JUSTICE FOR A COVINGTON TEEN IN A MAGA CAP

                                   BY FLORIDA BILL

                             If there is one story you will seldom hear about, it is one the media doesn't like because it goes against their own supposedly non-existent biases.  But then, there are times when these stories sneak out. 
                             In these intense political times,  those stories which too often get consigned to media waste baskets often  connect to President Trump and portray him in a positive manner-- and the media simply cannot allow that to happen.   
                             The New York Times, CNN, Washington Post  and NBC are the captains and the worst offenders when it comes to burying news stories, although the practice is certainly not theirs alone.  The lion's share of the media, with very few exceptions, denounce the nation's 45th President in every news cycle, and  it makes no difference to them whether the story is true, false or "fair and accurate"
                              Recently, a news story leaked out that the Washington Post and CNN had settled multi-million dollar defamation suits filed against their companies by a Covington, Ky., high school teenager in a MAGA cap. It was not a report that the Post or other heavy voices in the media wanted to talk about. It was a story about telling lies to a gullible public. 
                             The media giants had depicted the 16-year-old youth, Nicholas Sandmann, as a race-baiting young bigot, wearing the celebrated cap of a Trump supporter.  The defamation arose from an incident in January, 2018, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.and it came back to haunt them.   
                              Young Sandmann was with a group from Covington Catholic High school in Kentucky which had journeyed to the nation's capital to join in a Pro-Life and anti-abortion march.  Later that afternoon, the group came together at the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Plaza to view the monument to the nation's 16th President who had signed the Emancipation Proclamation and freed the slaves. 
                              In the mix of many tourists and observers, boyish-looking Sandmann was captured with a smile on his face on a video standing head to head with Nathan Phillips, a  64-year-old Native American activist who percussed a small drum in his hands and sang a Native American song.  Sandmann stood still with a smile on his face, wearing the red MAGA cap which identified him as a supporter of the President, a few feet in front of Phillips.
                                The media, with the Post and CNN in the lead,  took over from there and repainted the scene and gave it special racial spin after learning that the 64-year-old Phillips was a Viet Nam veteran.  Sandmann was described as smiling, and smirking as the video went viral  and rocketed about social media and the Internet.   CNN and the Post and other media powerhouses, including NBC and the New York Times, ABC, CBS and Rolling Stones got in on the free for all against the teen with the hated red MEGA cap. 
                                Covington school issued an apology for the conduct of its students, but retracted it after investigations showed that the Native American was not telling the full story and had actually waded into Sandmann.  Talking heads on TV said that Sandmann was "taunting" the ex-marine and another anchor woman remarked that the young Sandmann had a face that "needed to be punched."  
                                More investigations followed and confirmed that the incident was invented and blown up by the media into a racial confrontation,  always highlighting the fact that Sandman and teen friends were wearing MAGA hats.  At least seven phony stories ran in the Washington Post, it was alleged.  
                               Attorney  Lucian Lincoln "Lin" Wood,  Atlanta attorney with credentials as a foremost defamation lawyer in the country, came aboard for the Sandmann family and filed a $250 million dollar suit against the Washington Post and a $275 million dollar suit against CNN.  Wood is widely known  for his representation of Richard Jewell, the security guard slandered and defamed by the media in the park bombing in Atlanta in 1996. 
                                                 Last January,  CNN settled the law suit with the Sandmann family and issued a statement that it was not admitting that it did anything wrong but that the litigation might go on too long and was too costly and unnecessary.  The settlement amount was kept  confidential, as was agreed to by the parties. 
                                  The  Washington Post settled the litigation in recent days and the amount of the settlement was also kept confidential, and like CNN, no wrongdoing was admitted.  
                                 Wood said the Post settlement was  a "gift of justice" to Nick Sandmann, now celebrating his 18th birthday. 
                                  Speculation as to the amount of the settlements is only that.  It could be in the thousands, even in the millions.  Off handed remarks by CNN that the settlement was insignificant may be a breach of the settlement agreement, said Wood.  Such a breach could subject CNN to severe contract damages.
                                     Defamation suits against other media companies are pending,  
                                  Congratulations to Nicholas who viciously had been made into a poster boy for racism; and to his parents Ted and Julie who suffered through it all; and to his lawyers, Lin Wood and Todd McMurtry.  It  was a "gift of justice" for Nick who was graduated in May from high school and just celebrated his 18th birthday, said Wood.
                               One thing we can take a pretty good guess about is that Nicholas, headed soon for college,  will probably not need any student loans.
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NEW YORK TIMES ETHICS--WHAT'S THAT?

