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The true character of a person will always be revealed when they are faced with a crisis or adversity. And the eternal question will always be, when it truly mattered, did they do the right thing? So far, Trump has failed. And Trump has never failed to fail, because failing has always been the easiest thing for him to do.
When Ebola broke out in West Africa in 2014, President Obama recognized that responding to the outbreak overseas, while also protecting Americans at home, involved multiple U.S. government departments and agencies, none of which were speaking to one another.
So to bring order and harmony to the chaos, he create a coherent multiagency response overseas and on the homefront. Building on the Ebola experience, President Obama set up a permanent epidemic monitoring and command group inside the White House National Security Council, and another in the Department of Homeland Securityâboth of which followed the scientific and public health leads of the National Institutes of Health, and the CDC, and the diplomatic advice of the State Department.
But thatâs all gone now. In May 2018, Trump ordered the NSCâs entire global health security unit shut down. This was the directorate charged with preparing for when, not if, another pandemic would hit the nation.
Trumpâs elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see or comprehend the threat of pandemics. Trump said that COVID-19 âcame out of nowhereâ and âblindsided the world.â His comments left scientists, doctors, and national security experts in a state of shock. Because experts had been warning about the next pandemic for years.
âOne year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,â Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed. She said the directorate was set up to be the âsmoke alarmâ and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire â âall with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.â
In the spring of 2018, Trump pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, reducing $15 billion in national health spending and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. And the governmentâs $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated..
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Dr. Fiona Hill testimony before the House Intel committee.
"Based on questions and statements I have heard, some of you on this committee appear to believe that Russia and its security services did not conduct a campaign against our countryâand that perhaps, somehow, for some reason, Ukraine did. This is a fictional narrative that has been perpetrated and propagated by the Russian security services themselves.
The unfortunate truth is that Russia was the foreign power that systematically attacked our democratic institutions in 2016. This is the public conclusion of our intelligence agencies, confirmed in bipartisan Congressional reports. It is beyond dispute, even if some of the underlying details must remain classified.
The impact of the successful 2016 Russian campaign remains evident today. Our nation is being torn apart. Truth is questioned. Our highly professional and expert career foreign service is being undermined.
Right now, Russiaâs security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests.
Ukraine is a valued partner of the United States, and it plays an important role in our national security. And as I told this Committee last month, I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraineânot Russiaâattacked us in 2016.
These fictions are harmful even if they are deployed for purely domestic political purposes. President Putin and the Russian security services operate like a Super PAC. They deploy millions of dollars to weaponize our own political opposition research and false narratives.Â
If the President, or anyone else, impedes or subverts the national security of the United States in order to further domestic political or personal interests, that is more than worthy of your attention. But we must not let domestic politics stop us from defending ourselves against the foreign powers who truly wish us harm."
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In President Bidenâs first year in office, his administration has implemented an industrial strategy to revitalize domestic manufacturing, create good-paying American jobs, strengthen American supply chains, and accelerate the industries of the future. These policies have spurred an historic recovery in manufacturing, adding 642,000 manufacturing jobs since 2021. Companies are investing in America again, bringing good-paying manufacturing jobs back home. The construction of new manufacturing facilities has increased 116 percent over last year.
President Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which will build on this progress, making historic investments that will poise U.S. workers, communities, and businesses to win the race for the 21st century. It will strengthen American manufacturing, supply chains, and national security, and invest in research and development, science and technology, and the workforce of the future to keep the US the leader in the industries of tomorrow, including nanotechnology, clean energy, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence. The CHIPS and Science Act makes the smart investments so that Americans can compete in and win the future.
Fun fact: The PACT Act, which President Biden signed into law in August 2022, is the most significant expansion of benefits and services for toxin-exposed veterans in over three decades. The the PACT Act aims to deliver timely benefits and services to veterans across all generations who have been impacted by toxic exposures during their military service.
Despite its overwhelming support amongst the American people, getting the PACT Act passed in Congress proved to be an uphill battle. Republicans in CongressLied repeatedly about the law and voted against it, before the pressure ramped up against them.
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By attacking the FBI, and America's other intelligence agencies, Trump is doing Putin's dirty work for him. And make no mistake, it constitutes a threat to America's national security.
The FBI has always been the biggest threat to Russian agents attempting to operate on American soil.
Semper Fi...
The FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" was a counter-espoinoge operation against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010.. By July 2015,
Donald Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley had been living for two decadesÂ
in Canada and then in Europe before they ever set foot in the United StatesÂ
to start spying for Russia here. We now know that the FBI was on to themÂ
as spies as soon as they got here.
