YouTube is Suspending President Donald Trump's Channel

Trump's accounts were previously banned on Twitter and Facebook, following the Capitol Hill riot on 6 January, as the social media platforms accused the US president of inciting violence.

YouTube is suspending President Donald Trump's Channel for at least a week because it received a strike after posting a video that purportedly incited violence, the company announced.

"After careful review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to the Donald J. Trump channel and issued a strike for violating our policies for inciting violence", a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. "As a result, in accordance with our long-standing strikes system, the channel is now prevented from uploading new videos or livestreams for a minimum of seven days—which may be extended".

The platform also disabled comments to videos on the channel.

The decision will be revisited in a week. However, if Trump's channel gets another strike it will be suspended for 2 weeks, and a third violation will result in a permanent removal.

Bans on the president and mass purges of social media come after the Capitol Hill riot in Washington, DC last week.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101131081748493-youtube-is-suspending-president-donald-trumps-channel/

Never-Trump Group Offers $50 Mln Support For GOP Lawmakers Who Oppose Trump

Democrats are intending to force the outgoing US president, Donald Trump, to resign through impeachment, accusing him of inciting an angry mob on 6 January to storm the Capitol building. Trump more than once said he wanted "no violence" on US streets and described the move to impeach him a second time as a "continuation of the greatest witch hunt".

Bill Kristol, a leading figure of the anti-Trump movement, Defending Democracy Together, tweeted on Tuesday the launch of a Republican Accountability Project initiative, implying that those Republican lawmakers who act against the outgoing US president, Donald Trump, will be eligible to receive support from a newly-established $50 million fund for protection and future primaries.

Kristol claimed that the cash would help “defend Republicans who act to hold President Trump accountable for inciting an attack on the US Capitol, and to deploy against those who continue to lie to voters about widespread election fraud.”

Among the Project's primary aims announced by Kristol are:

accountability of "Republican members of Congress who have enabled or capitulated to Trump by objecting to certifying a free and fair election accountable–including by helping credible primary challengers against them";

insurance that "ample resources are available for those principled Republicans who do the right thing and hold Trump accountable for inciting an attack on the US Capitol to defend against primary challengers";

support for "new candidates who would be principled Republicans if elected to office" in primaries in open or redistricted seats.

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NEW: RVAT FOUNDERS ANNOUNCE $50 MILLION REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT

Today, Defending Democracy Together, home of Republicans for the Rule of Law and Republican Voters Against Trump, announced it would raise and spend $50 million…

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 12, 2021

In a personal statement as chair of Defending Democracy Together, Kristol urged Republicans to “do the right thing” and “vote to impeach or remove Donald Trump”.

“We say to any Republican who votes to impeach or remove Donald Trump: You will not be left alone. We will help you against primary challenges. And before the challenges emerge, we will help explain your vote to your constituents. So do the right thing. We will have your back”, he wrote.

We want to say to any Republican who votes to impeach or remove Trump: You will not be left alone. We will help you against primary challenges. And before the challenges emerge, we will help explain your vote to your constituents. So do the right thing. We will have your back.

— Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) January 12, 2021

The Defending Democracy Together group presenting the initiative is considered to be a never-Trump conservative organization. The so-called Never Trumpers earlier created other political enterprises such as Republicans for the Rule of Law and Republican Voters Against Trump. The group was founded in 2019 by Bill Kristol, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Sarah Longwell, and Andy Zwick.

https://sputniknews.com/us/202101121081746146-legal-corruption-never-trump-group-offers-50-mln-support-for-gop-lawmakers-who-oppose-trump/

US Sanctions Ukrainians Who Revealed Evidence of Biden Family Corruption

This week, theBiden Family crime syndicate have begun the process of trying to bury one of its biggest international scandals.

On January 11th, the United States Treasury sanctioned several Ukrainian individuals and media for revealing corruption in the Ukrainian government and against US President-elect Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

These were accused of being “Russia-linked actors” and they were simply doing Moscow’s bidding, by revealing the truth.

“Russian disinformation campaigns targeting American citizens are a threat to our democracy,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said.

The U.S. Treasury Department accused the seven individuals and four entities of involvement in a Russia-linked foreign influence network associated with Ukrainian parliamentarian Andriy Derkach. The pro-Russian lawmaker was hit with sanctions by the U.S. government in September over accusations he tried to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election won by Biden.

The action freezes any U.S. assets of those blacklisted and generally bars Americans from doing business with them.

