We would like to think that fines and damages imposed at the conclusion of a trial would help the victims, as well as act as a deterrent to other perpetrators.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t always work that way.

For instance, Barack Obama comes along and suddenly, corruption springs up in our government, the evidence of which has been coming to light ever since Obama left office.

Now, a lawsuit has been filed to expose an alleged slush fund Obama set up under the auspices of the Department of Justice to funnel money from legal settlements to Leftist groups.

These groups likely wouldn’t have received funding from Congress, so it seems our former leader found a new way to grow his liberal agenda.

Via Judicial Watch:

“Judicial Watch announced today that it has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records relating to an Obama administration policy of settling agency lawsuits against corporate defendants by requiring that the corporations make ‘donations’ to left-wing interest groups La Raza, the Urban League and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

Judicial Watch submitted its FOIA request in the aftermath of an extensive investigation by the House Judiciary and Financial Services Committee that found the Obama Department of Justice had ‘engaged in a pattern or practice of systematically subverting Congress’ budget authority by using settlements from financial institutions to funnel money to left-wing activist groups.
Here’s an example of Obama apparently attempting to exceed even the Clintons in the practice of corruption:

“While the policy was officially ended last week by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, questions remain about the groups that received money from settlements.

According to Investors Business Daily, in just one $17 billion settlement with Bank of America, the Obama administration funneled money to:

La Raza: A far-left Latino organization which is known for pressuring banks to give loans to low-income Hispanics.
National Community Reinvestment Coalition: One of the top lobbying groups supporting the Community Reinvestment Act, a 1977 piece of legislation that’s a favorite of the left
Operation Hope: A group from South Central in Los Angeles, it pressures banks to give “dignity loans” to individuals who would otherwise not qualify.
Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America: A group whose leader called himself a “bank terrorist,” something that’s apparently a lot more acceptable since the days of Patty Hearst.
So that’s $17 billion misdirected to leftist organizations. That’s a pretty good racket he has going there, and that’s just one example.

Fortunately, Judicial Watch is on the case, although it remains to be seen what sort of remedies for these offenses can be ordered, or whether Mr. Obama and his accomplices in the Justice Department will be held accountable for these offenses.

Yesterday the liberal’s hatred reached a fever pitch when a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter opened fire on a GOP baseball practice. The shooter, James T. Hodgkinson who was obsessed with Russian collusion conspiracy theories shot House Majority Whip, Republican Steve Scalise, and two Capitol Police. This piece of rat dung obviously filled his head with lies from the mainstream media. It only stands to reason that if one listens to CNN and MSNBC for any length of time you eventually will lose your mind. But, the real question is how did Hodgkinson know where to find the GOP yesterday? Well, it looks like Hodgkinson was given a tip by the liberal rag The New York Times.
We all know that the left has been in a constant state of panic ever since the election. These liberal idiots thought that Hillary Clinton would for sure win which would allow them to continue destroying America. However, instead of these “grown adults” accepting the results and moving on they have created a dangerous movement that has now turned potentially deadly. What is even more disgusting is that the mainstream media is to blame for this rage. If they would simply report the facts and not conjecture we would see less insanity.

Now, it has been discovered that The New York Times tipped off the deranged liberal shooter in an April article.
“When members of Congress practice in the early mornings in an Alexandria, Va., public park for their Congressional Baseball Game, plain clothes United States Capital Police are sitting there in a black S.U.V.”

Ok, I am sure many people will argue that The New York Times did not know that someone would shoot GOP members. But, let us be honest here for a moment. For the last several months the mainstream media has been fanning the flames of division. The pulse in America at this point is extremely volatile and could blow at any moment.
What did they think would happen?

Here is more from New York Post:

Hodgkinson had recently moved to Alexandria, his wife told ABC News.

A source close to the Hodgkinson family told The Post that Hodgkinson moved to the area in April — without ever telling his wife, daughter or grandson why.

“James had just packed up and moved out,” said the source, who last saw James’ daughter, Tasha, during a visit to Belleville, Ill., in April. “[His wife] Sue didn’t know what was going on or why.”

