This is President Trump's answer to the impeachment charges:
THE HONORABLE DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, HEREBY RESPONDS: The Articles of Impeachment submitted by House Democrats are a dangerous attack on the right of the American people to freely choose their President. This is a brazen and unlawful attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election and interfere with the 2020 election—now just months away. The highly partisan and reckless obsession with impeaching the President began the day he was inaugurated and continues to this day. Click here to read the full answer.
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Robert Ray, who replaced Kenneth Starr as Independent Counsel in the Clinton matter, is another member of Trump's impeachment defense team. Here's what Reed Irvine wrote about him on March 22, 2002 : The five-volume final report of Independent Counsel Robert W. Ray documents the dishonesty and crimes of the Clintons and some of their cohorts, but it ignominiously retreats under the banner of “insufficient evidence” from holding them legally responsible. It also suffers from serious flaws of omission and misrepresentation in recounting the evidence. This is most conspicuous in the total failure to discuss the evidence showing that the most serious crime the Office of Independent Counsel had to deal with was the cover-uwww.aim.org/aim-column/rays-ignominious-retreat/p by the Clinton White House of the murder of its Deputy Counsel, Vincent W. Foster, Jr. For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid Dear Friend of America's Survival,
The Daily Beast headline, for once, is accurate: Trump Just Hired Jeffrey Epstein’s Lawyers. The subheadline was, "The men who helped [pedophile] Jeffrey Epstein walk free in a sweetheart plea deal...are now on Trump's high-powered legal team for his impeachment trial." It said: "The president bolstered his legal team Friday with attorneys Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr, who helped Epstein evade prison time in a now infamously lenient plea deal with Palm Beach prosecutors." But there's more to the story the Daily Beast won't cover: Kenneth “Ken” Starr, a Fox News contributor, is indeed on President Trump’s impeachment legal team. Kenneth Starr is the former independent counsel assigned to investigate Whitewater related matters. He got Clinton impeached over lying about his sexual relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. But he covered-up the facts surrounding the 1993 death of Clinton White House attorney Vincent Foster. Starr also represented sex pervert Jeffrey Epstein. Another member of Trump's team is Professor Alan Dershowitz, a "non partisan when it comes to the constitution" who "opposed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton and voted for Hillary Clinton." He also twice voted in presidential elections for Barack Obama. "He’s a friend and supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton — voted for her in 2016 and even contributed money to her campaign," the Washington Post reported. There were so many anomalies in Starr's probe that the Special Division of the Court of Appeals ordered an appendix added to his report on the death of Vincent Foster. The appendix exposed serious flaws in the report that cast strong doubt on the suicide finding. These anomalies included:
The official government investigations, including the one run by ardent “Republican” Kenneth Starr, were flawed. Nobody knew this better than Miguel Rodriguez, the lead investigator of Foster’s death for Independent Counsel Starr. He uncovered evidence that Foster had not committed suicide. However, Rodriguez, the prosecutor in charge of the grand jury investigation of Foster’s death, resigned because of interference with his investigation. He was replaced by Brett Kavanaugh, who went along with the suicide finding. Starr, who covered-up the Vincent Foster murder, represented Jeffrey Epstein, who also experienced a mysterious death. Laura Ingraham conducted a weak interview of Starr over the Epstein case but has never brought up Foster. Also examine the weak Harris Faulkner interview: Ken Starr: 'Ridiculous' to say Jeffrey Epstein got a 'sweetheart deal' in 2008. Like Epstein, Foster is the man who knew too much. He had knowledge of various Clinton scandals, including Travelgate, the Waco tragedy, and possibly some illegal activities involving national security. One more note: Attorney Allan Favish argued in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for access to photos of Foster's dead body, which was discovered in Ft. Marcy Park outside of Washington, D.C. in 1993. All nine Justices, in a ruling delivered by Justice Anthony Kennedy, ruled against disclosure and the right to know. Kavanaugh was a law clerk for Kennedy. For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid A Narco-Nation of Potheads, Courtesy of George Soros
