The Patriot Post Digest 10-24-2019

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The Patriot Post Digest 10-24-2019
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The Patriot Post® · Mid-Day Digest

Oct. 24, 2019

https://patriotpost.us/digests/66328-mid-day-digest-2019-10-24

THE FOUNDATION

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.” —Thomas Jefferson (1808)

https://patriotpost.us/fqd/66327-founders-quote-daily-2019-10-24

IN TODAY’S EDITION

Democrats aren’t being transparent, and Republicans fought back.1
A #MeToo scandal involving a Democrat congresswoman.2
Daily Features: More Analysis3, Columnists4, Headlines5, Opinion in Brief6, Short Cuts7, Memes8, and Cartoons9.

IN BRIEF

Republicans Expose Dems’ Impeachment Secrecy10

In a move aimed at highlighting the secretive nature of House Democrats’ politically orchestrated “impeachment inquiry,” several House Republicans stormed the Intelligence Committee’s Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), where Pentagon official Laura Cooper was scheduled to testify regarding President Donald Trump and Ukraine.

Prior to storming the SCIF, House Republicans held a press conference explaining their intentions. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) stated, “We’re going to try and go in there, and we’re going to try and figure out what’s going on, on behalf of the millions of Americans that we represent that want to see this Congress working for them and not obsess with attacking a president who we believe has not done anything to deserve impeachment.”

“What is Adam Schiff trying to hide?” Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) asked. “I think that’s the question so many people have, so many of my colleagues have, so many people in the press should have. Voting members of Congress are being denied access from being able to see what’s happening behind these closed doors where they’re trying to impeach the president of the United States with a one-sided set of rules. They call the witnesses. They don’t let anybody else call the witnesses.”

Not surprisingly, after Republicans entered the room, committee chairman Adam Schiff (D-Whistleblower11) quickly stopped the hearing. That provoked Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL) to assert, “Adam Schiff just SHUT DOWN his secret underground impeachment hearing after I led a group of Republicans into the room. Now he’s threatening me with an Ethics complaint! I’m on the Armed Services [Committee] but being blocked from the Dept. Asst. SecDef’s testimony. This is a SHAM!”

Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) also called out Schiff, stating, “He just got up and left. He doesn’t have the guts to tell us why we can’t come in the room, why he doesn’t want this to be transparent. It’s … the biggest farce I’ve ever seen in my life.”

Predictably, the Leftmedia derided Republicans for a political stunt designed to protect President Trump and obstruct the Democrats’ “legitimate” impeachment inquiry. There’s no question that these Republicans intentionally engaged in theatrics, but they did so to shine a spotlight on the dubious, secretive, and unprecedented manner in which House Democrats have conducted this not-yet-voted-on impeachment inquiry. And the more Republicans can expose the Democrats’ intentional lack of transparency in running this impeachment charade, the better it will be for the American people. Keep in mind that the Democrats’ favorite paper of record, The Washington Post, decided Trump’s presidency was sufficient cause to create a new motto: “Democracy dies in darkness.”

Finally, PowerLine’s Scott Johnson cogently sums it up12: “I can’t take anything that leaks out of the closed-door impeachment ‘inquiry’ conducted by Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff at face value. Schiff is conducting an impeachment campaign by orchestrated leaks. I decline to follow the leaked testimony until I can take a look at the full record with my own eyes.”

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66325-republicans-expose-dems-impeachment-secrecy

Rep. Katie Hill’s Brewing #MeToo Scandal13

A rather lurid scandal has come to light regarding an upstart and openly bisexual freshman Democrat representative. Rep. Katie Hill (CA), vice chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, is in hot water over revelations of a polyamorous affair between herself, her now-estranged husband Kenny Heslep, and a young female campaign staffer. Heslep called it a “throuple.”

Hill claims she ended the unusual two-year-long arrangement this past May, ostensibly because she wanted to focus “entirely” on her “important” work. Heslep, Hill’s husband of almost 15 years who she’s now in the midst of divorcing, disputes that claim, insisting that Hill ended the polyamorous relationship due to another affair she started with another man — her own legislative director, Graham Kelly. Hill publicly disputes the allegation of an affair with Kelly, blaming it on her “divorce from an abusive husband who seems determined to try to humiliate me.” However, Hill does not dispute her “inappropriate” polyamorous affair.

If those optics alone aren’t bad enough, there are #MeToo implications. Uncovered text messages among Hill, her 22-year-old staffer, and Heslep suggest that both Hill and Heslep acted abusively toward the young staffer. RedState, which broke the story14, notes, “In the age of #MeToo, activists contend that when a large power imbalance exists, such as between a CEO and an employee, the employee is incapable of giving consent. Even assuming that true consent existed at the beginning of the relationship, the power imbalance could keep an employee in a bad relationship for fear that they will lose their job or suffer other negative consequences.” That’s true whether the offender in power is a man or a woman.

The House Ethics Committee has launched an investigation of Hill because a relationship with Kelly would violate new House rules. For her part, Hill is demanding U.S. Capitol Police investigate the release of compromising photos of her.

The Leftmedia initially ignored the story, eventually only grudgingly opting for ho-hum stories consisting almost entirely of Hill’s denials, counter accusations, and victimitis. So, once again, we’re left to imagine the coverage if she had an “R” after her name. A final irony: Hill represents a “swing” district. Make of that what you will.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/66309-rep-katie-hills-brewing-number-metoo-scandal-2019-10-24

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