It’s About Corruption – Replacing a Failed and Corrupt Political Establishment
American presidents have their famous speeches, remembered long after they leave office. JFK said: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald Reagan stood at the Brandenburg Gate and told Mikhail Gorbachev to: “Tear down this wall.”
Some speeches are memorable in other ways. George W. Bush, days after 9/11, ironically announced that: “Islam is peace.” Barack Obama proclaimed himself the messiah: “This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal.”
President Trump has certainly given strong speeches, such as at the recent March for Life. But he may be remembered more for his raucous rallies and hilarious tweets. Yet one speech has flown under the radar.
On Oct. 13, 2016, just weeks before the election, Trump spoke at a campaign rally in Florida. Leading up to the election, he was holding several rallies each day, giving numerous speeches, but this seemingly random speech stands out.
The enigmatic Q group refers to it as the speech that got Donald Trump elected. As it was one of many pre-election speeches he gave and at a Florida rally, it may have only been heard by a fraction of Trump voters before the election, but it certainly encapsulates his philosophy, both before and after the election, toward government corruption.
The speech explains the resistance by the Washington, D.C. ruling class to Trump’s candidacy, election, and presidency. Trump attacked the foundation of deep state power, wealth, and corruption. Trump was indeed an “existential threat” to the cabal.
Before even being elected, and years before Joe Biden decided to run for president, Donald Trump was focused on corruption. Not to influence his reelection, as House Democrats accuse, since he wasn’t even president yet. But because rooting out corruption was part of his plan to make America great again.
Everything that followed his election, from the Russian collusion accusations, White House leaks, special counsel investigation, and now impeachment, is a reaction to the ideas Trump explains in this 6-minute speech. Watch it here or read the transcript.
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The opening lines are prescient, becoming painfully obvious now almost four years after he laid out the scale of corruption.
Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment with a new government controlled by you, the American People. There is nothing the politicalestablishment will not do, and no lie they will not tell, to hold on to their prestige and power at your expense.The Washington establishment, and the financial and media corporations that fund it, exists for only one reason: to protect and enrich itself.The establishment has trillions of dollars at stake in this election. As an example, just one single trade deal they’d like to pass, involves trillions of dollars controlled by many countries, corporations and lobbyists.For those who control the levers of power in Washington, and for the global special interests they partner with, our campaign represents an existential threat.
“Protect and enrich.” This is a perfect encapsulation of the Clinton Foundation and the Obama book and television deals. Then there is the Biden family corruption, followed closely behind by similar abuses of power and office by the Warren and Sanders families, as Peter Schweizer described in his recent book “Profiles in Corruption.” These names just scratch the surface of government corruption.
Candidate Trump then went on to say:
It’s a global power structure that is responsible for the economic decisions that have robbed our working class, stripped our country of its wealth, and put that money into the pockets of a handful of large corporations and political entities.
This is money given to corrupt foreign countries, disguised as aid, only to be returned to the political elite by hiring their unqualified family members for do-nothing jobs, as in Hunter Biden, or funneling these U.S. taxpayer dollars back into political foundations, consultancies, or campaign contributions.
Once upon a time, journalists investigated such corruption. Now they ignore it, aiding and abetting the deception. As Trump said in his speech:
The corporate media in our country is no longer involved in journalism. They are a political special interest, no different than any lobbyist or other financial entity with an agenda.
Speak up against the cabal and you will be destroyed, or even commit suicide. Trump went on:
The establishment and their media enablers wield control over this nation through means that are well known. Anyone who challenges their control is deemed a sexist, a racist, a xenophobe and morally deformed. They will attack you, they will slander you, they will seek to destroy your career and reputation. And they will lie, lie and lie even more.
It’s amazing that Trump predicted exactly what happened a few days ago when “Republican political strategist” Rick Wilson called the group of “you” mentioned above, “credulous boomer rubes” with CNN hack Don Lemon laughing so hard he almost fell off his chair.
President Trump has been impeached for drawing back the curtain on deep state malfeasance. Before handing over millions of hard earned U.S. taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, the most corrupt country in Europe, he wanted to know the money was necessary and going where promised, rather than into the pockets of oligarchs and U.S. politician grifters.
He acted as he was required to under the “Treaty with Ukraine on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters,” ratified in 2000, 15 years before Trump announced his run for president. He was doing his job, fulfilling his Constitutional oath of office. His reward for pouring roach killer in the nest of Democrat crooks and knaves was impeachment and a concerted effort by Democrats, the media, and nasty NeverTrump Republicans, all heads on the same toxic hydra, to overturn the last election and rig the next one.
