So-Called Trump Dossier is Nothing More than DNC Collusion to Steal 2016 Election

Well, after all the brouhaha regarding the supposed bombshell of the Trump dossier and Russian collusion to influence the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election, the just released Congressional Investigation memo regarding their findings clearly and unequivocally shows the actual collusion was between the FBI, DOJ, Clinton Campaign and the Obama Administration in order to unfairly and illegally influence the outcome of the election in order to favor the Democratic Party.

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Declassified by order of the President — February 2, 2018

January 18, 2018

To: HPSCI Majority Members

From: HPSCI Majority Staff

Subject: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Abuses at the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Purpose

This memorandum provides Members an update on significant facts relating to the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and their use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) during the 2016 presidential election cycle. Our findings, which are detailed below, 1) raise concerns with the legitimacy and legality of certain DOJ and FBI interactions with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), and 2) represent a troubling breakdown of legal processes established to protect the American people from abuses related to the FISA process.

Investigation Update

On October 21, 2016, DOJ and FBI sought and received a FISA probable cause order (not under Title VII) authorizing electronic surveillance on Carter Page from the FISC. Page is a U.S. citizen who served as a volunteer advisor to the Trump presidential campaign. Consistent with requirements under FISA, the application had to be first certified by the Director or Deputy Director of the FBI. It then required the approval of the Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General (DAG), or the Senate-confirmed Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

The FBI and DOJ obtained one initial FISA warrant targeting Carter Page and three FISA renewals from the FISC. As required by statute (50 U.S.C. §1805(d)(1)), a FISA order on an American citizen must be renewed by the FISC every 90 days and each renewal requires a separate finding of probable cause. Then-Director James Comey signed three FISA applications in question on behalf of the FBI, and Deputy Director Andrew McCabe signed one. Then-DAG Sally Yates, then-Acting DAG Dana Boente, and DAG Rod Rosenstein each signed one or more FISA applications on behalf of DOJ.

Due to the sensitive nature of foreign intelligence activity, FISA submissions (including renewals) before the FISC are classified. As such, the public’s confidence in the integrity of the FISA process depends on the court’s ability to hold the government to the highest standard particularly as it relates to surveillance of American citizens. However, the FISC’s rigor in protecting the rights of Americans, which is reinforced by 90-day renewals of surveillance orders, is necessarily dependent on the government’s production to the court of all material and relevant facts. This should include information potentially favorable to the target of the FISA application that is known by the government. In the case of Carter Page, the government had at least four independent opportunities before the FISC to accurately provide an accounting of the relevant facts. However, our findings indicate that, as described below, material and relevant information was omitted.

1) The “dossier” compiled by Christopher Steele (Steele dossier) on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Hillary Clinton campaign formed an essential part of the Carter Page FISA application. Steele was a longtime FBI source who was paid over $160,000 by the DNC and Clinton campaign, via the law firm Perkins Coie and research firm Fusion GPS, to obtain derogatory information on Donald Trump’s ties to Russia.

a) Neither the initial application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.

b) The initial FISA application notes Steele was working for a named U.S. person, but does not name Fusion GPS and principal Glenn Simpson, who was paid by a U.S. law firm (Perkins Coie) representing the DNC (even though it was known by DOJ at the time that political actors were involved with the Steele dossier). The application does not mention Steele was ultimately working on behalf of—and paid by—the DNC and Clinton campaign, or that the FBI had separately authorized payment to Steele for the same information.

