January 5, 2018
By Karin McQuillan
As
more and more people who hate Trump are forced to admit his
achievements as president, they are doubling down on character
assassination. Even Trump voters often preface their satisfaction with
Trump's actions by criticizing his tweets or his personality.
Here's
an alternate take on things: Trump's character is responsible for his
outstanding performance in his first year as president. If you want to
know who someone is, you look at what he does. What we have: a booming
economy, growing jobs, more lawful governance, fewer regulations, more
global security. What character traits this took: hard work, focus,
commitment, courage, honesty, independence, incorruptibility,
self-confidence, love of excellence. The list of Trump's positive
character traits goes on and on. You don't get achievements independent
of character.
Here's
another alternate approach: there's no need to point out that George
Washington is a dead white male when you praise him as the father of our
country. Who cares that Churchill drank too much when you are
discussing his leadership in the fight against Hitler? We all
understand perfectly well that we are all human, meaning we have faults.
We don't need to apologize for President Trump.
I think Trump's character is excellent.
Trump's
integrity in office is outstanding – the first politician in my memory
who is sticking to his promises to voters. We are hugely benefiting from his promise-keeping.
His
primary promise was to focus on jobs. Wow, has he delivered. Jobless
claims have dropped to the lowest level in 44 years – last seen in 1973,
under Nixon. Record-breaking low unemployment in 13 states.
Investment reinvigorating the Rust Belt. More high-paying jobs in
mining, oil, and industry – another promise kept, as President Trump has
unleashed the energy sector and boosted capital investment.
Lazy,
leftist, passive President Obama lectured us to accept the new normal
of a stagnant economy, which was what his policies delivered. GDP
growth was 1.6 percent in 2016.
Passivity
and defeatism are not in Trump's nature. He is a fighter who thinks
big. He believes in free enterprise in his gut, because he is himself a
go-getter. He thought big for the American economy, because he
believes in Americans. Trump likes to say he completed his projects on
time and under budget. It was a matter of pride for him. Pride can be a
good thing. Trump was scoffed at as a braggart and buffoon for
promising 3-percent growth. He has already over-delivered.
The
unemployment gap between blacks and whites has fallen to a record low.
Trump promised the black community a better life in a better economy,
and he has come through.
Unemployment
for hispanic Americans is the lowest in history. Another promise kept,
as our hispanic citizens have benefited from Trump enforcing our border
laws and driving farm wages up.
Leftists
are trying to credit the 2017 economic boom to Obama. Good luck with
that. Trump boosted the economy through vigorous action: cutting regs,
boosting the energy sector, restoring business confidence, dramatic
corporate tax cuts, bringing back investments from overseas, and cutting
job competition from illegal aliens. We now have a tight labor market,
and wages are rising.
Yes,
for much of the year, Trump was doing a lot of jaw-boning and executive
actions, with no legislative back-up. That's the trait called
leadership.
These
economic achievements came from President Trump's character strengths.
He is a high-focus, driven bulldozer of a man who gets things done.
He's a practical man. He's a hard worker. These are not sophisticated
or cultured or warm, fuzzy traits; they are traits of a strong man. We
have forgotten to honor masculinity in our culture.
President
Trump did more than any president in history in his first year to
relieve the regulatory burden on Americans. Complying with useless
government regulations costs the economy $2 trillion a year, or 21% of
the average payroll per American company. Estimates are that the Obama
regs slowed the economy by 0.8%. Trump's regulatory cuts, in which his
administration removed 22 outdated regulations for each new one, is a
big part of his doubling our economic growth in one year.
What
did it take to cut the size of government and unleash the power of
capitalism in this way? It was motivated not by conservative principles
of small government. It was based in Trump's character. He is one
hundred percent practical. He has a strong sense of fairness. He is
fearless. He thrives on opposition. He has incredible guts and
stubbornness, necessary to take on the federal bureaucracy. He doesn't
give in when opponents fight dirty, and boy, does the Deep State fight
dirty. He is not scared of the media's attacks on him as a monster
destroying the planet and abandoning the poor.
He
is a creative and master fighter, as we see in the his effective use of
tweets and branding to encourage his supporters and sow confusion among
the enemy.
Trump
is characteristically unsuited to kowtow to the Deep State or to follow
its methods. He does not flout the law in darkness, like the
underhanded Barack Obama. Obama's DOJ and EPA created secret and
illegal slush funds. The Democrat DOJ blackmailed the industries it was
regulating in order to provide half a billion dollars to left-wing
groups. The EPA used phony sue-and-settle tactics to hand undemocratic
power to privileged leftist groups.
