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The Deep State Still has Trump in the Crosshairs
By Cliff Kincaid President Trump’s broad pardons for the January 6 defendants makes him even more of a target. To a user of X who asked, “Why [do] they want to kill Donald Trump?” Elon Musk had responded, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.” It’s much more sinister than Musk indicated. The issue is whether elements of the Biden/Harris administration were somehow involved in trying to kill Trump and whether they have been covering up the details of their failed attempts. Those “elements” are in the FBI, among other federal departments and agencies. Until Trump’s new FBI director Kash Patel gets confirmed, we have no hope of getting to the bottom of how the Deep State conducts “wet work” against its political enemies. That means Trump’s life is still in danger. Musk deleted the post after that his critics claimed he was somehow encouraging the assassinations of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. That was absurd. He was drawing attention to the fact that Trump has been – and remains – a target of Deep State terror. The latest terrorist attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas indicate the danger remains and may be accelerating. On a recent Rumble program, J.C. Hawkins and I discussed the “uncanny commonalities” between the two attacks, with both having been carried out by U.S. Army personnel. We review the decline in our military under the failed leadership of General Mark Milley and his treasonous interactions with Red Chinese generals. Historically, Hawkins notes, the Army was investigated by Senator Joseph McCarthy for having been a source of communist subversion and even a nuclear spy in America’s atom bomb project. After he started that investigation, he went into Bethesda Naval Hospital for knee surgery and came out in a body bag. The story is told in Hawkins’ book Betrayal at Bethesda III. In retrospect, considering the report of the Task Force on the Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump, the questions become:
New FBI Director Kash Patel must get to the bottom of this. In this context, the NBC News story, “Kash Patel’s potential targets fear his tenure as FBI director,” is very good news. He has them scared. Fearing the worst, the left-wing Politico ran a 2300-word smear of Kash Patel by Ankush Khardori, whose media appearances are mostly on MSNBC, the anti-Trump channel, and who functions as a mouthpiece for those fearing their subversive actions will be uncovered. Khardori understands that Patel was instrumental in uncovering the Deep State plot by the FBI to use Russian disinformation paid for by Hillary and authorized by Obama to frame Trump as a Russian agent. Patel’s book, Government Gangsters, is a must-read for those eager to learn more about the Deep State and how it operates. What is more, he outlines plans to clean house. As such, Patel can analyze the Trump assassination cover-ups currently engaged in by the FBI. These cover-ups are a matter of life and death for Trump – and other officials. That congressional Task Force 180-page report raises far more questions than it answers. Consider the section (Appendix IV) entitled, “Key Outstanding Requests to Agencies,” and what we don’t know about the would-be assassins. The word “outstanding” means the agencies didn’t cooperate. It states that “DOJ and its relevant client agencies (FBI and ATF) provided limited cooperation in certain areas of the Task Force’s investigation.” (emphasis added). The “limited cooperation” in these “certain areas” had to do with their foreign connections and what federal agencies know about them. Interestingly, we find the panel was denied “All documents and information related to any potential connection between the two attempted assassinations on July 13 and September 15, 2024.” (emphasis added). In the case of the would-be assassin and pro-Ukraine operative, Ryan Routh, we learn the task force failed to obtain “All U.S. Customs and Border Protection and DHS HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] documents, records, memoranda, interviews, communications and materials referring or related to Ryan Wesley Routh.” That seems like a curious failure. What is more, we learn that the Task Force did not have:
In addition, the Task force did not have documents and communications referring or related to:
Regarding the other would-be assassin, Thomas Crooks, the Task Force was denied all documents and communications referring or related to:
The pattern here is that both would-be assassins that are dismissed by some as amateurs used encrypted communications. Why would that be? The obvious answer is that they didn’t want their sponsors or handlers to be known. Our media don’t care about any of this, since the target was Trump, and as we saw in the Politico hit piece on Patel, they would prefer these crimes go uncovered and unpunished. Elon Musk, however, has been raising the right questions from the start. When the weaponization of government takes the form of an actual weapon, as it did in the assassination attempts on Trump, he knows there is a problem that must be addressed -- and quickly -- before terror and death from the highest reaches of the federal government strike again, decapitating the federal government at the very top.
