Joe DiGenova Blasts ‘Corrupt’ Obama Officials: Brennan and Comey Were ‘Coup Leaders’ (VIDEO)

James Comey, John Brennan

Former US Attorney Joe diGenova blasted the corrupt Obama administration and its ‘coup leaders’ who were involved in Spygate.

DiGenova told OAN’s John Hines that former FBI Director James Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan led the coup attempt to oust President Trump from office.

The former US Attorney said Obama knew exactly what Comey, Brennan and other “corrupt” officials were doing during the 2016 election.

“And you’ll never forget, I’m sure, that famous Susan Rice email on inauguration day of Donald Trump, where she sends an email to the file memorializing that there had been a meeting on January 5th with the president of the United States, all senior law enforcement and intelligence officials, where they reviewed the status of Crossfire Hurricane and the president announced, President Obama — that he was sure that everything had been done by the book,” DiGenova said referring to the Susan Rice email that Senator Grassley uncovered.

“I want to thank Susan Rice for being so stupid and so arrogant to write that email on January 20th because that’s exhibit A for Barack Obama who knew all about this from start to finish, and was more than happy to have the civil rights of a massive number of Americans violated so he could get Donald Trump,” he added.

DiGenova brought up all the abuse stemming from the Flynn case to the Papadopoulos case brought by Mueller and the DOJ, saying they were “framed.”

“All of these people who watched [Comey’s] news conference and didn’t think that was a disgrace for the FBI…. and couldn’t see that the corrupt investigative process of the FBI and DOJ was being used to basically conduct a coup d’état– I mean you have to be an idiot.”

“To what extent is the CIA involved in this?” John Hines asked.

“Well there’s no doubt that John Brennan was the primogenitor of the entire counterintelligence investigation. It was John Brennan who went to James Comey and basically pummeled him into starting a counterintelligence investigation against Trump. Brennan’s at the heart of this. He went around the world. He enlisted the help of foreign intelligence services. He’s responsible for Joseph Mifsud and other people,” DiGenova said.

“People do not have even the beginning of an understanding of the role that John Brennan played in this. He is a monstrously important person, and I underscore monstrously important person. He has done more damage to the Central Intelligence Agency – it’s equal to what James Comey has done to the FBI. It’s pretty clear that James Comey will go down in history as the single worst FBI Director in history, regardless of how Mr. Durham treats him — because he precipitated it, he caused it, he encouraged it.”

“[Comey] and John Brennan are the coup leaders,” he added.

WATCH:

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/joe-digenova-blasts-corrupt-obama-officials-brennan-and-comey-were-coup-leaders-video/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/hah-hah-president-trump-retweets-best-takedown-of-fakenews-media-yet/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/lincoln-wouldve-been-impeached-by-todays-democrats-fomer-illinois-governor-rod-blagojevich-turns-on-democrats/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/trump_signs_the_bill_that_ought_to_ensure_his_reelection.html

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/wisconsin-pennsylvania-michigan-ohio-the-president-is-going-to-win-better-than-in-2016-founder-of-democrats-for-trump-on-trumps-2020-chances-video/

Creepy Joe Biden to 11-Year-Old Girl: “How Old are You Honey? Talk to Me before You Leave” (VIDEO)

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He just can’t help himself.
Joe Biden raised a few eyebrows again on New Year’s Day.

Campaigning in New Hampshire Joe Biden turned to his attention to one of the little girls in the audience,

“How old are you honey. 11-years-old. Talk to me before you leave.”

What a creepster.

Via ALX.

BIDEN: “How old are you honey? 11 years old. Talk to me before we leave, ok?”

What is it with this guy?

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/creepy-joe-biden-to-11-year-old-girl-how-old-are-you-honey-talk-to-me-before-you-leave-video/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/creepy_joe_is_back_biden_asks_an_11_year_old_to_talk_to_me_before_we_leave_ok.html

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/01/why-does-biden-keep-doing-this-to-children-creepy-grandpa-joe-whispers-in-little-girls-ear-at-rally-video/

Forget the Squad. Pelosi is still running the show.

Many wise pundits and political commentators keep saying Nancy Pelosi didn't want to do this (impeachment)...that she's smarter than this, that she was forced into it by the ridiculous, ignorant women who call themselves the Squad.  These same pundits claim that the Squad is now running the Democrat party.  But this does not make any sense, since Pelosi admitted a week or so ago, when asked why she was rushing impeachment, that the Democrats had been at this for twenty-two months!

