Trump Will Become 1st Sitting POTUS To Attend NYC Veterans Day Parade

President Donald Trump will make history on Monday when he will become the first sitting president to attend the New York City Veterans Day Parade.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the parade, which is one of the largest Veterans Day events in the country, according to Military Times.

Doug McGowan, the chairman of the board of the United War Veterans Council, made the announcement about Trump’s participation on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday.

“I am proud to announce — honored to announce — that the commander in chief has accepted our invitation and will be leading the New York City Veterans Day Parade, the centennial, this year,” McGowan said.

He said that this is the first time a sitting president will be attending, though the invitation has gone out every year for the past 35 years.

“Citizen Donald Trump in the ’80s, the ’90s and again in the early 2000s has been here for the veterans’ community of New York,” he said.

Veterans advocate Bill White, appearing with McGowan, said that Trump stepped in with a “ginormous check,” to save the Veterans Day Parade back in the 1990s.

The New York Times reported in November 1995 that the organizers of the parade had just $1.21 in their bank account in August of that year.

They had reached out to 200 corporations asking for help, including military contractors, but had received nothing.

McGowan told The Times that Trump made a donation of $350,000 to the event in 1995.

Additionally, in 1985, the then-New York businessman donated over $1 million toward the construction of a memorial plaza for Vietnam veterans in the city.

“[Trump] has been a friend to our veterans for many, many, many years … We are so grateful to our president,” White said on Fox. “We have a great commander in chief.”

White said this year’s parade will include 30,000 veterans and 400 military units.

The veterans advocate touted Trump’s record of supporting those who have served.

“The president has done more for our veterans in the last three years than what so many of us have been trying to do for decades,” White said.

https://www.westernjournal.com...tent=libertyalliance

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...-coalition-for-2020/

Donald Trump Launches ‘Black Voices for Trump’ Coalition for 2020

President Donald Trump traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, on Friday to launch the “Black Voices for Trump” coalition for his 2020 re-election campaign.
“We’re going to campaign for every last African American vote in 2020,” he said in a speech as the crowd cheered.

The president celebrated his successful first term presidency, bringing unemployment for the black community to historic lows, restoring the strength of the economy, passing criminal justice reform, and creating tax-exempt opportunity zones.

Trump recalled his controversial statement during the 2016 campaign to the black community, asking them “What the hell do you have to lose?” by supporting a Republican for president.

“ I do my best work off-script ,” Trump said, and added with a grin, “ I hate to say this, I also do my worst work … it makes things very exciting.”

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

If Donald Trump can get even a small part of the black vote, it would be a significant help to his election. DEMs need that 90% plus black vote to win.

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:

Donald Trump Launches ‘Black Voices for Trump’ Coalition for 2020...

When Trump first announced his candidacy, I chuckled, but when I first read his platform and heard him express his intended policies, he quickly shot into my top 3. Shortly after his inauguration when he looked the CNN reporter in the eye and told him that he and his company are fake news, I realized Trump was the ONLY man for the job in this day and time. Time is proving him to be a great, great man.

Every day I love this President more.



.

Devin Nunes submits his list of witnesses to House Intel Comm for the "impeachment" hearings


https://t.co/pLECwqY3HV

highlights:

1. Devon Archer, former board member of Burisma Holdings. Multiple Democrat witnesses in closed-door testimony explained that Ukrainian energy company Burisma has a reputation in Ukraine for corruption. Mr. Archer is Hunter Biden 's long-term business partner and served as a board member of Burisma Holdings with Mr. Biden.

2. Hunter Biden, former board member of Burisma Holdings. As stated previously, Burisma has a reputation in Ukraine for corruption. According to public reporting, Burisma recruited Mr. Biden to its board to improve its public image at a time when Mr. Biden's father, Vice President Joe Biden, was the Obama Administration's point person for Ukraine policy.

3. Alexandra Chalupa, former Democratic National Committee (DNC) staffer. During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Alexandra Chalupa, a former DNC staffer and contractor, worked with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to try and get political dirt on then-candidate Trump's campaign

4. David Hale, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. The three committees interviewed Under Secretary Hale on November 6, 2019. Under Secretary Hale has direct knowledge of U.S. government policy with respect to foreign assistance and foreign assistance review

5. Tim Morrison, former Senior Director for European and Russian Affairs on the National Security Council (NSC), to testify on the same panel as Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, assuming you request Lt. Col. Vindman to testify.