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The Financial Rise and Moral Decline of Fox News
By Cliff Kincaid The Christmas season was a time to reflect on the Holy Family, as Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are considered a model family, to be copied by Christians. In real life, the model family is in disrepair, especially at the “conservative” news channel Fox. Fox was leading the way in ridiculing Senator Mazie Hirono of Hawaii over her opening questions to Interior Secretary nominee Doug Burgum during his confirmation hearing. She said, “As part of my responsibilities to ensure the fitness of nominees before any of the committees on which I sit, I ask the following two initial questions. First is, since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature? Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?” Bergum answered “no” to both questions. Hirono is a far-left Democrat who embarrasses herself in public but in this case I don’t think these are unreasonable questions of any nominee, Republican or Democrat. Those questions are being raised at a time when a former Fox host, Pete Hegseth, is scrambling to save his nomination as Secretary of Defense and is fighting to quiet the details of his own sex scandal and several failed marriages. His latest marriage was to a Fox producer. In my column, “Conservative Sex Scandals and Conduct Unbecoming,” I examine the Hegseth scandal, in which it is alleged that he paid a woman to stay silent about their sexual encounter. Even his mother took the side of one of his ex-wives. In addition to Hegseth, three prominent Fox News hosts, Sean Hannity, Jesse Watters, and Ainsley Earhardt, have gone through divorces that have been the subject of sensational headlines, even on Fox News. Hannity and Earhardt are now engaged and we wish them well. In this context, do I dare say it might advisable to start 2025 with a New Year’s Resolution to Make America Moral Again, as proposed by columnist and author Linda Goudsmit? While I am hopeful that MAGA can play a role in turning America around morally, I am doubtful because of President Trump’s decision to back away from his culturally conservative positions on issues like abortion that he proclaimed in 2016. He once believed in the right to life from conception to death. Now he says it’s a state’s rights issue. I am also doubtful that Fox News, which has seen its ratings and profits rise because of the perception it is pro-Trump, will play a role in saving our Republic. The hanky-panky at the channels’ headquarters continues. Randy Engel, the founder of the U.S. Coalition for Life (USCL), thinks that Trump, if he wants to Make America Great Again, should lead a campaign to protect innocent human life. Fox News, presenting itself as a pro-Trump outlet, could help make it possible. “I think that most in the prolife community believe that God protected President Trump from an assassination attempt so that he might gain a renewed appreciation for the priceless gift of life. As President of the United States, he has a unique opportunity to express his gratitude to God by extending that same protection to countless unborn human beings. And there is no better way than backing a no-exception Constitutional Human Life Amendment,” Engel noted. “Whatever else President Trump might accomplish in his second administration,” she said, “history will always consider it secondary in importance to his public decision to help end, not regulate, the ongoing mass extermination of our nation’s progeny.” Wednesday, January 22, 2025, is the 55th anniversary of Roe V. Wade, the ruling that mandated abortion on demand. It was overturned in a subsequent ruling, giving the issues back to the states. Trump once backed the Constitutional Human Life Amendment but has since backed away from it. If America is to return as a pro-life nation, one would think that a news channel proclaiming itself devoted to Christian and conservative values would adopt this pro-life stance. But those pro-lifers looking to Fox News as a beacon of conservative Christian and pro-life values must now expect the worst. The most recent news is that Fox News personality Sean Hannity, a self-proclaimed conservative Catholic, is divorcing his wife to marry another Fox host, Ainsley Earhardt, who had two marriages and two divorces that produced a darling little girl. Hannity has two children. I mention these personal details because the new marriage is being highlighted by Fox News itself as a major development. We are being told that Earhardt is a self-proclaimed Christian who reads Christian books to her child at night and “carries her Christian faith with her as she broadcasts into more than a million homes every morning” on Fox & Friends, notes one Christian publication. The Fox News website highlights her Christian faith and she hosts a Bible Study on the Fox Nation channel, “as she talks faith, family, trials and triumphs with guests from all walks of life.” Fox News reported that Hannity proposed to Earhardt over Christmas at a church, “solidifying their long-term commitment to each other,” and that they “had the blessing and support” from their children, who “couldn’t be happier.” “We are overjoyed and so thankful to our families for all of their love and support during this wonderful time in our lives,” Earhardt and Hannity said. I would say this is putting a happy face on two broken marriages, a story designed to convince Fox viewers that two of their favorite hosts are now living the good life, a Christian life, together. Fox claimed they “bonded over their deep faith, and the two have placed God first in their relationship…” Fox added that both Earhardt and Hannity were previously married and “still get along well” with their ex-spouses and “everyone is supportive of each other,” according to the couple. That’s very hard to believe. It’s none of my business, except for the fact that putting the “Christian” label on this arrangement seems like a stretch. But this is what we are being told by Fox News in a major public relations effort to bless this new union. Sex scandals and adulterous affairs have characterized Fox News since the time when a group of women exposed how Fox founder Roger Ailes sexually harassed attractive women in his employ. His techniques eventually gave rise to the movie “Bombshell.” In my article on Hegseth, I list the 32 mostly conservative figures who are publicly backing a man with serious personal problems who has been indicted by his own mother for abusing women but now says he has found Jesus and is a changed man. We hope for the best for this troubled man, but with Fox News backing him under the circumstances of what’s been happening at the channel for decades, I don’t expect the channel to be the tip of the spear on issues of great concern to Christian conservatives.
A Soros in Sheep’s Clothing in Trump’s Cabinet?
By Cliff Kincaid Conservatives in the MAGA movement reacted with horror when Joe Biden gave George Soros the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Yet, they have applauded President Trump’s nomination of the former top investor for George Soros to be the Secretary of the Treasury. If confirmed, Scott Bessent will not only be a close Soros confidant but the first “gay” Treasury Secretary in history. A former supporter of Trump’s arch enemy Hillary Clinton, Bessent suddenly emerged during the campaign as a Trump supporter and has now managed to get Trump’s blessing and nomination as Treasury Secretary. He went from top investor for the globalist billionaire to advocate for the Trump agenda of nationalism, populism, and tariffs. Ignoring Bessent’s service to the hedge fund billionaire who almost single-handedly destroyed the criminal justice system and has funded the Democratic Party for decades, many conservatives and Republicans are endorsing Bessent simply because President Trump nominated him. They consider his conversion to MAGA to be legitimate. But it could be a mistake of global proportions. Many of the ways Soros made his money, through financial currency speculation and manipulation, were based on advice offered by Scott Bessent. The explanation for this bizarre nomination and conservative silence over its implications may lie in Bessent’s stake in All Seasons, a conservative publisher that has been very kind to MAGA, with several authors being either former Trump officials such as Peter Navarro or sympathetic to the MAGA agenda. Yet, the Tablet magazine has published a damaging expose about an alleged conflict of interest involving Bessent’s venture into “conservative” publishing. Under the headline, “The George Soros Partner Who Disrupted Right-Wing Publishing,” the magazine charged that Bessent “has a funny habit of signing big-name MAGA authors to book contracts, then suing them,” and cited the case of a book by conservative author Lee Smith that had reportedly included criticism of George Soros. All Seasons Press then published a rebuttal, accusing author Lee Smith and Tablet of McCarthyism. For those of us who believe that Soros needs to answer for what he has done with his billions of dollars, this is a major concern. In his Thursday appearance before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, he should be asked some other important questions, especially regarding his relationship with Soros. For example:
If Republican Senators don’t raise these matters, the hearing will be dominated by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a far-left Soros-supported member of the Finance Committee once praised by Soros himself as “the most qualified to be president.” Back in 2011, Soros even hosted a fundraiser for Warren and other Democrats. Warren sent a 31-page letter to Bessent, taking issue with Trump’s economic agenda, but failed to raise any concern about his relationship with George Soros. Republican members of the Senate Finance Committee are the following: Crapo, Mike (ID), Chairman; Grassley, Chuck (IA); Cornyn, John (TX); Thune, John (SD); Scott, Tim (SC); Cassidy, Bill (LA); Lankford, James (OK); Daines, Steve (MT); Young, Todd (IN); Barrasso, John (WY); Johnson, Ron (WI); Tillis, Thom (NC); Blackburn, Marsha (TN); and Marshall, Roger (KS).
