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FACTS ABOUT WHAT CORONAVIRUS IS, WHERE IT CAME FROM, HOW IT SPREADS – DR. LIN
information about the coronavirus outbreak is spreading fast, but what do
we actually know about the illness? CBC News medical contributor and
family physician Dr. Peter Lin breaks down the facts about what it is, where
it came from, how it spreads and what you can do to protect yourself.
PragerU – Every American Needs To Hear This Speech
Every American Needs To Hear This Speech
If every high school principal said this, it would change students’ lives and would
change America. So what exactly should every high school principal say? Dennis
Prager explains. Donate today to PragerU! http://l.prageru.com/2ylo1Yt
A FANTASTIC VIDEO OF AMERICA NARRATED BY PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP – A MUST WATCH
The Best Is Yet To Come
TRUMP 2020
Very easily the president’s finest and most inspiring speech to date.
Get ready for a LANDSLIDE in 2020!!
Here’s to the FUTURE! #TRUMP2020
“This nation is our canvas. And this country is our masterpiece. We look at tomorrow
and see unlimited frontiers just waiting to be explored. Our brightest discoveries are
not yet known. Our most thrilling stories are not yet told. Our grandest journeys
are not yet made. The American age, the American epic, the American adventure, has
only just begun. Our spirit is still young. The sun is still rising. God’s grace is still shining.
And, my fellow Americans, the BEST IS YET TO COME!” – DJT
The War over our Constitution: Please wake up, People of Florida!
“ThePubliusHuldah .”Joanna Martin “Publius Huldah” Delivers
Monumental Article V U.S. Constitution Speech
Premiered Feb 17, 2020MUST WATCH VIDEOS THIS ONE 40 MINUTES
Robert Brown’s Most Magnificent Article V
U.S. Constitution SpeechPremiered Feb 17, 2020
MUST WATCH VIDEO THIS ONE 47 MINUTES
OBAMA RELEASED 5 HIGH LEVEL TALIBAN PRISONERS, NO ONE SAYS A WORD ON DEMOCRATIC SIDE!
Democrats Didn’t Care When Obama
Granted Clemency to a Terrorist, But
Want to Investigate Trump’s Pardons
BY MATT MARGOLIS FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivers a statement on the relations between US and Iran (Aude Guerrucci/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
Trump can’t seem to even breathe without Democrats wanting to launch an investigation or expressing outrage. The recent commutation of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s prison sentence is the most recent thing to trigger Democrats. “Today, Trump granted clemency to tax cheats, Wall Street crooks, billionaires, and corrupt government officials,” tweeted Bernie Sanders. “Meanwhile thousands of poor and working-class kids sit in jail for nonviolent drug convictions. This is what a broken and racist criminal justice system looks like.”
But Democrats aren’t just expressing faux outrage over Trump using his presidential clemency power. According to Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.), his party plans to investigate Trump’s commutations and pardons.
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Democratic Rep. David Cicilline says Pres. Trump is setting the stage to pardon his convicted associates.“What the President is doing is issuing these pardons on the eve of Roger Stone’s sentencing so that he can now consider pardoning him,…Paul Manafort…[and] Michael Flynn.”
“I mean, we will, of course, I expect, have hearings on this,” he told CNN. “There’s a process that the president is expected to follow in granting pardons or granting clemency. We’ll try to bring attention to this issue on behalf of the American people. We will continue to do oversight.”
Oversight? I think “harassment” would be a better word. We’re way beyond oversight at this point, considering all the bogus investigations that Democrats have had against Trump. The most absurd comment Cicilline made was when he said, “I think past presidents have used restraint,” with the use of clemency powers.
Really?
Was it really restraint when Obama commuted the sentence of convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera? Lopez Rivera was a leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional Puertorriqueña (FALN), a Puerto Rican terrorist group responsible for 130 attacks in the United States, and at least six deaths. An unrepentant Lopez-Rivera was serving a 70-year sentence when Obama set him free. Democrats showed no outrage at this commutation.
And what about when Obama commuted the sentence of Bradley Manning (you may also know him as Chelsea), who leaked hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to WikiLeaks? A traitor in every sense, in 2013 Manning was convicted and sentenced to 35 years in prison. But, Bradley Manning became a hero of the political left for declaring himself to be transgender, and Obama made this controversial commutation days before leaving office. Was this “restraint” or pandering to the LGBT lobby?
Obama also granted clemency to hundreds of drug offenders he claimed were non-violent offenders who deserved a second chance, because of racism or something. It later came out that many of the people he released were actually violent offenders guilty of gun crimes. Obama granted more acts of clemency than any president since Truman, though he saved much of that executive use of power for the latter months and days of his presidency.
So, yeah, can we stop pretending that Democrats actually care about the rule of law, fairness and equal justice? All they want to do is investigate Trump for everything he does, hoping to find some crime to pin on him.
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Matt Margolis is the author of Trumping Obama: How President Trump Saved Us From Barack Obama’s Legacy and the bestselling book The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama. You can follow Matt on Twitter @MattMargolis
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75th Anniversary Battle of Iwo Jima
75th Anniversary of the
Battle of Iwo Jima
My father and my Uncle were in the invasion
for Iwo Jima both were U.S Marines
My father was a Radio Man
with a Navajo code talker
Dad’s radio jeep in river on Guadalcanal
Dad in background taking a bath in river
along with other Marines.
This February marks the 75th anniversary of the battle for Iwo Jima, a fight whose brutality not only established it as a marker for the extraordinary courage and sacrifice of the US Marine Corps, but in 1945 also signified the staggering and escalating violence which American forces faced as they closed in on mainland Japan.
The spirit of the Marines was immortalized four days after the initial landings. On February 23, 1945 atop of Mount Suribachi on the southern end of the island photographer Joe Rosenthal captured the image of six Marines, raising an unfurling American flag. The image appeared in the American Sunday newspaper editions two days later on February 25, 1945; in today’s terminology, it immediately went viral. An artist’s rendering appeared on millions of posters for the seventh war bond drive in May 1945, the US Postal service released an official postage stamp bearing the image in July 1945, and Rosenthal won the Pulitzer Prize for photography later that year.
But the ultimate triumph implied in Rosenthal’s image would take a full month of brutal combat against a fanatical enemy to achieve. The island of Iwo Jima was part of the Tokyo prefecture before the war, and the Japanese fought tenaciously against the first American penetration of their home soil. Their strategy was to force such vicious bloodshed that the Americans might be deterred from invading the Japanese home islands.
The Americans secured victory on Iwo Jima on March 26, 1945, after both sides had paid a devastating toll in lives. Out of an estimated 20,000 Japanese troops on the island, only slightly over 200 survived the battle. American forces suffered over 26,000 casualties, including 6,821 dead, in savage close-quarters fighting with flamethrowers and grenades amongst tunnels, caves and bunkers. The stark courage displayed on Iwo Jima led Admiral Chester Nimitz to famously reflect that “Uncommon valor was a common virtue” before the battle was even over. In the end, 27 U.S. Marines and sailors received the Medal of Honor for actions during the battle; over half (14 total) were posthumously awarded. Three of the flag raisers in Rosenthal’s photograph—Sergeant Michael Strank, Corporal Harlon Block, and Private First Class Franklin Sousley—were killed in action.
The legacy of the battle on Iwo Jima remains strong in American memory and culture right up until today. Navy Petty officer Felix de Weldon produced a sculpture of the six flag-raisers within three days after seeing the released Rosenthal photograph in 1945. He eventually was commissioned to produce the same image for the United States Marine Corps War Memorial. Completed in 1954, it sits at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery today.
Even in 1945, controversies erupted over Rosenthal’s iconic photograph. Those familiar with the battle of Iwo Jima know that there was not one, but two flag raisings on Mount Suribachi. Rosenthal photographed the second event as it happened, but he also took a posed photograph after the instantaneous, and subsequently iconic, image. When asked if he had staged the photograph, Rosenthal mistakenly thought the question referred to the posed image. His affirmative reply added to confusion about the image’s authenticity for decades to come.
Controversies over the personal identities of the six flag-raisers have also spanned the following years. In June 2016, and again in October 2019, the Marine Corps made public announcements based upon research conducted by amateur historians correcting the identities of men in the iconic Rosenthal photograph. Today the Marine Corps identifies then-Private Harold Keller, Corporal Ira Hayes, and Corporal Harold Shultz as being in the Rosenthal photograph, along with Strank, Block, and Sousley.
