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Report: Peter Thiel ‘Put His Money Where His Mouth Is’ with Trump Victory Committee

PayPal co-founder and prominent big tech supporter of President Trump Peter Thiel was reportedly the biggest donor to the Trump Victory Committee in the last quarter, donating $250,000.

According to the Mercury News, which described the donation as Thiel putting “his money where his mouth is,” the donation “appears to be the first contribution by Thiel to the organization since the 2016 presidential campaign, when he forked over more than $1 million. He also donated $101,700 to the Republican National Committee July 10, according to a previously released FEC filing.”

In the last quarter, United States Steel also donated $100,000, while former Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz donated $50,000.

In July, Thiel, who has previously described himself as a “proud” Republican, spoke at this year’s Turning Point USA High School Leadership Summit, and in 2016, Thiel was a Trump delegate at the Republican National Convention.

Thiel also sat next to President Trump during the 2016 meeting with tech company leaders, where Trump declared Thiel was “ahead of the curve” and “very special.”

Thiel has moved his company out of Silicon Valley, setting up shop in Los Angeles. During a speech in July, Thiel described the overwhelmingly progressive culture of Silicon Valley to be “like North Korea.”

https://www.breitbart.com/tech...p-victory-committee/

https://www.reuters.com/articl...ources-idUSKCN1MQ2Q3

CHICAGO (Reuters) - United States Steel Corp (X.N) workers are set to get the biggest wage jump in at least six years under a new deal negotiated with the company, providing early signs that gains from U.S. President Donald Trump’s clampdown on foreign imports are finally trickling down.

The agreement, reached on Monday, proposes a cumulative 14 percent wage increase over a four-year period, three sources familiar with details of the negotiations told Reuters on Tuesday.

Trump’s restrictive trade policy, coupled with a strong economy, has sent domestic steel prices soaring, helping U.S. Steel post a near 60 percent increase in pretax profits in the June quarter.

The deal, which needs to be ratified by 16,000 workers across the country, comes days after U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross called steelmakers to share the profits from high steel prices with their workers.

It comes at a time when U.S. wages are growing at the fastest pace in more than nine years.

https://www.foxnews.com/opinio...her-little-dna-story

President Trump has been on another winning streak, and the Democrats are desperate for attention. Their problem? All the attention they get is also a win for the president, as it reminds us why he won in 2016 and why winning again in the midterm is so important.

Let’s start with something the media takes little heed of: The record job openings for the summer. CNBC’s headline says it all: “Another great sign for the economy: Job openings hit an all-time high in August.” CNBC also noted, the “survey also found a near-record amount of quits for the month, indicating workers’ confidence in finding new positions.”

That’s right. Not only do Americans have a job, but Trump has created an environment where we have more control over what we’re doing, and know we can find something better for ourselves and our families. Americans are in charge of their lives again.

One of the reasons you don’t hear about the president’s legislative, policy and leadership success touted in the media is because they’re covering the mobs and chaos brought to you by the Democrats. While many are wondering what the Democrats could be thinking by encouraging “incivility” and violence, it is beginning to make sense: They want to give the media something to cover other than the continued blossoming of the country, while distracting their own base from the fact that everyone is better off now than they’ve been in 17 years.

The Democrats, however, are following the Obama rule book — they’re obsessed only with themselves. The remarks by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. encouraging chaos and “kicking” people with whom you disagree were deliberate comments that will ruin people’s lives. No one is going to save the poor sap who thinks he’s following the orders of his heroes. Clinton isn’t going to bail anyone out of jail, and former President Barack Obama isn’t going to be anyone’s lead defense attorney.

On Monday, within a week of the Clinton and Holder calls for harassment and violence, Sen. Susan Collins’ Bangor, Maine, home received a letter that required local and federal law enforcement action. Her street was cordoned off, her home blocked off with yellow police tape, and an agent in a hazmat suit was photographed placing a letter in a protective bag.

Sending an apparently lethal envelope to the home of a senator because you don’t like how she voted would fall into the “uncivil” category of things, right Hillary?

In the meantime, Sen. Elizabeth Warren continued to promote the Obama agenda by thinking only of herself and her preferred political future. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts released a DNA test that she (and the pliant legacy media) declared proved her Native American ancestry. But not really.

