President Trump Stands Tall and Fights Back at Globalists and Progressives, We Should Do the Same

TODAY'S NEWS COVERS THE US AND FRANCE. President Trump has the uncanny ability to stand tall and unflinching and walk toward his goals no matter what Progressives, American or European, throw at him, and while standing tall, he also finds the right words to take his opponents down a peg or two. With the new Republican leadership positions now agreed on, we will soon see who stands with President Trump. • • • KEVIN McCARTHY NEW GOP HOUSE MINORITY LEADER. During a closed-door vote of all House Republicans, Californian Representative Kevin McCarthy won the vote over Ohio Representative Jim Jordan, the co-founder of the conservative Freedom Caucus. It was a decisive victory -- 159 to 43 -- for the current House majority, a position McCarthy has held since 2014. With House Speaker Paul Ryan retiring, McCarthy becomes the House's top GOP leader at a time when Republicans will be the minority party in the lower of Congress for the first time since 2011. Representative Steve Scalise was unanimously elected as minority whip. Scalise is currently the House Majority Whip and was thought to be an early contender to challenge McCarthy for the leadership role, though he opted not to run. Scalise was elected by voice vote and is now the No. 2 Republican in the House. Representative Liz Cheney, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s daughter, had no opposition in her bid to succeed GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who opted not to run for a fourth term in leadership. In other uncontested races, Rep. Mark Walker of North Carolina, a Baptist preacher and the leader of the conservative Republican Study Committee, will be elected GOP conference vice chairman, and current GOP Conference Secretary Jason Smith (R-Mo.) will win another two years in that post. Other races for House leadership roles are still being decided. • Fox News said : "The election of McCarthy, the 53-year-old former deli owner and congressional aide, hands the reins of leadership to a proven fundraiser and trusted, early ally and advisor of President Trump, whom he speaks with on a weekly basis. For the past several election cycles, McCarthy had barnstormed every corner of the country, campaigning and raising millions of dollars for current and future GOP colleagues -- efforts that he called in this week as he ran for the top GOP slot. A day earlier, McCarthy made his pitch to colleagues as to why he was the right man to lead the party back to the majority in two years. Republicans, he said, need to do a better job competing with Democrats on the fundraising front and picking better primary candidates that can win in the general election, according to lawmakers in the room. 'I’ve worked with Kevin since he got here, been at his chairmen’s table for four years. He’s the right guy,' Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway (R-Texas), who attends a weekly meeting in McCarthy’s office, told TheHill. 'He’s got the contacts, he’s got that stratosphere of donors that can match Michael Bloomberg and those guys.' " • McCarthy’s victory comes during a grim moment for his own California GOP delegation. Democrats have flipped four GOP-controlled seats in the Bakersfield Republican’s home state, including those held by Reps. Jeff Denham, Steve Knight and Dana Rohrabacher. And Democrats are in position to flip two more seats in Orange County, once a GOP stronghold. If the new Democrat House majority choose Representative Nancy Pelosi to return as Speaker in January, it will mean both parties in the House will be controlled by leaders from California. • If President Trump is to make headway on budgetary and other matters that originate in the House, he will need, and all evidence points to his having, McCarthy and Scalise on his side. • • • DOJ GIVES GREEN LIGHT TO WHITAKER AS ACTING AG. Fox News reported on Wednesday that : "The Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel issued an opinion Wednesday supporting President Trump’s appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general, despite criticism from Democrats who have questioned his qualifications to oversee the Russia investigation. In its opinion, the Office of Legal Counsel said that the President’s appointment of Whitaker to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions was consistent with the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (VRA) of 1998. 'This Office previously had advised that the President could designate a senior Department of Justice Official, such as Mr. Whitaker as Acting Attorney General,' the OLC said, noting that Whitaker has been serving at the Justice Department 'at a sufficiently senior pay level for over a year.' But a senior Justice Department official told Fox News this week that the issue was 'constitutionality' of the appointment. 'What we’re talking about here is constitutionality,' the official said. 