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Newly declassified intelligence documents were the centerpiece of President Trump’s address to the nation last night \u2014 documents detailing Chinese interference in our elections, widespread vulnerabilities in our election infrastructure, and declassification of materials exposing that the CIA had this information beginning in 2018 and withheld it from the President during his first term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The Chinese government wanted the U.S. president to lose the next election, and the reason they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was wise to them…. The Chinese government sought to identify U.S. journalists who had reported negatively on the U.S. president and pay them large sums of money to write more negative articles about him.” \u2014President Donald Trump (via Newsweek<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Meddling in a foreign nation’s elections (as the CIA has done for several decades) is either an attempted or successful coup, depending on the result, both of which are tantamount to an act of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journalists accepting payment from a foreign adversary to slander a sitting president is giving comfort and aid to an enemy. An act of treason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President also spoke about FBI investigations into voter fraud, directing Director Kash Patel to reopen the bureau’s 2020 case into a Michigan voter registration drive \u2014 canvassers in the Muskegon area allegedly signed registration forms in other people’s names and submitted fraudulent registrations for voters who don’t exist, and were paid in gift cards per the number of applications. He also cited a DHS review identifying more than 275,000 noncitizens registered to vote across just four states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the many of us who were aware of the 2020 heist as it took place, and lived through the most destructive administration in American history as a consequence of it, this has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is not whether the allegations in these declassified documents truly happened, it is the same question that we had in the weeks preceding January 20, 2021. Will President Trump cross the proverbial Rubicon, and do whatever is necessary in his power as Commander-in-Chief to restore the republic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the singular lens by which I view this administration and have done so since the second term began. While my reaction to the day-to-day news and operations of the second Trump Administration vary widely, ultimately what it will be defined by is whether President Trump was willing to assert his power to expose the depths of corruption in our intelligence agencies, in our media, and within our elected officials \u2014 how they have all been influenced and compromised by foreign nations, and then take steps to remedy that for the future of the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That, in partnership with returning us to a nation of citizens, would be an extraordinary course correction for America. They are, however, not the only issues plaguing the nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For that to happen, this would need to be the first step in a series of bold and decisive actions which are not inhibited by negative coverage from the very press who was alleged to have been compromised. And not subject to the wavering public opinion polls that may come out of it. This must be done without reservation or purpose of evasion, head on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as foreign influence by nations such as China, Russia, and Iran is at the forefront, there will continue to be an elephant in the room regarding the foreign nation that demonstrably has, without question, the most influence over our elected officials, their policies, and our media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As far as the CIA is concerned, it has been functioning as an apparatus outside of executive oversight to the detriment of American sovereignty, and the stability of the world, for several decades. The essential aspects of intelligence gathering can be done by other salvageable three letter agencies and through military intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is but one solution for the Company, and it was reportedly stated by President John F. Kennedy in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, that he would splinter the CIA \u201cinto a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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