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Judge who upheld Trump subpoena donated to Dems on committee seeking the records

The New York federal judge who ruled on Wednesday that the Trump administration must comply with two subpoenas from the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees has donated in the past to a slew of big-name Democrats -- including two who currently sit on those committees, according to federal election filings.
After an hour of oral arguments, Barack Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos ruled the subpoenas to Deutsche Bank and Capital One have "a legitimate legislative purpose," and that Trump was unlikely to prevail in a lawsuit to quash the requests. Judges have the option to recuse themselves if there is an appearance of bias.
Federal election records show that, when he was a partner at the law firm Day Pitney LLP and before he was appointed to the bench in 2011, Ramos sent $350 to Connecticut Democrat Rep. Jim Himes from 2007 to 2008, as well as $500 to elect New York Rep. Nydia Velazquez in 2010.
Himes sits on both the Intelligence and Financial Services Committees, while Velazquez sits on Financial Services.

(U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos (Federal Bar Council))

Ramos also contributed $1,000 to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's Senate campaign in 2009, another $1,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and several thousand dollars over several years to Obama for America. His political donations apparently stopped after his elevation to the judgeship, in line with ethical standards.
Trump’s lawyers had asked Ramos to temporarily block Congress from gaining access to the records. They said it was a "safe bet" they would appeal his decision.
Ramos' ruling came two days after another federal judge in Washington upheld a separate congressional subpoena seeking financial documents dating back to 2011 from Trump accounting firm Mazars USA.
That judge, Obama appointee Amit Mehta, donated to the Obama-Biden campaign in 2012.
The White House has aggressively pushed back against Democrat-led investigations in the wake of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, saying Democrats simply want a "do-over" of Mueller's lengthy investigation that ultimately found no evidence of any Trump-Russia collusion.
Trump this week blocked former White House lawyer Don McGhan, a central figure in Mueller's report, from appearing before the House Judiciary Committee.
Some congressional Republicans have also characterized the subpoenas as an abuse of authority and blasted the Trump-focused investigations.
Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, called the inquiry into Mazars USA "an unprecedented abuse of the Committee’s subpoena authority to target and expose the private financial information of the President of the United States.”
Fox News' Bill Mears contributed to this report.

Laura Ingraham blasts Pelosi as 'obsessed' with Trump, 'muttering and sputtering'

In a biting monologue Thursday night, Fox News' Laura Ingraham went after Nancy Pelosi, saying the House speaker has an "obsession" with President Trump, calling her "the leader of the do-nothing party" and questioning her mental fitness.
"Nancy Pelosi doesn't seem well," Ingraham said on "The Ingraham Angle. "The Pelosi I remember was a hard-charging California congresswoman with big, bold legislative ideas. Although Republicans opposed her Obama-era tax-and-spend, the stimulus or her ObamaCare cramdown, at least she was doing something. But now she spends her days obsessed with President Trump, muttering and sputtering,"
Ingraham mocked Pelosi, playing clips of the lawmaker from San Francisco struggling to find her thoughts at news conferences.
The back-and-forth between Trump and Pelosi continued Thursday with the speaker asking the president's family to hold an intervention with the president due to his meeting walkout Wednesday. Trump responded by saying Pelosi was "not the same person, she's lost it."
Ingraham agreed with Trump.
"Number one, when you cannot produce a coherent thought, maybe it's time to hang it up. Number two, you've had the gavel for four months and you have nothing to show for it but resistance. And number three, you as leader of the Democrats are doing a grave disservice and real damage to America by repeatedly refusing to recognize the legitimacy of the duly elected president of United States and his appointed Cabinet," Ingraham said.
Ingraham also played clips of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden struggling with his speech and implied that both Biden, 76, and Pelosi, 79, were too old to hold positions of power in the Democratic Party.
"Both Joe Biden, the 2020 front-runner, and Speaker Pelosi are not just out of step for the American people on key issues, to watch and to observe them, we see that they have lost a step or two or three. Period," Ingraham said.
"They look like they belong in commercials for Visiting Angels. They shouldn't have their hands on any levers of power. Stay away. Yesterday she seemed to struggle with the whole subject-verb-direct-object thing."
Visiting Angels is a senior home care provider.

Henry Kissinger assesses Trump's 'Deal of the Century' for Mideast, praises Israeli PM

Remember Him?

