[WASHINGTONTIMES] Sen. Joni Ernst led a charity motorcycle ride Saturday in Iowa, one day after a Nebraska man was arrested for threatening to kill her at the fundraiser.
Robert William Simet, 64, of Omaha was taken into custody Friday after telling employees at Loess Hills Harley-Davidson in Pacific Junction, Iowa, that “everybody in the government needs to be killed off” and specifically mentioning Mrs. Ernst.
“The unknown male went on to say that he knew Joni Ernst would be here Saturday and ‘I could kill her, they would kill me, it would not matter, I would win either way,’” said the affidavit filed Friday by FBI special agent Jonathan Robitaille.
As a result, the employee “took that to mean [Simet] was going to kill people if he showed up,” and workers “feared for the safety of US Senator Ernst,” said the agent.
Mr. Simet, who has a firearm registered in Nebraska’s Douglas County, was booked into Pottawattamie County Jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
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[TheDenverChannel] If you’re concerned about what the Trump administration’s controversial Election Integrity Commission might do with your personal voting records when Colorado hands over what it’s legally bound to do later this month, there are a few remedies, but you have to meet certain criteria to have your information be made confidential.
Colorado Secretary of State Wayne Williams reiterated Wednesday that he would hand over to the commission what he is already required to give to anyone under state law: a voter’s full name, address, party affiliation and date the person registered, phone number, gender identity, birth year, and information about if a person has voted in prior elections.
He said he wouldn’t hand over a voter’s Social Security number or full date of birth--two things the commission requested but will not get, as those things are not public record in Colorado.
It's possible to de-register to vote, though the Denver Elections Division advises against doing so.
Colorado says there are more than 2,500 active participants in the Address Confidentiality Program, and that more than 4,000 people have used the service since it started in July 2008.
The state says it plans to send the voter rolls over to the commission by 8 a.m. July 14.
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Hard to withdraw if you've been dead since 1990 but still voted in every election since. What Trump is doing is delegitimizing the "No voter fraud" arguments with every Sec'ty of State that refuses to comply.
"What are they hiding?"
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I'm happy with this. Verify things are clean, and if not, nail the offenders to the wall.
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How can we allow these states to send representatives to Congress and the Electoral College if they refuse to properly certify their elections? Why should all of the rest of the states allow voter fraud in New York and California to determine who will be the president? These are such obvious questions that it hurts.
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In Colorado, there are lots of resort towns in the mountains full of timeshares. Not surprisingly, these towns all have more than 100% voter registration. Use your imagine.
h/t Jerry Pournelle
Steve Bannon, White House chief strategist and one of the architects of President Trump’s longshot populist victory in November, reportedly has his mojo back after a period of "hibernation" and is now one of the top voices in the Trump White House -- just as Trump looks to take the initiative and push back against those in Congress and the media looking to stifle his agenda.
...Ultimately, Axios concludes, Bannon’s resurrection comes from the simple fact that he shares the same worldview as the president: "The biggest reason that Bannon is back is that his worldview is Trump’s worldview. For ... all the ups and downs, in-and-out-of-favor drama, Trump is more Bannon than he is Jared or Ivanka."
[Breitbart] Former CIA director John Brennan on Sunday harshly criticized President Trump’s performance during the G20 summit in Germany, saying he failed to take a hard enough line against Russian President Vladimir Putin and appeared to question the word of the U.S. intelligence community.
"He said it’s an honor to meet President Putin. An honor to meet the individual who carried out the assault against our election? To me, it was a dishonorable thing to say," Mr. Brennan said of Mr. Trump during an interview with NBC’s "Meet the Press."
The White House insisted Sunday that Mr. Trump pressed Mr. Putin on Russia’s alleged interference in the U.S. campaign.
However, the president and his chief of staff have said other entities might have been responsible for meddling last year.
Mr. Brennan, who led the CIA from 2013 to 2017 under President Barack Obama, took exception to Mr. Trump doubting the conclusions of U.S. intelligence offers who pointed their fingers squarely at Russia.
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He said it’s an honor to meet President Putin. An honor to meet the individual who carried out the assault against our election? To me, it was a dishonorable thing to say," Mr. Brennan said of Mr. Trump during an interview with NBC’s "Meet the Press."
It's difficult to consider "honor" and John Brennan--duplicitous SOB.
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Yeah, instead of a diplomatic "Nice to meet you!", Trump should have punched Putin in the face saying "Take that, you rotten commie bastage!". Jeez, could Brennan be a bigger tool?
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Brennan was a leaking asskissing Obama chump. Under his leadership the intelligence community blew it in North Korea, Syria, Turkey, Yemen, and the list goes on... and to top it off, the huge wikileaks mess, on his watch too. He was a leading proponent of calling the terrorists "extremists" and not jihadists, an elimintating Islam references to them. This sumbitch was a horrible failure by any objective standard.
Why does anyone treat him as a credible expert on anything other than how to be a failure of the intelligence community?
[CIRCA] ... It was apparently during the time she was in the United States on that parole entry that she arranged to meet with Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort on June 9, 2016 at Trump Tower.
During the meeting Veselnitskaya raised the issue of restoring U.S. adoptions inside Russia if the United States would repeal the Magnitsky Act, a law passed in 2012 punishing Moscow for human rights violations in connection with the death of a lawyer who had discovered a massive money laundering scheme inside the country.
During the meeting Veselnitskaya raised the issue of restoring U.S. adoptions inside Russia if the United States would repeal the Magnitsky Act, a law passed in 2012 punishing Moscow for human rights violations in connection with the death of a lawyer who had discovered a massive money laundering scheme inside the country.
