Justice Department is criminally investigating leaders of the intelligence community from the Obama era who, in 2016, allegedly helped the Hillary Clinton campaign to engineer and spread false claims that Trump had colluded with Russia.

While Trump has delineated between the corruption in the top ranks of the previous administration and the honest work of those in the trenches, Harris made no such distinction.

“It’s really important, at this moment, to also credit them knowing that you’ve had Donald Trump as the commander-in-chief, who also spent full time attacking the integrity and the professionalism and the sacrifice of those professionals,” she claimed. “So, I think about it in that regard and thank them for their service and for their dedication and for being, you know, smart…”

She continued to snipe at the president over his reaction to the news of al-Baghdadi’s defeat, but quickly steered the discussion back to her own campaign.

“Donald Trump— that press conference was extraordinary. You would have think [sic] that he was talking about watching—and giving commentary on—a video game,” Harris told Meyers, pausing for effect to a few uncomfortable chuckles from the audience.

She tried to cut the awkwardness with an old standby gimmick, inverting the gender of pronouns to suggest the president was—or should be—a female.

“The commander-in-chief of the United States of America has as her highest priority the responsibility to concern herself …” Harris said, to audience delight, “with our nation’s security…”

A Cover-Up in ‘Plain Sight’

Kamala Harris / IMAGE: Late Night with Seth Meyers

Harris went on to offer her take on the impeachment hearings, charging that the Trump administration had engaged in a cover-up effort on the transcript of a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy—while also, paradoxically, trying to conceal the president’s guilt in plain sight.

“We have a clear display of consciousness of guilt, when they were then attempting to put the transcript in some secret computer,” said Harris, a former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general.

“We have a cover-up, that is that—and we have a confession,” she added.

Trump authorized the full public release of the transcript a few days after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., declared that she was initiating Democrats’ latest impeachment investigation.

Republicans have criticized House Democrats, by contrast, for their lack of transparency and failure to extend due process during the impeachment hearings.

“As a former prosecutor, I know a confession when I see it,” Harris said. “And the fact that Donald Trump does what he does in plain sight—maybe he thinks that it should in some way, you know, absolve him…”

Pelosi has yet to hold a formal vote to initiate the impeachment proceedings, only announcing late Monday evening that she planned to schedule one after saying last week that she would not.

Notwithstanding, Harris suggested that Trump should be conducting himself with the assumption of guilt by exercising the Miranda rights normally afforded to those under arrest.

“The American public, we know what we see,” she said, “and frankly, somebody ought to tell Donald Trump he has a right to remain silent.”

Flynn Lawyers: Deep-State Entrapped Him, Altered FBI Docs, Encouraged ‘Kill Shot’

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‘I am so stressed about all the ways THIS has the potential to go fully off the rails…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) The widening probe into criminal conduct by members of the Obama intelligence community during and after the 2016 presidential election has led to a re-assessment of the scandal that forced President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, to resign.

Recent evidence has surfaced that corrupt, partisan FBI agents not only interviewed Flynn under false pretenses to set up a perjury trap but then manipulated their records after the fact to suggest he was lying, The Federalist reported on Friday.

Flynn’s attorneys filed a 37-page court brief last week pointing to newly released text message between FBI lovebirds Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, in which Page acknowledged changing the 302 form used by agents as the record of an interview.

The court filing also made a shocking claim that in a conversation with a Washington Post reporter, Obama’s director of national intelligence, James Clapper, instructed the journalist to “take the kill shot on Flynn.”

Flynn attorney Sidney Powell said in the filing that the scope of the intelligence operatives’ efforts to smear the decorated general were a staggering breach of the public trust by the very people sworn to preserve and uphold our justice system.

“When the Director of the FBI, and a group of his close associates, plot to set up an innocent man and create a crime—while taking affirmative steps to ensnare him by refusing to follow procedures designed to prevent such inadvertent missteps—this amounts to conduct so shocking to the conscience and so inimical to our system of justice that it requires the dismissal of the charges for outrageous government conduct,” said the court filing.

Flynn met with interrogators from the FBI and Justice Department in late January 2017, less than a week after Trump was inaugurated. The agencies claimed the discussion was to be about Russian collusion allegations surrounding the recently leaked Steele Dossier.

