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Amidst ongoing cuts to questionable federal programs through DOGE, the State Department is planning significant budget cuts, possibly even half of its current expenses.
And many of those cuts have to do with eliminating U.S. funding of globalist organizations like the United Nations and NATO.
According to a diplomatic source talking to Fox News, the administration has a plan to end funding for more than 20 international organizations.
The U.S. contributed around $13 billion to the United Nations in 2023 and around $3.5 billion to NATO. The source with a copy of the proposal says it calls for allocating $2 billion for "America First" priorities. Those funds could be used in support of "specific partners" like India and Jordan, according to the document, or broader priorities, like the South Pacific Tuna Treaty.
State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce stressed Tuesday, "There is no final plan, final budget." The proposed plan represents a $27 billion cut, nearly half of the State Department's current budget.
Bruce said, "Throughout the history of the United States, everyone has a budget plan and everyone has ideas for budgets. And every president has a budget plan and sends it to Congress. And then Congress either accepts it or they have their own ideas, which happens more often than not."
According to the Fox report, the foreign service travel budget and benefits would be scaled back under the plan, and the Fulbright scholarship program would be eliminated.
The document calls for a 2% reduction in diplomatic security, cuts to the inspector general's office, and the closure of smaller embassies in countries such as the Maldives, Malta, Luxembourg and the Central African Republic.
The budget proposal is in early stages, with several layers of approval needed before its finalization.
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'Hopefully they'll pay attention to us now they see the horrors of the country we live in'
A grisly discovery of charred bones, shoes and clothing in western Mexico has sparked protests across the nation as authorities investigate what appears to be an "extermination center" and training ground for a drug cartel.
CBS News reports that demonstrations recently took place in the western state of Jalisco, where the remains were found, and in cities across the country, including the capital Mexico City, Tijuana, Veracruz and San Luis Potosi.
Mexican families searching for the remains of loved ones gone missing made the discovery March 5 on a Jalisco ranch, a location thought to be where forced drug-cartel recruits had been held.
The Guerreros Buscadores collective – a group dedicated to locating missing people – described the site as an "extermination center" with "clandestine crematoriums," CBS reported.
Besides the Jalisco evidence, demonstrators are drawing attention to other incidents of cartel-related violence in Mexico.
In the Mexican capital, demonstrators placed candles and rows of shoes in tribute to the missing.
"I came to speak out for my son and for all the disappeared," said Aurora Corona, 58, whose son vanished in March last year in Mexico's northeastern Nuevo Leon state.
There are more than 124,000 people officially registered as missing in Mexico, mostly since 2006.
"Hopefully they'll pay attention to us now they see the horrors of the country we live in," Corona said tearfully.
According to the CBS report, the United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday described the finding in Jalisco as a "deeply disturbing reminder of the trauma of disappearances linked to organized crime across the country."
Last month President Trump officially designated drug cartels as terrorist organizations. March 4, before a joint session of Congress, Trump said, "Two weeks ago, I officially designated [Tren de Aragua], along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels, as foreign terrorist organizations.
"They are now officially in the same category as ISIS, and that's not good for them. Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S. by the Biden administration. But now, every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country, or, if they're too dangerous, put in jails, standing trial in this country, because we don't want them to come back ever."
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JERUSALEM – A newly released poll shows the level of support for the declaration of Jewish sovereignty in Judea and Samaria continuing to climb following the current pause in the fighting of the Swords of Iron war.
The data, which the Sovereignty Movement and Pulse of Israel presented, examined the Israeli public's views regarding sovereignty versus a Palestinian state, sovereignty versus the prospect of normalization with Saudi Arabia, and more.
The headline result was the 71% of respondents – an overwhelming majority – oppose the creation of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria in the wake of the Oct. 7 massacre, which left some 1,200 people dead and kidnapped 251 people to Gaza, 79 of whom remain in captivity, with 35 of them assessed to no longer be alive.
According to the poll, the 71% is made up of 59% of respondents who were always opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state and remain so today, while another 12% previously supported the idea, but have changed their minds as a result of the Hamas onslaught and the resultant war. Meanwhile, 25% previously supported the idea of a Palestinian state and still do so today, and curiously 4% support the idea while they previously opposed its creation.
