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Democrats to replace House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism with subcommittee investigating Trump

Jan 12, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

The House Democrats clearly think that President Trump is a greater threat than jihad terrorism, which they don’t recognize as a threat at all, so why not?

“KEEPING AMERICA SAFE: Dems Want To Replace Subcommittee On Terrorism With One Investigating Trump,” by Hank Berrien, Daily Wire, January 11, 2019:

The Democrat who has taken over the House Foreign Affairs Committee has indicated that he will eliminate the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism and replace it with a subcommittee to investigate President Trump.

Eliot Engel (D-NY) told The New Yorker that he would eliminate the terrorism subcommittee, claiming there “wasn’t a great clamor” to keep it. Engel added that in contrast, his members are eager to pursue what they regard as the teeming number of Trump foreign-policy scandals. Engel insisted, “We just thought, if we’re going to do something relevant in this era where Congress is going to reassert itself, where there are so many questionable activities of this Administration vis-à-vis foreign policy, that it made sense to have this.”

The New Yorker, always a bastion of leftist thought, succinctly summed up, “Trump, in other words, is a bigger threat than terrorism. At least for now.” The New Yorker notes that the Foreign Affairs Committee does not normally spend its time investigating issues, rather, it holds hearings on foreign issues of note. The New Yorker surmises that under Engel, international crises will be a part of the new committee’s agenda but will not “top its agenda, which will be dominated, as so many other areas of our public life now are, by President Trump’s uniquely chaotic and unsettling approach to the rest of the world.”

Asked what he planned to investigate, Engel replied that one issue will be what Trump agreed to when he met privately with Russian President Vladimir Putin last year. He commented, “It’s been many months since Helsinki, and we still don’t know what Putin and Trump talked about.” Additionally, Engel named “the business interests of the President” and how Trump’s financial dealings have “affected what he’s done in foreign policy.”

Engel said smugly, “Many other committees would love to poach some of our jurisdiction.”

The New Yorker tried to justify the new emphasis of the committee, writing, “But a probe of Trump, Inc., given the President’s tendency to conflate his personal interests with the national interest, now seems indispensable to the foreign-policy concerns of the day, whether it’s explaining Trump’s otherwise hard-to-fathom pro-Russia tilt or shedding light on his family’s pursuit of business deals with Middle Eastern figures who are also key to Trump’s geopolitical priorities.”

Other Trump-related issues Engel plans to address: Trump’s relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un; the death of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi; the relationship between the Saudi Crown Prince and the Trump family, and Trump’s decisions regarding Syria.

The New Yorker trumpeted: “For Engel and the other newly empowered Democrats in the House of Representatives, it’s a moment to show whether they can do more than assert their relevance. Will all the investigations and subpoenas amount to more than political posturing against the President?”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 11:03 am

    This shows how delustional the Dems have become. The lunatics are now running the asylum.

    • Moshe says

      Jan 12, 2019 at 11:43 am

      I respectfully disagree and laud the Hon. Eliot Engel (D-NY) for his courageous priorities. Like renowned fellow New Yorker the Hon. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (affectionately know by her millions of Twitter followers as “AOC”), Rep. Engel is focused on the dangers posed to our nation’s diversity by President Trump’s vanity projects.

      By the way, it is wonderful that Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, at 29 the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, is know by her initials, thereby honoring the tradition accorded to major Democratic leaders in the century past (e.g., the late FDR, JFK, LBJ and RFK). This is only fitting and proper given AOC’s many brilliant insights.

      Galactic folk heroes R2D2 and CP3O are also known only by their initials. Like AOC, they have demonstrated a firm commitment to worlds without borders.

      The “Star Wars” analogy is apt as Representatives Engel and Ocasio-Cortez have sensed a disturbance in the Force emanating from the Oval Office. Let us hope that in the coming Congressional term loyal Droids will assist the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, as redefined by Engels and OAC, in its mission to repair the Force.

      • FYI says

        Jan 12, 2019 at 11:59 am

        The disturbance is in the Democrat.. Farce.

        “These aren’t the naive Democrat-loving Droids you are looking for…they are not here at JW…move along now…move along…{Dismissive Hand wave}”

        Obi-Wan-Kenobi

      • keith says

        Jan 12, 2019 at 6:03 pm

        Well, more delusional comments from a Libtard. One wonders if you would be this rabid if Hilary was in the white house? She was arrogant enough to not even bother campaigning in some states and then when she lost, it’s not because a better person one but because “we was cheated”!
        I come from Australia, and we could see from the other side of the world that the best person won.
        Get over yourselves, grow up and get on with making your country a better place.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 12, 2019 at 6:15 pm

        Maybe this trolling from “Moshe” really is meant sarcastically…

      • CogitoErgoSum says

        Jan 12, 2019 at 6:55 pm

        Moshe speaks in the fine tradition of Jar Jar Binks, that noble Gungan warrior who once said, “Gungans no dyin’ withouta fight. Wesa warriors. Wesa gotta grand army. That’sa why you no likin’ us, mesa thinks. Oh, maxi big, da Force. Dissen gonna be berry messy. Icky, icky goo. Worlds without borders. Yousa should follow me now, okeeday? Mesa so smilin.”

