WELCOME TO TRUMP COUNTRY FLORIDA
The Republican Party of Florida had a strong first quarter of 2019, bringing in $5.1 million to open the year and the 2020 election cycle.
The haul, the first mostly under new Chair Joe Gruters, swamps what the Florida Democratic Party did during the same three-month period.
And perhaps more importantly for Gruters’ status, it returns the Republicans to a pattern of strong starts to election cycles after an unusually low performance, for the Florida GOP, in the first quarter of 2017.
In January, February, and March of 2019 the party collected checks totaling $5,102,175, and also received another $234,236 in in-kind contributions, mostly theme park admissions and hotel rooms for the annual getaways to Walt Disney World in January and Universal Orlando in February.
In the same period, the Florida Democratic Party reported raising $895,055 in cash.
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He told everyone what he was going to do:
"All the current and former officials who paid for, promoted, and perpetuated the single greatest hoax in the history of politics in our country. They have to be, I'm sorry, they have to be accountable."
Trump in Michigan March 28, 2019
BARR: ‘I think spying did occur’ against Trump campaign
“I need to explore that … I want to say that I am reviewing this, I haven’t set up a team yet,” he said, adding that he will ask colleagues to look at the information and advise him on how to proceed.
His comments come as the president told reporters outside the White House that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was illegal and even treasonous.
“This was an attempted coup. This was an attempted takedown of a president,” Trump said on the South Lawn at he was preparing to leave for a fundraising trip to Texas. “And we beat them. We beat them.”
He said the attorney general is “doing a great job” and is “getting started on going back to the origins of exactly where this all started, because this was an illegal witch hunt and everybody knew it, and they knew it, too.”
“What they did was treason,” Trump continued. “What they did was terrible. What they did was against our Constitution and everything we stand for.”
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“It was an illegal investigation. It was started illegally. Everything about it was crooked. Every single thing about it. There were dirty cops. These were bad people. You look at McCabe and Comey, and you look at Lisa and Peter Strzok. These were bad people, and this was an attempted coup. This was an attempted takedown of a president, and we beat them. We beat them. So the Mueller report, when they talk about obstruction? We fight back.”
Trump was just getting started. He continued:
“And do you know why we fight back? Because I knew how illegal this whole thing was. What I’m most interested in is getting started. Hopefully the attorney general — he mentioned it yesterday; he’s doing a great job — is getting started on going back to the origins of exactly where this all started. Because this was an illegal witch hunt. And everybody knew it. And they knew it too. And they got caught. And what they did was treason. There’s never been anything like it in the history of our country.”
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ANALYSIS:
The Israeli public has chosen to end the historical role and political significance of the Israeli political left. For many of Israel's voting public, "peace has become a dirty word." The Likud-led platform of Jewish solidarity and support of modern Jewish nationalism based on Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people coupled with unprecedented economic prosperity has convinced the Israeli public that the Left's vision of peace, liberal social values, and socialist economic policies belongs to the past and has been deemed as unrealistic at best and a denial of reality at worst.
An astute observation of the Israeli election results can also have wider implications for the American elections in 2020 and the re-election prospects of President Trump. The results of last night's election show that Likud's political strength actually rose despite Netanyahu's widely media bias–espousing, politicized accusations and alleged transgressions. Both President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu share a loyal base, which feels cheated, deprived, ignored, swindled, and oppressed. As a result, both political leaders have in the past and can in the future give so many disenfranchised voters hope and that their struggles are important and can no longer be ignored.
Read it all @ Israeli Voters Reject Leftist Candidates 
By Ron Jager
The writer, a 25-year veteran of the IDF, served as a field mental health officer. Prior to retiring in 2005, he served as the commander of the Central Psychiatric Military Clinic for Reserve Soldiers at Tel-Hashomer. Since retiring from active duty, he provides consultancy services to NGOs implementing psycho-trauma and psycho-education programs to communities in the North and South of Israel. He was former strategic adviser at the Office of the Chief Foreign Envoy of Judea and Samaria. To contact: [email protected].