Famed former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will mark his 96th birthday Monday, but he hasn't retired from sharing his insights on global affairs.
At a gathering in Washington last week, Kissinger spoke about the Trump administration’s upcoming Middle East peace plan, dubbed the “Deal of the Century.”
Other veteran diplomats in attendance included national security adviser John Bolton and former Israeli ambassador Zalman Shoval.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addresses the Senate Armed Services Committee, Jan. 25, 2018, with former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz in the background. (Associated Press)

Both Kissinger and Shoval reportedly spoke about the Middle East peace plan, set to be unveiled in Bahrain in June.
Kissinger -- who served as secretary of state and national security adviser under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- went on to praise Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he “correctly analyzes the situation."

"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu correctly analyzes the situation."
— Henry Kissinger

The first part of the Trump plan, which has been two years in the making, will be revealed June 25-26 during a conference that will bring together government and business leaders from around the world in a bid to increase investment in the Palestinian economy.
The conference won’t be addressing the most contentious parts of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians -- such as borders, the status of Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees and Israel’s security.

In a statement with Bahrain, the White House said the June workshop will give government, civil and business leaders a chance to gather support for economic initiatives that could be possible with a peace agreement.
The U.S. hopes Arab countries will invest in Palestinian territories, fix crumbling infrastructure and support other industrial projects in an effort to convince the leadership to accept the peace plan.
“The Palestinian people, along with all people in the Middle East, deserve a future with dignity and the opportunity to better their lives,” Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, said in a statement Sunday.
“Economic progress can only be achieved with a solid economic vision and if the core political issues are resolved.”

Trump gives AG Barr authority to declassify documents related to 2016 campaign surveillance

President Trump on Thursday night issued a memo giving Attorney General William Barr the authority to declassify any documents related to surveillance of the Trump campaign in 2016.
Trump also ordered the intelligence community to cooperate with Barr. The memo read: "The heads of elements of the intelligence community... and the heads of each department or agency that includes an element of the intelligence community shall promptly provide such assistance and information as the Attorney General may request in connection with that review."
"Today, at the request and recommendation of the Attorney General of the United States, President Donald J. Trump directed the intelligence community to quickly and fully cooperate with the Attorney General’s investigation into surveillance activities during the 2016 Presidential election," White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
"The Attorney General has also been delegated full and complete authority to declassify information pertaining to this investigation, in accordance with the long-established standards for handling classified information. Today’s action will help ensure that all Americans learn the truth about the events that occurred, and the actions that were taken, during the last Presidential election and will restore confidence in our public institutions."
In a Twitter message late Thursday, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani defended the president's action.
"The President @realDonaldTrump made a wise decision to let AG Barr on the documents," Giuliani wrote. "I don’t know for sure but I seriously doubt there’s any national security concern but some of it could affect pending investigations. I’m sure AG and DOJ will make a very appropriate decision."
U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, blasted the move as an attempt to "weaponize law enforcement and classified information."
Trump claims his campaign was the victim of "spying," though the intelligence community has insisted it acted lawfully in following leads in the Russia investigation.
The president had told Fox News earlier in May that he would allow declassification "soon." He elaborated, "I didn’t want to do it originally because I wanted to wait, because I know what they -- you know I’ve seen the way they play.  They play very dirty."
Last month, Barr ran into a buzz saw of criticism from Democratic lawmakers and media figures for testifying that “spying did occur” against the Trump campaign in 2016. But despite the backlash, Barr appeared to be referring to intelligence collection that already has been widely reported and confirmed.
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page are currently the subject of a Justice Department inspector general investigation looking at potential misconduct in the issuance of those warrants. That review also reportedly is scrutinizing the role of an FBI informant who had contacts with Trump advisers in the early stages of the Russia investigation.
The use of the term "spying" as it applies to the FBI's surveillance in 2016 has been fiercely disputed. The New York Times, even as it reported last year on how the FBI sent an informant to speak to campaign advisers amid concerns about suspicious Russia contacts, stated that this was to "investigate" Russia ties and "not to spy."
“I think spying did occur. The question is whether it was adequately predicated,” Barr testified last month, adding that he believed it is his “obligation” to review whether there was misconduct in the original investigation. “Congress is usually very concerned with intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane.”
He added that “spying on a political campaign is a big deal.”
President Trump backed the attorney general's testimony, saying the same day Barr testified last month that he thinks what Barr said "was absolutely true," adding, "There was absolutely spying into my campaign.”
Democrats, though, charged that the testimony indicated Barr was a compromised witness.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told the Associated Press last month that she doesn’t “trust Barr,” but she trusts Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused Barr of “peddling conspiracy theories.”
Fox News' Catherine Herridge, John Roberts, Brooke Singman and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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House Intel Committee chair postpones meeting on ‘enforcement action’ against Barr / Dem Adam Schiff Renews Effort to Repeal 1st Amendment

House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff is postponing an upcoming meeting on taking action against Attorney General William Barr amid a deal with the Department of Justice regarding the Mueller report.
According to a statement from Schiff Wednesday, the Department of Justice will begin turning over counterintelligence materials and foreign intelligence materials this week.
This comes after the agency told Schiff it was reviewing some documents he is seeking, but warned him the process would not continue if the panel held a contempt vote.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., responds to reporters as Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calls a meeting with all the House Democrats at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Schiff outlined what he expects the department to produce:

“The Department of Justice agreed to begin a rolling production of documents to our committee, starting with initial set of twelve categories of documents we had requested that contain intelligence and counterintelligence information that was alluded to in the report. These are part of the underlying documents that we’ve been seeking. So that production should begin this week. We should have the full 12 sets of documents by the end of next week.”

