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About Daveda

I write for http://DefiantAmerica.com, http://aleadernotapolitician.com/ https://magamedia.org/ and http://FreeAmericaNetwork.com & Graphic Artist & Video producer. I adore journalism. Politics seems to be my preferred genre although I do not hesitate to write anything that strikes me as interesting. Researching and finding 'Breaking News' makes my blood rush. I've written seventeen books. and over that including books in conglomeration with others. Doing graphic art design has always been fun for me. Sometimes I incorporate this talent into my articles or when a special 'feature picture' is required. You can find me tweeting on: https://twitter.com/DavedaGruber You can always find my articles on the sites I write for.

Was the WRAP UP SMEAR Used on Trump?

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by: Daveda Gruber:

We all know that smearing someone can be a tricky thing to do without getting caught. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has some information to share. Yes. she knows what it takes to SMEAR anyone using what she calls the WRAP UP SMEAR.

I believe that this tactic was used on President Trump to create what we know as the Trump–Russia dossier, which is also known as the Steele dossier.

This dossier was allegedly created as the insurance policy that FBI employees Peter Strzok  and Lisa Page texted each other about in regard to then candidate Donald Trump potentially winning the presidential election in 2016.

I found this video of Pelosi speaking to a training class. In it she talks about how the WRAP UP SMEAR tactic is used. She knows all about how it is used for a very good reason. I believe that she has used it and will do so again.

Remember, she is the third most powerful politician in the country. She is the Speaker of the House and third in line for the Presidency.

Watch the video here:

So, Pelosi has stated that the WRAP UP SMEAR is used when a Politician demonizes something with falsehoods and then it is reported by the mainstream media, as if it were true, and then used as a merchandising tool to be used by the Politician because it is written up by the press. It has validation because it was written up and is now in the media.

There you have it. This is why having reporters write about what you say is important. This is too easy to do when you have the media on your side.

 

Look Who Wants to Defund Homeland Security

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by: Daveda Gruber:

Rep. Ilhan Abdullahi Omar D-Minn. is a Somali American politician. She is serving as the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 5th congressional district based in Minneapolis.

Ilhan Omar came to the United States when she was twelve. She knew only two phrases of English upon her arrival to the United States. She could say, “hello” and “shut up.” Her primary victory makes her the first Somali-American and one of the first two Muslim women (along with Michigan’s Rashida Tlaib) in Congress.

Ilhan Omar is an avid user of Twitter and her tweets are controversial and get attention from both Democrats and Republicans; both for different reasons.

On Friday evening she was upset that TSA agents were not getting paid and on behalf of TSA workers in Minnesota who haven’t received back pay due to the recent partial government shutdown, she tweeted:

About two hours later she was out to defund the Department of Homeland Security.

The freshman congresswoman tweeted:

There have been calls from Democrats to abolish ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but there hasn’t been a strong demand to defund the entire Department of Homeland Security, which also includes the Transportation Safety Administration, Secret Service, Coast Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Twitter users were quick to reply and Republicans, or so it appears, were quick to offer their opinion. Here are a few of the responses:

Before Friday, Ilhan Omar has posted several controversial tweets since being elected to Congress. She accused President Trump of wanting a “coup” against Venezuela and insisted that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., was “compromised.”

Besides this, she has also posted several tweets attacking Israel, including one in which she agreed with a liberal activist that current-day Israel is similar to the U.S. during the era of racial segregation.

Ilhan Omar also does not agree on the current immigration situation here in the U.S. and she was not afraid to share her thoughts on the matter. She tweeted this:

Will William Barr be the next Attorney General?

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by: Daveda Gruber:

President Trump’s pick for Attorney General, William Barr, has had a grueling time with Senators in the wake of facing confirmation to be President Trump’s chief law enforcement officer.

Barr is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate. On Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of the 68 year old Barr.

The nomination  was advanced by a vote of twelve Republicans while ten Democrats voted against it.

Barr served as attorney general from 1991 to 1993 under the late President George H.W. Bush. He is set to be the second be the chief law enforcement officer under Trump.

