(New York Times) – Former President Donald J. Trump said on Tuesday that he would be interviewed next week by Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of the social media platform X and a former skeptic who has come to embrace his candidacy.
In a post on his own social media site, Truth Social, Mr. Trump said that their conversation would happen on Monday night and that details would follow. Representatives for the Trump campaign and for X did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. (more)
Posted originally on the CTH on August 5, 2024 | Sundance
Barron Trump likes to watch Adin Ross and the audience Ross creates with his podcast is very unique and young. Old media is dead for the majority of young people and younger voters, instead it’s podcasting and live-stream content that catches their attention.
President Trump knows the value of connecting to the audience on their terms and their platforms. This is a really cool interview that covers a lot of subjects. There is a segment where President Trump plays the “one word” game with people Adin Ross puts on screen [44:00 mark]: it’s quite funny.
Posted originally on Aug 5, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The MAGA Republicans do not want to eliminate Social Security and Medicare, rather, they would like to eliminate the government’s double dipping through taxation. Donald Trump is now declaring that he would work to eliminate tax on Social Security for seniors.
It was Ronald Reagan who first introduced tax on Social Security in March of 1983 as taxation is a bipartisan power grab, but the Democrats are more overt with their desire to steal personal funds.
The 1983 amendment reads as follows:
“If the taxpayer’s combined income (total of adjusted gross income, interest on tax-exempt bonds, and 50% of Social Security benefits and Tier I Railroad Retirement Benefits) exceeds a threshold amount ($25,000 for an individual, $32,000 for a married couple filing a joint return, and zero for a married person filing separately), the amount of benefits subject to income tax is the lesser of 50% of benefits or 50% of the excess of the taxpayer’s combined income over the threshold amount. The additional income tax revenues resulting from this provision are transferred to the trust funds from which the corresponding benefits were paid. Effective for taxable years beginning after 1983.”
The Senate Finance Committee in 1983 stated that taxing a portion of Social Security could prevent the fund from insolvency – wrong. They claimed low-income individuals would not face higher taxes, which is another common lie. The House Ways & Means Committee in 1983 claimed that the tax would improve tax equity. “Your Committee believes that social security benefits are in the nature of benefits received under other retirement systems, which are subject to taxation to the extent they exceed a worker’s after-tax contributions and that taxing a portion of social security benefits will improve tax equity by treating more nearly equally all forms of retirement and other income that are designed to replace lost wages,” the committee stated.
Then in 1993, the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act sought to modify the 1983 amendment by adding a secondary threshold of taxation for individuals earning over $34,000 and individuals filing a joint return over $44,000. The taxable percentage was proposed to be raised to 85% for “high-income” beneficiaries. The Senate wanted the funds to go the Medicare HI Trust Fund while the House wanted the additional taxes to go to the General Fund of the Treasury, but the Senate prevailed over the House.
The government claimed it would help the slush fund that is Social Security operate more akin to a private pension.
As the House Budget Report stated in 1993:
“The committee desires to more closely conform the income tax treatment of Social Security benefits and private pension benefits by increasing the maximum amount of Social Security benefits included in gross income for certain higher-income beneficiaries. Reducing the exclusion for Social Security benefits for these beneficiaries will enhance both the horizontal and vertical equity of the individual income tax system by treating all income in a more similar manner.”
I should add that Joe Biden was in government and voted in favor of taxing Social Security in both 1983 and 1993.
The Congressional Budget Office believes that Social Security will run dry within the next few years. The US national debt surpassed $35 trillion this July and the government is STILL spending with no end sight. The majority of the people currently paying into Social Security by force will not receive anything in return. Social Security itself is already a tax upon the people that they cannot opt out of. They would receive a FAR GREATER RETURN if permitted to invest that money. The government steals a portion of your pay that they claim will benefit you in retirement. Then the government fails to give you back any compounded interest, tells you that they’ll safely hold onto that money until you’re close to death, and then pay you back pennies in comparison to what you could have made AND they’ll tax you again from cashing your own Social Security checks. Best of all Congress has been raiding Social Security to fund their own initiatives for many years. The entire nation needs an absolute overhaul on taxation in general as the government is STEALING from the people.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 5, 2024 | Sundance
There are many very important positions related to the expectations we hold for President Trump. Having spent years deep inside the actual workings of the current professional DC silos, I can tell you most of those expectations are very challenging to achieve.
In one 4-year term President Trump can set the cornerstone for a reconstruction effort that will take at least 15 years. [Reference, Team Obama used 18+ years to create it (January 2007 to present)].
In this series my goal is more to describe the needs of some critical positions from a very practical, non-pretending, perspective of what happens within specific offices. I already discussed two critical positions that do not require IC approval (Emissary and NatSec Advisor) today I outline a third, the White House Counsel.
The Office of White House Counsel does not need IC/Senate approval.
The Office of the White House Counsel (WHC) is the gatekeeper to the Office of the President. The White House Counsel does not represent Donald Trump; the WHC represents the office of the presidency and the person fulfilling the duty of the presidency. For the interests of an effective White House Counsel, who is president is irrelevant; they are guarding the office.
The WHC is critical because it is the advice and opinion of the lawyer in this role who can completely hamstring a President, block a President and ultimately control a President. The WHC also party controls access to the Office of the President, if the person seeking access is determined detrimental to the “office of the president.”
Essentially a legal gatekeeper, with the job to protect the office of the President (not Donald Trump the person), the White House Counsel is very critical. Understanding that lawyers in general are averse to risk, and understanding a White House primary lawyer would be exceptionally averse to risk, most White House counsel office holders are predisposed to create the concentric circles of protection around the office.
