Trump to America : "Never, Ever Give Up"

KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE FOREST, FORGET THE TREES. • "I am your voice." • As we start a new week, let's recall the words of President Trump, because they are our reminder that he is on our side and that he is not afraid of anyone on the Progressive side who may think, wrongly, that they can defeat him or us. • • • TRUMP'S WORDS TO AMERICA. In his Republican National Convention Acceptance Speech in July 2016, candidate Donald Trump said : "Every day I wake up determined to deliver for the people I have met all across this nation that have been ignored, neglected and abandoned....These are people who work hard but no longer have a voice. I am your voice.” • Then, after his election victory, in his January 20th Inauguration Address, President Trump told us : "For too long, a small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished -- but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered -- but the jobs left, and the factories closed. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation’s Capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land. That all changes -- starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment : it belongs to you. It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country. So to all Americans, in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, and from ocean to ocean, hear these words : You will never be ignored again. Your voice, your hopes, and your dreams, will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together, We Will Make America Strong Again. We Will Make America Wealthy Again. We Will Make America Proud Again. We Will Make America Safe Again. And, Yes, Together, We Will Make America Great Again. Thank you, God Bless You, And God Bless America." • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP IS NOT AFRAID. In that revolutionary Inaugural Address, President Trump gave back to us, the American people, the keys to the Constitution and to our exceptional heritage. When he looked out at us on January 20, he must have known what he would face. When he said : "I will fight for you with every breath in my body -- and I will never, ever let you down," he must have felt the knives that would be plunged into his ideals, into his words, into his efforts. But, I have become more and more certain that Donald Trump doesn't care about himself -- he cares only about us, about America, about freedom, about the American dream. And, as we watch and fight in the battle that President Trump has begun to save America for us and our children, let's not forget that he has put himself on the front line -- not flinching, but doing what is right, even as the entire Progressive Democrat Party apparatus and its disgracefully partisan mainstream media plunge knife after knife into President Trump -- the leader we Americans chose to guide us back to our rightful place in history. • • • COMEY'S PROGRESSIVE SUPPORTERS CONVENIENTLY FORGET WHAT HILLARY DID BEFORE COMEY FORGAVE HER. FBI Director Comey illegally assumed the role of Attorney General -- taking on the authority and prerogatives of the Attorney General to address Hillary Clinton’s crimes last July before exonerating her of any criminal liability for those crimes. His job was to investigate and give the FBI's findings to the AG. Instead, Comey held a press conference and became Attorney General, grand jury, trial jury and judge. His recommendation not to indict was wrong, as we have often said, because it was either motivated for personal political gain by Comey or because he was caught up in a political force he did not have the character to resist. • In a conversation with Fox News’ Martha MacCallum, Fox News contributor Judge Andrew Napolitano suggested that Comey’s firing was bad news for Hillary Clinton, clearing the way for her indictment for violations of the Espionage Act. Here is the comment -- NAPOLITANO : Let me suggest another scenario, that Rod Rosenstein reviewed the Hillary Clinton file, which he had never seen before and decided that Comey's judgment was utterly irregular and inappropriate and that maybe she should have been, and still can be indicted for espionage, the failure to safeguard state secrets, while she was Secretary of State. • John Sobieski wrote recently in American Thinker : "Hillary’s lies and reckless carelessness included the transmission of emails containing the names of actual CIA operatives in the field involved in clandestine operations." Sobieski quoted a New York Post report that was published when the existence of the unsecured classified emails was revealed : "Hillary Clinton’s e-mails included the names of CIA officers serving overseas and foreigners who are on the spy agency’s payroll -- potentially endangering their lives, it was reported Monday. It’s a death sentence,” a senior intelligence-community official told the Observer. “If we’re lucky, only [foreign] agents, not our officers, will get killed because of this.” The new York Post said the intelligence community was in panic mode trying to determine which agents may have been compromised, because CIA officials assumed foreign agencies intercepted unencrypted e-mails stored on Clinton’s home server while she was Secretary of State. Sobieski wrote : "The evidence against Hillary is damning, and the line of prosecutors willing to take the case would encircle the FBI building in Washington, DC. Judge Michael Mikasey, former Attorney General under President George W. Bush, listed the charges that Hillary Clinton could face on Fox Radio’s Kilmeade and Friends : "We are looking at a range of things, everything from the misdemeanor that was charged against General Petraeus, which is putting classified information in an