“I thought he was maybe gay or left for another woman. I mean, who gets up and just walks away after 30 or so years of marriage? It’s just crazy,” the source added.

The family friend, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly about the situation, recounted several instances in which she and Hodgkinson had battled on Facebook over their conflicting political beliefs.

“I actually blocked him on Facebook, it was so bad,” the source said, recalling an instance in May when they got into a fight over a Facebook post by Hodgkinson’s wife about millennials and personal responsibility.

Hodgkinson had responded to the source’s comment with a Photoshopped picture of President Trump looking demented, accusing the president of behaving like an adolescent in office.

“This guy would not let up,” the source said.

Sarah Saldana would like you to know that Donald Trump has ruined the lives of millions of illegal aliens by enforcing U.S. Immigration Law and deleting yet another “successful” Obama Legacy mission.

And if you’re not listening, she’ll make you listen.

Who is Sarah Saldana?

She WAS one of 21 taxpayer-funded officials who were added to the Department of Homeland Security’s rolls in an effort to soothe illegal communities about “big, bad ICE.”

Saldana headed a task force that helped illegals combat evil government officials trying to deport them.

Then Trump arrived and opted to 86 the entire illegal-pacification operation and instead transfer all 21 officials to the VOICE program, which deals with Victims Of Immigration Crime Engagement.

That just ticked off Saldana who was sure that Hillary was going to sit upon her throne and declare all illegals pardoned.
According to Foreign Policy:

Saldaña maintains that before Trump’s election ICE was poised to greatly expand the outreach program and ‘remove the curtain’ from immigration enforcement activities.

Community relations officers were being trained to assuage fear in immigrant communities with facts about the agency’s priorities and activities.

Analysts estimate that roughly 11 million illegal aliens are living in the United States.

Roughly 8 million of the illegals hold jobs, which adds up to one job for each of the four million young Americans who turn 18 each year.

The illegals’ inclusion in the nation’s labor pool makes it harder for young Americans to get well-paid jobs, and annually transfers roughly $500 billion from employees to employers, according to George Borjas, a Harvard professor.”

Think of Obama’s Legacy as a sort of reverse bucket list:

For every item that Obama gave away one of his executive order pens, Trump ensures that two more are removed. By this time next year, Obama’s Legacy will be completely eradicated.

Recently a CNN reporter made the mistake of calling out the King of Twitter, President Trump himself, and instantly had to feel a giant sense of shame and regret for ever putting a finger to keyboard. Fans slammed Chris Cillizza in epic fashion and with quite the classic burn material-facts! I can only imagine the amount spent on burn cream. Why do these reporters assume they have a big enough following to disguise their lies?

Here is more from Angry Patriot Movement:

This CNN reporter is so entrenched in his liberal bubble that he honestly believes his station has never told a lie. CNN reporter Chris Cillizza made a huge mistake when he asked President Trump to name one story that was fake or incorrect on Twitter. President Trump’s supporters immediately offered Cillizza countless examples! (via Allen B West)

Cillizza is a man obsessed with hating President Trump. His Twitter account features multiple pictures of the president, and his Twitter bio features the following quote: “‘One of the dumber and least respected of the political pundits.’ — Donald Trump.”

Chris Cillizza proved President Trump right again. The CNN reporter set himself up to fail as his Twitter feed was inundated with examples of very fake news on CNN. There are hundreds of examples to choose from, but the recent coverage of Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election has been almost exclusively fake news.

For instance, CNN reported that former FBI Director James Comey never told President Trump that he was not under investigation. Comey testified under oath that he did so three times. CNN also reported that President Trump removed a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Oval Office, even though it was merely blocked by guests posing for pictures. CNN wrongly accused Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin of foreclosing on a widow’s house who owed his bank $0.27. This lie was quickly caught and CNN refused to issue a retraction or correct the story demonizing President Trump’s appointee. However, one of CNN’s biggest lies came during the presidential election when CNN host Chris Cuomo warned his viewers that it is illegal to download the DNC emails released by WikiLeaks.
“Also interesting is, remember, it’s illegal to possess these stolen documents,” said Cuomo, lying through his teeth. “It’s different for the media, so everything you’re learning about this, you’re learning from us.” CNN is the poster child for “very fake news.” The network is almost single-handedly responsible for the low levels of trust in mainstream media. The only reason to tune into CNN is to learn the latest Democrat talking points and laugh at the supposedly nonpartisan network.

