Dems Losing big time

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  By Florida Bill  

                       It must be difficult for the media and the "never,never Trumpers" to watch the "impeachment inquiry" going down in flames.  According to polls and reports, the inquiry designed to  portray the 45th President as a criminal, has turned off the lion's share  of Americans, leaving only loons to do the screaming.    Actually, it is kind of funny for a number of reasons.
                       Basically, the media, lead by the New York Times, the Washington Post and virtually every TV station except Fox News, carve up and deliver each and every story about the President in a negative way.  Even his search and destruction of the world's number one terrorist, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was said to have been handled improperly; and the President's Thanksgiving day visit to Troops in Afghanistan was "troubling," just a photo opportunity for Trump.  Regular reports continue that President Trump is prevaricating at the rate of about 20 times daily, and that is according to "fact checkers."
                        To underscore the case against President Trump, the media recently reported that the President's wife, Melania, had been booed during an appearance, with the innuendo that everything close to the President is evil.   
                      Last July 25, President Trump made a telephone call to the President of Ukraine which spurred demands from unprofessional and biased Democrats that he must be impeached and booted from office.  His criminality and "high crimes" were that he had pointed to former Vice President  Joe Biden and his cocaine addicted son, Hunter. as "cold stone corrupt"; and that he  sought to have the new Ukraine president expose Biden's misdeeds in 2016 when Trump  was a candidate for President. 
                   At that time, Biden had been successful in bringing about the firing of a prosecutor who was investigating the conduct of Biden's son who was a director of a corrupt gas company, and was earning $83,000 a month. In firing the veteran prosecutor, the Ukrainian President Poroshenko bowed to the wishes of Biden, America's point man to the Ukraine. 
                  Foreign aid of about $400 million, earmarked for Ukraine, was never an issue in President Trump's discussion with President Zelensky.  In fact, after false charges were made by Democrats that Trump had "squeezed" the Ukraine President,   Zelensky even held a news conference in an attempt to set the record straight.  He explained to news men that the July telephone call was a friendly chat with President Trump and that the idea that Trump had exerted undue pressure on him or laid down a "quid pro quo" was preposterous.   
                          Presently, the nation is being told that articles of impeachment are being prepared by "Fat Jerry" Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Nadler wears a different jacket today than he did 20 years ago when he was the staunchest defender of President Clinton who was the target of articles of impeachment by the House.  He argued that Clinton was pure as snow even  though Clinton's  semen was found on the blue dress of one of his young Oval office visitors;  and that he never really lied  to a grand jury or to the nation about the relationship. 
                       Nadler is being assisted by Rep. Adam Schiff, a walking liar who chairs the House Intelligence Committee.  Schiff  prepped  and counseled a "whistle blower" in a complaint about Trump's call to the  Ukrainian president.  Their cooked-up case against the President for bribery and high crimes and misdemeanors is based solely on assumptions, opinion and second hand talk and  unless there is a pull-back, accusing articles of impeachment will be delivered to the  Senate where there will be a trial in which the  Democrat conspiracy will be exposed and the Upper House of Congress will promptly acquit President Trump of any wrongdoing.  
                         Next November President Trump will be running for a second term and prognosticators say that he will be reelected by a wide margin and that embarrassed Democrats will wind up with egg on their faces, losing the Presidency as well as a majority in the House of Representatives. 

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Ukraine, Foreign Aid--and Why Trump Wins.

 
    
                                                   By FLORIDA BILL 

                             In recent years, the USA has been spooning out some 50 billion dollars annually to other nations in the form of foreign aid. 
                               Recipients of America's largess touch some 76 per cent of nations on the planet and gifts are large or small depending upon need, and other factors.  Foreign aid is designed to help countries in both domestic and military areas.  Among nations feeling the generosity of the USA, is Ukraine, a European country with a population of about 42.2 million residents.
                                Earlier this year, Ukraine voters elected Volodymr Zelensky whose campaign centerpiece was his promises to root out corruption.  Officials around the world have said that corruption inside Ukraine which borders and feels the pressure from Russia and its oligarchs, is among the most corrupt countries in the world. Corruption there is "endemic," according to some American diplomats.   

