Nolte: Politico Caught Spreading Fake News About Trump’s Mount Vernon Visit

The far-left and increasingly irrelevant Politico has been caught spreading fake news about President Trump’s visit to Mount Vernon.

Last April, along with French President Emmanuel Macron and the respective first ladies, the president visited Mount Vernon, the famous home of George and Martha Washington. On Wednesday, using the usual-usual “unnamed sources” (which means Trump haters making up shit Resistance reporters want to hear), Politico (feel free to Google the original story — I’m done linking fake news) painted a picture of a “truly bizarre” and ignorant Trump making a fool of himself during the tour.

“If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it,” Trump said of Washington’s estate, according to three Politico “sources.”

Here are some other bullet points:

“The Macrons, [tour guide] Bradburn has told several people, were far more knowledgeable about the history of the property than the president.”

“Trump asked whether Washington was ‘really rich,’ according to a second person familiar with the visit.”

“While quickly bored by Washington’s home, Trump has been eager to show off his own residence to guests, and has learned some White House history in the process.”

And like most Politico pieces, this one confuses length with depth and insight. There is just one itsy-bitsy problem… None of what Politico reported is true… I know you find it surprising that the very same corporate media who spread the… Russia Collusion Hoax, Covington Hoax, Kavanaugh Hoax, George Zimmerman Hoax, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot Hoax. …would now spread a hoax about Trump’s visit to Mount Vernon, but the Politico report is 100 percent fake news, and we know this because the horse’s mouth is so appalled, it released a statement.

As Townhall’s Matt Vespa first reported, Mount Vernon is so outraged by Politico‘s fake news, it released a damning (and unprecedented) statement repudiating the entire report [emphasis added]: Mount Vernon has a firm, long-standing policy of not commenting on the details of high-profile visits to the home of George Washington. However, we believe in the importance of ensuring that reports about events that take place at Mount Vernon are accurate. As such, we are concerned that the third-party accounts of the Trump-Macron visit released by several media outlets today do not correctly reflect the events that transpired nearly a year ago. Mount Vernon President Doug Bradburn and Regent Sarah Coulson escorted the presidents and first ladies on a tour of the Mansion on April 23, 2018. During the tour, all parties were interested and engaged in the story of George Washington and his beloved home. Conversations touched on topics like business dealings, real estate, and related matters that were of relevance and interest to the touring parties, and questions were asked by both leaders with curiosity and respect. Comments pulled from sources who were not present for the tour do not properly convey the tone and context in which they were delivered.

Politico has not broken a consequential story in years. In fact, this Mount Vernon Hoax is the most attention that garbage fire has attracted in a long, long time … and it was all lies. And I knew the moment I read the story it was all lies, but it just wasn’t worth commenting on because everyone now knows the media are addicted to fabricating this crap while hiding behind their phony sources, so why call even more attention to it? And how do we know Politico‘s sources are phony? Because a media who actually cared about things like truth, accuracy, and integrity would name the sources who burn them.

But our media never do that because our media aren’t interested in reporting the truth. It’s the same with Jake Tapper’s “unnamed source” story about Trump promising a pardon to the Customs and Border Protection Commissioner if he violates our immigration laws. It’s all lies, all fabricated. We know that because CNN and Tapper spent two years lying to us, serially hoaxing us about Russia collusion, George Zimmerman, “hands up, don’t shoot,” the Covington High School boys, and Brett Kavanaugh. Everything the media reports is a lie, a deliberate lie… And if Politico is willing to lie about the small stuff, like a year-old Mount Vernon visit, imagine the lies Politico is willing to tell about things that actually matter.

https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/04/13/politico-caught-spreading-fake-news-trumps-mount-vernon-visit/

Ex-Venezuelan general detained in Spain on US warrant

Madrid (AFP) – Former Venezuelan general Hugo Carvajal, head of military intelligence under Hugo Chavez, was held in temporary detention Saturday while Spain waits for a formal US extradition request on charges of cocaine trafficking, judicial sources said.

Carvajal, dubbed “El Pollo” (The Chicken), was taken into custody Friday at his son’s home in Madrid by Spanish police. He made headlines recently by voicing support for Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.

A judge at a Spainish federal court decided to place Carvajal in provisional detention, while the United States files a “formal extradition request” to judicial authorities, the sources said. The former army general “denied having links to drug trafficking and the FARC” guerrilla group in Colombia, they added. He refused to be handed over to US officials and argued that he now has family ties to Spain.

In a statement, the US Justice Department said if convicted, Carvajal faced a sentence of between 10 years to life in prison over the charges of conspiracy to import more than five tonnes of cocaine into the United States. “No matter the rank or level of influence of an individual, we will continue to pursue and prosecute those who bring deadly drugs into this country in a US court of law,” said prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Carvajal has long been sought by US Treasury officials who suspect him of providing support to drug trafficking by FARC guerrillas.

