Op-ed:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...Media Wise
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

What a week last week was...economically, domestically, and internationally.

First, on the economic front Americans bore witness to two bits of good news much to the chagrin of the Democrats who had hoped to see the economy at least wobble a bit for how dare President Trump's economic policies be working especially as we head into the what will surely be a contentious 2020 election cycle.

“This was a good jobs report overall.” So said Gregory Daco, chief economist of Oxford Economics USA.

Read entire article and see video here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2019/08/op-ed-good-bad-and-ugly.html

Op-ed:
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly...Media Wise
By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

What a week last week was...economically, domestically, and internationally.

First, on the economic front Americans bore witness to two bits of good news much to the chagrin of the Democrats who had hoped to see the economy at least wobble a bit for how dare President Trump's economic policies be working especially as we head into the what will surely be a contentious 2020 election cycle.

“This was a good jobs report overall.” So said Gregory Daco, chief economist of Oxford Economics USA.

“A good report” indeed is the first bit of economic good news, and it came in the form of July's jobs numbers...numbers which showed that jobs were still being created across the board. In fact, 164,000 jobs were created last month with the unemployment rate holding steady at 3.7 percent. Even the numbers for part-timers who'd prefer to work full-time coupled with those too discouraged to even look for a job dropped to 7 percent, the lowest rate since 2000. Now add in that the average hourly earnings rose by 0.3 percent, and that the “year-over-year” gain to date was 3.2 percent which helps to show via simple math...not Common Core math...that as long as employers create roughly 100,000 jobs each month, the labor market can keep pace with population growth, meaning the jobless rate will hold steady.

And this is all courtesy of President Trump's proven to be successful economic policies which included his rightfully heralded tax cuts. And then there's the fact that common sense dictates that first, if the economy was weakening as some on the left are trying to claim, then obviously the unemployment rate would be going up, not holding steady or going down. And second, records show that the number of new applicants applying for unemployment insurance has stayed consistently low since said tax cuts.

How unhappy the Democrats must be with Trump's economic successes...most especially his job creation numbers...numbers which will surely be a key component of his re-election campaign strategy. And those jobs numbers will resonate well with mainstream America as they go up against the Democrats call for always failing socialistic-style economic reform... one has to laugh at the absurdity of it all.

Now add in the second economic bit of “good news”...”good news” which saw the The Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by a quarter-point, their first such cut in more than a decade. And they did so even while our economy is running strong (thanks again to President Trump), unemployment numbers are nearing an all time low (ditto above), and with consumers continuing to spend in numbers not seen in quite a long time.

But why did the Feds cut these rates...simply to maintain both utmost employment numbers and a stable inflation rate while at the same time giving the already successful Trump economy a little "extra boost" if you will. So while a little inflation is always welcomed...it affords a means by which to help keep consumer prices from falling during times of slow economic growth...outright deflation on the other hand is another matter completely as it forces most consumers to hold onto their cash knowing well that goods and services will soon see their prices being cut. But know the rate the feds reduced is the “federal funds rate”...which is the interest rate banks and other financial institutions charge one another for very short-term borrowing...and not mortgage, auto, or credit card interest rates.

So how then does this rate cut affect we consumers...simply if this rate cut holds steady or if it drops even lower...which rumor has it dropping even more come this fall...said rate lowering will eventually “trickle down” to consumer mortgage, auto, and credit card interest rates. But what is most important about this rate cut is that it will help head off a major recession thus keeping the economy strong, prevent job layoffs, as well as other economic damage that could hurt both the American worker and the American consumer.

And an added bonus is that this rate cut will indirectly help to temper down both of the Democrats false accusations that America's economy is weakening, and that Trump's placing even more tariffs on China is hurting America's economy. Remember, tariffs do work especially in regards to China for without trade with the U.S., China's economy could well collapse. And no matter all the “trade war” rhetoric now ongoing know that China will indeed fall in line when Trump is re-elected come 2020...they cannot afford not to.

And on the domestic front, last week we saw President Trump being called a racist by the ever vile Rep. Elijah Cummings and his fellow liberal Democrat ilk. And why... because Trump dared to say that Cummings' 7th district in Baltimore is “a disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess.” You can read and see videos to that affect in my recent article, Since When Did Rats Become A Race?.