Of course they have, for even longer than that.  As several Democrats have admitted, the plan to impeach began while Trump was still a candidate.  Al Green more recently revealed that "if we don't impeach him, he will be re-elected."  So let there be no misunderstanding, no confusion: the Democrats were horrified by the Trump candidacy and traumatized by his election.  The left is childish and does not accept defeat with even a modicum of class or grace.  Like spoiled toddlers who do not get their way, leftists act out, stamp their little feet, bang their heads, and squeal.  That is what the American people have had to endure for three years.  The entire fiasco has been fueled and fed to the people by a corrupt media establishment that for years has worked hand in hand with the left.  The media's people stopped being journalists years ago when they became activists bent on destroying anyone remotely conservative who reaches even the lowest rungs of power. 

Nancy Pelosi is probably enjoying all the buzz that says she is doing the Squad's bidding because she could not care less what they think, say, or do.  Those four women are more ignorant than any four elected officials in a long time.  Ms. Nancy may be declining some mentally, but she is still a whole lot smarter than they are.  It is just that the rest of the Dems are so scared of her that they bow down and succumb to her threats like hostages in a prison camp.  There is not a single Democrat in the House or Senate with the courage to stand up to her.  Why is a mystery, because she is as toxic as can be — to her city, to the House, and to the country.  She is a menace.

Pelosi is as corrupt as the Clintons, the Obamas, and the Bidens.  They and their children all got rich from the corruption that defined Ukraine.  This bunch that allegedly are so committed to the dangers of climate change have all been enriched by foreign oil companies.  Even Adam Schiff is neck-deep in Ukraine corruption.  Yet these people are convinced that by accusing President Trump of all the malfeasance of which they are in fact guilty, they will skate.  They will keep all their ill gotten gains and take down Trump at the same time.  They are pathetic, a blight upon our country.  They have all participated or at least worked to cover up the most egregious political scandal in American history.  The original schemers devised the plan, set it in motion, confident that it would take Trump out of the race well before the election.  When it didn't, their plot had to be concealed by any means necessary, so the Mueller "probe" was created.  When that failed, they invented a scandal over a phone call to the new president of Ukraine.  It's all a fabricated bit of nonsense, a tissue of lies for which they actually believe the American people will fall.  They won't.  They haven't.  Only the most Trump-hating delusionals still think Trump colluded with Russia or is guilty of any of the other "crimes" of which he has been accused.  After all the colonostomic investigations of the man, he may well be the most honest person ever to hold the office of president.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Pelosi and her band of fellow robber barons are so intent upon removing President Trump from office before he is able to expose them all for who and what they are: crooks who have gotten away with all manner of crimes against the country for the decades the worst of them have been in office.  Pelosi has been on board for impeachment for as long as the rest of them.  She is still pulling all the strings.  It makes one wonder what she has on all those Democrats to whom she can dictate how they must and will vote.

All those Democrats who won in Trump-supporting districts will soon learn that if you lie down with mongrels, you wake up with fleas — or worse, the plague that comes with deceit and treachery. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/forget_the_squad_pelosi_is_still_running_the_show.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/sebastian_gorka_lays_out_the_three_great_threats_to_america.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/new_york_times_writer_cant_understand_trump_or_iran.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/unable_to_find_new_fake_news_vox_editor_recycles_old_fake_news.html

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/in_2020_democrats_again_plan_to_mess_with_the_military.html

DHS to investigate driver's licenses for illegal aliens

In the last few years, numerous states have already begun to, or soon will, issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens.  Spurred by concerns about national security risks, Trump's Department of Homeland Security is finally investigating whether these licenses are pathways to dangerous identity fraud.

The plethora of licenses in the hands of illegal aliens has worried those concerned about voting integrity.  In California, for example, the current iteration of the "motor voter" law means that anyone who obtains or renews a driver's license is automatically registered to vote.

Technically, "[i]ndividuals with AB 60 driver's licenses are not eligible to participate in the California Motor Voter program and are not eligible to vote."  In practice, last year, the DMV admitted that it erroneously registered 1,500 drivers to vote, including, it said, non-citizens (i.e., green card–holders and illegal aliens).  (If you're wondering whether 1,500 is a real number, you'll find interesting Jeff Carlson's article about California's overwhelming support for Hillary in 2016.)

California's not alone.  A July 2019 article from the National Conference of State Legislatures has noted the trend:

Thirteen states and the District of Columbia enacted laws to allow unauthorized immigrants to obtain a driver's licenses. These states—California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Utah, Vermont and Washington — issue a license if an applicant provides certain documentation, such as a foreign birth certificate, a foreign passport, or a consular card and evidence of current residency in the state.

