It has been stated more times than I can count by the media and Biden, that Trump led an insurrection on January 6th, 2021. You judge, but please look at the evidence this time…
The January 6th committee has said countless times that Trump did NOT order 10,000 troops to ensure an event like what happened on January 6th. This is 100% true, that Trump did not order troops to descend on Washington D.C. So now what?
Prior to January 6th, Trump “offered” 10,000 to
Chief of Staff Mark Meadows stated that Trump ordered the Secretary of Defense to make available 10,000 National Guardsmen for the City of Washington for January 6th. Acting Secretary of Defense, Mr. Miller then told Trump that the Department of Defense (DoD) was going to provide any number of Guard personnel that Washington officials requested. The then mayor of Washington D.C. on January 5th said they would not request any federal law enforcement – which would include the National Guard.
What happens now, is that the offer for these 10,000 National Guardsmen would then go to the Capitol Police. This offer was turned down by the House Sergeant-at-Arms, Paul Irving turned down the offer. His reasoning was that he was concerned by the “optics” of having National Guard present and didn’t feel that the intelligence supported it.
On CNN live, Trump mentioned that “Crazy” Nancy Pelosi (over the Capitol Police) and the Mayor both turned down his offer. “I offered them soldiers, National Guard, I offered them whatever they want and they turned me down.”
The result from the January 6th committee was, and I quote, “President Trump had authority and responsibility to direct deployment of the National Guard in the District of Columbia, but never gave any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6th or on any other day.”
And so now, for what actually happened.
According to Miller’s testimony, Trump asked during that meeting whether the District of Columbia’s mayor had requested National Guard troops for Jan. 6, the day Congress was to ratify Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Trump told Miller to “fill” the request, the former defense secretary testified. Miller said Trump told him: “Do whatever is necessary to protect demonstrators that were executing their constitutionally protected rights.”
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What’s left out in every piece of new media is that the National Guard were actually nearby. You heard me right. The U.S. Military was deliberately restrained on January 6th from responding to the events of January 6th, because there were fears that there would be a military coup. Smoke and mirrors from the Democratic leadership, Nancy Pelosi and gang. The U.S. Military did show up that day, but only have some of the protestors and a Capitol Police officer died. Only one person was shot by the Capitol Police and that was a 5’2″ 115lb lady who used to serve our military.
Trump has offered Military troops to several states during the BLM protests and all of those were rejected as well. Trump wasn’t going to force the military to overrun cities like Washington D.C. But he offerend them all support. Seems that no Democrat wanted help from Trump even though it would have been the right thing to do and a lot of people died and a lot of business were burned down because of it. If you are going to place blame – do the right thing. Vote for Trump 2024.
I’ve been hearing this forever. They wanted Trump’s tax returns for years. Well, Trump delivered. But before he did, he had a conversation with Hillary, which answered what they found all that time later.
Trump did pay millions in taxes. However, due to Hillary and the Dems, there are tons of loopholes that her donors get and Trump said that he uses those loopholes too. At least he is honest.
So they say, Trump’s Tax Cuts in 2027 were 87% for the benefit of the top 1%?
I heard this the other night and I gave my typical anecdote that I had received benefit by seeing a reduction in taxes as well as some of my friends. I pointed out, we are lower-middle and at the time we were a single-income family. He continued to protest. The conversation dove back into the 80’s with Reagan and his trickle-down economics and there were all kinds of factoids presented. The one source me mentioned was, “I heard it on NPR.” To which I was exacerbated and ended the conversation because the was no fruit.
This morning, as I almost always do, I reflect in conversations that I have to evaluate my thinking. Was I right in saying something? Should I reevaluate my perspective? What are actually the facts of the matter? Was the manner in which I communicated, friendly or even useful? What was I trying to accomplish?
I recognized the guy I was speaking with and I even knew his name. Very pleasant guy and we have had random chit chat conversations in the past. Started with primarily a conversation about interest rates, with him sharing some rates his family had experienced and I with my current house which I had bought within the last year. I’m rather not pleased with interest rates and expressed the resemblance to years long gone by where rates were going up up up. At the writing of this article, in prime real estate it’s high 7’s and even 8 and up, depending on the investment. My friend then said, yeah, we won’t see interest rates low like we did only a couple years ago, for a long time, or something to that effect. But this is where I revealed all my cards in one statement… “I bet if Trump were to be elected again, he would turn the interest rates back down.”. That’s what set the trajectory of our conversation to crap.
My mistake.
