Posted on 01/03/2020 4:35:28 PM PST by MassMinuteman
Impeachment impasse deepens as McConnell rejects Pelosi's bid to shape trial: 'Their turn is over'
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, speaking from the chamber’s floor Friday, rejected House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to shape a pending impeachment trial as “fantasy”—leaving the process at a standstill as lawmakers return from the holiday recess.
PELOSI: Trump should have asked permission to kill Iranian general
Iran’s secretive Quds Force fired rockets at U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. So President Trump ordered the military to take out the Forces’ commander, Qassim Suleimani. That irked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said Trump did not have the authority to take the action.
Pranksters: Maxine Waters fell for call from 'Greta Thunberg' offering a taped Trump confession
The Russian pranksters famous for tricking House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) into seeking nude pictures of President Donald Trump are claiming that they just got Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) — for a second time.
Trey Gowdy won’t join Trump’s legal team, ‘He doesn’t need another lawyer’
Amid confusion late last year regarding his status on President Donald Trump’s legal team, former Republican Rep. Trey Gowdy said Thursday he has no plans to formally assist the White House in its effort to defend the president in the Senate’s upcoming impeachment trial.
More than 100,000 DACA applicants have been arrested for charges including murder, rape, DUI
More than 100,000 illegal immigrants who requested a special Obama-era amnesty for adults who came to the U.S. as children have criminal histories, according to an alarming report released this month by the government. Offenses committed by the illegal aliens seeking protection, benefits and rights under the policy known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) include murder, rape, weapon and assault charges.
NY BAIL REFORM: Man accused of driving drunk, killing pedestrian freed due to new criminal justice reforms
A man who allegedly hit and killed a pedestrian while driving drunk in East Harlem is back on the streets for now — thanks to the state’s new criminal justice reforms, authorities said Thursday.
U.S. not eyeing immediate oil release in response to Iran crisis
The Trump administration isn’t actively considering an immediate release of oil from the national petroleum reserve in response to the Iran crisis that has sent oil prices higher, according to a person familiar with deliberations within the White House.
EXCLUSIVE: Reddit user reportedly admits murdering elderly Trump supporters in nursing home
An Reddit user by the name “LoveThisLife0101” bragged about allegedly letting eleven elderly supporters of President Donald Trump die under his care by refusing to resuscitate them. LoveThisLife0101 also boasted about their alleged tampering with elderly patients’ food and deliberately administering incorrect medicine.
NYT op-ed made eerie hypothetical about Soleimani being killed in Baghdad hours before it happened
The New York Times published an eerie opinion piece on Thursday that used a potential attack on Iranian Gen. Qassem SoleimanI as a hypothetical scenario hours before the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' elite Quds Force was actually killed in remarkably similar fashion.
Meadows: 'Their day is coming, I promise you', Durham probe to contain 'very problematic findings'
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) sat down with Steve Bannon on Thursday's War Room: Impeachment, where he suggested that US Attorney John Durham will uncover "very problematic findings" with the FBI's counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign - both before and after the 2016 US election.
Judicial Watch warns CA, PA, NC, CO, and VA to clean voting rolls or face a federal lawsuit
Judicial Watch announced today it is continuing its efforts to force states and counties across the nation to comply with the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), by sending notice-of-violation letters to 19 large counties in five states that it intends to sue unless the jurisdictions take steps to comply with the law and remove ineligible voter registrations within 90 days.
Irony: Booker upset DC is controlling DNC debates as he campaigns for an ever expanding government
During an appearance on MSNBC, Democratic Presidential hopeful Senator Cory Booker made an extremely hypocritical complaint about Washington D.C. elites controlling too much. While discussing the rules that set the minimum requirements to get on the DNC Presidential debate stage Senator Booker stated, “[i]nstead of letting Iowans choose, they’re being dictated to by Washington, D.C. DNC leaders. It makes no sense.”
Pollak: Welcome to 2020, the Year of the Good Fight
The year 2020 begins with incredible potential for supporters of President Donald Trump — and for America’s renaissance. The economy is roaring. The country is about to sign trade deals with our North American partners and with China; another deal with a post-Brexit Great Britain is likely.
US kills Iran's most powerful general in Baghdad airstrike, Iraqis celebrate
The United States killed Iran’s top general and the architect of Tehran’s proxy wars in the Middle East in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday, an attack that threatens to dramatically ratchet up tensions in the region.
Damn right Trump ordered the Code Red, says Haley ... and McGurk?
Did Donald Trump destabilize the Middle East in a single strike, or did he give Tehran “a punch in the nose” to put a stop to a long slide to war? For the most part, reaction to last night’s strike on Qassem Soleimani followed fairly predictable patterns.
FLASHBACK: The shadowy Iranian spy chief who helped plan Benghazi
He’s the Wizard of Oz of Iranian terror, the most dreaded and most effective terrorist alive. He is Qassem Suleymani, the head of the Quds Force, an organization that acts as a combination CIA and Green Berets for Iran, and a man who has orchestrated a campaign of chaos against the United States around the world. Today, the Obama Administration has allied itself with Suleymani to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Turkish state banks sell $1 billion to spare Lira from rout
Turkish state lenders sold between $1 billion and $1.5 billion to stem the lira’s decline on Friday, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The sales appear to have been triggered by a global flight from riskier assets as tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated, two of the people said.
Asia on alert over mysterious virus outbreak in China
Asian governments are stepping up precautionary measures to prevent an outbreak of a mysterious illness after Chinese health authorities reported 44 cases of a "viral pneumonia of unknown origin" amid concerns that the flu-like virus is linked to the highly contagious SARS virus that caused hundreds of deaths in Asia and elsewhere 17 years ago.
Could Roe v. Wade be overturned? Hundreds of Congress members sign amicus brief ahead of SCOTUS case
404 members of Congress filed so-called "amicus" or supporting briefs in a closely-watched upcoming Supreme Court case that could decide the future of abortion access, including a continent of 207 mostly Republican members including Sens. Mitt Romney, John Cornyn, Marco Rubio, and Reps. Steve Scalise and Liz Cheney.
Delingpole: Environmentalists made Australia's bush fires worse
Australia is on fire, at least 17 people have been killed, hundreds of homes have been destroyed, and an estimated half-billion animals — both livestock and wildlife — have been burned alive. The area burned in the bush fires so far is considerably bigger than the area burned either in last year’s Amazon rainforest fires or the fires in California.
I have come to despise the term “problematic.” Just despise. An eighteen wheeler could drive through the span it covers and come out unscathed.
What “impasse”? There is no impeachment. Nan is sitting on it. She’s too embarrassed to send it to the Senate.
Let me guess, “very problematic findings” =/= indictments.
Impeachment? What’s that?
That is soooo yesterday.
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