Happiest birthdays to Abby, Brian and Scott. Many more healthy and safe ones.
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Worth repeating because it is hard to refute unless you are consumer by hatred:
FROM THE DESK OF E.P. UNUM
December 24, 2020
The Honorable Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest
Washington D.C. 20500
Dear President Trump:
I know that you have far more important things to tend to than reading a letter from me. But, I do sincerely hope that at some point you do have a chance to read it because it is heartfelt and seeks only to express thanks to you for devoting the last four years of your life to America.
My days on earth are numbered, but before I fade away, there is something important I need to say. It may not be important to anyone else, but it's important to me so here goes:
Like you, I am New York City-born and bred. So, win, lose, or fraud, Mr. President, sir, you have been a terrific leader and the finest Commander-in-Chief our nation has had in a long, long time. You have my eternal thanks for that.
Thank you for putting America First in all of your actions and policies and, in doing so, making people like me proud to be American.
Thank you for calling out the nations of Europe who have, for one reason or another, failed to contribute their fair share of GDP to NATO and the defense of Europe. Your forcefulness shamed them into finally ponying up financial support to NATO and making it stronger, rather than relying on the benevolence of America to continue to foot the bill, which we have done for 70 years. That’s leadership. It’s a pity we did not have that kind of leadership in past Presidents.
Thank you for being unwilling to surrender to the secular outbursts seeking to remove God from our government and the town square. And, thank you for reminding us that the very foundation of our Republic and our way of life is rooted in Christianity. We need only to follow your lead and not feel we should ever be required to apologize for this.
Thank you for standing up to socialism and totalitarianism across the globe.
Thank you for your business acumen and leadership in building the strongest economy we’ve ever experienced in my lifetime.
Thank you for all you have done for the minority communities, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Indian, and for reducing poverty and unemployment in those communities, as well as all across the country to levels never before seen in our nation.
Thank you for always demonstrating, in words and deeds, what it means to love our country and to be a proud patriot again.
Thank you for supporting our Nation's Flag and the men and women who fought, bled, and perished so that we might enjoy the freedoms that stand behind that flag.
Thank you for supporting our nation's law enforcement organizations, and understanding how difficult their job really is.
Thank you for quelling the flood of illegal immigration, and bringing to justice the thousands of criminals that flood brought us. It remains to be seen if your successor will have the necessary courage and strength to continue this policy, but even now as I write this letter to you, caravans of illegal immigrants are building in Honduras, Mexico, Venezuela, and Nicaragua looking to come north to cross into the United States. In addition to being illegal, this will create significant economic upheaval here in the U.S. not to mention the threat of disease.
Thank you for providing corporations business, economic and moral reasons to come back to America so that we could reinvigorate our manufacturing base and once again make our own products and put Americans back to work.
Thank you for bringing our troops home from endless wars and deployments that presented us with little more than body bags; and for your unswerving commitment to strengthen and rebuild our military.
Thank you for your never-ending attempts at bringing peace to the Middle East and your unrelenting support for Israel.
Thank you for your tax cuts and the elimination of unnecessary governmental regulations on oil & gas exploration, fossil fuel initiatives, and fracking. These have yielded incredible results and for the first time in the history of our country, the USA is energy independent; we are now a net exporter rather than an importer of oil. The economic impact of this has benefited every American and every U.S. Corporation, especially the Airline, Hotel, and Cruise Industries.
Thank you for donating all of your salary as President for the past four years, some $1.6 million, to various charitable causes. I am not aware of any other President in U.S. History who has ever done that. I doubt your successor will be so inclined.
Thank you for your leadership and the removal of red tape in Operation Warp Speed, enabling the National Institute of Health and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, along with their scientists, to produce not just one but three vaccines to help cure the Covid-19 Pandemic in record time, never before seen in our history. All the so-called experts said it could not be done, but your vision, dedication, commitment, and passion led the way and we did this in a matter of nine calendar months. The benefits of this will inure to all of us but, in traditional American fashion, we will share it with the world. I can think of no greater, lasting legacy than this Mr. President.
I stand in awe and with the utmost gratitude to you for your efforts.
And, you did all this over a four year period in which the Democratic/Socialist Party were engaged in a non-stop uncooperative effort intended to remove you from office by any means necessary, fair or unfair. The fact that you never withered from their assaults is further testimony to your resilience and strength. We are so fortunate to have had you as our President.
Many people have criticized you these past four years. They have called you any number of vile names under the sun. But if truth be told these same people, if pressed, likely could not articulate why they dislike you. Some will say you are “not Presidential” (whatever that is); “that you are not cool like Barack Hussein Obama”; or that you “were married three times”, or any number of illogical and irresponsible opinions. To them, I say that I did not vote for a Priest or for someone who could speak eloquently with a flair for the dramatic. I voted for a leader, someone well versed in business and economics, a person who knows what it takes to make hard decisions, and who has a vision rooted in the very principles for which our Founding Fathers stood.
I voted for you Mr. President. Thank you for answering the call
With great appreciation and admiration,
E. P. Unum
Thank you for allowing us to experience a President that wasn’t a lifelong politician, but a lifelong American.
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
Matthew 11:28
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Regardless of what Trump Haters want to believe, Trump loves this country enough to have placed it first and then he acted upon his convictions. Ask Xi.
I would put nothing past him. Seventy plus million Americans may also not want to take it laying down.
Is Nothing Happening?
Or is Trump Channeling Sun Tzu?