So while not caring that neither rats, buildings, trash nor garbage are a race, suddenly and oh so miraculously they became a race because a “fat cat” politician deemed them to be so. And simply by his saying those words President Trump was labeled a racist no matter his words being the truth about a district that truly does look like a “Third World” country... labeled a racist because the district in question is represented in Congress by an angry, totally useless, racist himself black man named Elijah Cummings.

And know that Cummings does meet the definition of being a “fat cat” politician and his race has absolutely nothing to do with it for while he resides in a $1.27 million dollar mansion his constituents are left to wallow in poverty and filth, while living in a crime and “drug infested area.” And you can see and hear Elijah Cummings saying just that in the video below.



So while being chastised by the Democrats and their media cohorts for over a week, President Trump had every right to fight back and fight back he did. In fact, just this past Friday, Trump tweeted about a past burglary of the congressman’s home...a burglary that occurred the Saturday before his anything but racist comments about crime ridden Baltimore were made. And it's this taken out of context tweet that probably has allowed the “Trump's a racist” brouhaha to keep going. Saying of the break-in that it's, “Really bad news!” then adding “Too bad!”...Trump has once again been forced to defend himself against still ongoing racist accusations. Now saying, “The tweet itself was just really a repeat of what I heard on the news”...which it was...Trump added, “I know his house was robbed and I thought that was too bad.”

And while Trump did begin tweeting within several hours after said burglary took place...a mere coincidence by the way...all Trump did was speak the truth about Baltimore being a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and a “very dangerous & filthy place,” and for that he's being labeled a racist. But one must remember that many times truth does hurt, especially when the one calling Trump a racist is an avowed Trump-hater himself. In fact, not only does Elijah Cummings chair the House Oversight Committee, one of several congressional committees still investigating President Trump and his administration, Cummings is also one of the more vocal demanders that President Trump be impeached.

And this leaves me to wonder if last Friday's taken out of context tweet now in the forefront of the news is but another maliciously crafted Democrat ploy to help set the stage for an impeachment motion soon being made on the House floor. After all, the timing of this latest tweet fallout is a bit too close for comfort, especially since the Mueller testimony basically went nowhere.

So now we're left with last week's big news on the international front, and it was news that had some quite concerned if not outright petrified, but seriously they shouldn't be as what they're upset about is nothing but more tit-for-tat game playing...as in playing war when no major war is on the horizon or at least we hope not.

So what is it that is upsetting the arms-control folks...how about that we have now formally withdrawn from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)...a nuclear treaty with Russia...a treaty signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev back in 1987...a treaty that banned all nuclear and non-nuclear missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 km (310-3,400 miles)...short and mid-range missiles in simple-speak...while still allowing sea-launched missiles. Kind of counter productive if you ask me.

“An invaluable brake on nuclear war" has been lost or so says U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres, while simple common sense dictates I really don't think so.

And why...because while some claim that the treaty's breaking raises fears of a possible renewal of the arms race between the U.S. and Russia, the fact is that Russia had already withdrawn from this treaty back in February after both we and NATO accused them of violating said treaty by deploying a new type of cruise missile along western Europe's borders...9M729 missiles to be exact...missiles known to NATO as SSC-8 missiles... something Moscow continues to deny.

And while Russia's foreign ministry confirmed the INF treaty to be "formally dead," and did so in a statement issued by the state-run Ria Novosti news agency, know that earlier this year President Trump set an August 2nd deadline for the U.S. to withdraw if Russia did not come into compliance...which they did not...and we also know that President Trump keeps his promises...which he so rightfully now did.

And while NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the transatlantic alliance would "respond in a measured and responsible way to the significant risks posed by the Russian 9M729 missile to allied security" as well as reiterating that NATO "does not want a new arms race," Stoltenberg also said that there were no plans for NATO to deploy land-based nuclear missiles of its own in Europe even though Russian missiles were nuclear-capable and could reach European cities within minutes

So, if no defensive measures are to be taken against Russia maybe there's no tangible need to raise such a ruckus.

