The more I think about it, the more I admire Donald Trump. It’s probably not for what you’re thinking. It’s not simply that he’s roused a moribund economy. It’s not that he’s boosted consumer confidence. It’s not the multitude of conservative judges he’s installing. Sean Hannitty complied a list of Trump accomplishments. You can see them here. From Rasmussen Reports:
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
Repealed Individual Mandate
Justice Neil Gorsuch
ANWR
Set Record for First-Year Judicial Appointments to Federal Appellate Courts
Historic Reduction in Illegal Immigration
Crushing ISIS Caliphate
Deregulation: Rolling Back the Militant Administrative State
More are at the link. More here. Trump is actually recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after his predecessors promised and failed. He presided over the capture of the top five ISIS leaders. He’s even got CNN to reluctantly admit the country is going in the right direction as his poll numbers rise.
Trump got three Americans released by North Korea in return for nothing while obama could not even secure the release of Americans from Iran despite paying them billions.
It’s not any of that.
The most remarkable thing Trump has done is survive.
Barack Obama brought to bear the entire weight of the United States intelligence community against Trump. Obama and his cohorts did everything they could possibly think of to prevent Trump from being elected and then to ruin him in office.
Brennan and Strzok set traps for Trump staff
DEVELOPING: A major new front is opening in the political espionage scandal. In summer 2016, Brennan with his FBI liaison Strzok, along with help from Kerry @ State, were trying to set Russian espionage traps for minor players in the Trump campaign through cultivated intel assets
— Paul Sperry (@paulsperry_) May 11, 2018
Obama set rules to allow the widest dispersion of classified information or gossip on Trump to be spread around government agencies.
Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for a fabricated dossier.
John McCain, not knowing whether or not it was trash, handed it to the FBI.
Comey, Susan Rice, Sally Yates (who set up Flynn), obama and biden meet to set up Trump – to let him know they have dirt on him.
Comey refused to inform Trump of the source of the dossier and who paid for it.
Trump private conversations were leaked, transcripts and all. No one at the FBI seems interested in who leaked them.
Michael Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak was leaked.
Flynn’s call was reviewed by the FBI and no wrongdoing was found. This was reported on January 23, 2017. The next day Flynn was ambushed in an interview set up by Sally Yates and Flynn was subsequently charged with lying.
Comey led Congressional members to believe Flynn would not be charged.
Susan Rice unmasked Trump staff relentlessly.
Samantha Power was unmasking Americans on a daily basis.
Manafort was wiretapped.
Trump Tower was monitored by the NSA.
Obama’s FBI put a spy into Trump’s campaign. I have no doubt Obama spied extensively on Trump.
Barack Obama and pretty much his entire executive branch, together with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, conspired to frame and destroy Trump.
And he’s still standing. It’s not every person who can withstand that kind of hostility and treachery. That’s impressive.
Amazing, in fact.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 40 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 45 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter who is in the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
Yeah yeah yeah. The 2020 election campaign theme song, brilliant.
In hindsight, it doesn’t seem Obama had all that much faith in Hillary winning.
Obama, Hillary and the deep state have thrown everything, including the kitchen sink, at Trump and lost. No wonder they are frustrated crybabies. It must be really frustrating to employ every third-world banana republic ploy there is and not be able to win an election or depose the victor. Our Republic is stronger than anyone imagined and will come out of this stronger still. All the subversive, seditious elements in Washington are going to be exposed and, hopefully, disposed of. This will make room for lots of fresh, young talent.
@kitt: I got a link to “Shake it off” from your link.
This one is “I’m still standing.”
Cute animation.
But I don’t know about either one.
His “You can’t always get what you want,” combined with his “God bless the USA,” are genius together.
Hubby used to say, If we only get 1/2 of what he promises, it will be a lot.”
So far, we’ve actually gotten MORE than he’s promised with the exception of being able to build a physical wall.
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DrJohn:
Great point you make in your essay.
Donald Trump is tireless, sober, hardworking, and absorbs the slings & arrows as if they were cotton balls being flung at him.
I believe this is partly because he sat in the church of Norman Vincent Peale for over 20 years while growing up.
Peale is the author of “The Power of Positive Thinking.”
President Trump, really all his adult life, has never looked at a loss as anything other than a new opportunity for a win.
The fact that he had old-fashioned (pre-PC) tendencies to flirt with beautiful women (& would take one if she responded that way) was considered healthy before 3rd-wave feminists derided it as “toxic masculinity.”
He had a Christian conversion & has got a record of good behavior for nearly 12 years.
How different that is from being a feminist enabler of a rapist, like Hillary is to this day.
Today North Korea began inviting witnesses in to observe their dismantling of their missile, bomb and research bunkers.
This is well ahead of Kim’s meet up with Trump in Singapore.
Who knows, maybe the joke will come true; maybe North Korea will get a KFC!
Watch out for the next attempt to steal Trump’s re-election: the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a way for illegals voting can steal the election from ALL American citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
The Marxists will STOP AT NOTHING to destroy America and all that it stands for. They MUST be defeated. You can see them in Kommieforniastan with their drivel and the useless tools following them.
@Nanny G: The gorrilla having to break out of prison on Im still standing I thought was cute. Thnx for correction.
One point of disagreement-I truly doubt whether mclame did not know the dossier was trash-he should be smart enough to recognize that. It was just more of his childish desire to hurt Trump. He is nothing more than traitorous scum.
I have to disagree @ Pres. Trump’s biggest accomplishment, and it just might deserve better a spot on Mt. Rushmore:
It only took a century, but Leftists are finally acknowledging that the Russians aren’t our BFFs
@Brother Bob:
Don’t worry; they’ll rejoin if Democrats ever get in power again. They already want to replace President’s Day with May Day in California.
I totally agree withstanding a weaponized intelligence apparatus is definitely his greatest weapon. Don’t forget he also needed to stand up to the MSM to be affective. How does America do it? In times of real trouble we always seem to get a leader we need. I was Cruz fan. But even Cruz wasn’t the right guy to do what needed to be done. We needed a street smart, uncouth, businessman to tear down this swamp. I personally think it is due to a decade of prayers that god seems to have begun to answer. How else do explain his election win against all odds and the staying on course against this in slaught. Has anyone noticed anyone that goes up against him unfairly things seem to always boomerang on them? It happens so much it feels biblical to me. Old Testament type of biblical.
I posted this on FR last week. Great minds John!
DJT was my last choice among the early Republican field. I thought he was a big mouth, a braggart, and a New York Real Estate Developer, playboy, billionaire so he has GOT to have illegality in spades up his sleeve.
And who with those creds could stand up to the left ops that the Democrats would unleash on them?
I have to say considering all the illegal spying done on Trump and his top officials, the guy is squeaky clean. Whodda thought a New Your Billionaire Playboy would be so clean, like a vestal virgin?