The Morning Briefing: How Hard Is It to Condemn Antisemitism and Much, Much More

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Good Thursday morning.

Here is what’s on President Trump’s agenda today:

  • The president meets with the secretary of the Treasury
  • President Trump receives his intelligence briefing
  • The president has lunch with the secretary of State
  • The president and the first lady participate in the arrival of the prime minister of the Czech Republic and Mrs. Monika Babišová
  • The president and the first lady meet with the prime minister of the Czech Republic and Mrs. Monika Babišová
  • President Trump participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with the prime minister of the Czech Republic
  • The president and the first lady participate in the departure of the prime minister of the Czech Republic and Mrs. Monika Babišová
  • The president meets with the acting secretary of Defense
  • President Trump participates in a photo opportunity with the 2019 Senate Youth Program
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How hard is it to condemn anti-Semitism?

Apparently it’s very hard if you are a Democrat. The same crowd that shrieked about the neo-Nazi’s at Charlottesville and grandstanded about a climate of hate at the Pittsburgh synagogue slaughter are going wobbly on whether they should condemn the compulsive and repeated anti-Semitic smack coming from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

House Democratic leaders signaled Wednesday that it is now unclear whether a resolution condemning anti-Semitism will come to a vote on the House floor this week.

The uncertainty comes as Democratic lawmakers are engaged in what multiple Democratic sources described to CNN as a “messy” and “tense” debate behind-the-scenes over the latest controversy surrounding freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar and the resolution.

“It was a huge mess and a lot of tempers are flaring,” a Democratic congressional aide said, describing the scene to CNN. For real? All these self-proclaimed civil rights crusaders can’t muster support to condemn Jew-hating?

Woke presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris (D-Calif) came to Omar’s defense saying that the resolution might put her at risk.

Well this is rich. The Democrats and their media handmaidens have been ginning up hysteria against the president and his supporters for more than two years. My friend John Nolte has been collecting a list of violence committed against Trumpers, all incited by the Democrats and the media, but NOW we have to be worried about the risk to Ilhan Omar? Oh, please.

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It’s important to remember that Ilhan Omar and her anti-Jewish accomplices like Rashida Tlaib, Bernie Sanders, and Linda Sarsour, always mask their complaints about Israel under the guise of questioning the foreign aid and support the U.S. gives to various nations around the world. But if this were true, why is it they only talk about Israel? Not Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, or Afghanistan, but ISRAEL. This is how we know their “issue” isn’t about foreign aid. It’s about Israel, plain and simple.

Here’s Bernie Sanders on the matter:

What debate is Bernie talking about? There’s never been a full and transparent debate on the Israel/Palestine issue because the Democrats do not want to have a discussion. They throw around incendiary labels precisely to shut down conversation and debate. And Sanders certainly isn’t a reliable arbiter on this issue because he has his own problems.

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CNN makes an important correction… AGAIN

Is that an evergreen title or what? CNN was super duper excited to tell you that former, prison-bound lawyer and felon Michael Cohen turned over documents showing that Trump attorneys edited the false statements Cohen provided to Congress.

Cohen said in a public House Oversight Committee hearing last week that one of Trump’s lawyers, Jay Sekulow, made changes to the testimony.

“There were changes made, additions — Jay Sekulow, for one,” Cohen said. “There were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message, which was — the message of course being — the length of time that the Trump Tower Moscow project stayed and remained alive.”

Not so fast:

But CNN ran an update at 7:35 p.m. Eastern time that drastically changed the implications for its story.

Lanny Davis, an attorney for Cohen, told CNN that Cohen himself, and not a Trump lawyer, claimed in a draft of his 2017 testimony that the Trump Tower negotiations ended in January 2016.

Wait, what? It was Cohen’s claim all along? That’s quite a mistake.

The lawyers involved in editing Cohen’s testimony had no indication the initial draft had inaccurate information, according to the updated report.

We can add this to all the other corrections CNN has had to issue.

McConnell won’t hold vote on “election reform” bill

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They should rename this legislation the “GOP will be blocked from winning office forever” bill. Also known as HR1, this monstrosity coming from the moonbats in the House is truly horrific.

Republicans ripped into the House Democrats’ electoral reform bill, H.R. 1, at a press conference Wednesday, arguing that the legislation was merely a tactic to tilt elections in favor of Democrats. McConnell, who has dubbed the bill the “Democrat Politician Protection Act,” said that the bill is “offensive to average voters” and will not get any floor time in the Senate.

Here are some features of HR1:

The legislation contains a series of voting reforms Democrats have long pushed for, including automatic voter registration, expansion of early voting, an endorsement of D.C. statehood and a requirement that independent commissions oversee House redistricting. In addition, the bill requires “dark money” groups to disclose donors.

Democrats argue that the bill will make it easier to vote and cracks down on money in politics.

But Republicans said the bill would amount to federal overreach when it comes to elections.

So you can see what’s going on here. The Democrats label this as a “voting rights” bill but it’s not. Why won’t there be a vote in the Senate? “Because I get to decide what we vote on,” McConnell quipped. Good for him, but keep an eye on this bill. We haven’t seen the last of it. If you want to learn more about HR1, read Heritage’s Hans von Spakovsky’s testimony about the legislation.

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Historical picture of the day:

Tear gas fumes fill the air as state troopers, ordered by Gov. George Wallace, break up a demonstration march in Selma, Ala., on what is known as Bloody Sunday on March 7, 1965. As several hundred marchers crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge to begin their protest march to Montgomery, state troopers violently assaulted the crowd with clubs and whips. A shocked nation watched the police brutality on television and demanded that Washington intervene and protect voter registration rights for blacks. (AP Photo)

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Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey said the company was ‘too aggressive’ in banning some accounts

DNC bars Fox News from hosting presidential primary debates; network urges party to reconsider

471 parents were deported from US without their children during family separations

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Sen. Martha McSally says she was raped by a senior officer while in Air Force

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And that’s all I’ve got, now go beat back the angry mob!

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