6. Nellie Ohr, former contractor for opposition research firm Fusion GPS. Ina 2018 interview with the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees, Ms. Ohr stated that, during her work with Fusion GPS that ultimately assisted in the production of the Steele Dossier -comprising false allegations against then-candidate Trump-Fusion GPS used
information from sources in Ukraine, including Serhiy Leshchenko who recently lost his post from the Ukrainian parliament

7. Ambassador Kurt Volker, former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, to testify on the same panel as Ambassador William Taylor and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State George Kent on Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

8. The anonymous whistleblower whose secondhand complaint initiated the Democrats' "impeachment inquiry."

9. All individuals relied upon by the anonymous whistleblower in drafting his or her secondhand complaint

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


didn't take long

Adam Schiff rebuffed the proposal for Hunter Biden to testify in public impeachment inquiry hearings beginning next week, but says he is reviewing the other witnesses House Republicans requested in a letter on Saturday morning.

https://www.axios.com/republic...7f-331f23477922.html

This message has been edited. Last edited by: sdy,

quote:

Originally posted by sdy:
8. The anonymous whistleblower whose secondhand complaint initiated the Democrats' "impeachment inquiry."

Which should also include Schiff, right? Since he coordinated with the leaker (not calling him a whistleblower), he needs to be questioned under oath as well.

quote:

Originally posted by parabellum:
New video up now

In order for the truth of the travesty of the unlawful behavior of the left to be widely acknowledged and become accepted truth, much time will have to pass- a generation, perhaps more.
The people responsible for these shameful acts will never admit what they have done. It will be necessary for this generation to pass from public service and perhaps pass from this existence before a new generation, detached from the blind emotion of these leftist fools in 2019, to be able to see the truth.

There's a fancy latin phrase used by lawyers- res ipsa loquitur. It means "the thing speaks for itself". Exclusive of opinion and testimony, the facts of a matter reveal the truth. These facts are layed out before us now, but in order for the truth of what is happening to be known, these things will have to be viewed through the prism of history.

The next generation of Americans, or perhaps even the generation after them, will have at their disposal all the details of this dark time in this nation's history, and even though mom and dad or grandma and grandpa will be remembering the glory of their "resistance", later generations will be able to say "No, that's not what really happened. What really happened is that you tried to overthrow a duly-elected President of the United States, and you should be ashamed of yourselves, and those in government responsible for these unlawful, unconstitutional acts should have been prosecuted for sedition." And even though the parents or grandparents will vehemently deny that they did anything wrong, the fact of the matter will speak for itself.

I won't be around to see it, but history will acquit President Trump and his supporters, and history will indict the lawless conspirators. Donald Trump shall be vindicated, and so shall we, his supporters.

In between now and then, we may have to fight a civil war to restore the Constitution and the rule of law, and if such a war must occur, it will be on the head of every leftist and every deep state bureaucrat who spit on this nation and its Constitution.

This is disappointing to read, because you are usually right.
I was really hoping for the truth to come out, some GDCs to go to prison for a good long time, and folks to wake up and rediscover reality. I know it is optimistic, but I’m still holding out hope.

Visitor Logs Reveal 'Whistleblower' And DNC Contractor Visited Obama White House Multiple Times

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...white-house-multiple

A controversial whistleblower who allegedly reported second-hand on President Donald Trump’s private conversation with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Obama White House on numerous occasions, according to Obama era visitor logs obtained by Judicial Watch.

Last week Real Clear Investigation’s first reported the whistleblower’s name. It is allegedly CIA officer Eric Ciaramella. His name, however, has been floating around Washington D.C. since the leak of Trump’s phone call. It was considered an ‘open secret’ until reporter Paul Sperry published his article. Ciaramella has never openly stated that he is the whistleblower and most news outlets are not reporting his name publicly.

He was detailed to the National Security Counsel during the Obama Administration in 2015 and was allegedly sent back to the CIA in 2017, after a number of people within the Trump White House suspected him of leaking information to the press, according to several sources that spoke with SaraACarter.com.

Further, the detailed visitor logs reveal that a Ukrainian expert Alexandra Chalupa, a contractor that was hired by the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 election, visited the White House 27 times.

Chalupa allegedly coordinated with the Ukrainians to investigate then candidate Trump and his former campaign manager Paul Manafort. Manafort was forced out of his short tenure as campaign manager for Trump when stories circulated regarding business dealings with Ukrainian officials. Manafort was later investigated and convicted by a jury on much lesser charges then originally set forth by Robert Mueller’s Special Counsel investigation. He was given 47 months in prison for basically failing to pay appropriate taxes and committing bank fraud.