Instead, they purposely sought to deceive Flynn as to the nature of the interview and casually questioned him on whether he had discussed future sanctions with Russia’s U.S. ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, in late December, after President Barack Obama expelled several diplomats over the Kremlin’s alleged U.S. election interference.

Comey Told Congress FBI Agents Didn't Think Michael Flynn Lied
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Washington Post reporter David Ignatius revealed the conversations between Russia and the incoming national security adviser in a Jan. 12 article and questioned whether Flynn had “undercut the U.S. sanctions.”

Trump officials, including spokesman Sean Spicer, denied that the sanctions topic had arisen during the calls.

However, phone records suggest that Clapper—one of Obama’s top intelligence officials with a reputation as a notorious leaker—had spoken with Ignatius two days beforehand and that top brass within the intelligence community may already have furnished him with transcripts of the calls between Flynn and Kislyak.

The intelligence operatives involved in Flynn’s setup—among them, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Page and Strzok—also had access to transcripts of Flynn’s conversations with Kislyak but asked him anyway whether the two had discussed the sanctions.

Flynn, who was not anticipating the line of questioning, indicated he had spoken with many different foreign dignitaries and could not recall the exact nature of the discussions.

Although indications are that the FBI agents initially left the meeting with Flynn believing he had not lied, Page later made substantial changes to the FBI’s 302 report of the conversation to indicate that he had, in fact, lied.

“The agents moved a sentence to make it seem to be an answer to a question it was not,” Flynn’s attorneys said in their recent filing. They also added a line with the words “FLYNN stated he did not.”

According to the filing, Page also sent a text to her secret lover, Strzok, revealing that she knew she was in the wrong.

“I can feel my heart beating harder,” she wrote. “I am so stressed about all the ways THIS has the potential to go fully off the rails.”

Page, herself, later lied and said she could not recall making any changes but that if she had they would only have been grammatical.

In early February 2017, left-wing media including The Washington Post and New York Times—in likely coordination with Clapper and other deep-state intelligence officials—began to intensify their scrutiny of Flynn, reporting that he had, contrary to belief, discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador.

Along with the Steele Dossier and the firing of Comey, the events surrounding Flynn’s alleged scandal helped trigger special counsel Robert Mueller‘s appointment to investigate claims of Russian collusion.

Mueller threatened to prosecute Flynn for failing to register as a foreign agent in an unrelated issue. Flynn agreed to plead guilty, instead, to the minor charge of lying to the FBI, and also resigned his White House post in disgrace.

Justice Deparment Let Mueller Be Special Counsel Despite 'Conflict of Interest'
Robert Mueller, James Comey and Barack Obama / IMAGE: The Obama White House via Youtube

But the conclusion of Mueller’s investigation, finding no evidence of Russian collusion, helped to validate Flynn. So, too, has the ongoing criminal investigation now being led by DOJ special prosecutor John Durham, which is delving into the origins of the collusion conspiracy.

Flynn’s attorneys cite a Supreme Court precedent that conveys the graveness of the wrongs committed by Obama’s corrupt intelligence operatives against the decorated Army hero.

“The first duties of the officers of the law are to prevent, not to punish crime,” the filing says, quoting an 87-year-old court ruling . “It is not their duty to incite to and create crime for the sole purpose of prosecuting and punishing it.”

The filing seeks to hold prosecutors in contempt for continuing to stonewall and failing to provide Flynn and his counsel with crucial exculpatory records, such as the handwritten 302 forms from Strzok’s interview.

It contends that the plot to entrap Flynn is grounds enough to dismiss any further claims of wrongdoing against him.

“… [I]t is unconscionable, contrary to public policy, and to the established law of the land,” says the filing, “to punish a man for the commission of an offense of the like of which he … never would have been guilty if the officers of the law had not inspired, incited, persuaded and lured him to attempt to commit it.”

Trump Accuses Obama of Treason, Espionage in New Book

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‘I have never ever said this, but truth is, they got caught spying…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Former President Barack Obama can add another achievement to his long list of historic “firsts” if his successor has any say in it: First President to Commit Treason.

President Donald Trump—who has previously levied the accusation against several other powerful Democrats, including House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff—told conservative author Doug Wead that Obama was guilty of the offense, punishable by execution, according to the Washington Examiner.

“What they did was treasonous, OK? It was treasonous,” Trump told Wead for his forthcoming book, Inside Trump’s White House: The Real Story of His Presidency.

