After reading the entire 75-page transcript of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) testimony to congress [READ HERE], a testimonial that almost no one in the mainstream news has written about, issues surrounding the document search against President Trump take on some new context.
The NARA officials are essentially professional DC bureaucrats with a mission to look out for the best interests of the DC system they support. It is very clear from their opinion; Donald Trump was considered an outsider to the DC system of government – and that baseline established the framework for why and how NARA took such extreme processes with President Trump.
From the transcript, one NARA official says, “I am storing 555,000 cubic feet of classified national security information. To put that in perspective, the white boxes that many of you have seen in your offices, that is a cubic foot. It holds about 2,500 pages. Another way for me to describe it, a typical stack area that we store records in a Federal records center can hold about 100,000 cubic feet. And that is a room that is about roughly the size of a football field. So you are looking at five and a half football fields floor to ceiling shelving.” {Transcript, page 24}
President Trump did not turn over the letter left to him by President Obama, nor did President Trump turn over the 27 letters exchanged between himself and North Korea Chairman Kim Jong-un. NARA was looking for these along with other documents pertaining to President Trump engaging in discussions with other foreign leaders, and NARA was angry about the perceived lack of respect shown by Trump toward their endeavor.
However, when you take the current DC establishment system, look at the history of the Trump administration engagement in foreign policy, then overlay that dynamic with the gatekeeping responsibilities outlined by NARA, what you may discover is an entirely different prism through which to view the DC motives.
One can easily argue the Deep State per se’ was looking for notes, information, contacts, tips and hints of discussions that took place between Trump and foreign leaders, that may have actually exposed the mechanisms of DC money and policy laundering.
Consider the NARA apoplexy around the Trump-Kim letters as outlined on pages 43 & 44 of their testimony. However, expand your perspective to get larger than simply the Trump-Kim letters.
NARA officials view themselves, their role, as more important than the President of the United States, that is very clear. NARA officials consider themselves “gatekeepers” to government information. The gatekeepers were not happy with President Trump not following protocols when he was not in office. An example from media:
The Washington Post’s Greg Miller reported Sunday that President Donald Trump’s confiscation of the translator’s notes from a one-on-one conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017 was “unusual.” This is incorrect. It was unprecedented. There is nothing like it in the annals of presidential history.
It is also truly unusual that Trump failed to bring in a note taker, along with his translator, during his meetings with Putin, as almost every other president has done when meeting with foreign heads of state since the end of World War II. Usually the note taker is an official or aide with deep background in the subject under discussion.
[…] There are good reasons for presidents to bring a note taker with them to such meetings. First, they want a record of what was said, both to remind themselves later of what happened and to confirm or dispute some later account of the meeting, either by the foreign leader or some reporter. Second, the president’s national security officials want to know what was said so that they can orient policy accordingly. Third, historians value these notes, once they’re declassified, as a record of behind-the-scenes U.S. foreign policy. (link)
President Trump was violating institutional norms. He was not following the unwritten rules of the DC bureaucracy; a political system that is predicated on maintenance of a financial system where US policy is promoted with laundered dollars that flow back to the politicians.
Think about the risk that DC viewed from Trump’s processes that violated their norms. Think about the meetings they would not know about. Think about the conversations that might take place without their knowledge.
Think about Vladimir Putin (Russia), Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (Egypt), Mohammed Bin Salmon (Saudi), Viktor Orban (Hungary), or even Lopez-Obrador (Mexico), talking openly to President Trump about how their nations were told to engage with U.S. political systems via the State Dept., or functional politicians on various committees.
Think about the apoplexy amid a DC system built on selling foreign policy and gaining affluence, when suddenly there is a guy in the office of the President who has never made a dime from this network and financial construct. Think about how the DC Democrats and Republicans would view Trump from the perspective of his personal engagement with foreign government officials who know the dirt on those same DC Democrats and Republicans. Think about the fear inside the beltway as a result of this.
Consider yet another example from 2018:
2018 – President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un held their first-ever meeting, and there may never be a full record of what was said.
After meeting shortly after 9 a.m. (local time) for a handshake and photo-op, the two leaders entered a library at Capella Hotel on Singapore’s Sentosa Island to begin a one-on-one bilateral meeting. The two men were each accompanied only by an interpreter, raising concerns among experts.
Suzanne DiMaggio, who facilitated the first official discussions between North Korea and the Trump administration last year, recently said that without aides present “the fear is that he [Trump] might give away too much.”
