President Trump delivers a powerful and moving speech at D-Day anniversary

First lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron, watch a flyover during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump gave praise to U.S. war veterans in a speech to mark the 75th D-Day anniversary while in Europe with French President Emmanuel Macron .

U.S. World War II veteran Jacques Michienzi, center, stands up among other veterans during a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France, Thursday, June 6, 2019. World leaders are gathered Thursday in France to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings. (AP Photo/David Vincent)

President Trump an President Macron embraced warmly as they arrived at a U.S. war cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach, where 2,500 American troops were killed by German gunners and artillery on June 6, 1944, the first day of the Allied effort to drive the Nazis out of France.

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron greet veterans as they arrive to a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at The Normandy American Cemetery, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“The abundance of courage came from an abundance of faith,” Trump said. “They came here and saved freedom, and then they went home and showed us all what freedom is about.”

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron, talk to a World War II veteran during a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day at the American Normandy cemetery, Thursday, June 6, 2019, in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“More powerful than the strength of American arms was the strength of American hearts. These men ran through the fires of hell, moved by a force no weapon could destroy: the fierce patriotism of a free, proud and sovereign people,” he added.

 Trump recognized several surviving veterans by name, including former Army medic Arnold Raymond “Ray” Lambert and Private Russell Pickett, 94, a teenager on D-Day when, tasked with operating a flame-thrower, he was wounded twice. As the frail Pickett struggled to his feet amid applause, Macron walked over and lent the veteran support.

“CHERISHED ALLIANCE”

Macron peppered his remarks with praise for America’s leading role in liberating western Europe from Nazi Germany.

“America, dear President Trump, is never greater than when fighting for others’ freedom,” he said, turning to Trump. “When free peoples unite, they can meet all the challenges.”

A President Trump remembered America’s fallen war heroes, he told European allies they were bound by unbreakable ties.

“To all our friends and partners, our cherished alliance was forged in the heat of battle, tested in the trials of war and proven in the blessings of peace. Our bond is unbreakable,” he said.

Story based on reporting by Richard Lough in Paris and Steve Holland in Colleville-sur-Mer; Additional reporting by Michel Rose, Editing by William Maclean

Policing Noncitizen Voting: What We Have Here Is a Failure of Data

By Mark Hemingway | Real Clear Investigations

The downfall of Texas Secretary of State David Whitley began in January with the blockbuster announcement that tens of thousands of noncitizens might have voted illegally in recent Texas elections.

President Trump immediately amped up this story by Tweeting: “58,000 non-citizens voted in Texas, with 95,000 non-citizens registered to vote. These numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. All over the country, especially in California, voter fraud is rampant. Must be stopped. Strong voter ID!”

Suddenly, Whitley, a Republican appointee, was embroiled in a controversy over illegal immigration that brought into stark relief a seemingly unbridgeable partisan divide: between Republicans concerned about voter fraud and Democrats who accuse of the GOP of trying to suppress minority turnout.

As evidence emerged that Whitley had overstated the problem, a firestorm erupted. By the time he resigned on May 28, Texas Democrats considered it a vindication, and even Republicans breathed a sigh of relief.

As a result, apparently no one is now investigating the extent of voting in Texas by noncitizens, who can qualify for a host of government services.

Although Texas pols seem intent on moving on, the episode raises fundamental questions about  ballot integrity – specifically, whether the government has the technical and management skills to monitor and protect voter rolls and the political will to police them.

Here's what happened: On January 25, Whitley’s office sent out a press release saying it had identified some 98,000 noncitizens who might be registered to vote. Further, 58,000 of those identified had voted in Texas elections. The office arrived at those numbers by comparing lists of registered voters with those who had presented a green card or visa to get a drivers’ license or state. 

It soon became obvious that there were problems with Whitley’s list. An official in the Secretary of State’s office admitted that around 25,000 people had been included even though their citizenship was later established. The state quietly informed county officials of their error soon after the list was announced.

In the meantime, the Secretary of State’s office was sending out correspondence to voters on the list, letting them know that their status as legitimate voters was being questioned and their voter registrations stood to be cancelled if they did not respond with proof of citizenship. That outraged many of the people wrongly included. 

Voting rights groups were soon suing the state, and on February 27, U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery in the Western District of Texas, issued a folksy decision quoting Robert Fulghum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” and chastising the state for creating “a solution looking for a problem.” Biery, a 72-year-old Bill Clinton appointee based in San Antonio, ordered the state to stop sending the letters and directed county clerks to stop removing voters from the rolls.