Wead’s book covers many different aspects of Trump’s first years in office, including his successful steerage of the economy that had stagnated under Obama into a booming bull market with record-shattering unemployment.

However, few things cast a greater pall over his presidency than the Russian collusion hoax that sought to undermine Trump during and after the 2016 election.

Subsequent hearings revealed that members of the FBI and other intelligence agencies had worked closely with the Hillary Clinton campaign, the Democratic National committee and left-wing media outlets to propagate and spread the since-debunked claims.

While Trump was ultimately validated and largely exonerated by the Mueller Report in March 2019, the accusations may have contributed to Democrats retaking the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2018 midterm, spawning endless congressional oversight probes, subpoenas and the current impeachment inquisition into a July phone call with the Ukrainian president.

Few have been convicted treason in the U.S., with a Wikipedia page on the topic listing only 15, most of which stemmed from wartime offenses. Making such a case against Obama, particularly during his presidency, would pose considerable legal challenges.

But even if Trump indulged his characteristically hyperbolic rhetoric in making that accusation, another could be closer to its mark.

He also accused Obama and his intelligence operatives of espionage—a charge that may well be supported by Attorney General William Barr in the Justice Department’s ongoing criminal investigation of the Russian collusion conspiracy.

“I have never ever said this, but truth is, they got caught spying. They were spying,” Trump told Wead, before adding, “Obama.”

It is widely known that the FBI used the false pretenses of its unverified Russia information to wiretap the conversations of Trump adviser Carter Page with approval from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

They also are believed to have bugged Trump’s New York hotel, and some—including then-FBI Director James Comey—have admitted that they were approaching briefings with the president-elect as intelligence-gathering missions.

Only recently, though, has Obama’s direct role in orchestrating the attempted “coup” come more into focus.

In a recent interview, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN analyst, admitted that the former president was calling the shots.

“The message I’m getting from all this is, apparently what we were supposed to have done was to ignore the Russian interference, ignore the Russian meddling and the threat that it poses to us,” Clapper told CNN anchor Jim Sciutto, “and oh, by the way, blown off what the then commander in chief, President Obama, told us to do, which was to assemble all the reporting that we could that we had available to us.”

Clapper and former CIA Director John Brennan have become prime subjects of interest in the DOJ probe being conducted by special prosecutor John Durham.

Many now wonder what evidence will emerge that could further validate Trump’s suspicions—and what charges, if any, Barr may pursue that would offer some measure of consolation to outraged conservatives while further deepening the country’s partisan divide.

Michelle Obama Targets Schools in Red States for ‘Nonpartisan’ Voter Education

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‘Obviously, we shouldn’t be telling them how to vote or who to vote for…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Former First Lady Michelle Obama is seeking to educate school children—on how to properly vote for Democrats.

Obama recently announced that she planned to conduct a series of seminars on how to vote as part of an initiative called When We All Vote and its school-centric offshoot, My School Votes.

“Obviously, we shouldn’t be telling [students] how to vote or who to vote for,” Obama said in her message to educators. “We just want them to vote, period—to take that first step toward making voting a lifelong habit.”

In order to receive tax-free status, the operation claims to be a nonpartisan entity, but its objectives closely mirror those of activist, left-wing organizations designed to increase Democratic votes specifically.

My School Votes is “on a mission to increase participation in every election and close the race and age voting gap by changing the culture around voting, harnessing grassroots energy, and through strategic partnerships to reach every American,” according to its mission statement.

Since launching in July, the school-based initiative has signed up more than 2,000 students and teachers, Education Week reported.

Targeting Red States

Michelle’s husband, former President Barack Obama, is likewise planning a series of activist training seminars as part of an ongoing effort through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee to flip red states before the next round of district maps are drawn in 2021.

In both cases, the Obamas’ seminars are conveniently targeting battleground “purple” states that backed President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, as well as traditionally Republican states where population shifts have hinted at a possible electoral swing.

According to Education Week, Michelle plans to visit Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida and Nevada during the month of November. Future workshops are scheduled in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Georgia, and several in North Carolina.

Most overlap with targets that the NDRC has identified as being vulnerable to its redistricting initiatives in the lead-up to next year’s presidential election.

Considerable speculation has centered around Michelle Obama entering the 2020 race, although she has emphatically dismissed the possibility.

