Hooked, Lined and Sinkered: The True Underbelly Of Trump
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Shocked! I'll tell you, just plain shocking! Not. At the end of Friday nights episode of Tucker Carlson he did a shocking reveal of the 2020 election, something he stated "is an amazing story we are not allowed to talk about but we're going to anyway". Dozens of counties, he goes on to elaborate, violated federal law by not retaining election data from the 2020 election. I guess at this point it doesn't hurt the non election fraud narrative given the deadline for retaining those records has done come and gone. He goes on further to say that the number of voters and the number of ballots didn't match up. "Ooh that sounds like fraud, don't say it, you're undermining our democracy by pointing out something that ain't real!" he said.
I mean really, who couldn't see this coming?
I've repeatedly said that what you are going to find when all those involved investigating voter fraud if elected will be coming forth and saying it's to late because the records have been destroyed. Except for in a few instances where judges have ruled those records be preserved beyond the required time there's little chance that the public will ever see the proof that fraud ever existed. Common sense should prevail that once fraud had been established full scale investigations of the evidence presented would prevail. There'd be no stopping an investigation into a crime of that magnitude. Full exposure would have occurred, and at the very least proof would have been leaked from someone among the dozens of investigations that were done. Someone would have been the Edward Snowden that congress couldn't ignore. The fact that never happened is because the election was rigged to go down that way, no one really stole it.
If that wasn't enough to add insult to injury in Tuckers headlined Americans Deserve Transparency In Our Elections diatribe, he goes on to introduce Hogan Gidley, former white house deputy press secretary under Trump now employed by the American First Policy Institute. Gidley, who says he just found out that violations of the 1960's civil rights act that requires these states to preserve and maintain these list and voter data for twenty two months after a federal election had occurred. Now there's a real "ooh" moment in all this given that the American First Policy Institute and the America First movement go hand in hand as the American First Policy Institute was founded in 2021 to perpetuate former president Trumps public policy agenda. So much so it is these individuals who are lining up the next republican president's administration with or without Trump.
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) is working to take over the GOP to ensure it remains a populist party in the mold of former President Trump — regardless of which Republican occupies the White House next.
The AFPI mission was evident during a two-day conference it hosted this week in Washington, D.C. The event, which drew GOP luminaries from Capitol Hill and far-flung state capitals, was billed as a forum to showcase its platform ahead of the midterms and 2024.
"We will be laying the ground for the return of the America First agenda," Brooke Rollins, the organization's president, said. "With the hope that America First leaders [will be] returning to the White House, Congress and to the state houses."
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Although Trump was the keynote speaker, AFPI's brass stressed repeatedly that they were laying the groundwork for any future Republican president.
"If President Trump decides to run, I think, he'll clear the field," former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said. "But if he doesn't decide to run, I guarantee you the dozens of men and women who do run for president, and indeed the Republican nominee and winner of the 2024 election, will be someone who is proudly and loudly carrying the mantle of the America First policy agenda."
Let's take a look at what else Mr Gidley had to say about the 2020 election while we contemplate exactly how is it that an institute set up on behalf of driving the America First agenda is twenty two months and an expiration date past it's claim of voter fraud. After all America first, as Tucker so eloquently displayed for us, means Americans deserving transparency in their elections.
We went into these fourteen states and the top most populated counties, a hundred of them, of the hundred of them only six managed to keep any data what so ever and it egregious when we look at those numbers but it gets worse because we also took a look at the number of voters who voted and compared that to the number of ballots cast, they didn't match anywhere and when we asked officials on the ground they had no answers, it was absolutely ridiculous.
You know what's really egregious? When it took them over twenty two months to tell us they went to those one hundred counties and ask them to look at their voter data upon which they were told none exist, we threw it all away. He than has the audacity to come on national television and tell us he compared something to something that no longer existed. Yeah he could find out the number of ballots cast but as described during the interview the list of voter records of those who voted was thrown away. He didn't offer up any proof, no video recordings of them going into these clerks offices asking for the materials and being told they threw them away, no secret recordings of them asking the people on the ground and them offering no answers, no website link to any of his information as proof, no statements of filing a compliant with the election commission, nothing, notta, zilch. Just more of we proved it and you'll just have to take our word that it happened. So why the egregious outright lie and ridiculousness?
Two reasons why. Marc Lotter, the chief communications officer for the conservative group went on national news and declared that Trump lost the 2020 election. When pushed on why they'd invite Trump to be a key speaker at the America First Policy Institute convention if they really felt he lost the election Lotter replied that he's the leader of America First, his speech was meant as a state of the union of sorts. “He is the biggest name. He’s the visionary behind many of the policies that got him elected to the White House,” he said. “And when you look at what’s going on in America right now, so many people are clamoring for that kind of policy leadership back. They want cheap gas, growing paychecks, soaring stock markets and not what we have right now.” The second reason was an editorial piece Peter Navarro wrote advising the ex-president not to attend the conference. In American Greatest Navarro wrote:
Don’t go, Boss! That’s my strong advice to President Trump as he prepares to deliver a speech in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday at his alleged “think tank,” the America First Policy Institute (AFPI).
