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Alan Dershowitz Has Secret Trial Weapon That Will Help Trump Big Time - Read More
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Zito on Manchin.
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Every president leaves his indelible mark but Obama left people.
Does America crave style or success in selecting it's presidents? (See 2, 2a and 2b below.)
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McConnell Makes Plan to End Impeachment if it Becomes a “Circus” Controlled by Adam Schiff - Read More
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Ross Rants again. (See 3 below.)
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I tried to get Dershowitz to speak at one of the SIRC meetings but he demurred because he was not comfortable raising money for conservative Republicans.
Perhaps he will reconsider. His wife is from Charleston and he has family living in Savannah. (See 4 below.)
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Understanding Trump and some of his thinking behind his policies. (See 5 below.)
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- A never-seen-before secret Iranian government document dated Nov. 28, 2002, proves the Iranian regime was trying to build a nuclear weapon. It shows scientists outlining their proposals for a "warhead fitted on a missile." A handwritten comment from Moshen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's nuclear science chief, is visible on the document. The document was seized as part of a raid by Israeli intelligence agents on a compound in Tehran in 2018. (Daily Mail-UK)
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Joe Manchin is no shoo-in on impeachment
By Salena Zito
Sen. Joe Manchin insists his approach to the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump will be one void of political leanings and heavy on objectivity.
“I want to be fair," the West Virginia Democrat told the Washington Examiner ahead of the impeachment trial, which will begin in earnest on Tuesday. "I take this extremely serious. This is the serious-most thing I could ever do as a senator."
He continued, “They're asking us to be a juror and decide whether the president, who's been elected, whether you like him or not, whether he's from the same party you're from, they're asking us to make a judgment on whether we should remove him from an office that he's been elected to represent by the people of the United States."
Manchin has been long respected by voters in his deeply reddening state for his political independence from both parties. A poll conducted by the Club for Growth PAC, a conservative advocacy group, shows nearly 7 in 10 West Virginia voters say they oppose the senate removing Trump, who remains robustly popular in a state that gave him his second-highest margin of victory behind Wyoming in 2016.
“That's the most challenging and difficult thing you can do," he said. "And you have to make a decision, is it egregious enough that he should be removed? That's what we have to look at."
While reporters have focused mostly on the Republicans either up for election this year, such as Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Cory Gardner of Colorado, and Martha McSally of Arizona, or Trump's harshest in-party critics, such as Utah’s Mitt Romney, as to where their votes will go, there are centrist Democrats, including Manchin, Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, and Doug Jones of Alabama who also may vote based on evidence and not party.
Click here for the full story
2a) This explains the flood of leaks that ooze out of just about every nook and cranny of the Federal Agencies. It’s a wonder that President Trump has been able to achieve all that he has when poison arrows are coming at him from every direction within the government and from the Fake News too. A lessor man could not have survived it let alone to have out flanked and out maneuvered them. The public is becoming increasingly aware of the sabotage and he is slowly but surely expanding his base of support because the electorate is becoming more convinced each day that he is for ordinary citizens and businessmen and not himself.
Wow, this will blow your socks Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army Marty Robinson, October 31, 2019
It’s the most powerful three-letter agency in government. More powerful than the CIA, the NSA and the FBI. In fact, it’s so powerful it has its own seal and its own flag. And no, it’s not the FDA, the SEC, or the IRS. And it’s not part of Homeland Security or FEMA… Although its tentacles reach deep into every one of those agencies.
The mainstream media rarely mentions it by name... So most Americans have no idea it even exists. But thanks to an obscure executive order and the secretive, if not treasonous, actions by former President Barack Obama…
It’s become the hidden force behind the coup of a duly elected president and the ongoing “complete transformation of America.” And only by exposing it and bringing it out of the shadows, will it ever be stopped. You see, on December 15th, 2015, six months after Donald J. Trump declared his candidacy for president and began to rise in the polls…
Former President Barack Obama signed what at the time, appeared to be an innocuous executive order. However, Obama’s intentions were much more complex and sinister. Because with that single executive order, Barack Obama launched an accelerated purge of thousands of American patriots from virtually every government agency — including our intelligence services and the military —while replacing them with party loyalists and political operatives loyal not to the country and the Constitution, but to him and his globalist and progressive-socialist agendas.
It was a purge of patriots and a takeover of government that began early on in his first term… A purge that began by transforming an obscure federal agency hidden deep within the bowels of government, into what soon became a private, stay behind army. An army of political operatives committed to two things:
The complete political, cultural and economic transformation of America as promised by Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. And the overthrow of a Donald J. Trump presidency should he be elected.
The Department of The Deep State
The Senior Executive Service, or “SES,” was created on September 19, 1979 during the Carter administration. It was originally formed to professionalize career civil service, while attracting the nation’s best and brightest in an effort to improve and modernize the management of the federal bureaucracy. A position within the “SES” is considered the equivalent to general officer or the flag officer ranks in the U.S. Armed Forces. For that reason, they are often referred to as our “civilian generals.” Their pay scale starts above the top level of civil service (GS-15), with base salaries ranging from a minimum of $127,914 to a maximum of $192,300.1 Ostensibly, the SES was to be a corps of non-partisan, career managers who serve as the executive management of federal agencies… Their job being to implement policy, not create it.
At least it was until then President Barack Obama changed that with a mere flick of his pen... Making SES members nearly impossible to fire, once hired. To say Obama’s transformation of the SES into an army of political operatives was effective would be a gross understatement. There are more than 2 million federal government employees. And at the top of that pyramid are approximately 8,000 SES (Senior Executive Service) employees who service as the professional managerial class linking our political leaders to the civil service rank and file. And Barack Obama as president, replaced more than 6,000 members of the 8,000-member SES during his two terms, assembling what became a stay-behind army of political operatives…
So how pervasive is the SES? Here’s a list of the number of SES employees that were embedded in the following government agencies at the end of Obama’s 2nd term in 2016:
Department of Education – 86
Department of Housing & Urban Development – 115
Department of the Air Force – 182
Department of Labor – 200
Department of State – 204
Department of Transportation – 231
Department of Interior – 258
Department of the Army – 261
Department of the Navy – 326
Department of Veterans Affairs – 357
Department of Agriculture – 361
Department of Commerce – 425
Department of the Treasury – 458
Department of Health & Human Services – 468
Department of Defense – 478
Department of Energy – 490
Department of Homeland Security – 639
Department of Justice – 821
All Other Agencies (all non-Cabinet level agencies) – 1,796
And it wasn’t just a purge of patriots from governmental agencies… Obama’s purge of the military was especially damaging to our national security, as he literally gutted the command structure of the U.S. military. Not to mention the demoralization of the ranks due to his policies of radical political correctness. In all, Obama’s patriot purge included 9 Senior Commanding Generals, 2 Nuclear Commanders, 197 high ranking Senior, General and Flag Officers, along with thousands of non-commissioned officers…
With perhaps the most glaring example being the firings of U.S. Army General Carter Ham and Rear Admiral Chuck Gaouette..