In
sharp contrast, Trump is not a sneak. He respects the rule of law. He
honors the presidency. He is open and forthright. His administration has turned the DOJ and EPA back to following the laws as written.
Obama
was an unhealthy narcissist who had never accomplished anything in the
real world, yet he boasted that he knew more about every topic than his
top advisers. There is a business saying that A players hire A players,
while B players hire C players. The mediocre surround themselves with
lesser mediocrities. Obama undoubtedly did know more about foreign
affairs than his right-hand national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, a
speechwriter with a degree in creative writing.
Trump
is different. He is genuinely confident in himself. You can tell
because he is not afraid of being surrounded by top experts. He expects
them to know far more in their fields than he does. Trump's pride
makes him seek excellence in others. He has created an impressive
Cabinet and White House staff of brilliant achievers. You don't get
effective results on the economy and foreign affairs without a
high-quality leader.
The
importance of character to effectiveness cannot be overstated. Trump
has other character traits of achievers. He is not discouraged by
failures and mistakes; he learns from them. He doesn't just set goals;
he follows up on results. He faces reality.
Trump
does not see Americans in different categories. He cares about all
Americans, black, white and brown; rich, middle-class, and poor;
city-dwellers and country-dwellers; New York sophisticates and
Evangelicals. He values freedom and prosperity for himself and for the
rest of us. He wants to do what is best for the country, not what is
best for only some identity groups or some regions at the expense of
others, as in Obama and Hillary's zero- sum game of identity politics.
We
barely survived eight years of a bigot in the White House: the
resentful, racially obsessed President Obama, who disliked Evangelicals,
rural Americans, working-class whites, white small businessmen, and
Jews. At home, Obama purposefully stirred up racial hatred and violence
for political gain. Abroad, Obama tried to hand over the Middle East
to the Muslim Brotherhood and facilitate nuclear weapons for the mullahs
as payback to America. Obama's race-baiting led to Americans dying –
assassinations of our men in blue and innocent black victims of the
resulting crime spree. He chose to destabilize Iraq, Syria, Egypt, and
Libya, setting off an unprecedented war on Christians and a Muslim
migrant invasion of Europe. Maybe I missed it, but I don't remember
NeverTrumps criticizing Obama on character flaws.
Obama's
fantasist efforts to reduce American power and prestige, born of his
anti-colonialist anger and resentment, were passed off to us as idealism
and humanity. Obama had a weird Marxist mother who raised him to
despise America, and he saw his father only once. He was an unhappy
child, a confused teenager, and an angry, isolated college student
filled with contempt for white people other than his fellow Marxists.
Then he went to Harvard finishing school and became a secretive
politician who never trusted himself to speak in public without a
teleprompter. His false front hid a schemer and hater.
Unlike
our last president, President Trump is who he is. What you see is what
you get. His candor is blunt and refreshing. He is not an ideologue,
not a secret schemer, not a race-baiter, not a bitter person seeking
payback. Trump had a close, loving relationship with his father. He
has similar relationships with his own children. He is a happy warrior.
Trump
is honest in another sense, also: he is not corrupt. Indeed, he seems
incorruptible. Trump does not sell himself to certain industries or
lobbying groups (think the Clinton Foundation; think Obama's wasting the
trillion-dollar economic stimulus on Solyndra green schemes and payoffs
to Democrat voting blocs). President Trump is a unique politician – a
free man.
There's
another set of admirable traits responsible for Trump's economic
achievements. Trump is a warm, extroverted braggart, not a cold,
withdrawn narcissist like Obama or a self-serving, power-hungry
narcissist like Hillary Clinton. Although self-centered, Trump actually
notices and cares about other people. His voters are real people to
him, as he is real to them.
Trump
has softer, heart-centered virtues. His priority on growing the
economy and job promotion comes from his love of ordinary people,
working-class people of all colors and all regions, whom he sees as real
human beings and treats with respect. What a relief after the cold and
contemptuous President Obama, who cared about power, not people.
Trump's compassion and insight into working people's lives are
wonderful character traits, shared by few in his class.
The president is also our commander in chief. How has Trump's character served him in this role?
Trump's
love of country and patriotism are dominant character traits. Trump
thinks for himself instead of accepting stale, outworn policies that are
politically safe to espouse but dangerous to our country. Trump has no
time at all for pretense about our national security. These are
unusual character traits, different aspects of being a strong man.
