U.S. Citizen With No Legs, And 30 Million Other Americans: Where’s Our $1,400?

29 03 2021

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

In an article entitled “Stimulus checks: Payment blockage resolved for nearly 30 million Social Security recipients,” Denitsa Tsekova has written at Yahoo!Money:

The blockage of nearly 30 million stimulus checks for Social Security and other federal benefits recipients has been resolved after the Social Security Administration sent relevant files to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Thursday morning, according to the House Ways and Means Committee.

“We are gratified that the SSA leadership finally recognized the urgency of the moment and acted swiftly on our ultimatum,” members of the committee said in a press release on Thursday. “Now the IRS needs to do its job and get these overdue payments out to suffering Americans.”

The delay affects Social Security recipients and other beneficiaries who did not file their 2019 or 2020 taxes or did not use the IRS ‘Non-Filer’ tool for direct payments. The IRS is now working on updating the information for the rest of the eligible federal benefit recipients. The IRS did not respond to a request by Yahoo Money on exact timing of the delayed payments.

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and other Democrats blamed Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, for the delay.

“The delays imposed by Commissioner Saul defied congressional intent and imposed needless anxiety and pain on taxpayers,” the lawmakers said.

A total of 127 million payments worth $325 billion — more than 70% of the $450 billion earmarked for stimulus payments — have been disbursed as part of the first two batches of the latest stimulus direct payments. More batches of payments will be issued in the coming weeks as direct deposits or as mailed checks and prepaid debit cards. The majority of the third round of stimulus checks will be directly deposited in Americans’ bank accounts.

This round is $1,400 per eligible individual plus a $1,400 bonus per dependent. Around 158.5 million households are expected to receive a payment under the new stimulus deal, according to the White House.

Here’s more of what you need to know about the third round of stimulus checks.

Who gets a stimulus check?

Under the latest amended bill, a single filer making up to $75,000 will receive the full payment, while those earning up to $80,000 will get a reduced amount. Joint filers making up to $150,000 will get the full $2,800, while those earning up to $160,000 will receive a smaller amount. Previously, the phase-out thresholds were $100,000 for single filers and $200,000 for joint filers in the House version.

Eligibility will be based on your most recent tax return and your adjusted gross income. For the third round of checks, the IRS will use your 2019 or 2020 tax return to determine if you qualify for the direct payment.

Social Security beneficiaries, Disability Insurance beneficiaries, Supplemental Security Income recipients, Railroad Retirement Board beneficiaries, and Veterans Administration beneficiaries all are eligible for the payment even if they didn’t file a 2019 or 2020 tax return.

Eligible taxpayers who used the IRS Non-Filer tool for the first round of checks will be treated as providing returns and will also receive payments.

Additionally, Americans who qualify for the stimulus payment and have dependents will get an additional $1,400 per dependent. The bonus can be claimed for college students, disabled adults, and other adults who are dependents. Previously, parents or guardians could only claim the bonus for child dependents under 17.

Deceased people may also receive a payment. Checks will go to all eligible taxpayers who were alive as of Jan. 1, 2021.

Who doesn’t get a check?

Those without a Social Security number and nonresident aliens — those who aren’t U.S. citizens or U.S. nationals and don’t have a green card or have not passed the substantial presence test — are not eligible for the direct payment.

Married taxpayers who file jointly where one spouse has a Social Security number and the other doesn’t will get one $1,400 payment, in addition to $1,400 for any child with a Social Security number.

Taxpayers with Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITIN) aren’t eligible for the payments.

How will the government send you the stimulus check?

The IRS will use the direct deposit information you provided from the taxes you’ve filed for 2019 or 2020.

You may be able to use the IRS’ Non-Filers tool to provide your information like the first round. But so far, the IRS has not announced whether that tool will be available if this stimulus bill is passed.

The tool was for eligible U.S. citizens or permanent residents who had gross income below $12,200 ($24,400 for married couples) for 2019 and weren’t required to file a 2019 federal tax return.

If you have no direct deposit information on file or if the account provided is now closed, the IRS will mail you a check or pre-paid debit card instead.

If you received no payment and you think you’re eligible or you got the wrong amount, you’ll be able to claim it on your 2021 tax return.

How can I track my payment?

Americans can now check the status of their third stimulus check using the IRS’s online tracking tool ‘Get My Payment.’

The tool allows Americans to follow the scheduled payment date for either a direct deposit or mailed payment. It’s an online app that works on desktops, phones, and tablets and doesn’t need to be downloaded from an app store. To use the tool, you need to provide basic information:

Social Security number or Individual Tax ID Number (ITIN)

Date of birth

Mailing address

The tracking tool will no longer show the status of the first or second round of stimulus checks — the $1,200 payment under the CARES Act and the $600 payments under the December $900 billion stimulus deal. To find the status of those previous rounds, you must create an account.

If your payment is delivered by direct deposit, the tool will show when the direct deposit is expected to be made or when it was delivered along with the bank account it went into.

If you receive the message “Payment Status Not Available,” the IRS may not have processed your payment yet or you may not be eligible for a payment.

Will I get the dependent bonus for a newborn?

If you had a baby in 2021 and meet the rest of the eligibility criteria, you can claim the additional $1,400 per child when you file your 2021 taxes.

If you had a child in 2020 and your return has been processed, you should automatically get the additional payment. If you haven’t yet filed your 2020 taxes or they haven’t been processed by the IRS by the time the payments are issued, you can claim the dependent bonus on your 2021 taxes

Do you have to pay back the stimulus check?

No, you don’t have to pay it back. It also doesn’t reduce any refund you would otherwise receive.

“No, there is no provision in the law requiring repayment of an Economic Impact Payment,” the IRS website said about the first round of checks.

If your income dropped in 2020 compared with 2019, you may now be eligible for the payment or a bigger payment if you have already filed your taxes and they have been processed by the IRS.

If your payment is too high based on your 2020 income and you still haven’t filed your 2020 taxes, you’re not responsible for paying back the difference.[2]

Despite the assertion made in this informative article, approximately 30 million Americans have not received their $1,400, and the blockage has not been resolved.  Many if not most of these Americans are senior citizens who barely exist on their Social Security retirement and other similar benefits.  They are suffering greatly, with some on the edge of giving up, if not committing suicide.  China’s deadly Coronavirus has devastated their lives: physically, psychologically and economically.[3]  They were hanging by a thread already, and now this.  Many don’t have money for food, shelter, medical care or the like.  Many are living day-by-day, hour-by-hour at best.

A few examples of the comments beneath the Yahoo!Money article tell the tale:

•   “I’m a US natural born citizen receiving the smallest possible amount of Social Security since I lost both legs in 1998.  I got married in 2003 and disability was no longer available to me.  Since becoming separated in September of 2019, do you think that money is available to me, now?  You would think it is.  Nope… and no I never received any stimulus check. Not the first second or third so far” (Jamye)

•  “‘The IRS did not respond to a request by Yahoo Money on exact timing of the delayed payments.’  Why not???? Are they mentally challenged???  In the mean while, the first two checks went out without a problem and ‘they’ obviously had the information needed.  What did they do with that information???  Lose it??  I am angry with this whole system.  Repubs, Dems, it doesn’t matter any more.  I am sick and tired of all of them.  My mere existence is at stake and they are playing games with each other” (chrisw)

•  “First one came relatively fast, the second even faster, but yet here I sit still waiting on 3/25/21 and no clue when.. Tho my landlord is seriously tired of waiting, and I’M HUNGRY..Having a fixed income does have its drawbacks, specially for food costs..” (Nobody)

•  “I remind you that we all could have gotten the 2000 dollars in december but Pelosi blocked it to get more pork in the system. 1.4 trillion extra” (Russell)

•  “If this had happened under Trump, Pelosi would be screaming her head off.” (Retired_LC)

•  “I think 2022 would be a great time to show this administration exactly how SS recipients feel about this obvious slight!!!!” (Hamster Fodder)

With all due respect to those who might blame the Trump administration, the fact is that the legislation was proposed and enacted by the Biden administration and the Democrats, which is where the buck stops.  Having spent most of my professional career working in and with the U.S. Congress, I have seen many administrations come and go, and transitions take place.  Even before presidential elections, staff members of the challenging candidate are assigned to the major federal agencies to coordinate such transitions and make sure they run smoothly.  Certainly after the 2020 elections, this took place; and it surely took place when the Biden administration took office and fashioned the new legislation that included the $1,400 payments.  Thus, there is no excuse for “glitches,” and for the nonpayment of those who arguably need the money most—just to survive.

Some of the readers of this article might argue: “Why is this important or relevant to me?  The $1,400 payments are peanuts, and do not affect me at all.”  The answer is that the Biden administration is fashioning follow-on legislation[4]; and if the $1,400 payments can be denied, or postponed, so can the benefits of their future legislation.

 

 

© 2021, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-6-30). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://money.yahoo.com/stimulus-checks-payment-blockage-resolved-for-nearly-30-million-social-security-recipients-183112988.html (“Stimulus checks: Payment blockage resolved for nearly 30 million Social Security recipients”)

[3]  See Timothy D. Naegele, The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them, 137 BANKING L. J. 285 (June 2020) (Naegele June 2020) (Timothy D. Naegele) [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, please click on the link to the left of this note] 

[4]  See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9411849/Biden-roll-COVID-relief-April-separate-4-trillion-infrastructure-package.html (“Biden will roll out another COVID relief plan in April on top of $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, Jen Psaki reveals”)





Race Relations In America Have Gone Berserk

16 03 2021

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Americans of all colors, ethnic backgrounds and religious preferences owe the present tragic state of affairs to the un-American racist and anti-Semite Barack Obama.  Indeed, If one person could be singled out for having exacerbated race relations in the United States, it is Obama who has torn our great nation asunder.  