      • Mark Swan says

        Jan 12, 2019 at 9:30 pm

        Good One CogitoErgoSum, Made Me Laugh.

  2. mortimer says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 11:06 am

    The Dems refuse to learn about Islam’s doctrine of HATRET DIRECTED against the dirty kafirs ‘for the sake of Allah’. They refuse to learn anything about Islam, preferring their own sugar-coated version of Islam to the reality.

    Power is the only thing in the minds of Dems. The are literally power-CRAZY.

  3. Logic&Reason says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 11:23 am

    Fools such as these were no doubt arguing vehemently in 1683 to open the Gates of Vienna because the Turks were cold and hungry.

  4. Bill says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 11:35 am

    The Democrats are doing the bidding of the globalist elites, international corporations, digital and media oligarchies, Saudi money and global banking interests. Islamic terror and Islamic invasion of the west is merely a tool to achieve the breakdown and destruction of national sovereignty everywhere leaving the landscape to these interests unfettered by borders, cultures, and laws that might limit them. It is a darn good tool. It is working.

    All of this informs me that for some reason these interests see President Donald Trump as a significant threat to the implementation of their collective agenda. The assault on him personally and his Administration is unprecedented — it puts the efforts of the then northeastern business and commercial elites to destroy prevent Andrew Jackson from becoming elected and to destroy him afterwards into the realm of child play. It was not your hated “southern rednecks” that first sought secession form the USA, it was states of Massachusetts and Connecticut in the early 1800s. Cooler heads prevailed at the last minute to stop it politically.

    Islam is not a threat to these interests, It is their tool of choice. They want it. There can be no surprise in this development.The Democrats are not delusional. They know exactly what they are doing and they are doing exactly as they have been directed to do by the interests that finance and control them.

    They are your real enemy here. Islam, as awful as it is, is but a tool. If you were evil and were to set out tomorrow to use a tool to destroy borders and existing laws and cultures within them, what tool would you choose? Indulge me please, think that way for a few minutes. If your answer is not Islam, don’t publish the better one because the global interests are sure to use it on you.

    If you appreciate the situation in those terms, focus less on the tool, but on the interests using it — there you will find your true adversary and no other explanation makes sense.

    I never would have thought it, but the French have finally figured it out.

    • Mac-101 says

      Jan 12, 2019 at 12:40 pm

      Well said. On top of this it proves the Uni-Party is in control. Feinstein, Piglosie, Reid, McConnell, Ryan and most others have enough dirt on them to lock em up for an eternity. Any legal assistant could present enough facts in a day to do so!
      .
      For THEM not to find any dirt on Trump by now makes me wonder if Trump is not just Controlled Opposition! Also used as a Goldstein for the obligatory “2 minutes of Hate” so well presented by Orwell!

  5. Walter Sieruk says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 11:58 am

    A man’s actual character is known not only by who he has as friends but also by who he has as enemies .Therefore this helps explain why the jihadists, the leftists as the House Democrats along with Eliot Engel and also those who compose the ACLU, the Marxists, the anarchists and the jihadists all hate for President Trump with a passion. This is strong evidence that Donald Trump is the right man to be President of this nation. . In other words, those all those characters just mention terrible detest Mr. Trump not only serves as a good compliment to him but this also reveals that Donald Trump must be an all American patriot..

    For there is a left wing witch hunt against the President. It’s vicious, malicious and hate filled. It’s not based on reason or logic but pure malice-filled spite. It likewise contains the strong spirit of anti-Americanism within its very essence. This heinously hateful left wing movement might only lead the USA to division, disunity and may even some kind a national disaster. This spiteful division movement of the left is awful. All this also is, somewhat, of a reminder of the wisdom of Thomas Jefferson. Who had declared “A nation united can never be conquered.

    This is ,somewhat ,of a reminder that On Sunday morning of 3/26/17 on television on Fox New I saw a woman who is an anti-President Trump protester stand with her Marxist friends hold up the old Soviet Union Communist flag. This wasn’t the first time is saw such an anti-American Communist hammerer and sickle symbol shown by people who hate Donald Trump. Further,, many of those who hate President Trump are socialists and other leftist, many of them Marxists. For example, on January 20 on television evening news I saw one group of anti-Trump protesters marching on the street in Washington DC. They were carrying and holding along banner which had Communist Hammer and Sickle on it. These further shows just how ignorant and outdated many of those anti-Trump people are.
    For Karl Marx with his COMMUNIST MANIFESTO an long with his three volume THE CAPITAL in which he explained his economic political/philosophical scheme for a “classless and stateless society “ in which “Everyone works according his ability and receives according to his needs.’’ has many times over by refuted and discredited by genuine economists, sociologists and historians. These scholars have thoroughly exposes the many economic fallacies and flaws of Marxism way before the collapse of Communism in Russia and the Eastern bloc nations. In 1992. Therefore even the recent history of the early 1990’s disproves Marxism as extremely erroneous. So it’s Adam Smith with his THE WEALTH OF NATIONS that is valid and in contrast Karl Marx with his written nonsensical a full of folly and invalid.
    So in conclusion this exposes how those anti-Trump protesters, just described above, with their Communist pipe -dreams [Marxist fantasy] are people who don’t even have a good grip of the reality of things.