Who Will Liberate America From the Pedophiles?
By Cliff Kincaid Citing reports on “grooming gangs” running rampant in Britain, Trump adviser Elon Musk asks if America should “liberate Britain” from its governing elite. Who will liberate America first? It is one of President Trump’s big challenges, as he faces the need to eliminate pedophile networks in the “gay” community and the Roman Catholic Church. In addition to these problems, of course, the U.S. has become the largest consumer of trafficked human beings in the world In a recent interview on my Rumble channel with Peter Brimelow, a refugee from Britain, he described his former country as a “sick society” which has tolerated a Muslim invasion and the proliferation of Muslim rape gangs. Regarding his adopted country of America, Brimelow was sounding the alarm about the immigrant invasion of America decades before Trump. For those warnings, he was ostracized by much of the “conservative” movement. New York Attorney General Letitia James, the same official trying to bankrupt Trump, has been waging a campaign to put Brimelow’s organization VDare out of business. Although open borders have facilitated child sex trafficking, there is a major home-grown aspect to the child rape scandal, the result of the embrace by both major political parties of the homosexual movement in America, started by pedophile advocate Harry Hay, a communist. I urge Elon Musk to investigate the suppressed news about the gay couple in Georgia who adopted two kids through a Christian agency and then sexually abused them. Not only that, they filmed them in disgusting sexual acts, including rapes by the gay activists, and tried to sell them to a pedophile ring. The case of married gay activists William Dale Zulock Jr. and Zachary Jacoby Zulock should be national news, but it only made big headlines in their home state of Georgia, even though a pedophile ring possibly national in scope was uncovered. The grooming scandal that took reportedly place across UK towns and cities is an outrage. Here in the U.S., we could have stopped it. Such behavior is the inevitable result of gay marriage being sanctioned by the Supreme Court and then adoption agencies approving this conduct and giving away kids to wealthy “gay couples” who supposedly would take care of them The Zulocks, the “two fathers,” raped and prostituted the two boys they adopted and were sentenced to 100-year prison terms without parole on charges of sodomy, child molestation and incest. Randy McGinley, the District Attorney, said, “Those involved with the investigation and prosecution of this case will never forget what they had to see and hear in this case. These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else. However, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets…” The gay magazine the Advocate ran a story about it, but then claimed there is no evidence gays abuse kids any more than heterosexuals do. That claim hinges on the meaning of the term “heterosexual,” when we know for a fact that the celibate “heterosexuals” in the priesthood sometimes turn out to be closeted gays and pedophiles. There are numerous photos of the Zulocks at “gay pride” events with their “picture perfect” family. Fox News coverage of this scandal was strange, to say the least. The story referred to “husbands” who abused their adopted sons, the “Georgia couple” William and Zachary Zulock. The story never mentioned the word “gay.” The pedophile ring was uncovered by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Here are the facts: surveys find that children of homosexuals are more apt to become homosexual and experience parental molestation. America followed what happened in Britain, where one case involved a homosexual foster couple who sexually abused vulnerable boys in their care. They got away with it because social workers feared being accused of anti-gay discrimination. In regard to the Zulock case, Richard Palmer of The Trumpet notes, “If you get your news from the New York Times, CNN or PBS, you will have heard nothing about the Zulocks. If you get your news from almost anywhere else, you will.” Palmer goes on to point out the essential fact that, “In reality, pedophilia has been a core part of the homosexual movement for years.” Indeed, Harry Hay, founder of the modern gay rights movement, was a supporter of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). This sickness has permeated American society. Amy Berg exposed the cover-up of pedophilia in the Catholic Church in her 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary, “Deliver Us from Evil,” and followed with her film, “An Open Secret,” about how pedophiles operate in Hollywood and cover up their crimes. The Boston Globe exposed a series of sex crimes committed by Catholic priests in an award-winning series of articles made into a film, “Spotlight,” available on Netflix. Raise the possibility of a high-level sex ring operating in the world today and you are immediately attacked as a QAnon conspiracy theorist. But look at what is happening in the Roman Catholic Church, the desperate efforts at cover-up, the bankruptcies, such as the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and the mass closing of churches because of declining attendance. “In 2019,” notes a report on church attendance by ABC News, “ 37% percent of U.S. Catholics, up from 22% in 2002, said that news of abuse cases led them to question whether they would remain in the Catholic church.” This trend has continued under Pope Francis, who made a declaration in favor of homosexual civil unions. He has just appointed Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego as the next archbishop of the Archdiocese of Washington, a figure like Francis who has proposed “radical inclusion” for LGBTQ people in the church. He doesn’t agree with Catholic teaching that homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered.” Trump alienated his supporters during the first term by sending out his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to promote policies that are a staple of the Cultural Marxist agenda. She said “…this president is proud that in 2019 we launched a global initiative to end the criminalization of homosexuality throughout the world. He has a great record when it comes to the LGBT community. The Trump administration eased a ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men and he launched a plan to end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, so we’re very proud of our achievements.” Ending the AIDS epidemic is a laudable goal, but easing a ban on blood donations from male homosexuals, who are most susceptible to HIV/AIDS, should not have been done at the expense of the safety of the blood supply. What is more, exporting homosexuality is something conservatives objected to when Obama was doing it. Those who believe in Making America Moral Again will be watching Trump’s second term closely.