Both Ciaramella and Chalupa are of interest to Republican’s investigating the what some conservatives have described as the second Trump ‘witch-hunt.’ And many have called for the whistleblower to testify to Congress.

They are absolutely correct and within the law. There is so much information and evidence that reveals that this was no ordinary whistleblower complaint but one that may have been based on highly partisan actions targeting Trump.

Here’s just one example: Ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee Devin Nunes said its impossible to have a fair impeachment inquiry without the testimony of the alleged whistleblower because he is a ‘fact foundational witness’ who had met with Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-CA, previously. Schiff had originally denied that he had any contact with his committee and then had to walk back his statements when it was revealed that the whistleblower had met with the Democrats prior to filing his complaint to the Intelligence Inspector General about the President.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, said the visitor logs reveal that there is much lawmakers or the American public don’t know about what happened during the 2016 presidential elections and moreover it raises very significant questions about the apparent partisan nature of the whistleblower.

“Judicial Watch’s analysis of Obama White House visitor logs raises additional questions about the Obama administration, Ukraine and the related impeachment scheme targeting President Trump,” said Fitton, in a press release Friday.

“Both Mr. Ciaramella and Ms. Chalupa should be questioned about the meetings documented in these visitor logs.”

Read Below From Judicial Watch

The White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Eric Ciaramella while he was detailed to the Obama White House:

Daria Kaleniuk: Co-founder and executive director of the Soros-funded Anticorruption Action Center (AntAC) in Ukraine. She visited on December 9, 2015

The Hill reported that in April 2016, during the U.S. presidential race, the U.S. Embassy under Obama in Kiev, “took the rare step of trying to press the Ukrainian government to back off its investigation of both the U.S. aid and (AntAC).”

Gina Lentine: Now a senior program officer at Freedom House, she was formerly the Eurasia program coordinator at Soros funded Open Society Foundations. She visited on March 16, 2016.

Rachel Goldbrenner: Now an NYU law professor, she was at that time an advisor to then-Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. She visited on both January 15, 2016 and August 8, 2016.

Orly Keiner: A foreign affairs officer at the State Department who is a Russia specialist. She is also the wife of State Department Legal Advisor James P. Bair. She visited on both March 4, 2016 and June 20, 2015.

Nazar Kholodnitzky: The lead anti-corruption prosecutor in Ukraine. He visited on January 19, 2016.

On March 7, 2019, The Associated Press reported that the then-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch called for him to be fired.

Michael Kimmage: Professor of History at Catholic University of America, at the time was with the State Department’s policy planning staff where specialized in Russia and Ukraine issues. He is a fellow at the German Marshall Fund. He was also one of the signatories to the Transatlantic Democracy Working Group Statement of Principles. He visited on October 26, 2015.

James Melville: Then-recently confirmed as Obama’s Ambassador to Estonia, visited on September 9, 2015.

On June 29, 2018, Foreign Policy reported that Melville resigned in protest of Trump.

Victoria Nuland: who at the time was assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs met with Ciaramella on June 17, 2016.

(Judicial Watch has previously uncovered documents revealing Nuland had an extensive involvement with Clinton-funded dossier. Judicial Watch also released documents revealing that Nuland was involved in the Obama State Department’s “urgent” gathering of classified Russia investigation information and disseminating it to members of Congress within hours of Trump taking office.)

Artem Sytnyk: the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau director visited on January 19, 2016.

On October 7, 2019, the Daily Wire reported leaked tapes show Sytnyk confirming that the Ukrainians helped the Clinton campaign.

The White House visitor logs revealed the following individuals met with Alexandra Chalupa, then a DNC contractor:

Charles Kupchan: From 2014 to 2017, Kupchan served as special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) in the Barack Obama administration. That meeting was on November 9, 2015.

Alexandra Sopko: who at the time was a special assistant and policy advisor to the director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, which was run by Valerie Jarrett. Also listed for that meeting is Alexa Kissinger, a special assistant to Jarrett. That meeting was on June 2, 2015.

Asher Mayerson: who at the time was a policy advisor to the Office of Public Engagement under Jarrett had five visits with Chalupa including December 18, 2015, January 11, 2016, February 22, 2016, May 13, 2016, and June 14, 2016.