Matthew Whitaker was appointed the acting attorney general after Jeff Sessions was fired from his position the day after the 2018 midterm elections.

Trump had complained that Sessions was weak, and did not protect him from the Russia investigation. Sessions recused himself early on in the investigation before Robert Mueller’s appointment. Sessions thought this was appropriate due to his involvement with the Trump campaign in 2016.

Democrats have seen Barr as someone who would exploit legal “loopholes” to hide Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report from the public and also resist subpoenas against the White House.

In the meantime, Democrats and Republicans have said that they believe that Mueller’s final report should be fully released.

Barr did say that he will be as transparent as possible under Justice Department regulations.

Regulations call for the report to be confidential. It only requires that the report explain the decisions to pursue or to decline prosecutions. That could be as simple as a short list or a report of hundreds of pages.

Barr, at his hearing last month, said, “I don’t know what at the end of the day, what will be releasable. I don’t know what Bob Mueller is writing,”

I believe that Barr is telling the truth because he has no reason to lie under oath.

It was disclosed by Barr that he had discussed Mueller’s investigation with Vice President Mike Pence. Barr insisted that he neither provided legal advice to the White House nor received any confidential information from Pence.

Barr had sent a memo to the Justice Department last year that was critical of the Russia probe. He explained that it was narrow in scope and based on potentially incomplete information.

Barr also said “it is vitally important” that Mueller be able to complete his Russia investigation.

Barr said, “I have the utmost respect for Bob and his distinguished record of public service. When he was named special counsel, I said that his selection was ‘good news’ and that, knowing him, I had confidence he would handle the matter properly. I still have that confidence today.”

It seems that Barr is honest. He has no problem saying good things about Mueller.

Barr told senators that Trump did not seek any assurances or promises before nominating him.

Trump has called the Russia probe as a “witch hunt,” but Barr was adamant in defending Mueller’s work.

Barr said at his hearing, “I don’t believe Mr. Mueller would be involved in a witch hunt.”

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who has taken on oversight of the investigation, made Mueller special counsel. Rosenstein is expected to leave his post at the Justice Department in the coming weeks.

Barr had served as deputy attorney general and assistant attorney general overseeing the Office of Legal Counsel during that administration. He covered work ranging from combating violent crime to investigating the Pan Am 103 bombing. Barr also coordinated counter-terror activities during the first Gulf War.

Barr worked with the White House Domestic Policy staff for a year under then-President Ronald Reagan. In the 1970s, Barr worked in the Central Intelligence Agency as an analyst and assistant legislative counsel. During the time that he worked at the CIA, he studied law at George Washington University.

It seems inevitable that Barr will be confirmed. I hope he doesn’t trust Mueller too much.

What Did You Think of the SOTU?

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by: Daveda Gruber:

What did you do last night? I for one, watched President Trump speak. The 2019 State of the Union Address was given by the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump, on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, at 9 p.m. EST in the chamber of the United States House of Representatives. The SOTU was addressed before a joint session of Congress.

The theme of last night’s SOTU address was unity. It’s really sad that the Democrats could not give an applause for jobs, border security, freedom and the lives of the unborn.

But it is the Democrats who want to murder a baby even if the baby survives an abortion. It is the Democrats who support members of their own party who want to raise taxes to possibly 70 to 90 percent and create a socialist environment through their want for healthcare for all including illegal immigrants.

Trump gave a clear message on socialism and the rights of the unborn. He said that America will never be a socialist country. He stood and condemned the killing of babies who could feel pain in the womb of a mother.

This is the first time in my life I have ever seen a president have to stand against socialism and the genocide of the unborn and newborns that exists today. We’ve lost too many babies through abortion. Too many innocent lives have been taken because it was not convenient for the mother.

Of course, you can understand that Democrats are not interested in these ideals that this president has. They sat with sullen faces as Republicans cheered and clapped.

Trump’s message resonated the belief’s of many who believe, as I do, but this did not sit well with Democrats.

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, looked lost sitting behind Trump. She didn’t stand up when she should have and stood up too long when she did.

