For some reason I imagine Whitaker’s physical stature as a small part of this decision-making, perhaps just a bonus. “Peace through Strength.”
President Trump has selected former Acting AG Matt Whitaker to be his Ambassador to NATO. In this role, Whitaker will quickly be taking on the task of positioning President Trump’s remarkably different foreign and national security policies at the forefront for NATO to accept. Not a small challenge, given the nature of the Ukraine-Russia conflict sucking up all the NATO oxygen.
[SOURCE]
VIA NPR – […] Trump has long criticized defense spending by other NATO member countries, arguing that the U.S. was shouldering an oversized burden while many European allies failed to pay their fair share. His pick for ambassador is likely to take on that stance, sparking some consternation across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States’ NATO allies.
After Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, NATO countries pledged to move toward spending 2% of their gross domestic product on defense by 2024. According to data released in July 2024, 23 of the 31 member countries are estimated to have hit that target, with the U.S. contributing 3.38% of its GDP.
Whitaker, 55, has no experience in foreign or military affairs, but he did work in the Justice Department during Trump’s first term in office, initially as chief of staff to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and then briefly as acting attorney general after Sessions was pushed out in 2018.
He also served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa during the George W. Bush administration. Whitaker has deep roots in Iowa; he grew up there and played football at the University of Iowa. (read more)
We can reasonably assume that Matt Whitaker’s phone and communication is now under intercept/surveillance by the U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yes, Peace through strength.
No more 6 week vacations Germans, French etc…
“For some reason I imagine Whitaker’s physical stature as a small part of this decision-making process”
Yeah, I liked it the first I heard of his nomination
I like the idea of Big Matt looming into European leaders with a ham-sized hand-grip to make a point or a request / demand
The fun has just begun.
As of now, NATO is anachronistic, antiquated and a danger to peace in the world.
I hope Matt can be a joyful warrior and emissary for Pres. Trump.
Would NATO be a firecracker or would they cower?
Get US out of NATO just like Pat Buchanan said years ago.
It Was Not ‘Unprovoked Russian Aggression’: Chronology Shows Decades of NATO Aggression
https://larouchepub.com/other/2022/4923-it_was_not_unprovoked_russian.html
So perfect to have a graphic to explain. Pic is worth 1000 words.
Hey Reed,
Its actually a pretty good read. I saw how the Deep State traitors fomented wars in the Balkans to expand NATO and weaken Orthodox Christian Russian influence, while expanding forces hostile to them like Islam. George Kennan said NATO expansion would be the “Fateful Error” and they have already surpassed that and are really tempting fate. NATO should have been disbanded, not expanded. Regards friend
Who controls what nato does?
Nato is just like a rogue regime with a nut case dictator in control.
Who controls global capital, Blackrock, Vanguard, the Monopolies? Who contols the gold? Find them, they control all downhill from that.
The US. Part of the concept of “new world order” where US enforces its “rules based international order” via NATO. That’s why we don’t actually want other NATO members to pay their share; if they did they would want more say in what NATO does.
Who’s this “we” you are referring to?
“We” don’t actually want other NATO members to pay their share.
What? Who the hell ever said that?
Allow me to reframe it for you, “I’m not paying to protect you from big bad Russia anymore because you have been two-timing behind my back with Russia buying oil and gas from them. To that I say good luck and good riddance. Oh, and here’s a white flag. You’re going to need it when Russia has you over a barrel (an oil barrel).”
Actually that graphic is old; doesn’t show massive build-up in Poland and Romania.
O’Brennan wants war.
So do a bunch of high level swamp dwellers. I’d bet that Biden’s puppeteers will try to forced it on us before the inauguration.
Both are muslims.
6’4” former Iowa Hawkeye TE – 3yr starter badass.
Euro-midgets shall quake. Love it!
Maybe he can knock the oily Mark Rutte, ex Dutch PM who failed up to be Secretary General of NATO, down to size.
Someone needs to put him in his place.
Run him over en route to a touchdown, metaphorically, of course.
Of course.
POTUS put the Sec. of Education in to dismantle the Dept. of Education;
I believe he’s done the same with this appointment – he means to get US out of NATO, and this is the ‘thin edge of the wedge’ who will go in & start taking our enmeshment apart at the seams.
I would ROFLMAO if Trump then joined BRICS > BRICSUS.
That would be Poetic Justice, imo.
Bingo.
NATO
Dept of Education
Homeland Security
State Department
Plans to dismantle.
