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Donald Trump And The Fitness Threshold
by Charles Krauthammer
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Terror Dad Photobombs liar-Clinton
Remember when the Leftmedia called on Donald Trump to disavow David Duke? The way the media had a fit, one would have thought Trump had just joined the KKK. Well, now an interesting story has emerged out of Florida. On Monday, liar-Hillary Clinton was in the Orlando suburb of Kissimmee speaking at a campaign rally when the cameras happened to catch someone in the audience. That someone was Seddique Mateen, the father of terrorist Omar Mateen, who just a couple of months ago murdered 50 people in the Pulse night club in Orlando.
After the rally later that evening, a local news crew ran into Mateen at a rest stop as he was traveling back down to West Palm Beach. They asked to interview him, and he happily obliged. He praised liar-Clinton, who he called "good for [the] United States versus Donald Trump who has no solutions." He also held up a sign he had made for liar-Clinton that listed his reasons for supporting liar-Hillary — ironically one of which was her stance on gun-control.
It remains to be seen, but it is almost a guarantee that there will be no calls from the sycophantic Leftmedia for liar-Clinton to publicly disavow his support. In fact, she probably won't even be questioned about it. For the Left, such negative Democrat affiliations just don't really matter. Now if Mateen had supported Trump, it's all we'd hear about for the next three months. Not only Trump but every Republican would be forced to answer for Mateen. Quite the double standard. -The Patriot Post
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Trump Touts America First Economic Plan
Donald Trump was in Detroit Monday and delivered a stirring speech outlining his plan for renewing the stagnating American economy. He began by giving a brief history of the city of Detroit, from its once grand status as the economic engine of America's great prosperity throughout much of the 20th century to the now moribund and dilapidated shell it has become today. Trump placed the blame for this economic collapse where it belongs — squarely on the socialist policies of Democrats who for a half century lead Detroit into ruin. He said it exactly right: "The city of Detroit is the living, breathing example of my opponent's failed economic agenda. Every policy that has failed this city, and so many others, is a policy supported by liar-Hillary Clinton."
He then pivoted into laying out his economic plan by pushing his "America first" strategy. Trump called for an "across-the-board income tax reduction" to the rates favored by House Republicans — 12%, 25% and 33%. That's three brackets instead of the current seven. Furthermore, he said, "Under my plan, no American company will pay more than 15% of their business income in taxes. Small businesses will benefit most from this plan. liar-Hillary Clinton's plan will require small business to pay as much as three times more in taxes than what I am proposing." He also promised to "cut regulations massively" because regulations are "a hidden tax on American consumers, and a massive lead weight on the American economy."
"Americanism, not globalism, will be our new credo," Trump declared, as he laid out his vision for the future. He continued by painting a picture of America freed from government over-regulation where Americans would rise to the top of the world, and their industrious nature would be allowed to thrive once again in creating and developing a bright economic future. He said, "We will put new American metal into the spine of this nation. It will be American hands that rebuild this country, and it will be American energy — mined from American sources — that power this country. It will be American workers who are hired to do the job."
Finally, Trump pointed to the current Washington governmental practice being endemic with political cronyism. "We can't fix a rigged system by relying on the people who rigged it in the first place. We can't solve our problems by relying on the politicians who created them. Only by changing to new leadership, and new solutions, will we get new results. We need to stop believing in politicians, and start believing in America," he concluded.