It’s not about Trump enriching himself, despite what Adam Schiff and Jerry Nadler say, it’s for the country. Again, from the famous speech:
I didn’t need to do this. I built a great company, and I had wonderful life. I could have enjoyed the benefits of years of successful business for myself and my family, instead of going through this absolute horror show of lies, deceptions and malicious attacks. I’m doing it because this country has given me so much, and I feel strongly it was my turn to give back.
It’s all about corruption, exposing it, rooting it out, and destroying it. Those who are the most threatened are those who scream the loudest. Given the Democrat and media apoplexy, Trump must be getting closer to the truth.
He ended his speech by throwing down the gauntlet:
We will vote to put this corrupt government cartel out of business. We will remove from our politics the special interests who have betrayed our workers, our borders, our freedoms, and our sovereign rights as a nation. We will end the politics of profit, we will end the rule of special interests, we will put a stop to the raiding of our country – and the disenfranchisement of our people.
It’s not about abuse of power or obstruction of Congress. It’s not about quid pro quo or bribery. It’s simply a new sheriff in town, bringing law and order to drain a swamp of greed and corruption. It’s President Trump doing exactly what he said he would do if elected, making America great again.
He is doing what past presidents have talked about and promised, but then either looked the other way or became active participants in the graft. And those milking the system are petrified over exposure and their long overdue reckoning.
Brian C. Joondeph, M.D., is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, and other publications. Follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and QuodVerum.
The critical element required is a pattern
of criminal or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing
two predicate crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and
includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction
of justice.
The list of predicate crimes is extensive and includes bribery, embezzlement,
fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction of justice.
Secretary Hillary Clinton and the Deep State: A RICO Criminal
Conspiracy
We who elected President
Trump understood our elected officials and the Deep State were sandbagging Trump and self-dealing
public funds. It was no secret that President Trump is no angel,
unpresidential, blunt, and crude, and a disruptor. Trump was hired to drain the
swamp.
I watched this kabuki theater unfold over the
last several years. Through my eyes as a shopworn gumshoe, I will explain what
is happening. My investigative curiosity was first piqued by the ATF Fast and
Furious scandal and continues through the recent House impeachment show trial.
There is a common element running through all of these cons —
the actions of an organized crime conspiracy. A group of people
either acting alone or in concert with others committed crimes with a common
purpose - a criminal enterprise as described in
"CRIMINAL RICO: 18 USC. §§1961-1968 A
Manual For Federal Prosecutors."
The players acted
together – in the usurpation of power, the abuse of power by public officials,
bribery, thefts by fraud including federal funds, money laundering, perjury and
the obstruction of justice, the violations of fundamental of civil rights,
aided and abetted in the commission of these crimes and or to conceal these
crimes. Criminals will lie and can't keep their lies straight. Their methods
and behaviors are the same, whether engaging in street crimes or elaborate
white-collar financial schemes. The only difference is when more money is
involved, the perps are more adept in concealing, covering up their sins, and
hiding where the money went. Many of these scandals are well known to the American
Thinker readers. I will focus my comments on Hillary's home brew
sever and the Clinton Foundation as an example of how RICO can be used to prosecute
the players.
FBI Director James Comey
indicted Hillary Clinton for her home brew server at his press conference.
Comey then egregiously concluded that there was no evidence of criminal intent
purportedly “required” to prosecute. Comey bastardized the Federal Espionage Act in absolving
Hillary Clinton. FBI's investigation of Clinton's emails was low-balled. There
was never a real search for the truth. The outcome was preordained. My jaw
dropped wide open. I knew the fix was in. FBI Director Comey lied to the people
with a straight face. Why?
The chance meeting of
Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch on the airport tarmac was no mere
coincidence. This chat was not about the grandkids. Bill Clinton was there to
convey a specific message to Lynch that there would be no indictment of
Hillary. Hillary Clinton's email case must tank. This would have
constituted bribery, if AG Lynch was assured she would continue as AG in
Clinton Administration. This meeting took place only weeks before Comey's press
conference dumping Hillary Clinton's email case.
The Deep State needed
Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 presidential election, or the dike holding back
the truth would burst. Trump, the disruptor, was an immediate threat to both
the Republicans, Democrats, and the Deep State. If the truth were
laid bare, it would expose the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton, the
Senate and House, and many executive departments for these abuses of power,
corruption, bribery, frauds, and thefts of public funds.
High-level government
officials and the Deep State committed many serious felonies either in
furtherance of or to conceal the crimes committed in the pay to play scam.
