Posted on 03/25/2018 5:45:16 AM PDT by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
While so many Trump supporters have spent the last couple of days tossing tantrums about the President’s decision to sign the horrible Omnibus spending bill, some good things have been happening without getting much notice from the fake news media.
Tired of all this Winning yet? – Just a few days after the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, I wrote a piece that laid much of the blame at the feet of an insane Obama-era policy that rewarded school administrators and law enforcement officials for refusing to enforce the law against students who engage in criminal activity. In the ensuing weeks since, more and more people in the news media have begun to report on the scam. Better late than never.
This growing attention level has now led to a positive outcome: The Trump Administration announced on Friday that it will eliminate the Obama policy. Just one more element of the insane, un-American Obama legacy falls by the wayside.
The fake news media really hasn’t paid much attention to this reality yet – it’s been too busy trying to whip the public into a gun-grabbing frenzy and reporting on a porn startlet – but with his staff moves over the last month, President Donald Trump has basically purged his team of senior advisors of globalists.
Senior Economic Advisor Gary Cohn – gone. Replaced with the Reaganite Larry Kudlow. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson – gone. Replaced – if he can be confirmed – by CIA Director Mike Pompeo. National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster – gone. Replaced by John Bolton. Assuming Pompeo is ultimately confirmed, the Trump Cabinet and team of senior advisors will basically be devoid of the open borders/new world order internationalist influence. While it is true that Bolton is an interventionist who favors aggressive U.S. military involvement in civil wars all around the world, he is very much on board with the Trump plan to dramatically increase border security.
Bolton also promises to “clean house” once ensconced in the job, eliminating dozens of Obama holdovers and other internationalists who are not loyal to President Trump, according to a report at Foreign Policy on Saturday. Taking this action will almost certainly eliminate many, if not most of the leaks coming from the White House, some of which have been criminal in nature.
Bottom line, 14 months into his first term, Trump is finally putting together the team of leaders he should have had in the first place. Again, better late than never.
Early this morning, President Trump issued the following two tweets:
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Dollars gotten to rebuild our Military, many jobs are created and our Military is again rich. Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense. Build WALL through M!
5:33 AM - Mar 25, 2018 20.5K 12.4K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Much can be done with the $1.6 Billion given to building and fixing the border wall. It is just a down payment. Work will start immediately. The rest of the money will come - and remember DACA, the Democrats abandoned you (but we will not)!
5:42 AM - Mar 25, 2018 17.1K 13K people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy These tweets are potentially very important, particularly the last sentence in the first one: “Build wall through M!”, the “M” standing for “Military.”
The federal budgeting process is very complex and arcane, and one thing to remember in this current situation is that this “Omnibus” spending bill is just that: A spending bill, not a formal budget. It is a compilation of suggested spending levels for each executive branch department and the military, along with an array of restrictions that dictate how some, but not all of that money can be spent.
It’s important to also remember in this context that, on December 21, the President took the step of declaring a national human rights emergency related to child-trafficking, a declaration that would allow Mr. Trump broad discretion in taking action to crack down on those who participate in such human rights abuses. It’s key to note that much such child trafficking involves moving kidnapped children in and out of the United States of America.
A second point to note is that, on Friday, the President notified congress that, in signing the Omnibus, he is accepting the funds under the provisions of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities within the budgets of individual executive branch departments.
Finally, lets also note that, last October, the President declared a national emergency related to opioid abuse.
Now, read the text of that first tweet again, in the context of what is laid out above. “Building a great border wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense.” Combine that with “”Build wall through M!” and, it’s not unreasonable to think that Mr. Trump is at least considering the possibility of reallocating some portion of the beefed-up military budget to pay for building the wall along the southern border.
Doing that would of course create a media firestorm, but hell, what else is new? And such a decision would also inevitably lead to a raft of lawsuits filed by leftwing activist groups before carefully-selected Obama-appointed federal judges, and possibly even a lawsuit from congress challenging the action. But at the end of the day, such cases would have to go before the Supreme Court, where the President would most likely prevail, given the constitutional separation of powers.
As I’ve repeatedly pointed out, contrary to what the fake news media wants you to think, President Trump doesn’t just belch stuff out onto his twitter feed at random. His tweets almost always have a purpose. Often that purpose is to elicit a specific reaction from the fake news media. Sometimes the purpose is to send up a trial balloon to gauge how the public would respond if he took a specific action.
I think the latter is what Mr. Trump was doing with those two tweets.
Just another day in there really is good news out there if you look for it America. That is all.
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” I do think it’s odd that of all the accusations leveled against him, this is the only one he isn’t fighting publicly.”
BS. There is plenty he hasn’t tweeted about. It’s just you think Stormy has something and you want her to get him.
You’re anger is childish.
“And, oddly, zero tweets about Stormy Daniels!”
