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Joe Scarborough, maybe proved that he does have a sharp political mind. He saw President Trump’s power early and often remarked with his guests how willing Trump was to go out on TV, with no pre-approved talking points, and how it made Jeb and the others look weak and afraid in front of him.

The President would answer any question any time and it captivated a nation sick and tired of politicians.

Miami was a debacle for the Democrats in case you did not watch. They are not ready for prime time. Every Democrat in the debates sounded just like another cynical politician. Complete with the flip-flop today to try to clean up what they said.

The Hill reported that MSNBC host Joe Scarborough called the second night of the first 2020 Democratic debates a “disaster for the Democratic Party” and stated that he hopes voters were not watching the face-off, which aired on his network.

“With apologies to our friends and watching, last night was a disaster for the Democratic Party,” Scarborough said on Friday’s “Morning Joe.” “My only hope is people were not watching and I will tell you why.”

Scarborough went on to jab the candidates for criticizing each other instead of focusing their ire on President Trump.

“So they’re lined up in trench warfare, ready to get out of the trenches and charge Donald Trump. Instead, they all turn their guns on each other and shoot each other, and everybody is yelling at each other all night,” Scarborough said on Friday.

“If you’re an American and this is your introduction to these candidates and the Democratic Party, and all you see are 12 people yelling at each other, trying to interrupt each other, insulting each other, you’re like, ‘You know what. I thought Donald Trump was a clown show. I’m changing the channel.’”

Scarborough called former Vice President Joe Biden’s performance one of “the most disturbing debate performances” he had ever seen, and questioned Biden for sticking closely to the debate’s rules and not focusing more specifically on issues in his answers.

“It was one of those moments where you’re going, ‘My God, is he going to complete his sentence?’” He asked.

“Bernie Sanders was yelling all night. Bernie Sanders didn’t prepare for the debate,” Scarborough said. “It showed because he basically gave the same debate performances this year that he gave four years ago. It may have worked when it was Bernie Sanders against Hillary Clinton. It did not work last night.”

He also slammed the Democratic candidates for adopting progressive platforms like decriminalizing border crossings and providing health insurance through a public option to undocumented immigrants. Scarborough claimed that they wouldn’t be able to beat President Trump with that focus.

“It was a bad sign for me, as someone who desperately wants to see Donald Trump taken out of office,” Scarborough said.

Nancy Pelosi tried to pull a fast one but Mitch McConnell stopped her in her tracks. The crisis at the border demands immediate attention from Congress and all they do is play games.

Both Houses took up separate bills. The GOP’s passed the Senate with a bipartisan majority 84-8 vote. The House bill was by party lines. Needless to say, Nancy Pelosi will lose this fight so she needs to vote on the GOP’s bill now.

The Washington Examiner reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell rejected the latest House border funding bill because it claws back funding for efforts to deter illegal immigration.

“It’s not going to happen,” the Kentucky Republican announced on Thursday.

The new House bill would eliminate funding in the Senate bill allocated for the use of the military to help secure the southern border and it strips out additional funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which is an interior immigration enforcement agency that the Democrats want to eliminate.

“If House Democrats send the Senate some partisan effort to disrupt our bipartisan progress, we will simply move to table it,” Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor.

“The United States Senate is not going to pass a border funding bill that cuts the money for ICE and the Department of Defense.”

On Wednesday, the Senate passed a $4.6 billion bipartisan border funding bill in an 84-8 vote, which increased pressure on Nancy Pelosi to take up that bill.

Nancy Pelosi is also under a lot of pressure from her progressive wing to maintain provisions that block the President from reducing illegal immigration or deporting illegals through ICE or the military.

On Thursday, Pelosi called for the Trump administration and the Senate to engage in an immediate conference to do the best we can for the children before we leave for the 4th of July.

Mitch McConnell urged Nancy Pelosi to take up the Senate bill. He said some of the additional funding in the House bill “may be unobjectionable things the Trump administration may be able to help secure for them administratively.”

But McConnell rejected the cuts to military and ICE proposed in the latest House version. He said the Senate-passed bill “is the only game in town,” and urged House Democrats “to quit playing games,” and pass the Senate bill.

The truth is a painful thing but in this case the truth is devastating for the Democrats. The left has gone all in on painting President Trump as a heartless monster.

The negative campaign is how they aim to beat him so anything that shatters that illusion is very damaging. Obama’s former ICE chief just shattered the biggest illusion of them all – that President Trump is responsible for the ‘cages’ at the southern border.

The Washington Examiner reported that former President Obama’s top immigration chief in charge of removing illegals stated that the “cages” Democrats have accused President Trump of housing children in were the brainchild of the Obama administration.

