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Most Americans believe that the House-led Democrat impeachment effort is politically motivated and not based on legitimate legal concerns, the McLaughlin & Associates’ October Poll released last week revealed. The McLaughlin & Associates National Survey, taken October 17-22 among 1,000 likely voters, found that the majority of Americans believe the Democrat-led impeachment effort is politically motivated. Respondents were asked, “Do you think that Nancy Pelosi and the House Democrats are moving forward with their impeachment inquiry against President Trump mainly for political reasons to stop him from being re-elected or mainly for legal reasons?” The majority, 52 percent, said Democrats...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) took a veiled shot at President Trump on Sunday after he announced the death of ISIS founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, lamenting that the “Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified” in advance of the raid. Trump announced on Sunday that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi died as a result of a raid conducted by U.S. special forces. “Last night the United States brought the world’s number one terrorist leader to justice, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” Trump said in an address on Sunday. “He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless...

Embattled Congresswoman Katie Hill wanted her husband — with whom she reportedly had a “throuple” relationship that included a young staffer — to stay home and do all the housework because she hated chores, a new report claims. The sex-scandal-scarred California rep demanded that spouse Kenny Heslep live life as a “house husband” and left him to become entirely financially dependent on her, according to a CNBC report published Friday. “[Hill] told me that she did not like to do household chores and duties and wanted me to stay at home and do those things while she worked,” Heslep wrote...

The spineless Republicans in the Senate should come to the realization that if they do convict the president and do impeach him and remove him from office that he will not be able to retaliate in any way. Once he is no longer a sitting president, I believe he will be indicted for all the crimes he has perpetrated on our country and he will be put away for a long time. Please take that long look in the mirror and realize that a mistake was made and do what’s right for our country. All the president’s men will take...

The number of co-sponsors of Graham’s impeachment resolution as of 6 p.m. ET last night was 44, meaning that nine Senate Republicans were still holding out. But two of those holdouts, Rob Portman and Dan Sullivan, made no sense. They’re each from red states. They’d have nothing to gain and everything to lose by crossing Trump on impeachment matters (especially Sullivan, who’s up for reelection next fall). Sure enough, Graham himself reported soon after on his Twitter feed that both senators had joined his cause. That left just seven holdouts — but all seven *could* potentially be hard for...

This week Michael is joined by Mark Hyman (Author of Washington Babylon, National Correspondent, Inside Your World Investigates), to discuss the myriad scandals, cover-ups and secrets that are spotted throughout the history of United States Politics. Tune in to find out how deep the rabbit hole goes!

Faced with a barrage of damaging headlines for President Donald Trump stemming from impeachment inquiry testimony, congressional Republicans are beginning to coalesce around a strategy aimed at discrediting key witnesses and taking a more confrontational stance against the Democratic-led impeachment process. Republicans on Thursday ramped up their skepticism of the testimony delivered by US diplomat Bill Taylor — which undercut White House claims Ukraine aid wasn't tied to an investigation that could help him politically — and the Senate's No. 2 Republican Sen. John Thune walked back earlier concerns he expressed about Taylor's opening statement. Republicans in the Senate have...

Over the past month, impeachment has been the word of the day in the media and the progressive socialists. The so-called impeachment inquiry that has not allowed the House of Representatives to vote for its implementation has degraded to a soviet Beria type of search for a crime. Adam Schiff is a fraud. It is an investigation in search of a crime. It has become a tyrannical show trial by Adam Schiff, a highly contemptible legislator with his own ties to Ukrainian oligarchs. Schiff has ignored the rule of law and has shown his ignorance in disavowing the provisions traditionally...

The unidentified whistleblower whose bombshell complaint is at the center of the Democrat’s impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump has suggested they may be accused of political bias for a third, unreported reason. The whistleblower acknowledged to the Intelligence Community Inspector General (ICIG) that bias against President Trump might be alleged against him or her for a reason that was previously unreported, sources familiar with the ICIG investigation revealed to Fox News. However, the nature of that third reason has not been disclosed. Two previous reasons for potential political bias against the mystery whistleblower have been reported - firstly, that...

All four members of “The Squad” come from deep blue districts that normally are safe seats for Democrats. But Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents the city of Minneapolis and a few inner ring suburbs, is now caught in a scandal that threatens to alienate her biggest voting bloc base, fellow Muslim Somalis, who emigrated to Minnesota by the tens of thousands at the behest of the  State Department that thought the generous welfare benefits of the North Star State could well be spent on people from a tropical climate transplanted to the coldest metropolis in the country. Most readers...

