Trump’s Win ‘Isn’t the Finish Line — It’s the Starting Point’

While it isn’t what every American wanted, the election did deliver something every American needed: clarity. The results that handed Donald Trump his second term supplied exactly what this weary and fractured country had to have to move forward — an unambiguous winner. A straightforward path. A fresh chance to be the nation its people, and the world, deserve. But none of that will matter, some are pointing out, if we don’t seize the reprieve God has granted.

“We can’t squander this moment,” former Congressman Jody Hice said emotionally. “Underneath all of this, God is giving America a window of mercy. This has to be a moment that the body of Christ responds with gratitude and repentance. We cannot throw away this time of grace that God has given us.” Yes, there were tremendous victories that took place, he acknowledged, “but may we respond humbly and steward this moment appropriately going forward — and in greater reliance upon Him.”

What happened Tuesday was incredibly significant, he underscored. “It does restore hope in the American people that they realize the direction our country was going — and they rejected it. They don’t want the woke policies. They don’t want all this misunderstanding of gender and of loss of parental rights and a horrible economy and an open border and on and on and on. … [T]hey want more common-sense government. They want authentic leadership around the world, as well as right here in our own country. And I believe that message came through loud and clear.”

But to those conservatives who think they can just sit back and coast for four years now that Republicans have a firm grip on key levers of power, think again. “Regardless of how this election goes,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins wanted people to know, “our work has just begun.” We shouldn’t think that Trump’s election means game over in the political arena, FRC’s Owen Strachan insisted. “No, it means game on.”

Obviously, there’s enormous relief at this opportunity to close our borders, restore biological sanity, make life affordable again, and become a respected voice on the global stage — and that’s worth celebrating. But if the disappointments of the GOP platform are any indication, there will be some uncomfortable times ahead. And those times must be met with our unbendable conviction that biblical principles matter — regardless of their political expedience.

“Let me tell you something … we can learn from [Democrats],” Princeton Professor Robert George explained. “Something I admire about them [is] they do not let their politicians deviate. They do not let their politicians adopt a view for the purposes of [winning an election]. They do not accept the argument that, ‘Well, our view is now in a minority and it’s electorally dangerous for us to come out in favor of that view.’ … The Left understands that that doesn’t work in the long run to the advantage of the causes that they believe in.”

Whatever the narrative may be about this election — whether the GOP’s disconcerting step back from the life issue helped or hurt — it’s the Christians’ job to cut through that noise to the truth. And frankly, if the church had engaged from a point of moral clarity sooner, we might not have gotten to the point where fundamental values like this one are suddenly negotiable. The bottom line is, we can’t vote and walk away. “Part of being a disciple,” Pastor Jack Hibbs wanted people to know, “is getting involved in this remarkable republic that the Lord has given us.”

We aren’t Minutemen like they had in the Revolutionary War, Perkins stressed. “They would drop their pitchforks, grab their rifles, and they would run to the battle. And then they would go back home, and they would pick up their pitchforks. You know, I always thought, ‘Well, we just kind of respond, and we take a pro-life stand, and then it’s over and we go back to our life as it was before.’”

But that’s not our calling as Christians, he insisted. “This is our life. This is what Ephesians 6 talks about [when it explains] the battle that we’re in and [urges us] to continue to stand. So the battle is never done this side of heaven. We have to continue to perpetually stand for the truth.”

The good news is that there’s unbelievable momentum right now to do exactly that. If the sea of red from Tuesday is any indication, Americans are energized as never before to put this country back on the right track. As FRC’s Mary Szoch said after voters knocked off three radical pro-abortion ballot initiatives, this is the opening believers have been waiting for. On Tuesday, “Americans … re-elected the most pro-life president in the history of America,” she emphasized. “Now is the time for us to work together to promote strong, faith-filled marriages, strengthen families, and create a society that values every single person from the moment they come into existence. The opportunity to build a culture of life in America is great, and we cannot waste it.”

Pro-lifers saw what could be accomplished when they pushed back on Trump’s reluctance to challenge the Left’s abortion agenda in Florida: he listened. Where would the amendment be today if conservatives hadn’t held the former president accountable? Fortunately, we’ll never know.

We also need to remember, Hibbs said on Pray Vote Stand: Decision 2024, “The church needs a revival. We will still wake up tomorrow [knowing that the church needs to turn] back to Scripture — and pulpits … [need to address] through the Scripture the issues that shape our congregants and their life, their worldview. And so, we need a revival. We pray that this election is a little part of that, but the bottom line is the answer is really in God’s people stepping up. And that’s what we hope we see tonight, is God’s people getting involved.”

Another thing Christians need to realize, former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann said, is that “we have a lot to be grateful for.” The Trump campaign is in a “good place,” she acknowledged, “[but that’s] in the natural. I felt like the Lord was saying to me early on in this campaign that this [race] won’t be won in the natural, it will be won in the supernatural. And I truly believe that we need to just keep leaning in [with] prayer and what we’re [doing]. Where Scripture has taken me this week is [to Exodus] where Moses is standing when the Israelites are battling with the Amalekites — and then Hur and Aaron are holding up Moses’s arms — all while Joshua was on the field at the battle. And so it’s both: it’s prayer, and it’s action.”

When the church does both, she explained, “then we see victory.” “… But we can never, ever take it for granted.” The reality is, Michele pointed out, “Four years is going to go fast. And again, we only have two years until the next midterm, so … we’ve got to get to work. … It’s like there was a party and the furniture is all broken and the drapes are torn down from the windows, and we’ve got to get America’s house back in order fast and do what the American public believes that Donald Trump and a Republican Senate and a Republican House can do.”

That takes work, it takes commitment, and it takes an army of men and women determined to pay the price to speak up — and stand up. Whatever happens from here, Tony urged, “Election 2024 must not be the finish line for Christians in America; I pray it is a starting point. It’s time for the church to arise. Our hurting nation needs a revival that only God can provide.”

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Reflections on Elections

The elections have consumed so much of our energy as of late. Before we close the door on the 2024 elections, it’s good to consider some wisdom from our founding fathers and other noteworthy Americans on voting.

I read a joke recently wherein a surgeon, an engineer, and a politician were arguing as to which one of their professions was the oldest. The surgeon said, “Surely, mine is. Since God did surgery on Adam to produce Eve.”

The engineer said, “Yeah, but before the creation of Adam and Eve, the chaos was made into order. Making order out of chaos is the work of the engineer.”

“Yeah, but who created the chaos?” asked the politician.

Shouldn’t Christians stay out of politics? That’s what many people seem to advocate these days. And yet one man had the temerity to say this: “Providence has given to our people the choice of their ruler, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”

Oh, my goodness. Who said that? Jerry Falwell? Alex Jones? Atilla the Hun? No, actually it was said by John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. He was appointed by our first president, George Washington.

Again, it’s the duty and privilege of Christians to prefer Christians as our political leaders, according to our first chief justice. Wow. How far we have fallen. Now we have a crisis where many Christians don’t even bother to vote in modern America. Some aren’t even registered to vote.

But Patrick Henry warned us: “It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.”

Well, it has been said that in America, we get the kind of government we deserve. Historically, Christians in America applied their faith to virtually every sphere of life, including their politics.

While the founding fathers were not all Christians, the vast majority of them were, and more importantly they had a biblical worldview. Our two key founding documents are the Declaration of Independence, which says our rights come from God, and the Constitution which explains how this government is to work. The founders believed the Biblical witness that man is sinful. So they designed the division of power very carefully.

What made America so special gets back to our Judeo-Christian foundation. But this fact has been lost on so many Americans who now view the nation as a happy accident and who view Christians as interlopers in an otherwise blissful secular state. Furthermore, our history has been rewritten and God has been erased.

The great 19th century Christian statesman Daniel Webster (1782-1852), senator from Massachusetts, once declared, “If religious books are not widely circulated among the masses in this country, I do not know what is going to become of us as a nation. If truth be not diffused, error will be.”

