Subpoena-Crazed House Democrats Are on the March Like a Mass of Army Ants Looking for Food

DEMOCRAT SUBPOENA SYNDROME IS CONTAGIOUS. Even one Fake Republican has caught it. About the only thing connected to President Trump that the Insane Democrats haven't subpoenaed is the US economy -- but they probably have their Fake Go-To for all things constitutional Jerry Nadler and his Non-Intelligence Committee comrade Adam Schiff, working on that, too. The economic news is so good that Democrats are forced into another Fake news fantasy -- that the Trump Economic miracle is really Obama's doing -- but that lacks the soundbite sex appeal of a subpoena. • CNBC reported last Friday that the US added 263,000 new hires in April, "easily beating Wall Street expectations of 190,000." The unemployment rate fell to 3.6% vs. 3.8% expected and "the lowest since December 1969"....The US jobs machine "kept humming along in April, adding a robust 263,000 new hires while the unemployment rate fell to 3.6%, the lowest in a generation, according to a Labor Department report Friday"....Unemployment was last this low in December 1969 when it hit 3.5%....the economic expansion is just a few months away from being the longest in history. The unemployment rate for Asians fell sharply, plunging from 3.1% to 2.2%." The President tweeted : "we can all agree that AMERICA is now #1. We are the ENVY of the WORLD -- and the best is yet to come!' as he re-tweeted a Drudge Report headline...Hispanic Unemployment Lowest Ever...Best for women since 1953...Record jobs even for high school dropouts!" • • • THE PRESIDENT IS REMINDING NORTH KOREA WHO'S THE BOSS MAN. Fox News reported on Thursday that a Korean ship used to illicitly transport coal was seized over a sanctions violation. Katherine Lam wrote : "A North Korean cargo vessel used to transport coal was seized in violation of international sanctions against the rogue regime, the US Justice Department announced Thursday, just hours after the hermit kingdom fired two suspected short-range missiles.The vessel, called the Wise Honest, is one of North Korea’s largest bulk carriers used to illicitly ship coal from North Korea and deliver heavy machinery to the Hermit Kingdom, officials said. US Attorney Geoffrey Berman said this is the first time a North Korean cargo ship was seized for violating international sanctions. 'This sanctions-busting ship is now out of service,' Assistant Attorney General Demers said in a news release. 'North Korea, and the companies that help it evade US and UN sanctions, should know that we will use all tools at our disposal -- including a civil forfeiture action such as this one or criminal charges -- to enforce the sanctions enacted by the US and the global community.' " The ship is in US custody as of Thursday. • Berman said Thursday that Kim's regime was evading sanctions by “concealing” Wise Honest’s origin. Fox News reported that : "The ship was used by Korea Songi Shipping Company between November 2016 and April 2018 to export coal from North Korea in exchange for machinery, court documents stated. Those who worked with the company would allegedly then lie about the origin of the vessel and where the coal came from. 'We are willing and able to deploy the full array of law enforcement tools to detect, deter, and prosecute North Korea’s deceptive attempts to evade sanctions,' Berman said. The shipping company would pay for repairs and equipment using US dollars through 'unwitting' US financial institutions. Foreign maritime authorities intercepted a coal shipment in April 2018, court documents stated, and officials later discovered more than $750,000 in payments were made through American banks." • Fox News also reported that on Thursday, "at least one projectile the Hermit Kingdom launched was from the Sino-ri area of North Pyongan province, an area known to have one of North Korea's oldest missile bases where a brigade operates mid-range Rodong missiles, South Korea's military said, adding later that there were two launches from the nearby town of Kusong. The town is the same location where North Korea conducted its first successful flight tests of its Hwasong-12 intermediate-range missile and Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, both in 2017. The US Air Force on Thursday also tested a Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missile from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as part of a scheduled ICBMs test. Officials said the launch was unrelated to current events." President Trump told reporters at the White House on Thursday that "nobody's happy" about the recent rocket launches. He added that "we're looking" at the situation "very seriously right now." • James Carafano, vice president of foreign and defense policy studies at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News on Thursday : “If your negotiating strategy with North Korea is based on knowing what the North Koreans are thinking, you are going to fail.” Carafano says the regime remains as "inscrutable and opaque as ever." But, Carafano said : "The Trump administration has to ask itself what to make of Pyongyang’s recent series of provocative actions, including another missile test. Believe it or not, though, the best answer might be : Why does it matter? On the surface, these actions seem to be finely calibrated. They’re provocative enough to get Washington’s attention, but not threatening enough to provoke a strong US response. The DPRK may still be clinging to the belief that Trump needs a deal for his re-election. It might be hoping these actions will cause him to come scurrying back to placate them. Certainly, North Korean