CNN seems to be on a roll with fake stories, cutting off feeds when the truth is about to come out, and general dismemberment of all things that journalism used to stand for. While Comey’s testimony wasn’t cut at all by the network, CNN sure was quick to do damage control when the questions about Hilary Clinton’s foundation was brought into focus at the Sessions hearing.

According to Patriot Beacon:

CNN cut away from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday morning immediately after Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised concerns about Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Breitbart reported that Graham had just raised concerns about Special Counsel Robert Mueller hiring an attorney from the Clinton Foundation to help out with the probe into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election when the feed was cut. He was questioning Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who was sitting in for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, at the time.
Democrats are still accusing Trump of colluding with Russia in the election despite the fact that no evidence has actually emerged to support this. Here’s an excerpt of Graham’s exchange with Rosenstein:

Graham: Is giving political donations a reason to disqualify somebody for serving in the Special Counsel’s office?

Rosenstein: No, Senator, it is not a disqualification. It is not.

Graham: As a matter of fact, many states, the judges and prosecutors are actually elected. Donations are a part of that system, is that correct?

Rosenstein: Yes, that’s true.

Graham: Would it be a disqualification for somebody in the Special Counsel’s office who had represented Mrs. Clinton in the past to serve?

Rosenstein: You know, Senator, it would depend on facts and circumstances. As a general matter, I think the answer is no.

Graham: Isn’t that much closer to a conflict of interest?

Rosenstein: I don’t want to answer a hypothetical, Senator. Everybody needs to make a determination based on the facts and circumstances of the individual case.

Graham: How would you get it before the Special Counsel? What process could a member of the Senate use to inform the Special Counsel that you’d have a concern about hiring someone that represented Clinton?

Rosenstein: We have a process within the Department of Justice, Senator, so I would encourage you, if you have those concerns, to raise them with [former] Director Mueller or to raise them with me, and I’ll make sure —

Graham: So should I do it to you or to him?

Rosenstein: Well, you could do it to both.

Graham: Okay. That’s fair enough.

Rosenstein: And we have career —

Graham: And I don’t know if I’ll do that, but I’ve read some things that were — I don’t think donations are disqualifying at all, but if you represented the Clinton Foundation or Clinton herself, that would be disturbing to me, but I’ll take care of that.

CNN cut back to the studio soon after that even though Graham was still questioning Rosenstein.

For quite a long time, we’ve had Muslim terrorists living directly under our noses here in America as they hide behind organizations such as CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood, passing themselves off as “moderate Muslims.” Even though leaders of these “peaceful” groups can easily be traced to radical terror organizations, they’ve still managed to infiltrate our government for quite some time. But now it appears as though we have a brand new problem on our hands, after a Virginia Muslim who controls several terror groups was just discovered by intelligence officials. And what he had planned for America was nothing short of chilling.

Our prayers go out to Representative Steve Scalise (R-LA), his family, and his colleagues. Scalise is a good man, and we pray that he makes it through this tragic ordeal.

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise is in critical condition after being shot by a radical leftist at a congressional baseball practice yesterday. Representative Scalise sustained damage to internal organs and will require additional surgery, according to a statement released by MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Rep. Scalise was one of four people shot early yesterday morning including congressional aide Zach Barth, former aide Matt Mika, and Special Agent David Bailey. Special Agent Crystal Griner was also injured but not shot.

The cowardly shooter has been identified as James T. Hodgkinson of Bellville, Illinois. Hodgkinson volunteered for the Bernie Sanders presidential nomination campaign last year.

