Author: Tod Nace

On Thursday, a Pennsylvania Trump-supporter said that she was sticking with President Trump even though family members had cut her out of their lives.

Lynette Villano, resident from Pennsylvania who said that she had been “on the Trump train” since the day he first stepped off the escalator in Trump Tower, said during the president’s Fox News town hall that a number of her own family members had either stopped speaking to her or given her an ultimatum with regard to her politics.

“President Trump, I’m so happy to have you here,” Villano began. “From the day you came down the escalator in Trump Tower, I was on the Trump Train.”

“I like that,” President Trump smiled, “And I like you too.”

“I proudly wear my Trump pin every day of my life,” Villano continued. “My question is, we are so divided as a country, I have family members who don’t speak to me, and recently was told if you support Trump you’re no longer part of my life. How are you going to bring us together?”

The Daily Caller reported that Trump responded by saying that he believed more could be accomplished if both sides would agree to work together — and despite the fighting of the past three years, he remained hopeful that the parties could work together in the future.

“Let’s get together, let’s get things done, there’s so many things we could do. We’ve done a lot, we’ve done more than any administration in three years in the history of the country,” President Trump said.

“I really believe we’re going to win this next election and when we do the other side is going to say okay, that is it, let’s get along. I really believe that. We have to win the election,” he added.

On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her three fellow “Squad” members stood in the way of an amendment that would prevent individuals convicted of sexual misconduct, violent crimes, or terrorism from being hired by the Transportation Safety Administration.

During a debate on a bill expanding TSA worker protections, Democratic Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood put forward an amendment that 174 Democrats voted against, which would have prevented the TSA from hiring people with sexual misconduct and terrorism convictions, as the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez declined to vote on the amendment, as did Reps. Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Ayanna Pressley and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

“We have two options today: Adopt the Underwood amendment and keep sexual predators off of the federal payroll, or reject it and reward sexual predators with a paycheck from the taxpayer,” Republican Rep. Debbie Lesko said about the amendment.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy criticized the Dems for their position and labeled the dissenters as the “socialist wing of the party.”

“The amendment was pulled back by leadership because the socialist wing of the party did not want to have that amendment go forward on this bill,” McCarthy said on Thursday.

“When it was offered, overwhelmingly the majority of the House would like to see the TSA not hire terrorists or those who have been convicted of sexual misconduct with minors and others. But the socialist wing of the party, that controls now the Democratic Party, said that that could not be offered.”

Ultimately, the amendment was added, but only after Underwood and 41 other Democrats broke ranks and joined the Republicans.

The bill passed the House by a vote of 227-175 despite no votes from Reps Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley.

The Dems continue to disgrace our country with their rhetoric and childish antics. They are destroying their credibility with a steady stream of hypocrisy added to their already misguided cancel culture.

Chuck Schumer seemingly lost his soul when he attacked Brett Kavanaugh and Neill Gorsuch with a threat for proof of how hysterical they have become as they release they are losing.

“I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer told a crowd in front of the Supreme Court. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Enter Rep. Ilhan Omar to disgrace the Dem Party even more than Chuck Schumer with an attack on Brett Kavanaugh and Clarence Thomas.

“Two accused sexual predators should not be deciding whether or not women have access to healthcare in this country,” she tweeted attacking the two conservative judges.

The Washington Examiner reported that Rep. Omar posted the tweet as both sides of the abortion debate descended on the Supreme Court to debate a case that would require doctors performing abortions to obtain admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles.

Rep. Omar tweeted shortly before her attacks on Brett Kavanaugh and Thomas that “abortion is a Constitutional right.”

Both Thomas and Kavanaugh were accused by their political rivals of immoral behavior during their contentious confirmation hearings, though both claims were never substantiated. In Kavanaugh’s case, the FBI investigated him seven times and came up with no evidence of wrongdoing.

Rep. Omar wasn’t the only Democrat to launch controversial attacks against sitting Supreme Court justices.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer issued a threat that earned him bipartisan condemnation.

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Two accused sexual predators should not be deciding whether or not women have access to healthcare in this country. https://t.co/okJE85pwoN

— Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) March 4, 2020

Ex-President Obama’s former Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Charles Edwards was indicted for fraud and other charges stemming from a scheme to rip off the federal government.

His former aide Murali Yamazula Venkata was also indicted Friday on charges of stealing government property and then attemting to repackage it for sale and defrauding the U.S. government.

The DOJ reported that a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a 16-count indictment against a former Acting Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and a former subordinate for their alleged theft of proprietary software and confidential databases from the U.S. government as part of a scheme to defraud the U.S. government.

Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Shea for the District of Columbia, DHS Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari and Inspector General Tammy L. Whitcomb for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) made the announcement.

The indictment charges Charles K. Edwards, 59, of Sandy Spring, Maryland, and Murali Yamazula Venkata, 54, of Aldie, Virginia, with conspiracy to commit theft of government property and to defraud the United States, theft of government property, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.

The indictment also charges Venkata with destruction of records.