HUCKABEE REPORT
Why People are Fleeing California and New York:
By Mike Huckabee
At this link, a California CPA and lifelong Democrat writes an open letter to her state government about AB5, the new law that’s putting up to 2 million contract workers out of business (for their own good, of course) and forcing businesses to send those jobs out of state. She lays out the problems and asked incredulously, “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?” This is based on the groundless assumption that California’s current political leaders are capable of thinking. Since she seems to believe this will be resolved in a one-party state, and she gives no hint of ever considering any other way of voting than reelecting Democrats, I have to ask, “What are YOU thinking?”
https://www.ab5facts.com/blog/
Meanwhile, across the nation in that other blue paradise, New York, the recent legalization of crime by abolishing bail continues to yield completely predictable consequences. This idiotic law has a new poster child, Charles Barry, who’s served six terms in state prison but now knows all the cops can do is hold him for 36 hours, then let him go. So he’s allegedly gone on a one-man subway crime wave, including charges of snatching cash from people trying to use Metrocard machines.
Barry is up to 139 arrests (at this writing) and is completely unfazed. As he was recently led away by cops, he shouted at a New York Daily News reporter, “I’m famous! I take $200, $300 a day of your money, cracker! You can’t stop me!…Bail reform, it’s lit! It’s the Democrats! The Democrats know me and the Republicans fear me. You can’t touch me! I can’t be stopped!”
https://www.nydailynews.com/
Of course, he could be stopped, just as California’s government could be stopped from passing insane laws that destroy people’s jobs and strip them of their rights. But that would take the people who are writing these stories and suffering these horrible consequences to make the mental connection between the awful policies that are making their lives miserable and their habit of voting for anyone a (D) after their name. What do you think the odds are of that?
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Unlike other Presidents, President Trump isn’t waiting until his last day in office to issue pardons so he can avoid the political heat. Instead, he’s taking advantage of his boost in approval ratings from the failed “impeachment” stab at him to issue several pardons seemingly designed to make his opponents have a meltdown (but since they have a meltdown every day, who cares anymore?)
Trump commuted the 14-year sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, a Democrat who’d served seven years already for trying to obtain favors in exchange for appointing someone to fill Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat (Corruption in Illinois politics?! Say it ain’t so!) He also pardoned former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty to tax crimes and lying to the White House; financier Michael Milken, who spent two years in jail in the early 90s after prosecutors alleged his tactics were “criminal schemes,” and who has since devoted himself to philanthropy and medical research; and former San Francisco 49ers owner Edward DeBartolo Jr., who pleaded guilty in a gambling scandal. More details are here…
https://www.foxbusiness.com/
Here’s a story about the former NFL greats who came to the White House to thank Trump for pardoning DeBartolo…
(FYI: Elsewhere in San Francisco sports, former Giants pitcher Aubrey Huff claims he was banned from a 10-year reunion of the World Series team for supporting Trump. They’d better hope their team owner never needs a pardon.)
And here are some comments from Andrew McCarthy about why Trump might have chosen to pardon some of these people, and the message it sends. One message: it’s a perfect way to spotlight the stunning disparity in justice between the way people like Blagojevich, Kerik and Milken were pursued without mercy by the DOJ, while DOJ insiders like Andrew McCabe and James Comey (who actually pressed their prosecutions) were allowed to walk away scot-free from their dishonest actions.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/
If Comey and McCabe ever do face justice, I wouldn’t count on Trump for a pardon, so that means they won’t be out until at least 2025. As for all the liberal talking heads screaming about Trump’s OUTRAGEOUS abuse of Presidential pardon power, I suggest they Google the name “Marc Rich.”
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From the “If It Weren’t For Double Standards, They’d Have No Standards at All” Dept: Byron York at Townhall.com writes about all the people who demanded, promoted, cheered on and participated in constant investigations of Donald Trump and all his associates, claiming that was a vital function of protecting our precious democracy. But now that those investigations have been exposed as politically-motivated, illegally-conducted and shadily-sourced, and the people who launched them are themselves under investigation, suddenly, investigations are a horrible partisan assault on our precious democracy.
The very same people who put other people and their families through an expensive ordeal are also now complaining about how unfair it is that they’re being put through an expensive ordeal. As Rhett told Scarlett in “Gone With The Wind,” “You’re like the thief who isn’t the least bit sorry he stole, but he’s terribly, terribly sorry he’s going to jail.”
The Potomac River is in danger of being flooded with crocodile tears over AG Barr’s legitimate and justified investigations, but as York points out, none of the people doing the crying were the least bit concerned when the DOJ was targeting their political opponents with frivolous, partisan and unfounded investigations for the past three years.
And why go back only three years? Does anyone seriously think that the political weaponizing of the federal bureaucracies only started when Trump was nominated? At The Federalist, House Oversight Committee member Rep. Chip Roy gives us a little history lesson on the politicizing of the Justice Department, and reminds us of eight major examples of it under Obama alone.
Joining the transparently self-serving calls for Attorney General Barr to resign was Joe Biden, who calls Barr’s recommendation (not an order, just a recommendation that the judge is apparently going to ignore) for a lighter sentence for Roger Stone “the greatest abuse of power I have ever seen.”
I think we’ve all noticed that Joe has a very hard time keeping historical events straight in his memory, so maybe he should read the article by Chip Roy for a refresher course on what real abuse of power looks like, as exercised by the Administration he was recently a part of.
It’s also recommended reading for the editorial board of the Washington Post, which recently denounced Barr by describing him as Trump’s “wing man,” apparently forgetting that former Attorney General Eric Holder once proudly described himself as Obama’s “wing man,” and they apparently thought that was pretty cool.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/
Since Holder has also recently been denouncing Barr over false accusations that he’s doing what Holder bragged about actually doing himself, maybe he should read that Chip Roy article, too.
I think we need an investigation to see if someone dumped some sort of amnesia tonic in the DC water supply.
Bible Verse of the Day (KJV)
“Fear thou not; for I am with thee:
be not dismayed; for I am thy God:
I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee;
yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.”
– Isaiah 41:10
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Bloomberg: Elderly Cancer Patients Should Be Denied Treatment To Cut Costs – True Socialist healthcare “let em die!”
Billionaire and Democratic presidential candidate
Michael Bloomberg said in a 2011 video that elderly
cancer patients should be denied treatment in order
to cut health care costs.
“All of these costs keep going up, nobody wants to pay anymore money, and at the rate we’re going, health care is going to bankrupt us,” warned Bloomberg, who was then New York City’s mayor.
“We’ve got to sit here and say which things we’re going to do, and which things we’re not, nobody wants to do that. y’know, if you show up with prostate cancer, you’re 95-years-old, we should say, ‘Go and enjoy. Have a nice (inaudible). Live a long life. There’s no cure, and we can’t do anything.’ If you’re a young person, we should do something about it,” Bloomberg said in the video.
Samuel D. Finkelstein II@CANCEL_SAM
Bloomberg explaining how healthcare will “bankrupt us,” unless we deny care to the elderly.
“If you show up with cancer & you’re 95 years old, we should say…there’s no cure, we can’t do anything.
A young person, we should do something. Society’s not willing to do that, yet.”“Society’s not ready to do that yet,” he complained.
Bloomberg made the comments while visiting a grieving family whose brother had died after reportedly waiting 73 hours in an emergency room.His presidential campaign didn’t return a request for comment. The New York billionaire has faced increased scrutiny over past statements as he has continued to rise in Democratic primary polls.
Bloomberg’s fellow Democrats have criticized him for his past aggressive defense of stop-and-frisk policies in New York has led to criticism from fellow Democrats. Bloomberg has also faced criticism for a 2011 video saying that too many young black and Latino men “don’t know how to behave in the workplace.” Reprinted with Permission from – Conservative Daily News – by Peter Hasson
“PETTY PELOSI”—FOREVER
“PETTY PELOSI”—FOREVER
Pelosi Branding Trump Impeached Forever in Her Crazed Imagination
By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—February 19, 2020Cover Story |
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In her hate-driven fervid imagination, deranged Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes wandering off into the private living quarters of the White House, late at night, to sear a cattle-like branding onto the hide of the president she lives to hate—but prays for.
“Is Nancy Pelosi mentally unstable?”
In Pelosi’s wild flights of fancy, does cowgirl hat-wearing Democrat Florida Rep Frederica Wilson, who gave her a spent bullet bracelet, go along the branding hunt with her?
No doubt that Pelosi’s imagination is more over the top than those of her own grandchildren.
Is it any wonder that Mark Levin wonders aloud: “Is Nancy Pelosi mentally unstable?”
Well, she’s certainly off her rocker, Mr. Levin.
