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March 09, 2021
Jerome kaszubowski –
Update on the Clerk of Courts
UP COMING MEETINGS & GUEST SPEAKERS
March 16, 2021 – Domine Clemons – – Florida Citizens Alliance
March 23, 2021 – Laura Cardoza Moore – Elections Intergrity
March 23, 2021 – Penny Ogg – Supervisor of Elections – Election Integrity
March 30, 2021 – Ben Wilcox – ZOOM Presentation “Integrity, Florida”
April 13, 2021 – Brenda Longshore – Student Mentoring Program
April 13, 2021 – Debbie Albritton – Student Mentoring Program
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ept. 25 , 2020 – Mary van Hooreweghe – Ready to vote for trump
Nov. 07. 2020 – John Larsen – Progressing through Sequence; The Obituary Follows: Born 1776, Died 2020?
Nov. 24, 2020 – John Nelson – Biden is not the president yet: Response to previous letter to editor stating: “now that Biden is the Clear Winner” & ” Damage to our Democracy”
Nov. 30, 2020 – Georgia Lee Eshelman – Trump Worked For The Citizens
Dec. 23, 2020 – John Larsen – Point of Fact – reference to letters to the editor calling the president names.
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Pompeo slams Biden Administration in CPAC 2021 speech
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo slams the Biden Administration
in his speech to CPAC.
Donald Trump speaks at CPAC 2021
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Former US president Donald Trump is giving a highly anticipated speech to close the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando, Florida. Mr Trump is expected to speak on the future of the Republican party.
SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR – Kristi Noem rips Joe Biden in CPAC 2021 speech
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organizer of CPAC)
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks at CPAC.
THIS IS OUR PRESIDENT??
Joe Biden Proves How Lucid He Is: Without A
Teleprompter, Script Or Interrupting Staffer
STEPHEN MILLER EXPLODES ON BIDEN WHEN HE SHOWS UP ON FOX NEWS.
“This is MADNESS!” – Former Trump Advisor Stephen Miller Goes Off – Democrats Propose Sending Invites to Criminal Illegal Aliens to Come Back and Get Citizenship (Video)
Former Trump official Stephen Miller joined Maria Bartiromo on Sunday Morning Futures to discuss the America-hating insanity coming out of the Biden administration.
Stephen Miller is absolutely the best at explaining immigration and the Democrat Party’s disastrous and historic open border policies.
Stephen Miller: The legislation put forward by President Biden and congressional Democrats would fundamentally erase the very essence of America’s nationhood. For the first time, I believe, in human history, this legislation proposes sending applications to previously deported illegal immigrants and giving them the chance to reenter the country on a rapid path to citizenship. This is unheard of. These are the people that ICE officers at great time and expense found large numbers of them with criminal records return to their home countries at tax payer expense and now we’re going to have the Secretary of State and Homeland Security mailing applications for readmission and amnesty to previously deported illegal immigrants? This is madness! This is on top of the fact that the current administration dismantled border security.
Stephen is unsurpassed in explainging the insanity of the Democrat Party.
BIDEN TO USE NUCLEAR OPTION TO RESTRICT 2ND AMENDMENT? “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” MR. BIDEN!
REPORT: Biden Considering ‘Nuclear Option’
to Crack Down on Second Amendment
BIDEN ADMINISTRATION TOTALLY IGNORING IMMIGRATION LAWS OF THE U.S. WHICH HE TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD
Exclusive: Former ICE Chief Says Immigration Law Becoming Meaningless
The former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) says the new administration’s steps to narrow the criteria for immigration enforcement are “just ridiculous.” “It’s almost like it’s not illegal to be illegally in the United States anymore,” Tom Homan told The Epoch Times on Feb. 18. Homan retired during the Trump administration, after directing the agency responsible for interior immigration enforcement and deportations as well as investigations into human trafficking and cross-border crime.
He’s concerned the Biden administration is rendering immigration law meaningless.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Feb. 18 announced new enforcement priorities that will focus on three groups of illegal immigrants: national security threats such as known or suspected terrorists; those who crossed the border illegally after Nov. 1, 2020; and public safety threats who are convicted of aggravated felonies.