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Netanyahu, the divisive force of nature who refused to be beaten
Even the combined might of three former IDF chiefs proves no match for a prime minister now heading for his fifth term..
In the end, the combined might of three former Israeli army chiefs proved no match for the political will of Benjamin Netanyahu.
A divisive force of nature who commandeered the airwaves, took over the vegetable markets, monopolized social media and even called potential voters out of the sea at Netanya beach on election day, Netanyahu simply refused to be beaten.
He had help. President Donald Trump gifted him the sensationally timed US recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan late last month, and the branding of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Force as a terror group this week.
Read DAVID HOROVITZ @ Times of Israel
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SPRING SURGE: TRUMP APPROVAL 53% IN NEW POLL
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is well on his way to raising the $1 billion his campaign believes it will take for him to win another term in the White House, building a fundraising machine that will prove difficult for Democrats to match.
Trump’s bring-it-on fundraising approach — which will be on display during a stop in Los Angeles on Friday — is a far cry from his stance in 2015, when the billionaire reality TV star and developer launched his first bid for president promising to use his own money to finance his campaign. It’s also an indication of how he has made his political apparatus more professional for Round 2.
For all presidents, incumbency has its advantages. Trump, who formalized his re-election effort the day after he took office, moved especially early to leverage his incumbency for 2020.
As Trump brings in millions, his would-be opponents are scrambling to raise enough money to earn themselves a spot on the primary debate stages. And the Democratic National Committee remains in debt from previous campaigns.
Trump’s fundraising is divided between two entities: Trump Victory, the joint account used for high-dollar gifts, and Trump Make America Great Again Committee, the low-dollar digital fundraising operation known internally as “T-Magic.” The campaign is set to launch a traditional “bundling” program — which it lacked in 2016 — in the coming weeks. Bundlers are mid-tier donors who bring in contributions from their associates.
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US company makes Trump $3.3B border offer: Quick turnaround on 218 miles of steel fence, roads, and tech
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A U.S. construction company is making a formal, unsolicited offer to Trump administration officials in Washington this week to build 218 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border for $3.3 billion and have the entire job completed in 13 months.
Arizona-based Fisher Industries President Tommy Fisher is meeting this week with top Department of Homeland Security officials.
The fence's steel is all made in-house and would be weathered to avoid rusting and the need for replacement for 75 years, Fisher said. The top of the fence would have spin cameras mounted to it with systems that use facial recognition technology.
The barrier would go up in four regions: 42 miles near Yuma, Ariz.; 69 miles near El Paso, Texas; 15 miles near El Centro, Calif.; and 91 miles near Tucson, Ariz.
Fisher said all parts and labor would be American.
The project comes in $2 billion less than budgeted, Fisher said, because he has handled all of the procurement costs himself and came up with a new and cheaper way to build. A patent is pending on the fence installation process, which is not done the same as other wall projects because of a different type of excavator Caterpillar will make specifically for this project.
The government would have to approve the project by May 1 in order to guarantee its competition by June 2020.
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Anna Giaritelli April 02, 2019
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"The conspiracy to stop, undermine and overthrow the presidency of Donald Trump is also the greatest opportunity in modern political history to confront corruption within the U.S. federal government. There can be no ‘moving on’ until every measure is taken to hold these participants accountable for their unlawful and unconstitutional effort.
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If we do not raise our voices, today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes; and demand a full reckoning of the uncovered corruption over the past three years; the administrative state will simply bury it. There is no doubt the weaponization of our government will happen again; only the next time we will not be as fortunate to have a President that can withstand the onslaught on our behalf."
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Yes .. there ARE patriots working for U.S. and against THEM.
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More than 2,500 people died when a 1928 hurricane caused the lake to sweep over an embankment and flood surrounding communities. The existing Herbert Hoover Dike was dedicated in 1964.
