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 April 18, 2018

Pompeo Faces Stiff Opposition, Even After Meeting with Kim

On Thursday, the President verified that Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong-un over the Easter weekend, paving the way for future negotiations. However, some in the Senate are pushing back against his confirmation as Secretary of State. The President was asked about Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who says he will vote against Pompeo. Trump replied, “I will say this abut Rand Paul… he’s a very special guy. He’s never let me down.”

Trump said on Wednesday he will be meeting with Kim in the coming weeks to discuss the denuclearization of the peninsula. He said, “It will be a tremendous thing for North Korea, and a tremendous thing for the world.”

Pompeo represented Kansas in Congress before becoming CIA Director. He graduated first in his class at West Point, and also first in his class from Harvard Law School. He went to North Korea to lay the groundwork for denuclearization talks. Many Senators were angry about the trip, saying Pompeo should have let them know he was going and shared insights with them.

Why this Matters: Trump has had a very difficult time getting his nominees confirmed. What kind of message would it send to North Korea and the rest of the world if Trump’s choice to negotiate were voted down?

Pray for Pompeo’s confirmation to happen quickly and that he would have a solid vote. Pray for the upcoming talks.

 April 18, 2018

 The heart of the prudent gets knowledge; 

and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge. Prov. 18:15

Comey, Lynch, Clinton, McCabe

Lawmakers Demand Prosecution  of Hillary, Comey, Others 

Attorney General Jeff Sessions received a letter from eleven Congressmen asking him to prosecute Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Loretta Lynch, and others. The letter was also addressed to FBI Director Chris Wray and U.S. Attorney John Huber. It asks for an “investigation of potential violation(s) of federal statutes.”

Note: Huber was appointed by Sessions to investigate GOP claims of FBI misconduct. He and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz can fully investigate allegations of FISA abuse and have subpoena power.

Those referred for criminal charges are:

Hillary Clinton:  For potential violations of election law when she ordered and secretly paid for the Steele dossier that implicated Trump in colluding with the Russians to sway the election.

Former FBI Director James Comey: For obstruction, perjury, corruption, stealing public property or records, gathering, transmitting, or losing defense information, unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents, false statements

Former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe: For making false statements, perjury, and obstruction. A report by the Inspector General was released Friday, confirming that Andrew McCabe lied four times–three times under oath. His “lack of candor” was the basis for being terminated.

Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch” For obstruction and corruption. She was also referred for threatening an employee who came forward to report on the Uranium One deal.

Former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and Former Acting Attorney General Dana Boente:  For presenting false and/or unverified information to the FISA court.

FBI official Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page: For interfering in the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server and the presentation of false and/or unverified information. Strzok and Page worked with Robert Mueller on the Trump-Russia collusion investigation, but were demoted because of their extreme anti-Trump bias. This and the fact that Obama communicated through Hillary’s illegal server was revealed in their texts. 

Dossier backstory: False, salacious information against Donald Trump was created by British ex-spy Christopher Steele and put into a “dossier.” The dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton and the DNC and used to secure a FISA warrant on members of Trump’s team. She hid the payments by running them through the Perkins Coie law firm. These warrants are only supposed to be used against foreigners. The dossier became the basis for the Trump-Russia collusion allegation, which then became an investigation under Robert Mueller. 

Mueller was appointed by Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Director at the FBI. This came after allegations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions had dealings with Russians. Whether it was a plan to step down, or for appearance’s sake, Sessions recused himself from the investigation, which put Rosenstein in charge.  

The letter also demands that Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein be recused from any examination of FISA abuse. The lawsmakers specify that neither Huber nor a special counsel, if one is appointed, should report to Rosenstein. Additionally: 

• House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has already told Sessions that FBI and DOJ leaders used the Steele dossier to obtain the warrant on former Trump aide Carter Page. Because the dossier was unverified and/or contained false information, the lawmakers want all involved to be criminally charged.

