The Democrat's Get-Trump Cabal Is Re-forming in Congress, But This Time, the President Has the Facts He Needs to Fight Back

THE WAR BETWEEN AMERICA -- SPELLED TRUMP -- AND THE RADICAL PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT PARTY IS HEATING UP FOR A SECOND ROUND. But, this time, the playing field has been leveled by all the facts produced by people like Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows, and by the inept Democrats themselves, who cannot seem to get their story right, even with help from the $25 million Fake investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and his band of Obama-freak lawyers. So, hang on because here we go again. • • • WHAT ATTACKS IS PRESIDENT TRUMP ENDURING NOW? Here are some examples. • TheHill reported on Wednesday that : "Attorney General William Barr is scheduled to testify next Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Barr, who released a redacted version of Mueller's report on Russian interference last week, is slated to appear before the committee on May 1 at 10 a.m. The appearance will give lawmakers an opportunity to grill Barr on Mueller's findings as well as his handling of the special counsel's final report. The attorney general is also expected to testify before the House Judiciary Committee the following day. Barr's appearances before the committees have been planned for weeks. The attorney general agreed to testify on those dates before the Mueller report was released, though the Senate panel has now put his testimony on its schedule." As TheHill points out, AG Barr has faced "widespread criticism from Democrats over his decision to hold a press conference to discuss Mueller's findings before releasing the actual report." TheHill states that the Democrats "accuse him of mischaracterizing the special counsel's initial findings in a letter sent to Congress earlier this month, triggering questions about his credibility. Barr is also certain to be pressed by Democratic lawmakers over his decision to not bring forward an obstruction of justice charge against President Trump, in light of the evidence of obstruction that Mueller laid out in the report." What TheHill does not say is that this round of Barr testimony is part of the Democrat effort to smear Bill Barr. And, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, led Chairman Lindsey Graham, are sure to take the Barr appearance in another direction -- how the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into potential election interference by Russia began. TheHill says : "Barr, during his testimony before Congress earlier this month, said that he wants to review that investigation, claiming that he thought there may have been 'spying' on the Trump campaign. Graham, along with other Trump allies on Capitol Hill, has said that he too would like to investigate how that counterintelligence probe was conducted. Democrats have also seized on the attorney general's 'spying' comments to argue that he is staging a defense of the President, rather than acting as head of the Justice Department." Obviously, the Democrats have short memories -- AG Eric holder, as we noted in yesterday's blog, called Obama "my boy" and ended by being held in contempt of Congress. AND, we saw how well AG Barr handled the House committee appearance before the Mueller report was released, and there is no doubt that he will be ready for the Democrat enslaught next week. Apparently, even the dull-witted Democrats, including House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerry Nadler, have seen Barr as a deadend for their latest witch hunt, so they are now demanding that Robert Mueller himself testify before their committees. TheHill reminds us that "Barr says that he would allow Mueller to testify, but neither the Justice Department nor the special counsel himself have said if it would happen." • CNBC reported on Monday that : "House Judiciary Committee Chairman Representative Jerry Nadler of New York on Monday announced that he had issued a subpoena to former White House counsel Donald McGahn seeking testimony and documents related to the committee’s investigation into potential obstruction of justice by President Donald Trump. The subpoena comes days after a partially redacted copy of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was released to the public. The documents requested cover a wide range of topics, including those related to the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, potential pardons for Trump associates and Mueller’s alleged conflicts of interest." Nadler, a New York Democrat, stated : "Mr. McGahn is a critical witness to many of the alleged instances of obstruction of justice and other misconduct described in the Mueller report. His testimony will help shed further light on the President’s attacks on the rule of law, and his attempts to cover up those actions by lying to the American people and requesting others do the same.” Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee are not pleased with the subpoena. “For the second time in four days, the chairman has issued a subpoena prematurely and contrary to his pledge not ‘to issue a subpoena every time we have a disagreement with the administration.’” Rep. Doug Collins, the top Republican on the committee, said in a statement. “Don McGahn sat for more than 30 hours of interviews with the special counsel’s investigation, and the chairman has answered that with a stunning 36-item subpoena. Instead of looking at material that Attorney General Barr has already made available, Democrats prefer to demand additional materials they know are subject to constitutional and common-law privileges and cannot be produced.” THAT is the point for the Swamp Creature Democrats -- trap President Trump into a constitutional dog fight. The subpoena is part of the Democrat effort to make a decision on impeachment. Nadler told NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday : “Some of this would be impeachable. Obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable.” And, Pocahontas, aka Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for the Democrat Party’s nomination for president, said Friday that the House of Representatives should “initiate impeachment proceedings.” Jerry Nadler's House Judiciary Committee would initiate any impeachment proceeding. • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP NEVER RUNS AWAY FROM A FIGHT. Fox News reports : "President Trump on Wednesday vowed to fight back against congressional Democrats issuing subpoenas for administration officials, while calling their latest bid to bring in former White House Counsel Don McGahn for testimony 'ridiculous.' Departing the White House en route to a drug abuse summit in Georgia, the President was asked about the McGahn subpoena issued by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., who wants to hear from the ex-White House lawyer after he featured prominently in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report." President Trump said : "The subpoena is ridiculous....I have been the most transparent President and administration in the history of our country by far. We just went through the Mueller witch hunt where you had 18 angry Democrats, that hate President Trump...they hate him with a passion. How they picked this panel, I don’t know....no collusion and they also came up with no obstruction....I thought after two years we’d be finished with it, no -- now the House goes subpoenaing. They want to know every deal I’ve ever done.” • The Mueller Report found no collusion between the trump campaign and the Russians in the 2016 presidential campaign. But, as Fox News stated, Mueller did not come to a conclusion on the matter of whether the President obstructed justice : "...rather, the report revealed an array of controversial actions and requests made by the President that were examined as part of Mueller’s investigation’s obstruction inquiry. McGahn's interview with investigators factored prominently into this section, including a claim that McGahn disobeyed Trump's call to have him seek Mueller's removal." It was, as Fox News pointed out, "Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein [who] determined that the evidence found in the investigation was 'not sufficient' to establish an obstruction-of-justice charge. But Mueller’s report seemingly left the decision on obstruction up to Congress -- intensifying their already existing investigations into the President. [NOTE : I think Mueller was actually referring to an impeachment possibility that would have to be carried out by Congress, and did not intend to recommend that Congress decide as a separate, independent matter whether the President had "obstructed" justice. Mueller has too much legal experience to recommend a follow-up that is impossible legally.] • But Fox News separately reported on Tuesday that the White House will fight the McGahn subpoena as it resists a series of other congressional requests, and Trump's comments Wednesday pointed to a bigger battle ahead on multiple fronts. The President told the reporters on Wednesday : "We’re fighting all of the subpoenas. Look, these aren’t like, impartial people. They are Democrats trying to win in 2020....They’re not going to win against me....the only way they can luck out is by constantly going after me on nonsense.” AND, of course, the Democrats, namely Jerry Nadler, were not happy with the Preisdent's throwing down the gauntlet. Fox News reported : "Nadler slammed the administration in response to reports that they'd fight the McGahn subpoena. 'The Committee has served a valid subpoena to Mr. McGahn. We have asked him to supply documents to the Committee by May 7 and to testify here on May 21. Our request covers the subjects described by Mr. McGahn to the special counsel, and described by special counsel Mueller to the American public in his report. As such, the moment for the White House to assert some privilege to prevent this testimony from being heard has long since passed,' he said in a statement. 'I suspect that President Trump and his attorneys know this to be true as a matter of law -- and that this evening’s reports, if accurate, represent one more act of obstruction by an Administration desperate to prevent the public from talking about the President’s behavior. The Committee’s subpoena stands.' " • But, President Trump on Wednesday urged Democrats to refocus : “I say it’s enough. Get back to infrastructure, get back to cutting taxes, lowering drug prices. Really, that’s what we should be doing." The President said investigators should "litigate" and "go after" the Democratic National Committee, "crooked Hillary," and law enforcement officials who investigated his campaign : “All of these things -- that’s what should be litigated because that was a rigged system. I’m breaking down the Swamp. They’re getting caught, they’re getting fired. Who knows what’s going to happen right now but I hope it’s very strong.” • Fox News says : "The President was referring to alleged misconduct on part of the FBI and Justice Department at the beginning of the Russia investigation. Barr announced that he is reviewing that conduct, after stating that he believes 'spying did occur' on the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is also reviewing alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), and is expected to release his findings in the coming weeks." • And, Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer, went after the Clintons on Wednesday on Twitter : "@RudyGiuliani I encourage Hillary to get very involved