                               The USA and President Trump, with congressional authority, were prepared to deliver about $400 million dollars in aid to the Zelensky government and to its  new President who had vowed to investigate and bring to justice those corrupt officials and oligarchs that had been ripping off funds and cheating its residents for many years. 
                               President Trump who believes that America must be careful in providing funds to reckless nations, wanted a public declaration from Zelensky that he was going to follow through with his pledges to root out corruption.  "America is not the planet's piggy bank," Trump has said many times.  
                              Part of the Ukraine corruption, in the judgment of President Trump and his advisers, was the misconduct by Ukraine officials during the 2016 USA presidential election where Ukraine underhandedly and corruptly endeavored to assist Mrs.Clinton in defeating then candidate Trump.   
                              In March 2016. VP Biden who was the point man in Ukraine for the Obama administration, demanded the firing of a prosecutor who was investigating a company at which his son, a crack cocaine addict, was a member of the board of directors earning $83,000 per month. The prosecutor who had been a Ukraine employee  and investigator for more than 30 years, complained of the conspiracy which led to his termination. Without the discharge, asserted Biden, the USA would withdraw promised aid of a billion dollars to the country.  The Ukraine president then fired the prosecutor and aid was given to Ukraine. That incident was the definition of a "quid pro quo."  
                             The discharged prosecutor has signed affidavits (under oath)  confirming that Biden and his son  were the focus of his investigation. He said there were questions as to Vice President Joe Biden influencing  decisions in his role as the Ukraine "go to"  man.  
                              Democrats, with an assist from the dishonest media, have claimed that allegations of any Biden misconduct have been "debunked." Many lawyers, including President Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, assert that the charges of wrongdoing against Biden and his son are strong and are not going away.  "And I can and will prove them,"  Giuliani has said.  Giuliani said that Joe Biden has been corrupt his entire life.particularly when he was vice president under President Obama, and the point man on Ukraine.  
                               Trump sought a public statement from President Zelensky that he (Zelensky) would do what he promised to do in his campaign.  There was no public statement ever given by President Zelensky, but President Trump received assurances in meetings that he (Zelensky) would keep his campaign promises, and clean up Ukraine and "leave no stone unturned."  Subsequently, the funds were released and given to Ukraine. 

                                 There was no "quid pro quo," extortion or bribery on the part of the President Trump.  Zelensky even held a news conference to announce that there was no "quid pro quo" or pressure of any kind in his conversations with President Trump, and that the foreign aid of $400 million to Ukraine was not conditioned on anything that he was to do  or to not do, other than clean up the corruption in the nation.  

                                            Dishonest and biased Democrats led by  Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and "Fat Jerry" Nadler are  promising to  impeach President Trump. The House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Schiff,  recently held five days of public hearings and heard testimony from chosen diplomats who Schiff claimed would accuse president Trump of conditioning foreign aid upon Zelensky investigating Joe and Hunter Biden. Biden is a candidate for USA President in 2020 and if he becomes the Democratic nominee, will likely oppose President Trump who will  be seeking reelection to a second term.  
                                     Anointed diplomats subpoenaed by Schiff  as a means of demonstrating criminal conduct by the president in seeking a quid pro quo from Zelensky, failed miserably.  Their testimony consisted entirely of second hand talk, hear say, opinions and assumptions and was insufficient  in demonstrating that the President had done anything which would constitute bribery, extortion or any kind of wrongdoing.  
                                          Nevertheless, Schiff, and Speaker Pelosi aver that the House of Representatives intends to impeach the President.  Currently, it has been reported,  not a single republican in the House will join democrats in voting for impeachment.   
                                         If the Democrat controlled House votes to impeach, there will be a trial in the Senate presided over by the Chief judge of the Supreme Court.  Conviction would require a two-thirds vote of sitting senators and since  Republicans dominate the Senate, it is a given that the President will be acquitted of any alleged crime. 