    
                                                 By Florida Bill 

                   The New York Times has its fans and its critics for sure, but rarely do citizens get an unobstructed view into that famous newsroom.
                         The glimpse has been provided by opinion writer and progressive warrior Bari Weiss in a scathing letter of resignation from the paper in which she outlined the Times' disdain for all opinions which run counter to positions taken by the paper. 
                          It was not a pretty picture of the old Gray Lady which Bari painted.  Forget the heralded adage of "all the news that is fit to print." Nowadays, only approved columns and news stories okayed by the house are being fed to its loyal and sundry readers, and stories espousing culture and policies contrary to the Times menu are generally discarded.   
                         Put another way--Its the "Times way, or the Highway." 
                         The caviar-eating progressive crowd, the Hollywood elites and the rich pipe- smokers whose homes are protected by tall fences, are incredibly loyal to the Times and care only that the paper is miles to the left and despises President Trump.  Accuracy and truth are irrelevant.  

                          Bari Weiss was 36, had a bachelor's degree from Columbia University, and had been a Times culture warrior and opinion writer since 2017.  She was hired by the Times following four years with the Wall Street Journal which she ended because of her annoyance that the paper was too easy on President Trump.  The Times welcomed her with open arms. 
                         As a working journalist and a woman of opinions, Ms.Weiss has been a guest on two occasions on "Real Time" with Bill Maher, and on "The View" with Joy Behar; and had been profiled in Vanity Fair.  Smart, glib and a culture warrior who is a tough critic of President Trump,  Bari has spoken out forcefully on the "MeToo" movement, and of her  own bisexuality.                                                  In her three years at the powerful New York Times, Weiss became well known and highly regarded for her writings about current culture, which included her defense of Israel and her sympathies for the plight of Jews, of which she is one.  She is the author of the book, "How to fight Anti-Semitism," which was well received, but subjected her to sniping from colleagues, who felt she had become obsessive with the subject. 
                         Her 1,500 word letter of resignation was given to Publisher A.G. Sulzberger, and she opened her exiting essay with a chummy,  "Dear A.G."  Sulzberger, 39, took over as editor and publisher on January 1, 2018, when his father, Arthur O. Sulzberger who had been publisher moved on to the role of  Chairman of the New York Times Company. 
                        Because of her Jewish columns and her book, some colleagues called her a "Nazi" and a "racist."  Her milieu, she wrote, had become a  "hostile work environment" and she asked "A.G.," "how could you allow this kind of behavior to go on inside your company in full view of the paper's entire staff....?" She also castigated the paper for living in a "distant galaxy"and writing that "the worst caste systems in human history include the United States and Nazi Germany." 
                       As to the Times abandonment of journalistic ethics, Weiss wrote that stories are "chosen and told in a way to satisfy the narrowest of audiences, rather than to allow a curious public to read about the world and then draw their own conclusions."  Violations of this code can cost jobs, she said.
                       Ms. Weiss noted that several weeks ago, the opinion pages carried an OpEd from U.S. Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a Republican, which ran counter to the Times narrative.  It endorsed the use of federal troops to bring peace and civility to the streets of cities which had descended into lawlessness. Cotton's comments were worthy of debate, she said. 
                         In the fallout from that miscue, with hundreds of staffers complaining, and in just two days after the Cotton piece ran, Opinion Page editor James Bennet who had approved the piece for his section, was fired, and Bennet's deputy was demoted to a desk in the city room. Cotton's piece did not belong in the Times, asserted Sulzberger who told the staff that Bennet had apologized and resigned.
                          Surprisingly, Ms. Weiss avoided commenting on the Times receipt of a Pulitzer for its many stories on Donald Trump's "collusion" with Russia, as the subject was typical of  the Times' disregard for honesty in its reporting. 
                          The newspaper had accepted the  award for some 20 fabricated stories alleging Trump "collusion" and possible sedition with Russia despite the fact that President Trump was  cleared of all wrongdoing following a $33 million investigation into the charges by a special prosecutor.  The investigation was acknowledged under oath to have been a "hoax" by the acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who had commissioned the investigation.   
                         For someone like Weiss to leave what was once considered a plum job in journalism-- at a time when any such jobs are few and far between and layoffs are commonplace--is proof of her disgust at what the creme de la creme of American newspapers has become.
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Chris Wallace searches for a "Gotcha."

