Tag: Donald Trump

Is Press TV Journalist Caught in Crossfire as Trump Intensifies Iran Standoff?

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Alireza Hashemi A little over a week into the arrest of the senior journalist working for Iran’s Press TV, the case has become a big controversy shrouded in mystery. On January 16, Iranians were shocked to know that the US-born anchorwoman Marzieh Hashemi had been detained in the US three days earlier. The 59-years-old widow was arrested by the FBI on January 13 at St Louis airport after visiting relatives in the New Orleans and just before boarding a plan to see her sick brother in Denver. But it took days for…

The American Thinker: Trump Puts Schumer and Pelosi in a Brilliant Vise Grip

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By Jim Davis [Editor’s note: For background, check out “Deep State-Shadow Government Revealed: Senior Executive Service”, American Intelligence Media (3 January 2018), and you will begin to appreciate the dimensions of the problem confronting President Trump.]  The federal government shutdown has presented a unique opportunity for President Donald Trump to clear out the deadwood in the federal bureaucracy, saving U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars in salaries, perks, and rented office space for people who aren’t doing anything productive. At the same time, Trump can get rid of dozens, possibly even hundreds…

LA Times is Wrong — Nancy Pelosi is Not Winning — An Open Letter from Robert Steele to Doyle McManus

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By Robert David Steele Mr. McManus, I enjoyed your article today on Pelosi winning, “Nancy Pelosi is winning in her battle with Trump,” but I think you are missing a larger context in which Trump is winning across the board and is certain of re-election. Here’s why… As the author myself of the very popular Amazon Kindle  Donald Trump, The Accidental President — Under Siege!: A Soft Coup Rages within a Closed Rigged System…. (Trump Revolution Book 5) also free online here, I completely agree with a third of your…

Marc Thiessen, Trump is surrounded by leakers. Why would he trust them with his Putin note?

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Marc Thiessen The Washington Post‘s report that President Trump “has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin” — including taking away an interpreter’s notes and instructing the person not to discuss what was said even with senior officials of his own administration — has raised hackles in Washington. Some have gone so far as to suggest this is evidence that the president is a secret Russian asset. More likely it is evidence that the president feels he cannot trust those around him…

How Trump Thwarted Calculated Israeli Effort to Keep U.S. in Syria

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Gareth Porter The Pentagon was not the only party pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working very hard to get the Trump administration to use America’s military presence there to support an Israeli campaign of airstrikes aimed at threatening war with Iran. The Israeli strategy was aimed at dividing Russia from Iran and thus putting pressure on Tehran to withdraw its military personnel from Syria. A campaign by a pro-Israel think tank actually succeeded in getting…

Robert David Steele, How Our Military can help Defend Our Border

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Robert David Steele Few people outside of the Department of Defense (DoD) understand that in preparation for winning two major theater wars, DoD has within its ranks hundreds of thousands of specialists – and tens of thousands of pieces of construction equipment as well as theater and tactical intelligence equipment able to surveil and deny key terrain – all of which are in peacetime available for training missions within the USA that support the President’s domestic objectives.  There cannot be a more important domestic objective than the defense of our…

Marc Thiessen, The Ten Worst Things Trump did in 2018

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By Marc A. Thiessen   [Editor’s note: Once again, I regard some of what Thiessen takes to be bad as good  just as I take some of what he regards as good as not. In this case,  where I regard 3 (seperating children from their families at the border as having been his obligation to follow a law signed by Bill Clinton and enforced by Barack Obama overwhelmingly more often) as one more Democratic political ploy, 2  (his plan to pull out of Afghanistan) and 1 (his plan to pull out of Syria) as his wisest foreign…

Marc Thiessen, The 10 best things Trump has done in 2018

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By Marc A. Thiessen   [Editor’s note: While I take exception to some of his claims, where I regard 3 (his tough stance against Moscow, which was forced upon him by the Russiagate hoax) and 2 (pulling out of the Iran deal, which was in deference to Israel and perhaps his greatest foreign policy blunder) as mistakes, I like the author as (for the most part) objective and balanced), where his list gives us a perspective to contrast with each of our own.] In his second year in office, the list…

Lee Smith, New Documents Suggest the Steele Dossier was a Deliberate Setup for Trump

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After nearly two years since the Steele dossier was published, it remains the cornerstone of the case for collusion. The dossier model has also given rise to similar operations. Lee Smith A trove of recently released documents sheds further light on the scope and logistics of the information operation designed to sabotage an American election. Players include the press, political operatives from both parties, and law enforcement and intelligence officials. Their instrument was the Steele dossier, first introduced to the American public two years ago. A collection of reports compiled…

Jeremiah Johnson, The Calm Before the Storm

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Jeremiah Johnson [Editor’s note: While I disagree with the author about what Trump has accomplished, which, in my view, includes improving relations between North and South Korea and ending the war in Syria, hopefully to be followed by ending the war in Afghanistan, improving the economy and reducing unemployment, all while under attack by the Mockingbird Media and the Deep State, I respect well-reasoned critiques and, in that spirit, publish this one here. Prior to the midterms, Rasmussen had his popularity rating across the nation at 50% and, perhaps even…