Guessing there are probably plans to dismantle other Departments too like the EPA. These are just the ones I see now based on who has been nominated to lead them.
Chevron Deference.
As the quote goes, “At this point, what Deference does it make?”
Glad to see Department of Obamadoctrination on the ropes!
Nice! Smart enough not to tryout for tackle or guard or God help us….center! Probably gonna take some flak from inner
linemen here but the little school I went to only had enough kids to play both ways so I loved playing offensive guard and defensive linebacker…and the kickoff team, the extra point team, the receiving team and the field goal team.
Wouldn’t change those memories for anything.
KNOCK”EM DOWN MATT!
I believe we are going to see the end of NATO during this upcoming four-year admin. Or at least the U.S. removal from NATO.
President Trump gave all the European countries ample notice to pay up or we’re not defending you. Some got the message, but some did not. The free ride is over.
Why should any European nation have a higher standard of living than any hardworking tax paying American who funds and defends the safety/protection of those European nations. WWII ended in 1945. The Cold War ended in the early 1990’s. The days of “We do it this way because that’s the way we’ve always done it.” are over.
A new day is upon us.
President Trump repeated in every UN speech the importance of strong sovereign nations. The future belongs to Patriots. There is no future for the globalists. The United States will support you in defending yourself.
The Americans heavily supported many nations to help them get back on their feet after WWII. Those days should have ended long ago. We are long overdue to simply end the subsidy.
Peace through strength. Peace through individual strength, not proxy strength.
The United States removing ourselves from NATO is a necessary step. Peacefully and Patriotically.
Matt Whitaker is the perfect presence to do just that. Shut it all down.
Hi,
I am ok with that!
President Trump’s been talking about these issues for a long time. Here he is in 1987 discussing NATO and others ripping us off.
Just like to point out that Mr. Trump will still be president when this video becomes 40 YEARS OLD!! Take that all you morons who ever claimed he wasn’t one of the most intelligent persons to ever hold the office! He has been a deep thinker about these subjects most of his adult life.
The US wasn’t “supporting many nations to help them get back on their feet”. It was building a system where the US would control the foreign policy of the entire west and after the cold war, the rest of the world. Problem is, it was maybe feasible for a while after the war when the US was the industrial powerhouse; now we can’t afford the cost of enforcing the “rules based international order”. We thought maybe we could cheap-out via coalitions, but most countries aren’t going to be subservient to the US for the benefit “coalition”. Maybe Poland which will milk us for what we are worth, get us into war with Russia, so they can return to their vision of 18th c Polish/Lithuanian empire (and gobble up western Ukraine in the process).
The US was supporting nations to help them back on their feet.
It was not Americans who wanted to control foreign policy of the entire west. It was corrupt leadership in America and other places doing that.
The very powerful American economic engine funded it. The American citizens have been as big of a victim as anyone else. The enemy is the corrupt leadership here and abroad.
The enemy is not a country. That’s the war we are in. At least that’s how I hear it explained.
That cabal is collapsing. The American citizens are shaking off that corrupt leadership here in America. Other countries are doing the same with their corrupt leadership. Citizens/Patriots across the globe are rising and winning.
There is no NATO without the US.
Iowan here….I can assure you he won’t show up in a dress.
When Whittaker was AG, did not he oversee the Mueller investigation of President Trump? As AG, could not he have stopped it?
If Whittaker operated any differently than Sessions, what was the difference?
Jeff Sessions, what a clown. You have to wonder what the blackmail was that the IC had on him. I would say that was the fastest reclusion ever in history. Must have some real bad stuff on Mr Magoo
I do not see any substantive difference between Sessions, Barr, and Whittaker. Except Whittaker is larger.
Well, taller but Barr is likely larger.
larger? merely Fatter
Trust Stealth Matt.
I will give him props for swatting Pedo Biden’s hand away when he tried to touch his granddaughter.
Yes! Me too!
That should be seen as the biggest “tell” about Sessions. Swatting away the pedo.
I know it may not be a popular comment here, but Sessions’ role in dismantling the global “pedo” trafficking rings may have been his mission. I don’t know. We’ll see.
Executive Order 13818 on Human Trafficking was one of President Trump’s first EO’s. It may have therefore coincided with Sessions’ tenure as AG. I believe that EO is still in effect.
I hear the evidence of child trafficking will unite everyone against our common enemy.
The Only Law Enforcement Action Jeff Sessions Ever Took Against the #Obama/Biden Syndicate
He was interim.
