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Rod Rosenstein Has a Few Choice Words for Media, FBI Leakers, and Obama Administration By Debra Heine

https://pjmedia.com/trending/rod-rosenstein-has-a-few-choice-words-for-media-fbi-leakers-and-obama-administration/

During an event in New York City, Thursday evening, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein shared his feelings about the special counsel’s Russia investigation, while throwing shade on critics, politicians, the media and the Obama administration.

Speaking at a dinner where he was honored by the Armenian Bar Association, Rosenstein defended his handling of the probe, recalling how he had promised to “do it right” during his Senate confirmation hearing and to “take it to the appropriate conclusion.”

“It’s not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges,” Rosenstein noted.

“‘You’re going to be in charge of this [Russia] investigation. I want you to look me in the eye and tell me that you’ll do it right, that you’ll take it to its conclusion and you’ll report [your results] to the American people,'” he said the senator told him.

Rosenstein agreed to the first two things the senator asked, but then explained, “I did not promise to report all results to the public, because grand jury investigations are ex parte proceedings. It is not our job to render conclusive factual findings. We just decide whether it is appropriate to file criminal charges.”

He said that there were “some critical decisions” about the investigation that had been made before he got there. “The previous administration,” he added, “chose not to publicize the full story about Russian computer hackers and social media trolls, and how they relate to a broader strategy to undermine America.”

Rosenstein added that “the FBI disclosed classified evidence about the investigation to ranking legislators and their staffs, lawmakers and their staffers,” and then “someone selectively leaked details to the news media.”

How the Mueller Report Covers for Clinton and the Conspirators By Adam Mill

https://amgreatness.com/2019/04/25/how-the-mueller-report-covers-for-clinton-and-the-conspirators/

On April 10, Attorney General William Barr got to the heart of the Russia collusion hoax in a delicate and understated manner.

“Well, I guess—I think spying did occur, yes,” he told a congressional panel. “I think spying did occur. . . . The question was whether it was adequately predicated.”

The term “spying” is actually a euphemism for what really happened. In reality, starting an investigation to create suspicion and a fountain of leaks to frame political opponents to win an election is just the kind of thing Putin did in Russia to subvert what little democracy started to take root after the fall of the old Soviet government. In a way, framing somebody for treason is worse than treason because of the damage it does to the rule of law.

There are two competing narratives for the “predicate” for spying on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign: (1) The Papadopoulos pretext and, (2) the obvious truth. If you want to know why the Left is melting down over Barr’s “spying” comments, it’s very simple: the real “predicate” for spying on Trump is a phony intelligence report commissioned by Hillary Clinton to win an election.

But that’s not the story we’ve been fed.

Biden: World Leaders are Begging Me to Run Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/273583/biden-world-leaders-are-begging-me-run-daniel-greenfield
Joe Biden is a modest man, humble and self-effacing. He’s only running because the entire world is begging him to.

On the call, an upbeat Biden said his candidacy was a calling, a duty — and that it’s not just Democrats or Americans who want him to run to stop President Donald Trump.

“I get calls from people all over the world — world leaders are calling me — and they’re almost begging me to do this, to save the country, save the world,” Biden said.

World leaders begging ‘plugs’ to grace them with his presence and retake America? Could one of them have been Neil Kinnock?

I do believe that a lot of people have begged Biden. But most of them were probably women begging him to get clammy hands off them.

Wasn’t it all that long ago that the media was howling that foreign leaders shouldn’t get involved in American elections. Except, apparently, when it favors them.

They’re fine with world leaders urging Joe Biden to run. No collusion to see there. Just the collusion of reality and delusion.

The Mueller Files The back story of America’s Deep State Dzerzhinsky. Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273567/mueller-files-lloyd-billingsley

“When did Mueller become God?” wondered Rudy Giuliani after release of the Mueller report. The Trump attorney and former New York mayor was not alone in such sentiments.

