Trump Attacks Hillary’s Wild Spending Binge of Taxpayer Dollars
Excerpts As Prepared For Delivery
Oct. 27, 2016
Now, in another new report, we are learning that Hillary Clinton’s State Department wasted hundreds of millions of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars on a wild spending binge. Here are some of the shocking revelations about Hillary’s spending habits. These are all State Department expenditures during her tenure:
--$5.4 million on a no-bid contract for Crystal Stemware
--$167.5 million on cost overruns at the Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
--Over $200 million on mostly unused police training facilities in Iraq
--$79,000 to buy copies of President Obama’s books
--$53,000 to polish marble at the Brazilian Embassy
--$630,000 to try to make State Department Facebook pages more popular
--$216,000 to hire an event planner for a 4th of July party in Madrid
--$88,000 to send three comedians to India
--more than $250,000 to purchase art in Mexico
--$410,000 to purchase art in China
The elites in government like Hillary Clinton believe they are entitled to do whatever they want. Hillary Clinton has never earned an honest dollar in her life – she lives the high life at your expense, making money off the rigged system.
This is an election between the small handful of people who benefit from the corrupt system, and the great majority of American citizens who are the victims of that corruption. Those who benefit from the corruption will say and do anything to keep change from happening.
Washington Insiders, including the corrupt media, look down on hardworking people who make an honest living. The Corrupt Political Class takes pride in ripping off the American people. Now these same elites – the people who brought us every disastrous foreign war and every disastrous trade deal – are spending millions to try to put Hillary in the White House so she can keep skimming from the American people.
The Clintons left the White House dead broke, and now they’re worth over $200 million. They didn’t create anything, produce anything, invent anything – all they did was sell favors, sell access, and sell out the American worker.
Hillary even sold out our nation’s security with her illegal private server – knowing full well it would put you and your family in danger. As moms across this nation put their children to bed each night with a prayer for safety and peace, Hillary was knowingly putting those same families at risk by putting our confidential secrets on an illegal private server.
But for Hillary, it seems anything is OK as long as it increases her power.
I’m running to put a stop to the theft of American prosperity. I’m running to put an end to the corruption. I’m running to expose the crimes of our ruling class, and to give this country back to the middle class.
Hillary pushes trade deals, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that enrich her donors and strip the jobs out of your community.
She wants to raise your taxes, even as she used those taxes to spend lavishly on wasteful projects at the State Department.
She pledges “open borders,” in secret to her donors, even as it causes the loss of millions of American jobs and thousands of American lives.
She talks about the values of tolerance, yet proposes to issue massive numbers of visas to places where women, and gays, and minorities are horribly oppressed and brutalized. She then takes money from these regimes, without apology, and doesn’t worry about how extremism brought onto our shores will affect the quality of life for you or your family.
Hillary has access to the best doctors in the world, but wants you and your children to live under Obamacare.
I am running to end the rule of this corrupt ruling class, and to give the government back to the people.
I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear and to heed the words I am about to say. If we win on November 8th, We Are Going To Washington, D.C. And We Are Going To DRAIN THE SWAMP.
Donald Trump Rally, Manchester New Hampshire – 12:30pm Live Stream By Sundance, October 28, 2016
Today candidate Donald Trump will hold campaign events in New Hampshire, Maine and Iowa. The first event is in Manchester, NH at the Radisson Armory and is scheduled to begin at 12:30pm EDT:
I'd have to give this a little thought . . . but Trump's best strategy may be to stay the hell completely out of this.
I think there is a glimmer of hope for him as a result of the "piling on" of the main stream media and folks, perhaps teetering and undecided, of folks casting something akin to a sympathy vote. He'd not want to obviate that effect by appearing to "pile on" about the F.B.I. Investigation.
Just thinking of ways to get to the finish line . . .
Please, he'll go on a Tweet-A-Thon at 3 AM while he's sitting on the can. I'm not much of a political junkie but whoever wins this election is sure going to wish that they hadn't in very short order. You've got to be nuts to want the job in the first place.
Life boats have not been cast off yet (except for cityxslicker, who I believe, and correct me if i'm wrong, is still a US citizen just living abroad).
Yes, the world is heading to hell in a handbasket, but all we've got is all we've got. Just because you know the ship is sinking doesn't mean you drop the bucket and stop bailing.
