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UPDATED 11:40 AM PT — Sunday, June 16, 2019
The President called for a poll to see which media outlet is more ‘deceitful’: The New York Times or The Washington Post.
A poll should be done on which is the more
dishonest and deceitful newspaper, the Failing New York Times or the
Amazon (lobbyist) Washington Post! They are both a disgrace to our
Country, the Enemy of the People, but I just can’t seem to figure out
which is worse? The good…..
On Twitter Sunday, he said ‘they are both a disgrace to our country,
the enemy of the people, but I just can’t seem to figure out which is
worse”.
This comes after President Trump alluded to a reelection win in the
2020 presidential race, saying ‘the good news is that at the end of six
years after America has been made great again and I leave the beautiful
White House, both of these horrible papers will quickly go out of
business and be forever gone” he said on Twitter Sunday.
Plus, President Trump isn’t the only person sounding the alarm against fake media and, specifically, The New York Times.
Donald Trump junior slammed the New York Times Saturday over its
recently debunked piece on the delay of placing Harriet Tubman on the 20
dollar bill.
He said, if the publication is really a so-called ‘paper of record’
it’s only because they continue to set records for the amount of fake
news they print.
The comment refers to a Times article published Friday, which claimed
an anonymous employee at the Treasury Department said the bill’s design
was delayed for political reasons.
In fact, the bill’s release was pushed back from 2020 to 2028,
however, an agency spokesperson says that’s because Treasury Secretary,
Steven Mnuchin, is focusing on the new bill’s security features and
anti-counterfeiting measures.
Plus, The Bureau of Engraving and Printing Director, Len Olijar, also
said it takes years to finalize a redesigned bill, citing the 100
dollar note which took nearly a decade to complete in response to the
controversy.
OAN Newsroom
UPDATED 11:15 AM PT — Sunday, June 16, 2019
President Trump praises Florida Governor, Ron Desantis, on his latest state legislation, a sanctuary city ban.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just signed Bill
banning Sanctuary Cities in State, & forcing all law enforcement
agencies to cooperate with Federal Immigration authorities. Bill
prohibits local Gov’t from enacting Sanctuary policies that protect
undocumented immigrants…@FoxNews
Saturday, the President said ‘more and more states want to do this,
but their governors and leaders don’t have the courage to do so’ in a
tweet.
He went on to applaud the policy claiming, it will help put an end to illegal migration, drug trafficking, and human smuggling.
The President said more states may take notice and begin to mandate similar sanctuary bans if significant results follow.
The measure was signed off last week and its expected to take effect in July.
It will require local law enforcement to cooperate with federal border protection, ICE, agents.
Currently, Florida does not have any designated so-called ‘sanctuary
cities’, however, the measure is expected to combat the state’s city
governments which have reportedly protected undocumented immigrants from
deportation in the past.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg doesn’t believe he’ll be the first gay president if elected in 2020.
“I would imagine we’ve probably had excellent presidents who were gay — we just didn’t know which ones,” he told “Axios on HBO.”
“I mean, statistically, it’s almost certain.”
Asked if he possibly knew which commander-in-chief was playing for
the other team, the Democratic hopeful said: “My gaydar even doesn’t
work that well in the present, let alone retroactively. But one can only
assume that’s the case.”
Buttigieg — who is mayor of South Bend, Ind. — has been rising in the polls as of late. He would be the first openly gay presidential candidate, if nominated next next year.
The 37-year-old has been asked in the past about the possibility of there ever being a gay president, with BuzzFeed posing the question back in March.
“My
gaydar is not great to begin with and definitely doesn’t work over long
stretches of time,” he repeated. “I think we’ll just have to let the
historians figure that out.”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., reflects on President
Donald Trump's statement that he would accept assistance from a foreign
power.
(AP)
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has wielded her power to quash a faction of Democrats rallying for President Trump’s
impeachment, but frustrated members within the party say the president
is one misstep away from “that dam collapsing,” according to a Sunday
report.
Since reassuming leadership over the house, Pelosi has
thwarted her party’s liberal wing from going forward with impeachment
proceedings, encouraging them to instead focus on other issues like health care.
“I don’t think there’s anything more divisive we can do than to
impeach a president of the United States, and so you have to handle it
with great care,” Pelosi told CNN on Sunday. “It has to be about the
truth and the facts to take you to whatever decision has to be there.”