In May 2013, a Florida court accused him of having worked for Colombian drug traffickers from 2004 to 2010. In 2014, Carvajal was arrested on the Dutch island of Aruba where he was Venezuela’s consul, but he fled back to Venezuela after claiming diplomatic immunity. He was the highest-ranking army official to declare his support for Guaido, saying that the six-year Nicolas Maduro presidency had been a disaster. On February 21, he posted a video on Twitter in which he told army officers: “How it all ends will depend on you my brothers in arms” and urging them to stand “on the right side of history.” Maduro then ousted Carvajal and the former military man was accused of “acts of treason.”

https://www.breitbart.com/news/ex-venezuelan-general-detained-in-spain-on-us-warrant/

Pope Francis Urges Promotion of Organ Donation ‘Culture’

ROME — Pope Francis addressed organ donation Saturday morning, urging Catholics to promote this practice as “an offering to the Lord.” Jesus “has identified himself with those who suffer because of illness, traffic accidents, or work accidents,” the pope said, and, therefore, it “is good for Jesus’ disciples to offer their organs, within legal and moral bounds, because it is a gift made to the suffering Lord, who said that everything we do to a brother in need we do to Him.”

Speaking in the Vatican to members of the Italian Association for the Donation of Organs, Tissues and Cells (AIDO), Francis said it is “important to promote a culture of donation,” favoring “the offering of a part of the body, without disproportionate risks or consequences, as a living donation, and all the organs after a person’s death.” While praising organ donation as an act of “love and altruism,” the pontiff, nonetheless, cautioned against the sale of human organs, which would produce a “commodification of the body or its parts,” which is “contrary to human dignity.”

Citing the Catechism of the Catholic Church, Francis said that organ donation after death “is a noble and meritorious act and is to be encouraged as a [sic] expression of generous solidarity.” “It is not morally acceptable if the donor or his proxy has not given explicit consent,” the Catechism continues. “Moreover, it is not morally admissible to bring about the disabling mutilation or death of a human being, even in order to delay the death of other persons.” For those who do not have a religious faith, Francis said, the donation of organs is a gesture towards needy brothers and sisters, which should be performed “on the basis of an ideal of disinterested human solidarity.” The generous act of donation serves as a counterweight to contemporary threats against life, “such as the case of abortion and euthanasia,” he said, and help people understand that “life is a something sacred.”

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2019/04/13/pope-francis-urges-promotion-organ-donation-culture/

German Parents Fined for Not Sending Son on Mosque Trip

The parents of a young boy have received a fine from a German court after they prevented their child from going to school to avoid a trip to a local mosque.

A district court Northern Germany fined the pair in July of last year but the parents of the child attempted to appeal the court ruling, only to have their appeal rejected by the Higher Regional Court in Schleswig this week, Hamburger Morgenpost reports.

The incident dates back to June of 2016 when the parents refused to let their son attend school for the day because the school had organised a field trip to the Rendsburg Mosque. The court imposed a fine of 50 euros due to the fact the parents had forced their child to miss several lessons for the day, rather than just pull him out of the field trip to the mosque.

Trips to local mosques have been a source of controversy in the United Kingdom, as well, as among some parents have refused to grant permission for their children to attend such visits. In Cornwall, a school reacted to parents pulling their children out of a trip in 2015 by publicly humiliating their children, singling them out in front of other pupils by forcing them to answer questions as to why they could not attend the mosque. Later that year, governors of a rural school in Cornwall reacted to concerned parents by simply making mosque trips mandatory for all pupils.

In 2017, Staffordshire’s Standing Advisory Council for Religious Education (SACRE) also wrote a document in reaction to parents pulling their children out of mosque visits claiming that “Islamophobia” may have been behind the trend. “While objections are raised about visits to a number of places of worship, they are most frequently about visits to mosques, which raises the bigger issue of Islamaphobia [sic] and how this can be addressed,” they said. Earlier this year it was revealed that parents in Essex have gone even further, and have not only stopped their children visiting mosques but have also removed them from Religious Education lessons on Islam.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/13/german-parents-fined-for-not-sending-son-on-mosque-trip/

Julian Assange’s Mother Begs Officials: ‘Be Patient, Gentle & Kind to Him’

The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took to social media following his arrest on Thursday in London, where he spent seven years in the Ecuadorian embassy to evade authorities in Sweden and the United States.

“A mother’s plea to police, prison officers, court staff re my son Julian. He’s been 8 yrs detained WITHOUT charge 6yrs deprived fresh air, exercise, sun/VitD 3 yrs sick/in pain denied proper medical/dental care 1yr isolated/tortured,” Christine Assange tweeted on Friday as the Associated Press reported. “Please be patient, gentle & kind to him,” she tweeted. Assange’s Twitter account says she is the “mother of journalist Julian Assange, detained 8 yrs without charge for exposing high level corruption.