He has done far more than any President in our great nation’s history to sow racism, strife and discord.  And he has done this at a time when China’s Coronavirus has killed or hurt so many Americans, physically, psychologically and economically.[2]  Aside from trying the destroy the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump from Day One—which is treason—Obama has produced a racial divide that may take years if not generations to heal.

Obama should be in prison today, for his many crimes.  Indeed, this was all predictable if Americans had read his book, “Dreams from My Father,” before he was elected to national offices.  It sets out his racism explicitly and in his own words, which have withstood the test of time.[3]

Pat Buchanan—an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and a former GOP presidential aspirant himself—has written an article entitled “Who and What Killed George Floyd?” as follows:

Friday, as the jury was being empaneled for the trial of fired police officer Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis City Council voted 13-0 to approve a record $27 million civil settlement with the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody.

The jury will not likely miss this message sent by the city fathers:

I.e., an atrocity was perpetrated by our police, and we are admitting our responsibility and doing our duty by offering these reparations for Floyd’s cruel and unjustified death and the suffering visited on his family.

Most Americans who saw the nine-minute tape of Chauvin with his knee on the neck of George Floyd as he pleaded, “I can’t breathe,” will probably concur with the charge of criminal culpability of Chauvin.

Yet, over the months, new facts and factors have emerged.

George Floyd was not choked to death. He was not asphyxiated. He was not killed by Chauvin’s knee on the side of his neck. An autopsy showed Floyd’s neck muscles were not even bruised.

Floyd died when his heart stopped. Yet, he was already suffering from an enlarged heart with constricted arteries, one of five of which was 90% blocked and two others were 75% blocked.

An autopsy found heavy concentrations of fentanyl in Floyd’s system and traces of methamphetamines. If Floyd had collapsed and died in the street while being wrested into the squad car, his death would have been attributed to a drug overdose and a bad heart.

Also, a videotape of the minutes prior to Floyd’s being put on the pavement, his neck under Chauvin’s knee, shows Floyd crying, repeatedly, “I can’t breathe,” while resisting the two rookie cops trying to put him in the patrol car.

Moreover, there is testimony from those with Floyd when he was stopped for passing an allegedly phony $20 bill, that he had passed out in the car before the cops arrived. And the arresting cops claim he was foaming at the mouth before being restrained.

In short, Chauvin’s defense attorneys will likely make a credible case, backed by evidence, that Floyd’s death was not caused by the knee on his neck but by the battered condition of his heart, the near-lethal dose of fentanyl in his system, and his anxiety and panic at being arrested and fearing, as he wailed, that he was going to be shot.

The prosecution will counter-claim that Chauvin’s knee on Floyd’s neck, and the two other cops sitting on him, precipitated the stopping of his heart.

But the prosecution faces other questions.

How could Chauvin, who arrived late to the scene, know Floyd was a drug addict with a serious heart condition and a large amount of fentanyl in his system, before using the restraint technique of sitting on him and putting a knee on the side of his neck?

What was Chauvin trying to do when he arrived to see two rookie cops trying to cope with a powerfully built, six-foot-four-inch, 220-pound man violently resisting arrest?

Did Chauvin put his knee on Floyd’s neck to kill him? To torture or injure him? Or did he use the technique to restrain him?

Prosecutors will contend that the knee on the neck was criminal assault, a felony that caused Floyd to black out and his heart to stop?

But that raises another question:

Is placing a knee on the side of the neck an outlawed or a prohibited procedure for police to use to restrain a suspect violently resisting arrest, as a chokehold is in some precincts?

Or is it a procedure some police use legally at times?

Chauvin was clearly familiar with the technique. Had he used it before without injury to a suspect?

In a motion to dismiss the charges he himself faces in the death of Floyd, former police officer Thomas Lane included 30 pages of Minneapolis PD training materials including information on the “maximal restraint technique.” Lane included a photo of an officer with a knee on a suspect’s neck, similar to the hold used by Chauvin.

In preparing for the trial of Chauvin, Minneapolis has fortified, with concrete barriers, fences and razor wire, the courthouse where it will be held. Understandably, for any acquittal of Chauvin, or conviction on a lesser charge than murder, could trigger a riot like those that plagued the city through the summer of 2020.

And if a mob does take to the streets in Minneapolis, as it did all last summer, the national reaction will be telling.

How does one accurately describe a crowd that gathers outside a courthouse to demand, on the threat of a riot, a verdict of guilty?

And should a riot occur — and violent protests in Louisville, Seattle and Portland over the weekend seem to point to another such long hot summer — may we expect our new national leaders (Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer) to denounce the mob and stand up unequivocally for the rule of law?[4]

The thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of “Black Lives Matter,” Antifa and other far-Left groups have burned our cities; killed or hurt innocent Americans including our police; and destroyed black and other businesses.  Instead of being coddled or embraced by Joe Biden and his Democrats, they should be put down like rabid animals.

America’s blacks constitute less than 14 percent of our population.[5]  Yet, turn on TV any given day, and one might think that they are the dominant group in our population. This overcompensation permeates and distorts our society; and it is creating anger and revulsion among non-blacks.  Rather than improving race relations, it is exacerbating them.

Preferences have been given in academics, which the voters of far-Left California have rejected.[6]  On men’s professional football and basketball teams, there are very few white players.  When the football players take a knee as our flag is saluted and/or our national anthem is played, more and more of white America tunes out and refuses to watch. And when this occurs, they are branded as racists by the Democrats and the Left.

But it must never be forgotten that the Democrats gave us slavery, and perpetuated it after our Civil War with the KKK, segregation and later Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” programs that destroyed black families and consigned them to economic servitude.  Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans ended slavery.

Many on America’s Left do not want inclusion or equality; they want racial preferences, which would distort the United States forever.  Of course the idea of reparations is patently absurd, but it has become the mantra for many on the Left.  Like Barack Obama, they hate America and believe its history is fundamentally flawed and racist.

Unlike the first black to serve in the U.S. Senate after Reconstruction, Edward W. Brooke—who came from a loving family, and served as an Army officer during World War II—Obama came from a broken family.  He was raised in Hawaii and Indonesia, and never lived on the American mainland until he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles.  And on some level, he hates the United States, its history and its values.[7]

Lastly, as I have stated previously:

I believe in this country, and I believe in Americans of all colors, faiths and backgrounds. The United States is the only true melting pot in the world, with its populace representing a United Nations of the world’s peoples. Yes, we fight and we even discriminate, but when times are tough—like after 9/11—we come together as one nation, which makes this country so great and special. Also, all of us or our ancestors came here from somewhere else. Even the American Indians are descended from those who crossed the Bering Strait—or the “Bering land bridge”—according to anthropologists.[8]

I believe this fervently.  All of us are equal in the eyes of God.

 

 

© 2021, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-6-30). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See Timothy D. Naegele, The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them, 137 BANKING L. J. 285 (June 2020) (Naegele June 2020) (Timothy D. Naegele) [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, please click on the link to the left of this note] 

[3] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/is-barack-obama-a-racist/ (“Is Barack Obama A Racist?”); see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/barack-obama-is-responsible-for-americas-tragic-racial-divide/ (“Barack Obama Is Responsible For America’s Tragic Racial Divide”) 

[4]  See https://buchanan.org/blog/who-and-what-killed-george-floyd-142867 (“Who and What Killed George Floyd?”)

[5]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/26/american-blacks-constitute-less-than-14-percent/ (“American Blacks Constitute Less Than 14 Percent”)

[6]  See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_California_Proposition_16 (“2020 California Proposition 16”)

[7]  See supra n.3.

[8] See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/america-a-rich-tapestry-of-life/ (“America: A Rich Tapestry Of Life”) (quoting http://www.philstockworld.com/2009/10/11/greenspan’s-legacy-more-suffering-to-come/ and http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/2951-ilene/31177-interview-with-timothy-d-naegele





War With China?

12 03 2021

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Pat Buchanan—an adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford, and a former GOP presidential aspirant himself—has written an article entitled “Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?” as follows:

Today, the four premier leaders of The Quad — the U.S., Australia, India and Japan — conduct their first summit, by teleconference.

The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is an informal strategy forum of the major Indo-Pacific democracies that some wish to see evolve into an Asian NATO to contain China, as NATO contained the Soviet Union for 40 years of Cold War.

Next week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan meet their Chinese counterparts midway between Beijing and Washington — in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Chinese are said to have sought out the two-day meeting since before the inauguration of Biden.

And understandably so. For while the Chinese are hoping for a reset of relations after a troubled last year with the Trump administration, leaders of both U.S. parties — to compensate for decades of congressional indulgence of Beijing —suddenly seem to be on their muscle.

Consider. During the transition, the Biden foreign policy team gave a war guarantee to Manila to fight alongside the Philippines in any clash with the Chinese over disputed rocks and reefs in the South China Sea.

Tokyo was informed that its mutual security treaty with the United States that dates to the 1950s covers the uninhabited Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. But Beijing also claims these islands as her own.

On the eve of his taking office, Blinken said he agreed with Mike Pompeo’s view that China’s brutal repression of the Uighurs in Xinjiang constitutes “genocide” and crimes against humanity. That latter charge is what the Nazis were hanged for at Nuremberg.

How can the United States send athletes to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, if the Chinese are still crushing Hong Kong and committing crimes against humanity in western China that compare to the worst Nazi crimes of World War II?

Testifying before Congress this week, four-star Admiral Phil Davidson, retiring commander of the Indo-Pacific, called for new defensive missiles to protect Guam against Chinese DF-21 and DF-26 missiles. China calls these missiles “Guam killers.”

The admiral also called for the U.S. to develop intermediate-range missiles that can be fired from Guam and allied territory closer to China. Describing the need for offensive missiles to hit Chinese targets, Davidson said, “If I can’t score some runs, I can’t win the game.”

