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THREE REASONS TRUMP’S PRESIDENCY FAILED
NJ 101.5 am radio ^ | January 14, 2021 | Bill Spadea

Posted on 01/16/2021 3:12:36 PM PST by mick

Let me be clear: the president of the United States had every right to question the counting practices, lack of transparency and rules changes without legislative approval leading up to his defeat. Questioning government is a critical component of American culture and society. It's part of why a Republican form of government can work.

The problem today is that too many people ignore facts and history and regurgitate "talking points" from agenda-driven elites who control the "means of communication".

When the president of the United States is not "allowed" to inspire legal and peaceful protests, then we no longer live in a free country.

When tech billionaires are allowed to go unchecked deciding which speech is allowed and which isn't all the while enjoying the protection from liability from the federal government, then we no longer live in a free country.

When mobs of armed protestors with black shields and incendiary devices can walk unchecked through cities and neighborhoods forcing closures, destroying stores and homes, assaulting and, in some cases, killing people, driving police officers from their precinct buildings and stopping medical care from reaching people behind the rioters line, then we no longer live in a free country.

How did this happen? There are three reasons, in my opinion, that the president failed. At every turn, he had the opportunity to right the wrong, but didn't. President Trump could have solved and even prevented much of what we are now experiencing. Unfortunately, he did the opposite of what he should have done. His Oval Office speech about violence this week was the capstone on a lost war that leaves the rest of us to pick up the pieces and rebuild.

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister
KEYWORDS: fakeelection; fakenews; fauci; military; newyersey; riots; tds; trump
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To: Alberta's Child

As usual, your comments are thoughtful and are rooted in apparent law.

However, following the example of many presidents, Abraham Lincoln comes to mind, a strong leader determined to end the killing of innocents, the destruction of private property, and burning of federal buildings, could have, would have, should have brought in his AG in and ordered him - repeat ordered him - to find a legal loophole to allow him to send in the troops to stop the lawlessness that state and local authorities refused to do. I would have also found a way to arrest those mayors for complicity.
This is a war against our civilization and in this instance, Trump failed in his duty as I believe history will judge his duty.
To paraphrase Lincoln...save the country and let the courts fight it out later


101 posted on 01/17/2021 7:37:01 AM PST by mick (Central Banker Capitalism is NOT Free Enterprise)
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To: Jim Noble
Yours will become a minority position - even here.

Even in this late hour, you can see, by reading here, how utterly useless Legacy Conservatism and it's adherents were to this threat.

I actually read a thread today full of people posting the "rioters" deserve jail.

Amazing.

102 posted on 01/17/2021 8:02:26 AM PST by riri (Hope is not a strategy at this point- Sam Andrews)
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To: mick
Quoting Lincoln is a non-starter for me. The man will be remembered as the cornerstone of the movement to eradicate the sovereignty of states as political entities and replace them with a massive totalitarian centralized government.

Let’s see how Freepers feel about this when Joe Biden sends armies of Federal bureaucrats out across the land to make sure people are wearing stupid masks.

103 posted on 01/17/2021 9:10:42 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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To: mick

Read later.


104 posted on 01/17/2021 3:01:00 PM PST by NetAddicted (OwJust looking)
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To: mick

When early in his term President
Trump set up a team to ferret out voter fraud there was of course resistance from dim states and no cooperation. That effort died on the vine. At the time I felt it was an error to give up on it because I felt his future second term was being put in jeopardy. Time and events rolled on until the 2020 election arrived and for the most part the President and most here were confident but also most of us here always cautioned the level of voter fraud was a wild card. It’s easy to Monday morning quarterback but to me that wilted effort in retrospect might have been the fatal mistake.


105 posted on 01/17/2021 3:15:18 PM PST by xp38
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To: mick

It didn’t fail.


106 posted on 01/17/2021 3:16:40 PM PST by Trump_Triumphant ( Trump will always be my President, and Jesus Christ will always be my Lord)
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