Pelosi obviously didn’t enjoy the night as much as I did. She tweeted this afterwards:

Bernie Sanders, the Democrat Senator from Vermont, did not look pleased but then, his ideals do not align with the president. Sander’s demeanor matched his berated comments that came after the SOTU.

Sanders tweeted this after the SOTU:

This was, in my opinion, the best speech Trump ever gave. It touched on Trump’s accomplishments, which, when spelled out, are part of a very long list.

Trump invited guests to this SOTU, which will stand as a milestone event in history. The guests were seated throughout the chamber and Trump used their presence to highlight the words he was delivering.

The attentive guests who were in attendance were introduced to the lawmakers both young and old. He did an amazing job with this.

World War ll veterans Private first class Joseph Riley, staff sergeant Erving Walker and sergeant Hartman Zeitcheck were first to be introduced by Trump.

The astronaut who placed the first American flag on the moon, Buzz Aldrin, was introduced to applause from the crowd.

Alice Johnson, a rehabilitated prisoner sentenced to life in prison for a first time non-violent drug offence, had tears in her eyes as she stood up for her introduction.

Matthew Charles, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for selling drugs and related offences is the first person to be released from prison under the First Step Act that Congress passed.

Eleven year old Grace Eline, who suffered from brain cancer has completed her chemo treatments. She had raised more than $40,000 for cancer research and was introduced by Trump.

Tom Wibberley, whose son, Navy Seaman Craig Wibberley, was one of the 17 sailors lost on the USS-Cole. Wibberley was introduced and stood as Trump spoke.

The Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh horrific attack that SWAT Officer Timothy Matson, who is still going through surgeries after being shot seven times while he chasing down the killer, was introduced.

Also, survivor of the anti-Semitic Synagogue attack, Judah Samet, who is a Holocaust survivor who narrowly escaped death in a concentration camp was in attendance and was asked to stand.

All in all, I was totally impressed with the evening. Trump stated facts and did not mince words.

You can read the entire speech here by clicking on the ‘full screen button::

If you are so inclined or if you missed the SOTU, here is a video of the entire speech:

What did you think of the SOTU? I’d love to hear your opinion in the commen

Israel is Building Yet Another Barrier at the Gaza Border

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by: Daveda Gruber:

Walls have been effective for many counties in protecting  people. Just ask the Israeli people.

Israel has a barrier that is basically a fence built along the border with Egypt. It has cut the number of illegal African migrants passing into Israel from 14,669 in 2010 to 14 in 2016. The height of the fence was raised from 16 feet to 26 feet and since then there have been no reported infiltration.

This is good news for the people of Israel who are now getting another barrier.

Contraction of the latest barrier, which is an above-ground barrier, has been started and will completely surround the Gaza Strip. The wall or barrier is expected to keep terrorist from infiltrating the Jewish state’s territory.

The galvanized steel barrier will be 20 feet high when completed said Israel’s Defense Ministry in a statement. It will compliment a subterranean wall that is aimed at upsetting Hamas tunnels dug beneath the border.

Tunnels have been a long drawn out problem in the Israeli state.

The new barrier will be built along the route of the underground system. It will run for about 40 miles. The entire project is expected to cost about $833 million and is slated for completion by the end of 2019.

It will also connect to the barrier system constructed out into the Mediterranean Sea which is aimed at halting infiltration from the sea.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted this:

The fence’s construction comes after months of violent mass protests along the border by Palestinians in Gaza.

Palestinians had been flying kites of fire, which scorch the ground, into Israel. These have kites with flammable devices and they are said to be the latest weapon of terror.
Rockets are also routinely fired from Gaza toward southern Israel. they are said to be the latest weapon of terror.

This video shows some of the aftermath of the fire the kites have brought to Israel:

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi still will not admit walls or barriers work. Her state that she would give one dollar to Trump’s wall stands as does her saying that Trump will not get his wall.
The State of the Union will be seen tonight and Pelosi will be right behind President Trump. I’m pretty sure that the wall will be brought up in Trumps address.