Yes, it is important for President Trump to have a well-credentialed stable of policy experts capable of both building a 2024 platform and finding solid MAGA talent to populate a new Trump Administration. But the AFPI Trojan Horse—whose leadership is now bragging about how it will staff Trump’s “shadow cabinet”—is decidedly not that.
Most comically, the AFPI roster features the author of a poison pen White House memoir who sued the president; a Communist China-trained accountant who criticized the president for “ineffective drug price policies”; a former Cabinet secretary who almost got Trump impeached; a former top advisor to Dick “Endless War” Cheney; and John “Book Deal” Bolton’s former chief of staff. What could go wrong there?
Most perniciously, the AFPI economics team is peppered with free trade ideologues on record opposing Trump’s tariffs—the most important and transformational component of Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement. The most famous offender here is Trump’s former National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow, who is now vice chairman of the AFPI board.
As I document in Taking Back Trump’s America, I had to fight Brother Larry on an almost daily basis, not just on trade policy but also in my efforts to advance Trump’s two most simple rules: buy American, hire American. And Kudlow worked hand-in-hand with several members of Trump’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), who now constitute the free trade core of AFPI’s economic experts.
Most egregiously, Casey Mulligan has boasted how Trump’s CEA chairman “would never waver from a free trade position,” and at the White House, Trump’s CEA, by culture and ideology, did everything it could to delay, dilute, and damage Trump’s trade policies.
Brooke L. Rollins, president and CEO of the America First Policy Institute. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Incredibly, AFPI also hosts a gaggle of former Trump officials who have publicly criticized him for his “Stop the Steal” efforts and/or falsely implicated him in the January 6 violence. Besides the aforementioned Kudlow along with Kellyanne Conway, this gaggle includes former Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf.
Wolf openly defied President Trump’s order to fire the DHS official in charge of election security who laughably claimed the 2020 election was “the most secure in history.” And Trump pulled Wolf’s nomination for secretary after Wolf lit the Boss up over January 6.
Arguably, the most dangerous AFPI fifth-columnist is former Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. After the Boss left office, Jindal would insist “Trump was undone by his own predatory nature” and attacked the Boss for his “conspiracy theories and extra-constitutional notions.” Today, Jindal is aggressively pushing a “Trumpism without Trump” agenda.
That may well be AFPI’s broader agenda: Hijack the political attractiveness of Trumpism but replace Trump with an AFPI-anointed RINO. Here, it is worth remembering the Michael Dukakis bon mot: “a fish rots from the head up.”
The fishy CEO of AFPI is Trump’s former Domestic Policy Council director, Brooke Rollins. She recently let slip: “[W]hether the next president’s name is Donald J. Trump or whether the next president is a different name, we will be there standing by ready to help and we’ve already begun preparations for that time.”
If that’s not a recipe for Jindal’s “Trumpism without Trump” coup, I don’t know what is; and Rollins ranks high on my list of bad personnel in the Trump White House who helped Trump lose the 2020 election.
I thought when I served with her that Rollins was merely politically tone deaf. Today, after I see how she is staffing AFPI, there is a far darker possibility.
Memo to the Boss: Instead of legitimizing these grifters, why not demand they stop using the Trump good name to raise money to engineer their “Trumpism without Trump” coup. Alternatively, if this really is your think tank, bring in a John McEntee or Liz Harrington to run the place with the full power to fire and hire. Now that would be a real Trump MAGA policy institute.
You see everything Narravo said is the underbelly of who Trump really is. Many people are under the mistaken belief that if he had to do it all over again he'd know better than to not trust these people but here he is rubbing elbows again. If anyone has a mistaken belief that Trump doesn't know what his own think tank is up to one just has to look at long time friend and associate Linda McMahon, former WWE president and CEO, and small business administrator during the Trump administration, Trump and the McMahon family go back a long way. As America First Policy Institute chairperson she knows what's going on inside the organization and if she thought a coup was underway she'd undoubtedly inform the former president. Trump brought the WWE back from the brink, there shouldn't be much doubt the favor would be reciprocal if she thought the Trump legacy was being threatened. After what Navarro describe about Kudlow, who currently resides as vice chairman of the group and works for Fox News Business Network it's only fair to say they saw their mistake, Trump can't be on both sides of the fence. He can't make claims the election was stolen from him while his think tank is out there saying the election was not stolen from him. Hence the interview that made absolutely no sense. They had to save face.
One example of what's really going on here and who is involved in staging coups would be found in what Kelly Ann Conway said above:
"If President Trump decides to run, I think, he'll clear the field," former Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said. "But if he doesn't decide to run, I guarantee you the dozens of men and women who do run for president, and indeed the Republican nominee and winner of the 2024 election, will be someone who is proudly and loudly carrying the mantle of the America First policy agenda.
"I guarantee you", there's your coup. He's still the biggest name, he still the visionary, yeah, he was counting on it.
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