After that, the state settled three lawsuits by agreeing to notify voters whose citizenship was questioned that they were no longer under scrutiny, and coughed up $450,000 in legal fees. With Whitley’s resignation, this effort to clean up the voter rolls was over, illustrating an exceptionally fraught process -- and not for the first time.

In 2012, Florida tried to match Division of Motor Vehicles data with voter rolls and initially claimed to have found 180,000 questionable registrations as a result. But that too ended with the discovery of bad data and lawsuits. The effort “was not only ruled against in the courts, but also in the court of public opinion, as citizens across the state were outraged to be identified as being noncitizens,” Daniel Smith, a University of Florida political science professor who studies voting rights, told RealClearInvestigations.

Smith points to one big problem. “Matching asynchronized records from data that are not updated and don’t have a unique linking identifier is going to lead to false positives,” he observes. He pointed to an academic paper by a University of Florida colleague and a Loyola Law School professor that looks at efforts to correlate voter registration data in light of “the birthday problem” – the statistical principle that in a room with a critical mass of people the odds that two share the same birthday is a surprising 50 percent or higher. 

It turns out that when combining two sets of data, the number of people sharing the same identifying markers is a lot higher than one might expect.

Out-of-date information is also a problem when people go several years between renewing a drivers license. Just because they were not citizens when they were issued IDs doesn’t mean they weren’t naturalized in the ensuing years. The federal government likely has more accurate data on the noncitizen population than states do, but historically the feds haven’t shared it with them.

Attempts to do so would likely be met with more lawsuits, if the recent pitched opposition to Trump administration’s attempt to add a citizenship question to the census is any guide.

Florida eventually winnowed its original list of 182,000 names down to 2,600, which was then turned over to local election supervisors. Local officials continued to find problems with the data, and ultimately only 85 people were removed from the rolls. Months later, the state gained access to some federal immigration databases and removed another 207 Floridians from voter rolls as a result.

By contrast, Texas’ recent effort to identify noncitizens was abandoned long before it could be winnowed down to a more accurate number. But given that many parts of the country – Florida in particular – have had several recent elections have been decided by razor thin margins, the number of illegitimate voters doesn’t have to be very big to have a serious electoral impact.

Consider the U.S. Senate contest that Al Franken won in Minnesota in 2008 by a mere 312 votes. Ever since, observers have raised suspicions about felons illegally voting and other factors that would have erased the now-former Senator’s victory. It was a pivotal outcome, insuring the upper chamber’s deciding vote passing Obamacare.

Pennsylvania also has had problems maintaining accurate voter rolls. In 2017, Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt revealed that the city had been receiving "hundreds of letters from people cancelling their voter registration because they were not eligible.” It turned out that state’s motor-voter system – automatically registering voters getting driver’s licenses at the DMV  -- had been "inadvertently" registering noncitizens to vote, according to the state.  

The state eventually hired an outside expert to come up with a list of Pennsylvania noncitizen residents who might be illegally registered to vote. There were as many as 100,000 illegal registrations, but the list was repeatedly winnowed down. And in January, after Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf resisted attempts to release the information to the legislature, the state “admitted to finding names of 11,198 non-citizens registered to vote on the state’s rolls though the lawmakers suspect the number could still be higher,” according to the Associated Press.

Even in Texas, where there seems to be a strong desire to ensure fair elections, ballot-integrity work is foiled because resources and collective resolve are lacking. “We've done three noncitizen cases in the past year. ... they shouldn't have been voting and they were voting. We believe there are more of those,” Jeff Mateer, the First Assistant Attorney General of Texas, tells RealClearInvestigations. “Our problem is I've got, as of yesterday, two prosecutors and four investigators. That's not a lot of people to work on, not just these cases, but every election fraud case.”

Mateer adds that his office has a backlog of more than 80 referrals of potential election fraud. The Texas legislature recently approved more money to the AG’s office to deal with election fraud, but the system is overwhelmed.

Engaging the public on the issue in a way that doesn’t immediately devolve into partisan mudslinging about voter rights is also a big challenge. While mailing out thousands of letters questioning people’s citizenship might understandably be painted as voter intimidation, there are also political forces standing in the way of identifying and removing noncitizens from the voter rolls.

Last year Texas Democrats indiscriminately mailed out voter registration forms in the Rio Grande Valley in south Texas, with the citizenship box already filled in. This is problematic because, when Congress in 1993 enacted the law commonly called the Motor Voter Act, “it envisioned a registrant making two separate affirmations of citizenship – both the checkbox as well as the signature attestation,” notes a letter from the Public Interest Legal Foundation that was sent out to local Texas District attorneys. “This enables prosecutors to easier establish intent and state of mind when noncitizens illegally register to vote.”

