Schweizer: Kamala Harris Has ‘Deeply Troubling’ Past with Fundraising

In a Sunday interview on Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution,” Breitbart News senior contributor and Government Accountability Institute President Peter Schweizer discussed Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) as presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate. Schweizer, author of “Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite,” said he believed Biden selected Harris based on her fundraising ability, but explained she has a “deeply troubling” way of raising money that is related to not prosecuting certain sexual abuse cases involving rich and powerful families and lawyers representing the Catholic schools in the crosshairs of investigations.

“This has been an issue that’s been bubbling forth in San Francisco since the early 2000s,” Schweizer advised. “There are plenty of people on the political left that have been critical of Kamala Harris of her handling of sexual abuse claims against Catholic priests. I think what helped Kamala Harris in this particular case, as I talked about in the book, she has a long history with the Obamas going back to before Barack Obama was a U.S. Senator. I think that certainly helped. I think her ability to raise money was a factor. Joe Biden’s not a great fundraiser, Kamala Harris is. Now, the problem is the way in which she raises money is often related to the manner in which she chose to prosecute or not prosecute cases both in Sacramento and San Francisco. So, it is deeply troubling, There is no easy explanation for it. Her claim that she would not release these records because she was protecting the victims — the victims are absolutely furious at that explanation, so she simply does not have a good explanation for this.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/08/16/schweizer-kamala-harris-has-deeply-troubling-past-with-fundraising/

Pollak: Democrats Go Postal with Busted Mailbox Conspiracy Theory

Democrats have spent several days flogging the false “mailbox conspiracy” theory that President Donald Trump is deliberately crippling the U.S. Postal Service so that it cannot handle votes by mail in November — even forcing it to remove mailboxes.

The truth is that the mailboxes were removed because mailboxes are always being removed. At least 14,000 were removed during the Obama-Biden administration. Democrats are creating a new hysteria to cast Trump as a tyrant and motivate their conspiracy-theory-addled voters. Former Vice President Joe Biden has enthusiastically inflamed this phony conspiracy theory — far more directly than Trump can be said to have “promoted” or “encouraged” the Kamala Harris “Birther” theory (which he declined to pursue). The truth is far more mundane. The U.S. Postal Service has been a problem for years, constantly losing money. In 2009, the postmaster general proposed moving to five-day-per-week mail delivery to cut costs. President Barack Obama criticized the service that year for failing to keep up with private sector competitors. The Obama-Biden administration considered closing nearly 3,700 post office locations, and proposed cutting 12,000 postal jobs. (Update: Note that the photograph of “retired” mailboxes, above, is from 2009, during the first year of the Obama-Biden administration.)

President Trump tried a different tack, demanding in 2018 that Amazon lower the prices it charged the U.S. Postal Service for delivering its packages to consumers. One aspect of ongoing cost management is the removal of mailbox from areas where few people deposit mail. Kimberly Frum, a spokeswoman for the service, told The Hill (via the Blaze) that low-volume mailboxes are regularly removed to cut costs: She said that low-volume mailboxes are a financial drag on the Postal Service, which lost more than $2 billion in the second quarter. “It is a fluid process and figures can vary from day-to-day,” Frum said. “Historically, mail boxes have been removed for lack of use and installed in growth areas.” “When a collection box consistently receives very small amounts of mail for months on end, it costs the Postal Service money in fuel and workhours for letter carriers to drive to the mailbox and collect the mail. Removing the box is simply good business sense in that respect. It is important to note that anyone with a residential or business mailbox can use it as a vehicle to send outgoing mail.” The removal of mailboxes has been halted until after the election, to avoid further confusion (sown deliberately by Democrats and the media). But even with fewer mailboxes, the U.S. Postal Service can probably handle the delivery of ballots, Byron York argues in the Washington Examiner. It handles hundreds of millions of items daily. The bottleneck is not necessarily the U.S. Postal Service, but rather the state and local election officials who set arbitrary deadlines for postmarking ballots, and who will have to sort out millions more additional mailed ballots than they are used to handling. In many states, they have never done anything like it before.

https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2020/08/17/pollak-democrats-go-postal-with-busted-mailbox-conspiracy-theory/

Valerie Jarrett on Criticisms of Kamala Harris: Would You Use the Same Language to Describe a Man?

Former Obama White House advisor Valerie Jarrett on Sunday sounded off on the criticisms of presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s vice president pick, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA). MSNBC “Kasie DC” host Kasie Hunt asked Jarrett about a recent New York Times column, entitled, “The Undertold, Undersold Story of Kamala Harris,” which asks the question: “As a prosecutor, she can make you tremble. But as a trailblazer, can she make you cry?” Jarrett expressed disappointment with the column and asked if the same language would be used to “describe a man.”

“When are we gonna say, ‘Well, are the men going to make us cry?'” Jarrett asked. “I think the question we put is this: Would you ask the same thing of a man? Would you use the same language, in the same way, to describe a man?” she continued. “This whole issue about whether women are mean or nasty or ambitious. What’s wrong with ambition? Who, in their right mind, wants to be President or Vice President of the United States, who isn’t ambitious? This is a teaching moment, not just for the media, but I think for America to say women are going to be moving to positions of power, and you better get used to it. And you better treat us equally. Level playing field.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/08/16/valerie-jarrett-on-criticisms-of-kamala-harris-would-you-use-the-same-language-to-describe-a-man/

Hopes to capture 'silent Biden voters': Three more Republicans to speak at Democratic convention

Three more Republicans will join former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, in speaking at the Democratic National Convention in a bid to appeal to "silent" Joe Biden voters who do not like President Trump. The additional Republicans are former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, former New York Rep. Susan Molinari, and Meg Whitman, who is CEO of short-form video app Quibi and was the 2010 Republican nominee in the California governor's race. The four Republicans will speak Monday night, the first night of the Democratic convention, under the theme, "We the People Putting Country Over Party." The overarching theme of the night is "We the People." Louisiana Rep. Cedric Richmond, who is also co-chairman for the Biden campaign, told reporters in a press briefing on Monday that the inclusion of Republicans at the convention is a way for the party to try to win over Republicans who are not satisfied with Trump. "I call them the 'silent Biden voters,' which are those Republicans that feel bullied, those Republicans that feel that they will be isolated if they support Biden, and that they will be picked on," Richmond said. "This will show them that they're not alone."

Christine Todd Whitman was governor of New Jersey from 1994 to 2001 and then joined the Bush administration as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency until 2003. She faced criticism for saying shortly after 9/11 that the air and water in New York were safe to breathe and drink despite the collapse of the World Trade Center. She later apologized for the remark in 2016. She supported Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election and endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld in his long-shot challenge to Trump in the 2020 Republican primary. Molinari joined the House in a 1990 special election and resigned from her House seat in 1997 in order to take a job hosting a Saturday morning news show at CBS. She gave the keynote speech at the 1996 Republican National Convention. She later became a Washington lobbyist and a Google public policy executive. Meg Whitman was a supporter of Utah Sen. Mitt Romney's presidential runs in 2008 and 2012 and was a rumored possible cabinet pick had he won the 2012 election. She was co-chairwoman of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's 2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. After Trump won the nomination, she supported Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. She has contributed $500,000 to the joint fundraising effort between Biden and the Democratic National Committee. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former first lady Michelle Obama are also slated to speak at the convention Monday night.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/hopes-to-capture-silent-biden-voters-three-more-republicans-to-speak-at-democratic-convention