Some
lawmakers say their deference to Pelosi is out of respect for the
speaker’s political expertise, and agree that impeachment would do more
harm than good.
“She
is the single smartest strategist that we’ve ever had…People are not
wanting to second guess her because she’s been right on so many fronts,”
Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., told the Washington Post.
But other Democratic lawmakers, like Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Ore., admit they toe the party line out of fear.
“One,
you want to be a team player and support the leader’s position, but
secondly you’re worried about your own self and…what can happen if you
don’t follow along,” Schrader told the paper.
Some argue that
President Trump’s defiance of congressional investigators will
eventually break the divide between moderate Democrats and its liberal
wing.
Rep.
Gerald E. Connolly, D-Va., described Pelosi’s hold over Democrats as
“fragile” because “we’re kind of one event, one piece of explosive
testimony, one action by Trump away from that dam collapsing.”
The Democrats’ pro-impeachment camp howled this week after Trump said in an interview with ABC
that he’d be willing to listen if a foreign government had dirt on an
opponent. Yet despite the familiar refrain of impeachment, Pelosi didn’t
budge an inch on impeachment after Trump’s comments. Fox News' Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani pose for a photo prior to their talks on a sideline of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Friday,
June 14, 2019. Rouhani has called for closer cooperation between Tehran
and Moscow amid rising regional tensions. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik,
Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
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UPDATED 11:01 AM PT — Saturday, June 15, 2019
Tension surrounding Iran continues to rise after the nation makes its latest threat toward global powers. Speaking from a conference in Central Asia, Iranian President Hassan
Rouhani said, it is ‘necessary’ that all sides of the 2015 nuclear pact
show ‘positive signals’ to Iran. Rouhani said they will continue to digress and ultimately withdraw
from the international nuclear pact unless signatories take action to
restore relations. Since the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018, Russia,
China, Britain, France and Germany are the only remaining partners to
the pact. In response Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will double down
on his commitments to Iran and urged other signatories to do the same. ‘Everyone is concerned about the state of the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action to Iran’s nuclear program. The U.S. leaving this
agreement has significantly unraveled its execution. We believe the only
sensible decision is for all deal participants to honor their
commitments. This is what Russia intends to do’ Putin said. Iran did not specify what actions it will take or say what ‘positive signals’ it expects to see from its global partners.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., believes a push for President Trump's impeachment by congressional Democrats will only lead to his re-election.
"To
my Democratic colleagues in the House, if you bring impeachment after
[Special Counsel Robert] Mueller issued his report ... then it's going
to blow up in your face," Graham told Fox News' Jeanine Pirro on
Saturday's installment of "Justice with Judge Jeanine."
"You're being unfair to the president and he's going to get re-elected," he said.
When asked about escalating tensions with Iran, Graham praised Trump for pulling out of the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal and for applying sanctions against the country.
He
urged the president to stand tough and not let Iran flex its muscle
over the Strait of Hormuz, an international shipping gateway between the
Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. The waterway separates Iran and the
United Arab Emirates and is 21 miles across at its narrowest point.
The
strait is critical to the oil industry, with it being used to ship more
than 22 million barrels of oil and products per day in the first half
of 2018.
"To President Trump, do not let them take over the Strait
of Hormuz," Graham said. "Keep the pressure on and if they continue to
do this, sink their navy like Ronald Reagan did back in the '80s."
Iran threatened to close the strait earlier this year and the U.S. blamed the country for attacks on two oil tankers
in the Gulf of Oman earlier this week. Graham touted Trump's
confrontational style of diplomacy, saying it has yielded positive
results.
"He has put Iran on the run. He's taken on China. He's
got [Venezuelan President Nicolas] Maduro on the ropes," Graham said. "I
love this man's foreign policy."
Some Republicans
in Congress on Friday reintroduced a proposal calling for a ban on
burning the American flag – and they’ve already won an endorsement from President Trump.
“All
in for Senator Steve Daines as he proposes an Amendment for a strong
BAN on burning our American Flag. A no brainer!,” the president wrote in
a Twitter message Saturday.
The proposal is being sponsored in the Senate by Sens. Steve Daines of Montana and Kevin Cramer of North Dakota and in the House by Rep. Steve Womack of Arkansas.
