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Clueless In Chicago – Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.)

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By Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.)

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and may not represent the views of The John Fredericks Report.

Sheriff David Clarke Jr. is former Sheriff of Milwaukee Co, Wisconsin, President of AmericasSheriff LLC, Senior Advisor for America First, author of the book Cop Under Fire: Beyond Hashtags of Race Crime and Politics for a Better America. To learn more visit www.americassheriff.com

Another summer in the City of Chicago starts with a bang. No pun intended as 52 people were shot, 10 fatally in street violence. On Memorial Day it was 30 shot with five killed. That’s right. You read that correctly: 82 people shot leaving 15 dead—not in the first five months of the year—not in the last 30 days— not even in the previous week! Two weekends is all it took.

Several weeks ago a madman went on a rampage and killed 12 people in a Virginia municipal building. We were horrified hearing this. Everybody asked the same questions, such as: what caused this or what technical fix can be implemented to prevent this from happening again? We even got the usual blame-the-gun whining from the left. Yet, the violence in Chicago gets ignored. Why? Two reasons. First is the left’s casual attitude about ghetto violence and culture. Second is that Chicago’s political class is clueless on how to reduce the senseless killing.

Read the full report by Sheriff David Clarke (Ret.) from Town Hall.

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Lewandowski Predicts Perp Walks for McCabe, Comey 

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The deputy director of the FBI already has criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.”

In a blockbuster interview on The John Fredericks Show, former Trump for President campaign manager and best selling author Corey Lewandowski predicted that several former U.S. Justice Department officials will be doing prison time when the “investigation of the investigators” in the Russian collusion hoax is complete.

“When we get that [final reports] we’re going to see that these people broke the law, went after a candidate for office because they didn’t like his politics, and those people are going to be held accountable, and I sure hope and I think it’s going to be the case that they go to jail, for spying on Americans on domestic soil,” Lewandowski said.

“I believe the recommendations [of John Durham] will completely align with Inspector General Horowitz when they say that these people broke the law, spied on Americans, did so for their own political benefit, lied on FISA applications, and now they are getting very scared. This is investigating the investigators because we know the American people know these people broke the law, and Attorney General Barr is going to bring them to justice,” Lewandowski predicted.

For the full interview go here

Below are key interview excerpts: 

John:  Corey, Attorney General William Barr named John H. Durham, the U.S. attorney from the District of Connecticut, to investigate the investigators in the Russian collusion witch-hunt. What do make of it?

Corey: John, this is so important for the American people to get somebody to look at what the genesis of the Russia investigation hoax was all about. And so now that Attorney General Barr has named somebody to look into this we’re going to find out something that I believe Attorney General Barr already knows, and I believe Inspector General Horowitz already knows, was that this whole Russia collusion investigation was a complete hoax.

It was a fake charge that was designed just to go after Donald Trump, and because I believe that the attorney general doesn’t want the scrutiny that is going to come with this, he has now appointed a neutral unbiased individual who is going to have the opportunity to look at this from the outside … As they say in dragnet, just the facts ma’am.

And when we get that we’re going to see that these people broke the law, went after a candidate for office because they didn’t like their politics, and those people are going to be held accountable, and I sure hope and I think it’s going to be the case that they go to jail, for spying on Americans on domestic soil.

I believe the recommendations [of John Durham] will completely align with Inspector General Horowitz when they say that these people broke the law, spied on Americans, did so for their own political benefit, lied on FISA applications, and now they are getting very scared. This is investigating the investigators because we know the American people know these people broke the law, and Attorney General Barr is going to bring them to justice.

Look, it’s very simple, and it’s the same process that you or I would go through if we weren’t criminals like these people are, which is the investigation has been launched. They are looking for clear evidence of violations of the law. They will find those. And just because you are a government employee, and just because you are the deputy director of the FBI or the general counsel of the FBI does not make you immune from prosecution, and that means that you will be accountable, just like everyone else will be accountable.And that means that these individuals are going to jail.

PERP WALKS COMING 

Corey: John, I know it’s a bold statement. I understand your readers and your listeners are saying, hey, Corey Lewandowski is off his rocker today.

But let me tell you this: the deputy director of the FBI already has criminal referrals to the Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice wanted to wait until the Mueller report was finalized. That’s now done. And I believe that the number two person who served as our deputy director of the FBI is going to go to jail for a long time.

And I’m not talking a day or two, I’m talking years for the crimes that he committed, for the information that he leaked, for the stories that he started, for the FBI warrants that he signed off on, for the FISA abuses that he participated in.