And simple logic and common sense should again dictate both the obvious question and its corresponding obvious answer...as in why would Russia want to “nuke Europe” as Europe is a much needed and depended upon trading partner. That leaves logic itself to answer that it would obviously not serve them well to do so. And then there's the fact that if Russia did dare to “nuke Europe” they do know well that the United States as a member of NATO, would immediately strike back leading to what amounts to Armageddon and over what...it simply makes no sense.

Whom NATO, Russia, and the U.S. should all be worried about is Iran sending a nuke into Europe...that's a much more likely possibility than Russia ever doing so.

And while some fear that the collapse of the INF agreement could up the arms race to include China as well, known that such an arms race actually never stopped for new weapons are continually being developed in secret by all sides with deployment also being readied. To think otherwise...to think that a piece of signed paper could actually stop the ever dangerous ongoing game of war...is foolhardy indeed...and the traitorous Iranian nuclear deal of Obama's is proof positive of just that.

Just one nuclear weapon set off by anyone could trigger an escalation which in turn could signal the possible end of us all, but not being in possession of such weapons is just as dangerous as possessing them. Maybe now the world's leaders need to think about the critical “balance of power” before putting too much stock in the collapse of but one treaty.

So there you have some of last week's major news stories...“the good, the bad, and the ugly” as the saying goes. But know that the closer we get to 2020, good news will get reported on by the media even less; bad news will become a media mainstay; and downright ugly news will dominate the 24/7 news cycle...the Democrats and their media cohorts wouldn't have it any other way.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed:
Since When Did Rats Become A Race?
By: Diane Sori / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

“Rep, Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous. His district is considered the worst in the USA.” - President Donald Trump regarding Baltimore's 7th district

For almost 26 years...he's in his13th term in office...he's represented a large area of predominately black Baltimore...he being Rep. Elijah Cummings...and his district is considered to be both one of the worst run and one of the most dangerous anywhere in these United States. And for for almost 26 years this area has remained as it always was...a welfare driven slum engulfed in both hopelessness and shame...a district where rats outnumber people and where the homeless, needles, feces, and the stench of despair are but the norm. “A disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” said President Trump with some of Baltimore's former mayors sadly having to agree.

In fact, late last September disgraced, forced to resign over a corruption scandal concerning sales of her children’s books, former Mayor Catherine Pugh along with some key city leaders were video taped while touring a rundown Baltimore neighborhood and you can hear her saying, “What the hell? We should just take all this [expletive] down,” and then adding, “Whoa, you can smell the rats...Whew, Jesus...Oh, my God, you can smell the dead animals.”

 

And that same smell and that same decay remains to this day for Cummings' district is actually in worse shape now than it was when he first took office. In fact, nothing has changed in Baltimore as a whole even though large sums of money had been thrown Baltimore's way...including a whopping $1.8 billion by Barack HUSSEIN Obama under his “American Recovery and Investment Act”...$1.8 billion derived from his 2009 stimulus, which including $26.5 million to address crime prevention, $26 million to revamp abandoned properties, and $9.5 million to address homelessness.

But those monies were squandered away to keep the “fat cat” politicians happy while the residents continued to wallow in self pity with their hands out...slums are big business you know with their constituents being nothing but bought and paid for “chump change”... “chump change” that continues to vote the “head rat” in.

And speaking of another “head rat”...now entering center stage is the anything but Reverend Al Sharpton who has been if not a friend of President Trump at least a close acquaintance of President Trump, and has been for over 30 years. And isn't it odd that in all those years he has never once called Trump a racist or even alluded to Trump being a racist for racial pot stirrer Al Sharpton knows well that President Trump is not now nor has ever been a racist. But dare our president criticize and call a black Democrat politician to task over a job promised but not done, Trump in Sharpton's eyes has now suddenly morphed into being a racist.

But why in truth has Trump been deemed a racist by Sharpton and his ilk...simply because the vast majority of those living in West Baltimore are black Democrats, their congressman is a black Democrat, their mayor is a black Democrat, and too many black Democrats egged on by their white liberal supporters relish in using their black skin color as the sole means of defining who they are...thus having proven once again that for some one's skin color trumps logic, common sense, and reality...proving once again that racism is truly a double edged sword especially when it helps Democrats to garner votes.

How Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. must be turning over in his grave.