 The Death of Communism in California By Cliff Kincaid The devastating fires in California have hit a major base of operations for communism in America, as Hollywod liberals are up in arms over incompetence by local and state authories. In addition to the lives and property that have been lost, the ideology of communism, on display for decades since the days of Governor Ronald Reagan, has suffered a monumental hit. The movie “Reagan” shows how the conservative governor and future two-term Republican president confronted unrest on college campuses such as Berkeley. The communist presence, however, extended far beyond the campuses. California Dynasty of Communism, a book by Karl Prussion, a former FBI informant in the Communist Party, has a history of what happened to the “Golden State.” The tragedy of course is that so many people have suffered, a typical outcome for communism, in this case the result of “climate action” and “social justice” that has exposed hundreds of thousands to a human death toll that is still rising. The cries of “climate change” are still coming, to mask the deliberate efforts of local and state officials to transform the state into a model of Soviet/Chinese communism. As we have learned, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana, in a presidential mission authorized by Joe Biden on behalf of an African country that is China's largest trading partner in Africa. She was attending the inauguration of Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a member of the Socialist International . In the performances of officials on all levels, from Mayor Karen Bass to Governor Gavin Newsom, the results of communism in California have been exposed for all to see. Under Newsom, California has been a major recipient of Chinese foreign direct investment. Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, the China reporter for Axios, assembled the facts and figures about Chinese aid-and-trade with the United States, confirming that California is “hooked” on China. Of the top 10 states with the highest net trade with China. California is number one by far. According to the state government, “The trade relationship between California and China is one of the largest in the world, with two-way trade valued at $177 billion in 2018.” The state even has a China Trade and Investment Network (CTIN) and China-California Business Forum. Newsom traveled to China in 2023 and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, discussing trade relations, climate change and fentanyl – but not COVID-19. The Los Angeles mayor is a well-known Marxist, having traveled to Cuba with the Weather Underground-sponsored Venceremos Brigades. Her “friend and mentor,” Oneil Marion Cannon, was a top member of the Communist Party USA for decades. The role of communists in California and therefore the national Democratic Party has been a national story and this is why, back in 2019, I had predicted California Senator Kamala Harris would be the Democratic presidential candidate in 2020. What I didn’t foresee was that she would be the vice-presidential candidate and then replace Biden at the top of the ticket in 2024. Trevor Loudon had analyzed Kamala’s backing from the “Brown is the New White” strategist Steve Phillips and the billionaire Sandler family. Loudon reported, “In her sophomore year of college at Howard University, Harris worked as an intern for the senior senator from California at the time, Alan Cranston.” Cranston was a one-worlder, a leader of the World Federalists. This set the stage for her leftism. Alan Cranston was head of the foreign languages unit of the communist-ridden Office of War Information during World War II and his assignment was cracking down on radio broadcasts negative to the Sovet Union. Cranston’s role in a communist network in California was also explored in the Karl Prussion book California Dynasty of Communism. For her part, Harris had the backing of California Governor Gavin Newsom and one-time secret communist operative California Rep. Barbara Lee. These were key endorsements. Herb Romerstein’s masterful report, “From Henry Wallace to William Ayers - the Communist and ‘Progressive’ Movements,” examines the most important details about the communist background of Rep. Barbara Lee. She became a top officer of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS), a spin-off from the Communist Party after the Soviet “collapse.” Lee served in the House for more than two decades years before deciding not to run for reelection to instead seek the Senate seat vacated by the death of former Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). She lost to now-Senator Adam Schiff (D) and is now running for mayor of Oakland. The Bass mentor, Oneil Cannon, was described by the communist paper as a member of the Communist Party USA “who became the education director in the Southern California District, and a member of the Party’s Southern California and National Central Committees.” The paper continued, “Oneil Cannon counted among his friends many leaders and later elected officials of the African-American community. Paul Robeson was one of his valued friends; he would see him whenever he came to Los Angeles.” Regarding his role in California, it said he “was committed to electing Black and Latino representatives at all levels of government” and helped to elect Augustus “Gus” Hawkins, Tom Bradley, Ed Roybal, Diane Watson, Maxine Waters, and Karen Bass. Paul Robeson was a black communist actor and singer who was a member of the Moscow-funded Communist Party, had professed love for Soviet mass murderer Joseph Stalin, and supported the Hitler-Stalin Pact that paved the way for World War II. There was a time when Karen Bass was being considered a vice-presidential candidate on Joe Biden’s ticket. In the end, of course, Kamala got the job. The Trump Campaign had issued a press release, “Will Joe Biden Put Castro-Loving Communist Karen Bass A Heartbeat Away from the Presidency?,” on August 1, 2020. With Hollywood liberals angry about losing their homes and belongings, the time may have come for a reckoning. The once communist-dominated Hollywood may have had enough with communism, at least to the extent it has affected them. It may be time to examine how California became a communist state in America and why it’s imperative to re-establish congressional committees on internal security and un-American activities. Such a committee wouldn’t have to start from scratch. The report, “Un-American Activities in California,” was published in 1970 by a California Senate Fact-finding Subcommittee and devotes almost 300 pages to analyzing the growth of communism and other Marxist groups in the state and how they organized protests on campuses and then manipulated the electoral process to achieve power.