BIRDS OF A FEATHER GO TO JAIL TOGETHER

Andy McCabe and others; Peter Strzok, Jim Baker, Bruce Ohr, they are all going to jail and it will be a vindication for the Trump campaign, for the President, for myself and my friends who were spied upon, to say that nobody is above the law and its high time that these people are held accountable.

John: Well not only that, the investigation, and the being spied upon, but then like you said a couple of weeks ago Corey the fact that you and many of your colleagues were drug into hearings with subpoenas that went on for days and hours. I had Dave Bossie on the other day and he said it cost Corey Lewandowski’s family $500,000.

Corey: I participated in the election because I wanted to, but the financial constraints that this government has placed on me and my family, which…would have paid for my children to go to college–is gone because of what they’ve done to me.

And you know I’m not Donald Trump, I’m not worth billions of dollars a month. I’m a working-class blue-collar guy who had the opportunity to be on an amazing journey because I believed, and still do, that Donald Trump is the best President and best candidate for the future of our country.

But they abuse their power in the government. They went after me. They went after so many other people.

And John, you know I am not a fan of Paul Manafort, I am not a fan of Roger Stone, but those guys had the full weight of the federal government on them. Paul went into solitary confinement. Roger Stone had a no knock warrant executed against him…I just think it’s wrong and we deserve better as the American people.

BANANA REPUBLIC

If you told me this was taking place in some Mickey Mouse country, then I would say hey maybe that’s the case, but not here in this country. That’s what’s happened and now it’s time…I’m a Star Wars fan and the second movie the Star Wars trilogy was The Empire Strikes Back. I’m calling this the President strikes back.

SHIFTY SCHIFF 

Corey: Adam Schiff is still trying to threaten people with $25,000 a day in fines if they don’t follow the subpoenas, and North Carolina Senator Burr brought back Donald Trump,Jr.  to listen to more testimony that he he’s already provided on multiple occasions.

Its time to put this behind us. Stop going after these innocent people, and instead hold people who broke the law for their own edification because they didn’t like Donald Trump, because they wanted to see Hillary Clinton to win, accountable. The American people deserve that.

 THE COMEY CLOWN SHOW

John: Rod Rosenstein…just came out distancing himself from James Comey…

Corey: You know, it was very interesting John, Rod’s speech [Monday] highlighted that he believes, in my opinion, that Jim Comey broke the law and that above all else he wants to hold people accountable. And look I’m not a fan of Rod Rosenstein.

I don’t think he handled the Mueller investigation well, I think as Jeff Sessions number two at the Department of Justice there were a number of things, and I’m not an attorney, that I would have done differently. I believe that the new number two is going to be sworn in as early as tomorrow, which is long overdue. But the one thing that we heard from Rod Rosenstein when he gave that the commencement speech was the final ultimatum. That Jim Comey is not a truthful person, that he is dishonest.

And don’t forget Jim Comey’s immediate supervisor: he directly reported to Rod Rosenstein, and Rosenstein oversaw this investigation.

He is a man who Jim had to talk to on a regular basis. And basically, what Rod said–and I said this many times–Jim Comey has a massive messiah complex. He believes he is the final arbiter when it comes to information and decisions, and Rod Rosenstein went out to chastise this individual and this is a person who he worked with if not on an hourly basis, clearly on a daily basis and has known for a long, long time.

And don’t forget your listeners may or may not remember this, Jim Comey previously served as a deputy attorney general, the number two person at the Department of Justice which is the very position that Rod Rosenstein held in the Trump administration.

So, he knew Jim Comey. Jim Comey knew Rod Rosenstein in the position that he held the responsibility that entailed.

And Rod Rosenstein went out to light this clown up because that’s what Jim Comey is.

He’s a clown.

He was on CNN just last week talking about things to sell his book one more time.

He has no compunction whatsoever about making stories up and trying to justify in his own mind, even though we all know, your listeners know, I know, you know, Jim Comey broke the law time and time again for his own benefit, and went after Donald Trump because he didn’t like his politics.

Jim Comey has had a political agenda from day one and the detriment that he has caused to the FBI will be felt for literally a generation.

People now know Comey: for crimes that they [FBI] were spying on the President of the United States. That is what transpired. Don’t let anybody say otherwise.

Yes, they spied on me.

Yes, they spied on our campaign.

They spied on the President of the United States because they didn’t want to see him be elected. They didn’t want to see him serve this country. And if that is not a crime, then I have no idea what is anymore.

GRAHAM GOING TO ROBERTS

Corey: I met with Lindsey Graham, Senator from South Carolina, last week to talk about this and he was going to–because he was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, one of the most powerful positions in all of Washington D.C. He told me very candidly he was going to meet with [Justice] John Roberts, who is the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to say we can never allow this to happen again.

