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Michael Cohen Reveals Trump's MASSIVE Losses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qZsfGY12BY
Lawyer PROMISES Ivanka Trump is Going to Prison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG5ZYKBfR2s
Biden Declines Trump's Request To Withhold White House Records From Jan. 6 Committee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atrVH0eliiA
‘Murder-Suicide Pact’: Senate Report Reveals Bombshell Details Of Trump’s Attempted Coup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgusJ0njaeE
'IT IS OVER' Hilary Clinton DISMANTLES Trump in SINGLE MINUTE with clear warning over 'Texas
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Trump embraces ‘dictator’ moniker by promising to enforce border laws and promote energy independence… and the left loses it
Apparently establishment media operatives completely lack self-awareness. Over the past three years, their segments have almost entirely focused on how great Joe Biden and his policies are, while attacking President Trump every day, but they’re shocked to now learn that their advocacy and onslaughts haven’t done the job. Biden’s poll numbers are in the tank, and his policies are extremely unpopular.
They can’t believe that the ungrateful public thinks Trump’s policies were better! (Even though those in the “ungrateful public” were doing better.) They are in an echo chamber where almost all people think like they do.
They’ve destroyed their own credibility, so no matter what they do, they can’t make the average person believe that the policies that are destroying his/her life are actually good for him/her.
They are very troubled that minorities, and the young, are gradually gravitating towards Trump, because these populations have always been reliable Democrats, no matter how few promises the Democrat politicians keep.
Trump is winning most swing states, and leading Biden in most general election polls. In the latest CNN poll via Real Clear Politics, Biden’s approval was 37% and disapproval was at 55%.
That is unacceptable to the Democrat campaign workers posing as journalists. Therefore they have ratcheted up their talking points against Trump—they’re telling the public that he will be a dictator, in the likes of Adolf Hitler.
Sean Hannity asked Trump if he would be a dictator and Trump responded in the affirmative, but only on “day one.” And what would his dictatorial acts be? He would enforce the border laws required by the office, which Biden won’t do, and he would again foster energy independence, instead of destroying it, as Biden is.
What was obviously sarcastic they’re peddling as literal, and naturally, they’re stoking hysterida amongst the useful idiots.
Contrast that with how they treat Biden. They cheered when he was elected, citing a return to “normalcy” and “civility.”
And do you know what Biden did on day one, with zero complaints about abuse of power or assertions that he was acting like a dictator from the media? From Politico:
Joe Biden signed more than a dozen executive orders in his first hours as president on Wednesday, the first salvos in a coming legislative and regulatory crusade to erase Donald Trump’s legacy from federal law and advance his own agenda.
Seventeen executive orders, from forcing masks on federal property to halting border wall construction, and every anti-American thing in between.
Biden was hidden in the basement while the 2020 election was happening. He clearly didn’t prepare these executive orders, which undoubtedly took a long time to plan, and my guess is he didn’t even read them before signing (and would have a hard time explaining them if asked). It would be nice if we were told who is pulling Biden’s marionette strings so we know who is actively destroying America.
But somehow Trump, saying he would sign two, which are completely pro-American, interests an American president should support, is a threat to our country?
Biden issued more executive orders and reversed far more of Trump’s than Trump did of Obama’s, but Trump is the dictator according to the media.
Biden continues to abuse his power by dictatorially using massive amounts of taxpayer money to pay off student debt in order to buy votes. He doesn’t care about separation of powers or the legislative process, neither does the media. But Trump is the threat!
Biden is taking away our freedoms every day as most of the media cheers and repeats the talking points. They are interfering in the 2024 election… as they do in every election.
Trump says every day that he wants to make America great again, and Biden and the other Democrats take this as a dangerous threat.
Besides Biden’s penchant for subverting Congress to implement policies, he also traveled around the world with his son, collecting kickbacks from foreigners, and the media continues the blatant lie that Joe wasn’t involved—no matter how much evidence they are shown. The lies are endless.
It is no wonder there is so much corruption by politicians when most of the media figures are operatives instead of free and independent press. They don’t care about criminality, as long as it’s Democrats committing the criminal act.
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Former Adviser Says Trump Will Implement 'Spectacular Migration Crackdown'
A former Trump immigration adviser says that activists 'won't know what's happening.'
