Trump Wants To Reinstate Eisenhower’s Infamous “Operation Wetback” Immigration Policy

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A bombshell segment on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight show (04/30/24) delved into a recent interview Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had with Time Magazine. As host Alex Wagner correctly pointed out, the biggest bombshell from the Time interview was Trump’s admission that if elected president again, he would be open to a draconian immigration policy that mirrors former President Eisenhower’s infamous “Operation Wetback.”

Time Magazine’s Eric Cortellessa(2:35): “You’ve said you’re gonna do this massive deportation operation. I want to know specifically how you plan to do that.”

Trump: “So, if you look back to the 1950s, [President] Dwight Eisenhower was very big on illegal immigration not coming to our country. And he did a massive deportation of people.”

Any reasonable person presented with Trump’s response would conclude, as host Alex Wagner did, that if elected president again, Trump intends to craft a draconian immigration policy that mirrors Eisenhower’s “Operation Wetback”.

It will be interesting to see how Hispanics, who Trump has successfully peeled off from the “reliable Democrats” tent, will react to this bombshell revelation. As host Wagner correctly pointed out, a lot of U.S. citizens of Mexican descent also got swept up in Eisenhower’s militarized “Operation Wetback” raids, and got deported illegally to Mexico.

Will a potential “Operation Wetback 2.0” be a game-changer with MAGA Hispanics in 2024, making them pull the lever for Biden? Hmm, as Trump famously says, “We’ll see what happens.”

I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the fact that in the interview, Trump also appeared eager to expand law enforcement’s “qualified immunity” to a point where it is practically “absolute immunity”. This would dramatically roll back progress that has been made–and there has been progress–in the fight against police brutality, especially as it pertains to Black and Brown communities. Will this be a game-changer for the so-called BlacksForTrump? Hmm, we shall see.

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Trump Kept Hitler’s Speeches By His Bedside

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In case you missed it, MSNBCโ€™s Joe Scarborough dropped a bombshell on the 01/08/2024 edition of his Morning Joe Show, telling his viewers that back in the day, former President Trump kept Adolf Hitlerโ€™s speeches by his bedside.

This bombshell revelation by Scarborough was especially notable because it came on the heels of Trumpโ€™s recent statement that migrants โ€œpoison the bloodโ€ of Americans. Notable historians have pointed out that German dictator Adolf Hitler used similar rhetoric on his way to killing 6 million Jews in the 1930s.

Former President Trump when confronted by the media about his Hitler-sounding rhetoric, dismissed such questions saying he has never read Hitlerโ€™s book Mein Kampf. Well, that may be true, but this bombshell revelation by Scarborough certainly raises fresh questions as to his admiration of the ruthless German dictator. Simply put, you donโ€™t keep speeches of somebody you hate/despise on your bedside.

Bottom line as we approach the November 2024 general elections, the Trump-Hitler nexus must be fully explored. Vanity Fair owes the public an explanation as to why they’ve buried this story, even as questions about Trump-Hitler nexus continue to swirl

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Is MAGA Trumpism A Form Of Political Religion?

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An interesting segment on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight (01/1624) show delved into the strange daliance between Evangelical Christians(predominantly White), and the politics of former President Donald Trump, often referred to as Trumpism, or MAGA Trumpism. The alliance between these two strange bedfellows has led many to question whether MAGA Trumpism has become some sort of political/civil religion.

The MSNBC segment came against the backdrop of Trump’s massive win in the Iowa Republican presidential primary, and specifically, his command of the White Evangelical vote, which polls placed at 53%. Back in 2016, when Trump first ran for president, he only received 21% of the White Evangelical vote in Iowa, a clear sign that he has now consolidated the White Evangelical vote in Iowa, and arguably nationwide.

