Wednesday, November 20, 2019

‘It’s all over!’ Trump reads smoking gun moment of impeachment testimony that exonerates him

President Donald Trump declared that the Democratic Party’s partisan impeachment inquisition is “all over,” following the testimony Wednesday from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House as he was departing to Austin, Texas, Trump read from hand-written notes on Sondland’s testimony.

“I just noticed one thing, and I would say that means it’s all over,” the president said.

Trump said Sondland asked him, “What do you want from Ukraine? I keep hearing all these different ideas and theories. What do you want? What do you want?”

“It was a very short and abrupt conversation that he had with me,” Sondland added. “They said he was not in a good mood.”

He then quoted himself telling Sondland when asked what he wanted from Ukraine: “I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no quid pro quo. Tell Zelensky to do the right thing.”

Trump said he did not have a close relationship with Ambassador Sondland, noting that the diplomat supported “other candidates” for president.

“This is not a man I know well,” the president explained. “He seems like a nice guy, though.”

He also chided the media in saying, “If you weren’t fake news, you’d cover it properly.”

He then repeated what he characterized as “the final word from the president of the United States, “I want nothing. I want nothing. I want no...

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‘Looks Like an Inside Job’: Former National Security Official Says Impeachment is Manufactured by Unhappy Bureaucrats

Former national security adviser Michael Anton suggested Wednesday the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump looks “like an inside job” lawmakers who are unhappy with the president manufactured.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff interrupted Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s testimony during an impeachment hearing Tuesday and cited an effort to protect a whistleblower.

“It looks like an inside job of a bunch of career bureaucrats getting together and saying, ‘We’ve wanted to impeach this guy for three years. How do we do it? Oh wait, I think we’ve found a way. Here’s the issue,’” Anton, a former National Security Council (NSC) spokesman, said to WMAL’s Mornings on the Mall co-hosts Vince Coglianese and Mary Walter Wednesday.

“It just looks phony, and that’s what they’re trying to avoid coming out,” he added.

“I think the reason they don’t want him to say it is not so much to protect the whistleblower’s identity, whoever it is, it’s to protect the phony veneered process that they used to get this impeachment hearing going,” Anton said.

Schiff, a California Democrat, interrupted Vindman Tuesday after the latter said he told an “unnamed official” within the intelligence community about Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president. GOP California Rep. Devin Nunes, the ranking member of the intelligence committee, was questioning Vindman at the time.

After Schiff’s interruption, Vindman refused to “answer specific questions about members of the intelligence community,” the NSC aide said. The interruption caused a stir in the day’s impeachment testimony, as many people could be heard vocally protesting Schiff’s actions.

Many questioned Schiff’s move, particularly after the whistleblower’s lawyer Mark S. Zaid tweeted Tuesday, “#ProtectTheWhistleblower,” ahead of Vindman’s testimony. The tweet came alongside a CNN comment noting there could be a “contentious flareup” during Vindman’s testimony when Republicans ask him about the Ukraine phone call.

The Daily Caller News Foundation journalist Chuck Ross noted that Zaid’s tweet “suggests” the person Vindman spoke to on the call could be the whistleblower.

Schiff did not allow Republicans to establish if Vindman was a source for the whistleblower, a move that Ross added could be an issue. He tweeted Tuesday that it is “circular reporting.” Walter echoed this Wednesday and noted the moment suggested Vindman had spoken to the whistleblower and had given the...

Foreign-Born Researchers At US Agencies Were Secretly Working For China And Recruiting Others, Senate Report Finds

Foreign-born researchers working for U.S. agencies were secretly on China’s payroll, signing side agreements to send sensitive research to that country as part of a recruitment operation called the Thousand Talents Plan, a Senate report found.
10,000 Chinese nationals in 2018 conducted research in the Department of Energy’s National Labs, and one even had colleagues write him letters of recommendation to the Communist Party-run recruitment program, the bipartisan report stated.
Agencies like NIH do not even track attempted foreign influence, the Department of State denies only 5% of suspicious visas, and the FBI shut down a key program, according to the report.

Foreign-born researchers working at U.S. agencies secretly joined China’s payroll, sending sensitive U.S.-funded research to the country while U.S. government agencies took almost no defensive measures against a major recruitment operation, a Senate investigation found.

Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated.

China’s Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) aims to get foreign governments to finance the communist power’s military and economy by buying off researchers who are doing work abroad. The experts apply to the program, and if approved by the Communist Party, they join China’s payroll and sign secret side agreements that the experts will share their research with that country, according to the investigation.

Some of the information captured by TTP had significant military value. For example, in 2016, Dr. Long Yu, a Chinese citizen and U.S. permanent resident working for a U.S. defense contractor, applied for Chinese talent plans and was arrested for attempting to give hundreds of gigabytes to China, including design info on military jet engines, according to the investigation.

“China wins twice. First, the American taxpayer funds China’s research and development. Second, China uses that research to improve its economic and military status,” Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in a statement.

Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat whose staff co-wrote the report, said “there are serious consequences that come from giving a foreign government so much control over the vital research we rely on to...

President Trump Says Pelosi Is ‘Grossly Incompetent’ For Sitting On USMCA

During a cabinet meeting Tuesday, President Donald Trump attacked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her failure to pass the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement (USMCA). He chalked it up to a political ploy. However, the President made it clear that the Democratic efforts aren’t working.

“We have to get USMCA signed. Nancy Pelosi can’t get it off her desk. Just can’t do it. The Democrats want to have it, the unions want it, the farmers want it, the manufacturers want it,” Trump told reporters.

President Trump on @SpeakerPelosi: "The woman is grossly incompetent. All she wants to do is focus on impeachment."

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— CSPAN (@cspan) November 19, 2019

“I think the woman is grossly incompetent,” said Trump, regarding Pelosi. “And we’re having a problem because Mexico and Canada are calling saying ‘what’s going on’ and it’s sitting on her desk. She doesn’t need Democrats because Democrats are gonna vote for it all she has to do is put it up for a vote.”

Trump reiterated that although Pelosi continues to pledge her support for the agreement, she hasn’t put a pen to paper. He also shared that he’s been led to believe that she’s holding things up because ‘she doesn’t have the impeachment votes.’

“The woman is grossly incompetent. All she wants to do is focus on impeachment, which is just a little pipe dream she’s got and she can keep playing that game ,” Trump said.

This is now the second week of the public impeachment probe headed by House Intelligence committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-CA, who President Trump accused of heading a “kangaroo court.” Despite their efforts, President Trump said, Democrats are failing to make ‘political gains’ off of the impeachment process, citing his lead in the polls.

The USMCA will ‘modernize’ the North American Free Trade Agreement promising to...