'VRA unquestionably gives the President the option to do it.' — Senior Justice Department official on Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general. Whitaker previously served as Sessions’ chief of staff at the Justice Department. • The President requested Sessions’ resignation last week, just hours after the polls closed on Election Day. Sessions had been criticized by the President throughout his tenure at DOJ because of his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, due to his involvement with the Trump campaign in 2016. Fox News said : "Following Sessions’ recusal, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller to investigate Russian meddling and potential collusion with Trump campaign associates in the 2016 presidential election. But Whitaker’s new role would include oversight of the Russia investigation, along with the agency’s other federal investigations, including the New York prosecutors’ look into the finances of Trump and his former aides." • Whitaker has come under attack by Democrats and 18 state attorneys general, who have called for him to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia probe, citing in part his “hostility” to the investigation shown in his past media comments. In an op-ed Whitaker wrote last year, he argued that “any investigation into President Trump’s finances or the finances of his family would require Mueller to return to Rod Rosenstein for additional authority under Mueller’s appointment as special counsel....It is time for Rosenstein...to order Mueller to limit the scope of his investigation to the four corners of the order appointing him special counsel,” Whitaker wrote. If he doesn’t, then Mueller’s investigation will eventually start to look like a political fishing expedition. This would not only be out of character for a respected figure like Mueller, but also could be damaging to the President of the United States and his family -- and by extension, to the country. And, in July 2017, Whitaker told CNN : "I could see a scenario where Jeff Sessions is replaced with a recess appointment, and that attorney general doesn’t fire Bob Mueller, but he just reduces his budget to so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt.” • But, the 20-page opinion from the Office of Legal Counsel, which provides advice to executive branch agencies, is aimed at addressing concerns from Democrats and even some Republicans that President Donald Trump violated the law by naming Whitaker over Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Whitaker had been chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions -- a job that didn't require Senate confirmation. The state of Maryland has challenged Whitaker's appointment, arguing that the top Justice Department job must be held by someone such as Rosenstein who has been confirmed by the Senate. A Justice Department official said the White House contacted the Office of Legal Counsel for advice, before Sessions was replaced, about options in the event of a vacancy. The DOJ made the official available to brief reporters only on the condition that the official not be identified by name. The Office of Legal Counsel said Whitaker, even without Senate confirmation, could serve as attorney general on an acting capacity because he has been at the department for more than a year at a "sufficiently senior pay level." One statute laying out the department's line of succession says a deputy attorney general may hold the top spot in the event of a vacancy. But the Office of Legal Counsel said a President is not bound by that, and that a different law, the Vacancies Reform Act, allows the President to elevate someone without Senate confirmation. The opinion identified more than 160 times in which non-Senate officials were temporarily appointed to fill vacancies as Cabinet secretaries or equivalent jobs. "As all three branches of government have long recognized, the President may designate an acting official to perform the duties of a vacant principal office, including a Cabinet office, even when the acting official has not been confirmed by the Senate," the opinion said. • The opinion didn't address the question of whether Whitaker should step aside from overseeing the special counsel's investigation into potential coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. This will undoubtedly mean that Democrats will continue to call for Whitaker to recuse himself from the probe being handled by Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors, citing negative comments made by Whitaker about the inquiry before joining the Justice Department. The investigation until now had been overseen by Rosenstein. But, leaving Rosenstein in place to oversee the Mueller probe is exactly what Republicans do not want but are hesitant to admit publicly. Why? • • • EVIDENCE POINTS TO ROSENSTEIN BEING INVOLVED IN TRYING TO REMOVE TRUMP FROM OFFICE. CNSNews reported last week that former federal prosecutor Joe diGenova says Rosenstein was deeply Involved in the effort to remove President Trump from office in the early days of his presidency. Commenting on President Trump's decision to declassify some of the Justice Department's documents on its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, attorney