    
                                                 By Florida Bill 

                                                          As was hyped and promoted, the Chris Wallace one-on-one interview with President Trump  was aired Sunday.  Nothing new there, but Wallace endeavored to produce the coveted "gotcha" which would embarrass the President and draw kudos from liberals and his colleagues in the media.  
                                      With his prepared questions, the aggressive and mush-mouthed Wallace, a registered Democrat, did his best to show that the President was a racist who had mishandled the pandemic sweeping the nation; had disparaged Covid-19 expert Dr. Tony Fauci unfairly and will never commit to accepting results of the upcoming election. 
                                      Trump went ahead with the scheduled interview and it was held in a garden area outside the White House.  The weather was hot, they both agreed, but President Trump made the call as to the setting. 
                                     Trump had been on record as to his assessment of Wallace, who works for Fox News, and was formerly with ABC and NBC.  In a tweet he had said Wallace, 72, was a "wannabe" of his late father, and was, in his interviewing and reporting, "nasty and obnoxious."  Chris' father, Mike Wallace, had been a part of the media for about seven decades, mostly on CBS and frequently on "60 Minutes," and had always found a way to curtsy to the Democratic Party which revered him and treated him as one of their own. 
                                     In the garden interview, Wallace wanted to know why Trump did not order that citizens wear a mask at all times.  Trump said that he believed in wearing a mask and he recommended it, but that the decision is up to the citizens and cannot be ordered by him or by governors.  He noted that Dr. Fauci had initially told him that masks were not necessary,  but has reversed himself on that.  "Dr. Fauci is a "little bit of an  'alarmist' about the pandemic, but we have a very good relationship," Trump explained. The President said that he is sticking with his prediction that the pandemic will disappear, and ---"eventually, I will be right."
                                  With his hands filled with polling results, Wallace noted aggressively that the President is trailing Joe Biden in virtually every  category. It was designed to be a telling put down of the President but Trump was not buying it. 
                               "First of all, I am not losing, because these are fake polls, in which Republicans are not included," he fired back. "They were fake in 2016 and they're even more fake now....the polls were much worse in 2016."  
                                    We have our own polls, asserted the President to the combative Wallace, and we are ahead and we feel good about everything. We will be re-elected next November.
                                    Wallace charged on, noting that  changing the names of army bases is favored by the military---bases like Fort Brag in North Carolina, named after a southern general. Trump said he would veto name changing of bases, adding that he didn't care what the military said. 
                                    " Army bases stood tall during two world wars.... so what are you going to name them?" he asked. "Are we going to name one after the Rev. Al Sharpton?"
                                      Then Wallace dug deep, looking to put the President down and score a "gotcha."  He repeated a question which he had asked Candidates Trump and Hillary Clinton in 2016--that if elected, would the President "accept the results of the election."  
                                      The president should have told Wallace that was a dumb question in 2016 and it is just as dumb now. 
                                    Trump dismissed it by answering the same as he had four years ago. "I am not going to say yes, and I am not going to say no. I will let you know when the time comes.  I'll keep you in suspense." 
                                     Does Wallace have some idea that if Trump were defeated in the election that he would remain in the oval office and lock the door? Any candidate can contest results of an election when the numbers are very close.  
                                      Does the President consider Biden to be "senile," inquired Wallace. 
                                   "I would not say that," said Trump, who added he feels his opponent is incompetent and is clearly being manipulated by radical progressive managers. Left alone, he is incapable of doing the job as President, Trump added. He suggested that Biden should undergo a cognitive test similar to the one which he (Trump) has taken and passed with a perfect score.  He said that if Biden were interviewed as he has been, he would probably drop to the ground and scream "mama." 
                                       Wallace said that he has requested an interview with Biden, but has not yet received an answer. 
                                       If he is allowed into Biden's basement hideaway, it will be interesting to see how Joe handles those  Wallace softballs.  