But while Trump, and Kim, regularly stray off diplomatic scripts, a larger risk may be that there may be no full transcript, public or secret, of what the two leaders discussed. (link)
Think about a DC system that is built upon leverage and blackmail worrying about a President who might gain leverage and blackmail with evidence of their corrupt endeavors. What would this DC system do to make sure that evidence, if it existed, was never used?
Think about an elitist and very eco-chambered DC political system viewing President Trump through the prism of a vulgarian man who will say anything, expose anything, and discuss anything without curtailment or consideration for the collateral damage his words may create. Think about the palpable fear that would reverberate amid a professional political class who have created this system for their own financial benefit.
Does the desperation of NARA and the DC political establishment take on a new perspective?
It was interesting how the press reported that they found his safe
empty..why tell us that..I would imagine whatever POTUS
keeps in his safe goes with him when he travels
to his various residences for any period of time, why
would he leave whatever is in there in an unoccupied
residence..I wonder why they haven;t raided Bedminster
or Trump Tower either..
Yeah, I don’t believe that for a moment.
Right. There could be a corvette at either place!
Shock and awe!
Donald Trump most likely keeps his firearms and ammunition in a safe, when necessary. … Trump is no fool; he keeps his guns nearby. ……. We need to pray for the Great Donald J. Trump and his family.
IIRC, it was Eric Trump that first disclosed they brought in a safecracker, who opened the safe and found it EMPTY.
Recall, PDJT was watching the raid, on a feed from the security cameras that were turned off then on again.
You do and so do I. My FIRST instinctive thought was and remains there’s one or more Rats inside Mar-A-Lago where PDT maintains administrative and grounds staff working inside and out – every day. Maybe one has a charge pending against him/her looking to get it squashed the jackboots shook out and or an axe to grind as many of these psychotic hate racked morons do against this man. Zero surprise if one or more of them is or includes part of the secret service detail who has to know every square foot of M-Lago and where everything is or damn close. There’s people whose profession it is to shake these creeps out like ex-NYPD Grade 1 Robbery-Homicide Det. Bo Dietl’s company https://www.investigations.com/. From what I know about him Bo Dietl is a no BS serious man and this would be squarely in his realm of extensive expertise. Deitl and PDT have been close friends for decades. If not Deitl I hope PDT is using one just as competent.
Wow.
Anyone else notice ut00be has taken down every full Tucker Carlson segment? Found out last night looking for the original Carlson segment with this punk this miserable coward sellout arrogant bastard Michael Turner (“-R” OH) who McCarthy picked to chair the houise “intel” committee aka HPSCI. I wanted to review some things after catching Col. Derek Harvey and Bannon (second link Rumble) discuss this creep Turner. The original Carlson-Turner match had been archived along with the others now all clipped except cherry picked out takes >>> EXCEPT THIS from some leftist moron bannered “Tucker Carlson Gets Absolutely Destroyed By Republican Congressman“. Thoise who may have seen the original segment know it was precisely the opposite so much so that Turner actually whined about it at his con gressional website for about a week as my wife had found. Anyway, Derek Harvey nailed it the other day: https://rumble.com/v2ugqp8-we-have-a-rep-mike-turner-problem.html
I really doubt he only had one safe. I have two and I’m just a small town granny with very few valuables.
Hi, as a person who knows something of the interpreter and translator’s world and a good memory of what has been said before, I’d like to point out a couple of things. It’s simple and logical.
A translator does not work alone in these settings: the meetings are recorded by the two parties, a) in the *original* language, obviously, of the two leaders, i.e. in Russian and English. So, two recordings, a copy for each party. Also, b) at the same time a recording is made of each party’s simultaneous translation; There may be 2 simulaneous translators, one for each language pair or just one. Here “The two men were each accompanied only by an interpreter, raising concerns among experts.”
After the meeting transcriptions are typed up in each language. These become RECORDS of what was said. A “translator’s notes” DOCUMENT consists of explanations for any reasons or doubts considered by the translator/interpreter to be worthy of comment. Presumably all this work is done by professionals with security clearance.
The above procedure I describe is so that the original languages can be compared with the translator(s)’s interpretation in case there is a dispute about the translation of a word or meaning later. Diplomacy is highly involved here.
For example during a top level meeting between counterparts Israeli and Turkish, the translator muted the insult of one to the other by changing the offensive word slightly. This led to a dispute. The issue was probably resolved through aides and diplomacy. This is standard practise for obvious reasons.
