The Scurrilous Democrats Who Won't Stop Their Cabal Against President Trump Should Clean Up Their Own House

RADICAL HOUSE DEMOCRATS FOCUS ON GETTING TRUMP. Any way they can. • • • FRIDAY, IT WAS ACTING AG MATTHEW WHITAKER'S TURN. Fox News reporter Brooke Singman wrote : "Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker stunned onlookers and lawmakers during an already-contentious House hearing Friday, when he tried to call time on the Democratic chairman after yet another line of questioning regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe. The retort came after Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., first said he wanted Whitaker to appear for a private deposition after the hearing and went on to ask Whitaker whether he had been “asked to approve any requests or action” for the special counsel. "'Mr. Chairman, I see that your five minutes is up, so...' Whitaker replied as the hearing room broke out in gasps. 'I am here voluntarily. We have agreed to five-minute rounds.' Nadler, who even cracked a slight smile at the response, repeated his question, and Whitaker ultimately responded : 'I have not interfered in any way with the special counsel’s investigation.' " • Whitaker's appearance before the Democrat-majority House Judiciary Committee, said Singman, "follows a dramatic political prelude to the hearing itself, complete with threats by Nadler to subpoena the witness and threats by the DOJ to boycott. Democrats are acutely focused on Whitaker's oversight of the Mueller probe, in his acting AG status while awaiting confirmation of President Trump's attorney general pick William Barr." Barr's name has been voted out of committee in the Senate and will get a Senate floor vote soon. • Whitaker told the committee : "There has been no change in the overall management of the special counsel investigation,” saying that he never offered any “promises or commitments” regarding the Mueller or any other investigation. Nadler pressed Whitaker over whether he had shared information about the investigation with Trump, or any White House officials. “I do not intend today to talk about my private conversations, but to answer your question, I did not talk to the President about the status of the investigation,” Whitaker answered. “Consistent with what I’ve already said, I have not talked about the special counsel’s investigation with any White House officials.” • Meanwhile, the top Republican on the committee blasted the hearing as a "dog and pony show" : “This hearing is a character assassination on Acting Attorney General Whitaker, all pure political theater, to go after the President,” Ranking Member Doug Collins, R-Ga, said in his opening statement while urging the committee to adjourn. • One of the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee -- Representative Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas -- chided acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker for behaving in an unacceptable manner during a confrontational House Judiciary Committee hearing Friday. “Mr. attorney general, we are not joking here,” Jackson Lee said. “And your humor is not acceptable.” The tense exchange came as the congresswoman asked Whitaker a series of yes or no questions about his role at the Justice Department and oversight of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Members often asked yes or no questions during oversight hearings in order to cycle through more inquiries within the five-minute time limit they have for questions. At one point, Jackson Lee was interrupted and asked : “Can the clock be restored?” Whitaker quipped in response, “I don’t know if your time has been restored or not.” Jackson Lee then chastised Whitaker for his humor and said he was there “because we have a constitutional duty to ask questions and the Congress has the right to establish government rules. The rules are that you are here, so I need to ask the question and I need to have my time restored so that you can behave appropriately, I will behave appropriately as a member of the Judiciary Committee,” Jackson Lee said. • We should keep in mind that -- like so many of her ProgDem colleagues -- Representative Sheila Jackson Lee is in trouble herself. She is stepping down from her role as the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation board because of a lawsuit from a former staffer, TheHill confirmed Wednesday. The ex-staffer accused Jackson Lee of improperly firing her as retaliation over claims she was sexually assaulted by a supervisor at the foundation years earlier. Jackson Lee will also temporarily step down from her chairmanship on the House Judiciary Committee’s crime, terrorism, homeland security and investigations subcommittee. An anonymous Congressional Black Caucus Foundation (CBCF) official told the New York Times, which first reported the lawmaker's departure, that the group’s board told Jackson Lee that they could vote to remove her if she did not step down voluntarily. A congressional source familiar with the matter confirmed to TheHill that after news of the lawsuit came out, she began to face growing "pressure," both inside and outside of the CBC. In the case of the House Judiciary Committee subcommittee, she ultimately chose to step aside until a ruling on the case is wrapped up. These are the radical Democrats who say they support women !! • • • MUELLER TEAM BRIEFED ON ANTI-TRUMP RUSSIAN DOSSIER LONG BEFORE THE 2016 ELECTION. Fox News reminded us on Tuesday that : "Newly confirmed congressional testimony reveals that Andrew Weissmann, now a top deputy in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, was briefed in