Meanwhile, left-wing activists are making no secret of their desire to give noncitizens the right to vote. Among them are former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who accuses Republicans of voter suppression and refuses to accept her defeat in Georgia last year. As of last year San Francisco is allowing noncitizen voting in local elections, though public polling shows Americans are broadly opposed to the idea.

Ultimately, Mateer says, the lesson from the Texas debacle is not that there’s no cause to believe noncitizens aren’t voting – it’s that people need more information to determine what’s going on.

“Quite frankly,” he says, “I think we have a data problem.”

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/06/04/policing_noncitizen_voting_what_we_have_here_is_a_failure_of_data.html

What Recession? First Quarter Growth Hit 3.1 Percent

By Matt Vespa  | Townhall

Source: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta

President Trump’s economic agenda has performed better than projected again. First quarter growth hit a solid three percent, staving off fears of a recession and once again showing the U.S. economy is still going strong. 

There have been ongoing fears that the Trump administration’s escalating trade war with China could send us off the rails. The stock market has been volatile. The White House recently announced a $15 billion program to help farmers impacted by the tariff conversations and threats. 

The administration is playing the short-term pain for long-term game strategy, which isn’t all that popular with past Republican on this policy; many would see this as a pork program. Yet, after three presidencies of failing to tackle China on trade, what have we got to lose? China has noticed that this is a White House that has teeth and one that’s coming after them on multiple fronts. They respect that as well, viewing him as a master tactician. 

This issue will linger. 

For now, the economy is growing and talk of a recession should be put to rest (via CNBC):

The U.S. economy grew by 3.1% to start the year, slightly better than expected and providing some relief at a time when recession fears are accelerating, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

First-quarter gross domestic product beat the 3% Dow Jones estimate but was lower than the initial 3.2% projection from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. The decrease came due to downward revisions to nonresidential fixed and private inventory investment, two key drivers to GDP.

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Exports rose 4.8% amid the increasingly bitter trade war between the U.S. and China, while imports, which are a subtraction from GDP, declined 2.5%. The level of net exports contributed nearly 1 percentage point to the GDP gain.

In the bigger picture, growth easily surpassed what most economists had been expecting at the start of the year. At one point, the Atlanta Federal Reserve was estimating GDP to rise just 0.2%. Strong contributions from real gross domestic income helped drive the better numbers, as did a rise in exports, state and local government spending and nonresidential fixed investment.

Three words: Keep. America. Great. 

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/06/03/solid-3-percent-growth-n2547106

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President Trump, Queen Elizabeth reaffirm close ties between US and UK, commemorate D-Day invasion at banquet

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Queen Elizabeth, President Trump make remarks, exchange toasts at state banquet

President Trump, Queen Elizabeth acknowledge special relationship between U.S. and U.K., 75th anniversary of D-Day at banquet at Buckingham Palace.

President Trump capped off the first day of his London visit Monday by dining with Queen Elizabeth and other members of the royal family at a lavish state banquet at Buckingham Palace, ending a busy day that saw the president taking in the sights of the British capital.

Both Trump and the queen offered formal toasts ahead of the dinner.

“Visits by American presidents always remind us of the close and lasting relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States,” Queen Elizabeth said in her toast, before referencing the Allied mission on D-Day during World War II.

“We owe an immeasurable debt to the joint British, American and Allied forces that landed in Normandy on June 6, 1944,” the queen said. “The anniversary of D-Day reminds us all of all our country has shared together.”

Trump is set to travel to Normandy later this week to commemorate 75 years after the Allied invasion of France.

In his toast, Trump reaffirmed the close ties between London and Washington – noting the countries' joint effort in defeating Nazi Germany during World War II.

“The bond between our nations was sealed in that great crusade,” Trump said. “We reaffirm our common values that will continue well into the future.”

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Remembering D-Day: A 75th Anniversary Special

The state dinner on Monday was attended by a number of members of the royal family, the British government and the Trump administration. Notably absent, however, was the queen's husband, Prince Philip, who at 97 has retired from his royal duties.

At their initial visit to the palace early Monday morning, the president and first lady Melania Trump had a private lunch with the queen, later inspecting a collection of artifacts including an 18th-century map of New York, historic photos of golf at St. Andrews and books about birds and George Washington. He then participated in a wreath-laying at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey.

