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The Patriot Post Digest 3-13-2018
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Mar. 13, 2018 · https://patriotpost.us/digests/54709-mid-day-digest
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Rex Tillerson is finally out after nine months of rumors.
Hillary Clinton still hates vast swaths of America, which she told a foreign audience.
No collusion: House Intelligence Committee wraps up Russia investigation.
What’s happening to American men? They’re losing the battle against feminism.
The real national debt isn’t $20 trillion — it’s closer to $90 trillion.
Obama opted to “stand down” rather than deal with Russian election interference.
Plus our Daily Features: Top Headlines, Memes, Cartoons, Columnists and Short Cuts.
THE FOUNDATION
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.” —James Madison (1788.)
IN BRIEF
Tillerson Is Out1
It has been rumored2 numerous times3 over the last nine months or so, but now those rumors are fact. President Donald Trump has removed Rex Tillerson as his secretary of state. It was no secret that Trump and Tillerson did not see eye-to-eye on several issue, but a spokesman for Tillerson said that he was not expecting to be let go and “had every intention of staying.” In fact, he reportedly found out from Trump’s tweet4 and is “unaware of the reason” for his firing. We believe there are two keys: North Korea5 and Iran6.
Trump has tapped current CIA Director Mike Pompeo to step in as head of the State Department, and he nominated current CIA Deputy Director Gina Haspel to replace Pompeo. In his announcement, Trump noted Pompeo’s impressive record of service in both the military and Congress, and he also highlighted the fact that Haspel “will be the CIA’s first-ever female director, a historic milestone.” Trump then thanked Tillerson for his service and wished him and his family well. And so ends the somewhat rocky term for Tillerson at the State Department — a term that was still light years ahead of that of either Hillary Clinton or John Kerry.
Hillary Tells India How Awful Americans Are7
By Nate Jackson
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Hillary Clinton it’s that she hasn’t learned anything. Throughout 2017, she blamed anyone and everyone but herself for her election loss to Donald Trump. Here are just8 three9 examples10. Well into 2018, she’s not done.
In fact, she practically repeated her “basket of deplorables11” moment from September 2016. “To just be grossly generalistic,” she said then, “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it.”
This time, speaking to a foreign audience in Mumbai, she drug millions of Americans through the mud again. (The Resurgent’s Marc Giller hilariously called her pity party “poutsourcing12.”) For starters, she asserted, Democrats “do not do well with white men and we don’t do well with married white women.” That’s because women face “ongoing pressure to vote the way that your husband, your boss, your son, whoever, believes you should.”
Yet even then, she would have won white women if it weren’t for then-FBI Director James Comey. “All of a sudden white women, who were going to vote for me and frankly standing up to the men in their lives and the men in their workplaces, were being told, ‘She’s going to jail. You don’t want to vote for her. It’s terrible, you can’t vote for that,’” she complained. “So it just stopped my momentum and it decreased my vote.”
She went on to trash Trump voters as a bunch of backwards-looking racists. “There’s all that red in the middle, where Trump won. Now, I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product. So I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving forward, and his whole campaign — ‘Make America Great Again’ — was looking backwards. ‘You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women, you know, getting jobs, you don’t want, you know, to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.’”
Boy, she really holds a lot of America in totally undeserved contempt. And that mocking disdain is why she lost. It’s why Democrats have been losing for years. Moreover, as she’s still in some ways the party’s standard-bearer, it’s why Democrats face an uphill battle still this November.
‘No Collusion,’ House Intel Committee Concludes13
By Thomas Gallatin
House Intelligence Committee Republicans announced the end of the committee’s investigation into the Donald Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy during the 2016 presidential election, concluding that there is no evidence to support the charge nor to continue the investigation. Rep. K. Michael Conaway (R-TX) stated, “We’ve found no evidence of collusion. We found perhaps some bad judgment, inappropriate meetings, inappropriate judgment at taking meetings.” Conaway further opined, “Only Tom Clancy or Vince Flynn or someone else like that could take this series of inadvertent contacts with each other, meetings, whatever, and weave that into some sort of a fiction, page-turner spy thriller. We’re not dealing in fiction, we’re dealing in facts, and we found no evidence of any collusion.”
House Democrats, clearly not thrilled by the decision, predictably claimed that Republicans were shutting down the investigation too soon in order to protect Trump. The top Democrat on the committee, Rep. Adam Schiff14 (CA), blasted the announcement as a “tragic milestone” and a “capitulation to the executive branch.” Schiff added, “By ending its oversight role in the only authorized investigation in the House, the Majority has placed the interests of protecting the president over protecting the country, and history will judge its actions harshly.” Schiff then regurgitated the Democrats’ worn-out talking point of Russian collusion conspiracy, saying, “If the Russians do have leverage over the president of the United States, the majority has simply decided it would rather not know.”
After more than a year of the Intel Committee investigating and turning up no evidence of any collusion, Republicans are right to conclude the matter — it has proven only to descend into political gamesmanship. Democrats weren’t interested in finding the truth and concluding the investigation. Rather, their desire was to see it continue unendingly in order to maintain a politically convenient cloud of suspicion over Trump’s entire presidency. Their feigned concern over protecting the nation has nothing to do with actually protecting America; it’s aimed at protecting their anti-Trump political position. |