Whether it requires legislation, whether requires administrative changes. We don’t know if Rod Rosenstein knew the truth. What we do know is that the final FISA warrant, the final FISA application was signed after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, we said we want to continue to listen to conversations and spy on domestic soil on people who are at the highest levels of the government.

If that is not illegal, if that is not a crime, then nothing is.

That’s big brother at its worst, and we, the American people deserve better, and those people deserve to be in jail.

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Barr Takes Aim at Russian Hoax, China Gets Trumped; Trump to Xi: “The Party’s Over!”

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U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr has seen enough of the phony FISA warrants and fake Trump Russian collusion $35 million hoax witch-hunt by former special counsel Robert Mueller.

It’s high time to investigate the investigators.

He read Mueller’s 448-page report exonerating President Trump, and now Barr wants to get to the bottom of its origins.

Barr tapped John H. Durham, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut to investigate the genesis of the FBI’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Durham’s selection was first broke by the New York Times, and The Washington Post reported that a person familiar with the decision said the review is designed to investigate if the U.S. government’s “intelligence collection activities” related to the Trump campaign “were lawful and appropriate.”

This is the second step to uncovering the Obama Justice Department’s spy-gate initiative of candidate Donald Trump and his 2015-16 campaign for President.

Barr has already publicly stated “spying” occurred at the campaign, and spy warrants on Trump’s allies may have been obtained by providing FISA court judges with paid opposition research from the DNC and the Clinton campaign, masquerading as authentic U.S. Intelligence.

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz’ full report is due out in late May or early June. The results will shed light on the extent of the FBI’s involvement with the Trump tower wire-tapping caper and how it was justified.

 

TRUMP TO CHINA: THE PARTY’S OVER, XI.

President Donald Trump defended his decision to level much-warranted tariffs on China, warning them yesterday to come back to the negotiating table.

“I say openly to President Xi & all of my many friends in China that China will be hurt very badly if you don’t make a deal because companies will be forced to leave China for other countries,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Too expensive to buy in China.”

Trump said the proposed deal with China disintegrated after their Communist Party leaders reneged on most of the prior commitments they made.

“You had a great deal, almost completed, & you backed out!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

Trump has maintained that more American companies will abandon buying Chinese goods as a result of the tariffs, and U.S. companies will fill the bill, creating good-paying American jobs.

“Many Tariffed companies will be leaving China for Vietnam and other such countries in Asia,” he wrote. “That’s why China wants to make a deal so badly,” Trump wrote in another tweet.

Trump steadfastly maintained American consumers will not pay higher prices, as has been fear mongered by the Goldman-Sachs and Wall Street cheap goods and slave labor cabal.

“There (their) is no reason for the U.S. Consumer to pay the Tariffs, which take effect on China today. This has been proven recently when only 4 points were paid by the U.S., 21 points by China because China subsidizes product to such a large degree.”

For the first time in five decades since President Richard Nixon opened the doors to China relations in 1972, we finally have a President who is willing to stand up to China, and walk away from their game of negotiating deception through stall tactics, empty promises and bait and switch.

President Trump understands that the Chi-coms subsidize the cost of production to dump their products in the U.S. at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to corner markets and drive American companies out of business.

If you raise tariffs, the Chinese communist government just increases its subsidies to save its U.S. market share. That further diminishes their stagnant economic growth.

 

THE CHICOM’S MINUS $400 BILLION POP GUN

Now the Chi-coms say they will retaliate. Seriously?

With what? They currently enjoy a nearly $400 billion annual trade surplus with the U.S. – that’s American cash flowing to China on a one-way street.

They have about $400 billion fewer options then President Trump has.

Trump holds all the cards. About 400 billion of them, to be precise.

Game on.

 

WALL ST: WHAT? LOWER BONUSES AND NO BAILOUTS?

Meanwhile, the bonfire of the vanities cheap labor bunch and hedge fund boys at the tax-payer bailed out investment firms in lower Manhattan will crank up their propaganda machines at the Wall Street Journal and the FOX Business News to tell you Trump’s China tariffs will cause economic Armageddon.

“Buy toilet paper and water, the end is near, a farmer in Iowa can’t sell a bushel of soybeans to China,” they’ll warn.

We’ve been fooled by this phony “free trade” propaganda for too long.

Trump has proved it false, as those of us in the protectionist camp knew for years.

Hello more good-paying U.S. jobs. Goodbye phony globalist false claims of economic doom and gloom when we stand up for the American worker.

