Fascistic Dem Lies are Problem President Faces with Black Racists

For some black voters, Joe Biden is deeply problematic. But Trump is even worse

By Dorothy Brown

Dorothy A. Brown is a law professor at Emory University. The views expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. View more opinion articles on CNN.

(CNN)Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden held a fundraiser at the Carlyle Hotel in New York on Tuesday night; you may have heard about it.

The Carlyle Hotel is so exclusive and world renowned that there is a movie about it. Biden told the roughly 100 affluent attendees that if he were elected, “nothing would fundamentally change” for them. That ominous affirmation of the status quo should have gotten more attention, but instead we are talking about his remarks describing the “civility” of the Senate in the 1970s and 1980s.

He was presenting himself as the reasonable Democrat when he cited his ability back then to work with two Southern Democratic segregationists: Sen. James Eastland of Mississippi and Sen. Herman Talmadge of Georgia. Describing Sen. Eastland, Biden said, “he never called me ‘boy,’ he always called me ‘son.'” Biden appears to think that makes him special and demonstrates his unique ability to work across the aisle. But the only thing special about him from a Southern segregationist’s point of view is that he is white. His “relationship” with them is no testament to his peerless diplomacy skills — just his whiteness.

How could Biden not know that, especially after eight years in Barack Obama’s administration as Vice President?

Maybe he doesn’t care because he thinks Democrats — and especially blacks — will vote for him anyway (racism compels us to be pragmatic voters). And he may be right. He currently stands as the Democratic front-runner. And he is far ahead of his primary opponents in polling among people of color: An Economist/YouGov poll last week had his support at 50% among black Democratic primary voters. Bernie Sanders trailed behind with 10%.

When asked if she could vote for him in 2020, even Anita Hill responded: “Of course I could.”And several members of the Congressional Black Caucus continue to support him even after his Carlyle comments.

The alternative, after all, is re-electing Trump.

But Biden is not making it easy for black voters, including those black leaders with whom he has built up a reservoir of goodwill over the years. On Thursday, for example, Texas CBC member Rep. Al Green endorsed Kamala Harris for president saying “Kamala Harris represents the future of our nation.”

Black members of Congress back Biden on comments about working with segregationist Senators 02:45

Indeed, Biden’s remarks Tuesday were a sobering reminder of his checkered legislative history on issues affecting people of color — not to mention his behavior as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing probing Anita Hill’s allegations that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her.

For example, though he helped expand voting rights and affirmative action while a US senator, and worked to end employment discrimination, he was also a main architect of the 1980s’ tough-on-crime laws that filled America’s prisons disproportionately with black and brown people. Those are bitter pills.

So as he tries to win the Democratic nomination in 2020, Biden should be careful — not cocky, not defiant — about rhetoric that offends people of color. The black vote may be his to lose.

Biden leans on his proximity to Obama as a proxy for how good he is on race, but almost every time he opens his mouth we learn how little he knows about the racism regularly made plain when President Obama was in the White House.

The first black president encountered a Senate majority leader avowing that “the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” That same majority leader took away that black President’s moderate Supreme Court pick, but recently said he would not do the same under President Donald Trump, a white Republican. (We have already seen the real-world effect that this court’s resolutely conservative justices have had on rights and representation for people of color.)

Recall that in 2016 America, Trump rose to power on a platform of, among other things, numerous birtherism claims against our first black president. There are a hundred ways to see how Republican defiance, and backlash against Obama, had everything to do with pure, modern-day racism and not Obama’s lack of civility or poor negotiating skills. But Biden clearly did not see any of that.

Cory Booker shuts down Joe Biden: This is what I know 01:36

Now it’s possible that Biden just isn’t that bright. It’s also possible that he is so arrogant that his ego tells him the problem was Obama and things would be different if only he were in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. That if the old, affable white guy became the Democratic nominee he would save us all, because once he is elected things will go back to normal, civil rights will advance apace and the systemic racism that impedes black progress will be addressed. That there are reasonable people in both parties.

He seems not to realize that we are in a new normal.

We now have Republicans who put babies in cages and want to argue about what to call the cages.

We now have Republicans in the Senate who continue to put judges on the bench who refuse to say Brown v. Board of Education, which in 1954 ended school segregation, was rightly decided.

We now have a Republican Senate majority leader who said electing President Obama was our reparations.

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The ground has shifted in another way. Instead of one black presidential candidate, we have two and they both lit into Biden yesterday. When Biden was asked specifically about Sen. Cory Booker’s demand that he apologize, he replied that Booker owes him an apology because he doesn’t have a racist bone in his body. It’s not the bones in his body that had Sen. Booker worried, I would imagine — but the mush that seems to fill his brain.

What Biden should have done in that fundraiser was acknowledge that he can work with anyone — even those whose racist views he finds repugnant. The problem, however, is he couldn’t say this last part. Because he and Eastland sometimes agreed. They both opposed school integration through busing.

So where does that leave those of us who find Biden deeply problematic, but Trump even more so? Will Joe Biden be that candidate many of us will have to hold our nose and vote for?

