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And Warren is getting roasted on the comments of her twitter feed.


Elizabeth Warren demands that both Kavanaugh and Trump 'be impeached'

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren reiterated that she wants Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to be impeached in addition to President Trump.

"I still believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And like the man who appointed him, Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached," the Massachusetts Democrat said Friday evening on Twitter.


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The demand comes as Warren has also told Democrats to focus their impeachment proceedings narrowly on Trump and Ukraine.

"Right now, I'd like to just see us do the Ukraine issue because it is so clear and it is such a clear violation of law," she said Friday.

Warren had previously urged for Kavanaugh to be impeached, but the new call follows House Democrats putting their energy into impeachment proceedings against Trump.

Sen. Kamala Harris, a fellow presidential contender with Warren, also renewed the idea of impeaching Kavanaugh in addition to Trump.

"We need to get to the truth about Kavanaugh. And I believe the best path to truth and accountability is through a formal impeachment process," the California Democrat said in a Friday op-ed.

Harris sent a letter last week to Rep. Jerry Nadler, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, in which she asked him to investigate Kavanaugh.

A handful of Democrats have called for the impeachment of the Supreme Court justice following the release of a controversial book excerpt in which the authors unveiled a new allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh.

The justice has denied the allegation, and the purported victim doesn't remember the event in question, according to friends. The authors of the excerpt failed to originally disclose that information in the story, leading to criticism from both sides of the political spectrum.


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"I still believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And like the man who appointed him, Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached”.


Well, she also believes she’s an Indian/native American so.....



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"I still believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And like the man who appointed him, Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached”.


Well, she also believes she’s an Indian/native American so.....


I don't think she does believe that. She is a life long liar who exploits people who are as dumb, or dumber than she is.


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It leaves me wondering, as insane as these Leftist folks are, Will they ever come to there senses? When they are crushed at the polls next November, will that give them the epiphany and cause them to at least pretend to be sane and moderate? If not, if and when there are convictions and some of the deep state scum get the long prison terms they so richly deserve, will that provoke at least the pretense on sanity? Or is more watering of the Tree of Liberty really going to required? I hope it is the former and not the latter.
 
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It leaves me wondering, as insane as these Leftist folks are, Will they ever come to there senses?


In my experiences I believe there have been more examples of electorates’ responding to defeats with greater extremism than by “coming to their senses.” The first one to really strike me as particularly odd was when the Democrats nominated George McGovern to oppose Nixon. Nixon, whom the left hated—but not as much as Trump—originally defeated liberal Hubert Humphrey in 1968. At the time I interpreted that as a rejection of leftist policies, but then they doubled down by nominating McGovern in 1972, leading to a huge landslide win by Nixon: “Yeah, they voted against a liberal, so let’s see how someone who is even further left will do.”

And then in 2016 I thought something similar was happening: Americans elected and reelected the Obamanation, but the Republicans responded by nominating someone who was not as close to the political center as most of the other serious candidates. When that happened I thought, “The country is drifting further and further to the left, but someone who appears to be on the fringe right will be the savior of the party?”

It turned out, of course, that my skepticism about the appeal of Trump to the electorate was both right and wrong. He was elected President, but only because of our unique (AFAIK) Electoral College system. The people who opposed him—a majority of voters—came within a whisker of electing one of the least qualified and most generally corrupt and undesirable major party candidates in modern times.

The Democrats are very unlikely to forget that Trump won by a squeaker in 2016 and that they regained the House in 2018 after two years of his administration. What would be the reason, therefore, for them to change their policies and practices at this point? They might indeed be crushed in the polls in 2020, but if they are, see my first paragraph above. Neither success nor failure guarantees change.




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It turned out, of course, that my skepticism about the appeal of Trump to the electorate was both right and wrong. He was elected President, but only because of our unique (AFAIK) Electoral College system. The people who opposed him—a majority of voters—came within a whisker of electing one of the least qualified and most generally corrupt and undesirable major party candidates in modern times.

The Democrats are very unlikely to forget that Trump won by a squeaker in 2016 and that they regained the House in 2018 after two years of his administration. What would be the reason, therefore, for them to change their policies and practices at this point? They might indeed be crushed in the polls in 2020, but if they are, see my first paragraph above. Neither success nor failure guarantees change.