Red September…Obama’s Benghazi Stand Down Order General Carter Ham was relieved as head of U.S. Africa Command because he defied Obama’s “stand down” orders to not mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi. And Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved for disobeying orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to "assist and provide intelligence for military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.” And as damaging as Obama’s purge of the military was, it was his takeover and transformation of the Department of Justice, the F.B.I. and the Intelligence Agencies that raise the greatest threat to America today.
Because instead of being tools for implementing the policies of the president and the United States government… They’ve become the defacto 4th Branch of Government and are now dictating and carrying out their own policies, while openly subverting and sabotaging those of a duly elected president.
But, before we go any further, please understand this… Barack Obama was not the architect of these changes, merely the front-man in charge of carrying them out as the Deep State and Shadow Government’s placeholder president. And that’s the root of President Trump’s problems…
Trump: America’s Last President
You see, in the post 9/11 world, we’ve transferred far too much power to the office of the president. And that’s created a very big problem for the Deep State and our Shadow Government. Because the one thing they can no longer ever allow to happen… Is to have an outsider not under their control, become president. And Donald J. Trump is definitely an outsider who is not under their control. That’s why they launched their “insurance policy,” before President Trump was even sworn into office.
You remember their “insurance policy,” don’t you? The one orchestrated by Obama’s secret stay behind sleeper cell… Located on the 7th floor of the Truman building in Washington D.C. The “insurance policy” that Peter Strzok (the FBI’s Chief of Counterespionage), referred to in the now infamous text he sent to FBI attorney Lisa Page. It was “Plan B,” just in case Trump was elected. It’s what the Steele Dossier, the Mueller Investigation, the entire Russia-gate hoax and their current impeachment witch-hunt is all about... Because as far as the Deep State and our Shadow Government are concerned… The office of The President of the United States of America as we know it, no longer exists.
A real President… Like JFK, or Reagan? No longer acceptable. You saw what happened to both of them.
No Dear Reader, they’re not looking for Presidents any more… Nor will they tolerate one. Especially one picked by you and not by them.
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I do not believe target dated portfolios make sense. They rebalance your portfolio regardless of what the market is doing, and instead forward pick a point in time. It also ignores issues like what is your health situation at the time. Maybe, given the longer we are all living, you are healthy and you decide to keep working part time, or you do non-profit work. Maybe you will live 5 or even 10 years longer than you thought, which is feasible given today's medical advances. Maybe we are in a raging bull market as we have today, and by rebalancing you will miss a considerable increase in your future available funds that you might have used for travel, medical expenses, or just enjoying life. Or maybe the market is way down at the trigger date and your wealth manager did not move in time to get you out of stocks when he should have. If you then move into bonds you will have locked in those losses, and will miss the coming upturn and opportunity to rebuild your wealth. (i.e.Dec 2018) My view is to be market driven, not calendar driven. My view is clearly opposite of what the so-called experts recommend. I have my profits over 7 years as my data point vs the wealth managers who told me I was not doing the standard right balancing which would have cost me a lot of wealth creation.
By late February, the EU will possibly have actually moved the process to the next step to snap back sanctions on Iran. They will, or they will fold in the face of Iranian threats to completely scrap the deal. Now that Boris has complete control of Parliament, and Brexit will have happened, he will be in a position to strongly support Trump on Iran. It has been reported that China is also cutting back on purchasing Iran oil. That would be the final straw. The fact that the ayatollah led Friday prayers recently is a sure sign the regime is in crisis according to ex-CIA experts. He only appears in real crisis, and it has been 8 years. As the economy continues to collapse, and as Iran continues to break the agreement with enrichment, the more likely Johnson will force Macron and Merkel to agree to snap back sanctions. That is when the real crisis happens. Maybe in March. Protests will ramp up in the region, and in Iran, and they will get very deadly. That will just incense the protestors more. Iran knows it cannot launch a major military strike now and get away with it, so they are getting really boxed in. Without Soleimani, they have nobody to deal with this crisis. We are likely far away from regime change, but when the proxy militias are not getting paid, and have no strategy, things will start to unravel. Iraq has backed off kicking us out, not that they ever really intended to do so. Kim has continued to remain quiet which suggests there might be something going on secretly behind the curtain as a result of the China deal. And what is Congress doing just when we might have a worldwide chance to crush the regime-impeachment, limit war powers, and do everything they can to prevent Trump from executing a strong strategy to bring an end to the Mullahs, and the proxy militias. It is analogous to 1938-41 when FDR and Congress sat back and watched the Nazis crush Europe, bomb London, and murder Jews. They never learn anything. Congress is the definition of an idiot. Just keep digging the hole, and doing the same thing. They are so determined to stop Trump's reelection they are willing to damage the world and US security to do so.
Many in DC and the press comment that they are amazed how Trump just moves on in spite of all the vicious attacks and impeachment. It is really very simple. Nice guys don't last five minutes in NYC real estate. You can be a decent person, although not many are, but if you are not tough as nails, and able to put up with all sorts of abuse and threats, and lawsuits, you should move to another part of the country and be a developer there. Many of the NYC developers I interacted with are as abusive and blunt as Trump. They will not hesitate to insult you to your face, or say some other comments that most would never utter. So Trump is just being who he has always been, and is treating all the abuse as just part of the job. He will not let any of it really stop him, and he is unlikely to roll over in a deal just to make political points as opposed to trying to get the best deal he can. It is nearly impossible for people outside of NYC real estate to understand Trump, and to tolerate his sometimes obnoxious comments, but that is the environment he grew up in. I am not making excuses, just trying to give some sense of why he is who he is. It is not pretty, nor gentlemanly. He does get a lot done that nobody else would even try-i.e. China deal. USMCA, confronting Iran, deregulation on a mass scale, major tax cuts.
