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President Trump Meets with the Family of SPC Vanessa Guillen – Video and Transcript…
July 30, 2020
Earlier today President Trump met with the family of service member SPC Vanessa Guillen who was brutally murdered. President Trump promised to deliver justice for the 20 year-old who was found dismembered and burned after last being seen in a parking lot at Fort Hood, where she was stationed, on April 22.
A courageous & stunning conversation in the oval office [Video and Transcript Below]
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[Transcript] MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (As interpreted.) Thank you for having us. Thanks you for receiving us.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (As interpreted.) It’s an honor to be here.
(Speaks in Spanish.)
INTERPRETER ON BEHALF OF MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: She wants your help to bring justice for what happened to her daughter and (inaudible) for her daughter. She wants to know who’s really responsible and who was responsible for what happened to her daughter and why didn’t people act on it.
THE PRESIDENT: Right.
INTERPRETER ON BEHALF OF MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: And her daughter died. Her daughter died in service of the country from the hand of people who are in the military. She just wants your help to get at the truth, to get at justice — the truth. And this is from her heart, and she knows it’s of your heart.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I saw this on one of the shows recently, and I was just looking, and it hit me very hard. I saw what happened to your daughter, Vanessa, who was a spectacular person, and respected and loved by everybody, including in the military. And I invited you to the White House.
As you know, the FBI and the DOJ are now involved. We got them involved. And the people at Ford Hood, where it took place, are very much involved. We didn’t want to have this swept under the rug, which could happen.
And so I’d like you maybe, just if you’d like for the media, to explain exactly what happened as we all understand it, but they don’t perhaps.
MS. KHAWAM: So, President Trump, first of all, thank you very much for hosting this family. It’s a beautiful family that I represent. I’m Attorney Natalie Khawam. I’m going this case pro bono because I believe in it, and I believe in our military and I believe in justice.
THE PRESIDENT: Good.
MS. KHAWAM: And like you, you love the military, you love our veterans, and you have proven that today by just bringing us into your home to begin with.
Secondly, we have formed together to figure out what happened and how it happened. And just to give background, Vanessa was having issues internally with some of the sergeants and such hitting on her, sexually harassing her. We don’t know how far it went because a lot of women don’t always speak up. They just are afraid.
THE PRESIDENT: Other people other than the one in question, right?
MS. KHAWAM: Correct. And it’s a systemic problem there. You know, you have young kids — boys, girls — 18, 20, 21. But there isn’t enough protections in place because they get nervous about retaliation.
And I learned — I knew about the problem, but I didn’t know how severe it was. Like I said, I thought I was picking a scab, and here I saw it is septic. It’s terrible. The hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillen, if you go to that, you will read all these stories of these young women that serve our country, how broken they are; like, when they report it, what happens in the chain of command. And then they get retaliated against, and they got to clean toilets and stuff like that.
So I understand why Vanessa wouldn’t want to go report it — formally report it. So she did tell her family. She told her friends. She told some of the soldiers with her how they were — this guy — especially guy Aaron.
THE PRESIDENT: In particular him, right? In particular.
MS. KHAWAM: Aaron Robinson. Yeah, that’s correct.
THE PRESIDENT: Others also?
MS. KHAWAM: That’s correct. So I understand that she was in a locker room, the girls’ locker room, taking a shower, and he walked in and sat there and stared at her showering — like, just creepy.
And, unfortunately, we believe that she was going to report him because he was with her in the room that day. Her day off, they asked her to come in. It makes no sense, right? We’re not getting all the answers, by the way.
THE PRESIDENT: Right.
MS. KHAWAM: And he supposedly took a hammer and killed her in the room, bludgeoned her to death. He’d go into this room — the room is probably, like, a quarter of the size of this room. And it’s open, so people can hear and see things. So how no one heard her screaming, how no one saw the blood, those are, like, questions we still have.
But when he did that to her, he carried her body out and he buried it in the river nearby. He used a machete.
THE PRESIDENT: And nobody saw this? Nobody saw it?
MS. KHAWAM: Nobody saw this. Right.
And he used a machete to cut her up with his girlfriend, and he tried to burn her body, went and — burn. I mean, this — the horribleness. I said it reminded me of, like, ISIS, what they do to our soldiers.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. Yeah. That’s right.
MS. KHAWAM: And we — when I heard about this story, you know, they contacted me and said, “Can you help us?” And I said, “Absolutely, can I help you.” You know, these are immigrants. You know, my family is immigrants. You know, you come to this country, you want to serve it, you want to do the best you can. And I didn’t want them getting railroaded.
I know that the — it’s hard to navigate through the military. I know it’s hard to navigate through Congress. And I knew that we needed to do something. We needed a congressional investigation because there’s so many “how does that happen?”, “how did this happen?” A lot of cover-ups.
When I tried to work with CID, I said, “What subpoenas have you issued? Because I’ll issue some subpoenas with you, like, to help you out,” like — so, you know. They wouldn’t tell me what subpoenas they issued. They wouldn’t tell me anything.
THE PRESIDENT: Right.
MS. KHAWAM: So I found that it was very difficult to communicate. There was no transparency.