In exchange for favorable consideration by Secretary Clinton, those who
benefited would donate to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI
started and stopped investigations into the Clinton Foundation at least twice
as reported by the Washington Post. Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is the most damning. Dinesh D'Souza slammed the
Foundation in the National Review, as did The Federalist.
The status of the investigation of the Foundation
by US Attorney John Huber's is unknown. Rudy Giuliani said there was enough to
pursue "Clinton Inc" as
racketeering under RICO. The Foundation and its affiliated nonprofits require a real
investigation with an in-depth forensic audit to determine where the money
went. In financial crimes investigation, the prime rule is "follow the
money, honey." Illicit nonprofits have many ways to divert funds by
inflating salaries, expenses, and money laundering.
Illegal nonprofit schemes
are difficult to prosecute without hard evidence and the testimony of insiders.
The motive of Hillary Clinton's use of the home brew server was to conceal
emails from FOIA requests that would provide the hard evidence. Hillary Clinton
destroyed the data on her server and cell phones with the knowledge of the FBI.
It took years for Judicial Watch and others to pry
and recover some of these damning emails from the foot-dragging executive
departments that were complicit and knew what was going on.
RICO initially was used
to target mob families. RICO is also a useful tool to fight white collar
conspiracies. They both have the same hierarchy of low-level crooks led by the
top players, linked together with a common purpose. RICO has tools to squeeze the
low-level operatives to gather evidence to prosecute, jail, and seize assets of
the conspirators. The critical element required is a pattern of
criminal or racketeering activity. This pattern is proved by showing two
predicate crimes were committed within ten years. The list of predicate crimes is extensive and
includes bribery, embezzlement, fraud, theft, money laundering, and obstruction
of justice. The typical five-year statute of limitations for most
federal felonies is extended to ten years from the last criminal act or acts
committed to conceal the conspiracy, i.e., lying under oath and similar actions
to obstruct justice. The prison sentences are steep. The effect is to cut off
the head of the organization and not just the low-level players.
The criminal activity
extends back to the ATF's Fast and Furious program through the House
impeachment show trial to cover up the illegal acts of the Obama Administration,
Hillary Clinton, the Department of State, the DOJ, the FBI, and the CIA. A
telltale sign that the DOJ under US Attorney General Barr is willing to play
hardball and may use RICO, came when he spoke to the Federalist
Society: "Barr accuses liberal 'resistance' of
trying to 'sabotage' Trump." AG Barr said this, "shows FBI launched Trump campaign
investigation on the 'thinnest of suspicions." AG Barr is the new sheriff in town,
he wears a badge, has guns and will travel, can impanel grand juries, indict
and arrest people, and is not limited in his jurisdiction, like DOJ IG
Horowitz.
The collective actions of
the Deep State are and were a silent coup to delegitimize a Presidential
candidate. Once elected to impede and resist the duly elected President. The
President's law enforcement and intel agencies were corrupted at the highest
level and went rogue.
Organized crime can't
exist without corrupt law enforcement. As I wrote in a letter to President
Trump earlier this year:
. . . I believe you
understand the gravity of the situation and of its importance to the very
survival of our Country as we know it. If the people involved are not held
accountable for their actions, we will be no different than some Third World
Banana Republic.
Failure to act will
destroy our founding principle of the Rule of Law as stated by President John
Adams, "We Are a Nation of Laws, Not of Men" and we cannot allow a
two-tiered justice system to prevail.
Ron Wright is a retired detective from Riverside PD, CA. BA in
political science CSUF, M. Adm. University of Cal, Riverside. Facebook at Ron
T. Cop.
“Our entire crony
capitalist system, Democrat and Republican alike, has become a kleptocracy
approaching par with third-world hell-holes. This is the way a great
country is raided by its elite.” ---- Karen McQuillan AMERICAN
THINKER.com
Peter Schweizer, author of “Secret Empires: How the American
Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends,”
Thanks to Rep. Sylvia
Garcia, the barn door now is open on the Bidens and the Democrats
Thanks to Rep. Sylvia
Garcia, the barn door now is open on the Bidens and the Democrats
Much of the day Thursday at the impeachment
show was spent on how innocent the Bidens are of any wrongdoing re:
Ukraine. Rep. Sylvia Garcia had fancy charts and graphs to
demonstrate her point: There was absolutely nothing wrong with
Hunter Biden trading on his name to make $50 - 80k a month on the board of a
verified corrupt gas company in Ukraine, nor was there anything wrong with
Joe's quid pro quo, that the prosecutor investigating that company be fired or
a billion dollars in aid would not be forthcoming.