Indoctrination and Dog Whistles

A “training video” on the My School Votes site, replete with left-wing dog-whistles, features students of color (and one token-white teacher) offering messages like “It’s up to us to help them harness this power” while encouraging voter registrants to “build a team around them that looks like the school’s student body.”

At a rally last year for When We All Vote, Obama seemed to be more explicit in her “us versus them” messaging.

“They’re finding all kinds of ways to keep you at home, hoping that when you hear about all those things, you’ll just give up,” she said, without clarifying who they were. “Don’t let anybody intimidate you from being a part of this process,” she said.

Included in the organization’s curriculum materials for students is a data-collection link so that My School Votes can track the success of participating schools.

The classroom resources encourage students to do targeted registration drives based on demographic information rather than “ineffective” mass-registration booths set up at events like football games.

However, teachers are asked to help with the “amplification” efforts before major vote drives by incorporating the materials into their lesson plans.

Lessons are conveniently provided at a separate website, ShareMyLesson.com, and emphasize important educational topics like social justice issues, the #MeToo movement, gun control and LGBT history.

Obama’s civic ‘education’ program also encourages involvement from those who are ineligible to vote.

“While undocumented students should not participate in actual voter registration, there are many ways to include ineligible students in the voter registration process even if they cannot register themselves,” says the voter registration action plan.

“Some examples include, helping with being part of the My School Votes team or amplifying Voter Registration Action Days,” the plan says. “It should be a focus to make voter registration and civic engagement an inclusive activity welcome to all members of the school community.”

Clinton Stooge Threatens Publisher to Block Release of New Russia-Gate Exposé

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‘People in the Clinton world are keen for this book not to come out…’

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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) GOP investigators appear to have struck a nerve with bad actors on the Left over the probe into a Russian collusion hoax that sought to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump.

As the ongoing Justice Department investigation expands into a criminal case, rattling deep-state CIA operatives, it seems members of Hillary Clinton‘s inner circle are also beginning to break a sweat.

Longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal, who was implicated early on in Democrats’ efforts to collude with the FBI in promoting the notorious Steele Dossier, reportedly made legal threats to stop the publication of a new exposé by investigative journalist Lee Smith.

“The Clinton machine wanted to intimidate Lee,” a source familiar with the situation told Fox News.

Smith declined to address the alleged threats he received from Blumenthal or others, but he did acknowledge to Fox News that the Left had sought to stonewall its release.

“People in the Clinton world are keen for this book not to come out,” he said.

Barring further preventative measures from the Clinton camp, Smith’s book, The Plot Against the President, is due to be released on Oct. 29.

It relies heavily on interviews and information provided by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., who was the GOP chair of the House Intelligence Committee until Democrats retook the majority in January.

“Told from the perspective of Nunes and his crack investigators—men and women who banded together to do the right thing at a crucial moment for our democracy—the story of the biggest political scandal in a generation reads like a great detective novel, feels like a classic cowboy movie,” according to a descriptive blurb on Amazon.

While the transfer of power ended the congressional inquiries into the Democratic deep-state conspiracy—current House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is now leading the impeachment campaign against Trump—Nunes referred several people involved in the scandal to the DOJ for prosecution.

His collected evidence provided the foundation for the ongoing probes led by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horiwitz and special prosecutor John Durham, who recently expanded his to a criminal case based on new evidence.

Little has been said publicly about Blumenthal’s immediate connection with the debunked Steele Dossier. However, in a February 2018 interview with Fox News, former congressman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, strongly hinted that he was among those who had leaked the series of salacious and defamatory reports, which Clinton had commissioned left-wing opposition-research firm Fusion GPS to compile.

“[W]hen you hear who … one of the sources of that information is, you’re going to think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve heard that name somewhere before,'” Gowdy told Fox host Martha MacCallum.

Holder Makes Another Thuggish Threat: Trump Should ‘Get His A** Beaten’

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‘When they go low, we kick ’em…’

Eric Holder Mocks Trump Supporters: 'Exactly When Did You Think America Was Great?'
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Once again, former Attorney General Eric Holder used thinly coded language to encourage physical violence against a political adversary, saying President Donald Trump should “get his ass beaten.”

During a forum at George Washington University, Holder responded to recent headlines that Trump had likened House Democrats’ partisan impeachment hearings to a modern-day “lynching.”

Although it is a commonly used trope, often embraced by Democrats themselves to convey mob mentality, former President Barack Obama’s race-baiting, self-described “wingman” said the current president’s use of the term was “reprehensible,” reported the GWU student newspaper, the Hatchet.