unprotected, classified setting, that’s a misdemeanor. Then there is destroying government records. Then there is taking information related to the national defense and treating it with gross negligence such as it becomes disclosed. And finally, there is obstruction of justice.” Sobieski adds : "There is the destruction of evidence under congressional subpoena. As even Comey admitted, Hillary lied about sending and receiving classified material, about having only one device, and about turning over all her emails. If intent is needed, what is accidental about smashing devices with hammers or using Bleach Bit to render emails unrecoverable? If you need a motive for having a private server, which speaks to intent, the obvious purpose is to cover up the 'pay to play' trail that leads from the State Department to the Clinton Foundation." • Sobieski concludes : "This is not a Third World country where leaders incarcerate their predecessors and opponents on a whim. But we are a nation of laws and Hillary Clinton has broken many of them. Her only accomplishment in public office has been to so far avoid prosecution. President Trump should keep his promise to incarcerate this fugitive from justice. The voters have denied Hillary Clinton the presidency. A Trump Justice Department should deny Hillary Clinton her freedom." • • • THE TRUMP-COMEY AFFAIR. The mainstream media -- especially CNN -- have abandoned in-depth reporting on the many serious matters facing the world today in order to concentrate on destroying President Trump and, with him, all conservatives. For example, on Friday, President Trump issued a tweet -- "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!” -- and the MSM has instantly labeled it "a threat" to James Comey. A number of reports -- we are once again faced with the Progressive MSM's use of "unnamed sources" as evidence for their baseless allegations -- late Thursday showed current and former FBI officials who contradict Trump’s account of a meeting he had with Comey in January. Trump said in an NBC interview on Thursday that Comey had requested a dinner with him in January during which he asked to stay on as the FBI Director. Trump also said Comey told him three times -- twice over the phone and once at their dinner meeting -- that he was not the subject of any FBI investigations. But, FBI officials contradicted Trump's claims in an NBC News report, saying the dinner meeting was requested by the White House, and a former senior FBI official said Comey would never have told the President he was not under investigation. The unprincipled New York Times cited “two people who have heard his account of the dinner,” and who said Comey was asked by Trump for his loyalty at the dinner. The then-FBI head reportedly responded that he would offer his honesty but not political loyalty. • President Trump, in an interview on Thursday with NBC, described a far different dinner conversation with Comey, in which the Director asked to have the dinner meeting and the question of loyalty never came up. • Wikileaks is now offering $100,000 for a copy of the dinner tape, and the Democrats are calling the idea "staggering," even though it is perfectly legal for a President to tape his conversations. The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee that is 'investigating' the Trump campaign's alleged ties to Russia, Representative Adam Schiff, said Friday : “If the President has ‘tapes’ of his conversations with Director Comey, it is because the President himself made them. For a President who baselessly accused his predecessor of illegally wiretapping him, that Mr. Trump would suggest that he, himself, may have engaged in such conduct is staggering. The President should immediately provide any such recordings to Congress or admit, once again, to have made a deliberately misleading -- and in this case threatening -- statement.” • Schiff might want to check his facts on the "wiretapping" of Trump -- Susan Rice's unmasking of the names she then spied on, all taken from NSA surveillance sweeps, pretty much corroborates Trump's accusation. Schiff may also want to add to his punch list the suggestion of President Trump that continuing leaks be found and the leakers prosecuted, a factual situation whose seriousness far outweights any alleged tape of a dinner tape. For example, Trump last Monday called on former acting Attorney General Sally Yates to answer questions about how classified information was leaked to newspapers, tweeting : "Ask Sally Yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to W.H. Council." • • • COMEY AND DEMOCRATS HAVE A MEMORY PROBLEM WITH FACTS. Of course, the mainstream media and all Democrats in Congress choose to believe Comey's version of the Trump-Comey dinner. But, let's test that. Consider that last Monday Jim Comey testified under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee and couldn't even get his story straight about his own FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server. Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee that longtime Clinton aide Huma Abedin forwarded “hundreds and thousands” of Clinton’s emails to her then-husband, disgraced former Representative Anthony Weiner, to print out for Clinton while she was Secretary of State. In fact, the FBI sent a correction letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Senate Tuesday to state that only a handful of the 49,000 relevant emails it uncovered on Weiner’s laptop had been forwarded manually. Most of the emails got onto the computer as a result of backups of her Blackberry. Just two of 12 total email chains including classified information were manually forwarded, the FBI said. All 12 chains had previously been reviewed by investigators. ProPublica, as well as The Washington Post, reported this week that FBI officials had internally acknowledged that Comey incorrectly represented the number of emails Abedin forwarded to Weiner. Comey told the committee last week that the bureau in October uncovered “hundreds and thousands” of classified emails sent by Abedin. Pressed by Senator Ted Cruz on how Abedin could forward “hundreds or thousands of classified emails” without violating a statute, Comey clarified at the hearing : “If I said that, I misspoke. She forwarded hundreds and thousands of emails, some of which contain classified information.” • As Senator Cruz will surely point out at some appropriate moment, it does not matter how many emails were transferred from Hillary's unsecured server to Abedin's unsecured laptop, IF, as Comey testified under oath on Monday, some were "classified." • Abedin, Comey testified last week, “appears to have had a regular practice of forwarding emails to him, for him I think to print out for her so she could then deliver them to the Secretary of State.” The FBI did not make clear how the Comey misstatements under oath occurred, saying only that the letter was intended to “supplement that testimony to ensure that the Committee has the full context of what was reviewed and found on the laptop.” The letter also sought to clarify statements from what appears to be unreliable Comey testimony under oath about counterterrorism investigations -- the FBI letter said Comey's statements "appear to have been misinterpreted" in media reports. Comey stated that the FBI has approximately 1,000 investigations of suspected homegrown extremists and a further 1,000 investigations into individuals suspected of connections to the ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Greg Bower, the FBI head of congressional affairs, wrote : "These 2,000 investigations are a subset of the FBI's total number of counterterrorism investigations, which is classified, and which involved subjects from a variety of terrorist groups....The FBI has approximately 300 open counterterrorism investigations into subjects who entered the US as refugees from approximately 25 different countries." • So, Comey, an unreliable witness, even under oath before Congress, is to be believed, says the MSM and Democrats in Congress, when he says the version of the President -- who is usually proven to be right -- about what occurred at a January dinner is wrong. • • • CLAPPER OFFERS HIS STORY TO HELP COMEY. The American Thinker wrote on Saturday : "James Clapper, Obama's DNI chief, tried to aid James Comey, Obama's FBI Director. Clapper, in an interview with NBC's Andrea Mitchell, said Comey felt uneasy about having dinner with President Trump on January 27, 2017, because he felt it might compromise the FBI. According to Clapper : 'He mentioned that he had been invited to the White House to have dinner with the President and he was uneasy with that[.] ... Comey didn't want to create 'the appearance of compromising the integrity of the FBI.' " • The American Thinker said it was too bad NBC had Andrea Mitchell instead of a real journalist interview Clapper, because a real journalist would have questioned Clapper by asking : "Did Comey believe that the integrity of the FBI was compromised when Terry McAuliffe, friend of Hillary, donated $700,000 to the political campaign of Jill McCabe, wife of assistant FBI director Andrew McCabe? McCabe was involved in investigating Hillary for her illegal use of a private unsecured email server. Did Comey ask McCabe to recuse himself, or better yet, give back the $700,000? Was McCabe warned, reprimanded, or otherwise spoken to about this? Was the integrity of the FBI compromised when Comey questioned Hillary not under oath and gave immunity to Hillary's assistants? Granting immunity is usually the function of the Justice Department in consultation with the FBI. Was the integrity of the FBI compromised when Comey took it upon himself to make the decision whether to indict Hillary instead of following procedure to give the results of the investigation to the Justice Department for its review as to whether to indict? Was the integrity of the FBI investigation of Hillary compromised when Bill Clinton met with Comey's boss, Obama's Attorney General Lynch, days before Comey gave Hillary a pass? Was the integrity of the FBI compromised when Comey listed all the facts that warranted an indictment of Hillary but declined to indict because he added the requirement of "intent" that is not in the statutes -- and worse, the issue of intent is for a judge or jury to infer from the facts? The bottom line is that it is not the integrity of the FBI that is the issue. It is the integrity of James Comey." • It's too bad for Comey that Clapper doesn't have any credibility as a witness -- he admitted he lied to Congress about the NSA's illegal bulk collection of data on American citizens, a major issue. But, says American Thinker, maybe Comey can use former CIA Director John Brennan as a witness -- sorry, but Brennan also lied when he denied that the CIA had hacked the computers of Senate staff members. The Democrats who now love Comey, whereas just a week ago they hated him for being nasty to Hillary, are short on truthful witnesses -- Susan Rice? Don't think so. Crooked Hillary? She has already lied to the FBI and Congress. Bill Clinton? He perjured himself before Congress years ago. • • • LYING DEMOCRATS SUPPORT A LYING COMEY? The Democrats have a real problem with telling the truth. And, the mainstream media completely defends their right to lie. So, who will support Comey? After furiously attacked him following the release of the October 28, 2016, letter to Congress that Hillary insists derailed her election -- no, wait, it was the Russians who kept voters in Michigan and Wisconsin