Many in the establishment world still say Trump should have kept TPP, and that it was a major strategic error to not sign it. If we were not faced with the Chinese problems that would make sense, but if Trump had signed it, then there would never be a deal with China. He would have been forced to include the TPP countries in the negotiation, and that would have meant abysmal failure. All those countries depend on China for trade, and none would have cared much about IP issues. Few have any IP to protect other than maybe Japan. The incentives for tariffs would have been nil, and then we would have had group think and slow decisions which rarely works in a very tough negotiation. Getting the EU on board would have been equally dysfunctional. We see that they have allowed Iran to cheat massively before they even triggered a long slow process that may eventually result in new sanctions. The EU has no guts. Merkel's political views raise serious questions. She wants Russia to have the new gas pipeline which gives Putin near complete control over EU thinking by threatening to cut off energy supplies. She allowed Huawei, despite the security threat, and she refuses to meet her obligations to pay here fair share of NATO even though Germany is the front line. In her first call to Trump she asked what were his intentions about Crimea, to which he responded, Crimea is in your backyard, what are your intentions, it is not a US problem. A response she never expected.
The NYT editorial board embarrassed itself this week by endorsing Warren and Klobachar equally. I assume they did not want to piss off any arm of the Dems, but instead made themselves the laughing stock of the media. Endorsing both meant endorsing nobody. How could they endorse Warren, a blatant liar and socialist who would destroy the economy. Warren had the audacity to claim Bernie called her a liar publicly, and liars are very bad people. She must be talking about herself given that she lied about her heritage and how she got ahead.
China facts from a former Chief of Naval Ops :
The S China Sea controls much of the world's shipment of energy and containers movement.
The UK and France now have tiny navies incapable of making any difference. The US Navy is all there is
There are vast pools of oil under the S China Sea
5G is critical to Chinese plans for dominance which is why we are trying to stop Huawei
China makes a huge investment in its students who come here for school to learn our research
In 20 years water will be the reason for wars. It is already in short supply in some places and China is short.
Our biggest problem is our lousy schools, high school and university, and the poor education of our kids. It is harming our ability to effectively compete with China- (thank you teachers unions, left wing professors and lousy mayors beholden to the union)
Out of the huge US military budget only 15% goes to weapons. Most goes to retirees and other human payments. The retirement burden is huge.
The cutbacks in military spend by Obama Biden and Dems was devastating to our military and will take several more years to fully repair.
In the late 1700's thru the early 1800's the whole world was undergoing a vast revolt and change from monarchies to dictators, to chaos. The US was still formative and was having a lot of major issues between the Federalists and Republicans (not modern Republicans), and the nation almost fell apart. Finally after 36 rounds of voting, Congress elected Jefferson to be third president and things moved ahead. They tried to resolve the slavery issue, but if the north forced the issue more than they had done, the union would have disintegrated then, and likely would never have recovered. In the mid 1800's Europe went through a vast shift to more nation states instead of principalities, and more wars. WWI and the Russia revolution then became the last gasp of the monarchies battling for control. If the US had not intervened there is no telling how many more millions would have died. WWII was the final explosion of the old systems, colonialism, and the battle for power. Again, were it not for the US tens of millions more would have died and the world would have been partially fascist. WWII ended the colonial era. It is doubtful that after the two world wars, Europe is going to again engage in mass warfare. We now have the Mideast left to deal with. It was left a mess by the parties after WWI and WWII and boundaries were arbitrarily drawn, which has led to where we are today in the Mideast. By refusing to listen to the generals and pulling out of Iraq, Obama set up conditions for ISIS to form, and terrorize the world. By letting the US military atrophy to the point of incapacity, and trying to stop fracking and drilling, he left the US and the world vulnerable to all the bad guys. Had Trump not reversed both these things, we would have remained vulnerable to Iran doing as it did under Obama-running across the Mideast. The Iran deal was the stupidest deal ever done and just empowered Iran. By ignoring Chinese cheating on WTO Obama let them run across the world and become a major threat it is today. By ignoring Kim, he let N Korea develop nukes, and it is only since we rebuilt the military and had the guts to threated to use it, did Kim back off to some degree. It may be that once the Iran mess is dealt with in the next year or so, then the world can revert to a period of relative calm, at least as to wars between nations.
Wow, this will blow your socks Obama’s Secret Stay Behind Army Marty Robinson, October 31, 2019
It’s the most powerful three-letter agency in government. More powerful than the CIA, the NSA and the FBI. In fact, it’s so powerful it has its own seal and its own flag. And no, it’s not the FDA, the SEC, or the IRS. And it’s not part of Homeland Security or FEMA… Although its tentacles reach deep into every one of those agencies.
The mainstream media rarely mentions it by name... So most Americans have no idea it even exists. But thanks to an obscure executive order and the secretive, if not treasonous, actions by former President Barack Obama…
It’s become the hidden force behind the coup of a duly elected president and the ongoing “complete transformation of America.” And only by exposing it and bringing it out of the shadows, will it ever be stopped. You see, on December 15th, 2015, six months after Donald J. Trump declared his candidacy for president and began to rise in the polls…
Former President Barack Obama signed what at the time, appeared to be an innocuous executive order. However, Obama’s intentions were much more complex and sinister. Because with that single executive order, Barack Obama launched an accelerated purge of thousands of American patriots from virtually every government agency — including our intelligence services and the military —while replacing them with party loyalists and political operatives loyal not to the country and the Constitution, but to him and his globalist and progressive-socialist agendas.
It was a purge of patriots and a takeover of government that began early on in his first term… A purge that began by transforming an obscure federal agency hidden deep within the bowels of government, into what soon became a private, stay behind army. An army of political operatives committed to two things:
The complete political, cultural and economic transformation of America as promised by Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. And the overthrow of a Donald J. Trump presidency should he be elected.