If he'll stick to this message of hitting the nObama/liar-Clinton economic malaise while promising something better, he stands a real chance in November. -The Patriot Post
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Justice Dept. Refused FBI Probe
of liar-Clinton Foundation
by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The highly politicized Department of Justice swatted down pesky FBI requests to investigate the liar-Clinton Foundation earlier this year, CNN reported yesterday... CNN buried the lead, as it frequently does on news stories that make Democrats look bad. The online version bears the innocuous-sounding headline, “Newly released liar-Clinton emails shed light on relationship between State Dept. and liar-Clinton Foundation.” It is not until the 25th paragraph that the article states that an unidentified law enforcement official gave CNN a heads-up earlier this year. As the probe of liar-Clinton’s private email servers was ramping up “several FBI field offices approached the Justice Department asking to open a case regarding the relationship between the State Department and the liar-Clinton Foundation.”... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263817/compromised-justice-dept-refused-fbi-probe-clinton-matthew-vadum
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Impeach nObama for Smuggling Cash to Iran
by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The Islamic Republic of Iran was designated a state sponsor of terrorism in 1984. That move came several years after Iran had seized American hostages while demanding $24 billion in cash and gold to be paid into a Muslim bank for their release... The total, according to Secretary of State Muskie, came out to $480 million per hostage. Carter eventually reached a deal to release billions to Iran while Muskie claimed that the ransom payment meant that “the United States emerged stronger and Iran emerged weaker." Such counterintuitive arguments have become a staple of nObama rhetoric which insists that appeasing terrorists somehow weakens them and strengthens us. Muskie also said the deal would “not to make any arrangement to encourage terrorism in the future”... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/263791/impeach-obama-smuggling-cash-iran-daniel-greenfield
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Lou Dobbs – liar-Clinton Corruption Nearing
Tipping Point, Overwhelming Candidate
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few things to say about the huge number of scandals piling up around liar-Hillary Clinton and what should be the inevitable and imminent demise of her presidential campaign... Mr. Dobbs notes that “Newly released testimony reveals liar-Clinton aides were concerned, concerned mind you, that her private server might be compromised after confidant Sidney Blumenthal was hacked by Guccifer. That according to liar-Clinton’s former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, last month; it’s part of what is coming from all of these emails that have been released.” “New emails revealing also,” Dobbs points out, “that Mills was alerted by a State Department official to a request from a watchdog group back in December of 2012 seeking records describing all of liar-Clinton’s email accounts. At the time the group was told no records could be found. Yet in her deposition Mills claims she didn’t have a ‘specific recollection of that request.’”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-clinton-corruption-tipping-point/
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China Steps Up Naval Presence
Near Key Disputed Island
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ China is building up maritime security forces around a key disputed island in the South China Sea that the Pentagon has warned China not to militarize... According to Pentagon officials, the number of Chinese maritime security vessels near Scarborough Shoal, in the Spratly Islands, has risen sharply over the past several weeks. For the past several years, China has limited the deployment of naval vessels at Scarborough Shoal to two or three maritime security ships that are similar to coast guard ships...
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CENTCOM Lied To Make Us Believe
ISIS Was Being Defeated
by Michael Ware
{constitution.com} ~ There have been many things said concerning ISIS over the last several months. The President said that they were scrambling. And that the group was frustrated, and that was why they had become more active... We have been told that the terror group was on the run. But, was this true? I reported that it seemed that the group was anything but defeated. I also reported that the group was not shrinking but growing worldwide. But, the nObama administration and liar-Hillary has continued the same line. They claim that the actions taken by the former Secretary of State and the administration were efficient and were defeating ISIS has seemed not to fit reality. We know now that it does not. What this means is that CENTCOM, the Central Command has been lying. They lied to the public in official press releases. They lied to Congress during hearings. They have ignore more senior and more experience analysts and have painted a picture of success...
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hanoi-Kerry nObama Skimming $400 Million
For Climate Change Bribe In Morocco
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ John hanoi-Kerry And Hussein nObama need to have $400 million dollars deducted from their estates and that money repaid to the citizens of the United States for their gross and inexcusable pilferage of borrowed money from our treasury to their accomplices in their fraudulent climate change scam... Once people decide to finally look into the liar-Clinton Foundation slush fund it would be an excellent next step or even a precursor to immediately investigate the “green energy” conspiracies between hanoi-Kerry, nObama, their cronies and the UN. Not only have they created an easily exploited “green environment” and a $3 billion Green Slush fund by nObama dictate, but they and their cronies have business interests that have benefited from insider information and manipulation of US policy and spending into that agenda. They’re also throwing away grant money, inside the US and abroad, as is the case with Morocco, on green fraud. Operating their fraudulent enterprises outside of the United States minimizes the risks of legal consequences to virtually non-existent... http://rickwells.us/kerry-obama-skimming-400-million-climate/
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How diplomatic shortsightedness a decade
ago empowers Hezbollah today
by Michael Rubin
{aei.org} ~ On July 12, 2006, a Hezbollah unit crossed into Israel from Lebanon and ambushed two Israeli Humvees, killing three soldiers, injuring two, and capturing two... Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called Hezbollah’s raid “an act of war.” When Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in May 2000, the Lebanese government refused to take responsibility for its own territory and instead ceded de facto control to Hezbollah. The Israeli government held Lebanon as a whole responsible for the attack because Hezbollah’s attack was launched from Lebanese territory and Hezbollah was a Lebanese group. Simply put, Lebanon couldn’t have it both ways — embracing Hezbollah when it was political expedient but distancing itself to avoid accountability...