The lake level was lowered in 2008 after Hurricane Katrina broke through dikes in New Orleans in 2005 and caused flooding deaths. The lower lake level is blamed for water discharges in 2018 that caused toxic algae blooms that choked estuaries and closed beaches in South Florida, where the tourism industry depends on beaches.
The Lake Okeechobee dike was identified by the Army Corps of Engineers as one of the nation's riskiest dams before the $1.6 billion dike strengthening project was launched.
"We're making it stronger than it would ever have been. It's really in great shape," Trump said Friday.
DeSantis said federal, state and local officials are "really singing the same tune right now" on water issues.
Rubio said disaster relief funding that Congress approved in 2018 made money available for the dike repairs, which freed up money for other Everglades projects. Water historically flowed naturally from the lake through the Everglades before canals were used to drain the famed "River of Grass" for agriculture and development.
And Scott, who as governor requested $100 million from the Florida Legislature to speed up the project, said Trump "came through" in helping getting the dike fixed.
"It would not have happened but for what President Trump did. He took charge of this," Scott said.
Read it all @ Lake Okeechobee
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"All the current and former officials who paid for, promoted, and perpetuated the single greatest hoax in the history of politics in our country. They have to be, I'm sorry, they have to be accountable"
"The crazy attempt by the Democrat party and the fake news media right back there, and the deep state to overturn the results of the 2016 election have failed ... This is nothing more than a sinister effort to undermine our historic election victory and to sabotage the will of the American people."
He warned that those behind the probe "would be held accountable," aired his grievances about the "unfair" media coverage of the investigation and seethed that the matter that shadowed his White House was an attempt "to tear up the fabric of our great democracy.""
Trump said the "officials" who were behind the establishment of the Russia collusion investigation as well as the "dirty dossier" have to be held accountable.
"All the current and former officials who paid for, promoted, and perpetuated the single greatest hoax in the history of politics in our country. They have to be, I'm sorry, they have to be accountable," Trump said.
In response, the crowd chanted, "lock them up."
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UPDATE: MEXICO WARNS: 'Mother of all caravans' pushes north...
IT IS A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Congressional Democrats fail to override the national emergency
After the collapse of the 2-year, $25 million false Russian collusion debacle over the weekend, House Democrats this afternoon attempted yet again to reverse President Donald J. Trump’s national emergency declaration for our southern border. In the end, despite Democratic control of the House, they fell a few dozen votes short of overriding President Trump’s veto of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) resolution.
“The Democrat-sponsored resolution would terminate vital border security operations,” President Trump explained before signing his veto on March 15. “Congress’s vote to deny the crisis on the southern border is a vote against reality.”
Too few in the media have bothered explaining to the American people why the situation at our southern border is a national emergency in the first place. The reality is that our immigration problem today is vastly different than what it was even just a few years ago.
In fiscal year 2000, for example, most U.S. Border Patrol apprehensions were of single adult males. Of these individuals, 95 percent were repatriated within hours. Today, apprehensions largely consist of family units and minors, many of whom end up remaining in the United States for a long time because of loopholes in our immigration laws.
Smugglers know these loopholes and exploit them to circumvent our safe, lawful, and secure immigration system. As a result, apprehensions of family units have surged by a jaw-dropping 338 percent this year. Daily attempts to cross the southern border illegally have hit a 13-year high, as well.
Here’s what that means: “The surge has maxed out the capacity of existing detention centers” near the U.S.–Mexico border, NBC News reported today. “The Department of Homeland Security is now in negotiations with the Department of Defense to detain and care for the overflow on U.S. military bases.”
In other words, America’s immigration system is so broken that our military bases may have to become temporary shelters while U.S. courts try to keep up with the case backlog. The President’s national emergency declaration tries to limit the damage by allowing access of up to $3.6 billion in military construction funds for border security.
Today’s vote demonstrates yet again that Congress refuses to address the security and humanitarian crisis its own negligence has created. It should at least allow President Trump to use his executive authority to step in and fix it.
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