Huh? Don’t tell me there weren’t recordings or transcripts or records. The expert(s) here decrying the procedure is throwing sand in everyone’s eyes. It doesn’t work like that. The press is tossing around misleading words and gaslighting the public as they MISINFORM us.
So now during the Ukraine phone call with Zelensky, for which there was a PERFECT record of what was said, and therefore a transcript that was also PERFECT in Trump’s words, a similar procedure was followed. Trump said that whenever he had a top-level call with foreign leaders there were always about “twenty people” listening in on him (his words) to make sure he didn’t put his foot in it. This, as I recall, was his remark as to why Vindman was wrong. No one listened because he was impeached. But his lawyers on the impeachment didn’t point this out either. I WONDER ABOUT THE QUALITY OF HIS LAWYERS this time round. Bearing in mind PROJECT 65, (check it out) if they are none too bright, it might be an idea to supply them with the detailed information only you nit-pickers point out and research?
Thank you Sundance for your valuable insights. I enjoy your perceptions and patience getting to the bottom of things.
I recently took one for the team and watched a CNN program on President Trump. It was in their ‘The 2010s’ series and was titled ‘Trump: The Disrupter’.
Among the many lies they tell about President Trump in a one hour segment is a completely fabricated falsehood that they had to pry the transcript of the scampeachment #1 Ukrainian call out of his hands.
He made it very clear from the beginning, and has told the exact same story many times since, that he pushed to get it out so they could all read his perfect call. I remember this very clearly, as if it were yesterday.
In fact here is a Congressional hearing where Jim Jordan states this fact very clearly.
Thank you so much for your explanation! I had no idea (although I probably should have) that translating for officials is so complicated.
I remember as well, President Trump saying that there are always about 20 people listening to his every call.
And that makes me wonder why no one in an official capacity has come forward to enlighten the public on the protocols and procedures! I’m sure it is not for the good of the American public. I do so appreciate your insight.
They all sign very strict non-disclosure affidavits.
This excellent, detailed explanation draws my sttention to ONE TIME when I Believe PDJT was alone with another leader, although being watched by the WHOLE WORLD.
When he stepped out of the DMZ, and INTO N.Korea, and walked with Kim.
Wondrr WHAT they may have said to each other, lol.
Bravo, Salialioli. My wife used to work for a major transition company and verified your statements as to procedure.
Would venture to guess that every “official” piece of paper they “want back’ was digitized long, long ago.
Thank you – I think it’s important for We the People, to take info like this + pass it around. I found this extremely interesting and telling. I have forwarded Sundance’s essay together with your explanation of how translators work & asked others to do the same. Up to us now to get info out!!
They have a narrative to fuel: Orangeman bad. 🙄
I remember in November of 1985 when Reagan and Gorbachev went for a walk into the woods with just their interpreters. Together, they ended the Cold War. Today, to do the same thing is considered a crime.
Very interesting that PDJT released a beautiful book containing letters written from not only Kim, but many other world leaders. These so called “national Security risks” are out in public for all to see ? Gorgeous book –incredible life of a one in a million guy, our lion.
💕🇺🇲🦁 👑🇺🇲💕
Frankly, I’ll bet that the aforementioned leaders, other than Xi, miss President Trump.
Yup.
Because of Trump’s exceptional negotiation skills, we have to wonder if he was in the WH right now, if Russia would have not taken the action they have?
We can wait and see, assuming Trump is back in the WH, what will happen.
I see the call like this:
Trump: Putin, ok, I get your point and all, but can we work this thing out? Too many people have died and it needs to stop.
Putin: What’s in it for me?
Trump: Well… You get to save face and look like a good guy. The world will see you as a leader that is willing to change and you will be respected for that.
Putin: I’ll think about it.
Trump: I promised the American people 24 hours. You got 23:40 left. Talk to you later.
Click.
I really do not think it will take any arm twisting, Putin doesn’t want to occupy Western Ukraine, he wants security.
If not for the U.S. bullying, this War between the U.S. and Russia, being fought in Ukraine, would never have happened.
Putin wanted to negotiate from the very beginning! The US/UK refused to allow Zelensky to negotiate!
There would have been no war to begin with if Trump was still President!
Putin wanted security for his country and his fellow Russians in Eastern Ukraine to stop being slaughtered by Nazi Ukrainians! Very reasonable!
And then I think about Eric Swalwell sleeping with a Chinese spy, or Diane Feinstein having a Chinese spy as a chauffeur for 20 years, and no one caring about what government ‘secrets’ they divulged.
Or the Awan family….