Webster also stated: “If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendancy; If the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will; If the power of the Gospel is not felt throughout the length and breadth of the land, anarchy and misrule, degradation and misery, corruption and  darkness will reign without mitigation or end.”

Nature abhors a vacuum. If we as Christians are not involved in culture, including politics, then ungodly men and women will be. Abraham Lincoln said: “Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion can change the government practically just so much.”

He also noted this—a statement that I think about in light of the ACLU and other secularists trying to rob us of our liberties and our rich Christian heritage: “A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people.”

Lincoln’s successor, the 17th President, Andrew Johnson, was the first president to be impeached; but he was saved from expulsion from office by one vote. Nonetheless, he recognized that our rights are God-given. Said Johnson: “This is the peoples’ Government; they received it as a legacy from Heaven, and they must defend it and preserve it.”

Our 26th president was Theodore Roosevelt. He reminds us of the arduous task government is for “we the people”: “The noblest of all forms of government is self-government; but it is also the most difficult.”

Whatever all the final results will prove to be in the 2024 elections, “we the people” need to remember who is in charge. Theoretically, the politicians are our servants and not vice versa.

As Teddy Roosevelt worded it, “If people cannot rule themselves, then they are not fit for free government, and all talk about democracy is a sham.”

©2024  All rights reserved.

Trump’s Electrifying, World-Changing Victory

It was exactly 1:38 A.M. November 6th, 2024 that Bret Baier on Fox News said that it was clear “that the next president of the United States of America would be Donald J. Trump.”

Not taking a micrometer of credit away from President Trump 47 and his epically tireless, passionate, often hilariously funny, and brave — in spite of three assassination attempts and then a fourth death threat  —  countrywide, night-after-night, week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year campaign.

Whoever coined the word “superhuman” had a person like Trump in mind!

But I have to give the lion’s share of the credit for President Trump’s decisive, stunning, overwhelming, crushing, thunderous victory to the historically astute, paying-attention, loving-our-country American public.

When you think about it, it is really so understandable.

For the past four years, hardworking Americans resented spending their 8-10-12-14-hour days — more if they have two jobs — working their butts off, only to have their taxes and food prices and gas prices and regulations raised, and crime off the charts, and for what?

To send upward of $175 billion to the Zelensky grifter in Ukraine so he can buy yet another villa and another yacht?

To send not millions, but billions of their hard-earned tax dollars to the murderous, Jew-hating, Israel-loathing jihadist mullahs in Iran so they can put their, ahem, leaders up in decadently luxurious hotels in Qatar?

And, since October 7, 2023, to send more than a billion dollars to the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians…you know, the cheerleaders of the serial murderers known as Hamas and Hezb’allah?

It’s Not Only the Money

Surprise, surprise!  American voters have both eyes and ears.

Over the past four years, they — we — witnessed in real time a president with seriously devolving cognitive abilities, as well as erratic behavior, frequent absences, and a trigger temper that finally led the party bosses to force him to step aside.

That was when all the eyes and ears of the American public witnessed the true spectacle of V.P.-cum-presidential-candidate Kamala Harris.

The last time I actually physically cringed at a public personality was when Hillary Clinton spoke Ebonics in front of a black audience.  But ol’ Hillary had nothing on the woman I’ve been calling Kalamity for the past four years.

Kamala’s mantra, “What Can Be, Unburdened by What Has Been,” is vintage communist dogma, as this commentator so eloquently explains.

The media, a de facto arm of the Democrat National Committee, succeeded in hiding Kalamity’s deep roots and relationships with vicious anti-American and anti-Semitic radicals, as did her personal pastor, of all people.

But as conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has said: “You can argue against Trump; you can argue for him.  But nobody can credibly argue in favor of Kamala Harris.”

The Vote Rig Effort Started Early

One could quite accurately say that “the rig” started when business mogul Donald J. Trump came down the escalator in the Trump Tower in New York City on June 16, 2015, as did the fanatical obsession with removing him from the political arena…even before he crushed Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race.

Going back to 2020, Mark Alexander, publisher of The Patriot Post, spelled out the Democrats’ vote-rigging criminal activity to defeat President Trump in devastating detail.

And this year, The Gateway Pundit has done yeoman work in exposing the sordid and longtime pattern of Democrat voter fraud.  In this revelatory piece, a Democrat operative, caught in an undercover  video, explains how the Democrats “allegedly” stole the 2020 Election in Georgia, from kicking out GOP poll-watchers to a nursing home ballot-harvesting, et al.

In the same vein, Major General Paul E. Vallely (U.S. Army Ret.), in a jaw-dropping article, describes exactly how Democrats steal elections.  Just as diabolical is this 17-minute video, in which Mike Benz, deputy assistant secretary for international communication under President Trump, describes an elite-backed war game — a secret Democrat plan — entitled “Military Coup to Stop Trump.”

Too Big to Rig

Mr. Trump had his advantages.  In a stunning reversal of decades-long backing, Ms. Kalamity failed to win the endorsements of the Teamsters Union, The Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post — all bastions of endemic leftism.

In addition, the largest Arab-American community (both Muslim and Christian) in the U.S., in Michigan, endorsed Donald Trump for president.

And surprisingly but certainly not intentionally, Mr. Trump got a huge boost from none other than Barack Obama, the guy who is said to be engineering his defeat.

Also, Mr. Trump received a $100M donation from the new Dallas Mavericks owner that Kalamity-backer Mark Cuban sold his team to.  I think this is called poetic justice.

And the America First Legal Foundation, headed by Stephen Miller, President Trump’s senior policy adviser and speechwriter, has been unstinting in monitoring the voter fraud efforts around the country and successfully suing the criminals.

According to the prediction of Wayne Allyn Root, a conservative television and radio host, author, political activist, and oddsmaker out of Las Vegas, Nev., the Trump landslide was simply “Too Big to Rig.”

But he also predicted that a Trump win would mobilize the deranged Democrats to extreme measures, the most probable being “nationwide riots, anarchy, looting, burning, and attacks on American institutions.  This country could burn like never before in history,” Root said.

The Silent Majority

Although the TV reporting on November 5 tried to be fair and balanced, it was clear after the polls closed that President Trump had ignited an electorate that had genuinely suffered through four years of skyrocketing food and gas prices, taxes, and strangulating regulations.

And to add insult to injury, more billions, even trillions of dollars of taxpayer dollars were spent not only on five wars — count ’em: Darfur, Yemen, Myanmar, Ukraine, and Israel — but also the crushing expense of upwards of 11 million illegal aliens, all enjoying — thanks to the Biden-Harris government — pricey lodgings, hot meals, medical care, education for their children, iPhones, and even monthly stipends that are higher than what American families and veterans receive!

Did the Biden-Harris regime not figure that Americans would be saying to themselves, “Mmmm, five wars…if she wins, will she double that or just throw in a couple more to six or seven wars?  Will she institute a mandatory draft like what she and Joe made the COVID shot mandatory for military people, forcing 8,000 to quit…but ultimately winning a huge settlement from the Department of Defense?

In November of 1969, presidential candidate Richard Nixon coined the term “silent majority.”  This referred to any large group of people who do not express their opinions publicly but object to or resent or hate what they are witnessing and experiencing and cannot wait to vote the bastards out — a rousing anthem sung by the Australian Spooky Men’s Chorale.

Here is a Trump ad from 2024’s Silent Majority.

What Actually Happened

Two hundred seventy electoral votes is required to elect the president.

By 2 A.M. on November 6, Mr. Trump had 248 Electoral votes and Kalamity had 217.  Of course, Democrats were saying it could take three days, six days, three weeks to count the votes.  But then Mr. Trump went over the top!

All the TV analysts — from the left, right and center — were predicting a Trump victory and comparing it to the Grover Cleveland presidency of 1885, and then skipping a term until returning to the presidency in 1893.

But Democrats have warned that they’ve already planned widespread protests if Trump declares victory.  And many have vowed that even if Trump recaptures the presidency,  his most fanatical adversaries, among them Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-Md.),  will use every legal means to stop him from retaking the White House.

