The Daily Mail is trying to stir up trouble for the incoming administration, it appears.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump's selection to be director of national intelligence ducked questions on Syria's recently overthrown dictator Bashar Al-Assad, who she met in 2017.
Tulsi Gabbard refused to answer whether she believed Assad - who has ordered chemical weapons used on his own Syrian people - is a war criminal, Fox News first reported.
The inquiry came just a day after Assad reportedly fled his native Syria to Moscow after rebel forces took control of the Middle Eastern nation he ruled since 2000.
Gabbard notoriously met with Assad during a 'fact-finding' mission to the nation seven years ago, a trip that caused consternation and generated much controversy. When she went as a Democrat?
Syria is a country with which the U.S. does not have formal diplomatic relations, and U.S. military forces aligned themselves with rebel factions in the country's civil war.
Assad instead opted to team up with Russia, who has operated military instillations around the country for years.
Now tapped as Trump's top intelligence official, Gabbard's cozy relationship with Assad is now coming under heightened scrutiny, especially given the ex-dictator's prominence in the news recently. "cozy". No bias there
And given that Assad is now being harbored by one of the U.S.'s chief geopolitical rivals, the senators tasked with confirming Gabbard to DNI have lots of questions about her trip.
'A lot of her past statements deserve inquiry,' Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy told DailyMail.com.
'I think she was one of the earliest parrators of Damascus and Kremlin talking points.'
'You can have a sincere belief that brutal dictators should remain in power, but I think we need to pose some inquiries as to why she took the positions that she took at a time when very few other people believed that Bashar Al-Assad or Vladimir Putin deserved defense.'
Murphy added that he has no doubt there are better people for the job, though he did not say whether he was opposed to voting for her.
Delaware Democratic Sen. Chris Coons had an even harsher assessment.
In repeated interviews since her journey to Syria, Gabbard maintained her trip to see the devastation brought by the civil war between Assad's forces and rebels and ISIS terrorists was the proper thing to do.
'It continues to be very important for any leader in this country to be willing to meet with others, whether they be friends or adversaries or potential adversaries, if we are serious about the pursuit of peace and securing our country,' she said in a 2019 interview about her sit down with Assad.
Republicans, who will have the majority next Congress and task with shepherding Trump's DNI pick through the upper chamber come January, were less worried about Gabbard's past meeting with the former dictator.
Republican Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin responded to reporters questions about Gabbard saying 2017 was a different time.
'What was happening in 2017 is completely different than what was going on today,' he said.
And he was quick to point out: 'The information we were getting in 2017 from the Obama administration.'
Noting the attacks carried out on the Syrian people by Assad's forces the Republican remarked how the perspective back then was different, and that leading sources at the time primarily blamed Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah for many Syrian atrocities.
South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham after meeting with Gabbard noted the differences the two have had in the past.
'We’ve had policy differences,' he said. 'But, you know, she'll be serving Trump.'
Though he did admit that he liked her during the sit-down.
When pressed about Gabbard's relationship with Assad, Sen. John Cornyn simply responded: 'I'm looking forward to meeting with her.'
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Still believing the russia russia russia stuff eh? She has no position in calling him a terrorist. That is a title given, or not, by the current administration. It will be Trumps administrations call when he is in power.
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Why shoot your mouth off about any foreign leaders when you are a nominee for director of national intelligence?
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IIRC, some thought the chemical attack was staged by once a future ISIS to give NATO a pretext to provide air cover for an assault against Team Assad.
The Green Light passed UK and France spooky fast, and while it looked like support in US Congress stalled Obama could just order attacks anyways, when Kerry stuck is foot in his mouth and gave a politically viable solution.
How about just being a contributing factor? Lots of people played a part — the honourable senator from the great state of Kentucky just played a bigger one than most by the end.
[BREITBART] Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) displaced blame on Saturday for the nation's managed decline under his long tenure in the Senate.
Many economic nationalists believe McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in American history, has managed the nation's decline while elites profited.
McConnell apparently disagrees. He suggested at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum that MAGA is responsible for the managed decline, even though the movement is only eight years old. McConnell has been in power since 1985.
Under McConnell's Senate leadership, the national debt rose more than $35 trillion, illegal immigration surged, and real wages for American workers have not grown. Obamacare was enacted in 2010. Congress bailed out big banks in 2008, and social media companies silenced individuals without repercussions. McConnell also has ties to the Chinese government.
''Within the party Ronald Reagan once led so capably, it is increasingly fashionable to suggest that the sort of global leadership he modeled is no longer America's place,'' he said.
''Let's be absolutely clear: America will not be made great again by those who are content to manage our decline,'' he said with a veiled swipe at MAGA.
''Even as allies across NATO and the Indo-Pacific renew their own commitments to hard power, to interoperability, and to collective defense, some now question America's own role at the center of these force-multiplying institutions and partnerships''
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Maybe not, but he also did not try to stop it. And kids, that is his job...
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I have way more contempt for the GOP Politicians like McConnell than the leftist Dems. Mitch, Paul Ryan, Romney…. Could have stopped the decline (they said they would) yet they facilitated it. Maybe Mitch can take the CEO role over at United Healthcare.