On his Fox News program, Mark Levin blasted the Mueller report as a 400-page, $35 million op-ed that amounts to an “impeachment report.” And after the finding of “no collusion,” the Democrat-media axis quickly pivoted to the obstruction of justice narrative.

“Was Robert Mueller Colluding with Russia?” wondered Christopher Roach at American Greatness. “What could possibly sow more discord,” Roach notes, “than suggesting the president broke the law and stole an election by treacherously teaming up with a hostile foreign power?” That is hardly the only question about the special counsel with the Easter Island stone face, a runner-up for the Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” award last year.

Like his pal James Comey, Mueller was not an FBI man who rose through the ranks. Even so, two months before 9/11, Mueller defended the FBI over blunders such as Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Robert Hanssen, the FBI man who spied for Russia. Mueller proclaimed that, if confirmed, “I will make it my highest priority to restore the public’s confidence in the FBI and to re-earn the faith and trust of the American people.”

Biden’s In! Launches presidential bid with debunked Charlottesville lies. Matthew Vadum

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273596/bidens-matthew-vadum

Former Vice President Joe Biden, a gaffe-prone egomaniacal plagiarist and serial groper who has been looking in the mirror throughout his decades as a professional politician and seeing a president looking back, finally announced he was running for president this week for the fourth time

Biden enters the ridiculously crowded race for the Democrats’ presidential nod as the front-runner with huge name-recognition.

He made the announcement in a video posted online that is centered on a vicious lie the Left has been hurling at President Donald Trump for nearly two years.

In the video Biden refers to the violence at the ill-fated “Unite the Right” rally that took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. Although the rally attracted neo-Nazis, many non-Nazis attended to protest the proposal to remove a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a nearby park.

There was violence. One counter-protester died after neo-Nazi James Alex Fields ran her over with a car. Antifa and related groups showed up armed with baseball bats and clubs and fought with other attendees, as President Trump acknowledged.

In the announcement Biden lies about President Trump’s reaction to the rally, while at the same time praising Antifa for having “the courage to stand” against hate.

Teacher Rejects President Trump as Subject of Student’s “Hero” Essay But another student was allowed to write about ex-president Obama.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273588/teacher-rejects-president-trump-subject-students-sara-dogan

Sixth grade student Bella Moscato and her family have gone public after the middle schooler’s teacher assigned her class to write an essay on a person they consider a hero—and then rejected Bella’s proposal to write about President Donald Trump.

Bella is a student at Samoset Middle School, part of the Sachem Central School District located in Long Island, New York. According to the 11-year-old, who was interviewed with her parents by a local news channel, the teacher made no secret of her distaste for our current president.

That teacher, says Bella, rejected Trump as a subject of her essay “because he spreads negativity and says bad stuff about women.” According to Bella, this statement was made in front of the whole class as well as another faculty member. Her teacher then told her to pick a different individual to profile in her assignment.

“The thing I didn’t get is she was okay with someone doing Barack Obama, but not okay with doing Donald Trump. That’s what got me angry and I didn’t like that,” Bella explained.

Glazov Video: Muslim Parents Suffocate “Too Westernized” Daughter Who will stand up for 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed? VIDEO

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273595/glazov-video-muslim-parents-suffocate-too-frontpagemagcom

In this new video below, Frontpage Editor Jamie Glazov discusses Muslim Parents Suffocate “Too Westernized” Daughter — and he asks: Who will stand up for 17-year-old Shafilea Ahmed? Don’t miss it!

College Admins Apologize to Students Upset Over Conservative Speaker By Katherine Timpf

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/middlebury-college-students-upset-conservative-speaker/

Protecting students from views that make them uncomfortable on campus is really not going to do them any favors in the long run.

In a meeting last week at Middlebury College, administrators apologized to students who were upset that a conservative speaker had been invited to campus — and pledged to do more to prevent right-wing speakers in the future.

Audio of the meeting, which was obtained by The College Fix, features three administrators trying to calm students who were offended by the invitation of Ryszard Legutko, a conservative Polish politician whose views they described as homophobic and Islamophobic.