Time will tell whether Biden loses the black vote because he keeps taking us for granted. The upcoming primaries could open his eyes. Yesterday on twitter, @emily_evers tweeted: “me realizing i’m going to have to vote for joe biden in 2020.” @CoryBooker replied: No, you won’t.

I’m hoping and praying that Cory Booker is right.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/20/opinions/black-voters-biden-trump-brown/index.html

CNN’s FBI Star, Fascist FBI Star McCabe Should Be Indicted!

Time to Indict McCabe, Not Impeach Trump

By Daniel John Sobieski at American Thinker:

Perhaps hearing the footsteps of Attorney General Bill Barr, U.S. Atty John Durham, and DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz getting closer, former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe crawled out from the rock he had been hiding under long enough last Thursday night to appear on CNN with Chris Cuomo. Like his yet unindicted co-conspirator and boss in the Russia “collusion delusion” coup attempt against President Trump, former FBI Director James Comey, McCabe sought to mask his own real crimes while joining the media frenzy over President Trump’s suggestion that he would at least listen to a foreign source reporting to have “dirt” on an opponent, passing the information on to the FBI if warranted.

McCabe was quick to excuse Hillary Clinton and the DNC for funding a fake dossier through a British agent using Russian sources while suggesting that, yes, he would at least pick up the phone and listen. As noted by Ian Schwartz on Real Clear Politics:

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe said the impeachment of President Donald Trump is “absolutely” warranted in an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Thursday. McCabe denounced Trump, saying there is a difference between taking information acquired “illegally” from “representatives” of a hostile foreign government while defending Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, as CNN’s Chris Cuomo put it, “paying Russians for information to amass a dossier.”…

“Not at all, Chris. There’s no equivalence between those two examples,” McCabe responded. “To openly invite foreign intelligence officers, representatives from a hostile foreign government to steal information, to acquire opposition research in anyway, in any illegal way that they might do that and to present it to you is one thing.”

“For a campaign to hire a law firm, an American law firm who then turns around and hires an American research company that then contracts out with a foreign individual, that is not illegal,” McCabe emphasized.

McCabe also commended British operative Christopher Steele for informing them of his dossier because “he was so troubled.”

Uh, the “hostile foreign power” Trump said he might accept campaign “dirt” from was Norway and there is no evidence, except in the dreams of Rep. Adam Schiff, that Trump ever solicited any foreign actor in any way to acquire anything illegally. To receive information in and of itself is not a crime.

It is the Steele dossier, despite McCabe’s obfuscation, that was acquired illegally. Money was laundered through a law firm to a dirt-gathering opposition research firm, Fusion GPS, to a foreign agent, Christopher Steele, to Russian sources making most of the stuff up. The fact that the transaction went through multiple hands does not make it any more legal. It just makes the upcoming indictment longer.

McCabe, Comey, and the people who worked under McCabe, such as Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, then took this fruit of foreign interference in our election and used it to commit a fraud upon the FISA court to trigger the illegal surveillance of one political campaign by another with the aid of co-conspirators at the DOJ and FBI.

Steele troubled? McCabe’s concern over Christopher Steele’s angst is laughable. Steele was no Hamlet but a co-conspirator in a deep state coup to keep Donald Trump out of the White House. That McCabe himself was a key architect of this coup is found in the texts of FBI Agent Peter Strzok, who speaks of the plan hatched in “Andy’s office” to stop Trump at all costs, with this end justifying any and all means:

Out of all the damning, politically charged anti-Trump text messages released, one text from Strzok to (Lisa) Page on August 15, 2016, raised the most suspicion. It referred to a conversation and a meeting that had just taken place in “Andy’s” (widely believed to be Deputy FBI Dir. Andrew McCabe’s) office. According to Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), Strzok had texted this: “I want to believe the path you threw out for consideration in Andy’s office [break]… that there’s no way he gets elected. I want to believe that… But I’m afraid we can’t take that risk… We have to do something about it.”…

“This goes to intent,” Jordan said. “We can’t take the risk that the people of this great country might elect Donald Trump. We can’t take this risk. This is Peter Strzok, head of counterintelligence at the FBI. This is Peter Strzok, who I think had a hand in that dossier that was all dressed up and taken to the FISA court. He’s saying, ‘we can’t take the risk, we have to do something about it.'”

McCabe testified under oath he could not verify the accuracy of virtually anything in the dossier and has acknowledged that without the “salacious and unverified” document, as Comey once described it, no investigation of Team Trump would have occurred.

Rep. Devin Nunes, as quoted by the Washington Examiner, reports:

“Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information,” a controversial memo composed by Rep. Devin Nunes’ staff claims in regard to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. As noted at Legal Insurrection:

The House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) grilled FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for seven hours over the dossier published against then-presidential candidate Donald Trump and the FBI’s investigation into then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private email server…

McCabe told the panel that the FBI worked hard “to verify the contents of the anti-Trump ‘dossier’ and stood by its credibility.” However, he could not tell the lawmakers if “the bureau has been able to verify the substantive allegations in the dossier, or even identify a substantive allegation that has been corroborated.”

