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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Secret's out! Why Trump really
met with Romney
by Gina Loudon
 
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 Taiwan Calling Trump 
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Over the weekend, the Leftmedia was pulling out its collective hair over news that Donald Trump had accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen. Once again Trump has rocked the Washington bureaucratic elites' boat by breaking with a long-running precedent. Since 1979, no president or president-elect has spoken with a sitting president of Taiwan, due to China's "one China" policy — a policy the U.S. has acknowledged but never officially adopted.
          On Sunday, VP-elect Mike Pence reacted to the media's over-reaction by pointing to its blatant hypocrisy: "It's a little mystifying to me that President liar-nObama can reach out to a murdering dictator in Cuba in the last year and be hailed as a hero for doing it and President-elect Donald Trump takes a courtesy call from a democratically elected leader in Taiwan and it's become something of a controversy."
          While some have suggested that this is yet further evidence that Trump doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to foreign affairs, it's a better bet that this was a calculated move aimed at challenging China over its recent power-plays in the East and South China Seas. As The Wall Street Journal stated, "Mr. Trump shouldn't concede Beijing's power to intimidate the world's democracies into isolating Taiwan. The U.S. has an interest in supporting Taiwan as a model for China's future development. And adapting Taiwan policy could benefit the wider U.S.-China relationship."
          Barack liar-nObama's policy with the "People's Republic" has done little to dissuade China's growing expansionist appetite. A newer approach is needed to both encourage U.S. allies in the region and warn China that the U.S. stands committed to promoting its allies' continued independence and sovereignty. Clearly, Trump is not afraid to take the call. 
~The Patriot Post
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 Castro Vehicle Breaks Down, Just Like His Policies 
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A fitting final metaphor for Fidel Castro's puppet Soviet regime: The Russian UAZ-469 light utility vehicle hauling Castro's corpse in the state funeral procession experienced engine failure and had to be pushed by soldiers along the "Caravan of Liberty." That was the ironic name Castro's communist guerrillas gave their 1959 march from Santiago to Havana to topple the Batista government.
          By the way, all the mainstream media are referring to this vehicle as a "Jeep." Cease and desist! Jeeps were the primary light four-wheel drive vehicle used by the U.S. Army and our allies in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and are now a popular SUV. That broken-down piece of socialist junk pulling Castro's carcass is not a Jeep!
          And while we're on the subject of hogwash, Fidel's brother Raul declared, "The leader of the revolution rejected any manifestation of a cult of personality and was consistent in that through the last hours of his life, insisting that, once dead, his name and likeness would never be used on institutions, streets, parks or other public sites, and that busts, statues or other forms of tribute would never be erected." And why should he? He's got plenty of help in the media's cult of propaganda.  ~The Patriot Post
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The North Korea Card
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Contrary to bipartisan conventional wisdom of Washington, D.C.'s foreign policy elites - the looming nuclear missile threat from North Korea cannot be addressed by playing "the China card."... Republican and Democratic administrations have for years begged Beijing to use China's economic leverage to compel North Korea to abandon its illegal development of nuclear missiles, to no avail. Evidence is overwhelming that China, far from being the solution to a nuclear-armed North Korea, is co-conspiring with Russia to build a nuclear missile "North Korea card" to play against the United States:...
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hanoi-Kerry: Bennett's ideas are 'profoundly disturbing'
by David Rosenberg
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry made a foray into internal Israeli politics on Sunday night, slamming the Israeli cabinet and singling out Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) by name... saying that Bennett’s recent statements on the future of Judea and Samaria were “profoundly disturbing”. hanoi-Kerry spoke Sunday evening at the annual Saban Forum, hosted by the left-leaning Brookings Institute, one of whose overseas branches is in Qatar. The Secretary spoke at length about his feelings towards Israel and Zionism, and his belief that Israel is headed in the wrong direction – and that the future of Israel is at risk...hanoi-Kerry failed to mention the illegal building by the Palestinians. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221266
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Tucker Carlson DESTROYS Muslim Prof
Who Blames Right-Wingers For Muslim Terrorism
by Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ Muslim Professor Engy Abdelkader is a darling of the left when it comes to the issue of “Islamophobia” in America. She routinely blames the evils of  Muslim Terrorism  on the victims in Western culture... Here in America, she chides innocent people who have done no evil to the Muslim immigrants that our nation has taken in for the acts of violence done in the name of “Allah.” For example, this is what Abdelkader said in the pages of TIME magazine about Muslim terrorism… “Islamophobia, including xenophobic political rhetoric that excludes refugees, exacerbates cultural homelessness because it erodes a sense of purpose while feeding the extremist narrative that our societies are anti-Islam and anti-Muslim.” Why yes, she did just blame the victims for the crimes of her fellow Muslims...  http://lidblog.com/tucker-carlson-muslim-terrorism/
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Democrats Express Solidarity with Islamic
Extremists in Wake of Election
by John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Democratic politicians eager to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community and speak against hate in the wake of the recent heated presidential election threw their support behind some of its most extreme elements... Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, together with local Democratic politicians from Northern Virginia, made this evident when they showed up at a Veterans Day event at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. Dar al-Hijrah stands in infamy as the mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers and where the late Al-Qaida terrorist leader Anwar Awlaki served as an imam. A 2002 U.S. Customs and Border Protection database report obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) described Dar al-Hijrah as a "front for Hamas operatives in the U.S." A 2007 report said the "mosque has been under numerous investigations for financing and providing aid and comfort to bad orgs and members."...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5716/democrats-express-solidarity-with-islamic
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ISIS Declares War on
Trump’s Inauguration Day!
by Walter White
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office in less than two months, and ISIS is using his inauguration on January 20th to declare war, calling it “Bloody Friday.”... It is being reported that in addition to declaring war on Trump’s inauguration day, ISIS has recruited multiple English-speaking operatives to communicate their deadly message. In addition to the ISIS threat, U.S. special forces will be on “high alert” during Trump’s inauguration, “But security analysts have been following communications between members of the group who are planning large scale attacks on that day, it has been claimed.”...
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Secret's out! Why Trump really
met with Romney
by Gina Loudon
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{wnd.com} ~ Many of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters thought it was crazy that the president-elect met with Mitt Romney twice.