August 2016 on the opposition research behind the anti-Trump Dossier -- underscoring how early and widely the Democrat-funded research was shared among senior FBI and Justice Department officials. DOJ official Bruce Ohr was asked about such briefings during a closed-door interview with House lawmakers in August 2018. In the interview, details of which have only recently emerged, Fox News has learned that Ohr revealed he met with Weissmann and other DOJ officials shortly after a July 30, 2016, breakfast meeting with former British spy and Dossier author Christopher Steele, in the run-up to the presidential election. Ohr told congressional investigators that his contact with Steele included “specific information related to the Russian government’s attempt to interfere in the presidential election,” as well as specific allegations “related to members of the Trump campaign and allegations of colluding with Russia. Question : 'You’ve identified at the Department of Justice folks as early as August of 2016 or folks at the Department of Justice and FBI being aware of your involvement. At the Department of Justice, Mr. [Bruce] Swartz, Mr. [Andrew] Weissmann, and the third name, I didn’t get, Zainab [Ahmad]?' Ohr : 'Ahmad, Ms. Ahmad.' Ohr was then asked about meeting with then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, as well as lawyer Lisa Page and agent Peter Strzok, all three of whom have since left the bureau. Question : 'Again, so the record is clear with respect to what the Department of Justice and the FBI knew about your involvement, those are the folks that were aware as of August 2016 that you had an involvement with Christopher Steele?' Ohr : 'Those are the people that I knew that I had told. Fox News previously reported Ohr told House investigators as part of the Republican-led probe that shortly after the July 30, 2016, meeting, his 'first move' was to reach out to senior FBI officials McCabe and Page. He then shared the information with other DOJ officials including Weissmann, he said. Question : 'The information that Mr. Steele relayed to you in 2016, did you share this information with Federal law enforcement officials?' Ohr : 'Yes, I did.' " • Weissmann is now a lead prosecutor on Mueller’s team handling the case of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. At the time in 2016, he was chief of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Fraud Section. According to online bios, Swartz was deputy assistant attorney general at the time. According to a May 2017 New Yorker profile, Ahmad worked at the US attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New York and took leave to work at the Justice Department’s Washington headquarters. Ahmad is now assigned to the special counsel's investigation. • Catherine Herridge, who wrote this Fox News article, said : "The Ohr testimony and timing, meanwhile, seem to conflict with a 2018 memo from Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, on the [FISA] surveillance warrant application for Trump campaign aide Carter Page, which relied heavily on the Dossier. While Ohr’s testimony indicated he met with senior FBI leadership in August 2016 shortly after his meeting with Steele, the Democrats' memo stated 'the Majority mischaracterizes Bruce Ohr’s role, overstates the significance of his interactions with Steele, and misleads about the timeframe of Ohr’s communications with the FBI,' saying Ohr told the bureau in November 2016 about his earlier communications with Steele. During his testimony, Ohr said he stressed during the 2016 meetings -- many of which took place before the Page surveillance warrant was obtained -- the potential bias and conflicts associated with Steele and the Dossier, which was commissioned by the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign and handled by opposition-research firm Fusion GPS. The surveillance warrant application drew on the unverified Trump Dossier." • • • DESPITE CONTINUING PROOF OF MASSIVE ANTI-TRUMP BIAS, MUELLER PLODS ON. The Washington Post reported on Monday that : "Federal prosecutors in New York on Monday delivered a sweeping request for documents related to donations and spending by President Trump’s inaugural committee, a sign of a deepening criminal investigation. A wide-ranging subpoena served on the inaugural committee Monday seeks an array of documents, including all information related to inaugural donors, vendors, contractors, bank accounts of the inaugural committee and any information related to foreign contributors to the committee, according to a copy reviewed by the Washington Post." • The WP jumps to the totally premature and unwarranted conclusion that : "Only US citizens and legal residents can legally donate to a committee established to finance presidential inaugural festivities." Mueller and his gang would make a better use of their time by checking foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation and their potential use in Hillary's 2016 campaign. • The Trump Inaugural Committee responded : "We have just received a subpoena for documents. While we are still reviewing the subpoena, it is our intention to cooperate with the inquiry.” The Post says the subpoena indicates that prosecutors are investigating crimes related to conspiracy to defraud the United States, mail fraud, false statements, wire fraud, and money laundering. Get serious, Mueller -- why not murder as well?? Oops -- that's also an allegedly Clinton specialty, so Mueller certainly won't look into that. • • • KAMALA HARRIS ESCAPES CRITICISM. Where are the radical Progressive Democrats? Where is their moral leadership? Where are their leaders ready to