But the truth is that President Trump is right...Elijah Cummings' district is not only “rat and rodent infested,” but it is truly what amounts to a garbage dump in every literal sense of those words. But the key question that no one in either party wants to address...and probably out of fear of their being labeled a racist...is why aren't the residents themselves getting out there and at least helping to clean up their own mess...and know it is a mess of their own doing. And their skin color has not a damn thing to do with it as filth, dirt, and slovenliness do indeed cross all color lines. Such self-help, clean-up initiatives have been taken in other cities, in other neighborhoods, and to great success, but not in Baltimore... again why?

The answer to that question can be seen in Baltimore's two-faces. Face one sadly sees past Baltimore mayors relishing in having sued the Trump administration in a case over funding for sex education...which is a total waste of federal monies if you ask me...paid for lawyers to aid those caught in (gasp) ICE roundups of "illegals," and finalized a civil rights decree over (alleged) abuses by Baltimore police that the DOJ supposedly wanted to look away to. Face two on the other hand sees Baltimore wanting to garner benefits for the city from the “Opportunity Zone” tax breaks...takes breaks designed to spur economic development by providing tax benefits to investors...tax breaks backed by the Trump administration.

But the thing is, what savvy investor wants to invest their monies in a city that continues on a downward spiral; a city whose slum areas sadly seem to define the city itself; a city now ranked number one as our country's most dangerous and crime ridden city; and a city whose residents as well as its political leaders wanting to take no responsibility for what basically is Baltimore's economic and social collapse. It's one thing for an investor to move in, demolish, and gut entire neighborhoods, but that only leaves said neighborhoods residents to move to other neighborhoods while taking along both their ghetto mentality of “who cares...you owe me,” plus their dragging their acquired filth and habits along with them. And no “Visit Baltimore” advertising campaign will change that...painting lipstick on a pig never works as so many recent events have shown to be true.

"The fact of that matter is that America is the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. But anyone who took the walk that we took around this neighborhood would not think you're in a wealthy nation. You would think that you were in a Third World country." So said Democrat-Socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders back in 2015 after touring Baltimore's 7th district.

And even though last week Baltimore's new Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young called for, begged for, President Trump to help his city, there are ways to truly ask for help and ways to make a bad situation even worse, which is exactly what Mayor Young did. Saying, “If you want to help us, help us. Don’t talk about it. Send the resources that we need to rebuild America. He’s talking about he wants to ‘Make America Great Again’? Put the money in the cities that need it the most,” these words and the tone in which they were said sound more like fighting words than they do an honest cry for help, and anyway sometimes cities need to help themselves after squandering away what was billions of dollars in aid.

And these very politicians...Democrats all...need to stop pointing a finger at Trump for he is echoing what their very own Barack HUSSEIN Obama said back in 2015.

“Our great African American President hasn’t exactly had a positive impact on the thugs who are so happily and openly destroying Baltimore!” So said Donald J. Trump on April 28, 2015 after Obama went on television to speak about the then recent Baltimore riots and Baltimore's inner city communities...communities he said are “struggling with abject poverty, no investment, and drugs.” Blaming the riots on the lack of opportunity, high rates of crime, substandard education, and drug abuse, Obama stated that “if you have impoverished communities that have been stripped away of opportunities, where children are born into abject poverty, they’ve got parents — often because of substance abuse problems, or incarceration, or lack of education themselves — can’t do right by their kids.”

And Obama's saying then what Trump is essentially saying now translates into the fact that nothing has changed to in Baltimore no matter all the promises of help the likes of Elijah Cummings and others have made. Nothing has changed except for the fact that Baltimore had an unemployment rate of seven percent when Obama left office in January 2017, and that it has dropped nearly two percent since Trump took office, and was 5.1 percent as of May 2019...just saying.

But Baltimore's leaders sure knew how to squander away the $1.8 billion in aid Obama sent Baltimore via useless programs that basically went nowhere, which means in no uncertain terms that President Trump inherited this mess courtesy of Obama with the uselessness of Elijah Cummings thrown in for good or should I say bad measure. The man who has gotten rich off the misery of his constituents has had decades to try and remedy the situation...he even had a supposed black president on his side...and yet he has done nothing at all to help those he represents, but still gets elected in a predominately black district by predominately black voters. And last time I checked rats and rodents are not racially classified nor do they vote...or do they.

