Gingrich affirms election being stolen – by media

Calls it a 'coup,' says Trump would be winning by 15 points without 1-sided press

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WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker affirmed Donald Trump’s claims that the presidential election is being stolen by a one-sided media almost universally working shamelessly for his opponent, ignoring substantive Hillary Clinton scandals while hyping unsubstantiated charges against Trump.

“I think that without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary by 15 points,” he told Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week.” “I think when you look at WikiLeaks and you look at all the things she has said, when you look at the deals in Russia that Bill Clinton made, and that the Clinton Foundation – I mean, all this nonsense by [Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim] Kaine about Russia, it’s Clinton, Bill Clinton, who got a half a million dollar speech. It is the Clintons who got money for the Clinton Foundation from Russia. It is – it is [Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John] Podesta who was on a Russian company advisory board that was apparently funded by [Vladimir] Putin.

Philippine president's China trip puts US ties to the test

AP News / via Townhall.com

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — After lashing out at longtime ally America, the new Philippine president is making a state visit to China in a charm offensive that will help define how far he wants to shift allegiance from treaty ally the U.S. to an Asian superpower locked in a territorial standoff with his small, impoverished country.

It's a high-stakes gamble for brash President Rodrigo Duterte.

While he recalibrates Philippine relations with the world's big powers, his country's 65-year alliance with the United States — a key pillar of President Barack Obama's rebalance to Asia — hangs in the balance. China will likely move to regain lost ground in a Southeast Asian nation that won a major arbitration lawsuit against Beijing's massive territorial claims in the South China Sea just three months ago.

Below is a look at some of the issues surrounding Duterte's four-day visit to China that begins Tuesday and will include meetings with President Xi Jinping and other officials.
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WHY IS DUTERTE PURSUING A MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY SHIFT AND WHAT DOES HE WANT FROM CHINA?

Wikileaks: Optics Be Damned, Hillary Wanted To Give Bill One Last Bite Of the Paid Speech Apple From Wall Street

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Hillary Clinton’s campaign staffers were quite adamant that former President Bill Clinton shouldn’t be allowed to take one last bite of the paid speech apple from Wall Street three days before she officially announced her presidential run, according to the latest string of emails released by Wikileaks. The optics of it all didn’t appear to bother Hillary Clinton, a possible window into the former first lady’s brazen confidence that she was going to win the 2016 election. There appears to be a back and forth between Hillary, longtime aide Huma Abedin, and campaign manager Robby Mook, who understood how big of a mistake it would be for Bill to deliver that speech. In the end, Hillary relented and agreed that Bill should probably cancel his speech appearance (via Huffington Post):

The internal emails reveal Clinton staffers’ attempts to reason with a wealthy political candidate who didn’t appreciate the potential damage that could be done if her husband ? referred to as “WJC” in the communications ? spoke to a prominent Wall Street firm just three days after she formally announced her presidential campaign. 

Staffers knew that Clinton didn’t want to hear it, and maneuvered to make their objections understood.

Podesta lamented that San Bernardino killer was Muslim, “not a guy named Christopher Hayes”
By Robert Spencer / Jihad Watch 

 

Podesta, the Clinton Campaign Chairman, was reflecting the perspective held generally by Leftists: the truth doesn’t fit their narrative. Reality is revoltingly inconvenient, so they are determined to ignore and deny it and substitute a scenario more to their liking: that “right-wing extremists” are the threat, not Islamic jihadists. “WikiLeaks: Podesta lamented that a Muslim, […]
 
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Democrats BOMB Republican HQ in Orange County, NorthCarolina                                                                         Pamela Geller /THEGELLER REPORT

Governor Pat McCrory called the weekend firebombing of a North Carolina Republican headquarters “an attack on our democracy,” What democracy? The left has destroyed the freedoms enshrined in our Constitution. This is the same Democrat party that did this and (and much worse) to blacks in the South standing up for their voting rights.

The county is overwhelmingly Democratic. Democrats and independents outnumber Republicans 5-1
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This is Obama and Hillary’s America. This is what their hate and divisiveness wrought.

Republican office firebombed in North Carolina, warning painted nearby: ‘Nazi Republicans get out’
Same evil, different day.

Pat McCrory: Firebombing ‘an attack on democracy’ cracy’ By Jim Morrill, ...

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Trump Ally Ready to Meet With FBI to Prove Innocence in WikiLeaks

Cortney O'Brien / Townhall Tipsheet

As WikiLeaks releases thousands of emails damaging to the Clinton campaign, the Democratic nominee and her allies have made it clear they suspect her opponent is behind the hacking. Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta, who is Julian Assange's latest victim, accused Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign operative-turned ally, of having advance knowledge of the WikiLeaks cyber breach.

“I think it’s a reasonable assumption to — or at least a reasonable conclusion — that Mr. Stone had advance warning and the Trump campaign had advance warning about what [WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange] was going to do … I think there’s at least a reasonable belief that Mr. Assange may have passed this information onto Mr. Stone,” he said.

Stone, however, denies any connection to WikiLeaks and has now even offered to meet with the FBI to prove their innocence.

“I’d be happy to cooperate if they decided to call me,” Stone said.

In recent days, we've reported on several revealing WikiLeaks emails. Some especially intriguing messages showed Podesta asking former Clinton aide Cheryl Mills if they should use executive privilege to withhold President Obama's correspondence with the former secretary of state in the wake of a subpoena from the Select Committee on Benghazi. Others show Clinton talking trash about the environmental movement. Assange and company are expected to release 40,000 emails related to Clinton's scandals by Election Day.

In the meantime, however, the Trump Tapes seem to be overshadowing all these juicy emails - no matter how damaging they may be.

Clinton Economic Butcher’s Bill: $1.4 Trillion Tax Increase Over The Next Decade, Over 600,000 Jobs Lost

Matt Vespa / Townhall Tipsheet

Last December, Hillary Clinton told the New Hampshire’s Concord Monitor that her economic agenda would cost us $1 trillion over the next ten years. Katie added that $1 trillion in tax increases would probably be needed as well. Well, that $1 trillion tax increase figure has mostly stayed the same, but we’re also set to lose close to 700,000 jobs and reducing economic growth by 2.6 percent. Ali Meyer at The Washington Free Beacon had more:

Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals would increase taxes by $1.4 trillion over the next decade and would reduce the growth of the economy by 2.6 percent, according to an analysis from the Tax Foundation. […]

Clinton’s proposals would increase taxes by $1.4 trillion over the next decade, most of which would come from individual income tax revenue that would account for about $817 billion. The estate tax increases would raise about $310 billion over the next decade, and increased corporate and payroll taxes would total about $300 billion.

According to the analysis, the Democratic nominee’s proposals would reduce the economy’s size by 2.6 percent, lower wages by 2.1 percent, and reduce the number of full-time jobs by 697,000.

Yes, stronger together…all the way to the poorhouse.