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Fact-checking Trump's move against Pelosi's Afghanistan trip (she brings loved ones to a war zone?)
cnn.com ^ | 1/18/19 | CNN's Holmes Lybrand

Posted on 01/19/2019 5:15:37 AM PST by Liz

Pelosi disinvited Trump from giving his SOTU initially citing security concerns. Then Pelosi's undisclosed plan to Afghanistan with a congressional delegation of seven members, and numerous other family members totaling a party of 93 traveling on the taxpayers' dime was cancelled.

The assistant Secy of Defense for legislative affairs -- with a few exceptions -- has to sign off to military airlift support for congressional delegations (CO/DEL) . But, the president can intervene. As commander in chief, he has authority over the military. In a later OMB memo, all congressional delegations are now prohibited from using "government owned, rented, leased, or chartered aircraft" without the approval of acting White House COS Mick Mulvaney.

According to her press office, Pelosi tried to fly commercial but the State Dept updated its security threat assessment, deeming it to be more dangerous because of he decision to make the trip public. Citing these security concerns, the delegation canceled the trip. One stop included a visit to US military personnel in a war zone, so the speaker can't go without military assistance.

We could not find another instance where a president denied particular members of Congress their CODEL request. It's also unprecedented that a president would alert the public to CODEL travel plans to a war zone. According to Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill, raised the State Dept's threat level assessment. There is precedent for speakers preventing particular members of Congress from traveling overseas.

According to retired Rear Admiral and CNN analyst John Kirby, lawmakers were temporarily denied CODEL requests to war zones during Obama's tenure due to sequestration and security concerns from military officials. Though, Kirby noted, the ban applied to both Republicans and Democrats and did not single out a particular member of Congress, as Trump did before his administration issued a blanket ban.

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To: Liz
It’s been all over the net.

Not good enough. Until I see it on CNN, HuffPo, BuzzFeed or my favorite go-to The Onion, I am skeptical.

/s

21 posted on 01/19/2019 5:41:28 AM PST by BipolarBob (Occasional-Cortex " Just because I don't know what Armageddon means, it's not the end of the world".)
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To: McGavin999

On the Must Do list........


22 posted on 01/19/2019 5:41:52 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: BipolarBob

BOL....cute.


23 posted on 01/19/2019 5:43:00 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz

This Trump isn’t a push over like Bush was.


24 posted on 01/19/2019 5:43:46 AM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: Liz
"...Citing these security concerns, the delegation canceled the trip."

So it wasnt Trump that cancelled the trip? The delegation refused to meet the security requirements of the trip and cancelled it themselves.

25 posted on 01/19/2019 5:44:54 AM PST by Delta 21
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To: Delta 21

An opportunity lost to strand the whole DNA-damaged family of criminals in afghanistan.


26 posted on 01/19/2019 5:47:22 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Delta 21

The real story is....she has a lot of gall leaving town for a whole damn week during a shutdown. She’s not doing her job. She’s playing games.


27 posted on 01/19/2019 5:47:24 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Liz
She was going over to shop, and taking Adam Schiff for Brains along so they could meet his skeevy dossier contacts, tell NATO to ignore Trumps call to spend more on their own defense, head to Egypt for more touring and shopping, meet with the muslim brotherhood to assure them Congress still has their backs, then off to Afghanistan to tell them to blow off Trumps call to drawdown troops and assure them of perpetual war continuing.

In other words, to shop , and to undercut the President
Two things at which she excels.

28 posted on 01/19/2019 5:52:25 AM PST by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Liz

“According to her press office, Pelosi tried to fly commercial but the State Dept updated its security threat assessment, deeming it to be more dangerous because of he decision to make the trip public.”

Liars! She thinks she is so damn important, when in fact she is a doddering old fool who we laugh at. Her day is past. She needs to go out in the yard and feed pigeons.


29 posted on 01/19/2019 5:54:34 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: bk1000

Yep..... In effect, Nancy was.

She is now something of a liability to her party members who fear her taint rubbingoff on them.

Nancy is truly damaged goods


30 posted on 01/19/2019 5:57:53 AM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Princess Gray Beaver, for President?)
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To: Liz

Being Speaker has its perks and round the world junkets is one of them.


31 posted on 01/19/2019 5:59:09 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Liz

Obviously, Pelosi extorted the taxpayers to giveaway free trips to her hand-picked relatives and buddies


We the Taxpayers want to see the full passenger list and trip itinerary, NOW!!


32 posted on 01/19/2019 5:59:24 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Liz

She was taking her family on a shopping junket to Brussels. They have special malls where only the “elite” can shop.


33 posted on 01/19/2019 5:59:44 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: bert

Optics not good, nor improving, for Nan.


34 posted on 01/19/2019 6:00:39 AM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Liz

Trump put no one’s life in danger as no one had gone anywhere.


35 posted on 01/19/2019 6:03:09 AM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: Liz

The funny part is nanny state isn’t any starter, or clever,than that ding ding socialist from NY.


36 posted on 01/19/2019 6:10:39 AM PST by Leep (Leftist are neither liberal or democratic. Neither are they pro American.)
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To: Liz

Pelosi Grounded - EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini was scheduled to meet Nancy Pelosi in Brussels this afternoon, but Trump denied her use of a military plane for her planned trip. This is the woman promoting a European Military and Civilian Military Cooperation outside of NATO - PESCO .

http://archive.vn/4C1OG

US-EU meeting in doubt after Trump cancels plane
By EUOBSERVER
Today, 08:50
US president Donald Trump has declined to let US house speaker Nancy Pelosi use a military plane to visit Brussels on Friday, where she was to meet EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini. He did it amid a political feud over his plan to build a wall on the Mexico border. Pelosi could do her “seven-day excursion”, which was to include Egypt and Afghanistan, by “flying commercial”, he said.


37 posted on 01/19/2019 6:11:57 AM PST by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: Liz

Wow, I wonder what the crazy left base thinks of the Democrats party embracing of endless wars? Have you ever seen any polls on that one? Me either. They also HATE Russians now after being in love with the USSR. The left’s hypocrisy has no bounds.


38 posted on 01/19/2019 6:21:03 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Liz

I thought that Pelosi was not as ‘vocal’ against DJT in this news interview as she usually is and especially considering what went down with her flight:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-team-afghanistan-trip-now-due-grave-threats-caused-president-n960216

I’m hoping that more bones are uncovered with her and as soon as possible.

....”secret trip to Afghanistan”....something stinks, Madam Speaker!


39 posted on 01/19/2019 6:25:19 AM PST by know.your.why
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To: Liz

Yup.

Drop the family off in Europe. Spend a day traveling and being in Afghanistan, then back to Europe where they spend another day with the family before heading back to America. They save tens of thousands in travel expenses while their family members are given a three day European trip.


40 posted on 01/19/2019 6:29:41 AM PST by Bogey78O (So far so good.)
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