Hodgkinson was incapacitated and died before he arrived at the hospital. He was shot by the special agents assigned to Representative Scalise’s security detail and local police who responded to the attack.
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) left the practice minutes before the shooting erupted. He told reporters that he was stopped by a strange man asking if Republicans or Democrats were practicing on the field.

DeSantis believes that the man who stopped him was the shooter and was intentionally targeting Republicans. Police say it is too earlier to determine if the shooting should be considered a terrorist attack.

The entire nation erupted in sympathy for Representative Scalise and the others who were injured yesterday morning. Americans from both sides of the aisle are coming together to offer their thoughts and prayers. President Trump visited Rep. Scalise in the hospital and stated that he “is in very tough shape – but he is a real fighter. Pray for Steve!”
Senator Rand Paul, who was present at the shooting, praised Capitol Hill Police for their decisive action subduing the shooter. “Without the Capitol Hill Police it would have been a massacre,” explained Paul, referring to the attack. “We were like sitting ducks.”

As we reported yesterday, there was an unlikely source calling for an investigation into Loretta Lynch: Diane Feinstein. This came after James Comey’s testimony last week when he testified that Lynch instructed him, without explanation, to call the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use a private email server as secretary of a state a “matter” instead of an investigation. Lynch’s request, Comey said, made him feel “queasy” as it appeared she was “looking to align the way we talked about our work with the way the political campaign was describing the same activity, which was inaccurate.”

“I would have a queasy feeling, too,” Feinstein admitted on CNN on Sunday.
Now, President Donald Trump is upping the stakes. Earlier today, he tweeted out “A.G. Lynch made law enforcement decisions for political purposes…gave Hillary Clinton a free pass and protection. Totally illegal!”

Is Trump opening the door for prosecution against Lynch? Maybe so.

As we all remember, Lynch recused herself from the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server after a private meeting at an airport with former President Bill Clinton last summer. We only learned of the meeting between the two because a freelance journalist was tipped off to it.

Fox News beat out its competitors on Tuesday, attracting more than 3 million viewers during Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Both CNN and MSNBC had roughly a million fewer viewers, numbering at 2,218,000 and 2,208,000, respectively. Fox grabbed 3,200,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen data provided by the network, and beat out the other two cable networks in primetime coverage starting at 8 p.m.
Sean Hannity’s show, “Hannity,” earned a total of 3,076,000 viewers, making it the top program in primetime.

Although so-called “progressives” have been desperately trying to spin yesterday’s horrors, in which a crazed liberal opened fire on Republicans, it seems that not everyone is so keen on the idea. In fact, GOP lawmakers recently came forward to make quite the startling admission – and it has liberals panicking as it comes just one day after the shooting.

On Wednesday, a horrible incident left 5 people in the hospital after a gunman opened fire on a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, while the field was occupied by members of Congress as they practiced for an upcoming charity baseball game.

While most Americans were heartbroken to hear what a single gunman did, a few extreme leftists decided to use the pain and suffering of other people to further the liberal agenda. As a result, we saw a flurry of “Republicans deserved this” and “Trump should have been the one that was shot” comments.

However, the worst came as Democrats actually suggested that this was a reason to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights. Despite the fact that the gunman was a flaming liberal himself, who was neutralized with a gun, it hasn’t stopped his fellow liberals in their anti-gun pursuits.

Unfortunately for them, they just got shot down as GOP lawmakers made a startling admission just one day after the shooting. According to The Daily Caller, “Texas Republican Rep. Roger Williams, a player on his party’s congressional baseball team, agreed with his colleagues saying that members having firearms would have been better for them when a gunman shot at the team Wednesday morning.”

“Well it took the second shot for me to understand what was happening here,” Williams explained. “Everybody… we were sitting ducks. I mean we had no… we had nothing to fight back with but bats if it got to that. We were sitting ducks. I think he was not able to get on the field because the gate was locked on the other side. If [he had] gotten on the field it could have been a bad situation. But he was not able to do that. But we were sitting ducks.”

He even went so far as to offer a solution that would allow for such a scenario to be an impossibility from here on out. When asked if he thinks members should be able to carry firearms in the Capitol and other currently restricted places, well, we’ll give you one guess on what he said.