And now that Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) has flipped the Senate to Republican control, Raskin is plumb out of luck.

All of former president Trump’s supporters and all of President Trump’s future supporters applaud him and thank him, as the good garbage man he is, for taking out the trash!

©2024   All rights reserved.

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And Now the Work Begins

Trump’s win means that we actually have the opportunity to fight back.

It is now that real work to reclaim republics, in the US and across the West can actually begin.

Trump’s win means that while the state may not have changed yet, it likely won’t be a criminal matter to oppose the communist revolutionary government we have in so many nations, but especially the United States. It means that at least in part, politics can be part of the solution. That alone is an unexpected win.

Now is when going to school boards and demanding they stop showing pornography to children and inducting them into gnostic sex cults can be done with effect, because the FBI will not investigate you as a domestic terrorist. Or at least one might expect that will stop.

And many of these things will happen by themselves now.

And if, as RFK Jr. had said in his most excellent speech where he abandoned the Democrats, “If Trump is good to his word”, then RFK Jr. will fix a lot that is wrong in America, and subsequently across the West. Hopefully farmers will be encouraged to grow real food in abundance, because when the public realize they have been poisoned with cheap, easy to grow and process and store foods that are made with four, sugar, artificial flavours and food colouring, that cause obesity and diabetes along with a host of other diseases, real food will get very expensive.

Until and unless farmers can grow real food. And this can likely happen by not creating false incentives with artificial subsidies using fiat currency. Something which has corrupted vast sectors of Western Civ. In fact the only reason pretty much that Harris got any votes to speak of, is because education is so heavily subsidized that their communist communist messaging was allowed to dominate the curriculum at the expense of, well real education.

All of us have our hopes and desires for this admin.

Ours is that people with a mindset to live in reality will now step up to the plate. Speak their minds. Take back the institutions that have been captured, or when needed, create new ones that serve the original purposes and abandon the old ones altogether.

That police will once again fight crime and not people objecting to crime.

That sane rules will be applied across the board. That freedom of speech for all will return, even the people we can’t stand so long as our right to counter their speech with ours is also protected.

Restore the nation state including its borders and vet all potential immigrants. Remove the ones who committed crimes once entering the country, sometimes after proper punishment for those crimes. America needs a deferent again. And then look at all who entered illegally carefully with the error being towards deportation. They committed a crime just by entering that way, no matter what component of the COMINTERN paid them or encouraged them to do so.

I’m sure many people here have their own laundry lists and will add them to the comments. But for the moment, congratulations, and after the celebration, let’s get to work.

EDITORS NOTE: This Vlad Tepes Blog column posted by Eeyore is republished with permission. ©All rights reserved.

Kamala Harris Missing In Action after her Massive Political Defeat

Kamala Harris the Marxist raised in socialist Canada has been crushed like a flea on a dog’s ass by we the American people. We do not want to be controlled from birth to death by an anti capitalist tyrannical Marxist regime.

Her true character slowly unpeeled when she ran a malicious fraud campaign refusing to give interviews, refusing to give press conferences, hiding from Joe Rogan, calling fellow Americans who disagreed with her Nazis, her Communist ideology now soundly defeated.

Don’t forget her fake photos pretending to be in contact with FEMA during the hurricanes hitting us here in the great state of Florida, she even failed miserably when she tried to unbalance the Governor of Florida with her victim card during hurricane recovery.

Her fake phone call to an unnamed voter easily identified. Her final act was to no-show her herd of low IQ sheeple supporters and has failed to thank them for their loyalty to her Marxist ideology after they stayed up until 2AM waiting for her concession speech.

President Trump withstood unbelievable pressure from the Marxist deep state criminals that tried to jail him for fictional crimes, impeached him twice for no reason, impeached him after he had left office and their deep state operatives failed twice to assassinate him. Pure evil people.

The fake news who are the stenographers for the Communist Democrats like MSNBC, NBC, CBS. PBS, ABC, Drudge Report, New York Times etc are planning their next moves.

They are an anti American movement of misinformation and propaganda against our country. If you want real information go to Australian Sky News.

No doubt the socialist pro Hamas pro Hezbollah prime ministers of England, Australia and Canada will congratulate Trump publicly because these nations need our military support, while in private they will be cussing and screaming and crying, their liberal salty tears flowing into their warm beers.

The Communist dictatorships of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua are now put on notice their presence among free nations are not welcome in a Trump administration in our hemisphere after they were coddled and befriended by the Obama-Biden socialists.

My family from Venezuela that fled the Communist dictatorship of Nicolàs Maduro to Colombia, Brazil and Peru have hope restored that under a Trump presidency there is a chance that Venezuela will be liberated.

My Venezuelan wife here with me in Florida could not vote but she stayed up until 2 AM with me celebrating the Trump victory.

I have no doubt the President of Argentina and president elect Trump will put together a strong political, military and economic partnership to remove this cancerous Communist ideology in South America.

President Trump has won three elections and his strength of character at great expense to his own financial well being exposed massive fraudulent actions by the Communist Democrats.

My advice to the Trump Republicans is to focus on New Mexico, Colorado, Vermont etc and educate these folks who voted for Marxism and Communism and help them get a clear understanding of how a free market economy and constitutional republic works

Americans are waking up and fighting hard to keep their freedoms. The Communist democrats will no doubt come out with all kinds of excuses as to why they lost their asses with the left wing media running point with their agenda.

The Bush family and the Cheneys who endorsed the Marxists finally are exposed as fraud Republicans, try not to look back on all the money you donated to their fraud campaigns they have been outed.

The great state of California will be repatriated red after the Trump administration deport all the illegal immigrants that voted for comrade Kamala Harris in this once free state.

Don’t give up California and follow the Trump example of steadfastness, integrity, courage and bravery. One day in the future California will have an election of integrity.

The Democrats ran their election only on a hate Trump platform and by calling the American people garbage. Trump ran on the issues facing us with his solutions to stop this unprecedented inflation and zero border security.

The Democrats will benefit economically over the next four years of a Trump presidency followed by eight more years under JD Vance, but these ungrateful bottom feeding maggots will still continue to gripe, complain and bash this great American.

Satan has a grip on these people and their minds brain washed by the Communist influence they were indoctrinated by and exposed to in tax payer funded public schools.

To these people we say we wish you well and learn to be tolerant of opposing views. Get educated on the issues not this Kamala Harris fake happy touchy feely crap weak character failure.

Trumps win shows how a constitutional republic works. Congratulations President Trump. Congratulations also to the new Republican Senators and Representatives. Don’t mess this up now power has been restored to you by us.

©2024 Geoff Ross. All rights reserved.

Trump’s Legal Problems Evaporate As Americans Send Him Back To The White House

Twelve jurors in the Democratic stronghold of Manhattan may have convicted President-elect Donald Trump earlier this year, but a jury of nearly 72 million Americans voted Nov. 5 to send him back to the White House.

With the presidency secured, Trump’s two federal cases will be dropped and his state cases most likely will be too, though there’s a possibility ambitious local prosecutors could prolong the battle. Yet Trump’s risk of ending up behind bars has evaporated, even as a sentencing date remains on the calendar later this month.

“I highly doubt Judge Juan Merchan was going to sentence Trump to a period of incarceration regardless of the outcome  of the election, but Trump winning makes it logistically impossible and a certainty that he won’t receive any time,” former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Merchan, who set a Nov. 26 sentencing date for the case brought by Democratic Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, is still weighing Trump’s motion to dismiss the case based on presidential immunity.

Even if he issues a prison sentence, there’s no way Trump could serve time because “a state cannot interfere with a President’s ability to do his job, which he could not do from prison, and the Secret Service would not be able to guarantee his safety,” John Malcolm, vice president for the Heritage Foundation’s Institute for Constitutional Government and former deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s Criminal Division, told the DCNF.

Trump’s sentencing was initially scheduled for just days before the Republican National Convention in July. The Supreme Court’s presidential immunity ruling prompted months of delays.