Perhaps Rep. Garcia should have read Peter
Schweizer's new book Profiles in Corruption before assembling
her power-point lecture. The Bidens are among the most corrupt
politicians in the US. And Schweizer's sources, unlike those of our
mainstream media, are not anonymous but hard copy documents. She might have waited a
bit longer for the documents now released that show that Obama met with Ukrainian
prosecutors, US embassy officials and faux-whistleblower Eric Ciaramella in
January 2016 to discuss Burisma and Hunter Biden's role there. George Kent,
the Democrats' own witness, had voiced his concern about Hunter
Biden's position there but was rebuffed by a Biden
aide. Ciaramella? Rep. Garcia's overarching defense
of the Bidens will very likely come back to haunt the congresswoman from Texas
as will Biden's memo to the media not to
report on or address the "conspiracy theory" that there was something
corrupt about his family's dealings with Ukraine and Burisma. Biden obviously thinks he
can control what the left media will investigate; he thinks this because it has
always worked in the past. That is probably why the NYT never reported on the
Obama WH meeting with the Ukrainian prosecutors who were investigating Hunter Biden and
Burisima and had been since 2014.
Garcia then contended that President Trump made
"the phone call" in July, the transcript of which we are all familiar
with, because he was threatened by Biden's rise in the polls! Does
any sentient person believe that? Of course not. If there
is anyone who knows polls are meaningless it is Donald Trump and his
supporters. And Joe Biden was never, will never be, a threat to
Trump's re-election. He does not know what state he is in from day
to day. He thinks we don't need "standing
armies" and that we should be "helping” communist China!
The man is dangerously oblivious of all things
relevant to our national security. It is hard to imagine Biden even
going the distance and becoming the Democrat nominee. So Rep.
Garcia's entire theory is seriously flawed. We also all
know, as do they, that what Trump was concerned with was not the
2020 election but the 2016 election, since Ukraine's interference to benefit
Clinton was beginning to be reported, specifically by Politico in January 2017.
But Garcia opened the door even wider than Schiff did to
further discussion of the Bidens' financial malfeasance. They
will have a very difficult time explaining, let alone defending, the many
get-rich-quick schemes in which they were involved.
Meanwhile, the bobble-heads on CNN and MSNBC wax
rhapsodic on Schiff's theatrical debut: "dazzling" (Jeffrey
Toobin), "powerful and forceful" Wolf Blitzer, "virtuoso
performance (Joe Scarborough); there are more and they are all
distastefully obsequious.
This insincere kind of "Flattery corrupts
both the receiver and the giver." (Burke) Schiff and his
fans on the Left should not take any comfort from such benighted, self-serving
sources.
Then there is Rudy Guiliani. The
splenetic left media love to mock him but he is about to drop a boatload of
info on the corruption in Ukraine that is not going to land on Trump but on the
Bidens and all those diplo-thugs who think they should be
running American foreign policy rather than the
President.
The most mystifying aspect of the Left's
obsession with removing President Trump from office is what exactly is its
motivation. Yes, prior to the election they were certain they could
derail Trump, so yes, they were stupefied when Hillary lost. But
everyone knows by now that the Russia hoax was just that, a hoax cobbled
together with a cast of characters from the Clinton campaign and her hired
guns (Fusion GPS and Perkins-Coie) to the reprobates at the upper realms
of the FBI, the DOJ and CIA. None of their investigations
have yielded fruit and still they keep digging the hole in which they have
already found themselves.
What is it they so maniacally fear about this man
who, in spite of them, has accomplished so much good in just three
years? Is it his promise to drain the swamp which would mean
uncovering all their shady money deals that have for generations made them all
wealthy while in office? Perhaps. It is more likely that because he
is not a politician but an authentic American patriot who believes this country
was founded on great principles, is still a grand and successful experiment,
and that but for the intervening presidencies of Marxist socialist utopians
like Obama, can be great again. How dare he! What an
upstart, they think! We run this place, not some self-made
interloper from outside the beltway or Ivy League.
Whatever the reason for the Left's psychopathy
regarding President Trump, they have now gone so far over the edge of sanity it
is quite likely they will be unable to come back as a legitimate
party. The fact that Pelosi and Schumer have allowed the odious,
prevaricating and self-aggrandizing Adam Schiff to carry on like his home is in
a tree and that only one or two Democrats have objected to their impeachment
crusade to unseat the man proves the party is lost forever. That
horse has left the barn, as has the one that will take the Bidens down and
out. How will it all end? "It's the natural law of
karma, we create our own destiny by our own thoughts, words and deeds for good
or ill. (Midsomer
Murders)
Obama Seeks Brother of "Chicago Mob Boss" for Top
White House Post
The roaches and con-artist, fake journalist on cable news are
all lying about William Daley being all this and all that, this man is an open
borders, down with America, free trade globalist. MSNBC and Gretta "the Scientology"
Van Susteren from Fox News are knowingly deceiving the public about D. Issa
& his letter to "business owners"=which they made into such a BIG
DAM DEAL, but no one says anything when Barrack Hussein Obama, comes around
with all of these shady bankers, hedge fund managers and Wall St. Tycoons,
which he puts in his cabinet. All of
Obama's meeting with Wall Street asking, "What can I do for you?" is
never something covered by Keith Oberman or Rachel Maddow.