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BIDEN'S HIDDEN FILES

    
                                                 By Florida Bill 

                             C'mon candidate Biden, let's open up all of your files and see if a complaint concerning your behavior was filed by Ms. Tara Reade back in 1993.  The idea that Biden's files stored at the University of Delaware and in the Senate are off limits in the face of such allegations against a former vice president and 37 year senator just doesn't fly. 
                             The disorganized and  befuddled Biden needs to get real and deal with the allegation that he assaulted Reade 27 years ago in a darkened corner of the Capitol building. 
                             "It didn't happen, period," says Biden.  But that does not close the door, because Ms. Reade, now 56, says that it did and that it was revolting, and that she filed a written complaint and that complaint has to be archived somewhere.  She failed to keep a copy, she said. 
                              Biden and other "never Trump" Democrats including Speaker Pelosi and media pundits who have abandoned all journalistic honesty and objectivity, simply take Biden at his word that Miss Reade invented the allegation.  She is an exception to the Democrat's principle that all women with accusations that they were assaulted by men of prominence "are to be believed." 
                              Last heard is that requests to the Senate personnel office and to the Delaware university to produce the files of 1992 and 1993  have been refused. As to the files archived in the Senate,  the NYT has reported that these files are deemed privileged and are protected from disclosure by a federal law. Nevertheless, it seems difficult to conceive of Biden being restricted from looking at his own files.   
                              As to the Biden files stored in vaults at the University,  Biden has a 2011 "donor agreement" with it which provides that the school has agreed to hold on to his papers which are not "public record," and to release the hold on them  two years after Biden retires from public office.  
                            Initially, the University planned to release the Biden papers in 2019 after the Vice President's retirement from public office in 2016.  But it updated that policy just before Biden announced his presidential bid to say the records would be released “two years after the donor retires from public life.” 
                            Sweeping away all the political hesitation, Biden holds the key and has the authority to direct that the boxes for 1992 and 1993 be made available for perusal by Biden as well as by a third party.  In fact, Biden could allow Reade's attorney to join him in looking through the documents. 
                            If the Biden papers stored in the Senate files, which cover 35 years as a member of that body, are protected by a federal law from disclosure, Reade's lawyers or an aggressive media should be able to cut through the red tape and obtain permission to examine the files from the early 1990s.  Because of its emergency and for the public good, a judge could authorize perusal, or the court could make an in- camera examination. 
                            In April, Biden guested on the "Morning Joe" show on MSNBC and in his jumbled and confused way said there is no reason to look for a complaint of that nature in the university files  "because they don't go there." Mika, Morning Joe's sidekick and wife, asked Biden to have someone make an electronic search for "Reade" in those files. "There's nothing there," replied Biden adding that he did not understand what Mika was asking. He then said that the files of the Senate  should be examined indicating that that is where it would be, if in fact it  existed. 
                         Describing Biden's attack in detail, Reade told the NYT that the assault happened in the spring of l993 in a dark and deserted part of the  Capitol building where she caught up to her boss to give him his gym bag which he had left behind. He pushed her against a wall and started  kissing her neck and hair.  He slid his hand up her cream-colored blouse, she said, and used his knee to part her bare legs before reaching under her skirt and penetrating her with his fingers.

