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Beto argues Trump’s foreign intel comment is grounds for impeachment By Andrew O’Reilly Fox News June 16, 2019 What to know about 2020 presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke, including the issues he stands for and what he will have to overcome to resonate with voters. Beto O’Rourke became the latest Democratic presidential candidate to support the idea of impeaching President Trump — arguing that the president’s comments earlier in the week that he’d be open to accepting foreign intelligence on his 2020 rivals is reason enough to see him ousted from office. While Trump has walked back those comments,…
Anti-Trump activists hold rallies across US to call for impeachment By Adam Shaw Fox News June 15, 2019 Activists took to the streets Saturday to hold rallies calling for the impeachment of President Trump, as they seek to pile further pressure on Democratic leaders in Congress to back a push to oust the president. “Donald Trump’s abuses of our communities and country demand action from Congress, which has the responsibility and authority to hold Trump accountable,” a website page for the “#ImpeachTrump: Act to Defend Democracy” national day of action by left-wing group MoveOn read. “The next crucial…
Romney calls Trump’s openness to foreign campaign help ‘simply unthinkable’ Washington Examiner June 15, 2019 One outspoken Republican condemned President Trump’s suggestion that he’d be open to accepting foreign assistance in a presidential campaign. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, the Republican presidential nominee in 2012, said Thursday that it was “simply unthinkable for a candidate for president to accept that involvement, to encourage it, to participate with it in any way, shape, or form.” “It would strike at the very heart of our democracy,” Romney said. Continue Reading…..
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By Brian Bakst Capitol View June 14, 2019 Depositions, correspondence and other records generated in a state board’s investigation into irregularities in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s campaign spending provide extra details about how questions over the Democratic lawmaker’s tax filings were first raised and handled. Last week, the Campaign Finance and Public Disclosure Board issued findings that Omar improperly billed expenses of a personal nature and some travel to her campaign. In doing so, the board indicated that Omar appeared to file a joint tax return with her husband before they were legally married. The board didn’t review or seek…
Mysterious Blazes on Six Iranian Ships in Iranian Ports Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs June 14, 2019 One month after the attack on oil tankers off the coast As the strategic port of Shahid Rajaee, north of the Strait of Hormuz, was still dealing with the effects of a huge fire that caused serious destruction, Iranian media reported that six Iranian ships were ablaze in several ports in the southern part of the country. The Iranian Republic News Agency reported that on June 7, 2019, four merchant ships caught fire in the port of Nakhl Taqi (Taghi) in…
Fox’s Napolitano warns Trump: ‘A felony’ to accept foreign help for reelection By Justin Wise TheHill June 14, 2019 Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano warned Thursday that President Trump would be committing a felony if he accepted damaging information from a foreign power for an election. Napolitano weighed in a day after Trump refused to commit in an ABC News interview to calling the FBI if he received political dirt from a foreign government on a political opponent, remarks that sparked a political firestorm on Thursday. Asked for his reaction to Trump’s comments, Napolitano said on Fox…
Washington Examiner June 13, 2019 People don’t like to discuss their personal lives in public, much less when multiple divorces and children are involved. Even in public life, there ought to remain a reasonable amount of privacy when it comes to a purely intimate matter. But red flags about the two or three marriages of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., have now produced evidence of lawbreaking. It’s time to start asking questions. The first question of public interest is whether Omar violated federal tax law. In 2014 and 2015, she filed her taxes jointly with a man named Ahmed Hirsi.…
By John Solomon, opinion contributor TheHill June 13, 2019 One was caught red-handed engaged in nepotism. Another, a lawyer no less, admitted to shoplifting at a Marine barracks store. A third leaked sealed court information to the news media. And a fourth engaged in fraud by turning a government garage into a personal repair shop. Four cases, all solved in the past month, with suspects who cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars and significant breaches of public trust. But these weren’t your everyday perps. All were U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who are supposed to catch other…
Trump Appears to Think Charles Is Called ‘the Prince of Whales’ The Daily Beast June 13, 2019 Unless the president has just accidentally revealed the existence of a top-secret underwater kingdom, he’s dropped another clanger on Twitter. Writing about his recent trip to Britain, where he met Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles, President Trump said he’d met with the “Prince of Whales.” He was almost there—Charles’ title is actually Prince of Wales. Trump was trying to make the point that he feels he doesn’t need to disclose conversations with world leaders to the FBI. No one has actually…