Month: July 2020

Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News Tonight that the Republican and Democrat proposal to tie President Donald Trump’s hands from withdrawing from Afghanistan is “egregious” and “exactly the opposite of what we should do.”

Banks — a member of the House Armed Services Committee and a veteran who served in Afghanistan — spoke to Breitbart News Tonight host Rebecca Mansour after Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), the chair of the House Republican Conference, cosponsored an amendment with Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would restrict Trump’s ability to withdraw from Afghanistan.

The amendment would stipulate that the Department of Defense (DOD) must verify that it will not create new opportunities for terrorism and not affect the United States’ ability to counter the Islamic State (ISIS), al-Qaeda, and other armed combatants.

Banks, who supports Trump’s ending of the war in Afghanistan, said that many of the Republicans said that Trump was elected to end America’s “endless wars,” which includes Afghanistan and Iraq. The Hoosier called the amendment “egregious.”

Banks told Breitbart News Tonight that these Republicans “still don’t get it, they’re trying to tie the president’s hands. The president who was elected on a platform of getting us out of endless wars other than keeping us involved in conflict, which just seems to go on forever.”

The amendment was passed with strong support from Republicans and Democrats. Many Republicans voted for the amendment to restrict Trump’s ability from withdrawing from Afghanistan, including:

• Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY)
• Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-TX)
• Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC)
• Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT)
• Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH)
• Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL)
• Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX)
• Rep. Doug Lamborn  (R-CO)
• Rep. Rob Wittman (R-VA)
• Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-MO)
• Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA)
• Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY)
• Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI)
• Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE)
• Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-MI)
• Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI)
• Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL)

Eleven Republicans voted against the measure to restrict the president’s ability to withdraw from Afghanistan, including:

• Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN)
• Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)
• Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-AL)
• Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN)
• Rep. Ralph Abraham (R-LA)
• Rep. Trent Kelly (R-MI)
• Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL)
• Rep. Austin Scott (R-GA)

Reps. Anthony Brown (D-MD), Ro Khanna (D-CA), and Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) also voted against Cheney and Crow’s amendment.

Banks said that Trump broke some of the bipartisan orthodoxy surrounding the country’s Afghanistan policy by moving to end the war in Afghanistan.

“President Trump took a different path when he came into office and said rather than sort of repeating ourselves every single year, fighting an annual war every year, we’re going to take a different approach and focus less on nation-building in Afghanistan and focus more on counterterrorism and beating the bad guys, which is not what we were doing under President Obama,” he explained.

Banks said that the president’s strategy would “put us in a better situation where we could bring out troops home.” Banks noted that his service in Afghanistan has deeply influenced his belief that America should end the war in Afghanistan.

Banks added that many Republicans “believe that we should tie the president’s hands that we shouldn’t leave Afghanistan. I have deeply held beliefs about this, I served there, I served with some people who didn’t come home, part of our unit, I want more than anything for our men and women to come home, and I want to leave a safe and stable Afghanistan behind as well.”

“It’s exactly the opposite of what we should do,” Banks said of the Republican and Democrat amendment to tie the president’s hands from withdrawing from Afghanistan.

Many Republicans also voted for another amendment, which was also placed in the NDAA, which would prevent the United States from withdrawing troops from Germany and moving them to Poland. Banks said this move would apply pressure towards Russia, which runs counter to the narrative that Trump is soft on Russia.

“President Donald Trump is playing out a strategy that most people, at least my colleagues in Congress, can’t understand. A very strategic effort by the president to do what he’s done since he’s been in office, put pressure on Germany to do more, to do more on their part rather than American continuing to pump billions of dollars into more money for NATO when Germany doesn’t come anywhere near their defense commitments for their own military,” he explained.

“President Trump sending troops from Germany to Poland, and why would he do that? He would do that to put pressure on Russia, which exactly the opposite of the left-wing narrative Trump is collusion and colluding with Putin, he’s in bed with Russia,” Banks added.

Banks said that if former Vice President Joe Biden were to become president, America would likely never leave Afghanistan.

“I don’t think there’s any chance of that,” Banks said. “Whether it’s Afghanistan or China, the problem with Joe Biden is that there’s not enough of a deep understanding of what we’re up against. There hasn’t been an articulated vision of how he handles these security threats.”

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She continued:

I think probably I would win. But for me, it’s really important to have neighbors talking to neighbors and we haven’t been able to do as much of that. I think, without doing the work, a smart person’s money should be on a Republican candidate. … I can’t take anything for granted given how this district was built.