Host Alex Wagner posed this question to her guest, Author Tim Alberta, who’s also a staff writer at The Atlantic (2:07): “I wonder in your estimation, what it means to be an Evangelical in this country, at this moment?”
Tim Alberta responded in relevant part: “We are beginning to flirt with this territory where definitionally speaking, Evangelicalism has far more to do, at least in the perception of the greater public, with political engagement, partisan political identification, than it does with any particular theology or any real religious conviction, and if you take it a step further, if you look at the exit polling, if you look at some of the social science around this, if you look at the fact that during Donald Trump’s presidency, more and more of Donald Trump’s supporters were self-identifying as Evangelicals even though they were simultaneously attending Church less and less often, I think one might reach the uncomfortable conclusion that perhaps the best definition now for what it means to be an Evangelical, is to be a conservative White Republican Trump supporter, and that is a tragedy on any number of different levels, but I think most profoundly, it’s a tragedy for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Host Alex Wagner then interjected with this profound question (3:50): “If the Gospel is no longer part of the equation, what is it replaced by…do you think MAGA-ism has become a placeholder for a certain kind of religion?”

Tim Alberta: “Yes…I don’t want to paint with too broad a brush, the Evangelical community is large, it’s huge, and it’s complicated…but…we are reaching a place where we are being confronted with some uncomfortable realities about what it means to be a part of the Evangelical movement and frankly, where the line blurs between sort of religious identity and political identity, and is there a merging of the two, and frankly I think that there’s always a danger in politics…of sort of turning political conviction into religious conviction, or worshipping at a certain altar that is not an altar to God, but is an altar to political idolatry or to political identity. That is a danger that has always been there, but it is I think uniquely dangerous in this moment, and to be clear…we have examples from the not so distant past, of a sort of political religion, or at least a civil religion, supplanting, competing with actual religion, and I don’t think that we’re all that far removed from that in this country now, looking at just what happened…in Iowa.”

To conclude the segment, Tim Alberta floated this interesting scenario, which gets right to the fallacy of the Evangelical-MAGA Trumpism alliance. He said (8:19): “If during Barack Obama’s presidency, or while he was running for president, if you had heard him talking with, or promoting a video saying that he was a shepherd to all of mankind, the Evangelical movement would have been up in arms [and rightly so], I mean this is heretical, this is blasphemous and yet, Donald Trump seems to get a pass time and time again for doing these things that no other politician, Republican or Democrat frankly, would get a pass for doing, and we should ask ourselves why. If the answer does not at least start to flirt with this terrain of civil religion, or political religion, then I think that we’re not being honest with ourselves, and if we are being honest with ourselves, if we are willing to engage with the very uncomfortable topic around what happens when Trumpism becomes civil religion in this country for millions of millions of people, and what that might imply moving forward, then we are doing a disservice to our prularistic democracy.”

Bottom line folks, we’ve always operated on the separation of church and state doctrine, and have for decades, shunned foreign theocracies like the ones in Afghanistan and Iran. Author Tim Alberta is absolutely correct when he says, we need to be honest with ourselves, and admit that there is no difference between the Evangelical-MAGA dalliance in the American political scene, and the theocracies in Iran and Afghanistan. Simply put, we need to make a decision as to whether we want to continue with the separation of church and state doctrine, or whether, that time-honored tradition has also been sacrificed at the altar of MAGA Trumpism.

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Is Sen Mike Lee Angling For A SCOTUS Appointment With Trump Endorsement?

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Interesting segment on MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight show (01/19/24) delved into the conspiracy theories currently being spewed out there by right wing activists about the yet unsolved mystery surrounding the January 6th pipe bomb. Apparently, even sitting U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) is now pertaking in this conspiracy theory, per his recent social media post which Wagner cited.

Host Alex Wagner then dropped a bombshell on “constitutional conservative” Senator Lee’s strange fawning over former President Trump, including his latest endorsement of the former president for the upcoming 2024 election, saying it may all be about Senator Lee’s ambitions for the United States Supreme Court. Yeah, you read that right. Senator Lee may be angling for a Supreme Court seat.