Rahmani said Merchan doesn’t “have the stomach to imprison a former president or president-elect,” pointing to his decision not to confine Trump after he found him in violation of the gag order ten times.

“Nor would it be appropriate for a defendant with no criminal history convicted of Class E felonies (the least serious under New York law),” Rahmani said.

Jack Smith, You’re Fired

After inauguration, it’s game over for special counsel Jack Smith, who Trump has said he will fire “within two seconds” of taking office.

The Department of Justice is already considering how to “wind down” Trump’s federal election interference case and classified documents case, realizing there is no chance of holding a trial in either one, NBC News reported Wednesday afternoon. The special counsel’s office declined to provide further comment to the DCNF.

DOJ policy states that the “indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would unconstitutionally undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.”

Smith aggressively pursued the case in the final weeks before the election, pushing Judge Tanya Chutkan to allow him to publicly file a motion detailing his evidence against Trump. Trump’s attorneys repeatedly slammed Smith’s moves as election interference.

Smith also persisted after the federal judge overseeing the classified documents case found his appointment unconstitutional, appealing her ruling to the 11th Circuit. Even after Trump narrowly avoided an assassination attempt in July, the DOJ continued pursuing the cases.

Still, nearly two years of litigation initiated by Smith and others — which spawned four criminal indictments, civil lawsuits, a mug shot and a drawn out criminal trial resulting in a felony conviction — did not prevent Trump from becoming the 47th president of the United States.

“Smith does arguably have the authority to try to continue to prosecute until the inauguration, but that could cause President Biden and the Dems more criticism than benefit since there’s no way they could actually get to trial before then,” former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky told the DCNF.

‘Cannot Be Pursued’

Trump’s other state-level cases likely will disappear along with the federal indictments, legal experts told the DCNF. “Now that Trump has won, his criminal problems go away,” Rahmani said. “It’s well established that a sitting president can’t be prosecuted.”

Cherkasky noted the Supreme Court “has essentially ruled that state legal proceedings cannot be pursued while a person is President, so that would effectively pause those cases, but not end them entirely.”

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ case against Trump is expected to collapse.

Willis, who won reelection Tuesday night against her Republican challenger, still faces disqualification as a state appeals court weighs defendants’ arguments. Her relationship with the special prosecutor she appointed, Nathan Wade, derailed the case in January.

Willis’ office did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s question about her plans.

“At the very least, if the case is not dismissed, it will be held in abeyance until Trump completes his term, although it might proceed against the other defendants,” Malcolm said.

Rahmani suggested waiting four years to continue the prosecution “would not be an option” because of Trump’s right to a speedy trial.

As for Trump’s civil fraud case brought by Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James, judges who heard his appeal in September appeared inclined to reverse the over $450 million judgement against him.

“I think there are good odds that the appellate court will reverse some or all of that case which would return the case back down to the trial court. If that happens, there will not be enough time to retry that case before inauguration,” Cherkasky said. “Trump’s civil sexual misconduct case is also on appeal and faces many strong appellate issues. There is no reasonable likelihood that there will be final resolution of that case ahead of inauguration.”

Responding to the election results, James said Wednesday her office is “prepared to fight back once again” using the “rule of law.”

Cherkasky argued Trump is “not completely out of the woods yet.”

“A traditional view of the DOJ’s policies and prior SCOTUS rulings suggest none of these cases can proceed once Trump is in office, however, any of the aggressive opposing attorneys involved could try to press their case past inauguration which would require the Supreme Court to draw a more definitive line in the sand about what types of litigation are permitted against a sitting president,” he said.

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The Making and Dealing With Jihadists

Bewildered by what fanatic Muslims do, some conclude that Muslims are brainwashed. Otherwise, how can their completely illogical belief system and barbaric behavior be explained? However, the notion of “brainwashing” that is bandied about is the stuff of science fiction and Hollywood movies such as the “Manchurian Candidate.”

The human arrives in this world with his brain already washed in the sense of being what 17th-century English political philosopher John Locke called ‘tabula rasa,’ a clean slate—ready for experience to imprint its script on it. John Locke was only partly correct. The brain also arrives with numerous predispositions already in place. A combination of life’s influences and a person’s decisions determines which dispositions develop and which ones fail. It is through this process that a unique human being is formed.

Many animals have already implemented programs that automatically run much of their lives. Bird migration, mating courtship, and thousands of other complex behaviors are examples of this specific programming. A catchphrase for this type of behavior is “instinct.” Generally, the higher the organism, the less rigid its preprogrammed behaviors are, and the greater its latitude for exercising choices.

Making choices depends on what to choose from and to what extent a given choice appeals to an individual.

The human newborn enters the arena of life without the means to be anything other than a passive recipient of things already chosen for him or her.

It is like the old joke by Henry Ford, who reportedly told his customers that they could choose the color of their car as long as it was black. Things are almost as bleak for the new arrival. He doesn’t have a say in choosing his parents, his socio-economic conditions, his environment of birth, or much else. All of this is already in place, and he is to start life from the context of his birth.

The development of a newborn in any family is influenced by many factors, among them how hands-on the parents are, how religious they are, and how severely they micromanage him to make him a good person and a better one than they are themselves.

Parents tend to live vicariously through their children by programming them as best they can so that the children become or achieve much of what they had failed to become or accomplish. This attitude covers all areas of life, such as giving the child the education they didn’t have, helping him achieve fame and fortune, nurturing him to become a top-notch athlete, and so forth.

Early influences play a crucial role in shaping a person. For this reason, the overwhelming majority of Muslims are born into Muslim families, Catholics into Catholic families, Hindus into Hindu families, and so on. The degree of religiosity ranges from mild to intense, with most people falling between the extremes.

Interestingly, two siblings raised by the same parents under the same influences may end up at opposite extremes in their religious views and practices. Here, the human dynamic of freedom of choice comes into play, steering one to one extreme and the other to the opposite. Occasional extreme deviations notwithstanding, most siblings in a given family have various degrees of that family’s overall religious and different values. The same principle of subscribing to a set of shared values exists in all human groupings, sometimes with broad flexibility and inclusiveness, while in other cases, with rigidity and exclusivity.

To enjoy the privileges of belonging to a group, one must also pay the membership dues.

The very young human faces a bewildering array of mysteries, challenges, and enticements, beginning from the minute they can make some sense of the world. Questions at every step, fears, and hopes are entangled with the need to survive and possibly thrive.

Who am I? What is this world all about? What’s the purpose? What am I supposed to do, and how? Where am I headed? People die. Where do they go? And on and on and on. The information booths available at the Fairground of Life provide him with answers that may help relieve his innate existential anxiety. It is here that religion plays a critical role and holds great appeal. Religion offers a good person and a surefire answer to those willing to take it on faith.

Islam is a powerful magnet for the masses who are unable to deal with the uncertainties of life and death on their own. It is from this population, many of whom are already thoroughly indoctrinated from birth, that the majority of diehard jihadists emerge.

It is the bargain that the jihadist makes. He surrenders totally to the religion of surrender in exchange for blanket security. Islam gives him all the answers he truly seeks for dealing with this world and promises him a lush and eternal paradise of Allah once he leaves it. Leaving this world in perfect submission as the foot soldier of paradise’s creator grants the faithful unimaginably glorious eternal rewards in their next life. It’s a bargain that some buy in whole, some in part, while some refuse and seek other means of addressing their questions and the unrelenting existential anxiety.

The great majority of jihadists emanate from the ranks of those born into the religion of Islam simply because they are the ones who are most thoroughly indoctrinated and influenced by Islamic dogma in their most receptive early years. Yet, others embrace Islam in adulthood on their own and enlist themselves as devoted jihadists for the same rewards that Islam offers them.

Islam has the great advantage of having the first call on new arrivals. It is an omnipresent system with masses of believers, mosques, madrasahs, and a host of other social and economic organizations that overpower individuals and steer them into the same fold; it is a sea of people who seem to know what they are all about, what life and death entail, and what one must also do.