                                             The conduct of dishonest Democrats, aided and encouraged by a biased and unprofessional media, is shameful, and historians will likely record the attempted impeachment as a political sham promoted by unprofessional politicians who despise the President.  As to President Trump,  experts are predicting that he will  be reelected by a wide margin in 2020. 

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Welcome Home, Lt. Lorance.

 By Florida Bill                                

                                    The curtain has gone up and there is sunshine for U.S. Army Lt. Clint Lorance who has been pardoned from a murder sentence for a make-believe war crime committed in Afghanistan. He had served six years of a 19-year sentence. 
                                    President Trump issued a full pardon for the 34-year-old officer, a career soldier  in command of a nine man platoon in the rugged Afghanistan mountains for only three days when the so-called war crime took place. His men opened fire on a trio of Afghans on an approaching motorcycle, whom he had reason to believe were terrorists hell bent on a suicide bomb mission against Americans.  His order to his men to "engage the enemy" was a split second decision. 
                                     Lorance was pressed into the command position following injuries to the former squad leader from a bomb hidden by cyclists.  Senior officers who had recruited Lorance for the platoon leadership had warned him to be on guard against Afghans pretending to be allied with American interests, but in actuality were working with the Taliban. They were more than willing to kill themselves as long as they could take  Americans down with them--all in the name of Allah. 
                                  Lorance had to make a split second decision when he ordered his men to fire upon the cyclists, who refused to halt when ordered and ignored a warning shot.  If he acted too soon, it was an error in judgment during war, and making him into a murderer and sending him to prison was simply the wrong thing to do.  Freeing Lt. Lorance was the right and moral thing to do, and the President did it.  
                                     Taliban terrorists cannot be identified by uniform and generally are indistinguishable from Afghans who reside peacefully in villages.  They simply look the same and dress the same.  To army officers leading a platoon, danger and death are always imminent, and mulling over a decision or seeking a diplomatic solution to a threat can never be an option.      
                                     Lorance was convicted of two counts of second degree murder 13 months after the incident in 2012 and sentenced to 19 years at Fort Leavenworth prison. For the past six years he has occupied a cell alongside terrorists, army deserters and enemies of the country.  Among his compound cellmates was Major Nidal Hasan who, in 2009, in an explosion of Islamic violence, shot and killed 13 fellow soldiers and injured some 30 others during an assembly at Fort Hood, Texas.  It took four years to bring Hasan to trial, although he admitted and even bragged about his killings in the name of Allah.  He was convicted of premeditated murders and sentenced to death.   He awaits execution while his mandatory appeals move through the appellate courts.  
                                    Thousands of Americans saw the  injustice of Lt. Lorance's conviction, and  signed petitions for clemency that were given to President Obama, and later to President Trump.
                                    Obama, whose disdain for the military is well known and a matter of record, threw the Lorance plea for clemency into the wastebasket, yet he looked favorably on many others as he exited his office as President and as Commander-in- Chief in 2017.  Obama  granted clemency to nearly 2,000 drug pushers and users,(231 in a single day) and he freed and commuted  the sentence of the traitorous Pvt. Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning who served just 3 years of his 35-year penalty for his betrayal of America by publicizing highly classified data. 
                                 Army prosecutors were too quick to find fault with Lt. Lorance, after it was determined that the men on the motorcycle were not in possession of any weapons, although attorneys for Lorance have said that the men on the motorcycle had terrorist connections.  The actual soldier or soldiers who shot the Afghans (it wasn't Lorance) could have declined an improper order from their lieutenant, but they did not, and weapons were fired in response to the lieutenant's order.  Other soldiers in the Lorance platoon were granted immunity from prosecution so long as they testified and laid the blame entirely on Lt. Lorance for acting recklessly and with malice for Middle Easterners. 
                                                Clint Lorance was 28 years old and had been a soldier for 10 years.  A native of Oklahoma, he had enlisted after high school and was making the military his career.  He loved the army, and his country and he sought to make his family proud, his mother has said. His family and his friends praise his character and devotion to duty.  As a soldier, he studied and eventually obtained a commission as a second lieutenant and later was promoted to first lieutenant.  No matter how you wish to examine this case, Clint Lorance  is no murderer and does not belong in a military prison.
                                                Lt. Lorance has been supported by many members of Congress and combat veterans as well as the more that one hundred thousand people who signed the petitions to the President seeking clemency.   
                                                On November 15, Lt. Lorance packed up whatever gear he had and left Leavenworth in full uniform with his silver bars on his shoulder after receiving a telephone call from Vice President Pence.  He was greeted at the gate by friends and family members, including his mother who worked diligently for his release. Asked about his future plans, Lorance said that he intended to remain  an officer in the army of the United States, and that despite his travail had no bitterness for the military.   
                                                Upon signing the pardon papers,  President Trump said that when "our soldiers have to fight for our country, I want them to have the confidence to fight," and know that we are  behind them. Welcome home, Lieutenant. 

