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Great article! Has to be Trump, sui generis. Desantis blew it by running. People in FL are not happy with him. The Rino’s screwed him over royally. He is either a deep plant or a dope.

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Superb post! Thank you, Mark.

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You don't see a compelling alternative ? Open your eyes and meet Gov. Desantis.

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I'm reminded from reading "Art of the Deal" the idea that Donald Trump relished courtroom battles.

Looks like the mother of all courtroom battles is in the offing.

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I’m still struggling a bit to understand why the extreme hatred, and sabotage of Trump by many so called Conservatives. And the hubris of the Resistance.

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Indicting Trump "for repeatedly expressing his opinion that the last election was stolen, rigged, and unfair" puts the 2020 election and J6 front and center. I think the administration would have been better advised to leave Trump out of this. Now belatedly they are giving him a platform to make his case on election fraud, and even what actually happened on J6, or on the contrary restricting his right to defend himself which might prove even more damaging.

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Eli Lake should be declared brain dead. Toast. It is terribly clear that Zhou loves money more than his son, whom he has used shamelessly as a personal bag man. That’s love? Excellent piece from Trump. Heartening.

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Great content, per usual high standards. Having done a bit of a deep dive on the JFK Assassination recently, it seems clear the Deep State was in full bloom by the early 60's, having been fueled from the CIA origins post WW2 and the McCarthy era lunacy. Similar to today's neocon anthem of Russia, Russia, Russia their mantra was Commie, Commie, Commie.

Eisenhower tried to warn in his farewell address as he left office:

“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted.”

Truman who created the CIA in 1947, wrote (much too late) on Dec 22,1963 in a very carefully worded article in the Washington Post about the danger of the CIA taking over the government:

“I think it has become necessary to take another look at the purpose and operations of our Central Intelligence Agency—CIA . . . “For some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas. We have grown up as a nation, respected for our free institutions and for our ability to maintain a free and open society. There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it.”

Basic research into the JFK murder is pregnant with details of a complex executive action operation. Trying to work on peace with the USSR, which he spoke clearly about in the Peace Speech delivered at American University on June 10, 1963 signed his death warrant five months later. (https://youtu.be/0fkKnfk4k40)

Trump disrupting the Hillary power parade was his sin, along with sniffing too close to the Ukraine golden goose, which clearly struck a big nerve.

The operation on Trump was equally complex running from Russia, Russia, Russia during and after the campaign into the Mueller farce. Sniffing in the general direction of Ukraine led to Impeachment 1 and the Covid rearrangement of election process and Jan 6th (Impeachment 2). Like the fruitless Mueller process, we now have a full frontal assault by DOJ and the ongoing promotion of Jan 6th as a critical event in our history.

Hopefully the trial will provide the opportunity for a fun root canal of the actions and inactions of the DOJ, state level election fraud, gov't directed social media censorship and the FBI election meddling of the Hunter laptop which was in their possession for the year prior. They knew it was a bombshell and worked actively to avoid it's detonation until post election.

Hopefully a new administration will revisit the Eisenhower and Truman warnings, along with the documented actions behind the removal of JFK and Trump, with an understanding that too much time has been lost and time is of the essence for saving our great land.

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Agreed, very powerful statement by the Donald. And it also gives me hope that there's at least someone in his orbit who gets the bigger picture.

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Going back a bit farther, I have regarded Trump from the beginning as Tea Party 2.0. When the Tea Party began, the Democrats tried to dismiss it, tried to copy it with their fake "Coffee Party," and even used the IRS to hamper its few organizations. The Republicans varied--a few accepted it, quite a few tried to get their money, and some went along with the Dems. So they stalled the Tea Party, and then they got Trump. And my view ever since 2016 has been that if the Establishment of both parties succeeded in stopping Trump, they will find out that Tea Party 3.0 will be even worse. I don't know who will lead it--DeSantis, Ramaswamy, or someone we haven't even heard of yet. (It won't be Pence, Hutchinson, or Christie.)

But for background on how stuff like this goes, read some American history of the period from 1763-1775. One good source is Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly." One section of the book covers the actions of the British government that triggered the American Revolution. Most of our current politicians are no smarter than George III and his ministers.

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Said one President "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Thank you for your superb summary, but it leaves me wondering if there is a solution. Surfing the internet I find a whole gamut of strongly held opinions, and there seems to be no possibility of ever coming together. Are we finished as a Country, capable of coming together for a common cause?

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Except Eli Lake later tweeted that remark was facetious.

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Maybe more people are waking up. I don’t know. But maybe. #1 on the charts is a big middle finger to those who would control and dictate.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-soars-1-billboard-hot-100-wife-brittany-celebrates

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