I think the "drop the bucket" mentality stems from the corrupt system. It's got everyone whipped into thinking "what can I do that matters?"...and coming up empty.
Even when the current regime seems determined to start a war with Russia and China while making sure Iran gets nuclear weapons most of us will survive.
When both coasts are flooded with radioactive waves from nukes in freighters Kansas will still be there. Sure the economic disaster will be stunning. But far from the talking heads real people will still work to feed the rest of us.
Or say Chicago burns. Race riots in Philadelphia Detroit Anaheim. ... no real effect on production. Cars are made elsewhere.
Despite the immature fools in media looking for micro aggression excuses to cry on the air and stark inability to survive an app failure , a lot of us might not even bother to pay attention to Armageddon.
I know where I work we planned for it over a century ago. Riots aren't new. Coups aren't new. Plague isn't new.
Don't sweat the small stuff. Be prepared to keep on trucking. And don't believe everything you read.
Y'know, I should be productive today but...I'm soaking up coffee in front of the TV to build motivation to get stuff done.
"Fat Man and Little Boy" is showing. Yes, it's a movie and I have no doubt there are "artistic liberties" taken with the characters and some of the content, but...fact of the matter is (and I have studied the Manhattan Project from actual history books - back when such things existed lol)...this was a bunch of rogues, plain and simple.
And look what they accomplished.
Locker room talk? Impulsive comments and un-sanitized tweets? I don't give two shits. Protect me, my family, my home...and I really don't care if I "like" you or not. Get the job done. Do it right. That's all I care about.
Not saying we need to go to war. Or nuke anyone. But...it's time for change.
I know. It's been said here before. I get it. But watching these portrayals in this movie really drove home the concept that you pretty much can't make sweeping change like this, if you're a kiss-ass who worries about "not offending anyone" more than you worry about getting results.
Trump Pledges 350 Ship Navy, Support for Critical Facilities like Portsmouth Naval Shipyard October 28, 2016
Donald Trump has laid out the most serious plan for rebuilding the U.S. military since Ronald Reagan was President. Under the Obama-Clinton Administration, our Navy has shrunk to the smallest it has been since World War I; the Army is the smallest it has been since before World War II; and the Air Force is the smallest it has ever been. Under defense sequestration, the military is also experiencing the most serious readiness crisis in over a generation, with training hours cut, ships deploying longer than ever, and pilots even taking spare parts for their aircraft from museums.
Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State when the deep cuts were implemented. By contrast, in his Contract With The American Voter, Donald Trump has pledged to work with Congress to immediately reverse sequestration. Mr. Trump has also proposed building toward a 350 ship Navy, as recommended by the bipartisan National Defense Panel. This includes a significant investment in both new undersea and surface combatants, which means significant new work for facilities like the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Rebuilding our Navy will be a truly national effort and require a significant expansion of our defense industrial base to meet the needs of a growing Fleet. Facilities like Portsmouth Naval Shipyard will be at the very heart of this effort, with their history of service to our Navy and tremendous human capital. Mr. Trump has pledged to establish or expand "centers of excellence" at facilities like Portsmouth and elsewhere to train our civilian public shipyard employees in the critical skills they need to advance toward the "master" designation in their chosen field. Welders, pipefitters, and other skilled tradesmen will be essential to growing our Fleet under a Trump Administration.
Mr. Trump's vision for the U.S. Navy will necessitate the type of investment in facilities like Portsmouth Naval Shipyard that has been withheld for far too long. In a dangerous world, the United States requires a robust Navy capable of defending American interests and deterring conflict. Only by expanding our critical public shipyards and investing in a vibrant cadre of shipbuilding and ship repair craftsmen will we be able to rebuild the Navy our national security requires.
Donald Trump Rally, Las Vegas Nevada – 2:00 p.m. Live Stream By Sundance, October 30, 2016
Donald Trump is holding three events today in three separate states. Nevada (2pm EDT), Colorado (6pm EDT) and New Mexico (10pm EDT). The first event takes place in Las Vegas NV at The Venetian at 11:00am Local / 2:00pm EDT:
I'd have to give this a little thought . . . but Trump's best strategy may be to stay the hell completely out of this.