“The United States will continue to aggressively defend the integrity of our election systems and processes,” Mnuchin added.

Individuals who were sanctioned:

Alexander Dubinsky;

Dmitry Kovalchuk;

Konstantin Kulik;

Alexander Onishchenko;

Anton Symonenko;

Andrey Telizhenko;

Petr Zhuravel.

Media which was targeted with sanctions:

“Era-Media” (belongs to Andriy Derkach);

Information agency Only News;

Resource NabuLeaks;

“Skeptic” / “Behemoth Media”.

Andriy Derkach was first to be sanctioned back in September 2020.

Since the spring, he published several audio recordings in which President Petro Poroshenko listened to directives from Obama’s deputy Joe Biden, who was in charge of Ukraine at the time.

Their voices were recorded from Poroshenko’s office, who spoke to Biden over the speakerphone. The vice-president demanded that Poroshenko remove Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin in exchange for a billion loan from the IMF and made a hack for sending saboteurs to Crimea.

https://21stcenturywire.com/2021/01/12/u-s-sanctions-ukrainians-who-revealed-evidence-of-biden-family-corruption/

Dem Rep. Bush: GOP Lawmakers Made ‘Racist Attempt’ to Overturn Election — ‘White Supremacy at Its Finest’

Representative Cori Bush (D-MO) Tuesday on MSNBC’s “All In” accused her Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives of being involved in a “racist attempt to overturn an election” by voting to object to the electors and certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win.

Bush said, “Our Republican colleagues chose to do the work, to try to overturn the 2020 election. And on top of that, incite this insurrection that happened on January the 6th. There is no way that we can sit back and allow that to happen and just say, ‘Oh, but those are our colleagues, you know, we shouldn’t do anything, let’s just work on Donald Trump.’ Uh-uh-uh-uh, Donald Trump is not the only problem. We have to work on getting Donald Trump out, but we cannot allow his minions, we cannot allow his friends, we cannot allow his cousins to stay in place. Those doing his bidding have to go as well. You want to abide by the Constitution. If you want to abide by your sworn oath, it’s time for you to go.”

When asked if Republican lawmakers’ objections to certifying the electors were within their power, Bush said, “Let’s be clear. This was a racist attempt to overturn an election. This was more about trying to disenfranchise the voters of the Black, Brown, indigenous people’s voices, trying to invalidate our votes because we turned out in large numbers for this election, and to tell us that our votes don’t count, that they don’t matter? That’s another form of voter suppression. Also, to all of those grassroots groups, those Black and Brown organizers, those groups that push to help bring this win home for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, we won’t stand for it. So I’m speaking up. You are going to hear that we’re not going to let this go because this is a racist attempt. We have to call it what it is. It’s white supremacy at its finest.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/12/dem-rep-bush-gop-lawmakers-made-racist-attempt-to-overturn-election-white-supremacy-at-its-finest/

Schiff: Trump Impeachment ‘Gathering Momentum’ with Republicans

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Situation Room” that given reports that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has indicated that he believes impeaching President Donald Trump will make it easier to get rid of the president influence on the GOP, in addition to the announcement by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) will vote for impeachment, means the effort is “gathering momentum.”

Blitzer said, “The third-ranking Republican in the House, Congresswoman Liz Cheney, she nows says she will actually vote to impeach President Trump tomorrow when this resolution comes up for a vote. The last time you impeached President Trump, you did so with no Republican support in the House, no Republican support at all. So what does this development mean?”

Schiff said, “It means she won’t be alone. There will be other Republicans influenced by her decision, and these things have a way of gathering momentum. So I wouldn’t be surprised now to see a considerable number of Republicans join in supporting the impeachment resolution.”

“These reports that Mitch McConnell may be open to the impeachment charges as well is quite a potential earthquake in the Senate,” he added.

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/12/schiff-trump-impeachment-gathering-momentum-with-republicans/

Beijing Orders Passengers To Scan QR Health Codes Before Entering Uber

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and domestic tech companies are developing new techniques to track and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. One way this is being done is through health QR codes.

On Monday, Beijing authorities imposed a new rule for taxi firms and car-hailing platforms in the metro area that forces users to show their health QR codes before vehicle entry.

"The move is a response to drivers repeatedly testing positive for the coronavirus," the state-run Global Times newspaper reported.

The color-based health QR code system produces a code about the user's health.

As explained by RT News, "A 'green' one means they are free to roam around the capital, while 'yellow' and 'red' codes call for self-isolation or supervised quarantine."