In light of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Washington, D.C. visit for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, at which much will be up for discussion, including the possibility of the normalization of ties with Saudi Arabia – potentially in return for the establishment of a Palestinian state – the results were clear, if less emphatic.
More than half of the respondents, some 53%, said they would oppose a peace agreement with the Saudis if it was conditional on the recognition and establishment of a Palestinian state. Over a third, at 39%, said they would support such an agreement, while 8% said they had no opinion.
In response to President Trump's floating of the idea of voluntary migration for Gaza's population, 80% reacted with favor, while the remainder was split between opposing the idea and those with no opinion on the matter.
Of the 68% of respondents that agree to sovereignty in some form:
The survey also examined the ranking of the benefits of sovereignty in the eyes of the Israeli public. The factor which resonated most with respondents is security and regional stability (42%), second is Jewish identity and historical connection (16%), and the third-most important reason with 9% is strengthening Israel's diplomatic and political arguments.
Nadia Matar and Yehudit Katsover, co-chairs of the Sovereignty Movement added "The Sovereignty Movement is very pleased with the results of the poll, which reflect the health of the nation and the awakening from the illusion of peace through a Palestinian state. The Israeli public now understands that only sovereignty is the plan that will bring security and regional stability.
Avi Abelow, the CEO of Pulse of Israel, said: "It is quite clear that the Israeli people are looking for our leaders to stand up and work with President Trump and his administration to apply sovereignty in Judea and Samaria because Israelis have realized Arab self-rule in Judea and Samaria is an existential danger to all of our lives, as it was in Gaza."
"Sovereignty is also the best application of President Trump's 'peace through strength' doctrine against an enemy that educates its children to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish state of Israel. The goal of the Palestinian Authority is the same as Hamas; it is time Israel acts in our interests based on this understanding."
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"Make America Healthy Again," the new Trump administration agenda inspired and led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., couldn't be more vital – indeed, crucial – considering the alarming decline in Americans' health. Consider:
* The U.S. is in the grip of a full-blown obesity epidemic, with well over 200 million Americans – including millions of children – being overweight or obese. According to the CDC, over 40% of adults in the United States are clinically obese, in stark contrast with the 1950s, when approximately 10% of U.S. adults were obese.
* The number of American children and adults with autism spectrum disorders has exploded, rising by 175% over just the last decade. One out of every 36 children in the U.S. has been diagnosed with autism, up from 1 in 44 as recently as 2021. In contrast, during the 1950s, autism was virtually nonexistent, afflicting between 0.01% and 0.05% of Americans born during that decade.
* Early-onset cancer cases rose almost 80% over the last three decades and show no signs of slowing down. One major 2022 study reveals the incidence of early-onset cancers – including breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver and pancreas – has been dramatically increasing since around 1990.
* A staggering 38 million Americans are suffering from diabetes, a number expected to increase to almost 55 million in the next five years. During the late 1950s, the prevalence of diabetes in the U.S. was estimated to be 9 cases per 1,000 people, for a total of 1 million cases.
What's going on? Why is the health of Americans degrading so radically? With the rapid growth of knowledge and technology, including medical technology, one might expect the exact opposite to be the case – that everyone's health would be ever improving.
Yet Americans are becoming less and less healthy, including, tragically, the nation's children. Fully 50% of American children are dealing with some sort of chronic health issue, up from less than 1% five decades ago.
Obviously, with Americans' health in crisis, the goal to "Make America Healthy Again" is welcome and necessary. But there's one major obstacle to achieving this goal that needs to be addressed up front.
They all lied
As deadly and traumatizing as the COVID-19 pandemic was, it did bring about a mass awakening in at least one important area: Americans discovered they absolutely could not trust the government agencies tasked with safeguarding their health. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the Food and Drug Administration, to the National Institutes of Health and other branches of the federal Department of Health and Human Services, they all lied to Americans, either explicitly or by willful suppression of the truth.
Most visible, of course – and setting the standard for all other government bureaucrats – was Dr. Anthony Fauci, longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, under the NIH. Fauci acted the part of the kindly, grandfatherly presidential adviser on all things COVID. Unfortunately, he turned out to be a classic sociopath, smiling while lying about virtually everything – from mask-wearing (he initially admitted the truth, that masks are ineffective, only later doing a full 180 and insisting on universal masking, even outdoors!) to imposing the "six-foot rule" (later admitting this arbitrary rule was based on exactly zero science), to perversely denying that natural immunity provided ideal protection against COVID-19 just as it does for other viruses – a pivotal and unconscionable lie that flung open the doors to ruthless vaccine mandates.