stand up and say to their own -- enough. You have to go. It seems that happens only when it involves sexual escapades or assaults by men. Jackson Lee has "temporarily" stepped aside from her Congressional Black Caucus foundation duties -- big deal. The woman who alleges sexual assault by a foundation member has had to file a lawsuit, but it is getting precious little coverage by ProgDem elites or their lapdog media. • We have Senator Kamala Harris -- a Democrat California lawyer who seems to have ridden to political success on the coattails of former San Francisco Mayor and womanizer, Willie Brown. And, his coattails may have been spread out on his bed for Harris all too often. "In 1994, then-outgoing Speaker of the California State Assembly Willie Brown (D-San Francisco) appointed Harris to a state board with a $72,000 salary. The Los Angeles Times reported : “Harris, a former deputy district attorney in Alameda County, was described by several people at the Capitol as Brown’s girlfriend.” (Brown was married but separated.) The problem was not that Brown was dating Harris, but the apparent nepotism involved in her appointment. Brown published a short article in the San Francisco Chronicle this weekend, “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what? Yes, we dated. "It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was [California] Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco." Brown, 84, pointed out that he also helped the careers of other prominent California Democrats, such as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Governor Gavin Newsom and US Senator Dianne Feinstein. • Brown appointed Harris -- about 30 years younger than Brown and just a few years out of law school – to two well-paid state commission assignments on the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission, the Washington Free Beacon reported. The former mayor also connected Harris with campaign donors, which helped her outraise her opponent for San Francisco district attorney, Business Insider reported. Brown's involvement in her election raised questions as to how Harris would remain impartial, given his enormous political clout. • Questions about Brown’s relationship with Harris began anew after she announced her 2020 presidential bid on Martin Luther King Day. During his two terms as mayor of San Francisco, Brown was known for his charm, arrogance and ego, according to a 1996 profile in People magazine. Named one of the world’s 10 sexiest men by Playgirl magazine in 1984, Brown sometimes attended parties with his wife on one arm and a girlfriend on the other, according to a reporter quoted by the magazine. Brown and Harris broke up in 1995 but remained political allies. In Saturday's column, Brown said Harris is "riding a buzz wave the likes of which we haven’t seen in years." • The Free Beacon says that : "For the past decade or so, Brown has reportedly been linked with Sonya Molodetskaya, a Russian refugee and socialite. He is said to be separated from wife Blanche Vitero, whom he married in 1958. Brown and Vitero have three children, while Brown also fathered a child in 2001 with his former fundraiser, Carolyn Carpeneti, according to the Chronicle." • And, Fox News reports that : "Facebook and far left Factcheck.org jumped through hoops to defend liberal Senator Kamala Harris before her announcement. In July 2018 the Gateway Pundit called out Kamala Harris for posting an obvious lie about her few years as a child in Berkeley, California, before she moved to Canada. Harris said she was a student in only the second class to integrate at Berkeley public schools. Kamala Harris : 'Two decades after Brown v. Board, I was only the second class to integrate at Berkeley public schools. Without that decision, I likely would not have become a lawyer and eventually be elected a Senator from California. That’s the power a Supreme Court Justice holds.' There’s just one problem -- Everything about that tweet is a lie. Kamala’s parents were successful professionals. Kamala went to school in Berkeley for only 2 years. She then moved with her mother at age seven to Canada where she attended grade school and high school. Kamala Harris was born in 1964 She claims she was only the second class to integrate at the Berkeley public schools. Kamala lied. Actually the classrooms in Berkeley were already integrated in 1963 -- before she was born." The Free Beacon showed a photo from the 1963 Berkeley yearbook that shows black school children a year before Harris was born. BUT, Factcheck.org and Facebook said the photos DO NOT prove the classrooms were integrated. They say this does not prove the schools were integrated because NOT ALL of the schools were integrated. Got that? Expect more of this as the campaign continues into 2019 and 2020." • If that isn't enough -- Fox News also reportes that the newly launched Kamala Harris presidential campaign is stacked with top officials from Hillary Clinton's failed 2016 campaign, including her lawyer Marc Elias. The abundance of Clinton staffers joining Harris is unsurprising, as many went straight from the 2016 trail to work in her new Senate office in 2017." • At a time in American when the Senate Intelligence Committee has to obtain phone records to show that Donald Trump Jr. did not speak with his father from a blocked telephone number in the days before the infamous Trump Tower meeting in June 2016, the ethical underpinnings of the Republic are in question. The finding was actually first reported by CNN and undercuts the Democrats’ theory that Donald Trump Jr. might have told his father in those phone calls about the Trump Tower meeting, which