• The letter also notes the dissimilar degrees of zealousness that has marked the investigations into Clinton and Trump. 

• Comey and McCabe are turning on each other. Comey confirmed that he started the investigation that led to McCabe’s firing; McCabe said he disclosed to his former boss that Comey was leaking classified information to the media.

Why this Matters: The signers of the letter should be hailed and thanked. This is what needed to happen and it requires a good amount of bravery to go against the Deep State/Cabal as they have. These heroes are:

Ron DeSantis (R-FL), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Dave Brat (R-VA), Jeff Duncan (R-SC), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Andy Harris (R-MD), Jody Hice (R-GA), Todd Rokita (R-IN), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Ted Yoho (R-FL)

How to Pray: That Huber and the IG will do a thorough job, that the details of all of these illegal acts will be exposed. Pray that it will be so damning that even Trump haters will want these people prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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Hundreds Marched In Tallahassee For Gun Rights

by James Coulter

Pete Smith, President of the Winter Haven 9/12 Project, a local conservative political group, like many gun owners, considers himself a law-abiding citizen.

He owns a diverse array of firearms including rifles and pistols, and he often visits the local shooting range about four to five times per month.

While recent mass shootings throughout the country concern him, even more concerning are how politicians use such tragedies to justify stricter gun laws that he fears could potentially infringe on his Second Amendment rights.

To voice such concerns, Smith and 35 of his fellow 9/12 members traveled to Tallahassee last Saturday to attend the Florida Rally To Support the 2nd Amendment.

He and his fellow compatriots were a few of the estimated 1,000 demonstrators from across the state who gathered at the capital to defend their Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Daily Ridge – Click Here for Rest of Story

Michael Needham, who is leaving the influential conservative think tank Heritage
Action for America to become Senator Marco Rubio’s chief of staff, has been
largely laudatory of President Trump’s agenda of low taxes and hard-line posture
toward China. CreditDoug Mcschooler/The Indianapolis Star, via Associated Press

WASHINGTON — As chief executive of the influential conservative think tank Heritage Action for America, Michael Needham waged years of unforgiving political warfare against the Republican Party establishment, deepening the divide between party leaders and grass-roots activists that helped elevate Donald J. Trump to the presidency.

Now Mr. Needham is leaving his job there to become chief of staff for one of the Republican establishment’s favorite sons, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

This afternoon, Senator Marco Rubio announced that Heritage Action’s CEO Mike Needham would serve as his new chief of staff.

Starting with the “Opportunity for All” push, Heritage Action sought to revitalize the conservative agenda to address the challenges facing Americans in the 21st century. Senator Rubio has been engaging in a parallel effort on Capitol Hill.   Senator Rubio told the New York Times, “I think the challenge is how the policies that come from those principles, by necessity, have to look different in the 21st century than they did in 1980 or 1985.”

Mike added: “Any fair-minded observer of the last several years would say conservatives have work to do in order to assure our principles remain relevant… Our challenge as conservatives is to build a movement that inspires a majority coalition of Americans.”   There is no greater task for conservatives than identifying principled solutions to our nation’s 21st century challenges. It is the project we have worked on together for years, and today’s news marks another step forward.

Thanks for all you have done, and will continue to do, in the fight to advance conservative policies in Washington. We will need activists like you every step of the way as we fight to change Washington.

Dan

Dan Holler
Vice President
Heritage Action

https://www.dailywire.com/news/29466/5-big-takeaways-comeys-big-abc-news-interview-ben-shapiro?utm_medium=email&utm_content=041618-news&utm_campaign=Actengage

5 Takeaways from ABC’s Interview with James Comey

By BEN SHAPIRO     @BENSHAPIRO     April 16, 20

1. Comey’s A Political Actor.Over and over again, Comey suggested that he allowed political considerations to impact his legal work. He says he decided to announce Hillary’s non-indictment in order to avoid allowing the FBI to look like a tool of the Department of Justice after Loretta Lynch’s tarmac meeting with President Clinton. He said that he took the polls into consideration when determining whether or not to inform the public about the re-opening of the Hillary email investigation.