Notice when it came out about the Awans that Marcie……
( foerget the last name, from Northern Ohio house district)
got promoted. Of all the individuals tied into the Awans,
she was the one that was almost GLUED to them.
She took over for Wasserman Mayonaise Hair.
Marcy Kaptur?
Debbie “Blabbermouth” Schultz. (H/t to the late Maha Rushie)
Monkey Island… JiaQi Bao… Hunter Biden
Monkey Island… JiaQi Bao … Hunter Biden
Feinstein even let her Chinese spy driver represent her office at the SF Chinese embassy.
“Does the desperation of NARA and the DC political establishment take on a new perspective?”, yes, it does.
I’m convinced they haven’t found everything and they never will. Hopefully the dirt is released for the world to see.
So, when the DNC rigs things for Biden over RFKJR… and when the RNC rigs things to take out Trump from the party (due to “all those awful indictments”), I’m wondering if we should see a true coalition party come together for the first time in our history, and put two men on the Libertarian or Independent ticket in all 50 states….
Trump/RFKJR 2024?
This is not ideal based on RFKJR’s climate activism and other policy beliefs, but perhaps this country needs this kind of debate and dialog between the Pres and VP like we saw in the early years of Presidential voting? I’m just saying, maybe its time for something old to be new again? And together, their popularity would certainly ensure a very competitive contest.
I caused a Communist Dem and Uniparty Republican at my bar to have splodey heads all while getting two or three others to nod in agreement and say- I can do that too.
Friday, I was out with the wife. We were at our watering hole. I am a “regular” there. There are a lot of regulars that rotate on the time of day and day of the week. Well, on this Friday we had several non-regulars at the bar. They had “news” on (I hate when they have news on instead of sports- it’s a bar). They showed RDS and Biden…then an attack segment on Trump.
The non regular commented on “Orangeman bad.” I chimed in. I swatted his BS back at him with facts and what about questions. My wife hates when this starts to happen because I don’t back off.
To make the story short….he tried to throw shade because I support Trump by sayin “LOL, so, are you MAGAs going to be so upset when you have to pull the lever for Ron in 2024?”
I turned to him and said “Nope, I won’t have to..I’ll be pulling a lever for Trump. As will my wife (she nodded). As will my sons, all three of them. We alread spoke about it. And if for some reason he’s not on the ballot, and it is RDS, well, I’m voting for RFK Jr., and to ensure RFK Jr. is available, my family and I are doing what the Dems have taught everyone to do- we’re changing affiliation during the primaries and voitng for RFK. I’d rather have a 4th branch hating, America first Kennedy, than a RINO named Ron.”
He was speechless. Gasped. At that moment, I learned there were a lot more Trump supporters at this CT bar than I ever previously thought. Many at the bar chimed in with “That’s a great plan. Trump first, if not then pick the other guy the Demcrats don’t want.” I said yep, and even though RFK’s climate stance is BS, I appreciate is want to downsize our government.
I would actually probably write in Trump. But, the mere mention of saying we are changing parties to vote in the primaries and that we would vote for RFK to oust Biden….man, did that result in a splodey head. He tried to say how it was cheap and dirty….well, that’s when the others at the bar reminded him of the commercials here in CT during 2020 primaries asking D’s to cross over and vote Jeb.
Your primary is not until Apr 30. By then it might not even make a hill of beans difference, like in 2020. They may have already declared Delusional Joe a winner by then.
Frankly, it doesn’t really matter, because they will make up the stats they want you to believe and the media talking heads will report it as fact.
Very true, especially here in CT.
My primary vote never matters in Ohio. It’s always decided before it gets to us. I absolutely hate the primary system.
I never wanted any of the fools the GOPe has thrown up thet last few decades.
Trump was the first candidate i ever voted “for”. The other RINO snakes I had to support. I didn’t have a choice.
Primary order ought to be by lottery, to keep things fair for all states to be engaged in the early voting from time to time. And that stupid NH law making them “first in the nation” no matter what everyone else does, should be struck down by the Supreme Court. Why doesn’t my state just pass a law saying “one week before NH”. That would expose the folly of a law with such dependent variables. Plus, the open loop runaway pushing the next NH primary into October of the year 1262 would be an amusing outcome.
It killed me to vote for Dewine this last election, but I couldn’t chance the democrat getting in. My husband wouldn’t vote for Dewine, he wrote in Daffy Duck😀
Do you just mean the presidential primaries? It did matter when I voted for JD Vance over Josh Mandel in the primaries, and President Trump really endorsed him, though some didn’t trust Vance. I have been impressed with Vance as our senator — he’s one of the few good ones in the Senate who defends President Trump by name.