Trump didn't win by a 'squeaker'....He won the Electoral College (270 req'd to win) by at least 74 Electoral Votes!

Depending on how you look at it the Electoral Win was either 306-232 (the 74 vote margin Election Night tally), or 304-227 (the 77 vote margin Official Electoral College tally), as a result of seven faithless Electors....Definitely NOT a Squeaker! Just Sayin' Wink


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"I still believe Dr. Christine Blasey Ford. And like the man who appointed him, Brett Kavanaugh should be impeached”.


Well, she also believes she’s an Indian/native American so.....


I don't think she does believe that. She is a life long liar who exploits people who are as dumb, or dumber than she is.

A life long liar who managed to exploit and deceive others to get ahead is not someone I would call dumb. These maggots are very clever .


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The Democrats have violated one of the greatest tenets of the United States... the acceptance of an election and the peaceful transition of power.

They have never accepted the results of the 2016 election. They won't start now.


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Common Funding Themes Link ‘Whistleblower’ Complaint and CrowdStrike Firm Certifying DNC Russia ‘Hack’

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There are common threads that run through an organization repeatedly relied upon in the so-called whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump and CrowdStrike, the outside firm utilized to conclude that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee’s servers since the DNC would not allow the U.S. government to inspect the servers.

One of several themes is financing tied to Google, whose Google Capital led a $100 million funding drive that financed Crowdstrike. Google Capital, which now goes by the name of CapitalG, is an arm of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company. Eric Schmidt, the chairman of Alphabet, has been a staunch and active supporter of Hillary Clinton and is a longtime donor to the Democratic Party.

CrowdStrike was mentioned by Trump in his call with Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, reportedly helped draft CrowdStrike to aid with the DNC’s allegedly hacked server.

On behalf of the DNC and Clinton’s campaign, Perkins Coie also paid the controversial Fusion GPS firm to produce the infamous, largely-discredited anti-Trump dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele.

CrowdStrike is a California-based cybersecurity technology company co-founded by Dmitri Alperovitch.

Alperovitch is a nonresident senior fellow of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at the Atlantic Council, which takes a hawkish approach toward Russia. The Council in turn is financed by Google Inc.

In a perhaps unexpected development, another Atlantic Council funder is Burisma, the natural gas company at the center of allegations regarding Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden. Those allegations were the subject of Trump’s inquiry with Zelemsky related to Biden. The Biden allegations concern significant questions about Biden’s role in Ukraine policy under the Obama administration. This took place during a period when Hunter Biden received $50,000 a month from Burisma.

Besides Google and Burisma funding, the Council is also financed by billionaire activist George Soros’s Open Society Foundations as well as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc. and the U.S. State Department.

Google, Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Rockefeller Fund and an agency of the State Department each also finance a self-described investigative journalism organization repeatedly referenced as a source of information in the so-called whistleblower’s complaint alleging Trump was “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country” in the 2020 presidential race.

The charges in the July 22 report referenced in the whistleblower’s document and released by the Google and Soros-funded organization, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), seem to be the public precursors for a lot of the so-called whistleblower’s own claims, as Breitbart News documented.

One key section of the so-called whistleblower’s document claims that “multiple U.S. officials told me that Mr. Giuliani had reportedly privately reached out to a variety of other Zelensky advisers, including Chief of Staff Andriy Bohdan and Acting Chairman of the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov.”

This was allegedly to follow up on Trump’s call with Zelensky in order to discuss the “cases” mentioned in that call, according to the so-called whistleblower’s narrative. The complainer was clearly referencing Trump’s request for Ukraine to investigate the Biden corruption allegations.

Even though the statement was written in first person – “multiple U.S. officials told me” – it contains a footnote referencing a report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

That footnote reads:

In a report published by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) on 22 July, two associates of Mr. Giuliani reportedly traveled to Kyiv in May 2019 and met with Mr. Bakanov and another close Zelensky adviser, Mr. Serhiy Shefir.

The so-called whistleblower’s account goes on to rely upon that same OCCRP report on three more occasions. It does so to:


Write that Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko “also stated that he wished to communicate directly with Attorney General Barr on these matters.”
Document that Trump adviser Rudi Giuliani “had spoken in late 2018 to former Prosecutor General Shokin, in a Skype call arranged by two associates of Mr. Giuliani.”
Bolster the charge that, “I also learned from a U.S. official that ‘associates’ of Mr. Giuliani were trying to make contact with the incoming Zelenskyy team.” The so-called whistleblower then relates in another footnote, “I do not know whether these associates of Mr. Giuliani were the same individuals named in the 22 July report by OCCRP, referenced above.”