Within this sea of surging humanity, composed of some 1.5 billion Muslims, each believer—a drop—ends up in one of its many waves through a combination of choice and forces beyond his control. The jihadist wave is beautiful to the deeply indoctrinated and poorly adjusted to dealing rationally and independently with life. Here, he finds the ironclad perfect solution to his anxieties and perplexities.

To a jihadist, death is nothing more than casting off a shell of the worthless earthly existence and donning the suit for winging joyously to the life of bliss promised by none other than Allah’s beloved final emissary, Muhammad.

Eradication of jihadism is a daunting task since Islam is genuinely a virulent, persistent pandemic disease. Massive education efforts, combined with the resolute confrontation of all sources and people that support and promote this deadly philosophy, hold the best promise of dealing effectively with this affliction of humanity.

In addition to family, places such as mosques and madrasahs, Islamic associations and charitable organizations, prisons, and similar institutions are incubators of jihadists. Massive efforts are required, on the one hand, to drain the breeding swamps of the Islamic virus while, on the other hand, helping Muslims adopt an alternative perspective on life that addresses their perplexities and offers a degree of comfort that religions provide without pitting one segment of humanity against another.

In conclusion: Folks, get off your duff. Stop saying, “Let the FBI do it.” Neither the FBI nor the NSA nor DHS can do it alone. This is a battle for survival that each one of us can help wage. Let’s get on with it before it’s too late. If not you, then your children and grandchildren will end up under the barbaric rule of the Jihadists.

This column was first published in 2010.

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Lessons from the 2024 Elections — Have we really learned anything?

The election experience over the last two years has been tortuous for most U.S. citizens. As with any painful ordeal (e.g., a root canal), we hope to look back on it and honestly conclude that we emerged from it, better off.

So what did we learn — or were reminded of — in the 2024 Presidential campaign? Some of my observations are:

1 – Taking our freedoms for granted puts them in extreme jeopardy.

The examples abound here. For instance, when a Presidential candidate has his legal rights bludgeoned by kangaroo courts for political purposes, it says that the legal rights of ordinary citizens (you and me) could easily be squashed like a bug.

2 – There are genuine enemies of America, in high places.

Elections are no longer about academic differences in policy priorities by people on the same side. Instead, we are now forced to defend America from outright attacks on the fabric of our society. For example, woke ideologies (DEI, CRT, etc.) are profoundly destructive in nature, not constructive.

3 – Critically Thinking about what the media tells us is essential.

We are now immersed in deceptive messaging 24-7. One of the reasons for this is that there is no meaningful punishment for lying by (or in) the press. With Artificial Intelligence set to explode, it will soon become at least ten times worse. Our main defense against these assaults is Critical Thinking.

4 – We need to fix the US K-12 education system, yesterday.

Our children are our future. The Left knows this and has aggressively invaded the US K-12 curricula, especially Science and History. It is imperative that Americans speak up about their State’s corrupt K-12 curricula being genuinely fixed.

5 – We need God’s help for the American experiment to succeed.

The Left (e.g., think Communist China) is largely atheistic. The decline in Americans who attend Church and who have genuine Judeo-Christian beliefs, is more than alarming. We can not continue on that trajectory and survive. Period.

6 – We MUST have sample, meaningful post-election audits.

Thanks to patriots like Cleta Mitchel, since the 2020 election Republicans have done a MUCH better job at paying attention to the election process. The RNC also stepped up and filed numerous helpful lawsuits. However, as of today, not a single US precinct has a mandated meaningful post-election audit! That MUST be fixed, ASAP!

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THANKS AMERICA VIDEO: Why did God save him? To win! Amen.

Tom Trento, Director of The United West, thanks America for creating a MAGA movement and electing President Trump, as leader.

Additionally, Tom thanks the friends, supporters and donors of The United West, for 17 years of support and challenges viewers to now maximize the opportunity God has mercifully given our great country to align more closely to His will.

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TOM TRENTO TRANSCRIPT

hey Tom Trento here on uh Wednesday
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November 6th it’s around 10:30 in the
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morning East Coast time and um I’m tired
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our whole crew 1015 people we’ve been up
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basically all night on this thing we’ve
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been working two years straight um and
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for the past six months we’ve been
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working trying to mobilize
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400,000 registered Republican Christians
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in the six swing States who did not vote
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and if 400,000 come out out of a
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universe of 6 million Trump wins that
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was our calculus that was our objective
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that was our plan because Biden pulled
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300,000 votes out of that and the plan
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worked perfectly what a phenomenal team
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we have and our our donors our
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supporters we thank you this is a thank
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you from the bottom of our tired Hearts
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I’m going to go home and go to sleep in
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a little bit but a lot of people worked
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in those states and and we focused in
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Pennsylvania a lot we bought three
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Billboards we put them up and um uh
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Frack you Kamala we dealt in Allegan
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County with the the energy issue and
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then in uh outside of Philly we put up
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several boards uh during the course of
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two months but the last one said why did
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God save him and it said to win amen and
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I believe that I believe that exactly
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and I think that’s been proven that God
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has saved Trump to step in he’s not a
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perfect guy he’s the perfect guy for
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this moment in history but you know what
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all of us all Patriots now have to draw
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together and stop the insanity on the
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other side they’re already talking about
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the fascists taking over the country and
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all this nonsense we have to um develop
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a constitutional republic from once we
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came I’m a car guy and I uh I the
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analogy is over the past four years
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a a beautiful car was handed over to uh
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to some people and they wrecked it but
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you know what if the bones are good in
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the car it could be put back together
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the the motor can be uh rebuilt the
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suspension the transmission the outside
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the exterior it could be better than new
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and that’s where we are right now we
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have good bones in America phenomenal
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bones best country in the world no
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question but now we have to restore and
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repair at several levels and we got a
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lot of people on our side to do this the
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the Hamas operatives and the Antifa
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Marxists are going to try to stop our
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movement at every point we will be
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leading the way as to how to fight back
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with that but basically thank all of you
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who stood in the Gap supported Trump the
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maga movement and um and supported us
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specifically from the bottom of our
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hearts we we thank you and that
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billboard in Pennsylvania it’s down now
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it said why did God save him to win amen
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that’s the message of the day let’s move
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forward

President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s Victory Speech

The God of Abraham has shed his grace on America and Israel when we the people, against all odds, reelected Donald J. Trump as our 47th President of these United States.

The Prime Minister of Israel sent the following message,

Dear Donald and Melania Trump,

Congratulations on history’s greatest comeback!

Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America.

This is a huge victory!

In true friendship, yours,

Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu

President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and families appeared on stage to thank the nation and promise to fulfill the “unprecedented mandate” given to them to make America healthy, wealthy, wise and great once again and forever.

WATCH: The full speech of President elect Donald J. Trump, with captions

LifeNews.com’s Steven Ertelt wrote,

Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election in a victory that reflects significant shifts in voter preferences across key demographics and battleground states.

Trump saw historic gains with black and Hispanic voters as Americans make it clear they preferred a better economy and lower crime to more abortions. While Donald Trump staked out a middle ground on abortion, saying he would respect the Dobbs decision allowing states to make their own abortion laws, Kamala Harris ran on a platform of unlimited abortions up to birth.

Trump hit the 270 electoral college votes he needed when media outlets declared he won the state of Pennsylvania – while still holding leads in other states like Michigan, Wisconsin and Nevada. That makes it likely the 270 figure will expand as the counting concludes.

Read more.

The Daily Signals’ chief news correspondent Fred Lucas wrote,

President-elect Donald Trump asserted that American voters have “given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate” with his election to a second term.

Trump took the stage for a victory speech in front of supporters just before 2:30 a.m. after the 45th president defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.

“Frankly, I believe this was the greatest political movement of all time, there’s never been anything like it in this country,” Trump told supporters.

He added, “Now we’re going to help our country heal.”

[ … ]

“We are going to make our country better than it has ever been,” Trump said. “Many people have told me that God spared my life for a reason. That reason was to save our country and to restore America to greatness. And now we’re going to fulfill that mission together.”