Plus. The “super”delegates….
Yup! I have talked about the here many times as being the ones who pick for the DNC. And RIGHT TO RIG.
Love this – excellent. Is it ok if I share your post with others?
Respectfully, even if its just to cause “splodey heads” voicing ANY support for this frankly STOOPID idea, which as you point out was then “amplified” to other MAGA “Trump supporters” that will then no doubt “tell their friends” is counter productive to our goal.
As you point out, you “probably won’t actually DO this” so,…you were lieing.
Our narrative is NOBODY BUT TRUMP. I will write him in, and there is NO CIRCUMSTANCR, and no ONE that can get me to vote, other than for TRUMP.
ANYTHING that dillutes that message, is like watering down a whiskey on the rocks, and given your stated familiarity with this watering hole, I am sure you understand dillution.
I have occasionally mentioned RFK as the perfect appointment to be Health Zsar in the 2024 PDJT administration.
It would be so much fun to see him kick Pfascitizer moles to the curb, along with the rest of Pig Pharma.
I will write Trump in if he is not on the ballot.
Trump – Lake would be the winning ticket.
That is the Republican ticket that I would love to see as well! But in the case of a fracturing of both parties, I still like Trump/RFKJR.
I’m here in AZ and I attend a Republican club in my community monthly. I see Republican lite often. Still, there is no doubt whatsoever that Kari Lake won the election to Governor by 20 points if not more. The sickness of the Maricopa County situation is where the election was stolen. And Jay Valentine (American Thinker) has continued to recommend fixes to this process. I recommend him and his Omega Project program to everyone here at CTH.
The rinos ignore him for good reason. Lake and Trump would be an incredible team. Both of them loud, sensible, brave, and aware how the Media is the enemy. She is a fireball. Women out there with any skin in this game would flock to her. They did in AZ. It was Maricopa County election fraud that interfered.
You can take the measure of a woman in how she responds to strong, attractive women like Kari Lake. Don’t bet on a positive outcome. BTW I’m a woman who isn’t intimidated by other strong, decent women. I admire them, but they are few and far between.
KL’s campaign is, in many ways “the gift that keeps on giving”; TALK was that WE MAGA, didn’t have the young vote.
The average age of Karis campaign staff was 35 (yes, she checked) and her campaign director was 20 y.o.
And the gender was plenty of woman as well, as is the grass roots campaign she is organising, to be the “largest LEGAL ballot harvesting operation in History”.
All of this “demographics” talk, is Uniparty b.s.; MAGA appeals to ALL Americans without regard to such meaningless DIVISIVE distinctions.
Oddly enough I know a small bevy of elderly Republican (think grass roots from way back, not RINO) women in my blueMA town who all think Kari is the bees’ knees.
But they are all strong, and were probably pretty attractive back in their day to boot…
I lived in Boston for 6 years, from ’78-’84, working as a graphic artist in ad agencies, and loved it. Massachusetts has always known how to educate their women, and I made some terrific and fun women friends there. For once, I felt normal, and fit right in. And the men there think that women who are smart, strong, witty, and quirky are attractive. I had a great social life there, and still miss it…
Jay skips over the REASON organised voter integrity groups, TTV, Mike Lindell, KL team, Trump campaign etc. don’t embrace his suggested applicatiin of his “fractal system” to identify “phantom voters” and then show the data to County recorders and “pressure them” to purge the phantom voters, if they resist, to go over their heads to County election boards, and if THEY resist/ignore, to go to Court, with Judges elected in elections conducted by,….COUNTY RECORDERS and “Overseen” by County Election boards.
You SEE where Jays proposed solition “breaks down”?
Yes, he HAS created a great TOOL, (fractal search engine) for identifying “phantom voters” and, with “comparing snapshots” of the voter rolls, a great tool for discerning WHAT the cheaters are doing.
It is his flawed idea of how to USE this tool (as detailed above) and, in his zeal to push this idea, his insistence that “without purging the voter rolls if phantoms, they will just steal it, again” that is,whete he gets way off base.
Firstly, no phantom ballot can be of any benefit, if there is stringent signature varification, and if there is lax signature varification, any phantom ballot will be counted. And, the signature is on the ENVELOPE, which doesn’t indicate in any way how the person voted on the ballot INSIDE the envelope. reread this x2-3.
His tool can be used to see WHERE phantom ballots are being mailed. This leads to several options, including following the ballots to the location where they are being marked and stuffed into the envelopes that are being signed….think of the possibilities there.