  6. Bill says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 12:03 pm

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBiHJxGxz1g

    If you believe that Street Performance Art is a sign of prevailing thought, then this lighthearted, but superbly done, satirical piece, says the common French citizens understand the real “bad guys”. Hope the English subtitles make it through in this link. No guarantees.

  7. brane pilot says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 12:46 pm

    Blaming Muslims for what if going on in the West is like blaming vultures for a carcass.
    Islam is opportunistic and the progressive West has become a failed, suicidal civilization.

  8. rooare says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    “Get Trump!” is the newest democratic mantra and at all cost even US citizens or the entire nation just “Get Trump!”

    • Bill says

      Jan 12, 2019 at 3:43 pm

      He must be seen as very dangerous to some established interest or would not be under such extreme attack, which interest might it be? Think past (not the same as ignore) Islam. Who is directing the movement to open borders? Who profits from it? Who is paying to fund the land and seaborne invasions by Islamic soldiers?

  9. Spiro says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 2:56 pm

    What do you expect from the party of Obama

  10. gravenimage says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 6:09 pm

    Democrats to replace House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism with subcommittee investigating Trump
    ………………..

    I think that sums it up.

    Who cares if terrorists are murdering Americans when you can further “investigate” the president?

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Jan 12, 2019 at 8:39 pm

      Too bad nobody ever formed a committee to investigate Muhammad’s delusional activities. But as long as the guy was bringing in the loot and women, who cared? Killing off the dissenters as apostates made a difference too.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 13, 2019 at 8:32 pm

        True, CogitoErgoSum–the only people who cared were soon driven out, enslaved, or murdered.

  11. don vito says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 7:26 pm

    What a great navigator President Trump is, constantly being on target. When the flack is the thickest we find President Trump in the middle.

  12. Mark Swan says

    Jan 12, 2019 at 10:29 pm

    Establishment Democrats and Republicans, want to rid themselves
    of President Trump—What is really behind the attack on President
    Trump, is that he seems to be attacking globalization.

    Globalization is what the establishment cares about, American
    politicians get a lot of money from global companies. These
    companies, manufacture outside the United States deeply oppose
    trade barriers, tariffs and other actions that would regulate
    their businesses.

    Cheap labor in China got companies to heavily invest there.

    Most of America’s high tech is produced in China, and most
    of America’s critical industrial infrastructure has been shifted
    over to China. The moving of industrial infrastructure is
    a critical occurrence.

    American politicians, need the Global Lobby, its contributions and
    job opportunities, when they are out of office.

    President Trump is viewed as a threat to that Lobby, they fight him
    even though defending the transfer of trade and jobs to China is not
    likely to be popular among the average American working voter.

    President Trump has, so far, prevailed under attack from the political
    elite, who see him as a threat to their personal interest. He still has
    support, even under the most hateful media campaign of attacks
    ever known. He will probably survive attempts by prosecutors who
    seem to be influenced by these politicians and media who are
    essentially employed by these powerful Global Lobbyist.

    This President needs support and deserves so much better than this.

    This country, its people, who will listen, need to know this—the use
    of the bully pulpit is needed now—the President must gather and
    present these facts directly to the general public—immediately—
    strong public opinion can affect politicians, media and lobbyist .

    • Bill says

      Jan 12, 2019 at 10:33 pm

      Thank you. That is clearly identifies our adversaries. I believe that, along with Saudi money, and the desire of the truly global and financial companies are even more directly involved the destruction of national sovereignty and the destruction of western culture and the elimination of the Judeo/Christian based religions.

      • Mark Swan says

        Jan 13, 2019 at 12:51 am

        Yes Bill our ways, our culture and beliefs are a direct hindrance
        to how they would want us to be.

  13. infidel says

    Jan 13, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    Have I not said this earlier that Muslims are brain tank behind the Dems…The virus has Trojaned deep…

  14. Artist says

    Jan 13, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    Hardly surprising coming from the party where just recently only TWO SENATORS will publicly oppose the Anti-Israel BDS movement.
    http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/10/two-democrat-senators-will-publicly-oppose-anti-israel-bds-movement/

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 13, 2019 at 8:37 pm

      Shameful.

  15. E. Maria says

    Jan 13, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    Okay, so what the hell is the Democratic Socialist party running on? Its obvious that they only have one Agenda in mind, that’s getting rid of our President and pushing their radical, Muslim loving, left wing-wing Politics. Send them all to Venezuela or any of the Communist countries and I’ll bet they’ll be back running to America and their safe spaces..

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