Author: Freedom Watch

‘No Celebrities’: Embarrassing Turnout at Trump’s Beverly Hills Fundraiser By Tarpley Hitt The Daily Beast April 6, 2019 BEVERLY HILLS, California—Late Friday afternoon, Donald Trump landed in Los Angeles for a re-election fundraiser. The event was organized by Trump Victory, a fundraising partnership between the Republican National Convention and Trump’s campaign, and aimed to raise an estimated $5 million for the party. It was the president’s third visit to the celebrity-hub city and, by all accounts, not a star-studded one. “Celebrities? No celebrities,” Rabbi Marvin Hier said of the event. Hier is the dean and founder of the…

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By Bob Norman Columbia Journalism Review April 6, 2019 Roger Stone was sitting in a Miami Beach condo surrounded by Richard Nixon campaign memorabilia. He was talking about his long-time boss Donald Trump, and saying he would make a great president. “He’s already at the pinnacle of success,” Stone said. “He doesn’t need to be president to validate his own ego, which is quite large.” This was late 2011, nearly four years before Trump took the famous downward escalator ride that set off the most tumultuous period in modern American history, leading Stone first back to prominence, and then…

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By Larry Klayman WND April 5, 2019 In 2001, two years before I left Judicial Watch to run for the U.S. Senate in Florida, I was contacted by a person who identified himself as Peter Paul. A former lawyer from Miami, he asked me meet him there at what was then Judicial Watch’s Southern Regional Office. When Peter and I did meet in our offices in Biscayne Tower a few days later, he revealed to me how he had put on the Hollywood tribute to Bill Clinton in the waning days of Slick Willy’s administration. This event was in…

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By Joseph Wulfsohn Fox News April 5, 2019 A former aide to Hillary Clinton is facing backlash for mocking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over video of the Kentucky Republican falling down, though others on social media pointed out that McConnell had survived a bout of polio as a child. Adam Parkhomenko, a Democratic strategist who served in Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, shared a video on Wednesday of McConnell falling while stepping onstage at a campaign event. Continue Reading…..

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FBI director says white supremacy is a ‘persistent, pervasive threat’ to the US By Marshall Cohen CNN April 4, 2019 Washington (CNN)FBI Director Christopher Wray said Thursday that white supremacy presents a “persistent” and “pervasive” threat to the United States, breaking from President Donald Trump, who has sidestepped questions of whether white nationalists present a growing problem. “The danger. I think, of white supremacists, violent extremism or another kind of extremism is of course significant,” Wray said at a House hearing. “We assess that it is a persistent, pervasive threat. We tackle it both through our joint terrorism…

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Judge Andrew Napolitano: Democrats can legally obtain and publicize Trump’s tax returns By Anna Hopkins Fox News April 4, 2019 An obscure federal statute makes it legal for Congress to obtain President Trump’s tax returns for the last six years, and, through an additional loophole, can be made public, according to Judge Andrew Napolitano. During an appearance on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday morning, the senior judicial analyst explained that the Chair of the House Committee on Ways and Means can compel the IRS to reveal anyone’s tax returns, not just President Trump’s, for any time period without…

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Paul Ryan on advice to AOC: ‘I don’t think she really listened to a thing I said’ By Gregg Re Fox News April 4, 2019 Fox Business host Charles Payne says the freshman lawmaker has dramatically changed the Democrat Party by throwing her weight around on the Green New Deal and Rep. Omar controversy. In an interview Tuesday night at an event in his home state, Wisconsin, former House speaker Paul Ryan told attendees he offered New York Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez some pointers for life in Congress as a young freshman representative — and insisted that she…

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