Slotkin, a former CIA intelligence officer, represents Michigan’s eighth congressional district, which serves as one of the pivotal swing districts that could define whether Republicans take back the House during the 2020 congressional elections.
Slotkin defeated incumbent Rep. Mike Bishop (R-MI) during the 2018 midterm elections by 3.8 percentage points.

Slotkin also represents one of the 13 congressional districts that President Trump won during the 2016 presidential election, but House Democrats managed to flip during the 2018 midterm elections. Republicans only need to retake a net 17 seats to regain the House majority.

Slotkin also said that she does not believe the current polling that has Trump losing to former Vice President Joe Biden. She also noted that their polls had ignored the number of Trump voters that would come out to vote for the 45th president. She explained:

During an interview with Noticias Telemundo released on Friday, President Trump stated that “Something will be happening with Venezuela” and that the United States will “be very much involved.” Trump also vowed to “take care of the people of Venezuela” and support whoever the people of Venezuela elect and support as their leader.

Host Jose Diaz-Balart asked, “For you, Venezuela, is it Guaido, is it Maduro, is it U.S. intervention?”

Trump responded, “It’s freedom for their people. It’s freedom. Venezuela was a rich country 15 years ago, and it’s been destroyed by two people, but a system, a horrible system. … And something will happen with Venezuela. That’s all I can tell you. Something will be happening with Venezuela.”

Diaz-Balart then asked, “Through the United States?”

Trump responded, “We’ll be very much involved.”

Diaz-Balart then questioned Trump on if he is still supporting Guaido, and Trump responded that he supports whoever the people of Venezuela support and elect and that Guaido appears to be the person who was elected, but he appears to be losing power due to the problems in Venezuela’s system.

Trump further stated, “We’re going to take care of the people of Venezuela.”

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New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio, unarguably the worst mayor in NY history, is so immature he is spending money his city does not have to paint Black Lives Matter on 5^th Avenue in front of Trump Tower.  

Because of COVID, he has now banned all public gatherings except BLM protests!  He is a child in the throes of a tantrum.  The mayor of D.C. did the same thing; and she did it first.  Mayor Muriel Bowser declared the area in front of the White House “Black Lives Plaza.”  Cute. 

Then there’s New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is legitimately responsible for the deaths of thousands of his state’s elderly, by ordering COVID patients into nursing homes with the highly contagious — and lethal for the elderly — illness.  After bitterly whining that he needed hospital beds, ventilators, PPE, etc., and seeing how Trump delivered everything he asked for, like a child he refused to use the ship or field hospitals Trump had provided.   

It is this puerile, bad-tempered  behavior that characterizes all of the left.  Since Trump was elected president, they have thrown a perpetual tantrum, betraying the emptiness of their agenda.  What is their agenda?  They want what they want when they want it.  When they don’t get what they want, they act out like crazed toddlers whose toys have been taken from them. Then, like the bullies they are, they spend every waking moment determined to get their way, no matter the cost or damage done. 

They tried to effect a coup, to overthrow President Trump with a carefully orchestrated plan to frame him for collusion with Russia. That has blown up in their faces.  

They tried impeachment over a phone call. Another fail. 

Not a day has gone by in four years that the left in coordination with the media has not been actively trying to destroy the man.  

Since the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the man whose name neither House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nor Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could remember, the Democrats have continued to be on the side of the nation-destroyers. Pelosi, when asked about the destruction of statues, said, “People will do what they do.”

Not a single Democrat has spoken out against the violence of BLM or Antifa.  They all are apparently onboard  with the defund the police campaign.  

The Democrats seem to believe that their support of these mobs will win them votes.  Whose votes?  MS13?  The members of that criminal organization would certainly support the Breathe Act proposed by Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Presley in support of BLM.  It calls for the shuttering  of all federal prisons and immigration detention centers. How is that for magical thinking?  Only children too young to reason would think such an act would reduce crime and increase the safety of law-abiding citizens.  Cuomo and California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom keep releasing violent criminals from their prisons and then wonder why gun sales and the crime rate in their states have spiked more sharply than cases of COVID.  Like every anchor on CNN and MSNBC, these moonbats are spoiled, miseducated foolish persons in position of power and may well be the death of America.  Reason and logic are mysteries to them. 

Another egregious example of childlike behavior is Judge Emmet Sullivan, another leftist who has been exhibiting a months-long fit of infantile rage over the DOJ’s dismissal of the case against Gen. Michael Flynn.  He has refused to abide by the order and continues to try every trick he can think of to keep Flynn trapped in the legal limbo set in motion by the cabal of corrupt traitors who sought to use Flynn to take Trump down.  