Addressing Taiwan, Davidson said:

“Over the past year, Beijing has pursued a coordinated campaign of diplomatic, information, economic, and — increasingly — military tools to isolate Taipei from the international community and if necessary compel unification with the (Peoples Republic of China.)”

Chinese warplanes have lately flown in formation toward the island of 25 million, which Beijing claims as its national territory — a claim President Nixon seemed to concede in the Shanghai Communique after his Peking summit of 1972.

“Our commitment to Taiwan is rock-solid,” was how the Biden State Department answered China’s aggressive moves.

If we don’t establish rules of the road for U.S. and Chinese ships and planes in the East and South China Sea and Taiwan strait, how do we indefinitely avoid the kind of collision that could turn into a shooting war?

In this widening and deepening confrontation, China is not backing down. She makes no apologies for the crackdown in Hong Kong or the concentration camps of the Uighurs. She continues to stonewall about how the coronavirus escaped from Wuhan to kill 500,000 Americans and many times that number worldwide.

Meanwhile, Chinese bombers, fighters, warships and patrol boats approach closer and closer to planes, vessels and territory of America and her friends and allies. Nor has China surrendered a rock or reef or shoal in the South or East China Sea.

Last week, Blinken called China the “biggest geopolitical test of the 21st century,” the only country able “to seriously challenge the stable and open international system.”

And in America, whatever your political party, “standing up to China” seems to be a winning posture. But where is all this going? Where does all this end?

Beijing is not apologetically but proudly Communist. It believes its system has been proven superior in this century. It does not believe in an equality of ideologies, religions or peoples. It openly rejects American democracy as a failed and failing system, and rejects any suggestion of American primacy in creating a “rules-based international order.”

And if it continues to grow in real and relative terms for the next two decades as it did in the last two decades — given that China has four times the population of the United States — it could emerge not only as the dominant power in Asia and the Indo-Pacific but in the world.

And what can we do to assure that does not happen — short of a war that could be disaster to us both, as World War II was for the British as well as the Germans.

How do we decouple from a country that provides necessities of national life — such as pharmaceuticals — for our people?[2]

I beg to differ with Buchanan.  The United States and the American people have been at war with China ever since it launched the deadly Coronavirus, inadvertently or as a bioweapon.  As my Coronavirus article stated clearly and unequivocally—leaving aside governmental entreaties and diplomatic niceties—Americans and other global consumers must boycott anything and everything from China, until it is brought to its knees economically.  Nothing less will suffice.[3][4]

Lastly, is the Biden-Harris administration leading us to a shooting war with China?  Will we boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing?  Time will tell.  

 

 

© 2021, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-6-30). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://buchanan.org/blog/is-a-cold-war-ii-with-china-inevitable-142861 (“Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?”)

[3]  See Timothy D. Naegele, The Coronavirus and Similar Global Issues: How to Address Them, 137 BANKING L. J. 285 (June 2020) (Naegele June 2020) (Timothy D. Naegele) [NOTE: To download The Banking Law Journal article, please clickon the link to the left of this note] and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/06/20/can-we-coexist-with-asias-communists/ (“Can We Coexist with Asia’s Communists?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/coexistence-with-china-or-war/ (“Coexistence With China Or War?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/16/the-coronavirus-must-become-chinas-chernobyl-hastening-the-collapse-of-its-evil-regime/ (“The Coronavirus Must Become China’s Chernobyl, Hastening The Collapse Of Its Evil Regime”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/why-should-the-world-trust-china-ever-again/ (“Why Should The World Trust China Ever Again?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/25/china-infects-the-world-then-lies-and-blames-america/ (“China Infects The World, Then Lies And Blames America”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/02/20/expert-warns-quarantine-process-failed-as-china-stands-ready-to-crash-world-economy/ (“Expert Warns Quarantine Process Failed, As China Stands Ready To Crash World Economy”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/08/13/china-is-americas-enemy-and-the-enemy-of-free-people-everywhere/ (“China Is America’s Enemy, And The Enemy Of Free People Everywhere”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/china-is-americas-enemy-make-no-mistake-about-that/ (“China Is America’s Enemy: Make No Mistake About That”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8957019/China-used-secret-microwave-pulse-weapon-Indian-soldiers.html (“China ‘used secret microwave pulse weapon to cook Indian soldiers alive’ and force them into retreat in Himalayan border battle”) 

[4]  See also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/03/trump-begins-his-triumphant-return-to-the-white-house/ (“Trump Begins His Triumphant Return To The White House”) and https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech-2021-b1809208.html (“Donald Trump CPAC speech 2021 – read the full transcript | The Independent”) and https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-cpac-2021-speech-transcript (“Trump CPA speech transcript”)

 





Trump Begins His Triumphant Return To The White House

3 03 2021

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Donald Trump is continuing his quest for a second term in the White House, which was clear from his speech at the 2021 CPAC conference in Orlando, Florida.  You can watch it by viewing the video below, or by reading the transcripts of his speech.[2] 

In his first major speech since leaving the White House, President Trump covered a broad panoply of major issues—some of critical importance—facing the American people and the United States in the months and years ahead.

In watching or reading his speech, one must realize that a political speech—much less one delivered to national and international audiences—is constructed differently than most written documents. Lines are repeated; phrases are included for emphasis; and such speeches are often “folksy,” for the lack of a better term.

Bearing that in mind, the major issues discussed by President Trump included:

• “[W]e’re in the middle of a historic struggle for America’s future, America’s culture, and America’s institutions, borders, and most cherished principles.  Our security, our prosperity, and our very identity as Americans [are] at stake, like perhaps at no other time.”

• “For the next four years, the brave Republicans in this room will be at the heart of the effort to oppose the radical Democrats, the fake news media, and their toxic cancel culture.  Something new to our ears, cancel culture.  And I want you to know that I’m going to continue to fight right by your side.  We will do what we’ve done right from the beginning, which is to win.  We’re not starting new parties.  They kept saying, he’s going to start a brand new party.  We have the Republican party.  It’s going to unite and be stronger than ever before.  I am not starting a new party.  That was fake news, fake news.”

• “We will save and strengthen America.  And we will fight the onslaught of radicalism, socialism, and indeed it all leads to communism. . . .  We all knew that the Biden administration was going to be bad.  But none of us even imagined just how bad they would be and how far left they would go.”

• “[Biden is] not okay with energy.  He wants windmills, the windmills.  The windmills that don’t work when you need them.

• “Joe Biden has had the most disastrous first month of any president in modern history. . . .  Already the Biden administration has proven that they are anti-jobs, anti-family, anti-borders, anti-energy, anti-women, and anti-science.  In just one short month, we have gone from America first to America last. . . .  There’s no better example than the new and horrible crisis on our Southern border. . . .  When I left office just six weeks ago, we had created the most secure border in [U.S.] history. . . .  It’s amazing considering that the Democrats’ number one priority was to make sure that the wall would never, ever get built, would never, ever happen, would never get financed.  We got it financed.  We ended catch and release, ended asylum fraud, and brought illegal crossings to historic lows.  When illegal aliens trespass across our borders, they were properly caught, detained and sent back home.  And these were some rough customers. . . .  It took them [and] the new administration only a few weeks to turn this unprecedented accomplishment into [a] self-inflicted . . . national security disaster by recklessly eliminating our border, security measures, controls, all of the things that we put into place.  Joe Biden has triggered a massive flood of illegal immigration into our country, the likes of which we have never seen before.  They’re coming up by the tens of thousands. . . .  We can’t afford the problems of the world, as much as we’d love to.  We’d love to help.  But we can’t do that.  So they’re all coming because of promises and foolish words.  Perhaps worst of all, Joe Biden’s decision to cancel border security has single-handedly launched a youth migrant crisis that is enriching child smugglers, vicious criminal cartels, and some of the most evil people on the planet.  You see it every day, just turn on the news. . . .  Under my administration, we stopped the child smugglers.  We dismantle[d] the criminal cartels.  We greatly limited drug and human trafficking to a level that nobody actually thought was possible.  And the wall helped us a lot.  And we protected vulnerable people from the ravages of dangerous predators.  And that’s what they are dangerous, dangerous predators.  But the Biden administration has put the [vile] coyotes back in business and it has done so in a very, very big way.  Under the new administration, catch and release has been restored.  Can you imagine? . . .  You catch them, you take their name, they may be killers.  They may be rapists.  They may be drug smugglers.  You take their name[s] and you release them into our country.  We did the opposite.  We not only didn’t release them, we had them brought back to their country.  Illegal immigrants are now being apprehended and released along the entire Southern border, just the opposite of what it was two months ago.  They weren’t coming because they couldn’t get in.  Once they think they can get in, they’re coming.  And they are coming at levels that you haven’t even seen yet, by the hundreds of thousands, by the millions they’ll be coming.  The Biden administration is now actively expediting the admission of illegal migrants, enabling them to lodge frivolous asylum claims and admitting them by the thousands and thousands and thousands a day, crowded together in unsanitary conditions, despite the ongoing economic and public health crisis, COVID-19, or as I call it, the China virus.  There’s no masks. . . .  No social distancing, no nothing, no nothing.  And together, and it’s sad actually. And it’s sad for them.  And it sad for our country, what the Biden administration is doing to push young migrants into the hands of human traffickers and coyotes is dangerous, immoral, and indefensible, hard to believe it’s happening.[3]  Biden has failed in his number one duty as chief executive enforcing America’s laws.  This alone should be reason enough for Democrats to suffer withering losses in the midterms and to lose the White House decisively four years from now.”