The WHC coordinates the collapse of the concentric circles when major crisis unfolds. Starting on the perimeter the WHC organizes the people who will take responsibility for a major problem, with the goal in mind to keep the collateral damage as far away from the office as possible. Like a mob lawyer, the consigliere will tell a person when they must take the blame -self immolate- and exit the White House for the good of the office etc.
That said, there was a very important facet to the White House Counsel’s office that failed in Trump’s first term. This failure cannot be repeated.
In Term-1 the opinion of the White House Counsel was to block all declassification efforts that did NOT have the full support of the Intelligence Community (IC). The IC always knows the White House is averse to risk and the IC weaponize the fear of the WHC against the office of the President.
The declassification process is a request by an agency, including a superior agency like the President of the United States, to the Intelligence Branch asking for them to release the information. The Intelligence Branch again holds full unilateral control. If the head of the CIA refuses to comply with the declassification instruction of the President, what can the president do except fire him/her? {Again, GO DEEP} How does the President replace the non-compliant cabinet member? They have to go through the SSCI confirmation. See the problem?
In Term-1 the IC message to the WH Counsel was that if Donald Trump declassified any documents, they would use the DOJ (special counsel weapon) to attack the office of the president for “obstructing justice.” The WHC was fraught with fear over what would happen and demanded that POTUS Trump stop trying to declassify information/documents the IC didn’t support.
The IC was trying to take out Donald Trump and the WHC in essence supported their objective because the WHC is only focused on threat mitigation. In term-2 these threats are going to be of even greater significance. The IC is now in a zero-sum game.
If Trump wins, they are potentially going to be removed. Ergo, the IC will do anything to stay in power. It is exceptionally critical the next term Trump White House Counsel understand this. The next WHC needs to be as brave as they are legally smart and strategic.
The next WHC needs to be brave for the office, empowering for President Trump, and stand as a flea against a furnace created by the IC and Lawfare system if that’s what they need.
The next WHC needs to look carefully at the recent SCOTUS decision about the unilateral power of the President within the Executive Branch and lean heavily into that decision; fully extending the power and influence of the Office of the President against the full system of every Executive Branch agency. Each silo needs to be confronted, and it is going to take a very bold WHC to support this effort.
The recent Supreme Court decision gives tremendous power, ABSOLUTE POWER within the Executive Branch, to the office of the President. This is not a time for the WHC to be timid, afraid or risk averse. This is a time for the WHC to spread the wings of the Eagle and sharpen the talons for use against corrupt and weaponized agencies. In short, go on the attack.
Strategic support for the goals and objectives of the President and National Security Advisor, should be the primary filter of consideration for the White House gatekeeper. They must be smart, killer smart; brutally strategic; cunning and fully versed in how the dark arts will come against them. Prior experience as a target by the same system they now confront should be considered an asset.
The person filling the role of WHC must have exceptional constitutional knowledge and capabilities to guide and counsel the key people in/around the office of the President. Not with the intent to stop the objective, but with the intent to support the objective by telling the scouts and strategic weapons “what” they will face and “where.”
There are some really good lawyers who can fill this role; however, every top-tier candidate must be filtered through the prism of stability, background, the lack of attack vectors against them and keen judgement in all facets of prior political experience. They must also have a disposition of attack, not defense. The WHC needs to push forward, not guard as much.
For this reason, I would love to see a brilliant and snarky lawyer like Eric Dublier take the job; but, I doubt he would take it. Another strong possibility would be John Eastman.
John Eastman has been the target of the weaponized IC and Lawfare. He has a brilliant mind, strong constitutional understanding, and, well, perhaps most importantly, he has a personal reason to be pissed off about the current status of our Executive Branch agencies. In the position of White House Counsel, John Eastman esq would trigger spontaneous ‘splodey heads just from the announcement itself.
A collaboration between John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark would be good strategic positioning. However, President Trump needs to be keenly aware that a team of “professionally republican advisors” will try to steer his options toward lawyers they know will retain the statu quo.
Next position will be the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the first position that needs Senate Confirmation.
Posted originally on the CTH on August 4, 2024 | Sundance
Today on Sunday Morning Futures, President Trump sat down for an economic discussion with Maria Bartiromo.
President Trump focuses correctly on inflation and the root cause, The Green New Deal. Joe Biden’s energy policy was the biggest trigger on consumer price increases. The energy policy fueled inflation caused by monetary policy. President Trump correctly notes the first step in dealing with the inflation dynamic is to lower the energy prices. WATCH:
Posted originally on the CTH on August 3, 2024 | Ad rem
President Donald J. Trump, and his running mate J.D. Vance, will be in Atlanta today for a rally at Georgia State University Convocation Center. Doors for the rally open at 1 pm, and the rally is scheduled to begin at 3 pm. Thousands of people showed up early in the morning ahead of the rally. Vance is scheduled to speak at 4 pm, and President Trump is scheduled to speak at 5 pm.
Posted originally on the CTH on July 31, 2024 | Sundance
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
After visiting Chicago to speak to the NABJ convention, President Trump heads back to Pennsylvania for a rally in Harrisburg. Pennsylvania is one of the biggest battleground states amid the 2024 contest. Removing ballot fraud from Philadelphia County election operations, would be the state level outcome equivalent of removing the ballot fraud from Broward County, Florida.
President Trump is scheduled to deliver remarks at 6:00pm ET, with livestream links below.
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