It’s important to note that Legutko’s planned April 17th speech had actually been canceled a few hours beforehand, with administrators citing “safety concerns,” and Legutko wound up simply giving a small, private talk in a political-science professor’s class instead. According to The Fix, it seems as though the students at the meeting did not know that this talk had occurred, because it had taken place the same time that afternoon as the meeting.

Obvious from the audio of the meeting, the fact that the college had essentially canceled Legutko’s appearance was not enough — the students believe that he should have never been invited in the first place.

“There is a distinct compromise of the students who felt marginalized on this campus or who put effort into this protest, or this combat effort, they feel like their academic freedom has been compromised because they are not capable of learning because their emotional state is so distraught or their emotional energy is just consumed by this,” one female student said.

Buttigieg Battles Mike Pence, or So He Imagines Mayor Pete picks a fight with a caricature of the vice president that he knows from experience is false. By Brian Anderson

https://www.wsj.com/articles/buttigieg-battles-mike-pence-or-so-he-imagines-11556232516

Vice President Mike Pence and 2020 Democratic hopeful Pete Buttigieg have been embroiled in a notable fight over the past few weeks—“notable” mostly because the vice president hasn’t been involved.

Mr. Buttigieg went after Mr. Pence unprompted at the LGBTQ Victory Fund’s National Champagne Brunch April 7. Referring disparagingly to “the Mike Pences of the world,” the South Bend, Ind., mayor told the audience that the former governor has a “quarrel” with him because Mr. Buttigieg is gay.

Mr. Pence’s response? “I’ve known Mayor Pete for many years,” he told CNN. “I considered him a friend. He knows I don’t have a problem with him.”

For years, Democrats have engaged in these sorts of shadow-boxing matches against Mr. Pence, swinging their arms at a hateful caricature that doesn’t exist. To Republicans’ amusement, the vice president’s would-be adversaries have yet to get much of a rise out of him—and little wonder, he is one of the more polite and good-natured people in Washington. Yet the media eagerly cover these fights as if they were one-on-one, even though they’re one-on-zero.

When Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon last year criticized Mr. Pence’s alleged past support for conversion therapy, the New York Times published a headline: “Mike Pence Tangles With Olympian Adam Rippon Over Gay Rights Record.” In reality, Mr. Rippon’s comments seem to have come unprompted, and Mr. Pence responded by tweeting to Mr. Rippon: “I want you to know we are FOR YOU . . . I am proud of you.” That’s some tangle.

Earth Day Should Return to Its Roots By Henry I. Miller

https://issuesinsights.com/2019/04/25/earth-day-should-return-to-its-roots/

Last Monday, April 22, was Earth Day, a celebration conceived by then-U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson and first held in 1970 as a “symbol of environmental responsibility and stewardship.” In the spirit of the time, it was a touchy-feely, consciousness-raising, New Age experience. Most activities were organized at the grassroots level.

In recent years, however, Earth Day has devolved into an occasion for professional environmental activists to warn of apocalypse, dish anti-technology dirt, proselytize, and raise money to sustain the movement. In the cacophony of false narratives and “alternative facts,” provability often takes a back seat to plausibility.

And then there’s the mindless publicity-seeking. Consider this headline from the local CBS affiliate in Los Angeles: “Protesters Climb, Glue Themselves To Globe Outside Universal Studios To Mark Earth Day.” And just plain old mindlessness: In San Francisco, the sub-theme for the day was, “Celebrate the Green New Deal,” one of the most poorly conceived, destructive political proposals in recent memory.

The Earth Day Network, which organizes Earth Day events and advocacy, regularly distorts or ignores science and exaggerates fears in order to advance its anti-technology, anti-corporate, Big Government agenda. With a 2019 theme of “Protect Our Species,” this year’s event was no exception. Ironically, “our species” seems not to refer to us humans, homo sapiens, but only to the other species on the planet, which we are destroying.