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Joint FBI-US Attorney Probe Of
liar-Clinton Foundation Is Underway
by Richard Pollock
{dailycaller.com} ~ Multiple FBI investigations are underway involving potential corruption charges against the liar-Clinton Foundation, according to a former senior law enforcement official... The investigation centers on New York City where the liar-Clinton Foundation has its main offices, according to the former official who has direct knowledge of the activities. Prosecutorial support will come from various U.S. Attorneys Offices — a major departure from other centralized FBI investigations... http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/11/exclusive-joint-fbi-us-attorney-probe-of-clinton-foundation-is-underway/
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Pentagon looking to Israel for Iron Dome-type missile defense shield to protect troops abroad
by LISA DAFTARI
by LISA DAFTARI
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ American defense contractor Raytheon and Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems who work together developing Israel's Iron Dome-the highly-acclaimed mobile air defense system that has become critical to Israel's national security-are now collaborating on an American prototype... The U.S. version of the missile system would help protect U.S. forces in advanced combat positions around the world from a variety of threats including cruise missiles, rockets and UAV's. A 2015 trademark filing by Raytheon lists the "SkyHunter," described as a ground-based missile interceptor system with a guided missile that has electro-optic sensors and adjustable steering fins to track and destroy incoming enemy rockets, missiles, artillery and mortars... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/pentagon-looking-to-israel-for-iron-dome-type-missile-defense-shield-to-protect-troops-abroad?f=must_reads
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Germans Consider BANNING Burqas
by MICHAEL QAZVINI
by MICHAEL QAZVINI
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In the wake of the recent rise in Islamic terror attacks, German conservative officials are calling to ban the burqa, a traditional Muslim grabs that covers a woman's entire body... usually donned by the most extreme devotees of the religion. A handful of state interior ministers from the Christian Social Union and Christian Democratic Party (Chancellor Angela Merkel's own party) drafted a proposal this week aimed at controlling the spread of radical Islam, cutting off the financing of terrorism-promoting mosques and banning Islamic dress that signals extremist affiliations. "Freedom of religion is a central, fundamental right. However, religious extremism and the abuse of religious symbols have no place in Germany," the proposal said, adding:... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/germans-consider-banning-burqas?f=must_reads
.Donald Trump And The Fitness Threshold
by Charles Krauthammer
{freedomsback.com} ~ Donald Trump, the man who defied every political rule and prevailed to win his party’s nomination, last week took on perhaps the most sacred political rule of all: Never attack a Gold Star family. Not just because it alienates a vital constituency but because it reveals a shocking absence of elementary decency and of natural empathy for the most profound of human sorrows — parental grief.
Why did Trump do it? It wasn’t a mistake. It was a revelation. It’s that he can’t help himself. His governing rule in life is to strike back when attacked, disrespected or even slighted. To understand Trump, you have to grasp the General Theory: He judges every action, every pronouncement, every person by a single criterion — whether or not it/he is “nice” to Trump.
Vladimir Putin called him brilliant, in fact, he didn’t, but that’s another matter and a bromance is born. A “Mexican” judge rules against Trump, which makes him a bad person governed by prejudiced racial instincts.
House Speaker Paul Ryan criticizes Trump’s attack on the Gold Star mother — so Trump mocks Ryan and praises his primary opponent. On what grounds? That the opponent is an experienced legislator? Is a tested leader?
Not at all. He’s “a big fan of what I’m saying, big fan,” attests Trump.
You’re a fan of his, he’s a fan of yours. And vice versa. Treat him “unfairly” and you will pay. House speaker, Gold Star mother, it matters not.
Of course we all try to protect our own dignity and command respect. But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability.
This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.
Most politicians seek approval. But Trump lives for the adoration. He doesn’t even try to hide it, boasting incessantly about his crowds, his standing ovations, his TV ratings, his poll numbers, his primary victories. The latter are most prized because they offer empirical evidence of how loved and admired he is.
Prized also because, in our politics, success is self-validating. A candidacy that started out as a joke, as a self-aggrandizing exercise in xenophobia, struck a chord in a certain constituency and took off. The joke was on those who believed that he was not a serious man and therefore would not be taken seriously. They — myself emphatically included — were wrong.
Winning — in ratings, polls and primaries — validated him. Which brought further validation in the form of endorsements from respected and popular Republicans. Chris Christie was first to cross the Rubicon. Ben Carson then offered his blessings, such as they are. Newt Gingrich came aboard to provide intellectual ballast.