According to the allegations in the indictment, from October 2014 to April 2017, Edwards, Venkata, and others executed a scheme to defraud the U.S. government by stealing confidential and proprietary software from DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG), along with sensitive government databases containing personal identifying information (PII) of DHS and USPS employees, so that Edwards’s company, Delta Business Solutions, could later sell an enhanced version of DHS-OIG’s software to the Office of Inspector General for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at a profit.

Although Edwards had left DHS-OIG in December 2013, he continued to leverage his relationship with Venkata and other DHS-OIG employees to steal the software and the sensitive government databases.

The indictment further alleges that, in addition to stealing DHS-OIG’s software and the sensitive government databases, Venkata and others also assisted Edwards by reconfiguring his laptop so that he could properly upload the stolen software and databases, provided troubleshooting support whenever Edwards required it, and helped him build a testing server at his residence with the stolen software and databases, which contained PII. As further part of the alleged scheme, Edwards retained software developers in India for the purpose of developing his commercial alternative of DHS-OIG’s software.

The indictment is a result of an ongoing investigation by DHS-OIG and USPS-OIG and is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Victor R. Salgado of the Criminal Division’s Public Integrity Section and Assistant U.S. Attorney David B. Kent of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

Haley Stevens, a Dem Congresswoman from Michigan just threw a public and vary obnoxious temper tantrum over her colleague’s gun video.

Colorado Congressman Ken Buck wanted to have a little fun and made a 2nd amendment video using a gun he mounts on his wall.

“I have just one message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, if you want to take everyone’s AR-15s, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C. and start with this one? Come and take it. #2A,” he said.

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I have just one message for Joe Biden and Beto O’Rourke, if you want to take everyone’s AR-15s, why don’t you swing by my office in Washington, D.C. and start with this one?

Come and take it. #2A pic.twitter.com/jG2SiXetov

— Rep. Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) March 6, 2020

Enter Congresswoman Haley Stevens who apparently felt “threatened” and called the Sergeant at arms on the guy.

“Your congressional office is not your private home. It is a public space. This behavior is threatening and unacceptable,” Haley wrote.

“I feel unsafe with this in my place of work. I have been in contact with the Sergeant at Arms to express my concerns,” she added and she was serious.

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Your congressional office is not your private home. It is a public space.

This behavior is threatening and unacceptable. I feel unsafe with this in my place of work.

I have been in contact with the Sergeant at Arms to express my concerns. https://t.co/UTbNBXLziW

— Rep. Haley Stevens (@RepHaleyStevens) March 6, 2020

Beto O’Rourke decided to join in, and responded to Stevens’ post with his own message on Twitter.

“This guy makes the case for both an assault weapons ban and a mandatory buyback program better than I ever could. These are weapons of war that have no place in our communities, in our politics or in our public discourse,” he commented.

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This guy makes the case for both an assault weapons ban and a mandatory buyback program better than I ever could. These are weapons of war that have no place in our communities, in our politics or in our public discourse. https://t.co/ce5PvaxqMk

— Beto O'Rourke (@BetoORourke) March 6, 2020

There were also some reasonable comments that suggested Haley and Beto are over-reacting to the video: “C’mon Haley, quit gaslighting. Ken’s “AR-15″ has no firing bolt and a trigger lock, besides he got permission cleared through several agencies prior to hanging it on his wall,” one wrote.

Recently, Hillary Clinton made another classless move and trashed first lady Melania Trump at an event, while promoting a book.

Hillary also blamed the GOP for dividing the country, “I worked with them all,” she said. “That’s what is sad about what is going on right now. There seems to be a refusal for bipartisan cooperation right now.”

“We are so divided right now and we’re so hostile toward people that we think don’t agree with us, or are somehow different from us, that somebody has to start trying and bridge that gulf.”

Asked what she thinks of Melania Trump’s “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign, Clinton said, “I think she should look closer to home.”

Enter First Lady Melania Trump and AG Bill Barr who appeared together at a DOJ event. They never mention Hillary by name but they choose their words vary carefully.

“Since its launch, I have used my initiative to shine a light on programs that show what it means to Be Best,” Melania said.

“This can be showing a simple act of kindness, providing care where there is need, or teaching something valuable, my initiative is meant to promote the positive actions happening in our communities to they can be replicated throughout the country and across the world,” she said taking a veiled shot at Hillary by announcing she is taking her initiative global rather than “closer to home.”

“The success across the administration is also due to all of you who are here today,” Melania added.

“If we continue to work together, I know we can create a safer, healthier, and more hopeful world for our children,” she said.

AG Barr praised first lady Melania’s tireless work fighting the scourge of America – the opioid addiction crisis.

“Our First Lady dedicates much of her time to working to protect America’s children from drug addiction,” AG Barr said.

“The first lady has emphasized that ending the opioid epidemic will require the entire country to come together. She is absolutely right about that.”

“She is doing her part to achieve that, and we are grateful that she is here with us today.”