The Department of The Deep State
The Senior Executive Service, or “SES,” was created on September 19, 1979 during the Carter administration. It was originally formed to professionalize career civil service, while attracting the nation’s best and brightest in an effort to improve and modernize the management of the federal bureaucracy. A position within the “SES” is considered the equivalent to general officer or the flag officer ranks in the U.S. Armed Forces. For that reason, they are often referred to as our “civilian generals.” Their pay scale starts above the top level of civil service (GS-15), with base salaries ranging from a minimum of $127,914 to a maximum of $192,300.1 Ostensibly, the SES was to be a corps of non-partisan, career managers who serve as the executive management of federal agencies… Their job being to implement policy, not create it.
At least it was until then President Barack Obama changed that with a mere flick of his pen... Making SES members nearly impossible to fire, once hired. To say Obama’s transformation of the SES into an army of political operatives was effective would be a gross understatement. There are more than 2 million federal government employees. And at the top of that pyramid are approximately 8,000 SES (Senior Executive Service) employees who service as the professional managerial class linking our political leaders to the civil service rank and file. And Barack Obama as president, replaced more than 6,000 members of the 8,000-member SES during his two terms, assembling what became a stay-behind army of political operatives…
So how pervasive is the SES? Here’s a list of the number of SES employees that were embedded in the following government agencies at the end of Obama’s 2nd term in 2016:
Department of Education – 86
Department of Housing & Urban Development – 115
Department of the Air Force – 182
Department of Labor – 200
Department of State – 204
Department of Transportation – 231
Department of Interior – 258
Department of the Army – 261
Department of the Navy – 326
Department of Veterans Affairs – 357
Department of Agriculture – 361
Department of Commerce – 425
Department of the Treasury – 458
Department of Health & Human Services – 468
Department of Defense – 478
Department of Energy – 490
Department of Homeland Security – 639
Department of Justice – 821
All Other Agencies (all non-Cabinet level agencies) – 1,796
And it wasn’t just a purge of patriots from governmental agencies… Obama’s purge of the military was especially damaging to our national security, as he literally gutted the command structure of the U.S. military. Not to mention the demoralization of the ranks due to his policies of radical political correctness. In all, Obama’s patriot purge included 9 Senior Commanding Generals, 2 Nuclear Commanders, 197 high ranking Senior, General and Flag Officers, along with thousands of non-commissioned officers…
With perhaps the most glaring example being the firings of U.S. Army General Carter Ham and Rear Admiral Chuck Gaouette..
Red September…Obama’s Benghazi Stand Down Order General Carter Ham was relieved as head of U.S. Africa Command because he defied Obama’s “stand down” orders to not mount a rescue mission in response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi. And Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved for disobeying orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to "assist and provide intelligence for military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.” And as damaging as Obama’s purge of the military was, it was his takeover and transformation of the Department of Justice, the F.B.I. and the Intelligence Agencies that raise the greatest threat to America today.
Because instead of being tools for implementing the policies of the president and the United States government… They’ve become the defacto 4th Branch of Government and are now dictating and carrying out their own policies, while openly subverting and sabotaging those of a duly elected president.
But, before we go any further, please understand this… Barack Obama was not the architect of these changes, merely the front-man in charge of carrying them out as the Deep State and Shadow Government’s placeholder president. And that’s the root of President Trump’s problems…
Trump: America’s Last President
You see, in the post 9/11 world, we’ve transferred far too much power to the office of the president. And that’s created a very big problem for the Deep State and our Shadow Government. Because the one thing they can no longer ever allow to happen… Is to have an outsider not under their control, become president. And Donald J. Trump is definitely an outsider who is not under their control. That’s why they launched their “insurance policy,” before President Trump was even sworn into office.
You remember their “insurance policy,” don’t you? The one orchestrated by Obama’s secret stay behind sleeper cell… Located on the 7th floor of the Truman building in Washington D.C. The “insurance policy” that Peter Strzok (the FBI’s Chief of Counterespionage), referred to in the now infamous text he sent to FBI attorney Lisa Page. It was “Plan B,” just in case Trump was elected. It’s what the Steele Dossier, the Mueller Investigation, the entire Russia-gate hoax and their current impeachment witch-hunt is all about... Because as far as the Deep State and our Shadow Government are concerned… The office of The President of the United States of America as we know it, no longer exists.
A real President… Like JFK, or Reagan? No longer acceptable. You saw what happened to both of them.
No Dear Reader, they’re not looking for Presidents any more… Nor will they tolerate one. Especially one picked by you and not by them.
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MENKEN: The Impeachment That Threatens America
To best understand why this impeachment is so troubling, I share with you what a friend from left-wing circles put out on Twitter: “I so want to believe that Lev Parnas has handed us the smoking gun, but I fear we are once again being led down the primrose path. As we have been at almost every turn since 11/8/2016.”
One might have imagined that, with so much of world history behind us, we would have learned better than to search for an excuse to charge or convict another person. You would think that this was obvious. Put “charging political adversaries with imagined crimes” on a Jeopardy! board, and the question is: “What were the Stalin Show Trials?”
And that is why the current impeachment is both morally wrong and an abuse of congressional power. Impeachment, like any accusation of criminal or otherwise nefarious activity, was never intended to be a political goal — a way to get rid of someone you don’t like. It was intentionally reserved for a president who had been caught up in criminal or similarly shocking activity. The accusations against President Trump not only fail to meet the constitutional standard of “high crimes and misdemeanors”; they aren’t crimes or misdemeanors at all.
Yet if you think my friend is atypical of Democrats, you haven’t been listening. The intent to abuse impeachment as a political tool is why The Washington Post reported that “The Campaign to Impeach President Trump Has Begun” on his inauguration day. It is why Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) came into office promising to “impeach the motherf***er” long before the phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ever took place.
This same political partisanship and hostility is why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), barely shielding her glee and schadenfreude, appointed the uniquely unfit Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) to now lead the prosecution of the president in the Senate.
To start at the beginning, it is why Schiff, as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, repeatedly lied to us about the president’s fictional collusion with Russia in the first place. Recall that he spent over two years asserting “ample,” “abundant,” and “damning” evidence of collusion between Russia and President Trump that Robert Mueller concluded simply doesn’t exist. Schiff was not simply asserting that these things were true; due to his position, he claimed access to classified information to which we were not yet privy and which ultimately proved him correct.
If Democrats had the least interest in a serious, measured prosecution of the president for actual crimes, Adam Schiff is literally the last person on earth they would let anywhere near the Senate trial — because there is no one on earth who lied more about inside information to which he or she purportedly had access, but did not, in order to slander the President.