By Cliff Kincaid – January 18, 2020 Billionaire George Soros was named “Philanthropist of the Year” by Inside Philanthropy magazine for his “…fight for academic freedom in Central Europe, and his resistance to the rising tide of authoritarianism worldwide.” The former is a reference to gender studies programs and the latter concerns his ongoing campaign to undermine existing governments, causing chaos that makes more money for hedge fund currency manipulators and short-sellers like himself. In the United States, he is best known for almost single-handedly creating a narco-nation through legalization of marijuana, causing human suffering and environmental devastation on a scale most people do not yet comprehend. With the nation focused on the opioid danger, and President Trump accusing China of pumping fentanyl into the veins of American victims through Mexico, the marijuana problem has gotten less attention. Indeed, liberal politicians and prosecutors, some of them getting Soros money, are treating the dope as a harmless substance and even a money-maker for local and state governments. For one of the most sensational examples of a notorious pothead, consider Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL star who became a convicted killer and then killed himself in prison. The subject of a new Netflix series, “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez,” he was a chronic marijuana user throughout college and his NFL career who experienced brain damage from the drug. The case proves a direct link between marijuana, mental illness, and violence. In California, legal dope was supposed to displace illegal dope. But illicit cannabis cultivation sites are proliferating, offering a cheaper product than the government-approved variety. The Siskiyou County (California) Board of Supervisors voted on a new Declaration of Local Emergency that refers to illegal growers being responsible for “hundreds of pervasive fire hazards, insecticides, pesticides, rodenticides, fertilizers, trash, and unsanitary conditions which severely impact health, safety and quality of life for countless county residents…” It’s in Barack Hussein Obama’s state of Illinois that we see some of the recent damage being done. Illinois last year became the first state to legalize the marijuana business through legislation rather than by referendum and placing excise and sales taxes on the “product.” We can already see the predictable result -- marijuana-related emergency room visits are on the rise. The local ABC-TV station in Chicago quotes doctors as saying the most common symptoms of the new potheads in Illinois are restlessness, heart palpitations and anxiety, but that “In some cases we are seeing full on psychosis, agitation, hallucinations.” Incredibly, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton was one of the first in line to purchase the dope. She bought clementine-flavored marijuana edible gummies and paid with cash. The scene was captured by CNN as she was pictured among hundreds of early-morning customers at a Chicago marijuana dispensary. She probably went to the front of the line, but some people waited hours in order to buy their “recreational marijuana” and get “high.” David E. Smith of the Illinois Family Institute comments, “Not only have lawmakers failed to do their due diligence before passing this marijuana law, but they also failed to heed the compelling research that indicates how regular use of marijuana affects young people, including an increased risk of psychiatric illnesses and a permanent loss of IQ points.” In fact, this is the plan – dumb people down so they ruin their lives and then have to be dependent on the state for the rest of their lives. The potheads are fast becoming an important new constituency for the socialist-minded. Before they actually navigate their way to the polls, they can relieve their pain by employing another “hemp” product – CBD or cannabidiol. CBD is being hawked all over, even on the Rush Limbaugh show, and is being advertised as a treatment for “muscle soreness” and “everyday discomfort.” But many complaints have been filed with the FDA over the false medical claims made about CBD. Dr. Kenneth Finn comments, “These products are everywhere, but there is little scientific evidence to support the hype that surrounds them.” He says unregulated CBD products hitting the market might be contaminated with heavy metals, pesticides, fungicides, rodenticides, insecticides, molds, E. coli, or fungus. Official dope distribution is supposed to fill a financial gap. In Illinois, the sixth-biggest state, by population, Politico reporter Theodoric Meyer reports that it has seen its credit rating cut to near-junk status in the decade since the financial crisis. “Its bonds are now considered as risky as those of Russia and Romania,” he notes. “Its pension system is in worse shape than that of almost any other state.” Writers Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner note that the population of Illinois dropped by 100,000 people between 2010 and 2018 and few of the state’s counties have been spared. “That means that 93 of the state’s 102 counties have shrunk since 2010,” they note. Adam Schuster, Director of Budget and Tax Research at the group, Illinois