• “[Biden] revoked the executive order cracking down on deadly sanctuary cities.  He has effectively ordered a shutdown of ICE, halting virtually all deportations, everyone, murderers, everybody, no more.  Let’s not [restrict] our law enforcement professionals.  And they are great professionals.  You have many of them represented here today, from conducting almost any immigration enforcement of any kind.  The Biden policy of releasing criminals into the US interior is making America into a sanctuary nation where criminals, illegal immigrants, including gang members and sex offenders are set free into American communities.  They have no idea who’s coming up.  And remember with the caravans, these countries, not only the three of them, but many, many countries all over the world.  They’re not giving us their best and their finest, because they’re intelligent. . . .  Remember I said that. I said that a long time ago. . . .  And we turned out to be 100% correct.  Biden’s radical immigration policies aren’t just illegal.  They’re immoral.  They’re heartless.  And they are a betrayal of our nation’s core values.  It’s a terrible thing that’s happening.  The Republican party must hold Joe Biden and the Democrats accountable.  They ripped up the diplomatic agreements we negotiated with Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador to shut down illegal immigration.  They got a fortune, they got paid $500 million a year.  When I came into office, those countries were refusing to take back illegal alien gang members, including MS 13, the most vicious probably of them all.  No matter where you go in the world, MS 13, they do things that even the worst don’t think about.  So I asked how much do we pay these countries?  How much do we pay them? . . .  [A]pproximately $500 million a year.  It’s a lot of money.  I mean, it’s peanuts compared to the way other countries rip us off, but that’s a lot of money.  I said, ‘Okay, we aren’t going to pay them anymore because they wouldn’t take back the criminals.’  And this was true with the Obama administration.  It was true for many, many years.  So we’d catch a murderer.  We’d want to bring them back to Guatemala, or Honduras, or El Salvador.  They wouldn’t take them back.  ‘No, we don’t want them.’  We’d fly them in.  They wouldn’t let the plane land.  We’d bus them in.  They wouldn’t let the buses get anywhere near the border. . . .  And it worked out great.  So now they accept the people and [] we ultimately got along very well with those countries, those three countries and many countries throughout the world, because they respected us again.  They didn’t respect us.  They couldn’t believe what they were getting away with.  But now, Joe Biden has wrecked this great deal, wrecked it.  And they’re already doing what they were doing before and they’re taking the money.  And that’s just a small portion of what’s going on.   To top it all off, the Biden people are pushing a bill that would grant mass amnesty for millions of illegal aliens while massively expanding chain migration.  That’s where you come in and everybody comes in, your grandmother, your father, your mother, your brother, your cousins.  They come in so easily.  So, so crazy.  So crazy.  It even requires that the US government provide . . . taxable funded lawyers, lawyers, everybody need[s] a good lawyer?  You can’t have one.  They get the lawyers. . . .  The Democrat immigration bill is a globalist corp.  You take a look at the corporatist, big tech attack on hardworking citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed.  And Republicans must ensure that it never is allowed to become federal law, which is what they want to do. . . .  Border security is just one of the many issues on which the new administration has already betrayed the American people.  [Biden] didn’t talk about this stuff.  I debated him.  He wasn’t talking about this.  What he signed with those executive orders, they weren’t things that were discussed. . . .  The press refused to ask the questions.  And when I asked the questions on television, on the debate, Chris Wallace, in this case, and others refused to let him answer.  They refused to let them answer the questions.  Maybe we could have found something.”

• “Or if the media did its job, which they don’t, [their] callous indifference to working family is equally clear when it comes to the critical matter of getting America’s children back to school.  And they must get back and get back right now, right now, crazy.  Terrible.  Terrible.  The Biden administration is actually bragging about the classroom education they are providing to migrant children on the border.  While at the same time, millions of American children are having their futures destroyed by Joe Biden’s anti-science school closures.  Think of it.  We’re educating students on the border, but our own people, children of our citizens, citizens themselves are not getting the education that they deserve.  There’s no reason whatsoever why the vast majority of young Americans should not be back in school immediately.  The only reason that most parents do not have that choice is because Joe Biden has sold out America’s children to the teacher’s unions.  His position is morally inexcusable.  You know that.  Joe Biden has shamefully betrayed America’s youth.  And he is cruelly keeping our children locked in their homes, no reason for it whatsoever.  They want to get out.  They’re cheating the next generations of Americans out of the future that they deserve.  And they do deserve this future.  They’re going to grow up and they’re going to have a scar.  It’s a scandal of the highest order.  And one of the most graven acts by any president in our lifetimes.  It’s the teacher’s union, it’s the votes and it shouldn’t happen.  And nobody has more respect for teachers than I do.  And I’ll bet you, a lot of the people within that union, they agree with everything I’m saying.  Even the New York Times is calling out the Democrats.  The mental and physical health of these young people is reaching a breaking point.  Tragically, suicide attempts have skyrocketed and student depression is now commonplace and at levels that we’ve never seen before.  The Democrats now say we have to pass their $1.9 trillion boondoggle to open schools, but a very small part of it has to do with that.  You know where it’s going . . . , it’s going to bail out badly run Democrats, that is so much of it.  But billions of dollars for schools remain unspent from the COVID relief bills that were passed last year.  So on behalf of the moms, dads, and children of America, I call on Joe Biden to get the schools open and get them open now.  They’re a great thing to do.”

• “When I left office and we’re very proud of this because this was something that they said could not be done.  The FDA said it, everybody said it.  Any article you read said it couldn’t be done.  It would be years and years[.]  I handed the new administration what everyone is now calling a modern day medical miracle.  Some say, it’s the greatest thing to happen in hundreds of years, two vaccines produced in record time with numerous others on the way, including the Johnson and Johnson vaccine that was approved just yesterday.  And therapeutic relief also, if you’re sick, we have things now that are incredible.  What has taken place over the last year under our administration would have taken any other [President] at least five years.  And we got it done in nine months.  Everyone says five years, oh, five years.  Can you imagine if you had to go through what all of the countries of the world who are now getting the vaccine or soon will be getting it from various companies, but can you imagine if all of those countries had to go through what they’ve been going through over the last year?  You’d lose hundreds of millions of people.  I pushed the FDA like they have never been pushed before.  They told me that loud and clear.  They have never been pushed like I pushed them.  I didn’t like them at all, but once we got it done, I said, I now love you very much.  What the Trump administration has done with vaccines has in many respects, perhaps saved large portions of the world.  Not only our country, but large portions of the world.  Not only did we push the FDA far beyond what the bureaucrats wanted to do.  We also put up billions and billions of dollars, 10 billion to produce the vaccines before we knew they were going to work.  It was called a calculated bet or a calculated risk.  We took a risk because if we didn’t do that, you still wouldn’t have the vaccines.  You wouldn’t have them for a long time.  So think of that, we took this bet.  We made a bet because we thought we were on a certain track, but you’d be starting to make them right now.  It’d be a long time before you ever saw [them].  It takes 60 to 100 days to manufacture and inspect new doses.  And that means that 100% of the increased availability that we have now was initiated by our administration.  100%.  In fact, the director of National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, he’s Fauci’s boss, actually, I think he’s a Democrat too, by the way, recently said that our operation warp speed was absolutely breathtaking and that the Trump administration deserves full credit, which we do.  And as conservatives and Republicans, never forget that we did it.  Never let them take the credit because they don’t deserve the credit.  They just followed now, they’re following our plan, but this has been something that they really call, they call it an absolute miracle.  Joe Biden is only implementing the plan that we put in place.  And if we had an honest media, which we don’t, they would say it loud and clear.  By the time I left that magnificent house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, almost 20 million Americans had already been vaccinated.  1.5 million doses were administered on my final day alone.  1.5 million in a day.  Yet Biden said just a few days ago that when he got here, meaning The White House, there was no vaccine.  He said, there’s no vaccine.  Oh, good.  Say it again, Joe.  Now I don’t think he said that, frankly, in a malicious way.  I really don’t.  I actually believe he said that because he didn’t really know what the hell was happening.  Never let them forget.  This was us.  We did this.  And the distribution is moving along, according to our plan.  And it’s moving along really well.  We had the military, what they’ve done, our generals and all of the people, what they’ve done is incredible.  But remember, we took care of a lot of people, including, I guess on December 21st, we took care of Joe Biden.  Cause he got his shot.  He got his vaccine.  He forgot.  It shows you how un-painful all that vaccine shot is.  So everybody go get your shot.  He forgot so it wasn’t very traumatic obviously, but he got his shot and it’s good that he got his shot.”

• “Last year, I predicted to you that the extremism, corruption and incompetence of the Biden administration would be literally unprecedented in American history.  Unfortunately he has proven me 100% right.  Already as president, Biden has urged Congress to pass legislation shredding your Second Amendment.  Your Second Amendment is in far bigger trouble than you [know], and for four years I fought like hell to save your Second Amendment.  And we saved it 100%.  We saved it.  He signed an order to conduct politically correct far left indoctrination trainings in every department of the federal government, including the US military after I had terminated these horrible things that were being preached to our military and he wants it to go forward.  It’s insane within his first few hours Biden eliminated our national security travel [bans] on nations plagued by terrorism.  His first priority was to open our borders to un-vetted travelers from Libya, Yemen, Syria, Somalia, and many other countries where strict vetting cannot occur.  Countries that have tremendous problems.  Countries with tremendous terrorism problems.  We did [have] a travel ban.  It was a real achievement.  We told those countries, sorry, straighten out your act.  We don’t want people coming in where they had an ideology or a problem.  We just couldn’t have it.  And it was incredible, how it worked was incredible.  And he terminated it.  We had to get it approved.  It went all the way up to the Supreme Court of the United States.  We got it approved and he terminates it.  In addition, he’s already increased refugee admissions by nearly 10 times, but in effect, it’ll soon be hundreds of times as millions of people flow up through our soon to be open borders.  And by the way, the border patrol and ICE, these are some of the great heroes of our country.  These are incredible people.  I got to know them very well.  Your families still cannot go out to eat at local restaurants.  But Joe Biden is bringing in thousands upon thousands of refugees from all over the world.  People that nobody knows anything about, we don’t have crime records.  We don’t have health records.  What are they bringing in with them?”