2) The Carter Page FISA application also cited extensively a September 23, 2016, Yahoo News article by Michael Isikoff, which focuses on Page’s July 2016 trip to Moscow. This article does not corroborate the Steele dossier because it is derived from information leaked by Steele himself to Yahoo News. The Page FISA application incorrectly assesses that Steele did not directly provide information to Yahoo News. Steele has admitted in British court filings that he met with Yahoo News—and several other outlets—in September 2016 at the direction of Fusion GPS. Perkins Coie was aware of Steele’s initial media contacts because they hosted at least one meeting in Washington D.C. in 2016 with Steele and Fusion GPS where this matter was discussed.

a) Steele was suspended and then terminated as an FBI source for what the FBI defines as the most serious of violations—an unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI in an October 30, 2016, Mother Jones article by David Corn. Steele should have been terminated for his previous undisclosed contacts with Yahoo and other outlets in September—before the Page application was submitted to the FISC in October—but Steele improperly concealed from and lied to the FBI about those contacts.

b) Steele’s numerous encounters with the media violated the cardinal rule of source handling—maintaining confidentiality—and demonstrated that Steele had become a less than reliable source for the FBI.

3) Before and after Steele was terminated as a source, he maintained contact with DOJ via then-Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr, a senior DOJ official who worked closely with Deputy Attorneys General Yates and later Rosenstein. Shortly after the election, the FBI began interviewing Ohr, documenting his communications with Steele. For example, in September 2016, Steele admitted to Ohr his feelings against then-candidate Trump when Steele said he “was desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president.” This clear evidence of Steele’s bias was recorded by Ohr at the time and subsequently in official FBI files—but not reflected in any of the Page FISA applications.

a) During this same time period, Ohr’s wife was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump. Ohr later provided the FBI with all of his wife’s opposition research, paid for by the DNC and Clinton campaign via Fusion GPS. The Ohrs’ relationship with Steele and Fusion GPS was inexplicably concealed from the FISC.

4) According to the head of the FBI’s counterintelligence division, Assistant Director Bill Priestap, corroboration of the Steele dossier was in its “infancy” at the time of the initial Page FISA application. After Steele was terminated, a source validation report conducted by an independent unit within FBI assessed Steele’s reporting as only minimally corroborated. Yet, in early January 2017, Director Comey briefed President-elect Trump on a summary of the Steele dossier, even though it was—according to his June 2017 testimony—“salacious and unverified.” While the FISA application relied on Steele’s past record of credible reporting on other unrelated matters, it ignored or concealed his anti-Trump financial and ideological motivations. Furthermore, Deputy Director McCabe testified before the Committee in December 2017 that no surveillance warrant would have been sought from the FISC without the Steele dossier information.

5) The Page FISA application also mentions information regarding fellow Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos, but there is no evidence of any cooperation or conspiracy between Page and Papadopoulos. The Papadopoulos information triggered the opening of an FBI counterintelligence investigation in late July 2016 by FBI agent Pete Strzok. Strzok was reassigned by the Special Counsel’s Office to FBI Human Resources for improper text messages with his mistress, FBI Attorney Lisa Page (no known relation to Carter Page), where they both demonstrated a clear bias against Trump and in favor of Clinton, whom Strzok had also investigated. The Strzok/Lisa Page texts also reflect extensive discussions about the investigation, orchestrating leaks to the media, and include a meeting with Deputy Director McCabe to discuss an “insurance” policy against President Trump’s election.

UNCLASSIFIED

PROPERTY OF THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

What further proof is needed for the mainstream media to finally shed light on the illegal activities of the DNC et al to steal a Presidential election? 

If this doesn't wake up voters on both sides of the aisle to demand change and accountability from all parties involved, then apathy will be the order of the day, and the country will continue its slide from greatness to mediocrity, and we will no longer be able to lead the world towards a better future.

An Alarming Development in Berkley, CA

Just released today is an extremely alarming bit of information from the governmental watchdog group, Judicial Watch. They recently obtained documents via FOIA requests from the manipulators behind the recent attacks at political rallies in the Berkley area. This information is not just alarming, but downright frightening in regards to the stability of the United States. Please read...