and former federal prosecutor diGenova said that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has tried to stop Trump from doing so, claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller would view Trump's action as "obstruction." However, diGenova states that Rosenstein is being deceitful and is only trying "to protect himself" against revelations that he has a direct conflict with the DOJ investigation and that the declassified documents will show he was "deeply involved in the effort to try to remove the President [from office] under the 25th Amendment." • The New York Times reported on September 21 that Rosenstein, as deputy attorney general in 2017, suggested in meetings with FBI and DOJ officials that people wear wires to secretly record President Trump in the White House and that they consult with Cabinet officials about removing Trump under the 25th Amendment. On the November 8 edition of WMAL's Mornings on the Mall, diGenova was asked about the DOJ opposition to declassifying Russia-collusion documents and why Trump has decided to release the records. DiGenova, a former US Attorney for the District of Columbia, said : “Because Rosenstein tried to extort from the President a promise not to declassify, under the threat that if he did declassify, he said [Robert] Mueller would view this as an obstruction and add it to his [final] report. So, the President backed off," said diGenova. However, "what Rosenstein was trying to do was not protect the President but rather to protect himself, Rosenstein, against the revelations that would show that not only did he have a conflict [with the Russia investigation] but he was deeply involved in the effort to try to remove the President under the 25th Amendment." said diGenova. "The President has decided to do this [declassification] because Rosenstein is gone," he said. CNSNews says : "What diGenova means is that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has resigned and his former chief of staff, Matt Whitaker, is now the acting attorney general. As attorney general, Whitaker is now in charge of the Russia investigation and in charge of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russia-Trump collusion. Rosenstein is no longer the gatekeeper. Veiled threats from Rosenstein no longer carry any weight, said diGenova, and they never really existed because the collusion case is a farce. 'Rosenstein was doing what he always does,' said the former federal prosecutor. 'He was lying, deceiving and manipulating the situation to his advantage.' One of the other reasons the DOJ wants to prevent declassification of the records, said diGenova, is because they apparently show that British intelligence 'conducted illegal, electronic surveillance on Americans overseas at the request of the FBI and the CIA.' That is what they fear being disclosed.' he said. As for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, he may indict a few people for lying to his office 'but after that he’s done. There’s nothing more on Russia. There never was....It's ridiculous that he’s been here this long.' ” • In appointing Whitaker as Acting Attorney General and naming him to oversee the Mueller probe, President Trump has done what the Democrats and Deep State in the DOJ and FBI convinced Congress to protest -- and the lapdog ProgDem media to label as "obstruction" -- get rid of a weasel in Rosenstein without creating any possibility of "obstruction." The Deep State lost that one. • • • CALLING THE US AN ENEMY CANNOT GO UNANSWERED. President Trump waited until he was back in Washington to unload on French President Macron for his stupidly anti-Trump anti-American comments made publicly while President and Mrs. Trump were in Paris for the Centenary Commemoration of World War I. • President Macron is the latest public figure to learn the hard way that Donald Trump plays hard-ball bare-knuckles politics. When Macron said, just before President Trump went to France, that that a “real European army” would protect the continent “with respect to China, Russia and even the United States of America," he got Trump's first left jab in a tweet : “President Macron of France has just suggested that Europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the US, China and Russia. Very insulting, but perhaps Europe should first pay its fair share of NATO, which the US subsidizes greatly!” Macron left it to French Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly to explain that the potential EU joint military force could be used for tackling the consequences of natural disasters, for providing humanitarian assistance and in military operations. But, the truth is that Macron has long advocated for EU’s greater military autonomy. He has also maintained that France could not rely on the United States when it comes to the European security -- a notion vaguely similar to the comment of German Chancellor Merkel about not being about to rely on America in the future, a comment made when Trump's calls for fair trade was a hot issue in Europe. However, some prominent military experts doubt that