“The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit, and fight that I have in my soul to the job that you’ve entrusted to me,” he added.

Read more.

We are thankful that we the people chose wisely to save America from the evils perpetrated against us all.

We look forward to continue telling the truth to our readers as this new administration begins to fulfill it’s promises to we the people.

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Why the American ‘Swamp’ doesn’t want Israel to win

After a year of war, all those who research the exchange of diplomacy between the US and Israel see the Biden-Harris administration and the government bureaucracy (“The Swamp”) acting in a “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” mode.

There are several popular explanations for this, among them:

  1. The Swamp was not sure that Israel could actually win and did not want to be responsible for “saving it” from the “resistance”.
  2. The war was hurting the Democrat chances to win the elections.
  3. The Swamp and the Democrat party still believe that “diplomacy” is the best way to solve problems.
  4. The Swamp still dream of an Iran Deal
  5. They are afraid the war will spill out over the Middle East and maybe even ignite a world war.

While all these reasons may be debated, the Democrats insist that they have Israel’s best interest in mind. Yet there is yet another reason for the Democrats (The Swamp) siding with Israel’s enemies, and unfortunately, it is much worse than the ones listed above.

The Democrat party, and the basic American political bureaucracy (“The Swamp”) don’t want Israel to win. They never have. Since 1967, the Swamp has acted in a schizophrenic manner towards Israel and has kept it from winning. This included the Republican Party.

When Israel, in 1973, had surrounded the entire 3rd army of Egypt and could have brought the Arab war efforts to unconditional defeat, Nixon (and Kissinger) forced Israel to give in and allow their release.

During the Ronald Reagan years the same swamp would not allow Israel to turn its war in Lebanon into a victory.

The reason the American Swamp, on one hand, lets Israel “defend itself”, but on the other hand not to “win” is simple: It wants the Middle East, and Israel to continue to be reliant on the USA.

It fears that in winning this war, Israel wants to force the Middle East into a region that accepts it (on its terms) and ends continuous war. In doing so, the Israeli narrative of decades, that the Palestinians are the problem in the region and should not be given a state, will be shown to be true.

Israel will not be an ally the American Swamp can force to do what it wants.

The current Israeli government, especially the prime minister, Netanyahu, keeps saying that Israel will “transform” the Middle East.

The American Swamp likes the Middle East the way it’s been for the last 100 years and does NOT want it to change.

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“Why I’m Voting for Trump” — A cross-post from Ayaan Hirsi Ali

This is another guest post. Due to my extremely restricted time schedule, I am very selective in what I read elsewhere. One of the people whose writing I’ve been consistently impressed with is Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She just started a worthwhile site called Courage Media. Her post today is what I’m sharing with you…


For those suffering from election fatigue, take heart: we are now just one day away. This is the most important election of my lifetime. The situation could not be more dire. At stake is the very survival of our republic. We meet on a battlefield where the forces of liberty represented by the unlikely figure of Donald Trump will do battle with the forces of an invidious establishment. Their avatar this time around is Kamala Harris, but she in no way leads them. She is a puppet, albeit an inarticulate one, for their will. The Democratic Party is a machine, taken over by the far-left wing of the party; a force with which to reckon. That is why this election really is crucial.

We began four years ago in the aftermath of Trump’s defeat and January 6th. It looked then as if the former President would never recover from the withering public outrage leveled against him, shortly followed by a ceaseless barrage of lawfare. Trump seemed a vanquished foe. For my own part, I doubted that Trump would run again, not because I didn’t think he had the resolve, but because I thought he must be fed up with the attacks on himself and his family.

I also doubted that President Biden would last the full length of his term. About that I was right. Biden’s cognitive decline was obvious for years, but when he shuffled across that debate stage and struggled out his first few words — a scene I shall never forget — the whole country knew that the race was over. Though Biden tried to cling on, the beleaguered President, under tremendous pressure, eventually gave way to his second-in-command.

The Harris campaign brought in hundreds of millions of dollars. The polls rebounded in her favor and it seemed as though the switch of Harris for Biden had genuinely caught the Trump campaign off-guard. However, slowly but surely, Trump whittled away at Kamala’s lead. In the last month of the election, Trump has pulled off a succession of media coups, including his McDonald’s stint, his appearance on Rogan, and his repurposed garbage truck ploy.

Harris, meanwhile, has proven to be an enormous disappointment for those who anointed her. Besides the one and only Presidential debate between Trump and herself, Harris can’t go a week without committing another of her famous “Kamala-isms, taking off to “word-salad city” as David Axelrod, a frustrated commentator who supports her put it. She has flip-flopped on dozens of positions, most especially her stance on fracking and energy production. She continues to hemorrhage support from progressives, men of all stripes, Hispanics, and even Arabs and Muslims. Across nearly every demographic, save for college-educated white women, Harris is down in the polls compared to Biden just four years ago.

Trump and his team have become wise to the tactics of the left. The first Trump administration and his campaign in 2020 were naive on this issue. They seemed surprised that the left would cheat to get their way. But the left – along with a Republican minority who dubbed themselves Never Trumpers – refused to accept Trump’s win in 2016. They never accepted his administration. His first four years were riddled with pure sabotage. This was typified by Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump’s State of the Union speech on live television in 2020. Trump won’t make the same mistake twice.

Knowing all I have seen and learned since 2016 about both parties, I want to take this opportunity to explain why I am voting for Trump and the GOP this time.

I will admit that in 2016 I voted for Hillary Clinton. At the time, I bought into the mainstream media’s rhetoric about President Trump. I expected the country to be torn apart by his presidency. Instead, none of that happened. In fact, the country and the economy were in great shape for most of his tenure. His policies were sound, his administration was on the whole staffed by competent officials. The chaos came mostly from the left’s and the media’s persistent efforts to undermine Trump at every possible turn. When the left says, “We don’t want to go back to the chaos”, remember who was causing the chaos. They were.

Then, in the spring of 2020, came Covid. Covid gave especially the far-left revolutionary wing of the Democratic Party and the media everything they needed to seize control of the country and undo Trump’s presidency. They tanked the economy, they locked people at home, they created huge distrust in the minds of the public.

When Biden and Harris took over, they undid much of what made the first Trump administration good. Almost immediately, I hated all of their policies. There is not a single one which I can say I liked.

The transgender issue is just one example. The Biden-Harris administration went all in on the most wicked policy objectives of the trans lobby. Take hormone blockers, for example. Medical evidence shows that puberty blockers are not, in fact, reversible. Countries all over Western Europe are rolling back so-called “gender-affirming care” for minors, yet in the States, the Democratic Party refuses to relent on this issue. Why tie your administration to this statistically miniscule identitarian movement, the tiniest of minorities? Why elevate the mutilation, the mental and physical disfiguring of children into a civil rights cause?

Or consider the way the Biden-Harris administration abandoned Afghanistan. The videos of Afghans falling from the landing gear of departing American aircraft are stuck in my head. Since our departure, the Taliban have been able to rush back into control, such that the area has become a hotbed for terrorist organizations again. We left billions of dollars in military equipment behind, empowering a terrorist army and breaking our promise to the millions of Afghan women we pledged to stand with.

Then there is the crown jewel of the Biden-Harris administration: the unfettered admission of millions of illegal immigrants into the country. That decision will go down in history as one of the most evil and destructive policy decisions in American history. To understand what I am talking about look across the pond and see what similar mindless migration cycles have done to Europe.

But what scares me the most about the modern Democratic Party is its capacity for dishonesty.

They said Trump would end democracy in 2016, but he did no such thing. They call him a Nazi, yet he is one of the most pro-Jewish, pro-Israeli presidents in modern history. They said Trump would imprison his enemies, but he never did. They said he would open internment camps for minorities, but to this day the only president who ever did that was a Democrat. They said Biden was in the best condition of his life, but he was barely able to run a campaign, let alone the country. They said Harris was hopeless prior to her taking over the ticket, and as soon as she did, they spun her from zero to hero.