                         It happened all at once, she said.  "He’s talking to me and his hands are everywhere and everything is happening very quickly,” she recalled. He was kissing me and he said in a low tone, "Do you want to go somewhere else?"  Reade said she pulled away and Mr. Biden stopped. He looked at me kind of puzzled or shocked and whispered in typical Biden rhetoric, "Come on, man, I heard you liked me."
                      At the time, Ms. Reade said she worried whether she had done something wrong to encourage his advances. “He pointed his finger at me and he says, you’re nothing to me. Nothing.” Then, he took my shoulders and said, you’re okay, you’re fine, and walked away down a hallway. 
                        Reade said she cleaned up in a restroom, made her way home and, sobbing, called her mother, who encouraged her to immediately file a police report.  Instead of notifying police, Reade said that she complained to the personnel office of Biden's behavior  which said made her feel uncomfortable, but she did not include details. She also revealed what had occurred to her brother and to friends and said she also informed her superiors in the Biden office, but again did not spell out details.
                      Judicial Watch, a citizens' watchdog organization,  has announced recently that it would initiate legal action to force Biden to open up the files. If the Reade complaint is found in the Senate archives or in the special Biden papers held by the university, it will provide an element of proof which will be impossible to ignore.  

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REMEMBERING LT COL VINDMAN

    
                                                 By Florida Bill 

                                          No surprise to read that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, 45, is retiring from the army after 21 years on active duty. He said it was because of the "bullying, intimidation and retaliation" against him by forces in the Trump administration. 
                                          His name was on a list of lieutenant colonel candidates who were on track for promotion to full Colonel, but final approval never seemed to materialize.  Several influential Democrats, including Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth, were calling for his elevation to the coveted rank of "Bird" colonel, but the writing was on the wall, and it wasn't going to happen. 
                                        So why was President Trump so annoyed with Vindman?  Last February, he had him  escorted  from his trusted and prestigious chair in the White House by Secret Service Agents and reassigned  to a nondescript desk in a corner of the Pentagon.  Why so impatient with this "dedicated" career officer? 
                                        After all, Vindman had done nothing untoward but send up a balloon accusing his Commander-in Chief and President of of the United States of misconduct. He accused Trump of leaning inappropriately on the president of Ukraine with a "demand"  that he investigate his political rival, Joe Biden. The consequences of ignoring Trump's order, according to Vindman, would be that the Ukraine would have to forego $400 million in foreign aid earmarked for the country. 
                                       Vindman had conjured up that fake  narrative after monitoring a telephone conversation on July 25, 2019, between President Trump and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine. As a top security aide in the White House, it was part of Vindman's routine duties to monitor the President's talks with the heads of other countries.
                                         Vindman passed his improvised version of the conversation that he had heard to a friend in another intelligence division who was not "in the loop" and had no "need to know" about discussions which the President had with foreign leaders.  Vindman's friend relayed the information passed on to him to lying Congressman Adam Schiff, and the ( still unidentified) Vindman pal agreed to be an anonymous  "whistle blower," with legal protections promised by Schiff, and Schiff's disingenuous leader, Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 
                                        A properly worded complaint was prepared for the "whistle blower," who then signed it and sent it to the Inspector General.   The story of the alleged "high crime" misconduct of President Trump  was then leaked to the Democrat-controlled media, which commenced a vicious attack on the President. 
                                         In December of last year, the House, led by Speaker Pelosi and her California colleague, Schiff, voted articles of Impeachment.  Vindman became the star witness and central figure and he pushed hard to assist the Democrats in taking down the nation's 45th President. 
                                         Vindman was a career army officer who came to America from the Ukraine with his family and became a naturalized American citizen. Before his intelligence work, he served in combat in Iraq and was the recipient of a Purple Heart and other awards.  For Schiff and Pelosi, the uniformed Vindman had the perfect credentials to be their trained attack dog against the despised Trump.
                                          President Trump defended himself and insisted that the Vindman narrative was inaccurate and dishonest, but favor and belief rested with Vindman.  However, Trump flipped the table and produced the actual transcript of the relevant conversation.  Doing so was not anticipated by Democrats as such conversations of the President with foreign dignitaries and leaders are fiercely guarded as private and retained under lock and key. 
                                       But Trump produced it for all to read and the so-called "demand" which Vindman spoke of was not there.  It was heavy fabrication. The conversation was friendly, and in no way improper.  President Zelenskyy held a news conference and denounced the accusations against Trump as untrue. 
                                      Two articles of impeachment were sent to the Senate in January for trial. House Democrats presented their case based largely upon the sworn testimony of Vindman.  President Trump was promptly acquitted of all wrongdoing. 
                                          Vindman had done his best to bring down the Commander in Chief, and in February he was relieved of his position in the White house. Asked how he regarded Vindman, Trump responded "Do you think that I am happy with him?"  In another interview, Trump said that Vindman was a "disgrace" to the military.
                                            Vindman has said that he will be beginning a new chapter in his life as he turns in his uniform.  In a statement prepared  for him, Vindman said he was leaving the army after more than 21 years after it had been made clear to him that his future within the institution he has dutifully served will forever be limited.  
                                           As sung in the old barracks ballad, old soldiers never die, they "just fade away."   Vindman will fade away, but he will be remembered not for his loyalty and devotion to the institution, but for his dishonest narrative designed to have his  President and Commander in Chief thrown out of office.                                                      . 

