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The Patriot Post Digest 3-28-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest
Mar. 28, 2019
https://patriotpost.us/digests/62056-mid-day-digest
THE FOUNDATION
“Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.” —John Adams (1826)
https://patriotpost.us/fqd/62055-founders-quote-daily
IN TODAY’S EDITION
Democrats want to keep impeachment threats around for 18 months.1
Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins awarded posthumous Medal of Honor.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.
IN BRIEF
Keeping the Trump Impeachment Cloud Afloat10
There is no question that the result of Robert Mueller’s special investigation, in which he found no evidence of collusion11 between the Trump campaign and Russia, seriously took the wind out of the Democrats’ impeachment sails. However, several leftist freshmen firebrands, who claim they won election for promising to go hard after President Donald Trump, are nowhere near throwing in the towel. They may have just lost, but that was only round one. Cue round two of the Dems’ witch hunt12.
On Wednesday, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) introduced a resolution13 in the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Trump has committed impeachable offenses regarding his foreign business dealings. Citing the rarely applied Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids a public official from accepting foreign money in an attempt to “defraud the United States,” Tlaib stated that she was seeking to ensure “we don’t have a lawless society that results in irreparable harm to the American people.” She then bloviated, “Doing nothing when we are seeing blatant disregard of the United States Constitution, to our ethical norms, is dangerous. No one, including the president of the United States, is above the law.”
If anyone knows “blatant disregard” for the Constitution, it’s Democrats.
Tlaib then insisted, “An investigation will take a look at all of these things, with the question [being], are these impeachable offenses?” However, few Democrats seemed eager to jump on board. Only Rep. Al Green (D-TX) voiced support, stating, “There will be another vote on impeachment in the House of Representatives.”
Perhaps, but Democrats are arguably more interested in the mere threat. As Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) commented14, “I think what’s tough is impeachment in principle is something I openly support. But it’s also just the reality of having the votes in the Senate to pursue that. And so that’s something that we have to take into consideration.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) knows full well that engaging in impeachment proceedings sans any clear and obvious crime could backfire15, as evidenced even by Bill Clinton’s impeachment for actual crimes. Republicans arguably overplayed their hand and it proved costly in the following elections. That said, Pelosi and her fellow Democrats would love nothing more than to keep the cloud of impeachment hanging over Trump for the next 18 months.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62054-keeping-the-trump-impeachment-cloud-afloat
Profiles of Valor: U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins16
Monday was National Medal of Honor Day17, and to mark the occasion we quoted John 15:13: “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.”
That love was on fully display in the life — and death — of U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Travis Atkins. President Donald Trump presented a posthumous Medal of Honor to Atkins’s now-22-year-old son Trevor Oliver Wednesday for Travis’s actions to save his men in Iraq 12 years ago. Just hours before he was killed on June 1, 2007, Atkins called his parents, in part to apologize to his mom: “He did say that he was sorry he had forgotten to get something in the mail for me for Mother’s Day,” said his mother Elaine Atkins. Army officers soon came to their home to relay the tragic news. “After we spoke to the chaplain,” Elaine said, “I went to the mailbox and there was a little package from Travis with a Mother’s Day card for me and a Father’s Day card for Jack. The card said ‘Thanks for everything,’ and it just brought it home.”
Sand Aijo, the machine gunner in Atkins’s unit, watched as Atkins and a medic searched two suspected roadside bombers. Both of them resisted, and Atkins worked to restrain one of them. “That’s when Travis started to actually engage in a form of hand-to-hand combat with this man,” Aijo said. “Travis bear-hugged the man, lifted him off the ground and slammed him down.” That’s because the jihadi had pulled the pin on his bomb vest and Atkins was actually moving to shield three of his men from the blast. According to Aijo, “He had definitely sacrificed himself so that we could live.”
Aijo penned a touching account18 of Travis’s life and death.
Jack Atkins, Travis’s father, wasn’t surprised by his son’t sacrifice. The Vietnam vet said of his son, “We talked about the responsibility of what you owe to people who are serving under you, and what you need to do to protect them.” Mission accomplished, though at the ultimate cost.
“I want him to be remembered as the best father that anyone could ask for, and also at the same time being the best soldier that anyone could ask for,” Trevor Oliver said. “He was my icon.”
Fittingly, his Medal citation concludes:
In this critical and selfless act of valor, Staff Sergeant Atkins acted with complete disregard for his own safety, saving the lives of the three soldiers who were with him and gallantly giving his life for his country.
Staff Sergeant Atkins’s undaunted courage, warrior spirit, and steadfast devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, and the United States Army.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62052-profiles-of-valor-us-army-staff-sgt-travis-atkins
ON OUR WEBSITE TODAY
Featured Analysis: Congressional ‘AINOs’ Abet Open Borders19 — Americans In Name Only — the only way to describe those who obstruct border security.
How to Make Sure ISIS Does Not Come Back20 — It’s going to take a long-term presence in Iraq to ensure defeat stays permanent.
Pence and Pelosi Speak at AIPAC21 — Pence calls out anti-Semitism within Democrat ranks, while Pelosi seeks to placate Jewish voters.
Video: Mueller Report Changes Everything, Changes Nothing22 — Despite being cleared, Trump is still under attack from Democrats and journalists.
Don’t Miss Alexander’s Column
Read The Coup, Phase Two: Taking Trump Down12. “Time to investigate the Obama officials who concocted and spread the Russian conspiracy hoax.”
If you’d like to receive Alexander’s Column by email every Wednesday, update your subscription here23.
GOOD NEWS
Dolly Parton Donates $200,000 to Volunteer Fire Departments24
“Country artist and philanthropic leader Dolly Parton has donated $200,000 to volunteer fire departments in Sevier County who bravely fought against the severe wildfires that ravaged the land in 2016.”
“The fire, which broke out in late 2016 after months of severe drought, killed 14 people and caused damage or total destruction to more than 2,500 homes throughout Sevier County in Tennessee.”
“According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, around 885 families received assistance from Parton’s "My People Fund” in the amount of $1,000 a month for a six-month period after the fire.“
Read more at The Western Journal25.
https://patriotpost.us/articles/62033-dolly-parton-donates-200000-dollars-to-volunteer-fire-departments
TOP NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
President Donald Trump disclosed27 to Fox News’s Sean Hannity last night that he has "plans to declassify and release” a slew of Russia-related documents, including those used to initiate FISA warrants. Trump explained, “A lot of people wanted me to do it a long time ago. I’m glad I didn’t do it. We got a great result without having to do it, but we will.” He also clarified that “one of the reasons that my lawyers didn’t want me to do it” during the Robert Mueller probe was because Democrats would spin it as “a form of obstruction.” But as Fox News notes, the president now “wants to ‘get to the bottom’ of how the long-running Russia collusion narrative began.” |
