As we close out 2019, there are several stories that characterize the condition of souls. The news media, to me, is the biggest of them. When freedom of the press is abused as it has been during the past year, it is no longer free, but rather a slave to agendas. The political intolerance and ideological bigotry of the news media is so far off the charts that it is the story of 2019. For without these characteristics of the news media, the ongoing coup to remove a duly elected president, the false narratives of Russia, Ukraine, and that anyone who voted for Donald Trump or supports conservatism and Christianity is a bigot or worse, would not be established within American society. This is the story of 2019.

Washington Times columnist Robert Knight recently observed: “Anyone tuning in to CNN, MSNBC and the three major networks – NBC, CBS and ABC – will see nonstop left-wing propaganda. Many media outlets run stories that rub raw the nation’s racial wounds. Much of it is designed to convey that liberals and Democrats love people and the truth, while conservatives and Republicans are racists who hate people and lie all the time. The same goes for nearly every major metropolitan newspaper, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, plus the wire services such as the Associated Press.”

Yet when faced with the truth about weaponizing fake news, the media bristles and whines about the “conservatives” and Trump’s attack on free speech. At the recent annual White House Correspondents dinner, the president of the White House Correspondents Association, Olivier Knox, said, “In nearly 23 years as a reporter, I’ve been physically assaulted by Republicans and Democrats, spat on, shoved, had crap thrown at me. I’ve been told I will never work in Washington again by both major parties. And yet I still separate my career to before February 2017 and what came after…And February 2017 is when the president called us the enemy of the people.”

Donald Trump did not say the media was the enemy of the people. He said fake news media was the enemy of the people. This misquoting of the President is a precise example of the propaganda of the leftist media. But by the twisting of this quote, ironically, the media is not only admitting to being “fake,” but also embracing it. In reality, the media’s own agenda is the threat to free speech and a free press—not those who point out the inaccuracies and weaponized media narratives.

This hate by both the media and the leadership in the Democratic Party made 2019 the year of ideological bigotry. This is fuel for persecution, and we are seeing it in both the Jewish and Christian communities. Ever so important that we respond as a 1 John 3:18 people: “let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.” Truth is so hard to come by!

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Well, House Democrats did it. They impeached President Donald Trump. There are no real charges, and the witnesses who testified against the president are on record as not being eyewitnesses, but listeners of hearsay only. The news media announcing the impeachment vote were really bad actors—trying to act sober while delivering a very one-sided version of the impeachment debate and votes. It is hard to imagine that they didn’t take a victory lap and have a party celebrating the vote after their newscasts. But lurking in the dark crevasses of the deep state is a FISA Court order that undermines the impeachment by the House of Representatives.

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court is now saying that it was duped by the Obama Administration’s FBI into issuing a warrant to spy on President Trump’s campaign. The Court issued a December 17 order stating:

“This order responds to reports that personnel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provided false information to the National Security Division (NSD) of the Department of Justice, and withheld material information from NSD which was detrimental to the FBI’s case, in connection with four applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for authority to conduct electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen named Carter W. Page. When FBI personnel mislead NSD in the ways described above, they equally mislead the FISC.”

Carter Page was a Trump campaign aide.

The Court’s order describes the process that took place and how the application to spy on Trump’s campaign must “be approved by the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General or, upon designation, the Assistant Attorney General for National Security.”

The order specifically states the standard for application:

“The FISC expects the government to comply with its heightened duty of candor in ex parte proceedings at all times. Candor is fundamental to this Court’s effective operation. The FBI’s handling of the Carter Page applications, as portrayed in the OIG report, was antithetical to the heightened duty of candor described above.”

This shows the level of deceit and approval of such by the high-ups in the Democratic political machine.

The Democratic Party, the FBI, and Obama Administration operatives intentionally misled the Court. The Court authorized the spying on a political opponent based on false information. Now the Court is trying to cover its butt rather than take blame for participating in this political long-game of removing a duly elected president from office.

It’s like Ezekiel 8:8-9 where the Lord told the prophet,

“Dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door. And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.”

This is part and parcel to the impeachment strategy, and it clearly is an abomination upon all citizens of the United States. Sadly, those responsible will escape judgment here on earth. They, however, will surely get their reward.