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SEN. GRAHAM ISN'T FORGETTING

                                   BY FLORIDA BILL  

                         Tucked aside and seen as an also-ran next to the all-encompassing news of the pandemic sweeping the nation, is the unfolding story of how President Trump has been  falsely attacked for years by a ruthless and disingenuous crowd of liberals, hell bent on bringing him down.                         
                                 At long last, the key conspirator in the "get Trump" crowd, former Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein,  has acknowledged under oath that the investigation of President Trump for "colluding" with Russian agents was baseless, without justification, and never should have happened. 
                                 So, President Trump was right all along.  The Mueller investigation was a "witch hunt," and a "hoax," all taken from the Democratic playbook drafted to destroy the nation's duly-elected  President, labeled by Speaker Pelosi as an "impostor."                                         Misuse of the court system with the aid of high level FBI agents and a misguided and dishonest media, which has abandoned all efforts at objectivity and fairness, were the techniques and instruments used to push President Trump from office.  It did not work, and Trump is now on course to win a second four year term, despite a whole lot of negative, tailor-made surveys.   
                                You might think that the Democrats would apologize for their dishonorable conduct, but, that's never going to happen, since their hate for the President knows no bounds.  The lifting of the curtain of deceit did not even draw a red face from the progressive gang or from the disingenuous media which cheered Democrats on with every big and little fib.
                                Coverage of the revelation of the "hoax" investigation, was virtually ignored by New York Times and the Washington Post, which control media coverage throughout the nation.  Jointly, the Times and the Post shared in a fraudulent Pulitzer prize for their great reporting on how Trump colluded with his friends in Russia as America suffered from his sedition. All fabricated news stories. The Pulitzer is regarded as journalism's most prestigious award and giving it to the Times and the Post was shameful and the 18 members on the Pulitzer board ought to acknowledge their misconduct and resign.    
                             Rod Rosenstein's confession of malfeasance came in testimony before the Senate's Judiciary Committee a few weeks ago. 
                            In May, 2017, he was the Acting Attorney General, and he gave the go-ahead to the investigation of Trump's alleged "colluding" with Russia and he appointed his friend and former colleague, Robert Mueller, as special prosecutor.  
                               That bogus  investigation  consumed the next 24 months and ran up costs of $33 million taxpayer dollars. But then, who's counting, certainly not Mueller and his associates.  
                             Mueller appointed 18 lawyers to assist him and when it was all over, Mueller and each lawyer had  payday checks reported to be between $500,000 and one million dollars. The 400-page Mueller report vindicated Trump completely of all wrongdoing, and as Rosenstein testified, "should never have happened," since Trump's guiltlessness was well known to these special gumshoes before the investigation was commenced.                                                    An investigation into the chicanery, lies  and double dealings perpetrated by Democrats is just beginning, said Lindsey Graham, veteran South Carolina senator and chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
                         Sen.Graham has vowed that he would "get to the bottom" of the attack on the nation's 45th President, and he is keeping his word.    After hearing testimony from Rosenstein, the judiciary committee approved some 40 subpoenas for additional testimony.
                         Among those being subpoenaed are  former FBI Director James Comey and  Comey's deputy Andrew McCabe, both of whom have been fired from the FBI.  Also being called are  James Clapper, former National Director of Intelligence and John Brennan, former CIA director. Presidential aspirant Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, may well be on the Graham list as potential witnesses.  Robert Mueller, who ran the "collusion" field trip, is also expected to be called as a witness, Graham has said.                                .                                    Along with the investigation by Graham and his Judiciary committee, the United States Attorney for Connecticut, John H. Durham, is reportedly winding up his criminal investigation into the origins of the Russian investigation and the attempts to sabotage Trump and his presidency.                                                                                 Durham has a well deserved reputation as a bulldog investigator and criminal prosecutor, and is highly regarded by Attorney General Barr and other lawyers.  His concluding report, along with anticipated criminal indictments, is expected to be released before the end of  the summer.    