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Is Nancy Pelosi mentally unstable?https://www.dailywire.com/news/pelosi-trump-was-not-acquitted-by-senate-hes-branded-as-impeached-forever …
Pelosi: Trump Was Not Acquitted By Senate, He’s ‘Branded’ As ‘Impeached Forever’
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi falsely claimed in an interview that aired on Monday that President Donald Trump was not acquitted by the U.S. Senate earlier this month. “What about though, the…
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Even city slickers like the mostly urban Dems know that “a cattle brand is a design that is seared into the hide of an animal, such as cattle or other livestock, usually around the hip, to identify the owner of the animals. Each brand is distinct, so that lost cows—either through wandering animals or cattle rustlers–could be returned to their rightful owner.” (AGAmerica The History of Cattle Branding)
Proof that Pelosi’s no longer on her proverbial rocker can be seen in her defiant state of denial:
“Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi falsely claimed in an interview that aired on Monday that President Donald Trump was not acquitted by the U.S. Senate earlier this month. (DailyWire, Feb 17, 2020)
“What about though, the fact that the president seems liberated … he was acquitted, his poll ratings are higher,” CNN’s Christiane Amanpour said before being interrupted by Pelosi.
“He was not, there was no acquittal,” Pelosi falsely claimed. “You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can’t have a trial when you have witnesses and documents.”
“So he can say he’s acquitted, and the headlines can say ‘acquitted,’ but he’s impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated,” Pelosi continued.
“Democrats refused to accept the results of 2016; refused to accept the results of the Mueller witch hunt; and now are refusing to accept the results of their impeachment charade.
“Later in the interview, Pelosi said, “I can’t even envision a situation where he would be re-elected, but we don’t take anything for granted. … but everybody knows that we must be unified in making sure that he does not have a second term.”
“Pelosi continued, “Our country is great, the American people are wonderful, we’re a resilient country, we can withstand one term, but the destruction that he would do to the courts of our country and the environment … he must be defeated.”
Wonderful deplorables truly are resilient having survived more than three years of visceral Democrat hatred, and still trucking.
“Pelosi concluded by saying that when candidates are in the “arena” that “you have to be prepared to throw a punch, because you have to be prepared to take a punch, for the children.” (Daily Wire)
What children? Pelosi and her party are aborting babies at the rate of over 600,000 a year. Babies grow up to be children.
“Pelosi’s claims were categorically false as Trump was acquitted in an official Senate trial from both of House Democrats’ partisan articles of impeachment. (Daily Wire)
“Pelosi is not the first Democrat member of Congress that has falsely claimed that Trump was not acquitted from Democrats’ partisan articles of impeachment.
“Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer the same thing earlier this month after Trump’s acquittal
“The Senate has clearly spoken now, the president was acquitted,” CNN host Wolf Blitzer began. “Do you think your –”
“No! Wolf, (laughs), [Trump] wasn’t acquitted,” Hirono falsely claimed. “It was a rigged trial. You don’t get acquitted when you don’t even get to call witnesses or relevant witnesses or have the documents because the president stone walled all efforts on the part of the House to get the information they requested.”
“So, there you go,” Hirono continued. “It was a rigged trial, he can run around saying he was acquitted but you don’t get acquitted in a rigged trial.”
“Well, I just want to point out Senator, there was a roll call, guilty or not guilty, not guilty was the majority and the Chief Justice of the United States announced that he was acquitted, that he was not guilty,” Blitzer responded.
“But the American public knows that it was a rigged trial,” Hirono claimed without evidence. “So, okay you’re found not guilty in a rigged trial. I don’t think that they think this was all kosher, no it wasn’t. So, meanwhile you have the president crowing about it, which is totally expected, and now it’s anything goes for this president and this administration and all his enablers.”
The infuriating truth the Democrats refuse to hear is that Trump was acquitted in a —- Senate vote.
To the Democrats Trump doesn’t even exist, as according to them, he didn’t get elected in 2016.
And Pelosi and pals are pulling their own hair out because President Trump was not branded, but outlandish House Speaker Pelosi was after tearing up the president’s SOTU address as: “PETTY PELOSI”—FOREVER.
Florida’s ‘Red Flag’ Applied Over 3500 Times in Just Two Years
Thomas Gallatin
Two years have passed since a mentally unstable young man shot and killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The atrocity sparked a massive campaign by gun-control advocates pressing for more laws limiting Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Within three weeks of the school attack,
Florida’s legislature passed several new firearms regulations, including a bipartisan “red flag” bill that was signed into law by then-Gov. Rick Scott, a Republican. Since the law’s implementation, it has been used more than 3,500 times to temporarily confiscate people’s firearms, and, the Associated Press reports, “the pace accelerate[ed] during the last half of 2019.”
The question remains: Has the law demonstrably proven to effectively prevent people from harming themselves or others? Predictably, answers vary depending on who is asked. On the one hand, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri asserts, “We have needed this law for decades.” On the other hand, sheriffs from several other Florida counties — who have never issued red-flag orders — noted that the reason was that they simply hadn’t needed them. The crux of the problem with red-flag laws is the violation of constitutional protections for due process.
For example, with Florida’s law, if a civil court issues a confiscation order, it’s up to the defendant to not only prove his innocence but also to provide for his own counsel. As the AP notes, “Others say it discriminates against the poor: Because the hearing with a judge is not a criminal proceeding, low-income defendants aren’t provided with a free lawyer.
“Following the red-flag confiscation of firearms, a hearing is held within two weeks wherein a judges decides if the person’s firearms will be withheld for a year. Once again, no actual law has been broken by the individual; confiscation happens merely based upon the arguments and evidence presented by law enforcement that an individual in question poses a threat.
The fact remains that these red-flag laws create a highly problematic and dubious system rife with the potential for rampant corruption and the trampling of people’s constitutional rights. The experience of gun owners in Florida largely proves it.
Donald Trump interview 1980 (Rona Barrett) [Reelin’ In The Years Archives]
We are posting this 4 minute interview excerpt of a 34-year-old Donald Trump from October 6th, 1980, not for positive or negative political reasons but rather from an historical standpoint.
We are in the business of licensing footage and that’s why our web site is across the screen (to protect it from being used without our permission) . We realize that Donald Trump’s presidency causes very strong emotions (both pro and con) but we are not in any way sharing this to take a side. We very much appreciate history and this is a fascinating interview considering that when our client Rona Barrett asked him these questions in 1980 he seemed to have no political aspirations, and now here in 2017, he’s days away from becoming President.
Rona had not planned on asking him these political questions as she was there to interview him for a TV special on millionaires, but only a few minutes of the 47 minutes filmed ever aired, but nothing concerning politics.
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When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. —Thomas Jefferson – TIME UNLEASH OUR POWER AGAINST DEMOCRATIC PARTY!
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The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction. —Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty. —Thomas Jefferson
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. —Elie Wiesel
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President Trump tweeted minutes after Stone’s conviction, “Now they have convicted Roger Stone for lying to Congress and want to give him a long prison term. What about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok and Page who helped launch Crossfire Hurricane, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Schiff, Ohr, Steele and Mueller himself who all lied and have not been prosecuted. This is double standard like never seen before in our country.”
No charges against any of them, or any charges against the treachery committed by Hillary Clinton whose home server was hacked in real time by Red China and other foreign nations for classified government documents. And corrupt cop Comey set her free on the request of Attorney General Loretta Lynch who met with Bill on the tarmac in a Phoenix airport.
The President is right, all of them lied under oath to Congress about consequential matters. Yet, Judge Amy Berman Jackson specifically prohibited Stone defense lawyers from arguing that Stone’s case was one of “selective prosecution.” (Trump suggested a pardon for Mr. Stone after he heard the harsh and drastic punitive sentencing.)
Roger Stone needs our help. Please consider donating to his legal defense fund at StoneDefenseFund.com.
The Stone prosecution is a disgrace, it’s lawless, and it was rigged from the beginning.
Excessive Punishment
Judge Jackson put Paul Manafort in solitary confinement for nine months before he was even convicted. At his age, the man was sentenced to die in prison, and that’s what they want to do to Roger Stone. The prosecutions’ recommendation of seven to nine years for a 67-year-old, non-violent first offender has finally revealed Robert Mueller’s prosecution team for the corrupt Deep State monsters they are.
Stone did nothing that was of a criminal nature that threatened the people of this country or violated the laws that helped the Trump campaign win an allegedly “illegal election.” His only crime was supporting Donald J. Trump for President, just like Lt. General Michael T. Flynn, Paul Manafort, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, and so many others.