“There will be nobody left in China to do business with. Very bad for China, very good for the USA! But China has taken so the advantage of the U.S. for so many years, that they are way ahead (Our Presidents did not do the job). Therefore, China should not retaliate-will only get worse…The unexpectedly good first quarter 3.2% GDP was greatly helped by Tariffs from China. Some people just don’t get it!” President Trump wrote in two Tweets.

Oh, sure they get it Mr. President. They’ve duped the heartland into believing that “free trade” is good for you, while they know it lowers wages and ships jobs overseas. In return, they get bigger bonuses for pushing paper around. And when the cash boys on Barclay Street fail, they know the same beleaguered taxpayer–who they stole their jobs from–will bail them out, golden parachutes and all.

When things get tight, they trot out their lobbyists who then bring their PAC checkbooks to the capitol.

 

PRESIDENT TRUMP ADDRESSES REPORTERS AT WH ON CHINA

President Trump will no longer allow China to take advantage of the United States.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “China has been taking advantage of the United States for many, many years. I’m not just talking about during the Obama administration. You can go back long before that. And it’s been taking out $400, $500, $600 billion a year out of the United States and we can’t let that happen.”

Our powerful economy has put the United States in a very strong negotiating position with China.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We’re in a very strong position. Our economy’s been very powerful. Theirs has not been. We’ve gone up a lot since our great election in 2016, and if you look at the numbers, they’ve gone down quite a bit. We’re dealing with them.”

China is hurting economically and will need to make a deal to stop companies from leaving their country.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We’re in a great position right now, no matter what we do. Yeah, I think China wants to have it, because companies are already announcing that they’re leaving China, because they can’t do that – they can’t compete if they’re in China with the tax.”

Some of the money coming in from tariffs will be redirected to help American farmers.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “Out of the billions of dollars that we’re taking in, a small portion of that will be going to our farmers, because China will be retaliating, probably, to a certain extent against our farmers.”

President Trump has a very good relationship with China and will continue trade discussions during the upcoming G-20 Summit.

PRESIDENT TRUMP: “We have a very good relationship. Maybe something will happen. We’re going to be meeting, as you know, at the G-20 in Japan and that’ll be, I think, probably a very fruitful meeting.”

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The Clinton Trap

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Trump hung NAFTA around Hillary Clinton’s neck. Biden voted for NAFTA and TPP. We’ll soon see if the Democrats have learned anything.

By Curtis Ellis

In a crowded field of Democratic presidential hopefuls, former Vice President Joe Biden’s unique selling point is he ostensibly connects with white, working-class voters.

These are the once-reliably Democrat voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump president in 2016.

To understand why Democrats now struggle to reach white, working-class Americans who previously formed its base, you must understand how radicals, the Clinton family, the Democrat Party, and Wall Street coalesced. It has become a very unholy alliance.

The story begins in the 1960s with the rise of the New Left, the student activists who wore Che Guevara t-shirts, waved Viet Cong flags, took over campus buildings and protested the Vietnam War.

Unlike the traditional left, the New Left regarded white, blue collar men as Archie Bunker racists, and the labor unions that represented them as bastions of white privilege, the “aristocracy of labor” in Marxist parlance.

The mutual antipathy was exemplified in the Hard Hat Riot when members of the building trades unions pummelled long-haired anti-war protestors in the streets of New York.

New Left student radicals essentially took over the Democratic Party after the bloody melee at the 1968 Democratic convention and Richard Nixon’s victory.

The upper-middle class radicals’ first order of business at the DNC was to purge the union guys, even though they had been the muscle of Democratic power since the days of Franklin Roosevelt.

The director of the AFL-CIO’s political arm seeing what was coming said, “We aren’t going to let these Harvard-Berkeley Camelots take over our party.” They did.

New party rules set designated seats for women, minorities, young people – but not blue collar men. The party’s agenda moved toward the campus issues of abortion-on-demand, feminism, environmentalism, affirmative action and identity politics – and away from working people’s concerns of decent pay and decent jobs.

The Democratic Party’s new bosses were children of America’s privileged professional class. They saw a future where no one toiled in factories, where the entire country would be like them – college educated “symbolic analysts.”

This is the “post-industrial new economy” Bill Clinton saw on the other side of “the bridge to the 21st Century” that he set the pilings for signing NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, and bringing China into the World Trade Organization (WTO).

These so-called “free trade” deals were actually corporatist investment schemes that moved America’s manufacturing assets and jobs to Mexico and China.

Bill Clinton pushed these deals despite fierce opposition from labor unions.

But Clinton jilted the labor movement so he could move in with a more attractive partner he found in another part of town: Wall Street.

Wall Street wanted cheap labor, the Clintons wanted Wall Street money, for themselves and their party. It was a marriage made in heaven, or by the devil. For thirty pieces of silver, they sold out working Americans.