2. Comey Hates Trump.Either he hated Trump before the election or learned to hate him afterward. But he didn’t quit — he was fired. Despite all of his nasty words about Trump, at no point did he walk away from his job in protest, and simply say everything on his mind. Instead, he waited to be fired after refusing to say publicly what he was telling Trump privately: that Trump wasn’t under investigation. Nonetheless, Comey spent the interview ripping Trump as a crime boss, tore into Trump’s physical appearance, called Trump a “forest fire,” and suggested that Trump not be impeached but be thrown out by voters. He even said that Trump never laughs in public or private.

3. Comey Loves Obama And Company and Himself.Comey described how much he loved Obama, Loretta Lynch, and Jeh Johnson, among others; Trump, he says, was unfit for a hug: “And so I’m not an unusually strong person but I work out and so I tighten my abs and my core and I’m thinking, this– ‘Unless he’s a lot stronger than he looks, he’s not getting a hug.’ And so he pulls and he doesn’t get the hug.”

Comey talked about how he was like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, not one but two times; he talked about drinking on his way back from Los Angeles after being fired; he talked about his own history of wonder going all the way back to Martha Stewart. At one point, he seemed to stop and assess his own ego problem, then went right back into pumping his book: ““I have to be careful not to fall in love with my own view of things. And so that battle with ego and my sense that memoirs are an exercise in ego convinced me I was never going to write a book.” Spoiler alert: he wrote a book.

4. Comey’s Grandstanding. Comey admits he had no good reason for not telling Trump that the Steele dossier was funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but he also had no problem telling Stephanopoulos that Trump was morally unfit to be president, and that Trump might be subject to Russian blackmail. He even said that the Trump pee tape story could be true, although he provided no evidence to that effect. He also suggested Trump could be guilty of obstruction of justice. Comey knows how to make a headline, and he’s stretching to make one here.

5. Comey Was Upset He Cost Hillary The Election.Comey said over and over that he was “sick to my stomach” over the FBI’s interference in the election, and asked that Hillary Clinton read specific chapters of his book to see that he had good intentions — and he even said he announced the re-opened investigation because he thought she was leading in the polls. He admitted as well that his daughters were big Hillary fans.

Comey didn’t do himself any favors with this interview, although he certainly sold some books. He didn’t come off as non-partisan and dispassionate, which would have been devastating to Trump. He didn’t come off as apolitical, either. He came off as a glory-seeking character in yet another ugly Washington production. And that won’t hurt Trump.

Senator Marco Rubio attends a news conference at the VIII Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru April 14, 2018. (Marcos Brindicci/Reuters)

Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) gave a tutorial on the importance of a free press and free association at the Summit of the Americas this weekend after a Cuban journalist challenged him to denounce the National Rifle Association and its influence on American politics.

“It’s simple. In the United States, in comparison to Cuba, we have a free press. The press can question and criticize me all they want, and they do so daily,” Rubio explained after he was asked whether he would continue to accept donations from the NRA in light of the mass shooting in Parkland, Fla.

Student gun-control activists targeted Rubio during the March for Our Lives protest in March, accusing him of trading students’ lives for NRA contributions. Many of the students wore tags reading $1.05, which they claim is the amount of money Rubio accepts from the NRA for every high-school student in Florida.

For Immediate Release April 16, 2018 Ron DeSantis Rated Most Conservative Member of Congress in Florida Orlando, FL – In recently released 2017 rankings of Congress by the American Conservative Union Foundation, Ron DeSantis is ranked highest among Florida lawmakers. Receiving the Award for Conservative Excellence, Ron DeSantis posted a 96% conservative voting record in 2017 and a 99.17% Lifetime average – the highest among Florida legislators. ### Facebook  |   Twitter  |  RonDeSantis.com Paid by Ron DeSantis, Republican, for Governor.

