Wealth tax: Tax net worth over $50 million at 2% a year, and 6% above $1 billion. To prevent the rich from yachting off, add a 40% “exit tax” on assets over $50 million upon renouncing U.S. citizenship. Estimated revenue: $3.75 trillion over a decade from 75,000 households. Most economists, including many Democrats, call that number a fantasy. Courts might also find the tax unconstitutional.
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Showing posts with label Donald Trump. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 01, 2020
Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Black Democrats energized to vote Trump out: poll
Black Democratic voters are energized to vote President Trump out of office in 2020, as less than a quarter of African Americans say their financial situation has improved over the past two years, according to a new study.
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Thursday, December 26, 2019
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
IG Report Shows Comey Lied To Congress About FBI Investigation Of Trump Campaign
Soon after Monday’s release of the 476-page inspector general’s report on the Carter Page FISA applications and aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, former FBI Director James Comey took to Twitter to promote his op-ed in the Washington Post.
“So it was all lies. No treason. No spying on the campaign. No tapping Trumps [sic] wires. It was just good people trying to protect America,” Comey tweeted, with a link to his opinion article that demanded “those who attacked the FBI for two years should admit they were wrong.”
Comey’s spin is laughable. And there will be time in the days and weeks ahead to highlight the many failures of the DOJ and FBI revealed in the minutia of IG Michael Horowitz’s report. For now, though, let’s focus on a different detail exposed by Horowitz’s investigation into Crossfire Hurricane—that Comey falsely testified that the FBI had not launched an investigation into the Trump campaign.
Comey made that claim just more than a year ago, when he testified before the House Judiciary and Government Reform and Oversight committees. During that December 2018 hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy posed this question to Comey: “Late July of 2016, the FBI did, in fact, open a counterintelligence investigation into, is it fair to say the Trump campaign or Donald Trump himself?”
“It’s not fair to say either of those things, in my recollection,” Comey retorted. “We opened investigations on four Americans to see if there was any connection between those four Americans and the Russian interference efforts. And those four Americans did not include the candidate.”
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“So it was all lies. No treason. No spying on the campaign. No tapping Trumps [sic] wires. It was just good people trying to protect America,” Comey tweeted, with a link to his opinion article that demanded “those who attacked the FBI for two years should admit they were wrong.”
Comey’s spin is laughable. And there will be time in the days and weeks ahead to highlight the many failures of the DOJ and FBI revealed in the minutia of IG Michael Horowitz’s report. For now, though, let’s focus on a different detail exposed by Horowitz’s investigation into Crossfire Hurricane—that Comey falsely testified that the FBI had not launched an investigation into the Trump campaign.
Comey made that claim just more than a year ago, when he testified before the House Judiciary and Government Reform and Oversight committees. During that December 2018 hearing, Rep. Trey Gowdy posed this question to Comey: “Late July of 2016, the FBI did, in fact, open a counterintelligence investigation into, is it fair to say the Trump campaign or Donald Trump himself?”
“It’s not fair to say either of those things, in my recollection,” Comey retorted. “We opened investigations on four Americans to see if there was any connection between those four Americans and the Russian interference efforts. And those four Americans did not include the candidate.”
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Friday, November 29, 2019
Non-Intervention: An Imperfect Solution to a Terrible Problem
On November 27, US president Donald Trump signed the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act.
The bill, passed by veto-proof majorities in Congress amid large protests in the “special administrative region,” allows the president to impose sanctions on officials who violate human rights there, and requires various US government departments to annually review Hong Kong’s political status with a view toward changing trade relations if the US doesn’t like what it sees.
In response to the bill’s passage and Trump’s signature, the Chinese government in Beijing denounced US “meddling” in China’s “internal affairs” and threatened “countermeasures.”
Some non-interventionists agree with Beijing’s line on the matter, claiming that Hong Kong is intrinsically part of a thing called “China” and that the US simply has no business poking its nose into the conflict between pro-democracy (and increasingly pro-independence) protesters and mainland China’s Communist Party regime.
I happen to disagree with Beijing’s line, but that doesn’t mean I think the bill is a good idea. Non-interventionism is sound foreign policy not because the situation in Hong Kong is simple, but because it’s complex.
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The bill, passed by veto-proof majorities in Congress amid large protests in the “special administrative region,” allows the president to impose sanctions on officials who violate human rights there, and requires various US government departments to annually review Hong Kong’s political status with a view toward changing trade relations if the US doesn’t like what it sees.
In response to the bill’s passage and Trump’s signature, the Chinese government in Beijing denounced US “meddling” in China’s “internal affairs” and threatened “countermeasures.”