Roger Stone was charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to the special counsel. Significantly, the alleged false statements specified in the indictment were about conduct, which, if admitted, was not criminal.
On January 23, 2019, Mueller’s office illegally leaked Roger Stone’s indictment, written by Andrew Weissmann, to CNN. The illegal leak is a bigger crime that carries a heavier penalty than what Stone was charged with. See the entire Mueller timeline.
Mueller’s witch hunt was closed last May, although several prosecutors had remained behind to handle cases like Stone’s — prompting conservative commentators to openly wonder if politics had motivated their desire for an especially harsh sentence for Stone.
Prosecutors Resign
Timothy Shea is the new interim U.S. attorney for the D.C. office replacing Jessie Liu.Liu’s office oversaw prosecutions including those against Trump associates Paul Manafort, General Michael Flynn, and Roger Stone.
President Trump withdrew his nomination of Liu to serve as a top Treasury Department official. She had worked in Justice during the Bush administration and became a member of Trump’s transition team and was appointed U.S. Attorney for DC.
Last year, AG Barr tried to promote her to the number three slot in justice, but that plan was thwarted by Senator Mike Lee. As it turned out, Liu was a pro-abort and she had opposed the confirmation of Samuel Alito. Senator Lee and AG Barr actually got into a shouting match when Liu was blocked for not being conservative.
The president’s move to withdraw Liu’s nomination comes just hours after four Justice Department lawyers quit following a move by senior leaders at the department to overrule the prosecutors’ judgment by seeking a lesser sentence for long-time Trump ally Roger Stone after he was found guilty of lying to Congress.
Timothy Shea is a former close adviser to AGBarr. As a top Barr aide, Shea helped manage the Epstein crisis and oversee the lingering Mueller Cases in D.C.As explained in my previous article, the entire Mueller drama was unnecessary and everyone knew it; the goal was to destroy those who had supported Donald Trump in order to discredit him.
Front-line prosecutors, two previously with Mueller’s team, argued for a sentence on the higher end for Stone than some of their supervisors were comfortable with, according to people familiar with the discussions. Just as interestingly, the newly appointed U.S. Attorney, Shea, approved this aggressive stance, though not without some pushback. The judge actually does the sentencing, the prosecutors only suggest punishment.
Four career DOJ prosecutors, abruptly resigned from their posts on Tuesday, February 10th in an apparent dramatic protest just hours after senior leaders at the DOJ said they would take the extraordinary step of effectively overruling the prosecutors’ judgment by seeking a lesser sentence for President Trump’s former adviser Roger Stone.
Jonathan Kravis, Aaron Zelinsky, Adam Jed and Michael Marando all withdrew. Jed and Zelensky were prosecutors who worked for Robert Mueller. All four quit in a crybaby huff because they weren’t getting their way. Well, good riddance!
After the withdrawals by other attorneys, the DOJ’s new sentencing memo in Stone’s case was signed only by John Crabb Jr., the acting head of the criminal division of the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, DC.
Former acting Attorney General, Matt Whitaker said, “There is no precedent for a harsh sentence recommendation for Roger Stone.” The sentencing judgment was draconian for the conviction. The average time a rapist spends in prison is four years, an armed robber serves three years and for violent assault, one and half years. Link
Nowhere on the web can anyone even find what Stone lied to Congress about! The prosecution’s desire to imprison Stone for seven to nine years is more than vicious, it’s despotic.
DOJ Alters Sentence
The decision to alter the sentencing recommendation was made before President Trump’s tweet, said Kerri Kupec, the director of DOJ’s Office of Public Affairs. Kupec said the DOJ has had no contact with the White House regarding the sentencing recommendation.
The democrats went into their typical Trump Derangement Syndrome hysteria and threatened another impeachment with Schiff accusing Trump of an “abuse of power.”
Speaker Pelosi, (D-CA) repeated the tired and preposterous meme. Rep. Eric Swalwell, (D-CA) a chronic impeachment enthusiast, refused to rule out another attempt to remove Trump from office. The unhinged harangues were all predicated on a brazen assumption that Trump had directed AG Barr to overrule the trial prosecutors and recommend a more appropriate and equitable sentence for Stone, which by the way, he has the right to do. The deranged left is angry at Trump for exposing the wrongdoing.
Pelosi’s gang of psychotic lunatics are now using Barr as a political punching bag, and unfortunately Trump’s tweets made it worse.
Barr Complains About Tweets
AG Barr publicly complained that Trump’s tweets make it difficult for him to do his job. He told ABC News, “I’m not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody … whether it’s Congress, a newspaper editorial board, or the president.Well, as you know, the Stone case was prosecuted while I was attorney general. And I supported it. I think it was established, he was convicted of obstructing Congress and witness tampering. And I thought that was a righteous prosecution. And I was happy that he was convicted.” Well, if Barr thinks this is a righteous case, then where are indictments for McCabe and Comey? AG Barr stressed, however, that the president never asked him to interfere in the criminal case against Stone, a longtime friend of the president.
Barr was disrespectful of our president and his first amendment rights; Donald J. Trump is the boss, not Bill Barr. Tweeting is how the President communicates with the American people. The AG should have had a private meeting with President Trump rather than voicing his disapproval publicly. Link
Two-Tiered Justice
A prime example of two-tiered justice is the reason the president withdrew his nomination of Jessie Liu. During her time as U.S. attorney she helped a man by the name of James Wolfe get away with leaking classified information and ultimately lying to the FBI.
Wolfe was the former security director for the Senate Intelligence Committee. He was indicted in 2018 for leaking info to four journalists including one with whom he was having an affair. He lied to the FBI and according to his indictment Wolfe picked up a highly classified document on the 17th of March to take to the intel committee. A later FBI sentencing recommendation confirms that that document contained the first two Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrants for Carter Page and was the foundation for accelerated “Spygate.”
So, what happened to James Wolfe? He was never charged with leaking classified information. Politico reports that during the lame duck session after the 2018 midterms, Senators Warner, Richard Burr and Diane Feinstein asked for leniency in his case and that’s where Jessie Liu comes back into the case. Link
Also, on March 17, Democratic Senator, Intel committee chairman, Sen. Mark Warner texted Christopher Steele’s attorney, Adam Waldman, that he was “going into the skiff.” (The skiff is a secure room.) What did they talk about? March 17th is also the date stamped on the released FISA warrants that allowed the spying to begin on Carter Page. And from that, it is fair to say that James Wolfe took custody of the Carter Page FISA applications and delivered them to the skiff where they were reviewed by Senator Warner and then leaked to the press by James Wolfe.
It was Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and U.S. Attorney for DC Jessie Liu who were the decision-makers. U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu dropped most of the charges against Wolfe; she allowed him to plead guilty to only one count of lying to investigators. Wolfe served exactly two months in prison. Did Liu help coverup the Wolfe case? It sure looks like it. Remember, two months in prison. The President has pulled the nomination of Jessie Liu, and it’s not because of Roger Stone.
The disparity in treatment of those connected to President Trump is shocking when one considers the leniency to James Wolfe via the democrat senators requests. Consider that none of the people responsible for the phony Russian collusion story have been prosecuted.
Inspector General Michael Horowitz filed criminal referrals against former FBI Director James Comey and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. AG Barr refused to indict, and no action has been taken against them.
IG Horowitz determined that officials at the FBI and Justice Department deceived the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and obtained illegal warrants without probable cause in order to spy on a Trump campaign associate. So far, no one has been held accountable.
Conclusion
And oh yes, it was Roger Stone who came up with Make America Great Again (MAGA)! On September 16, 2011, Roger Stone, Trump’s longtime political advisor and a veteran of Reagan’s 1980 campaign, tweeted the slogan, “Make America Great Again -Trump Huckabee 2012. ”Two months later, in December 2011, Trump made a statement in which he said he was unwilling to rule out running as a presidential candidate in the future, explaining “I must leave all of my options open because, above all else, we must make America great again.”
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THIS IS ONE SCARY LETTER, IF TRUE AMERICA HAS TO STOP THE DEMOCRATS & BILLIONAIRE STEYER AND BLOOMBERG AT ALL COST OR WE LOSE OUR COUNTRY!
An Open Letter to Bernie SanderS
Washington Free Beacon Staff –
The Washington Free Beacon has obtained an email addressed to Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) from a group calling itself the Billionaires for Social Justice and a New World Government. The full text of the email is below:
From: The Good Billionaires <mike@bloomberg.
