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Trump to judges: Even a ‘bad high school student’ would rule in my favor

Feb 8, 2017 | WLS-AM Staff

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By Kevin Liptak

President Donald Trump harshly criticized arguments against his temporary travel ban on Wednesday, discounting a legal challenge to the order as anti-security and lambasting the federal judicial system that’s weighing it as overtly political.

Seeking to lend his own legal argument for the order banning travel from certain Muslim-majority countries, Trump insisted that US president’s have wide authority to determine who may enter the United States.

As he read from US immigration law, the President declared that even a “bad high school student” could understand the language and find in his favor.

“I think it’s sad, I think it’s a sad day,” Trump told a group of major city police officers and sheriffs in Washington.

On Tuesday evening, a federal appeals court heard arguments in the legal battle over the travel ban. The California-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will decide soon whether to reinstate the executive order. Until then, his order that temporarily bars all refugees from entering the country, and all immigration from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, is halted.

“I watched last night in amazement and I heard things that I couldn’t believe, things that really had nothing to do with what I just read,” Trump said during his event Wednesday morning in Washington.

He even offered criticism for his own Justice Department defense, saying: “I listened to lawyers on both sides last night and they were talking about things that had nothing to do with it.”

“I listened to a bunch of stuff last night on television that was disgraceful,” Trump continued, bemoaning courts he said “seem to be so political.”

But the President dismissed claims that he overstepped his bounds as ignorant misreading of the law.

“I was a good student. I comprehend very well, OK, better than I think almost anybody,” Trump said. “It can’t be written any plainer or better.”

Trump said his executive order was “written beautifully” and fully within the bounds of US statute.

And he claimed that national security professionals told him he couldn’t preview the order before it went into effect since it would led to terrorists “pouring” into the country.

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“Nobody’s An Expert!” – The Race Card with Charles Barkley

Oct 26, 2016 | WLSAM Staff

By Jen DeSalvo, The Big John & Ray Show

As Heard On John & Ray…

“This show is about race. Race has been the biggest problem of my adult life, and I want to provide a conversation,” Barkley begins.

He continues to say that “people never talk about race until something happens,” and that “Hollywood does an awful job.”

Not limited to racism against black persons, Barkley asserts that Muslims are portrayed negatively in media, and that Hispanics are only talked about when the topic of illegal immigration surfaces.

The YouTube preview only says that the show is “Coming to TNT in 2017.”

Authorities investigate online threats against Bridgeview mosque

Jan 23, 2015 |

(BRIDGEVIEW) Authorities said Thursday that they are investigating a series of online threats made this week against a southwest suburban mosque, the Sun-Times is reporting.

The threats, which began as a status update on the Facebook page of a teenage boy, threatened to put local Muslims “in check” for the actions of extremist followers of Islam on the other side of the globe.

“F – – – – – – Muslims burn down christian churches in France! We got to start breaking some rules putting these n – – – – – in check,” the unidentified teen wrote, according to a redacted copy of the post obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Bridgeview spokesman Ray Hanania said police launched an investigation with the help of the FBI on Tuesday after they were alerted to the postings, though a spokeswoman for the FBI would not confirm their involvement. Hanania said a Facebook “friend” of the teen saw the postings and alerted authorities.

While the post started as a generalized threat against Muslims, discourse grew more specific in subsequent comments.

“I’d like to start with that mosque down the street . . . Eye for an eye tooth for a tooth,” the teen continued.

Pretty soon a different friend of his chimed in: “Haha . . . yep . . . maybe we should walk down the middle of the street without a worry in the world like they do shootin every one of them!!!!”

Eventually it was suggested that the two target a mosque near 87th and Harlem, according to the posting.

That effectively identified their theoretical target as the Mosque Foundation, which is close to that intersection, said Ahmed Rehab, executive director for the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

“You have to be vigilant and take things seriously,” said Oussama Jammal, vice president of the mosque’s board of directors. The threat, he said, “had specifics that made it very alarming.”

“We have a large community, lots of children and a school — obviously more than enough to make anyone concerned about the safety of children,” Jammal said.

Rehab said his organization sent out a community alert about the threats Thursday night because it is important to combat “this conflagration between a terrorist ideology and Muslims or Islam.”

Bridgeview Police Chief Walter Klimek took the threats “very seriously,” Hanania said. He added that police have identified the teen behind the posting but have not made an arrest.

The teen might be a little disappointed to hear Bridgeview police are on the case, according to the posting.

By targeting a mosque, he speculated that it “will be in the FBI’s hands to catch me.”

Then he added: “Something a little cooler than the Bridgeview police.”

–Sun-Times

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