“READERS FORUM” DECEMBER 12, 2018

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  1. Finally, the truth copes out about the left wing organized migrant caravan – they just want money from the US.
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    Migrant group demands Trump either let them in or pay them each $50G to turn around

    Two groups of Central American migrants marched to the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana on Tuesday with a list of demands, with one group delivering an ultimatum to the Trump administration: either let them in the U.S. or pay them $50,000 each to go home, a report said.

    The first group of caravan members, which included about 100 migrants, arrived at the consulate around 11 a.m. Alfonso Guerreo Ulloa, an organizer from Honduras, said the $50,000 figure was chosen as a group.

    “It may seem like a lot of money to you,” Ulloa told the paper. “But it is a small sum compared to everything the United States has stolen from Honduras.”

    A letter from the group criticized U.S. intervention in Central America and asked the U.S. to remove Honduran President Orlando Hernandez from office. They gave the consulate 72 hours to respond.

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/caravan-migrants-in-mexico-demand-trump-either-let-them-in-u-s-or-pay-them-50000-each-to-go-back-home

  2. Don’t expect to see this reported in the right-wing Trump-suckup mainstream media:
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    Trump Administration Won’t Back Up President’s Terror Claim

    Data provided by his own administration shows that the issue is more complex than he implied in pushing for the border wall

    Trump on Tuesday cited the recent apprehension of ten suspected terrorists to bolster his case for building a wall along the southern border, implying that a porous border with Mexico is leaving the country vulnerable to national security threats

    But the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees security and law enforcement at U.S. borders and ports of entry, was UNABLE to provide data to directly substantiate that claim

    Instead, DHS would only say that it apprehended, ten “known or suspected terrorists” per day who attempted to enter the country “by air, sea, or land” from October 2017 through September 2018

    Asked to clarify whether ten of those recent arrests occurred on the southern border, as the president claimed, DHS simply reiterated its per-day statistic for the year

    A request for comment made to the White House was not immediately returned. But data from the State Department shows that in 2017, “there was no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups sent operatives via Mexico into the United States”

    Additional government data indicate that border security is indeed a terrorism issue, BUT THAT THOSE ON THE TERRORISM WATCHLIST COME FROM THE NORTH, NOT THE SOUTH. FBI reports from 2014 through 2016 suggest far more attempted terrorist incursions from Canada than Mexico. In the end, the main threat, terrorism experts argue, are individuals already in the country who have become radicalized

    “Every objective analysis has reflected that the primary terrorism threat taking place today is from those who are born here and are native to the U.S” said John Cohen the former deputy undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at DHS

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-administration-wont-back-up-presidents-terror-claim?source=twitter&via=desktop

    • “Governor Moonbeam” Jerry Brown: Democrats Becoming Too Radical for Majority of Voters, but then blames it all on Republicans.
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      “Outgoing California Governor Jerry Brown told National Public Radio (NPR) that the Democratic Party is becoming more radical than the majority of voters would prefer — though he blamed Republicans for the shift.

      “The weakness of the Republican Party has let the Democratic Party, I think, go get further out than I think the majority of people want,” Brown told NPR’s Ari Shapiro on Tuesday’s edition of All Things Considered.”

      https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/12/12/jerry-brown-democrats-becoming-too-radical-for-majority-of-voters/

  3. **BREAKING NEWS** TRUMP LAWYER GETS THREE YEARS FOR CRIMES DIRECTED BY TRUMP

    Don’t expect to see this reported in the right-wing Trump-suckup mainstream media:
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    Trump’s former longtime personal attorney was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison over his involvement in the hush-money scheme that was directed by the president

    Cohen made payouts to at least two women who said they had affairs with Trump during the early years of his marriage to First Lady Melania Trump

    He has admitted that on the eve of the election he paid adult film actress Stormy Daniels $130,000 and helped arrange a $150,000 payment to former Playboy model Karen McDougal

    An attorney who works for special counsel Robert Mueller’s office on Wednesday revealed that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen had given them “credible” and “valuable” information about “links between a campaign and a foreign government”

    As reported by Courthouse News’ Adam Klasfeld, Special Counsel’s Office prosecutor Jeannie Rhee told the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York that Cohen had given her office information about what is very likely connections between President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and the Russian government

    Cohen’s attorney released a statement:

    “Michael Cohen, former attorney to Donald Trump, continues to tell the truth about Donald Trump’s misconduct over the years

    At the appropriate time, after Mr. Mueller completes his investigation and issues his final report, I look forward to assisting Michael to state publicly all he knows about Mr. Trump, and that includes any appropriate Congressional committee interested in the search for truth and the difference between facts and lies. Mr. Trump’s repeated lies cannot contradict stubborn facts

    Michael has owned up to his mistakes and fully cooperated with Special Counsel Mueller in his investigation over possible Trump campaign collusion with Russian meddling in the 2016 election”

    https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/michael-cohen-sentencing/index.html

  4. Let’s see why Mr. Cohen is really in trouble, and not regurgitate the mindless left wing liberal media spin:
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    “Prosecutors offered a vastly different assessment Friday of the president’s former fixer, dismissing him as a duplicitous figure who badly misplayed his hand.

    In a court filing ahead of Cohen’s sentencing next week, they assailed him as a greedy opportunist who rode Trump’s coattails to wealth and is now exaggerating his level of cooperation with investigators…

    After Trump’s election, Cohen left the Trump Organization and tried to cash in on his connections.

    Big companies hired him to offer “insight and access” to the administration. Those companies included AT&T, which paid Cohen $50,000 a month and the pharmaceutical giant Novartis, which paid Cohen $1.2 million.

    Prosecutors haven’t charged Cohen with doing anything criminal in connection with those deals, but they singled out the work as “hollow,” saying he did minimal work.

    New York prosecutors said that while Cohen was helpful, he had declined to sign a formal cooperation agreement, which would have required him to confess any other crimes he might have committed. Cohen, they wrote, wasn’t willing to do so. They suggested only a slight reduction in his sentence for his cooperation.”

    https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/politics/article/Prosecutors-Cohen-s-claims-of-reform-13451315.php

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