Democrats, who are so quick to condemn the president for exaggerating as he brags about the size of his inauguration, his tax cut, his hands, and whatever else, have now appointed a man to lead them who maliciously lied in an attempt to destroy the president. They have become their own punchline.
America truly is a shining beacon of freedom. It has led the world in advancing civil liberties, mutual respect, and tolerance. Perhaps it is no coincidence that those who claim America is hopelessly racist and broken are leading the way to upend what the Founding Fathers called justice.
And perhaps it is no coincidence that both are so profoundly factually and morally wrong.
Rabbi Yaakov Menken is the managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, and co-editor of the Orthodox Jewish journal Cross-Currents.com. Opinions are his own.
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3) The band rolls on. By mid- February, when Brexit is in place, impeachment done, and the Chinese are starting buying farm products, most of the uncertainty will have been resolved. It is the removal of much of the uncertainty for the moment that really mattered and not the buying which the farmers say will not change the prices as it just shifts buying from Brazil to US but not change demand levels. Soy is a world competitively priced commodity for the most part. USMCA will have more real impact. Q4 GDP is likely to be a bit better than forecast, and earnings of much of the major companies will have been reported and will beat in 75% of the stocks. Barring some black swan, the market should continue to rally. The problem for the US remains, there is almost nobody who can qualify to do work left to hire. It is a restraint on growth. That will force even more cap ex in technology spend to supplement human labor. That is good for improving productivity. The stars continue to align for the stock market. Recession blather has pretty much gone away, although some Dem leaning economists and traders still adhere to that scenario. A feeling of positivity and optimism has taken hold now. We just need to watch that it does not become uncontrolled euphoria. Unfortunately the press pushed the trade deals down the list of stories and preferred to focus on impeachment, which in the end will mean nothing. This is why the public is misinformed about the economy. The press cannot hide workers from seeing their own larger paychecks and the stock market values of 401K's.
I do not believe target dated portfolios make sense. They rebalance your portfolio regardless of what the market is doing, and instead forward pick a point in time. It also ignores issues like what is your health situation at the time. Maybe, given the longer we are all living, you are healthy and you decide to keep working part time, or you do non-profit work. Maybe you will live 5 or even 10 years longer than you thought, which is feasible given today's medical advances. Maybe we are in a raging bull market as we have today, and by rebalancing you will miss a considerable increase in your future available funds that you might have used for travel, medical expenses, or just enjoying life. Or maybe the market is way down at the trigger date and your wealth manager did not move in time to get you out of stocks when he should have. If you then move into bonds you will have locked in those losses, and will miss the coming upturn and opportunity to rebuild your wealth. (i.e.Dec 2018) My view is to be market driven, not calendar driven. My view is clearly opposite of what the so-called experts recommend. I have my profits over 7 years as my data point vs the wealth managers who told me I was not doing the standard right balancing which would have cost me a lot of wealth creation.
By late February, the EU will possibly have actually moved the process to the next step to snap back sanctions on Iran. They will, or they will fold in the face of Iranian threats to completely scrap the deal. Now that Boris has complete control of Parliament, and Brexit will have happened, he will be in a position to strongly support Trump on Iran. It has been reported that China is also cutting back on purchasing Iran oil. That would be the final straw. The fact that the ayatollah led Friday prayers recently is a sure sign the regime is in crisis according to ex-CIA experts. He only appears in real crisis, and it has been 8 years. As the economy continues to collapse, and as Iran continues to break the agreement with enrichment, the more likely Johnson will force Macron and Merkel to agree to snap back sanctions. That is when the real crisis happens. Maybe in March. Protests will ramp up in the region, and in Iran, and they will get very deadly. That will just incense the protestors more. Iran knows it cannot launch a major military strike now and get away with it, so they are getting really boxed in. Without Soleimani, they have nobody to deal with this crisis. We are likely far away from regime change, but when the proxy militias are not getting paid, and have no strategy, things will start to unravel. Iraq has backed off kicking us out, not that they ever really intended to do so. Kim has continued to remain quiet which suggests there might be something going on secretly behind the curtain as a result of the China deal. And what is Congress doing just when we might have a worldwide chance to crush the regime-impeachment, limit war powers, and do everything they can to prevent Trump from executing a strong strategy to bring an end to the Mullahs, and the proxy militias. It is analogous to 1938-41 when FDR and Congress sat back and watched the Nazis crush Europe, bomb London, and murder Jews. They never learn anything. Congress is the definition of an idiot. Just keep digging the hole, and doing the same thing. They are so determined to stop Trump's reelection they are willing to damage the world and US security to do so.
Many in DC and the press comment that they are amazed how Trump just moves on in spite of all the vicious attacks and impeachment. It is really very simple. Nice guys don't last five minutes in NYC real estate. You can be a decent person, although not many are, but if you are not tough as nails, and able to put up with all sorts of abuse and threats, and lawsuits, you should move to another part of the country and be a developer there. Many of the NYC developers I interacted with are as abusive and blunt as Trump. They will not hesitate to insult you to your face, or say some other comments that most would never utter. So Trump is just being who he has always been, and is treating all the abuse as just part of the job. He will not let any of it really stop him, and he is unlikely to roll over in a deal just to make political points as opposed to trying to get the best deal he can. It is nearly impossible for people outside of NYC real estate to understand Trump, and to tolerate his sometimes obnoxious comments, but that is the environment he grew up in. I am not making excuses, just trying to give some sense of why he is who he is. It is not pretty, nor gentlemanly. He does get a lot done that nobody else would even try-i.e. China deal. USMCA, confronting Iran, deregulation on a mass scale, major tax cuts.
Many in the establishment world still say Trump should have kept TPP, and that it was a major strategic error to not sign it. If we were not faced with the Chinese problems that would make sense, but if Trump had signed it, then there would never be a deal with China. He would have been forced to include the TPP countries in the negotiation, and that would have meant abysmal failure. All those countries depend on China for trade, and none would have cared much about IP issues. Few have any IP to protect other than maybe Japan. The incentives for tariffs would have been nil, and then we would have had group think and slow decisions which rarely works in a very tough negotiation. Getting the EU on board would have been equally dysfunctional. We see that they have allowed Iran to cheat massively before they even triggered a long slow process that may eventually result in new sanctions. The EU has no guts. Merkel's political views raise serious questions. She wants Russia to have the new gas pipeline which gives Putin near complete control over EU thinking by threatening to cut off energy supplies. She allowed Huawei, despite the security threat, and she refuses to meet her obligations to pay here fair share of NATO even though Germany is the front line. In her first call to Trump she asked what were his intentions about Crimea, to which he responded, Crimea is in your backyard, what are your intentions, it is not a US problem. A response she never expected.