“Remember two things,” he replied. “Well, first of all, I’m for the Second Amendment — a big second amendment guy and I’m from Texas. So yes, I would have felt a lot more comfortable if we were able to do that.”

No matter how hard the left tries to spin everything, this case is a gleaming example why Americans are safer with guns. Criminals like this madman will always find a way to get their hands on guns – period. That includes breaking the law, which is exactly what this madman did. If these would-be killers don’t mind the possibility of committing murder, which is already a crime, why would they mind committing another crime to get a gun to do it?

On Wednesday morning, Rep. Steve Scalise and two Capitol Police were shot as members of Congress gathered to practice for a charity baseball game. The shooter was soon identified as James T. Hodgkinson, a Bernie Sanders supporter and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump. Then, moments later, a U.S. Senator revealed who was on the baseball field the entire time as shots rang out and chaos erupted.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) was at practice on Wednesday morning when Scalise was seriously injured, and he had brought his 10-year-old son with him to help the team fetch balls. The young boy witnessed the horrifying ordeal unfold as his father’s colleague was shot in the hip and subsequently tried to drag himself off the field to safety.
It was Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) who very well might have saved the 10-year-old’s life. According to The Gateway Pundit, Flake was not only a witness to the shooting on Wednesday morning but turned out to be a hero as well. He quickly grabbed Barton’s son and hid him under the dugout bench to protect him from gunfire.

“I poked my head up at one point and saw the shooter behind the backstop behind the fence–he still had a line of shot, a line of fire into the dugout,” recounted Sen. Flake. “He was firing around but he still could have fired into the dugout. That’s why I kept everybody down.” The heroic Senator added, “Joe Barton’s boy was here, a 10-year-old just shagging balls and we got him into the dugout and stuffed him under the bench.”
It’s going to be really difficult for the mainstream media to spin this one. The shooter was a Trump-hating leftist who broke existing gun laws in order to obtain an AR-15, and, without regard for the life of an innocent young boy, began firing at Republican lawmakers who had spent their morning preparing for a charity event.

The press is definitely ringing their hands right about now over the fact that Hodgkinson wasn’t a right-wing gun nut who they could use to paint Republicans as the party of hate and lobby for further gun control.

I thought liberals were supposed to be all about “acceptance” and “tolerance”? Well, Hodgkinson was apparently so tolerant of other viewpoints that he would kill politicians who don’t happen to agree with him, even risking the lives of their children without remorse.

Although the left has been using the recent shooting in Virginia as an attempt to take away even more rights from the American people, it’s clear that not everyone shares their sentiments. In fact, liberals and their lapdog, leftist media have been working hard to hide what President Donald Trump did just moments after the shooting – but the secret was just blown wide open.

As most of the world is aware, Republicans were practicing for an upcoming charity baseball game in Alexandria, Virginia, when gunshots rang out. When the dust had settled, the shooter, James T. Hodgkinson III, had shot and injured 5 people including Rep. Steve Scalise before he was killed by Capitol Police.

Since then, the left has been responsible for an inappropriate and unacceptable amount of vitriol, not only expressing their belief that Republicans “got what they deserved” but that “Trump should have been shot” as well. Along with that, Democrats are trying to use the tragedy to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

As one would imagine, leftist propaganda networks like CNN and MSNBC have been working tirelessly to spin the events in a way that can benefit their liberal agenda. Making matters worse, they’re also making sure to ignore aspects of the story that aren’t convenient or will implode their narrative entirely.

In fact, one such instance has just come to light which involved none other than President Trump himself. As it turns out, the president made sure to do one thing after the shooting – and the leftist mainstream media does not want you to know about it.
According to The Daily Caller, the secret is now out that “Donald and Melania Trump made an unannounced visit to the Washington hospital where Rep. Steve Scalise is being treated Wednesday night after he was gunned down during a congressional baseball practice earlier that day.” Now, we all know that networks like CNN and MSNBC want to demonize Trump at every turn, but the president is surely giving them a run for their money on this one.