Some of Fauci's lies were not only dangerous, but jaw-droppingly corrupt – like his insistence that COVID-19 arose spontaneously from an open-air food market in Wuhan, China, rather than from the level-4 biohazard research facility just a few blocks up the street (the Wuhan Institute of Virology) where ongoing mad-scientist "gain-of-function research" – funded by the NIH at Fauci's direction – was focused on rendering bat coronaviruses more dangerous and more transmissible to humans.
Meanwhile, the CDC and FDA perversely denigrated and mocked the use of ivermectin, a Nobel Prize-honored drug that had saved literally millions of lives from various other deadly infectious diseases, as documented in the peer-reviewed "Journal of Antibiotics." Yet despite multiple studies proving ivermectin to be an effective and life-saving early treatment for COVID-19, it was ridiculed mercilessly by the federal health bureaucracies and their news media "echo chamber." Similar story with hydroxychloroquine.
Why did they all lie, mocking and discouraging Americans from taking advantage of these drugs, whose safety was long-acknowledged by the FDA, and which could have saved many more lives and enormously reduced suffering during the COVID pandemic?
That's easy: They maniacally wanted every man, woman and child in America to take "the jab" – that is, the various experimental mRNA COVID-19 shots that turned out to be some of the most problem-ridden vaccines in medical history.
Clearly, the medical bureaucracies within Big Government have not been worthy of Americans' trust. Nor has Big Pharma, which has proven itself to be far more motivated by gargantuan profits than safeguarding human lives.
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JERUSALEM – Leftists – and most prominently U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D–N.Y. – took to X in droves Monday night, following Elon Musk's speech after President Donald Trump's inauguration, claiming the tech billionaire had given a Nazi salute.
A clearly pumped and emotional Elon, while saying "My heart goes out to you," touched his heart and immediately raised his right arm in appreciation of his audience. It was instinctive – and potentially not brilliantly thought-through. But a Nazi salute it was not.
However, the attempt by leftists and a corporate media whose ratings are in the toilet to equate Musk – and therefore, the whole MAGA movement with Nazism – shows they still haven't learned the lessons from the crushing 2024 election defeat.
X was flooded with claims and counter-claims. Those defending Musk said it was a Roman salute, while also referencing his self-acknowledged position on the autism spectrum and his arm-raise was a misplaced expression of exuberance.
Meanwhile, others post images of members of the Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, side-by-side with Musk, claiming it was indeed a Nazi salute. Other accounts showed stills of four Democrat politicians – President Barack Obama, Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and Hillary Clinton – with their right hands outstretched, showing that catching people in a certain pose can be twisted to suit a particular narrative.
The overwrought reaction to Musk's salute is all the more galling as Leftist politicians and their defenders in the media never raised a peep of protest against pro-Hamas supporters performing genuine Nazi salutes at their anti-Jewish rallies, promoting the actual genocide of Jews, both in the Jewish state and the world beyond. However, a neurodivergent person makes an inelegant gesture and they have no problem jumping up and down over it.
Elon bit back at the critics, saying they needed "better dirty tricks," and that "the 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."
He's right. At Trump's Madison Square Garden rally at the end of October, the compromised media, which overlooked President Biden's infirmity until it became a glaring national embarrassment, harped on about how it was a Nazi rally, redolent of a 20,000-strong event back in 1939, which genuinely was pro-Nazi. Independent observers such as Triggernometry host Konstantin Kisin, remarked he had never seen so many visibly Orthodox Jews and Israeli flags at a Nazi rally.
Former New York assemblyman Doc Hikind posted a powerful defense of Elon on X. In a previous post he showed images ofMusk on stage in an interview wearing the hostage dog tag in honor of those still held in Hamas captivity and barely able to keep his emotions in check, as well as visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp alongside Orthodox Jewish Conservative personality Ben Shapiro.
In the video, Hikind, whose parents survived the horrors of the Holocaust in Auschwitz, called the accusation "pathetic and sick," adding Elon was a "friend of the Jewish people." He also said "Musk is an individual who cares deeply about America," finishing his defense by exclaiming, "Shame on you, shame on you, and go to hell!"
