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<\/a>\nLEO HOHMANN
\nWND.com<\/p>\n
The judge who granted an injunction against President Donald Trump\u2019s temporary ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries based his decision on a blatantly inaccurate premise.<\/p>\n
Judge James Robart, a federal district judge in Seattle, stated that no one from the seven countries on Trump\u2019s list \u2013 Iraq, Iran, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya \u2013 has been arrested on terrorism charges since the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on America.<\/p>\n
His comment, made in open court on Friday, went unchallenged in the establishment media all weekend and into Monday, while WND reported it was inaccurate and gave a partial list of terror incidents that have been plotted or carried out by Somali and Iraqi immigrants since 9\/11.<\/p>\n
Where is Politifact? Where is Snopes? Where are all the other media fact-checkers to correct the mistaken judge?<\/p>\n
\u201cJudge Robart no doubt knows the mainstream media is a propaganda arm for the left\u2019s globalist agenda, and so no one would report the falsity of his statement except \u2018discredited\u2019 or \u2018right-wing\u2019 news outlets,\u201d said Robert Spencer, an Islam expert who blogs for the David Horowitz Freedom Center at JihadWatch.org.<\/p>\n
Finally, on Monday afternoon, the Associated Press came out with a fact-check on Robart\u2019s comment<\/a>, debunking it as patently false.<\/p>\n \u201cWASHINGTON \u2014 The federal judge who halted President Donald Trump\u2019s travel ban was wrong in stating that no one from the seven countries targeted in Trump\u2019s order has been arrested for extremism in the United States since the 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n Just last October, an Iraqi refugee living in Texas pleaded guilty to attempting to provide support to the Islamic State group, accused of taking tactical training and wanting to blow himself up in an act of martyrdom. In November, a Somali refugee injured 11 in a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University, and he surely would have been arrested had he not been killed by an officer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n CNN, the New York Times and the major TV networks were silent on the legitimacy of an exchange Friday in federal court between Robart and Justice Department lawyer Michelle Bennett, who was tasked with defending Trump\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n Robart grilled Bennett<\/a>, asking if citizens of the seven countries named in the order had been arrested for plots in the U.S. since 9\/11. Bennett said she didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n \u201cThe answer to that is none, best I can tell,\u201d Robart said. \u201cYou\u2019re here arguing on behalf of someone that says we have to protect the United States from these individuals coming from these countries, and there\u2019s no support for that.\u201d<\/p>\n What do YOU think?\u00a0Should Trump ignore judge\u2019s ruling on travel ban? Sound off in today\u2019s WND pol<\/em><\/strong><\/a>l!<\/p>\n Congress gives the president wide latitude in foreign affairs, which includes granting visas, Bennett reminded the judge.<\/p>\n But the judge answered: \u201cI\u2019m also asked to look and determine if the executive order is rationally based. And rationally based, to some extent, means I have to find it grounded in fact instead of fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n As it turns out, Robart was the one basing his decision on a fiction.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s order bars citizens of the seven countries from entering the U.S. for 90 days, all refugees for 120 days and indefinitely halts refugees from Syria.<\/p>\n Robart, a George W. Bush appointee, halted the enforcement of Trump\u2019s order nationwide pending appeals. The case has been appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and is expected to make a fast track to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n Robart, ruling in a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of Washington state and Minnesota who sought to stop the order, said the states \u201chave met their burden of demonstrating that they face immediate and irreparable injury as a result of the signing and implementation of the Executive Order.\u201d<\/p>\n America is on the same suicidal path as Europe but is it too late for Donald Trump to fix the problem? Get all the facts in Leo Hohmann\u2019s brand-new investigative book \u201cStealth Invasion: Muslim Conquest Through Immigration and Resettlement Jihad.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n He said the order adversely affects residents of the two states in areas of education, employment, education and freedom to travel. Dozens of corporations such as Microsoft, Expedia, Apple, Google, E-Bay, Amazon, Starbucks and others claim to be suffering damages by the executive order. The essence of their claims is that they are suffering economically, which may be the case since these companies benefit from hiring cheap immigrant labor from Muslim countries.<\/p>\n Almost every president since the advent of modern air travel has implemented bans on travel from various nations for various reasons. President Obama enacted a six-month ban on refugees from Iraq in 2011 after it was revealed that two Iraqi Muslims resettled in Bowling Green, Kentucky, were sending weapons and cash to al-Qaida<\/a> in Iraq. They were arrested, tried, convicted and are serving time, unbeknownst to Judge Robart.<\/p>\n President Jimmy Carter implemented a travel ban on citizens from Iran<\/a> after the Shah was deposed and students seized the U.S. Embassy in 1979.<\/p>\n Dozens of Somali refugees have been involved in terror plots, including more than 40 of which left the country to join ISIS, al-Shabab or al-Qaida, the FBI has confirmed.<\/p>\n Andrew Luger, the U.S. attorney for Minnesota, even admitted in April 2015 that \u201cWe have a terror recruitment problem in Minnesota<\/a>\u201d involving the Somali refugee community in that state. His comment came at a press conference after six Somali refugees were charged with trying to leave the country to board flights to Turkey, from where they planned to hop across the border to Syria and join ISIS.<\/p>\n The problem got so bad in Minnesota with Somali refugees and their sons being recruited by ISIS that the federal government under Barack Obama approved grants for a pilot program that emphasized teaching Somali youth how not to succumb to the terrorist recruiters by getting involved in soccer or the arts.