The president commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone on Friday night, which has sent the inane leftist media into a frenzy of indignation.  Stone was as not guilty of anything but the left media are melting down while confirmed criminal liars like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, et al walk around free as birds.  If and when any of them are indicted, the media will suffer a collective apoplectic seizure. 

Then there is the 1619 Project, the entirely fictionalized version of America’s founding meant to assuage black Americans who have chosen to embrace the culture of victimhood with which they’ve been so carefully taught.  Its author, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is the ultimate spoiled child bent upon destroying not only America but her fellow black Americans.  The far left that has an iron grip on American education is pushing it into our schools to further mid-educate American youth.  Any and all legitimate historians can and have invalidated her work with ease but does anyone care?  She won a Pulitzer for her nonsense “project” that only a child could take seriously.  Our left for decades now has promoted a host of false narratives meant to deceive and thus control a mesmerized populace. 

Back to Black Lives Matter, so deferential  to them is the left, their overt anti-Semitism is being normalized.  The vandalization and looting in Los Angeles included swastikas on synagogues and Jewish businesses.  Did any on the left denounce this?  Not one.  Not even those who are Jewish.  BLM is viciously anti-Israel as well.  Has Schumer said a word?  Of course not. He is as fearful of this mob of benighted thugs as Republicans are fearful of our savage media and the beyond-childish cancel culture.  God forbid a leftist be confronted with an opposing view.  Like all those screaming, screeching young white women we see shouting at police, the lot of them are just spoiled, pampered children who have been given free rein to lay waste to the country that has provided them with the unfettered freedom to behave so abominably.

There can no longer be any doubt that the Democratic Party is now a thoroughly radicalized, anti-American left bent upon “transforming” this country.  Since the 1960s, the Alinsky radicals have made enormous headway.  They have seen to it that at least two, perhaps three generations of young people have been carefully taught not to feel immense gratitude for their good fortune of being born and/or raised here but to condemn and despise this great nation.  The ancient goal of teaching our young to think critically has been cancelled; now they are taught  to almost mindlessly comply with whatever edicts are issued by their teachers or those of the elected and unelected bureaucrats.  

The media and Dr. Anthony Fauci-hyped hysteria over COVID has proven to those powers that be just how successful the left has been.  

Orwell would be shocked; he thought he was writing fiction.  The witless submission of so many citizens  to social distancing and compulsory wearing of face masks is a case in point.  Too many Americans believe whatever the media spew.  The destruction of the most successful economy thanks to Trump had to be sabotaged at any cost.  The successful rendering of so many to a permanent childhood characterized by identity politics, stage-managed victimhood, and submissive compliance to an authoritarian left is the disease that those of us who support President Trump have long sought to reverse.  He is truly last man standing between the disaster that has befallen Venezuela most recently but countless other nations throughout history.

This nation that was built on freedom and the equality of opportunity that has made U.S. citizenship the most valued in the world.  

Image credit: Pixabay public domain

New York’s Mayor Bill de Blasio, unarguably the worst mayor in NY history, is so immature he is spending money his city does not have to paint Black Lives Matter on 5^th Avenue in front of Trump Tower.  

Because of COVID, he has now banned all public gatherings except BLM protests!  He is a child in the throes of a tantrum.  The mayor of D.C. did the same thing; and she did it first.  Mayor Muriel Bowser declared the area in front of the White House “Black Lives Plaza.”  Cute. 

Then there’s New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is legitimately responsible for the deaths of thousands of his state’s elderly, by ordering COVID patients into nursing homes with the highly contagious — and lethal for the elderly — illness.  After bitterly whining that he needed hospital beds, ventilators, PPE, etc., and seeing how Trump delivered everything he asked for, like a child he refused to use the ship or field hospitals Trump had provided.   

It is this puerile, bad-tempered  behavior that characterizes all of the left.  Since Trump was elected president, they have thrown a perpetual tantrum, betraying the emptiness of their agenda.  What is their agenda?  They want what they want when they want it.  When they don’t get what they want, they act out like crazed toddlers whose toys have been taken from them. Then, like the bullies they are, they spend every waking moment determined to get their way, no matter the cost or damage done. 

They tried to effect a coup, to overthrow President Trump with a carefully orchestrated plan to frame him for collusion with Russia. That has blown up in their faces.  

They tried impeachment over a phone call. Another fail. 

Not a day has gone by in four years that the left in coordination with the media has not been actively trying to destroy the man.  

