Pelosi says White House did not tell her about Iran strike plan

© J. Scott Applewhite/AP Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) meets with reporters before joining congressional leaders at a closed-door security briefing on the rising tensions with Iran, at the U.S. Capitol, on Thursday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she was not informed of President Trump’s plans to strike Iran Thursday night, a military action that he said he called off minutes before it was to occur.

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At a congressional event, Pelosi, second in line to the presidency, was asked if she had been notified by the White House, and she replied, “No.” 

Traditionally, House and Senate leadership, and chair and ranking members on the national security-related and other key committees are told about an imminent U.S. military action. 

In a statement Friday, Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the United States is “in an extremely dangerous and sensitive situation with Iran. We must calibrate a response that de-escalates and advances American interests, and we must be clear as to what those interests are.” 

The speaker added, “we have no illusions about the dangerous conduct of the Iranian regime. This is a dangerous, high-tension situation that requires a strong, smart and strategic approach.” 

Senior lawmakers were briefed at the White House about how the United States planned to respond to Iran shooting down an unmanned U.S. drone Thursday afternoon, but no set plans were made at that time. 

“During our meeting with the president at the White House, congressional leaders stressed the necessity that we work with our allies and not strengthen the hand of Iran’s hard-liners,” Pelosi said in the statement, adding: “Democratic leaders emphasized that hostilities must not be initiated without the approval of Congress.” 

Military action and whether Congress should vote to authorize it have long been a point of contention between Congress and the White House given the constitutionally-mandated authority given to Congress to declare war.

Pelosi says White House did not tell her about Iran strike plan

Arkansas woman, 28, sues Hunter Biden for child support claiming he is the father of her baby

Lunden Roberts (shown right with her pregnant sister Randi Jo Bolin), 28, filed suit in Batesville, Arkansas, claiming that Hunter Biden is the father of her child

(Maybe he popped her sister too)

Don't expect to hear much about this from the MSM. After all his father is running for president.

Crack pipe in his rental car, screwing his brother’s wife, just married a woman he knew for only 10 days, and now side babies…and all this is after he got kicked out of the Navy for cocaine use!

Nothing newsworthy here right???

(If this were one of Trump's sons the MSM would have it covered better than  skin on an apple)

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Hunter Biden has been sued in Arkansas by a 28-year-old woman who claims he is the father of her 10-month-old baby 

An Arkansas woman has filed a lawsuit demanding child support from Hunter Biden, claiming he is the father of her 10-month-old baby. 

Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, filed the lawsuit in Batesville, Arkansas, last month. It names Biden, 49, as the father of a baby she gave birth to in August 2018, when he was still in a relationship with his late brother Beau's widow Hallie.

Roberts would have become pregnant in the fall of 2017, around seven months after Hunter and Hallie confirmed their controversial romance.

Her lawsuit gives no detail of how she allegedly met the presidential candidate's son and it offers no insight into their apparent relationship other than that they were 'in one'. 

The petition, which DailyMail.com obtained on Thursday, is only two pages long. 

It gives no details about the infant, referring only to them as 'Baby Doe'. 

Lunden's attorney declined to comment on the case. 

He told The Arkansas Democrat Gazette that she values her privacy and wants to be left alone but is seeking money from the wealthy, prominent politician's son. 

'She really values her privacy. This is a parenting and child support issue between her and Mr. Biden. 

'She really does not want this to be a media spectacle. She does not want this to affect Joe Biden’s campaign. 

'She just wants this baby to get financial support from the baby’s father,” Lancaster added,' attorney Clint Lancaster said.

He added that they had been in touch with Biden's attorney to settle the issue privately but that that had been 'unsuccessful'. 

'We have been in contact with Hunter Biden’s attorney. 

'We have attempted to work with Hunter and his attorney to settle this issue but that has not been successful. 

'We are attempting to serve Mr. Biden,' he said. 

Biden, who made headlines for marrying a South African woman in May after knowing her for just a month, has not commented. 

He could not be reached at his company, Rosemont Seneca Technology Partners, on Thursday morning and multiple messages left on voicemails for the many cell phone numbers he is attached to online went unanswered. 