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Joe Biden's last-second announcement from just before he left the White House to pardon a long list of family members and Democrat activists, such as his brother James Biden and now-Sen. Adam Schiff, reveals what he thought: That the recipients actually committed crimes.
Irrespective of what investigators might have concluded, and irrespective of what prosecutors might have decided, it's now on record what Biden thought, according to a new report from the Federalist.
Biden earlier had pardoned thousands of convicted criminals, including three dozen murderers on death row. And his son, Hunter, even though he had promised many times that would not happen.
Then just before leaving office, Biden also pardoned Gen. Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, and "the members and staff of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol."
The report said, "To be pardoned for a crime, there must be a crime. None of the people on this list has been charged for the awful ways they harmed people in their official capacities. In fact, Biden awarded former Rep. Liz Cheney, a Republican, the Presidential Citizens Medal, one of the nation's highest civilian honors on Jan. 2, for 'Putting the American people over party,' or, more accurately, for leading the Jan. 6 committee like a rabid dog."
Cheney notably has been accused of working with a J6 committee witness to change her testimony in ways that would be hurtful to Trump.
"So which is it? Award-winning behavior, or a crime? She tampered with a witness and tainted the facts presented to the American people," the report noted.
"Sounds like a crime, and with this preemptive pardon, Biden proves he thinks so too — a crime vulnerable to an investigation that would lead to charges. It could be no other reason.'
The report noted Milley was chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the time of the horrific Afghanistan withdrawal, which left 13 American soldiers dead. And billions of dollars of American war machinery in the hands of terrorists.
Milley's agenda was to push the military into "wokeness."
There even was a claim that after the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, Milley called Chinese officials and reportedly told him to U.S. was "stable" and China would be notified if the U.S. was going to attack, the report said.
While Biden's action suggests there were crimes, the report explained, Americans are being robbed of "the justice that comes from accountability."
The report noted Milley's response was: "I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights."
"Well of course you don't. No one likes being held accountable. But leaving 13 military members to die is not perceived, it is a documented fact and much more than a 'slight,'" the report said.
Regarding Fauci, the report said, "Thousands of people died from COVID on his watch, and he was behind using U.S. tax dollars to fund the lab in Wuhan, China where research was being conducted into bat coronaviruses."
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A saint is someone who gives up his own life to serve others. He leaves behind a comfortable, secure life because of a specific calling from God that he chooses to accept, even if he knows it will catapult him into the Colosseum amphitheater of hardship, the circus where the roaring lions are waiting to devour him.
Donald Trump, so successful and wealthy, could have lived the rest of his life comfortably at the national historic landmark in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, enjoying golf and famous friends in a welcoming environment, traveling the world on expensive yachts. It would have been the epitaph of his successful life, with graceful Melania by his side.
Yet, while watching American society deteriorate, watching the corporate elite increasingly gaining control over the political establishment, assembling wealth into their own hands at the expense of the regular American worker; watching the hatred grow against the United States and its endless wars internationally, multi-polarism rising as a consequence of injustice and horrible political U.S. leadership, Donald Trump must have concluded that he was willing to lose it all in an attempt to save America from its downward spiral of corruption and greed.
The history of saints shows us the people we should admire, with qualities we should copy, since they demonstrate selflessness, strength, and obedience in taking up their cross in order to walk into the arena of wild beasts. With an exceptional degree of closeness to God, their desire is to alleviate pain, help the suffering, and mend the broken.
Yet, the saints in history were marked by imperfection. Some were former warlords and army generals, others were thieves or harlots, but they made their mark by giving it all up to attain holiness. They were willing to endure persecution, being lied about, scorned, and belittled. Many of them were killed, publicly flogged, their properties expropriated by evil emperors, or, as in the Soviet Union, by the Communist elite that tolerated no freedom of speech or opinions that differed from the atheist state narrative that permeated the propaganda media structures.
Donald Trump has become the most demonized president in U.S. history, yet now enjoys a historic comeback that will resound in the decades to come. To quote the Daily Mail, "he's been shot, sued, put on trial, written off and endlessly branded a fascist," yet "Donald Trump's resounding U.S. election victory is far more comprehensive than anyone had predicted, as he rode a wave of support from black and Latino voters to retake the White House. Donald Trump has defied his critics to crush his opponents once more."