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SECOND AMENDMENT

Unfriendly Skies: Delta CEO Claims Bashing NRA Members is Good Business

National Rifle Association Institute For Legislative Action (NRA-ILA)

Fairfax, VA – -(Ammoland.com)- In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, murders, there has been an unusual amount of anti-gun and anti-NRA commentary by private corporations with plenty of problems of their own.

In February, Delta announced it was ending a discount program for passengers who used the airline to travel to the NRA’s 2018 Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. The move had nothing to do with any problems Delta itself experienced with the NRA or its members, but supposedly came in response to what the airline called “the current national debate over gun control amid recent school shootings.” Bizarrely, Delta characterized its decision to link innocent NRA members with school shootings and to punish them by reneging on a contract as a reflection of its “neutral status” and an attempt to “refrain from entering this debate.”

You can make your views known to Delta CEO Ed Bastian by emailing him at [email protected], or calling Delta’s corporate headquarters at (404) 715-2600.

The Washington Post, however, characterized Delta’s move differently, situating it squarely within the #BoycottNRA movement. The airline, in other words, had merely jumped on a self-glorifying corporate bandwagon that has done nothing to harm the NRA but has done much to remind gun-owning Americans just what is at stake in the gun control debate.  Ironically, Delta’s move hurt its own shareholders far worse than it did NRA members. While only 13 NRA members took advantage of the now revoked Delta Discount, the airline’s attempt to implicate the NRA in school shootings led the Georgia legislature to eliminate tax breaks that were expected to be worth some $50 million to the Atlanta-based company.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian, however, remained defiant. “Our decision was not made for economic gain and our values are not for sale,” he said in a statement on the legislative reversal, as if Delta’s “values” and his job first and foremost involve pursuing a political agenda against gun owners and NRA members.   Bastian then went on to brag during a television appearance on CNBC that his company “gained a lot of fans” for its discriminatory treatment of NRA members and for not “selling out to political interests.”

We have some news for Mr. Bastian: Our Second Amendment rights aren’t up for negotiation, either.  As the NRA has already made abundantly clear: “The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world.”   Freedom-loving Americans, meanwhile, have responded to these elitists attacks the way they always have, by renewing their support for the NRA, the most uncompromising champion of America’s constitutional freedoms.

It’s clear from recent customer reviews of Delta that the airline’s time and efforts would be more profitably spent on addressing its own operational issues, rather trying to deflect attention to NRA members.  If you agree, feel free to contact Delta CEO Ed Bastian and tell him all about it. Mr. Bastian’s email is [email protected] You can also ask to speak to him by calling Delta’s corporate headquarters at (404) 715-2600. Should you prefer to write a letter to Mr. Bastian, Delta’s corporate address is Delta Air Lines Inc., P.O. Box 20706, Atlanta, GA 30320.  Other options for making your views known are available in this USA Today article aimed at helping aggrieved Delta passengers get redress from Mr. Bastian, who apparently tends to hide behind legions of staffers to avoid direct contact with his company’s customers.

About:
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

A National rally was held across the nation to support the Second
Amendment, We The People are tired of listening to the left and their
Anti Gun rhetoric, including those in Congress to name a Few:
Schumer, Pelosi, Waters, Warren Sanders, and many more including
Republican RINO’s .

Here are a couple pictures from Winter Haven
912 trip to the Capitol in Tallahassee, 35
members left from Winter Haven

The Highlands Tea Party Held 2nd Amendment
Flag Wave Rally in Sebring, Fl 32 Attended.

We Swore We Would Never Forget
9/11. But We Did. — Reality Check

Sixteen years ago today, we as a nation promised we would never forget 9/11.
But we did. We forgot. Today, we can’t even fly Old Glory at a baseball game
without someone getting offended. Thugs burn the flag in the streets.
You point out Islamic extremism, like we suffered 16 years ago, and
you’re deemed a racist and a bigot. It’s high time we started remembering.