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JOE BIDEN'S BRAIN POWER

                           
                                BY FLORIDA BILL  

                                                                   You may not be alone with your concerns that Joe "Uncle Joe" Biden is not playing with a full deck.
                                            Consider for a moment that Biden is independent politically and is seeking to take over the highest and most powerful office on the planet. With his talk of "Corn Pop"and the hairs on his legs; his inability to put a phrase together and his touchy-feely, hair-sniffing ways with women--there are legitimate questions about his brain power.
                                             Victor Davis Hanson is a retired professor, highly respected on all sides of the political spectrum, who has been honored with many awards.  Recently, he appeared on Fox News' "The Story with Martha McCallum" and provided  his insight on Biden, and Prof. Hanson, as they say, let it "all hang out."  Here's what Dr. Hanson had to say:
                                            "Joe Biden is tragically suffering a mental eclipse and sliding away at a geometric rate. Understandably, his handlers have kept him out of sight. He stays off the campaign trail on the pretext of the virus and his age-related susceptibility to COVID-19 morbidity.
                                                              "I say 'pretext' without apology. Quarantine should not have otherwise stopped Biden over the past three months from doing daily interviews, speeches, and meetings. But each occasion, however scripted, rehearsed, and canned, would only have offered further daily proof that Biden is cognitively unable to be president or indeed to hold any office.
                                             "Often Biden cannot finish a sentence. Names are vague eddies in his mind’s river of forgetfulness. He is in a far more dire mental state than a physically failing FDR was in his 1944 campaign for a fourth term.

                                                            "The earlier career of a healthy Biden illustrates that he was not especially sharp even when in control of most of his faculties. We recall the former sane/nutty Biden of Neal Kinnock plagiarism, his “put y’all in chains” demagoguery, the studied racism of Biden’s riffs about a “clean” and well-spoken Obama, and the sane/insane Corn Pop stories. All are the trademark of a once fool Joe Biden, who was at least alert when compared with his current catalepsy. If Donald Trump can be ungrammatical, Biden is "a-grammatical" — he simply streams together half-thoughts without syntax and then abandons the sentence entirely." 

                                                          Victor Hanson's words and opinion were pretty direct, as McCallum observed on her show.  Hanson stands tall in the academic world, and his  opinions are worth hearing.   
                                                         He also has noted that when FDR was looking toward an unprecedented fourth term, his failing health was well known and few believed that he could complete four more years as President.   Because of that, his vice president Henry Wallace, a socialist, was replaced by Missouri Senator Harry Truman whose views did not countenance socialism. As everyone expected, Truman became president after President Roosevelt's death in 1945. 
                                                         There is presently a similar scramble for Vice President today because Biden, at 77, and with obvious dementia, may not complete his term in office, for whatever reason. Unlike any other presidential candidate, he has announced that he intended to serve only one term.  Very strange for a candidate to say that, observed Hanson. His promise to name a woman as his running mate, and possibly a woman of color, is an example of how Biden could very easily  be manipulated by his left wing managers.   
                                                          Hanson has been writing commentary for many years and his columns have been published in the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal, and in many other newspapers and magazines.  
                                                  "Uncle Joe" Biden has been around Washington for about 50 years, a senator from Delaware for 38, and a vice president to President Obama for 8 years.  Now he says he is going to "transform" the USA, raising the question of what he did in Washington for half a century.  His IQ has always been an issue, and he has been called the "Lamborghini of Gaffes," even by such a left wing bastion as the Washington Post.  
                                                  Occupying the White House? It's not for Biden, especially at this stage of his life, and it would be a disaster for the American people. 


  

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