Leaders lead.
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In Colorado, Donald J. Trump Pledges to End the Corruption in Washington “What Makes Us Exceptional Is That We Are A Nation Of Laws, And That We Are All Equal Under Those Laws – Hillary’s Corruption Shreds That Foundational Principle.”
October 29, 2016
**Remarks As Prepared For Delivery**
Real change also means getting rid of the corruption in Washington.
As you have heard, it was just announced yesterday that the FBI is reopening their investigation into the criminal and illegal conduct of Hillary Clinton.
This is the biggest political scandal since Watergate, and it is everybody’s deepest hope that justice, at last, can be delivered.
Hillary has nobody but herself to blame for her mounting legal troubles.
Her criminal action was willful, deliberate, intentional and purposeful.
Hillary set-up an illegal server for the obvious purpose of shielding her criminal conduct from public disclosure.
She set-up this illegal server knowing full well that her actions put our national security at risk, and put the safety and security of your children at risk.
To further cover-up her crimes, she bleached and deleted 33,000 emails after a Congressional Subpoena, made 13 phones disappear – some with a hammer, lied to Congress under oath, lied to the FBI, and then two boxes of email evidence went mysteriously missing.
She even pretended not to know that the letter “C” meant confidential information that was classified.
As the recent release of a memo from one of Bill Clinton's closest associates demonstrates, the Clintons have turned the government into a scheme for personal profit.
The Clintons even saw the deadly disaster in Haiti as an opportunity to cash-in.
The WikiLeaks revelations have revealed a degree of corruption at the highest levels of our government like nothing we’ve ever seen before – including a candidate who boasts to donors about having a public position for the voters, and a private position for Wall Street.
Hillary put the office of Secretary of State up for sale and, if she ever got the chance, she’d put the Oval Office up for sale too.
Hillary should have been convicted long ago.
That the legal process has been taking this long is incredible.
And now it’s reported that the Department of Justice is fighting the FBI – that’s because the Department of Justice is trying to protect her.
97% of Department of Justice employees’ presidential contributions went to Hillary Clinton.
There are those, and I happen to be one of them, who think Hillary offered Lorretta Lynch a reappointment as Attorney General.
Perhaps that was what Bill Clinton was doing in the secret meeting on the tarmac in Arizona.
He said it was to play golf, but he never played, and it was over 100 degrees.
This is what we mean when we call it a rigged system.
Now the Attorney General is fighting the FBI for doing what was right – but what should have been done many months ago.
Perhaps, through this other investigation, they found what may be some of the 33,000 missing and deleted emails Hillary tried desperately to destroy, even going so far as to use digital bleach.
The stakes on November 8th could not be higher.
A vote for Hillary is vote a to surrender our government to public corruption, graft and cronyism that threatens the very foundations of our Constitutional system.
What makes us exceptional is that we are a nation of laws, and that we are all equal under those laws – Hillary’s corruption shreds that foundational principle.
Public Corruption is a grave and profound threat to a Democracy.
Government corruption spreads outward, like a cancer, and infects the operations of government itself.
If the corruption is not removed, then the people are not able to have faith in their government.
It deadens and saps the spirit of civic participation.
Corruption decays our trust in institutions and our legal system.
When the outcome is fixed, when the system is rigged, people lose hope. They detach. Our society becomes unplugged and unhinged.
When the powerful can get away with anything, because they have the money and the connections to rig the system, then the laws lose their moral authority.
Hillary believes money and power – not truth and justice – should rule the day.
As FDR once said, government by organized money is just as dangerous as government by organized mob.
This is what we often see in Third World countries – where the governments are often run by a small handful of corrupt people for their personal enrichment.
Corruption is corrosive to every institution of government, and it must be stopped.
Restoring honesty to our government, and the rule of law to our society, will be my highest priority as President.
We must save America.
That is why my "Contract With The American Voter" begins with a plan to end government corruption and take our country back from the special interests.
I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear and to heed the words I am about to say.
When we win on November 8th, We Are Going To Washington, D.C. And We Are Going To DRAIN THE SWAMP.
If not argue with that but Trump's biggest enemy ..... as he continues to lag in the polls against someone who ANYONE should be able to beat.... is himself ... his overblown ego and his inability to keep his mouth shut about anything.