EU countries could create an effective defense structure. And, Merkel has since backpedaled on her fair trade remark and the EU is working ith the US to flatten tariffs between the two. • But, Macron was not content to let semi-sleeping dogs lie and attacked President Trump directly as the President sat in the VIP area at the Arch de Triumph in November 11. Macron tore into "nationalism," calling it a "betrayal of patriotism," in an obvious slap at Trump and all the European parties and countries -- think Poland -- that favor a nationalism based on love of country, culture and ethics instead of Macron's globalist view of the world in which a supra-national elitist leadership tell people what is good for them. That is the Nazi Germany definition of nationalism which President Trump is trying to combat as it raises its head again in Europe, this time under the word "globalism." Macron is only 41, so like many of the young who are now trying to assume political power, he has perhaps little real knowledge or understanding of the difference between the National Socialist Party -- the Nazis -- and President Trump's efforts to let people in each country govern themselves democratically, free of non-elected elites telling them how it's going to be and grinding them into fodder when they refuse to comply. The President was polite in not reminding Macron then and there that without the United States France and all of Europe would have been defeated and trampled by German aggressors not once but twice in the period from 1914 to 1945. • ONCE HOME, President Trump sharpened his pen, tweeting : "Macron suggests building its own army to protect Europe against the U.S., China and Russia. But it was Germany in World Wars One & Two -- How did that work out for France? They were starting to learn German in Paris before the US came along. Pay for NATO or not!” President Trump then hit France for its tariffs on US wine before taking on Macron. President Trump's tweet said : “On Trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the US. The problem is that France makes it very hard for the US to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the US makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change! The problem is that Emmanuel suffers from a very low Approval Rating in France, 26%, and an unemployment rate of almost 10%. He was just trying to get onto another subject. By the way, there is no country more Nationalist than France, very proud people-and rightfully so! MAKE FRANCE GREAT AGAIN!” • President Macron replied on French TV on Wednesday : "I tweet, therefore I am." And said allies should respect each other. Really, President Macron?? But, he had no other answer for President Trump, who rightly called the foolish Macron to task. • And, why was President Macron on French TV Wednesday? Because a huge national day of protest against his high gasoline tax and rapidly rising cost of living under his presidency is making it difficult for the French to make ends meet. The protest will see truckers and farmers block entryways on to autoroutes and other major highways, while the "Gilets jaunes" -- the "Yellow Vests" as the protest movement is calling itself because they are going to wear neon yellor highway safety vests -- will be marching with them in support. Comments in France center around the very deeply felt perception of the French people that Macron does not understand them, will not listen to them, and is determined to make them suffer in order to have his own version of economic reform succeed. • President Trump is perfectly right when he calls the French a "proud people." That seems to be something else President Macron is about to learn the hard way. Vive la France !! • • • TRUMP ALWAYS FIGHTS BACK. Even TheHill acknowledged as much on Tuesday when it published an Opinion piece by well-known political strategist Dennis Powell, who wrote : "Health care, immigration, the Kavanaugh hearings, and the economy each helped to motivate voters in the recent elections. But the larger issue was President Trump and the belief among some of those on the left that he is not a legitimate President and his supporters are Deplorable. Political extremists, and a compliant media, have used this to claim license to do and say things that only a few years ago would have been considered outrageous and out of bounds. Talking heads on major cable news outlets have gone so far as to accuse President Trump of sending 'children to the showers,' a horrific reference to Nazi concentration camps. Routinely on Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski openly questions President Trump’s mental health and slams the intelligence of Trump voters. When it comes to President Trump, the strategy is all roads lead to 'ist.' When he defined himself as a nationalist, putting the needs of our nation first, CNN wrote, 'It primarily conjures two close associations: Nazism and white nationalism,' presenting examples Adolf Hitler and white supremacists to make the point. In President Trump’s post-election news conference, PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor asked whether 'calling himself a nationalist was a dog whistle for white nationalists.' This question assumes Trump is racist." Powell noted that when Antifa, calling itself “Smash Racism D.C.,” assembled outside the Washington home of Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, yelling, “We know where you sleep at night!” as they vandalized his home and terrorized his wife....the media have treated Antifa as protesters. CNN anchor Don Lemon told his viewers the Antifa is “fighting racists and fascists," and excused their intimidation tactics and destruction of property, saying, “No organization is perfect.” This should not come as a surprise. Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) gave groups such as this license to harass Republicans with tactics that resulted in driving Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders and Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) out of restaurants. Powell said : "In late October, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) tweeted, “We cannot allow Soros, Steyer, and Bloomberg to BUY this election! Get out and vote Republican November 6th. #MAGA.” When reports accused him of focusing on Jewish donors, McCarthy deleted the tweet, rather than have to explain that he is not an anti-Semite. The lesson : You can’t hide....Republicans for too long have purposely avoided conflict and confrontation with the radical left. The lessons of the past two years show that does not work. What appears to work is Trump’s manner of fighting back, even if he sometimes goes over the top with his remarks. The President is teaching Republicans to stand up to protesters, defend free speech and fight back when anyone tries to impugn your motivations. The next two years will be a stern test as Democrats go all-in on investigations. Let’s see what Republicans have learned from the past two years." • • • TRUMP IS THE ONE. Canada Free Press's Jim O'Neill wrote last week : "Things are getting out of hand folks, and I don’t think you need to be especially perceptive to sense it. When will the Rubicon be crossed, the gauntlet thrown, and the point of no return reached? Some would say that we have already reached that point, reached that point and passed it. Activist judges increasingly feel free to “interpret” law according to their own personal biases, instead of using the US Constitution as their North Star and guide. If the President issues an order that the Left disagrees with you can count on some judge in California or Hawaii striking it down....The Democrat’s disdain for the US Constitution was on full display for all the world to see during the Kafkaesque Kavanaugh hearings. Guilty before proven innocent? Proof of any wrongdoing is unnecessary? The accuser sounds good, so hang the accused? America without rule of law is not America at all -- and America is letting slip its grip on rule of law at an ever-accelerating pace....Antifa 'brown shirt' thugs use Nazi bully-boy tactics of violence and intimidation to silence free speech and strangle reasoned debate. Leave the Left to their lies, but We the People should be, need to be, well aware that the Nazis were never a right-wing ideology. Nazis were, are, and always will be a LEFT-wing socialist ideology. There ain’t no such animal as a right-wing Nazi. Communism and Fascism are left-wing kissing cousins. Neo-Nazis are the violent advocates of a murderous ideology that killed 25 million people last century. Antifa members are the violent advocates of a murderous ideology that, according to 'The Black Book of Communism,' killed between 85 million and 100 million people last century. Both practice violence and preach hate. They are morally indistinguishable.....As Sean Hannity has repeatedly told his audience, the noxious left-wing tactic of doxing conservatives and harassing them in restaurants (and at home) will inevitably lead to someone getting hurt, perhaps killed. How much blood will need to be spilled until it’s too much? I don’t know -- perhaps we should ask Representative Steve Scalise....Protesters? Give me a break -- we are talking about masked thugs invading private property, vandalizing it, and terrorizing the lone female occupant....Voter fraud is rampant in America -- a case in point is currently underway in Democrat controlled areas in Florida. President Trump’s committee that looked into voter fraud on a national basis was shut down due to resistance from Democrat blue states. Hmm, I wonder why. Actually, We the People know d—n well why -- entrenched voter fraud. The Dems make a big deal out of Clinton winning the popular vote -- in point of fact I rather doubt she did, legitimately. Wouldn’t you love to know the actual 2016 vote count in California -- I mean without counting bogus ballots and illegals?....The White House press corps is off the chain -- their recent behavior toward President Trump was despicable beyond belief; I was appalled. Acosta was, of course, especially confrontational, even by his standards. In any event, allowing such insulting, unruly, semi-barbaric behavior to continue damages not