President Trump Calling Out Biden & Washington For Focusing On Ukraine’s Border Instead Of America’s Border

“It’s always America Last.”

“Before Joe Biden sends any troops to defend a border in Eastern Europe he should be sending troops to defend our border right here in Texas.” pic.twitter.com/sqUeQo09fI

— The Columbia Bugle (@ColumbiaBugle) January 30, 2022

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Newsmax’s Kenny Cody writes, “One of the most significant policy shifts over the last 5-10 years of conservatism has more than likely been the embrace of the anti-interventionist mindset.

Republicans in the House and Senate, such as Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Paul Gosar and others have aggressively stood against the promotion of endless war in the halls of Congress. This includes advocating for the withdrawal of troops overseas and in Middle East countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as voting to repeal the 2002 Authorization of Use of Military Force.

The most recent important U.S. policy shift has been the right’s take on war.

Figures such as @RandPaul, @RepThomasMassie, @mattgaetz, @RepMTG, @laurenboebert, and @DrPaulGosar have shifted the @GOP‘s take on anti-interventionism.

My latest for @newsmax:https://t.co/xlaimBeSZs

— Kenny Cody (@KDCodyTN) January 6, 2022

This did not just start within the last 3 or 4 years…

…during former Congressman Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, he talked on and on about the dangers of an interventionist foreign policy abroad fiscally, morally and pragmatically. Paul argued that the United States should not act as the world police or burn taxpayer money feeding the military-industrial complex for the sake of establishing an international stranglehold on reputation abroad.

Most Republicans at that time looked at the position as heresy, seeing as the GOP continuously defended former President George W. Bush’s Iraq War efforts for nearly a decade.

However, the tide indeed turned when former President Donald Trump started to advocate for similar positions on the Iraq War and endless war in general during the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates.”

Read the entire column.

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We’re not anti-vaccine, but we’re firmly anti-mandate

I agree with President Trump when it comes to vaccine mandates. There’s a reason Florida has led the way, thanks to the leadership of Gov. DeSantis and his team. We’re not anti-vaccine, but we’re firmly anti-mandate. pic.twitter.com/KIO5OeY4kW

— Congresswoman Kat Cammack (@RepKatCammack) November 26, 2021

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Since when has anyone named Cheney felt obligated to uphold the Constitution? Set aside for a moment whether or not you believe Trump is a threat to constitutional order or anything else.

Let’s remember where Cheney has been a threat to the rule of law and our constitutional republic…

But if the War on Terror her father waged and Obama continued to oversee was also a war on the Constitution, Mrs. Cheney was all in on that battle too.

“The same congresswoman who now warns that former President Donald Trump threatens the ‘foundations of our constitutional republic’ has not cared about the most basic precepts of the U.S. Constitution for most of her career.”@jackhunter74 with the ?:https://t.co/kRDwyrjCcz

— Brad Polumbo ?? ?‍? (@brad_polumbo) November 16, 2021

A good example was when Cheney was promoting and defending CIA operative Gina Haspel in 2018, Trump’s pick to head that agency. Cheney said Haspel “spent her career defending the American people” and her critics were simply “defending terrorists.”

Haspel had a documented role in waterboarding abroad and other “enhanced interrogation tactics,” including covering up America’s role in carrying out these atrocities.

Constitutional liberties and protections, and the United States’ moral complicity in engaging in this illegal behavior, mattered little to Cheney at the time.

Read the entire column.

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In January, a newly-elected President Joe Biden called for former President Donald Trump’s impeachment. He said at the time, “To preserve our Constitution, our democracy, our basic integrity, he should be impeached.”

Biden seemed concerned about enforcing the Constitution at the time. Biden would add, “We all laughed when he said he could stand on Fifth Avenue and shoot someone. And get away with it.”

“He is shooting holes in the Constitution and we cannot let him get away with it,” Biden insisted.

.@JoeBiden accused Trump of “shooting holes in the Constitution.” What in the hell makes him think his vaccine mandate is constitutional? He’s even defying federal courts at this point. Biden has gone completely rogue. #Constitution #unconstitutionalmandate pic.twitter.com/COMbpyvtFw

— Jack Hunter (@jackhunter74) November 10, 2021

Biden’s vaccine mandate on businesses is unconstitutional. A federal judge just declared it unconstitutional.

So what does he do? He ignores the law. He ignores the judge. He ignores the Constitution.

Joe Biden is shooting holes in the Constitution.