Or, simply recovering these phantom ballots, which are generally laying out “where anybody could grab them” such as being addressed to a large apt. complex, but with no apt. #, so the postman just leaves them in a pile, next to the mailbox.
MANY are “recovered” by trash pickers, who know there are,…people that will pay for them.
Deprive them of these phantom ballot envelopes, and you thwart their effort.
Should I have double spaced at every line, so you could read between them?
It is good that you pointed these things out to Rick however the snarky final sentence was unwarranted. Get over yourself, Dutch.
Trump-Lake WILL be the winning ticket.
Fixed it.
Haha! BFR! The Deep State is both R’s and D’s. Two sides pitted against each other—that’s just propaganda. Truth? Most work together. Our Republic is at risk of destruction from within. What’s needed is exposure of the Deep State/political criminals, and prosecution for treason. Exposure is under way: Pay attention!
The democrats, wherever they are, do their part to help keep democrats in power. This is how they gain power over everything. The republicans go after each other like Siamese fighting fish.
The reason they gain power over everything is because they cheat. How do they cheat? They find men of ill repute and pay them off. The men of ill repute play along not realizing they are going to suffer along with everyone else because what’s the point of having lots of money if the money is worthless.
Bob Thomas and Zoe,…
Have you really paid NO ATTENTION to the 2022 steal in Maracopa County?
It was Steve Richer, endorsed by the Az. State REPUBLICAN party to run, AS A REPUBLICAN for Maracopa County Recorder and his supervisor Bill not that one Gates, endorsed by the Az. State Republican party, that engineered the 2020 Steal, and 2022 steal, in Maracopa County, in order to do Az.’s part in installing Dem Joe in 2020, and Dem Hobbs in 2022.
So long as you continue to perpetrate the false narrative that it is “Dems who steal elections” you are not STATING THE PROBLEM, which is the first, crucial step to SOLVING the problem.
When you think of what all President Trump knows and all the things he could know that they can only speculate he might know, it’s no wonder the deep state is in full attack mode.
I can remember a photo here of President Trump and Chairman Kim Jung-un walking and talking, alone, outside, no one else around. Sundance asked, “What’s missing?”
These politicians, the elites, the frickin establishment is scared to death we the people are going to find out the truth about them, their endeavors and their motives. We may not know every single little detail, but we know enough, have seen enough to know that they are our enemies, they have proclaimed that and they have shown that! It’s only a matter of what we are going to do about it, and when!!!
We must get DJT back into the White House. And if they are able to stop that…once again through their evil system…then we have decisions to make!!! We will be out of time!
“President Trump was violating institutional norms. He was not following the unwritten rules of the DC bureaucracy”
Violating norms and unwritten rules…that’s pretty much all they have. Such weak sauce.
As a citizen, I sure hope he was violating norms and unwritten rules of the DC bureaucracy, because he has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that the bureaucracy does not currently serve We the People.
It is our Constitutional duty to make sure the corruption is exposed and removed if we are to restore the republic. I’m pretty sure they know the jig is up. I believe that’s the reason for the so blatantly obvious “one last gasp” money laundering operation in Ukraine for so many of them.
Expose them all I say!
I say again, the first step to address (start solving) these problems is to remove all employment protections for all federal employees. All become at will. Then start firing these people and shut down the useless agencies and completely revamp those that remain. Cut government payroll by 70%.
Changing any rules on protections won’t work if we are not enforcing the rules currently on the books. Many took an oath when they were hired. If they are violating that oath, then the process for removal should simply be enforced.
Vindman is a good example. How he was not removed immediately is beyond belief.
Commissioned officers are commissioned to carry out the President’s orders. He clearly violated something when he thought he was above the President in carrying out his actions.
Don’t disagree, but how Vindman ever reached his current status is beyond belief.
Peter Principle.
No, as Dr. Peter Drucker covered in the intro to his book, the Peter Principle applies to hierarchies in the private sector .
The Government burerocracies, is a whole different matter.
Vindman another, debela guzica just like Barr!
I hope and pray the majority of Americans are very well aware, as we Canadians are, that the rest of the world is ridiculing both countries, their leaders, yes, even the ignorant citizens that reside in them. We deserve everything we get for allowing it to get to this point. Our loving Trucker Convoy along with citizens of Canada tried, opened a lot of eyes. I am really surprised at Americans not making more noise. Thank you Sundance and Treepers for educating this Canadian. May God Bless you all. Gospodi Pomiluj Gospodi Podari. Slava Tebje Gospodi!