U.S. Mayor Assures Mexican Consul His “Sanctuary City” Will Provide Safe Spaces for Illegal Aliens

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Shortly after Donald Trump got elected president, a California mayor arranged a meeting with the Consul General of Mexico to assure the diplomat that his “sanctuary city” will continue providing safe spaces for illegal immigrants, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. The documents show that Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin’s top aide, Stefan Elgstrand, sent an electronic mail to the Mexican Consul General in San Francisco, Gemi Jose Gonzalez Lopez, stating the following: “The recent events around Trump’s executive order reminded me to reach out to you. We are a sanctuary city and will continue to be. I imagine you are very busy dealing with the concerns and fears of many residents in the Bay Area, and we want to assist in providing safe spaces for them.”

Judicial Watch obtained the files as part of a California Public Records Act request for information surrounding riots by the radical leftist Antifa movement against President Trump and conservative personalities scheduled to speak at the University of California Berkeley. Media reported that fires were set, fences and windows broken, firebombs launched and commercial-grade fireworks thrown at police. A renowned, San Francisco-based pop culture magazine wrote that the uprising raised some big questions about the future of the free speech movement. Judicial Watch requested the files to shed light into how city, police and university officials handled the lawlessness, which received global news coverage. The request asked for records of communications between officials in the Berkeley mayor’s office and the Berkeley Police Department as well as records of communications between the mayor’s office and officials at UC Berkeley, one of the nation’s top public research universities.

The documents show a coordinated effort between Democratic city officials nationwide to “build the movement to resist Trump.” The operation is being financed by leftwing billionaire philanthropist George Soros through one of his groups called Center of Popular Democracy. Earlier this year Judicial Watch uncovered a scandal in which the U.S. government quietly gave millions of taxpayer dollars to destabilize the democratically elected, center-right government in Macedonia by colluding with Soros’ Open Society Foundation. The U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia, Jess L. Baily, worked behind the scenes with Open Society Foundation to funnel large sums of American dollars for the cause, constituting an interference of the U.S. Ambassador in domestic political affairs in violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The cash flowed through the State Department and the famously corrupt U.S. Agency of International Development (USAID) and Judicial Watch sued both agencies for records related to funding and political activities of the Open Society Foundation in Macedonia.

The Soros-backed, northern California movement includes a taxpayer-salaried physics professor at UC Berkeley who advises Mayor Arreguin on how to handle conservative protestors at a spring rally. The professor, James McFadden, tells the mayor in an electronic mail obtained by Judicial Watch to “create a corral” and ask the Trump supporters to “get in the corral.” He describes Trump supporters as “delusional and paranoid about the world around them” and says they’re “willing to use violence to impose that order on us, especially when they have the blessing of a narcissistic authoritarian president.” A professor at another California public university tells the Berkeley mayor that the arrest of Antifa leader/middle school teacher Yvette Felarca for assaulting a political opponent (captured on video) at a Sacramento rally, in which seven people were stabbed, was a “McCarthyist political persecution” and he condemned Felarca’s arrest and teaching suspension “in the strongest possible terms.”

Ironically, Berkeley’s official government website brags about being a bastion of the free speech movement. “In Alameda County alone, Berkeley is ranked fourth in population behind Oakland, Fremont, and Hayward,” the website states. “And yet, we are famous around the globe as a center for academic achievement, scientific exploration, free speech and the arts.” Indeed, Berkeley is renowned as the birthplace of the free speech movement in in the 1960s. An opinion piece in a California newspaper points out that the city’s free speech movement has gone full circle, however. “Nowadays, Berkeley is rapidly becoming famed as one of the least tolerant cities in the country — where any challenge to left-wing orthodoxy is met with terrorist threats and mob violence.”

The REAL Financial Burden on US Taxpayers by Illegal Immigration

From Judicial Watch, a legal watchdog organization that exposes and battles corruption by the US Government and its various agencies comes a shocking financial report on the REAL cost to US Taxpayers by the illegal immigration problem in the United States. Get ready to be astounded by the incredible monies the government spends to support those who enter the country illegally and then  expect the all-too-easily-obtained free financial assistance the uninformed (or purposely turn a blind eye to) advocates for these illegals want us to believe is only fair and humanitarian.
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Illegal Immigration Costs U.S. Taxpayers a Stunning $134.9 Billion a Year

Lest you think the debate over immigration policy is an academic exercise, we have recently gotten more details on what it costs you in dollars. Our Corruption Chronicles blog breaks it down.

Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers a mind-boggling $134.9 billion annually, according to a detailed analysis of federal, state and local programs that include education, medical, law enforcement and welfare.

Conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a Washington D.C. nonprofit dedicated to studying immigration issues, the in-depth probe reveals that state and local taxpayers get stuck with an overwhelming chunk—$116 billion—of the burden. State and local expenditures for services provided to illegal aliens total $88.9 billion and federal expenditures $45.8 billion, the analysis found. For those who claim illegal immigrants contribute by paying taxes, government figures show that only $19 billion was recouped by Uncle Sam.

“A continually growing population of illegal aliens, along with the federal government’s ineffective efforts to secure our borders, present significant national security and public safety threats to the United States,” the FAIR report states. “They also have a severely negative impact on the nation’s taxpayers at the local, state, and national levels. Illegal immigration costs Americans billions of dollars each year. Illegal aliens are net consumers of taxpayer-funded services and the limited taxes paid by some segments of the illegal alien population are, in no way, significant enough to offset the growing financial burdens imposed on U.S. taxpayers by massive numbers of uninvited guests.” This defies a myth, long promoted by influential open border groups, that illegal aliens pay their fair share of taxes.

More than 12.5 million illegal immigrants and their estimated 4.2 million citizen children benefit from the U.S. government’s generosity. The biggest expenditure ($17.14 billion) on the federal level is for medical services, which include uncompensated hospital costs, Medicaid births, Medicaid fraud and Medicaid benefits for U.S.-born children (anchor babies) of illegal immigrants. The second-largest federal expenditure is law enforcement and justice ($13.15 billion), which includes incarceration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations and an alien assistance program.

The feds spend $8 billion on general government programs and $5.85 billion on welfare, which consists of free school meals, food stamps, a supplemental nutrition program known as Women Infants and Children (WIC) and temporary assistance for needy families. FAIR points out the profound impact that illegal immigration has on programs intended to provide services exclusively to low-income Americans.

For state and local governments education is by far the largest expense, an eye-popping $44.4 billion that goes mostly to K-12 public schools nationwide, though over a billion of it is spent on college tuition assistance. General public services, described as expenses associated with garbage collection, fire departments and other locally funded services total $18.5 billion for illegal aliens, the analysis found. Medical expenses came in third ($12.1 billion) for state and local governments and law enforcement ($10.8 billion) in fourth.

FAIR researchers determined that a large percentage of illegal aliens work in the underground economy and frequently avoid paying income tax, leaving law-abiding, taxpaying Americans to foot the exorbitant tab for public services. The report also breaks down expenditures by state, with the top four spenders providing illegal alien benefits being California ($23 billion), Texas ($10.9 billion), New York ($7.5 billion) and Florida ($6.3 billion).

Over the years, Judicial Watch has reported on a variety of studies and assessments involving the huge cost of supporting illegal immigrants, but this appears to be the most thorough and alarming study in recent memory. The breakdown, by category of state and federal services, offers an incredibly detailed account of a major crisis perpetuated by a famously porous southern border.

As FAIR writes in its report, it’s not just about money, though the cost of supporting illegal immigrants should outrage every legal U.S. resident and American citizen. “A continually growing population of illegal aliens, along with the federal government’s ineffective efforts to secure our borders, present significant national security and public safety threats to the United States,” FAIR writes. Judicial Watch has also extensively covered the dire national security crisis along the Mexican border, including an investigative series documenting how Islamic terrorists have joined forces with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate—and attack—the United States.