“I’ve been to that facility, where they talk about cages. That facility was built under President Obama under (Homeland Security) Secretary Jeh Johnson. I was there because I was there when it was built,” said Thomas Homan, who was Obama’s executive associate director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for nearly 4 years.

At an immigration conference today, Homan, under consideration for a new position of “border czar” in the Trump administration, grew visibly angry answering a question about “cages” often cited by Democratic critics of the president.

Homan, known for running Obama’s successful deportation operation, ripped the Democrats who question President Trump immigration officials on the Obama-era idea.

He cited one Democratic chairman who asked a Trump official, “You still keeping kids in cages?”

Homan, at the conference hosted by the Center for Immigration Studies, said, “I would answer the question, ‘The kids are being house in the same facility built under the Obama administration.’ If you want to call them cages, call them cages. But if the left wants to call them cages and the Democrats want to call them cages then they have to accept the fact that they were built and funded in FY 2015.”

He also stated that the Border Patrol facilities where all illegals are initially kept “were not built to take care of children.” In fact, the recent surge of younger illegals is a new trend.

Homan claimed that there are no cages but chain-link fencing that separates kids from adults, done for safety. “It’s chain link dividers that keeps children separate from unrelated adults. It’s about protecting children,” he said.

He also suggested that the humanitarian aid bill working through Congress would help, but he said the House version amounts to “extortion” because it cuts funding for enforcement.

Jean Carroll came out of nowhere, and after 30 or something years, accused President Trump of a sexual assault.

Recently, she appeared on CNN and proved herself to be quite the whack job and not credible a person. The video is below and you can judge for yourself as she calls rape a sexy fantasy and she sounds drunk or on medication when she is saying it.

And what does Mitt Romney do? Calls for an investigation into it. What a joke. What we should do is investigate all the destruction Mitt caused by Bain capital. All those jobs shipped overseas, all those pensions wiped out so he could buy another mansion. That’s what we should be investigating.

CNN reported that this Tuesday, two Republican senators said that the rape allegation made against President Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll should be explored to determine the veracity of the allegation against President Trump — even as many Senate Republicans sidestepped questions over the matter and defended the President.

Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa said both President Trump and Jean Carroll should be questioned about the alleged assault.

“I think anybody that makes an accusation like that, they should come forward,” Ernst stated when he was asked if Carroll should be believed. “But obviously there has to be some additional information. They need to interview her. They need to visit with him.”

Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah stated that there needs to be an “evaluation” but that he didn’t know what entity should conduct it, “whether it’s Congress or whether it’s another setting, I’m not sure.”

“It’s a very serious allegation,” Romney said. “I hope that it is fully evaluated. The President said it didn’t happen and I certainly hope that’s the case.”

The second-ranking senator in GOP leadership, Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, called the alleged acts “unacceptable, deplorable behavior” but said because “the President is denying them, I can’t comment on them because I don’t know what the truth is.”

“I think anytime you have a situation like this where nobody knows exactly what the truth and exactly what the facts are, it’s hard to draw any hard-and-fast conclusions.” Thune added.

When Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and ally of President Trump’s was asked about the rape charges, he paused, took a deep breath and shook his head. Then he said, “He’s denied it, and that’s enough for me. Until somebody comes up with something new.”

Sen. Thom Tillis, a Republican of North Carolina, also said he will take Trump’s denial “at face value.”

Breitbart also reported that Sens. Mitt Romney and Joni Ernst split from members of the Republican party and requested more information on E. Jean Carroll’s claim that President Trump raped her many years ago.

While many of his Republican colleagues have remained silent on the issue, or come out in support of President Trump, Mitt Romney claimed the accusation placed by Jean Carroll, who previously said “most people think of rape as being sexy,” is a “serious” allegation, according to CNN.

“It’s a very serious allegation,” Mitt Romney said. “I hope that it is fully evaluated. The President said it didn’t happen and I certainly hope that’s the case.”

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Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus appeared on Fox Business and defended capitalism from Bernie Sanders and the Democrats.

“Don’t bring up Bernie Sanders. That is a red flag in front of me,” said Marcus on Monday. “He is the enemy of every entrepreneur that’s ever going to be born in this country, and has been born in the past.”

Marking the 40-year anniversary of Home Depot’s founding, one of the great entrepreneurial success stories in American business, iconic co-founders Marcus and Ken Langone appeared on “Fox Business” with host Neil Cavuto and were resolute in their defense of capitalism at a time when the Dems are moving foolishly toward socialism.

Host Cavuto asked about a group of liberal billionaires who claim they want to pay more in taxes.

“You’re both billionaires. You have had great success. There is the push from the billionaire’s club … you’ve heard … a group that wants higher taxes … George Soros, Chris Hughes, Facebook co-founder, a host of others, descendants of family empires, Abigail Disney, Pritzker, they say tax us more. What do you think of that?” asked Cavuto.