• “When I left office, we had virtually ended the endless wars, these endless wars, they go on forever. . . .  I would go to Dover and I would see caskets, coffins coming in.  I’d see the parents and the wives and husbands.  I would see the kids.  Endless wars, 19 years in Afghanistan.  We have it down to almost nothing left and I hear they might want to go back in.  Iraq, remember I used to say, don’t go in, but if you’re going to go in, keep the oil, well, we went in and we didn’t keep the oil.  We had made historic peace deals in the [M]iddle East.  Like nobody thought were even possible with not a drop of bloodshed.  And by the way, not one American soldier has been killed in Afghanistan in over a year.  Think of that.  Not one.  Those troops have largely come home.  At the same time, the new administration unilaterally withdrew our crippling sanctions on Iran, foolishly giving away all of America’s leverage[] before negotiations have even begun.  Leave the sanctions [to be] negotiated.  Does anybody understand what I’m saying here?  Are there any good business people?  You don’t have to be a good, are there any bad business people?  They took off the sanctions.  They took off the sanctions.  They say, well, we’re going to not have any sanctions.  Let’s negotiate a deal.  I don’t know, Matt Schlep. I don’t think you would have done that, do you think so, Matt?  I don’t think so. Mercedes wouldn’t have. . . .  I will tell you something and I said it, had we had a fair election, the results would have been much different and we would have had a deal with Iran within the first week.  They wanted those sanctions off.  [Biden] took them off for nothing, for nothing.  Now you watch how tough they negotiate.”

• “In another horrendous surrender he agreed to get back into the World Health Organization.  For approximately $500 million a year, which is what we were paying.  When I withdrew from the WHO and you know the whole story with that, they called it badly.  They really are puppets for China.  They called and they wanted us to stay in.  I said, how much are we paying[,] approximately $500 million?  How much is China paying a much larger in terms of population country[?]  Sir, they’re paying $39 million.  I say, why are we paying 500 million and they’re paying 39?  I could tell you why.  Because the people that made the deal are stupid, that’s why.  And I had no idea how popular it was.  I didn’t even know if I would be able to politically, because people were so happy when I did get out, but I said, so if we went in, we could get it for 39 million, which is what China [is paying], not 500 million, which is what we were stupidly paying.  And they said, we can make a deal, we want you to go in, we can make a deal.  Okay, and I decided not to do it, but we could have had it for 39.  We could have had it for the same as China.  And they decide now to go back into the World Health Organization and pay 500 million. . . .  [W]hat the hell is wrong with them?  No, no, this is just emblematic.  It’s a tremendous amount of money, but compared to trillions, it’s not, but it’s a tremendous amount of money.  Why would China pay 39 million?  And we’re paying almost 500 million.  Why?  So we could have made the same deal that China had 39 million.  And they just say, we’re going back in.  We’re going back into the World Health Organization.  They go back in, they pay 500.”

• “It is so sad, just like the Iran and the World Health Organization, Joe Biden put the United States back into the very unfair and very costly Paris Climate Accord without negotiating a better deal.  They wanted us so badly back in.  I’ll tell you they wanted us.  I was getting called from all of the countries.  You must come back into the Paris Accord.  I said, tell me why, give me one good reason.  First of all, China doesn’t kick in for 10 years, Russia goes by an old standard, which was not a clean standard . . . , but we get hit right from the beginning[.  It] would have cost us hundreds of thousands and millions of jobs.  It was a disaster, but they go back in, I could have made an unbelievable deal and gone back in, but I didn’t want to do that.  Surrendering millions of jobs and trillions of dollars to all of these other countries, almost all of them that were in the deal.  So they have favorable treatment, we don’t have favorable treatment.  And [Biden] just said, we’re going back in.  To go back in, they wanted us so badly, you could’ve negotiated, if you wanted to go back in which frankly, we have the cleanest air, the cleanest water and everything else that we’ve ever had.  So I don’t know why we have to.  What good does it do when we’re clean, but China is not and Russia is not an[d] India is not.  So they are pouring fumes, you know the world is actually a small piece of the universe, right?  They’re pouring fumes and we’re trying to protect everything and building products for three times more than is necessary.  No, they could have made a great deal.  If they were going to go back in, that’s fine.  But they could have made a great deal . . . , instead of just saying we’re back in.  These people.  And in one of his first official acts, which was incredible, because again, he talked about energy.  He never said he was going to do this.”

• “[Biden] canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline destroying not the 8,000 or the 9,000 or the 11,000 jobs that you hear.  But 42,000 great paying jobs on just about day one, right?  He never talked about that during a debate because he wouldn’t have gotten away with it.  Well, he would have, because they cheated so much. . . .  No, but that was not a topic of conversation.  Remember fracking, you can frack.  Oh, we love fracking.  During the primary no fracking.  As soon as he got through that, he said, no, of course everybody can frack.  No fracking.  You wait till you see what happens with your gasoline.  Wait till you see what happens and we cannot let this stuff continue to go on.  One of my proudest accomplishments as president was to make America energy independent, the United States became the number one energy superpower on Earth.  Number one.  Became number one.  Bigger than Saudi Arabia, bigger than Russia by a lot.  We left them all in the dust.  They were all in the dust.  But if the Democrats have their way, we are heading from energy dominance to energy disaster.  That’s what’s happening.  You have to see what’s going on.  Everything’s being closed up.  It’s a disaster.  The blackouts we saw in California last summer and all the time and the windmill calamity that we’re witnessing in Texas.  Great state of Texas.  We love Texas, but it’s so sad when you look at it, that’ll just be the start.  How bad is wind power.  So I talk about it all the time at CPAC, right?  We went to CPAC.  Remember last I said, we’re going to watch the president, well, Alice, the wind isn’t blowing.  I don’t believe we’ll have any electricity.  I remember we would kid, but I wasn’t actually kidding.  It’s such an expensive form of energy.  It’s so bad for the environment.  It kills the birds.  It destroys the landscapes.  And remember, these are structural columns with fans on them.  They wear out, and when they wear out all over the country, you see them, nobody takes them down.  They’re rotting. They’re rusting, how this is environmentally good for our country.  And it costs many, many times more than natural gas, which is clean and can fuel our great factories.  Wind can’t do that.  And solar, I love solar, but it doesn’t have the capacity to do what we have to do to make America great again, sorry it just doesn’t have it.  Under the radical Democrat policies, the price of gasoline has already surged 30% since the election.  And we’ll go to $5, $6, $7 and even higher.  So enjoy that when you go to the pump and they’ll say that’d be about $200 to fill up your van.  Remember they used to go to the little small vans.  They got away from the big ones that everybody wanted.  They went to the small ones.  Well, you know what?  Probably a good investment.  As long as these guys have their say because you know, it’s a shame what’s happening.  Energy prices are going to go through the roof.  And that includes your electric bills.  That includes any bill having to do with energy, our biggest cost.  We will now be relying on Russia and the middle East for oil.  And they talk about Russia, Russia, Russia.  What’s better than what this guy has done for Russia.  I had oil where they were actually paying you to take it.  Okay.  Remember they were going to give you 37 a barrel, but you had to take it away.  You had free oil almost for a period of time and one way I was proud of it, but we also had to save the energy industry and it worked out well.  And I dealt with Russia and Saudi Arabia and they cut back on production and we got it back up.  But now it’s going the opposite because now they are taking this incredible energy independence away from the people of our country.  And you’re going to see costs go like you have never seen them go before.  It’s a very sad and very stupid thing that they’re doing.  The Biden policies are a massive win for other oil producing countries and a massive loss for the United States and our great citizens[.]

• “Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women’s sports.  A lot of new records are being broken in women’s sports.  Hate to say that ladies, but got a lot of new records, they’re being shattered.  For years, the weightlifting, every ounce is like a big deal for many years.  All of a sudden somebody comes along and beats it by a hundred pounds.  Boom.  Now young girls and women are . . . being forced to compete against those who are biological males.  It’s not good for women.  It’s not good for women’s sports, which worked so long and so hard to get to where they are.  The records that stood for years, even decades are now being smashed with these.  Smashed.  If this is not change[d, ] women’s sports, as we know it will die.  They’ll end, it’ll end.  What coach, if I’m a coach, I want to be a great coach.  What coach, as an example, wants to recruit a young woman to compete, if her record can easily be broken by somebody who was born a man.  Not too many of those coaches around, right?  If they are around, they won’t be around long because they’re going to have a big problem when that record is we’re [zero] and 16, but we’re getting better.  No I think it’s crazy.  I think it’s just crazy what’s happening.  We must protect the integrity of women’s sports so important. . . .  And I don’t even know, is that controversial?  Somebody said, well, that’s going to be very controversial.  I said, that’s okay.  You haven’t heard anything yet.”