Any ICE agent who encounters an illegal immigrant who falls outside of the three categories must get pre-approval from their field office before taking any action. “They say it’s public safety, but it’s only the worst of the worst,” Homan said. “When it comes to assault, when it comes to robbery and burglary, and all these other crimes that they’ve taken off the table, they’ve pretty much sent a message to the rest of the world [that] it’s OK to enter the country illegally—as long as you don’t commit a few of the most serious crimes, you’re free to stay, because ICE isn’t looking for you.”
He argues that crimes such as driving under the influence should be considered a public safety issue.
“I was a police officer. I know what it’s like to run up on a scene of a deadly DUI—it’s terrible. And they’ve obviously never talked to an angel mom or angel dad whose child was killed by someone here illegally that was driving drunk,” Homan said. A DHS official said the new guidelines for ICE are to help the agency focus its limited resources on “cases that the public cares about.”
The official said ICE arrests aren’t expected to drop under the new guidelines. “It’s just a question to us of reallocating resources to the cases that really, truly matter,” the official said.
But Homan said ICE was already prioritizing public safety threats.
Ninety-two percent of the almost 186,000 individuals that ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations removed in fiscal 2020 had criminal convictions or pending criminal charges, according to ICE’s end-of-year report. ICE also conducted more than 103,000 interior arrests—just under 30 percent fewer than in fiscal 2019, due to COVID-19 restrictions. Approximately 90 percent of those arrested had a criminal conviction or charge, according to the report. Those arrested included aliens with criminal charges or convictions for 1,837 homicide offenses, 37,247 assault offenses, and 10,302 sexual assault or sex offenses.
“Every crime committed by an illegal alien is a preventable crime,” Homan said. “If we had true border security, true immigration enforcement—if we actually enforced immigration laws in this country and secured our border—thousands of crimes every day could be prevented because they’re not here.”
Part of ICE’s job is to track down and remove the 672,000 fugitives who have been ordered removed by a federal immigration judge but are still in the United States. But the new DHS directive says ICE agents must first get clearance from supervisors if they encounter illegal immigrants who aren’t convicted criminals during operations. The decision to then arrest the individual, or not, needs to take into account whether the person might be suffering from a serious physical or mental illness, a DHS official said.
“We want them [ICE] to think about ties to the community, whether the individual has family here in the United States, U.S. citizen family members, and other considerations,” the official said.
Homan said DHS is telling ICE agents to ignore removal orders from immigration judges.
“At what point can the executive branch tell the judicial branch that their legal orders are meaningless?” he said.
“It’s ridiculous for a law enforcement officer to have to call a supervisor for permission to enforce the law. The law is black and white. Name a state trooper that needs to get approval to write a speeding ticket.” On Feb. 22, attorney general nominee Merrick Garland testified in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee and was asked whether he believed illegal entry into the United States should remain a crime. The immigration court system sits within the Department of Justice.
“I just haven’t thought about that question,” Garland said. “I think the president has made clear that we are a country with borders and with a concern about national security. I don’t know if a proposal to decriminalize but still make it unlawful to re-enter. I just don’t know the answer to that question. I haven’t thought about it.”
President Joe Biden has undone several border security measures that the Trump administration had put into effect, including temporarily suspending deportations of illegal aliens, reversing President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from terror-prone countries, halting border wall construction, and issuing a sweeping immigration package to Congress that includes amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants.
Homan asserts that the Biden approach is “never going to solve the immigration crisis, and so the border will continue to be out of control.”
He expects an imminent humanitarian crisis at the border.
“During the last surge [in 2019], Border Patrol said 50 to 60 percent of their manpower is no longer on the border because they’re changing diapers, making hospital runs, taking care of families, [with] half or more [agents] no longer on the line,” he said. “President Biden was vice president during the first surge in FY14 and ’15. How did we stop it? We stopped it by building detention facilities and detaining people until they saw a judge. So he forgot all the lessons learned and now he’s trying to stop detention.”