So what we can do collectively is — to get justice for Vanessa is we need reform. We need a bill. And, you know, I drafted a bill that — #IAmVanessaGuillen. Markwayne Mullin from Oklahoma —
THE PRESIDENT: Right. Good guy.
MS. KHAWAM: Great guy. Love him. He intro- — well, he — it’s right now leg counsel. But what it does is it says, “The way we have the EEOC, which is the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, how someone can report something — go to the EEOC — we’re looking for something that’s going to allow our military, our soldiers to have the same rights and protections so, that way, they’re not going to their chain of command or internally.
THE PRESIDENT: Right.
MS. KHAWAM: What they’re doing is they’re going outside the command and reporting something. So suppose this kind of situation would have been in place, if we had this kind of bill in place, Vanessa could have reported this and they would have said, “Wait a second, this guy, Aaron Robinson, has a few of these problems. Like, look at this guy’s…” —
THE PRESIDENT: So did she report anything at all?
MS. KHAWAM: She reported it to her family and friends and some of the soldiers. She didn’t do a formal report.
THE PRESIDENT: Not to the fort, not to the people.
MS. KHAWAM: Right. Not to the command, her bosses, who are also above her, who she’s saying that were sexually harassing her.
So it’s hard to go to the boss that’s giving you problems, to report him. You know, it’s like the fox over the henhouse.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah. (Inaudible.) Well, I want to thank you. It’s a great explanation.
Would you like to say something? Please.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: I respect our military; that not all people are bad. But the way they treat Vanessa, they treated us. No transparency, no respect. They did not respect our pleading. They did not respect our pleading of my mother. And they did not respect my sister. Because I believe that the hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillen — and we have a whole nation behind us — that the hashtag #IAmVanessaGuillen would help our man and woman in the armed forces, because they are ones putting their life at risk.
They say, “Protect our protectors.” They deserve to be respected, to be heard, and to be honored, just like Vanessa. Because it’s — it’s a disgrace that when you get sexually harassed, you have to report it on to your line of command, but 80 percent of the time, the line of command is actually sexually harassing you, so you wouldn’t have the confidence nor the trust to report it. That’s why Vanessa did not report it, because she was afraid of retaliation or afraid of judgment because she was ashamed of herself, even though the shame was the aggressor.
And we need a change, and we need a positive change because our troops need to feel safe and need to feel respected because they’re the ones putting their life at risk. But yet, my sister was truly, deeply in love. She said, “If I have to go station in Iraq, if I have to go to combat, I’ll die proudly because I’m a patriot and I’m serving the country. I am protecting my own family…” —
THE PRESIDENT: She was in love with the country is what you’re saying.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: — “…I was serving my family. I was protecting my family.” But yet, she died on base. How can this happen on a military base, where you think everything is safe, but yet the soldiers are not safe?
So we need a congressional investigation because it’s impossible that no one saw, no one heard anything. Yet, there are people — my sister was not supposed to go to work, yet someone sent her to work. So if it was a day off, where were all the soldiers? It’s — it’s a humongous base.
Someone had to hear, someone had to saw what was going on in that arms room, and we want to find the truth because the truth will come out. And —
THE PRESIDENT: And now, as you know, the DOJ and the FBI are there and they’re doing a very strong investigation, as is the Army. So they’re doing a very strong investigation, as you know. We just started that. It’s an incredible story. It’s a terrible story.
Would you like to say something?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Sure. First, I want to thank you for taking the time, taking us in. It’s an honor to be able to meet you, and I know you’re going to help us. And, you know, honoring our sister, passing the bill. And, of course, I want to point out how is it that her chain of command failed drastically.
It’s — you know, the first day I arrived, I was received by Robinson himself and a couple of other males. And I felt that they were trying —
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, really? Wow.
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: — to intimidate me, but they — they didn’t get it, and that’s why we’re here today.
THE PRESIDENT: So he took his life when? When after this horrible event? When did he take his life? When was it?
MS. KHAWAM: Probably 17 days —
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Right before they were about to arrest him.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I see. So that was — oh, I see. So they found out, et cetera.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: He was under watch, and he just went off, and they —
THE PRESIDENT: Did they know right away? Did you know right away? Did everybody know it was him?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: I felt it.
MS. KHAWAM: She knew right away.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: She felt —
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: The day I went, I felt it.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: But, I mean, he was a truly coward if he killed himself. He couldn’t attempt the consequences. I mean, think over your actions before you do something. But he was a true coward. But I want her leadership to be questioned.
THE PRESIDENT: So we’re going to look into it very powerfully, and we already have started, as you know. And we’ll get to the bottom of it, and maybe things can come out that will help other people in a situation like Vanessa. We’ll be — we’ll be in touch with you constantly. We’ll be in touch with you too.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: Thank you
THE PRESIDENT: Natalie, thank you very much. That was great.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, please.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
INTERPRETER ON BEHALF OF GLORIA GUILLÉN: Her daughter’s story is the story of the whole nation. It’s (inaudible.)