“If you want to know who this guy is, you look at that,” Holder said. “That’s reflective of who this man is, and why he’s got to get his ass beaten in 2020.”

It was not immediately clear whether the statement might trigger a Secret Service investigation.

Although the ambiguous wording may suggest a political defeat as well as a physical assault, it follows a longstanding pattern of veiled threats and bullying from Holder.

He made his national debut in 2009 by refusing to prosecute Black Panther party members who had used voter-intimidation tactics during the previous year’s election.

Holder notably drew intense criticism before the 2018 midterm by revising a familiar phrase used by former First Lady Michelle Obama at the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

“It is time for us, as Democrats, to be as tough as they are, to be as dedicated as they are, to be as committed as they are,” Holder said at a Georgia campaign rally last October. “Michelle always says … ‘When they go low, we go high.’ No. When they go low, we kick ’em.”

The comment drew a rebuke from Michelle Obama. Holder later responded to the backlash by telling critics to “stop the fake outrage.”

Holder also offended many in a March interview with MSNBC by asking, ‘Exactly when did you think America was great?’ while advocating for radical policy proposals that included slavery reparations and Supreme Court packing.

His threats, however, are not limited to right-wing opponents. He demanded prior to a recent primary debate that Democrats “do better” instead of criticizing the legacy of the Obama administration.

“Many candidates spent too much time in the weeds, developing ‘gotcha’ moments or straining to draw personal or policy distinctions—at once testing viewers’ patience,” he warned.

Holder, who is now overseeing the far-left’s efforts to use court-forced gerrymandering to flip red states blue, has considerable funds and resources at his disposal through the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

Obama recently folded his own former campaign arm, Organizing for Action, into the NDRC umbrella, and Alexander Soros—son of the notorious left-wing oligarch George Soros—hosted a fundraiser for it earlier this week.

Soros also was said to have been behind paid protest groups during the 2016 presidential race and in the lead-up to Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh‘s confirmation.

In both instances, activists frequently confronted ideological adversaries with invasive threats to property, privacy and personal space, physical intimidation, and even assault.

Other Democrats also have come under scrutiny for their exhortations of violence, including former Vice President Joe Biden, who said last year he would “beat the hell out of” Trump if the two were in high school.

At roughly the same time as Holder’s controversial comments, former candidate Hillary Clinton was criticized for saying Democrats “cannot be civil” with Republicans, and then-House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared that opponents who disagreed with Democrats must expect “collateral damage.”

Microsoft Boss Cuts Massive Campaign Check to Pelosi

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‘We need Congress to remember the fundamental decency and humanitarian spirit that defines us as a people and a nation…’

Microsoft Boss Cuts Massive Campaign Check to Pelosi
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(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Filings by the Federal Election Commission revealed recently that Microsoft President Brad Smith gave $125,000 to a victory fund supporting House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.

It was one of many donations he made to left-wing candidates and organizations this year, including contributions to the presidential campaigns of former Vice President Joe Biden and California Sen. Kamala Harris, reported CNBC.

However, the Pelosi donation was by far the largest Smith has made this year and appeared to immediately follow Pelosi’s decision to proceed with an impeachment probe of President Donald Trump last month.

Smith has avoided making many direct political statements, CNBC said, but has indirectly criticized Trump policies in the past, including a June 2018 blog post that attacked the administration’s efforts to curb illegal immigration.

“[W]e need Congress to remember the fundamental decency and humanitarian spirit that defines us as a people and a nation,” he sniped. “In short, we need to take care of children.”

The Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund not only benefits the California congresswoman’s campaign, but also may allocate funds to other campaign organizations, such as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, to disperse as they see fit.

It has raised $11.1 million so far this year, with another major contribution coming from Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the owners of beverage brands POM and FIJI Water, who gave $259,100. Deborah Simon, of the commercial real-estate investment firm Simon Property Group, gave the same amount.

Despite his decidedly left-skewed donation history, Smith has also given to some Republican campaigns in the past, including Sen. Cory Gardner‘s upcoming re-election campaign in Colorado.

That race promises to be tightly contested whether Gardner faces a challenge from former Gov. John Hickenlooper or another high-profile opponent, with Democrats hoping an upset there could tilt the Senate in their favor.

Last election cycle, Smith gave to the re-election campaign of Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas.

