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MICHAEL VAN DER GALIEN:
“…When Pelosi refused to send over the articles of impeachment, progressives everywhere — but especially in the old, corporatist and radical leftist Media Cartel — hailed her for being a master strategist. Oh yes, she was showing Mitch McConnell how it was done. Pelosi was Girlboss. Awesome. Fantastic. Majestic. She was the new and improved Sun Tzu.
Only there was one issue with that talking point: Pelosi is, as Mark Levin frequently explains on his radio show, a horrible strategist. She may not be stupid as such — I highly doubt anyone with an IQ of, say, 65 would become Speaker of the House — but an Intellectual Heavyweight she is not.
Everybody could see that McConnell can do whatever he pleases. The House doesn’t dictate to the Senate how it should approach an impeachment trial. And if the House refuses to send over impeachment articles, well, guess what, the Senate can simply dismiss the impeachment altogether and inform the House that it’s game over. Or the Senate can just wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and wait… until the end of time. After all, as long as there is no trial, the president remains firmly in the driver’s seat.
Clearly, Pelosi made such a mess out of it that even CNN is now forced to admit that, well, she failed. Miserably.
The good news? It seems likely that Pelosi will remain the Democrats’ leader in Congress for quite a while to come. If that isn’t good news for President Trump, I don’t know what is…”
Stephen Kruiser:
While the nation had its bleary eyes semi-focused on the Democrats’ “Charge of the White Brigade” in Iowa, most missed the news that bald bottom-feeding sleazebag Michael Avenatti was hauled off by the Feds while he was being taken to task by the California State Bar.
Attorney Michael Avenatti was abruptly taken into federal custody in Los Angeles Tuesday evening, following a day-long disciplinary hearing in which the California State Bar is asking a judge to prevent Avenatti from practicing law based upon their belief he poses a “threat of substantial harm to the public” if he continues to perform legal work. Avenatti was on the stand when the court took a break and IRS agents placed him under arrest. Multiple sources told ABC News that Avenatti is accused of violating the terms of his pre-trial release.
There is nothing about Avenatti that isn’t execrable.
He’s also the poster boy for why half the country hates the media and why the Democrats should never be trusted with anything.
Just two years ago, Avenatti was being celebrated by the Trump-haters in libmedia, constantly appearing on MSNBC and CNN. It sometimes felt that he was on both at the same time.
We can never forget the fact that there was also serious talk of Avenatti running for president as a Democrat. They were so blinded by their hatred for Trump that they were celebrating a skeevy lawyer who’s meal ticket was a porn star, all the while he was running a side hustle as an extortionist and withholding settlement money from a paraplegic client.
But Trump’s morals or something…”
The PM has said the Iran nuclear deal should be replaced with a “Trump deal”.Boris Johnson said he recognised US concerns the 2015 deal was “flawed”, but there had to be a way of stopping Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons.“If we’re going to get rid of it then we need a replacement,” he told BBC Breakfast. “Let’s replace it with the Trump deal.”His comments came as the UK, France and Germany triggered a dispute mechanism in the deal after violations by Iran.There are growing fears for the future of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was abandoned by the US in 2018.
Really Big Breaking News (Kidding): Booker, who was in zero polling territory, just dropped out of the Democrat Presidential Primary Race. Now I can rest easy tonight. I was sooo concerned that I would someday have to go head to head with him!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2020
President Trump has completed two recent rallies in the last few days. Each rally requires multiple hours of his time and extensive pre-rally work by his campaign. At the rallies he entertains, grouses, complains about the fake media, touts and brags on his real accomplishments, calls his opponents names, introduces local party officials, and generally enjoys himself.
The undiscussed, maybe unrecognized aspect of this is the amount of work required to pull it off. In addition to his duties as president, Trump takes on the rebuilding of the national Republican party. He does it two or three times a week.
And he works hard at it. He appears to enjoy the work. His supporters enjoy his attention. I believe it is this work, this attention to political detail, this focus on the local, that in the end will re-elect President Trump.
Hard work pays off.
The reaction inside Mercedes-Benz Superdome to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump walked onto the field. pic.twitter.com/DgbWxvy6cW
— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) January 14, 2020
Could Trump’s Iran policies be working?
Iran State TV's anchor resigns saying, "It was very hard for me to believe the killing of my countrymen. I apologize for lying to you on TV for 13 years."#IranProtests2020 https://t.co/XnTv72KDkZ
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) January 13, 2020
CNN Reporter Informs Iranian Protesters They're Supposed To Be Shouting 'Death To America' https://t.co/D0JdeOwrxF
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 14, 2020
Margot Cleveland:
A previously unnoticed passage in Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on federal surveillance abuse suggests Bruce Ohr and his compatriots were willing to bargain with a Russian oligarch to take down Donald Trump.
Two-hundred-plus pages into the IG report, while discussing former Associate Deputy Attorney General Ohr’s continued contacts with Crossfire Hurricane dossier author Christopher Steele, Horowitz revealed a significant detail that to date has been overlooked: “On December 7, 2016, Ohr conveyed an interagency meeting (including representatives from the FBI) regarding strategy in dealing with Russian Oligarch 1.”
Ohr’s reported response is shocking: “Ohr told her that Steele provided information that the Trump campaign had been corrupted by the Russians,” and that the corruption went all the way to president-elect Trump. Ohr’s junior colleague told the IG that Ohr explained “this information was ‘the basis for the [Deripaska] discussion” in the interagency meeting they had just left.
It has been known for some time that Steele spoke with Ohr about Deripaska. But while the Steele-friendly press portrayed those discussions as FBI attempts to flip Deripaska, the IG reached a different conclusion. He found “Steele performed work for Russian Oligarch 1’s attorney on Russian Oligarch 1’s litigation matters, and, as described later in Chapter Nine, passed information to Department attorney Bruce Ohr advocating on behalf of one of Russian Oligarch 1’s companies regarding U.S. sanctions.” The IG further found that Ohr and Steele’s communications concerning Deripaska occurred “in 2016 during the time period before and after Steele was terminated as a [Confidential Human Source].”
Hard to tell?
Related:
Satire?
Democratic Leadership Turns Its Back On Iranian Protesters
They are protesting their own government over the shoot down of the commercial airliner. Dems don’t want to admit it because it might make Trump look good. Think this one is satire?
