George Soros gave Ivanka's husband's business a $250 million credit line in 2015 per WSJ. Soros is also an investor in Jared's business.

Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Russia finally pauses some US taxpayer funded power plants in US Colony of Ukraine. That's great but too polite compared to terrorist US ops of smashing infrastructure on day 1. Who can forget US 80% blackout of Venezuela’s electricity in 2019?

A typical U.S. attack on a foreign country begins with a swarm of cruise missiles which will disable the countries basic infrastructure. The U.S. attack on Iraq and other countries demonstrated that electricity and water supply will be gone in first days of a U.S. waged war....The Russian attacks were a mere warning shot. It can take out ALL of Ukraine’s power infrastructure at any time.”…Moon of Alabama, 9/12/22… Who can forget US 2019 attempted regime change in Venezuela via electricity: An excited Marco Rubio seems to know ahead of time that massive numbers of innocent Venezuelan citizens will lose electricity: “Venezuela is going to enter a period of suffering no nation in our hemisphere has confronted in modern history,” Rubio proclaimed."…A clearly excited Rubio took to Twitter to announce the blackout and claim that “backup generators have failed.” It was unclear how Rubio had obtained such specific information.”…3/11/2019

 

Image, TheTechnocraticTyranny.com, published 2/27/2016, “State Department’s Mission: Coup d’etat"

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9/12/22, Ukrainian counter-offensive halted," Voltaire Network

In order to halt Kiev’s counter-offensive, on 11 September at 8 p.m., the Russian army bombed the Kharkov CHPP-5 and Zmievskaya CHPP power plants located in the Kharkov region, as well as the Pavlograd CHPP-3 power stations in the Dniepropetrovsk region, and that of Kremenchug in the Poltava region.

The part of Ukraine under Kiev control is without any electricity. All trains are all at a standstill. The counter-offensive was stopped.”

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Added: 3/11/2019, An excited Marco Rubio seems to know ahead of time that massive numbers of innocent Venezuelan citizens will lose electricity:“Venezuela is going to enter a period of suffering no nation in our hemisphere has confronted in modern history,” Rubio proclaimed.A clearly excited Rubio took to Twitter to announce the blackout and claim that “backup generators have failed.” It was unclear how Rubio had obtained such specific information so soon after the outage occurred. According to Jorge Rodriguez, the communications minister of Venezuela, local authorities did not know if backup generators had failed at the time of Rubio’s tweet.”…”Like Pompeo, the self-declared president [and puppet of US dictatorship Guaido] framed the blackouts as part of a regime change strategy, not an accident or error.”

3/11/19, US Regime Change Blueprint Proposed Venezuelan Electricity Blackouts as ‘Watershed Event’ for ‘Galvanizing Public Unrest’, The Gray Zone, Max Blumenthal

And:

3/11/19, Trump Regime Electricity War in Venezuela More Serious Than First Believed," Strategic Culture, Stephen Lendman

“On Thursday [3/7/19], Venezuela’s Guri dam hydroelectric power plant was cyberattacked at 5:00 PM during the late afternoon rush hour to cause maximum disruption.

Up to 80% of the country was affected, damage done more severe than initially thought. Weeks or months of planning likely preceded what happened – US dark forces almost certainly behind it, considerable expertise needed to pull it off. 

On Friday [3/8], another cyberattack occurred, followed by a third one on Saturday [3/9], affecting parts of the country where power was restored, further complicating resolution of the problem, Maduro saying:

After power was restored to about 70% of the country, “we received another attack, of a cybernetic nature, at midday…that disturbed the reconnection process and knocked out everything that had been achieved until noon,””…

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Added: “Electricity and water supply will be gone in first days of a U.S. waged war.”

9/12/22, “Russia Retaliates For Ukrainian Strikes On Russian Controlled Electricity Networks,” Moon of Alabama

A typical U.S. attack on a foreign country begins with a swarm of cruise missiles which will disable the countries basic infrastructure. The U.S. attack on Iraq and other countries demonstrated that electricity and water supply will be gone in first days of a U.S. waged war.

Over more than 200 days the Russian special military operation in Ukraine had never attacked the basic infrastructure of the country. When the Ukraine used its electrified railway network to bring in weapons from the ‘west’ the Russian forces only took out electric substations that supplied the railway. But it never attacked the general electricity production for the population. The lights in Ukraine staid on.