How much longer will the Democrats hide their heads in the sand and insist that the American people do not deserve protection that works?

There is proof that barriers work and we can see that in what Israel has done and is in the process of doing. Pelosi doesn’t want anything that Trump wants. She is playing games with politics and Americans are the pawns of her games.

 

Is Government Running Facebook? – This is a Shocker!

 
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by: Daveda Gruber:

What is Facebook not telling you? There is corruption that is undeniable that has seeped into our lives through social media. Government has made its way into places that will blow you away.

Facebook is not a private company. Shocking? Well, yes, I thought you may be surprised just as I was when a friend of mine, Robby Bowling, showed me some very interesting facts. Friends are a wonderful thing to have, especially when you seek truth and have like-minded people around you. .

In this day and age, we are blinded by the big things that go on in front of us. What do I mean? When you login to Facebook, do you stop to think who sees what you post and decides that it is fit for others to see? Does it upset up when Facebook puts you in ‘Facebook jail’? Do you even understand why it was done to you? Read on to find out.

There is a pipeline that starts in government and runs through to Facebook, which is the largest social media outlet you can find. But wait, who is in control?

There is a dangerous neoconservative “think tank” known as the Atlantic Council which is directly funded and made up of groups tied to the pharmaceutical industry, the military industrial complex, and even government itself. The Atlantic Council dictates to Facebook who is allowed on the platform and who is purged.

They purged me and many others whom I am in contact with or who were on my ‘friend’s list’. They are ‘friends’ because they are like-minded people. But we are watched because we are on the other side of the spectrum from Democrats who control 80 to 90 percent of the media. We will be attacked for our beliefs, trust me.

The Atlantic Council is funded in part by the United States government. They are making decisions for Facebook. This negates the claim that the company is private. Government is never private.

I turned to Twitter, which I have found to be actually more fitted to my needs and it produces interesting aspects to which I am geared towards. But Twitter can be controlling too, right?  So, if I was to maintain contact with social media, I had to turn to other smaller sites.

Look what I found on Twitter:

Once burned, twice shy? I was going to back up my social media world this time. I would never have to feel helpless when logging onto a site and finding out that my account was gone and the pages and some of groups I had created were deleted from existence during the October purge.

An alternative Website to Facebook is:

TrumpTown

C. Oldham is on TrumpTown and posted this:

“PLEASE SHARE THIS ON ALL CONSERVATIVE MEDIA SITES.
When I started with the idea of S2HQ a couple months ago I was thinking of exposing the Deep State. So I ran down a few rabbit holes. Did some research. Not just on the DS but on the efforts of like minded Patriots. What I found was a hole of a different kind. A void.

Anons are working and helping Q on 8channel. That is a national thing. I saw that most of the post on social media were focused on the national issues. On Washington D.C. And the goings on there. Listened to Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, & Rush Limbough. Again, the national subject was the highlight. Why not, they’re national shows. I also saw that is where the Patriots attention was too.

Then I was thinking about the tactics of the Leftist. How they distract us with fake news. That same hour I was listening to Rush’s radio show callers. There I found the void. Callers where referencing things that were happening to them at work, in their home towns. How the Leftist were embedded where they were. The national issues were local issues. National news was the DISTRACTION from the enemy was next door. In our back yards. In our schools. In our Town and City Halls. In our courts down town from where we live.

So where then should the average Joe & Jane Patriot put their focus? On Washington D.C. or Hometown USA? Focus on the nation’s capital works in favor of the Leftist and puts Patriots in a perpetual state of paralysis of analysis. Leaving the enemy a wide open field to operate in. To hide right under your nose. What good is it to win a social war on the national stage and leave the enemies in power in your home town or city? So I am redirecting the efforts of S2HQ to the attack on the LOCAL LEVEL. I support you, the Patriot.

So here is a page for you to say what is happening where you live.”

So, who are the government people from Facebook?

After the purge in October, Nathan Gleicher headed up a move in January to silence us more.  Here they are:

The revolving door that ensued in January was all headed up by Nathan Gleicher.