Maybe it was, instead, crazy like a fox.

Just like so many times during the campaign, some of us are playing checkers while Trump is playing chess. Here’s why I think there is a special psychology to President-elect Trump’s strategy with Romney. And here is why I believe there is no way he actually picks Romney as secretary of state, even though Romney is said to be on the short list and has had the most highly publicized meetings with Trump.

Romney was one of the most ardent enemies of candidate Trump during the race. He was solid in his disdain for the billionaire, rogue candidate. He was arguably the head of the octopus in the “Never Trump” movement.

In one of Romney’s only public speeches during the presidential campaign, Romney called Trump a “phony,” “fraud,” “con man” and “fake.”

“His domestic policies would lead to recession,” Romney added. “His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

Romney appeared on Fox News and demanded Trump release his taxes saying, “Either he’s not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn’t been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay. Or perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the vets or the disabled, like he’s been telling us he’s been doing.”

Romney even went so far as to recruit a Utah Mormon, Evan McMullin, to run for president as an independent in an effort to cause Trump to lose the Republican state of Utah and possibly the Electoral College vote.

Looking back after the election, we now see Trump did not need Utah. Trump’s electoral win was so big, he could have lost Utah and Florida the state every expert said Trump must win and still won the presidency.

Romney now looks foolish and on the wrong side of history after Trump beat McMullin handily in Utah, outperformed Romney with every demographic and won six states that Romney couldn’t pull off in 2012.

After the election, President-elect Trump began meetings with potential Cabinet members, and Romney gladly accommodated, because it was his only shot at relevance other than “two-time loser for president.”

Trump knew exactly what he was doing, in my opinion.

He wants to silence the “Never Trump” movement entirely so he can act as president without the little dogs nipping at his heels.

Now that Romney has not only met with the president-elect in his home at Trump Tower, but has also dined with Trump at the most exquisite of his restaurants, how can Romney possibly criticize Trump ever again in the future?

Like a child he wanted to punish, President-elect Trump knew that if Romney took the bait and came to these interludes, he would be asked about them afterward. Naturally, desperate to be relevant again through an appointment of some sort, Romney would praise the same Donald Trump he trashed and recruited against for the last year and a half.

Now imagine the position in which Romney finds himself. No matter what happens, if he ever says an unkind thing about President Trump or his family, Romney will look schizophrenic. First he hates him, then he praises him. He can’t go back to disparaging him now that Trump has put him in this position.

Crazy like a fox, indeed. Always playing chess while the rest of us are left scratching our heads and speculating about his demise with the American public.

Analysts like me are going to have to remember to go deeper, and sometimes to shut up and wait to comment, because Trump is likely strategizing again beyond the level of sophistication that many in media can even extrapolate.

He did it in his campaign over and over. How many times was he counted out because of a misstep or a hurdle that experts said he could never overcome?

Remember when he said he was going to “build a wall” and many concluded “he’s done”?

Remember when he called for the Muslim ban?

Remember when Trump hit his ceiling in the polls at 20 percent, then 30 percent, then 40 percent?

The fact of the matter is, the average person, especially the average media or political personality, is reading from a different playbook. The elite in this country honestly believe they are better than the “deplorables” out there in rural America. They believe the American voter is to be manipulated, not courted.

Donald Trump demonstrated again this week that his relationship with the American people is a courtship and one that he is willing to engage, even in victory. He showed us his favorite place to be isn’t sitting in Trump Tower entertaining dignitaries and wiping his feet on his enemies, but that he wanted to be at a rally, with average Americans. He wants to have a conversation again with those who have been silenced. He didn’t want to celebrate with the New York City cake eaters. He wanted to celebrate with the millions of voiceless Americans for whom he ran.

So he did.

Right after he finished his interviews with Cabinet possibilities and effectively silenced his white-gloved enemies, he went directly to where he really loves to be – with the American people.

The strategy of candidate Trump in this election was positively fascinating for this psychological analyst to watch, and I have to admit, I am even more excited to watch his presidency. But, we must be careful not to view Trump’s actions through the prism of the old political playbook or we will continue to misjudge and underestimate him just as we have for the past 17 months.
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