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Chicago Mayor (Heavyfoot) Lightfoot Defends Illegal Child Molester

The man accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl inside a bathroom of McDonald’s flagship restaurant in River North had previously been deported, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency said. Chicago officials responded Friday, standing by their decision not to cooperate with ICE on immigration-related business.

Christopher Puente, 34, of Chicago, is currently being held without bail after being charged with predatory criminal sexual assault in connection with an alleged attack on a child in the former Rock N Roll McDonald’s on Clark Street earlier this month.

ICE said in a news release Thursday Puente was placed into Chicago police custody in June of 2019 after he was arrested for theft. According to ICE, Chicago police were expected to hold Puente until he could be taken into their custody, as Puente was expected to be deported.

However, at some point Puente was released prior to the alleged incident at the River North McDonald’s, ICE said.

Both Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago police defended their decision not to cooperate with ICE on any immigration-related business Friday.

“The Chicago Police Department remains committed to protecting all Chicago residents regardless of their immigration status,” Chicago police said in a statement. “Our pledge to restrict ICE access to our information systems and our refusal to cooperate with ICE immigration enforcement measures has not changed.”

Lightfoot said “if ICE is complaining, then they should do their job better.”

“They’re critical because we have said very clearly we are a welcoming city, a sanctuary city. Chicago Police Department will not cooperate with ICE on any immigration-related business,” she said. “And that’s affected their ability to conduct immigration raids across the city. But that’s exactly our intention. We have to make sure our police department is seen as a legitimate force in all our communities.”

She added that the city has other federal partnerships that function well, but maintained that those relationships must be conducted in a way consistent with the city’s values.

Puente has been previously convicted of burglary, forgery, trespassing, domestic battery and related offenses and has a record dating back 20 years.

On Dec. 5, 2014, Puente was deported to Mexico, pursuant to an administrative removal order as he is a convicted aggravated felon due to his previous felony burglary conviction, ICE said. Five days later, on Dec. 10, 2014, border agents encountered Puente at the Brownsville, Texas, border crossing. Puente claimed to be a U.S. citizen and presented a birth certificate. Puente was subsequently charged with falsely claiming citizenship and served a notice to appear before an immigration judge, according to ICE. On March 30, 2017, an immigration judge ordered Puente removed, in absentia, as he failed to show up for his immigration hearing.

Puente was assisted by a sign-language interpreter in court Feb. 20. He listened to prosecutors as they detailed his alleged acts perpetrated after the little girl’s father says he took his son and daughter to the men’s bathroom, taking the boy into a stall with him, and leaving her outside.

According to prosecutors, Puente motioned for the girl to enter his stall, when she did so, the defendant closed the stall and locked it. Puente said that he had the victim by the back of the head, covered mouth, and told her “shhhh.”

Prosecutors said the girl’s father heard his daughter’s cries and desperately tried to open the locked stall. He could see her feet dangling off the ground, so he grabbed her legs and pulled her out from under the stall. He ran out of the bathroom with her, leaving Puente inside the bathroom.

The girl was hospitalized after the alleged rape.

Surveillance pictures of Puente exiting the bathroom were circulated by police prior to his arrest.

Prosecutors said Puente was being investigated for trespassing when police recognized him from the surveillance pictures because he was wearing the same clothes he had on following the alleged attack.

After he was arrested, Puente confessed some of what he had done and described his actions to authorities.

“(Puente) said … what happened with the little girl was ‘wrong and a very bad thing,'” Assistant State Attorney James Murphy said.

On Feb. 20, ICE again requested Chicago police hold Puente ahead of a possible deportation, officials said.

https://abc7chicago.com/man-accused-in-mcdonalds-child-sex-assault-previously-deported-dhs-/5973356/

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Elizabeth Warren Is Out! Bernie Bro’s Are Excited

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is suspending her presidential campaign, a source familiar with the decision tells NBC News, a bitter blow for a senator who was long seen by prominent Democrats as headed for the White House.