“The extradition process itself is a matter between the United States and the United Kingdom, but we have also been provided with that advice from the U.K.,” Payne told reporters in the AP report. “Australia … is completely opposed to the death penalty and that is a bipartisan position and one which we have continued to advocate.” Some are protesting Assange’s arrest, including the Green Party in the United States, which held a protest on Thursday night at the British embassy in Washington, DC.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/04/13/julian-assanges-mother-begs-officials-be-patient-gentle-kind-him/

Hacker group posts hundreds of law officer records

Authorities were investigating Saturday the online posting by a hacker group of the personal information of hundreds of federal agents and police officers apparently stolen from websites affiliated with alumni of the FBI's National Academy. The Associated Press counted at least 1,400 unique records of employees of the FBI, Secret Service, Capitol Police, U.S. Park Police and other federal agencies as well as police and sheriffs' deputies in North Carolina and Florida. The records included home addresses and phone numbers, emails and employers' names.

The FBI National Academy Associates said in a statement that the information, posted late Thursday, appears to come from the websites of three local chapters of the nonprofit, which claims nearly 17,000 members nationwide and in 174 countries. It said it was working with federal authorities to investigate. The group said its national database was unaffected. It said the three affected chapters were using third-party software but said it was "too early to determine if this impacted the breach." "If it is determined that there has been felonious activity, we well prosecute the culprits to the fullest extent of the law," said the group, which is based in Quantico, Virginia, home to the academy. The AP is not identifying the hackers' website. A linked Twitter account says the group is based in Ukraine.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/hacker-group-posts-hundreds-of-law-officer-records

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Hopefully for the tried and true Catholic's this Pope's departure is sooner rather than later.

NYC measles-vaccine order on Orthodox Jews tests city’s power

NEW YORK — On the corner of Bedford and Division avenues in Brooklyn, in the heart of the New York borough’s Orthodox Jewish community, men in black hats and suits rushed in and out of cafes and women with headscarves pushed strollers or carts filled with groceries, not eager to speak with an outsider. There was little indication that the Williamsburg neighborhood was the center of the nation’s biggest outbreak of measles, a once eradicated disease that has returned as some parents shun the vaccines that killed it off. On Tuesday, the 285 cases reported in the borough prompted Mayor Bill de Blasio to declare a public health emergency, allowing him to impose $1,000 fines – or even jail time – on those who haven’t been inoculated and shining a light on the small, insular religious circles where the virus has spread.

“No one I know has measles, my dad’s a doctor and none of his patients have measles,” said Avi Rose, 17, who’s been vaccinated and assumes that almost everyone else he knows has been, too. Of the city’s order focusing on the tightly knit neighborhood, he said, “I think it’s not going to happen. Most people are vaccinated. They can’t enforce it.” Such outbreaks have made an alarming, if limited, comeback since the turn of the century, when they had disappeared from the country. The return came amid concern among parents that vaccines are connected to health issues such as autism, despite a lack of scientific evidence and the consistent effort of medical experts to dislodge such beliefs. There were as many as 667 cases of measles in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Infections have been confirmed in 19 states this year. Nowhere has been more affected than Brooklyn and Rockland County, northwest of New York City. The two account for more than half the 465 U.S. cases reported this year as of April 4.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who has frequently sparred with de Blasio, said the mayor’s action is likely to raise questions about freedom of religion, noting that New York law allows exceptions to vaccinations based on such beliefs. But state Sen. Brad Hoylman has moved to strike that provision when it comes to school-age children, pointing to similar legislation enacted by California. “The First Amendment’s freedom of religion doesn’t give you the right to endanger other people’s children and your own,” Hoylman, a Manhattan Democrat, said in an interview. “It’s well-documented that people use this as a loophole to resist vaccination based on their own notions of bunk science.”

Not everyone sees it that way. Robert Krakow, a New York lawyer representing people who allege injury from vaccines, said he’s preparing a lawsuit claiming the city overstepped its powers. And in interviews with local residents on Wednesday, there was also skepticism about the mayor’s order from those outside the Orthodox community. Todd Barone, 40, a high school administrator, said he and his wife were undecided about their son receiving all of the recommended vaccines. “We don’t know if all the vaccinations are necessary,” he said in Williamsburg. “At the same time, you have to trust your doctor.”

Dorit Rubenstein Reiss, a law professor at the University of California’s Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco who specializes in vaccine policy, said the religious exemptions arise when children enter school and wouldn’t stop the city from removing them in the middle of an outbreak. “The question arises, is this a religiously targeted law,” she said. “In order to prevail, the city’s policy must have a demonstrable rational basis. The city’s argument here is ‘we aren’t targeting your religion, we’re targeting disease.’ The question also becomes, is this the least restrictive or least onerous alternative?”

https://www.dailyrepublic.com/all-dr-news/wires/state-nation-world/nyc-measles-vaccine-order-on-orthodox-jews-tests-citys-power/