Some non-interventionists agree with Beijing’s line on the matter, claiming that Hong Kong is intrinsically part of a thing called “China” and that the US simply has no business poking its nose into the conflict between pro-democracy (and increasingly pro-independence) protesters and mainland China’s Communist Party regime.
I happen to disagree with Beijing’s line, but that doesn’t mean I think the bill is a good idea. Non-interventionism is sound foreign policy not because the situation in Hong Kong is simple, but because it’s complex.
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Monday, November 04, 2019
Friday, November 01, 2019
Former CIA Boss Celebrates Impeachment: 'Thank God for the Deep State!'
On Wednesday, just before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the formal vote to open an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, a former CIA boss praised the "whistleblower" behind the impeachment push. Adopting President Donald Trump's language, former acting CIA Director John E. McLaughlin declared, "Thank God for the 'deep state.'"
CBS News's Margaret Brennan asked an incisive question about the impeachment inquiry — which Pelosi announced last month before she led the House in formalizing it on Thursday.
"Now the impeachment inquiry is underway, sparked by a complaint from someone within the intelligence community. It feeds the president’s concern — and often used term — about a 'deep state' being there to take him out," Brennan suggested.
To this, McLaughlin somewhat ironically responded, "Thank God for the 'deep state.'"
While the audience laughed, it does not seem McLaughlin was merely telling a joke. He may reject Trump's language about the deep state, but he seemed to express genuine appreciation for members of the intelligence community who really did aim to take down the president.
Responding to the question about taking Trump out, McLaughlin insisted that the people in the intelligence community "are doing their duty or responding to a higher call." He noted that many of the Trump administration staff knew about the July 25 call between Trump and the president of Ukraine, but only a former and current CIA analyst went to Democrats in Congress with the story.
"With all of the people who knew what was going on here, it took an intelligence officer to step forward and say something about it, which was the trigger that unleashed everything else," McLaughlin said. "This is the institution in the U.S. government, that with all of its flaws — and it makes mistakes — is institutionally committed to objectivity and to telling the truth … Its whole job is to speak the truth. It’s engraved in marble in the lobby."
With all due respect, the intelligence community's record is not something to brag about at the current time, with John Durham's investigation into the roots of the Trump-Russia investigation and after the release of Andrew McCarthy's important book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
Read the entire articlehttps://pjmedia.com/video/former-cia-boss-celebrates-impeachment-thank-god-for-the-deep-state/
CBS News's Margaret Brennan asked an incisive question about the impeachment inquiry — which Pelosi announced last month before she led the House in formalizing it on Thursday.
"Now the impeachment inquiry is underway, sparked by a complaint from someone within the intelligence community. It feeds the president’s concern — and often used term — about a 'deep state' being there to take him out," Brennan suggested.
To this, McLaughlin somewhat ironically responded, "Thank God for the 'deep state.'"
While the audience laughed, it does not seem McLaughlin was merely telling a joke. He may reject Trump's language about the deep state, but he seemed to express genuine appreciation for members of the intelligence community who really did aim to take down the president.
Responding to the question about taking Trump out, McLaughlin insisted that the people in the intelligence community "are doing their duty or responding to a higher call." He noted that many of the Trump administration staff knew about the July 25 call between Trump and the president of Ukraine, but only a former and current CIA analyst went to Democrats in Congress with the story.
"With all of the people who knew what was going on here, it took an intelligence officer to step forward and say something about it, which was the trigger that unleashed everything else," McLaughlin said. "This is the institution in the U.S. government, that with all of its flaws — and it makes mistakes — is institutionally committed to objectivity and to telling the truth … Its whole job is to speak the truth. It’s engraved in marble in the lobby."
With all due respect, the intelligence community's record is not something to brag about at the current time, with John Durham's investigation into the roots of the Trump-Russia investigation and after the release of Andrew McCarthy's important book Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.
Read the entire articlehttps://pjmedia.com/video/former-cia-boss-celebrates-impeachment-thank-god-for-the-deep-state/
Friday, October 25, 2019
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Friday, October 04, 2019
CrowdStrike and the Impeachment Frenzy
In his telephone conversation with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, President Trump requested Ukraine’s help in getting “to the bottom of” the Russian collusion narrative and the role of CrowdStrike, a private computer security company, in propagating that story. Lost in the volcanic eruption of faux outrage and condemnation aimed at the president by the Democrats and their wholly owned media subsidiary, this reference to CrowdStrike indicates that the Justice Department’s investigation of the counterintelligence operation against candidate and president-elect Trump may be hot on the trail of exposing what could well be a seminal lie that the Democratic National Committee’s computer server was hacked by Russian operatives. To understand why, consider the following:
On June 12, 2016, WikiLeaks announced that it would soon release stolen computer files that pertained to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Two days later, CrowdStrike, which was working for the DNC, announced that it had detected Russian malware on the DNC’s computer server. The next day, a self-described Romanian hacker, Guccifer 2.0, claimed he was a WikiLeaks source and had hacked the DNC’s server. He then posted online DNC computer files that contained metadata that indicated Russian involvement in the hack.