Conservative Rep. Refuses to Take CNN Reporter’s Impeachment Bias Bait

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‘We don’t know whether what he said is true or not because of the sham process that’s being used…’

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., shut down a CNN correspondent attempting to spin the secretive testimony of a career diplomat as House Democrats continued to build their case for impeachment behind closed doors while selectively leaking information to the public.

Based on such leaks and the publicly available opening statement furnished by Ambassador William Taylor, left-wing media sought to claim that Taylor—who functioned as the top Ukraine diplomat after the removal of partisan Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch—made a case for coercion.

Democrats allege—although no clear evidence has been presented publicly—that Trump pressured the former Soviet satellite into revisiting an investigation of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter by threatening to withdraw a promise of military aid to use in its defense against Russia.

After CNN’s Manu Raju sought to challenge Brooks about the ambassador’s opening statement, Brooks refused the bait.

“The opening statement doesn’t make any difference,” said Brooks, cutting off the CNN senior congressional correspondent.

“You should not be relying on it,” he continued. “If you were in a court of law … would you rely just on the opening statement of an attorney?”

Brooks reiterated a major point of objection raised by GOP congressmen that the refusal by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to call a vote on the closed-door hearings had prevented due process.

Dozens of Republicans stormed the Capitol basement on Wednesday to demand in a confrontation with House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff, D-Calif., that the proceedings involve more transparency, as well as the opportunity for rebuttal witnesses and cross-examination.

However, Democrats have resisted since much of the success of their partisan operation rests on steering public opinion for or against the president. Brooks said the information being made available was not necessarily the whole truth.

“We don’t know whether what he said is true or not because of the sham process that’s being used,” he said.

Schiff, already reputed for his public deceptions regarding Russian collusion, has repeatedly acted in bad faith while leading the latest impeachment charge.

He mischaracterized the transcript of the July phone call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, portraying it in a dramatized version as a “Mafia shakedown.”

He later received four “Pinocchios” from Washington Post fact-checkers for falsely claiming that he had not communicated with the so-called whistleblower whose complaint launched the Democrats’ latest probe.

On Tuesday, Brooks’ office released a statement saying he and other members of the House Freedom Caucus had met with Trump to express their ongoing support.

“We agreed that, to date, Socialist Democrats have produced no credible evidence of an impeachable offense and that the absence of credible evidence likely explains why the Socialist Democrats have insisted on secret, closed-door, Capitol basement proceedings that prevent the pubic, and even Members of Congress, from observing what is really happening,” he said.

City Changes Name of Fair Because ‘Dixie’ No Longer Acceptable

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‘I just want peace and harmony, and if we can just move on from this and have an outstanding fair, the city will be pleased…’

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The Dixie Classic Fair in Winston–Salem, NC / IMAGE: eMarketWiz via Youtube

(Ben Sellers) The historic city of Winston–Salem, North Carolina, is set to prove it’s not just whistlin’ ‘Dixie’ when it comes to the controversial name-change of a beloved fall festival.

Facing pressure from local activists, it announced last year that it planned to rename the Dixie Classic Fair starting next year (with this year’s already having taken place).

On Monday, the city council officially moved to redub it the Carolina Classic, reported the Winston–Salem Journal.

The council already had formally voted in August to jettison the old name, meaning much of the debate centered around a new controversy: whether to go with the broader “Carolina” or the more regional “Piedmont” in the new name.

“The most neutral term, and the most descriptive one of the dirt I walk on every day, is the Piedmont,”council member John Larson said at the meeting Monday.

Over the objections of detractors—including one who said the city had “named the fair for Wendy’s hamburger”—the council voted 6-2 in favor of “Carolina.”

The state’s Sons of Confederate Veterans group released a statement criticizing the name change as a solution in search of a problem.

“This is just another manufactured controversy, created in the minds of a few politicians that are willing to waste nearly 100 thousand dollars to appease their ego, while insulting Southerners,” said the group.

But overall, the impassioned discussion and widespread interest in the fair’s name seemed largely to have tapered off, reported the Journal, with both options sufficiently innocuous and bland to appease social-justice warriors—for now.

“Either name would be all right as far as I’m concerned,” said council member Vivian Burke. “I just want peace and harmony, and if we can just move on from this and have an outstanding fair, the city will be pleased.”

