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Raskin pointed to breaking news that occurred late Friday night. Attention was called to Herrera Beutler's conversation with McCarthy, where the minority leader allegedly recounted a conversation he had with President Trump. According to Herrera Beutler, McCarthy allegedly told Trump to "call off" the riots at the Capitol. The president allegedly said it wasn't his supporters who caused the chaos and violence at the Capitol. "Needless to say, this is an additional, critical piece of corroborating evidence further confirming the charges before you, as well as the president's willful dereliction of duty," Raskin said before the vote. "For that reason,...

President Trump’s defense team gave their opening arguments on why he is not guilty of inciting the January 6 Capitol breach.Speaking from the Senate floor on Friday, the President’s lawyers called the impeachment trial an act of political vengeance by Democrats, arguing that the President’s words are protected under the freedom of speech.“This appalling abuse of the Constitution only further divides our nation when we should be trying to come together around shared priorities,” defense attorney Michael van der Veen stated.

In my January 12 statement in support of the article of impeachment, I referenced a conversation House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy relayed to me that he'd had with President Trump while the January 6 attack was ongoing. Here are the details: When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol. McCarthy refuted that and told the president that these were Trump supporters. That's when, according to McCarthy, the president said: "Well, Kevin, I guess...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) responded to reports of the Biden White House considering imposing travel restrictions on the state, telling reporters that it would be a “political attack against the people of Florida” as well as “unconstitutional,” “unwise,” and “unjust.” “We will oppose it 100 percent,” DeSantis said Thursday in reaction to the reports of the Biden White House considering domestic travel restrictions on states such as Florida and California due to fears of spreading variant cases of the Chinese coronavirus. “It would not be based in science. It would purely be a political attack against the people of...

With the result of the second impeachment charade a forgone conclusion in Washington, let us now turn to the final partisan tool remaining in Democrats’ torture closet: The 14th Amendment.This amendment allows Congress to banish from future federal office any current or former politician deemed by congress to have “engaged in insurrection.” Its adoption after the Civil War was designed to prevent officers or political leaders of the Confederate regime from being elected to Congress or the presidency.In a normal world, it would be impossible for Congress to punish a man for engaging in “insurrection” after Congress had just acquitted...

HERAT, Afghanistan — A fuel tanker exploded Saturday at the Islam Qala crossing in Afghanistan's western Herat province on the Iranian border, injuring at least seven people and causing a massive fire that consumed more than 500 trucks carrying natural gas and fuel, according to Afghan officials and Iranian state media.It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the blast. Wahid Qatali, Herat’s provincial governor, said Afghan first responders did not have the means to put out the huge fire and had requested support from Iran in the form of fire-fighting aircraft.“For the time being, we can’t even talk about the casualties,”...

Democrats and the left-wing media are continuing to falsely accuse President Trump of calling for violence. Democrats are ignoring all the times they literally made threats against President Trump’s life.

Nancy Pelosi has slammed Andrew Cuomo's claim that COVID aid is short of the $15billion needed and said the federal package is worth $70bn - on the same day the governor was exposed for hiding the true nursing home death toll. The House Speaker sent a letter to congressional Democrats touting the settlement, which would far exceed the under-fire governor's demands, as she strongly rejected his repeated claims the state was being short-changed in a rare rebuke from a close ally. The slap down is a fresh blow to Cuomo as he struggles to salvage his administration from a growing...

Personal-finance guru Dave Ramsey says people need a $1,000 emergency fund. He also says that if a $600 or $1,400 stimulus check would be a lifeline for you during the current pandemic state of emergency, “you were pretty much screwed already.” The radio host and author argued against President Joe Biden’s proposed round of stimulus checks while speaking on Fox News on Thursday, telling “America’s Newsroom” that “I don’t believe in a stimulus check.” “You have a career problem. You have a debt problem. You have a relationship problem. You have a mental-health problem,” he continued. “Something else is going...

North Dakota has risen up in defiance of Joe Biden's recent executive order as the state House of Representatives passed a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing in female school sports events. State lawmakers passed the bill on Thursday that requires school athletes to participate on sports teams that correspond with their biological sex.