Policy, reports that 36 percent of the money the state allocates to education will be diverted away from teachers and students to meet required pension payments for retirees. Former Illinois pension chief Marc Levine is quoted as saying a federal bailout may be required, making this a matter affecting all taxpayers, not just the saps remaining in Illinois. The “progressive” politicians have virtually bankrupted the state, forcing thousands to flee, and have turned to the cruel exploitation of potheads as a sure-fire money-maker to stave off the final countdown to fiscal oblivion. But legalized dope means more wards of the state who need government help. Now this is going national. “Once a politically dangerous subject,” notes Trevor Hughes of USA Today, “legal marijuana has become something of a de facto platform plank for the 2020 Democratic candidates: All support either legalizing or decriminalizing its use, and the differences lie in how far the candidates are willing to take it.” Since 22.2 million people have used marijuana in the past month, this is fertile ground for votes. In a bid for votes, candidate Pete Buttigieg actually toured a “cannabis dispensary” in Las Vegas while commenting that he smoked dope a “handful of times a long time ago.” President Trump, on the other hand, can just say no. He lost his brother to alcoholism and should consider speaking out against the Soros-funded marijuana craze before more lives are ruined and lost. His Surgeon General, Vice Adm. Jerome M. Adams, is already speaking out about the health risks of marijuana use. He needs the backing of his president. Roger Morgan, author of Soros: The Drug Lord. Pricking the Bubble of American Supremacy, notes the elevated levels of mental illness, addiction, suicides, traffic deaths and the unseen mental and physical defects to babies and future generations from the use of marijuana and other mind-altering drugs. He adds, "America can never be great again if a major percentage of its young people are brain damaged, mentally ill, addicted or dead.” *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Dear Friend of America's Survival,
A major breakthrough has occurred: Catholic News Service reports that Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, chairman of the bishops’ committee, said that the pope agreed with the U.S. bishops “identifying the protection of the unborn as a preeminent priority.” The publication Our Sunday Visitor added: Archbishop Naumann said he told the pope that since the Roe v. Wade court decision legalized abortion, an estimated 61 million abortions have taken place in the United States. “I think the pope was truly kind of stunned by that number,” Archbishop Naumann said. “Sadly, our abortion policies are one of the most liberal in the world. The fact is that it really is literally for all nine months of pregnancy. Most other nations don’t permit (abortions) at least at a certain point in the pregnancy.” For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid Dear Friend of America's Survival,
I have not yet seen the Netflix "docuseries" titled, "Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez." But we do know that the convicted killer was a pothead -- Hernandez chain-smoked marijuana -- and that he was secretly gay. The far-out BuzzFeed News reports that the new series Killer Inside "explores the role that queerness and denial might have played in Hernandez’s life, death, and crimes." The Hartford Courant notes: "Former Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez smoked marijuana after football games and during the offseason, but the rampant drug use disclosed at his recent murder trial never resulted in an NFL suspension...Prosecution witness Alexander Bradley, a Hartford resident, testified that Hernandez 'chain-smoked' up to an ounce of marijuana on a daily basis, and dozens of other witnesses said they saw him smoke or noticed the distinctive scent of marijuana in his basement 'man cave.'" The Washington Post noted that Bradley, a drug dealer, "grew close to Hernandez during his playing days at Florida, supplying marijuana and basking in the football player’s reflected glory." The Courant said he "dropped to the fourth round [of the NFL draft] because of positive marijuana tests that sidelined him for at least one game in college." His college coach reportedly said Hernandez was a "chronic" marijuana user. He was secretly gay, had a "prison boyfriend," and may have been HIV positive. He hung himself in prison in 2017. The death of his father in 2006 was a traumatic event. For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid Dear Friend of America's Survival,
Fearful of losing to Trump, the Democratic establishment, including CNN, have mobilized against Bernie Sanders. Now, a group called Progressives Unite 2020 is partnering with 17 other national organizations in "calling on progressives to work together to win." Democracy for America says:
The Bernie Sanders campaign says: "Bernie did great at last night’s debate, but that does not change the fact that he did not get a fair shake.