Are you outraged yet? These figures, representing YOUR TAXES, are completely ludicrous! Those who support illegal immigration either deny the true costs, or completely ignore and turn a blind eye to them. They would have us all believe that whatever is spent on illegal residents is well-worth any cost, no matter the burden. Meanwhile, programs meant for AMERICANS  are being drained for the benefit of people who are not only here without permission of the US Government, but who actually expect these services and costs to be provided while they suckle off the teat of Uncle Sam to the astounding costs listed above. I urge you to write your State and Congressional Reps and Senator to demand change so that YOUR tax dollars are spent on Americans only. It's well past time to turn off the spigot of free services and monies to those who have come to expect everything at the expense of US taxpayers.

Politically Incorrect to Express Patriotism?

A story in the AP newswire today tells of a single customer who has complained to Dairy Queen, Inc. about what he/she believes to be a 'politically incorrect' sign on display in a Wisconsin restaurant. Here's the text...

"A Wisconsin Dairy Queen owner is defending a sign describing his restaurant as "politically incorrect" for its unabashed support for "God and country.

The sign at the franchise in Kewaskum notifies patrons that staff may say "Merry Christmas," ''Happy Easter" and "God Bless America," among other things.

Owner Kevin Scheunemann tells WDJT-TV he "felt the sign was appropriate to hang in terms of being transparent about the views of the owner and staff supporting God and country."
One customer who apparently doesn't agree took a picture of the sign and complained about it on Dairy Queen's page on Facebook.
The chain tells the station the sign "expresses the views of this independent owner only" and doesn't speak for the company or any other franchise owners."

Are you freaking serious?! This complaining customer is so horrifically offended by an expression of patriotism, Christmas and other things that they must try to make an example of the franchise owner as being insensitive to people's feelings?!
Well, let's just make the whole world come to a screeching halt because one person is supposedly aghast by someone else saying, "God Bless America!"

HOW COMPLETELY LUDICROUS!

I would love to know just how many times a day this outraged individual says something akin to "Oh My God!" in their daily speech. Talk about coming from a hypocritical position to effect YOUR feelings on everyone else around you, or on those who enjoy hearing 'Merry Christmas, etc.'

This person really needs to stop thinking that the world revolves around themselves!

Plain and simply, I say to them, "Get a life and stop telling everyone else what to say, think or express."

Then, grow a spine and realize that your personal views aren't the will and whim of the Universe.

(Absolutely disgusting!)

College Campuses No Longer Free Speech Zones?

From Alliance Defending Freedom, a watchdog legal group whose aim it is to ensure our freedoms as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, comes disturbing information from college campuses across the country. Below are a few excerpts of highly questionable actions happening to the young students there to learn, instead of being indoctrinated by liberal thinking and attitudes that ultimately deprive them of freedoms they take for granted. Please read these examples...

(Caution, if you are a free-thinking American dedicated to the principles this country was founded upon, these blurbs will both infuriate and exasperate you at the same time.)

*A few years ago, Stephen Trachtenberg, who was then the president of George Washington University, declared at graduation: “If anyone has a mortarboard, you can move your tassels from right to left, right to left, which is what I hope happened to your politics in the last four years.”

*Bill Savage, a professor at Northwestern University, explained why liberals will dominate in the long-run despite the fact that conservatives have a lot of children.

“The children of red states will seek a higher education,” he explained, “and that education will very often happen in blue states or blue islands in red states. For the foreseeable future, loyal dittoheads will continue to drop off their children at the dorms. After a teary-eyed hug, Mom and Dad will drive their SUV off toward the nearest gas station, leaving their beloved progeny behind … And then they are all mine.”

*When a study revealed that Duke University employed far more politically liberal professors than conservatives, the Chairman of the Philosophy Department defended this disparity saying since “stupid people are generally conservative, then there are lots of conservatives we will never hire.”

This next one is especially mind boggling!

*Campus security arrested Michelle Gregoire and two associates at Kellogg Community College in Michigan for handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution. The school claims these individuals violated its solicitation policy, which requires students to obtain permission from the school before they engage in any expressive activity anywhere on campus.
Ironically, this repressive policy apparently forbids efforts to circulate the very document that protects free speech in our country!