90%
The House can send a budget that does this. Most Federal Agencies should be completely defunded. But a 70% cut might be a good start.
We patriots need to convince the squishy House members to join this method.
Next, we need states to assert their soveriegnty and ignore Federal BS laws and dicktats.
This is not remotely like confederate states trying to maintain slavery. Any jerk who tries that argument needs to be called a racist on the spot.
Defunding first. Next, each State needs to forbid IRS, FBI, DOJ, DOE, etc etc and other alphabet agencies from conducting any business in the state. Theses states have their own agencies to take care of any necessary business. There is a crazy redundancy of institutions. I trust my local sherriff more than a millenial FBI or IRS punk.
It has come to this. It really has.
Firstly, PDJT put up the executive order, that enabled firing Vet. affairs employees for theft, obvious incompetence, etc. and it went thru the process of being challenged and upheld.
Which means he can (next time) write a similar executive order applying to ALL Feral employees, without having to deal with such challenges, “on day one”.
Secondly, when they get around to playing that stupid “debt cieling” game, CALL them on it.
“We will shut down the governmment, until you sign a deal.”
“Sounds good to me, but don’t hold your breath on me signing.”
Just LEAVE it shut down, they still send out SS checks, etc. In other words “essential services” is ALL the Feral Govt SHOULD be doing.
And yes, as Sundance has said, ultimately destroying the deep State means WE, the People (MAGA) gaining control of the State Gov. in order to secure our elections.
In order to do THAT, we need to have MAGA County Recorders and Election boards, particularly those overseeing elections in the largest metro areas.
And, in order to achieve THAT, we must get control of the LEADERSHIP of the STATE R PARTY; with that, the RNC becomes meaningless, and we can elect a slate of candidatez that will use extreme Federalism to tell the Feds to pound sand.
What is glaringly obvious to discerning citizens (anyone with half a brain) is that not only is Trump a vulgarian (not part of the club) — the majority of voters in the last two elections are also vulgarians.
We want Trump. He represents our interests.
The weaponization of Justice, the FBI, etc. against Trump extends to those who support or protest– (criminalization of J6 & targeting of lawyers who defend Trump), the weaponization of the IRS ( Teaparty, Taibi), etc.
So now we observe this vast destructive process — this reign of terror — includes pundits, reporters, whistleblowers, as well as us regular folks.
The club is not only extending the middle finger to voters. It purges anyone we choose, or will choose, to represent our interests going forward.
Increasingly, people are speaking out. I am watching numerous black, Asian, and Hispanics posting their support of Trump and their outrage over the weaponized administrative – oligarchy.
This “divide and destroy” strategy is weakening. Poll numbers, tanking of woke corporations, pathetic poll numbers of opposition candidates, huge drop in
network audience #s is proof.
We are mad as hell. We are doing something about it. If we truly had equal justice under the law it would be a done deal already. God bless all those who have been vilified — and in some cases — setup and/or destroyed.
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If we vote like we boycott we might be able to get somewhere.
Middle-class MAGA supporters always identified Trump as one of them. But now the bias against Trump is resonating with minorities and lower classes who see similar oppression in their own histories. The Left, so cunning in many ways, is actually broadening the anti-establishment base.
Its like gravity, and the “tipping point”; and I heartily agree.
We now have done the difficult lifting, where we were straining against gravity, and have passed the tipping point where gravity is actually making the fall inevitable.
Spot on, Lorrie!
The fact that they call everything he says a rant tells you all you need to know.
Lord, please ensure that Donald J. Trump prevails in 2024 and rains Hell down up the villainous scum that inhabits our government.
Trump Rfk ticket would implode the deep state before they even take office. Can you imagine the slack jawed terror from the soon to be ripped to shreds unelected agencies? There’d be feds flinging themselves off of high rise buildings.
^upon
You can keep pushing this rediculous destructive notion, but its a fantasy.
It will be;
Trump/Lake 2024
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RFK JR will be chewed up and spit out by the Dem wing of the Uniparty; I listened to his inyerviews, for 6 1/2 hours, and conclude he is unbelievable naive.
I pray for his and his family’s safety. I have no doubt in my mind that there are assassination plans being worked out as we speak. After all, why not just kill him? It’s been done before.
I disagree. I dont think they are worried one bit an outsider will expose them because therve ALREADY BEEN EXPOSED 1000X over!!
BIden has been proven to have accepted bribes and its ignored, and the FBI & DOJ is now known to be corrupt, so why would NARA give a rats behind if Trump exposed what we already know?