in the 2020 election. She blew the last one for the Dems.She is working on a book called “How To Obstruct And Go Free.” And the sequel will be “How My Husband Escaped” a perjury conviction.From America’s number one crime family." Giuliani would certainly welcome another easy win for President Trump in 2020. • • HERE'S WHAT PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL RUN AGAINST IN 2020. While all the constitutional positioning continues between the White House and the Democrat majority in the House, the small army of Democrat presidential wannabes is touting what America can expect if any one of them is elected. • The Daily Caller's Peter Hasson reported on Wednesday : "Democratic presidential candidates are increasingly embracing radical policies as they jockey for position in their party’s crowded primary. Here are nine radical policies that Democratic candidates say are on the table in 2020." Here's an excerpted version of Hasson's list -- (1) Packing The Supreme Court - South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senators Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, Kamala Harris of California and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former Texas Representative Beto O’Rourke have all expressed their openness to expanding the Supreme Court, in order to counter a slim conservative majority. Left-wing activist groups have pressured Democrats to support court-packing, after they were unsuccessful in stopping Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. (2) Lowering Voting Age To 16 - Representatives Eric Swalwell of California and Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii voted for legislation in March that would have lowered the federal voting age to 16. Harris and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker both expressed openness to lowering the voting age when asked about it by The Daily Caller News Foundation in March. Harris said she is 'open to that conversation for sure,' while Booker said he hadn’t 'thought about it' but was 'willing to hear the case.' O’Rourke has also said he’s open to lowering the voting age. (3) Forcing Schools To Let Male Athletes Compete On Girls’ Teams - Booker, Buttigieg, Harris, Gabbard and Gillibrand all support the Equality Act, which would require schools to allow male athletes who identify as transgender girls to compete on female sports teams. The bill would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to make 'sexual orientation and gender identity' protected characteristics under federal anti-discrimination law. Among other things, the bill would force public schools to expand female athletic teams to include biological males who identify as transgender girls. (4) Abolishing Electoral College - Abolishing the electoral college is another idea being taken seriously by 2020 Democrats. 'Every vote matters, and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College,' Warren said in a CNN town hall in March. 'Absolutely, it’s got to go,' Buttigieg said in March when asked if he supports abolishing the electoral college. Booker expressed his support for the idea that same month. 'I believe very simply that in a presidential election the person with the most votes should be the president of the United States,' he said. 'Let’s abolish the electoral college. If we get rid of the Electoral College, we’d get a little closer to one person, one vote,' O’Rourke said on April 1. Harris said she is 'open' to the idea. Gillibrand co-sponsored a bill this month that would eliminate the electoral college. 'I believe that it’s time to get rid of the Electoral College, and I am ready to fight in Congress and around the country to pass this Constitutional Amendment to do that,' she said. (5) Killing Private Health Insurance - Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All proposal calls for eliminating private health insurance. Booker, Harris, Gillibrand and Warren have all signed onto the bill in the Senate, and Gabbard co-sponsored the House version. 'Let’s eliminate all of that. Let’s move on,' Harris said in a CNN town hall in January, referring to private health insurance. (6) Terrorists And Mass Murderers Get to Vote In Federal Elections - Sanders wants to restore voting rights not just to formerly incarcerated felons, but to currently incarcerated felons as well. That would include terrorists like the Boston bomber, rapists and other violent criminals, Sanders admitted Monday. Harris expressed her openness to the idea Monday, before later walking it back Wednesday. (7) Government Penalties For ‘Misinformation’ - New York entrepreneur Andrew Yang’s platform includes a government crackdown on online 'misinformation,' which would include penalties for media companies. Yang’s proposal would introduce 'penalties for persistent and destructive misstatements that undermine public discourse,' according to his campaign website. 'If enough citizens complain about a particular source of information and news is demonstrably and deliberately false, there should be penalties,' Yang’s website states. (8) Free College - funded by taxpayers. Warren unveiled her plan Monday to cancel student loan debt for many Americans, while making public universities tuition-free. 'Experts estimate my debt cancellation plan creates a one-time cost to the government of $640 billion,' Warren wrote in a Medium post. 