Here’s the advice I would have given Democrats in July of 2024: Cut the nonsense. Come before the American people and admit your faults. Say “We messed up, we pursued the wrong policies, we see now why they were wrong. We experimented with these socialist woke policies, we truly did it out of compassion, but we were mistaken.” Harris should have committed to course correction. She should have said, “I will close the border because I know what an open border does to your communities, to your schools, to crime. We overdid it with the Inflation Reduction Act. We are going to undo it by reducing spending, fixing energy production, and tackling costs. I understand more than anyone else that criminals belong in prison. We experimented with bringing them out of prisons and into the communities. We were wrong, we will prosecute them. We used your taxpayer money for the wrong things. We are sorry. It’s time to get serious. I regret it but I was only the VP, and the VP doesn’t have a lot of say.”

Sadly, Kamala couldn’t say these things. It would annoy the donor classes and identitarian groups she desperately needs. More importantly, she herself believes in the innate goodness of those policies.

How will Democrats respond to losing the presidency? What will the Democratic machine do if Harris loses? They did not accept the results of the 2016 election. They similarly would not have accepted the results of the 2020 election had they gone the other way.

The good scenario is that the Democratic Party will have a formal autopsy. It will become clear that the Democrats lost to Trump because they had gone too far to the left. This will lead almost assuredly to a party civil war between the progressive camp, of which Harris is a member, and the moderate wing of the party. The moderates will successfully kick out the extremists. The Democrats will go back to being a 1990s Bill Clinton-style party. Their nominee in 2028 will be someone like Pennsylvania’s Josh Shapiro, who would likely be able to give Republicans a run for their money. They will bring back Kirsten Sinema and take Joe Manchin’s counsel. The party will embark on a wholesale reformation and revert to a commitment to uphold the American Constitution. I hope this is the path the Democrats take.

The bad scenario is the exact opposite. The party still has its civil war but continues its leftward lurch. The extremists win and they successfully bully the moderates into submission. No matter the abuse hurled their way, moderate liberals would rather stick with the Democratic Party than consider voting for a Trump-led GOP. The party further entrenches itself in the institutions it controls. They throw all their might into blocking Trump as much as they can. They continue to rent mobs and feign outrage every time they don’t get their way. They ratchet up the rhetoric, maybe even inspiring more would-be assassins. In this scenario, the country slides even further into domestic turmoil.

I fear this is the route they will take.

The irony of this situation is that it is a disaster of the left’s own choosing. If the Democratic Party had behaved normally from 2020 onwards, do we seriously expect that Trump would be in contention now? Trump thrives on the left’s efforts to undermine him. It gives him and his coalition their lifeforce. Without the tactics of the left, there is no Trump. Do we seriously believe the tech sector would be shifting rightwards right now if it weren’t for the extremists within the Democratic Party? Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg would likely still be center-left Democrats were it not for the ongoing progressive effort to stifle innovation with regulation.

At the end of the day, each person has their own reason for voting for Trump. Here’s mine. I came to the West to escape the chaos and tribalism I grew up with in Africa and the Middle East. I came to escape the reprisals, the injustice, the insanity. I don’t want to pack the courts. I don’t want to break the filibuster. I don’t want to add more states until we get the results we want. I want us to stick to our rules and our procedures. Americans don’t realize that the faith we place in these rules is what makes us so different from the rest of the world.

I think the race against Harris represents an even bigger opportunity than running against Biden ever did. If Trump had defeated Biden, it would have been treated as a technicality. Of course, Trump could beat an old and doddering man, far past his prime. It would have been the Democratic Party’s fault for putting him there when younger, progressive stalwarts were waiting in the dugout.

Beating Harris, however, is symbolically powerful. She is as progressive as they come. She had the furthest-left voting record of any member of the Senate in her class. She is a DEI candidate, a woman who has come so far only because of her race. If an embattled, beleaguered Trump can beat such a candidate, it sends an obvious message.

Beating Harris represents the best chance to defeat a malignant progressivism for a generation. That is why I am voting for Donald Trump.

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Previously a Member of the Dutch Parliament (2003-2006), she regularly called for furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society, and defending the rights of Muslim women.

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50 Orthodox Rabbis Endorse Donald Trump

And for the first time ever, a former Chief Rabbi endorsed a U.S. presidential candidate.

Baruch HaShem!

Daniel Greenfield on X:

Dems Claim 33 “Orthodox Rabbis” signed letter in support of Kamala

9 are women. Orthodox Judaism does not ordain women.

Rabbi Shamir Caplan appears to be an Australian clergyman in Melbourne who endorses gay marriage

Michael Langer was a fellow of the anti-Israel T’ruah hate group

Eric Leiderman’s pronouns are he/they. He’s a conservative rabbi.

David Jaffe is a community organizer with leftist groups

Tyson Herberger is an associate professor of religion and religious education at the University of South-Eastern Norway who deals with “queer issues”

Rabbi Herzl Hefter created a “program where women and men study together to become Rabbis”

Daniel Landes ‘ordained’ the first ‘gay rabbi’

Daniel Levitt is the product of the non-Orthodox YCT and works at Congregation Agudath Achim, a conservative synagogue

Mel Gottlieb is the rabbi of a conservative synagogue

Most of the 33 “Orthodox Rabbis’ are not Orthodox.

Few have any involvement with the Orthodox Jewish community.

Quite a few are professional academics or activists.

Many have views that are completely incompatible with Orthodox Judaism

The fact that these are the only people they could find to sign an ‘Orthodox Rabbis’ for Kamala letter shows just how little support for her there is among the Orthodox Jewish community.

50 Orthodox Rabbis Endorse Donald Trump

One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had endorsed her candidacy, more than 50 Orthodox rabbis signed a letter firmly backing President Trump.

By: Israel National News, Nov 4, 2024;

One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had endorsed her candidacy, more than 50 Orthodox rabbis signed this letter, firmly backing President Trump.

The letter states, “As Orthodox rabbis, we believe that Vice President Kamala Harris will continue the dangerous positions of the Biden administration that contributed to the deadly Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthi and Iranian attacks on Israel. Her constant calls for a ceasefire and a two-state solution, and chas v’shalom, the likelihood of her withholding even more weapons from the IDF, presents a significant risk of Pikuach Nefesh, endangering Jewish lives.”

“As Torah observant Jews, we gratefully have Hakarat Hatov (gratitude) that President Trump pulled out of the JCPOA (Iran nuclear deal) and crippled Iran’s economy, cut funding to the terrorist enabling UNRWA, signed into law and enforced the Taylor Force Act, visited and prayed at the Kotel, moved the US embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights and established the Abraham Accords.

“Therefore, we endorse former President Trump who did more for Israel and the Jewish people during his first term than any other president and pray that Hashem (God, literally ‘the name’) grants him a second term to bring security and prosperity to America, Israel and the entire world.”

The rabbis signed as individuals and not on behalf of their synagogues or community roles.

Rabbi Tuly Weisz, who wrote the pro-Trump letter and organized the petition commented. “I saw Rabbi Yankelowitz’s letter and was immediately appalled. As someone intimately familiar with the American rabbinate, I could easily see that most of the 33 “Orthodox rabbis” are neither Orthodox, nor rabbis,” said Weisz.

“Quite a few are woke academics and left wing activists. Many have views that are completely incompatible with Orthodox Judaism. The fact that these are the only ones who would sign an “Orthodox Rabbis for Kamala” letter shows just how little support there is among the Orthodox Jewish community for an extension of the Biden administration.”

Author of the best-selling book, “The War Against the Bible,” Rabbi Elie Mischel explained, “Understandably, most rabbis are afraid to make political statements that might anger some of their congregants. But this election is different. If Kamala Harris becomes president instead of Donald Trump, the consequences could be catastrophic: arms embargoes on Israel, devastating sanctions on Israelis opposed to a Palestinian state, and worst of all, more dead Jews. This is not about Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal. It’s about the safety of Israel. If rabbis can’t find the courage to speak up now as we fight for our very existence, when will they?”

Other Orthodox rabbis explained their endorsement of President Trump.