The OCCRP report repeatedly referenced is actually a “joint investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and BuzzFeed News, based on interviews and court and business records in the United States and Ukraine.”

BuzzFeed infamously also first published the full anti-Trump dossier alleging unsubstantiated collusion between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. The dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee and was produced by the Fusion GPS opposition dirt outfit.

The OCCRP and BuzzFeed “joint investigation” resulted in both OCCRP and BuzzFeed publishing similar lengthy pieces on July 22 claiming that Giuliani was attempting to use connections to have Ukraine investigate Trump’s political rivals.

The so-called whistleblower’s document, however, only mentions the largely unknown OCCRP and does not reference BuzzFeed, which has faced scrutiny over its reporting on the Russia collusion claims.

Another listed OCCRP funder is the Omidyar Network, which is the nonprofit for liberal billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

Together with Soros’s Open Society, Omidyar also funds the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, which hosts the International Fact-Checking Network that partnered with Facebook to help determine whether news stories are “disputed.”

Like OCCRP, the Poynter Institute’s so-called news fact-checking project is openly funded by not only Soros’ Open Society Foundations but also Google and the National Endowment for Democracy.

CrowdStrike and DNC servers

CrowdStrike, meanwhile, was brought up by Trump in his phone call with Zelensky.

According to the transcript, Trump told Zelensky, “I would like you to find out what happened with this whole situation with Ukraine, they say CrowdStrike … I guess you have one of your wealthy people…The server, they say Ukraine has it.”

In his extensive report, Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller notes that his investigative team did not “obtain or examine” the servers of the DNC in determining whether those servers were hacked by Russia.

The DNC famously refused to allow the FBI to access its servers to verify the allegation that Russia carried out a hack during the 2016 presidential campaign. Instead, the DNC reached an arrangement with the FBI in which CrowdStrike conducted forensics on the server and shared details with the FBI.

In testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee in January 2017, then-FBI Director James Comey confirmed that the FBI registered “multiple requests at different levels,” to review the DNC’s hacked servers. Ultimately, the DNC and FBI came to an agreement in which a “highly respected private company”—a reference to CrowdStrike—would carry out forensics on the servers and share any information that it discovered with the FBI, Comey testified.

A senior law enforcement official stressed the importance of the FBI gaining direct access to the servers, a request that was denied by the DNC.

“The FBI repeatedly stressed to DNC officials the necessity of obtaining direct access to servers and data, only to be rebuffed until well after the initial compromise had been mitigated,” the official was quoted by the news media as saying.

“This left the FBI no choice but to rely upon a third party for information. These actions caused significant delays and inhibited the FBI from addressing the intrusion earlier,” the official continued.

Biden, Ukraine and Burisma

Ukraine in 2016 removed a key prosecutor probing alleged corruption involving Burisma, the same firm paying Hunter Biden. Joe Biden two years later admitted to personally threatening to withhold loan guarantees from Ukraine unless the prosecutor in question, Viktor Shokin, was removed.

Biden publically boasted about his role in the removal of Shokin during a panel discussion sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018.

“I remember going over (to Ukraine), convincing our team … that we should be providing for loan guarantees. … And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee. And I had gotten a commitment from (then Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko) and from (then-Prime Minister Arseniy) Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor (Shokin). And they didn’t…” Biden said.

“They were walking out to a press conference. I said, nah, … we’re not going to give you the billion dollars. They said, ‘You have no authority. You’re not the president.’ … I said, call him. I said, I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion. … I looked at them and said, ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

After it was revealed that Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings in 2014, ethics experts were quoted by the news media as raising questions about potential conflicts of interest.

Yoshiko M. Herrera, a Russia and Eurasian policy expert from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, was quoted by the Washington Post saying that Biden’s position was “a conflict of interest even if it doesn’t break any laws.”

“Calling Hunter Biden a private citizen ignores the obvious links to the vice president,” Herrera stated. “Conflict-of-interest rules should have applied. If Biden is working for the Obama administration on Ukraine, his son should not have been on the board of a company there that could be affected by U.S. policy spearheaded by his father.”