In his statement, Schiff also said the subpoena against the attorney general will remain in effect and be enforced if the department fails to comply.

Dem Adam Schiff Renews Effort to Repeal 1st Amendment

 

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the American colonists had no freedom of speech.
Anything they said that was considered negative about their British rulers ended up getting them charged with sedition and they were summarily arrested and charged.
There is a reason that freedom of speech and freedom of religion were the subjects of the First Amendment to the US Constitution.
Our Founding Fathers wanted to guarantee that citizens of the new country would not be persecuted for speaking their minds in public. However, for the second time in less than a decade, a Democrat proposed a constitutional amendment that would basically eliminate the First Amendment rights, and the movement is being pushed by top House Trump-hater Adam Schiff (D-CA).In September 2014, 54 Democratic senators voted to repeal the First Amendment of the Constitution.
They were supporting a proposed constitutional amendment by Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., whose stated goal was to overturn the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision, which struck down a host of dubious campaign finance rules.
It is probably not a coincidence that their party lost nine Senate seats later that year, or that 18 of the Democrats who voted for it are no longer senators.
Now, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., has proposed a similar amendment. It is not identical, yet it has the same core flaw. In their zeal to overturn the Citizens United decision, Democrats want to abolish the freedom of political speech, which, if such distinctions can be made, is the most important form of speech protected by the amendment…If you have noticed that every since Obama squatted in the White House, that Democrats in general have become bolder in their effort to strip conservatives of their constitutional rights.
They are busy trying to strip us of our Second Amendment rights to bear arms; our Fourth Amendment rights that prohibit illegal search and seizure as well as the Tenth Amendment that leaves most of the authority of government in the hands of the States.
The Obama administration launch its war to strip Christian of their First Amendment right of freedom of religion.
Social media and internet giants, all controlled by socialist Democrats, have been blatantly violating the First Amendment right of free speech.
Not only have some Democrats called for the repeal of the Second Amendment, but now there is an effort to repeal the First Amendment, which would make every Christian and conservative a criminal.

President Trump rejects Pelosi allegations of ‘cover-up,’ infrastructure meeting cut short / Pelosi's San Francisco poop

President Donald Trump delivers a statement in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, May 22, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Trump recently addressed the Mueller investigation and the Democrats for continuing investigations into his administration.
In the Rose Garden Wednesday, the president reiterated there was no Russian collusion. He cited the Mueller report, saying he has been one of the most transparent president’s in the country’s history.
Instead, the president insisted this was all an attempt to take him down, adding, the crime was committed on the other side by Democrats.
This comes after the House Speaker said “we believe the president of the United States is engaged in a cover up.” The president rejected Pelosi’s allegations:

“And I said let’s have the meeting on infrastructure, we’ll get that done easily. That’s one of the easy ones. And instead of walking in happily into a meeting I walk in to look at people that had just said that I was doing a cover up. I don’t do cover ups. You people know that probably better than anybody.”

The president is demanding Democrats end what he called their “phony investigations” before he will negotiate with them on issues like infrastructure.

Nancy should clean up her own backyard before talking about someone else.

San Francisco was once considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.. Now, business are leaving in droves, with the homeless literally taking over this once vibrant city.
The streets are littered with trash, drug needles, and “poop”… Yes, human feces…  So, how did the city once known for it’s beauty and cleanliness go from being one of California’s most prized possessions to a slum filled with drug addicts, and homeless, and sanctuary status seekers?
Liberalism has turned the city once known for it’s cable cars and the magnificent Golden Gate Bridge, into the city where it is only safe for illegal aliens, for the homeless to use as their personal toilet, and criminals to find safe harbor.

