Posted on 11/16/2022 10:00:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Now that Donald Trump has formally announced he's in for 2024, let's weigh the truth or otherwise of his words based on independent evidence. This is essential to consider his fitness for becoming president again, as he was relentlessly accused of being a serial liar.
The media
Trump called the media the enemy of the people. Empirically, trust in the media is at an all-time low as the majority thinks reporters "purposely try to mislead people."
The burial of the Hunter Biden laptop story that broke before the election is the only case required to determine the nature of our media. Ask: What efforts did the media make when the story broke in the N.Y. Post to assess its factual basis?
If it was "Russian disinformation," what evidence led to such a conclusion?
How do they explain the long gap from their initial decision not to report it to the time when the N.Y. Times admitted that it was "authentic"?
Have they tried, through their "sources," to find out the identity of the "big guy"?
According to the American Press Institute, journalism's "essence is a discipline of verification," as the journalistic "method is objective, not the journalist." The mainstream press has failed this test. Worse, the N.Y. Times failed by its own standards. It did not tell its readers "the complete, unvarnished truth." It flouted its own standard of transparency: "Don't allow your audience to be deceived by acts of omission." This was not journalism "without fear or favor," but journalism "with hatred to cause harm." Bullied, Bari Weiss quit the Times.
Americans voted without crucial information about the fitness of a senile old man for the country's highest office. The media succeeded and changed the course of American history.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The permanent federal bureaucracy
Trump said he wanted to drain the swamp. First, a Trafalgar Group poll showed that 58.5 percent of voters believe that federal bureaucracies in Washington, D.C. have grown too large and serve only their own political interests.
Second, political donations by federal employees — incontestable indicators of their political leanings — show that they overwhelmingly favor Democrats. In the 2016 presidential campaign, 95 percent of their donations went to Hillary Clinton.
Third, swamp creatures often owned up to their obstructive role. Erica Newland, who had worked in the Office of the Legal Counsel until 2018, said, "I believed that I could better serve our country by pushing back from within."
Fourth, the decisive proof that both Democrats and RINOs consider the swamp indispensable is the uproar over Trump's plans for his second term. He wanted to create a new class of federal employees, making those positions eligible for quick hiring and firing. Expectedly, the swamp reacted, as Biden quickly signed an executive order rescinding the edict as one of his first acts as president.
Regretfully, the swamp remains brimful, but Trump told the truth. Unless we drain and dry it, we are lost.
The Borders and the Wall
Trump said you can't have a country without a border. The reaction of our Democrat elite to the arrival of 50 Venezuelan migrants in Martha's Vineyard and the speed with which they were hoovered away — in under 36 hours — shows that liberals just love borders in their personal lives. Why not, then, for the country?
Glance across the pond at yet another wave of French horror following the murder of a 12-year-old girl by illegal migrants, or try to understand why Italy and Sweden elected new migrant-skeptic governments. Lose your borders; lose your country. Trump told the truth.
The Military-Industrial Complex
Trump referred to the link between the Pentagon military leaders' desire to fight wars and the profits of arms companies.
According to Forbes, "President Trump caused a stir among defense intellectuals by acknowledging an unspoken truth about U.S. foreign policy — that military decisions are often influenced by capital" and confessed he was "right about the military-industrial complex."
In his 1961 farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower "famously warned the public of the nation's increasingly powerful military-industrial complex and the threat it posed to American democracy."
Trump courageously spoke the truth that remained unexpressed for almost sixty years.
China's trade practices
The proceedings of the 2004 U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission are revealing to assess Trump's excoriating words aimed at China trade policies.
Participants from several industries, such as automobiles, spare parts, steel, glassware, and ceramics, complained of huge job losses because of Chinese trade practices, copying and stealing proprietary information, undervalued currency, and counterfeits. To many witnesses, the unkindest cut was this:
The US government has failed to aggressively enforce US trade laws intended to mitigate the damage caused by China's trade practices. US policies in these areas are in need of urgent attention and correction.
Trump's record of truth-telling, and action on China remains unmatched.
Y.E.S.!!!!
What hurts the soul is the volume of petulant backstabbers — you can all GTH
I’m all in for Trump. Anyone opposing him is by definition supporting globalist subjugation of the American people to serfdon or slavery. . .the ideal of the CCP over which most US globalists drool. Trump may or may not be the best candidate, but he’s the only one who is on the side of liberty and the USA.
Unfortunately, usually people who tell the truth, even when it hurts, don't get elected.
Here’s how I see it.
1. Things are going to get worse. Trump basically said that in his speech.
2. People everywhere will feel the hurt.
3. Trump will be the only candidate with clear answers not a bunch platitudes like Pence is spewing.
4. There will be a ground swell again for Trump.
5. The House committees will uncover the truth of what is happening in our gov’t institutions.
6. The Senate will get nothing done.
7. Trump runs and wins.
RE: Unfortunately, usually people who tell the truth, even when it hurts, don’t get elected.
In the past, they were executed ( see Socrates, Jesus )
Eh..ya
Yes.
More importantly he needs to get support from those average Americans that think he has an out of control Ego. Pick your battles and use your deputies to make the most outrageous statements.
It drives The Elites crazy which is good
Trump must run or, the issues that are precious to us will go away.
Even if he does not get the nomination he will keep the right issues at the forefront.
Let’s just make it plain, right here! If you’re for some freakin’ dilletantism, GTF Outta the way, because this is about the survival of America! We’ve got no time to dabble in dumb-shit! Period! “Move-on” with the enemies of America!
Sure, I'm going to support the backstabbers, well dressed rotten corrupt politicians, globalist and others with bad intentions because Trump says mean things and I don't like his personality. Gak~
PDJT isn’t afraid to run into a burning building. I’m totally MAGAA. We can be better then ever again.
A journalist is one who journals, or records, an event. A propagandist is one who propagates, or spreads, something else that may have an element of truth.
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