 The Sickness That Infects CNN By Cliff Kincaid I have a soft spot in my heart for CNN. When Pat Buchanan was in the Reagan White House serving as communications director, I filled in for him numerous times on the CNN “Crossfire” show, presenting the conservative opinion in response to the liberal opinion offered by figures like Tom Braden or Michael Kinsley. That balanced program went down the drain and CNN became an organ of the Democratic Party. When I did “Crossfire,” the liberals were the ones with the complaints. They didn’t like the fact that Tom Braden was the regular liberal co-host, usually up against Pat Buchanan and then myself. Braden was an anti-communist liberal who in fact had been a CIA operative. Mchael Kinsley, editor of the New Republic, replaced Braden. Today, the only identifiable conservative commentator on the channel is Scott Jennings, always outnumbered by the hosts and liberal panelists. For being effective in this role, he has been attacked by the Washington Post and the Huffington Post. However, I am happy to report that, on rare occasions, CNN can stumble on the truth, and this kind of reporting should be encouraged if CNN wants to survive and return to its roots. Consider a CNN article that is significant for what its reporters Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz did NOT discover about the federal government’s effort to put President Trump in prison. It focused on the “lost year,” in the context of the feds wasting time trying to link President Trump to the January 6 “insurrection,” and helps explain why America is so vulnerable to terrorist attack. The Department of Justice and the FBI spent months trying to link Trump and his “inner circle” to the event and failed. They relied on a fake “informant” and dozens if not hundreds of FBI agents were used in a wild goose chase. These federal resources should have been used to pursue the real enemies of America. Considering the anti-Trump bias of CNN, the story nevertheless proves that Trump had clean hands and was not connected in any way to any violence. There was never an insurrection, only a protest, and we still don’t know the full extent of the FBI use of informants in the crowd and what role they played in the physical confrontations. Here’s how CNN reported it: “Prosecutors inside the Justice Department also dug through reams of opaque financial records, searching for any direct links between Trump and the organizations that brought ‘Stop the Steal’ rallygoers to Washington for his speech ahead of the Capitol attack. From there, they examined the so-called war room setup at the Willard hotel in Washington, where Steve Bannon and other Trump supporters strategized how to thwart the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.” “Several months after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol,” CNN reported, “FBI investigators began pursuing a tantalizing tip suggesting that Donald Trump had possibly met with members of the Proud Boys, the far-right group that took part in some of the most brutal violence that day, people briefed on the investigation told CNN.” The “most brutal violence” was the murder of Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol Police officer. That fact aside, CNN said that investigators spent months “poring over call records of Proud Boys members and conducting scores of interviews” and developed an “informant” who had “alleged an interaction between Trump or his inner circle and the Proud Boys…” “In the end,” CNN reported, “no direct criminal links to Trump emerged” and investigations of various people and meetings “were all dead ends.” In the end, CNN discovered that protests, even against elections, were protected under the First Amendment. But CNN did not conclude that Trump was vindicated. Trump had said at the rally: “We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.” Very few stormed the Capitol. These protesters were outraged over a national election being stolen, in the wake of news reports released at that time by the media that Vice President Mike Pence had announced that he would NOT stop the steal. Trump had every right to protest and Pence had the duty to send the results back to the states. Pence failed. This dispute is what led to Biden taking office and his handlers ordering the Department of Justice and the FBI to tie Trump to the violence. They failed, too. Trump won but he still has a big job ahead, not only to pardon the January 6 peaceful protesters but identify those still in the Justice Department and the FBI who wasted federal resources in what was clearly a “weaponization” of the justice system. Whether CNN survives or not in this new media environment will depend on whether it follows Mark Zuckerberg’s lead and stops censoring Trump and his supporters. Only truthful and balanced journalism will help restore the channel to the approach it once had in programs like “Crossfire.” After finally setting the record straight about Trump’s non-existent link to violence on January 6, we will now wait to see if CNN reporters Evan Perez and Hannah Rabinowitz seek to hold federal officials accountable for conducting “investigations” that diverted resources away from finding real terrorists on American soil. If it fails to hold these officials accountable, we will know that CNN hasn’t learned any lessons.
Jimmy Carter’s Life and the Death of America
By Cliff Kincaid They tell us that Jimmy Carter was a great ex-president, a description designed to camouflage his disastrous four years as president. We must know the truth as America moves forward. We must not celebrate his one and only presidential term. Instead, we must remember why Ronald Reagan defeated him. A big reason can be viewed in the televised debate, “Resolved: That the Senate Should Ratify the Proposed Panama Canal Treaties,” in which Reagan opposed William F. Buckley Jr. and the Jimmy Carter position. The Senate ratified the treaty on March 16, 1978 by a vote of 68 to 32. Trump recently sided with Reagan, vowing to retake the Panama Canal, which has fallen into the hands of the Communist Chinese. Whether Trump will do this or not, America’s future depends on disavowing Jimmy Carter’s legacy and telling the truth about his service to America’s enemies. In addition to giving away the Panama Canal, Carter’s big “contribution” to America’s history and destiny was undermining American allies, facilitating global Jihad, encouraging the rise of Red China, and playing patty-cake with the dictator of Communist North Korea. The latter led to the eventual emergence of another communist nation capable of hitting the United States with nuclear weapons. It just fired another intermediate-range ballistic missile. In addition, his weakness invited a Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, leading to his successor President Ronald Reagan’s support for Afghan “freedom fighters” who included some jihadists that got so strong in that part of the world under Reagan’s successors that they attacked America on 9/11. Afghanistan was attacked by America in response, but the long war came to an end under Joe Biden and the country returned to the control of the Taliban and their Jihadist allies. In that case and many others, America is dealing with Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy disasters. The Middle East is a mess, made worse by Joe Biden, and so is Europe, where Reagan after Carter’s disastrous four years had to confront the Soviet military build-up and issue the demand “Tear down this wall” to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Under Democrat President Bill Clinton, the U.S. vowed to