You’ll remember that Senator Lee was also intricately involved in efforts by then outgoing President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 election using the fake elector scheme.

Host Alex Wagner(2:49): “Senator Lee joins 25 of his Republican colleagues in the Senate, who have endorsed Donald Trump as of this evening, but his special distinction is that he was twice on Trump’s short list to be a Supreme Court justice. In 2018 Senator Lee interviewed for the seat that eventually went to Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and with Justice Clarence Thomas approaching 80, and Justice Samuel Alito hitting 74 this year, who knows, if Donald Trump is re-elected in November, the man who believes January 6th was an inside job could just get another crack at a seat on the highest court in the land.”

Bottom line folks, as much as I have been critical of “constitutional conservative” Senator Lee over his strange support of Trump despite his authoritarian tendencies, I readily admit that this Supreme Court ambition theory makes me ease up on him a little bit. I’m not saying I condone his strange support for authoritarian Trump, but that at least, it makes me understand why he’s doing it.

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Michael Moore Slams Michigan Officials For Zero Criminal Prosecutions Over Flint Water Scandal

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Film Producer and Activist Michael Moore appeared on MSNBC’s Politics Nation show (11/04/23) to discuss among other things, the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict. Moore’s home state is Michigan, which is home to the largest Arab-American population in the United States. Later in the interview, the discussion moved on to another disaster that Moore got intricately involved in as an activist, and that is, the Flint water scandal, which caused lead poisoning of poor (primarily Black) families in Flint Michigan. Moore expressed frustration that to date, no Michigan state official has been criminally held responsible for the poisoning.

Here’s what Michael Moore told host Al Sharpton regarding the decision by the Michigan Attorney General to end the investigation into Flint without any criminal prosecution (8:38): “It’s so disgusting, appalling, and again, sad…Here we are, talking really about…an ethnic cleansing of a majority Black city, where the state of Michigan in order to save some money, took the city off the clean water supply from Lake Huron, and made the people of Flint, Michigan, majority Black, drink from the Flint River, a massively polluted river, for decades, and what it did was, it poisoned nearly 10,000 children. Any lead poisoning, if you’re…six years and younger, you will have permanent brain damage…And the Governor, and his people, once they knew what was going on, they tried to cover it up…and they got away with it…If this was a White town in Michigan…you never would have seen this. This is going on for seven years, and nobody convicted, nobody having to be responsible for what they knew what was going on, they knew what was going to happen…”

Moore then went on to subtly call out the current Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, for not criminally prosecuting the people responsible for the Flint water poisoning. To be clear, AG Nessel assumed office in 2019, long after the Flint water scandal broke (2014-2016). She was not the state’s AG as the crisis was playing out. Any reasonable person would conclude however, judging from Moore’s tone, that he is terribly disappointed with AG Nessel for the lack of criminal prosecutions.

Bottom line folks, unless and until we start holding public officials criminally responsible for atrocities such as Flint and many others that have happened before (MKULTRA, Cointelpro etc), atrocities that cause irreparable harm to unsuspecting citizens, we will continue to see them happen again in the future. It’s really that plain and simple.

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The โ€œRed Waveโ€ Mass Hysteria Was A Sad Commentary On The Media-Polling Business Nexus

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The 2022 midterm election will not only go down in history as one which produced the most unlikely outcome for the party in power, but also, one where the pollsters got it totally wrong. As a matter of fact, the pollsters got it so wrong, that the public is convinced, they were deliberately misled with the โ€œred wave/tsunamiโ€ predictions. Itโ€™s therefore only fair that the mainstream media journalists who got sucked into the red wave mass hysteria be named and shamed, and their actions memorialized for future referenceโ€“sort of a handy list, if you will.