• “As you can see, the early weeks of the Biden administration have [been] nothing less than, they’ve been a catastrophe for American workers and for American families, the task of our mission.  And for us, it’s our movement.  As I said, a movement like has never been seen, I think we could probably say, never been seen anywhere in the world.  And nobody’s ever seen a movement like this.  I’d grow up and I’d watch somebody who came in second in New Hampshire or first in Iowa and that was the end.  And they became famous for the rest of their lives.  We won the election twice.  I mean, think about it, twice.  The task for our movement and our party is to stand up to this destructive agenda with confidence and with result[s.  T]he future of the Republican party is as a party that defends the social economic and cultural interests and values of working American families of every race, color, and creed.  That’s why the party is growing so rapidly and is becoming a different party.  And it’s becoming a party of love.  You have to see outside the streets.  I mean, there’s such love.  The flags.  Amazing.  That’s right now, it’s a party that’s incredible.  The people, the spirit, and there are, as you probably heard a little while ago, I mean, there’s more spirit now than there’s ever been, including even before the election, more spirit now than we’ve ever seen, because people are seeing how bad it can be.  And again, I want to thank Rush and Catherine, because what he did to get the word out has been incredible.  Some people are irreplaceable as Sean Hannity would say and he said Rush is irreplaceable, but his spirit lives on.  And that’s something that we need and we love.  Republicans believe that the needs of every citizen must come first.  In fact, America must come first. []  They don’t put it first.  Over the past four years my administration delivered for Americans of all backgrounds like never before, like never before.  We built the strongest economy in the history of the world, raised wages and achieved the lowest African-American, Hispanic-American, Asian-American unemployment rates ever, ever, ever recorded.  It was so great for everybody of all backgrounds that even after the China virus, we are leading the world.  Nobody’s even close.  We’re leading it in the comeback.  Our economic comeback has been incredible.  That’s because the financial and economic foundation we built was so strong, that unlike other countries who are having a hard time, we didn’t break.  We came roaring back, and now our stock market and your 401(k)s are again at record levels, higher than ever before, actually.”

• “Many people have asked, ‘What is Trumpism?’  A new term being used more and more.  I’m hearing that term more and more.  I didn’t come up with it.  But what it means is great deals, great trade deals. Great ones, not deals where we give away everything, our jobs, our money, like the USMCA replacement of the horrible NAFTA.  NAFTA was one of the worst deals ever made, probably the worst trade deal ever made, and we ended it.  A lot of people forget, we ended it.  Now we have the USMCA-Mexico-Canada.  It’s incredible what it’s done for our farmers, who are doing fantastically.  Did you see grain prices and grain sales are at an all-time high?  Wheat, all-time high.  So many elements of farms and farmers, and they love me.  Remember, it’s going to be very close in Iowa.  Well, it wasn’t close.  We won in a landslide, Iowa, because our farmers know, and they put up with it, and we did a lot of work with the tariffs and all these things that we had to do to get it.  Now the farmers are doing great, but they’re setting records.  It means low taxes and eliminating job-killing regulations, Trumpism.  It means strong borders, but people coming into our country based on a system of merit.  They come in and they can help us, as opposed to coming here and not being good for us, including criminals, of which there are many.  It means no riots in the streets.  It means law enforcement.  It means very strong protection for the Second Amendment and the right to keep and bear arms.  It means support for the forgotten men and women who have been taken advantage of for so many years.  They were doing great.  They were doing great before that horrible thing from China came in and hit us, and now they’re starting to do really well again.  If you think about it, we built the economy twice.  We built it then, and then like every other country in the world, it went down, and then we built it again.  Now it’s higher in many ways, certainly in the stock market, it’s higher in many ways than it was before.  That’s because of the foundation, and no country comes even close to competing with our comeback.  It means a strong military and taking care of our vets, but a strong military, which we have totally rebuilt.  We have rebuilt it.  Our military has never been stronger than it is today.  It was tired.  It was depleted.  It was obsolete.  Now we have the best brand-new equipment ever made, and it was all produced right here in the USA.  Isn’t that nice?  We take care of our vets.  We had a poll recently just before leaving office.  The vets had a 91% approval rating for the way we took care of them.  That’s the highest number in the history of the polls, the vet polls.  On top of all of that, we have even created the Space Force, the first new branch of the United States military in nearly 75 years.  The mission of the Democrat party is to promote socialism.  They want to promote socialism, ultimately leading, unfortunately, to communism, and that will happen.  If you look at Venezuela, you look at some of these countries, that’s why some of our biggest supporters are from South America, Latin America, because they’ve seen what goes on with all of this cancel culture, and you can’t speak, and let’s cut them off and let’s not give them words.  The mission of our movement and of the Republican party must be to create a future of good jobs, strong families, safe communities, a vibrant culture, and a great nation for all Americans, and that’s what we’re creating.  [The Democratic] party is based upon unvarnished disdain for America, its past and its people.  You see that happening.  It’s horrible the way they treat the legacy of our country, the culture of our country.  Our party is based on love for America and the belief that this is an exceptional nation, blessed by God.  We take great pride in our country.  We teach the truth about history.  We celebrate our rich heritage and national traditions.  We honor George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and all national heroes, and of course, we respect our great American flag. . . .  [D]uring some of the rallies, especially the latter rallies, where we set records.  We had 56 unbelievable packed rallies, and nobody’s ever had anything like we had.  We started hearing, ‘We love you.’  I asked somebody, because we really liked Ronald Reagan.  He was a great President.  We had others, but I said, ‘Did anybody ever say that to Ronald Reagan or to any of our great . . . ”  [A]nd to the best of all of these political professionals’ knowledge and pollsters’, nobody’s ever heard that chant before, Matt, so it’s an honor.  Believe me, it’s an honor.  It’s a great honor.  It’s a great honor.  When you think about, we love you, you say that about, I hate to say it, am I a politician?  I don’t know.  Maybe I’m a politician.  I hate to admit it, but that’s really… It’s an honor that you would say it.  We believe in patriotic education and strongly oppose the radical indoctrination of America’s youth.  It’s horrible.  We are committed to defending innocent life and to upholding the Judeo-Christian values of our founders and of our founding.  We embrace free thought.  We stand up to political correct[ness], and we reject left-wing lunacy, and in particular, we reject cancel culture.  We know that the rule of law is the ultimate safeguard.  We affirm that the Constitution means exactly what it says, as written[. . . . ]  They want to change it.  They want to get rid of it, frankly.  We believe in law and order.  We believe that the men and women of law enforcement are heroes who truly deserve our absolute support.  We don’t defund the police.  We are not defunding the police.  We believe in standing up to China, shutting down, outsourcing, bringing back our factories and supply chains and ensuring that America, not China, dominates the future of the world.  That’s what’s going to happen.  By the way, we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China during my administration, hundreds.  They never gave us 25 cents.  It was a one-way street.  We took in hundreds of billions.  During negotiations, they would say, ‘Look, the one thing, we don’t want any more of these tariffs, these tariffs.’  Those tariffs, we took in so much money, and what happened is, they became competitive.  What happened with people, they wouldn’t go to China.  They’d build a lot of it back in our country.  They would make it here instead.  In addition to that, we were taking in billions and billions and billions of dollars from China.  But in all fairness to China, we made a trade deal with them.  This was prior to COVID.  Once COVID happened, I no longer cared so much about the trade deal, because what happened with that was just disgraceful.  But that’s one of the things, that’s one of the reasons that right now our farmers are doing so good.  I used to tell China, ‘Look, look, go and get a lot of wheat. Get a lot of different things, all of the things we just talked about, you better go out and do it, because this country has not been treated fairly by you for many, many years, many, many years.’  We used to lose $504 billion trade deficit with China, 504, not million.  $504 million is a lot, right?  You know that through the World Health Organization.  Now take 504 million and make it $504 billion, we had deficits with China.  It was absolutely insane that this could keep going.  It’s amazing that you still have a country left.  The people that did this to our country, they should be ashamed of themselves.  They should be ashamed of themselves.  Companies that leave America to create jobs in China and other countries that have ripped us off for years should not be rewarded.  They should be tariffed, fined and punished.  They should not be rewarded.  That’s what the Biden administration is doing.  But of course, as you know, they have a very close, personal relationship with China, so I don’t expect much to happen.  It’s a shame, because it really is a threat.  It’s a tremendous economic threat.  Thank God we’ve rebuilt our military, but it’s a tremendous economic threat.  Never forget it.  These are the convictions that define our movement today and must define the Republican party in the years ahead.  Very simple, it’s really quite simple, isn’t it?”