It is unclear whether Warren will endorse another Democratic candidate for president.

Warren announced her decision in a phone call with campaign staff Thursday morning in which she expressed disappointment, but thanked them “from the bottom of my heart” for all they were able to accomplish.

“What we have done — and the ideas we have launched into the world, the way we have fought this fight, the relationships we have built — will carry through, carry through for the rest of this election, and the one after that, and the one after that,” Warren said.

The campaign proved that grassroots organizing and fundraising is possible in a presidential race and brought several substantive policy proposals to the fore, including a wealth tax, universal child care and cancelling student loan debt, Warren said.

Her decision, which comes after a poor “Super Tuesday” showing in which Warren failed to win any states, ends a frantic year of campaigning for a candidate who branded herself as a progressive fighter from humble beginnings who was ready to take on a broken and corrupt system.

The Massachusetts Democrat wowed crowds with her sharp intellect, her clear prognoses for complex problems, and her endless stream of policy blueprints to tackle them. After a long polling rise over summer that continued into the fall, it was clear Warren’s message was catching on, and she rose to the front of the pack in some polls while avoiding conflict with rivals. In late summer, she drew massive crowds of about 15,000 in Seattle and 20,000 in Washington Square Park in New York.

The plan was working. Then it all started to fall apart.

Warren was pummeled on her “Medicare for All” plan by rivals like Pete Buttigieg, who started to peel away white college graduates, a group that formed the core of her base. She responded by releasing a series of detailed financing mechanisms, followed by a plan to transition onto Medicare for All in the third year of her presidency, moving first to establish a “public option” in the first year. The move didn’t placate moderates and sowed doubts about her among left-leaning voters, who instead moved toward Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

“The problem that Warren has is all of the Bernie people think she’s a neoliberal shill, and all of the centrists think she’s a raging Maoist,” Sean McElwee, a progressive organizer and co-founder of Data For Progress, told NBC News last month.

Meanwhile the crowded field of moderates, most notably the staying power of Joe Biden, made it harder for her to grow her support among the mainstream Democrats who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016. Questions about “electability” dogged her throughout the fall as many voters, haunted by the last presidential election, fretted that the U.S. wouldn’t elect a woman.

It was a quiet, even subconscious fear, thrust into the spotlight right before the Iowa caucuses when news broke of a late 2018 meeting between Warren and Sanders, during which Warren said Sanders told her he didn’t think a woman could beat President Donald Trump. The story led to a January debate stage confrontation, with Sanders denying he said it and Warren sticking by her re-telling of the story. The two later tried to quell the tensions — not wanting to alienate their progressive supporters. But the moment also made it harder for Warren to draw contrasts with her fellow progressive, at a time when it would’ve benefited her to show how she was different.

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She wasn’t helped by polls that showed her faring worse than Sanders and Biden against Trump in key states like Michigan and Florida, reinforcing doubts among Democrats whose top concern was the only constant in this primary: finding a candidate who they could trust to defeat Trump.

Trump nourished this fear by repeatedly attacking her as “Pocahontas,” a reference to her decades-long claim of Native American ancestry and her 2018 decision to take a DNA test to prove it.

The president lost no time remarking on her withdrawal from the race, claiming she was days late in dropping out, costing Sanders wins in some Super Tuesday states.

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Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, who was going nowhere except into Mini Mike’s head, just dropped out of the Democrat Primary…THREE DAYS TOO LATE. She cost Crazy Bernie, at least, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Texas. Probably cost him the nomination! Came in third in Mass.34.5K11:10 AM – Mar 5, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy14.7K people are talking about this

Ultimately, it was perhaps the crowded field that hurt Warren most. National and early state surveys of Democrats heading into the new year showed her leading all rivals on “second choice” preferences. Her campaign sought to turn that into a positive by debuting a new message of unity, pitching her as the candidate best-positioned to bridge the divides between the party’s left and moderate wings.