MSNBC did an interesting, and quite frankly, hilarious mashup of the โ€œred waveโ€ mass hysteria that appeared to suck up even some well respected journalists from reputable networks. This shows how these faulty/fake polls can affect mainstream media coverage of elections, which can then have negative consequences, up to and including depressing voter turnout. This is therefore an issue that needs to be addressed head on as we approach the 2024 general elections.

Politicians are known to exaggerate, so they are not the subject of this naming and shaming. Our interest here is only on journalists, who ought to know better.

Fox Newsโ€™ Steve Doocey(1:39): โ€œYou know, your predictions of a red wave are accurate.โ€

Unidentified Fox News Reporter(1:42):โ€โ€ฆa red wave is coming.โ€

Fox News star Anchor Laura Ingraham(1:44): โ€œRed Wave Rising.โ€ This is the title of a whole segment Ingraham dedicated on the โ€œred waveโ€ on 10/18/22. Not a good look, Laura, not a good look.

Unidentified Reporter on NewsMax(1:51): โ€œSleepy Joe just guaranteed a red wave in Pennsylvania.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Dana Perino(2:01): โ€œDemocrats are bracing for the worst case scenario, a red Tsunami.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Greg Gutfeld(2:04): โ€œWe are officially on a red Tsunami watch.โ€ He was apparently referring to an Axios piece by Josh Kraushaar titled โ€œRED TSUNAMI WATCH.โ€ Not a good look Josh, not a good look.

Fox Newsโ€™ Clay Travis(2:09): โ€œRed Tsunami growsโ€ฆthat means red Tsunami.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Stephen Miller(2:16): โ€œPoverty, joblessness, critical race theory, crazy gender ideology in our schools, we are going to see a red Tsunami.โ€

Unidentified host of Fox Newsโ€™ The Five show(2:34): โ€œUp next, Elon Musk ready to ride the big red wave.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Steve Doocey(2:37): โ€œElon Musk tweeted massive red wave.โ€ For the record, Musk did indeed tweet about a red wave. Other Fox News personalities who used this Elon Musk tweet to proclaim a โ€œred waveโ€ were Tucker Carlson(biggest star on Fox), Maria Bartiromo, among others. Not a good look, Elon, not a good look.

Daily Wireโ€™s Ben Shapiro(2:43): โ€œYouโ€™re about to see a red wave, that makes โ€˜Day After Tomorrowโ€™ [the popular movie] look like nothing.โ€

Leading Podcaster Joe Rogan(2:47): โ€œThatโ€™s going to be responsible for the red wave. I think the red wave thatโ€™s coming is going to be like the elevator doors opening up in โ€˜The Shining'[popular 80โ€™s movie]โ€

Daily Wireโ€™s Ben Shapiro(2:55): โ€œRogan said that the red wave is going to look like the elevator doors opening, and the blood pouring out of the elevator in โ€˜The Shiningโ€™, that is correct, except itโ€™s not going to be an elevator, itโ€™s going to look more like โ€˜Deep Impact โ€˜[popular movie], the tsunami at the end, but colored red.โ€ Good Lord have mercy!!

Fox News Contributor Dan Bongino(3:10): โ€œRemember that Teo Leone โ€˜Deep Impactโ€™ disaster movie? Thatโ€™s the red wave tsunami that will come ashore.โ€

Daily Wireโ€™s Ben Shapiro(3:17): โ€œItโ€™s going to be a brutal week for the Democrats beginning on Tuesday.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Clay Travis(3:21): โ€œFrankly, Iโ€™ve already DVR-ed CNN and MSNBC for election night, not because Iโ€™m going to watch, but just because I want to enjoy the tears post-red tsumami.โ€ Hope youโ€™re enjoying those DVRs, Clay.