On July 22, 2016, just days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks published approximately 20,000 DNC emails.
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On June 12, 2016, WikiLeaks announced that it would soon release stolen computer files that pertained to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Two days later, CrowdStrike, which was working for the DNC, announced that it had detected Russian malware on the DNC’s computer server. The next day, a self-described Romanian hacker, Guccifer 2.0, claimed he was a WikiLeaks source and had hacked the DNC’s server. He then posted online DNC computer files that contained metadata that indicated Russian involvement in the hack.
On July 22, 2016, just days before the Democratic National Convention, WikiLeaks published approximately 20,000 DNC emails.
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Thursday, October 03, 2019
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
What was this CIA Officer Thinking?
The news is dominated by “the whistleblower,” the CIA officer who reported to the CIA Inspector General (IG) that President Donald Trump may have committed a crime during a conversation with the president of Ukraine. I’ve been fascinated by the story for a couple of reasons.
First, as a whistleblower and a former CIA officer, I know what must have been going through the guy’s mind as he was coming to the decision to make a report on the president of the United States. That is, if he is a real whistleblower.
If he’s a whistleblower, and not a CIA plant whose task it is to take down the president, then his career is probably over. Intelligence agencies only pay lip service to whistleblowing. A potential whistleblower is supposed to go through the chain of command as the current whistleblower did. If an employee has evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, illegality, or threats to the public health or public safety, he is supposed to go to the Inspector General. The IG, then is supposed to go to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). And when the DNI investigates and finds the complaint credible, he then takes it to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. That sounds straightforward, but it’s not.
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First, as a whistleblower and a former CIA officer, I know what must have been going through the guy’s mind as he was coming to the decision to make a report on the president of the United States. That is, if he is a real whistleblower.
If he’s a whistleblower, and not a CIA plant whose task it is to take down the president, then his career is probably over. Intelligence agencies only pay lip service to whistleblowing. A potential whistleblower is supposed to go through the chain of command as the current whistleblower did. If an employee has evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, illegality, or threats to the public health or public safety, he is supposed to go to the Inspector General. The IG, then is supposed to go to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). And when the DNI investigates and finds the complaint credible, he then takes it to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees. That sounds straightforward, but it’s not.
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Monday, September 30, 2019
Forgotten Collusion Story: DNC, Clinton Campaign Sought Ukraine’s Help to Sink Trump
For a week now, the leftist media and hate-Trump Democrats have been pushing the fake news narrative that President Trump solicited “foreign interference” in the 2020 election during a phone call with Ukraine President Vlodymyr Zelensky.
Trump asked Zelensky to get to the bottom of the Biden-Burisma scandal. But a nine-page hearsay account from a CIA “whistleblower” twisted that conversation into another “collusion” tale that inspired yet another impeachment frenzy. This time, we are to believe, the victim of election theft is Joe Biden, not only the Democrats’ top candidate for president, but also the nexus, given his position as vice president, for a major influence-peddling scheme in Ukraine that enriched his son, Hunter.
But the media isn’t just ignoring Biden-Burisma. They’re ignoring the Democrats’ collusion to steal the 2016 election from Trump.
As John Solomon of The Hill reported in March and May, the Obama White House and Democratic National Committee ran a two-pronged operation to help Hillary Clinton and sink Trump.
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Trump asked Zelensky to get to the bottom of the Biden-Burisma scandal. But a nine-page hearsay account from a CIA “whistleblower” twisted that conversation into another “collusion” tale that inspired yet another impeachment frenzy. This time, we are to believe, the victim of election theft is Joe Biden, not only the Democrats’ top candidate for president, but also the nexus, given his position as vice president, for a major influence-peddling scheme in Ukraine that enriched his son, Hunter.
But the media isn’t just ignoring Biden-Burisma. They’re ignoring the Democrats’ collusion to steal the 2016 election from Trump.
As John Solomon of The Hill reported in March and May, the Obama White House and Democratic National Committee ran a two-pronged operation to help Hillary Clinton and sink Trump.
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
The Trump Impeachment Inquiry Scam
House Republicans impeached Bill Clinton for perjury and obstruction of justice over sex, acquitted by the Senate weeks later.
Dems aren’t likely to fare better against Trump (and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani) for allegedly asking Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter on corruption related issues, and allegedly delaying military aid as a bargaining chip — used for war on Donbass Ukrainians and widespread domestic repression.
Ukraine is a Nazi-infested police state, installed by the Obama regime in February 2014, the country’s undemocratic political system farcical.