I'm rooting for the guy but neither his work ethic or leadership rank high on the scale on NYC folks who have dealt with him.
Hillary needs to implode and my sneaking suspicion is that Comey found something so big he knew he'd be prosecuted if he "concealed" it until after the election.
The polls are rigged (the outcome of any given poll is for sale to the highest bidder); I've pointed out countless examples of this, with citations for further review. It's inconceivable to think that the MSM is corrupt (which they most certainly are), and yet the polls are somehow immune to this corruption.
Your perspective of Trump, as a fellow New Yorker, is quite likely different than mine. Personally, I like his brashness and his willingness to take on the establishment without apology.
Our country is ready for a true leader. I've said this before: Given a choice, I'd vote for George Washington for president, if that were somehow possible. Allen West would also make my short list.
Right now we have exactly ONE candidate who can defeat Hillary Clinton: Donald Trump.
I predict he wins in a landslide. Why? Because Americans are ready for someone who can, and will, drain the swamp.
On a related subject: Kudos to Mr. Pence for stepping deep into the lion's den and more than holding his own:
It'll be close, methinks...but if Hillary didn't have all that big donor money and all the major media outlets cheerleading, she'd have been dead in the water long ago.
I have no lifeboats, I have been saying it was bad for years. It is now time for digging holes and setting up defensive perimeters. P.S. I still believe Obama fails to leave the White House. I fully expect them to invalidate the elections with either BLM or UN.
I prefer my view from overseas - I don't have enough ammo to live in the States, i.e. No ZSU-23.
In Michigan, Donald Trump Outlines His Urban Renewal Agenda & Promises to Bring Back Jobs October 31, 2016
**Remarks As Prepared For Delivery**
In 8 days, we are going to win the Great State of Michigan and we are going to win back the White House.
Let me start today by making a very important promise. When I win on November 8th, I am going to bring back your jobs. The long nightmare of jobs leaving Michigan will be coming to an end. We will make Michigan the economic envy of the world once again.
The political class in Washington has betrayed you. They’ve uprooted your jobs, and your communities, and shipped your wealth all over the world. They put new skyscrapers up in Beijing while your factories in Michigan crumbled.
I will end the theft of American prosperity. I will fight for every last Michigan job.
Because, when we win, it’s going to be AMERICA FIRST.
So you have to make sure you get in your absentee ballots, and to get to the polls on November 8th. You have to vote. Vote with all of your heart and soul. Show the whole world how much you love Michigan, and how much you love America, by voting to take back the jobs that have been stolen from you. I’m asking for the vote of Republicans, Democrats, Independents and First-Time voters who want great jobs, safe neighborhoods, and a government that works for the people.
I’m asking you to believe in America once again.
But to bring back your jobs, we must also immediately repeal and replace Obamacare.
It’s just been announced that Michigan residents are going to experience crushing double-digit premium hikes.
In Minnesota, where the premium increase will be close to 60 percent, the Democratic Governor has said “the Affordable Care Act is no longer affordable.”
Hillary Clinton wants to double-down on Obamacare, making it even more expensive – in fact, much more expensive.
I’m asking for your vote so we can replace Obamacare and save healthcare for every family in Michigan.
Real change also means restoring honesty to our government.
As you know, the FBI has reopened its investigation into Hillary Clinton and has discovered another 650,000 emails. Hillary lied under oath when she said she turned over all of her work-related emails – just one more lie out of so many.
This is the biggest scandal since Watergate.
Hillary wants to blame everyone else for her mounting legal troubles, but she has brought this all onto herself.
Hillary is the one who set-up an illegal private email server in a closet to shield her criminal activity.
Hillary is the one who engaged in a corrupt Pay-For-Play scheme at the State Department – and now there are 5 FBI probes into the Clinton Foundation and their pay-for-play activities.
Hillary is the one who sent and received classified information on an insecure server, putting the safety of the American people under threat.
Hillary is the one who lied to Congress under oath.
Hillary is the one who lied to the FBI.
Hillary is the one who made 13 phones disappear.
Hillary is the one who destroyed 33,000 emails.
Hillary is the one who broke the law over and over and over again. We can be sure that what is in those emails is absolutely devastating.