Trump's
personal qualities have resulted in the defeat of ISIS, our improved
relations with the Saudis (now on board fighting terrorism and
cooperating with Israel), restoration of our warm alliance with Israel,
decertifying the odious Iran deal, and supporting the Iranian
demonstrators against the mullahs. European countries are finally
paying their NATO dues, illegal aliens invading our country are being
stopped at the border, the H-1B visa system is being applied lawfully to
protect American jobs, and terrorists are no longer welcome into the
country. Trump is in the process of bullying the Chinese and the U.N.
and South Korea into more effective action against North Korea,
resulting last week, for example, in the confiscation of tankers
breaking the oil embargo. Pace Bret Stephens, the ability to bully
opponents is something you want in a president.
Thanks
to his fearless and clear-sighted character, we finally have a
president who will not allow North Korea or Iran to have nuclear
weapons. Those of us who see that this is vital for national security
are deeply grateful to have a strong president.
Trump
has an abundance of character strengths as a tough guy – he is brave,
he is assertive, he is an experienced fighter, and he always goes on
offense. He uses punishments and threats and intimidation, as well as
cooperation and rewards, to get things done, because that is what it
takes to win, and he wants to win. He is unpredictable and keeps his
opponents off balance. He is impervious to their outrage. He is a
fierce fighter against all who attack him or his family or his country.
NeverTrumps
are allergic to Trump's aggressive masculinity. This is not a matter
of hating his style. They honestly see the man as evil. His
commonsense thinking, bold methods, and blunt personality are toxic to
them – never smart, never constructive, never heroic, never associated
with his achievements. They are so blinded by their own hatred that
they see Trump as a dangerous monster. They accept outright lies and
miss the real man entirely.
In
a mere 800-word column, Bret Stephens, conservative columnist for the
New York Times, managed to call Trump, in Stephens's own words, a lying,
bullying, bigoted, ignorant, crass, petty, paranoid incompetent; a
disgrace; an intemperate, dishonest demagogue who requires debased
toadyism from his White House and Cabinet; a man who humiliates,
denigrates, and insults his own officers and agencies, who is comparable
to Juan Perón and Hugo Chávez and a deviant. Stephen talks of the
irremediable "stain of [Trump's] person," Trump's violence, his cult of
strength (as in dictatorship), his disdain for truth, his hostility
toward high culture, his conspiratorial thinking, and his white identity
politics.
In
the midst of the hysterical name-calling, Stephens doesn't point to a
single bigoted word or action by Trump. He can't. There is none. The
accusations are partisan nonsense. In Stephens's alternate universe,
Trump's evident competence, his love, respect, and commitment to help
his fellow Americans, goes invisible, and we are left with a racist,
fascist caricature born of leftist agitprop.
Bret
Stephens and his fellow NeverTrump elitists remind me of the British
aristocracy in the 18th century. These rich, powerful do-nothings
monopolized political power and contemptuously demeaned the merchants,
financiers, and industrialists who were making their country (and them)
rich, powerful, and safe while improving ordinary peoples' lives – but
their manners were ill bred! They worked for a living. They hadn't
gone to the right schools. Not suited for polite society.
It
is a sorry reflection on our polite society that they are having
conniption fits over Trump's character. They want to divide the man
from his achievements, just as they successfully divided Obama from his
failures. Can they succeed in besmirching Trump's character as they
succeeded in sanitizing Obama's? Their megaphone is large, and their
self-interest in supporting the status quo ante is strong. They have a
ready-built audience. They have enlisted enemies within our own
Republican camp.
We have Trump. We are winning.
American Thinker
Friday, January 5, 2018
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Donald J Trump - 'Our Movement Speech' 2016 Presidential Race
Just a reminder about the Comey firing.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
President Trump’s 360 Degree Adversaries, and He’s Got Them Surrounded…
Before Donald Trump won the presidency we accepted his approach.
Trump enters a battle-space, any battle-space, with adversaries 360°
around him; and yet somehow he has them surrounded. As President Trump,
this approach continues.
On a scale of 1 to 10 the average person has a sense of internal purpose around level four. People of intense historic consequence generally exhibit a stronger personal drive which pushes their scaled sense of purpose to around a seven. However, Donald Trump, now President Trump, as exhibited throughout his life’s accomplishments, carries a sense of purpose considerably higher – perhaps the highest in our life time.

During the phase of the industrial revolution the highest captains of Main Street industry were known as “Titans”. The economic Titans accomplished incredible achievements in building and industry.