Good things happened during the short time he was in charge.
Conveyance of files from deep inside and wouldn’t even need microfiche.
such ???
I know I was paying close attention and I drew that conclusion then.
But I’ve got so much information packed in my head from the last 8 years, extracting exactly what convinced me is pretty tough to do, years later.
Whittaker is career DOJ, and they are all about to be fired. This sounds like a golden parachute for one of the few honest guys employed there before Gaetz justifiably blows the whole place up.
Exactly!
Love that video
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Welcome back, Matt!
Great pick.
“Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. National I must remain, and in that way I like all other Americans can render the amplest service to the world. The United States is the world’s best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence. Leave her to march freely through the centuries to come as in the years that have gone. Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.”–Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., August 12, 1919
RFK. Jr.:
“I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.”–Mark Twain
Medal of Honor winner Smedley Butler wrote “War is a Racket” nearly a century ago. It describes Ukraine to a Tee. But even old Smedley would be amazed how we manipulated Ukraine into a war that only we wanted, killed a million of ’em and then told them were doing them a favor all the way to the bank.
I didn’t get it back when NATO raped Serbia. But I get it now.
However noble NATO’s founding may or may not have been, it is now a vector for One World Government, Endless War, Permanent Plandemics, Subversion of Democracy, False Flag Black Ops and Global Censorship.
In other words, NATO has become the very Soviet Empire it was created to defeat. We’ve got to get back to the Military’s proper core functions, personified it its finest traditions.
As usual, President Trump’s NATO skepticism was on the mark, if understated.
NATO has got to go, that there may be Real Peace and Security for Americans, for Europe and for the World.
Rest in the Vine: NATO Must Go so that Freedom May Live
RFK IS TALKING TO PUTIN ON BEHALF OF TRUMP. HE IS 100% CORRECT.
What was Reagan’s role in installing nuclear missiles in Poland? Was that considered reasonable deterrence for its time?
It was to me. He didn’t plan to use them but outspend them, and let Communism die of its own dead weight.
Peversely that allowed Dems to go full-Commie here.
Exactly. Putin is not sufficiently communist for the demofascists.
Not in Poland, which was still behind the iron curtain.
The Gipper put Pershing II missiles into West Germany, and the demofascists howled about it.
The demofascists loved the communist Soviet Union and hated the Gipper.
They hated the term “the Evil Empire”.
And then became one.
<“What was Reagan’s role in installing nuclear missiles in Poland?”
????
What the hay are you writing about?
During Reagan’s time it was the Soviet Union. It became Russia in 1991.
Poland?
Check again.
NATO is an example of what Robert Conquest called his second law of organizations:
“Any organization not explicitly and constitutionally right-wing will sooner or later become left-wing.”
Considering the second Secretary General was a Belgian socialist who helped construct the EU hegemon, it sure didn’t take long.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul-Henri_Spaak
If it was ever not left-wing DS uniparty to begin with.
Don’t agree. NATO is not on a political “wing” (you won’t see any leftists supporting it. Check out for instance Medea Benjamin). NATO is part of the neo-con plan to create an unaffordable “rules based international order”. I don’t think neo-con fits on the left/right wing concept.
right. Right wing starts the war. Left wing bleeding hearts justify and fund the war. Everyone of *them* gets rich and or powerful.
Yes. Third, also.
don’t remember right off hand said the other day,think it was rutte.that if the u.s. pulls out of the ukraine they would kick us out of nato.sounds like a good deal to me,then we can tell the u.n. to get the hell out of here and say to hell with them too.look at all the money we could save.
Look at the lives that could be saved.
that would be RICH considering that none of them has the capacity to fight themselves out of a reusable grocery bag!
Post of the Day from “The Gipper Lives”!
Great news – thank you, Sundance!
Always at the time frame being hyper focused upon the long term criminality of Comey I never had any sense of what Whitaker was or did not do. The one thing that did always occur to me though would have been his ability to share and/or convey info to POTUS that the Oval itself did not possess.
Could still have been.
Mueller though cracks me up. For, me ‘n “Bobby “Three Sticks” Mueller” were born in the same New York City hospital – “Doctor’s Hospital” about a year apart – weird sh*t lol
Herr Weissmann, running dementia puppet Herr Mueller’s Special Counsel, was still ruling the roost. Stealth Matt, at best, could look over Weissmann’s shoulder and maybe make him think twice, but the overriding fear of “doing something” was always “obstruction of justice”.