Mayerson was previously an intern at the Center for American Progress. After leaving the Obama administration, he went to work for the City of Chicago Treasurer’s office.

Mayerson met with Chalupa and Amanda Stone, who was the White House deputy director of technology, on January 11, 2016.

On May 4, 2016, Chalupa emailed DNC official Luis Miranda to inform him that she had spoken to investigative journalists about Paul Manafort in Ukraine.

The President and the First Lady get a roaring welcome at the Alabama/LSU game.

quote:

Originally posted by wcb6092:
...Alexandra Chalupa...

Really?

Such a joke.

Schiff denies GOP request to have Ukraine whistleblower testify publicly, warns against 'sham investigations'

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., rejected a request by Republicans to have the Ukraine phone call whistleblower testify at next week's public impeachment inquiry hearings, saying that their testimony was "redundant and unnecessary."

The GOP witness list, obtained by Fox News earlier Saturday, included Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president Joe Biden, and the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower whose complaint about a July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky triggered the impeachment inquiry.

"The committee also will not facilitate efforts by President Trump and his allies in Congress to threaten, intimidate and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm," Schiff said in a letter to Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif. " ... The whistleblower has a right under laws championed by this committee to remain anonymous and to be protected from harm."

"The impeachment inquiry, moreover, has gathered an ever-growing body of evidence -- from witnesses and documents, including the president's own words in his July 25 call record -- that not only confirms but far exceeds the initial information in the whistleblower's complaint. The whistleblower's testimony is therefore redundant and unnecessary," Schiff concluded his letter "In light of the president's threats, the individual's appearance before us would only place their personal safety at grave risk."

Earlier in his letter, Schiff had warned Nunes that the impeachment inquiry and the House Intelligence Committee "will not serve as vehicles" for what he called "sham investigations into the Bidens or debunked conspiracies about 2016 U.S. election interference that President Trump pressed Ukraine to conduct for his personal political benefit."

The impeachment inquiry began when a whistleblower reported that Trump had pushed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation into the Biden family’s dealings in Ukraine—specifically, why former Vice President Joe Biden pressured former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire a top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings, where Hunter held a lucrative role on the board, bringing in a reported $50,000 per month.


Republicans noted that in testimony from former State Department official George Kent raised concerns about "the appearance of a conflict of interest stemming from Mr. Biden's position on Burisma's board," and added that former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovich was prepared by the Obama State Department to address questions about Mr. Biden's position on Burisma during her Senate confirmation process.

Republicans also plan to call the younger Biden's former long-time business partner, Devon Archer, who also sat on the board of Burisma. Republicans claim Archer can help the public to understand "the nature and extent of Ukraine's pervasive corruption information that bears directly on President Trump's longstanding and deeply-held skepticism of the country."

Schiff said in September the whistleblower would appear before Congress “very soon,” but in recent weeks has suggested that testimony is unnecessary.


In his letter to Schiff requesting the whistleblower testify publicly, Nunes said: "Because President Trump should be afforded an opportunity to confront his accusers, the anonymous whistleblower should testify," Nunes wrote. "Moreover, given the multiple discrepancies between the whistleblower's complaint and the closed-door testimony of the witnesses, it is imperative that the American people hear definitively how the whistleblower developed his or her information, and who else the whistleblower may have fed the information he or she gathered and how that treatment of classified information may have led to the false narrative being perpetrated by the Democrats during this process."

Republicans are also requesting that the "more than half a dozen sources" the whistleblower cited in their complaint to the Intelligence Community Inspector General, whose identities also remain anonymous, attend for a public deposition.

The list of witnesses also includes Nellie Ohr, a researcher at opposition research firm Fusion GPS, which commissioned the now–infamous anti-Trump dossier; Alexandra Chalupa, a Ukrainian-American consultant for the Democratic National Committee who allegedly met with officials at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, D.C. to discuss incriminating information about Trump campaign officials; ex-National Security Council official Tim Morrison, former Ukraine envoy Kurt Volker, and high-ranking State Department official David Hale.

Earlier Saturday, the president again called the impeachment inquiry a “witch hunt” and said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe Biden should be added to the list of witnesses who would be called to testify.

"The witch hunt continues, lot of witch hunt continues,” he told reporters. "The Republicans have never been so united and I think the people of our country have never been so united.”