At the time the woman became pregnant, Hunter was in a relationship with his late brother Beau's widow Hallie (shown together in August 2017, several months before he is alleged to have impregnated Lunden)

Beau died in May 2015. He and Hallie are pictured in November 2010

Biden married 32-year-old Melissa Cohen in May this year, a month after splitting from Hallie 

Arkansas woman says Hunter Biden is the father of her child

The scandal-prone father-of-three was married from 1993 until 2015 when he split with his wife Kathleen. 

In court papers, Kathleen accused him of squandering their money on drugs and prostitutes. 

TIMELINE OF HUNTER'S RELATIONSHIPS 

May 2015: Beau Biden dies of brain cancer

October 2015: Hunter and his wife Kathleen separate formally

March 2017: Hunter and Beau's widow, Hallie, confirm they are dating 

April 2017: Hunter and Kathleen's divorce is finalized 

Fall 2017: Lunden Roberts becomes pregnant in Arkansas

August 2018: Lunden Roberts gives birth to baby which she says is Hunter's

April 2019: Hunter and Hallie split for unknown reasons

May 2019: Hunter marries Melissa Cohen in Los Angeles a month after meeting her 

They separated formally five months after the death of his brother Beau, the adored former Attorney General of Delaware.

He died as a result of brain cancer. 

Throughout his treatment, Hunter and his wife Hallie became close. 

Friends say they relied on one another for support while going to doctors appointments and helping the family see through the tragedy. 

In March 2017, nearly two years after Beau's death and six months after Kathleen and Hunter's formal separation, Hallie and Hunter confirmed they were dating. 

Joe Biden and his wife Jill gave the new couple their support, saying they were happy they had found each other in the midst of the sadness since Beau's death. 

In April this year, Hallie and Hunter split and the famous family were tight-lipped as to why. 

In May, it was revealed that Hunter had married Melissa Cohen, 32, after just one month of knowing one another. 

She had been living with a boyfriend until April this year. 

Hunter and his first wife Kathleen formally separated in October 2015. She claimed in court records afterwards that he spent their money on prostitutes and drugs 

Arkansas woman, 28, sues Hunter Biden for child support claiming he is the father of her baby

Chris Cuomo sees the handwriting on the wall

Democrats still can't pack an arena like Donald Trump

(But their lead dogs still poll better than Trump)

CNN host Chris Cuomo said it must “mean something” that President Trump is able to pack arenas like his kickoff campaign rally in Orlando on Tuesday while the long list of Democratic presidential hopefuls are still “playing these little clubs in Iowa and New Hampshire.”

Mr. Cuomo opened his show Tuesday night with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, asking the 2020 hopeful, who is polling at less than 1%, whether there’s a lack of enthusiasm on the Democratic side.

“One simple question: Why don’t the Democrats pack stadiums the way this president does?” he asked the senator from Minnesota.

“Oh, but we do,” Ms. Klobuchar responded. “We just have a lot of stadiums we’re packing at the same time with so many people running. I think you’ve seen our candidates throughout the years generate that energy, and you certainly saw it in 2018 when we took back the House.”

Stop here. 

I bet 9 out of 10 Americans couldn't tell you who she is. Klobuchar's rallies couldn't fill a phone booth. 

Here she is on CNN...really pitiful!

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Later in the show, Mr. Cuomo said he disagreed with the senator, saying, “I don’t think Democrats are packing any place the way he is,” Mediaite reported.

“There’s probably 20,000 people at this rally for the president tonight and that is bigger than Democrats are getting so far to be sure,” he said. “Is the size of the rally suggestive of the 60 million plus votes needed to win the next presidential election? No, maybe not. But it has to mean something that as Democrats are playing these little clubs in Iowa and New Hampshire, Donald Trump is playing arenas.

“Yes, this is a sitting president and the Democratic field is largely lesser-knowns, but people were lined up for more than a day in the Florida heat for this rally tonight,” he continued. “We need to see the disconnect between a rally like tonight and reality. This is the only modern president to never see his popularity hit 50 percent and yet he has the biggest crowds at his events.

(Well, Chris...that's because his 50% popularity rating is total bullshit that your network helped propagate)

 He’s held almost 60 of these rallies since he took office and it might seem like the only thing he’s done more than these rallies is tweet or play golf.”

Mr. Cuomo went on to argue that Mr. Trump is still able to fill stadiums despite his unpopularity because his divisiveness had “boiled down his base” to the most “ardent and open to the fear and aggression in his message.”