was held June 9, 2016, with a group of Russians who had offered dirt on Hillary Clinton. Democrats led by the scurrilous California Representative Adam Schiff long theorized the phone calls were between father and son and that they could have discussed the meeting. “We wanted to get the phone records to determine, was Donald Trump talking to his son about this meeting,” Schiff told CNN in November 2018. “It’s an obvious investigative step, but one the Republicans were unwilling to take because they were afraid of where the evidence might lead.” THE PHONE RECORDS SHOW that the calls were between Trump Jr. and two business associates, according to CNN. • I suppose we can now anticipate that Schiff will subpoena the two business associates to "prove" that they then talked to President Trump. • • • DEAR READERS, the Western Journal Conservative Tribune reported Thursday that the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says that when it comes to collusion with the Russians, they “don’t have anything” on the president. In an interview with CBS News, Senator Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the committee, said the panel is “close to pushing out the door” a report detailing the Obama administration’s response to Russian interference in the election. In the interview, published Thursday, Senator Burr said the report would be out in “a matter of weeks.” However, he predicted in August that the report would be out in September : “I’m not going to tell you that what we set out to do -- which was to understand what happened in ’16 -- is what’s extended the life of the investigation,” Burr said. “I think it’s a better understanding of what happened and how coordinated and organized the effort was.” • From the sound of things, the committee has found significant election interference. What it hasn’t found, however, is the Democrat mantra of Russian collusion. Senator Burr told CBS : “If we write a report based upon the facts that we have, then we don’t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the Trump campaign and Russia.” BUT, CBS took pains to bury that statement. The quote about not having “anything that would suggest there was collusion”-- which is what most other news outlets seized upon -- was in the 84th paragraph. The Conservative Tribune says : "The fact that the Senate Intelligence Committee chairman doesn’t believe there’s any evidence of collusion appeared so far down in the story that it’s within putting distance of 100 paragraphs makes this one a special kind of insanity. Just for comparison’s sake, here’s some of the information you can glean from the fourth paragraph : 'Burr, who is known in Senate hallways for his preference to go sockless and the two-fingered hook that often bears his jacket, has spoken little about the probe he leads. But he thinks deeply about how its conclusions should be presented. And he acknowledges now that the investigation is broader, and perhaps more consequential, than it has long been thought to be.' I understand that this is supposed to be a thoughtful, long-form feature piece on Burr and his committee’s investigation, but even given that form, you might want to put the fact he doesn’t think that there’s any evidence of collusion somewhere around where you say he doesn’t like wearing socks, not 80 paragraphs later....even CBS News acknowledged 'the inquiry...has been held up as the last bastion of bipartisanship in Washington.' 'Many of the connections that we’ve made are the direct result of intelligence products,' Burr told CBS. 'I think it’s safe to say we’ve interviewed people that I don’t even know if the special counsel knows about them -- but you’ve got to remember that we’re on a totally separate path than what they are.' He added that other investigators 'would’ve never had access to some of the documents that we were able to access from the intelligence community,' noting that it was 'a precedent of information-sharing that had not ever existed in the history of the country.' " • It remains to be seen what the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report will say, of course. “If the committee’s driven based upon the facts that we have at hand, I have a very difficult time understanding how you can come to two different conclusions,” Burr told CBS News. “Unless, for the first time, you let politics come into play.” • If this is the final verdict of the Senate Intelligence Committee, how different is the special counsel’s conclusion going to be? The Conservative Tribune states : "In terms of Mueller’s investigation, the big headlines have come from a phalanx of heavily armed FBI agents pulling a sexagenarian out of bed so that he could get dragged into court and charged with process crimes, only to be released later in the afternoon. While the Roger Stone indictment tried to come up with something that smelled like Russian collusion, it fell way short. Now comes the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee saying that he doesn’t see any of it, probably beating him to the anticlimactic punch. Let’s face facts : If the special counsel report amounts to nothing more than a series of vague insinuations when it comes to Russia, it will have been a dud -- and a huge waste of time, money and effort." • The voracious overreach of the radical Democrat Party in its search for power -- raw power to be used to radicalize the US and make it a socialist state -- is frightening and so anti-American as to be from another planet. The Democrats apparently didn't like President Trump calling them socialists during his State of the Union address. What else can we call them? Scum. Scurrilous Scum.