Date: February 9, 2020 at 9:17:32 PM EST
To: Bernard1917@aol.com
Subject: A Plea for Humanity
Dear Senator Bernie Sanders,
We the undersigned represent a diverse constituency of American billionaires who support the Democratic Party. Some of us prefer to work behind the scenes creating dark money organizations pushing global disarmament and tribunal justice for the architects of the Iraq War. Some of us have bought media operations, purchasing newspapers and Internet platforms to help amplify progressive voices above the noise of Fox News. Two of us are running for president like yourself.
But all of us have one thing in common: We are human beings. We put our pants on, one leg at a time with the help of a dedicated butler, like most Americans. Last Friday’s debate in New Hampshire was hurtful and othering for all Americans with ten-digit wealth. For those of us who have fought hard for a progressive agenda, your campaign feels like a betrayal.
To claim that progressives must oppose Americans of enormous wealth is ahistorical. Should progressives have rejected Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his LGBT wife Eleanor? And should progressives cancel the Obama family? They didn’t begin their presidencies as billionaires, but wait till you see their Netflix deals for 2020.
Normally, we would not appeal to any campaign in such a public way. We believe in a big tent when it comes to centralizing the economy and engineering the culture. Many of us (well, actually just Tom Steyer) like you. But your attacks are doing real damage. Amy Klobuchar told us to stop contacting her until after the Nevada caucuses. One of us had to cancel a private Beyoncé concert and wine tasting fundraiser for Mayor Pete Buttigieg last month. Do you have any idea how hard it is to schedule Beyoncé? You probably don’t because Sidney Blumenthal tells us the last album you purchased was The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary.
We understand some of the anger inside the Democratic Party these days. We’re angry, too. We’re not saying you shouldn’t attack any billionaires, we’re saying you should stop attacking the good billionaires. If you want to run campaign ads railing against Sheldon Adelson or Rebekah Mercer, we would happily pay for them. But we’re the guys fighting for trans-equality, ending the fossil fuel industry, and destroying the state of Israel. Aren’t these supposed to be your issues too?
So please, let’s find a way to work this out. All of us would be happy to support your campaign if you’re the nominee, but we can’t support someone who does rhetorical violence to the lived experience of billionaires. Your record is so strong when it comes to most minorities. We urge you to show the same sensitivity to Americans who have accumulated astronomical wealth.
In Solidarity,
Billionaires for Social Justice and a New World Government
THEY ACTUALLY CONSIDER THEMSELVES ELECTABLE!
BY ZACK BUDRYK – 02/16/20 01:07 PM EST
Candidates make electability arguments,
talk Bloomberg as focus turns to more
diverse states
Democratic presidential candidates on Sunday touted their electability ahead of upcoming primary contests in Nevada and South Carolina, both of which boast more diverse populations than the overwhelmingly white Iowa and New Hampshire.
Many also cast doubt on former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg‘s fitness as a candidate as he defends previous remarks in support of stop-and-frisk policing and his use of his substantial personal wealth to propel him in the polls.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), coming off of a third-place finish in the New Hampshire primary, conceded she needs to attract more support among African American and Latino voters ahead of the upcoming contests.
“That’s gonna be on me. I need people to get to know me,” Klobuchar told ABC’s Martha Raddatz.“I’ve always gotten high support in all of my elections with the Hispanic and African American communities in my state. That is a start.”
Asked if she was possibly “running out of time” with such voters, Klobuchar responded, “No, because my name identification in states outside of the early few states was not that high simply because I didn’t have the money, unlike Bloomberg, to run more ads during your show than I am on being interviewed during your show.”
Former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who, like Klobuchar, has struggled to build momentum with African American and Latino voters, predicted they would be swayed by the argument that he was the most electable because voters prioritize defeating President Trump.
“We dare not get this wrong, and that means nominating a candidate who can challenge this president on his own terms,” Buttigieg said.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, said “overwhelming support” from African American voters in South Carolina could help him regain his footing after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa and a fifth-place finish in New Hampshire.
“You can’t win – you can’t take it for granted. Last time we ran it was basically taken for granted,” Biden said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I’m the only one who has the record and has the background and has the support. They know me. They know who I am.”
The former vice president conceded on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he needs to “do really well” in South Carolina to set himself up for Super Tuesday, telling host Chuck Todd, “On March the 4th, we end up going into all the states, which the polling data is now showing me doing incredibly well. Whether it’s North Carolina or Georgia or Texas or any of these other places.”
South Carolina is considered a must-win state for Biden, who has been banking on his strong support within the African American community, but the interviews come as recent polling indicates Bloomberg is cutting into Biden’s lead with African American voters in the state. A Quinnipiac University poll released Monday showed Bloomberg rising to 22 percent among black voters while Biden’s share of support fell to 27 percent.
Bloomberg, who has appeared in the top five in several polls and blanketed the airwaves with advertising despite not yet being on the ballot in any contests, was confronted last week with a recording released by progressive podcast host Benjamin Dixon in which the former mayor defended the racial disparities in New York’s stop-and-frisk policy.
Biden, who was himself the subject of media scrutiny over his support of early-1990s “tough on crime” policies and desegregation busing in the 1970s, suggested the scrutiny that accompanied Bloomberg’s rise in the polls could hinder him among African Americans.
“There’s a lot to talk about with Michael Bloomberg,” Biden said on “Meet the Press.” “You all are going to start focusing on him like you have on me, which I’m not complaining, like you have on me the last six months. You’re going to focus on him. His position on issues relating to the African American community, from stop-and-frisk to the way he talked about [former President Obama].”
Klobuchar, who recently received scrutiny over her record as a prosecutor, lamented that Bloomberg’s wealth enabled him to run ads without needing to promote his candidacy on Sunday shows, where he would likely be questioned about his history on racial issues and allegations of inappropriate remarks to women.
“I think he has to come on a show like yours,” Klobuchar said on “CNN’s State of the Union.” “I don’t think you should be able to hide behind airwaves and huge ad buys,” Klobuchar said.
“He has to come on these shows, and I’m also an advocate for him coming on the debate stage … I know I’m not going to beat him on the air but I can beat him on the debate stage because I believe my argument for my candidacy is so much stronger,” she added.
Bloomberg’s history has also caught the attention of the White House, with Trump, who has himself frequently spoken in favor of stop-and-frisk, tweeting that Bloomberg was a “total racist” in a since-deleted tweet.
Fox News’ Chris Wallace pressed Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway on the apparent contradiction on “Fox News Sunday,” to which she responded “The president is toying with everybody by saying, had he said something like that, everyone would say, ‘Racist, racist, racist.’”
In a statement, Bloomberg spokesperson Sabrina Singh said, “It’s not surprising that as Mike continues to rise in the polls, other candidates, including Donald Trump, start to get nervous. Because they’re seeing Mike winning over voters across this country with his record of taking on tough fights and strong case that he is the only candidate to defeat Trump in November.”
When you consistently reject the results of elections that you don’t win, what you want is a dictatorship.
When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war. The Democrats don’t believe that transfers of power in this country are determined by-elections.
This is a civil war.
There aren’t any soldiers marching on Charleston… or Myrtle Beach. Nobody’s getting shot in the streets. Except in Chicago… and Baltimore, Detroit and Washington D.C. But that’s not a civil war. It’s just what happens when Democrats run a city into the ground. And then they dig a hole in the ground so they can bury it even deeper.
If you look deep enough into that great big Democrat hole, you might even see where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.
But it’s not guns that make a civil war. It’s politics.
Guns are how a civil war ends. Politics is how it begins.How do civil wars happen?
Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can’t settle the question through elections because they don’t even agree that elections are how you decide who’s in charge. That’s the basic issue here. Who decides who runs the country? When you hate each other but accept the election results, you have a country. When you stop accepting election results, you have a countdown to a civil war.
The piece can be read in its entirety here. A video of Greenfield’s speech can be viewed b
AN OPEN LETTER TO SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
Mrs. Pelosi, I am speaking to you woman to woman. I don’t care about our political parties or our individual beliefs right now. I’m simply speaking to you as a woman in the year 2020.
You don’t know me, so to be fair I’ll give you a bit of background. I am my children’s teacher. I educate their young minds every single day. I do so willingly and with a sense of responsibility unlike any other. I have been sexually assaulted twice in my life. When I was 14, a man stalked my every move for months and then broke in through my bedroom window at 3:00 a.m. When I was in my early twenties, I was assaulted by a different man while I was working at an apartment community. I’ve been ruthlessly bullied by a girl in high school who I later learned has legitimate mental health issues. I’ve had multiple doctors strongly urge me to abort my baby because there was less than a 1% chance of her surviving the next 28 weeks of the pregnancy. She’s 15 years old and smart as a whip. I’m a woman who cares about other women. I care.