And even if one let's the past be the past...as in let sleeping dogs lie...tell me what has Elijah Cummings done of late to help those in his district? Let's see, he introduced the bill to replace Thomas Jefferson and put Harriet Tubman on the twenty dollar bill...he introduced legislation to eradicate lead poisoning in Opportunity Zones alone...he recently announced a $125 million federal investment in the Howard Street Tunnel...but please tell me how any of that helps the his Congressional district or those living in it. None of it does and yet he's seen by some of those suffering to be a savior...just because he's black like they are.

Seen by some but thankfully not by all.

Recently, Chief Content Creator, Benny Johnson of “Turning Point USA,” took a crew and visited Cummings' 7th district...a district he described as a “foreign war zone,” with trash everywhere and with filth and garbage piled up high along streets of decrepit “crumbling to pieces homes.” Saying that “every person I spoke with confirmed that the district was rat infested,” Johnson also went on to say that folks told him that a “plague of rats” the “size of cats” have “taken over” the neighborhood. He also spoke about a resident showing him a flyer from the city of Baltimore asking residents to pick up trash to keep rats away. Trying to help...maybe...but the timing of the flyer is quite suspicious as it came out right “after” Trump's tweet about the rats and rodent infestation.

The infestation cover-up or at least the deflection game has begun.

Also as per Benny Johnson, “constituents” told him that murders, shootings, and drugs run rampant, and that many were scared and do not go outside after dark...and that's in addition to their feeling abandoned by their politicians.

And yet these same folks...folks who truly seem to want help...will continue to vote these same politicians in time and time again simply because their shared skin color guides them towards which party's lever to pull. And the Democrats who were outraged over Trump's remarks... even though they’re totally true...will continue blathering on while making promises to folks to needy to understand that they simply are being used.

“What he said was definitely true. [Cummings] hasn’t done anything for us....If he would take the time out to come over here and see how things are maybe he’d be better at his job.” So said 7th district resident 'Michelle' to Baltimore County Republican Central Committee member Kimberly Klacik.

So until the reality of who the “bad guys” really are sets in, Baltimore's 7th district will continue to wallow in filth, crime, and hopelessness while Elijah Cummings spews lie after lie about the supposedly horrific job being done by our Border Patrol and about terrible conditions at our southern border detention centers...none of which is true. And Cummings will continue to do so as his constituents sink deeper into poverty while he basks in his $175+ thousand dollar a year salary with a Cheshire Cat grin on his face as the rats and rodents scurry on by him and head towards their 7th district home.

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Op-ed: 

A Witch Hunt by Any Other Name is Still a Witch Hunt 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots

"I see no evidence or no data to support the notion that General Flynn complied with the law."     

- House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz   

                                                                                 

And so it sadly seems that one of our own, as in House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), and one of theirs, as in Democratic Ranking Committee Member Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), both believe that President Trump's former National Security Advisor retired Lt. General Michael Flynn might have broken federal law after failing to disclose on his background security check forms both his most recent trip to Russia and payments from Russia, as well as payments from a Turkish businessman.

Apparently it means not a thing to either man that Flynn's attorney, Robert Kelner, said in regards to the Russia trip that Flynn did indeed report his plans to travel to Russia, including his dining with Vladimir Putin, to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)...the very agency Flynn headed until 2014 when he was forced to retire from the military by Obama...and that he had most certainly briefed officials at the agency after his return.

And Kelner saying that during his briefings that Flynn "answered any questions that were posed by DIA concerning the trip," is in addition to DIA spokesman Jim Kudla saying that General Flynn most assuredly did brief the agency in advance about his trip to Russia and did so "in accordance with all standard security clearance procedures." In fact, a personal spokesman for the general has said that Flynn also disclosed the Russian trip in question when he last came up for a security clearance review in January 2016.

And yet even with all this Chairman Chaffetz continues to say that General Flynn could be criminally prosecuted because, "He (General Flynn) was supposed to seek permission and receive permission from both the secretary of state and the secretary of the Army prior to traveling to Russia to not only accept that payment, but to engage in that activity...No former military officer is allowed to accept payments from a foreign government, and my guess is this is probably not the first time this has happened.”