That, too, backfired. For many voters it was difficult to square “unity” with her “fighter” persona. Previous candidates attempting to bridge that divide had also failed, including Kamala Harris and Cory Booker.

After finishing just fourth and third in Iowa and New Hampshire, respectively, Warren dispensed with that message and revived her more combative persona, launching blistering attacks on new arrival Mike Bloomberg in the Las Vegas debate. She also finally abandoned her non-aggression pact with Sanders. It was a change-up that allies had pushed for for weeks; one that reminded progressives why they were attracted to her in the first place and led to a massive windfall of much-needed donations that kept her campaign afloat.

She followed that up in the Charleston, South Carolina, debate the following week, arguing that she’d be more “effective” at passing a progressive agenda because, unlike Sanders, she sweats the details of policy and process. Despite finishing fifth there, her campaign vowed to keep fighting for delegates and take the fight to the July convention.

But Sanders was already in a dominant position by then, and Biden racked up valuable endorsements after South Carolina that propelled him to big victories on Super Tuesday. After a disappointing day for Warren, in which she won only a small portion of delegates and lost her home state, her campaign signaled that she was reassessing her path forward.

Her departure from the race means there are no more women in the top tier of the field.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/elizabeth-warren-ends-presidential-run-n1150436

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Chuck Schumer Threatens Supreme Court Justices And President Trump Chimes In

President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening slammed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) for threatening conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and demanded “serious action” be taken immediately against the top congressional Democrat.

“This is a direct & dangerous threat to the U.S. Supreme Court by Schumer. If a Republican did this, he or she would be arrested, or impeached. Serious action MUST be taken NOW!” the president tweeted, sharing a video clip of Schumer’s remarks via Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).

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This is a direct & dangerous threat to the U.S. Supreme Court by Schumer. If a Republican did this, he or she would be arrested, or impeached. Serious action MUST be taken NOW! https://twitter.com/jim_jordan/status/1235306945864663044 …Rep. Jim Jordan✔@Jim_JordanToday’s Left:

First Schumer tells President-elect Trump: “You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”

Today he threatens 2 Supreme Court justices: “You will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”87.2K7:21 PM – Mar 4, 2020Twitter Ads info and privacy44.4K people are talking about this

Earlier Wednesday, Schumer warned in a fiery speech outside the Supreme Court that Gorsuch and Kavanaugh will “pay the price” if they vote against pro-choice advocates in a high-profile abortion case.

The New York Democrat threatened:

Over the last three years, women’s reproductive rights have come under attack in a way we haven’t seen in modern history. From Louisiana, to Missouri, to Texas, Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they’re taking away fundamental rights. I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions.

Schumer made the warning while the Supreme Court heard a challenge to a Louisiana law which requires doctors who perform abortions to possess hospital admitting privileges. Kavanaugh has signaled that he is open to ruling that the state’s abortion law is constitutional, reports the Washington Examiner.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issued a rare rebuke of Schumer’s threat, calling it both “inappropriate” and “dangerous” for a leading lawmaker to utter.

Roberts said in a rare statemen:

Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter.

Justin Goodman, a spokesperson for Schumer, responded to Roberts by accusing him of adopting the “right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation” of the Senate Minority Leader’s comment, “while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg last week.” Further, the spokesman then stated that Roberts’ condemnation illustrates that he does “not just call balls and strikes.”

Last week, President Donald Trump argued Sotomayor and Ginsburg should recuse themselves from cases involving his administration over their previous criticisms of him and his policies. “I just don’t know how they can not recuse themselves for anything having to do with Trump or Trump-related,” he said at the time.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/04/trump-slams-schumers-threat-against-kavanaugh-gorsuch-serious-action-must-be-taken-now/

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Say No To Bernie Sanders And His Cult Followers

By: The Doctor Of Common Sense,

And Hell NO I Will Never Apologize For Being Right

Bernie Sanders is the most dangerous candidate who has ever run for President in the United States of America. He has 3 houses, and he does not want you to give to your favorite Charity. But at the same time he wants to take your money to give it to Illegal Immigrants, and basement dwellers so the can get free handouts.