One thus wonders about the Ukrainian decision makers and their ‘western’ intelligence minders who thought that attacking electricity networks under Russian control would somehow benefit their cause.

The Ukrainian military has for weeks attacked the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, since early March under Russian control and guarded by Russian troops, with artillery strikes. Yesterday the last of the plant’s six reactors had to shut down after its connection to external emergency power supply was destroyed during another Ukrainian artillery attack. (The line was later restored.)

It was not the only target of Ukrainian infrastructure attacks. As British intelligence asset Bellingcat mouthpiece Christo Gorzev tweeted gleefully:

Christo Grozev @christogrozev – 23:05 UTC · Sep 7, 2022, Half of Belgorod is left without electricity after what appears to be a Ukrainian attack on its central electricity distribution station
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Belgorod is a city in Russia a few miles north of the border to Ukraine.

Yesterday’s report by the Russian Defense Ministry about its war effort complained about systematic Ukrainian attacks on the electricity infrastructure of Donetsk city and other places:

In order to destabilize the situation in the territory liberated by the Russian Armed Forces and the suffering of civilians, the Kiev regime continues its deliberate shelling of energy infrastructure: generating facilities, transformer substations, and power lines.Since September 1 this year, the territory of the Zaporozhye NPP and the city of Energodar have been subjected to artillery fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces 26 times, including the territory of the nuclear plant.

At the same time, as a result of aimed fire on the transformer substation on September 6 and the power line on September 8, the city of Energodar was twice remained without electricity.

In the territory of the Donetsk People’s Republic, Ukrainian artillery repeatedly struck 22 important power supply facilities in order to de-energize

populated areas,

kindergartens,

life support facilities for the population, and industrial enterprises.

On September 1, three mines of the Donetsk Coal Energy Company, where dozens of miners were trapped underground, were de-energized as a result of the strike.

Yesterday, September 10, 19 transformer substations in the Petrovsky district of Donetsk were de-energized due to shelling by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. More than 1,600 civilian objects were remained without electricity as a result of the shelling.

It’s important to say that the daily strikes against civilian infrastructure are carried out by the Kiev regime in a deliberate and targeted manner.

By systematically attacking the power infrastructure in Russia and in Russian held territory the Ukrainian government has launched deliberate terror attacks against the populations in those areas.

It seemed to have forgotten the remarks of Russian President Vladimir Putin who had said:

[E]veryone should know that, by and large, we have not started anything in earnest yet.

Yesterday evening Russian cruise missiles were launched from Russian ships in the Black and the Caspian Sea. They were targeted to interrupt, not yet destroy, four Ukrainian power plants and to temporarily disable the Ukrainian electricity network:

Russia attacked power stations and other infrastructure Sunday, causing widespread outages across Ukraine as Kyiv’s forces pressed a swift counteroffensive that has driven Moscow’s troops from swaths of territory it had occupied in the northeast.The bombardment ignited a massive fire at a power station on Kharkiv’s western outskirts and killed at least one person. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the “deliberate and cynical missile strikes” against civilian targets as acts of terrorism.

Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv appeared to be without power Sunday night. Cars drove through darkened streets, and the few pedestrians used flashlights or mobile phones to light their way.

The attacks also disrupted the Ukrainian military railway transports which currently move troops from the north and west towards the Vuhledar area in the southeast from where they plan to attack in the direction of Mariupol.

Flash symbols show attacks on electricity infrastructure.

Weeks after he himself had ordered attacks on civilian power infrastructure in Russian held territory the Ukrainian President Zelenski cynically denounced the obvious retaliation by Russia as ‘terrorism’:

Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa – 18:52 UTC · Sep 11, 2022 A total blackout in the Kharkiv & Donetsk regions, a partial one in the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk & Sumy regions. RF terrorists remain terrorists & attack critical infrastructure. No military facilities, the goal is to deprive people of light & heat.
#RussiaIsATerroristState

The Russian attacks were a mere warning shot. It can take out ALL of Ukraine’s power infrastructure at any time:

Will the Ukrainian leadership pay heed to the warning?

Don’t bet on that. As long as ‘western’ media cover for the Zelenski regime, by not reporting on its preceding efforts to disrupt power supplies in Russia and in Russian held territory, such attacks will naturally generate more false sympathy for the Ukrainian side.