It calls for the U.S. Constitution to be amended so Congress would have
“constitutional authority to ban the desecration of the United States
flag.”
“The American Flag is a symbol of freedom – and it should always be protected,” Daines wrote Friday.
Added Cramer: “A flag worth dying for is a flag worth protecting.”
“Adding
a Constitutional amendment to protect this symbol of freedom and
liberty is not an attack on another Constitutional amendment,” he
continued, “rather, it is an affirmation of the unifying principles our
nation stands for.”
The
amendment would be necessary because the Supreme Court has ruled in the
past that flag-burning is a form of free speech protected by the First
Amendment.
The new proposal was reintroduced Friday, which was Flag Day – and coincidentally President Trump’s 73rd birthday.
Critics on social media were quick to attack the proposal. Here are some samples:
According to the Washington Times,
amendments can be added to the Constitution if two-thirds of both the
House and Senate agree on a proposal and then three-fourths of the
states ratify it, or if two-thirds of state legislatures call a
convention to propose changes to the Constitution, and then
three-fourths of the states ratify the change.
Sponsors of legal immigrants
to the United States received word Friday that they’ll be on the hook
“for every dollar” if those immigrants end up receiving welfare funds or
other public support instead of earning a living and paying taxes.
The message came Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia
state attorney general who last week became acting director of U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) following his appointment
by President Trump.
“If
the sponsored immigrant receives any federal means-tested public
benefits, the sponsor will be expected to reimburse the
benefits-granting agency for every dollar of benefits received by the immigrant,” Cuccinelli wrote in a USCIS memo.
“If
the sponsored immigrant receives any federal means-tested public
benefits, the sponsor will be expected to reimburse the
benefits-granting agency for every dollar of benefits received by the
immigrant.” — Ken Cuccinelli, acting director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
'Enforceable contract'
In
addition, the same message instructed agents who work for USCIS to
remind applicants and sponsors that “the Affidavit of Support is a legal
and enforceable contract between the sponsor and the federal
government.”
Ken Cuccinelli, a former Virginia state attorney general, is now
acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
(Associated Press)
According to Cuccinelli, all federal agencies dealing
with immigration issues will be working to update or initiate
procedures and regulations to make sure that immigrants who are
ineligible for public benefits do not receive them, in accordance with a
May 23 directive from the president.
“The
President has made it a priority to ensure that every individual who
seeks to come to the United States is self-sufficient, temporarily or
permanently,” Cuccinelli wrote.
“The principle of self-sufficiency has been enshrined in our
immigration laws since the 1800s, and we as an agency must ensure that
immigrants who become part of this great country abide by this
principle.”
“The President has made it a priority to
ensure that every individual who seeks to come to the United States is
self-sufficient, temporarily or permanently.” — Ken Cuccinelli, acting director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Cuccinelli
took over at USCIS last Monday, coming to the job with a reputation as a
hardliner on immigration issues. For example, he has been an advocate
for denying citizenship to American-born children of parents living in
the U.S. illegally and for limiting in-state tuition at public
universities to citizens or legal residents.
He replaced Lee Francis Cissna, who reportedly had lost President Trump’s confidence.
Critical of McConnell, others in GOP
But Trump likely named Cuccinelli an acting director because his chances of winning Senate confirmation were said to be slim, Roll Call reported.
The
outspoken Cuccinelli, as president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a
political action committee that has opposed many incumbent Republicans,
has been critical of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and others
in the GOP. “Mitch
McConnell has filled the Senate with people like Lisa Murkowski, John
McCain, Shelley Moore Capito, Lamar Alexander and Dean Heller who all
promised the voters they would repeal Obamacare, but when the time came
to do it they refused,” Cuccinelli wrote in an August 2017 fundraising
memo, according to Roll Call. “Instead of admitting his mistake,
McConnell is blaming the President for having ‘excessive expectations’
even though he was the one who set those expectations with years of
empty promises!”
Trump’s appointment of Cuccinelli came as the
president is dealing with a growing crisis as tens of thousands of
Central American migrants cross the U.S.-Mexico border each month,
overwhelming the system, and he has struggled to deliver on his
signature issue of reduced immigration and tighter border security. Fox News’ Andrew O’Reilly and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