The pool report indicates that the president and first lady were spotted with bouquets of flowers at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. In all, they spent about half an hour speaking to the victims and even stopped by to thank the Capitol Police who were injured as well. Their departure from the hospital was captured on video and later shared by Red State Watcher.

When it comes down to it, this instance is a disaster for the left no matter how hard they try to spin it. Not only did good guys with guns take out a liberal terrorist, but Trump is going above and beyond the duties of his office in a way that wouldn’t have been seen during former President Barack Obama’s tenure.

It’s a tradition for the first family to bring a new dog into the White House which is different with each president. The Obamas had a pair of black Portuguese water dogs, Bo and Sunny, one of which infamously swatted at Sasha and Malia Obama’s teen friend. The girl was left with a bloody gash at one of her final visits to her friends in the White House before they moved out. While that unfortunate and shocking event was overlooked or even excused by liberals, they’ve saved their energy to freak out over what Barron just brought into his new D.C. home as the first family pet.

It’s been since the Kennedys were in the White House that a first son has lived there, since other president’s sons were old enough to be out of the house and there was a series of just daughters among recent Commanders-in-Chiefs. With this new history-making event comes new traditions built on existing ones, considering boys often like different kinds of pets than girls, and Barron is no exception.

The first son has already made himself at home since officially moving into the White House over this past weekend. One of the first and perhaps most exciting parts of living in this special new place is that he gets to have a pet and is a major part of picking it.

The Trumps didn’t have a pet in their New York City home at Trump Towers, so moving to 1500 Pennsylvania Ave is monumental for Barron in a number of ways – including getting a dog should the family agree on this new addition. Every single president over the past 150 years has adopted a White House dog but the Trumps have yet to do so. Instead, they are doing things their own incredible way that works best for them which is really respectable, unless you’re a liberal with something negative to say about it.

“The Trump family, as far as is publicly known, does not own any animals. Unless something changes, that means that Donald Trump could become the first president in 150 years who does not have a pet,” the Washington Post reports. However, Lois Pope says she holds the pet that will soon be Barron’s sidekick after what happened at the Trump’s recent Thanksgiving event held at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.

In the current year, there’s really no reason, other than the weather, for anyone to want to live in the failed state of California.

The state might as well be called Neo-Mexico, considering the fact the overwhelming majority of the population is from there.

The sad thing is, the invasion and Mexican reclamation of California has been made possible by left-wing politicians, all because they see it as a strategy to secure votes fro themselves.

And since Trump became president, lawmakers from the state have only become emboldened in the pursuit of their treasonous policies.

However, Trump is using the power of the federal government to turn the screw on the nation’s most disgraceful state, by making it more difficult for them to protect illegals.
As reported at Right Wing News, buried deep within Trump’s budget proposal, you’ll find strategic cuts targeting government subsidies to states that house prisoners who are not in the US legally.

For California, this is a huge loss, considering the large proportion of illegals that are inmates.
Cutting this program was tried unsuccessfully over 20 years ago, and even then, California’s governor at the time, Pete Wilson, whined about how unfair it was.

“The intent of federal law is unequivocal. The federal government must either reimburse the state at a fair rate for the incarceration of any undocumented inmate which it identifies or… take the burden of incarceration off the state’s hands,” Wilson said.

Boo hoo. How bout you leftists stop encouraging them to infiltrate the country in the first place.

Cutting this single program will save $210 million, and even better, make it more difficult for states to continue housing illegals, which will force them to hand them over to the feds for deportation.

California’s state government received $44.1 million in the 2015 federal budget year, according to Justice Department data.
Add to that another $12.8 million that was paid directly to California counties, with the largest local subsidy being the $3 million paid to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which is known for its protection of illegals.

Over a third of the entire program’s budget went to California, with no other state coming anywhere close to that.

Essentially, California’s obsession with left-wing ideology is costing taxpayers a ton, and not only that, it’s providing a sanctuary and gateway to invaders that hurt the US in many other ways.

Cutting this program is a giant middle finger to the state, and it should only be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Trump’s reprimands of the California circus.