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: She just said that my sister Vanessa Guillén, she’s making history, whole nation, almost international, and she wants you to be a part of it because we hope to have your support. And she said my sister, she had her whole life ahead of her, and her life was taken away in the most disgusting way anyone could take a human’s life. She wanted to be a mother.
THE PRESIDENT: That’s true.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: And everyone has a family, so everyone could feel the small pain. And she’s — she just dreams of her and how she wants to save children. But everyone has heart, so we expect people’s compassion, we expect people to help us, and we hope to have your support in this bill.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: You will be making history within Vanessa, because we need a change, and the change is now. And we need something positive so the soldiers feel safe to be recruited, feel safe while serving their nation, feel honored to serve their nation, but to feel respected and safe, and that’s how the bill will help them. Because not only women — it’s also men. I have heard many stories. And hopefully we have your support.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: Because this bill will mark a whole lifetime, and that you will be in it, and you will be making history within Vanessa, and people will be so thankful and blessed for having your support.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you have our support, and we’re working on it already, as you know, and we won’t stop. And hopefully something very positive will come out in honor of your sister. Okay? And your daughter.
MR. GUILLÉN: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: We will — yes. Absolutely.
MS. KHAWAM: And, you know, President Trump, the saddest part of this all is her funeral is around the corner. And she won’t — they won’t have her body in the casket. Sometimes people need closure when they see someone’s face or body in a casket, and there’s no body. I mean, that’s what’s — it’s horrific.
THE PRESIDENT: When you say “around the corner,” you mean there is — there has not been a funeral yet?
MS. KHAWAM: No, not yet.
THE PRESIDENT: How come?
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: We’re planning on it. We’re planning to have —
MS. KHAWAM: Did you get any of the (inaudible)?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: I was in touch with the Texas Rangers and FBI, and they told me that because the investigation was still open, they would call me as soon as I would be able to receive.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, they have to do that. I mean, it’s —
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Right. And I feel like we should be able to —
THE PRESIDENT: That’s no good. We got to take care of that.
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Right. If you could — thank you
THE PRESIDENT: You mean, you — you haven’t had a funeral? Because this is quite a while now.
MS. KHAWAM: Yeah.
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Right.
THE PRESIDENT: Because I even saw it quite a while ago.
MS. KHAWAM: Correct.
THE PRESIDENT: And — because you don’t have the body yet?
MS. KHAWAM: No remains.
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: No. That’s all we’re —
THE PRESIDENT: But they have the body.
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Yes.
MS. KHAWAM: The remains.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: That’s just a disgrace. And how can someone be capable of doing that? It’s just —
THE PRESIDENT: No, it’s a terrible thing. When would you like to have the funeral? When?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: As soon as possible.
THE PRESIDENT: As soon as possible. I agree. As soon as possible with the funeral. We’ll make sure — we’ll make sure that happens. Okay, please?
Where will you have the funeral? Do you know?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Houston.
THE PRESIDENT: In Houston?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Yeah.
THE PRESIDENT: And if I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help — I’ll help you with that.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.
MS. KHAWAM: I think the military will be paying — taking care of it.
THE PRESIDENT: Good. They’ll do a military. That’s good. If you need help, I’ll help you out.
MS. KHAWAM: Thank you, President.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay? If they need something, I’ll — we’ll take care — we’ll make sure she is very respected.
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Because I — I’ve seen statements about her from other people, as you know, and you don’t get better statements about a person. I see many statements about many people; I don’t see statements like that. So she was very extraordinary. And thank you, Natalie. Very good job. You’re doing good. So we’ll coordinate.
John, do you have any questions of the family, please? We’re going to keep this to Vanessa, right now, if we could.
Q I’m just wondering — Mr. President, you’ve got the FBI, the DOJ, the DOD involved. The family is asking for legislation in the military, similar to the EEOC in civilian life. What can you, as President, do to try to push that process forward?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’re doing that right now and we’re working, and actually, we’ve been working on it since I heard about it originally. And we’re going to see if we can do something, representing the family, but also helping other people that are in the same position because they’re — this is not — you know, probably, sadly, it’s probably not that unique. There are other people in trouble too.
MS. KHAWAM: That’s right.
THE PRESIDENT: So we’re going to look into that very strongly, John.
Q Is there a — is there a culture in the military that you’re worried about? Or what needs to happen here?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, it would seem to me — what would you think about that? Is there a culture? Is this a culture in the military?
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: Sexually harassing a person shouldn’t be daily. Murdering a person on a military base shouldn’t be monthly. Like, all those bodies found in Ft. Hood. It needs to change, and the change is now. There needs to be transparency, and for the truth to come out — what is happening on Ft. Hood — and to have an investigation because, I mean, it’s impossible that no one saw, no one heard Vanessa, that saw Vanessa. It’s impossible.
THE PRESIDENT: Certainly unusual. This was, Steve, a very horrific situation. Well, I don’t know if you — if you read about it or saw it, but it impacted me. I saw it and it was terrible. And so we’re going to get to the bottom of it. And how could it have happened where nobody knew about it at all?
MS. KHAWAM: Right.
THE PRESIDENT: They must have known.