• “Another one of the most urgent issues facing the Republican party is that of ensuring fair, honest and secure elections.  Such a disgrace, such a disgrace, such a disgrace.  We must pass comprehensive election reforms, and we must do it now.  The Democrats used the China virus as an excuse to change all of the election rules without the approval of their state legislatures, making it therefore illegal and had a massive impact on the election.  Again, you have to go to the legislatures to get these approvals.  This alone would have easily changed the outcome of the election at levels that you wouldn’t have even believed.  Even with COVID, even with all of the things, the numbers are staggering.  We can never let this or other abuses of the 2020 election be repeated or happen again, can never let that happen again.  You see what’s going on.  We’ve been set back so greatly with other countries and with the world.  We need election integrity and election reform immediately.  Republicans should be the party of honest elections that can give everyone confidence in the future of our country.  Without honest elections, who has confidence?  Who has confidence?  This issue is being studied and examined.  But the reality is you cannot have a situation where ballots are indiscriminately pouring in from all over the country, tens of millions of ballots.  Where are they coming from?  They’re coming all over the place, where illegal aliens and dead people are voting, and many other horrible things are happening that are too voluminous to even mention, but people know.  I mean, it’s being studied, and the level of dishonesty is not to be believed.  We have a very sick and corrupt electoral process that must be fixed immediately.  This election was rigged, and the Supreme Court and other courts didn’t want to do anything about it.  If you just take that one element where they didn’t go through legislatures, it’s illegal. You can’t do it.  It’s in the Constitution.  They didn’t have the courage, the Supreme Court.  They didn’t have the courage to act, but instead, used process and lack of standing.  I was told the President of the United States has no standing.  It’s my election.  It’s your election.  We have no standing.  If you’re think of it, we had almost 20 states go into the Supreme Court so that we didn’t have a standing problem.  They rejected it.  They rejected it.  They should be ashamed of themselves for what they’ve done to our country.  They didn’t have the guts or the courage to make the right decision.  They didn’t want to talk about it.  You had the case led by the great State of Texas.  18 states went in, ‘You don’t have standing.  Oh, let’s not talk about it.’  They didn’t have the guts to do what should be done, and that’s on top of all of the other forms of cheating.  But this is the most basic of all, they would have local courts and local politicians change the rules, in some cases, a day or two before the election.  This should never be allowed to happen to another presidential candidate or presidential race, should never be allowed to happen.  Today I want to outline the steps that we must take to have an election system in this country that is honest, fair and accurate.  We need one election day, not 45, 30, one day like it’s been.  The Republicans don’t get this and the other things I’m going to say, that you should, like the Supreme Court, be ashamed of yourselves.  One day, one day, and the only people that should be allowed to vote by mail are people that can be proven to be either very sick, or out of the country, or military where they can’t do it.  One day.  They have millions and millions of ballots sitting around all over the place for long periods of time.  Gee, I wonder what happens with those ballots?  I wonder what happens?  It’s common sense.  It’s a disgrace.  It’s an absolute disgrace.  There should be a legitimate reason for someone to vote absentee, has to have a reason.  We should eliminate the insanity of mass and very corrupt mail-in voting.  We must have voter ID, voter ID.  To get into the Democrat National Convention, when they had the convention, you needed voter ID.  You needed an ID card.  You couldn’t get in unless you had an ID.  So many people told me you can’t get in that place.  You need ID.  Nobody had ID.  You need voter ID.  They know that.  There’s a con job.  They’re conning everybody.  They know that.  They know the wall was good.  They knew the wall would work, but they didn’t want to have it, because we wanted it.  I made one big mistake in the wall.  I should have said, ‘We will not have a wall.’  Then they would have said, ‘Let’s build a wall.’  I made a big mistake.  I made a big mistake.  I’m sorry.  It took us a year and a half extra.  Because of that mistake, we will not have a wall.  ‘We need a wall immediately,’ said Chuck Schumer.  We need universal signature matching.  They want to pass a bill where you don’t have to match signatures, where signatures don’t mean anything.  Now they know it, just like with the wall, just like with voter ID, when you need to go into anything that’s Democrat run, you need it.  But for voting, which is our most sacred institution, you don’t.  They don’t want to let you have it.  There should be a 100% requirement to verify the citizenship of every person who votes, and there must be a chain of custody protections for every ballot, every ballot.  You saw what happened in Detroit and Philadelphia and many other places, swing states mostly, all over, but swing states mostly.  You saw what happened?  You saw what was going on.  You saw that more people…  You take a look at the votes.  When you have more votes than you have people, that’s a problem, right?  Is that a problem?  We have a little problem adjusting in Detroit.  We seem to have more votes than we have people, a lot more votes, an election-changing number.  We’re not talking about a number where you catch…  No, these are election-changing numbers.  In Pennsylvania, they had hundreds of thousands of more votes than they had people voting.  What’s that all about?  What’s that all about?  Cheating, they say.  Yeah, I’d say so.  In the history of our country, and it has taken place for years in Pennsylvania, in Detroit and various other places, but there’s tremendous, never like this, because they used COVID as a way of cheating.  That’s what happened, and everybody knows it.  Hundreds of thousands and millions of ballots, they used it as a way of getting what they’ve wanted for many years, and the Republicans have to do something about it.  They’d better do something about it.  Our election process is worse than that, in many cases, of a third-world country.  You know that.  You saw what was going on.  Even if you consider nothing else, it is undeniable that election rules were illegally changed at the last minute in almost every swing state, with the procedures rewritten by local politicians… you’re not allowed to do that… and local judges.  They want more time.  They want this.  They want that.  All done by local politicians or local judges, as opposed to state legislatures as required by the Constitution of the United States.  These are numbers that are massive.  These aren’t little numbers.  These are numbers that in each state is a transformative number.  It changes the outcome of the election, and it’s not close.  Regardless of your political views, this should concern you as a constitutional matter.  The Supreme court, again, didn’t have the guts or the courage to do anything about it, and neither did other judges.[4]  Democrats even admitted in Time Magazine, which is I would say on the liberal side, that they couldn’t…  They couldn’t hold it in.  They had to brag about it, because what they did, they had a brag about it.  They couldn’t do it.  You got to read this story.  It’s a disaster.  It’s a disaster for our country that we can allow something so corrupt to happen.  Read that article.  I really encourage you.  You read that article.”

• “Yet all of the election integrity measures in the world will mean nothing if we don’t have free speech.  That’s where we’re at now.  If Republicans can be censored for speaking the truth and calling out corruption, we will not have [a] democracy, and we will have only left-wing tyranny.  We can do this.  We can do this.  We’re smarter than they are.  We’re tougher than they are.  For some reason, we just don’t . . . get it done.  We let them attack our businesses, and we don’t attack their businesses.  I believe your numbers are bigger than their numbers, but you’re nicer than they are.  You’re not as vicious as they are.  In the past, we would debate.  I would have it.  I’d debate.  You’ve seen me for many years.  They’d throw something.  I debate.  They debate.  Who knows who wins.  People go.  They vote.  They see what happens, but they would have an idea.  They would disagree.  The public would hear it.  The debate and discourse would take place, and then somebody would make a decision.  You would win.  You would lose.  The public would make up its mind.  But now there is no debate, because they refuse to allow our side to even speak or be heard. . . .  They don’t want [to] debate, because we have easy victories in a debate, very easy victories.  It’s is called common sense.  It’s called other things, but it’s called common sense.  So they don’t want a debate.  The time has come to break up big tech monopolies and restore fair competition.  Republicans, conservatives must open up our platforms and repeal section 230 liability protections.  And if the federal government refuses to act, then every state in the union where we have the votes, which is a lot of them, big tech giants, like Twitter, Google, and Facebook should be punished with major sanctions whenever they silence conservative voices.[5]  And governor Ron DeSantis of Florida and in Texas and in other States are doing this.  If they do what they’re doing, Florida, and that legislation will pass.  And Texas and others will have tremendous power to do what’s right and what’s fair.  We have no time to waste, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in Congress are racing to pass a flagrantly unconstitutional attack on the first amendment and the integrity of our elections known as HR 1.  Do you know what HR 1 is?  It’s a disaster.  Their bill would drastically restrict political speech, empower [] the federal government to shut down decent [speech].  And turn the Federal Election Commission into a partisan political weapon.  In addition, it virtually eliminates voter ID requirements nationwide, effectively ends all registration deadlines.  Can you believe this?  Requires States to give ballots to felons, automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote, and puts unaccountable unelected bureaucrats in charge of drawing congressional districts.  That’s going to be a lot of fun.  This monster must be stopped.  It cannot be allowed to pass.  Now more than ever is the time for tough strong and energetic Republican leaders who have spines of steel.  We need strong leadership.  We cannot have leaders who show more passion for condemning their fellow Americans than they have ever shown for standing up to Democrats, the media, and the radicals who want to turn America into a socialist country.  Instead of attacking me and more importantly the voters of our movement, top establishment Republicans in Washington should be spending their energy in opposing Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, and the Democrats.  I’ve said to some of them, I said, ‘You know, during the Obama years, and now during Biden, if you spent the same energy on attacking them, you’d actually be successful as you do on attacking me, in many cases.’  The Democrats don’t have grandstanders like Mitt Romney, little Ben Sasse, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey, and in the house, Tom Rice, South Carolina, Adam Kinzinger, Dan Newhouse, Anthony Gonzalez.  That’s another beauty.  Fred Upton, Jaime Herrera Beutler, Peter Meyer, John Katko, David Valadao.  And of course the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz Cheney.  How about that?  The good news is in her state, she’s been censured, and in her state, her poll numbers have dropped faster than any human being I’ve ever seen.  So hopefully they’ll get rid of her with the next election.  Get rid of them all.  Democrats are vicious.  Remember this, it’s true.  Democrats are vicious.  He said evil, well, there is evil there, but they’re vicious, they’re smart, and they do one thing.  You got to hand it to them.  They always stick together.  You don’t have Mitt Romney’s in the group. They always stick together.  Fortunately, for the Republican party, the Democrats have horrible policies like open borders, sanctuary cities, defunding the police, and the ridiculous, totally ridiculous green new deal.  So, they stick together, they’re smart.  They’re vicious, they got everything going, but their policies are no good.  So hence, we have, congratulations, the Republican party.  After this, they may not stick with those policies.  We have to be careful.  No, their policies are horrible.  Think of it, defund the police.  How did that work out?  But if Republicans do not stick together, the rhinos that we’re surrounded with will destroy the Republican party and the American worker, and will destroy our country itself, the rhinos, Republican in name only, but the Republican party is united.  The only division is between a handful of Washington DC establishment political hacks, and everybody else all over the country.”

• “I think we have tremendous unity.  When you look at the crowds outside that want your seats so badly, they will take your seat in two seconds.  They want your seat.  Congratulations.  Congratulations on getting in by the way.  I’m very impressed.  And that’s why I’m announcing that I will be actively working to elect strong, tough and smart Republican leaders.  Speaking of that, I heard Jim Jordan did a great job.  Right?  Thank you.  I heard that from Mark Meadows.  I heard it, oh, there he is.  Look at that. Hi Jim.  I heard you were great.  In fact, I hated to follow you.  I want to follow other people.   I could name them too.  I like to follow other people.  I heard you were great.  Thank you Jim, very much.  Jim Jordan.  A great, great athlete.  People don’t know he was a great wrestler, tremendous numbers of victories.  He was a champion.  He was college champion for a long period of time.  He’s a winner and a leader and he doesn’t play games.  He likes to win.  He likes to win.  And we have a lot of people in our party that like to win Jim, right?  But I heard you were great, thank you very much.  But we want Republican leaders who are loyal to the voters and who will work proudly for the vision that I’ve laid out today.  And what is it?  So simple, right?  So simple, military, law and order, great trade deals, great education.  So simple.”

• “I don’t, does anybody get it?  What are they doing?  Does anybody get it?  It has just been stated that President Trump’s endorsement is the most powerful asset in politics.  Do you believe that?  Who would’ve thought that was going to happen?  Who would have thought that’s going to happen, Jim?  In last year’s congressional primaries, 120, listen to this, it’s crazy. 120 of 122 candidates I endorsed won, 120.  That’s almost as good as Jim’s wrestling record.  And the two that lost were beaten by people claiming to be more Trump than their opponent.  So I like those two people very much also.  In the Senate, I was undefeated in endorsements with a record of 21 and 0, my endorsement of Mitch McConnell, at his request[. . . . ]  Now, he made a request.  He asked for my endorsement, brought him from one point down to 20 points up, and he won his race in the great state, and actually the great Commonwealth of Kentucky.  And he won it very easily.  And I said, ‘I wonder if I’m doing the right thing here.’  But you know what?  I did what I did.  But he went from one point down to 20 points up very quickly, immediately actually.  And he won his race.  And if you compare that to his other elections, I’m sure you’ll see something interesting.  But you know what?  We got a Republican elected.  And now we have to use Republicans to take care of the election frauds and all of the other things that are happening that shouldn’t be allowed to happen in our country.  It’s very simple.  Because of my efforts campaigning, we had huge gains in the House, and I helped keep many senators in their seats, and they will admit it, so that it’s now 50/50, instead of Republicans being down anywhere from eight to 10 seats.  And they’ll admit it, we’d be down eight to 10 seats if I didn’t campaign.  We held rallies for some of the senators that were down.  And nobody talks about that.  Nobody wants to talk, the press doesn’t talk about it.  With me at the top of the ticket, not a single Republican member of Congress lost their race for the first time in decades.  We won 26 of 26 toss up races.  Toss up. . . .  Those are races that could go any way.  We were expected to lose 25 seats, and instead we won 15 seats, and almost, oh, why couldn’t we have done a couple of more, almost cost crazy Nancy her job.  We’ll do that the next time around.  I received almost, listen to this number, because you know, the fake news doesn’t ever talk about these numbers.  I just heard this one for the first time.  I received almost 1.5 million more votes than all of the Republican House candidates combined.  So how the hell is it possible that we lost?  It’s not possible.  I got more votes.  I got more, which is me, when I say I, I’m talking about we.  We, we got more votes than any incumbent, any incumbent president in the history of our country, almost 75 million votes.  And that doesn’t include the votes and ballots they threw out.  If you include them, you’ll see numbers that are much different.  We did even better in the second election than we did in the first, you know I won the first?  And we won the second, we did much better.  Sort of strange, right? . . .  Well, we did much better the second time.  Oh, you did?  Really?  What a disgrace, what a disgrace to our country.  I got over 11 million, very close to 12 million more votes than we got in 2016.  And I was told by John McLaughlin that if you, the great pollster, that if you get to, we had 63 in 2016, 63 million.  Sir, if you get to 66 million, you have it made.  We got to almost 75 million.  Then what the hell happened?  What happened?  What happened when they closed all of the counting booths?  What happened at 3:00 in the morning?  What happened at 3:02 in the morning?  What happened?  No president has ever lost an election after carrying Florida, Ohio, and Iowa.  And I won them all.  And I won them by a lot.  By a lot.  I won 94% of the primary vote, no incumbent president who received more than 75% of the primary vote has ever lost an election.  I had a record number, and no president has ever, ever, and we’re talking about a much lower number than we got, has ever lost an election.  Thanks to my coattails, thank you.  We have to have a sense of humor.  Thanks to my coattails, democrats failed to flip a single state legislature.  Think of it, or a legislative chamber, because Republicans came out to vote for me.  Now they say it differently.  The press, the fake news spins it differently.  They say, ‘Despite how well they did, Trump didn’t win.’  That’s such a lie.  And many legislators, many legislators told me, they said, they were going to lose their race.  It wasn’t going to happen. And then what happened is one in particular told me from a great swing state, said, ‘You know, I thought I was going to lose my position, lose my race.  And I went out with my wife the night before the election.  And I saw all these Trump signs and the American flags and the spirits on the streets.’  I said, ‘You know, darling, I think we’re going to win.’  He said, ‘But you were far, far, far more popular than me.’  They do lots of polls.  You were way, way ahead of me, sir.  And the next day I was right.  He said, he won the election by a lot, and you lost the election.  And sir, it’s not possible that you lost, because you got a lower number than I did. And you were so far ahead of me.  You’re the person that brought everybody out to vote.  And I happen to agree with that 1,000%.  [N]ever forget that conversation.  He couldn’t believe it.  And I’ve heard it from more than one.  And in November, 18 of 19 bellwether counties, you heard about the bellwether counties?  18 of 19 bellwether counties that have correctly predicted every presidential election election for decades.  Many decades, voted for Trump, not for Biden.  And it was a shocker to those people that go for the stats.  It was a shocker.  They voted for Trump, 18 of 19 voted for Trump.  There’s never been anything like that.  And yet did Biden win?  No.  If you want to help us take back the future of our country, go to DonaldJTrump.com.  I don’t do this.  I’ve never done this, but it’s time that we have to put forces together, because these people with their big tech and their fake news media right back there, okay?  And you know, when you talk about election, they . . . probably have them going, because they also care about ratings.  But when they talk about election, they turn off the cameras.  You know why?  It’s a very sore subject, okay?  They don’t like that subject.  There’s only one way to contribute to our efforts, to elect America first Republican conservatives, and in turn to make America great again, and that’s through Save America, PAC, and DonaldJTrump.com.  So go out there and do whatever you can because we’re going to help a lot of great people.  We know the right people to help.  We need your help to win, and to fight big tech and the radical left and the DC establishment.  We need to save your second amendment, which is under siege.  We need to help protect funding for our military and for our great vets.  And that’s what we’re doing.  As we discussed earlier, we’re in a struggle for the survival of America as we know it.  This is a struggle.  This is a terrible, terrible, painful struggle.  The path ahead will not be easy, but we will win.  We are going to win.  Ultimately we always win.  And when we do, history will show that this was the moment when we could have given up, when we could have despaired.  But instead, we chose to keep on pushing forward.  The greater the challenge and tougher the task, the more determined we must be to pull through to triumph.  We have to have triumph.  We have to have victory.  With the talent and dedication of everyone here today, and you have tremendous, not only dedication, tremendous talent in this room.  I know many of you.  That is exactly what we will do.  We will go on to victory.  We will summon the spirit of generations of American Patriots before us, like those heroes who crossed the Delaware, conquered the Rockies, stormed the beaches, won the battles, and tamed the unknown frontiers.  We will persist, and we will prevail.  We’re tougher than they are.  We’re stronger than they are.  Together, in the coming years, we will carry forward the torch of American Liberty.  We will lead the conservative movement and the Republican party back to a totally conclusive victory.  And we’ve had tremendous victories.  Don’t ever forget it.  With your help, we will take back the House.  We will win the Senate.  And then, a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House.  And I wonder who that will be?  I wonder who that will be?  Who, who, who will that be?  I wonder.  Standing before you today, I am supremely confident that for our movement, for our party, and for our country, our brightest days are just ahead.  And that together we will make America prouder, freer, stronger and greater than it ever has been before.  Thank you CPAC, God bless you, and God bless America.  Thank you all.  Thank you.”

What President Trump did not mention explicitly—and understandably so, because he must get back in power first—are (1) the need to crush China economically, because it unleashed the deadly Coronavirus pandemic on the world, which has created so much suffering physically, psychologically and economically; (2) the need to crush Facebook, as the leading suppressor of free speech in the nation, so it becomes a hollow shell of what it is today; (3) the need to close our borders tight, and eject the illegal aliens who take jobs from Americans that are desperately in need of work to survive; (4) the Democrats gave us slavery, and tried to perpetuate it even after our Civil War through the KKK, segregation and later Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” programs that destroyed black families and consigned them to economic servitude; and (5) the thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of “Black Lives Matter,” Antifa and other far-Left groups have burned our cities, killed or hurt innocent Americans including our police, and destroyed black and other businesses, yet the Democrats have routinely praised and coddled these insidious groups.

 

Trump at CPAC 2021

 

© 2021, Timothy D. Naegele

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[1]  Timothy D. Naegele was counsel to the United States Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and chief of staff to Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal recipient and former U.S. Senator Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass). He and his firm, Timothy D. Naegele & Associates, specialize in Banking and Financial Institutions Law, Internet Law, Litigation and other matters (see, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-20-6-30). He has an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as two law degrees from the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley, and from Georgetown University. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army, assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency at the Pentagon, where he received the Joint Service Commendation Medal (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commendation_Medal#Joint_Service). Mr. Naegele is an Independent politically; and he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law, and Who’s Who in Finance and Business. He has written extensively over the years (see, e.g., www.naegele.com/whats_new.html#articles and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/), and can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-cpac-speech-2021-b1809208.html (“Donald Trump CPAC speech 2021 – read the full transcript | The Independent”) and https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-cpac-2021-speech-transcript (“Trump CPA speech transcript”)

[3]  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9317541/At-12-people-dead-multiple-vehicle-crash-California.html (“At least 15 dead and 12 injured after Ford SUV ‘with 27 immigrants crammed inside’ crashes into a gravel truck near the Mexican border in California”)

[4]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/19/the-high-tech-lynching-of-donald-trump/ (“The High-Tech Lynching Of Donald Trump”) (see also the comments beneath the article)

[5]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/facebook-is-engaged-in-criminal-censorship/ (“Facebook Is Engaged In Criminal Censorship”)