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In 2019, legislators in several states introduced legislation to provide driver's licenses to undocumented residents [sic] including Florida, Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, and Texas. The Oregon House passed legislation in June 2019 which would provide licenses to undocumented residents.

The proponents of this push to give legal driver's licenses to illegal residents insist that the public will benefit:

Proponents of extending driver's licenses to immigrants argue that licensing undocumented residents [sic] will lead to fewer hit-and-runs, more trust between immigrants and police, and increased revenue for Departments of Motor Vehicles.

To date, there do not seem to be any studies confirming these optimistic predictions.

The good news for those who worry that handing out official government documents to illegal aliens creates opportunities not just for voter fraud, but for national security risks is that Trump's Department of Homeland Security is also getting worried.  On Tuesday, acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf initiated a study looking at whether these licenses negatively affect the federal government's law abilities:

Wolf's memo, which went to agencies including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration, follows a New York law authorizing licenses for undocumented immigrants [sic] and restricting data-sharing with federal agencies. Similar laws exist in a dozen other states, including New Jersey, which passed a similar measure in December.

Wolf wrote in his memo that the department needed to be "prepared to deal with and counter these impacts as we protect the homeland." He also asks each recipient to take account of what Department of Motor Vehicles information is already available, and of any security consequences their operations could risk without that data, according to the AP.

So far, those who blithely predicted all sorts of societal benefits from legitimizing illegal behavior have been unopposed.  It will be interesting to see what actual data reveals once the DHS has had a chance to look at the data and determine whether licenses for illegal aliens are being used for good or ill.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/dhs_to_investigate_drivers_licenses_for_illegal_aliens.html

In California, more free rides for illegal aliens

In 2020, Californians are about to feel the weight of the Democrat legislature's never-ending quest to find expensive new ways to micromanage every aspect of daily life, from increased rent control to ending "lunch shaming" to mandatory clean rooms for nursing mothers in the workplace.  One of the more consequential laws, though, is especially geared to giving more California taxpayer money to illegal aliens.

Starting with the New Year, California is giving illegal aliens between the ages of 19 and 26 full access to Medi-Cal (its taxpayer-funded low-income health insurance program).  Before 2020, illegal aliens under 19 were already receiving full benefits under the program (preventive and primary care), while young adults had only free emergency room care.  The expanded program is set to cost taxpayers another $98 million in 2020.

The point of this Medi-Cal expansion is to provide health insurance parity between legal residents and illegal aliens living in California.  Currently, a UCLA "health policy brief" states, "[S]ignificant disparities exist in access to health care between this group and their documented counterparts."

What the Democrats ignore is that one of these disparities is the whole "benefit-burden" thing.  Those promoting illegal residency in the U.S. argue that illegal aliens pay taxes in the form of sales taxes and some property taxes.  However, their illegal status means that the number paying income tax is questionable.  Still, one 2017 study claimed that illegal aliens contributed an estimated $3 billion in state and local taxes to the California government.

Three billion sounds like a lot until you start looking at what those same illegal aliens cost California.  The National Economics Editorial, an openly conservative economic analysis site, estimated in 2017 that illegal aliens already cost California taxpayers more than $30 billion every year, some of it in hard costs (education and health care) and some of it in less tangible lost money costs (remittances and crime).

When it comes to potential Medi-Cal costs for the states roughly 2.5 million illegal aliens, as the UCLA study says, "the majority of undocumented residents [sic] are low-income and nonelderly adults."  And while the study notes that the young adult cohort is just 7% of the illegal alien population, the 26- to 44-year-old age group is 56% of that population.  How long before the California Legislature decides to extend taxpayer health care benefits to that group, too? 

As an aside, the Medi-Cal goodies basket isn't the only hit on California taxpayers this year when it comes to handouts to illegal aliens.  Another law going into effect in 2020 (S.B. 354) gives even more education grants to illegal aliens who came to California as children.  The DREAM Loan Program allows these kids to apply for grants if they are enrolled in a public university in pursuit of professional or graduate degrees.

Even as California entices illegal aliens with more taxpayer-funded benefits, it's losing its actual taxpayers:

According to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates released on Monday, approximately 203,000 people moved out of California between 2018 and 2019 — with the bulk of them heading to other western states like Arizona, Texas and Colorado, where the cost of life is less pricey.

California once was America's "golden state."  Now that it's a one-party Democrat state, that gold is rapidly turning to dross.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/in_california_more_free_rides_for_illegal_aliens.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to lose her congressional seat based on all those NYC residents fleeing socialism?