The lawmakers asked him which part of the dossier was true and Mccabe only pointed to the part “that the unpaid, low-level Trump foreign policy advisor Carter Page visited Moscow in July 2016.”

McCabe was one of the signers of the FISA applications based on the fraudulent and politically motivated Steele dossier.

…according to the memo crafted by House Republicans, Comey personally signed three FISA court applications utilizing that same dossier that he labeled “salacious and unverified” eight months later to obtain FISA court warrants to conduct surveillance on Carter Page, who briefly served as a volunteer foreign policy adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign.

The memo documents that on October 21, 2016, the FBI and Justice Department sought and received the FISA order against Page, and that the agencies sought the renewal of the order every 90 days in accordance with court requirements.  Renewals require separate finding of probable cause each time, the memo relates.

According to the memo, Comey “signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one.”

McCabe is in legal jeopardy on many fronts. As the Washington Examiner notes of McCabe’s impressive credentials:

McCabe was fired from the FBI on March 16, 2018, after the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General determined he misled investigators about the role he had in leaking information to the Wall Street Journal in October 2016 about the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. McCabe argued that his firing was an attempt to discredit the FBI and Mueller’s investigation.

In April 2018, it was revealed that the Justice Department inspector general had referred its findings to the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington for possible criminal charges, and his lawyer confirmed in February that McCabe was still under investigation.

As National Review reported:

An OIG report released last week confirmed that McCabe had in fact misled federal investigators on four separate occasions by insisting that he did not approve the leak, which was apparently intended to rebut rumors that McCabe had told FBI agents to “stand down” from their investigation of the Clinton Foundation.

Andrew McCabe should not be a national pundit on CNN calling for Trump’s impeachment. He should be preparing his legal defense against indictments that can’t come a moment too soon.

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/06/time_to_indict_mccabe_not_impeach_trump.html

NOTHING LIKE FREE SPEECH ON YOUR WAY TO HARVARD (college)!

Harvard Rescinds Admission To Conservative Kyle Kashuv Over Private Racist Remarks He Wrote At 16, Despite Apology And Evidence Of Growth. This Is Disgusting.

by Ben Shapiro at DailyWire:

On Monday, Parkland survivor and outspoken conservative Kyle Kashuv announced that Harvard University had withdrawn his admission from the school over the revelation of racist, offensive, idiotic posts written on a private Google document with friends when he was sixteen years old. Never mind that Kashuv apologized publicly for the comments; never mind that his public behavior has evinced no racism whatsoever.

Forgiveness must be withheld.

n Monday, Parkland survivor and outspoken conservative Kyle Kashuv announced that Harvard University had withdrawn his admission from the school over the revelation of racist, offensive, idiotic posts written on a private Google document with friends when he was sixteen years old. Never mind that Kashuv apologized publicly for the comments; never mind that his public behavior has evinced no racism whatsoever.

Forgiveness must be withheld.

Kashuv explained:

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

1/ THREAD: Harvard rescinded my acceptance.

Three months after being admitted to Harvard Class of 2023, Harvard has decided to rescind my admission over texts and comments made nearly two years ago, months prior to the shooting.

I have some thoughts. Here’s what happened.

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

 · 14h

1/ THREAD: Harvard rescinded my acceptance.

Three months after being admitted to Harvard Class of 2023, Harvard has decided to rescind my admission over texts and comments made nearly two years ago, months prior to the shooting.

I have some thoughts. Here’s what happened.

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

2/ A few weeks ago, I was made aware of egregious and callous comments classmates and I made privately years ago – when I was 16 years old, months before the shooting – in an attempt to be as extreme and shocking as possible.

I immediately apologized.

Here is my apology: pic.twitter.com/eI38ziiQE

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

 · 14h

Replying to @KyleKashuv

2/ A few weeks ago, I was made aware of egregious and callous comments classmates and I made privately years ago – when I was 16 years old, months before the shooting – in an attempt to be as extreme and shocking as possible.

I immediately apologized.

Here is my apology:

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

3/ After I issued this apology, speculative articles were written, my peers used the opportunity to attack me, and my life was once again reduced to a headline.

It sent me into one of the darkest spirals of my life.

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

 · 14h

Replying to @KyleKashuv

3/ After I issued this apology, speculative articles were written, my peers used the opportunity to attack me, and my life was once again reduced to a headline.

It sent me into one of the darkest spirals of my life.

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

4/ After the story broke, former peers & political opponents began contacting Harvard urging them to rescind me. Harvard then sent this letter stating that Harvard “reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission” and requested a written explanation within 72 hours. pic.twitter.com/RfEQCvjgDX

Kyle Kashuv

✔@KyleKashuv

 · 14h

Replying to @KyleKashuv

4/ After the story broke, former peers & political opponents began contacting Harvard urging them to rescind me. Harvard then sent this letter stating that Harvard “reserves the right to withdraw an offer of admission” and requested a written explanation within 72 hours.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/47971/hold-harvard-rescinds-admission-conservative-kyle-ben-shapiro