And those questions are to say nothing of post-debate coverage stacked with people who have long histories attacking or working against Bernie. And now that our campaign is doing so well, it will only get worse. So Bernie needs your help to fight back — to elevate our voices and reach the people we need to WIN...We’ve said from the start that we aren’t just taking on the political and financial establishment in this country, but we would be taking on much of the corporate media and pundit class, as well." The "National Progressive Groups’ Unity Statement on Democratic Primary" represents six national organizations representing "millions of progressive activists" -- Our Revolution, the Sunrise Movement and RootsAction.org (all supporting Sanders); the Working Families Party (supporting Warren); and Justice Democrats and Democracy for America (currently not supporting any presidential candidate). JEFF COHEN, co-founder of RootsAction.org., said today: “When RootsAction initiated this statement a few months ago, Sanders and Warren were ‘playing nicely together.’ And the thrust of the ‘Progressive Unity’ statement is as true today as it was then: if supporters of Sanders and Warren don’t cooperate in the Iowa caucuses and before July’s national convention, neither of these two progressive candidates will likely be the Democratic nominee. Instead, a corporate Democrat will get the nomination, which could lead to re-election of faux-populist Trump.” From the statement: “In 2016, mainstream conventional wisdom asserted that Hillary Clinton would easily triumph over Trump. Today, some still argue for a return to pre-Trump policies and politics as the safest path to victory. We disagree. Going ‘back to the future’ does not offer the best path to Trump’s defeat. Nor does it move our country forward in terms of the enormous challenges and inequities facing the American people. “We offer this statement as independent organizations. Some support Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren or are not currently supporting any candidate for president. For those with a declared preference, this statement in no way signals the slightest decrease in that commitment. Instead, this statement is a shared declaration of our belief that the surest way to defeat Trump is for the Democratic Party to nominate either Warren or Sanders, as these are the candidates best able to energize voters by providing a vision of a decent society and a fair economy. This vision is sorely needed, as is an administration that will implement far-reaching reforms toward a more just society. “Sanders and Warren, as well as their campaigns and supporters, will need to find ways to cooperate. The crossfire amplified by the media is unhelpful and does not reflect the relationship between two Senate colleagues who broadly worked well together for most of the last year. We hope to build solidarity between delegates affiliated with these two candidates prior to the convention and will encourage the campaigns to work towards a unified convention strategy after the final primaries on June 2nd.“ Dear Friend of America's Survival,
The Netflix film "The Two Popes" is mostly fiction. The real pope, Benedict XVI, was forced to resign by a secret cabal of Cardinals, in order to make the leftist Francis the pope. Benedict has now written the essay, "The Church and the scandal of sexual abuse," noting that, in effect, the church was infiltrated by Cultural Marxism and that a gay Mafia exists in its ranks. He said, "Among the freedoms that the Revolution of 1968 sought to fight for was this all-out sexual freedom, one which no longer conceded any norms...Part of the physiognomy of the Revolution of ‘68 was that pedophilia was then also diagnosed as allowed and appropriate....Catholic moral theology suffered a collapse that rendered the Church defenseless against these changes in society... The long-prepared and ongoing process of dissolution of the Christian concept of morality was, as I have tried to show, marked by an unprecedented radicalism in the 1960s. " He noted: "In various seminaries homosexual cliques were established, which acted more or less openly and significantly changed the climate in the seminaries." He added:
Finally, he noted how the European Union rejected God:
For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid ![]() Can Hedge Funds Topple Trump? By Cliff Kincaid – January 16, 2020 President Donald J. Trump has a good conservative record, especially in regard to the courts, and he has strengthened the Armed Forces. His rallies are packed with supporters. But as we enter 2020, even some conservative Republicans in Congress seem scared to death. Debt is piling up and the Federal Reserve is propping up the economy through emergency loans. Some are asking: can hedge funds crash the economy? George Soros isn’t the only donor to the Democratic Party who ran a hedge fund. A Democratic presidential candidate, San Francisco billionaire Tom Steyer, is a hedge fund manager who reportedly ran an offshore company advertised as a tax shelter. One of the Democratic Party’s top donors, his fund invested in fossil fuel projects but he is now running on the dangers of “climate change” caused by fossil fuels. Hedge funds can cause an economic downturn by targeting companies, countries and currencies with short selling strategies. With the debt and deficits high, such a threat is real. Conservative Republican Rep. Chip Roy refused to vote for the new $1.4 trillion spending bill, a “compromise” with House Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats, saying, “This bill borrows, and it borrows at a time when we can't afford to borrow another penny. Our nation is $23 trillion in debt, now racking up more than $100 million of debt per hour.” As part of the deal with the Democrats, Trump agreed to demands for paid maternity and family leave for 2.1 million federal workers, and his daughter Ivanka is pushing a similar nanny-state program for the nation as a whole, which