Oddly? What is odd about not tweeting on what a porn star says?
It is rich that:
1. Our entire culture literally salivates over any and all forms of sex, over all forms of venues.
2. All forms of morality are impugned, scoffed at, ridiculed.
3. Christian morality is declared psychologically unhealthy.
4. But, let a porn star who had her picture taken with Trump and uses it to full advantage, and the pearl clutching by prancing moral deviants suddenly turned moral purists is amazing.
“...this is the only one he isn’t fighting publicly.”
He has publicly stated that she is lying.
And, if she is not lying, I don’t care, because it is between Trump and his wife and God.
“that Trump promised to veto
Trump never “promised” to veto the bill. Go back and read his twitter feed.
I’ve explained this process.
The Omnibus, even though called an “APPROPRIATION” bill, was really an “AUTHORIZATION” bill. No $$ has been appropriated yet.
The process is that the House first, then the Senate authorize money (permission to spend). Then they appropriate the money, usually a little at a time, to the Departments (never to the President).
Mattis will get the defense $, a little at a time. For ex, if he says the USAF needs 3 more F-22s and Congress appropriates (I dunno what they cost, say $200m for the three), and the USAF Sec spends the money on new bombers, then Congress won’t appropriate more til this is fixed and money comes from the bomber budget to replace.
If, somehow, Trump instructs Mattis to build a wall with the F-22 $$, Congress won’t appropriate any more money, period.
There is a reason the Founders did this. They wanted CONGRESS, whatever you think of them now, to have total control over the purse. There was NEVER an intention to allow presidents to just have their own slush funds.
As a side note, I’m hearing from military people right and left that the military was in FAR worse shape than we thought and that every penny is needed.
I think Rush Limbaugh has the correct take on this.
Even as a world renowned businessman, there are only so many qualified people for these positions you even know, let alone who can be successfully vetted, and then who will take the job.
Just FYI and not bragging, but Steve Bannon asked me if I wanted to head Library of Congress. I said “Hell no.” I’m not an administrator, and I hate Washington. And that’s a nuthin’ job. So you can imagine how very qualified people would be hard to find.
I am NOT comparing Trump to “nazis” but think back ot 1946. There was a ban on Nazis holding any power in Germany-—yet Patton found he couldn’t even run the water and electricity plants with non-nazis cuz either they had been killed or left 7-10 years earlier.
So, think of the nazis as the Swamp. Unable to find all the “loyal” but smart Trumpers, he had to turn to recommendations from inside the Swamp and that was first and foremost Priebus. But McMaster came with recommendations from everyone: I recommended him, Victor Hanson recommended him, and, according to Bannon, “so did 50 other top conservatives.”
Bottom line, it has taken a while to get rid of insiders and slowly find Trumpers willing and able to do the job.
Thanks, LS.
There are different ways to view this. The tweets may be Trump’s humorous trolling. Or there may be strategies to force Congress into a stand-alone vote on The Wall. And there are other possibilities.
He’s trolling, and I honestly think he knows how badly he screwed up. You could see it in the press conference. The worst he’s ever been.
So I think he’s trying to buck up the base.
Interview tonight stormy on TV. Her lawyer threatened Trump after tonights interview he should be very careful what he says about his client.
Agree. He will force the Dems to run against themselves, i.e. their own record because he knows that by no stretch of the imagination will all the DACA people automatically vote for Democrats, and so do they. That’s why they love DACA as an ISSUE but hate it as a policy. That charade is coming to an end, finally.
He will also use discretionary authority to improve border security including the use of “the M” - e.g. the military. Army Corps of Engineers, for example, to design it. If in the end some Dems challenge him in court, well we’ll take our chances after it gets to Scotus.
Trump does ignore some people. Remember when Eminem spent about 4 months desperately trying to get his attention?
I’ll take Trump on his worst day vs Hitlery on her best day.
I’m not sure, but I do know the writer is an a-hole. There are reasoned and grave objections to the budget disaster. To call those “tantrums” is both inaccurate and unjust.
Who cares he and his cohorts are proven liar already, McConnell and Ryan etc.
This law also gives the President broad discretion in making decisions to refuse to spend funds that have been authorized by congress, as well as allowing him to reallocate spending priorities...”
Meaningful only if Trump has learned to tell the courts to stuff it when necessary.
When your political opponents are paying a whore to create an an irrelevant attack on you, best to ignore the scum then waste time engaging .
No one cares about Rahm Emannual’s paid for propaganda whore. It irrelevant to voters.
It was made that way by you Leftists when you insisted Bill Clinton’s long list of sexual mis-condut was a “private personal matter”
Civil serpents should be civil servents but there are more serpents than servents so I guess it was Technically correct.
LBJ did it, with the black community and the Civil Rights bill.
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