A New York Times editorial posited that Hunter Biden’s role in the board of Burisma undermined his father’s credibility in Ukraine issues.

The newspaper opined:

Sadly, the credibility of Mr. Biden’s message may be undermined by the association of his son with a Ukrainian natural-gas company, Burisma Holdings, which is owned by a former government official suspected of corrupt practices. A spokesman for the son, Hunter Biden, argues that he joined the board of Burisma to strengthen its corporate governance. That may be so. But Burisma’s owner, Mykola Zlochevsky, has been under investigation in Britain and in Ukraine. It should be plain to Hunter Biden that any connection with a Ukrainian oligarch damages his father’s efforts to help Ukraine. This is not a board he should be sitting on.


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The Democrats have violated one of the greatest tenets of the United States... the acceptance of an election and the peaceful transition of power.


Yes, indeed. You could write that all bolded. It is the single most important point in everything that has happened since 2016. The harm they are inflicting on our country cannot be over exaggerated. If justice prevailed, the whole lot of them would be hung.


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And I now offer you yet more evidence that the Left is utterly delusional and completely, totally, mentally defective while also being utterly dishonest. The article is a bit too long to post here, but have a read...if you dare.

Trump acts as if he is above the law. The law has begun to fight back
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If justice prevailed, the whole lot of them would be hung.
And what a pay-per-view event that would be. Smile


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And I now offer you yet more evidence that the Left is utterly delusional and completely, totally, mentally defective while also being utterly dishonest. The article is a bit too long to post here, but have a read...if you dare.

Trump acts as if he is above the law. The law has begun to fight back


Well, I'll post it, so that garbage article doesn't get any more clicks than necessary.

Trump acts as if he is above the law. The law has begun to fight back
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Democrats waited for their moment and, when the president started to believe he was secure, they struck. Will his complacency fell him?
Sat 28 Sep 2019 14.00 EDT

Donald Trump stands accused of using US aid to try to get Kiev to investigate presidential rival Joe Biden

Nancy Pelosi’s decision to begin a formal impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, following reports that he used the power of his office to solicit interference by a foreign government in the 2020 US election, makes him only the fourth president in US history to have this notable distinction, with Bill Clinton in 1998, Richard Nixon in 1973 and Andrew Johnson in 1868. The picture changes by the hour, but the main story concerns Trump’s apparent offer to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, to unfreeze $40m in (Congress-approved) military aid if he would investigate Joe Biden, the current frontrunner in the Democratic primaries.


The conversation so shocked a member of the intelligence community that they filed an official whistleblower complaint. The White House then appears to have engaged in a cover-up, in part by keeping these conversations from officials who would normally have access to them, as well as allegedly moving the transcript of the call to a secret computer system (the Presidential Records Act of 1978, passed in response to the Watergate scandal, mandates that all presidential records must be officially preserved).

Since the Democrats took majority control of the House of Representatives in January, Pelosi’s caucus has been under intense pressure from some to impeach Trump, based on his first two years in office, beginning with his firing of James Comey as FBI director to thwart investigations into his own activities. Others urged caution, for several reasons. Some pointed out that article II of the US constitution specifies impeachment requires “treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors” and that what constitutes “high crimes and misdemeanors” remains a subject of debate.

In practice, the House gets to decide, but it must tread warily. For example, in 1868 it charged Johnson with 11 articles of impeachment, including contempt of Congress, and “bringing disgrace and ridicule to the presidency”. While it is tempting to ponder Trump being impeached for bringing disgrace and ridicule to the presidency, it is hard to see the Senate being convinced. Historically, other impeachment articles have included abuse of power, lying under oath, and obstruction of justice, all of which are likely to hold more sway with both the Senate and the American public.

House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi after reading a statement announcing a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump
House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi after reading a statement announcing a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
Nor does impeaching Trump guarantee his removal: Clinton and Johnson were both impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate. (Impeachment works like a trial, with the House prosecuting, the chief justice of the supreme court presiding, and the Senate as jury voting whether to convict.)The House only needs a simple majority to pass articles of impeachment, but conviction requires a two-thirds Senate majority: 67 votes. No US president has ever been removed by Senate vote, and Mitch McConnell’s Senate has, thus far, implacably voted along party lines to protect Trump.