Ukrainian media are already preparing the population for more attacks:

How to survive in a house without gas, water supply, electricity, cellular reception

How? By watching Youtube videos:

Nadiya Matveyeva’s Nadiyni Porady (Reliable advice) YouTube playlist offers simple but important rules that will help to maintain health, solve everyday issues, protect yourself and your family during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The TV presenter provides answers to questions that concern everyone: …

Good luck with that when the networks are down.

Vladimir Zelinski is not a rational politician or decision maker. He is an actor who pretends to have a huge dick with which he can play a piano (vid). Everything that he and his producer team in Kiev do must be seen in that light. They are playing to the Ukrainian and ‘western’ public for personal profits. Each of their moves is calculated with that in mind. Telling the

truth and the welfare of the local population are of no concern to them.

When they decided to attack power infrastructure in Russia and Russian held territory they had already calculated that the inevitable retaliation by Russia would help their primary cause and

will shuffle many more millions of

western’ subsidies into their off-shore bank accounts.

Our media and politicians are cynically supporting them in this.”

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Monday, September 12, 2022

Mandates and “guidelines” aren’t laws, only legislatures have power to make laws-Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox from group that won lawsuit vs overreach of NY State Gov. Hochul and her Dept. of Health

“In the history of mankind, no government has ever taken power from the people and voluntarily given it back. The people have to demand it back!”…NY State Supreme Court judge ruled NY State’s Isolation and Quarantine regulation ordered by Governor Hochul, DOH Commissioner Bassett, the Department of Health, and the Public Health & Health Planning Council to be illegal. “This “regulation” is really a law that the Governor and DOH are illegally forcing on the people. Only the Legislative branch has the power to make law.”

9/8/22, Mandates vs. Laws: Is there a difference? ABSOLUTELY! Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox Substack

“Before COVID19 was released on our shores,

most Americans didn’t really ever give this a second thought.

Yet, here in New York, when King Cuomo (as many common-sense New Yorkers dubbed him)

forced everyone into lockdown in March of 2020 [enabled by Trump decree], with the distinctly propagandized cry of

“just for 2 weeks…2 weeks to flatten the curve,”

the difference between a law and a mandate

became the difference between feast or famine

for most. Literally. As the King [Cuomo] (totally illegally) cherry picked

who was allowed to leave their homes, go to work, earn a living, move about freely,

versus

who had to lockdown for months on end

and painfully watch their life’s work

slip through their fingers,

we witnessed the birth of a monarchy here in New York,

which has continued to this day some 2.5 years later.

Did you know that in just the first few months of the pandemic,

bankruptcy filings in NYS surged 40%!?!

And in NY and NJ alone, nearly 1/3 of small businesses went out of business in that same time period?!

Let me first say that Cuomo lacked the authority to single-handedly lockdown millions of New Yorkers. Despite Cuomo’s (and now Hochul’s) misplaced fantasies, I mean notions, to the contrary,

New Yorkers need to understand

that this is not a monarchy, and

one man/woman does not get to decide who is “essential” and who is not!

Cuomo’s false justification was that it was done

in the name of public health and safety. Newsflash…

the Constitution is not suspended during times of emergency! 

The United States Supreme Court has consistently held this time and again. And it makes sense from a logical standpoint. Think about it, during an emergency, when there is fear and confusion, it is a prime opportunity for the government

to step in and infringe upon the rights of the people. It’s their age-old battle cry,

“Oh no! There’s an emergency.

Give us your power and we will protect you!”

If you take nothing else from this article, take this…

In the history of mankind, no government has ever taken power from the people and voluntarily given it back. The people have to demand it back!

And that’s exactly what we just did with my quarantine camp lawsuit against Governor Hochul and her Department of Health. We saw the government grossly step out of line, and we demanded they get back in their lane. And we won! You can check out my prior Substack for more details on that: HERE or you can check out our lawsuit web page HERE.


Mandates vs. Laws…

First and foremost, only the NYS Legislature can pass a law. A refresher from grade school Social Studies or History class: we have 3 branches of government –Legislative, Executive and Judicial. Each branch is co-equal with the others. Each has its own authorities and duties: the Legislative makes our laws; the Executive enforces our laws; the Judicial adjudicates disputes regarding our laws.

Breaking it down further, with regards to

the Legislative Branch here in NY,

we have 2 houses that make up our NYS Legislature – the Senate and the Assembly.