officials feel their demonstrations are putting pressure on the South Koreans. President Moon’s popularity is declining. Perhaps they think he will do more to pressure the US to take off, well, some of the pressure. All of this, of course, should be taken simply as speculation. No one is living rent-free in the leader of North Korea’s head. Kim has his own ideas about how to deal with the West. That’s why from the start, Trump’s pressure campaign and reliance on deterrence and missile defense made sense. The US strategy protects us and our allies. We’re not dependent on Kim’s course to protect our vital interests. Thus, the most important step to take in response to Kim’s latest steps is to keep the pressure on. Wisely, that’s what the administration looks to be doing." Carafano adds : " It’s also understandable that Trump insists on leaving the way for negotiations to denuclearization open. That’s a deal worth having. The US loses little by keeping the diplomacy option open. Further, despite all the doubters and the apoplectic press in Korea and the US, the fact remains that the allies are standing together. Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo are of one mind on the ultimate goal here. The US also isn’t complacently waiting. Washington has an ongoing initiative; they just aren’t telling us what it is. Meanwhile, the Japanese prime minister, with US backing, has also agreed to meet with Kim. The smart play now for the US is don’t panic. Keep up the pressure campaign. This not only sends a strong signal to North Korea but also a message to Iran as well : The US won’t concede something for nothing, least of all when the other side pitches a fit." • • • NOW, ABOUT THESE SUBPOENA-CRAZY DEMOCRATS. James Carafano's advice about President Trump "not conceding something for nothing when the other side pitches a fit" is sound advice in dealing with wild-eyed half-crazed House Democrats waving subpoenas for anything 'Trump' that moves. • While the House testimony of special counsel Robert Mueller is not set yet, the ProgDems seem to have moved on. Perhaps, someone got through to their brain-challenged leaders that Attorney General Barr, and possibly President Trump, are legally entitled to make that call. So -- why bother with Mueller -- just get President Trump to say 'No' and Fake constitutional lawyer Jerry Nadler can find an open TV mic and ominously proclaim "We have a constitutional crisis." • CNBC reported on Sunday that President Trump said the special counsel "shouldn’t testify before Congress about his findings in the Russia probe." But, the President didn't say "No" -- and neither has AG Barr -- yet. CNBC said : "There have been growing calls for Mueller to testify after it was revealed he wrote Barr a letter complaining about the attorney general’s summary of the special counsel’s investigation, which was sent to Congress and later released to the public. In his letter, Mueller said Barr’s summary 'did not fully capture the context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions' and had caused 'public confusion about critical aspects of the results.' The attorney general has also refused to turn over to Congress notes from a phone call he had with Mueller about Barr’s summary of the Russia probe. • Jerry Nadler and Adam Schiff haven't subpoenaed the Barr phone call notes, undoubtedly because AG Barr would come withthe notes, and Barr has already badly beaten up "Constitutional Jerry" once. • • • DONALD TRUMP JR. SUBPOENAED -- BU GOP SENATRO BURR. Even Nadler and Schiff know they can't subpoena the President -- so their attention apparently turned to the Presidnet's oldest son, Donald Trump Jr. BUT, a Fake Republican in the Senate beat them to Don Jr., reports Newsmax. Acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney said Wednesday he didn't know that Don Jr. had been subpoenaed -- NOT BY THE HOUSE DEMOCRATS but by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, and he thinks it was "bad form" that he didn't get a warning : "I have no opinion about that because he is a private citizen and not a member of the administration," Mulvaney told CBS News' Major Garrett. "I have no difficulty with bipartisanship, but to subpoena the President of the United States' son and not at least get a heads-up, I thought was -- let's say bad form." Mulvaney added that he has no idea whether Trump knew his son was being subpoenaed, and that the President left for Florida for his Wednesday rally before the news broke. Newsmax said that : "Mulvaney told Garrett he doesn't know what the allegations involve, and that he knows just from media reports that it 'deals with a Trump Tower discussion or something like that.' " • BizPac Review wrote on Thursday that : "Republicans en masse, from those in Congress to those among the populace, reacted with fury Wednesday after reports broke that the GOP-led Senate Intelligence Committee had subpoenaed President Donald Trump’s eldest son to testify again in regard to alleged Russian collusion. 