Many have concluded that impeachment would be at best pointless, and at worst destructive, when the Senate seems all but guaranteed to acquit. They also point to Trump’s near 90% approval rating among registered Republicans, as well as Fox News’s dominance over the narrative that conservative Americans encounter.

One obvious rebuttal to this line of reasoning is that upholding the rule of law matters in principle, as does accountability. Nor is public opinion fixed. It could easily shift toward removal as hearings brought wrongdoing to light; this is what led to Nixon’s resignation. Senators in close-fought seats who voted to acquit a president widely viewed as guilty might also find themselves paying the price in next year’s elections.

But there are other arguments against letting McConnell’s presumptive support for Trump sway the decision about impeachment. One is that you can’t end corruption by waiting for the corrupt to give you permission. But it also simply isn’t true that Republicans in Congress are in thrall to Trump personally. Most of them merely hitched their buggies to his circus wagon.

McConnell almost certainly views Trump as a useful idiot, one to cut loose the moment he becomes a liability. We might note, in this context, the Washington Post’s report that McConnell seems to have urged the White House to release the damning memo of Trump’s phone call with Zelenskiy. Trump’s mental competencies are in serious question, but McConnell is more than capable of the second-order thinking required to convince Trump to incriminate himself. And there is another option, unpalatable to many, but undeniably real: if McConnell decides that his interests are best served by Trump’s removal, he can always offer Trump and his family a full pardon from President Pence in return for resignation.

But that’s all a long way off, while information emerges at dizzying speed. The former special ambassador to Ukraine Kurt Volker just stepped down amid rumours that he intends to reveal what he knows, while Congress has subpoenaed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, informing him that failure to comply would constitute obstruction of Congress – which could add to the articles of impeachment against the president. Once it becomes clear that the Trump White House is a sinking ship, we should expect to see more and more officials desert it. As for the supposedly fearsome support of Trump’s oft-cited “base”, which has become something of a political bogeyman, its ferocity is a function of its dwindling size. A 2018 Rasmussen report found that 40% of US voters identify as Democrat, 28% as independent, and only 29% as Republican: increasingly, only diehard Trump supporters will be left, and they are vastly outnumbered by his critics.

Democrats have been pilloried for not impeaching, for impeaching, for impeaching the wrong way or for the wrong reasons
The Democrats, meanwhile, have been pilloried from start to finish: for not impeaching, for impeaching, for impeaching the wrong way or for the wrong reasons. But the truth is that we are in uncharted seas, and there is no easy way to remove a president. In hindsight, it is hard not to conclude that in biding her time Pelosi was waiting to reel Trump in.

The timing of some of these meetings is striking, to say the least: it was the day after Trump fired Comey that he met Russian leaders in the Oval Office and allegedly told them how relieved he was Comey was gone, while divulging highly classified information and informing them he didn’t care if they attacked US elections. By the same token, it was also the very day after Robert Mueller’s congressional testimony brought no apparent repercussions to Trump on 24 July that he engaged in the sensational discussion with Zelenskiy .

He appears to have been emboldened by feeling above the law, behaving with ever greater abandon, while Pelosi waited patiently for him to shoot that gun on 5th Avenue, as he kept threatening to do. Perhaps it was just a happy accident that Pelosi gave Trump all the rope with which he proceeded to hang himself, but her intention is now moot: that’s how it has played out.

Trump’s pattern of grandiosity, delusions of superiority, profound entitlement, desperate need for admiration, and bitter spite all but guaranteed the outcome: he wouldn’t be able to resist abusing his power, and didn’t. Trump loves to brag that he’s the most successful president in US history – but if he is actually convicted by the Senate and removed from office that will make him, officially, the least.


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Just when I think I could not possibly be any more disgusted with our educational system. While the principal's initial actions were commendable, it would be interesting to see how this is ultimately handled.



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Middle school teacher investigated for quiz question referring to Trump as ‘idiot’


PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - A Florida middle school teacher is under investigation after giving students a multiple-choice question about President Donald Trump that referred to him as an “idiot,” according to reports.

The incident happened at Watson B. Duncan Middle School, which serves students in grades sixth through eighth, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

The quiz gave multiple choice answers to the question, “45th Pres; 2017; Republican; Real Estate businessman; Idiot” with the possible answers as Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter, according to WPTV-TV.