The NYT editorial board embarrassed itself this week by endorsing Warren and Klobachar equally. I assume they did not want to piss off any arm of the Dems, but instead made themselves the laughing stock of the media. Endorsing both meant endorsing nobody. How could they endorse Warren, a blatant liar and socialist who would destroy the economy. Warren had the audacity to claim Bernie called her a liar publicly, and liars are very bad people. She must be talking about herself given that she lied about her heritage and how she got ahead.
China facts from a former Chief of Naval Ops :
The S China Sea controls much of the world's shipment of energy and containers movement.
The UK and France now have tiny navies incapable of making any difference. The US Navy is all there is
There are vast pools of oil under the S China Sea
5G is critical to Chinese plans for dominance which is why we are trying to stop Huawei
China makes a huge investment in its students who come here for school to learn our research
In 20 years water will be the reason for wars. It is already in short supply in some places and China is short.
Our biggest problem is our lousy schools, high school and university, and the poor education of our kids. It is harming our ability to effectively compete with China- (thank you teachers unions, left wing professors and lousy mayors beholden to the union)
Out of the huge US military budget only 15% goes to weapons. Most goes to retirees and other human payments. The retirement burden is huge.
The cutbacks in military spend by Obama Biden and Dems was devastating to our military and will take several more years to fully repair.
In the late 1700's thru the early 1800's the whole world was undergoing a vast revolt and change from monarchies to dictators, to chaos. The US was still formative and was having a lot of major issues between the Federalists and Republicans (not modern Republicans), and the nation almost fell apart. Finally after 36 rounds of voting, Congress elected Jefferson to be third president and things moved ahead. They tried to resolve the slavery issue, but if the north forced the issue more than they had done, the union would have disintegrated then, and likely would never have recovered. In the mid 1800's Europe went through a vast shift to more nation states instead of principalities, and more wars. WWI and the Russia revolution then became the last gasp of the monarchies battling for control. If the US had not intervened there is no telling how many more millions would have died. WWII was the final explosion of the old systems, colonialism, and the battle for power. Again, were it not for the US tens of millions more would have died and the world would have been partially fascist. WWII ended the colonial era. It is doubtful that after the two world wars, Europe is going to again engage in mass warfare. We now have the Mideast left to deal with. It was left a mess by the parties after WWI and WWII and boundaries were arbitrarily drawn, which has led to where we are today in the Mideast. By refusing to listen to the generals and pulling out of Iraq, Obama set up conditions for ISIS to form, and terrorize the world. By letting the US military atrophy to the point of incapacity, and trying to stop fracking and drilling, he left the US and the world vulnerable to all the bad guys. Had Trump not reversed both these things, we would have remained vulnerable to Iran doing as it did under Obama-running across the Mideast. The Iran deal was the stupidest deal ever done and just empowered Iran. By ignoring Chinese cheating on WTO Obama let them run across the world and become a major threat it is today. By ignoring Kim, he let N Korea develop nukes, and it is only since we rebuilt the military and had the guts to threated to use it, did Kim back off to some degree. It may be that once the Iran mess is dealt with in the next year or so, then the world can revert to a period of relative calm, at least as to wars between nations.
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4)
The Demonization of Dershowitz is
an Attack on Democracy
4)
The Demonization of Dershowitz is
an Attack on Democracy
Alan Dershowitz has finally worn out his welcome in polite liberal society. The prolific author and emeritus professor at Harvard Law School has courted controversy and defended the seemingly indefensible in the name of abstract legal principles throughout his long career.
He might have been mocked for his brash style and attention seeking — he did write the book about “Chutzpah.” But despite defending pornographers and accused murderers like Claus von Bulow and O.J. Simpson, Dershowitz maintained his status as not only a respected legal analyst but also a member in good standing of the nation’s liberal Jewish establishment.
But from the moment he began expressing skepticism about the efforts to impeach President Donald Trump, tolerance for Dershowitz from his old cronies and the mainstream media has been running thin. It officially ran out when it was announced that he would be one of the lawyers defending Trump in the Senate impeachment trial that began this week.
Americans are currently more polarized along partisan lines than at any moment in living memory. They read, listen and watch different media and seem to have both lost their ability to listen to opposing views or to credit each other with even having good motives for what they advocate.
So the spectacle of someone such as Dershowitz — a lifelong Democrat who voted for Hillary Clinton — arguing against impeachment is mind boggling to most people and especially many of his Jewish fans.
But even if you think Dershowitz has lost his marbles or believe the only reason he became a prominent skeptic of the charges against the president was to regain the spotlight, the abuse being thrown in Dershowitz’s direction is troubling. So, too, is the notion that standing up for Trump undermines the credibility of his advocacy for Israel.
That’s because there’s more to this question than whether Dershowitz is no longer invited to all the right cocktail parties or if he’s regularly welcomed, as he used to be on CNN, as opposed to Fox News. At stake here is the legitimacy of a quintessentially Jewish concept that values spirited argument and grants legitimacy to the views of the minority. A world in which a Dershowitz can be ostracized for defending Trump on the grounds of abstract concepts of law is one in which no one can play devil’s advocate without fear of being silenced or shunned. And that’s not a safe place for any Jew or democracy.
It was hard not to snicker when Dershowitz first publicly complained of being spurned by other upscale residents on Martha’s Vineyard, where he hosted President Bill Clinton at synagogue one year when Rosh Hashanah came early. But it is interesting that arguing that Trump shouldn’t be impeached has led to him being placed in cherem [excommunication]when helping, as most Americans seemed to think at the time, celebrities like von Bulow and Simpson get away with murdering their wives did not.
It’s true that Dershowitz’s representation of celebrity pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was particularly unpopular. He also deserves the presumption of innocence against the unsubstantiated charges made against him by one of Epstein’s accusers that he has adamantly denied.