Gee, I guess Rod Rodentstein is not on the bus.
I can still see him sweating bullets standing behind PDJT looking a bit like Mr Peepers
President TRUMP pushing that EU elitist out of the way was one of the greatest displays of POWER ever.
Truly a thing of beauty!
I sure hope Russian Warhawks – in Russia – are paying attention.
With President Trump unable to directly communicate with Putin, these signals, hopefully, are sending the right message.
Who knew, for those growing up during the Soviet era, that our nuclear security would rely on Russian sensibilities while the’re simultaneously under missile attack by the US?
Crazy doesn’t begin to explain it.
What’s old is new again, huh?
Who is that, PDJT is shoving aside in the video short? lol
Right? I want some context!
If I recall correctly, I remember that all the NATO leaders were trying to sideline/ignore Trump, & by extension, Trump’s representation of his administration’s America First interests & influence on the world stage.
So I believe in this situation, he wasn’t just pushing himself forward, he was doing it on behalf of America.
Cool!
If I remember correctly, it turned out that the
person pushed stood on PDJT’s foot!
The PM of Montenegro (with their $7.4B GDP), compared to the US GDP of $29T. I believe that was the “BOSS Move” statement being made.
our President was PISSED lol. You RARELY see that look of disdain on his face because he is a genuinely gracious man who has no ill will to people
That is what I find out talking to “real” world people like us. WE SEE that POTUS is not what the media makes him out to be
I wore my Trump Girl Here..Get Over It with big high heel yesterday shopping at the mall….the MOST workers who LOVED it were at JC Penney. I got overwhelming support with big smiles, thumbs up, yeah we did it….but the JC Penney workers (ALL FEMALES) were the most enthusiastic
Make me love JCP more, if that’s possible.😁
Don’t like Whitaker. Not that my opinion matters. 😁👍🏻🇺🇸
not impressed with him either … puts me in the mind of Gowdy
In the background during Mueller / Seesions, same with Barr.
Get us out Matt. Go Hawkeyes!
I see what President Trump is doing. Once Whitaker passes the nomination process,there is no need to re-confirm him when he gets shifted over to, say, FBI director if Gaetz doesnt make confirmation. Love it! Whitaker at the UN? Too obvious, Mr. President.
I don’t think it works that way. You don’t just “shift over”.
I actually think you can interim appoint someone who has been confirmed. But I could be wrong .. that being said. Matt is MUCH better than this big ole gas bag. He is like so many GOP….big talk, little action done.
NATO has been around for 75 years and folks in Europe haven’t figured out how to organize for their mutual defense…..why would anyone believe that they will figure it out out in another 75 years?
NATO is a bit like NJ’s infamous Garden State Parkway tolls, supposed to have been taken out decades ago.
They actually finally did, mostly.
Maybe that’s a good omen.
There are fewer “toll booths” but they tripled the $tolls. The GSP was supposed to be paid off by the late 1960’s. They added so many “executive jobs ” at $150,000 plus that the tolls will never stop.
Pray and help others.
Exactly & ty Marc
That’s exactly what happened in the Chicagoland area as well!
Its by design.
We protect, we supply arms, they call us when hell breaks out, we pay for it, they block our goods, and they take 6-week vacations.
Because it has nothing to do with “mutual defense”. It’s about US control of Europe’s foreign policy.
A good example of NATO is the Desert Storm War:
During the Desert Storm war, the United States contributed the most troops with approximately 697,000 personnel, while the UK deployed around 53,000 soldiers, and Saudi Arabia contributed an estimated 60,000 to 100,000 troops; the coalition as a whole mobilized nearly 1 million soldiers. NATO is the US and Britain. Turkey declined to let us attack Sadam from the North.
love it
We demand to know everything that Schmucky and Piglosi discussed on J5 and J6.
“We can reasonably assume that Matt Whitaker’s phone and communication is now under intercept/surveillance by the U.S. Intelligence Community.”
Yes. Likewise…
We can also equally and reasonably assume that PDJT and his team were/are well aware of the (continued) “intercept/surveillance by the U.S. Intelligence Community” and have taken appropriate counter-measures.
Assets like Musk’s StarLink and Trump’s globe (with Al Sisi and MBS) aren’t for nothing.
They knew Trump’s election kicked off WWIII.