Hillary is not the victim – the American people are the victims of this corrupt system in every way, and this is your one chance to change it.
Hillary is likely to be under investigation for a very long time. One of her longtime supporters, a top Democratic Pollster, Doug Schoen, is now totally withdrawing his support. He wrote an article entitled “I’m a Democrat, I worked for Bill Clinton, but I can’t vote for Hillary.” Schoen writes: “I am now convinced that we will be facing the very real possibility of a constitutional crisis with many dimensions and deleterious consequences should Secretary Clinton win the election.”
Schoen warns that if Hillary is elected, she would be under protracted criminal investigation – and probably a trial of a sitting President.
The investigation will last for years, a trial will probably start, nothing will get done, and our country will continue to suffer.
She is unfit and unqualified to be President, and her election would mire our government and our country in a constitutional crisis we cannot afford. We need to be going to work for the American people – we can’t do that with Hillary in the White House trying to avoid prosecution.
Hillary Clinton’s corruption is a threat to Democracy, and the only way to save our Democracy is get out and vote by the millions.
The Clinton crime spree ends on November 8th.
And when we close the chapter on the Clintons, we open a bright new chapter focused on the American People.
My Contract With The American Voter begins with a plan to restore honesty and accountability to our government.
I want the entire corrupt Washington establishment to hear and to heed the words we are all about to say. When we win on November 8th, We Are Going To Washington, D.C. And We Are Going To DRAIN THE SWAMP.
At the core of my contract is my plan to bring back your jobs.
Michigan has lost more than 1 in 4 manufacturing jobs since Bill Clinton signed NAFTA, a deal strongly supported by Hillary Clinton.
Before NAFTA went into effect, there were 280,000 auto workers in Michigan. Today, that number is only 160,000.
Our country has lost 70,000 factories since China entered the World Trade Organization – another Bill and Hillary-backed deal.
We have nearly an $800 billion annual trade deficit with the world.
We are living through the greatest jobs theft in the history of the world.
Our trade deficit with China grew almost 40 percent during Hillary’s tenure as Secretary of State. Her trade deal with South Korea killed another 100,000 America jobs.
So when you look around Michigan, and you see the rusted-out factories, the empty buildings, and the long unemployment lines, remember: Hillary Clinton did much of this to you.
Hillary got rich selling your jobs – the same special interests who pushed the jobs out of America are the people who’ve given countless millions to the Clintons. Hillary gets rich making America poor.
Just look at the devastation.
Delphi laid off 3,627 workers here in Michigan. Most of those jobs went to Mexico.
We are going to fight for the workers at Delphi. They got a raw deal, and they deserve better.
- GM laid off 314 workers at the Lake Orion Assembly Plant in 2013 because of imports from the South Korean trade deal pushed through by Hillary Clinton.
- Lear Corporation laid off another 50 people in Rochester Hills and moved their jobs to South Korea.
- FTE Automotive laid off 166 people in Auburn Hills. Their jobs went to Mexico.
- Chrysler laid off over 5,300 workers. Those jobs went to Mexico, China, India and other countries.
- Ford laid off 2,155 workers. Those jobs went to other countries.
Now, Ford is moving all if its small car production to Mexico.
A Trump Administration will stop the flight of American jobs.
If Ford, or another company, announces they want to move their jobs to Mexico or another country, then I will pick up the phone – I will call the executives – and I will tell them that if they want do that, we will charge a 35% tax when they try to ship their products back across the border.
It used to be the cars were made in Flint and you couldn’t drink the water in Mexico. Now, the cars are made in Mexico and you can’t drink the water in Flint.
We are going to turn it all around.
We are going to rebuild Flint.
We are going to rebuild Detroit.
And we are going to rebuild Michigan.
I’d like to share a special message today with the African-American community in Michigan which has been so terribly harmed by the policies of the Clintons.
Look at the City of Detroit. It used to be the manufacturing hub of the world – now, nearly half of Detroit residents do not work, it has the second-highest violent crime rate in the country, and the children are trapped in failing government schools.
Yet, as the people of Detroit suffer, Hillary wants to spend trillions of dollars on government benefits for illegal immigrants and refugees.
I’ve outlined a plan for urban renewal, it’s called A New Deal For Black America. That deal includes a plan to use the money we will save by securing our border, and curbing refugee admissions, to invest in communities like Flint and Detroit.
