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“If you own a business that attempts to keep black people from renting from you;
If you are quoted as saying you don’t want black people counting your money;
If you say someone can’t judge your case because they are Mexican;
If your response to the first black president is he wasn’t born in this country despite all proof, and you say he wasn’t smart enough to go to Harvard Law school and demand to see his grades…
If this is the essence of your whole political identity – You MIGHT be a white supremacist.”

A prominent member of President Trump’s voter fraud commission on Wednesday acknowledged writing an email in which he argued that appointing Democrats or “mainstream” Republicans to the panel “would guarantee its failure.”

In the late-February email, Hans von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation, one of Trump’s GOP appointees, wrote that he had received “a very disturbing phone call” about the commission, which Vice President Pence was set to lead.

“We are told that the members of this commission are to be named on Tuesday,” von Spakovsky wrote. “We’re also hearing that they are going to make this bipartisan and include Democrats. There isn’t a single Democratic official that will do anything other than obstruct any investigation of voter fraud. … That decision alone shows how little the [White House] understands about this issue.”

Von Spakovsky went on to say that “there are only a handful of real experts on the conservative side of this issue,” adding: “If they are picking mainstream Republican officials and/or academics to man this commission it will be an abject failure because there aren’t any that know anything about this or who have paid attention to the issue over the years.”

The email was made public Tuesday by the Campaign Legal Center, which obtained it through a public records request to the U.S. Department of Justice. A copy of the email was later forwarded to Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Following a lengthy meeting of the commission in New Hampshire on Tuesday, von Spakovsky was asked by a reporter about sending an email and denied doing so.

In a statement released Wednesday by the Heritage Foundation, where von Spakovsky serves as a senior legal fellow, he wrote that he had answered the question correctly because he was asked about an email sent to Sessions.

“I did not send an email to the attorney general,” von Spakovsky said. “I have never had any discussions by email or otherwise with General Sessions about the election integrity commission.” He added that he was unaware the email had been forwarded to Sessions.

Von Spakovsky said the email was sent to “private individuals” not in the Trump administration “to express my personal concerns about the efficacy of the President’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity months before it was organized or any of its members were selected.”

Kristen Clarke, president of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — one of several groups that have taken legal action against the commission — said its travels could “plant the seeds for laws and policies” to make voting harder.

“In my view, part of the goal here is to take this parade on the road . . . and use the commission to promote this false narrative,” Clarke said.

Are you drunk?

Prime Minister Theresa May has rebuked US President Donald Trump for suggesting suspects in Friday's London train blast were known to police.
"I never think it's helpful for anybody to speculate on what is an ongoing investigation," she said.
In a phone call with Mrs May on Friday, Mr Trump "pledged to continue close collaboration with the United Kingdom to stop attacks worldwide targeting innocent civilians and to combat extremism", the White House said.
A Downing Street spokesman said he also offered "his condolences over this morning's cowardly attack in London", which he described to reporters earlier as "a terrible thing".
The call followed Mrs May's critical remarks about the US president.
In one of his tweets, Mr Trump appeared to chide UK authorities: "Must be proactive!"
Nick Timothy, a former senior aide to British Prime Minister Theresa May, echoed London police's comments.
"True or not - and I'm sure he doesn't know - this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner," he tweeted.
Former Conservative MP Ben Howlett also weighed in, calling Mr Trump's tweets "dangerous and inappropriate"
London police said of his comments, "any speculation is unhelpful."

Trump has called the perpetrator of today's bombing on the London Underground a "loser terrorist" who was "in the sights of Scotland Yard".

It is still unknown from where he got this information.

Nick Timothy, former joint chief of staff to Theresa May said it was "unhelpful" of the US President to suggest Scotland Yard had prior knowledge of the Parsons Green suspect.

"True or not – and I'm sure he doesn't know – this is so unhelpful from leader of our ally and intelligence partner," he said in a tweet.

Quote:

“If you own a business that attempts to keep black people from renting from you;
If you are quoted as saying you don’t want black people counting your money;
If you say someone can’t judge your case because they are Mexican;
If your response to the first black president is he wasn’t born in this country despite all proof, and you say he wasn’t smart enough to go to Harvard Law school and demand to see his grades…
If this is the essence of your whole political identity – You MIGHT be a white supremacist.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, on ‘All In With Chris Hayes’, 9/16/17

I feel the same way about the opposition, ci, which includes you. I have in fact posted numerous times all of the leftist beliefs and policies that Hitler and the Nazis had, but they are blithely ignored or passed over.