<\/p>\n As WND pointed out in a story Sunday<\/a> and the AP acknowledged Monday, Somali refugees also carried out knife attacks against civilians at a mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Sept. 17, injuring 10, and at Ohio State University on Nov. 28, injuring 11.<\/p>\n So Robart either has a short memory, does not read the news, or was deliberately whitewashing the facts in an attempt to strike down Trump\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n Pamela Geller, editor in chief of the Geller Report and president of American Freedom Defense Initiative, said Robart\u2019s decision, if upheld, smacks directly at the sovereignty of the United States and strips the president of his constitutional authority to protect the nation.<\/p>\n \u201cThe media doesn\u2019t care about the truth. It only cares about demonizing Trump. To report Robarts\u2019 lie would interfere with their quest to destroy Trump, Trump\u2019s ban, and the dawn of a new, glorious era in Trump America,\u201d Geller told WND. \u201cThe travel ban is legal: it is clearly set out in American law that the president has the right and responsibility to bar people from entering the country for national security reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n She said it is indicative of how \u201ctraitorous the left has become that they are so angry and rioting about this.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd the judges who have blocked the ban are no better. Even those appointed by G.W. Bush represent the failed establishment that is trying desperately to hold on to its power, continue to further the cause of globalist socialist internationalism, and keep the U.S. from defending itself.\u201d<\/p>\n Limbaugh: Robart issued political, not legal opinion<\/strong><\/p>\n Rush Limbaugh, on his show Monday, said Robart \u201cis not a conservative,\u201d that he was appointed by George W. Bush likely as part of a game of \u201chorse trading\u201d with Sen. Patty Murray of Washington state.<\/p>\n Robart once praised Black Lives Matter in a lawsuit against police in Seattle.<\/p>\n Limbaugh said Robart did not even attempt to decide the case based on legal principles, choosing instead to base his opinion on an assumption about Trump\u2019s motive for implementing a \u201cMuslim ban.\u201d<\/p>\n Limbaugh said:<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhen you get right down, this judge does not have the legal power to do what he did, because he is interpreting Trump\u2019s state of mind. If you read the judicial opinion that orders the temporary stay from the judge, this Judge Robart guy in Seattle, he doesn\u2019t even address the law of this! He just addresses typical left-wing touchy-feely things and then presumes to understand the president\u2019s state of mind, and he presumes to understand the president\u2019s prejudices and biases.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Even constitutional scholar Alan Dershowitz \u2014 who doesn\u2019t agree with Trump on the temporary travel ban \u2014 said in an op-ed for the Toronto Globe and Mail<\/a> that Trump could have ignored Robart\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n \u201cTrump could have just told the guy to go pound sand, but Dershowitz even said that the president has too much respect for the legal system to openly defy a judge like this, that they\u2019re gonna go through the process of trying to get this stay of his executive order overturned so that it can be re-implemented. It\u2019s not about banning Muslims,\u201d Limbaugh said. \u201cIt\u2019s about vetting terrorists. It\u2019s not about religion. This is the thing that\u2026 See, the left has been allowed to frame this and characterize this via the protesters and the rioters working in consort with the media.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump supporters are thinking they\u2019ve accomplished a great thing but the protesters and media were a step ahead, Limbaugh said.<\/p>\n \u201c\u2026these people begin protesting within minutes of this executive order. They fill up LAX, they fill up JFK, they make it look like the whole country\u2019s fit to be tied at this and then they mischaracterized it as a ban on Muslims and a bigoted religious ban, and they say America\u2019s never had a religious test,\u201d Limbaugh said. \u201cWhich we have, by the way, just not the way you think or the way it sounds. But we\u2019ve always asked refugees their religion when they claim they\u2019re fleeing religious persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n Obama effectively banned Christians from Syria<\/strong><\/p>\n In fact, President Obama, in league with the United Nations, applied his own religious test on refugees flowing out of Syria. Almost none of the refugees who were Christian or Yazidi were allowed into the United States. A total of 56 Syrians or 0.5 percent of the more than 17,000 Syrian refugees allowed into the U.S. were Christian while more than 98 percent were Sunni Muslim. Christians make up 10 percent of the Syrian population and were among the most persecuted and vulnerable of all Syrians as they were being hunted down and killed by ISIS and other Sunni rebel groups fighting the Assad regime.<\/p>\n A group of foreign policy advisers to former Democrat presidents, including Madeleine Albright, John Kerry, Susan Rice, Leon Panetta and other top aides to ex-president Barack Obama filed a brief<\/a> with the Ninth Circuit urging the court to uphold Robart\u2019s block of the president\u2019s executive order.<\/p>\n \u201cWe view the Order as one that ultimately undermines the national security of the United States, rather than making us safer,\u201d they argued.<\/p>\n \u201cReinstating the Executive Order would wreak havoc on innocent lives and deeply held American values.\u201d<\/p>\n Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator from Vermont who ran for president in the Democratic primary, put out a tweet<\/a> Monday that he also hopes the courts strike down Trump\u2019s temporary ban:<\/p>\n \u201cIt is extraordinary how little Donald Trump knows about immigration, or cares about the Constitution, rule of law or separation of powers.\u201d<\/p>\n It is extraordinary how little Donald Trump knows about immigration, or cares about the Constitution, rule of law or separation of powers.<\/p>\n — Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 6, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n