defend Ukraine from Russian aggression. That didn’t happen under Barack Hussein Obama, when the first Russian invasion of Ukraine took place, but did happen belatedly under Biden, which became a costly no-win war that Trump has vowed to end in his second term. Carter “normalized” diplomatic relations between the United States and Communist China in 1979, throwing the Republic of China on Taiwan, a democracy, under the bus. No one knows when Red China will invade the peaceful country, another potential disaster that Trump must now deal with. Yet Joe Biden claimed that Carter tried to “forge peace, advance civil rights and human rights” and “promote free and fair elections…” Dick Morris’s presentation on how Jimmy Carter’s legacy was “Peace in The Middle East” is laughable. He did negotiate a 1979 Egypt-Israel peace treaty but Carter believed that Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat, a Soviet KGB agent, was a man of peace. What is more, Carter supported a “homeland” for the Palestinians and hated Israel, as reflected in his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, earning him the label “Jew-hater.” His Carter Center was partly financed with big money from the Arab states. Bankrupting America His disastrous economic policies, including double-digit inflation, did enormous damage. I bought my first house when his economic policies had not yet been diffused by President Ronald Reagan’s tax cuts and the mortgage interest rate was then over 16 percent. As an ex-president, he built houses. But the house he left me was too expensive and too small for a growing family. On the global stage, he surrendered Iran to the global Islamic Jihad and gave away the Panama Canal, under the cover of his “America Last” foreign policy. He promoted socialized medicine. Carter left a mess for Reagan, just as Biden leaves a mess for Trump. The Washington Post claim that his work after the White House “made Jimmy Carter a standout” was another laugh. Through his Carter Center he became even more left-wing. The Carter Center’s report, The Big Lie and Big Tech, accused conservatives of spreading misinformation, when Big Tech perpetuated the “Big Lie” that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian propaganda. Not surprisingly, the Carter Center identified the Soros-funded Open Society Institute as “a generous supporter of The Carter Center since 1998.” It maintained a “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” department. We are told he was a good man and it appears he had a happy and stable marriage to Rosalynn. But being a good man doesn’t erase the need to address his disastrous four years. On Fox News, regarding Carter’s death at 100, a panelist said that if you didn’t have anything good to say about a man after his death, don’t say anything. She said this is how she deals with her kids. She wanted to shut down the discussion of his very bad foreign policy. We are not kids. We are adults. We can handle the truth. Another Bad Treaty In addition to giving Iran to the mullahs and giving away the Panama Canal, he tried to get Senate approval for the Law of the Sea Treaty, which was negotiated and written by socialists and world-government advocates, mainly under the Jimmy Carter administration. It was so bad that President Reagan flatly rejected it. On top of these betrayals, he facilitated the communist takeover of Nicaragua in Central America in 1979, giving his successor Reagan another foreign policy mess to deal with. When Reagan authorized support for Nicaraguan freedom fighters, Democrats threatened to impeach him over the “Iran-Contra affair,” a reference to the president’s successful efforts to free American hostages in the Middle East. Under fire for a series of American setbacks around the world, there was an illegal leak of classified information to make Carter look like a tough foreign policy president. The leak was that the U.S. was developing stealth technology so our aircraft and other weapons of war could avoid radar. A congressional report said that Carter Defense Secretary Harold Brown was trying “to make the administration look good in an election year.” Adm. Elmo Zumwalt (ret.), a former chief of naval operations, testified under oath that official sources had told him that Carter had authorized the Stealth leak to make himself look good. President Carter tried to cover-up his own involvement in the leak, ordering his aides not to testify. If you’ve seen the movie “Reagan,” you will get a glimpse of history, such as when Reagan was running and winning big against Carter and then winning big against Carter’s vice-president Walter Mondale, who ran against Reagan in 1984. Reagan defeated Carter in a landslide in 1980, winning 44 states and carrying the popular vote by 10 points. Reagan defeated Mondale 58.8 percent to 40.6 percent, a popular vote margin of eighteen points, carrying all of the states except Minnesota and D.C. Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education, which Reagan tried but failed to eliminate. This is another legacy from his days as president that has only made things worse and wasted lots of federal money. His idea of confronting the need for energy was to wear a sweater. He also installed solar water heating panels on the roof of the White House that Reagan took down. His infamous “malaise” speech was a downer. Even the Marxists concede he made everything worse, from their point of view. Hailed as a great Christian thinker, his record on so-called gay and transgender rights “grew stronger” as he grew older, the Advocate declared. A spokesman for a gay lobby, the Human Rights Campaign, said, “In recent years, he became a prominent voice in support of LGBTQ+ rights, speaking out for marriage equality at a time when most national leaders in the U.S. still opposed it.” So this “devout Baptist” abandoned the Christian teaching on homosexuality. He compromised for personal accolades and political profit. Even worse, his wife Rosalynn was part of the scam. She was very close to the Marxist lunatic preacher Jim Jones, who led a mass suicide in Guyana. He posed for a picture with her and wrote to her asking for friendly relations with Communist Cuba. She also posed with John Wayne Gacy, a homosexual pedophile who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys. He was a local Democratic Party official. In the same vein, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter visited communist North Korea in 1994, but his “peace plan” was for South Korea to reduce the number of U.S. nuclear warheads in the nation. How did that work out? The establishment journal Foreign Affairs now admits that the only deterrent to North Korean aggression is a home-made nuclear weapons deterrent for South Korea. It’s another major challenge for Trump. The authors write, “North Korea’s capabilities are growing. Pyongyang has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile, which raises doubts about whether the United States would honor its alliance commitment and fight for South Korea, because North Korea can now strike American cities with a nuclear weapon.” Regarding North Korea’s sponsor, Communist China, the Carter Center promoted friendly relations with Beijing under the category of “Peace.” It perfectly summarized the Carter view of the world, in which America gave away its sovereignty to other nations, communist or otherwise. This “peace of the grave,” as America struggles to survive this dangerous world, was reserved for America under Jimmy Carter policies which through incompetence or design continue to do enormous damage to our people and our standing in the world.
