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Developing now, Tuesday, July 24, 2018
President Trump considering revoking the security clearances
of six former, Obama-era, national security officials, and some critics
are accusing him of using the intel community to retaliate against
political foes
Satellite images reportedly suggest North Korea has begun
dismantling its main rocket launch site, a possible sign of
denuclearization
Voters in Georgia will go to the polls Tuesday to decide the GOP gubernatorial primary runoff election between Secretary of State Brian Kemp and Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle
A federal judge has agreed to delay the start of former Trump
campaign manager Paul Manafort's first trial, which could reveal
embarrassing information about several Democratic political consultants
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says he is considering running for president and will make his decision in early 2019
Today, Tuesday, July 24th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political
Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS
Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'Misspeaks v. Actions or Lack
Thereof'; Trump's Strength vs Obama's Weakness...C'est la vie'; and
important news of the day.
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor /
Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio
“In order to build a brighter
future, we cannot exclusively focus on the past – as the world’s
two largest nuclear powers, we must get along!”
- President Donald Trump, July 16, 2018
Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is
reaching a fevered pitch as even some Republicans have turned on
President Trump over a simple misspeak at the Helsinki Summit when
during their joint press conference President Trump said to Vladimir
Putin, "I will say this: I don't see any reason why it would
be,” in regards toRussia being the culprit in the now Mueller investigation
'supposedly' confirmed Russian election “meddling.”
“Would be” instead of
“wouldn't be”...a
Freudian slip or was it...forthere
is a vast difference between simple “meddling” and
“collusion” or affected an
election's results which Mueller's mouthpiece Rod Rosenstein clearly
stated there was none...zero...zilch.
Hear that Hillary and crew...there was no collusion regarding your
losing the 2016 election...case closed.
But
if this “would
be”
slip of the tongue had been said by Barack HUSSEIN Obama, the vitriol
leveled against President Trump from the Democrats, Rinos, and some
Republicans too, would surely have been downplayed by the media as a
simple “oops”...thus
quickly becoming but yesterday's news.
And
the Democrats vitriol started even before Trump's press conference
was over with the likes of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schummer
tweeting, “In
the entire history of our country, Americans have never seen a
president of the United States support an American adversary the way
@realDonaldTrump
has supported President Putin.”
Also chiming in was New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand who tweeted
that we just “witnessed
the President of the United States abdicate his national security
responsibilities as Commander-in-Chief.”
And former Obama C.I.A. Director John Brennan stated,
“Donald
Trump’s press conference performance in Helsinki rises to &
exceeds the threshold of 'high crimes & misdemeanors.' It was
nothing short of treasonous. Not only were Trump’s comments
imbecilic, he is wholly in the pocket of Putin. Republican Patriots:
Where are you???” I say we're here standing by President Trump.
And Florida Senator Marco Rubio tweeted that, “Foreign
policy must be based on reality, not hyperbole or wishful thinking.
And the reality is #Russia
is an adversary. Because #Putin
doesn’t believe in win/win scenarios & thinks only way to make
Russia stronger is to make U.S. weaker. Any approach not based on
this will fail,” know his
response actually has a ring
of truth to it regarding how Putin sees Russia's role on the world
stage. However, he missed the mark regarding both reality and
hyperbole for the reality is we do need to focus on garnering better
relations with Russia while at the same time correcting past
mistakes...or should I say deliberate actions...by the Democrats
themselves who are at the bottom of this entire Obama and Hillary
sorted mess.
"To begin with, let me be clear: America wants a strong,
peaceful, and prosperous Russia...” so said Barack Hussein
Obama at The New Economic School Graduation, in Moscow on July 7,
2009
And it is a mess courtesy of the "anointed one" and his
administration who spent almost an entire presidency turning a blind
eye to Russian aggression for it was Obama...aided by words like
those above...who allowed Putin to run free to not only invade
Ukraine but to ramp up the nightmare that is Syria.
Here are but a few of Obama's many Russian foreign policy
mistakes...mistakes more serious than Trump's slip of the
tongue...mistakes the Democrats in whose silence chose then and who
choose now to ignore...or worse...scream to defend.
And it started in 2009 when the Obama administration failed to
respond to Russian aggression in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Instead he charged then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with
repairing U.S./Russian relations...relations that had gone sour when
George W. Bush retaliated against Russia's 2008 invasion of Georgia.