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/beijing-orders-passengers-scan-qr-health-codes-entering-uber

One of Trump's biggest unfulfilled promises: Russia declassification

Just a week from his departure, more than 40 of the most critical and highly sought documents from the Russia scandal remain hidden from the public.

For most of the last two years of his presidency Donald Trump has repeatedly and unwaveringly insisted he would declassify all the relevant evidence in the now discredited Russia collusion probe.

He first raised the idea in an interview with me back in September 2018, insisting then he was waiting for the Mueller Report to come out and exonerate him before he completed the task.

"I have been asked by many people in Congress as you know to release them," he said back then. "I have watched commentators that I respect begging the president of the United States to release them. … And I have had many people ask me to release them. Not that I didn't like the idea, but I wanted to wait. I wanted to see what, you know, where it was all going. And I think this whole, it's a hoax."

After Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared him of Russian collusion, Trump promised the declassifications were coming.

And some did, like the Peter Strzok-Lisa Page text messages and the explosive interview notes of a lead FBI agent who admitted the bureau never had any evidence of collusion but sustained the probe in a failed effort to "get Trump."

But some of the most tantalizing and explosive documents remain kept from the public by bureaucracies intent on hiding their biggest failures. And the continued shielding of these documents has prevented the public from understanding how the Russia collusion narrative was falsely spun up by Hillary Clinton and her inner circle in a desperate attempt in 2016 to "vilify" her Republican opponent and distract from her own woes on Russia and her email scandal.

The seal on these essential documents has remained even after Trump made this bold promise just a few months ago: "I have fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents pertaining to the single greatest political CRIME in American History, the Russia Hoax. Likewise, the Hillary Clinton Email Scandal," Trump tweeted in October. "No redactions!"

Now, the president has less than seven days to deliver, or let the bureaucrats win.

Over the last two years, I assembled a running list of the most important documents still to be declassified. Here it is:

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/all-things-trump/one-trumps-biggest-unfulfilled-promises-russia-declassification

McConnell Considers Backstabbing Trump: Report

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is seriously considering turning his back on President Donald Trump during an impeachment trial, reports say.

According to Axios’ Mike Allen, citing sources, there is a “better than 50/50 chance” that McConnell will vote to convict the current President.

McConnell has already “told associates that he believes President Trump committed impeachable offenses and that he is pleased that Democrats are moving to impeach him, believing that it will make it easier to purge him from the party,” The New York Times reported earlier in the day.

SCOOP: McConnell leans toward convicting Trump https://t.co/bc8EFucBPP

— Axios (@axios) January 13, 2021

https://breaking911.com/breaking-mcconnell-considers-sabotaging-trump-report/

==Democrats' China connections keep piling up

From Sen. Boxer reverses decision to be an 'agent' for Chinese company==

Ties between prominent current and former Democrats and China continue to crop up, even as the Chinese Communist Party is trading fiery rhetoric with the Trump administration over its support of Taiwan.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lifted restrictions on U.S.-Taiwan relations last week, a move that the CCP has criticized. And news that U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft planned to visit the region prompted a statement last week accusing the U.S. of "a crazy provocation."

But former Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat who held Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ California seat for 24 years, briefly registered as a foreign agent for a Chinese surveillance company. After facing mounting backlash, she announced on Twitter Tuesday that she was reversing that decision.

The company, Hikvision, allegedly played a role targeting China’s oppressed Uyghur minority. Hikvision had a government contract with police in Xinjiang Province, the heart of the Uyghur controversy, in 2016 and 2017.

The Uyghurs, a Muslim ethnic group, have allegedly been subjected to mass detention, forced labor and torture in China’s Xinjiang Province. Additional allegations, which China has denied, include forced organ harvesting and coercive birth control.

While it is not unusual for former politicians to enter the lobbying world and register as foreign agents when working with another government, President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration committee took issue with Boxer consulting for Hikvison, whose largest stakeholder is the Chinese government. The committee returned the $500 she donated to the inauguration before she reversed course and deregistered.

"Due to the intense response to my registration I have determined that my continued work has become a negative distraction from my effort to preserve American jobs and make the company better," she tweeted. "Therefore I have deregistered."

California Rep. Eric Swalwell has remained largely mum for weeks about his interactions with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang – despite reports that similar "honeytrap" operatives may be targeting other Americans around the country.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-china-connections-keep-piling-up