MS. KHAWAM: I think there was a lot of cover-ups. Like, for example, that guy, Aaron Robinson — I don’t really want to call him a “guy” — an animal. I think that what happened, what transpired, with so many eyes and ears there, I really feel like they don’t want to think it was him. It was like confirmatory bias. They wanted to keep looking the other way. And it just — not sure why they were protecting him.
THE PRESIDENT: But they — remember, they ultimately got him, and that’s when he — he committed suicide, I guess. But they ultimately got him, so that was — frankly, somebody did that. Who did that? Who was — who was in charge? They didn’t let him get away with it, is what I’m saying. And they probably wouldn’t have.
MS. KHAWAM: So, they issued a BOLO, which is “be on the lookout” for him, and he escaped somehow, on foot. And I’m not sure if they gave him a hint, because how did they let the one guard who was watching him, how did he miss him? And a second guard as much, then guards out front watching him. Did they tell him? Did they let him in?
Because when they tried to issue — you know, to detain him, for some reason, the senior attorney at the base would not allow for them to do a — for them to — a subpoena. They basically couldn’t detain him because they say there was not enough facts and evidence, even though they had him — believe it or not, they pinged his phone or something, and they knew he was at that river from one to four in the morning. Who goes fishing at one in the morning?
So there was a lot of, like, why would they — why would they keep on turning a blind eye?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, look, the good thing is that he’s gone —
MS. KHAWAM: Right. He’s a goner. Right.
THE PRESIDENT: — okay? As far as I’m concerned. The good thing: He’s gone. Now we’re going to go in to see what happened. Also, can we have this go on to other people to help other people —
MS. KHAWAM: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: — like your sister. Right?
Q Last year, a soldier named Gregory Wedel-Morales disappeared from Fort Hood. It was believed by the military that he had gone AWOL. They didn’t launch an investigation into his whereabouts. His remains were found not far from where Vanessa Guillén’s remains were found, and in about the same time period. Is there a problem with the culture at that particular base, do you think, that is allowing this to happen?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, let me ask you, do you know about that —
MS. KHAWAM: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: — particular case?
MS. KHAWAM: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: What’s — what — what about that case?
MS. KHAWAM: So they found his remains while they were looking for Vanessa’s.
THE PRESIDENT: No kidding.
MS. KHAWAM: Yeah.
THE PRESIDENT: Wow.
MS. KHAWAM: So he starts — starts becoming suspect. And so, unfortunately, you know, the family did not get any information or (inaudible) —
THE PRESIDENT: But are they putting that together? Because it’s —
MS. KHAWAM: Now — well, now it looks — it all looks —
THE PRESIDENT: With the same guy. He was there and then they find the other remains?
MS. KHAWAM: So, you know, we’ll find out. Hopefully, with the FBI — thanks for asking them to join this case and the DOJ. Hopefully, they’ll see whether there’s any kind of connection.
THE PRESIDENT: That’s a good question, John.
Q We interviewed the mother a couple of weeks back.
THE PRESIDENT: It’s an interesting question. That you’d even know that is very interesting. It’s impressive, actually.
Q Mr. President —
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah?
Q Mr. President, you offered to help pay some of the funeral costs.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.
Q Have you offered to do that for other families before?
THE PRESIDENT: I have. I have.
Q Have you — and you’ve actually —
THE PRESIDENT: Personally. I have to do it personally. I can’t do it through government.
Q So you’ve written checks to help for other families before this?
THE PRESIDENT: I have. I have, because some families need help. They need help.
I don’t even know if you need help. Maybe you don’t need help, from a financial standpoint. I have no idea what — I just think it’s a horrific thing that happened. And if you did need help, I’m going to — I’ll be there to help you.
Are you using the military for the funeral though? Or is it — is it going to be —
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: We actually declined because my mom didn’t want a military casket and stuff like that. Vanessa is very unique, so we wanted something unique for her. So far, a lot of people have been helping us, but it has been a rough three months.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, well, you let us know.
MS. KHAWAM: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Okay? You let us know. That’s fine.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: “It’s very painful,” is what she just said.
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, there is a lot of pain here. This is just a horrible thing.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: Another horrible thing just happened.
THE PRESIDENT: What — what did your mother say?
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: That CID is not a — you cannot have confidence in them because they lied to us the first day, seeing my mom in pain. But yet, there’s another story that CID tried to just throw it under the rug. There was a baby that was murdered, and they threw him. It’s just hard to say. An innocent life — a child — was thrown from the bedroom, all the way from the top of the building to the floor. And it happened on a military base. And an innocent child died. Why? Why is that happening? They have to be investigated.
THE PRESIDENT: So was this at Fort Hood also?
MS. MAYRA GUILLÉN: I believe Fort Hood, yes.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: Like, this particular person, he is stationed on Fort Hood. He told my mother, because this is a pure example: He was — he’s afraid to speak up. He’s afraid to tell others because they feel that they’re going to endanger his own family. He’s going to be — he’s going to be in danger every day because — why are they afraid to speak up? Why?
THE PRESIDENT: We’re going to find out. Right?