It includes a pledge of school choice for African-American children.
My plan also includes a promise to cancel billions in climate change spending for the United Nations – a number Hillary wants to increase – and instead use that money to provide for American infrastructure, including clean water in cities like Flint.
My plan also includes a pledge to reduce violent crime – every child in this nation has a right to grow up in safety and peace.
And my plan includes a pledge to restore manufacturing in the United States.
Hillary and the Democratic Party have run the inner cities for years, and only produced more poverty. The time has come for real change – I’m asking you for the honor of your vote so that together we can turn decades of political failure into generations of lasting success.
Hillary, on the other hand, wants to destroy what’s left of manufacturing in Michigan with the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
A Trump Administration will stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
We will renegotiate NAFTA and, if we don’t get the deal we want, we will terminate NAFTA and get a much better deal.
We are going to lower taxes on American business from 35 percent to 15 percent.
We are going to massively cut taxes for the Middle Class.
We will unleash American energy – including shale, oil, natural gas and clean coal. The Obama-Clinton war on coal is going to cost this state 50,000 jobs.
We will also work to restore and protect the Great Lakes.
We are going to become a rich country again.
But to be a rich country, we must also be a safe country.
Hillary Clinton wants a 550% increase in Syrian Refugees.
Hillary’s immigration plans mean generations of terrorism, extremism and radicalism spreading into your schools and communities here in Michigan.
When we win, we will suspend the Syrian Refugee Program – and we will keep Radical Islamic Terrorists out of our country.
A Trump Administration will also secure and defend the borders of the United States. And yes, we will build a wall.
We’ve received the first-ever endorsement from our ICE and Border Patrol officers. They tell us the border crisis is the worst it’s ever been – it’s a national emergency. They also warn America that Hillary’s plan is the “the most radical proposal in U.S. history.”
When I become President, we will end illegal immigration, deport all criminal aliens, and put American Workers First.
We will also repeal the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and rebuild our badly depleted military.
We also need a new foreign policy that puts America First.
Hillary led us to disaster in Iraq, Syria and Libya. Then, after Benghazi, she looked the families of the fallen in the eye and lied – she blamed it all on a video.
Hillary and our failed Washington Establishment have spent $6 trillion on wars in the Middle East, and now it’s in worse shape than ever before. Imagine if some of that money had been spent building new schools, roads and bridges right here in Michigan.
Now, Hillary – trapped in her Washington bubble that is blind to the lessons of the past – wants to start a shooting war in Syria in conflict with a nuclear-armed Russia, that could drag us into World War III.
The arrogant political class never learns. They keep repeating the same mistakes, they keep telling the same lies, they keep producing the same failed results.
How can Hillary manage this country when she can’t even manage her email server? It’s just one disaster after another, one scandal after another, one betrayal after another.
To all Americans I say: it is time for new leadership.
Just think about what we can accomplish in the first 100 days –
We are going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan; eliminate every unnecessary job-killing regulation; cancel every illegal Obama executive order; rebuild our military and take care of our Vets; support the men and women of law enforcement; save the 2nd amendment; and appoint Justices to the Supreme Court who will uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Hillary wants us to think small, wants us to believe things can’t change, and wants our lives to revolve around Washington, D.C. I am asking you to dream big, to push for bold change, and to believe in a movement powered by the people and by their love for this country.
I’m tired of politicians telling Americans to defer their dreams to another day – when they really mean another decade.
America is tired of waiting. The moment is now.
All we have to do is stop believing in our failed politicians and start believing in each other and in our country.
There is no challenge too great, no dream outside of our reach.
Don't let anyone tell you it can't be done -- the future lies with the dreamers, not the cynics and the critics.
Hillary has been there for 30 years, and she has accomplished nothing – she’s just made things worse.
She is the candidate of yesterday. We are the movement of the future.
Our movement represents all Americans, from all backgrounds, and all walks of life.
We are asking for the votes of Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and first-time voters.
We are asking for the vote of every American who believes truth and justice – not money and power – should rule the day.
We are fighting for every citizen who believes that government should serve the people – not the donors and special interests.
We are fighting to unlock the potential of every American community, and every American family, who hope and pray and yearn for a better future.
