Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Trump Lawyer Rudy Giuliani to Bob Woodward: Release the ‘Tapes’
Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, called on Bob Woodward on Wednesday to release some of the hundreds of hours of “tapes” the veteran journalist said he made during his work on his new book, Fear: Trump in the White House. Giuliani tweeted earlier in the day that a passage in the book—in which Trump called him “a little baby that needed to be changed”—was a lie.
“20 to 30 witnesses saw it and can say he or his source are liars,” Giuliani tweeted. “Most important for libel purposes, he never called me. Didn’t want to know truth.”
More @ The Daily Beast
Texas: Several Doctors Who Attended the Kavanaugh Hearing Saw Protesters Paid Off in Cash
Via Reborn
Three doctors said they
personally witnessed protesters being paid off before the Brett
Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, which was disrupted by unruly
demonstrators.
A total of
70 people were arrested during the hearing after many of them began
screeching incoherently in an effort to derail the event.
Activist Adam Schindler interviewed three doctors from Texas who suggested that the entire protest was far from organic.
More @ Need To Know
President Trump May Declassify the 20 FISA Docs Congress Wants
Via Billy
Trump has come under pressure by DOJ officials who do not want him to declassify the documents
President Trump is expected to
declassify the redacted 20 pages of documents from the controversial
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant that have still not
been made public, which allowed the FBI to spy on short-term campaign
volunteer Carter Page, numerous sources told SaraACarter.com. This comes
after nearly a year of stonewalling by the Department of Justice at the
demand of lawmakers, who claim that the 20 redacted pages will reveal
explosive information about the FBI’s handling of the Trump-Russia
investigation, according to sources.
More @ Sara Carter
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Mattis calls Woodward's reporting on him 'fiction'
The Watergate reporter wrote that Mattis once described President Trump as having the understanding of “a fifth- or sixth-grader” when it comes to the Korean Peninsula, according to The Washington Post.
“The
contemptuous words about the President attributed to me in Woodward's
book were never uttered by me or in my presence,” Mattis said in a
statement. “While I generally enjoy reading fiction, this is a uniquely
Washington brand of literature, and his anonymous sources do not lend
credibility.”
More @ The Hill
The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson
A review of The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson by David N. Mayer (University of Virginia Press, 1994).
Thomas Jefferson’s reputation is that of a great thinker. He is popularly (and I believe wrongly, but that is a different matter) believed to have been the greatest thinker among American’s Revolutionaries. It is as a writer and as an unofficial pontifex rei publici that Jefferson is remembered, as the man who sat on Monticello and defined American liberalism. Yet, despite the perennial attention to the thought of the Revolutionary generation, generations elapsed between the last book-length study of Jefferson’s constitutional thought and David N. Mayer’s The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson.
More @ The Abbeville Institute
Leftists Panic Over Noncitizens Ditching Federal Aid
Politico incredulously reports that federal aid enrollment among immigrants is shrinking, and the reason has to do with what the report implies are unfair immigration policies. Right off the bat, Politico makes an emotional appeal regarding nourishment, which apparently is under threat.
“Immigrants are turning down government help to buy infant formula and healthy food for their young children because they’re afraid the Trump administration could bar them from getting a green card if they take federal aid,” according to the report. (As they should be)
More @ The Patriot Post
A Calming Effect at Sumter
North Carolina’s Jonathan Worth sensed that despite the sectional troubles of the latter 1850s and Lincoln’s election, “Unionist sentiment was ascendant and gaining strength until Lincoln prostrated us.” He added “the President could abandon Sumter and Pickens without any sacrifice of his principles . . .” Worth also felt that Seward’s duplicity did more that all the secessionists to drive North Carolina out the Union, as Lincoln behind the scenes pursued his aggressive policy of war.
Bernhard Thuersam, www.Circa1865.org The Great American Political Divide
A Calming Effect at Sumter
“The [Confederate] commissioners were impatient to gain a hearing and get on with their negotiations. At first Seward promised to let them know how best to bring the subject of their mission before the President and the cabinet. Then he began to stall them off by saying the administration did not yet have time to deal properly with a matter so important.
The President, he explained, was “besieged” by applicants for office and was “surrounded by all the difficulties and confusion incident to the first days of a new administration.” Seward gave the commissioners to understand, however, that Sumter very soon would be evacuated anyhow.
When they demanded an informal conference with him (at no time had they and he met face to face) he said he would have to consult the President. The answer he later relayed back to them was “No, it would not be in his power to receive the gentlemen.”
The rumors Seward had started, about the early abandonment of Sumter, eventually appeared in the press. They made “great news” in the metropolitan dailies on Monday, March 11, the very day on which Lincoln, in his orders to [Gen. Winfield] Scott, reaffirmed the opposite policy – a fact which the newspapers did not report and did not know.
As the news spread, it had, on the whole, a calming effect in Richmond and elsewhere in the non-Confederate South. “The removal from Sumter,” said George W. Summers, writing on behalf of the Virginia Unionists, and writing as if the removal already were a fact, “acted like a charm – it gave us [Southern Unionists] great strength. A reaction is now going on in the State.”
In Washington, the Confederate commissioners agreed to postpone their demand for an immediate reception. They would wait, but only for a couple of weeks, until about March 28, and only on condition that the existing military status of the Union forts remain absolutely unchanged.
In Charleston, the publishers and the readers of the Charleston Mercury and the Courier rejoiced that Sumter would soon fall without a fight. “The news . . . seems to have caused an almost entire cessation of work on the batteries around us,” one of [Major] Anderson’s officers wrote to the War Department . . .”
In the city of New York, and throughout the . . . North – there was mixed reaction. Some thought the decision unfortunate but unavoidable. Some, especially Buchanan Democrats and also businessmen with Southern connections, heartily approved.”
(Lincoln and the First Shot, Richard N. Current, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1963, excerpts pp. 54-56)
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