'The Universal Free College program brings the total cost of the program to roughly $1.25 trillion over ten years.' Sanders, a democratic socialist, has been demanding free college for years, but Warren said her plan 'goes further' than his. (9) Wealth Confiscation - Warren wants to go beyond raising income taxes and tax Americans’ wealth - a constitutionally fuzzy proposal - in order to pay for her free college promise. Warren’s plan would levy a 2% annual wealth tax on households with a net worth over $50 million and an additional 1% tax on households with a net worth exceeding $1 billion. • There we have it -- socialists at work to make sure no conservative or Republican is ever again elected to any federal office by letting 16-year-olds and felon terrorists vote and eliminating the electoral college, the only thing that protects America from socialist mob rule. And, then, Americans -- those who are still willing or wanting to work, as Alexandria Cortez-Ocasio says -- would foot the bill for government-defined universal free medical care and free university for all so that socialist-marxist indoctrination of America's youth can go on full throttle. And, finally, the government would get to decide what "misinformation" is and who gets penalized for spreading it -- can we bet that only conservative online sites will be hauled in to face Swamp justice? That's pretty much what is happening now, isn't it? • • • DEAR READERS, while President Trump faces the latest cabal by the Swamp Creature House Democrats, he has gotten at least one unexpected, albeit temporary, victory. On April 12, Newsmax reported : "The US government can continue at least temporarily to send asylum seekers back to Mexico after President Donald Trump scored a rare ruling in his favor on Friday from the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The asylum program was set to be shut down at 8 p.m. EDT by an order issued on Monday by US District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, but the Trump administration had asked for the Court of Appeals in San Francisco to intervene. The Court of Appeals issued a two-paragraph order saying the lower court injunction was temporarily stayed while the parties prepare to submit arguments next week on the government's request for a longer stay that would remain in place for the months-long appeals process. The government told the Court of Appeals in papers filed late Thursday that the United States faced 'a humanitarian and security crisis' at the southern border and needed to the policy to deal with surging number of refugees. Seeborg had ruled on Monday the policy was contrary to US immigration law and ordered a nationwide injunction to halt the program, but delayed implementation of his order to allow the government to appeal. 'This is an interim step while the court considers the government’s stay request,' said a statement from Judy Rabinovitz, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union who represented plaintiffs in the case and who opposed the stay. Since January, the administration has sent more than 1,000 asylum seekers, mostly from Central America, back to Mexico to wait the months or years it can take to process claims through an overloaded immigration system....Trump has bristled at limits on his administration's ability to detain asylum seekers while they fight deportation, and the administration was in the midst of expanding the program when Seeborg blocked it. The 9th Circuit Court has been a frequent target for Trump's criticisms of the judicial system, which has blocked his immigration policies on numerous occasions. After Seeborg ruled on Monday, Trump tweeted : 'A 9th Circuit Judge just ruled that Mexico is too dangerous for migrants. So unfair to the US. OUT OF CONTROL!' " • And, John Brennan just will not go away. Gateway Pundit reported on April 13 that : "Former CIA Director-turned-Twitter-troll John Brennan viciously went after Trump and accused the President of being a coward who is unfit for office. Brennan got triggered after President Trump tweeted his support for dumping illegal aliens into sanctuary cities. 'Due to the fact that Democrats are unwilling to change our very dangerous immigration laws, we are indeed, as reported, giving strong considerations to placing Illegal Immigrants in Sanctuary Cities only. The Radical Left always seems to have an Open Borders, Open Arms policy -- so this should make them very happy!' Trump said in a pair of tweets Friday. Brennan attacked Trump as unfit for office and said his policies are cowardly. 'Your unfitness for office has never been more stark, your lack of humanity never more apparent, your politics never more craven, & your ultimate political ignominy never more certain,' Brennan said in a tweet....Brennan went into overdrive after Attorney General Bill Barr dropped the spying allegation bomb on the upper echelons of Obama’s intel agencies during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. Brennan ran to the hate Trump media to attack Barr and continued to spread Russia conspiracy theories. John Brennan promoted Hillary’s fraudulent Dossier then lied about it. He perjured himself in a May 2017 congressional appearance when he said that he did not include Hillary’s phony Dossier in the IC report. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton slammed Brennan’s latest attacks on Trump. 'Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on Trump help explain Obama admin’s spying abuses targeting Trump. That Judicial Watch had to file this lawsuit shows CIA has something to hide on Obama-era targeting of Trump.' Fitton said. Obama CIA Director John Brennan’s unhinged attacks on @RealDonaldTrump help explain Obama admin's spying abuses targeting Trump. That @JudicialWatch had to file this lawsuit shows CIA has something to hide on Obama-era targeting of Trump. https://t.co/qakVXgvi7Y....https://t.co/WQ3cK3kzAl — Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) April 13, 2019.' " • On Wednesday, retired US Attorney Joe diGenova said John Brennan will soon need not one but at least five lawyers because of what DiGenova sees as the coming round of "criminal referrals." But, we'll save that for tomorrow's blog.