The real story is that Warren’s DNA was compared to Latin Americans, not Native Americans.

“The genetics researcher who reviewed Senator Elizabeth Warren’s, D-Mass, DNA in an attempt to counter President Trump’s ‘Pocahontas’ jibes compared her samples with those from people in Colombia, Mexico, and Peru rather than Native Americans in the U.S.,” the Washington Examiner reported.

“[The researcher] however, didn’t compare Ms. Warren’s DNA against Native Americans who live in the continental U.S., citing cultural reluctance to submit to DNA tests. Instead, he used recent samples from other countries whose populations presumably share a lineage during human settlement of the Americas about 15,000-25,000 years ago,” the newspaper noted.

Former Obama 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina was none too happy about the situation. He tweeted: “Argue the substance all you want, but why 22 days before a crucial election where we MUST win house and senate to save America, why did @SenWarren have to do her announcement now? Why can’t Dems ever stay focused???”

“Why now” Jimmy? Because Barack Obama destroyed the Democratic Party as he focused on creating a cult for himself. Because Obama trained everyone to think only of him (and when he was gone, of themselves), not of the party which would require Democrats to actually think about the country and their constituents.

Which brings up an important question: What is Messina thinking the Democrats should stay focused on exactly? There’s only one narrative that Warren’s Native American gambit disrupted — that a Democratic mob is out there and will hurt you if you don’t vote for them.

Strangely, Messina was not in the news complaining about Clinton’s endorsement of incivility or Holder’s call to kick people. Because that is the official narrative. His public wrath, therefore, was for Warren and her little DNA story.

Trump’s and the Republicans’ good few weeks, and turnaround in the polls, started with the exposure of the Democratic mob in the Senate trying to destroy Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, but that was simply the beginning.

The Democratic Party meltdown continues with threatening the electorate and displaying a preference for chaos. Why? They believe being honest about their actual policy agenda of impeachment (of Trump and Justice Kavanaugh), gun control, open borders, and punishing Americans for disobeying them in 2016, must be hidden — and the only thing they can muster up, like all bullies, are threats of violence and discord.

The bottom line is this: Liberals who care about their and the country’s future must put the current incarnation of the Democratic Party out of its misery and join everyone else who is voting in the midterm for peace, prosperity and civility.

It amazes me how quickly the Democrat party came unglued. They’re like that crazy ex that you thought was a little off and then when you split they instantly went Fatal Attraction. Keep up the good work you clowns!

President Trump tweets:

I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, from entering Mexico to U.S.....

....In addition to stopping all payments to these countries, which seem to have almost no control over their population, I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!..

....The assault on our country at our Southern Border, including the Criminal elements and DRUGS pouring in, is far more important to me, as President, than Trade or the USMCA. Hopefully Mexico will stop this onslaught at their Northern Border. All Democrats fault for weak laws!

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[She is who said his opponents take him literally but not seriously, while his supporters take him seriously but not literally. Very insightful!]

ERIE, Pa. -- The president appears to be in a good place.

He is standing in the catacombs of the Erie Insurance Arena, hidden from the stands directly above him, where thousands of supporters are gathered to see him in this northwest Pennsylvania industrial town. Donald Trump is the calm in the center of the storm that surrounds every move he makes during his visit here.

As the chaotic dance of advance work moves like a caffeinated waltz around him, he maintains his composure. His charm is on display as he banters with David Urban, his former Pennsylvania campaign manager, who joins Trump almost any time he heads to his home state.

Trump is also serious as he receives updates on Hurricane Michael.

Hallways and walkways and locker rooms in the subterranean part of the arena have been turned into a conference room for a business roundtable with local leaders, an elegant fundraising room for Pennsylvania candidates running to help hold his party's majorities in the House and Senate, and a black curtained-off area where he can conduct an interview with a local Erie television station and the Washington Examiner.

While White House staff members -- such as senior adviser Stephen Miller, assistant to the president Johnny DeStefano and deputy press secretary Lindsay Walters -- bustle around him, the Secret Service agents and military personnel are like stone sentinels whom everyone else artfully moves around.