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Newsmax: FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court, and they have warrants that they can issue so they can listen to your phone calls. But the standard that is used by the government to give a warrant is they have to have probable cause that you’re associated with a foreign government.

That’s not what the Constitution says. If you’re an American the Constitution says they have to have probable cause that you’ve committed a crime. And they can search person, place and they can individualize with an individualized warrant. So the warrant is a lower standard, and I’m with going for foreigners and listening to phone calls from people we think might attack us.

.@RandPaul speaks out against the precedent set by “politically-motivated” FISA warrants out to investigate former President Trump.

“Too many people on the left, because they hate President Trump so much, can’t understand how dangerous this would be.” pic.twitter.com/zpJmm3TZgj

— Newsmax (@newsmax) September 30, 2021

But for an American, we need to use the U.S. Constitution and the Fourth Amendment. So the FISA court, where they use FISA warrants to go after President Trump, in I think a politically motivated way, they didn’t use the Constitution. The standard of the Constitution is here (raising hand high), the standard for FISA is here (lowering hand). They stooped down to using something we use on foreigners to using it against a presidential candidate.

I think too many people on the left, because they hate President Trump so much, can’t understand how dangerous this would be. This is incredibly dangerous whether you’re a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, whatever you are, to let the power of government use this less than constitutional standard to go after your political enemies and listen to their phone calls… invade their privacy. It’s very, very dangerous to democracy.

All these people on the left, every day, saying ‘Oh Donald Trump’s a danger to democracy’… What’s really a danger to democracy is allowing government to be strong enough that they can investigate political candidates of either party.

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BizPacReview reports, “It seems like years ago that we were hearing that Trump is colluding with Russia, that he wouldn’t have won the election without Russia, that his whole presidency was a Putin plot,’ he continued, a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

This, though, is what gives me hope. @rustyrockets took my Substack reporting on the indictment of Hillary’s lawyer and what it shows about the lies of corporate outlets. He produced a short YouTube video report. In 3 days, it has almost 2 million views:https://t.co/Cs7XtlDwYB

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 27, 2021

‘Well, there’s now evidence that it was the Clinton campaign and Hillary Clinton acolytes that were directly involved in the generation of what has proven to be an conspiracy, untrue’ Brand continued. ‘Think about how much media you watched.’

‘Me, a person who I think, broadly speaking, is from the left, a liberal, certainly not a Trump supporter or Republican…I find myself in awe, gobsmacked, flabbergasted, and startled by these revelations that ‘Russiagate’ was a Democratic conspiracy,’ Brand added.”

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Yahoo News reported Thursday, “Former President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will support a Wyoming attorney’s bid to unseat GOP Rep. Liz Cheney.”

“In a statement, Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman, who stepped down from her role representing Wyoming on the Republican National Committee in advance of the announcement.”

Some who disagree Trump’s fraudulent 2020 election claims do not like that the former president actively works against Cheney now, who has criticized Trump for those claims.

Whatever you think of Trump trying to take down an adversary within his own party for whatever reason, we know Liz Cheney has zero problem trying to take down adversaries within her own party for any reason.

Just ask Rep. Thomas Massie.

In April 2020 Rep. Thomas Massie enraged all of Washington when he attempted to force a roll-call vote on the massive $2 trillion coronavirus relief package.

What a #masshole

Corrupt coronavirus bailout results prove Thomas Massie was right all along https://t.co/DsxfSgk6gU

— Being Libertarian (@beinlibertarian) April 17, 2020

I wrote at the Washington Examiner at the time, “The libertarian-leaning Kentucky Republican’s move would have required members of Congress, including those who are elderly and among the most threatened by the novel coronavirus, to return to Washington. Massie was attacked and called a ‘Grandstander,’ ‘Un-American,’ and even a ‘Masshole’ by many high-ranking officials.”

President Trump called for Massie to be thrown out of the GOP. So did Liz Cheney, who immediately backed Massie’s primary challenger (yet later withdrew her support).

Never mind that Massie was proven right about the spending package just three weeks later.

“As many citizens received their stimulus payments this week, many also noticed that aspects of this aid looked rotten,” I wrote. “For starters, while mom-and-pop restaurants battled to get their pieces of the $350 billion ‘Payback Protection Program,’ large chain restaurants got them first .

While small businesses of all types, from salons to bars to auto shops, waited for relief, some hedge funds had applied ahead of them for a loan.” I noted. “So many big businesses and others applied that by Thursday, the money ran out.”