These giants moved the nation forward. Relentless forward progress. They never stopped moving forward and they carried a resolve so severe they never allowed anything to stand in the way of their purpose driven objectives. National politicians knelt at the desks of these nationalist Titans.
With that established, Wolfmoon1776 provides an explainer:


Conservative Treehouse
On a scale of 1 to 10 the average person has a sense of internal purpose around level four. People of intense historic consequence generally exhibit a stronger personal drive which pushes their scaled sense of purpose to around a seven. However, Donald Trump, now President Trump, as exhibited throughout his life’s accomplishments, carries a sense of purpose considerably higher – perhaps the highest in our life time.

During the phase of the industrial revolution the highest captains of Main Street industry were known as “Titans”. The economic Titans accomplished incredible achievements in building and industry.
These giants moved the nation forward. Relentless forward progress. They never stopped moving forward and they carried a resolve so severe they never allowed anything to stand in the way of their purpose driven objectives. National politicians knelt at the desks of these nationalist Titans.
With that established, Wolfmoon1776 provides an explainer:

“Well, I don’t really have to do any
holding together, now that I figured out what Trump is up to. He is
shaking things out, but counting on Trump gravity to pull things back
together as he moves along.
He is moving “forward” at speeds Obama could not even dream of.
You and I will be anti-Trump trolls
one day and MAGA heroes the next. Get used to it. Trump speed is the new
normal. Some will call it flip-flopping, but that’s not what it is.
Trump is dodging and weaving through reality faster than the reality can
react to disrupt his plans.
I was explaining this to my wife. This
is a roller-coaster now. Trump is no longer waiting for people to keep
up. He is taking his bewildering art-of-the-deal campaign schtick into
geopolitics, and for a lot of people who can’t keep up or hold on, it
will be a rough ride.
Trump is no longer playing only with
evil and cunning players who are still predictable, easily beatable
dopes, like Hillary. He is playing against killers, with his own team of
killers, and all the while he has scheming creeps like Hillary, BGI,
SPLC, and the neocons gunning for him. Snake Ryan ready to bite when
nobody is looking. “Warhead” McCain screaming for Russian blood. Psycho
Kim and Samoa Obama plotting some kind of intrigue to take him down. And
THOSE are the lightweights.
This is the majors now. Trump has to
outwit world-class adversaries and “frenemies” by defining the deals
that they will agree to. One minute they will think Trump is their
friend – the next minute, a cunning, bitter foe.
And he has to do this with evil
cheerleaders like Warhead, Linderace, Dipsy Dowd, Maggie Haterman, and
Fake Yapper trashing him or praising him alternately, no matter which
way he goes. They can’t keep up, either.
Neither can many around him. I think
that half of the problem with advisers crashing into each other is they
don’t realize what Trump is doing.
And people will trash you, and they
will trash me. Get used to it. I’ve already caught plenty of people
mocking me. Well, just wait a week in Trump time. Look stupid and conned
by Trump one minute, and you look like a sage three days later.
Trump will not find perfect solutions.
He will find OPTIMAL solutions. We cannot ask for more. Trump has stood
by and watched Perfect murder Good for 8 years – maybe longer. He’s not
gonna do it. He’s going to deliver the best outcome possible, and he’s
not waiting for us to feel relaxed about it.
Best presidency ever! Just hang on.
More winning is coming, but a lot of people are going to scream that
it’s all over at EVERY turn.
The best way through this is to define
viewpoints, not people, because people will shift as they change
position and velocity in Trump gravity. Bash the neocon, warmonger, and
dopey globalist positions – not the people who are going to hold them
one moment and come loose from them later.
Trump is Jupiter moving through the
asteroid belt. He is going to pull people into his orbit. A few will get
slung off into space, but most will come along for the ride of their
lives.
I am ON the Trump Train for good, even if I scream that I want off and can’t take it.
In the end, I only want to scream “TOO MUCH WINNING!!!” (link)

….”And we will win, and you will win, and we will keep on winning… Believe me. And we will win so much, you will get tired of winning; and you will say: please Mr. Trump, we can’t take all of this winning… And I will say to you, NO. …We will win more, and we will keep winning,.. and we will win, and we will keep on winning…. I love you”…
~ President Donald Trump
Conservative Treehouse
Sunday, October 16, 2016
Saturday, October 15, 2016
The Most Explosive WikiLeaks Clinton Revelations (So Far)
Here is a rundown of some of the biggest bombshells dropped by WikiLeaks’ disclosure of Hillary Clinton’s speeches and emails, and why each is so important.
