Author: Freedom Watch

By Darren Samuelsohn POLITICO May 13, 2019 Federal prosecutors signaled on Monday that they could call Rick Gates, the Trump campaign’s former deputy chairman, to testify at two high-profile upcoming criminal trials that resulted from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Gates could get tapped as a witness in the Justice Department’s cases against both former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig and longtime Trump associate Roger Stone, according to a joint status report that says Gates “continues to cooperate” with the government and isn’t yet ready for his own sentencing. Mueller secured a guilty plea from Gates in…

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By Ronn Blitzer Fox News May 13, 2019 House Republican leaders are calling on Speaker Pelosi to ‘take action’ against Democrat Rep. Rashida Tlaib for saying that thinking about the Holocaust gives her a ‘calming feeling’; Peter Doocy has the details from Washington. President Trump joined the chorus of criticism Monday against freshman Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib over her recent remarks about the Holocaust. “Democrat Rep. Tlaib is being slammed for her horrible and highly insensitive statement on the Holocaust. She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people,” Trump tweeted. “Can you imagine what would happen…

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(Washington, D.C., May 13, 2019). Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former Justice Department prosecutor filed a complaint before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a writ of mandamus to order the investigation by the U.S. Department of Home Security (DHS) of the alleged immigration fraud and association with terrorist support groups by Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Characteristically, DHS has not taken action concerning an administrative complaint filed by Freedom Watch to investigate and, if the facts bear out, send a criminal referral to the…

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Tlaib stands by Israel and Holocaust comments amid criticism By Eli Watkins and Caroline Kelly CNN May 13, 2019 Washington (CNN)Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib defended her recent comments about Israel and the Holocaust Sunday after drawing criticism from top Republicans and Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, accusing her detractors of purposefully mischaracterizing her remarks. Speaking on an episode of Yahoo News’ “Skullduggery” podcast that was released Friday, Tlaib was asked about her support for a one-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She began by noting the recent observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day before veering into the…

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i24NEWS May 13, 2019 Iran is plotting a destructive attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil extraction facilities, according to intelligence gathered by Israel’s spy agencies and relayed to Washington, an Israeli TV report said Friday night. Top officials in Tehran were “mulling different aggressive actions” against American-allied targets after direct attacks on US targets were deemed to risky, and set their sights on Saudi oil production facilities, according to the TV report that did not cite its sources. It is understood that an added advantage of such a attack from Iran’s point of view would be sending oil prices soaring,…

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Rashida Tlaib slammed by House GOP over statement that Holocaust gives her ‘kind of a calming feeling’ By Samuel Chamberlain Fox News May 12, 2019 House Republican leaders called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to “take action” against Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., Sunday after Tlaib said that thinking about the Holocaust gave her “kind of a calming feeling.” Tlaib, the first Palestinian-American woman to be elected to Congress, made the comments while discussing the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians during an appearance on the Yahoo News podcast “Skullduggery.” Continue Reading…..

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Can Jews be anti-Semites? A cartoonist proves the point JNS.org May 12, 2019 (May 10, 2019 / JNS) There’s an old joke that tells of a person who has been accused of being a self-hating Jew. His response is to tell his accuser that he doesn’t hate himself. It’s other Jews he hates. That’s an apt introduction to the controversy over cartoonist Eli Valley. For the last decade, Valley’s densely packed, grotesquely illustrated multi-panel cartoons have been spewing anti-Zionist propaganda over the Internet. His work used to appear in Jewish publications like The Forward and Tablet online magazine,…

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Conservative pundit Ben Shapiro admits he was ‘destroyed’ after cutting short TV debate By Rob Picheta CNN May 12, 2019 (CNN)American conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has admitted he was “destroyed” in a TV interview this week with British journalist Andrew Neil after being widely mocked for storming out of the debate and telling Neil: “I’m popular, and no one has ever heard of you.” Shapiro complained repeatedly throughout the interview, on the BBC’s “Politics Live” program, as the longtime broadcaster and former newspaper editor pressed him on some of his previous comments. Continue Reading…..

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