Bernie Sanders has said that he does not believe in Charities, but he wants your tax dollars for charity to pay for free Healthcare For All. What about the people who do not go to College? Do they get free money also? The real reason this “Naked Communist” wants more of these Millennials to go to college is to reeducate them to believe like he does.

Nothing in life is free, because someone has to pay for it. Why don’t Coronavirus Bernie give up his damn houses?

He praises Fidel Castro with helping the Education system in Cuba. Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro called Bernie Sanders his Revolutionary Friend. Would anyone in there right mind think Castro, and Maduro are good guys?



Bernie Sanders is the biggest hypocrite running for office. All the damn democrats are lairs, and hypocrites, but Bernie pretends that he is the candidate that fights for the little guys. He says he is for Climate Change yet he is always on an Airplane and he rides in First Class.

Bernie was ask if Chi Pet Mini Mike Bloomberg gave him $500 million would he take it.

Anderson Cooper asked him the question and he would not answer it.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/nevada-town-hall-sanders-buttigieg-klobuchar/h_cf038411e61c24daa2f1fe19d5d33e18

He has 3 houses and he is a millionaire. The most lucrative thing Bernie has ever done is run for president. He want’s you to believe that he wrote a book to become a millionaire. but the truth is, if he had not ran for president, and had all of his idiot followers who want you to pay for their rebellion.

He would not have made money off the book.

He has never had a real job, or has he ever owned a business. He is a career politician. What great Bills has he passed since he was elected to office. He was a representative for 16 years, and he has been a senator for 14 years.

What in the hell has he done for the poor for 30 years he has been in office. This does not even include his time as Mayor. How in the Hell can Bernie deceive anyone? He never answers a direct question on how he will pay for his healthcare plan. This fraud knows nothing about running a business. You know why? He has never had to run a business and stick to a budget. A budget that depends on him making a product, or providing a service.

I despise any politician that has never worked or owned a business lecturing me on paying for someone else’s kid’s college, or healthcare.

If socialism is so damn great why don’t Bernie, and his Bro’s, and Sis’s moved to a socialist country. They have plenty of socialist countries out there. Socialism was tried already here and it did not work.

Move to a communist or socialist country and be their president. Bernie is always telling you how great Canada’s Healthcare is, but it ain’t so great. They spend about 11% of their $2 trillion GDP on healthcare. They are last when it comes to beds per 1000 residents.

I was reading were a man said his wife had a lump under her eyelid and she had been waiting 7 months with no diagnostic testing yet.

So tell Bernie to go to a damn country that offers free healthcare, and free college. Why is everyone attempting to come to America if our healthcare is so bad. Illegals come in and get free healthcare.

America is number one when it comes to Charity around the world. Name me a socialist, or communist country that does more then the capitalist America? There is not one.

Bernie Sanders is dangerous, because he wants to tell all the rest of us he knows what’s best for us. In spite of him never holding down a job , or owning a business. Just say no to Bernie Sanders an his Cult Followers.

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Bernie Bro In New Hampshire Accused Of Slapping Teen Trump Supporter On Primary Day

A New Hampshire man accused of slapping a 15-year-old Trump supporter on the day of the state’s primary election day has been arrested, Windham police said.

Patrick Bradley, 34, slapped the teen after he left a polling place at Windham High School around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday, police said in a statement.

Bradley is accused of slapping the 15-year-old and assaulting two adults who tried to intervene while passing by a campaign tent for President Donald Trump. He also was accused of throwing Trump signs and trying to knock over the tent, according to police.

A woman who said she was the boy’s mother told Fox News that her Republican family supports Trump and that her son was volunteering outside the school, holding up Trump signs and said “have a nice night” before he was slapped.

Her son wore a “Make America Great Again” hat Tuesday, she said. “It sickens me that people would be angry at a kid for wearing a stupid hat,” she told Fox News, adding that the teen has been getting a lot of support.