'Apparently the Republican chair of the Senate Intel Committee didn’t get the memo from the Majority Leader that this case was closed,' Senator Rand Paul tweeted Wednesday afternoon....Other Republicans have expressed the same sentiment, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Representative Lee Zeldin, and former Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson. McCarthy tweeted : '@DonaldJTrumpJr has already spent dozens of hours testifying in front of Congressional committees. Endless investigations -- by either party -- won’t change the fact that there was NO collusion. It’s time to move on. It’s time to focus on ISSUES, not investigations. https://t.co/fbFH5uMLUz— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) May 8, 2019.' Lee Zeldin tweeted : 'Weak & ridiculous for Senate to perpetuate the Russia Collusion Delusion by continuing to harass @DonaldJTrumpJr. They should NOT be taking orders from unhinged resistance Dems. Let’s work together to help POTUS move US forward. https://t.co/wSaHkEpqep— Lee Zeldin (@RepLeeZeldin) May 9, 2019.' • BizPac Review qrote : "It’s unclear why Senate Intelligence Committee chair Richard Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, continues to obsess over the Russian collusion delusion conspiracy theory (or coup). What’s known is that Senate Democrats have been pestering 'congressional committees to review the testimony of key witnesses such as [Donald] Trump Jr. to determine if their answers matched the findings of the Mueller report,' as reported by TheHill. But why wouldn’t his prior testimony match the findings? Better yet, suppose his testimony differs from what the special counsel found. Wouldn’t Mueller, who spent years thoroughly investigating the whole matter, have noticed? Or do Democrats now think that he, their former hero, is a dunce?" • Why GOP Senator Burr has chosen to "indulge their illogical demands remains unknown, though some have speculated it’s because he’s not really a Republican but rather a 'Republican in Name Only'. Sebastian Gorka tweeted : "Why is cowardly RINO @Senatorburr helping Resistance Dems continue Russia hoax by subpoenaing @DonaldJTrumpJr? Don was cleared by the Mueller Investigation & has already testified 20+ hours in front of Congress. The Senate GOP should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this. pic.twitter.com/qNDWyPv40J— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) May 9, 2019." Dan Bongino was blunt : "Richard Burr is not a Republican. He registers as one, and he runs for office as one, but the reality is that he’s nothing more than a weak tool for the Democrats to use as they see fit. Few 'Republican' politicians have done as much damage to conservatives as this joker. — Dan Bongino (@dbongino) May 8, 2019." • Senator Burr's anti-Trump stance has included subpoenaing General Michael Flynn and calling James Comey “one of the most ethical & upright individuals.” Burr appears to be the only Republican incapable of letting go of the Russian collusion delusion. Only days after the conclusion of Mueller’s investigation in late March, he subpoenaed former Trump campaign advisor Sam Nunberg, spurring confusion from Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who said to Nunberg : “It’s shocking, I think, to most of us who thought that the core of this story -- the question of Russian collusion -- was settled by the most elaborate investigation in my lifetime, that the Republican chairman of a Senate committee would be issuing a subpoena to you about your contacts with Roger Stone as if anyone could care, or would have reason to care.” • Tucker Carlson was also all over GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell : "The only so-called Republican who hasn’t responded to Burr’s antics is the grand poobah himself, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. [McConnell's] donors aren’t pleased. What Burr’s doing isn’t just a slap in the face to the President and his family, its a slap in the face to Americans across the country,' one of his top donors said in a statement to Breitbart. It’s incumbent that Leader McConnell steps up to the plate and strips Senator Burr’s Chairmanship of the Intel Committee. If he refuses to do that, then he shoulders just as much blame for this travesty of justice as the Senator from North Carolina.” • BUT, so far, Mitch is playing "Silent Cal" -- saying nothing. • As for Trump Jr., a source reportedly close to him complained to the media that he’s “a private citizen” and noted that he’s also delivered “eight to nine hours of testimony in front of the Senate.” The source told BizPac Review : “Don continues to cooperate by producing documents and is willing to answer written questions, but no lawyer would ever agree to allow their client to participate in what is an obvious PR stunt from a so-called ‘Republican’ senator too cowardly to stand up to his boss Mark Warner and the rest of the resistance Democrats on the committee.” • Mark Warner is the Democrat vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. • • • The Washington Times reported on Wednesday that a "Constitutional crisis" looms as partisan warfare over the Mueller report escalates. The Washington Times said on Wednesday : "President Trump asserted executive privilege Wednesday to block Democrats from obtaining the full special counsel’s report, and the House retaliated by taking the first step to hold Attorney General William P. Barr in contempt of Congress as the clash neared the realms of a 'constitutional crisis.' Mr. Trump’s assertion of privilege came after negotiations over access to special counsel Robert Mueller’s work broke down late Tuesday. The Justice Department said it expects eventually to narrow its objections, but for now it’s asserted privilege over everything, giving the President time and space to make more careful determinations." White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said : "Faced with Chairman Nadler’s blatant abuse of power, and at the attorney general’s request, the President has no other option than to make a protective assertion of executive privilege." • And, then came those Fake constitutional proclamations of Jerry Nadler : "This decision represents a clear escalation in the Trump administration’s blanket