Be that at it may. I am still going to go through and evaluate the conversation…
First, I should have tested the waters for political leanings, without something as inflammatory as mentioning Trump’s name. Sets people off in a weird way sometimes. Short answer to myself, be patient and don’t assume that everyone in “small-town USA” is going to support former Republican presidents. Truth be told, I am less fond of some of the former Republican presidents now, than I ever was. But ironically, I voted independent, up until Obama. Fun fact. Also, another fun fact, Trump wasn’t who I voted for in the primaries, leading up to his initial presidency.
Back to how I responded… When my friend told me that NPR was his source, I responded very poorly. I didn’t start calling him names, but I scoffed for sure. That was a big woops moment for me. I owe him an apology for that, to be sure. I did go to shake his hand, to which he looked me in the face and shook my hand as well… But it was not the way I like to end conversations at all. I screwed up.
What was I trying to accomplish? Looking back, and for some odd reason, I just assumed the man I was speaking with would find it, at the very least, mildly humorous or entertaining to suggest that Trump could turn things around with interest rates. Nope. Conversation went tilt, from then on. I will need to address at some point.
Now to the meat of the factoids my friend presented… Beginning with the tax cuts mostly benefitting the tip 1%.
(Su_quote) Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont appeared at a CNN presidential town hall Monday night. After his first question from the audience, Sanders argued that President Donald Trump “said he’d have a tax plan to benefit the middle class, but 83% of the benefits go to the 1%.”
CNN states, (su_quote)Facts First:This isn’t true right now, but if certain tax cuts are not extended it will be the case in 2027, according to the Tax Policy Center.
2027. Ok. So, technically, Trump did Not cut taxes primarily for the rich. But let’s read more from CNN.
The tax reform passed in December 2017 included tax cuts for corporations as well as individuals – but while the benefits for business were permanent, the individual taxpayer cuts will expire by 2027. If Congress does nothing to extend them, the top 1% will at that point receive roughly 83% of the tax cut benefits, according to estimates from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
The same study said that for the 2018 tax year, the top 1% would receive 20.5% of the benefits from the tax cuts.
Why the 10-year timeline? That’s thanks to Senate rules that allow tax cuts to pass with fewer than 60 votes if they won’t increase the deficit in 10 years – a necessity for Republicans to get the tax reform through.
But it’s possible that a future Congress and President would vote to extend Trump’s tax cuts – even if Democrats are in charge. A vast majority of the last major round of tax cuts passed by President George W. Bush were made permanent under President Barack Obama.
Who else was talking about Trump’s Tax Cuts for the 1%?
Seems that CNN, MSNBC, CBS and all the others on the left keep telling us, “Trump is a Racist.” What’s the truth? Does Trump hate Black people? Does Trump hate Mexicans? Does Trump hate Jews? Does Trump hate any race of people?
I’m going to address a couple of these and will add on as I have time. Here’s the first one…
People keep saying that Trump hates Jews. Let’s set aside the fact that Trump’s daughter is a Jewish convert and his son-in-law is Jewish. How about if you just hear it from the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu? He says, “No greater supporter to Jewish people than Trump.” Just listen for yourself.
https://studio.youtube.com/video/Vc6bE9WT_y4/edit
It seems we can cancel those who say that Trump doesn’t like Jews. This is one off the list. Let’s see what else we can come up with.
MSNBC reported the following as what Trump said. Do please notice where the quotes are and what is in the brackets.
Read the Youtube headline “Donald Trump’s Comments on Immigrants: They’re Rapists. They All Have AIDS | Velshi & Ruhle |MSNBC”
Now, if Trump actually said this, I’d fire Trump in an instant. The announcer Ali Velshi states the lead up and the clip continues, “Back when he announced his candidacy, the day he announced his candidacy in 2015 he made inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants” and the next words out of Trump’s mouth – mid-sentence, just as the headline showed were “they’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists and some I assume are good people.” That’s it, that’s all that was shown at that moment, to bookend the point made about Trump being racist as he turns and rushes to the next feed of information.
What about what came before that mid sentence clip that Kenyan-born Muslim Ali Velshi set this up for? (giving context for those opposing Trump and any potential bias) MSNBC doesn’t want you to know the truth.
Here is one of the pieces that Ali Velshi has for us. One of Ali’s quotes leading into many different comments against Trump, everyone one which he only gives a snippet, while concealing ALL CONTEXT. “Long list of incendiary remarks from Donald Trump.” – Ali Velshi
C-Span2 – here is what Trump actually said. “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everyone else’s problems.” He’s not wrong. Countries all over the world are broken and many are in war or overrun with crime. Mexico being one of them. Entire Mexican border towns filled with cartel. Tell me… Do you have a trip scheduled to go to Tijuana or Nuevo Laredo anytime soon? If you do, you should really consider that Tijuana is officially the highest murder rate in the world. This is a border town in California, right next to San Diego.