Initially headed by billionaire/oligarch mega-crook Petro Poroshenko, comedian/entertainer Vladimir Zelensky succeeded him as a front man for US interests in the strategically important state bordering Russia, used as a dagger targeting its heartland.
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Dems aren’t likely to fare better against Trump (and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani) for allegedly asking Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter on corruption related issues, and allegedly delaying military aid as a bargaining chip — used for war on Donbass Ukrainians and widespread domestic repression.
Ukraine is a Nazi-infested police state, installed by the Obama regime in February 2014, the country’s undemocratic political system farcical.
Initially headed by billionaire/oligarch mega-crook Petro Poroshenko, comedian/entertainer Vladimir Zelensky succeeded him as a front man for US interests in the strategically important state bordering Russia, used as a dagger targeting its heartland.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Friday, September 20, 2019
TRUMP DUMPS BIBI!
The recent Israeli election and the apparent demise of forever Prime Minister Benjamin Satanyahoo offers us a "teachable moment" ™ about the complex dynamics of three-way love-hate triangle currently shaping modern geo-politics. The three sides are:
Faction #1: Patriotic pro-peace Nationalists (Trump, Putin, Xi et al)
Faction #2: Patriotic pro-war Nationalist Zionists (Bibi Satanyahoo, John Bolton, FOX News et al)
Faction #3: Marxist-Globalists who are generally pro-war, but not for Israel. (Soros, Rothschild, Sulzberger, Clinton, Obama et al)
Only for strategic purposes and common interests, any two of these factions will, at times, cooperate with each other in order to keep another faction in check or to wage war against it. It's real Mafia-movie-like stuff.
The evident glee over the fall of Bibi which is manifested in this pair of selected NY Slimes articles -- one inked by Roger Cohen (cough cough) and the other by Isabel Kershner (cough cough) -- illustrates the dislike which the Globalist Jews (Faction #3) have for Israel Firster Bibi Satanyahoo (Faction 2).
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Faction #1: Patriotic pro-peace Nationalists (Trump, Putin, Xi et al)
Faction #2: Patriotic pro-war Nationalist Zionists (Bibi Satanyahoo, John Bolton, FOX News et al)
Faction #3: Marxist-Globalists who are generally pro-war, but not for Israel. (Soros, Rothschild, Sulzberger, Clinton, Obama et al)
Only for strategic purposes and common interests, any two of these factions will, at times, cooperate with each other in order to keep another faction in check or to wage war against it. It's real Mafia-movie-like stuff.
The evident glee over the fall of Bibi which is manifested in this pair of selected NY Slimes articles -- one inked by Roger Cohen (cough cough) and the other by Isabel Kershner (cough cough) -- illustrates the dislike which the Globalist Jews (Faction #3) have for Israel Firster Bibi Satanyahoo (Faction 2).
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Thursday, August 29, 2019
TRUMP FOOLS THE ISRAELI WARMONGERS
So, Trump and President Rouhani of Iran are now openly talking about having a friendly tete-a-tete (a $10 French term for a sit-down), eh? This may have come as a surprise to many, but not to us. Time for a bit of horn-tootin', boys and girls.
Though initially disappointed with the seeming foreign policy aggressiveness of the man whom we used to mock as "Trumpstein" in early 2017; by the middle that first year in office, "The Editorial Board" of The Anti New York-Times became, as far as we know, the first and only to figure out the method behind Trump's fake madness and boldly predict that Trump -- while faking out the warmongers by threatening to start a war -- would actually lead the world to peace. Many of "youse guys" expressed doubt over our Trump-the-Pacifist theory, and a handful even insulted us!
Though Iran is insisting that there will be no talks until Trump lifts the sanctions which he had imposed; that's just posturing on their own part. The talks will eventually happen and -- through back-channel proxies such as Senator Rand Paul, they already are. Trump wants a deal and so does Iran. The purpose of the drama is to keep the Zionist crazies off off-balance.
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Though initially disappointed with the seeming foreign policy aggressiveness of the man whom we used to mock as "Trumpstein" in early 2017; by the middle that first year in office, "The Editorial Board" of The Anti New York-Times became, as far as we know, the first and only to figure out the method behind Trump's fake madness and boldly predict that Trump -- while faking out the warmongers by threatening to start a war -- would actually lead the world to peace. Many of "youse guys" expressed doubt over our Trump-the-Pacifist theory, and a handful even insulted us!
Though Iran is insisting that there will be no talks until Trump lifts the sanctions which he had imposed; that's just posturing on their own part. The talks will eventually happen and -- through back-channel proxies such as Senator Rand Paul, they already are. Trump wants a deal and so does Iran. The purpose of the drama is to keep the Zionist crazies off off-balance.
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