ICE detention facility capacity has been decreased from 52,000 to 15,000 illegal aliens.
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Feb 17, 2021 Congressional Hearing on H.R. 40, Legislation to Study Slavery Reparations
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February 17, 2021 — The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties will held a hearing on H.R. 40, the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. The hearing examined the legacy of slavery, its continuing impact on the Black community, and the path to reparative justice.
Witnesses included:
• The Honorable Norman Mineta, Former Secretary of Transportation, U.S. Department of Transportation.
• The Honorable Dr. Shirley Weber, Secretary of State, State of California.
• Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
• Dreisen Heath, Racial Justice Researcher and Advocate in the US program at Human Rights Watch.
• Kamm Howard, Member of the National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) and National Male Co-Chair, National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N’COBRA)
• Hilary Shelton, Director, NAACP Washington Bureau.
Background: H.R. 40, the “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act,” would create a commission to study the history of slavery in the United States and in the American colonies from 1619 to 1865; the role of the federal and state governments in supporting slavery; federal and state laws that discriminated against the descendants of African slaves; other forms of discrimination against the descendants of African slaves; and the lingering effects of slavery on African Americans. The commission would also make recommendations as to appropriate ways to educate the American public about its findings and appropriate remedies in light of the commission’s findings.
Larry Elder SHUTS DOWN Reparations Bill at Congressional Hearing | Larry Elder
Larry recently spoke at the House Judiciary Committee on “reparative justice,” which is a fancy way of saying reparations, and you can bet he had a few things to say. In this episode, Larry debunks the whole idea of reparations and describes it as the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners to be given to be people who were never slaves. Plain and simple, Larry’s father always said the Democrat party wants to give you something for nothing, and when you try to get something for nothing, you always end up getting nothing for something.
DEMOCRATS GETTING TASTE OF THIER OWN RHETORIC ON BORDER KIDS!
Biden admin. slammed for failing to address detention of migrant children
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In another blow to Joe Biden’s sweeping immigration reform, a federal judge blocked Biden’s 100-day moratorium on deportations. Texas Judge Drew Tipton indefinitely banned the policy after Attorney General Ken Paxton argued the move was in violation of federal law.
WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 24: Joe Biden speaks
at an event to sign an Executive Order on the
economy with Vice President Kamala Harris February
24, 2021 in the State Dining Room of the White
House in Washington, DC. supply chains.
(Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
Paxton said Texas signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security, which acknowledged the state would be given 180 days notice before implementing immigration changes. The agreement was signed under President Trump and Paxton said it’s imperative to protecting residents as the Lone Star State shares its southern border with Mexico.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration was accused of hypocrisy for allowing border facilities to house migrant children. The Department of Health and Human Services recently reopened a facility in Texas to house up to 700 unaccompanied minors.
Both Biden and Kamala Harris continuously blasted immigration laws under President Trump, claiming migrant kids were being “ripped” from their parents’ arms and housed in cages. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki claimed the decision to house the minors was only temporary. However, it was reported hundreds of children were in holding for more than 72-hours in the last week, which was more than what is allowed for a temporary facility.
On Tuesday, Psaki was pressed about the issue. She insisted delays occurred due to the coronavirus pandemic and dangerous weather in the state. “So some, unfortunately, did say four days, five days or longer,” Psaki said. “But the objective is to move them as quickly as possible to the HHS-sponsored facilities.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki defends the administration’s creation and use of “migrant facilities for children” at the southern border:
“This is not kids being kept in cages.”
pic.twitter.com/QCJndIYflq— Alex Salvi (@alexsalvinews) February 23, 2021
NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU TAKE THE COVID-19 VACCINE BY FEDERAL LAW.
Federal law prohibits employers and others
from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19
“vaccine distributed under an EUA

Wednesday, February 24, 2021 7:41
By Aaron Siri Feb. 23, 2021
A health worker holds a vial of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at
a vaccination center in Pfaffenhofen, Germany.
CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
Ever since the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization for two new vaccines, employers, schools, and other organizations are grappling with whether to require Covid-19 vaccination.While organizations are certainly free to encourage their employees, students, and other members to be vaccinated, federal law provides that, at least until the vaccine is licensed, individuals must have the option to accept or decline to be vaccinated.
Knowing what an organization can or cannot do with respect to Covid-19 vaccines can help them keep their employees, students, and members safe and also save the them from costly and time-consuming litigation.
Much remains unknown about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine
Even though the FDA granted emergency use authorizations for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in December 2020, the clinical trials the FDA will rely upon to ultimately decide whether to license these vaccines are still underway and are designed to last for approximately two years to collect adequate data to establish if these vaccines are safe and effective enough for the FDA to license.
The abbreviated timelines for the emergency use applications and authorizations means there is much the FDA does not know about these products even as it authorizes them for emergency use, including their effectiveness against asymptomatic infection, death, and transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the disease.
Given the uncertainty about the two vaccines, their EUAs are explicit that each is “an investigational vaccine not licensed for any indication” and require that all “promotional material relating to the Covid-19 Vaccine clearly and conspicuously … state that this product has not been approved or licensed by the FDA, but has been authorized for emergency use by FDA” (emphasis added).
EUAs are clear: Getting these vaccines is voluntary
The same section of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that authorizes the FDA to grant emergency use authorization also requires the secretary of Health and Human Services to “ensure that individuals to whom the product is administered are informed … of the option to accept or refuse administration of the product.”
Likewise, the FDA’s guidance on emergency use authorization of medical products requires the FDA to “ensure that recipients are informed to the extent practicable given the applicable circumstances … That they have the option to accept or refuse the EUA product …”
In the same vein, when Dr. Amanda Cohn, the executive secretary of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, was asked if Covid-19 vaccination can be required, she responded that under an EUA, “vaccines are not allowed to be mandatory. So, early in this vaccination phase, individuals will have to be consented and they won’t be able to be mandatory.” Cohn later affirmed that this prohibition on requiring the vaccines applies to organizations, including hospitals.
The EUAs for both the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines require facts sheets to be given to vaccination providers and recipients. These fact sheets make clear that getting the vaccine is optional. For example, the one for recipients states that, “It is your choice to receive or not receive the Covid-19 Vaccine,” and if “you decide to not receive it, it will not change your standard of medical care.”
What this means in practice
When the FDA grants emergency use authorization for a vaccine, many questions about the product cannot be answered. Given the open questions, when Congress granted the authority to issue EUAs, it chose to require that every individual should be allowed to decide for himself or herself whether or not to receive an EUA product. The FDA and CDC apparently consider this fundamental requirement of choice important enough that even during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic they reinforced that policy decision when issuing their guidance related to the Covid-19 vaccines.
This means that an organization will likely be at odds with federal law if it requires its employees, students or other members to get a Covid-19 vaccine that is being distributed under emergency use authorization.
State law often prohibits retaliating against an employee for refusing to participate in a violation of federal law. Organizations that require Covid-19 vaccination in violation of federal law may face lawsuits under these state laws not only to block the policy but also for damages and attorneys’ fees. Such potentially costly lawsuits can be avoided by refraining from adopting policies that require vaccination or penalize members for choosing not to be vaccinated.
Organizations are free to encourage vaccinations through internal communications, through educational events, and through other measures to urge employees to be vaccinated. They can take these measures so long as: (1) they are not viewed as coercive, (2) the organization makes clear the decision regarding whether to receive the vaccine is voluntary, and (3) the measures comply with the requirements in the EUAs and the related regulations for these products.
People across the world have had their lives upended during the last year. The urgency to return to normalcy is felt deeply by many. As decision-makers at organizations decide on their Covid-19 vaccination policy, they should be careful to not let this passion lead the organization to run afoul of the law.