“Many little guys are still desperately waiting,” I finished. “Still, the rich got theirs.”

Massie had argued that in Washington’s haste to pass that bill, the little guy might get hurt because no one was paying attention to where the money would actually go. It was Massie practicing basic fiscal conservatism.

Does anyone think Cheney cared about that?

No, like her father, Liz Cheney is a thorough neoconservative whose primary reason for being in Washington is make sure the U.S. remains on a permanent war footing. The libertarian-leaning Massie believes we should not be fighting unnecessary wars or engaging in nation building.

When Trump wanted Massie ousted from the Republican Party, Cheney did not hesitate one second to stand alongside Trump and attempt to get rid of Massie using the president’s popularity.

Now the dynamics have flip-flopped and Cheney finds herself on the bad side of Trump. Some see Trump trying to take down Cheney as unfair.

When the script was flipped, Cheney used the same tactics against Thomas Massie. Without flinching. It was reflexive. She had an opportunity to stamp out an arch ideological enemy.

‘Fair’ had nothing to do with it.

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I would like to thank Rep. Adam Kinzinger for his service. This is about the only kind thing I can say about the Republican congressman as it relates to American foreign policy.

U.S. foreign policy has been a disaster for the last twenty years due to people who think like him. Kinzinger spent the weekend whining on social media about anyone who ever tried to end America’s longest war in Afghanistan, tweeting:

The withdrawal from #Afghanistan, pushed by @RandPaul negotiated by Pompeo, bragged about by Trump, and executed by Biden, guaranteed the “Forever War” that the terrorists declared against us, continues. That’s the real forever war.

— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) August 22, 2021

While the Biden administration withdrew U.S. forces from Afghanistan in the worst possible way, the notion of having American soldiers another week in a country where they cannot or will not defend themselves after all this time is an insult to our military.

Kinzinger is being cute with his comments about “forever war” in his tweet, but it is what politicians of his ilk truly want: The U.S. to be on a permanent war footing indefinitely.

It was neoconservative Republicans during the George W. Bush administration that got America into this prolonged mess and Kinzinger’s intent is to carry on that disastrous foreign policy legacy.

When President Trump announced that the U.S. would finally be leaving Iraq in the near future, neoconservative Republicans like Kinzinger and Liz Cheney teamed up with Democrats to try to stop a withdrawal.

CATO’s Doug Bandow touched on those efforts in July 2020, writing, “Republicans also are taking the lead in the Democratic‐ controlled House to sacrifice American interests for foreign governments. For instance, Rep. Liz Cheney…backed a Democratic proposal to limit further withdrawals from Afghanistan, where Americans have been engaged in a nearly 20‐ year nation‐ building mission.”

“The measure passed by a 45 to 11 vote: members of both countries seem determined to keep Americans forever fighting in Central Asia,” Bandow noted. “They care more for the corrupt, incompetent regime in Kabul than America service members and taxpayers. In contrast, the president, despite his halting, inconsistent policy, better represents this nation’s interests.”

Bandow added, “For instance, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R‐ Ill) complained that Trump’s refusal to keep the U.S. forever entangled in another nation’s civil war, tragic but irrelevant to American security, was ‘weak.”

That line could have came straight from Dick Cheney’s lips. Former President Donald Trump’s aversion to war has always been at the heart of Kinzinger’s deranged Never Trumpism.

For years, an overwhelming majority of Americans have supported withdrawal from Afghanistan, as Kinzinger now tries to use Biden’s poor strategy to argue the U.S. should have never left. Again, he quite literally wants forever wars.

If it is a soldier’s job to do his or her duty, it is our job as citizens to question our government when it chooses to go to war. Kinzinger finds it reprehensible that any American would ever question a war or want to end one. The mere inquiry sends the congressman into conniptions.

For all his moralizing and posturing, Adam Kinzinger is part of the outdated and discredited Washington foreign policy consensus that kept the U.S. in Afghanistan for so long in the first place. He will never admit it, he will never learn a single lesson from our foreign policy mistakes, and her will gladly repeat those mistakes with any willing presidents or parties in the future.

Adam Kinzinger is part of what’s been wrong with U.S. foreign policy for many years.

Too many.

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The Taliban is on Twitter. Trump isn’t. Big Tech sucks

Enough said.

The Taliban is on Twitter. But President Trump isn’t. ? #BigTechSucks

— Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) August 19, 2021

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