The FBI's "Operation Ghost Stories" was against Andrey Bezrukov and Yelena Vavilova, a Russian spy couple who were part of the Illegals Program, a network of Russian sleeper agents who were arrested in 2010. Andrey Bezrukov, and Yelena Vavilova, were highly trained in terms of espionage, but also in terms of language and accent and mannerisms, which would allow them to blend in.
In the 80s, they arrived in Canada as a couple. They had false identifies that had been stolen from real Canadians. The identities were stolen from a little boy in Montreal in the 1960s,
whose name had been Donald Heathfield and sometime in the 1960s, that
little child had died in infancy. There had also been a little girl named
Tracy Lee Ann Foley who had also died in Montreal in the 1960s in
childhood.
Decades later in the 1980s, these two Russian agents, with their stolen identities, started a fake life in Toronto. They lived in Toronto through the â80s and into the â90s. In the â90s,
Heathfield and Tracy Lee Ann Foley, had two sons.
After their sons were born in Canada in the â90s, the family moved sometime
in the mid to late â90s to France where the father, Donald Heathfield, went
to grad school. They were both fluent in French and English.
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Let's be clear, Flynn didn't lie to Pence or Trump about his contacts with the Russians, it was Trump and Pence who lied to the American people, because they knew all along about his contacts with the Russians. He was literally acting on their behalf.
When Trump fired Michael Flynn, in Feb 2017, White House officials portrayed him as a renegade who had acted independently in his discussions with a Russian official and then lied to Pence and others about the interactions. But emails among top transition officials, show that Flynn was far from a rogue actor. In fact, the emails, coupled with interviews and court documents showed that Flynn was in close touch with other senior members of the Trump transition team both before and after he spoke with the Russian ambassador, Kislyak, about American sanctions against Russia.
After learning that Obama would expel 35 Russian diplomats, the Trump team quickly strategized about how to reassure Russia.
On Dec. 29 2016, transition adviser K. T. McFarland, wrote in an email to a colleague that sanctions announced hours before by Obama in retaliation for Russian election meddling were aimed at discrediting Trumpâs victory. The sanctions,,she wrote, could also make it much harder for Mr. Trump to ease tensions with Russia, âwhich has just thrown the U.S.A. election to him,â she wrote in the emails.đ˛
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Meanwhile, Trump is protecting Saudi Arabia after their leader had an American resident murdered in an Embassy in Turkey.
Keep in mind, the Saudis have put a ton of money into Trump and Jared's pockets. Trump is a man of no beliefs, ideals, or convictions, and he has the moral compass of a weather vane, and Saudis bought Trump a long time ago. Can't really blame the Saudis though, especially when Trump put himself on sale, with a 2 for 1 special ( Trump &Jared) Who could pass up a deal like that?
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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It's clear that Trump sees himself as a dictator like Putin and Kim Jung Un. During the shutdown, he said that thousands of Americans are okay with going without pay for months, or even years, just for him, because apparently they love him so much. And suffering for him would be an honor. The same way the people of NK are honored to suffer for their dear leader, Trump believes Americans are willing to do the same for him.
June 15 2018, Trump praises Kim Jung Un ' control over his people.
"He's the head of the country," Trump said of Kim during a Fox interview.
"And I mean he's the strong head. Don't let anyone think anything different."
"He speaks and his people sit up at attention,"Â Trump added. "I want my people to do the same."
Sept 30 2018, Trump confesses the love he has for his muse, Kim Jung Un, during a rally.
"I like him, he likes me. I guess thatâs okay. Am I allowed to say that?â Trump said.
 âAnd then we fell in love, okayâ he said. âNo really. He wrote me beautiful letters, and theyâre great letters. We fell in love.â
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Conservatism, by its very core nature, is an absolutist, black-and-white way of thinking. Conservatism is rooted in the past; it is hidebound, dogmatic, intellectually incurious, unwilling to explore and examine differing viewpoints, and completely, often rabidly dismissive of evidence to the contrary of its beliefs and core principles. "Conservative" people tend to be adamantly, willfully, often venomously ignorant of the truth, because the truth offends them. They seem to be hard-wired into this obstinacy, to the point of pathological obsession. This is why repubicans are simply incapable of governing, because Republicans aren't interested in governing, they want to rule, and there's a big difference between the two. Ruling, and authoritarianism, lies at the heart of what conservatism has always been about...
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And Trump has sent thousands of our troops to Saudi Arabia to protect their oil and HIS own personal business interests.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
Congress was furious over Trumpâs secret efforts to secure a nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia. Congress was rightfully furious when they discovered that the Saudis refused to accept limits preventing them from developing a nuclear weapon.