Using the prop of a “reset button” to
represent a change in foreign policy with Moscow ended up
seeing egg on both hers and Obama's faces when translators
“accidentally”...or
so they claim...put
the Russian word for "overcharge" on said button
instead of “reset.” Thisresulting in a downward
spiral in relations between our two countries that lasted throughout
Obama's eight long years of concessions to Russia. In fact, at
a Hillary campaign rally in 2016, Billy-Boy himself admitted that the
Russian
“reset button” had
done little to secure better relations with Moscow saying that, "Our
attempt to do better" led
to
"estrangement." And dare we forget the Hillary orchestrated and Obama signed
fiasco...which would not have gone through without his
signature...the fiasco known as Uranium One where Hillary sold 20 percent of
critical U.S. uranium stocks to Russia...“aiding and abetting”
those who were our enemy. Also not to be forgotten is the critical 2008
negotiations between the Bush administration and our allies in the
Czech Republic and Poland who wanted a U.S. missile defense system in
their countries, and how Russia fought this tooth and nail as the
system would sit basically on their border. And Russia's objections
saw now President Obama acquiescing by his overhauling our missile defense
plans...plans that had him removing
the single field of ten ground-based interceptors in Poland and the
field European radar that was to be located in the Czech
Republic...thus severely impacting our and our allies
defense capabilities.
Talk about bowing down to the enemy at the expense and safety of
not only America's allies but of America herself.
And here is a special little something not to be forgotten... something Obama
would so like us to forget...his 2012 “open mic” moment
when at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea he, the
very man who campaigned in 2008 on the above stated missile defense
issue, told then Russian President Sergi Medvedev, “On all these
issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved,
but it’s important for him to give me space.” “Yeah, I
understand,” replied Medvedev who continued on by saying, “I
understand your message about space. Space for you...” And
here is whereObama broke in spewing the now and
forever infamous line, “This is my last election...after my
election I have more flexibility.” “I understand. I will transmit
this information to Vladimir,” was
Medvedv's response.
Now that is truly the definition of treason and should have seen
Obama being impeached for he was saying outright that he'd do
Russia's bidding if reelected. A simple misspeak it surely was
not...a selling out of our country it most definitely was.
And the Democrats response to Obama's “open mic”
moment...then Vice President Joe Biden, in a CBS 'Face the Nation'
interview, defended Obama by saying he was only stating "the
obvious" adding that, "The idea that in this
election year we're going to be able to deal with an agreement with
the Russians on further reducing our nuclear arsenals...is
difficult." And why pray tell would
it have been so difficult when it just would have required doing the right
thing...as in working out a compromise between both sides...something
Obama and the Democrats never were willing to do let alone even consider.
And then-leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee,
Maryland Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, said Obama's what he called a
“private conversation” was nothing to be alarmed about.
Saying that, "Politics, a lot of things happen in politics.
People are trying to get elected...I'm not going to make a judgment
(on) what he said. I have confidence in the president and that he is
going to do the right thing to protect our country 100%"...what
Ruppersberger failed to understand ishow
could Obama protect the U.S. homeland when he relished
in going on worldwind apology tours to defame our military, tell the
enemy when we would pull out of the theaters of war, and who drew
many “red
lines”
in the sand but never acted upon any of them. But dare President
Trump say the word “would”
instead of “wouldn't”
and according to Democrats, their media flunkies, and some on
the right, it's off with his head.
Now remember back to
2014 when Obama stated thatwhile
Putin's annexation of Crimea would be difficult to
reverse he at the same time publicly dismissed the notion that
Russia's being a “regional power” in any way posed a
security threat to the U.S. But he did slap even more useless
sanctions on Russia even though by September of that year relations
with Russia were at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War.
And while Obama derided Mitt Romney when he warned him this would
happen during the 2008 presidential debates, Obama countered with
“this is not the Cold War” when actually it was and stayed so
until Donald J. Trump became president.
And then there's Obama's
ignoring Russia's violations of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear
Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) while at the same time negotiating the NEW START Treaty
(the treaty to further reduce limitations of strategic offensive
arms). And in the years Obama spent ignoring this and other Russia's violations led
directly to Russian empowerment and in turn to our ceding ground in
Syria to Russian military intervention, with Putin never really being
called to task.
But
even with all this being a harbinger of things to come, remember back
to June 2010 when on Obama's watch eleven illegal “immigrant”
Russians, who turned out to be spies, were caught operating without
diplomatic cover and were arrested. And Obama's and his
administration's response was notably “restrained”
even though said Russians were being accused of using both fake
names and claims of U.S. citizenship to embed themselves into U.S.
society in an attempt to garner and secure intelligence information.
And when the White House was asked if there would be any diplomatic
consequences due to said spying, a reply was issued by a Department
of State official to the effect that, "I'm
not projecting any diplomatic consequences other than the good will
that we hope will be there going forward."
Ignoring
blatant collusion via turning the other cheek was okay for Obama but
President Trump now committing a simple misspeak is for some paramount to
treason of the first degree.