Federal law prohibits employers and others from requiring vaccination with a Covid-19 vaccine distributed under an EUA
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Friends…
There’s PLENTY we can and should be doing. If you live in Florida, PLEASE join DefendFlorida.org or text the word DEFEND to 474747 … they’ve been making incredible gains creating a firewall between our state and the federal government overreach. Co-founder Caroline Wetherington is a real dynamo. As founder of Florida’s Women for Trump, she knows how to get things done. Help unite our voices: https://rumble.com/ vdczod-yourvoice-america-128- caroline-wetherington- defendflorida.html
Re my last email about the article in Tampa Bay Times calling me out by name as a “right-wing blogger” and spreading “conspiracy theories”, I did receive several emails from them. While they reprinted the story again in that Sunday’s edition, they did at least remove the total lie that I supposedly urged people to run over a BLM member. And, I’m happy to say I created extra cost and time on their end by forcing their editor and attorney to respond. Rather than expend my energy on their silly and biased fake news articles, I’ve decided to refocus on what’s really important…saving our country from this very rapid march to socialism.
There is a new attack against the 70 million Patriots who voted for Trump, continue to believe the election was stolen, or believe the Wuhan virus is being used as a political tool to control our population. If you fall into any of these categories, BEWARE. We are being called the new “terrorists” and I believe it will lead to a mass gun confiscation. Don’t believe me? Consider this:
With H.R. 3106 (Domestic and International Terrorism DATA Act) awaiting approval in the US Senate, DHS’s recent “National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin”, and the FBI’s 2019 “Homegrown Violent Extremist Mobilization Indicators Handbook”, the Dems are “setting the stage” for labeling anyone who voted for Trump “HVEs — Homegrown Violent Extremist” terrorists. Not once in these reports is Antifa/BLM mentioned. In the “Bulletin” it clearly states that “Domestic violent extremists have been targeting people with opposing views over the last year, motivated by everything from anger over COVID-19 restrictions to the 2020 election results.” This is a deliberate tool with which they can justify removing our 2nd amendment rights. Please take time to watch my most recent podcast on this very important subject: https://rumble.com/ vdvae9-rewriting-history-has- begun-all-maga-are-targets. html
If you think this is “conspiracy theory” stuff of science fiction, consider an article I wrote last year about a Gates Foundation project called Alliance ID2020 that delivers nanochips via vaccines that will enable big globalist brother to track us: https:// thedeplorablereport.com/blogs/ f/beware-bill-gates-pandora- box-of-pandemic-vaccines
People who read my blog called me “nuts”. Well, it has now become reality as Germany is the first country to ratify its implementation — and I’ll bet very few Germans even have a clue: Implanted “Vaccine Package” ID: Germany’s Parliament Has Ratified GAVI’s Digital “Agenda ID2020” – Global ResearchGlobal Research – Centre for Research on Globalization — Switzerland will vote to approve its use on March 7th. See also: German parliament ratifies Agenda ID2020 and Bill Gates’ “vaccination package” for global depopulation (newstarget.com)
If you think this is nothing to fear (after all our information is readily available via existing technology) consider this: your every movement will be controlled by whoever holds the key to your “nanochip”. If you want to go to dinner, travel, shop etc. you will only be able to do so if your funds are “made” available…i.e., have you been a good boy or girl today? This is serious, folks, and everybody needs to wake up before its too late.
It’s not all bad news. But it will be if we don’t GET INVOLVED with our local groups and start protecting our Constitutional rights.
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President Trump Takes the Gloves Off
President Trump Takes the Gloves Off and Goes After Mitch McConnell
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Former President Donald Trump played nice with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for most of his four years in office.
Trump understood that as the main GOP powerbroker, you just don’t mess with McConnell no matter what you really think about him underneath. But that’s changing now that Trump’s out of office, and 45 recently penned a harsh letter talking about his true thoughts on McConnell and what McConnell means for the future of the conservative movement.
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Trump Unloads on McConnell in Blistering Statement In his statement, Trump held nothing back, writing that McConnell is a losing bet for the Republican party and an awful person to work with.
“Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again…The Republican Party can never again be respected or strong with political ‘leaders’ like Sen. Mitch McConnell at its helm,” Trump wrote.
Even though McConnell voted not to impeach Trump in the Senate, he gave a drama queen speech that claimed Trump was to blame for the riots and violence that occurred on Jan. 6, saying Trump’s supporters went berserk “because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth—because he was angry he’d lost an election.” McConnell went on to say that “former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty.”
McConnell voted no on impeachment saying it was unconstitutional, since it was only made to remove sitting presidents from office. But he did say that if Trump were to be criminally charged or sued he would be fine with it, noting that “we have a criminal justice system in this country. We have civil litigation. And former presidents are not immune from being held accountable by either one.”
"Played him like a FIDDLE…": Greg reads the scathing Trump note about 'unpopular hack' Mitch McConnell. @gregkellyusa https://t.co/VlT7z8drtO pic.twitter.com/QJhghd46U8
— Newsmax (@newsmax) February 17, 2021
McConnell’s Crusade Against Trump
In a recent interview, McConnell also said Trump was to blame for the “fiasco” of losing the two Senate seats in Georgia. Trump’s statement said the low voter turnout and loss was because Governor Brian Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger didn’t do enough to investigate claims of election fraud. According to Trump this blame should also fall on McConnell for not caring whether the election was fair.
“McConnell did nothing, and will never do what needs to be done in order to secure a fair and just electoral system into the future. He doesn’t have what it takes, never did, and never will,” Trump wrote.
What’s McConnell’s Response?
McConnell hasn’t responded to Trump’s angry statement, but did say that he’s still willing to work to back pro-Trump members of the GOP running for office as long as they can win. “I personally don’t care what kind of Republican they are, what kind of lane they consider themselves in. What I care about is electability,” McConnell said. Trump has made it clear that he won’t hesitate to primary and get rid of people in the GOP who don’t support the MAGA platform and who have trash-talked him or his policies.
“Where necessary and appropriate, I will back primary rivals who espouse Making America Great Again and our policy of America First,” Trump said.
As a savvy political operator, McConnell knows he has to pretend to be OK with the MAGA movement as a whole. That’s why he’s focused on blaming Trump. But at the end of the day, McConnell is a self-righteous hack who just wants to cozy up to Biden, China and free trade extremism that goes against Trump’s nationalist policies. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin put it well about McConnell’s two-faced nature, noting that “you’ve got Leader McConnell voting not guilty, not to convict, but then just providing a scathing speech on the floor of the Senate that does not reflect, I think, the majority of our conference.”
FLORIDA’s TRAITORS TO HONEST AMERICANS OWNING GUNS OF THEIR CHOOSING – SENATOR MARCO RUBIO, SENATOR RICK SCOTT, PRESIDENT jOE bIDEN
These two are traitors to their own constituents!
I say LAST TERM if they follow through with Biden’s program, the both know the Marjorie Stoneman shooting had nothing to do with the gun, it was the preparator, and his problems known to the school, Police, FBI but once again everyone failed to address the real problem, the person, they immediately went after the inanimate gun which would have killed no one if locked in the gun case at home!
These three have seen their last term in office carrying through with trash! It’s time someone
educates these people to the fact that gun laws are not going to stop killings, it is not the
gun and inanimate object, it si the human being, address the problem where it starts in
the School system and at home.
How many kids under 25 did your ever hear of shooting up the country prior to 1992?
Why 1992, that is when they started drugging kids with personalities issue instead of
dealing with their problem, prescription drugs of the mind altering type were used at the
period in their lives where their brains were developing the most.
Any child put on these kind of psychotropic prescription drugs should be restricted
from owning or possessing firearm’s, till at some point a physiological Examination
can determine they are not a threat to society.
Look at the shooter statistics from 1992 till present look at the ages, then look at
what they were on through their school years, it is all documented.
10 years of restricting the sale of large clips and AR styled semi-automatic rifles
did not prove anything about lowering the number of murders.
Michael van der Veen destroys the entire media after questioning from CBSN anchor.