from going to the polls to vote for Crooked Hillary, wasn't it? -- the ProgDems now want to rehabilitate Comey as a hardworking, impartial and honest FBI Director who was fired because of the "Russia investigation." But, they will have to look outside their own ranks for a good witness or two. Have they asked John McCain? Or Mitt Romney?? Either might be persuaded. Nobody knows what the Russian investigation is about, since even James Clapper says repeatedly that there is NO EVIDENCE of collusion between the Trump and the Russian government. • BUT, there is evidence that with James Comey out at the FBI, a growing chorus is beginning to suggest that the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email scandal should be reopened. • Cheryl Chumley writes at the Washington Times : "Hillary Clinton’s email scandal -- the hit that keeps on coming. Once again, Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is rocking national news. It truly is the news hit that just keeps on coming, isn’t it? From Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton, writing in Breitbart : 'We have released 894 pages of State Department documents that include previously unreleased email exchanges in which Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin sent Clinton classified information through her insecure clintonmail.com email account.' Come on now, Mrs. Clinton. Even for you -- the queen of political scandals whose past includes everything from curiously large cattle share profits to remarkably insensitive congressional testimonies laced with 'who cares' cries about truth -- this scandal is long-running. Can we at least get a solid number on how many emails sent and received during your State Department tenure put the country at security risk? That’d be good -- even a ballpark figure would work at this point. 'The Abedin emails also include repeated instances of Clinton’s detailed daily schedules being sent to top Clinton Foundation officials at unsecured email addresses,' Fitton wrote." • Fitton appeared on Fox's Tucker Carlson show to expand on this. • And, Andrew McCabe, the new Acting Director of the FBI testified last Thursday that Comey’s decision not to pursue prosecution of Hillary Clinton didn’t sit well with many FBI insiders. Adam Shaw reported on FOX News : "McCabe says FBI call not to prosecute Clinton angered some agents, defends Comey. New Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe acknowledged for the first time in public testimony Thursday that some agents were angry with the 2016 decision not to prosecute Hillary Clinton -- while also defending ousted Director James Comey’s overall standing at the bureau. 'I think morale’s always been good, but there were folks within our agency that were frustrated with the outcome of the Hillary Clinton case and some of those folks were very vocal about those concerns,' McCabe testified. McCabe stepped into the role of acting director Wednesday after Trump dismissed Comey....McCabe’s comments at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing mark the first public recognition from the FBI that some agents were angry at the decision not to prosecute." • DEAR READERS, President Trump knew on November 8 the fury he would face. When he said on January 20 : "I will fight for you with every breath in my body -- and I will never, ever let you down," he already fknew what was coming. But, I am certain that Donald Trump doesn't care about himself -- he cares about us, about America, about freedom. He could be leading a happy life in New York making money and free of the ProgDem witchhunt. But, he has put himself on the front line -- not flinching, but doing what is right, while the entire Progressive Democrat Party apparatus and its disgracefully partisan mainstream media plunge knife after knife into him because he is our leader -- the person we Americans chose to guide us back to our rightful place in history. Those knives are meant for us. President Trump is our surrogate -- because he told us : "I am your voice." • In his Commencement Address at Liberty University on Saturday, President Trump made some comments that reveal his unchanging agenda to Make America Great Again : "I’ve seen firsthand how the system is broken. A small group of failed voices who think they know everything and understand everyone and want to tell everybody else how to live and what to do and how to think, but you aren’t going to let other people tell you what you believe, especially when you know that you’re right....We don’t need a lecture from Washington on how to lead our lives....America has always been a land of dreams because America is a nation of true believers.” President Trump then referred to the pilgrims landing at Plymouth, saying that the pilgrims prayed and that, later, America’s Founding Fathers invoked Creator God four times in the Declaration of Independence. “Because in America we don’t worship government, we worship God,” he said. He noted that United States currency bears the phrase, “In God We Trust” and that “One nation under God” is in the Pledge of Allegiance. Trump concluded : “The story of America is the story of an adventure that began with deep faith, big dreams, and humble beginnings....No one has ever achieved anything significant without a chorus of critics standing on the sidelines explaining why it can’t be done. Nothing is easier or more pathetic than being a critic because they’re people that can’t get the job done. The future belongs to the dreamers and not to the critics....Never, ever give up, there will be times in life you’ll want to quit, you’ll want to go home...Just never quit.” • That is our challenge. Do not betray President Trump. Stand with him against those who want to destroy America. "Never, ever give up."