And the working classes never forgot NAFTA.

In 2016 Donald J. Trump crushed the blue wall around the Great Lakes and sailed to an historic victory by promising to scrap NAFTA and the other rotten trade deals that have destroyed the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans.

President Trump made good on his promise. He withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP, and he negotiated the US Mexico Canada Agreement, USMCA, to replace NAFTA.

USMCA is the template for trade deals that promote the economic interests of Americans and our nation rather than global corporations.

It requires more local content for automobiles to qualify for tariff free treatment. It protects American wages by requiring at least $16 an hour for 45 per cent of the labor content of autos.

It protects independent unions in Mexico. And it protects Teamsters, American truckers and drivers by repealing the odious provision in NAFTA that allowed Mexican trucks piloted by meth-fuelled drivers and held together with baling wire and the entrails of murdered cartel members to operate on our roads.

Some Democrats are now opposing this better deal for Americans because – get this – they say it doesn’t do enough for Mexican workers.

Donald J. Trump hung NAFTA and TPP around Hillary Clinton’s neck in 2016, and it sunk her in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin.

If Democrats kill USMCA, they will resurrect the ghost of Bill Clinton and it will haunt them just as it did in 2016.

It won’t matter even if the nominee’s name is Joe Biden. After all, Joe voted for NAFTA and supported TPP.

We will soon see if the Democrats have learned anything.

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Medicare For All Means Care For No One

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By John Fredericks

Richmond, VA — You sometimes hear the darndest things in conversation with strangers on airplanes. Things that give you new insight. I had such an experience on a recent early morning flight chatting with a woman with dual American–British citizenship on the other side of the armrest.

She first told me about her wellness check-up during a visit to the United Kingdom, where the government controls the health care system, and how satisfied she was with her experience with the U.K.’s nationalized health care system.

Then she told me about her brother, a permanent U.K. resident. That’s when it got horrifying.

He has a torn rotator cuff so serious it limits the use of his arm. At the time of our conversation, her brother had been on a government waiting list for surgery to repair the injury for nine years.

Nine years!

True stories like that are cautionary tales for Americans who, having heard about Medicare-for-all proposals to nationalize our health care system, might wonder if the health care grass is greener on the other side of the pond.

It most assuredly is not. Don’t take my word for it. Listen to reports from over there.

Last winter, the BBC reported that government officials instructed British hospitals (which are controlled by the state) to delay “tens of thousands of non-urgent … operations and procedures in England.”

“Officials also told hospitals to delay routine outpatient appointments to concentrate on emergency care,” the BBC noted.

Last year, The Guardian newspaper in Britain noted that “patients are suffering as a direct result of the NHS’s (National Health Service) inability to meet key waiting-time targets.”

In March, a study issued by the Royal College of Surgeons in the U.K. concluded that state-run “hospitals continue to struggle to reduce long waiting lists which include over 220,000 patients that have been waiting more than six months for treatment,” and that “there were also over 36,000 patients waiting more than nine months for treatment.”

The evidence of health care rationing and medical procedure delays coming out of the U.K. make the United States’ VA hospital crisis look like child’s play.

And just this month, The Times of London, in separate shocking reports, revealed that:

“Tens of thousands of elderly people are left struggling to see because of an NHS cost-cutting drive that relies on them dying before they can qualify for cataract surgery.”

“A hundred babies are stillborn every year and more than a thousand need emergency treatment because hospitals are ignoring NHS guidance on delivering twins and triplets, a government-backed study has concluded.”

It appears that young or old nationalized medicine doesn’t discriminate when it comes to the cold-hearted care rationing that occurs in nationalized health care systems, such as the one in the U.K.

When the Affordable Care Act was being debated here 10 years ago, critics claimed it would lead to care rationing.

While I initially was adamantly opposed to Obamacare, at least it is built on the pillars of a market-based system in which patients are connected to treatment by private insurers who pay a share of the costs of care rendered to them by private health care providers. That system gives people the freedom to seek medical attention when they need it.

In contrast, Medicare-for-all is built on the concept that the government would take on a much greater role in delivering care, as the government does in England. Bureaucrats decide if you need rotator cuff surgery, not you or your doctor.

One thing both the ACA and Medicare-for-all have in common: a cute name designed to fool Americans into thinking it’s “affordable” or “for all.”

But as we know from countless examples, patients in nationalized health care systems tend to endure delays and long waits associated with rationing whenever they need anything other than emergency care.

The current calls by the American Left for Medicare-for-all coincides with a time when Americans, bombarded with headlines blaring conflicting information about health care policy, are feeling uneasy.