But the anger at Dershowitz is symptomatic of a growing disdain for the concept that listening to opposing views is essential to democracy. The demand for “safe places” where sensitive souls can be shielded from hearing anything that might challenge their opinions is increasingly seen as more important than allowing free debate. The ideas of Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse, who influenced the New Left in the 1960s with his critiques of tolerance and called for taking away free speech for those with whom he disagreed, are suddenly back in fashion.
The fact that The New York Times thought it appropriate to give space in its opinion pages to a demand for the firing of Meghan McCain from her spot on “The View” talk show because conservatives shouldn’t be allowed to be heard illustrates how calls for silencing opponents have migrated from the academy to the mainstream. Many on the left value diversity in all things but opinion.
In defending Trump on constitutional grounds, Dershowitz is doing the same thing he did in all of his famous cases, including those that liberals once applauded. Being devil’s advocate is a quintessentially Jewish thing to do, and so it behooves even those Jews who are most upset about Trump to reject the impulse to deny him Jewish platforms for trying to thwart impeachment.
Regardless of whether Dershowitz seems like a sympathetic figure, promoting the notion that our politics is divided between the forces of light and those of darkness and believing the latter must be silenced or at least shunned, is doing as much if not more damage to the fabric of democracy than anything Trump has done.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS.org and a contributor to the National Review, the New York Post, the Federalist, Haaretz and the New York Jewish Week. He can be reached via e-mail at: jtobin@jns.org. Follow him on Twitter at @jonathans_tobin and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/
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5)The Trump Doctrine: On
Zig-Zagging, KeepingHands
Off Our People, and America
First
By Dov Fischer
It’s coming together loud and clear to anyone who doesn’t prefer to plug his ears and cover his eyes.
These past three days, the Left Democrats and their Corrupt Journalist Corps have given voice to a zillion reasons to attack President Trump’s decision to OK the whack on Qassem Soleimani, the arch-terrorist arch–mass murderer. A key criticism has been that the president has no discernible foreign policy, that he just has no idea what he is doing, why, or what the consequences will be.
For three years we have heard from the same crevices the same exact criticism of his approach to the economy. His approach to energy expansion. His approach to trade with China. His approach to NATO. His approach to illegal immigration.
If there were any real truth to that calumny, a sensible response would be “Gimme more! Please — More no idea of what he is doing! More no idea of why! More no idea of consequences! I love it!” For a guy who has no idea what he is doing, no idea why, no idea of consequences — just an unguided bull in a china-tariff shop — he ain’t bad. Would that all our presidents could be this utterly clueless!
The economy has been amazing since Trump walked in the door and swept Obama out with the morning trash. Even if the president never actualizes all of his NATO objectives or all of his China-trade-showdown aspirations, history will record that he accomplished more on those fronts than did any other president since China became communist and since NATO was created. On the one side of history’s ledger: Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan (yes, Reagan), Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama. On the other side — Trump. Indeed, Obama said that Trump’s economic goals were unattainable, so impossible and foolish even to opine that they would require a magic wand. And yet Trump realized his economic promises, while Obama now paddle-boards shirtless, flopping in the water and on land, incapable of grasping how Trump has done it, with the Obamas satisfied to know that at least they became multimillionaires on our dime. Likewise, under Obama we still relied desperately on Saudi oil. Even on sunny days in California, Solyndra could not produce enough energy to power a two-watt night light. All the windmills in New Mexico could not do it either, even if every American would agree to sneeze at the same time.
And now to foreign policy, as we evaluate the Trump Doctrine in the shadow of the enormous attainments of his predecessor, regretted Nobel Peace Prize-winner Obama. The man who kept the peace while Putin took the Crimea and eastern Ukraine. Who kept the peace while ISIS grew from a “junior varsity” to a caliphate. Who kept the peace while China expanded into man-made islands in the Pacific, while the Castro brothers extended their death-grip dictatorship over Cuba, while Hugo Chavez suffocated and enslaved Venezuela and warmly endorsed Obama for reelection. Trump faced a tough act to follow. It may well be that Trump has absolutely no idea what he is doing. Could be. But maybe, just maybe, an actual doctrine is emerging.
I imagine the President might describe that unfolding coherent doctrine in his own words something like this:
“I want American boys back home. I want our ground troops out of all the foreign entanglements that have cost us trillions with no discernible results. I don’t care what the experts and smart people say, because the one and only thing that history teaches is that America’s experts and smart people are morons. The Bay of Pigs. They were the last ones to find out about 9/11. They misread Afghanistan. The experts and smart people blew it on the Iranian revolution. The fall of the Soviet Union. They advised that China would be a fair player in trade in the World Trade Organization. They told us that ‘The Arab Spring’ marked a breakthrough that would see Western-style democracies emerge all over the Arab Muslim world. They told us that the West Europeans in NATO never would increase their payments. They told us that a World War and an Armageddon would erupt in the Mideast if we recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and moved our embassy there from Tel Aviv. They took a beautiful eternal war between Iraq and Iran that killed half a million warriors on both sides over eight years, with no end in sight, and managed to unite them against us while we spent trillions to make it happen. Who was the idiot who had the bright idea that there beats in the heart of every Iraqi a burning desire to adopt the Bill of Rights? Where did that come from? What expert decided that regime change in Baghdad would create a liberal democracy? The only part of the whole Bill of Rights that they ever wanted was a variation on our Second Amendment: the right to bear rocket-propelled grenades. So we sent brave boys to liberate them from one tyrant so that they could veer towards another? They yearn for free speech, for a free press? They yearn for habeas corpus? They yearn for freedom of religion? They yearn for eminent domain? They yearn for a Griswold penumbra derived from emanations of rights? Who came up with this beaut — Clapper? Brennan? Comey? Or was this another doozy from the Bush–McCain–Romney wing of the Democrat Party?
“So I want American boys back home. I want us out of these places. To the degree that we have alliances — frankly, I don’t trust the friendship of almost the whole damn lot of them. Saudi Arabia is our friend? Gimme a break. As long as they face obliteration from Iran, they are our friend. And on other days, they impose crippling oil boycotts against us or educate their kids to grow up and take down our Twin Towers. Or Germany is our friend? So how come they are building a pipeline to Putin’s Russia to buy energy from him, which bolsters his pathetic economy and finances his ability to arm Iran, Syria, and our other enemies? And don’t tell me that the Kurds are our friends. Sure they are — now, while they face destruction from our enemies. So, other than maybe England, Canada, Australia, and Israel, don’t talk to me about ‘friends’ — because we cannot count on them in the United Nations, cannot count on them on anything, even to join our sanctions on Iran.