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ABC apologizes

                            BY FLORIDA BILL 

                              When pornographic material was surging and there were efforts by legislators to control it, a Supreme Court justice observed in a decision in 1964 that he would have trouble defining that which constitutes pornography.  " I know it when I see it," he asserted.
                            Those comments by the late Associate Justice Potter Stewart reminded me of the ongoing controversy over what is  "fake news." Is this a delusional figment in the mind of President Trump, as his critics charge, or is there such an animal as "fake news."  
                             Would you know it if you encountered it?  Would ABC or CNN or MSNBC or NBC know a phony news report aimed at the President?   You Might ask them if the following qualifies.
                             Recently ABC television aired a segment which it entitled "Slaughter in Syria" and the video showed exploding bombs which lighted the sky and the voice-over told of the new war in Syria precipitated by the incompetence of President and wrong call of the nation's President who betrayed Kurdish allies who helped the USA destroy ISIS. The film  aired on "Good Morning America and World News Tonight which was viewed by millions of Americans. 
                              As it turned out, the video was a 24 Carat fake and the films were actually made by ABC cameras in 2017 during the annual gun shoot celebration in Knob Creek, Kentucky.  Apparently the station which been outspoken in its hate for the nation's President, dipped into the station archives and posted the video in an underhanded effort to attack the President. 
                              ABC might have gotten away with the fraud except for an eagle eyed viewer who recognized the films as not from any bombing in a border town in Syria by Turkish soldiers, but rather homemade films of years ago selected to persuade listeners that America's Commander in Chief, President Trump, was sucking up to his friend, the Turkish President, and giving a helping hand to the Russians pursuing their own interests in the Middle East. 
                               So when the hoax was revealed, what did ABC do?  On October 13, a few days following the revelation that ABC had posted phony films, the network "tweeted" an apology, and a lame one to say the least. It read: 
                               "We’ve taken down the video that aired on “World News Tonight" Sunday and “Good Morning America” this morning that appeared to be from the Syrian border immediately after questions were raised about its accuracy.  ABC News regrets the error." 
                               So far as I know,there was no explanation as to how the mistake had occurred and  there was a dearth of reports on the incident from other corners of the media.  Fox News' Tucker Carlson reported the "mistake" made by ABC, and noted that it was a part of the media's its continuing disingenuous machinations to discredit and bring down President Trump.
                              It is hard to believe that the network station, which clearly despises the President would actually stoop so low as to intentionally post a two-year old video which had been stored in its archives as a way of driving a knife into the President. But it happened.  Citizens can decide for themselves how it might have happened. 
                              Ever since the election of Trump, the media, electronic and print, have ganged up on the President and accused him of lying (7-10 times a day according to some critics); and of being a racist because of his promotion of border security.
                              Efforts are underway by Democrats in the House to put together Articles of Impeachment, but with all of their windy and sanctimonious statements have been unable to show any crime which the president has committed.  Allegations of colluding with Russia and obstructing justice are democratic fantasizing and have fallen as part of the "fake news" agenda against the nation's 45th President. 
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