MS. KHAWAM: Yeah. And I would love to work with whoever —
THE PRESIDENT: We’re going to find out.
MS. KHAWAM: — it is, because I know all the stories and I know what’s happening.
THE PRESIDENT: We’ll look at that too.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (Speaks in Spanish.)
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: She wants justice for Vanessa Guillén and for all those soldiers that have been found dead and being killed on a military base, and for those soldiers have been sexually harassed and don’t have the opportunity to go and have confidence to report their sexual harassment.
Because a pure example that people are too afraid to report their sexual harassment and sexual assault, and it goes far to rape, is — and a pure example you can find articles: 2015 prostitution ring was led by a sergeant on Fort Hood, but yet, that same sergeant was leading the SHARP classes, which — that same SHARP classes are supposed to prevent sexual harassment to happen throughout higher-rank soldiers, sergeants. But yet, how is that possible that someone is trying to protect soldiers from sexual harassment and rape and abuse and assault, but yet you’re conducting a prostitution ring?
So the #IAmVanessaGuillen bill would have our man and woman have the confidence —
THE PRESIDENT: Yeah.
MS. GUADALUPE GUILLÉN: — into reporting the sexual harassment.
THE PRESIDENT: So we’ll look into that too, Natalie. Okay?
MS. KHAWAM: Thank you, President.
THE PRESIDENT: We’re going to look into that.
I want to thank you all for being here. It’s a lot of courage actually. It takes a lot of courage. And your daughter is very respected. And she’s respected by me, and you’re in the Oval Office. Your daughter would be very proud of you right now. She’s looking down. She’ll be very proud of you. So — and your sister. So we will get to the bottom of a lot of this, and maybe all of it. Okay?
MS. KHAWAM: Thank you so much, President.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much.
MR. GUILLÉN: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Thank you.
MRS. GLORIA GUILLÉN: (As interpreted.) Justice for Vanessa.
THE PRESIDENT: Justice. Yep. Absolutely. For Vanessa. Thank you. Thank you very much.
Face Mask—Don’t Leave Home Without It On Election Day
Meanwhile don’t leave home without your face mask on election day when you go out to vote. That way, smarmy Democrats can’t possibly steal your vote or Election 2020
Re-Posted from the Canada Free Press By Judi McLeod —— Bio and Archives—July 29, 2020
The best time to wear a Covid-19 face mask is to wear one on Election Day.
The Democrats and their running dogs in the mainstream and social media expecting a spike in the Coronavirus sometime closer to election day, are using the virus to frighten people from coming out to vote in person. By that time they hope to have a 100 percent MAIL-IN VOTE in place.
Joe Biden’s 2020 Election coronation, they’re convinced, is already in the bag for them.
Covid-19 is being used as a cover for a MAIL-IN VOTE—spearheaded by media-described “NON-PARTISAN” Michelle Obama
Getting it to that point was a piece of cake, a walk in the park. According to them—without your coming out to vote—it’s all over for that blankety-blank President Donald Trump.
Right, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama?
But it’s not all over if millions of people show up at voting booths with the ‘expert-promised’ safety of a face mask.
The safety of wearing face masks will be pretty difficult for the desperado Dems to argue against. After all, isn’t that what Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci with his bummed up baseball throwing arm and ‘Scarf Lady’, Dr. Deborah Birx repeatedly advised the masses during months of White House Task Force press conferences?
Isn’t that why all White House Press Corps ‘reporters’ are wearing face masks in the Rose Garden to this very day?
Isn’t that why some dog walkers caught out walking their pets without wearing masks being maced by women terrified of coming down with the virus all but guaranteed to spike on or before Election Day?
That Covid-19 is being used as a cover for a MAIL-IN VOTE—spearheaded by media-described “NON-PARTISAN” Michelle Obama—caused the biggest social media PANIC in all of Internet history yesterday.
WOOT! WOOT!
America’s Frontline Doctors
‘Doctors’ Capitol Hill Coronavirus Press Conference Terrifies Big Tech Companies; How They Responded Says It All’ (Tea Party 247, July 28, 2020)
“(Tea Party 247) – If you didn’t already think that leftist politicians had a whole lot to gain in the fight against President Donald Trump by keeping the masses terrified over the coronavirus, you might want to rethink your position after you discover what Big Tech companies like Facebook and Twitter did to a group of American doctors who sought to hold a press conference concerning COVID-19.
“It seems these companies, who have now earned a reputation for being the propaganda arm of the progressive movement, alongside the mainstream media, have decided to follow the lead of their overlords and stoke the fear of this virus as a means of helping to create an anti-Trump narrative to take him down later this year in the election.
“Facebook decided to remove a video produced by America’s Frontline Doctors that was organized by the Tea Party Patriots, despite the fact the video was one of the top-performing posts on the social media network.
Here’s more from Breitbart: (Breitbart, July 27, 2020)
“If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease”
“The press conference featured Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and frontline doctors sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus and the medical response to the pandemic. YouTube (which is owned by Google) and Twitter subsequently removed footage of the press conference as well.
“The video accumulated over 17 million views during the eight hours it was hosted on Facebook, with over 185,000 concurrent viewers.