George Soros Is Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Soros is recognized for his lifetime work helping create more just and free societies OFFICIAL RELEASE NEW YORK (January 4, 2025)—The Open Society Foundations are proud to announce that George Soros today received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. A survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary and then Communist repression, Soros has contributed more than $32 billion to advancing freedom and justice across the world. His early experiences shaped his lifelong mission to support open society and fight oppression in a vast array of places—whether that meant standing up for the Rohingya minority, sending humanitarian aid to besieged Sarajevo, or fighting discrimination against Europe’s Roma. Beginning in 1979 with scholarships for Black South African students under apartheid, Soros pioneered a new, now widely adopted, approach to philanthropy of working directly with local communities. Anticipating the fall of Communism, he established his first foundation in Hungary, and expanded to support democratic reform across Eastern Europe. Over the next decade, the Foundations grew to work in more than 100 countries to promote human rights and justice. He has championed education, founding the Central European University, with the belief that critical thinking is a cornerstone of an open society. Broadening public access to information and ideas has always been central to his philanthropy and philosophy—promoting it through debate, arts, and culture. His efforts include establishing scholarships, fellowships, translations, and documentary film. In the United States, Soros has advanced racial justice, invested in drug policy approaches informed by public health data, revolutionized end-of-life care, and helped achieve one of the most significant civil rights victories in modern American history—the 2015 landmark Supreme Court case securing marriage equality in all 50 states. “As an immigrant who found freedom and prosperity in America, I am deeply moved by this honor,” George Soros remarked. “I accept it on behalf of the many people around the world with whom the Open Society Foundations have made common cause over the past 40 years.” Today, the Open Society Foundations support civil society groups and projects that sustain democracies worldwide, despite mounting challenges. In recent years, Soros has responded to global crises from COVID-19 to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while warning about threats from digital platforms and extremism. “The medal marks George Soros’s lifelong commitment to promoting human rights, equity, and justice,” said Binaifer Nowrojee, president of the Open Society Foundations. “George is always courageous in the fight for open society without fear or favor. He has never been interested in promoting his own voice, but standing as an ally of those who are excluded or not being heard.” Soros’s children and grandchildren will attend the White House ceremony. Open Society Foundations Chair Alex Soros will accept the Presidential Medal of Freedom on behalf of his father. For more information, including essays by George Soros, please visit www.georgesoros.com. 
MAGA Blowhard Bannon Sabotages the Trump Agenda By Cliff Kincaid Elon Musk has accused the media of “relentless hit pieces” that are designed to encourage the assassination of Trump “and now me.” These threats will continue and intensify, and many are now coming from MAGA over Musk’s defense of special high-tech visas for smart people from foreign countries. Meantime, MAGA is assassinating itself, politically speaking. My old friend John Gizzi, the White House correspondent for Newsmax, was on my Rumble show discussing why the Republican opponents of Speaker Mike Johnson have no alternative to him but nevertheless want to sabotage the slim GOP majority in the House. “Without a speaker,” notes Gizzi, “the House would be barred from officially certifying the results of the 2024 election.” Gizzi says Johnson has made some mistakes and should be held accountable but in a column for Newsmax notes the slim Republican majority that must be maintained to pass a conservative agenda of economic progress. MAGA blowhards like Stephen K. Bannon, who was fired by Trump during his first term, hates Johnson but has no alternative. He claims to be pro-MAGA but he is doing everything possible to undermine Trump’s MAGA agenda. Trump endorses Johnson, calling him “a good, hard working, religious man” who “will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN.” In terms of real assassination attempts, which are on-going, Musk says he has faced at least two of them. One of these would-be assassins by the name of Paul Ryan Overeem had traveled from Florida to Austin, Texas, and was caught threatening to massacre Musk and others at a Tesla event. The attacks on Musk have accelerated recently, as the liberal media and their allies in the Democratic Party have accused him of being a sinister force in the American political process and even a shadow president by making his views known on the current bankrupt financial and fiscal policies pursued by the Congress of the United States. Whereas Trump was targeted by a “bullseye” issued by Biden and attacked as another Hitler, Musk is being labeled as a subversive force for exercising his First Amendment right of free speech and putting tens of millions of dollars into Republican campaigns in 2024. Why is Musk a target? His conversion to the Republican Party is one factor. But as CNN admits, he is a “visionary” whose innovations have “revolutionized the e-commerce, electric vehicle and space industries…” More importantly, he bought Twitter, now X, giving conservatives a voice. In contrast to left-wing billionaire George Soros, who made his money through financial manipulations of the international currency market, Musk provides goods and services that America needs. The dangerous message was this: “Folks, please do not forget Musk is the CEO of several companies. I say again, he’s a CEO. Do with that information as you will,” some critic named Don Shea wrote on X, a post quicky deleted. This was interpreted as an assassination threat, modeled after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the “wanted” posters for other CEOs posted afterward. For being a successful capitalist, he is now a target. In reviewing who or what on a global basis might have a motive to go after Musk, as well as Trump, my educated guess is the Russians, who are notorious in the field of “wet work,” or their clients, the Iranians, and those in the Deep State who would like to facilitate such actions. Musk’s detractors are claiming he is too close to the Chinese and the Russians, even though his innovations have benefitted America. For background on who might be motivated to kill Musk, consider the Bloomberg story from 2018, “How Elon Musk Beat Russia's Space Program,” on how Musk had developed the most capable missile in the world through SpaceX. Back in 2014, under President Barack Hussein Obama, as noted by the Washington Post, American national security satellites and classified military spacecraft were routinely launched into orbit with help from Russian rocket engines. That continued for more than a decade but was eventually banned after the first Russian invasion of Ukraine, also under Obama. Today, as noted by the New York Times in a May 24, 2024, story, SpaceX is the primary provider of launch services to NASA and to the Pentagon. In my column, “They Want to Kill Elon Musk,” I note the evidence of his genius and regard his involvement in the Trump Administration as “the key to America remaining a military and economic superpower in the world.” However, Stephen K. Bannon, who was fired by Trump in his first term, has called Musk “a total and complete phony” and claims that because Musk produces some of his cars in China, “He is owned – lock, stock, and barrel – by the Chinese Communist Party, and he acts like it.” This kind of ugly vitriol can inspire other attacks on Musk. In response, Musk replied, “I used to think Bannon was smart & evil, but now I realize I was wrong about the first part.” On his “Real America’s Voice” channel, Bannon has suggested that Musk’s business Neuralink is designed to control people’s brains through chip implants. For his part, Musk believes advances in science and technology which can benefit Americans should be encouraged. His Neuralink project is developing means by which people can cope with their own neurological disorders and disabilities, such as paralysis and blindness. Musk represents new thinking that can guarantee America’s scientific and military dominance in the world. If you want more on the history of science and the new age we are entering into, consider reading Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Popular procedures, such as knee and hip replacements, and some life-saving drugs, prolong life for millions of mostly older Americans. Dentures, hearing aids, reading glasses, and cataract surgeries are other modern examples of how science has been used to improve the human condition. “He’s a character, he’s a special guy, he’s a super genius,” Trump said of Musk. “We have to protect our geniuses, we don’t have that many of them.” In the second Trump term, Musk will deserve special protection, since he is a key figure in what Trump promises to be a “Golden Age” for America. But he won’t be able to accomplish anything for America unless a few Republicans in the House under the influence of MAGA blowhard Stephen K. Bannon stop sabotaging Trump’s choice for Speaker of the House.