defiance of Congress’s constitutionally mandated duties. We are now in a constitutional crisis." • The Washington Times reported that Nadler's first action Wednesday was to lead his committee in reprimanding Barr. "The panel voted 24-16 along party lines to recommend contempt proceedings to the whole House that will have the final vote. If the House vote is successful, Barr would become only the second attorney general to be held in contempt. The first was Obama's Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. who, like Barr, refused to turn documents over to the House -- at that time, led by the GOP. At stake is the release of the unredacted version of Mueller’s 448-page report and reams of supporting documents Mueller compiled. House Democrats said they wanted it all and issued a subpoena weeks ago demanding access. They say the material is crucial to their investigative powers and to determine whether impeachment is warranted. AG Barr has released a somewhat redacted version publicly and made a less-redacted version available to 12 members of Congress. That version includes information shielded from the public because of ongoing investigations, privacy concerns and classified information. BUT, it does not include information Mueller gleaned from a grand jury, which Attorney General Barr says he cannot turn over without breaking the law. 'As we have repeatedly explained, the attorney general could not comply with your subpoena in its current form without violating the law, court rules, and court orders, and without threatening the independence of the Department of Justice’s prosecutorial functions,' Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote in a letter to the Judiciary Committee. Democrats accuse Mr. Barr of concealing information to protect the President." • Nadler has already made one concession that reflects his awareness that his subpoena overstepped legal boundaries. Nadler said his subpoena "wasn’t intended to include grand jury information, which is protected under Rule 6 of the federal rules of criminal procedure." Nadler said : “The subpoena was never intended to cover Rule 6E, which is why we asked the attorney general to go to court get permission to view 6E material. It was never intended to put him in jeopardy.” • Representative Jim Jordan says of the Nadler ploy : "Bill Barr is following the law and what’s his response? Democrats are going to hold him in contempt. I think it’s all about trying to destroy Bill Barr because Democrats are nervous that he’s going to get to the bottom of everything.” • The Washington Times says that : "One Democrat explicitly admitted impeaching is the goal of accessing the full Mueller report. “How can we impeach without getting the documents?” asked Rep. Hank Johnson, Georgia Democrat." • The irony is that if Democrat leaders have enough votes to approve the contempt resolution when it reaches the House floor, Congress would need the Justice Department to enforce a criminal contempt citation, and it’s unlikely any US attorney would pursue that case against his or her boss, AG Barr. Holder’s Justice Department refused to prosecute him in 2012. In the Holder instance, the House sued, asking a federal judge to step in and force compliance with its document subpoena. The case lasted years before a judge rejected the contempt citation, but did order the Justice Department to turn over some documents that weren’t protected by executive privilege. • House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler is asking Attorney General William Barr to break the law, says House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy said Tuesday that he is beginning to doubt whether Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler is qualified to hold his position : "If you look at what Nadler's actions have been, you question even his ability to be a chairman." • AND, to bolster the Nadler fiasco, the Washington Times says : "House intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff issued a subpoena Wednesday demanding to see special counsel Robert Mueller’s full report and his supporting evidence, adding a new wrinkle to the ongoing battle. Mr. Schiff announced the subpoena just hours after [Nadler's] Judiciary Committee began contempt proceedings against Attorney General William P. Barr for not turning over the full Mueller report and backing evidence to them." Schiff suggested his request could be more powerful because he said his committee has powers to see secret information, including things collected by a grand jury that might normally be shielded by law." BUT, the same day Schiff issued his subpoena for the full Mueller report and grand jury notes, Nadler had already backed off his insistence for grand jury information. • Speaker Pelosi -- are you doing ANYTHING to keep your herd of subpoena-crazed members under control ??? • • • THE ROOTS AND LEADERS OF THE GET-TRUMP CABAL. On Monday, John Scotto asked in an American Thinker article "When Will Trump Finally Drop the Hammer on the Deep State?" Scotto wrote : "It should be quite interesting to finally see how deep and wide this corruption seeped into our government. Every concerned citizen should demand to know if the leftist media and certain members within the higher echelons of our government were colluding with each other to take down President Trump. How many leaks were carried out in full coordination by those within the media and those within the various US intelligence agencies? A nefarious plot orchestrated by the various Washington DC swamp creatures, all those involved who seemed to have had a politically motivated agenda of preventing Trump from