President Trump Tells America the Truth about Immigration, China Trade and General Flynn

TODAY, WE CELEBRATE THE TRUTHFUL PRESIDENT TRUMP. Donald Trump may not sugar-coat his comments and reactions and announcements, but they are almost always truthful. He tells America what is going on in the Swamp, and that's more than anyone else does. • • • MIGHT TRUMP BE THE MOST HONEST PRESIDENT EVER? That's the question WND asked on Wednesday. WND's Jack Cashill wrote : "To be sure, Trump is something of a blowhard. To be sure, he can be fairly indifferent to facts, but on big issues, as Pelosi and Schumer experienced up close, he says what he means. This is a refreshing contrast to his predecessor. Barack Obama may have been stronger on petty details, but he could be stunningly dishonest on the issues of consequence, immigration among them." • Cashill talks about Obama and the DREAMERS : "Although President Bush supported immigration reform, as did President Obama, neither the DREAM Act nor any major immigration bill made it to their desks. The reason was simple enough : No variation of such a bill could muster adequate congressional support. In 2009, eight powerful US Senators sponsored still another version of the DREAM Act. Among the sponsors were two Republicans, Richard Lugar and Mel Martinez, as well as independent Joseph Lieberman. During this two-year period, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. Still, the will was not there, nor was the White House leadership, to pass this bill out of the Senate....Once Obama ascended to the presidency, all those checks and balances just made it harder for him to transform America. His constituencies, especially labor and the Hispanic lobby, wanted action, not gathering and arguing. They started leaning on him to ignore Congress and act unilaterally. One minor obstacle stood in the way, and that was Article I, Section 7, of the United States Constitution. For the previous 220 years -- '400 years,' according to Representative Sheila Jackson Lee -- that article informed Congress in some detail on how to turn an idea into a law. Obama could not enforce the DREAM Act, said Georgetown law professor Nicholas Rosenkrantz, 'by pretending that it passed when it did not.' As late as March 2011, legal scholar Obama seemed to agree. 'America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the President, am obligated to enforce the law,' he told a Univision audience. 'With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed.' By June 2012, what Obama said in March 2011 seemed as stale as a morning-after bowl of tortilla chips. The President had lost his taste for all that legislative analysis and argument given that the result was 'an absence of any immigration action from Congress.' Five months before the presidential election he knew the media would give him a pass, and he hoped that Latinos would give him their vote. So he decided to dispense with debate and fix immigration policy by his own lights, confident he could make that policy 'more fair, more efficient and more just.' This fix started with a presidentially guaranteed relief from deportation for the so-called 'Dreamers.' On top of that came the right to apply for work authorization, both guarantees in full defiance of existing federal law. 'There has long been a general consensus that a President cannot refuse to enforce a law that is considered constitutionally sound, said constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley. That chapter was apparently missing from Obama’s law books. The speech that introduced this change of immigration policy was littered with...lies and half-truths....It was not 'immunity,' not a 'path to citizenship,' only 'temporary,' said Obama, who surely planned to turn a million or so of these undocumented Democrats into grateful voters as soon as he could get away with it. When the time came, he would urge them to think the way he encouraged all Latinos to think on Election Day : 'We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.' Punish our enemies? Truth be told, Trump has not just been more honest than Obama. He’s been less divisive." • • • TRUMP TELLS THE TRUTH ABOUT CHINA AND TRADE. The Western Journal Conservative Tribune wrote on Wednesday : "The shares of global car manufacturers began to rise early Wednesday morning amid reports that China will be reducing its auto tariffs. China’s cabinet received a proposal to eliminate the 25% surcharge on US cars imported to China, according to Bloomberg. If the proposal is finalized, China’s tariffs on cars made in the US would drop to 15% from the current 40%....This report falls in line with statements from President Donald Trump earlier this month, who announced negotiations with China regarding tariffs. 'China has agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on cars coming into China from the US. Currently the tariff is 40%,' Trump said via Twitter last week. Trump later tweeted that China would begin purchasing agricultural products from the US. 'Farmers will be a very BIG and FAST beneficiary of our deal with China. They intend to start purchasing agricultural product immediately,' Trump tweeted." • President Trump’s tough stance on China is working, and he is telling America, the world and China that it's working. Some critics worried that Trump’s trade war with China would escalate, causing higher prices for consumers. However, President Trump seems confident that negotiations are going well. "Very productive conversations going on with China! Watch for some important announcements!” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. • Spoken truth is always a very potent weapon. • • • PRESIDENT TRUMP AND GENERAL FLYNN. The men who have offered advice and counsel to President Trump have sometimes paid heavily for doing so. President Trump has not always been easy on his associated caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller's legal gulag, but the President has always been supportive of General Michael Flynn. And, now it seems that the President has been telling the truth and been right all along. • Fox News reported on Thursday that : "One day after former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's legal team made the bombshell allegation that the FBI had pushed him not to bring a lawyer to his fateful January 24, 2017, interview with agents at the White House, the federal judge overseeing Flynn's criminal case is demanding answers from special counsel Robert Mueller. US District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan ordered Mueller late Wednesday to turn over all of the government's documents and 'memoranda' related to Flynn's questioning. The extraordinary demand puts Mueller under the microscope, and sets a 3:00 p.m. EST Friday deadline for the special counsel's office to produce the sensitive FBI documents." • Judge Sullivan -- who overturned the 2008 conviction of former US Senator Ted Stevens after government misconduct came to light -- was set to sentence Flynn, who pleaded guilty to one count of lying to federal authorities during the 2017 interview in the West Wing. Flynn faced mounting legal bills that forced him to sell his home amid the prosecution, and Mueller has already recommended he receive no prison time....Sullivan also ordered the Flynn team to turn over the documents backing up its assertions. The judge could determine why the FBI apparently took a significantly more aggressive tack in handling the Flynn interview than it did during other similar matters, including the agency's interviews with Hillary Clinton and ex-Trump advisor George Papadopoulos. • General Flynn is set to be sentenced next Tuesday, but Judge Sullivan may now delay that date, or even toss out Flynn's guilty plea and the charge against him if he concludes that the FBI interfered with Flynn's constitutional right to counsel, although he has given no indications that he intends to do so. • Fox News explained : "Federal authorities undertaking a national security probe are ordinarily under no obligation to inform interviewees of their right to an attorney unless they are in custody, as long as agents do not act coercively. Flynn's lawyers claimed in Tuesday's filing that FBI brass had threatened to escalate the matter to involve the Justice Department if Flynn sought the advice of the White House Counsel before talking with agents." • Judge Sullivan may also be assessing why the two FBI agents who interviewed Flynn -- including fired anti-Trump agent Peter Strzok -- would have provided an August 22, 2017, date on their "302" report documenting what Flynn told them during their conversation at the White House. The August date on the FBI 302 cited by the Flynn team is nearly seven months after the Flynn interview took place, and about a week after reports surfaced that Strzok had been summarily removed from Mueller's Russia probe because his persistent anti-Trump communications had surfaced. BUT, 302 reports are supposed to be contemporaneous accounts by agents of what is said during their interviews with witnesses and subjects, as well as other critical details like interviewees' demeanor, and descriptions of where the interview took place. They are often critical pieces of evidence in false statements cases where the FBI doesn't audio- or video-record interviews -- they didn't record the Flynn interview. • Flynn "clearly saw the FBI agents as allies," according to the 302 prepared by Strzok and another agent. Fox News states : "In a lengthy court filing Tuesday, Flynn's attorneys alleged that then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe pushed Flynn not to have an attorney present during the questioning that ultimately led to his guilty plea on a single charge of lying to federal authorities. The document outlines, with striking new details, the rapid sequence of events that led to Flynn's sudden fall from the Trump administration. While Flynn is among several Trump associates to have been charged with making false statements as part of the Russia probe, no one interviewed during the FBI’s Clinton email investigation was hit with false statement charges -- though investigators believed some witnesses, including Clinton herself, were untruthful. In his order, Sullivan requested Mueller turn over not only the Flynn 302, but also a memo written by McCabe and any similar documents in the FBI's possession. Sullivan similarly demanded that Flynn's lawyers produce the McCabe memorandum and 302 they used to make their assertions. McCabe purportedly said in the memo that he told Flynn he 'felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down' to discuss his contacts with Russian officials. 'I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [Flynn] and the agents only,' McCabe wrote, according to the Flynn filing. 'I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House Counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [General Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.' Explaining why Flynn was not warned about the possible consequences of making false statements, one of the agents wrote in the 302 cited by Flynn's lawyers that FBI brass had 'decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed, and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport.' " • The tactics with Flynn were, says Fox News, "apparently in sharp contrast to the FBI's approach to interviewing former Trump aide George Papadopoulos, who also pleaded guilty to making false statements and was recently released from prison. In a court filing last year, special counsel Mueller's team took pains to note that FBI agents who interviewed Papadopoulos on January 27, 2017 -- just days after the Flynn interview -- had advised Papadopoulos that 'lying to them 'is a federal offense' and that he could get 'in trouble' if he did not tell the truth." • The revelations in the Flynn court filing, if corroborated, would also sharply differ from the FBI's handling of its interview with then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016, during the height of the presidential campaign. Clinton brought a total of 9 lawyers to her interview -- a number that fired FBI Director James Comey said was "unusual ... but not unprecedented" in House testimony. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz wrote that FBI officials fretted about how many FBI representatives should be at the interview, for fear of prejudicing Clinton against the agency if, as expected, she went on to become President. McCabe reportedly testified later that the agents, after speaking with Flynn, “didn’t think he was lying" at the time. • Justice Department senior official James Trusty told Fox News that he questioned the principle guiding how and when to pursue false statements charges, specifically in the context of the Mueller investigation : “Why is there a ‘federal interest’ in Papadopoulos and Flynn and everyone associated with the Russia investigation, but nobody in the Hillary probe?” Trusty asked. “It’s a very legitimate question at this point -- why are they taking radically different approaches to the lower subjects in cases for one investigation versus another?” • General Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his communications with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Last week, Mueller filed a memorandum recommending a lenient sentence for him, with the possibility of no prison time, stating Flynn has offered “substantial” help to the special counsel about “several ongoing investigations,” signaling the former national security advisor’s level of cooperation throughout the probe. Meanwhile, Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last year to making false statements and materially false omissions to federal investigators about his meeting with an overseas professor with connections to the Russian government, completed his 14-day prison sentence on Friday. He is also required to pay a fine of $9,500 and complete 200 hours of community service. According to Flynn's legal team, FBI agents in his case deliberately did not instruct Flynn that any false statements he made could constitute a crime, and decided not to "confront" him directly about anything he said that contradicted what they knew about his wiretapped communications with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Flynn later pleaded guilty to lying about whether he had talked to Kislyak in December 2016 about whether Kislyak would help limit the Russian government's response to President Obama's recently imposed sanctions against Russia for election meddling. Flynn also allegedly said he could not remember Kislyak's response, which was that Russian would not immediately retaliate in response to Obama's sanctions in the final weeks of his administration. FBI agents wrote in the 302 report cited by the filing that if : “Flynn said he did not remember something they knew he said, they would use the exact words Flynn used,....to try to refresh his recollection. If Flynn still would not confirm what he said,....they would not confront him or talk him through it.” • According to the FBI 302, as described in the filing, Flynn was “relaxed and jocular” as he gave the agents a "little tour" of his West Wing office. McCabe -- who was fired earlier this year for making unauthorized media leaks and violating FBI policy -- wrote in a memorandum that shortly after noon on January 24, 2017, he called Flynn on his secure line at the White House, and the two briefly discussed an unrelated FBI training session at the White House. Quickly, the conversation turned to a potential interview, according to an account provided by McCabe cited in the Tuesday filing. • • • THE FBI MAY HAVE MODIFIED 302 REPORTS AFTER-THE-FACT. In June, Fox News reported : "The FBI may have 'edited and changed' key witness reports in the Hillary Clinton and Russia investigations, a top House Republican charged in a hearing into FBI and Justice Department misconduct Tuesday. Freedom Caucus Chair Representative Mark Meadows also raised the possibility that the FBI misled the DOJ watchdog in an attempt to hide the identities of FBI employees who were caught sending anti-Trump messages. The House Judiciary and Oversight committees were questioning Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz over his bombshell report into FBI and DOJ misconduct during the Hillary Clinton email probe. 'The other thing that I would ask you to look into, there is growing evidence that 302s were edited and changed,' Meadows told Horowitz. 'Those 302s, it is suggested that they were changed to either prosecute or not prosecute individuals. And that is very troubling.' " • Strzok, who was one of the two agents who interviewed Flynn and who was later also fired for violating FBI policies, had compromised the FBI's appearance of impartiality by sending a slew of anti-Trump texts on his government-issued phone, the IG concluded : "In particular, we were concerned about text messages exchanged by FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, Special Counsel to the Deputy Director, that potentially indicated or created the appearance that investigative decisions were impacted by bias or improper considerations.” In one of those texts, Strzok wrote to Page in 2016 that Trump would not become President because "we'll stop" it from happening. • • • DEAR READERS, if General Flynn's records and filing turn out to be usable, then the facts will show the FBI clearly tried to entrap him into committing perjury and hid from him the knowledge of his constitutional rights. That would normally be sufficient to throw out any criminal case. It would also allow General Flynn to sue the US government for his expenses, lost income and liquidated personal assets used in defending himself. • Perhaps it is a minor thing, but such a finding would also prove once again that President Trump tells America the truth to the best of his extraordinary ability -- every day and about every issue. • What we now ask is "How Long, O Lord?" do we have to continue to wait to see justice FINALLY fall on the corrupt, lying and cabalistic Deep State and its Democrat handlers -- the Clintons, Obama, Mueller, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Lisa Page -- the whole lot of them.