The Washington Post and CNN are pushing a book by the "annonymous" source who previously smeared the president.https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/22/politics/anonymous-trump-official-book/index.htmlhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anonymous-author-of-trump-resistance-op-ed-to-publish-a-tell-all-book/2019/10/22/b9ea2f42-f45a-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html Perhaps these Fake News outlets should hear from Americans on this subject; how do you feel about the media employing it's services around the clock to smear a president with "anonymous sourcing?"CNN · Customer service (404) 827-1500  The Washington Post · Customer service (202) 334-6100   And now the obligatory leak out of the top secret kangaroo court that only the select few are allowed to attend. This one is claimed to be someone taking a photograph of Taylor's opening statement. Imagine...

Scandal surrounding Democrat Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) threatens serious repercussions for Democrats' effort to impeach President Trump. Last week, Red State exposed that Hill had simultaneous sexual relationships with at least two different staffers. One of them worked in her official congressional office, a clear violation of the House’s rules forbidding sexual relationships between members of Congress and their official office staff. Hill, married to her now-estranged husband Kenny Heslep for years, brought a 22-year-old woman who was on her campaign staff into their marriage to create a three-way “throuple” relationship during her 2018 run for Congress. Red State reported:...

Congressional Democrats will file a legal brief in federal court on Tuesday asserting that President Trump’s promotion of his Doral resort for the G-7 summit was further evidence he has violated the Emoluments Clause, despite his decision to reverse course. The initial announcement last week — from Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, as he stood behind the official White House podium — provided the president’s personal property with “invaluable publicity” that in and of itself may amount to an emolument, a House Democratic source said. Democratic lawmakers and their aides debated how to proceed over the weekend, after...

The image Nancy Pelosi added to her Twitter profile last week shows her as the plucky woman at a table full of gray men, standing up and wagging her finger at Donald Trump like a scolding schoolmarm, just before stalking out of the meeting. She must imagine it portrays her in a good light. It doesn’t, no matter how many progressive women share it triumphantly on social media as a symbol of female empowerment. It’s more a symbol of female entitlement. It’s an embarrassment to women who want to be judged on their merits, not given special treatment by men...

A closed-door process won't convince the public — or the GOP — to remove the president. The House of Representatives didn’t need to vote on articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon in 1974. After millions of Americans watched days and days of hearing proceedings on television, they knew exactly what they thought of the president they’d reelected not even two years before — and Nixon knew they knew. That’s why he resigned on Aug. 9 before Congress ever held a floor vote. Watergate and its aftermath proved one of the most painful episodes in American political history, but the impeachment...

“My country needs me. My army has given me an opportunity to serve" After a great deal of contemplation, soul-searching and consultation with area political leaders, David Bellavia will sit out running for Congress in NY27. Bellavia has long been considered to be the frontrunner if he were to run and has been the subject of intense speculation by the candidates who are already declared and some who are contemplating a run for the seat vacated recently by Chris Collins. The decision, now that it is known, will likely again unleash another political tidal wave as both declared and undeclared...

Republican Rep. Francis Rooney (Fla.), who this week refused to rule out impeaching President Trump, announced Saturday that he won't seek reelection. Rooney revealed his decision in a Fox News interview. A spokesman for Rooney confirmed to The Hill that the lawmaker won't run for a third-term. "I don't think I really do and I don't think I really want one," Rooney said in the interview when asked if he needed a third term. Rooney said he came to Congress to secure money for Everglades projects and for an offshore drilling ban to protect Florida. "I thought it might take...

Freshman Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA), Vice Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, shared with Elle in a June 2019 interview a quote from the late Rep. Elijah Cummings, Chairman of the Committee “that has stuck with her.” ... Photographs and text messages obtained by RedState show that Rep. Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer. The woman, whose name is not being released, was hired by Hill in late 2017 and quickly became involved in a “throuple” relationship with Hill and her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep.

Multiple confidential sources told our sister site RedState that freshman Congresswoman Katie Hill of California, who is also the Vice-Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, had "a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer." Photographs and text messages obtained by RedState show that Rep. Hill was involved in a long-term sexual relationship with a female campaign staffer. The woman, whose name is not being released, was hired by Hill in late 2017 and quickly became involved in a “throuple” relationship with Hill and her estranged husband, Kenny Heslep. Heslep and the staffer, according to text messages...

"The reality is Congress is going to act," U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said Wednesday. "We're coming for you, [NCAA]." Romney participated in a roundtable discussion with several other politicians, advocates and others involved in the sports world such as NFL Players Association attorney Joe Briggs and ESPN college basketball analyst Jay Bilas. Romney told ESPN he was committed to finding a better way to compensate college athletes.