Many of the people in those countries are broke and have no options and FLEE their country in hopes of something better. These aren’t primarily the elite of these countries. Really think about that. This is reality. Trump also said, “When Mexico sends it’s people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending YOU.” Process this as well. He looks around, most likely at other immigrants who are solid contributors to our society and our country.
Trump said “When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us at our stupidity. And now they’re beating us economically. They are not our friend. Believe me. But they’re killing us economically. The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” (someone yelled out something) “It’s true,” Trump continued. “And these aren’t the best and the finest. When Mexico sends it’s people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people who have lots of problems. And they’re bringing those problems with us. (I would assume me meant -with them – but you decide) They’re bringing drugs, they’re bringing crime, they’re rapists and some I assume are good people.”
Ali Velshi/MSNBC says – Trump just said “Mexican immigrants” – when what Trump actually said was “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.” & “And these aren’t the best and the finest. When Mexico sends it’s people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people who have lots of problems. And they’re bringing those problems with us. (them)”
Why are people leaving Mexico? They aren’t in a war are they? NBCNEWS reported October of 2021, “Violent crimes rise in Mexico; 94.8% go unpunished.” 1
Why doesn’t anyone give a crap about the problem and just solve the problem by taking on everyone else’s problems?
Back to it. Who are the people coming across the border illegally? It’s not the industrious family guy who works every day taking care of his family and has a great community to back him. It’s not the rich executives. It’s not those that have much of anything, but this do the often have to scrape up some money to come across. Why?
The destitute are coming across. But how do they get across? Do they just decide to head north and swim across the river and walk into the United States? NOT THAT EASY. Here’s what they aren’t telling you or at least what most of you are not seeing:
Cartel decides who comes across the border – from Texas to California. Let that sink in.
Mexican cartels exploiting border chaos to smuggle fentanyl into US 3NY Post 2022/06/10
A couple million people have illegally come across the border this year alone. In this chaos, fentanyl is being strapped onto migrants and these migrants are indebted to the cartels to deliver these drugs to some recipients already on our side of the border. It’s drug trafficking.
Greedy cartels are holding migrants for $10K ransom in stash houses after crossing 4NY Post 2022/07/13
The same Mexican cartels are holding more and more migrants for ransom as well, once they illegally get them across the border. The cartels are kidnapping these people and holding them in Texas cities in deplorable conditions. Remember, these migrants already paid once, to even get across the border, then they are tricked, kidnapped and held for ransom.
Drug cartels decide who crosses, and people in their organization use the children to enter the U.S. 5
I question this source above.
Legal immigrants commit crimes as a lesser percentage than US citizens – sources: The Sentencing Project and Cano Institute (libertarian). Perhaps this is true. And I hope it is. Legal immigrants are vetted before they are inducted into the United States and if they were found to have a criminal background, they would likely be ineligible.
The same is not true of illegal aliens. First, crossing the border is by it’s very nature illegal. Then getting a job, they are often committing a felony to obtain the proper documents to get a job, to drive and obtain benefits that are generally restricted to U.S. citizens. This includes documents like fraudulent Social Security numbers, which is a Federal offense, which they are actually utilizing other citizen’s numbers in the United States that they obtain to live in the U.S. This means fraud and U.S. citizens are directly impacted, sues, jailed and otherwise, because of the acts of illegal immigrants that stole their information. Destroys people’s credit scores, destroys people’s lives and can take away their freedom.
The Social Security Administration estimates that in 2019 the administration made $7.9 billion in improper payments due to fraud. 6
REPHRASE THIS – when dealing with illegals – It can take U.S. citizens YEARS to unscrew themselves from all the problems of illegal aliens using their Social Security numbers.
Here were other headlines – in 2015
Now, many may not like that Trump doesn’t see Mexico as our friend. And many may disagree and say that Mexico isn’t benefitting off of us economically, in an unfair way.
“I like Mexico. I love the Mexican people. I do business with the Mexican people, but you have people coming through the border that are from all over. And they’re bad. They’re really bad,” he said. “You have people coming in, and I’m not just saying Mexicans, I’m talking about people that are from all over that are killers and rapists and they’re coming into this country.” 7
During Trump’s presidential campaign for the 2016 election was a flurry of news reports of Trump “Quotes” and they were all pointing at Trump being a racist. Let’s look at what was said.