1. Clinton dreams of a world with “open trade and open borders”: Every American should understand that Democrats, and plenty of Republicans, are fighting an all-out war against national sovereignty. Sure, Democrats want new voters, and Republican interests want cheap labor, but they also share a mutual desire to increase the distance between the Ruling Class and voters. In the globalist future, political and business titans will stand atop the world, without having to worry about fulfilling annoying duties to grubby little voters with nostalgic memories of the days when American politicians served America’s interests. Globalism means you’ll never be able to vote against anything.2. Clinton courted business elites to support liberal agenda to beat back populism: Clinton’s speeches include numerous examples of something that’s hardly new, or unique to her, but a very important harbinger of things to come if she gets into the White House. Democrats serve their voters a steady stream of anti-business, anti-wealth rhetoric, but they’re keenly interested in using Big Business to promote the agenda of Big Government. Some of the examples in the leaked speeches, such as Clinton urging business interests to beat back the Tea Party and support open-borders immigration, are points of common interest with the GOP Establishment.
3. Clinton campaign coordinated with Super PAC: No one familiar with the WikiLeaks disclosures should be able to restrain their laughter when Hillary Clinton talks about getting “big money” and “dark money” out of politics. Then again, she should have been laughed off the stage for such tirades long before WikiLeaks started releasing her campaign’s emails.
4. Clinton admitted she has different “public and private positions” on Wall Street reform: Again, this shouldn’t surprise anyone, but it’s always useful to catch a politician actually admitting she isn’t honest with the public on issues – especially an issue of keen interest to the Democrats who opposed her in the primary. In the same issue, she admitted she’s out of touch with ordinary Americans and “far removed” from middle-class life, which is a refreshing bit of (unintended) candor from such a sanctimonious candidate and Party. Lastly, she said it was an “oversimplification” to blame banks for the 2008 financial meltdown, which is true – and greatly understating the truth of Democrat politicians’ culpability, at that – but not at all what Democrat hyper-partisans want to hear from their leaders.
5. Clinton campaign asked about using White House executive privilege to hide emails from Congress: “Think we should hold emails to and from POTUS? That’s the heart of his exec privilege. We could get them to ask for that,” John Podesta – current Clinton campaign chair, and former White House counsel – wrote to Hillary’s aide Cheryl Mills, even as the House Benghazi Committee was writing a subpoena for Clinton’s long-hidden correspondence. It’s absolutely shocking that Team Clinton would think Barack Obama was willing to abuse executive privilege to hide vital information from Congress. Wherever did they get that outrageous idea?
6. Clinton campaign looked for political support from “needy Latinos”: This is the perfect example of an email chain that would set the media on fire, if it came from a Republican political campaign. They seem to have been talking about Latino politicians who were needy, rather than herds of Latino voters, but they were colorfully insulting to some of those politicians.
7. Collusion with State Department on managing Clinton’s email scandal: It’s pretty clear from these emails that Clinton’s team knew she broke the law, but they were (justifiably) confident they could trump the rule of law with politics… and plenty of help from their good friends in the Obama Administration. Other emails illustrate the Clinton team’s conviction that all Democrat scandals can be overcome with distractions and delaying tactics, counting on that 90% Democrat media to be easily distracted, and to stay quiet while stonewalls are constructed. You will see more collusion and stonewalling in future Democrat Administrations, building on the precedents Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton established. The next Republican Administration that tries it will get a swift and brutal lesson in why scandal management only works when the administrative state and media support the party in power.
8. “Journalists” secretly working as enthusiastic volunteers for Clinton/Kaine 2016: Another one to file under “no big surprise, but still nice to see it on paper.” The American public needs to understand there is no real division between the government and media when a Democrat is in the White House, especially with this particular Democrat. The press loved Barack Obama and was childishly easy for him to spin at will, even during the queasy Fifty Shades of Grey stages of their romantic relationship, but the press is Hillary Clinton’s campaign. They’re her donors, Clinton Foundation contributors, and often her former (and future!) employees. If you didn’t think the media could be less interested in holding a president accountable than Obama, you’re in for a shock if Clinton wins.
9. Planting the “seeds of revolution” in the “Middle Ages dictatorship” of the Catholic Church: Democrats view Christians in almost exactly the terms they adamantly refuse to apply to Islamic supremacists. They’re also very determined to infiltrate institutions that resist liberalism, subverting them from within, and destroying them if they refuse to be subverted. Check out the latest news about the National Football League for another example.