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At best McConnell is a bridge building Col Nicholson character, but I see Mitch as more of an opportunist and a corporatist who has sold out Republican voters for the interests of donors who have compensated him.
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Pure globalist.
Reagan led the West, and not all of it.
Hell, tons of Europeans hated Reagan and made it known, loudly.
[FRONTPAGEMAG] In Trump's first term, Jews were declared to be a minority group protected by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. And now, just weeks away from beginning his second term, Trump has laid down the law, in a speech he just gave at a rally against antisemitism in Washington. American universities that fail to combat antisemitism on their campuses should expect severe repercussions, including the loss of accreditation and of federal research contracts. More on Trump's determination to stamp out campus antisemitism can be found here: ''Trump to universities: Stamp out antisemitism or lose accreditation,'' by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2024:
All American universities must end campus antisemitism or they will lose accreditation, President-elect Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... promised during a rally against antisemitism in Washington.
To ''defeat antisemitism and defend Jewish citizens in America,'' Trump said he would inform every college president that if they do not ''end antisemitic propaganda,'' they would lose accreditation and federal support.
He did not say they ''may lose'' accreditation. Trump said they will lose accreditation, and their share of the billions of dollars in federal support that universities receive. A double blow to their finances and reputation.
’'We will not subsidize the creation of terrorist sympathizers, and we're not going to do it — certainly [not] on American soil,'' he said.
Trump added that once in the Oval Office, he would inform all educational institutions that if they permit violence or harassment against Jewish students, they will be ''held accountable for violations of the civil rights law.''
''It's very important — Jewish Americans must have equal protection under the law, and they're going to get it,'' he said. ''At the same time, my administration will move swiftly to restore safety for Jewish students [on campuses] and Jewish people on American streets.''—
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Good, take these hate filled professors and universities down.
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Those going after Jews and Zionists are often also going after Christians and conservatives, so cleaning out one will have a knock-on effect.
[BREITBART] President-elect Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... suggested Sunday on NBC's ''Meet the Press'' that President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Sleazy Dem machine politician, paterfamilias of the Biden Crime Family... should pardon Democrats ...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy,white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects... and members on the partisan January 6 Committee, such as Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson (D-MS), and Rep. Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments... (D-CA).
Democrats and media allies urged Biden in previous weeks to pardon a number of his allies including those who sat on the partisan January 6 committee.
Members of the committee stand accused of deleting over 100 files before Republicans took control of the House in 2022, an act Trump says is illegal.
''Biden can give them a pardon if he wants to,'' Trump told NBC News's Kristen Welker. ''And maybe he should.''
''Just remember, the unselect committee — a year and a half of sworn testimony, and after getting all of the testimony, they deleted it, wait, and they destroyed almost everything,'' Trump explained. ''There's nothing left. It's unprecedented, and they deny you do that. In a civil case, you go to jail.''
''So you think Liz Cheney should go to jail?'' Welker asked Trump.
''Anybody who voted in favor —'' Trump replied.
''Are you going to direct your FBI director and your attorney general to send them to jail?'' she followed up.
''Not at all,'' Trump said. ''I think that they'll have to look at that — they can do whatever that want.''
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If the Biden outfit was smart they'd issue pardons for the above mentioned scoundrels honorable politicians AND for all Jan 6ers before 1/20..
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Biden doesn’t do anything without compensation. He’s also deeply into revenge so the folks that swapped him out for Kamala seem unlikely pardon candidates. If he pardons a random half of the perpetrators, we stand a chance of getting to the truth with Kash overseeing the interrogations. Congressional inquiries have not been effective. If Biden doesn’t do it, Trump can pardon someone who has the passwords and has knowledge of what files were deleted and why.
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As long as they're out, it's fine.
Trump is building his new America First party, free of the GOP traitors and woke Dems.
To join, just love America. It has a lot of potential if he can pull it off.
[NYPOST] Sen. Chuck Grassley demanded Monday that FBI director Christopher Wray step aside in a brutal rebuke of his tenure at the bureau, as GOP senators cheered President-elect Donald Trump ...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania... 's pick of Kash Patel to replace him as director.
''For the good of the country, it's time for you and your deputy to move on to the next chapter in your lives,'' Grassley (R-Iowa) wrote in a blistering 11-page letter to Wray, referring to the director and deputy director Paul Abbate.
''[I] must express my vote of no confidence in your continued leadership of the FBI.''
Wray, 57, who is seven years into a 10-year term, has been coy about his intentions, but some key GOP politicians are hoping he steps aside for Patel.
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I am sure that Wray will just fade away from public life and never write a self-congratulatory book or appear on liberal news as a contributor.
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...well, those MSNBC and CNN appearances seem rather iffy now.
"There’s no doubt that President Biden deserves a lot of credit for his unflagging support of Israel’s ability to defend itself against the multifront war that Iran and its proxies launched on Oct. 7, 2023,"
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[BREITBART] Sen. 
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
...every time you hear the phrase 
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