MNN BREAKING…
PRESIDENT TRUMP MISTAKENLY NOMINATES AL-SISI AS SECRETARY OF STATE DUE TO RESEMBLENCE TO RUBIO
If mad is let loose in ukraine nato won’t matter.🥹
How are we ever going to get out from underneath the constructs of the intelligence community?
How, how, how?
Trials for, and punishment of, treason.
Learn to do your business outside of the tools of tracking you. Encrypted internet email and text. Nothing else. Starlink. No credit cards or debit cards or social media. Use library resources, not your own. Use barter. Obey all traffic laws. Rented mailboxes. Burner phones.
I am trying to read up on StarLink. When I lived in the boonies before I had Hughes Satellite … we had no access to mainline net. It was not reliable, loads of issues. Is Starlink from a Satellite?
Is the fat lady about to sing in ukraine. If she does ya know what that means.😳
Imagine Matt Whitaker’s first announcement:
President Trump will “pause USA funding and support of NATO” and resume it if and when
(1) Every NATO member has “eliminated its cumulative funding gap” and
(2) Those members have collectively “ended the Ukraine conflict and any possibility of its resumption” with Russia.
In the interim, President Trump is withdrawing USA Armed Forces from the NATO region to sustainably Secure Our Borders and Deport the Invasion of Illegal Immigrants to their countries of origin.
It will be interesting to see if Whitaker actually walks the talk he expounded on Fox and other public venues. He could be a wrecking ball if he follows orders by interpreting the NATO Charter as written and not some wish sandwich which is done today, while balancing it vs US Law.
If he does, I consider this assignment as placing him “active” reserve … as a pre-approved US Senate appointee.
Possible temp AG or maybe FBI director, if the RINOS and Uni-Party repeat 2017-2020.
In fact any appointees who make through the process this time around and past “trusted” appointees need to be ready to fill in as temps as needed in any Executive Branch slot.
he won’t. When you really drill down on him … like Gowdy, he likes to talk the talk but does not have the spine needed. Not sure what the UN position will give him power for but I wish he’d use it, but I’m not really excited.
He didn’t accomplish much in the first Trump term, did he?
This man will command respect from NATO. He is articulate and will not be susceptible to their antics.
I really would like to have seen him as a head at Justice.
I really like his calm no nonsense manner. Ah! yes, he also has a wonderful sense of humor.
Perhaps one of the strongest weapons Whitaker will have is the certain knowledge that, under Trump, the US will have NO PROBLEM walking away for that organization if the occasion rises.
I hope Whitaker can act more effetively than his last position.
Matt Whitaker, former D.C. something, something, something who had an open invitation by Paul Ryan, to run his mouth on the anti-Trump/MAGA Faux News Corp.
Surely “Suspicious Cat” recognizes this suspicious cat.
BTW, Trump has a LEAKER!
nailed it. Non trustable. I’d be watching and demanding he give his action plan of the day, every day, to a trusted White House Advisor every dang day.
Very important position, as continuing war looms over Europe. When they see and hear him (ex Iowa football player with a booming voice) everyone will know he’s “the American”
Walk like a boss and carry a big Whitaker!
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/6320/pres-trump-announces-whitaker-ambassador
ONLY PERSON with MORE GRAVITAS Would BE Ambassador Grenell ( and He WOULD Be TOO NICE to Them in Public )
AG Matt Whitaker IS The CORRECT CHOICE:
LAWYER
LOYAL EMISSARY
MENTALLY SHARP / Quick Witted
PHYSICALLY IMPRESSIVE
why has Ric Grenell not been even mentioned? I actually thought this position would have been more suited for him. He did several fundraisers with Melania this year. He was at a couple campaign stops. But it seems he and Ben Carson have not received a nod … lets hope they have better spots for them….but what would they be. Nothing big seems left????
Trump is thinking about the future. Grassley can’t live forever, and somebody eventually has to take over that Iowa Senate seat. It would also be great to have a replacement for RINO Joni Ernst. Trump is building up Whitaker’s resume.
Hopefully this will be in time, considering the mess that the Biden administration is leaving.
Hope Whittaker does better under the cover of President Trump that he did when when needed him to stand up and push back as acting AG… I wasn’t impressed
me either .. he’s a RINO in light loafers IMHO. Ric Grenell would have been much better. Confirmed once….shouldn’t be any bomb throwers …
Yippee!
“Agent Zelensky” by Scott Ritter on BitChute > USMC, INF Treaty inspector, UN Iraq WMD inspector, author “Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika” and frequent target of FBI
Is this a waste with Gaetz withdrawing?