“Pandering to voters’ fears is always a powerful proposition,” he added.

But not as powerful as this:

Chris Cuomo sees the handwriting on the wall

If Cosko was a Republican he would have got 20 years

Former Democratic Senate Aide Gets Four Years In Prison For Mass Doxxing Of Republicans

A former Democratic aide was sentenced to four years in prison for what prosecutors called “the largest data breach in Senate history.” Prosecutors said a stiff sentence was also imperative to “deter cyber crimes against the U.S. government.”

Jackson Cosko stole data and used it to publish the addresses and phone numbers of Senate Republicans to intimidate them for supporting Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Judge Thomas Hogan said that Cosko must face punishment lest people think strong political beliefs justified criminal attacks on sitting lawmakers, citing the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise. 

A second former aide to Sen. Maggie Hassan was charged with computer fraud and evidence tampering on Wednesday for allegedly acting as an accomplice.

Legal or illegal Democrats will go to any length to destroy Republicans. Anyone truly believe there wasn't a concerted effort by FBI, DOJ, the Clinton's, and the occupant in the WH to rig an election?

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A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Democratic aide to four years in prison for hacking Senate computers, using spy devices and “doxxing” Republicans.

Jackson Cosko — a former aide to Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan, Democratic California Sen. Barbara Boxer and Democratic Texas Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee — stole the entire contents of Hassan’s computer systems in October 2018 and published the private information of Republicans, including home addresses and cell phones. He hoped to intimidate them over Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

Jackson Cosko, 27, has been arrested and charged with sharing the private details of Republican senators online; police say he threatened to expose medical records and Social Security Numbers of senators' children

A Democratic slimeball of the first magnitude. With ties to 3 slime-ball-ettes...

The same day, prosecutors charged a second Democratic aide with computer fraud and tampering with evidence for her role as an accomplice to Cosko.

Kavanaugh is now on the Supreme Court, while Cosko found himself in front of a different judge: Judge Thomas Hogan of federal criminal court.

“It was a rather vicious offense. You were upset politically, perhaps you thought in today’s world it’s OK to lash out because of that but it’s not. There needs to be a deterrent,” Hogan said. “You put those people in harm’s way in a polarized society. You can’t pass this off as simple political extremity that is OK to do.”

Cosko hoped to change the outcome of a Supreme Court nomination proceeding. Instead, he will not be able to so much as cast a ballot in a general election. “You’ve got to live with five felony convictions, you lose your right to vote,” Hogan said.

Note found in Jackson Cosko’s apartment / Evidence filed by prosecutors in D.C. federal court

Republican Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, whose information was posted to the internet by Cosko, released a “statement about how it caused distress to have his wife upset when he’d already been attacked” physically in his neighborhood in a different incident, Hogan said.

Hogan noted that Republicans, including Paul, had also been targeted for their political views during a baseball practice during which Republican Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise was shot in 2017. “In today’s political world, Republicans at the baseball game in Virginia were shot at,” he said, and Democrats have also been threatened. “It hurts the respect for the law when people do things like this.”

Prosecutor Demian S. Ahn said “The political and social environment we’re in, people think it’s justified to lash out because you disagree politically. … He doxxes senators, laughs, then doxxes more, all because they have different political opinions.”

In a sentencing memo, Ahn added that Cosko had “self-righteous entitlement” and a “belief that he could violate the sanctity of the United States Senate at will and threaten individual Senators as he pleased.”

“The government believes that there appears to have been an increase in similar criminal harassment, particularly through social media channels, by people across the political spectrum,” the memo says.

Sentencing guidelines not set up to punish political cyber-crimes

One might think that hacking a high-profile political entity or governmental entity would come with stiffer penalties than hacking a company, but that’s not necessarily the case because federal sentencing guidelines are based on money, and it’s hard to put a dollar figure on political attacks, Ahn said.

“The guidelines simply do not reflect the severity of this data breach — it’s a high-value network. Sentencing is driven by economic harm, and this is not economic — computer hacking that is driven by political goals or revenge,” Ahn said. “This is the largest data breach in Senate history. … What will deter cyber crimes against the US government including the Senate?”