Ora, which is owned by the world’s second-richest man, Carlos Slim, described Trump’s comments as “racist”.8
Who is Carlos Slim? Other than owning Ora a Mexican television network,
The New York Times & Carlos Slim
Business Insider did a piece showing Trump talking about Carlos Slim on October 14th, 2016, where Trump indicated that Carlos owned 17% of The New York Time.9 Accessed on 10/26/2020
Quick review of The New York Times itself showed Trump’s assertion to be true 10.
Carlos Slim invested $250 million into The New York Times, while there were in financial crisis due to enormous amounts of debt, in 2009 where he original obtained 6.9% of the company. But between imposing a 14% interest rate including other criterion, his shares reached the current 17% after exercising what are called “warrants” which doubled his stake overnight.11 The Sulzberger family, which were the controlling family, let their ownership slip from 19% down to 13%. Carlos Slim is in the majority control now.12
Background of Carlos Slim Helu’:
Son of Catholic Lebanese immigrants to Mexico. As of this year, he is at about $50 billion of net worth.13 However another report is that as of 2017, he was at $65 billion, per Forbes.14
Side notes:
One of the articles before also mentioned Amazon.com’s founder Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post in 2013.15
Persons Obtaining lawful Permanent Resident Status from Mexico:
Shiela Weaver – Mind you Sanctuary Cities started happening BEFORE Trump came to be our president. Why? You tell me… Note the date – 2015, July. https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/07/08/timeline-how-san-francisco-became-a-sanctuary-city-for-undocumented-immigrants/ Overall deportations trending down since Trump: Start with this one – then look up the 2017, 2018 – https://www.ice.gov/removal-statistics/2016https://www.ice.gov/statistics#wcm-survey-target-id Pew research: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/02/how-border-apprehensions-ice-arrests-and-deportations-have-changed-under-trump/ You will have fun with this one, because you will see the stat (Southwest border apprehensions have more than doubled FY 2019) since the year prior. Key word – BORDER. Not deportations, but stopping them. Then read the rest – Ice arrests go up from 2016, but were still less than under the years of Obama’s watch. Last couple years have risen since Trump took office, but are still under the “highs” of Obama, by 20%+. You say “lies”. What on earth do I have to gain? I’m a researcher. Genealogy, Biblical/Theological studies, Historical. I go to where the evidence leads me. If my mind has to be changed – like James Morris has helped me to form new views, then I evaluate, judge and change my mind. But see, people just keep blaming Trump. FOR EVERYTHING. When he is just doing it better and doing what he said he’d do, unlike the jokers from before him. Hillary wanted a wall. (Dem) – Good for her. Obama wanted a wall and even voted for a wall. (Dem) – Good for him. Biden wanted a wall and even voted for a wall. (Dem) – Good for him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6denkE_Cxk&t=43s Let me be more clear. Biden says that people coming across the border illegally are bringing tons, tons, tons of methamphetamines to cocaine to heroin. Does that mean that Biden says all Mexicans are drug pushers? But then Trump wants a wall and actually builds a wall. (Ind/Rep) – Racist. Absolutely Hypocrisy. Obama had the cages built in 2014. Just go look. Illegal immigration was on the rise with Just as many on average immigrant people coming in lawfully. Trump isn’t stopping people of different races and religions from coming to our country. Trump is on average, has welcomed immigrants in numbers similar to Obama – at about 1% of our total population allowed in, every 3 years. https://www.dhs.gov/immigration-statistics/yearbook/2019/table1
Trump completely disavowed hatred, bigotry and violence. But CNN didn’t show this. MSNBC didn’t show this. They only showed you the clip where he says – “there were good people on both sides.” Trump does and always has wanted equality for all people of all colors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRkq3_DYj_o Please watch this 2 minute clip…. It’s just him talking.
During one of the debates Trump had with Biden, Trump said
These children are brought here by coyotes and lots of bad people, cartels, and they used to use them to get into our country.1https://www.newsweek.com/trump-debate-coyotes-1541726[/efn_noet]
Newsweek went on to say
“Coyote” is actually a common term used for human smugglers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
But here is what happened when Trump said that.
So, rather than actually taking a moment to think Trump could actually being trying to help – this lady just cancels him, mocks him and use God’s name – to tell the President of the United States – to “stop talking.”
Notice however, had he said Mexican drug lords were bringing over these kids, then Trump would have been labeled a racist again.