To help cut through that confusion, consider the findings of a recently released study from West-Health and Gallup showing that while many Americans are personally concerned about the narrative around health care costs, nearly two-thirds (64 percent) are satisfied with the care they receive.

This tells us something interesting about our health care system.

On an individual basis, we appreciate what we have because we innately understand we’re fortunate to have the freedom to receive treatment, see doctors, consult a specialist, or have surgery when we need it without having to wait for a government bureaucrat to decide we are worthy of care.

The folks on the other side of the Atlantic can’t say the same. Let’s not make the mistake of adopting Medicare-for-all here, only to find ourselves regretting the choice once care rationing takes root here as it exists over there.

John Fredericks is the host of the syndicated John Fredericks Radio Show and the proprietor of the WJFN 100.5 FM radio station. He was the Virginia chairman for the Donald J. Trump for President 2016 campaign.

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Banned For Telling The Truth: How The Legacy Media Ate Their Own On Russian Collusion

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Forget the truth. It’s the narrative, stupid.

The legacy media debacle, ignited by the empty Robert Mueller report, is the beginning of the end for the fake news bunch.

Desperate for a morsel of hope in keeping their clickbait fresh, and to avoid any direct comeuppance for the lies they told on national television, the fake-newsers are now peddling a bizarre Attorney General Robert Barr coverup scheme.

The outcome, as reported by Barr in a summary letter to Congress, was a shock to the partisan media hacks who spent the past two years publishing unsubstantiated reports, trafficking in rumors, promoting wild Russian asset conspiracy theories, propagating pure speculation masquerading as analysis and pushing claims from anonymous sources in order to construct a fictional narrative designed to overturn the result of the 2016 election. Or excuse it.

The Trump-Russian collusion cable television hoaxers pushed a story with no direct evidence based on a fake dossier for two years. The gamble was an easy way to explain away Trump’s victory.

While they ramped up a narrative based on wild conspiracy theories, they drove fresh advertising dollars by increasing web-clicks and viewers who wanted desperately to believe them.

Many of the complicit elected officials are now red-faced and in media seclusion. Ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) is one of the biggest culprits, and he’s nowhere to be found these days.

Warner went on the Sunday show circuit week after week and assured us he had evidence of collusion, and that more was coming soon. When he broke with Intel Chairman Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC), who said he had seen nothing and bailed, Warner claimed he had alternative facts.

None came. For those of us who took Warner seriously, where’s the beef—or the apology?

The legacy media propagandizers, desperate for their phony Trump-collusion narrative to be pushed out at all costs, are now eating their own.

For the last two years, the legacy media promulgated a blatant lie about President Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia — but in order to keep the charade going, they had to make sure that their audiences weren’t exposed to conflicting viewpoints.

Remarkably, this big lie is not the end of the story. It’s the beginning.

Multiple journalists and media commentators have alleged that not only did major media outlets selectively emphasize coverage that fit their collusion narrative, they actively suppressed skeptical and dissenting voices—from the left!

The left-leaning journalist Glenn Greenwald, for instance, recently claimed that he and several other commentators were banned by MSNBC because they questioned the network’s collusion coverage.

“There was a whole slew, not just me, of left-wing journalists with very high journalistic credentials, far more than anyone on that network, like Matt Taibbi and Jeremy Scahill and many others … who were banned from the network because they wanted their audience not to know that anybody was questioning or expressing skepticism about the lies and the scam they were selling because it was so profitable,” Greenwald said.

According to Greenwald, MSNBC’s obsession with the Russian hoax was motivated by the network’s long-standing failure to attract viewers — a problem it solved by airing sensationalist reports about the collusion scandal.

“The whole network was about to collapse,” he maintained. “This whole scam saved them. Not only did they constantly feed people for three straight years total disinformation, they did it on purpose.”

Another well-known liberal, the prominent legal scholar Alan Dershowitz, also claimed that he was banned from appearing on CNN — a network that often claims to be nonpartisan and objective.

“I have been right from day one, and almost all the other pundits and professors have just been dead wrong,” he said in a recent interview. “CNN banned me from their air because I was being too fair. I was trying to assess what the essential issue was, and I wasn’t being partisan. They didn’t want that.”

Banning credible experts from sharing views that do not fit a preordained, partisan script is one of the most insidious tactics of the biased media — unlike factual errors, which are at least subject to public scrutiny, media booking decisions are made behind the scenes, making it nearly impossible to know how widespread this sort of covert censorship really was.

Now that Robert Mueller has debunked the collusion hoax and proved that Greenwald and Dershowitz were right all along, it’s clear that blacklisting insightful criticism of the witch hunt was the only way they could keep their audiences from figuring out the truth.