It was revealed that Trump gave approval for companies to share certain nuclear energy technology with the kingdom without a broader nuclear deal in place.
House Dems began investigating Trump's nuclear talks with Saudi after the Oversight and Reform Committee announced in February it was launching a probe to âdetermine whether the actions being pursued by the Trump administration are in the national security interests of the US or, rather, serve those who stand to gain financially as a result of this potential change in U.S. foreign policy.â
Energy Secretary Rick Perry approved seven authorizations that let U.S. companies share certain nuclear energy technology with Saudi Arabia.Â
lawmakers were outraged when they found out they were not told about the approvals, saying the secrecy violates the Atomic Energy Act, which requires that Congress be kept âfully and currently informedâ of 123 agreement negotiations.
"Saudi Arabia, I get along with all of them. They buy apartments from me. They spend $40 million, $50 million,â Trump told a crowd at an Alabama rally on Aug. 21, 2015. âAm I supposed to dislike them? I like them very much.â
The Saudis have invested a lot of money into Trump's criminal organization, and they expect a return on their investment..... protection being one of the things the Saudis expect in return.
In 1991, as Trump was teetering on bankruptcy yet AGAIN, and scrambling to raise cash, he sold his 282-foot Trump yacht âPrincessâ to Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin-Talal for $20 million.
Four years later, the prince came to his rescue again, joining other investors in a $325 million deal for Trumpâs money-losing Plaza Hotel....Which eventually went under anyway.
In 2001, Trump sold the entire 45th floor of the Trump World Tower across from the UN for $12 million, the biggest purchase in that building to that point, according to the brokerage site Streeteasy. The buyer: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Since Trump took the oath of office, the Saudi government and lobbying groups for it have been lucrative customers for Trumpâs hotels.
A public relations firm working for the kingdom spent nearly $270,000 on lodging at his Washington hotel through March of last year, according to filings to the Justice Department. A spokesman for the firm told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump hotel payments came as part of a Saudi-backed lobbying campaign against a bill that allowed Americans to sue foreign governments for responsibility in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Attorneys general for Maryland and the District of Columbia cited the payments by the Saudi lobbying firm as an example of foreign gifts to Trump that could violate the Constitutionâs ban on such âemolumentsâ from foreign interests.
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In her new book, Trump's niece Mary describes Donald as a âtoxicâ bully who practices âcheating as a way of life,â and someone who values money above anything.
In the forward to his new book entitled âDisloyal, A Memoir,â Michael Cohen writes: âTrump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything â and I mean anything â to âwinâ has always been his business model and way of life,â he added.Â
Trump will definitely try to cheat in order to win reelection. Trump is a natural born loser, therefore he has to cheat. He's never achieved anything in his life without lying and cheating.
Trump's failure as a president was inevitable. Trump was never equipped to do his job. He doesn't have the necessary tools or the wherewithal to do his job. Trump is grossly incapacitated intellectually, mentally, emotionally, temperamentally, socially, and psychologically. He couldn't properly do his job as president even if he wanted to. (Which he doesn't)Â Trump was always going to fail, and he was always going to blame his failures on someone or something. Lying, cheating, and bullying are his only tools for survival. They are the tools of his trade, which is being an agent of chaos, misery, and destruction. It's all he knows. He is a sad and pathetic excuse for a human being. In fact, he is less of a human being, and more of a collection of every human flaw known to mankind, all rolled into one man.
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Trump sat in the White House, and watched the vio.lence that unfolded on our nation's Capitol for at least two whole hours, without doing anything, and without saying a word, other than to blast his own Vice President, who eventually had to flee for his life from the Capitol.
Watching his followers storm the Capitol while wearing his hats and waving flags emblazoned with his name, was the greatest day of Trump's presidency. He has never felt more like the dictator he's always wanted to be than he did on that day.
The truth of the matter is, if Trump had not filled his followers heads with lies for months, and if he had not held that rally, where he instructed his followers to march to the Capitol and fight like he// in order to "stop the steal" the insurrection never would have happened. Because without the use of vio.lence, how else were they going to stop the so called steal?
The problem with Trump's lawyer's argument, is that there was literally nothing left to fight for, because the election was over. The only thing that remained was for Pence to count and certify the electoral votes. So the only thing they could've been fighting for, was to bring a stop to the counting of the electoral votes, which would officially certify Biden as the next democratically elected president.
And vio.lence was the only option they had left. Trump had already exhausted every other legal and illegal option. So on January 6, the vio.lence card was the only card Trump had left, and he played it.
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