*California State University — San Marcos funds pro-abortion and other favored views with almost $300,000 in mandatory fees charged to all of its students. When the campus president of Students for Life attempted to bring a pro-life speaker to campus and simply asked for $500 in funding, the request was denied.

*A Fresno State University professor instructed students in his class to join him in defacing and erasing Fresno State Students for Life’s sidewalk chalk messages on campus. The professor even had the audacity to claim that “College campuses are not free speech areas.”

These examples are but a few that ADF actively opposes in court in order to protect our college students from the dangers of the current liberal socialistic agenda. They report that the ADF is successful in winning over 90% of their cases against the repressive policies on many college campuses. If this attitude of our institutions of higher learning concern you as much as they do me, I hope that, as parents of college students, or just as concerned citizens, you call or write your elected Representatives and Senators at ALL levels of local, State and National Governments and demand that colleges be returned to places of free thinking, free speech and open ideas of all philosophies wherein our children can learn and express themselves without fear of retribution, intimidation or unfair policies towards unfavored viewpoints.
You may also contribute to the Alliance Defending Freedom so that their freely given legal work continues to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights for ALL students on ALL college and school campuses in these United States.

Absolutely Mindboggling: Gitmo Terrorist Prisoners' Medical Treatment

Here's a truly mindboggling news item from Judicial Watch, the non-profit Governmental watchdog legal group. To say this one is astounding comes far short of the truth...

"As the nation prepares to commemorate the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military, a Pentagon insider reveals that Al Qaeda terrorist jailed at Guantanamo get better medical treatment than our own veterans.

As disgraceful as this may seem, it’s not at all far-fetched considering the Obama administration has gone out of its way to accommodate the prisoners—the world’s most dangerous terrorists—at the U.S. Naval base in southeastern Cuba. We’re talking about 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) and his partners in crime, Ramzi Binalshibh and Ali Abdul Aziz Ali. USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is also locked up there.

Since 2008 Judicial Watch has regularly traveled to Gitmo to monitor the Military Commission proceedings of these Islamic jihadists. On many occasions, members of the U.S. Military have expressed to JW representatives that captives in the high-security compound have better living conditions than American soldiers stationed there. This includes food service, sports facilities and even high-speed internet, according to information obtained directly by JW during trips to Gitmo.
Now, in the midst of the scandal involving the Veterans Affairs healthcare system, a Pentagon insider confirms what many have suspected; while our veterans are receiving deplorable healthcare services, the VA is providing jailed terrorists with topnotch medical treatment. J.D. Gordon, a retired Navy Commander who served as a Pentagon spokesman in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, offers enraging figures via a news site. During his tenure Gordon visited Gitmo dozens of times and he got to go behind the scenes.

There are approximately 150 terrorists at Gitmo yet the VA has 100 doctors, nurses and healthcare personnel assigned to them, Gordon says. “Doctors and medical personnel are at their beck and call,” he confirms, adding that they are readily available for things as minor as a cold, fever, toothache or chest and back pain. The jihadists who murdered thousands of Americans never have to wait, Gordon says, because the Gitmo patient to healthcare provider ratio is 1.5 to 1. “No problem, come right on in,” Gordon writes in his piece.

If you risked your life serving your country, however, the ratio is 35 to 1, according to Gordon who discloses that there are 9 million veterans receiving VA healthcare and 267,930 providers. This is egregious, to say the least. The VA healthcare system has been notoriously flawed for many years—under both Democrat and Republican administrations—but the sad fact that even terrorists are getting better services from the agency really accentuates the severity of the problem.
The system is so inept that military veterans are needlessly dying because of long waits and delayed care at VA hospitals, news reports and federal audits have confirmed. The worst part is that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the nation’s second-largest presidential cabinet agency, is well aware of the crisis but has done nothing to correct it. In fact, VA managers have actively covered up the wrongdoing with fraudulent record keeping, including a secret list to conceal exorbitant waiting periods to receive medical attention. Now the VA Inspector General and Congress are investigating this atrocity. In the meantime it seems that veterans must relocate to a Gitmo jail cell to get adequate medical care from the from the U.S. government."