Every 2 years, New Yorkers go to the polls to elect our representatives (ie those men and women that we want to be our voice in the law-making process). Their sole purpose is to make laws,

and they are supposed to do the bidding of We the People in carrying out those duties.

How do they make laws? Well, the very abbreviated explanation is that our elected

representatives in the NYS Senate (which has 63 members)

and the

NYS Assembly (which has 150 members)

meet, review proposed laws (called “bills”), debate the pros and cons of the bills, and

then ultimately vote on the bills.

If a majority vote in favor of a bill, then it passes. If both houses pass it, then it goes to the Governor’s desk for signature. If the Governor signs it, it becomes a law.

On the other hand, a mandate

does not come from our Legislative Branch. 

It instead comes from the Executive Branch (ie the Governor and her departments).

You can see mandates in the form of Executive Orders.

Some examples of mandates we have seen here in NY over the past couple of stunningly tyrannical years are

the lockdown mandate,

the mask mandates,

the C19 shot mandate, and others.

A very common question is, 

does the Executive Branch have the power to issue mandates? 

The answer to that is, it depends. In some cases they do. In other cases they do not. There’s no blanket answer, because it’s not a black and white issue. There is a lot of gray. In legal matters, there is always a lot of gray.

Why is that? Because the facts surrounding each case are always different. Sometimes the facts and the law are different.

The parties involved are always different….

To draw an analogy,…not every crime committed is a felony.

Not every breach of contract is illegal. Not every dispute between people is valid. And so,

not every mandate is legal. Nor is every mandate illegal.

Not to muddy the waters, but we also need to touch on

the topic of “guidelines”,

since that’s another unsuspecting way that Governor Hochul (and the King before her) get away with

controlling a whole host of people and things

that they have absolutely no authority to control.

Guidelines are suggestions. That’s it. They are recommendations made by a government entity.

They are not a law passed by the Legislature,

and they are not a mandate

issued by Executive Order.

But the problem becomes that most people do not know the difference,

so when a government actor issues a “decree”,

most New Yorkers snap to attention, salute, and forward march. This is soooo dangerous.

Now, to be clear, I am not telling you to ignore guidelines and/or mandates. (My critics will have a field day with this post if I don’t very clearly lay that out for you). However, what I am saying is that you need to use your critical thinking skills and not blindly follow the sheep in front of you.

The Answer is… 
 
So, are you exhausted yet? All this deciphering, analyzing, word salad galore… why do we have to be skeptical of our own government?! It’s a terrible feeling, is it not? Well the answer to how to end the uncertainty and mistrust is to vote them out!

Do you realize that November 8th is a monumental opportunity for New Yorkers to wipe the slate clean and put into government power positions those New Yorkers who share our values and who honor our Constitution and our unalienable rights?

Not only is Governor Hochul up for election,

but so is Attorney General Letitia James,

and every single NYS Senator and NYS Assembly member.

We must vote on November 8th, and we must bring with us as many of our friends and family as we can. The question is simple: do you want freedom for the next 4 years? Or do you want mandates, decrees, and authoritarian rule?”


Inspirational Quote:

“Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

Ben Franklin”

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Added: Two citations for March 2020 Trump admin. declarations of “National Emergency,” neither mentions an end date:

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3/13/2020, Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak,” TrumpWhiteHouse.archives.gov

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3/25/2020, President Trump Declares State of Emergency for COVID-19," ncsl.org (National Conference of State Legislators)

“National Emergencies Act

On March 13, [2020] the president also declared an emergency for COVID-19 under Section 201 and 301 of the National Emergencies Act. The National Emergencies Act (NEA)

generally authorizes the president nearly unlimited discretion to declare a national emergency.

These sections allow the Secretary of HHS to exercise the authority under section 1135 of the Social Security Act to temporarily waive or modify certain requirements of the Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children’s Health Insurance programs and of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule throughout the duration of the pandemic. The Secretary of HHS must provide certification and advance written notice to the Congress. These waivers can loosen restrictions on the use of telehealth and certain requirements for hospitals and healthcare providers to improve their response efforts.

The NEA was enacted by Congress in 1976 to formalize presidential and congressional power—and related checks and balances—surrounding national states of emergency.

However, this formalization

does not include definitions for or requirements

of the national emergency itself.

The law does not itself provide authorities associated with a state of national emergency,

though it does allow activation of powers provided the president

in other statutes.