TRUMP’S COMMENTS ON IMPEACHMENT
Trump after impeachment vote: ‘Another phase of the greatest witch hunt’
Moments after his acquittal, former President Donald Trump’s office released this statement on his behalf:
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America
I want to first thank my team of dedicated lawyers and others for their tireless work upholding justice and defending truth.
My deepest thanks as well to all of the United States Senators and Members of Congress who stood proudly for the Constitution we all revere and for the sacred legal principles at the heart of our country.
Our cherished Constitutional Republic was founded on the impartial rule of law, the indispensable safeguard for our liberties, our rights and our freedoms.
It is a sad commentary on our times that one political party in America is given a free pass to denigrate the rule of law, defame law enforcement, cheer mobs, excuse rioters, and transform justice into a tool of political vengeance, and persecute, blacklist, cancel and suppress all people and viewpoints with whom or which they disagree. I always have, and always will, be a champion for the unwavering rule of law, the heroes of law enforcement, and the right of Americans to peacefully and honorably debate the issues of the day without malice and without hate.
This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our Country. No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago.
I also want to convey my gratitude to the millions of decent, hardworking, law-abiding, God-and-Country loving citizens who have bravely supported these important principles in these very difficult and challenging times.
Our historic, patriotic and beautiful movement to Make America Great Again has only just begun.
In the months ahead I have much to share with you, and I look forward to continuing our incredible journey together to achieve American greatness for all of our people. There has never been anything like it!
We have so much work ahead of us, and soon we will emerge with a vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future.
Together there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
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TRUMP AQUITTED – ANOTHER SHOW OF HOW USELESS THE DEMOCRATS ARE!
Trump acquitted in second impeachment trial on charge of inciting Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Former President Trump was acquitted in an unprecedented second impeachment trial on the charge of inciting an insurrection for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, making him the first and only president to be impeached and acquitted twice in history.
A majority of senators found Trump guilty on Saturday in a 57-43 vote, but the number fell short of the supermajority needed to convict the president. Had Trump been convicted, the Senate would have moved to bar the 45th president from holding federal office ever again.
The seven GOP senators who joined with all Democrats in finding Trump guilty were: Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Mitt Romney of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., who presided over the trial announced the vote fell short of the two-thirds majority need and therefore Trump is “hereby acquitted of the charge.”
The acquittal means that as of now Trump can leave the door open to another White House bid in 2024, though senators have hinted they may still try to bar him from office in a separate 14th Amendment measure.
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Trump praised the victory, thanked his supporters and promised he’d soon emerge with a “vision for a bright, radiant, and limitless American future.”
The former president, who has largely stayed silent since his impeachment, also took aim at his opponents.
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“This has been yet another phase of the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country,” Trump said in a statement. “No president has ever gone through anything like it, and it continues because our opponents cannot forget the almost 75 million people, the highest number ever for a sitting president, who voted for us just a few short months ago.”
Trump’s second impeachment trial arguments lasted just five days, making it the shortest in presidential history. The previous record was held by Trump in 2020 when his trial related to inviting foreign interference into the election spanned 21 days.
The trial surrounded the Jan. 6 riot when pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, beat police officers, chanted “Hang Mike Pence” and forced lawmakers to take shelter. The mayhem temporarily stopped Congress’ certification of President Biden’s Electoral College win.

FILE – In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington. Right-wing extremism has previously mostly played out in isolated pockets of America or in smaller cities. In contrast, the deadly attack by rioters on the U.S. Capitol targeted the very heart of government. It brought together members of disparate groups, creating the opportunity for extremists to establish links with each other. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
House impeachment managers accused Trump of inciting the insurrection by spreading a “big lie” the election was stolen from him, summoning his supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, telling them to “fight like hell” and then refusing to call off the attack once the mob violently took over the Capitol.
“He named the date. He named the time. He brought them here, and now he must pay the price,” lead impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said in his closing remarks to the Senate.
Trump legal’s team denounced the proceedings as an unconstitutional “sham impeachment” against a private citizen, driven by Democrats’ “hatred” for Trump and desire to silence a political opponent.