Last night, President Trump gave the State of the Union address. You fidgeted in your seat more than my kids did in church when they were toddlers. You made smug, condescending faces and you used hand motions and little head shakes to tell “your people” when and when not to clap, when to stand, basically how to act during the entire speech.
I must tell you, Mrs. Pelosi, this is an amazing time in history for us because my girls and I are studying American government. The past semester has been rich with opportunities to watch history unfold live not just in a textbook.
You are part of a party that claims to promote diversity and individual freedoms, yet you “direct” those around you as to when to sit, stand, clap, or show emotion. Unfortunately, you seem to have a very difficult time when someone disagrees with your opinion. You are a woman in a role of leadership and you’ve looked less like a leader than the pint-sized bully at the local preschool. You, Mrs. Pelosi, are a mean girl. I’ve dealt with enough them to know. You want men/the world to respect us and treats us as equals, then don’t act like a deranged woman who’s in desperate need of some alone time in the bathroom to eat her hidden stash of chocolate in front of millions of people.
You didn’t use the time honored words to introduce the president. You allowed your personal feelings to override anything that looks like what you’re paid to do. You are paid to represent the American people and to do your best while you have the position. You’re not paid to have a temper tantrum upon your mini throne.
It’s OK, if you don’t feel love for the current president, but do you think that ripping up a speech that recognized and honored a baby born prematurely, a young lady receiving a big honor, a respected military man turning 100 years old, a soldier returning home, and more is the morally right thing to do? We wonder why there’s such a lack of respect for elders and authority in this country. You, ma’am, are a perfect example for the reason—you, you who are an elected “leader” of this great nation, acted like an enraged toddler whose Goldfish were taken away before you were ready. Sadly, you have repeatedly allowed the vitriol in your heart to overflow into your work.
You can rip up a copy of the president’s speech while trying to look cute and powerful to your cronies, but what worries me is that one day you’ll decide it’s time to rip up the Constitution. The 2020 election is coming up, and I pray that the people of this great land will recognize mental illness when they see it and allow you some much needed time off to get some help. Please, get some help.
Humbly,
Shannon (last name omitted for pricavy)
STEVE BANNON ON WHERE BLOOMBERG IS ACTUALLY HEADING WITH PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN – DON’T BE FOOLED!
February 3, 2020
Steve Bannon lays out a shocking scenario of the real reason behind Bloomberg’s investment of $2 billion in politics
If Steve Bannon is correct (and I think he probably is), Michael Bloomberg has no intention of occupying the Oval Office; his real plan is far more devious and frightening. Bloomberg is investing a small fraction of his fortune (Bannon says it is now $70 billion) in a “leveraged buyout” of the party, installing himself as the oligarch who calls the shots, including the selection of the candidate to win the presidency.
Forget the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the “Mike will get it done” ads saturating the airwaves and the Super Bowl ad touting gun control. According to Bannon, with the addled and corrupt Biden faltering, Bloomberg is fighting a holding action to prevent Bernie Sanders from capturing the nomination and thus taking over the party and converting it into an explicitly socialist party. Win (unlikely) or lose, a Sanders candidacy would hand leadership of the party to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who will be old enough for the presidency in the 2024 election. Bannon notes that she has become the face of the Sanders campaign in Iowa while he was tied up in the impeachment trial. She is an outright socialist intent on nationalizing the means of production and is therefore incompatible with Bloomberg’s intent to run the party and the country by financing its political campaigns and operating expenses with outlays that don’t strain his net worth but enable it to outspend the opposition.
Even more surprising is Bannon’s scenario for Bloomberg’s real plan. In the second half of a long (almost 16 minutes) interview yesterday with Maria Bartiromo (the entire interview is embedded at the bottom of this post), Bannon stated (transcript via Real Clear Politics):
[T]he whole thing is rigged. And the Democrats, and particularly the Bernie Sanders supporters, should understand, you’re playing in a rigged game.
Michael Bloomberg, who really now you’re seeing an oligarch come in here, an oligarch that has committed $2 billion not to make himself president, $2 billion just to defeat Donald Trump.
And here’s the thing.
BARTIROMO: You don’t think he wants to be president?
BANNON: I think he — look, he knows he’s not going to beat Donald Trump. He knows he’s not going to win the nomination.
BARTIROMO: You said he wants to be something else, not…
BANNON: He’s — he’s basically doing a leveraged buyout of the Democratic Party, is what he’s doing. He’s an LBO of the Democratic Party to control the Democratic Party to select who their candidate is going to be and use his capital, OK, and organization and technology to defeat Trump.And that’s why this is very dangerous. Now you are seeing an oligarch actually step over, has no chance at all to actually defeat Trump as a presidential candidate, do something that’s much more dangerous to this republic. That’s why it’s got to be followed. And it’s serious. Remember, he can apply and capital like nobody else. He’s worth 70 — over $70 billion now.
BARTIROMO: Wow.
BANNON: So, he can put that — he can put this to work, but…
BARTIROMO: Money matters.
BANNON: Here’s — here’s the point about the actions. There’s no personality out there that can beat Trump, and there’s no set of policies. The policies are so radical. Trump’s policies have blue-collar people outperforming white-collar finally as far as wage growth goes. This is a striver’s economy built by Donald Trump with his tax cuts and particularly his deregulation. He’s now got the nation hitting on all cylinders in a troubled world economy, OK? And this is what — this is why Bloomberg, Nancy — remember, he wouldn’t never have been impeached if Bloomberg hadn’t given Nancy Pelosi $100 million for her candidates.
BARTIROMO: Right.
BANNON: He won 21 of those 20. He’s taking — he’s taking $100 million of advertising during the impeachment just to hammer Trump.
BARTIROMO: So, the president tweeted last night: “Mini Mike is now negotiating both to get on the Democratic primary debate stage and to have the right to stand on boxes or a lift during the debates. This is something — sometimes done, but not fair.” Do you think that is why…
BANNON: I love the way that President Trump can get personal very quickly.
BARTIROMO: Do you think that’s why they changed the rules, because he gave $100 million to the DNC last year, and he’s pledging up to $2 billion?
BANNON: Absolutely.
BARTIROMO: That’s why they changed the rules?
BANNON: He’s doing a leveraged buyout of the Democratic Party. And the centrists, the Wall Street faction, the global corporatists, they understand Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s performance in Iowa has been pathetic. And if you watch it closely, only two-thirds of the things are full. The little V.F. halls, they are full. He’s not on point. He can’t bring the heat. They understand — they understand Mayor Pete, a small-town mayor from Indiana, is not going to be president. There’s no centrist candidate. That’s why Biden — that’s why Bloomberg money’s coming in to get him more stature. Now, he’s not going to be the nominee, I don’t think. And there’s no chance he can beat Trump.
So — but they…
BARTIROMO: Are we going to see a brokered convention? Where is this going? Hillary Clinton said…
BANNON: Yes, Hillary Clinton.
BARTIROMO: Hillary Clinton is not done talking about Bernie Sanders. In a podcast, she says: It’s not my experience from 2016 that what — that he’s going to unite the party. Nobody trusts him. You can’t work with him. I mean, he’s still — she’s still trashing Bernie Sanders.
BANNON: Bloomberg money’s and Clinton — in a brokered convention, the centrists will look to Clinton to save the — save the party, as I have said, when they don’t have a centrist. And the specter — remember, Bernie Sanders is AOC.
Bernie Sanders is AOC’s third term. It just happens to be the first. Bernie’s surge has come since Bernie’s been back in Washington on the impeachment trial. It’s AOC in Iowa. She has taken over that one taking over that wing of the Democratic Party, or the socialist party. They’re really not Democrats. Remember, she said, in any other country in the world, Joe Biden and I wouldn’t be in the same party. So, she’s taken over the socialists. She’s become the mini rock star out there as they have gone around. That Bernie surge — and the Bernie and AOC people should understand something.
When they get to the bottom of what happened on this poll, Bernie would have been up. This was completely the Democratic apparatus and guys like Bloomberg to try to suppress what you’re doing as left-wing populists. If this is true, Bloomberg is carrying out an unprecedented head fake, using the cover provided by Trump Derangement Syndrome in order to convert our political system to a de facto plutocracy. With very few exceptions, the Left, normally averse to wealthy people purchasing political power, is remaining silent because expelling President Trump from the Oval Office is its sole concern.