So, what has been the main driving force behind the immense demonization of Trump? As many now comprehend, he instantly became enemy No. 1 to the established globalist elite who own the media and most of corporate America when he launched a massive attack on their growing empire. As I have pointed out in my book, "Trump. The Battle for America," this economic elite has since the 1980s profited from the outsourcing of jobs and wealth to Communist China and the ultra-rich – all at the expense of the regular American worker.
Over 90% of the U.S. media is now monopolized into only six corporations with an interest in the development of a globalist, transnational economic system that profits from the lack of national sovereignty. The globalist business model is dependent on weak nation-states that may be overrun by global corporations, crushing the middle class and local businesses.
And globalism has worked, it has reinforced an international economic model that departs from the nation-based capitalist system. It benefits the ultra-rich on an unprecedented scale.
Globalism has produced a system in which a few individuals now own most of the world's assets, made possible by its refusal to redistribute wealth when outsourcing jobs to cheap labor countries. This system depends on the open border strategy, which gives access to cheap labor and pushes down the minimum wage level; while the corporations are registered in tax havens and therefore have no tax burden to any specific country.
So, when President Joe Biden chose to label Trump's millions of supporters the "only garbage I see floating out there," he demonstrated contempt for precisely the regular workers and everyday citizens who suffer from the globalist takeover.
It is deeply problematic that the mainstream media, owned by these elitist corporations, has become a propaganda smoke screen that completely disguises these real driving forces that cause injustice and cultural deterioration in the West. With Trumpism triumphant, many now hope for a more just world and a better future.
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With the political, social, and even religious future of America at stake the 2024 election results for president started arriving as soon as polling stations closed on Tuesday.
Some states were warning their final result might not be available for a day, or more, after the Constitution's specified Election Day, but within an hour, state elections in Oklahoma, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida all went to President Donald Trump.
Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Ohio, Arkansas, and Louisiana soon followed, giving Trump 137 Electoral College votes.
He collected a stunning 25.6 million votes.
While Kamala Harris was leading, often by insignificant markets in a handful of other states, she had won 99 Electoral College votes from Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland Connecticut, New York, and Illinois.
She had 22.6 million votes.
Vote numbers were watched by a coalition of legacy wire service members.
Earlier, exit polling suggested what voters were thinking.
As already had been documented throughout the 2024 presidential election in the U.S., exit polling on Election Day confirms vast numbers of voters are unhappy with where their country is and what direction it is going.
Over the last four years of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime, consumers have been bludgeoned by 20% plus inflation, a wide-open southern border with millions of illegal aliens carrying their needs to U.S. taxpayers, and a White House agenda that is obsessed with transgenderism and abortion.
A report in the Daily Mail cited APVoteCast exit polling that confirmed "the economy and immigration" are the top issues facing the nation.
The report said the polling "found a country mired in negativity and desperation."
Further, 8 in 10 voters want "substantial change" in the way the nation is run and some 70% said the U.S. right now is on the wrong track.
Other exit polling, by a network, found 51% of respondents trust Trump on the economy, to Harris' 47%, and 72% said they are "angry" or "dissatisfied" with the state of the nation. That, the report confirmed, is "a bad sign for the vice president."
All eyes will be on seven swing states, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona, Michigan, and Nevada, with analysts giving Trump more than a dozen combinations that would give him victory; Harris has a few less.
The Mail noted, "Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is one of the most watched parts of the commonwealth as it was once traditionally a Republican county but has since gained more Democrat voters. At the Warrington Fire Company No. 1, Station 29 polling station, the number of voters was picking up as the sun began to set … Lou, Jeri, and Bunny, three Republican women handing out sample ballots here are thrilled with the turnout, judging by the sample ballots they have handed out. 'A lot of Democrats are switching over,' Jeri says … I would say 70-30."
Jeri, whose No. 1 issue is the economy, added, "We're asking God to keep it all in his hands, whoever he wants in, please God, without any interference."
Further polling showed that 26% of the voters in Arizona are Hispanic, up from 19% in 2020, and in Pennsylvania, 83% of the voters were white, up from 81% in 2020.
CNN reported only 7% of the country was enthusiastic about its status, while 19% said they were satisfied. Forty-three percent said they were dissatisfied and another 29% were angry.
The first results, from eastern states, are expected shortly after the traditional 7 p.m. closing time for polling locations.
The Electoral College count, which determines the next American president, totals the number of members of the U.S. House and Senate so that a candidate requires 270 to be assured a victory.
Democrat pundits had assured voters that Kamala Harris undoubtedly would win. Some pollsters said the result would be closer than any presidential election before, but there were a few that predicted a significant win for Trump, up to and including a sweep of the swing states.
President Donald Trump voted in Palm Beach, Florida, stating, "I'd like the Republicans to stay in line. Democrats, if they like, they can leave, but I'd like the Republicans to stay in line."
Voters across America on Tuesday were faced with what has been described, accurately in this instance, as the biggest election the nation ever has faced.
The choice was between giving Trump a second, non-consecutive, term to work on his agenda of Making America Great Again, or a second, consecutive, term for Kamala Harris, who would change nothing from the four years of the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime and take the nation further, perhaps irretrievably further, into green, LGBT, abortion, high inflation and an economy that punishes consumers and, leftist to the point of being communist, agendas.
Franklin Graham, head of Samaritan's Purse, one of the largest charities in the world, said the dispute was not just a political war this time, it was spiritual.
Quoting from James Dobson's Family Talk organization, he said voters were deciding on "the right to praise God without fear," "for every unborn soul that is at risk of being aborted," "for good against evil."
Also included in those topics would be voting "for" the Second Amendment, "the Electoral College, "the police – and law and order, "the military and the veterans, "the flag that is often missing from public events," and "for" the right "to speak my opinion and not be censored for it."
It was the latest battle in the war between the two ideologies represented by Trump, a billionaire businessman who now has dedicated his life to creating good for the American people – and the rest of the world – and the idea that the government knows best what you can say, what you can do, even what you can think or pray, and is willing to enforce that.
The contrasts between the two campaigns could not be more stark.
There have been two assassination attempts against President Trump, including one where a sniper successfully hit his ear, giving rise to the 2024 election's iconic image of him with a fist raised in the air, telling his packed rally crowd to "Fight, fight, fight."
He stunned the entire political world with his first election victory when in 2016 he handed Democrat Party elder Hillary Clinton her second straight loss in her campaign to take the White House.
He governed like he campaigned, with powerful statements, forceful ideas, and a no-holds-barred attitude.
Trump's loss to Biden in the 2020 race was influenced by Mark Zuckerberg's decision to hand out, like candy, $400 million plus to election officials who often used it to recruit voters in Democrat districts. Further, the FBI and Washington's Deep State interfered with the election by lying to legacy and social media outlets, telling them that the Biden family scandals documented in Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop were disinformation.
But Trump's first term in office, and Biden's sliver-thin victory, even with outside influences, terrified Democrats who immediately ramped up their campaign of rhetoric that Trump was a "Hitler." And they went further, launching a long list of lawfare legal cases against him, over how he did business (experts called his methods standard for the industry), what he said was his opinion (the election wasn't fair), and much, much more.
They were stunned when they didn't stop him, and they've been escalating their war on him throughout the campaign, with several even demanding that he be jailed.
Harris, on the other hand, was picked as Biden's vice president after having failed to get any support during the early part of the 2020 race when she dropped out, and she included the attributes of being black, or Indian depending on her own claims, and female.
She then was hand-picked by Democrat party elites to be their presidential candidate this year after they tossed a mentally and physically failing octogenarian Joe Biden under the bus. That was after the Biden-Harris White House gave Americans inflation of more than 20%, sky-high gas prices, an open southern border that is decimating American social programs, and their obsession with LGBT ideology and abortion.
Harris has made it clear her "kill-the-unborn" agenda even includes demolishing the Constitution's protection for religious liberty.
The party's process for picking her could not have been less democratic, as Biden had won enough delegates for the nomination for this election. He started campaigning, but shortly after the catastrophic presidential debate performance, he was out.
Commentators have described Trump's political career rally as "the greatest comeback in modern politics,"
According to a Real Clear Wire analysis, even Democrats had rejoiced at Trump's comeback, initially.