Vladimir Putin has long reviled the Magnitsky Act and fought to have it repealed. And according to letter from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley, the Kremlin’s main fight against the law was led by Veselnitskaya’s client, Katsyv.
Another player in the Russian influence scandal, the U.S.-based political firm Fusion GPS, was also involved in helping Prevezon, Katsyv and Baker Hostetler, according to the Grassley letter. Fusion has been a major focal point of the FBI and Congress because it hired a former British intelligence agent named Christopher Steele to produce a salacious intelligence dossier that made wild and still unsubstantiated claims about Trump ties to Russia.
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Fusion GPS is also a Dem-hired opposition research (fabrication?) firm
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[Breitbart] A former senior director of the National Security Council under President George W. Bush said on Thursday that the liberal media and Obama loyalists inside and outside of the federal government had executed a "coordinated attack" on President Donald Trump since he was elected.
Michael Doran made the remarks at the Hudson Institute in Washington, DC, where he is a senior fellow on Middle East security and was a panelist for a discussion at the institute on Russian meddling in the U.S. 2016 presidential election. The conversation quickly shifted to Trump and his campaign’s relationship with the Russians and the ongoing investigation into it.
"What we have is a coordinated attack between elements of the press, elements in the bureaucracy and then sitting -- during the transition -- and now former Obama officials weaving this vast Trump-Putin conspiracy theory, which doesn’t hold up under scrutiny."
[NYPOST] Mayor de Blasio -- forgetting that he’s accountable to eight million Big Apple residents -- blew off a Post news hound Saturday after he gave a speech in Hamburg, Germany.
The mayor did extensive interviews with German media after delivering a speech to activists protesting the gathering of world leaders at the G20 summit.
But when a news hound for The Post greeted de Blasio after he’d talked to the German news hounds, he smiled, turned and walked away without any acknowledgment.
City Hall front man Eric Phillips said de Blasio appreciated the chance to spend time with his son and to meet with German protesters. The mayor will answer answer questions after returning to US soil.
"It’s been a good trip. We’ll be back in New York tomorrow," Phillips said.
De Blasio and his aides were in Germany on the tab of Hamburg Zeigt Haltung ‐ or Hamburg Shows Attitude.
The mayor’s son Dante joined the party in Hamburg. Dante de Blasio, a student at Yale, has an internship in Berlin this summer.
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Blowing a reporter isn't the story. Sorry, blowing off. It's that he skipped out on both the police academy graduation and the wake after one of his cops was assassinated in order to prance about at the G20.
[Townhall] That's right. The California Democratic Party is suing them, accusing them of lying to voters and saying that the recall would repeal the gas tax. Caveat emptor, baby.
First of all, that any California Democratic Party official or candidate would accuse Republicans of lying to get votes - and say it with a straight face - is a massive insult. These are the people whose confiscatory gun control scheme was called "Safety for All" in ads. These are the people who claim that sanctuary cities are simply shielding hard-working, law-abiding, family-centered immigrants from being deported. These are the people who call taxpayers "freeloaders" when they finally get sick of forking over the highest gas taxes in the nation.
The lawsuit names three Cal State Fullerton College Republicans, as well as other activists, as defendants - Amanda McGuire, Brooke Paz, and Ryan Hoskins - and was filed in Sacramento County Superior Court, a clear effort to make it as difficult as possible for the three to defend themselves. If you're not familiar with California, Sacramento is at least a six-hour drive from Fullerton. (And that's if you leave in the middle of the night to avoid traffic.)
[FreeBeacon] Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has collected more than $50,000 in hush money from Clinton’s campaign since the November election loss to Donald Trump, according to federal election commission filings.
Abedin, who served as the vice chair of Clinton's campaign, has been given $52,180.65 from Hillary for America, Clinton's campaign committee, from mid-November to the end of March, the time of the latest available filings. Abedin received 12 checks ranging from $2,316.06 to $6,005.45 and was also paid hundreds for phone and travel expenses.
A handful of other close Clinton associates, including Nick Merrill, Hillary's former press secretary, were also still being compensated as of late March.
Donald Trump's campaign committee has also continued to pay staffers, including John Pence, the nephew of Vice President Mike Pence, who became the campaign’s executive director in January. However, Trump filed for re-election and has been pulling millions into his campaign committee for 2020.
Abedin is in the midst of filing for divorce from disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner.
[Free Beacon] Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) rebuked President Donald Trump's notion of working on a "cyber security unit" with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, saying it was akin to working with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad on a "chemical weapons unit."
Trump sent out a series of tweets Sunday morning about his Friday meeting with Putin, which included denials by the latter of Russian interference in the U.S. election. The American intelligence community has concluded the Kremlin was behind the extensive cyber campaign to meddle in the race, but Trump has stated other countries may have been involved as well.
Trump said Putin denied the allegation, and he added that the two discussed "forming an impenetrable Cyber Security unit so that election hacking, & many other negative things, will be guarded and safe."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Breitbart] Former CIA director John Brennan on Sunday harshly criticized President Trump’s performance during the G20 summit in Germany, saying he failed to take a hard enough line against Russian President Vladimir Putin and appeared to question the word of the U.S. intelligence community.
[Breitbart] A former senior director of the National Security Council under President George W. Bush said on Thursday that the liberal media and Obama loyalists inside and outside of the federal government had executed a "coordinated attack" on President Donald Trump since he was elected.
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