“The livestream had accumulated over 17 million views by the time of its censorship by Facebook.
“In terms of viral velocity, the post was beating content from many other prominent accounts on Facebook today, including Hillary Clinton, Rev. Franklin Graham, and Kim Kardashian.
“The event, hosted by the organization America’s Frontline Doctors, a group founded by Dr. Simone Gold, a board-certified physician and attorney, and made up of medical doctors, came together to address what the group calls a “massive disinformation campaign” about the coronavirus. Norman also spoke at the event.
“If Americans continue to let so-called experts and media personalities make their decisions, the great American experiment of a Constitutional Republic with Representative Democracy, will cease,” reads the event’s information page.
“The event was organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots
Perspective: Image You are in Fort McHenry…
July 29, 2020
The battle of Fort McHenry was a critical point in the War of 1812. Many people know that our national anthem stemmed from the valiant defense of Fort McHenry by American troops who refused to concede Baltimore harbor and withstood 27 hours of continual bombardment by British naval forces beginning Sept 13, 1814. The short story is HERE
Two-hundred-six years later, there is a lesson to be learned.
[Part of the Korean War Memorial – Washington DC]
Right now those who wish to “fundamentally change” our nation are waging a full frontal assault against our constitutional republic. The bombardment seems overwhelming.
Leftist city and state leaders have abandoned rule of law in favor of supporting the mob effort to destroy our sense of unity. Political activists, left-wing ideologues under the guise of democrats, and a host of media allies are conducting an information war on behalf of their objective. Big tech social media companies are attempting to remove the voices of those who are fighting back.
There is a great deal of purposefully driven anxiety and fear amid our nation as this multi-faceted internal war takes place. However, there is a primary element to this effort that each person can shield themselves from, and act to counter. Do not let your sense of self succumb to this assault. Do not let them win the battle for your peace of mind.
It might, heck, -check that- it does seem overwhelming at times. But that is the nature of this collectivist strategy. That is the purpose of this bombardment. We must hold strong and push back against their lies and manipulations. If you look closely at their attack, it is weak and much of it is psychological bait. Do not fall into the trap of despair.
When I share the message “live your best life”, it is not without purpose. Every moment that we allow the onslaught to deter us from living our dreams, is a moment those who oppose our nation view as us taking a knee. Do not allow this effort to succeed.
You might ask yourself how can I, one person, a flea looking into a furnace, retain an optimistic disposition while all around me seems chaotic and mad.
That’s the point; it ‘seems’ chaotic and mad because it has been created to appear that way. There are more of us than them; they just control the systems that allow us to connect, share messages and recognize the scale of our assembly.
Every second that you live your life with thankfulness for the abundance within it; every moment that we CHOOSE to engage with fellowship; every day that we accept guidance from God – however you define him to be; and every moment we cherish this time to be a beacon of optimism; is a moment that we withstand that barrage and hold the flag in place. It is a genuinely patriotic position not to succumb to the attack.
If you allow yourself to be drawn into crisis and despair, you allow them to win. If your center of normal is based around this overwhelming onslaught, you will eventually concede liberty in favor of peace. Once we stop living in liberty, we no longer have peace.
It took me a while to fully understand just how damaging empty streets, soulless eyes, the lack of smiles, shuttered businesses and the absence of joy would become. But as I travel around trying to deliver a very specific message to a very specific audience, I now recognize just how much damage is being done; not just to our nation as a whole, but also to every individual within it – personally.
We must shake this mindset. We must withstand this onslaught and rally to the origin of our true national spirit. We must rally to a standard of Americanism and accept this is not that. In essence, we must individually take a stand. Purposefully, deliberately and with forethought, we must engage those around us to get rid of this sense of foreboding.
This approach is how we win the larger battle.
All around us, in every tribe and region, there are people who need you to show them the strength that you have. Strength of spirit. Strength of fellowship that you will not relent from expressing. No matter what noise is shouting from the loudspeakers we must withstand it; we must make eye contact and remain joyful. We cannot allow despair to be the status quo.
In my own travel, right into the belly of the beast, I have encountered some of the most morose robotic people I could ever imagine; yet each night I held up my mission in prayer and promised to accept guidance regardless of my own fears and trepidation. Trust me, this ain’t easy for me…. through my research, I have torn open the dungeon doors and stared into the dark space; and yes, the scale of it sticks with you; it manifests as cynicism.
So, let me share two recent short-examples of what following that guidance actually means.
The second night in DC, I woke up with this horrible taste in my mouth. Teeth brushing didn’t help… wearing a mask or facing a $500 fine didn’t help either and perhaps was the cause. Regardless, I asked a gentleman for the location to a convenience store to purchase some mints to chew throughout the day. I was directed to a specific store.
When I made my purchase, the mask on the other side of the counter was as sad as many that day, but I felt compelled to ask how she was doing. The typical “been better” was the return. However, as I started to walk away… I turned back: “what’s wrong”? For the next few minutes I listened as I met a mom of four kids who was 15 days from a COVID-based eviction. There was really no-one to blame; and worse, for her no-where to turn. She was looking for housing grants to avoid the most painful decision in her short 30-year-life.
