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________________________________________ The Patriot Post Digest 1-24-2018 From The Federalist Patriot Free Email Subscription ________________________________________
The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest Jan. 24, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/53673-mid-day-digest
IN TODAY’S EDITION
While Mueller may want Trump for obstruction, Obama and Clinton are guilty. Oh, now the NFL doesn’t want to get political and refuses vets’ pro-anthem ad. Democrats look increasingly foolish as prosperity abounds after tax reform. NAFTA negotiations are ongoing and worth keeping an eye on. Plus our Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists and Short Cuts.
THE FOUNDATION
“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify.” —Alexander Hamilton (1788.)
IN BRIEF
The Real Obstruction Conspiracy1
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was interviewed last week for several hours by Robert Mueller’s special council investigation into the Donald Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy. And now Mueller is reportedly seeking an interview with President Trump, which several of the president’s advisers legitimately fear is a perjury trap. Perhaps Mueller wants to catch Trump in a lie in order to charge him with obstruction. It’s a roundabout way to get Trump, since the Russian collusion conspiracy has thus far proven to be nothing more than tantalizing fiction. Trump has yet to agree to the interview, but his lawyers have been seeking to work out ground rules for any potential meeting.
The Mueller team reportedly is looking into Trump’s firing of both former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn and former FBI Director James Comey in order to ascertain if there is a “pattern” of obstructionist behavior. However, if Mueller is intent on investigating obstruction, he’s barking up the wrong tree. What was the actual crime for which Trump is being investigated? So far there’s nothing beyond innuendoes, much of which were based on the dubious opposition research “dossier” created by Fusion GPS and funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign2.
It was Hillary who actually did break the law and who was “investigated” by the FBI. We hedge that word because all indications are the FBI had been indirectly, if not directly, instructed to let her off the hook. This is where the real investigation into obstruction should be focused. Clinton’s illegal email setup was known by Barack Obama, who corresponded with her at her private address using a pseudonym himself. If she had been charged, it would have pulled him into the investigation, implicating him for likewise being “grossly negligent” in handling classified material. He had to prevent that from occurring, ergo the public declarations that he was confident Clinton would be cleared. Meanwhile, his Attorney General Loretta Lynch was behind the scenes making sure the FBI’s findings agreed with Obama’s public statements. As we have learned, months before Hillary sat for the FBI interview, she knew she was in the clear. She had no fears of incriminating herself because she knew the fix was in — and that Obama was the fixer3.
Trump is facing a deck that is stacked against him. If he pleads his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination and refuses the Mueller interview, the Leftmedia will scream that it’s evidence of his obstruction. If he takes the interview, unlike Hillary, he risks being caught in a lie, no matter how insignificant, hence the perjury and obstruction trap.
With the recent revelations of a “secret society4” within Obama’s Justice Department and the FBI, coupled with the all-too-convenient loss of months of text messages between key FBI officials and the aforementioned investigation fixing, this deep state corruption is starting to look more and more like Watergate on steroids.
NFL Rejects Veterans’ #PleaseStand Ad5
By Thomas Gallatin
The National Football League rejected an advertisement for Super Bowl LII from the nonprofit American Veterans (AMVETS) that featured the phrase “#PleaseStand.” NFL Vice President of Communications Brian McCarthy explained, “The Super Bowl program is designed for fans to commemorate and celebrate the game, players, teams and the Super Bowl. It has never been a place for advertising that could be considered by some as a political statement.” Huh, so allowing NFL players to kneel during the national anthem6 isn’t a “political statement?”
Joe Chenelly, the national director of AMVETS, said that he was “surprised and disappointed” by the NFL’s decision. “The NFL said it does not want to take a position on that. Really, by not letting us run an ad, we think they are taking a position,” he correctly observed. AMVETS National Commander Marion Polk noted7, “Freedom of speech works both ways. We respect the rights of those who choose to protest, as these rights are precisely what our members have fought — and in many cases died — for. But imposing corporate censorship to deny that same right to those veterans who have secured it for us all is reprehensible.”
This is the same NFL that has allowed two years of disgraceful kneeling, did nothing to correct players’ false “hands up, don’t shoot8” displays, and refused to let the Dallas Cowboys wear helmet stickers9 paying tribute to the five Dallas police officers who were ambushed and murdered in 2016 — a month before the kneeling protests began10.
Once again the NFL has fumbled the PR ball, all over fears of offending the Left. Never mind the fact that the league’s viewership ratings dropped 10% this season alone. If this attitude from NFL leadership continues, the league can expect to continue to see ratings get sacked for a loss. Nobody likes a double standard.
Top Headlines11
Search for “obstruction” heats up: Mueller seeks to question Trump about Flynn and Comey departures (The Washington Post12)
Sen. Ron Johnson: FBI informant says “secret society” held secret meetings off-site (PJ Media13)
Trump to Schumer: “If there is no wall, there is no DACA” (Fox News14)
Pelosi Armageddon update: Disney offers $1,000 bonuses to 125,000 employees (The Daily Wire15)
Lobby much? Realtors spent $22 million to defeat Republican tax reform in 2017 (Washington Examiner16)
“Fair share” update: Top half of taxpayers paid more than 97% of individual income taxes collected in 2015 (The Washington Free Beacon17)
Senate confirms Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chairman in 85-12 vote (The Washington Times18.)
An inconvenient truth: Hollywood snubs Al Gore as he misses out on Oscar nod (The Washington Times19)
The EPA has managed to bankrupt one of the biggest refineries in the northeast (Hot Air20)
Conan O'Brien flies to Haiti, invites Haitians to insult Trump (AV Club21)
Policy: Trump’s wall is standard practice in other parts of the world (Washington Examiner22)
Policy: Culture vs. economics: What causes poverty? (American Enterprise Institute23)
For more of today’s news, visit Patriot Headline Report24.
FEATURED ANALYSIS Dems Look Foolish as Tax Reform Brings Prosperity25
By Louis DeBroux
If the recent GOP tax cuts are truly “Armageddon26,” as Nancy Pelosi and her socialist Democrat cohorts claim, then America’s response increasingly looks like an R.E.M. song title: “It’s The End of the World As We Know It, and I Feel Fine.”
Chicken Little Democrats claimed tax cuts — specifically cutting the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21% — would be a disaster for the American worker, but reality begs to differ. Following the passage of the GOP tax cuts, more than 200 American corporations27 have given or announced wage increases and bonuses of between $1,000 and $2,500 for their workers.
Walmart — the epitome of capitalistic evil to American progressives — announced it is investing a portion of its tax savings into a wage increase for employees, raising its corporate minimum wage to $11/hour, more than 52% higher than the federal minimum wage. Dozens of other corporations have announced they are expanding and creating new jobs due to the tax cuts.
Maybe nowhere are the effects of the tax cuts more noteworthy than with Apple, the proudly “liberal,” Donald Trump-hating corporation adored for its “wokeness” by idealistic progressives nationwide. Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, announced that, due to the lower corporate tax rate, Apple is repatriating $250 BILLION dollars28 into the U.S. economy, in the process paying a $38 billion tax bill. Additionally, Apple is handing out $2,500 in stock grants to employees, and is investing an additional $350 billion in the U.S., creating 20,000 new jobs.
This economic windfall for American workers is what Pelosi calls “pathetic,” “insignificant” and “crumbs.”
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