A national emergency under NEA was also activated by President George W. Bush for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in 2001. For more information on the NEA, see NCSL’s blog.

Public Health Service Act…

HHS Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency on Jan. 31 [2020] in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, as did President Barak Obama for the H1N1 influenza virus outbreak in 2009.

The administration established the Coronavirus Task Force to lead the response effort shortly thereafter

and HHS has since issued multiple policy modifications and waivers to support response efforts of the health care community. For more information on the Public Health Services Act, visit the HHS webpage.

Defense Production Act

The president issued the Executive Order on Prioritizing and Allocating Health and Medical Resources to Respond to the Spread of Covid-19 but had not immediately taken extensive action under the Act. Section 101 of this Act allows the president to require that private companies prioritize and execute government contracts—to allocate materials, services and facilities—that promote the national defense over any other contracts or orders. For COVID-19, he plans to use the Act to ensure that the U.S. healthcare system is able to surge capacity and capability for outbreak response by requiring that all such health and medical resources—including ventilators, as well as personal protective equipment such as masks, gloves, and other medical supplies—are properly distributed to health workers on the front lines of the response….

The EO also invokes Title 3 of the U.S. code, which provides loans or purchases to bolster critical domestic production capabilities. This authority was also delegated to Azar.”

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Thursday, September 8, 2022

Trump and Jared's Trojan Horse 'America First Policy Institute' drowns 'America First' in its poisonous swamp waters-Pedro Gonzalez

AFPI donors are offered private dinners with Jared KushnerIn 2015 Jared’s business accepted a $250 million credit line from convicted felon, George Soros, who is also an investor in Jared’s business.

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9/1/22, ““America First” In Name Only," Pedro Gonzalez, Chronicles Magazine

A Poisonous confluence has emerged in Washington, D.C., where the

waters of the swamp converge

with the promise of “America First.”

On July 26, Donald Trump headlined the America First Agenda Summit,

hosted by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), the nonprofit known

in Trump world as

“the White House in waiting.”…

But there is just one small problem:

AFPI is the swamp; it is an organization that is

run, staffed, and affiliated with the worst people from the Trump White House,

who systematically undermined the America First mandate and who

promoted the interests of the establishment during Trump’s presidency. The summit provided a snapshot of this problem.

Belying its populist put-ons was a roster of dyed-in-the-wool establishmentarians,

from Sen. Lindsey Graham to Rep. Kevin McCarthy and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. The latter commended boozy Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for not backing down on her unnecessary and provocative trip to Taiwan despite warnings from China—

praise that AFPI’s audience applauded.

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst demanded

“that we absolutely annihilate the Russian forces,

and we get them to crawl back into Russia so bloody and bruised that they can’t come back.”

Rep. Mike Waltz [Fla] called for

U.S. personnel to get “directly into the war to operate U.S. weapons systems

alongside Ukrainian forces.”

[Speaking of the situation in Ukraine, Trump told donors that the US should put Chinese flags on America’s F-22s and then 

‘bomb the s***’ out of Russia,  

leading to conflict between the nations while ‘we sit back and watch.'”…3/6/22, “‘This is a massive crime against humanity’: Trump says we ‘can’t let’ the situation in [US colony] Ukraine continue and slams ‘paper tiger’ NATO for its inaction,Daily Mail, Gina Martinez]

Of course, there is nothing “America First” about the foreign policy promoted

by these Republicans.

In fact, it is utterly opposed to the realism and restraint

that places the interests of the American people over foreign entanglements.

This hawkish mindset is also at odds with Trump’s [2015-2016] promise

to bring America home from endless wars

and humanitarian interventions,

and to stop looting the American people in order to subsidize international [colonies] satrapies—also known as “foreign aid.”

So what is AFPI, and why does it have so much access to Trump?

Understanding that requires revisiting the Office of American Innovation (OAI), an agency within the White House Office

created for and directed by Trump’s son-in-law,

Jared Kushner.

In policy, personnel, and outlook, OAI was the precursor to AFPI.

In theory, the agency was redundant because it performed a similar role as the National Economic Council and Domestic Policy Council (DPC). In practice, that didn’t matter because

its real purpose was to act as a vehicle for Kushner and his allies

to hijack the White House’s policy shop.