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, President Emeritus of the Coalition for Jewish Values explained, “Why do Orthodox Rabbis endorse Former President Trump? Simple. He’s good for Israel. He’s good for the US economy. He’s good for family values. He’s good for US energy. He’s good for a strong and safe America. He’s good for American and world stability. The better question is, how could Orthodox Rabbis, and others, not endorse him?”

According to Rabbi Yitzchak Adlerstein, Director, Interfaith Affairs at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, “As Iman Ali (8th century) said in hadith 295 of Nahj al-Balagha, my enemy’s enemy is my friend. If both the Iranians and Rashida Tlaib, Congress’ Anti Semite in Chief, viscerally hate Donald Trump, I know that he is the best choice for Israel.

“Virtually all Americans vote for the candidate that they feel best addresses their concerns and priorities, and I am no different. For me, the survival of the Jewish people and the welfare of the State of Israel top my list of concerns. As an actual resident of Israel, I am ripped apart daily by stories of brave soldiers who have died, leaving behind widows and orphans.

“I can’t forget for an instant that the billions of dollars released to Iran by the Biden-Harris administration- money that Donald Trump had frozen -helped fund the terrorists who killed them.”

According to Rabbi Pini Dunner of the Beverly Hills Synagogue, “The primary reason for my choice of presidential candidate is their stance on Israel. In this election there is no choice – Donald Trump has made it clear that he has Israel’s back every step of the way, and that’s all that matters. Harris is surrounded by Israel-haters and people who make excuses for terrorism. If elected, she will be a disaster for Israel.”

According to Rabbi Ze’ev Smason, Midwestern Regional Vice President of the Coalition for Jewish Values, “As president, Donald Trump moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and recognized Israeli sovereignty in the Golan Heights. Rather than alienating Arab allies, Donald Trump delivered the momentous peace agreements of the Abraham Accords. Donald Trump also ignored the professional peace processors and appeasers, and focused on stopping Iran.

“Kamala Harris sees the world differently. Along with President Biden, she stopped enforcing oil sanctions in a bid for Iran’s goodwill. Since January 2021, this has brought Iran more than $40 billion in extra revenue, emboldening Iran and providing funding for its support of evil proxies such as Hamas and Hezbollah. A Trump administration will be solidly pro-Israel. A Harris administration will reflect most of today’s Democratic Party: hostile to Israel’s government and increasingly hostile to Israel’s security needs, with a sizable wing hostile to Israel’s existence,” concluded Rabbi Smason.

“As Jews committed to Torah values, we need American leadership whose priority is the safety, security and prosperity of the United States and its citizens, keeping woke ideology out of our schools, and who has demonstrated a rock-solid commitment to the State of Israel and an exceptionally warm friendship to the Jewish People. Donald Trump is clearly this man!” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer of New York.

Other prominent Orthodox rabbis also came out in favor of Trump.

Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetsky, the famed dean of the Philadelphia Yeshiva, located in the Swing State of Pennsylvania offered a rare blessing for Donald Trump. Two days before Election Day, Rabbi Kaminetsky told Belaaz News, “I’m giving a blessing that President Trump should win the election.”

For the first time ever, a former Chief Rabbi endorsed a US presidential candidate.

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Topsy-Turvydom In Michigan: Trump Courts Muslims, Bill Clinton Angers Them

In Michigan, Donald Trump went on November 1 to Dearborn, Michigan to court Arab voters. He has apparently enrolled in this outreach effort his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law, Lebanese-American Massad Boulos. Could it be that when he says he wants Israel to hurry up and “finish the job,” he means that he wants Israel to end the fighting now, both with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon? Israel still has to deal with the thousands of Hamas combatants who have managed to regroup in northern Gaza, as well as obtain the release of the hostages who are still alive. In Lebanon, it will still take a few months to end the threat from a much tougher foe, Hezbollah. One hopes Trump doesn’t mean to hasten the IDF to end hostilities before its goals have been achieved, but he needs to make this perfectly clear.

More about both Trump, and Bill Clinton, speaking in Michigan, can be found here: “Role reversal: Trump stumps for Arab votes, Bill Clinton speaks truth to state with large Arab pop.,” by Herb Keinon, Jerusalem Post, November 3, 2024:

Even in a US election campaign full of surprises – remember President Joe Biden bowing out mid-campaign in favor of Vice President Kamala Harris – last week’s role reversals in Michigan had some observers scratching their heads.

One of those head-scratching moments was when former president Donald Trump showed up on Friday for a campaign stop in Dearborn, Michigan, the largest Arab-majority city in America in a state with an estimated 200,000 Arab voters.

The significance of the Muslim vote in Michigan is greatly exaggerated. There are 8.45 million registered voters in the state. Only 200,000 of them are Muslim. But you would hardly know that from the breathless reports about the power of the Muslim vote. That’s exactly what Muslims in America want the world to think.

Why was this a head-scratching moment? It is one thing for Trump to go to the grave of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, as he did in October, and make a play for Jewish voters, even though he knows that historically, Jewish voters have favored his opponents by wide margins and vote heavily for Democrats.

But there was still a certain logic to it: after all, he is unapologetically pro-Israel, and when he was president, he took a number of extremely significant steps that helped Israel….

Trump did more for Israel than any President in history. He moved the American Embassy to Jerusalem. He recognized Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights,signing on March 25, 2019 a proclamation stating that “the United States recognizes that the Golan Heights are part of the State of Israel.” He withdrew from the Iran deal and reimposed sanctions on Israel’s most dangerous enemy, Iran. Trump cut the annual US aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) – $500 million – claiming that its purpose had been to facilitate a peace process, but since the Palestinians refused to negotiate, it no longer made sense to fund them. Trump closed the PLO office in Washington. In addition, he cut the annual US contributions to UNRWA, claiming that the agency was corrupt and perpetuated the Palestinian refugee problem, and in its schools, was indoctrinating pupils with hostility to Israel and to Jews. Most important, perhaps, was Trump’s rejection of Obama’s claim that Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal and the main obstacle to peace. He was especially offended by a resolution initiated by Obama at the UN Security Council in December 2016, when Trump was already president-elect. The UN resolution (2334) stated that Israel’s settlement activity constituted a “flagrant violation” of international law and had “no legal validity.” On November 18, 2019, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that “the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not, per se, inconsistent with international law.”

What was as surprising for some as Trump’s whistle-stop in Dearborn was a speech former president Bill Clinton, a Kamala Harris surrogate, gave two days earlier at a church in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, a three-hour drive away.

What was surprising, or rather, counterintuitive, was that in the heart of Michigan, with both candidates chasing after the Arab and Muslim vote, Clinton gave a vigorous defense of Israel’s war in Gaza.

What was striking about Bill Clinton’s speech?

Two things were striking about Clinton’s nine-minute discussion about Israel in the speech that went viral among Jews and pro-Israel supporters and triggered angry blowback by anti-Israel activists and pro-Palestinian organizations.

The first was Clinton’s honesty. He stood up and essentially put to lie the narrative of Palestinian victimhood popular among some progressive and pro-Palestinian supporters in Michigan.

Clinton said that when he was president, Yasser Arafat was offered a state on 96% of the West Bank and Gaza, could choose from inside Israel where he wanted to take the remaining four percent, and was offered a capital in east Jerusalem, including control of two of the four quarters in the Old City.

“And they said no,” the former president declared.

Part of the reason, Clinton said, was that “Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinians; they wanted to kill Israelis and make Israel uninhabitable. Well, I got news for them: They [the Jews] were there first before their [the Muslims’] faith existed. They were there in the times of King David, and the southernmost tribes had Judea and Samaria.”…

Here’s what I think: If Trump becomes president for a second time, he would again be as supportive of Israel as he was the first time. Muslims who are counting on Trump to be less favorable to Israel will be greatly disappointed. And Clinton — well, that speech he delivered to an audience of Muslims and Arabs was most welcome. It’s too bad it took three decades — since the disastrous Oslo Accords that he helped to fashion — for the scales to fall from his eyes.

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