American Thinker
I’m impatient, as I expect most American Thinker readers are as well.
We have been promised a coming storm that will be biblical, or a Kraken released on Deep State conspirators. Despite Attorney General Barr acknowledging Spygate as “one of the greatest travesties in American history,” there has not yet been a reckoning.
A mid-level FBI attorney, Kevin Clinesmith, pled guilty to falsifying a document which became one of the lynchpins of a FISA warrant on Carter Page and subsequent spying on Donald Trump and his campaign, but he has yet to be sentenced. His co-conspirators are writing books, teaching at prestigious universities, and bashing President Trump on cable news shows.
A presidential election was stolen, and Trump’s own executive agencies say ho-hum, rollover, and go back to sleep. The same FBI that sent 15 agents to investigate a garage door handle that Bubba Wallace claimed was a noose, can’t seem to find any reason to investigate a host of election irregularities.
Republican members of Congress, who happily rode Trump’s coattails to their elections, are telling him to “accept the results” and “move on,” oblivious to the fact that if they get their wish, their party will become as irrelevant as the Green Party. Media stalwarts that were once “fair and balanced,” have tilted to the left, becoming “unfair and unhinged,” rivaling the standard left-wing cable news gabfests.
Perhaps more is going on than I can see, but what is visible to 75 million Trump supporters, those who have endured ridicule and scorn for supporting their president, is that nothing is happening. This is Trump’s administration and he’s the boss. He hires and fires, just as he did in the real estate development world and on “The Apprentice.”
The buck stops with him. If nothing is happening, then that’s on him.
Is he flailing away in a vain attempt to win a second term? After all that he has been through and overcome, not only to get elected in 2016, but also to stay in office for four years, accomplishing more in one term than most presidents do in two, is he about to lose it all to a senile grifter no more qualified to be president of the United States than a manager at a bowling alley?
At one level it sure seems that way. The clock is ticking with important electoral dates breezing by, getting ever closer to the final date of Jan. 20? On the other hand, President Trump may be playing a different game, one not obvious to most observers, certainly not the media or even his supporters.
Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general and strategist, author of a treatise on military strategy known as The Art of War. Trump is a fan, as this book made his short list of “best leadership books.” Trump quoted Sun Tzu in this 2012 tweet, long before Twitter was fact-checking his every utterance and attaching warnings and disclaimers to each tweet.
Can Sun Tzu’s ancient wisdom and strategy explain the current apparent “nothing is happening” perception for those who, like myself, are becoming increasingly impatient over “all hat and no cattle” promises coming from Team Trump? Is Trump following the Sun Tzu battle plan? Look at some of his quotes.
Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.
If Trump has a master plan, it’s safe to assume that few outside his small inner circle know anything about it. An example would be Secretary of Defense Chris Miller speaking to Vice President Mike Pence, thanking him for “his steady hand and leadership” during “some of the [most] complex military operations this country’s ever conducted.”
Why haven’t we heard of such operations? Or were they “dark and impenetrable as night”? And executed, like “a thunderbolt”? This is not faint praise. Pence is not a military guy, but Miller certainly is, a former special forces operator and commander. Miller was close to tears acknowledging Pence’s assistance and leadership. Something is happening.
All warfare is based on deception.
Trump is a master of chaos, with strategic media leaks and disinformation. Is VP Pence a white hat or a black hat? The SecDef says Pence is a white hat. Attorney Lin Wood says Pence is a black hat.
What about the rest of Trump’s inner circle – Mark Meadows and Pat Cipollone – friends or foes? Patrick Byrne calls them serpents. Trump hired them and keeps them on. Deception and confusion. Classic Sun Tzu.
In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
Trump tweets in one direction and signs executive orders in another direction. He complains about the GOP Senate while hundreds of conservative judges are confirmed by the same senate. He creates chaos then uses the opportunity to advance his agenda. Trump distracts the media with tweets and comments and while they are in meltdown mode, he is running circles around them.
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Has Trump gone to war against the Democrats and the left? Did he send in the military to reclaim American cities under siege by Antifa and BLM? Has he declared martial law, as the Twitterverse assured us he would? Or has Trump gamed this out, knowing electoral fraud was coming when he signed the 2018 executive order regarding election interference?
Has Trump already won, now waiting for the optimal time to go to war? The defeated left has been at war with Trump for six years, unsuccessful in their efforts to win? And finally,
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
As of yet, there has been no storm, no Kraken. Trump has followed the Constitution, making legal arguments up to and including the U.S. Supreme Court. What Vice President Pence does when it is time to again follow the Constitution and certify the Electoral College votes is to be determined.
Will a massive declassification of criminal and seditious activities subdue the Democrats? Will Trump win without a bloody battle? Time will tell.
At this point, it’s a binary choice. Either Trump is in over his head and will be dragged out of office. Or he is executing his plan, on his terms and timing, as he has done since his famous escalator ride at Trump Tower in 2015.
Trump knows the stakes for himself, his family, and America if Kamala Harris and Joe Biden get the keys to the kingdom and promptly hand them over to China. Want to bet against Trump? How has that worked out in the past?
Ponder these words from Trump’s inspiration, Sun Tzu,
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
Mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy.
He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
Is Trump unprepared? Au contraire. Listen to Oprah interviewing him in 1988, more than thirty years ago. He looks younger but sounds the same as he does now, speaking of China, immigration, and electoral politics. Trump has been preparing for this moment most of his adult life.
Buckle up for an interesting few weeks ahead.
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