With your vote, we are just 8 days away from the change you’ve been waiting for your entire life.
We now "know" from the FBI and leaked mail that the Russians may have hacked Hillary, but have done nothing except smirk about it.
They don't have to release anything, just smile and tell us to F--- off. If Hillary wins, they can dump the hacked info to screw her. And if the Russians don't have her emails, Vladimir would have his intel guys shot. But he doesn't ever have to admit it. Just watch the Obama regime & Hillary campaign melt down. win win, Vladimir. Part of the glamour of the KGB ( whatever the name ) is the assumption of hyper-competence. They are everywhere, see everything, can kill or blackmail anyone. It doesn't have to be true, just assumed.
And historically, now that all those Soviet era files got sold to the West, they kicked allied butt in the intelligence wars, end to end. Joe McCarthy was right, the State dept. was and is totally infiltrated. Obama is the endorsed candidate of the Communist party. They won.
And the best strategy to look wise is to smile that small smile and say nothing. The Russian's do that well.
In the U.S. you can never tell if the CIA is hyper-competent, and lies to make you ignore that, or incompetent, and lies to seem smarter. Given the political structure, IMHO the CIA is competent, but isn't allowed to act competently by the Leadership. ( as an example, Bill Clinton ordering the CIA not to kidnap or kill Osama Bin Laden. )
We now "Know" from the leaked DNC mail, that the Democrats chose Trump to win. That the "media" gave Trump all that free air time, and ignored the other candidates, except to destroy them ( Ben, Carly ) so the nightmare they face is entirely their fault.
Mike Pence and Donald Trump appeared together in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania today (yes, there's plenty of symbolism in the choice of venue location). Trump takes the stage at approximately 1:04:50. Video, and transcript (as prepared for delivery), below:
DONALD J. TRUMP PLEDGES TO IMMEDIATELY REPEAL AND REPLACE OBAMACARE November 1, 2016
**Remarks As Prepared For Delivery**
I would like to thank my incredible running mate, Governor Mike Pence, who has been a tremendous leader on health care issues.
Let me also thank Dr. Ben Carson, not only a great man – but one of the toughest competitors I’ve ever faced. People do not know how well he did during the primaries, but even more importantly, he is a brilliant physician, and I hope he will be very much involved with my Administration.
I’d also like to recognize the distinguished Members of Congress in attendance, who have all been at the forefront of health care reform. Congresswomen Ellmers and Lummis, and Congressmen Price, Harris, Burgess, Desjarlais. And let me give a special thanks to Senator Barrasso, a terrific doctor, and a Senate leader, who did incredible work chairing our platform committee.
When we win on November 8th, and elect a Republican Congress, we will be able to immediately repeal and replace Obamacare. I will ask Congress to convene a special session.
Obamacare is a catastrophe. The President said if you like your plan you can keep your plan, if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor – which may go down as one of the great political lies of the century. Even the skeptical Democrats believed him and approved the legislation.
No one even read the 2,700-page bill.
The Obama Administration has just announced massive double-digit and triple-digit Obamacare premium hikes everywhere in the country. Here, in Pennsylvania, premiums are going to increase more than 60 percent.
That means parents won't have enough money to pay their bills, or get medicine for their kids.
In the great state of Arizona, a wonderful place I just left, premiums will go up even higher than 116 percent – others states are going up more than 60, 70, 80, and 90 percent. Deductibles can go to 12 thousand, 13 thousand, 14 thousand and even 15 thousand dollars. These deductibles are so high that your health care won't even be usable.
People all across the country are devastated. In many instances, their health care costs are more than their mortgage costs or rent, a first in American history. This is particularly unfair to millennials, and younger Americans generally, who will be totally crushed by these massive health care costs before they even get started on their journey through life.
One-third of the counties in Pennsylvania will have only a single insurance company. That includes Philadelphia.
The Associated Press found that “some of the 440,000 Pennsylvania consumers who buy insurance through healthcare.gov will face some of the highest premium increases in the nation.”
Insurers are leaving, premiums are soaring, doctors are quitting, companies are fleeing, and deductibles are through the roof.
Workers’ hours are being cut, hiring is frozen, and wages are being slashed.
Obamacare means higher prices, fewer choices, and lower quality.