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First Lady Melania Trump: "For the first time in 29 years, we saw a decline in overdose deaths. From 2017 to 2018, there was 4% decline in fatal overdoses. This is a positive and tangible impact on our country." pic.twitter.com/ltlSeinFe8

— The Hill (@thehill) March 6, 2020

Hillary Clinton drank shots of booze on television and went on to take a few cheap and totally unnecessary shots at first lady Melania Trump.

“I’m the last person to comment on anybody’s relationship,” Clinton said on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” when asked to comment on the Trump’s marriage.

On the GOP, Hillary blamed them for the divided nature of our country, leaving her role of selling out the Dem base for years strangely out of her calculations.

“I worked with them all,” she said. “That’s what is sad about what is going on right now. There seems to be a refusal for bipartisan cooperation right now.”

“We are so divided right now and we’re so hostile toward people that we think don’t agree with us, or are somehow different from us, that somebody has to start trying and bridge that gulf.”

Asked what she really thinks of First Lady Melania’s “Be Best” anti-bullying campaign, Hillary Clinton spat out, “I think she should look closer to home.”

We used to have more respect and left first ladies were always left out of it.

Hillary Clinton also had a few words to say on Nancy Pelosi’s scandalously ripping up President Trump’s State if the Union address.

“I thought she was making a very strong point in demonstrating that so much of what he said was untethered from reality and just plain factually wrong.”

“Sometimes it’s the only way to get attention because otherwise his speech, which was filled with so many errors, would have been taken at face value. Because she visibly did that, which then went viral across the internet, people said, wait a minute, maybe we better take another look. I thought it was an interesting and effective gesture.”

Rep. Ilhan Omar said that people in the U.S. need to accept that their country’s power comes from racism and that it’s history is “built on the oppression of black bodies.”

“From slavery to Jim Crow to redlining to mass incarceration to voter suppression, racism is part of the foundation of American power,” she said Thursday during a panel discussion on Capitol Hill.

“Our task as organizers is not only to all out the specific incidences of racism,” Omar added. “It is to recognize that our history is built on the oppression of black bodies.”

Rep. Omar, the first Somali refugee elected to Congress, also expressed the belief that in a “racist society,” it’s simply not enough to not be racist. “We must be anti-racist,” she said, quoting Angela Davis.

“In a racist society, it is not enough to be nonracist,” Rep. Omar said. “We must be anti-racist.”

Rep. Omar has previously spoken critically of America, including in February, when she blamed the U.S. for catastrophic flooding in other countries.

Omar told U.S. citizen that they need to ask themselves what the U.S. did wrong overseas to cause refugees to flock to this country.

“When you see a Somali refugee or an Iraqi refugee or a Libyan refugee, we often are like, ‘this is my neighbor — they must have survived some struggle.’ We don’t ever pause to think, ‘What American policy made them come over here?'” she said.

In a stunning development, a Federal Judge ripped AG Barr and basically accused him of lying or showing a “lack of candor” when he released the Mueller report.

He accused Bill Barr of misrepresenting the findings of the report and demanded an unredacted version to read for himself before he decided whether to release the whole report.

Fox News reported that a federal judge vowed to review an unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russia investigation in order to determine if those redactions, ordered by AG Barr, were warranted and followed federal guidelines.

U.S. District Court Judge Reggie Walton, who is presiding over a lawsuit brought forth by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) — a nonprofit in Washington, D.C., focused on privacy and First Amendment issues — in conjunction with BuzzFeed News, said that an independent review of the full, unredacted report is necessary because he has “grave concerns about the objectivity” of Barr’s Justice Department in authorizing redactions in line with department rules and exemptions allowed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

Walton — who was appointed to the bench by former President George W. Bush and was a former FISA court judge — said in his Thursday ruling that AG Barr’s “lack of candor” is evidenced by his decision to release a summary of the Mueller report effectively exonerating Trump from potential charges of obstruction without the report being made available to the public so they could draw their own conclusions.

“Barr’s “lack of candor” is evidenced by his decision to release a summary of the Mueller report effectively exonerating President Trump from potential charges of obstruction without the report being made available to the public” – This judge must be a Democrat because that is exactly what the Dems claimed even though AG Barr released the entire Mueller report just a few weeks after the initial summary. This judge may have been chosen by George W. Bush, but I’ve little doubt where his true allegiances lie with that kind of logic.

He is also accusing AG Barr of being a hack for President Trump: “The court seriously questions whether Attorney General Barr made a calculated attempt to influence public discourse about the Mueller Report in favor of President Trump despite certain findings in the redacted version of the Mueller Report to the contrary,” Walton wrote.

He also questioned the “credibility” of Barr’s memo.

“In the Court’s view, Attorney General Barr’s representation that the Mueller Report would be ‘subject only to those redactions required by law or by compelling law enforcement, national security, or personal privacy interests’ cannot be credited without the Court’s independent verification in light of Attorney General Barr’s conduct and misleading public statements about the findings in the Mueller Report,” he added. “It would be disingenuous for the Court to conclude that the redactions of the Mueller Report pursuant to the FOIA are not tainted by Attorney General Barr’s actions and representation.”