Then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, then-National Trade Council adviser Peter Navarro, then- Senior Adviser Jared Kushner, then- policy adviser Stephen Miller, and then-chief strategist Steve Bannon watch as former President Donald Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Jan. 23, 2017.
By Jack Phillips
A former White House immigration adviser proclaimed that a second Trump term would include stricter policies targeting illegal immigration, saying it would be a "spectacular migration crackdown."
“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” President Donald Trump's former adviser, Stephen Miller, told The New York Times over the weekend. “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”
The former adviser had been President Trump's speechwriter and also led his immigration policy, which included constructing a border wall along the U.S.–Mexico border and initiating more deportations.
Mr. Miller told the paper that President Trump’s immigration plans are being crafted to avoid having to pass congressional legislation. During his first term in office, the former president used a myriad of executive orders to implement his policies, of which many were challenged in courts.
If elected in 2024, President Trump would again attempt to end the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy that allows certain people who meet requirements to request a grant of deferred action, said Mr. Miller. Those who are given DACA can be eligible to work legally in the United States.
Meanwhile, the former acting director for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tom Homan, told the NY Times that he would like to return to the Trump administration to "help to organize and run the largest deportation operation this country’s ever seen."
In a recent rally in Florida earlier this month, President Trump vowed to carry out the "largest domestic deportation operation in American history" and said that a number of criminals are coming through the border. He also warned that people with "bad intentions" are also pouring in.
The former president also said he would “terminate all work permits for illegal aliens and demand that Congress send me a bill outlawing all welfare payments to illegal migrants of any kind.”
In response, President Joe Biden's reelection campaign issued a critical statement to CNN regarding Mr. Miller's comments and the Trump plans, describing it as "the horrifying reality that awaits the American people if Donald Trump is allowed anywhere near the Oval Office again.”
The policies crafted by Mr. Miller "are meant to stoke fear and divide us, betting a scared and divided nation is how he wins this election,” said Ammar Moussa, a spokesperson for the campaign.
Record Numbers
Since President Joe Biden assumed office in January 2021, illegal immigrants or would-be illegal immigrants have shown up at the U.S.–Mexico border in high numbers, leading officials in states like New York—which are thousands of miles from the border—to issue warnings about the phenomenon.
Illegal immigrants walk toward a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sept. 28, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
Illegal immigrants walk toward a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Sept. 28, 2023. (John Moore/Getty Images)
For the fiscal year 2023, there were around 2.5 million encounters with illegal immigrants at the U.S.–Mexico border, topping the previous record that was set in 2022, according to government data. More than 2.3 million apprehensions and more than 1.7 million apprehensions, respectively, were recorded in 2022 and 2021, the data shows.
The U.S. Border Patrol made around 220,000 encounters along the U.S.–Mexico border in September, according to data. That's a 15 percent increase from the month before.
Republicans and President Trump have said that the surge in illegal immigration is largely due to the Biden administration's policies, which they have described as lax and ineffective. Other 2024 GOP candidates, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have said they would implement U.S. border security measures.
In response, President Biden's administration has recently said it would build some 20 miles of border wall. The administration has also resumed deportation flights to Venezuela, according to a recent statement.
"It is critical that Venezuelans understand that those who have arrived here after July 31, 2023, are not eligible for such protection," Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement, "and instead will be removed when they are found to not have a legal basis to stay."