Gleicher wrote in a blog post, “Some of the Pages frequently posted about topics like anti-NATO sentiment, protest movements, and anti-corruption. We are constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people.”

Take that with a grain of salt. He was out to purge many conservatives.

The list goes on.

In 2017, as the Russian/Trump propaganda/Steele dossier continued to be investigated, Facebook hired Joel Benenson, a former top adviser to President Barack Obama and the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s failed 2016 presidential campaign, as a consultant.

While filling team Mark Zuckerburg with Obama and Clinton advisers, Facebook hired Aneesh Raman, a former Obama speechwriter who now heads up Facebook’s “economic impact programming.”

Highlighting the revolving door aspect of Facebook and the US government is Sarah Feinberg who left the Obama train in 2011 to join Facebook as the director of corporate and strategic communications. She then moved on after and went back to Obama in 2015 to act as the administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).

David Recordon also highlights the revolving door between Facebook and the government. Recordon was the former Director of IT for Obama’s White House. He was also Engineering Director at Facebook prior to his role at the White House, and returned to the position after the 2016 election. He is currently Engineering Director for the Chan-Zuckerberg initiative.

Are you beginning to see to see a pattern of political influence here? I believe that you should but just in case you don’t, the list goes on.

Meredith Carden, was born on 6/10/1986, came from the Obama administration and joined the Facebook clan last year to be a part of Facebook’s “News Integrity Team.” Now, she’s battling fake news on the platform that there is a ridiculous amount of selective enforcement of these so-called “standards.”

There are dozens of former Obama staffers, advisers, and campaign associates who quite literally fill Facebook’s ranks. It is no wonder the platform has taken such a political shift over the past few years. David Ploufe, Josh W. Higgins, Lauryn Ogbechie, Danielle Cwirko-Godycki, Sarah Pollack, Ben Forer, Bonnie Calvin, and Juliane Sun, are just some of the many Facebook executives who came from the Obama era White House.

Be troubled not staunch right wingers, Facebook likes their neocons too.

Jamie Fly, who was a top adviser to neocon Florida Senator Marco Rubio and who started his career in U.S. political circles as an adviser to the George W. Bush administration, actually took credit for the massive purge of peaceful antiwar pages that took place last October.

Fly said in December, “They can invent stories that get repeated and spread through different sites. So we are just starting to push back. Just this last week Facebook began starting to take down sites. So this is just the beginning,”

Fly does back up his words with the fact that he works with Facebook’s arm of the Atlantic Council to ensure those dangerous antiwar folks don’t keep pushing their propaganda of peace and community.

The list continues.

Joel David Kaplan is Facebook’s vice president of global public policy. Prior to his major role within Facebook, Kaplan took the place of neocon extraordinaire Karl Rove as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for George W. Bush. Before that, from 2001 to 2003 he was Special Assistant to the President for Policy within the White House Chief of Staff’s office. Then he served as Deputy Director of the Office of Management And Budget (OMB).

Myriah Jordan was a special policy assistant in the Bush White House, who was hired on as a policy manager for Facebook’s congressional relations team—aka, a lobbyist. Jordan has moved back and forth between the private sector and the US government multiple times over his career as he’s made millions greasing the skids of the state for his corrupt employers.

There it is, Facebook who claims to be a private entity, is quite literally made up of and advised by dozens of members of government.

I’ve been ready for change since the Facebook purge. Are you still on Facebook? If not or if you just want to go somewhere safe/safer, you can join me on:

TrumpTown

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Strong Feedback on Northam’s Behavior

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by: Daveda Gruber:

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s name is on the tip of many tongues this week. He being asked to step down by his own Democrat Party.

Northam has come out with a video that gives an apology from him. He posted it to Twitter to make amends for comments he made on abortion and a picture he posted in his yearbook while at med School.

Northam said, “I am committed to continuing that fight through the remainder of my term and living up to the expectations you set for me when you elected me to serve.”

Here is the tweet from him:

This past week, Northam  made comments on a controversial proposed new abortion law that one sponsor had said this week could allow women to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment before birth.