Remember Donations are a matter of personal choice we do not send out
information as a method to increase donation for any organization.

The gun grabbers aren’t done with the Sunshine State.

On the heels of Governor Gun Control Rick Scott signing landmark legislation to deprive you of your gun rights, anti-gunners are targeting the obscure Constitutional Revision Commission (CRC) to bypass the legislature and force more gun control on law-abiding Floridians.

At least one commissioner on the (CRC) is actively working to put a so-called “Assault Weapons Ban” in our State Constitution!

We’ve been saying for months that Bloomberg is targeting the CRC to get his most radical gun control plans on the ballot this year.
And now it is happening.    Bloomberg is already using the mainstream media to spew twisted facts in order to advance his agenda of stripping away your rights.

That is why I’m counting on you to sign your Stop Bloomberg’s Agenda Pledge to help us fight this assault on our rights.

The CRC meets once every 20 years to decide what they think needs to change in our State Constitution.
Then, their recommendations end up on the ballot in November.  And the last time they met, gun control was added to our Constitution!

Now, your gun rights could be on the ballot again for a popular vote to decide.  As we’ve seen across the country, Bloomberg and his allies thrive in states that allow them to put gun control on the ballot as they flood the airwaves with distortion to mobilize their masses to the polls.  From California to Nevada and on to Maine, Bloomberg has been able to force his radical agenda to the ballot using his fortune to fund these fights.

And now Bloomberg is piggy backing off of last month’s tragedy in Parkland to advance his radical agenda. We cannot allow this to happen in the “Gunshine State.”

So please sign your Stop Bloomberg’s Agenda Pledge and show the CRC that you will not tolerate gun control being put on the ballot.

Your signed pledge will send a loud and clear message that we will not stand for this assault on our gun rights.  We plan to fight Bloomberg’s schemes at all costs.  But DJ, this fight will be an expensive one.   We are facing a large scale battle against an enemy with seemingly endless funds.  The war chests of billionaires Michael Bloomberg and George Soros are dedicated to one thing… … taking away your freedoms.
Specifically your guns.
That is why we need your help.
Florida Gun Rights relies on the contributions of freedom-loving patriots like you to defeat the advances of the gun grabbers.

So once you have signed your pledge, please consider chipping in $10 or $20 to help us fund this fight.

Your contribution is important to preserving our rights for future generations.
Thank you for all you do to defend the Second Amendment in Florida.

For Freedom,

D.J. Parten
Director of Legislation
Florida Gun Rights

P.S. Gun grabbers are working hard to put a so-called “Assault Weapons Ban” on the ballot in November to strip you of your rights.
This is even worse that what we saw in the legislature this session.

So please sign your Stop Bloomberg’s Agenda Pledge then please consider chipping in $10 or 

2nd Amendment Rallies ~ All State Capitols
~ Selected Towns & Cities Across The Nation
Saturday April 14

AMERICA IT’S TIME TO FIGHT BACK
IF WE DON’TDO IT NOW, WE LOSE!
THE DEMOCRATS & GUN HATERS
ARE OUT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR
SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS
DON’T BE FOOLED BY THEIR RHETORIC!
THEY LIE!!!

SEBRING FLORIDA TO BE HELD AT
BOOM BOOMS GUNS AND AMMO
 330 US-27 #1, Sebring, FL 33870

Tom Fitton: Trump has to save the DOJ, FBI from Themselves

&
April 9, 2018- JW President Tom Fitton appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” on the Fox Business Network to discuss the FBI raid on President Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s home and office.

This could be the most important video you have ever watched.
Most definitely worth the time!

Grab a cup of Hot coffee or Chocolate, sit back and take
ten minutes to watch this video, Absorb with what you
know, have seen and heard. Then you be the judge

TRUTH……no ‘fake news’, all documented, but not reported
by the MSN!