They raise no objections and even refuse to properly name the emerging system. An oligarch is personally paying for the operations of a political party and buying political offices using advertising, paid field staff (Bloomberg already has 500 operatives on generous salary through November regardless of the fate of his candidacy), and outright ownership of the media to hand victory to his pawns. Understand that Democrats including a potential President Hillary Clinton would be hopelessly dependent on him for future funding, as their independent fundraising capacities atrophy once he starts paying the bills. Steve Bannon gave us an “emperor’s new clothes” moment yesterday. We are on the road to an outright sale of a political party to a plutocrat, and nobody else is willing to acknowledge it.
MARIA BARTIROMO, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Meanwhile, the impeachment trial’s final vote expected this coming Wednesday, and that guarantees President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address the night before the expected acquittal. He will deliver the State of the Union Tuesday night. Joining me right now is former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. And, Steve, it is always a pleasure to see you. Thank you for being here. I want to get to the State of the Union and the impeachment trial in a moment.
First, you just heard Senator Lindsey Graham. Your reaction.
STEVE BANNON, FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF STRATEGIST: Donald Trump doesn’t punt. And, particularly, he doesn’t punt on first down.
I mean, this is just not acceptable. We just had the trial of the century, in which he is going to be acquitted. He’s already been acquitted, but the formality will take place this week. But he’s focused on the crime of the century. The crime of the century is this kind of soft coup that is trying to blunt his presidency and remove him from office. and what President Trump has said from the beginning, this is not about him. This is about the office of the presidency. Trump — Trump has been adamant this can never happen again to any president, whether it’s a progressive Democrat or another populist nationalist. You cannot have this happen.
And what — I think what Senator Graham — we’re not interested right now in hearing from the chief of staff of John Kerry. President — Lindsey Graham — and I have tremendous respect for him — he guaranteed at the Senate Judiciary Committee, we need to have the whistle-blower. We need to have the number two whistle-blower. We need to have Adam Schiff as a fact witness. We need Hunter and Joe Biden. I think we need Brennan. We need all of them. And here’s the other thing we ought to do. President Trump ought to declassify all these reports. He ought to go back to Rosenstein’s — the 40 subpoenas that the House, under Devin Nunes, forwarded to Rosenstein, he ought to get all those. He ought to get all of those subpoenas. And all those people ought to be called to witness. This has to — we need an apparatus that’s official to go about this to protect the office of the presidency going forward.
BARTIROMO: Well, this is why I have been so adamant about this for three years. It wasn’t about President Trump. It was about fairness. It was about being a patriot, having the top leadership of the FBI and the CIA put their finger on the scale and try to take down candidate Trump and then President Trump. That’s why my audience wants accountability.
BANNON: This happened in the ’50s and ’60s. This is why we had the Church Commission that looked into activities of the FBI and the CIA during the ’50s and ’60s. This is why you had this whole new structure come up. We need to — this needs to be put on trial. It needs to be put on trial for the American people. President Trump is right. It is the crime of the century. And we can’t cover it up. And we don’t need to go to the House Foreign — it’s not a foreign affairs issue.
It should be Senate Judiciary. And we have got to get Senate Judiciary Committee, because here’s the reason. Nancy Pelosi and these people are not going to stop. The formal acquittal vote on Wednesday is just the curtain coming down on one act.
They’re going to continue on. They’re going to — they are going to try to subpoena John Bolton in the House. They want to get his notes.
And my point is, I don’t…
BARTIROMO: So, you don’t think this is going to end anytime soon?
BANNON: It’s not going to end, because, listen, this ties back to what’s happening in Iowa. There’s no heat on any of those candidates. There’s no personalities out there that can beat the president. There’s no — the policies are so radical. So they can’t run on personalities. They don’t have the policies. They must destroy Trump. Nancy Pelosi from day one understands, to get back the White House, they must destroy Trump. And the way they’re going to use it is to use these fake hearings. This is not going to stop. They’re going to subpoena more people. They’re going to leak more information. And this is why I don’t mind getting John Bolton as a witness. Let’s cross-examine him. Let’s get in his notes and cross-examine him about that. Let’s — let’s get — I don’t mind Mick Mulvaney or the OMB people. All the e-mails, let’s get it up there in full daylight. President Trump’s best days on this is the first Saturday and the Monday when he came up. Jesse Watters, who watches this better than anybody, did an eight-minute open on his show last Saturday night. And he says: I do this for a living. I learned so much.
When you had Sekulow.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: And you had Pam Bondi, and you had Cipollone, and Raskin, and all those people. And Atticus — and Atticus — Philbin came up. Those — laid out President Trump’s case so perfectly.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: People said, hey, I understand it now. This is what we need to do. And Lindsey Graham has committed, and I think he promised the American people he was going to do this.
BARTIROMO: Well, look, I mean, the impeachment trial had the legal team make the case for the president. But you wanted to see more. I mean, we have been hearing about collusion and all of these so-called bad things that the president did now for three years. So, the critics of the president keep on going and going and talking about it over and over again.
BANNON: In the format that they agreed to for the trial, I think the lawyers did a fantastic job. And that’s why you could see the air come out of the — out of the opposition party media as soon as it happened. I would have rather they had gone for all 24 hours, wash, rinse, repeat, wash, rinse, like the Democrats, take all the time you can. When you lay it out and connect the dots and the interactions of these, you start to see the president’s totally innocent. That’s, I thought, quite powerful. But, in that, it just — it dealt with a very narrow part of this case. That’s why I’m saying, Trump’s right. It is the crime of the century. There was attempted coup here. That’s what has to come out. And you shouldn’t have to depend upon conservative media to do that, the media. Let’s use the official apparatus of what the framers set up. Let’s have the Senate Judiciary Committee.
BANNON: And let’s get — we need to bring the whistle-blower. We need this bring Adam Schiff as a fact witness. We need the second whistle-blower.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: We need the entire apparatus. We need their phone records, their text messages.
And we need to have them up there addressing the American people.
BARTIROMO: For some reason, the critics of the president take all the oxygen out of the room, and they start focusing on what they want to focus on. You said to me a couple of weeks ago on this program, the president shouldn’t give the State of the Union if this is still going on. Let’s take a short break. I want to ask you about that. We are with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. And we have got more when we come right back.
BARTIROMO: We’re live coming to you from Miami Beach, the site of Super Bowl LIV. And I’m back here with former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon. And we are talking about a lot to come. You have got Iowa in the next couple of days. The president’s going to do his State of the Union on Tuesday night. Steve, you said to me, the president shouldn’t give the State of the Union if he’s not acquitted yet. Well, he’s getting acquitted Wednesday. Are you OK with this?
BANNON: I’m not OK with this. let’s — let’s take this past week, the split-screen. The president — you have — you have the president with Jared, has the — has the Israel — the new Israel peace plan, which radically changed…
BARTIROMO: Middle East plan, yes.
BANNON: Middle East, and totally changes the paradigm — it’s a paradigm shift to how really to think about and get buy-in. Ivanka comes in with the new $40 million for human trafficking that changes that whole scourge. Kellyanne has got the great announcement on opioids. Peter Navarro does the — does the counterfeiting. The president signs USMCA, which makes us a geostrategic manufacturing alternative to China. And Brexit gets done. Brexit would have never gotten done without Donald Trump’s victory. He had the back of Theresa May’s government, Boris Johnson’s government, Nigel Farage. This week is a historic week on action. Split-screen, you have got these Democrats on a phony, forced constitutional crisis, talk, talk, talk all week.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: And so what the president and what they — they have boxed him into now is that they’re going to have, what, 15 hours of senators talking before the final vote. And we’re going to have the State of the Union. And The New York Times has already gone to print with their headline: Under cloud of uncertainty, president addresses the nation.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: No, let’s have all the senators talk. Let’s do everything they want to do. They could have worked Saturday, if they wanted to. Let’s have it all, and the president of the United States gets the last word. He addresses the nation, talks about all the actions he’s taken, not the talk, and talks about where he’s driving the country. It’s not — it’s unacceptable that they’re going to have a following day after his State of the Union. And you know what they’re going to do?
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: They’re going to hold their heavy hitters until that day, and they’re going to sit there and rip. They’re going to have a counternarrative to everything the president said. If I was the president, I would say, hey, look, let’s do it the following Tuesday. Let’s do it on the night of New Hampshire.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: I will address the nation and see how they like that.
BARTIROMO: But the average guy and gal out there knows. They’re feeling what this president has put into place. I was talking to one of the drivers the other day. He said to me: My wife and I were just able to buy a house. We are so happy. I mean, the average person out there understands how these policies are impacting them. Take that to Iowa. Let’s talk Iowa for a second. The DNC now changing the rules so that Michael Bloomberg could be on the debate stage. Bernie is leading in Iowa. What’s your take?