10. Clinton Cash panicked the campaign: They knew how bad this stuff was, and they wasted no time devising strategies to spin it away. They didn’t have much trouble convincing the press to stop bugging Clinton about the galaxy of Clinton Foundation scandals, did they? With Republicans, the media works hard to set up denials that look uncomfortable, or which they think can be demolished by later revelations. With Democrats, not so much.
11. Flip-flopping on TPP: It’s amazing than a single Sanders voter ever believed Clinton was honest about opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but evidently most of them did, or else they never really cared about the issue as much as they claimed to. Leaked emails reveal how Clinton was not “comfortable” with attacking the trade deal she once gushed over as the “gold standard” for such agreements, but she knew she had to pretend to oppose it to placate union bosses and woo the Sanderistas. Clinton campaign staff talked about her “integrity” as though it were a stack of poker chips, deeming it reasonable to sacrifice a little integrity to keep the Sanders insurrection under control.
12. Gun control: cherry-picked data and executive orders: Democrats are going to lose patience with voter opposition to their gun control agenda and begin imposing it, as soon as they no longer have to worry about losing a tough election in the near future. They often worry about the potential backlash from Democrat voters in key states who support gun rights, but they’ll stop worrying about that soon, especially if Clinton does extremely well in those states. A packed Supreme Court will make her even bolder about chipping away at the Second Amendment. No one should be surprised that Democrats like to pick and choose which crimes the public should focus upon, in order to sell the gun control agenda.
13. Special favors for “Friends of Bill” in Haiti: The Clintons’ use of Haiti as a cash machine was disgusting. The hypocrisy of liberals willing to ignore this carnival of corruption, at the expense of an impoverished black nation, to slip the Clintons back into the White House is unbearable. The corruption of the State Department into a wholly owned subsidiary of Clinton, Inc. should be completely unacceptable.
14. Iran nuclear deal was “greatest appeasement since Chamberlain gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler”: This email chain quotes Republican Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois saying Obama’s nuclear deal “condemns the next generation to cleaning up a nuclear war in the Persian Gulf,” and Clinton campaign chief John Podesta responding, “Yup.” While the Democrats figure out how to spin that away, the rest of us can reflect that Clinton, Podesta, and other old hands in her inner circle probably have significant differences of opinion with Barack Obama and his teenage-punk approach to foreign policy. Obama and his weird little gang of young advisers thought it would be a great idea to do the opposite of everything his predecessors did, Republican and Democrat alike. The Clinton group worked in one of those preceding Administrations. However, Mrs. Clinton and all of her loyal retainers were willing to stifle their objections to Obama’s foreign policy in the name of party loyalty… even when those objections hinted at a future nuclear war.
15. Clinton wanted to run against Donald Trump in 2016: The three Republican candidates Clinton’s campaign thought they had the best chance of beating were Trump, Ben Carson, and Senator Ted Cruz. “We need to be elevating the Pied Piper candidates so that they are leaders of the pack and tell the press to them seriously,” said a memo sent to the Democratic National Committee. They were quite confident of their ability to tell the press which Republican candidates it should take seriously.
16. Clinton knew Libya was a disaster: Her hindsight about the bloody, world-destabilizing fallout from the overthrow of Qaddafi, and the inability of the new Libyan government to provide security for Americans, was 20/20… but what good does that do anyone, especially the Americans who died in Benghazi? It’s laughable to hear Clinton and her supporters brag about her great resume. Her resume is the world outside your window, and what she says about it to her big donors is very different from what she says to the general public.
17. “Foreign govt donors: all the money is in”: The Clinton team is much more relaxed about discussing big bucks from overseas among themselves. They don’t want the public thinking about how much support Clinton gets from foreign interests, or dwelling on how unsavory some of those interests are. They were reluctant to disclose all of those foreign donors to the Obama Administration as they promised. But the leaked emails show they’re very well aware of how important that imported cash is. This particular email seems to concern locking down foreign financial support for the Clinton Foundation, in case Mrs. and Mr. Clinton find themselves back in the White House next year.
18. Clinton Foundation audit reveals it may have misled the IRS: One of the perks of Clintonhood is that you can file taxes incorrectly, suffer no penalties whatsoever, and refile the paperwork years later. A 2011 audit of the Clinton Foundation requested by Chelsea Clinton discovered that, despite sworn statements to the IRS, the Foundation didn’t write or enforce the required conflict-of-interest policy… and, wouldn’t you know it, some conflicts of interest do seem to have cropped up! Two years later, long after Hillary Clinton resigned as Secretary of State, gift acceptance policies were still a work in progress.
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