 Source: Elyssa Koren The Moral Achilles Heel for MAGA By Cliff Kincaid Our local pastor gave a Christmas Eve sermon on why the birth of Christ was God’s D-Day invasion in a spiritual sense of the Roman Empire. It was an interesting analogy. The influence of Christ lives on but America’s reputation as a Christian nation does not. Those who thought that Donald J. Trump’s return to the White House is a mission ordained by God must be disappointed by the current internal MAGA debate over special high-tech visas for smart people from foreign countries, when the real issue for America is continued moral and spiritual decline. Perhaps they are related after all. “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports,” declared General George Washington. In this current debate, Trump has sided with the foreign brains, like Elon Musk, who have contributed immensely to the American nation. I saw this for myself when one of my smart sons was able to compete for two years in the National Spelling Bee and the winners inevitably turned out to be young people from India. I learned a lesson. America is enriched by foreign countries. "Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence," Vivek Ramaswamy declared in the debate over special visas for foreign high-tech workers. If Americans are honest, they must admit he is right. Equally significant, our mediocrity extends to being willing to stand up for what’s right, morally and spiritually. If you want an example of American mediocrity in the moral sense, look at the collection of college football bowl games on television, including one called the “Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl,” named after the notorious marijuana smoker who now markets alcoholic drinks. The official and longer title, “Snoop Dogg Arizona Bowl by Gin & Juice by Dre and Snoop,” incorporates the “first time an alcohol brand has sponsored a bowl game,” according to a sports website. On the air, Snoop Dogg praised the new alcoholic drink as he and his fellow commentators laughed about it all. I didn’t hear “Snoop” endorse dope smoking but perhaps the “Cannabis Bowl” will be featured next year. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism cites estimates that each year there are more than 178,000 deaths (approximately 120,000 male deaths and 59,000 female deaths) attributable to excessive alcohol use, “making alcohol one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States, behind tobacco, poor diet and physical inactivity, and illegal drugs.” Trump, a non-drinker, has nominated Robert F. Kenndy, Jr. as Secretary of health and Human Services (HHS) and he promises to Make America Healthy Again. It would seem that avoiding alcohol would be part of that equation. Beyond this emphasis on food and drink, what America desperately needs is to Make America Moral Again (MAMA), a campaign launched by author and commentator Linda Goudsmit. Her column identifies the key problem as the influence of Marxism on American culture, undermining America’s founding principles and “designed to collapse the Judeo-Christian morality and infrastructure of the United States…” As for Snoop Dogg, portrayed during the bowl game as a role model and humanitarian, he opened his first pot shop earlier this year in Los Angeles and was labeled S.W.E.D. for his “popular” catch phrase “Smoke Weed Every Day.” On Reddit, someone asked, “Does Snoop Dogg actually smoke a lot of weed?” The responses included “It’s so wild to me because as someone who was a heavy smoker and can't do it anymore because it puts me in a psychosis, I don't understand how someone like him can continue doing this. I know everyone’s different but it's wild to me.” In addition to the link between marijuana and psychosis, the legalization of marijuana has been causing human suffering and environmental devastation on a scale most people do not yet comprehend. There is an example from the NFL. Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star and notorious pothead, became a convicted killer and then killed himself in prison. The subject of a Netflix series, “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” he was a chronic marijuana user throughout college and his NFL career who experienced brain damage from the drug. The case proves a direct link between marijuana, mental illness, and violence. More than a year ago, however, Snoop Dogg posted on X: “I’m giving up smoke.” It’s too bad he wasn’t serious. It turned out to be a marketing stunt for a smokeless fire pit. For more evidence of American mediocrity, or worse, look at what just happened in Federick, Maryland, where a new “tavern” has opened in a Marriott hotel and installed a cocktail bar directly on what used to be a chapel’s high altar. The high altar, side altars, tabernacle, altar rail, stained glass windows, and statues all remain behind and around the bar. The bar owners took over the space in the Visitation Academy, a private, all-girls, Roman Catholic school which was run by Catholic nuns until 2005, when its order was dissolved due to declining numbers. Elyssa Koren, who initiated a petition to move the bar, says, “The chapel that brought me to Jesus is now a Marriott hotel bar with cocktails on the altar. They could have put the bar anywhere. The choice speaks to an utter disregard for the sacred.” Koren is an example of righteous concern about the moral decline of America. Her petition seeks to restore the dignity of the chapel. Without Christians like this, as well as Linda Goudsmit, arguing for Making America Moral Again, MAGA will fail. America cannot remain a mediocre nation spiritually and be strong in an economic and material sense.
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