Flying the US Flag Upside Down in Protest?

A very recent movement by leftist democrats who overtly oppose the Donald Trump Presidency have made a call to fly the US flag upside down as a form of protest to his supposed abuses and impeachable offences in his first seven months in office. This is just a ludicrous protest simply for the fact that flying the flag upside down in a signal to neighbors and passersby that you or your household are in great distress.
The following is my response...

"Let's see...Under King Obama, the Constitution was endangered more than at any point in our history. He also used the NSA, IRS and possibly the FIB to subvert and inhibit Third Party opposition in the past two elections...which is totally illegal. He used Executive Privilege to bypass Congress while attempting to make laws...which is illegal. Obama supported the Black Lives Matter movement which is actively militant and a danger to the general public...which is illegal. He tried to force the State of Arizona to accept his open borders policy...which is illegal according the Arizona State Constitution, and which is prohibited by the Federal Constitution under the US States self-determination clause.
The then monarchical wannabe tried repeatedly to eliminate citizens owning guns...which is illegal under the Second Amendment. He tried to force churches to accept Gay Marriage under threat of removing tax exempt status...which is illegal under the First Amendment. He failed to see that an American Ambassador under attack in Benghazi was given the military support that was desperately needed...which is, at the very least, morally reprehensible and shameful before the American public. He gave illegal immigrants actual rights in this country that they don't deserve, and gave them more benefits (education, housing, healthcare, public assistance) than our own citizens receive...which is morally bankrupt, if not outright illegal. I could go on and on about the failures and scandals of President Barack Obama. However, his actions in office were more than enough for impeachment, but no party enacted the proceedings despite King Barry's glaring abuses of the Constitution and the public trust.

President Trump has not even been in office for seven months, and the Democrats are calling for impeachment for nothing. Sure, he has a big mouth and a huge ego; but there is not one verifiable thing he has done that even comes close to impeachment. They just need to get past the election and start governing again. The seeming witch hunt is beyond ridiculous. Let the man do his job. If he truly deserves impeachment, then I will join in the calls to do so. Until then, I sure wish the left would stop their whining about President Trump.

And so readers know, I am an Independent voter, and did NOT voter for Trump, or Hillary. Both were sad choices. But I am giving our President the benefit of the doubt until he proves that he doesn't deserve my support."

President Lincoln and the Comfort of Providence

A bit of REAL history here, that completely dismisses the revisionist historians seeking to remove God from the history of this Nation, and from the public square in general.

Please read... 

The one word that truly represents the Fourth of July is 'Freedom'

With the countless threats to religious liberty, the sanctity of life, and marriage and family that abound in our land, it is important to maintain perspective in the fight God has called us to in this battle before us. Our nation has faced many perils before, and each time God has delivered us by His hand. Consider that in 1863, on this very day, the bloody Battle of Gettysburg ended with over 50,000 horrible casualties. President Lincoln, who was increasingly drawn to utter dependence on His Maker, was asked by one of his generals if he was fearful of the outcome at Gettysburg. He responded:

No, I was not; some of my Cabinet and many others in Washington were, but I had no fears…. In the pinch of your campaign up there, when everybody seemed panic-stricken, and nobody could tell what was going to happen, oppressed by the gravity of our affairs, I went to my room one day, and I locked the door, and got down on my knees before Almighty God, and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this was His war, and our cause His cause, but we couldn’t stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville. And I then and there made a solemn vow to Almighty God, that if He would stand by our boys at Gettysburg, I would stand by Him. And He did stand by you boys, and I will stand by Him. And after that (I don't know how it was, and I can’t explain it), soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul that God Almighty had taken the whole business into his own hands and that things would go all right at Gettysburg. And that is why I had no fears about you.

Twelve days after the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 15, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed a National Day of Prayer. God delivered our nation then. And He will deliver our nation and those who put their trust in Him now.