BANNON: Well, let’s talk about what happened over the last 48 hours. President Trump always says, it’s a rigged game. The most important thing that comes out in the last week of Iowa is The Des Moines Register poll. They didn’t publish. And the reason that it didn’t publish is that it had some technical problem. I guarantee you, when they get to the bottom of this, and that comes out in a couple days after the caucuses, Bernie would have been up a couple of points, OK? They’re — they’re trying to — they’re trying to stiff Bernie, because the centrists there are in a panic mode. And so the whole thing is rigged. And the Democrats, and particularly the Bernie Sanders supporters, should understand, you’re playing in a rigged game. Michael Bloomberg, who really now you’re seeing an oligarch come in here, an oligarch that has committed $2 billion not to make himself president, $2 billion just to defeat Donald Trump.
And here’s the thing.
BARTIROMO: You don’t think he wants to be president?
BANNON: I think he — look, he knows he’s not going to beat Donald Trump. He knows he’s not going to win the nomination.
BARTIROMO: You said he wants to be something else, not…
BANNON: He’s — he’s basically doing a leveraged buyout of the Democratic Party, is what he’s doing. He’s an LBO of the Democratic Party to co
And that’s why this is very dangerous. Now you are seeing an oligarch actually step over, has no chance at all to actually defeat Trump as a presidential candidate, do something that’s much more dangerous to this republic. That’s why it’s got to be followed. And it’s serious. Remember, he can apply and capital like nobody else. He’s worth 70 — over $70 billion now.
BARTIROMO: Wow.
BANNON: So, he can put that — he can put this to work, but…
BARTIROMO: Money matters.
BANNON: Here’s — here’s the point about the actions. There’s no personality out there that can beat Trump, and there’s no set of policies. The policies are so radical. Trump’s policies have blue-collar people outperforming white-collar finally as far as wage growth goes. This is a striver’s economy built by Donald Trump with his tax cuts and particularly his deregulation. He’s now got the nation hitting on all cylinders in a troubled world economy, OK? And this is what — this is why Bloomberg, Nancy — remember, he wouldn’t never have been impeached if Bloomberg hadn’t given Nancy Pelosi $100 million for her candidates.
BARTIROMO: Right.
BANNON: He won 21 of those 20. He’s taking — he’s taking $100 million of advertising during the impeachment just to hammer Trump.
BARTIROMO: So, the president tweeted last night: “Mini Mike is now negotiating both to get on the Democratic primary debate stage and to have the right to stand on boxes or a lift during the debates. This is something — sometimes done, but not fair.”
Do you think that is why…
BANNON: I love the way that President Trump can get personal very quickly.
BARTIROMO: Do you think that’s why they changed the rules, because he gave $100 million to the DNC last year, and he’s pledging up to $2 billion?
BANNON: Absolutely.
BARTIROMO: That’s why they changed the rules?
BANNON: He’s doing a leveraged buyout of the Democratic Party. And the centrists, the Wall Street faction, the global corporatists, they understand Joe Biden. Joe Biden’s performance in Iowa has been pathetic. And if you watch it closely, only two-thirds of the things are full. The little V.F. halls, they are full. He’s not on point. He can’t bring the heat. They understand — they understand Mayor Pete, a small-town mayor from Indiana, is not going to be president. There’s no centrist candidate. That’s why Biden — that’s why Bloomberg money’s coming in to get him more stature. Now, he’s not going to be the nominee, I don’t think. And there’s no chance he can beat Trump.
So — but they…
BARTIROMO: Are we going to see a brokered convention? Where is this going?
Hillary Clinton said…
BANNON: Yes, Hillary Clinton.
BARTIROMO: Hillary Clinton is not done talking about Bernie Sanders. In a podcast, she says: It’s not my experience from 2016 that what — that he’s going to unite the party. Nobody trusts him. You can’t work with him. I mean, he’s still — she’s still trashing Bernie Sanders.
BANNON: Bloomberg money’s and Clinton — in a brokered convention, the centrists will look to Clinton to save the — save the party, as I have said, when they don’t have a centrist. And the specter — remember, Bernie Sanders is AOC. Bernie Sanders is AOC’s third term. It just happens to be the first. Bernie’s surge has come since Bernie’s been back in Washington on the impeachment trial. It’s AOC in Iowa. She has taken over that one taking over that wing of the Democratic Party, or the socialist party. They’re really not Democrats. Remember, she said, in any other country in the world, Joe Biden and I wouldn’t be in the same party. So, she’s taken over the socialists. She’s become the mini rock star out there as they have gone around. That Bernie surge — and the Bernie and AOC people should understand something. When they get to the bottom of what happened on this poll, Bernie would have been up. This was completely the Democratic apparatus and guys like Bloomberg to try to suppress what you’re doing as left-wing populists.
BARTIROMO: You have been working a lot on your wildly successful podcast “War Room” on coronavirus. I want to talk to you about the economy, because the president needs a strong economy going into the election.
We will take a break, and then we will talk about that. More with the former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon coming up in a moment.
BARTIROMO: Welcome back. We have this FOX News Alert. Police in the U.K. say several people have been stabbed in what they’re calling a terrorism-related incident. It happened in the Streatham neighborhood in the South Side of London. Police say that they shot one man believed to be involved in the stabbings. We will stay on top of this story. We will bring you more information as we get it. Meanwhile, I am back here in Miami with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon. A terrorist incident in London, Steve, is what we understand is happening.
Meanwhile, the president trying to secure the country, as we see more incidents around the coronavirus.
Joe Biden attacked the president for what the president is trying to do.
BANNON: The president took really heroic and very smart action on Friday to try to make sure that we’re — and helping the Chinese people, because this is number one. The Chinese people need assistance here, OK? And the Chinese government needs assistance. The Chinese people are the victims of this. This is a horrific pandemic that’s broken out in Central China. They’re trying to quarantine essentially anywhere from 70 to 90 million people. That has never happened in human history before. They need all the assistance they can get. What President Trump is trying to do, and other nations around the world, is make sure that this pandemic doesn’t spread to other countries. And he took heroic and smart action to protect the American people, but also to help the Chinese. Biden today — and this shows you how, I think, he’s lost a step and is not really on top of things, doesn’t understand the complexity here. This is a very complex situation. He called the president — fell into hysteria, was xenophobic, nativist. And he’s absolutely dead wrong. What the president of the United States did is what the head of this virus fighter in Hong Kong, Dr. Gabriel Leung, who’s the top virus fighter, he recommended these actions on Tuesday and Wednesday.
BARTIROMO: Yes.
BANNON: And the president took them on Friday. The president also showed his team. He has a very strong team of FEMA, throughout the government. They were up there on stage the other day. So he’s — they’re — we’re attacking this wholeheartedly. He actually became a war president on Friday on the war against this virus.
BARTIROMO: But this is hitting us nonetheless. You have got company after company shutting down businesses in and around China. Obviously, Wuhan is totally closed down. Is this going to impact the global economy? Look at this major sell-off we had in the Dow Jones industrial average on Friday, because people are worried that the first quarter, write it off in China. Write off their first quarter. That’s going to hit the U.S., isn’t it?
BANNON: Listen, this is the downside of globalization. This is why President Trump’s been talking about economic nationalism.
This is why people today — and Bank of America had this analysis of multinational corporations looking at localism, bringing jobs back to their own home thing. The — the downside of globalization, globalization has just-in-time inventory. The issue is, this interlocking distribution chain you have also has certain security risks to it, not just national security. You have health security. And that’s what we’re seeing. And so China, right now, the major industrial center of China outside of Southern China is in complete lockdown, and so — quarantined. They have extended the Golden Week for another week.
But the schools in Hong Kong…
BARTIROMO: But is this going to hit the U.S. economy right before the — for the election?
BANNON: Here’s what I think…
BARTIROMO: What can the president do about the economy here?
BANNON: Here’s what I think people ought to start focusing right now, is the third quarter. In China, if they don’t open these factories, if they don’t start — drop these quarantines in the next couple weeks, you’re going to have real impact.
BARTIROMO: All right, Steve, it is great to have you, as always. If Steve Bannon is correct (and I think he probably is), Michael Bloomberg has no intention of occupying the Oval Office; his real plan is far more devious and frightening. Bloomberg is investing a small fraction of his fortune (Bannon says it is now $70 billion) in a “leveraged buyout” of the party, installing himself as the oligarch who calls the shots, including the selection of the candidate to win the presidency.