Key members of OAI included Larry Kudlow, now the vice chair of AFPI’s board, and and Brooke Rollins, its president and CEO.

OAI was Jared’s shadow DPC, which

he was eventually able to formally take over

through Brooke running DPC in 2020,”

a person familiar with AFPI operations told Chronicles. “The main figures from Jared’s OAI and DPC have key roles at AFPI. The other AFPI ‘leadership’ were not with OAI but

are reliably Never Trump in their outlook,

which is shameful.”

Kushner created the office in 2017 with the help of Reed Cordish, whose wife

is a longtime friend of Jared’s wife, Ivanka Trump.

In April that year [2017], Trump prepared a directive to review the H-1B visa program,

which is commonly used by corporations

to replace American-born workers

with lower-paid immigrants.

Through the OAI, Kushner and Cordish used that corporate pressure

as leverage to undermine the president’s efforts.

Anonymous sources told the technology news website Recode that “tech executives, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos,

received an early warning

about Trump’s coming directive

on a call” with Kushner,

who “convened them and other executives as part of his tech-focused efforts with the White House’s new Office of American Innovation.”

Liberal media seemed to see the OAI for what it really was. CNBC, for example, called the rise within the Trump administration of Chris Liddell, who worked closely in the OAI with Kushner,

“a win for Kushner,”

who had emerged “as the standard bearer of the establishment faction of the Trump White House, which is locked in a perpetual power struggle with the more ideologically conservative wing.” Enter Rollins, a key part of the establishment faction, who got her start

as president and CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), a Koch Foundation-funded think tank

based in Austin, Texas. A Daily Beast headline neatly summarized

the implications of her admission into the White House:

“White House Hires Prison-Reform Activist as a Trump Assistant.”

america first policy institute

[Image: “Brooke Rollins, president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute, and Donald Trump at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (Getty)”]
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In 2018, Rollins bragged in a Fox News op-ed about “closing eight prisons in Texas (and 10 juvenile facilities)” through her efforts with TPPF.

The Lone Star State would see

skyrocketing homicide rates by the end of 2021—

now with fewer detention facilities to contain the new crop of murderers.

With the help of Kushner, Rollins brought her soft-on-crime ideas to President Trump’s desk,

in what became the First Step Act.

The Act released a swarm of dangerous criminals from the federal prison system,

some of whom went on to kill

almost as soon as they got out of jail. 

The Act also contained a provision to shorten mandatory minimums for traffickers caught smuggling drugs into the U.S. by sea. “These criminals have never been eligible for such leniency and are rarely if ever U.S. citizens,” said former Senator Jeff Sessions, who served as Trump’s attorney general. Indeed,

Rollins’s soft spot for criminals also extended to illegal aliens.

She was instrumental in using the OAI to produce what Reuters called

an “unusual reversal”

on Trump’s zero-tolerance policy

at the southern border. 

Nevertheless, the First Step Act became law in late 2018 and was soon followed by

similar legislation at the state level,

where criminal-justice reform initiatives advanced

despite rising national crime rates.

Rollins predicted that the Act would reduce repeat crime by reforming prisoners.

This has been proven false by a first-of-its-kind, decade-long study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission released in June 2022. The study found

“no statistically significant difference in the likelihood of recidivism among offenders who participated in Occupational Education Programs or Federal Prison Industries compared to offenders who did not participate in the programs.”

In other words, the First Step Act,

which became trademark Trump White House policy,

was based on a premise that has been conclusively

proven to be flawed. 

So enamored was Rollins with criminals that she and her colleagues in the OAI, including Ja’Ron Smith, who later joined Rollins at AFPI,

urged Trump not to crack down on rioters during 2020’s

summer of rage following the death of Saint George Floyd.

They argued that stopping mobs of black criminals from razing and looting entire communities

might seem racist.

Instead, Kushner and Rollins put their heads together

to appease the destroyers.

They invited rapper Ice Cube, best known for his song “F— Tha Police,” to the White House to get his input on what became the Platinum Plan.

Mr. Cube asked Trump’s team

to declare Juneteenth a federal holiday

and to pledge $500 billion to the black community—

which appeared to be halfway between reparations and a ransom in the context of the ongoing race riots.

They agreed and added, among other things, the promise of additional criminal justice reform

during Trump’s second term.

It wasn’t just run-of-the-mill felons who benefited under the auspices of AFPI’s spiritual predecessor.