Northam stated, “So in this particular example if a mother is in labor, I can tell you exactly what would happen, the infant would be delivered. The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that’s what the mother and the family desired, and then a discussion would ensue between the physicians and the mother.”

What would they would discuss is rather obvious and is strikingly pro-choice. The bill would make it legal to murder a baby in the third trimester of a pregnancy and to kill an infant after birth if circumstances warranted.

That’s correct, kill a human being. The numbers are staggering. Fifty million abortions have been performed in the United States since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision made the procedure legal on Mar 6, 2015. This is not rare.

Although he was a pediatric neurologist, the rights of the unborn or a newborn didn’t seem to have any meaning to Northam, according to his statements.

Oh, he is sorry for what he said but is he sorry that his views are causing problems or sorry for his way of thinking that came through in his speaking?

I believe that this is the way the man thinks. Why? Well, he had also posted pictures in a yearbook during his time at medical school.

The doctor and later, Politician, posted a blackface photo along side of a KKK (Klu Klux Klan) member in a hood. It is not known which of the two is actually Northam and he did not clarify himself at first. He is now claiming that the picture of the blackface individual is not him.

So, is he the man under the hood? The fact that the picture conceals the identity of the two individuals pictured makes it impossible to know for sure.

A Twitter user posted this in response:

The tweet was indicative of most Republican Twitter users on the subject.

On the other side of the coin, Democratic lawmakers were even calling it a racist remark and asking Northam to resign. Here are some tweets from Northam’s own party:

Ths was posted by New York Times Metro correspondent Shane Goldmacher:

The GOP tweeted this:

Now go back to during the 2017 gubernatorial contest, then-lieutenant governor Northam cast his opponent, Republican Ed Gillespie, and the Virginians who supported him as bigots intent on implementing policies reflective of their hatred of racial minorities.

Citing Gillespie’s opposition to sanctuary-city policies, Northam and his allies explicitly labeled his opponent’s policies “racist” on numerous occasions.

Karma can be a bitch, right?

I’d say that Northam is getting what he deserves. He is not capable of serving the people of Virginia.

 

Who Did Trump Jr. Call from Trump Tower?

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by: Daveda Gruber:

The big question looming on a Trump Tower meeting in June 2016 with Russians that Donald Trump Jr. had is revealed.

Late Thursday, Trump Jr. was vindicated after reports of Democratic suspicions that he made phone calls to his dad, President Donald Trump.

Senate investigators have finally released the phone records that the younger Trump allegedly made at the Trump Tower meeting with Russians.

Trump Jr. gave his thoughts to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff in a tweet.

Longtime Trump family friends Brian France, the chief executive of Nascar, and the investor Howard Lorber were named by the New York Times.

Trump Jr. tweeted to Schiff:

Democrats had wrongly accused Trump Jr. after assuming that he had made the phone calls to his father.

In a statement to the Times, Trump Jr. said, “After a year of hearing about this one ad nauseam, yet another left-wing narrative officially bites the dust.”

On Thursday night Schiff spoke on MSNBC. He said that Democrats were unable to confirm the reporting “because the Republicans wouldn’t let us get the phone records.”

The report was seen by the White House as a victory when President Trump tweeted out a string of tweets:

Trump allies saw a challenging week that had seen the arrest of Roger Stone Trump Jr. has not deviated from his claims that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer he met with at Trump Tower, did not have any information to share and instead wanted to discuss the ‘Magnitsky Act’ and other sanctions.

We all know that the Trump Tower meeting has continued to be scrutinized by Democrats since the 2016 presidential election. Financial ties between some Trump associates and the Kremlin are still being investigated.

We await the ‘Russian Probe’, led by special counsel by Robert Mueller, to come to an end after over one year that has seen multiple charges against people associated with the presidential campaign come to an end.

End the WITCH HUNT, Mueller, we’re tired of it.

Schumer Insults Trump in this Letter: See What it Says

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by: Daveda Gruber:

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter referencing President Trump and it wasn’t very polite.