The visit began with formalities befitting a state visit. The Trumps were greeted by Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, at the palace. Trump could be seen chatting with members of the Guard of Honor as the rest of the American delegation, from a terrace, observed the elaborate arrival ceremony, complete with the playing of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Royal gun salutes were fired from nearby Green Park and from the Tower of London.

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The centerpiece of the president's European trip: two days the D-Day landing, likely the last significant commemoration most veterans of the battle will see.

The events are to begin in Portsmouth, England, where the invasion was launched, and then move across the Channel to France, where Allied forces began to recapture Western Europe from the Nazis.

Fox News’ Judson Berger and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-queen-elizabeth-close-ties-us-uk-d-day-invasion

Federal Rats Are Fleeing the Sinking Collusion Ship

BY VICTOR DAVIS HANSON 

From left, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sit together in the front row before President Barack Obama spoke about National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The entire Trump-Russia collusion narrative was always implausible.

One, the Washington swamp of fixers such as Paul Manafort and John and Tony Podesta was mostly bipartisan and predated Trump.

Two, the Trump administration's Russia policies were far tougher on Vladimir Putin than were those of Barack Obama. Trump confronted Russia in Syria, upped defense spending, increased sanctions and kept the price of oil down through massive new U.S. energy production. He did not engineer a Russian "reset" or get caught on a hot mic offering a self-interested hiatus in tensions with Russia in order to help his own re-election bid.

Three, Russia has a long history of trying to warp U.S. elections that both predated Trump and earned only prior lukewarm pushback from the Obama administration.

It's also worth remembering that President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation had been recipients of Russian and Russian-related largesse -- ostensibly because Hillary Clinton had used her influence as Secretary of State under Obama to ease resistance to Russian acquisitions of North American uranium holdings.

As far as alleged Russian collusion goes, Hillary Clinton used three firewalls -- the Democratic National Committee, the Perkins Coie law firm and the Fusion GPS strategic intelligence firm -- to hide her campaign's payments to British national Christopher Steele to find dirt on Trump and his campaign; in other words, to collude. Steele in turn collected his purchased Russian sources to aggregate unverified allegations against Trump. He then spread the gossip within government agencies to ensure that the smears were leaked to the media -- and with a government seal of approval.

No wonder that special counsel Robert Mueller's partisan team spent 22 months and $34 million only to conclude the obvious: that Trump did not collude with Russia.

Mueller's failure to find collusion prompts an important question. If the Steele dossier -- the basis for unfounded charges that Trump colluded with Russia -- was fraudulent, then how and why did the Clinton campaign, hand in glove with top Obama administration officials, use such silly trash and smears to unleash the powers of government against Trump's campaign, transition team and early presidency?

The question is not an idle one.

There may well have occurred a near coup attempt by high-ranking officials to destroy a campaign and then to remove an elected president. Likewise, top officials may have engaged in serial lying to federal investigators, perjury, the misleading of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the illegal insertion of informants into a political campaign, the leaking of classified documents and the obstruction of justice.

So, how can we tell that the former accusers are now terrified of becoming the accused? Because suddenly the usual band of former Obama officials and Trump accusers have largely given up on their allegations that Trump was or is a Russian asset.

Instead, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein are now beginning to accuse each other of wrongdoing.

Even their progressive media handlers are starting to sense the desperation in their new yarns -- and the possibility that these hired-gun analysts or guests were themselves guilty of crimes and were using their media platforms to fashion their own defense.

The end of the Mueller melodrama has marked the beginning of real fear in Washington.

Comey, the former FBI director, has hit the lecture and television circuit with his now-tired moralistic shtick that he alone had a "soul" while others allowed theirs to be eaten away by Trump. Translated, that means Comey is terrified that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whom Comey attacked as a Trump enabler, knows that Comey himself may have broken the law -- and may direct prosecutors on how to prove it.

Comey is also in a tiff with his former deputy, Andrew McCabe. Both know that the FBI under Comey illegally leaked classified information to the media. But Comey says McCabe went rogue and did it. Of course, McCabe's attorney shot back that Comey had authorized it. Comey also claims the Steele dossier was not the chief evidence for a FISA warrant. McCabe insists that it was. It's possible that one might work with prosecutors against the other to finagle a lesser charge.

Former CIA Director John Brennan has on two occasions lied under oath to Congress and gotten away with it. He may not get away with lying again if it's determined that he distorted the truth about his efforts to spread the Steele dossier smears. A former CIA official claims that Comey put the unverified Steele dossier into an intelligence community report on alleged Russian interference. Comey has contended that Brennan was the one who did.