Fox Newsโ€™ Jesse Watters(0:05): โ€œItโ€™s going to be a wave election, and you [Democrats] gonna lose the Senate, Iโ€™ll bet you $1,000 now.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Lisa Boothe(0:12): โ€œDemocrats are going to be crushed on November 8th because a red wave is coming.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Greg Gutfeld(0:16): โ€œBetting that Joy will learn two new words on Tuesday, red wave.โ€

Unidentified Fox Business host(0:21): โ€œHow big could that looming red wave get?โ€

Fox Businessโ€™ Maria Bartiromo(0:23): โ€œWe begin this Sunday morning with expectations of a red wave this Tuesday.โ€

Fox News Contributor Marc Thiessen(0:39): โ€œWeโ€™ve been hearing, โ€˜is it going to be a red wave?โ€™, โ€˜is it going to be a red tsunami?โ€™, I think itโ€™s going to be a red hurricane.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Pete Hegseth(0:43): โ€œWhen the red wave comes, and it is coming, Joe Bidenโ€™s political utility is over.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ John Roberts(0:48): โ€œAre we in for a red wind here, or a red wave?โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Martha MacCallum(0:51): โ€œRed wave or red tsunami, what are you feeling today?โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Jesse Watters(0:54): โ€œAnd donโ€™t listen to the lies they are spewing, that this could take daysโ€ฆto know who won. This is total bs. A wave like this, we should know that night, basically, who won the Senate and the House, and even if it happens Wednesday into Thursday, itโ€™s gravy.โ€

Unidentified Fox News Reporter reporting on an actual tropical storm approaching Florida(1:09): โ€œRight out the back door, Iโ€™ve got a tropical storm brewing right now. I think theyโ€™re saying it could be a category one by the end of the day. However, let me tell you what is the storm, that red waveโ€ฆโ€  Oh boy!!

Thereโ€™s also this clip from MSNBCโ€™s The Beat with Ari Melber which shows even journalists from CNN sucked into the โ€œred waveโ€ mass hysteria. Not a good look, CNN, not a good look.

CNN & ABCโ€™s Alyssa Farah Griffin(7:28): โ€œA red wave is coming. Republicans are going to win the midtermsโ€ฆโ€

New York Postโ€™s Karol Markowicz(7:32): โ€œForget red wave, Iโ€™m rooting for a red tsunami. โ€œ

CNNโ€™s Jake Tapper(7:34): โ€œPoliticos with whom I spoke today all agree, as of now, a modest red wave at the very least, seems to be building.โ€

Fox Newsโ€™ Dana Perino(7:49): โ€œSigns of a red wave are kind of getting bigger than ever, but not everybody in the media wants to hear that.โ€ Dana is a former White House Press Secretary.

Fox Newsโ€™ Jesse Watters(7:55): โ€œIt wasnโ€™t looking like a red wave earlier in August, and now it looks like a tsunami.โ€

As MSNBC host Ari Melber aptly summarized it (8:00): โ€œThe point there is not that multiple news channels over there echo Fox and sound similar, as they make those predictions that have been proven falseโ€ฆItโ€™s bigger than the media or polls. This is a larger effort to hack your mind, and the discourse, and shape the ultimate turnout for the results in our democracy itselfโ€ฆIt is legal to be sure, but itโ€™s also misleading with real consequencesโ€ฆIf you really have a huge bankable lead, you donโ€™t need to hype it. You just turn your voters out and win, but so many Republican leaders know their slate of MAGA candidates lately, is very weakโ€ฆSo Republicans concluded they needed to inflate their perceived support in the hopes that that might then create more support than they have actually haveโ€ฆโ€

Bottom line folks, this stuff is serious. New York Governor Kathy Hochul also addressed this fake poll issue, which featured prominently in her race. What Gov Hochul said about this serious issue lines up with the assessment by MSNBCโ€™s Ari Melber. 

Voters have a right to know which polling firms are credible, and those with a history of manipulating polls to aid campaigns. This will prevent reputable news channels from getting sucked into theseย โ€œwaveโ€ย hoaxes, as they report on elections.

For the record, Yours Truly never fell for the โ€œred wave/tsunamiโ€ mass hysteria for one minute.