Trump lawyers also argued the former president’s political speech is protected by the First Amendment and his words on Jan. 6 to his supporters to “fight like hell” were not meant literally. To drive home that point during the trial, Trump’s defense played an 11-minute video of nearly every Democrat in the chamber using the words “fight” in their past speeches and interviews.

In this image from video, House impeachment manager Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., speaks during the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump in the Senate at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 11, 2021. (Senate Television via AP)
The vote capped a wild Saturday in Washington with numerous plot twists.
In a curveball move, the Senate Saturday morning voted 55-45 to allow witnesses at the trial after Raskin said they wanted to hear from GOP Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler.
Raskin, D-Md., cited the “breaking news” overnight about details Beutler revealed of a heated phone call that Trump had with House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy during the middle of the Capitol attack.
Beutler, who was one of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump in House, released her account of the call late Friday, confirming a CNN report that Trump dismissed McCarthy’s pleas to call off the riot and instead told McCarthy that the rioters were “more upset about the election” than the House leader.
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“When McCarthy finally reached the president on January 6 and asked him to publicly and forcefully call off the riot, the president initially repeated the falsehood that it was antifa that had breached the Capitol,” Beutler said in her statement. “McCarthy refuted that and told the president that these were Trump supporters. That’s when, according to McCarthy, the president said, ‘Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.'”
Trump’s legal team blasted the decision to call witnesses and threatened to depose 100 people if the door is open. A visibly angry and animated Michael van der Veen said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Vice President Kamala Harris would “absolutely” need to be deposed, too, but not by Zoom.
“These depositions should be done in person in my office in Philadelphia,” van der Veen told the senators, which drew audible laughter from the Senate chamber.
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Van deer Veen shot back: “I haven’t laughed at any of you. And there’s nothing laughable here.”

Lawyer Michael T. van der Veen speaks during Trump impeachment trial on Friday, Feb. 12.
The surprise vote on witnesses shook Washington and seemed to even catch senators off guard.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said the move set off “chaos” in the chamber. He speculated the trial could last until April with witnesses.
“At this point, it’s pandemonium,” Cruz told pool reporters.
But just as quickly as the Senate went down the path of witnesses, lawyers then reversed course on Saturday.
Trump’s legal team agreed to allow the damaging statement from Beutler to be entered into the trial as evidence. Armed with her statement, House lawyers then abandoned their demand that Beutler be called as a witness altogether.
House managers said the revelations about McCarthy’s call with Trump show that Trump abdicated his oath of office by showing support for the rioters and disregard for the security of members of Congress and Pence, who was targeted by the mob for assassination.
“He chose retaining his own power over the safety of Americans,” said Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I. “I can’t imagine more damning evidence of his state of mind.”
The arguments, however, weren’t enough to sway the 17 GOP senators needed for conviction.
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GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was very critical of Trump’s conduct surrounding the Jan. 6 riot and his wife — former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao — even resigned from the administration in the aftermath of the attack that left at least five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
“There’s no question… that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said in a speech after the vote Saturday.
Still, McConnell found Trump “not guilty,” saying he believes convicting the former president is unconstitutional.
“We have no power to convict and disqualify a former office holder who is now a private citizen,” McConnell said in a speech.

WASHINGTON, DC – DECEMBER 15: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) takes questions as he speaks during a news conference with other Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol on December 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tom Brenner-Pool/Getty Images)
Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, one of the impeachment managers, said McConnell all but admitted the House proved its case but resorted to a procedural excuse against conviction.
“Trump was let off on a technicality and that’s essentially what you heard Mitch McConnell say,” Castro said.
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In a news conference after the vote, Democratic managers pointed out that the presidential impeachment process was the most bipartisan in history, with 10 House Republicans and now seven GOP senators backing the effort.
“Even though we didn’t get 67 votes, this has been the most bipartisan vote for impeachment and conviction ever,” Castro said. “And we know that we spoke the truth and the American people by and large have agreed with us.”
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