becoming President. And then after he was elected, they all continued to go out of their way to remove Trump from office, by any means necessary. This attempted COUP appeared to be something so unimaginable, one might safely assume it could only be manufactured in some sort of a spy novel. We as Americans need to fully comprehend the seriousness of this matter. If this DC cabal could do this to a duly elected President of the United States, what could they do to you or me? How dangerous can rogue actors within a corrupt government become when they have unfettered access to highly sophisticated surveillance tools? What happens when deceitful men in power weaponize these tools for political purposes? Do we all wish to exist in a society where unelected government bureaucrats and heavily biased leftist 'journalists' take it upon themselves to have a desired effect upon a presidential election and overrun the will of the American people? Were these people so arrogant and brazen to surmise they knew better than the American people?" • Scotto states: "This country needs to get to the bottom of how this nightmare all started. We have to find out who was responsible for putting these corrupt wheels of injustice into full motion. If it leads all the way to the top and Barack Obama, so be it. What did Obama know and when did President Obama know it? And if he did know, to what extent was he involved? All those who participated in this malfeasance must now be held fully accountable. If these Deep State actors are found guilty, then all of these people must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This is no game; President Trump has basically been robbed of the first two years of his presidency by the corrupt people in Washington and their leftist pawns in the media. This must not stand; these corrupt politicians must not be allowed to run out the clock. There are just too many people currently awake right now thirsting for the truth. We are all champing at the bit to finally see Trump declassify all the pertinent documents regarding this attempted coup. Could this necessary declassification be only weeks away? The Summer of 2019 will soon become a defining moment within our lifetime; what will soon be revealed probably will shake the collective soul of this nation. Will we all finally see the truth regarding the attempted coup d'état against President Trump? Or, by contrast, will we continue to see more endless and unwarranted investigations by the Democrats and their propagandists within the leftist media? The aftermath of the Summer of 2019 should tell us a great deal about what we have left in our souls as human beings and whether or not our nation still adheres to the rule of law. Hopefully, reality will finally TRUMP the last two years of leftist fairy tales. President Trump must finally declassify all the pertinent documents regarding this attempted coup d'état against him. It is time to declassify and let justice roll." • • • DEAR READERS, Patricia McCarthy has the last word for today : "The first known use of the phrase "man's inhumanity to man" is in a poem by Robert Burns in 1784....Watching and enduring the Democrats' venomous drive to destroy President Trump brings the phrase to mind. They are characterized by an infantile inability to accept the results of the 2016 election. From the moment Trump became the nominee, they set out to wreak havoc on his candidacy, then his presidency, his life, and his family. Without even the hint of a crime committed, they set in motion an 'investigation' that was really an attempted coup -- not an investigation at all, just a means to a desired end. The entire Democratic Party early on decided to jump on the collusion bandwagon, invented by the Clintons and a group of unelected, pompous individuals within the DOJ, FBI, and CIA. So, shocked and offended by Hillary's loss, they set out to ramp up the illegal spying they had begun in July 2016, perhaps even earlier, to destroy his candidacy. Once he won, they escalated their scheme in hopes of preventing his inauguration. Failing that, they continued their concocted 'collusion with Russia' plan. Robert Mueller most likely knew on day one of his appointment as a special counsel that there had been no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. That is how disingenuous he was and is. His job was to cover up the illegal surveillance that had already occurred and, at the same time, find a way to cement in the public's mind that such collusion had taken place. This was the level of inhumanity to which the left was willing to go to dislodge Trump from office. Words cannot adequately describe the shame of their attempt to overthrow a duly elected President and their contempt for those who voted for the man." • Patricia McCarthy says : "The Democrats in Congress now realize that the jig may be up, that the hoax is about to be revealed to all. IG Horowitz and AG Barr are on the case. But their two-year, multi-million-dollar attempt to unseat a President has done irreparable damage to the nation, to the numerous people they bankrupted and charged with process crimes, to the presidency, and to the Trump family. They should be ashamed, but they are not. They are doubling down on stupid. Let us hope the nation can recover from this long national nightmare the Democrats have visited upon us. In the end, 'Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn.' Indeed, it does. • And, the swaggering subpoena-crazed House Democrats keep on coming -- like a mass of army ants on the march looking for food. They have to be stopped before they devour President Trump and America. We have no other option.