"State Sen. Dick Harpootlian, a South Carolina Democrat and Biden family friend, told RealClearPolitics two summers ago that he prayed for the return of Trump who 'embodies everything we need in a Republican candidate,'" the report said. "If the Almighty would just answer that prayer, Democrats could take it from there. Trump had baggage. President Biden, experience. A rematch, they felt, had to favor the incumbent. It did not."
Key to the shafting of Biden by Democrats was his mental decline, which was cited by a federal prosecutor as a reason for not charging him when he violated federal law with his illegal handling of government documents.
Democrats unanimously had tried to claim Biden's mental acuity was top-flight. Democrat California Gov. Gavin Newsom said, "He meets these moments. I have not seen an exception."
But the truth revealed confirmed that Democrats had been hiding evidence of Biden's decline – up until they decided they would replace him.
After the injury from the attempted assassination in Butler, Republicans turned their focus on the Democrats' pro-violence rhetoric, blaming the constant false comparisons to Nazis, to Hitler, to a dictator, for the criminal activity.
Trump, in fact, was riding fairly high in the polls when the Democrats suddenly experienced a rejuvenation when Harris replaced Biden.
While she generated excitement for the party for a time, her inability to speak – her "word salads" are legend, her lack of specificity about her vision for America, her adherence to Biden's failed agenda, and more left the party without a lasting support structure.
So the 2024 race ended up being Trump's vision for a surging America and a Harris vision that "I'm not Trump."
Biden announced the end of his campaign with a statement on social media.
"He had lost the confidence of his party after former President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi let it be known that they also saw the obvious: The elder statesman was too old and too diminished to fend off Trump," Real Clear reported.
The sudden interest in Harris failed to develop into a lasting support because she was all about "vibes" and little about the nation itself.
She prompted Trump to create nicknames for her like, "Crazy Kamala" and "Comrade Kamala," reflecting her extreme left agenda.
Harris was forced to flip-flop on a long list of issues to try to remake herself into a mainstream candidate, downplaying her advocate for gun confiscation and more.
She repeatedly claimed, "We are not going back," without mentioning that Americans were better off, more secure, and more at liberty in the time of "back."
The result was that Harris refused to answer questions for weeks after her coronation by the Democrats.
While Republicans took to the obvious, tying Harris to Biden, Democrats continued their rhetoric, repeating over and over false claims, like the trope that Trump called white supremacists "good people," a claim that has been debunked over and over.
The networks joined with Harris in the attacks on Trump, fact-checking him during his debate with Harris while leaving her lies unchallenged.
Trump chose Sen. JD Vance as their running mate while Harris picked Tim Walz, the leftist Minnesota governor who was appointed to a state post as a Critical Race Theory expert who openly advocates for the destruction of America.
Vance has proven over and over his ability to reduce opponents of the GOP ticket who are in the media to silence, while Walz has made himself an issue by calling Republicans "weird." During their debate, Walz excused some of his lies by calling himself a "knucklehead."
Then Biden, whether meaning to or not, undermined Harris' campaign by calling Trump supporters "garbage," much like Clinton said they are "deplorables" and Barack Obama said they are bitter and cling to their guns and Bibles.
Biden, in fact, earlier, had undermined Harris several times, praising Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' work after hurricanes there just at the same time Harris was criticizing DeSantis. And Biden assured Americans that Harris was part and parcel of all of his big decisions, at a time when she was trying to distance herself as a "new" way forward.
Even Obama was featured in a Trump ad, when he insisted that the nation was not going back to four years of mismanagement, without noting that for the past four years, his party has run the country.
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It was only days ago that twice-failed White House wannabe Hillary Clinton was discussing how Democrats must control the information Americans have, through the press and social media.
Now one of her compatriots-in-arms in the agenda to make America over into the "just and equal society" they want has confirmed that agenda, with actions that including her ownership of The Atlantic, a far-left publication that repeatedly has done hit pieces on President Donald Trump, and her expressed interest in ownership of the New York Times: "Is it for sale?"
That person is Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and the inheritor of his billions.
"It was pretty obvious to me that we could build, we cou… you know we'd we'd build out in a very cross-disciplinary way, um our work capitol investing, policy and philanthropy. And we could do this work forever and ever and we could have the narrative overtaken by you know by someone who has a lot of power that's complete contrary to us. And we could never get to the place where we could think we're part of a more just and equal society and so it was obvious that if we could be part of the the creation of cultural narrative uh, that would that would enhance and amplify all the work that we're doing."