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Trump Accused Of โ€œSports Washingโ€ Saudi Arabiaโ€™s Complicity In 9/11 Attacks

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Terry Strada, the National Chair of 9/11 Families United On MSNBCโ€™s Alex Witt Reports(07/30/22)

MSNBCโ€™s Liz McLaughlin reported on Alex Witt Reports show(07/30/22) that outraged families of the victims of the September 11th attacks(2001) are protesting the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Tournament currently being held at former President Trumpโ€™s Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey. The protesters are essentially accusing former President Trump and the participating golfers, of โ€œsports washingโ€ Saudi Arabiaโ€™s role in the horrific 9/11 attacks, and their atrocious human rights record generally.

Asked by host Alex Witt, how the families were responding to the tournament, Liz McLaughlin responded (video at 0:31):โ€œThe families say they are disgusted, disappointed, that it feels like a gut punch after losing a loved one in that horrible act, to see a former President of the United States, who by the way, has the presidential seal emblazoned on golf carts, embroidered in golf towels at this tournament, which is less than 50 miles from ground zero, to have him take what they call blood money. LIV is bankrolled by Saudi Arabiaโ€™s sovereign wealth fund, investing an estimated 2 billion in LIV Golf so far, and this new pro golf circuit is set to try to dethrone the PGA, but it has come with a lot of controversy, and Trump is set to host another one of these, later in the year.โ€

Trump has defended his actions saying, โ€œnobody has gotten to the bottom of 9/11 unfortunately, and they should haveโ€โ€“essentially arguing that itโ€™s unfair/inaccurate to place the 9/11 blame on Saudi Arabia. He also added that all the proceeds from the golf tournament will be going to charity, so he was not profiting from it.

As Liz McLaughlin correctly pointed out however, even though the U.S. government has never singled out Saudi Arabia as the masterminds of the 9/11 attacks, it is a fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from the Kingdom, and the mastermind of the attacks, Osama bin Laden, was also born there. It has also been established that a lot of the funding for bin Ladenโ€™s Al Qaeda terrorist network, came from Saudi nationals. So any reasonable person would suspect that the Saudis were behind the 9/11 attacks. And even if one gives Saudi Arabia a pass over 9/11, it is impossible to ignore the Kingdomโ€™s atrocious human rights record, which includes the brutal murder of American journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 

Terry Strada, the National Chair of 9/11 Families United, slammed Trumpโ€™s assertion that nobody has gotten to the bottom of the 9/11 attacks, telling host Alex Witt(3:02): โ€œHe sounds foolish saying anything like that. He met with the families. He met with me in the White House and we went there for the sole purpose of asking him to declassify FBI documents that were the investigative reports into thisโ€ฆso he sounds completely foolish when he says that nobody has looked into it. We asked him to look into it. It was his job as President to look into it. He failed us miserably back then.โ€

Bottom line folks, the pundits on Fox News recently made a big deal out of President Bidenโ€™s fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman(MBS) on his official visit to Saudi Arabia. It will be interesting to see if the same pundits also make a big deal out of former President Trumpโ€™s โ€œsports washingโ€ of Saudiโ€™s atrocious human rights record and involvement in the 9/11 attacks. 

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Senator Chris Murphy Wants U.S. Led Probe Into Shireen Abu Aklehโ€™s Death

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Senator Chris Murphy(D-CT) appeared on MSNBC Prime(07/13/22) to discuss President Bidenโ€™s trip to the Middle East, and especially his trip to Saudi Arabia which has drawn condemnation, given Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmanโ€™s implication in Washington Post Columnist Jamal Khashoggiโ€™s brutal murder. During his interview , Senator Murphy also delved into another controversial topic, and that is, the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli troops.