And
all these things cited...and know there are more too numerous to
mention in one article...happened solely on Obama's watch not Trump's
including the fact that back in November 2014, Russian hackers hacked into
the State Department's unclassified computer system. According to a
Washington Post article dated April 3, 2017, "Over
a 24-hour period, top U.S. cyber defenders engaged in a pitched
battle with Russian hackers who had breached the unclassified State
Department computer system and displayed an unprecedented level of
aggression that experts warn is likely to be turned against the
private sector. Whenever National Security Agency hackers cut the
attackers' link between their command and control server and the
malware in the U.S. system, the Russians set up a new one," current
and former U.S. officials said. The new details about the November
2014 incident emerged recently in the wake of a senior NSA official's
warning that the heightened aggression has security implications for
firms and organizations "unable to fight back."
Translation:
Obama knew back in 2014 that Russian hackers were into U.S.
government computers and his response was, like always, to sit back
and do not a thing of substance thus making it seem as if he was on
Putin's payroll. And this inaction...never mind his expelling 35
Russian diplomats and closing two Russian compounds... actions so not
serious enough for the crimes committed... leads us directly back to
both the brouhaha regarding Russia's “meddling”
in
the 2016 presidential election and Trump's Helsinki Summit with
Vladimir Putin...a summit the Democrats and certain Republican folks
have taken out of context by focusing on one misspeak alone.
Ignoring
the summit's positives, these sorry sorts see Trump's misspeak as the
most appalling public display of capitulation ever by a U.S.
president. But I beg to differ for capitulation is not a simple
misspeak but is Obama's a fore mentioned “open
mic”
moment. The man who relished in his “coziness”
with the likes of the Castro brothers and the mullah's of Iran is
hailed as a hero by the left while Trump is called a traitor for
“appearing
to side”
with Putin against Director of National Intelligence, Daniel Coats.
In his referring to Putin’s “strong
and powerful denial” of
election “meddling,”
those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome reached such a crescendo of hate that President Trump was forced to hold a press conference the
very next day where he admitted his misspeak and reiterated that he
had "full faith" in U.S.
intelligence agencies.
Reading from a prepared statement President Trump said, "I've
said this many times...I accept our intelligence community's
conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place.
Could be other people also. There's a lot of people out there."
And while these words did not
appease the left they did temper down a bit the vitriol emanating
from our side. But if truth be told Trump got it right the first time
because there is a huge difference between “meddling”
and influencing or even dictating the results of an election.
All countries “meddle”
or worse in the affairs of both their allies and adversaries...we do
it and have done it for years with a good example being Obama's
unabashed interfering in the reelection bid of Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. Done deliberately to sway the election against Netanyahu,
Obama's interferencewent
way beyond what is considered simple “meddling” into
all out collusion to bring Netanyahu down.
Did the Democrats melt
down over this or even call Obama to task...of course not for
Democrats love to pick and choose who will or will not be the target
of their disdain. Their worship of Obama allowed him to do as he
pleased while knowing there would be no ramifications forthcoming,
but the Democrats all-encompassing hatred of Donald Trump affords him
the proverbial bullseye being placed upon his chest in all he says
and does.
And now after the latest F.B.I.
fiasco courtesy of James Comney and crew, and with our 17 national
intelligence agencies (most especially the C.I.A.) being charged with
collecting, analyzing, evaluating, and disseminating foreign intelligence to help assist the President and other senior policymakers in making decisions directly relating to national security...and while most times they do their jobs
well...do the words 9/11, Benghazi, Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile
Crisis, Iranian Revolution, WMDs, and Arab Spring ring a bell. This
is why, I believe, Trump got it right the first time for no agency is infallible, no agency is above reproach, and no agency should be
totally trusted to do the right thing at all times.
And with his knowing that Obama's
and Hillary's hands reek of collusion, I wouldn't put it past the DNC
to have paid the twelve Russians to do what they did or even given
them the “key” to
unfettered access to their unsecured computers in an attempt to frame
Trump in case the election was lost...which would herald in their
back-up campaign of now President Trump must go at all costs.
President Trump did not misspeak
in Helsinki and shame on those who forced him to say words even they
know to be untrue for the Democrats know well that the guilt lies with them...and
now it's our job to prove it.
Copyright @ 2018 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS
partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest
article Trump's Strength vs Obama's Weakness...C'est la vie
Today, Tuesday, July 24th from 7 to 9pm EST on American Political
Radio, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS
Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'Misspeaks v. Actions or Lack Thereof'; Trump's Strength vs Obama's Weakness...C'est la vie'; and
important news of the day.