She continued, "These are early days for us but that's the idea behind it. We want to inspire the kind of stories that we'd like to see told."
She was sitting next to Kamala Harris when she described her agenda to control what information to which people have access.
WND previously has reported on Clinton's related agenda.
She said, "Well I do think that, uhm, the, the press needs a consistent narr … I mean the, the press is not supporting Trump, blatantly, very persistently. The press is trying to be the press, be objective, reporting the facts… uhm. The press needs a consistent narrative about the danger that Trump poses, because you know people may still look at the dangers and say 'I don't care, doesn't you know doesn't affect me I'm going to vote for him, for X Y or Z' but ok … But at least people need to be woken up and given the facts about what he has done, is saying and would do."
Then the Daily Mail reported she wants control of social media, too.
She said in an interview on CNN that "we" could "lose control" if they don't do enough to censor digital content.
Her agenda drew a backlash online, in fact.
"Democrats see the internet as a propaganda tool rather than a medium for the open exchange of information!!" warned Tom Callahan on social media.
The report explained, "Clinton called for the federal government to imitate states like California and New York to place more controls on social media."
She charged, "We need national action and sadly our Congress has been dysfunctional when it comes to addressing these threats to our children."
She continued, "[I]f the platforms, whether it's Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don't moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.:"
Another social media participate said, "Who is 'we'?"
Her earlier comments about control of the press pointed out she believes, "This is dangerous stuff! It starts online often on the dark web. It migrates. It's picked up by the pro-Trump media. It's then reported on by everybody which makes sure it has about 100% coverage and people believe it! So I don't know what it's going to be but it will be something and we will have to work very hard to make sure that it is exposed as the lie that it is.""
Of course, what Clinton and other leftists repeatedly have claimed is misinformation, disinformation and malinformation – with their demands that it be suppressed, is nothing more than a political opinion that contradicts her own political opinion.
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There is no doubt that media outlets have played a large role in the shaping of American political opinions in recent years. Just look at the orchestrated attacks on President Donald Trump even while he was a candidate and there were all those reports about the Democrat-manufactured claims of "Russian collusion."
We know now there was no substance to those wild diatribes, but that's not how the legacy media wrote it at the time.
That campaign, apparently is as strong today as ever has been.
A new report from Washington Examiner columnist Paul Bedard explains that since Kamala Harris was anointed by her party's elite, who had just finished throwing Joe Biden under the bus, as their presidential candidate, 84% of stories about her have been positive.
And 89% of the reports about President Donald Trump have been negative.
"The media have gone on a Kamala Harris binge since the vice president moved swiftly to replace President Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's 2024 candidate of choice, giving her the most positive coverage in modern history," he explained. "At the same time, and nearly as expected, the same media have gone on a scorched-earth campaign against former President Donald Trump, giving the Republican nominee what is likely to be a historic level of negative coverage."
He cited the polling results from the Media Research Center.
"Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris's coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump's coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative)," that organization reported.
"Add it all up, and the networks have granted the combined Democratic ticket of Harris-Walz 82% positive press, while Trump-Vance has faced 90% negative coverage," explained the report author, Rich Noyes.
Bedard noted the media's "cheerleading" likely will continue this week, as the Democratic National Convention takes off, amid fears of rioting, in Chicago.
However, he noted that the public is not being bamboozled.
"Polls and social media posts appear to show that as drunk as reporters and news anchors are for Harris and her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, R-Minn., the public sees through it. In a Rasmussen Reports poll shared with Secrets, 60% of likely voters said they believe the media tries to help the candidate they want to win.' And that is Harris, according to 57% of those polled."
Noyes also confirmed the biggest three outlets simply don't question Harris's positions and suppress Democrat problems such as Walz's lies about his military service.
Noyes explained, "As the Democratic National Convention begins, the Big Three evening newscasts have delivered Kamala Harris the most positive start to a general election campaign of any presidential nominee in recent memory. Not only is she getting the most coverage, she's also getting by far the most positive press. The question is whether the public will be swayed by this extraordinarily lopsided coverage, or will they see this as just more evidence of a partisan news media taking sides."