John Fredericks is a syndicated radio morning radio talk show host heard in the Mid-Atlantic. He served as Trump for President Campaign Chairman of Virginia in 2015-16.

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Steve Bannon: Trump’s 2020 Gauntlet, D.C.’s War Against Trump

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Steve Bannon, former White House senior strategist to President Trump and Chairman of the 2016 Trump for President campaign was on my radio show on Monday, March 18.

Now Chairman of a C-4, Citizens for the American Republic, Bannon has been in the forefront of a campaign to raise private funds for building a wall on private property along the southern border:@AmericansCR

The full interview is here.

Below are the highlights of Bannon’s take on Trump, the GOP and 2020.

New Zealand Massacre 

People should read [the killer’s] manifesto. When you read his manifesto, you realize right away he’s a very unstable guy. He’s got tons of fantasy in there. He also calls himself an echo-fascist and he relates to the country that he likes politics most: the Chinese Communist Party, in China.

I think one of the reasons you can’t get your hands on this manifesto is because I think once you read the manifesto, you can only find one very short passing reference to Donald Trump…

Then he pivots and says he doesn’t agree with any of Trump’s policies, doesn’t agree with any of Trump’s politics. But he calls himself an eco-fascist, and then relates to the country he thinks has the best governance: the Chinese Communist Party in China.

Once again before the dust even settles they’re [legacy media] just all over Trump.

DEM DUMP

The Democrats play identity politics. I said this in the ’16 campaign.

President Trump just has to keep focused on the basic promises he made to the American people about the wall, about bringing manufacturing jobs back from China, about getting out of these endless foreign wars, and continuing with the deconstruction of the administrative state.

Get the judges in there, just keep doing what he’s doing. Keep building a strong economy of which working class, middle-class people participate in. And let them [Dems] deal with the identity politics and we’ll see how this turns out. All he’s got to do is just focus on what’s most practical.

THE GAUNTLET

The next five or six months is going to be what I call the gauntlet…

Elections have consequences, and we have to embrace something we lost, and I think we lost pretty badly the house races in ’18. If you gross up the vote, it was 52-46.

But we are where we are, and you have to live with those consequences. And the consequences are the Democrats, no matter what smiley face that Nancy Pelosi puts on it — he’s going to have to run a real gauntlet.

I think over the next five or six months of these horrific investigations by the House and the whole city is waiting for the Mueller report.

The Democrats are going to weaponize [the Mueller report] immediately, and you’re going to have a series of investigations. [House Judiciary Chairman] Nadler is going to go after the President personally to dig up dirt on him to make his 2020 reelection even more difficult.

I tell people it’s tough to really start thinking seriously through 2020 until you figure out how you’re going to get through this gauntlet.

That being said, President Trump just has to hunker down and realize that there are the establishment Republicans and even some people in his own Administration who are not pushing forward for his basic policies…

Trump’s now in this dog fight over the border wall and what’s stunning … We were doing a rally for the build the wall project last week in Michigan, and actually went to downtown Detroit and had 750 or 800 people show up on a Thursday night to talk about building a wall, which they’re going to donate $25, $50, more…

THE REBUKE 

On the same day, 12 Republican senators, half of whom, if he [Trump] had not endorsed them – he dragged them across the finish line just to have them vote against him.

And I think that rebuke, and that’s what it was — a rebuke–by Mitch McConnell and the establishment Republicans of the President on his signature issue has to be dealt with. This is an issue [the wall] that everybody knows he has to start to deliver on to actually win in 2020.

I think that where we stand today is that the President, once again is not only fighting the permanent political class in Washington DC, what we refer to as the swamp–that permanent political class of donors, lobbyists, and the political class–he is also fighting the establishment elements of his own party.

He’s taken on the opposition party,  the [legacy] media and he’s taken on a new energized Democratic Party, and their leader, AOC.

As much as we can mock her for not knowing a lot, she knows what is basically wrong.

She has energized young voters with her use of social media and other platforms and apparatus, and she has energized this base of the Democratic Party.

MOBILIZATION VS. PERSUASION 

Today, politics is about mobilization. It’s not about persuasion, it’s about mobilization. And they know how to vocalize it.

…Democrats win because they stick together…

This is probably the central issue besides China’s situation with manufacturing jobs. Probably the two most important issues of President Trump’s presidency and quite symbolic. And so, no, I don’t think [THE GANG OF 12] was a symbolic vote at all. I think this was a rebuke of the President. And I think it’s outrageous that he had to go and veto this…

Why don’t we have the wall today?