Bradley was arrested Thursday and charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of disorderly conduct, police said.

He was being held in lieu of $5,000 cash bail and an administrative hold for a probation violation Thursday, police said.

He was being held in jail Thursday night and is expected to be arraigned Friday, police said. No one picked up the phone at a number that may belong to him, and it was not immediately clear if he had an attorney Thursday night.

The police statement does not explicitly list a motive in the alleged assault. It’s the second alleged assault case involving Trump supporters or Republicans this month across the country.

The other was in Florida, where Gregory William Loel Timm, 27, is accused of driving his van through a tent where a local GOP group was registering voters in the Jacksonville neighborhood of Sandalwood. No one was hurt.

A deputy communications director for the Trump campaign on Thursday highlighted both incidents.

Donald Trump Jr. tweeted that he met the 15-year-old before the alleged assault and has called the teen and his mother.

Erin Perrine tweeted that the New Hampshire incident was “another senseless attack on @realDonaldTrump supporters.” “This kind of violence must stop IMMEDIATELY,” Perrine added.

Windham is a town of around 13,000 in the southeast part of New Hampshire, near the Massachusetts border.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-hampshire-man-accused-slapping-teen-trump-supporter-primary-day-n1136836

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Alexander Vindman Fired And Liberals Go Crazy

  • Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was on Friday fired from the National Security Council and escorted from the White House.
  • He was a key witness in the House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, which upset the president.
  • During his opening statement, Vindman compared his situation to the Soviet Union of his youth, where whistleblowers were harshly punished.
  • Directly addressing his father, he said: “Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.”
  • After Trump was acquitted he quickly moved against Vindman. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham suggested “maybe people should pay” for crossing Trump.

Former National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was fired from the White House on Friday — two days after President Donald Trump’s acquittal in his bitter impeachment trial.

Vindman was a central witness, testifying publicly on November 19 before the House Intelligence Committee that Trump’s behavior towards the president of Ukraine had troubled him deeply.

As the top Ukraine expert at the NSC, Vindman listened in on the now-infamous July 25 call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, where Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, the Biden family.

Vindman told Congress he was “concerned,” and found the call “inappropriate” given its partisan political character, and the conspiracy theory which underpinned it.

During his opening statement, Vindman drew a contrast between how somebody in his position might be treated in Russia, and how he believed he would be treated in the US.

He moved to address his father, who left the Soviet Union with Vindman, then aged three, for a new life in America:

“In Russia, my act of expressing my concerns to the chain of command in an official and private channel would have severe personal and professional repercussions and offering public testimony involving the President would surely cost me my life.

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“Dad, my sitting here today, in the US Capitol talking to our elected officials is proof that you made the right decision forty years ago to leave the Soviet Union and come here to United States of America in search of a better life for our family. Do not worry, I will be fine for telling the truth.”

Political reality proved Vindman too optimistic. Vindman was the first and most prominent figure to be punished Friday by a newly-emboldened Trump.

The President fired Vindman, his twin brother, as well as Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador the the EU, in the space of a few hours.

Unlike the Russia in his comparison, Vindman came to no physical harm. But he — and a family member who had no role in the impeachment hearings — were ejected from prestigious jobs in a way which may tarnish their future prospects in the US military.

Vindman has only ever worked for the US military, and he and was awarded the Purple Heart after being wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

Only the most capable officers are recommended for work with the NSC, usually the sign of a sparkling career to come.

While he was only on loan to the White House and was transferred to the Pentagon, his highly political dismissal could now feature in Vindman’s personnel files. As Command-in-Chief, Trump is Vindman’s ultimate boss, and the boss of all his superiors. He has made abundantly clear that he doesn’t like him.

When competing for promotions with equally skilled offices without this political shadow over them, Vindman could well find himself passed over.

In a statement Vindman’s lawyer, David Pressman, said, “LTC Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth. His honor, his commitment to right, frightened the powerful.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/vindman-opening-statement-punished-truth-trump-proved-wrong-2020-2