only the White House, but the nation as a whole. It must stop, and a return to civility and proper decorum be enforced. We the People must insist on it, because we elected Trump, and when they disrespect the POTUS they are disrespecting us." • "I’m telling you, folks, they are on the verge of trying to come up with ways to basically wipe you and your point of view out as far as having any input in elections or any influence. They’re tired of you. They’re sick of you. They’re tired of dealing with you. You’re not legitimate. You’re a lot of other things too. You’re not smart, all of these things, and they’re fed up losing to you. Mark my words. It isn’t gonna be long and somebody’s gonna suggest that elections are the problem. Just sayin." Rush Limbaugh, “The White House Press Corps Is Just Another Leftist Mob.” • O'Neill talks about the “Caravan,” calling it "a media coined euphemism for an invasion by illegal foreigners. In any event, the 'caravan' is coming, and coming, and coming. A continual flow of illegals that will never stop unless they are forced to. The Democrats, and globalists [e.g., Macron] of all types, detest nation states (countries, with secure borders) and they really, really, really want open borders. 'No borders, no wall, no USA at all!' -- kind of a catchy meme, huh?" • O'Neill lambasts the European agenda of a globalist world : "We the People are fortunate to have seen what Western European globalist politicians (aided and abetted by their media toadies) have done to destroy their own countries, using an indiscriminate and massive influx of foreigners -- how they intentionally diluted and diminished their native cultures and patriotic pride. The globalists very much have the same thing in mind for America --- you can take that to the bank. Powell quotes Pat Buchanan : "As other caravans began to assemble in Central America, Trump said he would send, first 5,200 and then 15,000, troops to the border. This ignited the predictable hysteria of the media elite who decried his 'racism,' his 'lying' and his 'attack on the 14th Amendment.' Trump, they railed, is sending more troops to the Mexican border than we have in Syria or Iraq. True. But to most Americans, the fate and future of the Republic is more likely to be determined on the US-Mexican border than on the border between Syria and Iraq." • • • DEAR READERS, Canada Free Press and Jim O'Neill see a radical solution : "To sum up, let me say that America has reached a point where in order to save it...drastic steps are called for. I can’t see any other viable option. We either let America sink into a violence and chaos instigated, promoted, and orchestrated by the Left, or the Trump Administration takes radical pro-active steps to minimize the damage, apply national triage, and stop the insanity cold." O'Neill is asking for the suspension of Habeas Corpus : "God has blessed We the People with the right man, in the right place, at the right time. He knows we have his six. Let’s roll." Article 1, Section 9, Clause 2, US Constitution states : "The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." That would be a huge step. • As interim suggestions, what about Bill O'Reilly's call for the FBI to take over the Florida vote recount. Perhaps the FBI and US Marshalls should oversee all elections in the 2020 presidential cycle. • Americans know why the nation is doing so well economically while the rest of the world is stagnating or falling back -- the answer is TRUMP. He has used that enormous success to energize Republican voters. Until President Trump took his barnstorming rallies across America, it was questionable whether Republican voters would turn out for their local member of the House or Senator. But, in race after race, Trump turned the tide. Think Missouri, Texas, and Florida, where Trump helped turn the polls on their heads. Democrat House gains have been far less than previous wave elections and Republicans will increase their Senate majority after the final recounts. It's because 63% of voters say he’s “strong” -- that's what a recent Quinnipiac poll found. Trump’s re-election campaign should play to this with a 2020 slogan like “Keep America Strong.” But, President Trump must drive the GOP to shed its easily-attacked anti-immigration image by clearly explaining what the Party means in trying to introduce "needs-based' immigration and in trying to keep illegals out of the country unless and until they are accepted as political asylum seekers. The GOP needs to appeal to younger voters with a “freedom” message that complements the #WalkAway movement. And, the GOP should stand up loudly for the proposition that President Trump has done NOTHING that is impeachable and that a Democrat move to impeach is a Fake political ploy. Asked in mid-term exit polls if “Congress should impeach Donald Trump,” a minority of 39% said yes. That is a minority of even the Democrat Party. Use it. The majority of Americans think President Trump is doing a good job. Their judgment is usually good. • President Trump is standing tall and fighting back. We Republicans and conservatives should, too.