This is an outline of the events of the past 70 years since Khrushchev announced “We will conquer you from within.” These phases are facets of an overall strategy run in concert with each other like parts of a symphony.Phase 1 – Develop a group of academics that can infiltrate the United States using education and work visas. Route them into the U.S. through other countries. This phase actually started before Khrushchev made his announcement.Phase 2 – Using this small “army”, gain jobs in the teaching profession with universities and colleges as the main target in order to spread the...

Facebook recently removed advertisements for a book critiquing a radical form of feminism, claiming the book didn’t comply with its policies. A message to Guadalupe Gifts, a Catholic gift store, showed that the company rejected the ads for “The Anti-Mary Exposed: Rescuing The Culture From Toxic Femininity,” while citing a set of rules for what products can be sold or advertised on Facebook.In an email, Facebook told the gift store that “listings may not promote the buying, selling, or use of adult products,” the College Fix reported.The store “tried to post the book on both those platforms and got the...

A newly released Republican staff report makes a case for how President Joe Biden’s immigration policies will endanger Americans by reducing border security and interior enforcement, and elevating the risk posed by criminal aliens. The report (pdf), jointly authored by Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Rep. Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, warns that the Biden administration appears poised to adopt policies that will “incentivize illegal immigration and promote an unending flood of foreign nationals into the United States.”One of these is the expansion...

The Biden National Security Council is planning on having National Guard troops continue to occupy the nation’s capital through the end of the year, according to a report by WTTG-TV Fox 5 in Washington, D.C. Additionally, active duty and reserve troops are being considered for deployment. WTTG excerpt: The National Security Council is asking the Department of Defense to engage Capitol Police on planning for post-March 12th support, according to the e-mail. 01:21 01:35 This Day in History TRENDING: DEMOCRAT IMPEACHMENT DAY 5: Senate Reconvenes at 10 AM ET - Democrats Decide to Call Witnesses After Case Collapses -- LIVE...

De Mattei: Pope Francis, Biden and “post-institutional” CatholicsFebruary 11, 2021What will be the effects of Joe Biden’s election on the life of the Church? Biden is the second Catholic President in the history of the United States after John Fitzgerald Kennedy, but as Massimo Faggioli notes in his recent book Joe Biden e il cattolicesimo negli Stati Uniti (Scholé, Brescia 2021), he finds himself in a reversed situation. Kennedy had the problem of reconciling his religious faith with a country in which the upper-class had always been Protestant and Catholics were considered an external body, tending to be poorly educated...

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The key to our elites’ (hate the word but using it for convenience) riches and power is access to the giant Chinese market no matter how the CCP behaves. This began with Kissinger and Nixon. The theory then, or the rationalization, was that if we opened to China, they would become like us. Consequently, in the decades since, the U. S. government more or less looked away, doing little more than raising its eyebrows in UN conference rooms, as the CCP oppressed its minorities (If you can call millions of people minorities) in the Tibetan, Uyghur, Falun Gong, and Christian...

Lindsey Graham joins Democrats in backing witnesses, saying, ‘If you want a delay, it will be a long one with many, many witnesses.’Former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial looked on track to last longer than expected after the Senate voted on Saturday morning in favor of calling witnesses. Witnesses hadn’t been expected in the proceedings, but the lead House manager, Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, said on Saturday morning that his team wanted to call Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler of Washington state after she released a statement late Friday that said Trump on Jan. 6 resisted telling...

The European Union on Saturday called on China to reverse its ban on the BBC World News television channel imposed in apparent retaliation for Britain’s pulling of the license of state-owned Chinese broadcaster CGTN.The EU said in a statement that Beijing’s move further restricted “freedom of expression and access to information inside its borders," and violated both the Chinese constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.The statement also said that Hong Kong’s announcement that its public broadcaster would also stop carrying BBC broadcasts added to the “erosion of the rights and freedoms that is ongoing" in the semi-autonomous Chinese...

New York police K9 was filmed taking down a suspect after the man punched a police officer in the face on Friday. Randy Martinez, a 23-year-old man who lives in Newburgh, said he was leaving his house with a friend when a man, identified as Tony Mann, 31, wandered onto his driveway and threatened him with a knife. “I rolled down the window and was going to tell him he can’t be on my property, and then he takes out his knife, and I’m just like, ‘Oh, God, no. What’s going to happen?’” Martinez said he called police because he...