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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1082828)	8/13/2018 7:48:54 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 1578304

REPUBLICAN TRUMPTARDS R BLATANT LIARS: FACTCHECK: Was the Father of the Man Accused of Training School Shooters the Keynote Speaker at Obama’s Democratic National Convention? VERDICT: FALSE snopes.com Hyperpartisan websites published false reports that Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who is the father of New Mexico child abuse suspect Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, was keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic convention. CLAIM Imam Siraj Wahhaj, the father of a suspect accused of training children to be school shooters at a compound in New Mexico, was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. RATING FALSE ORIGIN The arrest of five adults for child abuse in August 2018 at a New Mexico compound where the principal suspect was accused of training children to be school shooters took an unexpected turn when far-right websites declared that the suspect’s father, a well-known Muslim cleric, had been a keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. One of those sites, True Pundit, reported on 9 August that Siraj Wahhaj, who is the American-born imam of the Al-Taqwa mosque in Brooklyn, New York, spoke at the Charlotte, North Carolina, convention where President Obama was nominated to run for a second term in office: Radical Father of Man Who Trained SCHOOL SHOOTERS Was Keynote Speaker at Obama’s Democratic National Convention, Possibly Tied to World Trade Center Bombing The Democrats really know how to pick their role models and keynote speakers. This one, however, is going to give the battered political party another black eye. Let’s begin here. Per CBS NEWS: The man arrested at a squalid New Mexico compound is the son of a controversial Brooklyn imam who was on a list of people who “may be alleged as co-conspirators” to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, according to court documents released by prosecutors Wednesday. Siraj Wahhaj, who shares a name with his son who was arrested Saturday, testified as a character witness for Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the notorious “blind sheikh” who was convicted in 1995 of plotting terror attacks in the U.S. Worse yet, the entire Democratic party celebrated this man during Obama’s second trip to the White House. That was AFTER his alleged role in the WTC bombing. The article is correct in stating that Imam Wahhaj is the father of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, who was one of the five arrested in New Mexico and is under investigation in the death of an unidentified child whose body was found on the compound. The imam acknowledged their relationship (as well as his familial connections to the other four suspects) during a press conference one week after the arrests. However, the claim that Wahhaj was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention, and therefore somehow connected to Obama, is false, basically a regurgitation of a years-old, politically-motivated Internet rumor. Wahhaj neither participated in nor spoke at that convention. The rumor that Wahhaj was supposedly going to speak at the 2012 DNC erupted on right-wing blogs and websites during the weeks leading up to the September 2012 event. It so happened that an Islamic group called the Bureau of Indigenous Muslim Affairs (BIMA) announced it would host several public events, including an open-air prayer gathering (to be called “Jumah at the 2012 DNC”) the weekend before the convention. The prayer gathering was slated to take place in Marshall Park (about a mile from the convention center) on Friday, 31 August 2018 (four days before the convention opened on 4 September). It was announced that Imam Siraj Wahhaj would lead the Friday prayer. Jumah at the 2012 DNC did take place, but it was not an official Democratic National Convention event. It wasn’t organized or sponsored by the Democratic Party, and it was over before the convention even started. It never appeared on the party’s roster of official convention activities. According to the Charlotte Observer, the BIMA prayer meeting was one of about a thousand “nonofficial convention-related events” planned by independent groups to coincide with the Democratic Party gathering. However, those facts did not stop hyperpartisan websites from publishing articles stating variants of the following: Democrats Host Radical Muslims at Charlotte (WND.com) DNC Embracing Radical Islamists at National Convention (Breitbart.com) DNC Proceeds with 2-Hour Islamic ‘Jumah’ Prayers (And You Won’t Believe Who’s Invited)(TheBlaze.com) Democrats’ America Hating Islamists to Open DNC with Prayer for Sharia to Replace U.S. Constitution (CoachIsRight.com) The false claim that the convention would open with a Muslim prayer was ultimately coupled with another false rumor to the effect that the Democratic National Committee had rejected an offer by Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, to deliver a Christian prayer at the event. But there was no Muslim prayer, and Dolan did, in fact, deliver the closing benediction at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. The keynote speaker at that convention was then-San Antonio mayor Julian Castro. He is a Roman Catholic, not a Muslim. It is a fact that Imam Siraj Wahhaj led a prayer at an Islamic event (Jumah at the 2012 DNC) that took place in Charlotte, North Carolina, a few days before the opening of the convention that would deliver Barack Obama his second Democratic presidential nomination. In partisan hands, this morphed into the rumor that Wahhaj led a prayer at the Democratic National Convention itself, which in turn has morphed into the rumor that Wahhaj was the keynote speaker at the convention, and therefore somehow intimately connected to Democratic Party politics and Obama’s presidency. Those rumors are false.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1082828)	8/13/2018 7:52:10 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578304

BOMBSHELL: Omarosa: Trump is ‘mentally declined’ Playing what she says is a White House recording, the former Trump aide also claims John Kelly threatened her. By VICTORIA GUIDA 08/12/2018 10:33 AM EDT politico.com Omarosa Manigault walks past President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 13, 2017. \| Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo Former White House official Omarosa Manigault Newman on Sunday said top administration officials are deceiving the country about President Donald Trump’s mental state and accused White House chief of staff John Kelly of threatening her when she was fired. “I was complicit with this White House in deceiving this nation,” she said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.“ “They continue to deceive this nation by how mentally declined he is, about how difficult it is for him to process complex information, how he is not engaged in some of the most important decisions that impacts our country.” “I was complicit in it, for that I regret,” she added. She also told host Chuck Todd: “Being used by Donald Trump for so long, I was like the frog in the hot water. You don’t know that you’re in that situation until it just keeps bubbling and bubbling.” Manigault Newman, who is promoting her new book, also provided a tape to NBC of a conversation between her and Kelly, which she claimed was a recording of her firing in the White House Situation Room. She left the White House in December 2017. WHITE HOUSE Hell hath no fury like Omarosa scorned By ANNIE KARNI and ELIANA JOHNSON “I think it’s important to understand that if we make this a friendly departure we can all be, you know, you can look at your time here in the White House as a year of service to the nation, and then you can go on without any type of difficulty in the future relative to your reputation,” Kelly said, according to the tape played on air. Manigault Newman said it was “obvious” that the reference to her reputation was “a threat.” "He goes on to say that, ‘things can get ugly for you,’” she said. “That’s downright criminal.” She also said the tape contradicts some media reporting about her firing, which said she responded to her firing with obscenities and that she tried to enter the White House residence, prompting Kelly to have her escorted out by the Secret Service. “If I did not have this recording, people would still believe the false incredible story that I was running around the White House … that I tried to charge the residence of the White House, and it’s a lie,” Manigault Newman said. “If I did not have this recording, people would still think I was trying to set off alarms. So, yes, I had to protect myself.” Conway: Trump White House requires nondisclosure agreements By VICTORIA GUIDA In the recording, she asks Kelly whether the president is aware of “what’s going on,” in reference to her firing. “Let’s not go down the road,” he says, saying her termination “has to do with some pretty serious integrity violations.” “The staff and everyone on the staff works for me, not the president,” he says. “Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House” is to be released Tuesday, though a copy was obtained by POLITICO. Manigault Newman’s book describes the president as a racist, bigot and misogynist. In a statement last week, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called Manigault Newman's book “riddled with lies and false accusations.” On ABC’s “This Week,” White House counselor Kellyanne Conway cast doubt on Manigault Newman’s credibility, arguing her explanations of multiple events have changed. “The first time I ever heard Omarosa suggest those awful things about this president are in this book,” Conway said. “I think Omarosa is a tremendous disappointment here because she should be taking credit for all the great gains that this president has made with respect to that low unemployment number among African-Americans, Hispanic Americans and others,” Conway said.