An investigation conducted by the Israel government into Aklehโ€™s killing concluded that IDF troops shot her by accident. Naturally, this conclusion has generated a lot of criticism from around the globe, and especially from press freedom advocates. Senator Murphy is calling for an independent U.S. led investigation into Shireen Abu Aklehโ€™s death.

Asked by host Ali Velshi why it was important for the U.S. to conduct an independent investigation, Senator Murphy responded(video at 4:57):โ€œSenator Murphy told host Ali Velshi(video at ):โ€First and foremost, any time an American dies overseas, we should apply the highest degree of scrutiny to make sure we get to the bottom of the story as to how an American citizen was killed, and in this case, given that it might have come at the hands of foreign security forces, that inquiry is even more important. We are simply asking that we do a thorough review that we are not confident the Israeli authorities have done themselves. So I think itโ€™s important to get to the bottom of this even if the bottom involves some unsavory truths about what an important ally of the United States may have done, or elements of their security forces may have done to contribute to this Americanโ€™s death.โ€

Bottom line folks, Israel has been, and remains Americaโ€™s closest and dearest foreign ally. Ordinarily, Yours Truly would be inclined to accept Israelโ€™s explanation of Shireen Abu Aklehโ€™s death at face value but where, as here, the death in question is of a U.S. citizen, Yours Truly has no choice but to agree with Senator Murphy, that the United States needs to conduct its independent investigation. however unpleasant the results may be. Israel and the United States will forever remain close friends, so thereโ€™s no harm in finding out the truth behind Shireen Abu Aklehโ€™s death. The Biden administration owes her family the truth regarding the circumstances of her death overseas.

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Three Trump Campaign Officials Were Directly Involved In Harassment Of An Elderly Georgia Election Worker

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Trumpers Trevian Kutti and Garrison Douglas pressuring election worker Ruby Freeman to confess to a bogus election fraud scheme at a Georgia police station(Jan 4, 2021)

A troubling segment on MSNBCโ€™s Rachel Maddow Show (12/22/21) revealed that three Trump campaign officials were directly involved in the harassment of an elderly Georgia election worker, Ruby Freeman, who they tried to extort into confessing to a bogus election fraud claim pushed by then President Trump. The officials in question are Harrison Floyd, a Black Voices for Trump Executive Director, who until November 2020, was a paid Trump campaign staffer, Trevian Kutti, a publicist for Trumpโ€™s Rapper buddy Kanye West(now Ye), and Garrison Douglas, another Black Voices for Trump member who apparently, was also working for the Georgia Republican Party at the time of this harassment scheme.

Trevian Kutti is the woman in the dark outfit, seen in the video pressuring election worker Ruby Freeman to confess in 48 hours, if she wants to avoid getting arrested, and as a condition for her getting โ€œprotectionโ€. The man sitting on the right of Trevian Kutti as she issues her threats, is Garrison Douglas, who at the time, was working for the Georgia Republican Party, and is also a member of the Black Voices For Trump. The โ€œhigh-profile individualโ€ who Trevian Kutti got on the phone with, who was supposedly going to โ€œprotectโ€ Ruby Freeman, and keep her out of jail if she confessed in 48 hours, is Harrison Floyd, the Executive Director of Black Voices for Trump. Harrison Floyd was until November 2020, a paid Trump campaign staffer. Thereโ€™s no question that this shameful harassment scheme was a full blown Trump operation geared towards stopping the certification of Joe Bidenโ€™s electoral college victory, scheduled for January 6th.

