Monday, July 24, 2017

Media credibility, integrity of our elections, the Somali-American cop, Victor Davis Hanson

John Hinderaker of PowerLine put together an excellent program today on his last day of subbing for Laura.

Thursday evening the Washington Post posted a story on the internet about Trump talking with his staff about his pardoning powers. Just as happens at the Post and/or the New York Times every day, it was a story based on anonymous sources, this time from within the White House itself. In their vendetta against Trump these two papers, along with all of the t.v. media except for Fox, shouldn't these outlets begin to lose credibility? I hope (and believe) that Scaramucci will ferret out these White House leakers. John Dowd, a Trump White House lawyer, called the Post on Friday and told them the story was bogus. But then on Saturday Trump tweeted about it, which just revived the original story!

Did Obama wire the entire White House to spy on Trump? That was a question asked by a caller to the show, and I think it is a good question. Related: can Trump have a private conversation with anyone?

Chris Kobach, the Kansas Secretary of State who is also the Vice Chair of the President's Election Integrity Commission, was a guest on the program. One expert estimated that there may be over 98,000 illegal aliens on the voter rolls of the state of Kansas alone! Did you know that for a small fee any one of us can go and get a copy of our state's voter rolls? Did you also know that the federal government has a list of names and addresses of people who have visas or green cards. That information has heretofore never been made available to any of the states! 30 states are cooperating in a consortium to prevent people from voting in more than one state in an election. Pew Research estimates that there are 1.8 million deceased people still on voter rolls. Minnesota Senator Al Frankin was elected by 385 votes, and at least 900 felons voted illegally in that election. Voter fraud is now part of the strategy in some local elections.

John also had an excellent segment on the case of the Australian woman shot in Minneapolis by a Somali-American cop. John closed the show with an interview of one of my favorite people, Victor Davis Hanson.

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