When I interview just about anyone, it always involves an audio recorder. When I interview the president of the United States, it always involves at least three audio recorders. It takes only one time for a recorder to fail you before you learn to always bring a backup.

Trump laughs as I sloppily place three of them on the floor at his feet and one in my hand.

"I'm very impressed. She doesn't want to blow the interview," he says to a room full of laughter and then shakes my hand.

The president wants to know if I am staying for the speech and then notes that not only is the inside filled to the rafters but the outside is also. "They said it's the biggest. ... You know, there's 10,000 people outside that can't get in," he says of the overflow crowd about to watch him on a Jumbotron set up outside the arena.

An hour later, when I leave before his speech is over, photographer Justin Merriman and I walk outside to discover the president wasn't even remotely exaggerating. Thousands of people stand cheering Trump's final words in a festive atmosphere. Supporters wave their "Make America Great Again" hats when he hits key points that matter to them, like Steelers fans waving their Terrible Towels, all the while sending beach balls across the massive crowd.

The mood is part tailgate, part Jimmy Buffett concert.

Two years ago, when Trump made Erie one of his earliest stops after securing the Republican nomination in Cleveland, the political class laughed. It wasn't completely tone-deaf when it did; Republicans didn't win Erie.

How, the class asked, is Erie important to whatever map his team was trying to form to win the Electoral College? Republicans don't win Erie, and they don't win Pennsylvania.

And Republican candidates rarely came to Erie to ask for their vote. The last Republican presidential candidate to win Erie County was Ronald Reagan, who persuaded the residents with an aspirational economic message.

Trump, too, used that kind of message in 2016. But when analysts looked at his message, they cried racism among the voters, despite the fact that in the previous two election cycles, many of those same voters supported Barack Obama with nearly 60 percent of their votes over both John McCain and Mitt Romney.

The last sitting president to have visited Erie was George W. Bush in 2004.

This is not your grandfather's Erie. A generation ago, this town boomed in industry, and her residents were born mostly Catholic, with a union card in one hand and a registration card for the Democratic Party in the other.

It's where thousands of blue-collar kids from Pittsburgh and Cleveland and all points in between helped their parents pack up their station wagons to spend the day or the weekend or, if you were really lucky, a week on the shores of Presque Isle, their landlocked version of going to the Atlantic Ocean.

Twitter would soon light up with snarky jokes when Trump takes to the stage and says that Republican Rep. Mike Kelly wants sand for Erie's beaches, the crowd inside roaring in approval; the tourist industry is a big part of Erie's redevelopment for the future.

Erie has been on its knees for years but is working its way back thanks to a dedicated business and civic leadership community that has called this area home for generations and is working to plug the flow of job losses that hit 10,000 between 2010 and 2016.


John Persinger, the Republican candidate for mayor last year, who lost by some 1,200 votes to Democrat Joe Schember, is part of that coalition of civic leaders as CEO of the Erie Downtown Development Corporation.

Their goal: to revitalize the city of Erie.

Persinger, 37, says when he arrives Wednesday for the rally that the line stretched for four blocks "and then wrapped around the Federal Courthouse." He adds, "I've never seen anything like that."

"The crowd was very peaceful and calm and happy to stay even if they didn't get in," he says.

"They are filled with hope," says Trump when he again mentions the people waiting outside.

Persinger doesn't disagree. "They really are," he says. "This is a town that has seen the effects for a generation of boarded-up homes, people leaving and shuttered businesses. They feel the change, and the president does a good job of emphasizing that."

Our interview goes for 20 minutes, far longer than his aides want, but he doesn't stop, and I don't stop asking. He discusses the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, which Democrat he'd like to face in the 2020 presidential election, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Hillary Clinton, Kanye West, closing a trade deal with China and bringing the country back together.

On Kavanaugh, he is triumphant about how he was able to get a Supreme Court nominee confirmed despite the circus that surrounded the process, saying any other Republican president would have "abandoned" Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court nominee.

"I felt that it would be a horrible thing not to go through with this," he says. "The easier path would have been -- you know, we have some good people (on the Supreme Court shortlist); they're all amazing people. But I felt it would be so horrible and so unfair to him. I thought it would have been destructive; it would have been terrible."

He was also clearly so incensed by the treatment of the judge during the Senate confirmation hearings that he "didn't even think about going the other way."