could cost hundreds of billions of dollars. The Eagle Forum group founded by the late Phyllis Schlafly, a Trump supporter, called these plans a form of federal baby-sitting. Always eager to up the ante, we can expect liberal politicians to propose legislation to guarantee paid vacations and holidays, in addition to debt relief and student loan forgiveness. “In many ways,” says Frank Lasée, President of the Heartland Institute, “America is at a crossroads. Will our nation embrace a European-style welfare state, complete with cradle-to-grave entitlements and the taxes that go with them? Or will Americans demand more freedom in the form of less taxes, more school choice, and less oversight from Washington, D.C. bureaucrats? I am hopeful the latter will triumph.” He cites the dangers in the Green New Deal and the Medicare for All plans. Another danger was documented in the book Wizards of Wall Street by businessman Zubi Diamond. An African immigrant who came to America and became a successful businessman, Diamond says that George Soros and other hedge fund short sellers can undermine nations, their economies and currencies, and the global financial system as a whole. While Trump recognizes the socialist menace, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that since his inauguration in January of 2017, Trump has signed legislation into law that will ultimately add $4.1 trillion to the national debt from 2017 to 2029. Setting a record, the Department of the Treasury reports that the federal government spent a record $1,163,090,000,000 in the first three months of fiscal 2020. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is intervening with tens of billions of dollars in bailouts in an “interbank lending liquidity crisis.” Is this traceable to hedge fund speculators and currency manipulators betting behind-the-scenes on the decline of the U.S. economy? To stave off this possibility, Trump has signed a “phase-one” trade deal with Communist China, promising relief for America’s farmers and manufacturers. In addition, the Trump Administration is preparing a new tax cut proposal. In another move, Trump bowed to Pelosi and Big Labor in securing passage of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade by inserting pro-United Nations elements into the pact. As a result, the USMCA establishes a regional North American bureaucracy, under the auspices of the U.N.’s International Labor Organization, to manipulate and enforce labor standards between the three countries. The deal undermines Trump’s proclaimed opposition to globalism and enables the Democrats to claim they improved the agreement to benefit workers. The good news is that Congressman Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) has reintroduced his bill, H.R. 204, the American Sovereignty Restoration Act, to halt all involvement of the United States with the United Nations. Trump could endorse the bill and rally conservatives behind it. While the economy is strong, Trump’s social and cultural agenda has achieved mixed results. On abortion, Trump has pleased conservative Christians. During the campaign Trump posted an eloquent 600-word statement that notes that he did not always hold the pro-life position, “but I had a significant personal experience that brought the precious gift of life into perspective for me.” He previously had said that “what happened is friends of mine years ago were going to have a child, and it was going to be aborted. And it wasn’t aborted. And that child today is a total superstar, a great, great child.” This kind of conversion is desperately needed on homosexual rights. Trump Ambassador Richard Grenell led an embarrassing effort at the U.N. to force Christian nations into accepting homosexual rights. It’s only a matter of time before conservative Christians take note of what Grenell is doing in the name of Trump. They won’t be happy. At the same time, many members of the old “Just Say No” anti-drug Reagan coalition are increasingly frustrated by the Trump Administration’s failure to take action against Big Marijuana and the phony claims from the related “hemp” industry about the supposed medical benefits of CBD. A petition asks Senator Mike Crapo, chairman of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee, to continue his valiant effort to stop the marijuana industry from getting access to the national banking system in order to launder its profits. With the “progressives” taking advantage of every opportunity to broaden their anti-Trump coalition, including through an orchestrated impeachment campaign, the Trump Administration has some golden opportunities to reassemble powerful elements of the old Reagan Coalition. From the perspective of the Trump campaign, a possible economic downturn, brought on by hedge fund short-sellers, should make expanding the base a matter of utmost urgency. *Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org Dear Friend of America's Survival,
This is great news -- a major setback for the potheads. "Chairman Crapo Outlines Concerns with Cannabis Banking Legislation." It begins: Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) is inviting public feedback on ways to address public health and money laundering concerns with cannabis banking. Referring to the so-called SAFE Banking Act that passed in the House of Representatives, Crapo said, "Significant concerns remain that the SAFE Banking Act does not address the high level potency of marijuana, marketing tactics to children, lack of research on marijuana’s effects, and the need to prevent bad actors and cartels from using the banks to disguise ill-gotten cash to launder money into the financial system." The "SAFE Banking Act" passed by a 321-to-103 vote in the House. Sign the petition "U.S. Sen. Mike Crapo: Thank U.S. Senator for Putting Kids before Pot Profits" by adding your name. American Banker magazine headlined its article, Crapo delivers crushing blow to pot banking. For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid |