Why I’m Endorsing Donald Trump for President

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

These are the words of Mike Huckabee, a former Governor of Arkansas and the father of today’s Governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders—who may be a political force nationally in the years ahead.[2].  His comments appear in their entirety as follows, and are worth reading:

We’re almost 2 years away from the next Presidential election, but it’s already in full swing. Candidates are announcing in both parties, and the media has already started their worthless, meaningless, and clueless speculating and pontificating on who’s up, who’s down, and who won’t make it to town!

Donald Trump was my 2nd choice for President in 2016. My first choice was ME! When I didn’t make it, I endorsed, supported, and campaigned for Donald Trump. As President, he exceeded my expectations in implementing the America First policies that were long overdue to truly Make America Great Again. I surprised most of my friends and some of my enemies in supporting Trump. He often said things that were cringe-worthy, and some of the labels he affixed to political opponents and the media were harsh, if not accurate and incredibly funny. I didn’t like all his Tweets or his comments from the podium. And when people asked how I could support him I said it was like choosing a doctor to do surgery on a member of my family. If my choice was between a kind, loving, praying surgeon who had the bedside manner of a pastor but who had never successfully done that particular surgery or a surgeon who was gruff, bombastic, and impatient, and who had the bedside manner of a schoolyard bully but had successfully done that surgery hundreds of times, I’d pick the guy with the questionable personality but the experienced and skillful surgical hands.

Voting for a President is not like being on a church pulpit committee and hiring a pastor. Ideally, I’d love to have people in office who share my political views as well as my personal views and my personality. But in the same way I choose someone to work on my car, fly the plane I’m on, repair my home air conditioner, or dry-clean my suits, I select people to work for me who are the best at what they are hired to do. There was a reason that people were lined up on the sidewalk to get soup from “Soup Man” that we all saw on Jerry Steinfeld. The soup was good, even if “Soup Man” was an insufferable grouch.

There are going to be some very fine people running for President in 2024 and some who could prove to be as worthless as a milk bucket under a bull, but I will again personally support President Trump so he can finish what he started during his first term. He accomplished more to make America Great Again than any President in my lifetime—and that goes back to Eisenhower. There were Presidents who were more articulate and had a more engaging sense of humor, such as Kennedy and Reagan. There were some who had great legislative savvy, such as Lyndon Johnson. Some were truly decent and kind human beings, such as Jimmy Carter and George Herbert Walker Bush. But no President helped the country get steered away from the insanity of socialist economics and insane polices on energy, the military, and the proper role of the courts as did Donald Trump.

His tax and regulatory reforms put more than $4000 in the pockets of working-class families. His energy policies provided us with affordable energy for our cars and homes and made us energy independent over Middle Eastern countries who hated us for the first time in 75 years. His “tough love” to European nations who were derelict in paying their agreed-to dues for NATO actually saved NATO. He was the first President since Reagan to NOT get us into a war, yet he advanced the pay and benefits of our military and focused on our armed forces being lethal instead of being woke. In 2016, I introduced him in New York to 1000 pastors and said I wasn’t sure he could find John 3:16 in a marked New Testament, but NO President ever did more for religious liberty than Donald Trump. NO President was ever as pro-life as he was, not just in what he said, but what he actually DID. And he had the guts to move our embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, recognize it as the rightful capital of the Jewish state, and enact the ground-breaking Abraham Accords.

Maybe there are other conservative candidates for President who would do well, but who else could take and endure the relentless hate he faced and the never-ending persecutions and prosecutions of the demonic deep state?

Donald Trump is far from perfect, but then so am I. And so are you. But I love my country and I don’t want it to be in second place or third. I want it to be FIRST. And I’ll put up with a personality that can be at times vain and vulgar in order to make America Great Again and that’s why I will support him again for President.[3]

I have considerable respect for Mike Huckabee—and his daughter—and share many if not most of his views with respect to Trump.  Watch the former President’s speech in Waco, Texas, in its entirety.[4]  He is not the raving lunatic that his Leftist opponents describe him to be.  Quite to the contrary, he is a true American patriot, which may be among the reasons why they have tried to destroy him since he began his quest for the presidency in 2015. 

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=E1898527-D0F3-469A-A299-3519D0E7FC5B&s=1L83; see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Huckabee (“Mike Huckabee”) and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Huckabee_Sanders (“Sarah Huckabee Sanders”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/08/governor-sarah-huckabee-sanders-delivers-the-state-of-the-union-speech/ (“Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Delivers The State Of The Union Speech”)

[3]  See https://www.mikehuckabee.com/latest-news?id=E1898527-D0F3-469A-A299-3519D0E7FC5B&s=1L83

[4]  See https://www.rsbnetwork.com/news/watch-live-president-trump-holds-first-2024-campaign-rally-in-waco-tx-3-25-23/

Donald Trump Speaks At Waco

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

America’s “Fake News”[2]—which buried the Hunter Biden laptop story before the 2020 elections, and skewed the results—is trying to link Donald Trump’s opening rally of the 2024 election cycle in Waco, Texas to the Branch Davidian tragedy in 1993.[3]  This is absurd.

First, most Americans have never heard of that religious cult, or what happened in Waco.  Second, to the extent that Americans think of it at all, they may do so in terms of governmental abuse[4], which is rampant today.  Third, if Americans think about Waco, Texas, it may be because of Chip and Joanna Gaines and their “Fixer Upper” TV show, and their Magnolia Network’s shows.[5]  Also, Baylor University is nearby, which both of the Gaines attended.[6]

Joe Biden can barely utter two complete and coherent sentences; and he avoids our great country’s southern border like the plague.  And not having visited our southern border either, despite the influx of millions of illegal aliens and criminals, it’s doubtful that Willie Brown’s former ho Kamala Harris can find Waco either.  Both are ostensibly focused on another border; namely, the one in Ukraine, which may be a precursor of World War III—because of their ineptitude and treachery.[7]

Anyone who has never seen a Trump rally should watch this one; for example, on RSBN, which covers all of the Trump rallies, and is excellent.[8]  There is a reason why he was elected as our President in 2016, and reelected in 2020 according to his supporters.  And there is a reason why he leads in polling, despite the Left’s nonstop efforts to destroy him since he began his quest for the presidency in 2015.  The enthusiasm of his supporters—of all colors, sexes and ethnicities—is unmatched by that of his opponents.

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., 

https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/20/lots-of-us-began-as-democrats/ (“Lots Of Us Began As Democrats . . .”)

[3]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians (“Branch Davidians”) and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege (“Waco siege”); see also https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/25/donald-trump-waco-rally/11509949002/ (“Where is Donald Trump holding his first 2024 campaign rally?  Waco, Texas.  Why?”) and https://apnews.com/article/trump-waco-rally-texas-9a5676b734bb087a977ffe0216d0a6a8 (“Trump rallying supporters in Waco ahead of possible charges”)

[4]  See, e.g.,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_Davidians (“Branch Davidians “) and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waco_siege (“Waco siege”)

[5]  See, e.g., https://magnolia.com/about/ (“Our Story | Magnolia Network”) and https://wacoheartoftexas.com/shopping/about-magnolia-about-chip-joanna-gaines/ (“About Chip and Joanna – Waco & The Heart of Texas”)

[6]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baylor_University (“Baylor University”)

[7]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/21/we-live-in-a-very-frightening-moment-in-american-history/ (“We Live In A Very Frightening Moment In American History”)

[8]  See, e.g., https://www.rsbnetwork.com/featured/full-speeches-president-trump-holds-first-2024-campaign-rally-in-waco-tx-3-25-23/

Lots Of Us Began As Democrats . . .

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

. . . but their efforts to eradicate Donald Trump[2], and destroy the America we have loved, are truly evil.  Just as evil as anything that Russia’s Vladimir Putin[3], China’s Xi Jinping[4] and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un[5] have ever contemplated doing. 

John F. Kennedy was killed[6]; and Ronald Reagan came perilously close to dying, after which the Democrats tried to destroy him with Iran Contra.[7]  There are sinister forces afoot that want Trump “eradicated.”  He is an anathema to everything they believe.

One of them is “Special Counsel” Jack Smith, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to “get” Donald Trump.  By their very nature, prosecutors have never met innocent “prey.”  They are ruthless, driven and myopic.  Justice does not enter their minds.[8]

Because Trump represents “a clear and present danger” of being reelected as our President, they are doing everything to eliminate that possibility—and nothing to deal with Joe Biden and the Biden Family Crime Syndicate’s actual criminality.[9]

The New York prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s latest efforts to gain fame, and political bona fides, may be illegal ab initio.[10]  But that doesn’t bother him or them.  They are driven, and evil incarnate; and they are merely the latest demonic creatures in the “get Trump” saga that began in 2015 when he announced his run for the presidency.

The corrupt AG Garland authorized the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago in Florida; and the U.S. Secret Service “stood aside” and let them rummage through the residence, including former First Lady Melania Trump’s possessions and those of young Barron Trump.  This was outrageous, but it raised the specter of whether the former President will be truly protected against his enemies, both foreign and domestic.[11]

If anything untoward happens to Trump, America will explode.  Vast numbers of Americans hate Biden and his Democrats already.  They believe the last presidential election was stolen; and since then, Biden and his Democrats have defiled our great country in every way imaginable.  No mercy will be shown to them.[12]

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/will-donald-trump-be-killed-by-the-democrats/ (“Will Donald Trump Be Killed By The Democrats?”)

[3]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/when-will-putin-die/ (“When Will Putin Die?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/02/20/if-anyone-doubts-that-america-is-on-the-verge-of-a-two-front-war-they-may-be-naive/ (“If Anyone Doubts That America Is On The Verge Of A Two-Front War, They May Be Naive”)

[4]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/war-with-china/ (“War With China?”)

[5]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/will-the-little-rocket-man-opt-for-a-grand-future-in-north-korea/ (“Will The Little Rocket Man Opt For A Grand Future In North Korea?”)

[6]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/10/04/john-f-kennedy-the-most-despicable-president-in-american-history/ (“John F. Kennedy: The Most Despicable President In American History”)

[7]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/ronald-reagan-and-john-f-kennedy-a-question-of-character/ (“Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy: A Question of Character”)

[8]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/justice-and-the-law-do-not-mix/ (“Justice And The Law Do Not Mix”); see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/19/america-is-lawless/ (“America Is Lawless”)

[9]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/guantanamo-bay-needs-to-make-ready-for-the-biden-family-crime-syndicate/ (“Guantanamo Bay Needs To Make Ready For The Biden Family Crime Syndicate”)

[10]  See, e.g., https://thehill.com/opinion/3906498-get-ready-for-manhattan-das-made-for-tv-trump-prosecution-high-on-ratings-but-short-on-the-law/; see also https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11878689/Trump-insists-no-crime-period-says-Manhattans-prosecutors-investigated.html (“Trump insists ‘there was no crime, period’ and now says Manhattan’s DA should be investigated for ‘interfering’ with the election – as White House says ‘we’re watching this’ after ex-president called for protests”)

[11]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/18/the-witch-hunters-must-be-brought-to-justice-beginning-with-evil-incarnate-merrick-garland/ (“The “Witch Hunters” Must Be Brought To Justice, Beginning With Evil-Incarnate Merrick Garland”) and https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gun-toting-supporters-urged-to-protect-donald-trump-from-arrest-82z08nnsq (“Gun-toting supporters urged to protect Donald Trump from arrest”)

[12]  Carnivorous Varmint commented on MailOnline:

“The swamp needed a shiny new object to distract from the fact that J6 was a frame up job. The US government is at war with its own people.”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11878689/Trump-insists-no-crime-period-says-Manhattans-prosecutors-investigated.html?ito=twitter_share_comment_text#comments

See also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/who-controls-america/  (“Who Controls America?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-tragedy-that-is-america-today/ (“The Tragedy That Is America Today”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/16/are-we-heading-toward-the-great-depression-ii-and-world-war-iii/ (“Are We Heading Toward The Great Depression II And World War III?”) and https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/27/the-search-for-sanity-amidst-so-much-insanity/ (“The Search For Sanity Amidst So Much Insanity”)

All Of The January 6 Committee Members Should Be Imprisoned In The DC Jail

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

As I have written before, lots of us began as Democrats; however, many are very ashamed to admit it today.[2]  Nothing is more repulsive than what the so-called “January 6 Committee” of the U.S. House of Representatives did to target former President Donald Trump and distort what happened that day, more than two years ago.  Perhaps it is best summarized by Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas and the father of Arkansas’ present governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders:

Tucker Carlson’s Monday night presentation on the “new,” previously hidden January 6 video caused the predictable uproar from the left, who just can’t stand that you got to see anything they didn’t want you to see.

Before we get into Tuesday’s installment, here are some highlights — and lowlights — from the reaction to Monday’s show…

First, Officer Brian Sicknick’s family is outraged that Tucker used video to show that he was not murdered by J6-ers but rather, as was later determined, passed away from natural causes the day after. Of course, they’re calling for Tucker to be “silenced.”

Recall that the Pulitzer Prize-winning NEW YORK TIMES had wrongly reported that Officer Sicknick was beaten to death on January 6 with a fire extinguisher blow to the head. Though they later retracted this, the idea that he was “slain” became part of the J6 lore that many still believe. After the medical examiner determined that he’d died of natural causes — two strokes — his family still maintains that his death resulted from a beating, and/or pepper spray, when there was no evidence of this and the officer seemed fine in video taken later that day. Also, he wore a helmet.

We’ll never know if the stress of that day indirectly contributed to his medical problem. But even that is a far cry from the lie about insurrectionists beating him to death.

The family has released a lengthy statement, a vicious diatribe against “Supreme Leader Trump” (“as corrupt and evil as Vladimir Putin”), Tucker Carlson (“delusional”) and FOX NEWS (“like Pravda”; “the propaganda arm of the Republican Party”), berating those who present Ashli Babbitt (“a criminal”) as “some kind of martyr for being shot in the process of breaking into the Capitol building.” Ashli was a petite, unarmed woman who had not broken into the Capitol building. We’ve covered the details of her tragically unnecessary death at length.

If they’re upset that the Capitol and DC Metro Police were “incredibly outnumbered,” they might want to ask why House leadership allowed that situation. Tucker was NOT “downplaying the horrid situation faced by the…police,” as they claimed. Just the opposite: he denounced the shameful lack of back-up security that day. Do they even know President Trump approved the deployment of 20,000 National Guard troops and that Nancy Pelosi turned his offer down?

Tucker is right to say this was not an insurrection. There was violence in the crowd at certain entrances to the Capitol, but the building is so huge and sprawling that many hundreds of peaceful protesters had no idea it was even happening. To acknowledge that most protesters were peaceful in no way excuses the violence.

Sicknick’s family members are speaking from a deep well of grief and don’t understand we need the full picture of what really happened. It doesn’t make him any less of a hero in anyone’s eyes. And if this fine officer actually had been killed with a fire extinguisher, Trump supporters would want to know and would be just as horrified as anyone else.

What concerns us is that Democrats scrimped on security for Trump’s event — I believe deliberately — and then exploited Officer Sicknick’s death for propaganda purposes. The story that he was “slain” by a “deadly insurrectionist mob” was a politically useful lie.

https://nationalfile.com/capitol-cop-sicknicks-family-is-outraged-after-j6-security-footage-proves-he-wasnt-murdered/

And here’s a piece of information you won’t find just anywhere: as THE NEW YORK POST reported three days after his death, Officer Sicknick’s friend Caroline Behringer said he’d been a Trump supporter who’d even written to his congressman to oppose Trump’s impeachment. This opinion piece by Matthew Schmitz includes snippets of letters he wrote, offering insight into why he supported Trump instead of government insiders. Perhaps Sicknick’s family is not aware of his views.

https://nypost.com/2021/01/10/what-the-left-wants-to-ignore-about-slain-capitol-police-officer/

Moving on…Tucker’s producers determined that the J6 Committee added those sounds of crowd mayhem — shouting, screams — to the video they played in their hearings. There’s no debate about this; the closed-circuit TV (CCTV) was video-only, no audio recording at all. The NEW YORK POST called this a “deceptively edited primetime drama, produced by a former ABC NEWS president for maximum emotional impact.”

https://notthebee.com/article/the-j6-committee-apparently-added-audio-including-screams-and-other-crowd-mayhem-sounds-to-silent-cctv-footage

President Trump is now calling for the release of J6 detainees, some of whom are still being held pending trial over something that happened over two years ago. He praised Tucker and called this new evidence one of the “biggest scoops” in American journalism. “’Trump’ and most others are totally innocent — LET THEM GO FREE, NOW,” he posted on Truth Social.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/109979573523540265

Now let’s turn to reactions from Senate Republicans, most notably Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. Sadly, this news is not good. As Tristan Justice reports in THE FEDERALIST, “Senate Republicans condemned blockbuster reporting from FOX NEWS’ Tucker Carlson Tuesday, based on Democrat talking points.”

Regarding Tucker’s presentation, McConnell said, “I want to associate myself entirely with the opinion of the chief of the Capitol Police about what happened on January 6th.” Chief Tom Manger had sent a memo to his department calling Tucker’s coverage “filled with offensive and misleading conclusions.” North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer (who misquoted Tucker), South Dakota Sen. Mike Rounds and South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham were also dismissive. Mitt Romney compared Tucker to INFOWARS’ Alex Jones.

I think McConnell, and apparently Chief Manger, both fail to understand that we’ve already seen the violence. That video was presented over and over. We know about the violence. THIS is the video that until now we have NOT seen. This is “the rest of the story.”

https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/07/senate-republicans-cave-to-dem-propaganda-over-j6-tapes/

Commentator J. D. Rucker said Tucker did “a very good job of highlighting some of the deception” surrounding January 6. He suggested four things that need to happen now:

1. (echoing President Trump) Release all political prisoners. In this, Rucker goes farther than we might, saying to release them ALL because “events that led to those crimes were manufactured…coordinated for the sole purpose of building the insurrection narrative.” True, but, as we’ve said, that doesn’t excuse actual violence and vandalism.

2. Make the tapes public. That would be a YES.

3. Investigate, charge, arrest and prosecute everyone complicit in the January 6 lies. What say you? Jail time for the likes of Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Adam Schiff and, as Rucker says, “their merry bank of evildoers”? Well, falsifying evidence is a crime, and it seems the committee did that. We’re not attorneys and neither is Rucker, but prosecution is something to explore. Also civil litigation.

4. Keep the flow of information coming. Rucker doesn’t want this to be “a nuclear attack followed by a press release.” Make documentaries. Drop bombshells. We have to counter “two years’ worth of gaslighting and propaganda that have brainwashed most Americans into thinking the mostly peaceful events that occurred on January 6, 2021, were somehow on par with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor,” he says.

Rucker has some great ideas for being “patriotic in public” and I hope you read them. As he says, “One episode of Tucker Carlson isn’t going to make a dent.”

https://discernreport.com/four-things-that-need-to-happen-following-drop-of-january-6-tapes/

Moving to Tucker’s presentation Tuesday night, he first reminds us that in some cases, the DOJ didn’t share exculpatory evidence with attorneys for J6 defendants, violating their constitutional rights. Here’s his opening monologue, which also reviews major points from the previous night.

https://rumble.com/v2c61h6-tucker-carlson-asks-the-questions-that-must-be-answered-about-the-jan.-6-fe.html

“In free countries,” he said, “governments do not lie about protests as a pretext to get more power for themselves. They don’t selectively edit video for propaganda purposes and then lie about them in fake hearings and show trials. But that’s exactly what happened, and every member of Congress should ask WHY that happened.”

Rather than asking why, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for the censorship and demanded that FOX NEWS stop Tucker from running “a second segment of lies.” Schumer ominously said, “Conduct like theirs is just asking for another January 6 to happen.”

Needless to say, Tucker’s show went on as planned.

Tucker also brings up Sen. McConnell’s objections, along with those of the other GOP senators mentioned above. “So it’s actually not about left and right,” he says, “not about Republican and Democrat. Here you have people with shared interests…” It’s a club, he said, and they’re all showing their membership cards.

https://rumble.com/v2c64me-tucker-blasts-mcconnells-collusion-with-democrats-on-phony-jan.-6-narrative.html

Finally, Tucker addresses the utter lack of preparedness for this huge event, despite ample warning of potential disturbance. Apparently, the front-line officers on duty were not aware of this situation and were overwhelmed. This failure of communication “has never been explained.”

He goes to an interview he did with former Lt. Tarik Johnson, a 22-year veteran of the Capitol Police who on January 6 was responsible for security during election certification. Now, here’s something strange: the Committee never called him to testify, even though he really wanted to and prayed they would ask him. “I guess the focus was on Donald Trump,” he said, “and not the failures of the Capitol Police.”

He told Tucker that on January 6, nobody answered his numerous pleas for help over Capitol Hill Police radio frequencies, even after protesters began entering the Capitol. He’s still baffled as to why. Assistant Chief (in charge of intel operations) Yogananda Pittman, he said, kept needed information about the protest from front-line officers. When he just couldn’t raise anyone to give him authorization to evacuate Senators, he made the judgment call to go ahead anyway.

As Tucker explained, he wasn’t rewarded for his quick thinking. Instead, he was punished because outside the Capitol, he was photographed wearing a MAGA hat that someone in the crowd had handed him. He says he put it on to help him get through the crowd while trying to rescue fellow officers who were trapped inside the building. It was for de-escalation — smart thinking! But “for the crime of wearing the Trump hat, Johnson found himself suspended. Ultimately, he resigned from the force and lost his pension.”

He now has a part-time job moving furniture. Yogananda Pittman, on the other hand, was rewarded two days after the riot for her apparent ineptitude. She got promoted to acting chief of the Capitol Police. Just last month, she moved to a prestigious job as head of security at UC Berkeley, “which is right outside Pelosi’s congressional district,” Tucker notes.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/02/01/its-official-uc-berkeleys-new-police-chief-is-sworn-in-today/

Johnson told Tucker he was “shocked” by the partisanship he saw within the Capitol Police after January 6. Historically, they’ve always been neutral, but no more, it seems.

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6322106979112

Be sure and also see Tucker’s interview with Julie Kelly, who wrote the book JANUARY 6, as she talks about the situation faced by current J6current J6 detainees, some of whom have been jailed for 26 months. She says the federal judges in DC are “the real villains here.” Tomorrow we’ll talk more about the fate of these political prisoners.[3]

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6322115708112

Why confine the January 6 Committee members and their co-conspirators to jail in the District of Columbia, one might ask?  Because the conditions are apparently so bad there that the January 6 prisoners have asked to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, where they believe the conditions are better.[4]

And yes, former President Trump is correct: the January 6 Committee members should be tried for treason.[5]  But that applies equally to their co-conspirators.

Berkeley, where I went to law school, is a hotbed of wokeism today, and shameful.  The idea that Yogananda Pittman was rewarded for her conduct by being named as head of security on the campus is outrageous.

Lastly, GOP Senator Mitch McConnell is a total disgrace, and should be jettisoned from the party along with other RINOs like Mitt Romney.

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/the-democrats-are-so-out-of-touch-that-they-would-elect-a-cadaver/ (“The Democrats Are So Out Of Touch That They Would Elect A Cadaver”)

[3]  See https://govmikehuckabee.substack.com/p/january-6-video-the-truth-is-out ; see also https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/08/governor-sarah-huckabee-sanders-delivers-the-state-of-the-union-speech/ (“Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Delivers The State Of The Union Speech”)

[4]  See, e.g., https://www.npr.org/2022/10/07/1127481476/capitol-riot-detainees-request-guantanamo-transfer-dc-jail-conditions#:~:text=Jan.-,6%20detainees%20request%20transfers%20to%20Guantanamo%20Bay%20over%20D.C.%20jail,bad%20food%20and%20filthy%20laundry.  (“Jan. 6 detainees request transfers to Guantanamo Bay over D.C. jail conditions”)

[5]  See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835065/Trump-demands-January-6-committee-tried-TREASON-Tucker-Carlson-videos.html (“Trump demands January 6 committee members are tried for TREASON”)

The Democrats Are So Out Of Touch That They Would Elect A Cadaver

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Lots of us began as Democrats, but today many are ashamed to admit it.  At least two Democrat senators, Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman and California’s Dianne Feinstein, are unfit to serve.[2]  Joe Biden is barely able to utter two complete and coherent sentences, yet he is running for reelection—and is among the very worst occupiers of our White House in its history.

Vladimir Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine continues, with no end in sight.  China is moving deliberately in the Pacific and elsewhere, after having given Covid to the world, yet not one penny in reparations has been paid.  To say that World War III may be upon us is not inconsistent with the facts, albeit we seem woefully in denial and unprepared.[3]

Inflation is omnipresent; and homelessness is everywhere.  The floodgates are open wide for illegal aliens, who often fare far better than America’s needy.  Crime is raging, as our police are targeted and criminals are rewarded with ever-increasing loot as they rob and rob again.

Clearly, it’s a world turned upside down, as the Pigs in George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” reign supreme.[4]  Wokeism is madness, unfiltered by any rationality.  Europe has gone berserk by adopting the myth of man-made “global warming,” and electrifying everything.  We have vast reserves of energy resources, which are being ignored.

Clearly, at the moment, the lunatics have taken over the asylum.  For example, in California—which did not have slavery—a reparations panel wants to give 1.8 million blacks from $220,000 to $360,000 each in a $650 billion give away.  And the rationale is that such payments are “only way to stop our children busting into liquor and grocery stores.”[5]

Will the Democrats be ousted next year?  Time will tell.  They are like vermin, which are everywhere.

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Fetterman (“John Fetterman”) and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianne_Feinstein (“Dianne Feinstein”)

[3]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/06/12/world-war-iii/ (“World War III”)

[4]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm (“Animal Farm”)

[5]  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11818693/California-moves-closer-paying-reparations-black-people-task-force-decides-to.html (“Now California reparations panel RAISES amount it wants to give 1.8m black people from $220,000 to $360,000 each in $650 BILLION give away – as hearing is told payments are ‘only way to stop our children busting into liquor and grocery stores'”) 

Rupert Murdoch Is A Foreign-Bred Political Hack

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

In litigation involving the accuracy of Dominion voting machines, Australian born and bred Rupert Murdoch—who leads Fox—testified that his commentators “endorsed” Donald Trump’s “election lie” that he won the 2020 presidential election.[2]

We know that Murdoch’s foreign born and bred son Lachlan, who runs Fox on a day-to-day basis today, is a Leftist.  And Paul Ryan who sits on the Fox board is a raving RINO like his soulmate Mitt Romney, both of whom should be driven from the GOP.

We know too that the other networks which constitute “Fake News” suppressed the Hunter Biden laptop story before 2020 election, with help from the corrupt DOJ and FBI.[3]

Whether the Dominion voting machines were compromised and “culprits” is largely a battle of legal experts, as they testify about their findings.  But Rupert Murdoch has given Dominion a victory already, and undercut any notion that Fox will be “fair and balanced” news in the future.

What will this do to skew the reporting of its anchors like Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, Trace Gallagher and others?  And how will it affect the results of next year’s elections?  Will they have the courage to “defy” their paymasters, the Murdochs?[4]

Does this mean that the evil Democrats and their cohorts in the “Deep State” will control our elections in the future like they did in 2020 (e.g., simply by suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story)?  With the “compromised” Kevin McCarthy ostensibly leading the GOP[5], and with World War III looming on the horizon[6], America’s future may be ominous.

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://news.yahoo.com/murdoch-testified-fox-commentators-endorsed-222614792.html (“Murdoch Testified Fox Commentators ‘Endorsed’ Trump’s 2020 Election Lie”)

[3]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2022/11/18/the-witch-hunters-must-be-brought-to-justice-beginning-with-evil-incarnate-merrick-garland/ (“The ‘Witch Hunters’ Must Be Brought To Justice, Beginning With Evil-Incarnate Merrick Garland”)

[4]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/20/who-controls-america/ (“Who Controls America?”)

[5]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/07/will-kevin-mccarthys-political-trajectory-approximate-that-of-joseph-mccarthy/ (“Will Kevin McCarthy’s Political Trajectory Approximate That Of Joseph McCarthy?”)

[6]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/02/02/guantanamo-bay-needs-to-make-ready-for-the-biden-family-crime-syndicate/ (“Guantanamo Bay Needs To Make Ready For The Biden Family Crime Syndicate”)

Guantanamo Bay Needs To Make Ready For The Biden Family Crime Syndicate

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Our Department of Defense has announced that it is transferring a “detainee” at Guantanamo Bay to Belize; and it has described the occupants of the American “detention camp” on Cuba.[2]  Presumably Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, Joe’s brother, and their co-conspirators—including but not limited to the Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray—will become full-time residents of the prison.  It cannot happen fast enough.

Biden is “mentally-challenged” at best.  Brain Dead is a more accurate description of him.  In two short years, he has turned our great country upside down, and brought us to the brink of World War III.[3]. God love them, the American people know intuitively that Washington, D.C. is corrupt.  But they have no idea how corrupt.  It is Sodom and Gomorrah reconstituted; and Biden embodies that corruption and is emblematic of it.[4]. Will Kevin McCarthy and the Republicans stand tall, or throw in the towel?[5]

  

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3286127/guantanamo-bay-detainee-transfer-announced/; see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp (“Guantanamo Bay detention camp”)  

[3]  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11700297/Taiwan-scrambles-fighter-jets-activates-missile-systems-response-Chinese-jets-warships.html (“Taiwan invasion alert: Island scrambles fighter jets, puts navy on standby and activates missile systems in response to 34 Chinese jets and nine warships – as NATO warns of dangerous situation”) and https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/01/world/asia/philippines-united-states-military-bases.html (“U.S. to Boost Military Role in the Philippines as Fears Over Taiwan Grow”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11704679/North-Korea-warns-nuke-nuke-confrontation.html (“North Korea warns of a ‘nuke for nuke, all-out confrontation’ as Kim Jong Un rages over latest US-South Korea air drills”) and https://www.the-sun.com/news/7287999/putin-new-assault-ukraine-date/ (“ZERO HOUR: How Putin Is preparing massive assault with ‘500,000 men on two fronts’ – and Ukraine think they know the EXACT date”) and https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11704973/Wagner-recruits-pumped-drugs-enable-fighting-Ukrainian-soldier-says.html (“‘It’s like a zombie movie’: Wagner recruits ‘are pumped full of drugs that enable them to keep fighting until they bleed out, even when hit by machineguns'”)

[4]  See https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2010/09/24/washington-is-sick-and-the-american-people-know-it/ (“Washington Is Sick And The American People Know It”); see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodom_and_Gomorrah (“Sodom and Gomorrah”)

[5]  Compare https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/07/will-kevin-mccarthys-political-trajectory-approximate-that-of-joseph-mccarthy/ (“Will Kevin McCarthy’s Political Trajectory Approximate That Of Joseph McCarthy?”) with https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11705967/Biden-calls-Dems-GOP-treat-respect.html (“‘Let’s start treating each other with respect’: Biden’s plea to Kevin McCarthy and Republicans – as GOP prepares to investigate his family and Hunter”)

NFL Games Should Be Boycotted Until The Decisions Of Its Referees Are Reviewable, And A Hack Referee Is Fired

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Over the years, the NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has been criticized; and many have called for his resignation.  But so far, he has weathered the storms.[2]  The latest criticism of the league comes in the form of biased refereeing in a championship game—where the referee’s decisions should be reviewable; and the hack ref Ronald Tolbert should be fired and never allowed to referee another game during his lifetime.[3]. Needless to say, Cincinnati Bengals’ fans are livid.[4]

My two favorite quarterbacks in the NFL are Joe Burrow of the Bengals and Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs.  Both are excellent and a credit to the sport.  I have followed “Joe Cool” since he came to LSU and joined “Coach O”—or the wonderful Cajun, Ed Orgeron—to win the national championship and the coveted Heisman Trophy.  Last weekend, they squared off in the AFC championship game, with Mahomes being a bit “gimpy” because of an ankle injury.

The game should have been decided by the athletes, not by some hack ref who is a disgrace to the sport, and has been elevated beyond his capabilities.  As always, Burrow was a gentleman after the game, and classy; and he praised both teams and their players.[5]. But the fans were irate, and justifiably so.  At a time when many Americans turn to sports as a relief from their day-to-day financial stresses, and other worries and frustrations[6], skewed results in football are the last thing that they need.

  

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Goodell (“Roger Goodell”)

[3]  See, e.g., https://sports.yahoo.com/nfl-official-explains-apparent-extra-down-for-chiefs-in-afc-championship-win-over-bengals-061923429.html (“NFL official explains apparent extra down for Chiefs in AFC championship win over Bengals”)

[4]  As of the publication of this article, approximately 1,600 commenters had posted their views beneath the article cited in footnote 3 above.

[5]  See https://youtu.be/WhtKr6B6lVc

[6]  See, e.g., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/the-tragedy-that-is-america-today/ (“The Tragedy That Is America Today”)

Thuggery In America

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

Moose Moosler commented at the UK’s MailOnline about the death in Memphis, Tennessee:

So it seems the ‘protestors’ don’t even know the 5 cops have already been fired and are up on charges of murder.  This nonsense has never been about what they say it is about.[2]

Since the anti-war demonstrations at Berkeley during the Vietnam War, and the Rodney King riots that began in Los Angeles, “professional” rioters have existed and spread their venom, like vicious vipers.

I have followed riots since my days in law school at Berkeley during that war, and then the Rodney King riots, and the burning of Washington D.C. after Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed in Memphis too.[3]

The thugs, slugs, hoods and mongrels of “Black Lives Matter,” Antifa and other far-Left groups have burned our cities; killed or injured innocent Americans including our police; and destroyed black and other businesses.  Yet, few have been incarcerated. 

Does law enforcement sometimes overreact?  Of course.[4]  Many officers are frustrated; others have resigned or taken early retirements; and it’s surprising that there are many left, certainly where riots have occurred.  Why risk one’s life, only to be attacked?

  

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11685421/Antifa-tells-protesters-BURN-braces-riots.html?ito=twitter_share_comment_text#comments

[3]  See, e.g., https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King_Jr. (“Martin Luther King Jr.”)

[4]  See, e.g., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11686803/Tennessee-sheriff-stands-two-deputies-orders-new-investigation-Tyre-Nichols-death.html (“Tennessee sheriff suspends two deputies and orders new investigation after officers are seen FIST-BUMPING in sickening bodycam as Tyre Nichols lies on the ground in agony”)

Who Controls America?

  By Timothy D. Naegele[1]

I do not consider myself to be naïve.  Having spent two years in intelligence at the Pentagon with the highest security clearances possible at that time, and then having worked for three-and-a-half years in the United States Senate—and for many more years after that, working with the Congress and official Washington—I have seen both the good and the bad.  I was present when Joe Biden attended his first committee meeting, one month after his wife and daughter were killed in a tragic auto accident; and I had great sympathy for him.

I grew up in Hollywood (or Los Angeles), among the rich and famous; and I am not naïve about how the Harvey Weinsteins and their ilk have ruled that town for decades.  Women have been used and abused in both cities, like groupies at rock concerts.  It is what happens at the highest levels of power, throughout the world.  But every once in a while, something comes to my attention that incapsulates the evil that exists, and persists, better than I could describe it.  Last night it occurred in a monologue delivered by Tucker Carlson, which is worth repeating here.  I respectfully submit that it should be read (or viewed) in its entirety:

If you’re a normal person, it’s a pretty weird experience watching Joe Biden’s presidency get euthanized by his own party.  On one hand, there’s an undeniable thrill to it.  You have to admit that.  Biden is the most destructive president in American history.  More things have broken under his watch than under any other president.

Joe Biden deserves to be driven from office and disgraced, but for this?  Breaking federal classification rules, some of the stupidest and most dishonest laws Congress has ever passed?  It’s like arresting El Chapo for expired plates.  It’s missing the point, but it looks like that’s what’s going to happen.

It seems like every day, one of Joe Biden’s lawyers shows up with more sheaves of classified documents like a dog who has found another dead chipmunk under the house.  This bunch was in his office at Penn, the one paid for by the Communist Party of China.

These were found next to his sad, little midlife crisis sports car in a garage in Delaware and so on.  You keep waiting for the White House physician to announce another document trove has been discovered after a routine colonoscopy.  It could happen because at this point, you know exactly where this story is heading.

Permanent Washington does not want Joe Biden to run for president again.  This is how they’re sending that message.  Even CNN has decided to become interested in Joe Biden’s misdeeds two years into his presidency.  They’re doing segments in how classification laws protect this country from its mortal enemies like Russia.  So, you know for certain the order has gone out.  Biden is done.  What a missed opportunity this is.  If you’re looking for crimes that Joe Biden has committed, there is a very long list.

Our country is being invaded.  The world is on the brink of nuclear war.  American cities have become slums.  Our economy is in shambles.  Even our airplanes no longer take off on time.  It’s a disaster and Joe Biden and his staff have a hand in all of it.  In a country with a functioning government, Joe Biden would have been impeached before the first million illegal aliens crossed over our southern border, but no one did anything to stop it.  So now they’re arriving at the rate of a quarter-million a month.

GRIFF JENKINS: Customs and Border Protection sources exclusively tell Fox News more than 250,000 migrants were encountered at the border in the month of December, about as many people living in Scottsdale, Arizona, making it the highest month ever on record.  In Eagle Pass, Texas, the migrant surge continues.  Local Kinney County rancher Pam had a harrowing experience with migrants on her property.

RANCHER: I looked out the back and I could see three illegals walking up to the house.  I had gotten a gun, which is an AR-15.  I asked them, I said, “Please stop, go away,” and I had the gun in my hands and they just kind of looked at me and kind of smiled and I was like… “Just go away,” and they refused to do so. 

JENKINS: They’re on the other side of the glass trying to get in and not backing down?

RANCHER: Not backing down.  Even though I have a high-powerful rifle in my arms, they are not backing down.  That was scary.  

A rifle Joe Biden would like to take away from her.  So that, writ large, is the biggest story of our lifetimes.  It is the one thing Joe Biden has done that cannot be undone.  Our great-grandchildren are going to live with the consequences of this, but you’d never know it from watching most of the news.  There is an effective media blackout on Joe Biden’s immigration policies and other downstream effects on America.  There are too many strangers pouring in at once and as a result, the country is becoming chaotic.  Here’s a rare television news piece on what happened when officials in New York decided to house some of Joe Biden’s illegal aliens in a local hotel.

LAUREN SIMONETTI: An employee there says that migrants have made an absolute mess of the place.  You’re standing in front of it. Is that true?  

MADISON ALWORTH: Yeah, well, what we’re hearing from that employee is that the hotel is completely overrun.  He says, you know, of course, some people just looking for that better life, but as a result, the hotel is a mess and he fears for his safety.  

ROW NYC HOTEL EMPLOYEE FELIPE RODRIGUEZ: We don’t have any guests anymore.  They sold the entire hotel from the fourth floor to the 28th floor.  It’s all migrants.  So we got people who are getting drunk, using marijuana.  They are punching and beating their wives or their girlfriends.  We have teenagers running around wild around the hotel opening the fire exit doors and doing what teenagers do in the stairways and it’s a mess. 

“It’s a mess,” he said.  Of course, it is.  The whole country is a mess because Joe Biden has ignored immigration laws passed by the Congress.  That is a crime and it has killed huge numbers of Americans, hundreds of thousands dead from narcotics.

TOM WOLF, FORMER FENTANYL ADDICT: Fentanyl has changed the entire game here in San Francisco.  You can’t buy heroin out here anymore.  Nobody sells heroin and nobody uses heroin.  Everybody has transitioned over to fentanyl.  Fentanyl is the most dangerous drug to ever hit the streets in the United States in history.

SIMONETTI: Fentanyl has killed more than 70,000 Americans in 12 months.  Here in San Francisco, it’s the dominant drug.  It’s responsible for three-quarters of drug overdoses, brazen drug-dealing and rampant drug use in the shadow of city hall.  The same city hall, residents say, actively enable the fentanyl crisis.  

All of it.  Every gram came over an open border.  What’s notable as a political matter is that every one of these disasters, the fentanyl epidemic, the chaos and crime in our cities, the invasion underway through Texas, Arizona and California, all of those deeply concerned Americans.  We are not guessing at that.  Polls show it very clearly.

By contrast, how many voters do you think are lying awake right now worrying that public officials might violate some obscure federal classification law?  None, not a single person.  No one outside Washington cares or even understands the issue and yet it is classified documents, not our open borders, that the Justice Department is punishing Joe Biden for.  Why is that?  What’s going on here?  Well, it’s simple.  Washington is protecting itself.  Joe Biden alone is responsible for this crime.

He alone took home classified documents.  He didn’t have help in doing that, but allowing the country to be invaded, that’s not something you can do by yourself.  So, if Biden were to be taken down for opening the southern border, a lot of other people would go with them.  He had a lot of accomplices.  Permanent Washington doesn’t want that and ultimately and here’s the point: Permanent Washington is in charge.  It’s not the democracy you imagined.  We’re seeing that now.

So, if you want to understand, if you really want to understand how the American government actually works at the highest levels, and if you want to know why they don’t teach history anymore, one thing you should know is that the most popular president in American history was Richard Nixon.  Richard Nixon.  Yet somehow, without a single vote being cast by a single American voter, Richard Nixon was kicked out of office and replaced by the only unelected president in American history.  So, we went for the most popular president to a president nobody voted for.  Wait a minute, you may ask, why didn’t I know that?  Wasn’t Richard Nixon a criminal?

Wasn’t he despised by all decent people?  No, he wasn’t.  In fact, if any president could claim to be the people’s choice, it was Richard Nixon.  Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since.  Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent.  Less than two years later, he was gone.  He was forced to resign and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House.

How did that happen?  Well, it’s a long story, but here are the highlights and they tell you a lot.  Richard Nixon believes that elements in the federal bureaucracy were working to undermine the American system of government and had been doing that for a long time.  He often said that.  He was absolutely right.  On June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then–CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House.  During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew “who shot John,” meaning President John F. Kennedy.  Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy’s assassination, which we now know it was.  Helms’s telling response?  Total silence, but for Nixon, it didn’t matter because it was already over.  Four days before, on June 19, The Washington Post had published the first of many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building. 

Unbeknownst to Nixon and unreported by The Washington Post, four of the five burglars worked for the CIA.  The first of many dishonest Watergate stories was written by a 29-year-old metro reporter called Bob Woodward.  Who exactly was Bob Woodward?  Well, he wasn’t a journalist.  Bob Woodward had no background whatsoever in the news business.  Instead, Bob Woodward came directly from the classified areas of the federal government.  Shortly before Watergate, Woodward was a naval officer at the Pentagon.

He had a top-secret clearance.  He worked regularly with the intel agencies.  At times, Woodward was even detailed to the Nixon White House, where he interacted with Richard Nixon’s top aides.  Soon after leaving the Navy, for reasons that have never been clear, Woodward was hired by the most powerful news outlet in Washington and assigned the biggest story in the country.  Just to make it crystal clear what was actually happening, Woodward’s main source for his Watergate series was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt, and Mark Felt ran — and we’re not making this up — the FBI’s COINTELPRO program, which was designed to secretly discredit political actors, the federal agencies wanted to destroy — people like Richard Nixon.  And at the same time, those same agencies were also working to take down Nixon’s elected vice president, Spiro Agnew.  In the fall of 1973, Agnew was indicted for tax evasion and forced to resign.  His replacement was a colorless congressman from Grand Rapids called Gerald Ford.

What was Ford’s qualification for the job?  Well, he had served on the Warren Commission, which absolved the CIA of responsibility for President Kennedy’s murder.  Nixon was strong-armed into accepting Gerald Ford by Democrats in Congress.  “We gave Nixon no choice but Ford,” Speaker of the House Carl Albert later boasted.  Eight months later, Gerald Ford of the Warren Commission was the president of the United States.  See how that works?  So those are the facts, not speculation.  All of that actually happened.  None of it’s secret.  Most of it actually is on Wikipedia, but no mainstream news organization has ever told that story.  It’s so obvious, yet it’s intentionally ignored and as a result, permanent Washington remains in charge of our political system.

Unelected lifers in the federal agencies make the biggest decisions in American government and crush anyone who tries to rein them in and in the process, our democracy becomes a joke. Now, you may have noticed that the very first person in the Trump administration the agencies went after was Gen. Michael Flynn. Why Flynn? Because Mike Flynn was a career Army intel officer who ran the Defense Intelligence Agency. In other words, Mike Flynn knew exactly how the system worked, and as a result, he was capable of fighting back. Four days after Donald Trump’s inauguration, the FBI lured Mike Flynn into a meeting without his lawyer, concocted a series of fake crimes and forced him to resign.

So, that’s how things actually work in Washington.  Let’s stop lying about it.  Joe Biden, meanwhile, whooped like a hyena when the Justice Department destroyed Mike Flynn.  So, there is, we have to say, a certain perverse justice in watching something very similar happen to Joe Biden himself six years later.  Joe Biden does not deserve our sympathy.  He’s being shafted, but don’t weep for him, and yet, the rest of us do deserve a better system, an actual democracy.  When people nobody voted for run everything, you are not living in a free country.[2]

Can I attest to the accuracy of each and every fact and conclusion that Carlson has cited?  No, but they are close enough to what I know personally to be worth repeating here, and heeding.  

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© 2023, 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).  See, e.g., Timothy D. Naegele Resume-21-8-6  and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/accomplishments/   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 during the Vietnam War, 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., https://naegeleblog.wordpress.com/articles/ and https://naegeleknol.wordpress.com/articles/), and studied photography with Ansel Adams.  He can be contacted directly at tdnaegele.associates@gmail.com

[2]  See https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-biden-destructive-president-american-history