Early Christmas for Trump: Pelosi Nominated as Speaker

This is undoubtedly the best bit of news that President Trump saw on Twitter today:

More from The Hill:

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) claimed victory on Wednesday, saying she had won the Democratic nomination for Speaker amid an entrenched rebellion from insurgent lawmakers who pose the starkest threat to her long reign atop the party.

The outcome was no surprise. Pelosi was running uncontested and enjoys widespread support within the liberal-heavy caucus she’s led since 2003.

The much higher bar will come in the first week of January, when the full House meets to choose the Speaker in a public vote requiring a majority of the entire voting chamber. It’s there that the insurgents feel they can block Pelosi’s ascension, even as Pelosi and her allies have projected nothing but confidence that she’ll retake the gavel she lost following the red wave elections of 2010.

Pelosi was a very powerful and effective speaker the last time she had the gavel. She did more to sell Obamacare than Barack Obama did. In what was surely a bitterly ironic outcome for her, President Obama's "signature" legislative achievement sent her into minority party exile for eight years.

She was never more vulnerable in her leadership role than after the Republican midterm victories of 2010 and 2014, and she survived both of those. There will probably be a push for new blood in January, but Pelosi has already been working overtime to take care of that.

The Obama people haven't forgotten their debt to her and have already been helping her cause.

Since election night, I and many others have said that having Pelosi do a second turn as speaker may be the best thing for President Trump's 2020 run. The Democrats are signaling that they won't be relentlessly focused on badgering the president via investigations and threats of impeachment, but is there any reason to believe that after the last two years?

Many have been reporting that Pelosi has been backing off on the impeachment front, but even that was handled with her characteristic muddy political speak:

“We shouldn’t impeach the president for political reasons and we shouldn’t not impeach the president for political reasons,” Pelosi recently told The Associated Press.

Sure thing, Grandma Nan.

As we saw during the Kavanaugh confirmation, the Democrats are better at uniting Republicans and conservatives than the Republicans are. A couple of years of them leading the charge in the House may just be all that President Trump needs for #MAGA 2.0.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/early-christmas-for-trump-pelosi-nominated-as-speaker/

Beijing’s All-Out Efforts to Meddle in Taiwan’s Elections

Taiwan, which is often dubbed “a beacon of democracy” in the Chinese diaspora, concluded its elections on Nov. 24, with a number of political offices in the running, including mayors, country magistrates, and legislators.

The elections, however, were marred by political meddling and interference from Beijing. One incident involving the United States’ top diplomat to Taiwan was just the tip of the iceberg.

James Moriarty, chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), a de facto embassy in Taiwan, saw his exclusive interview with Taiwanese broadcaster TVBS removed from the media outlet’s website, six days after a portion of the interview aired on television.

TVBS’s self-censorship has since been widely interpreted by Taiwanese media as an attempt to silence Moriarty’s remarks about election meddling. “There are obviously attempts by external powers here in Taiwan to try and alter the debate and spread false information, and those are dangerous,” he said, without specifying which powers he was referring to.

However, Beijing may have tacitly admitted that it was the culprit. On the same day the TVBS interview aired, Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson for the mainland Chinese government agency Taiwan Affairs Office, released a statement explaining that China did not try to interfere in Taiwan’s election, according to Taiwanese media.

AIT has since posted the TVBS clip from Nov. 9 onto its official Facebook page.

The U.S. government has also addressed the problem of China’s meddling in Taiwan’s elections. An annual report issued by the U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission included findings from Peter Mattis, research fellow at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Mattis wrote that Beijing, through its United Front Work Department, aims to shape or destabilize Taiwanese society, for the goal of creating a “‘fake civil society’ that can be used against Taiwan’s democratic system.”

The United Front Work Department is an organ of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that carries out operations around the world to fulfill Beijing’s agenda.

While Taiwan is a self-ruled island with its own constitution and military, China considers it a renegade province that must be reunited with the mainland, by force if necessary. Beijing believes any form of social chaos in Taiwan would provide it with a “legitimate” reason to push for its unification agenda; thus, it has intentionally sought to undermine Taiwan’s democratic system over the years.

In this most recent elections, on Nov. 24, Beijing has demonstrated that it could influence the democratic process through a combination of social media, fake news, and funding pro-Beijing political candidates.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijings-all-out-efforts-to-meddle-in-taiwans-elections_2726307.html

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Brennan and Clapper Spied on Congress Illegally - They Should Not Escape Prosecution

Recently declassified documents show that the former CIA director and former director of national intelligence approved illegal spying on Congress and then classified their crime. They need to face punishment, writes John Kiriakou.

Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa made a dramatic announcement this month that almost nobody in America paid any attention to. Grassley released a statement saying that four years ago, he asked the Intelligence Community Inspector General to release two “Congressional Notifications” written by former CIA Director John Brennan and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

Grassley had had his requests to declassify the documents ignored repeatedly throughout the last two years of the Obama administration. He decided to try again because all of the Obama people at the CIA and DNI are gone now. This time, his request was approved.

https://russia-insider.com/en/brennan-and-clapper-spied-congress-illegally-they-should-not-escape-prosecution/ri25337

1 Peter 2:25

25 For “you were like sheep going astray,”[a] but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

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Joel 2:25

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten—

the great locust and the young locust,

the other locusts and the locust swarm[a]—

my great army that I sent among you.

Red Lazer Dots Float on President Trump’s Chest and Face During White House Speech

President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump lit the official White House Christmas Tree on Wednesday night during a live broadcast.

During the president’s speech red lazer dots started popping up on his chest and face.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/11/frightening-red-lazer-dots-float-on-president-trumps-chest-and-face-during-white-house-speech-video/