It's possible that both did. Doing so would have been unethical if not illegal, given that neither official told President Obama (if he didn't already know) that the silly Steele dossier was a product of Hillary Clinton's amateurish efforts to subvert the 2016 Trump campaign.

In sum, the old leaky vessel of collusion is sinking.

The rats are scampering from their once safe refuge -- biting and piling on each other in vain efforts to avoid drowning.

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the author of the soon-to-be released "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won," to appear in October from Basic Books. You can reach him by e-mailing authorvdh@gmail.com.

EDITORIAL: Wells Fargo Calendar Ignores Black History, Celebrates LGBTQ and Chinese New Year

By Dr. Wayne Perryman

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Today as I turned the page on my Wells Fargo's Calendar to the month of June, I noticed that the section that recognizes special events and special groups for the month, proudly boasting that Wells Fargo had proudly supported the LGBTQ community and had participated in their Pride Parades for the past 27 years.

I immediately turn back the calendar to the month of February to see what the Wells Fargo calendar said about Black History Month and the contributions of African Americans (in that same section).  Instead of recognizing African Americans or Black History, it recognized the Chinese New Year.  There was nothing about Black History.

Tears came to my eyes and I asked myself:  As a race, what did we do - to not be recognized anymore?

Even though we volunteered and willingly fought in a segregated military from 1776-1954 without getting the same rights and benefits as our white counterparts.  During this past Memorial Day, there was no mention of our black soldiers and their contributions during the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Spanish American War, the American Indian War, the Civil War, World War I, World War II and the Korean War. 

We are the only race of people in the world that willingly fought for a country while that country was enslaving our race and by law, never giving us the same benefits and rights as the whites citizens in that country (over a period of 144 years).  You talk about loyalty?!  Our white soldiers have never done this.

For years, scholars claimed that the black race was cursed by God.  The curse part was right.  But it wasn't by God it was and still is by our white society.  

As I was thinking about this, it came to me, that in the past 200 years, 95% of white people have never had a black family in their home for dinner (or for any other reason) and 98% of whites would never come into contact with blacks if they didn't have to work with them or sit next to them at a sporting event or walk past them in a shopping mall.

All of this is happening during the 400th Anniversary of African American History, a history that most corporations, schools, colleges, churches or either political party have plans to celebrate.  

Wells Fargo replaced us with the Chinese New Year (this year), but who will they replace us with next year?  Keep in mind, neither the Chinese or the LGBTQ community has ever contributed as much to America as the black race.  Our contributions started 157 years before we became a nation - then we gave our lives so America could become a nation.  

Salute the LGBTQ community and the Chinese New Year, but please don't forget to recognize us, especially during those times that we should be recognized.

Perhaps you will weep with me.

Dr. Wayne Perryman is an Author/Historian.

Barr: "Resisting A Democratically Elected President" Is Destroying Our Norms And Institutions, Not Trump

By Tim Hains | Real Clear Politics

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In an interview aired Friday on "CBS This Morning," Attorney General William Barr explains why he opened an investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation. He doesn't say what the evidence is, but Barr tells CBS News legal correspondent Jan Crawford that there is evidence that makes him believe senior government officials may have acted improperly to authorize surveillance of President Trump's 2016 campaign. He says that led to "spying" on the campaign.

He said the hyper-politicized nature of politics today is a danger to longstanding institutions and he took the job of attorney general because he is at the end of his career.

"Nowadays, people don't care about the merits or the substance. They only care about who it helps, whether my side benefits or the other side benefits. Everything is gauged by politics, and I say that is antithetical to the way the Department [of Justice] runs, and any attorney general in this period is going to end up losing a lot of political capital," Barr said. "And that's one of the reasons I decided I should take [the job] on. At my stage in my life, it wouldn't make any difference."

"I'm at the end of my career," he said. "Everyone dies. I don't believe in the Homeric idea that immortality comes by having odes sung about you over the centuries."

"In many ways, I'd rather be back at my old life, but I love the Department of Justice, I love the FBI, I think it is important that in this period of intense partisan feelings we do not destroy our institutions."

"One of the ironies today is that people are saying it is President Trump who is shredding our institutions. I really see no evidence of that. From my perspective, the idea of 'resisting' a Democratically elected president and basically throwing everything at him, and really changing the norms on the grounds that we have to stop this president. That's where the shredding of our norms and institutions is occurring," Barr said.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/31/attorney_general_william_barr_i_dont_care_about_my_reputation_i_took_this_job_to_protect_our_institutions.html