Guess Jason Chaffetz and Elijah Cummings, for whatever reason, have willingly...and possibly with malice...turned a deaf ear to the words of Flynn’s lawyer, an official DIA spokesman, and others. And what makes this especially grievous is Chaffetz’s saying that this is “not the first time this has happened”...a harsh accusation with absolutely no proof to back those words up...words I believe Chairman Chaffetz should not have said...words that down the line could see Jason Chaffetz having to answer for.

And the specific words “He was supposed to”...nothing but supposition at best although as a retired military officer now a private citizen thanks to Obama’s firing, I really do not understand why private citizen Michael Flynn needed anyone’s permission to travel anywhere...even to Russia. 

And exactly what Russian payments did said private citizen Michael Flynn fail to disclose...apparently all this brouhaha is, first, about his receiving about $33,000 back in 2015 from the ‘Russia Today’ television network...a network which has been described by U.S. intelligence officials...as in James Comey and his not quite trustworthy people...as a propaganda front for Russia's government...something also that has never been proven. 

"That money needs to be recovered," so says Jason Chaffetz, but seriously I want to know why money earned has to returned and returned to who...Russia... really...I think not.

And second, coming into question is somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 Flynn received as part of his personal take-home in the $530,000 that his company, Flynn Intel Group, garnered for consulting work done for Inovo BV, a company owned by a Turkish businessman who also happens to be a member of a committee overseen by Turkey's finance ministry. 

So let me get this straight...now it seems that according to 'certain' political folks other 'certain' political folks cannot garner monies from the businesses they own or from the services they rendered without it coming into question. Something sure stinks here especially when it is the likes of Elijah Cummings who says that General Flynn's failure to formally report this on paperwork requesting his security clearance amounted to concealment of the money, which could, in his opinion, be prosecuted as a felony. Now just look who’s calling the kettle black...the very man who not only relishes in and is the poster boy for what is known as ‘black privilege,' but who in 2014 saw then House Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa releasing a report implicating him in colluding with the IRS and Lois Lerner against the nonpartisan voters rights group ‘True the Vote.’

Elijah Cummings should be the last person to ever be appointed to a committee that decides whether or not to bring charges against anyone.

And as the infamous tit-for-tat political game continues to be played between the two parties, all the executive alphabet agencies and their ‘so-called’ watchdogs, inspector general overseers, and the different oversight committees in Congress, it seems that failure to disclose is a crime of the first degree for some but not for others, and it all depends on whose side you came down on in the 2016 presidential election. Or to put it bluntly and in perspective, the unrighteous indignation over this relatively small dollars and cents amount not having been disclosed by General Flynn is now first and foremost to some yet the major infractions committed by some of those on the left still go unpunished and worse...they are hushed up with help from the media so that in the public venue they are simply made to ‘go away.’

But what will not go away is the fact that Chaffetz and Cummings are still planning to write to the Comptroller of the Army and the Department of Defense’s Inspector General to determine whether retired, now private citizen, Lt. General Michael Flynn broke the law, and whether the government needs to pursue criminal charges simply because he did not disclose these two payments. Personally, I am not sure Flynn actually broke any law at least not to the degree this committee is trying to claim he did. And these accusations are being lobbed at the same time as Flynn’s company’s foreign contacts are being examined by other congressional committees as part of investigations into Russia’s still unproven meddling in the 2016 election, and still unproven ties between Trump associates and the Kremlin. 

And to see someone like Jason Chaffetz...an honorable man or at least I always thought so...taking part in this predominately Democratic witch hunt makes me wonder why he really has decided not to run again when up for re-election, and why one of own seems to have turned on the one man, Lt. General Michael Flynn, who actually understood then and continues to understand now exactly who the enemy we face is...as in the entirety of islam. 

And a witch hunt it is for where was the outrage and the bringing of charges against Hillary Clinton who then candidate Donald Trump said engaged in "criminality" for connections between Clinton Foundation donors and her actions as Secretary of State. And where was the outrage about said Foundation’s total lack of transparency and the fact that some donors, especially from foreign governments not really our friend, may have been trying to buy influence while she was Secretary of State...as in her dubious ‘pay-for-play’ scandal. Sadly, that too seems to have faded from public view no matter that some foreign leaders have freely admitted that they did indeed buy influence for their governments. 