Although tepid, the endorsements by Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell were further milestones in the normalization of Trump.
But this may all now be jeopardized by the Gold Star gaffe. Remember: A gaffe in Washington is when a politician inadvertently reveals the truth, especially about himself. It has put a severe strain on the patched-over relationship between the candidate and both Republican leadership and Republican regulars.
Trump’s greatest success — normalizing the abnormal — is beginning to dissipate. When a Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal columnist, Eugene Robinson and a major conservative foreign policy thinker and former speechwriter for George Shultz under Ronald Reagan, Robert Kagan simultaneously question Trump’s psychological stability, indeed sanity, there’s something going on as Trump would say.
The dynamic of this election is obvious. As in 1980, the status quo candidate for a failed administration is running against an outsider. The stay-the-course candidate plays his/her only available card — charging that the outsider is dangerously out of the mainstream and temperamentally unfit to command the nation.
In 1980, Reagan had to do just one thing: pass the threshold test for acceptability. He won that election because he did, especially in the debate with Jimmy Carter in which Reagan showed himself to be genial, self-assured and, above all, nonthreatening. You may not like all his policies, but you could safely entrust the nation to him.
Trump badly needs to pass that threshold. If character is destiny, he won’t.
Why did Trump do it? It wasn’t a mistake. It was a revelation. It’s that he can’t help himself. His governing rule in life is to strike back when attacked, disrespected or even slighted. To understand Trump, you have to grasp the General Theory: He judges every action, every pronouncement, every person by a single criterion — whether or not it/he is “nice” to Trump.
Vladimir Putin called him brilliant, in fact, he didn’t, but that’s another matter and a bromance is born. A “Mexican” judge rules against Trump, which makes him a bad person governed by prejudiced racial instincts.
House Speaker Paul Ryan criticizes Trump’s attack on the Gold Star mother — so Trump mocks Ryan and praises his primary opponent. On what grounds? That the opponent is an experienced legislator? Is a tested leader?
Not at all. He’s “a big fan of what I’m saying, big fan,” attests Trump.
You’re a fan of his, he’s a fan of yours. And vice versa. Treat him “unfairly” and you will pay. House speaker, Gold Star mother, it matters not.
Of course we all try to protect our own dignity and command respect. But Trump’s hypersensitivity and unedited, untempered Pavlovian responses are, shall we say, unusual in both ferocity and predictability.
This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.
Most politicians seek approval. But Trump lives for the adoration. He doesn’t even try to hide it, boasting incessantly about his crowds, his standing ovations, his TV ratings, his poll numbers, his primary victories. The latter are most prized because they offer empirical evidence of how loved and admired he is.
Prized also because, in our politics, success is self-validating. A candidacy that started out as a joke, as a self-aggrandizing exercise in xenophobia, struck a chord in a certain constituency and took off. The joke was on those who believed that he was not a serious man and therefore would not be taken seriously. They — myself emphatically included — were wrong.
Winning — in ratings, polls and primaries — validated him. Which brought further validation in the form of endorsements from respected and popular Republicans. Chris Christie was first to cross the Rubicon. Ben Carson then offered his blessings, such as they are. Newt Gingrich came aboard to provide intellectual ballast.
Although tepid, the endorsements by Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell were further milestones in the normalization of Trump.
But this may all now be jeopardized by the Gold Star gaffe. Remember: A gaffe in Washington is when a politician inadvertently reveals the truth, especially about himself. It has put a severe strain on the patched-over relationship between the candidate and both Republican leadership and Republican regulars.
Trump’s greatest success — normalizing the abnormal — is beginning to dissipate. When a Pulitzer Prize-winning liberal columnist, Eugene Robinson and a major conservative foreign policy thinker and former speechwriter for George Shultz under Ronald Reagan, Robert Kagan simultaneously question Trump’s psychological stability, indeed sanity, there’s something going on as Trump would say.
The dynamic of this election is obvious. As in 1980, the status quo candidate for a failed administration is running against an outsider. The stay-the-course candidate plays his/her only available card — charging that the outsider is dangerously out of the mainstream and temperamentally unfit to command the nation.
In 1980, Reagan had to do just one thing: pass the threshold test for acceptability. He won that election because he did, especially in the debate with Jimmy Carter in which Reagan showed himself to be genial, self-assured and, above all, nonthreatening. You may not like all his policies, but you could safely entrust the nation to him.
Trump badly needs to pass that threshold. If character is destiny, he won’t.
http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/donald-trump-and-the-fitness-threshold/
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