Yet, Hillary Clinton wants to expand Obamacare and make it even more expensive. She wants to put the government totally in charge of health care in America.
If we don’t repeal and replace Obamacare, we will destroy American health care forever – it’s one of the single most important reasons why we must win on November 8th.
Our replacement plan includes Health Savings Accounts, a nationwide insurance market where you can purchase across state lines, and letting states manage Medicaid dollars. We will create quality, reliable, affordable health care in a free market where parents can make the health care decisions that are right for their families. It will be much better health care, at a much less expensive cost.
We’ve also outlined detailed solutions on so many other issues to make life better for every American family.
That includes a plan to bring back the manufacturing jobs that form the backbone of the American Middle Class, and our country as a whole.
Pennsylvania has lost almost 40% of its manufacturing jobs since NAFTA – a deal signed by Bill Clinton and supported by Hillary Clinton. The City of Philadelphia has lost more than 1 in 3 of its manufacturing jobs since China joined the World Trade Organization – another Bill and Hillary-backed deal.
A Trump Administration will renegotiate NAFTA, and stand up to foreign product dumping, currency manipulation and unfair subsidy behavior. We are going to bring manufacturing and jobs, lots of jobs, back to Pennsylvania.
We are going to open modern mines, and take care of our great miners. We will be producing clean coal, oil, natural gas and shale energy.
We’re also bringing back our steelworkers, whose jobs have been stolen by the dumping of steel all over this state and country by China, and other countries. Nobody has been treated worse than these workers, but that will change on January 20th of next year.
We are also going to provide the children of this state with school choice. That means parents can send their kids to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them. We will totally eliminate Common Core and bring education local.
Our tax plan will provide a 35% tax cut to Middle Class families with two kids. We will let parents deduct childcare expenses from their taxes, and create tax-free Childcare and Eldercare Savings Accounts – with matching contributions for low-income families.
We will eliminate the Obama-Clinton defense sequester and rebuild our badly depleted military. Our Navy is the smallest it has been since World War I, and rebuilding it will require a truly national effort. That is why I will ask my Secretary of the Navy to review facilities like the Philadelphia Navy Yard with a long history of service to our Navy, proximity to vibrant private industry, and room for expansion to enlist them in rebuilding our Fleet. To recruit the master craftsmen this buildup requires, we will establish "centers of excellence" at locations like the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
We will rebuild our military and we will rebuild this country.
I am not a politician. My only special interest is you, the American People.
The guiding rule of the Political Class in Washington, D.C. is that they are looking out only for themselves.
They will say anything, and do anything, to cling to their power and prestige at your expense.
I’m running to change and reverse decades of failure, and to work with the American people to create generations of success.
I’m running to restore honesty to our government, safety to our communities, and prosperity to our economy.
I want to go into our poorest communities and work on a national plan for revitalization.
Americans are tired of being told to defer their dreams to another day – but politicians really mean another decade.
Enough waiting. The time is now.
But to accomplish our goals, we must cut our ties with the small, bitter and petty politics of the past. We must declare our independence from a failed establishment that has squandered $6 trillion on foreign wars in the Middle East that never end and that we never win and that have made us less safe. They’ve left our borders wide open at home, and shipped our jobs and wealth to other countries.
It is time for a new leadership.
I’ve led a great life – and I truly love our country. So now, I want to give back to the country that has been so good to me. All I see, everywhere I travel in this nation, is untapped potential waiting to be realized.
If we unlock the potential of this country and its incredible people, no dream is outside of our reach.
If we stop believing in our failed politicians, and start believing in ourselves, then anything is possible.
I’m asking you to Dream Big, to push for Bold Change, and to believe in a movement powered by our love for each other and our love for our country.
That is how we will truly make America Great Again.
Not surprisingly, NPR's "All Things Considered" presented the Trump/Russia rumors as a serious story this afternoon. Their sources included the Slate article, some fringe newspaper or website that quoted "an anonymous former CIA agent", and a former CIA agent on Clinton's team.
All of those sound perfectly legitimate to me.
Even the NPR reporter had to admit there was absolutely no evidence to back any of these claims up. When they questioned Trump's campaign manager, he actually burst out laughing which I think was the best possible reaction he could have given.