Author (Breaking News Reporter)
Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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By Roger Kimball |
Commentary
According to Robert Kagan, “a Trump dictatorship” is increasingly likely. In a long and hysterical (I don't mean funny) essay in The Washington Post, Mr. Kagan rings the alarm. “There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day,” he wrote. Yikes. What happened? “In 13 weeks,” Mr. Kagan warns, “Donald Trump will have locked up the Republican nomination.” That’s probably true. But weren’t we assured that President Trump’s winning the GOP nomination was just a clever Democratic plot? Yes, we were. Over and over again, anti-Trump Republicans warned us that the American people hated President Trump. And besides, even if a lot of people voted for him, the electoral map showed that he couldn’t win. But Mr. Kagan is right. (There’s a sentence I didn’t think I’d be writing.) “The idea that he is unelectable in the general election is nonsense,” Mr. Kagan argues. More and more people are waking up to that contingency, especially since more and more polls show him beating President Joe Biden in the general election. Then there are the (to anti-Trumpers) mournful polls that show President Trump beating President Biden in five out of six battleground states. Even The New York Times had to acknowledge it. In an October poll conducted by the NY Times and Siena College, President Trump was comfortably ahead of President Biden in Nevada (by 11 percentage points), Michigan (by 5), Georgia (by 6), Pennsylvania (by 4), and Arizona (by 5). President Biden had a narrow lead of 2 percentage points in Wisconsin. It takes Mr. Kagan several paragraphs to get around to mentioning the Austrian corporal with the funny mustache, and even longer for him to drag in Julius Caesar. But they're both there, along with the tocsin that dictatorship is fluttering in the wings. Along the way, Mr. Kagan admits that “on Trump’s watch, there was no full-scale invasion of Ukraine, no major attack on Israel, no runaway inflation, no disastrous retreat from Afghanistan.” Ergo, “It is hard to make the case for Trump’s unfitness to anyone who does not already believe it.” Indeed it is. And we can mention many other things that serve to bolster the sense of President Trump’s fitness, not his unfitness, for office. President Trump’s energy policies, for example, made America not only energy-independent but also a net exporter of energy. Or maybe you're interested in the judicial system, in which case you might want to remember the hundreds of federal judges and three Supreme Court justices that President Trump nominated and saw confirmed. President Trump also made considerable inroads in rolling back the regulatory state. His Middle East policy, beginning with the Abraham Accords, was a world-historic diplomatic achievement. He cut taxes during his term and saw wages rise, especially at the lower end of the scale, and, before COVID-19 hit, saw unemployment fall to its lowest level in decades (for minority unemployment, it was the lowest level ever recorded). That’s just for starters. |
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I mention these data points just to underscore Mr. Kagan’s observation that “it is hard to make the case for Trump’s unfitness to anyone who does not already believe it,” though I would substitute for that last bit the words “to anyone not blinded by an unjustified and irrational hatred of Donald Trump.” Mr. Kagan’s essay is part of a curious and growing genre of political expostulation. President Trump is portrayed as a fearsome authoritarian figure, a new Hitler, forsooth, and a threat to democracy. Let’s think about that. President Trump is a “threat to democracy,” therefore we must endeavor to keep him off the ballot. Why? Because otherwise, people might vote for him, and that would be terrible. How do you spell “contradiction” (or do I mean “hypocrisy”)? Mr. Kagan worries that President Trump would usurp the judicial system and use it to go after his ideological enemies. As I write, the former president is laboring under four indictments with a total of some 90 counts. Hundreds of people who breezed through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are moldering in Washington prisons. One person who wasn’t even in Washington that day was given a 22-year sentence because—well, because he was a Trump supporter. Of course, it isn't only President Trump who has the establishment worried about democracy. The Democrats are so worried about the political system in which the people are sovereign that they scuttled Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s possible place on the Democratic ticket because, otherwise, Joe Biden, their anointed candidate, might face a serious challenge, and that would be “anti-democratic.” But there's a sense in which the assault on President Trump is, if not justified, then at least understandable. He really is a threat. Not, I hasten to add, to democracy per se but rather to “Our Democracy™,” which is to say, to the oligarchy of The Swamp. President Trump wasn't able to do much to “drain the Swamp” in his first term. He might have better luck in his second. He represents an existential threat to the denizens and institutions that occupy the Swamp (the administrative state, the deep state, etc.). By whatever name you denominate it, the lumbering bureaucratic leviathan that rules America is a deeply entrenched, self-engorging, and largely unaccountable confect. It's also profoundly undemocratic. Should President Trump win, he will pose a serious threat to its perpetuation. My advice would be that he do everything in his power to downgrade the place of Washington in the metabolism of American political life. As I have written before, I think he should take up with renewed vigor his efforts to move large swathes of the government out of Washington. He should also rethink the complacent institutions that may once have served the public but now are sclerotic agencies for which self-perpetuation is the prime directive. And his first step should be to hold his inauguration somewhere other than Washington. It wouldn't have to be at Mar-a-Lago, though I'm sure the weather there in January will be more attractive than it will be in Washington. It’s time to call out the malevolent farce in which the anti-democratic forces of the status quo complain that electing President Trump would be anti-democratic because he might do to them what they're doing to him and to us. |
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