What we’re reading…
Trump is sending special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to Moscow to offer Russia Putin US recognition of their illegal annexation of Crimea and most of the other four eastern oblasts of Ukraine.
Which just happens to be the same territory covered in the “Mariupol Plan” where Russian operatives told Trump’s 2016 campaign manager, Paul Manafort, they would help Trump win the election in exchange for his looking the other way as Russia took control of the region.
The WSJ dropped a report that Witkoff, Kushner, and Kirill Dmitriev, (ally of Putin who is under US sanctions) designed their plan to also bypass US national security officials and create opportunities for US businessmen to win multibillion-dollar deals to develop energy and rare-earth minerals in Russia, Ukraine, and the Arctic.
Crony capitalism over American values.
We’re watching a president melt down over social media…”A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being ‘Politically Correct,’ and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration.”
He continued with a screed that sounded like it was written by a white nationalist on a crusade to expel all immigrants from the US. The posting claimed, falsely, that most immigrants are “from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels,” and that they are supported extravagantly by taxes paid by US citizens.
It blamed refugees for the nation’s “[f]ailed schools, high crime, urban decay, overcrowded hospitals, housing shortages, and large deficits,” and used a slur to describe Minnesota governor Tim Walz, claiming he has done nothing to get rid of his state’s Somalian refugees.
His next post blamed immigration policy for eroding the US standard of living, and announced a purge of immigrants from the country: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the U.S. system to fully recover, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions, including those signed by Sleepy Joe Biden’s Autopen, and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country, end all Federal benefits and subsidies to noncitizens of our Country, denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”
Stripping citizenship from some of the country’s 24.5 million naturalized citizens makes a mockery of America as a melting pot.
Does it really need repeating that when Hitler came to power in 1933, the German government began to strip Jews and other political opponents of citizenship?
Trump’s post went on: “These goals will be pursued with the aim of achieving a major reduction in illegal and disruptive populations, including those admitted through an unauthorized and illegal Autopen approval process. Only REVERSE MIGRATION can fully cure this situation. Other than that, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, except those that hate, steal, murder, and destroy everything that America stands for—You won’t be here for long!”
Lastly it is being reported that Senate Armed Services Committee chair Roger Wicker (R-MS) and the committee’s top Democrat, Jack Reed (D-RI), issued a statement saying: “The Committee is aware of recent news reports—and the Department of Defense’s initial response—regarding alleged follow-on strikes on suspected narcotics vessels in the SOUTHCOM area of responsibility. The Committee has directed inquiries to the Department, and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances.”
Turns out committing murder in the name of America might not be so patriotic after all. Somebody better start lining up legal representation.