Socialist blue New York is seeing its locals fleeing to other states, and with those kind of losses, someone's congressional seat has got to go.

Whose seat is on the block?  The Daily Wire has a report:

According to pollster Frank Luntz, New York is likely to lose a seat in Congress after the 2020 census and Democrats in the state legislature will have to redraw the state's Congressional districts as a result. Although there are plenty of places to cut, New York Dems are reportedly eyeing Ocasio-Cortez's Bronx district for elimination because she's been out of sync with state-level Democrats who control the process.

"New York is expected to lose a House seat after the 2020 Census, and state Democrats are looking to draw out @AOC's district," Luntz wrote on Twitter. He included a link to an article from a local New York City magazine, The City, that suggested the Ocasio-Cortez is doubling down on her efforts to encourage her constituents to fill out the 2020 census so that she can stay in office.

The report goes on to note that the machinations of New York's state legislators skew against Ocasio-Cortez's spot, given that she doesn't get along with them.  There's also the matter of some of New York's other Democrats within the machinery having it in for her, given that she ousted a longtime machine pol, Joe Crowley, who probably dished out many favors to them.

But the real message is in the hard fact that New York is losing people, and that loss is firmly rooted in Ocasio-Cortez's animating philosophy: socialism.  Socialism the world over drives people to flight.  This is as true in New York as it is in Venezuela, China, Russia, North Korea, and Cuba.  

And Ocasio-Cortez herself was directly responsible for some of the drive-out, based on her halting of a highly sought Amazon operation in her district.  Amazon explicitly stated that Ocasio-Cortez's statements are what made the company change its mind and go someplace less hostile to business.  She also drove out other investors, ridiculously claiming that their jobs weren't good enough, not "dignified jobs," as if to say that no jobs is better than jobs she claims to be underpaid or unimportant.  Residents in her district have commented on that drive-out, and they weren't happy.  And Amazon was just one of them.  There were many others.

When jobs go, so do people, so guess what: Ocasio-Cortez might just be out on her ear.  Democracy has this way of leavening things out — more of the good stuff, less of the bad.  With a declining population base, the seats go.  The Daily Wire already noted that Ocasio-Cortez has been banking on her district's abundant illegals to make up the difference, but even that may not save her.  Illegals flee socialism for the same reason citizens and legal residents, too: the lack of economic growth.  When the state takes everything and leaves you with nothing, why would anyone want to stay?

Amazon has since made moves to return to New York, raising questions as to whether it heard that Ocasio-Cortez's seat is about to become history.

If so, it's a good sign it is.  Ocasio-Cortez might just have socialisted herself out of a job based on nobody wanting to be around for all that worker paradise.  Let's hope she has.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/alexandria_ocasiocortez_to_lose_her_congressional_seat_based_on_all_those_nyc_residents_fleeing_socialism.html

U.S. Manufacturing Recovery Continued in December

The U.S. manufacturing sector continued to recover from last year’s slump, a survey of manufacturing businesses showed Thursday.

Economic data provider IHS Markit’s manufacturing purchasing manager’s index came in at 52.4 in December, slightly down from November but still indicating that the sector is improving.

“The sustained improvement was supported by a solid rise in new business and a further upturn in production,” the IHS Markit report explained. “New business received by manufacturing firms grew at a solid rate in December, and one that was the second-strongest since April.”

Goods producers reported a third consecutive monthly upturn in new export orders, a promising sign for fourth-quarter gross domestic product.

“The US manufacturing sector continued to recover from the soft-patch seen in the summer, ending 2019 with its best quarter since the early months of 2019,” Chris Williamson, Chief Business Economist at IHS Markit said. “The overall rate of expansion nevertheless faltered somewhat in December and remains well below that seen this time last year, suggesting producers are starting 2020 on a softer footing than they had enjoyed heading into 2019.”

Cost for manufacturing businessses rose at a solid pace at the end of the fourth quarter, boosted by higher input costs and most likely pressure from the latest round of China tariffs.

The increase in new business drove firms to expand their workforce numbers in December, according to IHS Markit.

“Employment growth was the second-fastest since May, with firms stating the increase largely stemmed from greater production requirements,” IHS said.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/01/02/u-s-manufacturing-recovery-continued-in-december/

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/01/02/jobless-claims-show-labor-market-ended-2019-on-strong-footing/

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/01/02/donald-trump-campaign-raises-46-million-in-fourth-quarter/

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/02/molly-ball-trump-2020-fundraising-a-real-warning-sign-for-democrats/

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/01/02/lieberman-democrat-brokered-convention/

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/01/this_is_not_a_warning_it_is_a_threat.html