Trump, who became known as a real estate mogul prior to being elected, officially took office in 2017.

One of the students showed the quiz question to a parent, who in turn went to school administrators about it, according to WPTV.

The Palm Beach County School District said the teacher was reassigned and an investigation was underway.

The school’s principal also sent a letter to parents on Wednesday regarding the incident:

"A question on a quiz given by your child's Computer Applications teacher yesterday was brought to my attention this morning. The question was inappropriate and demonstrated an unacceptable lack of good judgment on the part of the teacher. An investigation is now underway, and the teacher has been reassigned during this process. Because this is an open inquiry, I am not at liberty to share any additional details with you at this point. I apologize for this incident, and for the offensive verbiage used in the question. Thank you for your patience, and your continued support of Watson B. Duncan Middle School."
 
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John Brennan tweet today:

A reminder to federal officials:

There is no limit on the number of individuals who can use the whistleblower statute.

If you think you were involved in unlawful activity as a result of a directive from Mr. Trump or someone doing his bidding, now is the time to report it.

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Very convenient that people can now report things that other people talked about. Even anonymous people.
 
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John Brennan tweet today:

A reminder to federal officials:

There is no limit on the number of individuals who can use the whistleblower statute.

If you think you were involved in unlawful activity as a result of a directive from Mr. Trump or someone doing his bidding, now is the time to report it.

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Very convenient that people can now report things that other people talked about. Even anonymous people.



^^^^ That has got to be the clarion call for all deep state snakes to rise up and push the far left "Administration Corruption Hoax" ASAP with whatever they can cobble up.

The are feeling the heat. Cool




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They should file complaints galore.

Isn't it kind of a way to self-report deep-state status? Then, the counter deep-state should leak the names.

Maybe it's a way to try to make a path to protect deep staters by giving them anonymity and protection from any "retaliation" aka accountability?

It wouldn't surprise me if Barr or others find a way to pierce this contrived way of handing out "whistle blower" protection.

The IG report is coming soon. Quick. Try to get yourself some immunity before accountabilty and exposure arrives.

It always seemed to me that the DNI was all too quick to assert his sacred duty to staunchly protect this so called whistle blower from everything.

It was as if someone else drilled that into him. It had the feel of: "These are not the droids you're looking for." He seemed more a parrot of someone else's conclusions.

Why did Brennon say "now is the time to report it?" Not later, but "now" before the IG report drops.


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Looks like the intelligence community is in on ousting Trump.

It's time for a Patriot to leak the name to the media. Give the left a bit of their medicine.

The Deep state is doing everything in their power to get rid of Trump. Time to start declassifying Spygate documents by the TRUCKLOAD.

And time for Barr to make a move. It's go time AG, what have you got?


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Just when I think I could not possibly be any more disgusted with our educational system. While the principal's initial actions were commendable, it would be interesting to see how this is ultimately handled.



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Middle school teacher investigated for quiz question referring to Trump as ‘idiot’


PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. - A Florida middle school teacher is under investigation after giving students a multiple-choice question about President Donald Trump that referred to him as an “idiot,” according to reports.

The incident happened at Watson B. Duncan Middle School, which serves students in grades sixth through eighth, located in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

The quiz gave multiple choice answers to the question, “45th Pres; 2017; Republican; Real Estate businessman; Idiot” with the possible answers as Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter, according to WPTV-TV.

Trump, who became known as a real estate mogul prior to being elected, officially took office in 2017.

One of the students showed the quiz question to a parent, who in turn went to school administrators about it, according to WPTV.

The Palm Beach County School District said the teacher was reassigned and an investigation was underway.

The school’s principal also sent a letter to parents on Wednesday regarding the incident:

"A question on a quiz given by your child's Computer Applications teacher yesterday was brought to my attention this morning. The question was inappropriate and demonstrated an unacceptable lack of good judgment on the part of the teacher. An investigation is now underway, and the teacher has been reassigned during this process. Because this is an open inquiry, I am not at liberty to share any additional details with you at this point. I apologize for this incident, and for the offensive verbiage used in the question. Thank you for your patience, and your continued support of Watson B. Duncan Middle School."

Ooh! Ooh! (Gunther Toody voice). I know! Reagan is the Republican, Trump is the Real Estate Guy, and Carter is the idiot. Did I get them right?


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