You see, there was a reason why I went into that store that afternoon, at least that’s what I told her; and there was a reason why she was there. In part with your support, and after putting all other tasks in the appropriately unimportant place they deserved, WE (yes, you and me) together found a solution and provided the resources she needed. Starfish dude strikes again… this time with His help and your help.
It would have been very easy to walk out and accept that simple: “been better”. Heck, I think of all the times I have done that before…. but not this time. This time something nagged about it…. and so I turned around and found tears, fellowship – and mints.
The next day another stroll, a little lost, and a veteran on the street… I can’t tell you his story because that’s for another day… but it is just as important and just as profound. As I walked away from him many minutes later he yelled at me: “HEY DUDE”. I turned my unmasked smile back in his direction only to have him say: “we need more people like you in charge”… Thumbs up, and I continued my travels.
Which is really the point of writing all this. Our nation needs more people like you, right now. Don’t wait… engage life, get optimistic however you need to do it. Then let that part of you shine right now… This is how we fight. Hold up that flag; give the starter smile… rally to the standard you create and spread fellowship again. God knows we need it.
Oh, and don’t call me a goober for sharing this – I’m doing it because a smart lawyer, a genuinely decent young man who I met along this specific road less traveled, told me to write about it…. and, perhaps, because I sense he might have needed to hear it too.
Thanks Travis.
Love to all.
President Trump Delivers Remarks in Midland, Texas – 4:20pm Livestream…
July 29, 2020
Today at approximately 4:20pm ET, President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks in Midland, TX, on the topic of restoring energy dominance in the Permian Basin. [Livestream Links Below]
White House Livestream – RSBN Livestream Link – Alternate Livestream Link
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DOJ Spox Kerri Kupec Discusses Tuesday’s Attorney General Testimony….
July 28, 2020
DOJ Spokesperson Kerri Kupec appears for a brief interview with Sean Hannity to recap events of the day and obliquely outline the status of several forward-leaning investigations. There’s a major *tell* in this interview for those who have followed carefully. [At 02:51] context for: “proceedings”….
Again, be of good cheer. Do not trouble yourself with dark imaginings; the key for reaching the righteous objective was DOJ recognition/understanding of public knowledge. Information without action is antithetical to its objective.
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Kupec is solid. There are good people working through a delicate balance.
Don’t be mad, it’s just a random screengrab. 🙂
President Trump Holds a Press Conference – 5:00pm ET Livestream….
July 28, 2020
Not sure if this will start on time… President Trump has a 5:00p ET press conference scheduled for today. Livestream links below:
WH Livestream Link – Fox News Livestream – Alternate Livestream
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Peter Navarro Outlines White House Initiative on Critical Supply Chains….
July 28, 2020
Earlier today White House Trade and Manufacturing Advisor Peter Navarro discussed an initiative to lunch a new program spearheading new critical supply chains. The goal is to return manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, medicines and equipment back to America.
The White House provided the following outline:
SUPPORTING AMERICAN SUPPLY CHAINS: The Trump Administration is signing a Letter of Interest in support of a deal that will help ensure essential medicines are produced in America.
* The Trump Administration is signing a Letter of Interest supporting a deal to transform Kodak into a pharmaceutical company that can help produce essential medicines in the United States.
* When the deal is final, the CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) will use his delegated Defense Production Act (DPA) loan authority to provide a $765 million loan to launch Kodak Pharmaceuticals, which will create at least 360 jobs.
* With this loan, the company can build the capacity to produce essential medicines that have lapsed into chronic national shortage.
+ Once fully operational, Kodak will have the capacity to produce 25% of the generic active pharmaceutical ingredients necessary for all non-biologic and non-antibacterial pharmaceuticals used in the United States.
* Kodak will work with the Administration and drug product manufacturers to identify the products that are most needed to meet national security requirements.
INVESTING IN CRITICAL INDUSTRY: President Trump has taken bold action to ensure that Americans are no longer reliant on foreign countries for critical, generic medications.
* President Trump is working to ensure that America produces the critical goods necessary to combat COVID-19 here at home.
* Thanks to President Trump’s actions, the CEO of the DFC—formerly the Overseas Private Investment Corporation—is now using DPA loan authority delegated by the President to invest in America in addition to its work overseas.
* DFC is working with the private sector to address critical issues facing our Nation, particularly the issue of how we can bring pharmaceutical manufacturing back to the United States.
+ Only a small proportion of generic active pharmaceutical ingredients are actually manufactured in the United States, and the majority come from India and China.
* American reliance on foreign countries for critical, generic drugs is not sustainable and leaves the American people incredibly vulnerable.
* President Trump’s actions reflect his commitment to ending America’s dangerous reliance on foreign countries for vital drugs.
LEVERAGING THE PRIVATE SECTOR: President Trump has leveraged the power of the private sector to fight COVID-19 and provide Americans with the resources they need.
* President Trump has effectively leveraged the DPA to mobilize the private sector and secure massive amounts of personal protective equipment and ventilators.