Trump had been tweeting and in a tweet said that the nation’s intelligence chiefs were “naive” about Iran and perhaps should “go back to school and Schumer came back with a nasty reply in a letter to director of national intelligence Dan Coats.

Schumer D-N.Y., suggested that it was the president who needed tutoring.

On Tuesday during a Senate Intelligence Community hearing Coats spoke about ISIS’ strength, North Korea nuclear weapons program and the Iran nuclear deal in extremely different terms than Trump does.

Coats, FBI Director Chris Wray and CIA Director Gina Haspel, became the target of Trump’s anger on Wednesday morning for their statements.

Schumer wrote to Coats and later said, “I believe it is incumbent on you, Director Wray and Director Haspel … to impress upon him how critically important it is for him to join you and the leadership of our Intelligence Community in speaking with a unified and accurate voice about national security threats.”

Schumer tweeted:

The intelligence chiefs had told the Senate panel that North Korea was unlikely to dismantle its nuclear arsenal and that the Iran nuclear deal was working.  It was this verbiage that drew responses from the president via Twitter:

Trump was adamant that U.S. relationship with North Korea “is the best it has ever been.” He also pointed to a halt in nuclear and missile tests by North Korea, the return of some U.S. service members’ remains and the release of detained Americans as signs of progress.

A second Trump-Kim meeting or summit is expected in February.

The U.S. intelligence agencies also said that Iran continues to work with other parties to the nuclear deal it reached with the U.S. and other world powers. They said it has at least temporarily lessened the nuclear threat.

Trump withdrew the U.S. from that Obama-era accord in May 2018, which he called a terrible deal that would not stop Iran from going nuclear.
Schumer’s letter to Coats brought to light what many Democrats said about Trump’s tweets.

Sen. Mark Warner, the senior Democrat on the Senate’s intelligence panel, said in a tweet:

What did you expect a nice tweet? No, the Dems don’t play that way.

Keep in mind that Democrats will keep up their bashing of Republicans especially our President. Trump is under attack every day.

Are You Stepping on Allah?

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by: Daveda Gruber:

Have you looked at your newest pair of Nike running shoes? Chances are you didn’t look at the soles of the shoes very carefully. One woman has carefully inspected them.

Saiqa Noreen has looked at the shoe and is now petitioning for the logo on the Air Max 270 shoe be removed. Many have joined her in her in calling for the recall of the shoe.

Noreen has started a Change.org petition and is calling the logo  “blasphemous” and is offensive and disrespectful to Muslims.

Noreen wrote, “It is outrageous and appalling of Nike to allow the name of God on a shoe. This is disrespectful and extremely offensive to Muslim’s and insulting to Islam.”

She also said, the logo “will surely be trampled, kicked and become soiled with mud or even filth.”

The petition demands that Nike recall the “blasphemous and offensive shoe and all products with the design logo resembling the word Allah from worldwide sales immediately.”

Nike has put out a an official statement regarding its most recent Air Max 270 controversy.

“Nike respects all religions and we take concerns of this nature seriously, The AIR MAX logo was designed to be a stylized representation of Nike’s AIR MAX trademark. It is intended to reflect the AIR MAX brand only. Any other perceived meaning or representation is unintentional.”

This is not the first time that Nike has been under fire for its logo. In 1997, the company came under scrutiny for using a flame-shaped logo that also resembled the word for Allah. Nike pulled 38,000 pairs of sneakers off the shelf worldwide and donated $50,000 to an Islamic elementary school in the United States.

Yes, there are Islamic Schools in America. Are you shocked? I’m not.

At this time, the petition has 6,713 signatures and counting.

There is no word if Nike plans to tweak any of its current designs due to the outrage.

Despite the various controversies that have arose over the years, Nike has also shown its support of Muslim culture in the past as well. In 2017, it released the Nike Pro Hijab, which is an iteration of the traditional hijab head covering designed to be used by Muslim female athletes.

Maybe Muslim women liked the hijab but it seems that the running shoe is a fashion faux pas for them.