The OAI also usurped control over the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, where applications for pardons are referred.

In February 2020, The Washington Post reported that

Kushner “personally reviewed applications with White House lawyers

before presenting them to Trump for final approval,

according to two senior administration officials.” The process followed a pattern:

a few pardons to please populists,

and far more substantial ones to help friends of the OAI.

Notably these included

pardons for Charles Kushner, Jared’s father,

and Salomon Melgen, a sleazy Democrat megadonor.

It is difficult to provide profiles in brief of everyone who went on to join AFPI after subverting the Trump agenda, but

two stand out: Chad Wolf

and Larry Kudlow. 

Before joining the Trump administration, Wolf worked as a paid lobbyist for the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), a trade body of Indian firms. As the acting secretary of Homeland Security and undersecretary of Homeland Security for Strategy, Policy and Plans, Wolf was amenable to NASSCOM’s interests.

When coronavirus measures drove unemployment rates through the roof,

DHS, under Wolf, announced it would accelerate the processing

of H-1B foreign workers to U.S. and Indian companies.

Wolf’s DHS then went a step further by changing a rule

to accelerate the influx of these workers.

By March 2020, DHS began the process of

admitting 85,000 H-1B workers. On April 1, 2020, Wolf

used his discretionary powers to grant an additional 20,000 new H-2B visas

for seasonal guest workers.

The latter initiative was halted

due to scathing coverage by Fox News host Tucker Carlson.

Wolf was also never proactive on securing funding for the border wall but did, instead,

lavish sanctuary cities protecting illegal aliens with discretionary funding,

effectively subsidizing lawbreaking with money

that was in his power to withhold.

Today, he serves as AFPI’s executive director and chief strategy officer,

doing the “good work” of promoting bad ideas alongside the likes of Kudlow.

In an article for American Greatness, [8/15/22, The Clown Prince of Pennsylvania Avenue,”  “Jared Kushner did more damage to the presidency and the Trump agenda during his four year reign of error at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue than anyone."] Peter Navarro, former assistant to the president for trade and manufacturing policy, described Kudlow as “the most famous offender” among the “free trade ideologues on record opposing Trump’s tariffs” in the White House. He was also a member of the OAI.

Kudlow, according to Navarro, was instrumental in

killing an effort to haul Dr. Anthony Fauci before a presidential commission

inquiring into the funding of the Wuhan laboratory,

suspected of leaking the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Kudlow and his allies were reportedly chiefly concerned about upsetting China and thereby getting bad press….

AFPI isn’t going to lead a radical reimagining of the federal government or drain the swamp—it merely wants to carve out a space

for itself to wallow in the muck. It does not produce an actual product but instead claims credit for what others do.

It has “America First” in its name, but you couldn’t find an organization whose members

did more in the Trump White House to undermine the essence of the phrase.

Its corridors are adorned with pictures of Kushner, like a shrine,

and it offers private dinners with him for donors.

It is a temple to a grift that

has infected right-wing populism,

and a dead end for America First.”

……………………………..

Added: Kushner came to the D.C. swamp on the coattails of his wife

[who came on the coattails of her father] as nothing more than a young and rich, run-of-the-mill liberal New York Democrat

with a worldview totally orthogonal to the president he was supposed to serve….Never mind that he was

derailing, deterring, and delaying Trump’s [proclaimed] Make America Great Again agenda

in real-time and at great political and economic costs….

Ultimately, the biggest failure of the 2020 election was

the failure of

the Trump campaign itself.

The campaign went from the beautifully orchestrated Steve Bannon masterpiece

in 2016,

with 20 people on Trump Force One barnstorming flyover country,

to the ugliest equivalent of Hillary Clinton’s

beyond bloated Hindenburg of a campaign in just four years.

The construction of this Hindenburg was due entirely to the anything but dynamic duo of Brad Parscale (the putative campaign manager) and

Kushner himself (the actual campaign manager). These two…

squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on ridiculous baubles like Super Bowl ads

and a massively bloated payroll.

In the final weeks before November 3, the Trump campaign—

the most well-funded in history—

would have to pull its ad expenditures in key battleground states

like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin because it was out of cash;…

To this day, my old Boss [Trump]

still has no idea

just how much damage Kushner/Rasputin did to the presidency and the Trump agenda

during his four year reign of error at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” [Ivanka image AFP]

 

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