And it appears we have people that just read headlines and do nothing at all, with regards to research or truth. Why isn’t the first reaction of people, “That’s awful.” Kids are being torn out of the arms of kidnappers south of the border, paired up with some people that then drag them across the border and then the U.S. splits these children up from their captors and tries to get the connected back with their real parents, which is EXTREMELY difficult to do. Instead – this is what happens. No outrage for the children. Just blindly following the media narrative. Do your homework people!!! What is Trump is actually helping these kids? The media has many stirred up and totally emotional about how bad Trump is treating everyone. But – this is what we get, instead of anything good that Trump is doing to help. There are bad people that kidnap women and children. There are millions being held right now… But many are worried about Trump’s misuse of the word coyote? When in fact, it was people like these that just don’t get it.
And after this guy Mark Elliot retweets this clip we get Democrat Senator tweeting, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Tom Perez – chairman of the DNC…
This was headline news… But what was the context of this tweet?
First – it was Mark posting this fake news and then all the Dems get on board to mock Trump and the people buy this stuff. Then Mark is chastised, because someone actually did some research and figured out that Trump’s statement was part of a greater context. Shocking news, right? This was the result.
More accurate? How about honest? At that point, millions of people had already seen it and, it’s still there in many news articles around the world.
And this is how it goes. Time after time after time. Fake news, people follow it. When someone does real research it gets retracted and otherwise, it doesn’t. And so people think what they do about Trump for what???
During Trump’s second debate with Biden and first time moderator with Kristen Welker, Trump responds to a question Kristen asks with the following statement.
You have described the Black Lives Matter movement as a symbol of hate. You’ve shared a video of a man chanting “white power” to millions of supporters. You’ve said that black professional athletes exercising their first amendment rights should be fired. What do you say to Americans who say that kind of language coming from a president is contributing to a climate of hate and racial strife?
The first time I ever heard of Black Lives Matter, they were chanting “Pigs in a blanket” Talking about our police. Pigs. Pigs. Talking about our police. “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” I said, that’s a horrible thing. And they were marching down the street. And that was my first glimpse of Black Lives Matter. I thought it was a terrible thing.
Did Trump make a mistake by allegedly retweeting a man yelling white power to a group of BLM protesters?
These protesters were yelling profanities, held signs that Trump supporters were Nazi’s, Hitler followers, Bigots, Racists, White Trash and then sworn at, being called @*%#ing Nazis and Racist Pigs. But in this montage of clips, there one a Retired Veteran Trump supporter responding to hate with “white power” which as quite dumb. He was being harassed and was called a racist among other things and did not respond well to that. Very poor response to the bigotry and hate of the anti-Trump/BLM protesters.
I’ve included the video without CNN spinning what actually is recorded. Just listen for yourself. 2
Trump should have checked that better. He did make a mistake retweeting the statement that guy made. It shouldn’t have included that statement of “white power.” But I wonder. Just because Trump retweeted something, does that mean that the source couldn’t have been altered? We don’t really concern ourselves with those questions as a society today, do we. Either way, we’ll never know.
Assigning power to Whites is no good. But there appears to be a movement from BLM that suggests that there should be an assignment of power to Blacks. Why assign power to either White or Black? Can we be honest for a minute… What is this?
Video link showing the woman in pink being yelled yet, bullied into raising her fist for “black power” and then being asked, “Are you a Christian?” while being cornered, outnumbered and screamed at by a crowd. 3
And another instance of cussing at just random people, proudly flipping the bird or some other sign at these people, because they won’t raise their hand to symbolize “Black Power.” I really don’t think we should be supporting either White or Black Power. Let’s support unity, but not at the tip of a sword, held by a mob that cusses and screams at you and then on many occasions, leads to unwelcome physical results.
Just be honest with yourself here. Do you think anyone should be raising their fists up saying “POWER” of any kind? Just asking.
A Black Lives Matter protestor told a cheering crowd in Portland that she wanted “filthy, disgusting animal” cops to “fry like bacon” — as she declared a “war” where militants should “shoot back” in a disturbing speech captured on video.
“This is a war, guys … We’re getting ready to get armored up around here,” declared Letha Winston, whose son, Patrick Kimmons, was shot dead by cops in 2018 as he charged toward them seconds after he shot two men.
“I will continue with my mission by any means necessary,” she added — repeating “by any means necessary” several times as she spoke for more than an hour Sunday in front of the Oregon city’s Justice Center.
Enlarge ImageA Portland BLM activist told other militants that cops should “fry like burnt bacon.” A Portland BLM activist told other militants that cops should “fry like burnt bacon.”Twitter “I know you got a gun, but so do I … Go ahead and shoot me — I’m shooting back,” she told the cheering crowd, addressing them as “comrades.” 5
Here are the videos showing the son who was shot, AFTER, shooting two other people and was trying to flee and ultimately ran directly towards the two police officers that shot him in self-defense.