“Well, they trust the government more than I do,” Marcus replied. “Look, I can’t tell you how much money we’ve given away. My foundation actually has given away over $2 billion. I would rather give it away than have some congressman give it away. We built hospitals. We built the Georgia aquarium … We have cardiac units, we have stroke units. NYU. We do better with our money than the government. Why would I want the government to have it? Anything they touch …”

“Do you get annoyed,” Cavuto interjected, “when you have big targets, not specifically on you, the rich … all these democratic candidates, to a man or women, they single out guys like you, saying this is what happened to capitalism.”

“Wait a minute,” Langone said. “What has happened to capitalism? Two, three, four of us, all humble origins,” talking about the founders of Home Depot. “Every one of the four of us. His father was a plumber. Enormously successful financially. Look what we’ve done. But I have a different point. I have no trouble paying more taxes provided it is used to redeem the futures of the young people today. What the hell am I doing? What is Bernie doing getting Social Security? We shouldn’t get a check. Fix it. Make that happen. They haven’t got the guts in Washington.”

“Bernie Sanders is out today with a plan that will tax Wall Street trades, pennies on the dollar, but it’s a start to pay for among other things, college debt, and maybe free college down the road,” Cavuto said.

“Don’t bring up Bernie Sanders. That is a red flag in front of me. He is the enemy of every entrepreneur that’s ever going to born in this country, and has been born in the past,” said Marcus.

“If he became president what would you guys do?” asked host Cavuto.

“Me? Probably move to Australia,” Marcus said, while laughing. “What could he do? He can’t do anything to us. He will affect my grandchildren.”

“Let me bring up one thing,” Marcus continued. “Bernie Sanders talks about socialized medicine. My foundation now is working on one issue, that is taking care of these veterans, kids who fought in Afghanistan, Iraq. You know that 20 a day commit suicide. Twenty every single day. What is Bernie Sanders doing about that? Why doesn’t he shut his mouth and do something about these kids? They go to the Veterans Administration. They can’t take care of it. The proof in the pudding is, 20 a day are committing suicide.”

“If it was measles, the CDC, the world, would be in an uproar. But it is kids that put their lives on the line, that are treated so badly. I didn’t hear one single candidate talk about it. By the way, Trump is fully supportive of this. He has done some things (like) fire people, that have done the wrong thing at the Veterans Administration. The Veterans Administration is what medical care is going to be like in the United States if Bernie Sanders is elected.” he said.

“Believe it or not Chavez in Venezuela came into power through a democratic process,” said Langone. “If the people in America today, the fellows with the hard hats on, if they want to know what the future holds for them following Bernie Sanders, go to Cuba, go to Venezuela, go to Russia, go to Eastern Europe. Guess what? It doesn’t work. It never worked. The average Venezuelan last year lost 34 pounds. There is no food down there.”

“It was one of the wealthiest countries in the Southern Hemisphere. It was sitting on a huge pool of oil,” he added.

The Washington Examiner reported that Rep. Mark Meadows stated that the Justice Department is examining irregularities in the intelligence community as part of its review of the origins of the Russia investigation.

In regards to newly released documents on changes in U.S. procedures for sharing raw intelligence, Rep. Meadows claimed there was “unbelievably unusual activity” in the final months of the Obama administration.

“I can tell you that [U.S. Attorney] John Durham and Attorney General [William] Barr are going to get to the bottom of it,” the North Carolina Republican said Monday evening on Fox News. “They are including in part of their surveillance — really looking at the intelligence community to make sure that justice is brought.”

Before Mark Meadows was brought on to speak along with colleague Rep. Jim Jordan on Sean Hannity’s show, attorney Jay Sekulow discussed the latest findings by his conservative watchdog group, the American Center for Law and Justice.

The records obtained by the ACLJ showed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence under James Clapper pushing to increase access to raw signal intelligence before Donald Trump took office.

The New York Times was first to reported the expanded access to intercepted communications in January 2017. Although Hannity and Sekulow played up the newly released records, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, as suspiciously timed and “rushed,” the Times noted the discussions for such changes to remove bureaucratic barriers stretched back years dating back to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

But still, Jordan said that he suspects there was evidence of nefarious intent, tying the changes to an interview Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer did in January 2017 in which he warned then-incoming President Donald Trump that intelligence officials “have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

“So this is one of those six ways,” Jordan said, adding that the other “ways” include British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s anti-Trump dossier the CIA’s use of informants to make contact with members of the Trump 2016 campaign.

AG Barr tasked Durham, a U.S. attorney from Connecticut, with leading the inquiry focused on the origins of the counterintelligence investigation into Trump’s campaign, which the FBI began in the summer of 2016. The DOJ review of the early stages of the Russia investigation is not a criminal inquiry, but should Durham find criminal activity he can take prosecutorial action.