He adds: "This is a person that actually, when I chose him, I said this would be very easy. He's led an exemplary life. I mean, he's never had a problem in his life ... all of a sudden, this stuff came up at the end and totally, you know, uncorroborated."

On China, Trump is confident they would strike a deal with the U.S. on trade, contending that his policies had pushed Beijing into a corner by weakening its economy.

"I think China will ultimately make a deal," he says. "They want to talk right now ... China is not doing well, as you know."

The administration announced that it has tentative plans to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping late next month.

Trump claims he didn't want to put the pressure on China but was obligated to do so in response to its aggressive trade policies, saying the issue had slid in previous administrations.

"Not that I want that, but they've been taking out $500 billion a year from our country," Trump says. "Nobody did anything about it. I spoke to one of the top people in China, who we negotiated with. I said, 'How did this happen?' He's a pro. He understands my question very well. He said, 'Nobody ever called us.'"

The U.S. has placed tariffs on $250 billion worth of goods from China and threatened to cover all of the rest with tariffs. It has also placed tariffs of 25 percent on steel imports and 10 percent on aluminum ones, policies mainly directed at China. The recent U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement includes language prohibiting those countries from striking deals with China. Beijing has hit back with tariffs on $110 billion worth of U.S. goods.

Trump also discusses whom he'd like to face in 2020. "All of them," he jokes, but he does not want to give anyone too much fame. He then takes a jab at some of the potential Democratic opponents, claiming that Sen. Elizabeth Warren "made a living" dishonestly from being "an Indian under minority protections."

Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey has "destroyed Newark," he says. He brands former Vice President Joe Biden as a political failure before "Obama took him off the trash heap."

And he criticizes Hillary Clinton for telling Democrats that they "cannot be civil" with Republicans, saying that the statement shows "why she lost" to him in 2016.

"I saw the statement by Hillary, and that's why she lost. Because she never got it," Trump says. "From day one, she never got it. She never understood the Bernie (Sanders) thing, and she doesn't understand."

He adds: "She didn't understand what her own party was. That's why Hillary lost. And that statement is another reason. It's why she lost."

He was irritated after the recent stock market losses, which he lays squarely on the Federal Reserve. "I think the Fed is overly aggressive" in raising interest rates, he says.

"Other than that, we are doing so well. It's incredible," he adds. "The numbers, the corporate earnings, the liquidity -- it's incredible. Our country is so strong. We've never been in a position as good as we are now economically."

"Mr. President, there's a lot of people waiting for you," someone says from behind me.

Trump shakes my hand and thanks me. As he walks away, he turns and asks if I want to continue walking with him as he makes his way from one end of the arena to the other, toward the stage.

He pauses to straighten his tie in a mirror. We pass scores of Secret Service agents in suits, and as we move down the hallway, a line of men in drab-green full combat gear, including night vision goggles and automatic weapons, follows.

Along with them is a heavily guarded large soft-padded suitcase followed by a military medic.

Two years and a handful of days earlier, I interviewed then-candidate Trump in Pittsburgh ahead of a natural gas convention where he was the keynote speaker. It was a time when most pollsters and pundits showed him unable to close the deal with voters and beat Hillary Clinton.

His demeanor that day wasn't much different than it is now. He appears to be still more comfortable chatting or sharing jokes with the service workers and police officers backstage than he is with the elite he grew up with.

As he makes his way toward the end of the hall, he peeks through a curtain at one of the side entrances to the arena. An officer is startled to see the president taking a sneak peek at his own rally.

Trump smiles at him; he smiles at the president. No one in the crowd sees him but the police officer, because all eyes are fixed for the man about to take the stage.

"It really is all about hope," he says as his aides take him toward that stage. Seconds later, the arena shudders as the crowd welcomes the president of the United States.

Link

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr...logical-toxin-weapon

Utah Man Charged in Seven-Count Federal Indictment with Threat to Use a Biological Toxin as a Weapon

A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a seven-count indictment Thursday morning charging William Clyde Allen, III, age 39, of Logan, Utah, in connection with ricin-related threats. The indictment alleges he knowingly threatened to use a biological agent and toxin, specifically ricin, as a weapon.

Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division, U.S. Attorney John W. Huber of Utah, Special Agent in Charge Eric K. Barnhart of the FBI’s Salt Lake City Field Office, Special Agent in Charge John Gullickson of the U.S. Secret Service’s Denver Field Office, and U.S. Postal Inspector Jared D. Bingham, Team Leader in Salt Lake City, announced the indictment.

The indictment also charges Allen with one count of mailing a threat against the President and five counts of mailing threatening communications to an officer or an employee of the United States in the indictment returned Thursday morning.

Allen was arrested on a federal complaint filed Oct. 5, 2018. He was ordered detained pending resolution of the case at a detention hearing Monday. U.S. Magistrate Judge Dustin B. Pead found him to be a danger to the community. Allen entered a plea of not guilty to the charges Thursday morning in U.S. District Court. U.S. District Judge David Sam will preside over a four-day trial starting Dec. 26, 2018, in Salt Lake City.

Thanks for that post, JALLEN – a day brightener. From your post:

“His demeanor that day wasn't much different than it is now. He appears to be still more comfortable chatting or sharing jokes with the service workers and police officers backstage than he is with the elite he grew up with.”

What a contrast with HRC’s disdainful attitude towards the service workers and police officers assigned to her.

My youngest daughter is 15 and is a HUGE Trunp supporter as she is very active and up to date with her politics.
She is utterly and completely heartbroken by the fact that she will not be old enough to cast her first vote for DJT. I told her that it's no problem. All she needs to do is work to convince as many as she can to vote for him in her stead.

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My youngest daughter is 15 and is a HUGE Trunp supporter as she is very active and up to date with her politics.
She is utterly and completely heartbroken by the fact that she will not be old enough to cast her first vote for DJT. I told her that it's no problem. All she needs to do is work to convince as many as she can to vote for him in her stead.

Number one......she is politically invested at 15. Awesome daughter and great job dad!

Number two........maybe she can get excited about voting Ivanka Trump or Nikki Haley.

Rosenstein to interview w Congress on 24 Oct 2018


https://oversight.house.gov/re...iew-with-rosenstein/

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) announced Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will appear on October 24, 2018, for a transcribed interview conducted by Chairmen Bob Goodlatte and Trey Gowdy and Ranking Members Jerry Nadler and Elijah Cummings.

A court reporter will be present to record all questions asked and answers provided. The interview will be under oath. The transcript will then be reviewed by the Intelligence Community to avoid the public dissemination of classified or otherwise protected information. Once cleared, the transcript will be publicly available.

The interview will be conducted in a secure setting so all relevant questions can be asked and answered without regard to classification.

Present for the interview will be the two chairmen, the two ranking members, Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein and a court reporter.

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^^^^^ I predict that the transcript will be heavily redacted. The public will see nothing useful.

flashguy

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Number two........maybe she can get excited about voting Ivanka Trump ....

So ridiculous.

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Originally posted by highroundcount:

Number two........maybe she can get excited about voting Ivanka Trump ....

So ridiculous.

I understand your feelings on this. Just wondering if such an engaged young person can get excited with it.

Ridiculous could be used to described Trump a few years ago.

The box has been opened and anything is possible.

Take care my friend.

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Originally posted by highroundcount:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by highroundcount:

Number two........maybe she can get excited about voting Ivanka Trump ....

So ridiculous.

I understand your feelings on this. Just wondering if such an engaged young person can get excited with it.

Ridiculous could be used to described Trump a few years ago.

The box has been opened and anything is possible.

Take care my friend.

From what I've read, Ivanka was born in 1982, but her mother Ivana did not become a US citizen until 1988. By my reading of "natural born", Ivanka does not qualify.

flashguy

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by highroundcount:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by highroundcount:

Number two........maybe she can get excited about voting Ivanka Trump ....

So ridiculous.

I understand your feelings on this. Just wondering if such an engaged young person can get excited with it.

Ridiculous could be used to described Trump a few years ago.

The box has been opened and anything is possible.

Take care my friend.

From what I've read, Ivanka was born in 1982, but her mother Ivana did not become a US citizen until 1988. By my reading of "natural born", Ivanka does not qualify.

flashguy

I believe she was born in New York to a US citizen father. What’s the problem with natural born?