Fox News' Brooke Singman and Adam Shaw contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...-impeachment-inquiry

This is why he needs to recuse himself from these hearings. He's a fact witness with the gavel. No judge would be allowed to preside over a court case that he had communications with witnesses prior to the trial. It's a fucking sham kangaroo court BS political hearing/trial/investigation/whatever. Let both sides call witnesses and ask questions equally. Shifty and Eric C should have to answer questions about conversation and cooperation prior to WB filing. I think it's important for the citizens to know what role the guy holding the gavel had in the matter, and I think it important for the population to know what political connections this guy had and how that influenced his filing.

Shifty it setting a precedent that I think the D's may come to regret and further polarizing the country at the same time.

A short article about Eric Ciaramella

The Radicalizing of Eric Ciaramella

https://spectator.org/the-radi...-of-eric-ciaramella/

While the lawyers representing Eric Ciaramella, the alleged “whistleblower” in the Trump impeachment fiasco, describe him as having spent his entire career in “apolitical civil servant positions,” the truth is that Eric Ciaramella has been involved in radical political behavior throughout his life — including his years at Yale.

The entire clip is a hoot, but if you want a real laugh, go to the 5 minute mark.

LOL ^^^^

Q: "If he {Trump} shot someone on 5th Avenue, would you still vote for him?"

A: "..Why did he shoot him?"

I agree, Awesome answer.

^^^ And what a ridiculous question! Figures...CNN.

quote:

Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
"The committee also will not facilitate efforts by President Trump and his allies in Congress to threaten, intimidate and retaliate against the whistleblower who courageously raised the initial alarm," Schiff said in a letter to Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes, R-Calif. " ... The whistleblower has a right under laws championed by this committee to remain anonymous and to be protected from harm."

"The impeachment inquiry, moreover, has gathered an ever-growing body of evidence -- from witnesses and documents, including the president's own words in his July 25 call record -- that not only confirms but far exceeds the initial information in the whistleblower's complaint. The whistleblower's testimony is therefore redundant and unnecessary," Schiff concluded his letter "In light of the president's threats, the individual's appearance before us would only place their personal safety at grave risk."

What's Schiff's authority that his opinions govern who testifies?

When does the 6th amendment and the right of the accused to face his accuser get invoked?

When does the defense get to subpoena whoever they want?

Eventually the 'neutral' Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will be presiding--is that only when the impeachment moves to the Senate, at which point Schiff won't have carte blanche to this entire process?

Risking thread drift I'll ask: Is it possible for Schiff be impeached?

quote:

Originally posted by vthoky:
Risking thread drift I'll ask: Is it possible for Schiff be impeached?

Well, he's up for election every two years. So whether he stays in office or not should be up to his constituents. Unfortunately, I have no say in that. And neither should anyone else outside of his district.

Rex Tillerson and John Kelly are two of the resistance WH insiders, according to Nikki Haley. One of them probably wrote that anonymout NYT op-ed.

https://www.foxnews.com/politi...ump-it-was-offensive

Nikki Haley reveals Tillerson, Kelly privately discussed resisting Trump: ‘It was offensive’

By Ronn Blitzer | Fox News


Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley blasted former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, recalling a private conversation where they defended resisting President Trump, telling her they did so out of necessity.

Haley told "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O’Donnell that she did not appreciate having the former officials confide in her, as she described in her new book, “With All Due Respect.”

"[I]nstead of saying that to me, they should've been saying that to the president, not asking me to join them on their sidebar plan," Haley said.

Haley said that the two men “confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren't being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country” and how “Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president's decisions was because, if he didn't, people would die…."

Haley, however, was not impressed.

“It should've been, 'Go tell the president what your differences are, and quit if you don't like what he's doing,'” Haley told O’Donnell. “But to undermine a president is really a very dangerous thing. And it goes against the Constitution, and it goes against what the American people want. And it was offensive."

CBS asked both former officials for a response, to which Kelly replied, “If by resistance and stalling she means putting a staff process in place … to ensure the (president) knew all the pros and cons of what policy decision he might be contemplating so he could make an informed decision, then guilty as charged.”

Haley also defended President Trump when it comes to the ongoing impeachment inquiry over suspicion that Trump tried to pressure Ukraine into investigating political rivals by withholding aid.

“You're gonna impeach a president for asking for a favor that didn't happen and giving money and it wasn't withheld? I don't know what you would impeach him on,” Haley said. She later added, "The Ukrainians never did the investigation. And the president released the funds. I mean, when you look at those, there's just nothing impeachable there.”

It IS offensive! Gutless wonders should have quit if they didn't follow the program. Regards 18DAI