Because Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell never had the President’s back, and trying to fight this thing in the first two years when we had control of every branch of the government…

THE REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT RESISTANCE

That’s why it was the Republican establishment resistance. They have no interest. John, as you and I’ve talked many, many, many times between the Chamber of Commerce, and the donor class. They have no interest in controlling the border.

What they want is continued mass illegal immigration, to flood the zone with low skilled workers, to have higher margins on jobs that require low skill workers.

The same way that they’re trying to force more HB1 visas, and force more legal immigration, to put increasing pressure on tech workers. And we’re never going to sort the problems out in this country, in the inner cities with the African-American, Hispanic middle class, until we get full access to American citizens, every race, color, and creed to high technology and it jobs in Silicon Valley.

We’re not going to do that as you continue to press the legal immigration situation. That’s the brutal reality.

I went to Harvard business school, I worked at Goldman Sachs in the mergers and acquisitions department. I can do the math.

This is all about higher operating margins, and it’s to suppress wages. It’s quite simple what’s going on here. That is the struggle President Trump has had from day one. And to me it’s outrageous. All it does is feed the left. And it makes President Trump weaker.

THE FECKLESS GOP GANG OF 12

People should understand and these Republican Senators should understand: would Roy Blount be in the United States Senate today if Donald Trump hadn’t dragged him cross the finish line in the closing of 2016 campaign?

Would Roger Wicker even be a Senator in Mississippi, if President Trump had not endorsed him?

Would Chris McDaniel not have taken on Wicker and beaten him, if President Trump had backed McDaniel? He gave Wicker the endorsement. That’s why Wicker’s in the United States Senate.

Yet from Mississippi, he flips on him on this and I don’t think it’s just symbolic. I think it’s another thing, and President Trump gets beat up in the media and it sends a signal that you don’t need to have his back.

In the last couple of weeks, the President’s been rebuked on the Yemen situation, he’s now been rebuked on the wall. And trust me, people in Washington D.C. are watching very closely how the GOP Senate has the back of the President of the United States.

IMPEACHMENT 

And let’s be frank, the Democrats are focused on impeaching President Trump in the House of Representatives, which they control. And they’re going to look to weaponize the Mueller report. They’re going to look to Nadler’s judiciary committee.

He [Nadler] said he’s going to have a potential 56 other investigations…And so the Senate is looked at as the bulwark against any type of shenanigans against the President and this impeachment process.

 

I don’t think it bodes well when you start seeing the President losing votes in a Republican-controlled Senate. I think it sends an incredibly negative signal, and I think it emboldens the President’s enemies…”

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Fredericks: Hate President Trump? Here’s a TV Contract

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Fake Republicans and #NeverTrump-ers are now the hottest media show on Earth.

Starting in 2015, the legacy media created a new business model, a get rich quick scheme for all the phony Republicans who were swept away in President Trump’s America First movement.

Here’s how it works: Attack Donald Trump and draw new ratings and clicks after years of declining revenues. The New York Times perfected the model, as exposed by their terminated editor, Jill Abrahamson, in her new book, “Merchants of Truth.”

As they continue to advance this strategy, the mainstream media has now found new allies to give them the cover of legitimacy in their quest to destroy the President.

From CNN’s Jim Acosta to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, journalists and television presenters across the media landscape have discovered that relentlessly attacking Trump is a surefire way to gain more exposure, fame, and money in today’s #FakeNews media.

Acosta, for example, recently scored a deal for a new book titled: “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.” You’re kidding me right, Jim?

As one of the most prominent faces of the #FakeNews-ers, Acosta may be an enemy of the people, but he didn’t attain that status by telling the truth.

Like sharks smelling blood in the water, even lifelong Republicans have begun clamoring to get a piece of the action, carefully cultivating their anti-Trump credentials in hopes of securing a high-profile gig in the mainstream media as a reward.

The genesis for this get rich quick scheme really started in the White House press room, with anti-Trump reporters like Brian Karem of Playboy magazine and Urban Radio Network correspondent April Ryan getting lucrative CNN deals by shouting rude salvos at Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders during televised press conferences.

The White House pressers devolved from a sacred place for reporters to get information out to their respective audiences to a televised audition of “get-a-gig.”

Now former Arizona Republican senator Jeff Flake is cashing in after spending the last two years attacking his own party and helping the Democrats obstruct Trump’s agenda at every turn. This, of course, after realizing he couldn’t win a GOP re-nomination primary for another term.

Read the full report at https://www.newsadvance.com/opinion/community_viewpoint/fredericks-hate-president-trump-here-s-a-tv-contract/article_a53e867e-36eb-11e9-a0dd-03f920bcc5c1.html

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