“I have been in business — in the real world — all my life. Everyone is in this thing for themselves. When I made money for NBC, they loved me. Once I gave the show to the muscle guy, and he tanked it, they turned on me. So don’t tell me about loyalties other than family. If you don’t believe me, just look at Biden and Pelosi and Schumer. For every single damn thing they say against me today, they said the exact opposite 10 and 20 years ago when the president was Clinton and Obama. Then they were against open borders and illegal immigration. Then they opposed impeachment of a popularly elected president. Then they cheered taking down Bin Laden and targeting even American citizens in Yemen like Anwar al-Awlaki for drone assassination. Even an Obama-authorized drone attack that killed Awlaki’s 16-year-old son and friends while they were eating outdoors. Then they opposed FBI wiretapping of American citizens and the abrogation of personal privacy and rights. So don’t tell me about ‘friends.’ And don’t tell me about what they say.
“Here is the thing: Life is about shared interests. You want to make money, and I want to make money, so we make a deal. That’s how it works. At this particular moment we happen to have certain shared interests with Saudi Arabia and the Kurds. Iran wants to kill them and wipe them out, and they don’t want to be wiped out. So now they are our friends. OK, so we have given or sold them billions and billions of dollars’ worth of highly advanced weapons, and we have sent our people there to train them how to use them. We did not send them that stuff as Ramadan presents. The idea is that we gave them the wherewithal to protect themselves, and that is now on them. Use it or lose it. Iran bombed their oil wells? Not our problem — now that Obama is gone, we have more oil and natural gas than we can use, so we sell the stuff abroad. And when the courts finally let me have that Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota pipeline and all the other stuff in a small section of ANWR in Alaska — Who knows? Maybe we will be giving the oil away for free. So if Iran and their surrogates are going to take out Saudi oil fields, let the Saudis respond with all that advanced weaponry we sent them and reciprocate by taking out Iran’s oil fields. Make believe that every Iranian oil pump and derrick is another Khashoggi. But I am not going to send our boys to do Riyadh’s fighting for them. Let them take those thugs they are teaching in their elementary schools and madrassas with their anti-Christian and anti-American Wahhabi Islam, and let them redirect their focus from our World Trade Center and point them at Tehran.
“If the Kurds need weapons, OK. We have given them what Obama and Hillary and Kerry never did. Now let them go fight for themselves. I don’t want American boys on the ground in dirt holes around the world, dying for others. I want American boys home. America First. BUT … BUT … BUT …
“Let the word go forth, as clear as can be, that if anyone anywhere hits one of my men, one of my boys, then you have crossed a red line that I call ‘America First.’ Then all bets are off. If you launch a rocket at an American base and kill an American working for us, even a contractor not even in the military per se, then I will bomb a whole bunch of your installations and will kill 25 or more of your people working there if they have the bad luck to be there that day. And if you dare attack any single one of my embassies, then I will take out whoever came up with the idea. They won’t even be able to identify him by his dental records. OK, maybe I’ll leave a finger. So just keep your hands off America and Americans.
“And don’t get any crazy ideas that I am going to refrain from hitting back because a handful of misfits in the House — the Washington Gnats — are passing articles of impeachment. First of all, you in Iran have no idea how our system works. We have checks and balances — not just one Ayatollah rules all. So anything the Democrat House does means nothing at all unless the Senate agrees. The Democrats cannot accomplish a thing if they refuse to work reasonably with the Senate. So the impeachment is a joke. It is going nowhere. Secondly, don’t believe what your diplomats are telling you about the Washington Gnats passing some kind of ‘War Powers’ resolution to tie my hands. Under the rules of this country, the Constitution, I am the commander in chief. If I see a ticking time bomb like Soleimani, and if I have a two-minute window to take him out, I am not going to ask permission from Pelosi. Let her add another article of impeachment. Big deal — she won’t send it to the Senate anyway. And I am not going to consult first with Schiff so that he can leak it to a friend who can leak it to Iran. And I am not going to have a three-week floor debate in Congress while Soleimani goes around seizing our embassies all around the globe and watching TV each night to find out when and where we are going to whack him.
“Look, if that all sounds crazy and zig-zagging, well — good! If it makes you happy to think that I am nuts, out of control, liable to do insane things — good! Go ahead and think that. Think that I do not know what I am doing, or why. Or what the consequences are. That’s OK. Convince yourselves that I am not as smart as Obama, who — for all we know — got into Columbia on affirmative action, or that I am not as smart as Kerry, who married a millionaire’s widow faster than you can ‘Swift Boat,’ or as smart as Hillary, who met her husband at Yale and even figured out how to move her email server to be near her toilet. I don’t care what you think. But just know this:
- If you hit our allies, I will load them with deadly counter weapons like the Javelins I gave Ukraine after Obama only would give them blankets and pillows. But I will not send our boys there. They will have to learn to be like the Israelis and fight their own battles.
- But if you hit an American target, I will hit you back 10 times as hard because I care about America First. And we are not Israel, OK? So the UN can pass resolutions against Israel all day — and those Jew-haters do — but let them just try passing a resolution against us. Let them just try. We are America, and our response will be as disproportionate as I feel like.
- And if you dare insult me personally by going after one of our embassies, daring to imply that I am the same kind of wuss that Jimmy Carter or Obama or John Kerry was, then it not only gets personal to my country that I love but to me also. I am not going to respond like Carter by boycotting Olympic games and thereby punishing American kids who devoted four years of their lives to excel, and I am not going to send some entertainer with a guitar to go and sing “You’ve Got A Friend.” Instead, in case you didn’t notice, I just got Congress these past two years to give me some two billion dollars to rebuild the American military that Obama allowed to decay. It is up and ready. I am going to use it, and I won’t even put boots on the ground if I can help it.
- And if none of that makes sense, and you cannot figure out what the heck my strategy or endgame is, good. Because that is my strategy and endgame.
“And that is my doctrine, if you want to call it that: America First. Keep your hands off my country and my people. And don’t tread on me.”
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