The annual fall event, now in its 138th year, had included the “Dixie” part of its name since 1956, when it was changed from the Forsyth County Fair to reflect a broader regional interest. It began in the 1880s as the Wheat and Cattle Fair. The fair was for whites only until 1963.

In recent years, however, North Carolina has become a hotbed of protest and demands for historical revisionism in dealing with the state’s legacy on race and the Civil War. Several Confederate monuments have been targeted in cities like Chapel Hill and Durham.

In its northern neighbor, Virginia, the 2017 clash over Charlottesville‘s illegal efforts to remove monuments honoring Southern generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson turned deadly at a rally where neo-Nazis were confronted by Antifa counter-protestors brandishing projectiles, improvised blowtorches and other weapons.

A 21-year-old Ohio native, James Fields, who was reportedly a Nazi sympathizer, was found guilty of first-degree murder for driving his car into a crowd of activists who had blocked his path on the city’s Downtown Mall. Local protestor Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in the assault.

President Donald Trump, while broadly condemning the violence, sought unity and reconciliation by noting that there were “very fine people on both sides,” but his critics on the Left attacked the statement as racist.

Dem. 2020 Candidate Calls for Free Tampons on Nat’l Period Day

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‘We become the first state in the nation to … empower women to make their own decisions about what goes into their bodies…’

Editor’s Note: Article contains subject matter some may find uncomfortable

(Ben Sellers, Liberty Headlines) Some said a major holiday last week was about exploration; others, about exploitation.

But for presidential hopeful Julian Castro, the second full week of October was all about ovulation.

Although dozens of leftist locales across the country spurned Christopher Columbus—instead recognizing Indigenous People’s Day on the second Monday of October—the following Saturday they swapped their wampum for tampons in honor of National Period Day.

Just like the monthly visitor has caught some women by surprise, so, too, was the annual holiday an unexpected addition to the calendar for many.

On his radio show Monday, conservative host Rush Limbaugh not only marveled that the fertile-female affliction had its own fete day, but he also was baffled by some of the equipment involved.

“Dawn, did you know there was a National Period Day?” Limbaugh asked a staff member. “How would you celebrate National Period Day? How can men participate in National Period Day? … I mean, who knew that people were missing work because they couldn’t afford tampons.”

He went on to puzzle over what the “cups” were that Castro had referenced.

“You don’t know what cups are for women?” Limbaugh again asked the female staffer.

“Well, you’re the women’s expert on this staff and you don’t know what cups are for women?,” he said. “You gotta think transgender, I think, if you’re gonna think cups for women. I’m guessing. Hell, I don’t know, either.”

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Julian Castro / IMAGE: MSNBC via Youtube

Still, Limbaugh added, Obama’s far-left former housing secretary had succeeded in raising greater awareness of a serious concern—which seemed nothing like a cynical attempt to pander to feminist voters. (Castro’s poll numbers hover around the low single digits in the Democratic primary race.)

“All I know is that I learned something today,” Limbaugh said, “that there are women cowering in the corners at home afraid to go to work because they don’t have government-paid-for-tampons.”

Castro is not the only Democrat to embrace menstrual cycles as a pathway to electoral success.

Earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into effect new legislation that required the packaging on all feminine-hygiene products to include a clearly printed list of ingredients.

Cuomo called it another component in the ongoing battle for reproductive health being championed by Democrats in New York.

“It’s part of the pervasive culture of inequality in our society that has gone on for too long,” he said in a statement, “and that injustice ends today as we become the first state in the nation to mandate ingredient disclosure and empower women to make their own decisions about what goes into their bodies.”

In January, New York became the first state also to legalize late-term abortions, a controversial practice that some—including Virginia’s Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam—admitted might blur the lines with infanticide in some cases.

Most Democrats also have come out in favor of government subsidies for reproductive concerns—even pregnancies that are the consequence of personal choices.

Front-runner Joe Biden joined most others in the Left’s candidate pool this summer by changing his long-held stance in support of the Hyde Amendment, which sought to prevent tax funds from supporting fetal terminations except in extreme cases.

Under President Donald Trump, however, organizations such as Planned Parenthood that perform abortions have been blocked from receiving federal funding.

Democrats, despite their own affection for ‘Auntie Flo’ also tried to bludgeon Trump as a misogynist after he appeared to suggest debate moderator Megyn Kelly was on her cycle.

“You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever,” Trump said in August 2015.

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