(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama is considering naming
William Daley, a JPMorgan Chase & Co. executive and former U.S. Commerce
secretary, to a high-level administration post, possibly White House chief of
staff, people familiar with the matter said.
BOOK
Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and
Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses
BY TIMOTHY P CARNEY
Editorial Reviews
Obama Is Making You Poorer—But Who’s Getting Rich?
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers. In Obamanomics, investigative reporter Timothy
P. Carney digs up the dirt the mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes
you wouldn’t see. Rather than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate
socialism to America, all while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s
corporate welfare and regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics.
Congressman Ron Paul says, “Every libertarian and free-market
conservative needs to read Obamanomics.” And Johan Goldberg, columnist and
bestselling author says, “Obamanomics is conservative muckraking at its best
and an indispensable field guide to the Obama years.”
If you’ve wondered what’s happening to America, as the
federal government swallows up the financial sector, the auto industry, and
healthcare, and enacts deficit exploding “stimulus packages,” this book makes
it all clear—it’s a big scam. Ultimately, Obamanomics boils down to this:
every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting rich, and those
somebodies are friends of Barack. This book names the names—and it will
make your blood boil.
Goldman Sachs, GE, Pfizer, the United Auto Workers—the same
“special interests” Barack Obama was supposed to chase from the temple—are
profiting handsomely from Obama’s Big Government policies that crush taxpayers,
small businesses, and consumers.
Investigative reporter Timothy P. Carney digs up the dirt the
mainstream media ignores and the White House wishes you wouldn’t see. Rather
than Hope and Change, Obama is delivering corporate socialism to America, all
while claiming he’s battling corporate America. It’s corporate welfare and
regulatory robbery—it’s Obamanomics. In this explosive book, Carney reveals:
* The Great Health Care Scam—Obama’s backroom deals with drug
companies spell corporate profits and more government control
* The Global Warming Hoax—Obama has bought off industries
with a pork-filled bill that will drain your wallet for Al Gore’s agenda
* Obama and Wall Street—“Change” means more bailouts and a
heavy Goldman Sachs presence in the West Wing (including Rahm Emanuel)
* Stimulating K Street—The largest spending bill in history
gave pork to the well-connected and created a feeding frenzy for lobbyists
* How the GOP needs to change its tune—drastically—to battle
Obamanomics
Praise for Obamanomics
“The notion that ‘big business’ is on the side of the free
market is one of progressivism’s most valuable myths. It allows them to
demonize corporations by day and get in bed with them by night. Obamanomics is
conservative muckraking at its best. It reveals how President Obama is
exploiting the big business mythology to undermine the free market and stick it
to entrepreneurs, taxpayers, and consumers. It’s an indispensable field guide
to the Obama years.”
—Jonha Goldberg, LA Times columnist and best-selling author
“‘Every time government gets bigger, somebody’s getting
rich.’ With this astute observation, Tim Carney begins his task of laying bare
the Obama administration’s corporatist governing strategy, hidden behind the
president’s populist veneer. This meticulously researched book is a must-read
for anyone who wants to understand how Washington really works.”
—David Freddoso, best-selling author of The Case Against
Barack Obama
“Every libertarian and free-market conservative who still
believes that large corporations are trusted allies in the battle for economic
liberty needs to read this book, as does every well-meaning liberal who
believes that expansions of the welfare-regulatory state are done to benefit
the common people.”
—Congressman Ron Paul
“It’s understandable for critics to condemn President Obama
for his ‘socialism.’ But as Tim Carney shows, the real situation is at once
more subtle and more sinister. Obamanomics favors big business while
disproportionately punishing everyone else. So-called progressives are too
clueless to notice, as usual, which is why we have Tim Carney and this book.”
—Thomas E. Woods, Jr., best-selling author of Meltdown and
The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to American History
· Hardcover: 256 pages
· Publisher: Regnery Press (November 30,
2009)
· Language: English
· ISBN-10: 1596986123
· ISBN-13: 978-1596986121
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