It’s Not Just San Francisco – Every Major City Run By Liberals Turns Into a Ghetto Slum

Cities all across America, that are run by liberal democrats seem to fall apart.  Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, etc.. etc.. have all been run by elected liberal democrats for years but the problem only seems to get worse.
San Francisco’s fall from grace has been more recent and the rapid recession of the city has been fueled by being well known as a Sanctuary City.. Illegal Aliens flood into the city every day to find safety.  However, do they contribute anything to the welfare of the city?  No, the homeless problems get worse..
“Pooping in the streets” does not seem like this would be acceptable in a civilized society.  They now have “Pooping Zones” where it is legal to use the city as your personal toilet.  So, how does San Francisco combat this problem?  Well, for the longest time they have did nothing.. They have ignored the problem.
Nancy Pelosi has represented the 12th district of California since 2013.  Coincidentally, this is about the time when San Francisco’s homeless / drugs / and diseased streets has exasperated drastically.  Perhaps, liberal ideology isn’t the answer?  However, now that the city is a Sanctuary safe haven for illegals and criminals fleeing prosecution how do you combat this problem?

An NBC Bay Area did an investigation and found  dangerous concoction of drug needles, garbage, and feces lining the streets of downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed more than 150 blocks, including some of the city’s top tourist destinations, and discovered conditions that are now being compared to some of the worst slums in the world.

They observed 153 city blocks that stretched for 20 miles in San Francisco..  They found that 96 out of those 153 blocks were soiled with piles of human feces.  Not only did they observe (they finally caved into pressure to investigate) the “human pooping” in the streets, they also found 41 of the blocks had used drug needles laying in the streets where children play and walk to school.
Does this sound like the beautiful San Francisco Bay photos that you have seen on postcards?  Likely not…
First you might say, that the investigation only covered the dirties part’s of the city.. This would be a false assumption because they covered some of the most popular tourist spots in SF.

The Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of the city – the more than 20-mile stretch includes popular tourist spots like Union Square and major hotel chains. The area – bordered by Van Ness Avenue, Market Street, Post Street and Grant Avenue – is also home to City Hall, schools, playgrounds, and a police station.

Here is a very telling chart of the human waste and rise in drug needle usage in SF that Nancy Pelosi and Governor Jerry Brown have helped contribute to. This is the result of “Sanctuary Status” cities in America..  Turning a once beautiful city into one large slum that has businesses and homeowners fleeing the area.

There is no logic when your city’s policies are based on liberalism.  In 2016-2017 the City Budget was 60.1 million dollars for environmental services.  The 60 million dollars was supposed to be used to clean the streets, removing graffiti, repairing public buildings, maintaining bridges, plazas, tunnels and more..  However, due to the homeless “pooping in the streets” and drug needles littering the sidewalks, the Public Works program has been spending 30 million, 50% of the budget on cleaning human feces, dirty needles and homeless encampment areas.
Public buildings, bridges, tunnels, street repairs etc.. have largely been ignored.  Over time the once beautiful infrastructure of San Francisco will inevitably decay and turn into the slums similar to third world countries.
Third world countries?  Is San Francisco really getting that bad?
Dr. Lee Riley, who has researched conditions of the World’s poorest slums had this to say :

“If you do get stuck with these disposed needles you can get HIV, Hepatitis C, Hepatitis B, and a variety of other viral diseases,” said Dr. Lee Riley, an infectious disease expert at University of California, Berkeley. He warned that once fecal matter dries, it can become airborne, releasing potentially dangerous viruses, such as the rotavirus. “If you happen to inhale that, it can also go into your intestine,” he said. The results can prove fatal, especially in children.

Do we have a problem yet? Not only is San Francisco comparable to 3rd world countries, but it is even worse in many cases.  Dr. Lee said :

“The contamination is … much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India,” he said. He notes that in those countries, slum dwellings are often long-term homes for families and so there is an attempt to make the surroundings more livable. Homeless communities in San Francisco, however, are often kicked out from one part of town and forced to relocate to another. The result is extreme contamination, according to Riley.

Now, the kicker to all of this is, the liberal answer to this social / financial / environmental disaster is to build more housing for the homeless.  All at the taxpayers expense (not that California citizen’s haven’t been taxed enough already).  California Lawmakers plan is to impose a 3 billion dollar new program to address this crisis.  Basically more taxes, free housing for illegal aliens, vagrants, and criminals fleeing criminal prosecution.. Where safety abounds in SF, at the expense of the taxpayers expense and the safety of it’s citizens.

Our Takeaway?

Well, first of all San Francisco needs to wake up.  Liberal ideology is not the answer.  Democrat leadership has done nothing but turn your city into a slum.  A dangerous slum at that..  Human feces in the street can spread disease which can quickly turn into a plague for a city.  Dirty needles where children play and walk to school is unacceptable for any city in America.  Either stand up and make a change in your community, or watch SF fall further into decay as a third world country community.  Socialism isn’t the answer. San Francisco is glaring proof of this.