Since the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the man whose name neither House Speaker Nancy Pelosi nor Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer could remember, the Democrats have continued to be on the side of the nation-destroyers. Pelosi, when asked about the destruction of statues, said, “People will do what they do.”

Not a single Democrat has spoken out against the violence of BLM or Antifa.  They all are apparently onboard  with the defund the police campaign.  

The Democrats seem to believe that their support of these mobs will win them votes.  Whose votes?  MS13?  The members of that criminal organization would certainly support the Breathe Act proposed by Rashida Tlaib and Ayanna Presley in support of BLM.  It calls for the shuttering  of all federal prisons and immigration detention centers. How is that for magical thinking?  Only children too young to reason would think such an act would reduce crime and increase the safety of law-abiding citizens.  Cuomo and California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom keep releasing violent criminals from their prisons and then wonder why gun sales and the crime rate in their states have spiked more sharply than cases of COVID.  Like every anchor on CNN and MSNBC, these moonbats are spoiled, miseducated foolish persons in position of power and may well be the death of America.  Reason and logic are mysteries to them. 

Another egregious example of childlike behavior is Judge Emmet Sullivan, another leftist who has been exhibiting a months-long fit of infantile rage over the DOJ’s dismissal of the case against Gen. Michael Flynn.  He has refused to abide by the order and continues to try every trick he can think of to keep Flynn trapped in the legal limbo set in motion by the cabal of corrupt traitors who sought to use Flynn to take Trump down.  

The president commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone on Friday night, which has sent the inane leftist media into a frenzy of indignation.  Stone was as not guilty of anything but the left media are melting down while confirmed criminal liars like James Comey, Andrew McCabe, James Clapper, et al walk around free as birds.  If and when any of them are indicted, the media will suffer a collective apoplectic seizure. 

Then there is the 1619 Project, the entirely fictionalized version of America’s founding meant to assuage black Americans who have chosen to embrace the culture of victimhood with which they’ve been so carefully taught.  Its author, Nikole Hannah-Jones, is the ultimate spoiled child bent upon destroying not only America but her fellow black Americans.  The far left that has an iron grip on American education is pushing it into our schools to further mid-educate American youth.  Any and all legitimate historians can and have invalidated her work with ease but does anyone care?  She won a Pulitzer for her nonsense “project” that only a child could take seriously.  Our left for decades now has promoted a host of false narratives meant to deceive and thus control a mesmerized populace. 

Back to Black Lives Matter, so deferential  to them is the left, their overt anti-Semitism is being normalized.  The vandalization and looting in Los Angeles included swastikas on synagogues and Jewish businesses.  Did any on the left denounce this?  Not one.  Not even those who are Jewish.  BLM is viciously anti-Israel as well.  Has Schumer said a word?  Of course not. He is as fearful of this mob of benighted thugs as Republicans are fearful of our savage media and the beyond-childish cancel culture.  God forbid a leftist be confronted with an opposing view.  Like all those screaming, screeching young white women we see shouting at police, the lot of them are just spoiled, pampered children who have been given free rein to lay waste to the country that has provided them with the unfettered freedom to behave so abominably.

There can no longer be any doubt that the Democratic Party is now a thoroughly radicalized, anti-American left bent upon “transforming” this country.  Since the 1960s, the Alinsky radicals have made enormous headway.  They have seen to it that at least two, perhaps three generations of young people have been carefully taught not to feel immense gratitude for their good fortune of being born and/or raised here but to condemn and despise this great nation.  The ancient goal of teaching our young to think critically has been cancelled; now they are taught  to almost mindlessly comply with whatever edicts are issued by their teachers or those of the elected and unelected bureaucrats.  

The media and Dr. Anthony Fauci-hyped hysteria over COVID has proven to those powers that be just how successful the left has been.  

Orwell would be shocked; he thought he was writing fiction.  The witless submission of so many citizens  to social distancing and compulsory wearing of face masks is a case in point.  Too many Americans believe whatever the media spew.  The destruction of the most successful economy thanks to Trump had to be sabotaged at any cost.  The successful rendering of so many to a permanent childhood characterized by identity politics, stage-managed victimhood, and submissive compliance to an authoritarian left is the disease that those of us who support President Trump have long sought to reverse.  He is truly last man standing between the disaster that has befallen Venezuela most recently but countless other nations throughout history.

This nation that was built on freedom and the equality of opportunity that has made U.S. citizenship the most valued in the world.  

Image credit: Pixabay public domain