(RELATED: Cosko Is Son Of Millionaire With Ties To Dianne Feinstein, Pelosi)

Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan (CNN Screenshot: January 28, 2019)

Accomplice charged

Also on Wednesday, prosecutors charged a second staffer to Hassan, Samantha Deforest Davis, with computer fraud and evidence tampering for acting as Cosko’s accomplice so he could steal Hassan’s data after he was fired. Davis allegedly gave Cosko a key knowing he would use it to break in and also wiped his fingerprints off computers after he was caught in the act.

“SAMANTHA DEFOREST DAVIS, by aiding and abetting JACKSON COSKO, did intentionally and illegally access protected computers without authorization, and thereby obtained information from those computers, said computers belonging to a department or agency of the United States, that is, the United States Senate,” prosecutors said. They added that she tampered with evidence by wiping down keyboards to hide Cosko’s fingerprints.

The Daily Caller News Foundation exclusively reported Davis’ identity in April.

Cosko will also receive three years of probation during which he will be prohibited from using social media that does not use his real name, and his computer will be monitored.

If Cosko was a Republican he would have got 20 years

Proving once again the polls are BS

Trump campaign rakes in stunning $25M in single day for re-election launch

As the 2020 Presidential election approaches, President Trump launched his re-election bid in Orlando, Florida, on June 18, 2019.

(Pictured) President Donald Trump speaks during his rally where he announced his candidacy for a second presidential term.

President Trump's campaign operation raised a whopping $24.8 million in less than 24 hours amid his 2020 re-election launch in Florida on Tuesday — a figure that blows past what any of the Democratic candidates raised in the entire first quarter.

But these Dems are ahead of Trump in the polls... even Butt-igieg???

“@realDonaldTrump has raised a record-breaking $24.8M in less than 24 hours for his re-election. The enthusiasm across the country for this President is unmatched and unlike anything we’ve ever seen! #trump2020 #KeepAmericaGreat,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted early Wednesday.

The president tweeted "THANK YOU!" in response.

TRUMP LAUNCHES CAMPAIGN MACHINE WITH MASSIVE WAR CHEST, DESPITE POLLING LAG

According to an RNC spokesman, the fundraising - at a clip of $1 million an hour - came through the Trump re-election campaign and joint-fundraising committees Trump Victory and Trump MAGAC (Make America Great Again Committee).

Minutes later, RNC Communications Director Michael Ahrens tweeted: “For those keeping score, that’s more than the 5 highest polling Democrats — combined.”

Ahrens was referring to the top five polling Democratic candidates' fundraising during the 24 hours after they announced their presidential bids. Among them, former Vice President Joe Biden raked in $6.3 million and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., brought in $5.9 million, with the others raising significantly less than that.

But none of the candidates hit $20 million even in the first quarter.

Sanders brought in $18.2 million in the first 41 days of his campaign; Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., brought in $12 million during the first three months of this year; former Rep. Beto O’Rourke of Texas raised $9.4 million; and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg raised $7.1 million.

Democratic presidential primary front-runner Biden, who announced after the first quarter, hinted this week at raising roughly $20 million so far, as he tours the fundraising circuit with a series of top-dollar events.

But the Trump campaign re-launch surpassed that in 24 hours, counting various fundraising committees, coinciding with his energetic rally in Orlando to a packed arena crowd.

The fundraising numbers underscore what has, since before the Democratic candidates even started campaigning, been a huge cash advantage for the incumbent. Going into Trump’s rally on Tuesday, the re-election campaign had $40.8 million in cash-on-hand at the start of second-quarter fundraising on April 1. Combined with the RNC’s joint fundraising committees, they have a combined $82 million cash-on-hand for the second quarter.

But despite Trump's massive war chest, the latest Fox News Poll shows Biden topping the president by 10 points and Sanders ahead of the president by 9 points.

(Sorry FOX...I don't believe it)

But Trump's campaign and the president himself have dismissed recent polling.

"Our country is soaring to incredible new heights," Trump said Tuesday night, to loud applause. "Our economy is the envy of the world, perhaps the greatest economy we've had in the history of our country, and as long as you keep this team in place - we have a tremendous way to go - our future has never, ever looked brighter or sharper."

Trump continued: "The fact is, the American Dream is back. It's bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before."

Proving once again the polls are BS