* The Administration has taken 33 DPA actions totaling almost $3.2 billion to provide critical support for essential medical resources and our defense industrial base.
* The President has used the DPA to contract with companies like General Electric, Honeywell, Puritan, and 3M to ramp up production of ventilators, swabs, and masks.
* The Trump Administration has partnered with the private sector to speed vaccine and therapeutic research, while preparing for the mass production of a safe, effective vaccine.
President Trump Interview with Dave Portnoy…..
July 25, 2020
Relaxed, humorous and interesting interview between Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy, and President Donald Trump WATCH:
Big Winning – REPORT: India and U.S. Close to Final Trade Agreement…
July 21, 2020
Well done Team U.S.A.
This is a very significant trade development as it is the culmination of a lot background work and a trilateral trade alliance based on economic nationalism. The U.S, Japan and India have been working on the Indo-Pacific trade reset for several years.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Trump already sealed their component. Now it appears India and the U.S. have reached terms. Very important. First, the report:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and the United States are closing in on a trade deal, India’s Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal said on Tuesday, after two years of negotiations.
“In the long term, I believe we have a quick trade deal which has some of the pending matters built up over the last couple of years, which we need to get out of the way quickly. We are almost there,” Goyal said at the U.S.-India Business Council’s India Ideas Summit, being conducted virtually.
Both New Delhi and Washington should also look at a preferential trade pact with 50 to 100 products and move to a free trade pact in the long term, Goyal said. (read more)
As we noted in October 2019: In the bigger picture… Within the trade team, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was positioned with primary responsibility toward the EU and India. Ross clear-cuts through the politics, explains Trump’s objectives amid the trade proposals, and paves a path for U.S. Trade Rep Bob Lighthizer to engage his counterparts.
India has always been a key strategic nation within the global trade-realignment taking place by the Trump administration. Underpinning the geopolitics, the “Indo-Pacific” strategy is structurally the decoupling of the U.S. from China.
As a part of the strategy President Trump positioned the ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) as benefactors in manufacturing & trade as an outcome of the U.S. decoupling from China.
However, India had genuine concerns about the global dynamic. Specifically, India is worried about allowing the multinationals to have influence over their economy and social structure. In this regard India was not wrong; their concerns were not unfounded.
We can all see, heck we’ve lived through, massive multinational corporations quickly gaining too much influence; including -eventually- corporate influence over the politics of a nation. That corporatism inherently leads to corruption.
When Americans see it in other nations we call it “bribery and corruption”, but when it happens in Washington, DC, we call it “lobbying”; the process is exactly the same.
As a consequence of the concern, Indian Prime Minister Modi was straddling the fence while President Trump tried to influence him to come over to the side of ‘free markets’.
In an effort to dissuade the corrupt multinational concerns of Modi (and Trump clearly indicated he did see validity within the concern), President Trump used Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an example of what can be possible with economic nationalism.
President Trump (USA), Prime Minister Abe (Japan) and Prime Minister Modi (India) have held several very unusual trilateral discussions as this dynamic has played out over the past three years. The concerns expressed by India were valid; however, so too is the opportunity… that’s where Secretary Wilbur Ross comes in:
India and the United States have spoken openly about the ups and downs of their current trade negotiations. Their discussion at the 2019 Forum’s India Economic Summit revealed new insights into both sides positions – and a key sticking point.
US secretary of commerce Wilbur Ross and Indian Minister for commerce, industry and railways, Piyush Goyal represented the US and India, respectively. WATCH:
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Prime Minister Modi, as represented by Minister Goyal, was concerned about the influences that comes with allowing massive foreign investment. Secretary Wilbur Ross never diminished the concern because structurally that negative outcome, an outcome of corporate influence, is exactly what President Trump is now trying to untangle in the U.S. economy.
If President Trump is successful a new era of national trade will be based on genuine reciprocity and economic nationalism. Prior decades of allowing corrupt multinational corporate influence have created massive social inequities.
These inequities, both domestic and global in nature; driven almost exclusively by corporate greed to the benefit of multinational interests; allowed China to strategically step-in, open their doors and take advantage.
Fast forward to the past ten years and China is holding their national interests -and grip over prior investment- like a ‘sword of Damocles’ over the heads of the global corporations. As President Trump has said: “I don’t blame China … I blame stupid politicians”. The COVID-19 crisis made the issues even more visible.
In many ways President Trump was asking Prime Minister Modi to join in a network of nations and help the U.S. correct the current issue that personifies what Modi was worried about happening to India in the future.
Lastly, and here’s the important part; this is the part the global financial media seem to miss…. When you look at all of this ancillary geopolitical activity taking place toward the objective; you see it is all connected to a singular goal…. President Trump was never negotiating a “deal” with China, he was strategically decoupling the U.S. from China.
If Trump wasn’t decoupling from China, then all of these conversations with Mexico, Canada, the U.K., Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Indonesia, Australia, Brazil and India would not be taking place in the clear manner and sequencing we have seen.
For some reason the global financial media cannot see the connective tissue between Wilbur Ross’s statements in India and the U.S. policy toward China.
“There are trillions at stake”…
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