Also, where is the indictment and jail time for Hillary’s involvement in and lies about Benghazi and the murders of four brave Americans. And let’s not forget her infamous email scandal...a scandal whose components surely broke federal laws...another scandal which came complete with outrage and some committees investigating, but which again in the end went nowhere.

And seriously, why was Hillary not indicted and found guilty...why was she not sent to jail...and why was she allowed to even run for president in the first place when a criminal investigation was in progress. The answer to those questions is simply because Hillary was a fellow liberal Democrat who towed Obama’s islamic party line, and one who would not raise the alarm about the true dangers from islam that we face.

Not quite like General Flynn now is it...a man whose rightful and very vocal stance against islam, I believe, was what signaled both his political death knell of sorts and his being the target of this current witch hunt.

And dare we not forget Eric Holder and ‘Fast and Furious,’ along with Loretta Lynch’s little tarmac meeting with a former president who gives new meaning to the word ‘predator’...again outrage and investigations that went nowhere as did the looking into the anything but Reverend Al Sharpton who still owes millions in back taxes and who also has not been arrested or served any jail time.

'Black privilege' coming into play again I suppose.

So where does all this lead us...it leads us to the fact that ‘selective enforcement’ is once again the order of the day as it is again being used against a man whose political views the Democrats do not like (especially since he is one of their own party affiliation wise), and now adding his voice to that is one of our own.

And herein lies the quandary...why is House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz doing what he is doing, and is it tied into his not running for re-election when his House seat next comes up? And could some of his reasoning, if you will, be tied into the fact that he, like General McMaster, is either being mislead about the enemy we face or is it that he truly buys into the propaganda of his religious beliefs for lest we forget that Jason Chaffetz is a practicing Mormon. 

Let me explain and offer these suppositions for you, dear reader, to decide upon.

First, here is the breakdown of who stands where on President Trump’s controversial executive order regarding those coming into our country from now six muslim countries:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/29/heres-where-republicans-stand-on-president-trumps-controversial-travel-ban/

Notice that while Chairman Chaffetz supports President Trump’s keeping his campaign promises, he concludes his statement with these words, “... People that have a green card supposedly already have been vetted, so there needs to be some further clarification.” But what Jason Chaffetz forgets is that people can change and muslims simply cannot be trusted...remember taqiyya...so a past vetting might not expose their current views on let us say terrorism and jihad, let alone on the sharia.

So, is Chairman Jason Chaffetz going ‘soft’ on islam like General McMaster...a man who still separates the sum of the terrorists from the whole...I do not know... but I do know that when one is dedicated to their religion they tend to hold said religion’s core beliefs. And where do Mormons stand on islam...this is the statement the Mormon hierarchy issued after President Trump’s first attempt at a temporary ban, “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is concerned about the temporal and spiritual welfare of all of God's children across the earth, with special concern for those who are fleeing physical violence, war and religious persecution. The Church urges all people and governments to cooperate fully in seeking the best solutions to meet human needs and relieve suffering.”

Sounds like kumbaya left dribble now doesn’t it.

Here is the Mormon stance on islam in general, as written by Mormon scholars Brian M. Hauglid and Kent P. Jackson, in their book ‘What Every Latter-day Saint Should Know about Islam,’ in Religious Educator 4, no. 2 (2003): 9–23.

“We can learn much from our Muslim brothers and sisters. Islam has created a society in which modesty  is valued, in which divorce and premarital and extramarital sexual relations are much less common than in our culture, and in which the strength of immediate and extended families can be an example even to Latter-day Saints. Muslims develop strong communities with interactive neighborhoods of people who care for each other and watch out for the interests of both neighbors and strangers. Their culture teaches the virtues of generosity and hospitality.” 

What I want to know is this utter nonsense what Jason Chaffetz believes down deep... is this what is driving his stance against the one man who actually ‘got it’ in regards to islam being our enemy or can it be that he wants to make an example of Flynn to show that we will call out our own if need be...and in the case of Lt. General Michael Flynn I do not think it needs to be because if he was still National Security Advisor I do not believe we would be in the situation we find ourselves in today.

But maybe we would...who knows...but all I do know for sure is that a true patriot is now the subject of a witch hunt and that one of our own is helping to lead the charge, and that truly does not sit well with me...how dear reader does it sit with you? 

Copyright © 2017 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor 

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