Maddow said: โ€œJust step back here for a moment, just appreciate what we now know happened here. This is in the midst of what at this point, is already a weeks-long pressure campaign by President Trump and his allies in Georgia. Everybody from President Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and everybody on down, is hyping this wackadoodle conspiracy theory about a random Atlanta election worker, and her being like the mastermind of the crime. They are doing that in order to justify getting Republican officials in Georgia to overturn the election results and say that Trump won. That election worker is getting threatened like you cannot believe. She is in fear for her life under an onslaught of harassment and threats, and in the midst of that, three people involved with the Trump campaign, one of whom until recently had been a high profile Trump campaign employee, another who works for the Republican Party, they arrange to show up at this womanโ€™s house and try to get her to admit to election fraud because then they can protect her. And the deadline they gave her was very specificโ€“48 hoursโ€ฆ.Why was it so important that they get to her before that 48 hours was up? Well, at the end of that 48 hours, remember that conversation happened on January 4th, 48 hours after that was the certification of Joe Bidenโ€™s win in Congress, the thing Trump and his allies were trying to stop at all costs.โ€

Maddow went on to add that on January 6th, as the insurrection was playing out in real time, a bunch of Trumpers surrounded Ruby Freemanโ€™s house in Atlanta, and shouted at her through a bullhorn. Any reasonable person presented with Maddowโ€™s account of this incident would conclude that Ruby Freemanโ€™s harassers were not just some random Trump supporters arbitrarily going out of their way to inflict pain on her, but rather that they were part of an elaborate scheme to force a bogus confession out of her, which they could then use to overturn the Georgia election results, and stop the scheduled January 6th certification in Congress. Simply put, these were conspirators to a crime.

Bottom line folks, the January 6th Committee definitely needs to look into who was giving orders to these three Trumpers in this very elaborate scheme to (1) overturn Georgiaโ€™s 2020 election results and (2) to put a stop to the scheduled January 6th Congressional certification of Bidenโ€™s electoral college win. The public deserves to know who else was working with these three shady characters, as they terrorized an innocent, and elderly election worker. Thatโ€™s the least the January 6th Committee can do for poor Ruby Freemanโ€™s tormented family.

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Senator Shaheen Says Havana Syndrome Most Likely Caused By โ€œMicrowave Directed Energy Attacksโ€

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Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) appeared on MSNBCโ€™s Andrea Mitchell Reports (12/15/21), where she gave an update on the investigation into the causes/origins of Havana Syndrome. Senator Shaheen said Russia remains the chief suspect, adding that she agrees with the assessment of the National Academy of Sciences, that these are most likely โ€œmicrowave directed energy attacks.โ€

Sen Shaheen said part of the defense authorization bill currently being debated in Congress, seeks to provide a coordinator who will look into Havana Syndrome cases across all federal agencies, and keep Congress apprised on any new findings.

Sen Shaheen told host Andrea Mitchell:โ€œWhat we want is a coordinator, not just within the various agencies where theyโ€™ve had personnel attacked, but also someone who can coordinate the entire effort, and thatโ€™s part of the amendment thatโ€™s in the defense bill, as well as a regular reporting to Congress. We want to know exactly whatโ€™s going on so that we can respond. Itโ€™s very troubling that this happened years ago, five years ago, and we still donโ€™t know whoโ€™s responsible, we donโ€™t know exactly the cause of the attacks, and weโ€™re not sure whoโ€™s doing it.โ€

Neither Senator Shaheen nor MSNBCโ€™s Andrea Mitchel addressed the growing elephant-in-the-room question regarding directed energy attacks, and that is, growing complaints by regular civilians in the U.S.(not diplomats), who claim to be victims of directed energy attacks, leaving them with symptoms of Havana Syndromeโ€“complaints similar to the one below. Will the designated Havana Syndrome coordinator also hear from such regular civilians and report back to Congress? Hmm

Bottom line folks, the U.S. constitution intended for members of Congress to function as representatives of their constituents. Where, as here, we have Congress totally ignoring cries from regular civilians(their constituents) of directed energy attacks, while at the same time enacting a scheme to compensate and treat similarly afflicted government employees, one can only conclude that the era of representative government is long goneโ€“a sad state of affairs indeed. At some point, hopefully soon, Congress will have to entertain Havana Syndrome complaints from regular civilians. Then, and only then, will the public have confidence in the governmentโ€™s investigation into Havana Syndrome.

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