This article states “NARA was angry about the perceived lack of respect shown by Trump”..
You REALLY think thats why these charges are being brought forth? PUH-LEASE!
Right Now, Trump is being hit with fake rape charges, fake election interference charges, fake campaign violation charges, and this NARA b.s on top of what ever else they can come up with between now and NOV 2024.
NONE of it is reasonable or legit. Te motive is they are angry or trying to hide anything…their motive is to hurl as many charges at Trump as possible,..thats all
Remember Tara Read had to defect to Russia afraid for her life.
Why would she be afraid for her life? She already exposed she was fingered by biden and ZERO, NOTHING, NADA happened to biden.
Dont get me wrong. I cannot stand Biden as much as the next guy
However, Tara Read said she wasnt going to vote for Joe Bidens opponent in the 2020 election because she hated Trump so much.
Lynda LaCasse, Taras neighbor that she told the story to back when it happened, said she was still voting BIden because she hated Trump so much even though she thought her friends was literally sexually assaulted by Joe Biden
so….
Tara and her witness “in my opinion” are as looney as Christine Blasey Ford and theyre testimony is not reliable
President Putin should tell Tara to go back to the guy she voted for, why go to Russia and yap on Twitter or elsewhere. No nerve to do it In America. Where are all these so-called women that formed a ??? a few years ago. I will admit I listened to her when she spoke from Russia. Not sure what it is she is trying to accomplish?? A book deal? Russian’s really don’t care what she is selling!! Idi kuci Tara!! No Tara, Russians do not trust an American.
Quite possibly. But Read’s proclamation about her vote preference does not seem looney to me. It is typical. There is nothing humans will defend so vigorously as their belief system. A vote for Biden, as distasteful as that is, is spiritual self preservation.
… what’s the importance of NARA… they just push papers around… and they get a crack at locking a former president away?! So much for a constitution!
Similar to our Charter of Rights, all gone.
Agree.
When they entered the fray, it was as if a photocopy machine had gotten up on its hind legs and demanded power.
The sheer arrogance of these hundreds of people is staggering. It should be illegal for any government agency to intercept any communication between American citizens. It’s electronic “wire tapping”. In their quest for control (which they do not see) basic freedoms go out the window.
Americans should start a class action suit against the Gov’t for the intercept of communications between American Citizens.
Thousands of John and Jane Doe’s.
Hundreds of thousands…at the very least.
Millions.
The data is collected on everyone.
By the way, fictional but very thoughtful series – just finished watching Person of Interest.
Violent, dark, and felt a lot like our current reality.
Absolutely.
Trump caught the swamp, He caught all of them.
“Second, the president’s national security officials want to know what was said so that they can orient policy accordingly”
Can we safely assume that NARA has the “original” video and recording of Obama saying to Putin’s number 2 that they will have more flexibility after the election?
They must have taken Obama to court to get that.
Indeed, to Dimitry Medvedev, tell Vlad I will have more flexibility after the election. I don’t recall how O knew he would be re-elected? Evil, disgusting pig, svinja.
Peder, to boot!
Mitt had probably told the Obammunist directly of his (Mitt’s) plans to take a dive.
Or maybe he sent L’il Paul Ryan to explain it.
“Does the desperation of NARA and the DC political establishment take on a new perspective?” Yes.
I once was present with a “translator”. The response from the non-English other side simply did not make any sense in context. And so I consulted with a person present who had the other language only to be told the translator was not in fact translating what was being said at all! Eye opening, that.
Oh wow, interesting, but not surprised at all. The majority of the world leaders, including citizens speak English. I know for a fact Serbian President Vucic speaks English better than his mother tongue, as do others.
If Johnny Cochran was here, his closing statement would read: ‘If it is a Democrat political hit, you must acquit!’
In the months preceding he would have been on every TV channel w/ interviews enthusiastically saying the same thing.
Everyone seems to operate on the assumption that whatever documents were or were not at Mar A Lago are the only ones in captivity. I’ve always thought our very stable genius, DJT, has from the beginning had multiple copies of said documents stashed away in safe keeping. Also, should the worst happen regarding the sham indictments, these documents would appear in multiple places at once. Don’t doubt for an instant that this possibility has created a continuing run on Pepto Bismal and kept deep state undies tightly bunched.
Trump needs to unleash everything he may know about DC corruption. A book would be great, but public speaking engagements even better.
If they are going to play dirty he needs to respond with fire.
I listened yesterday to a podcast with Devin Nunes, Lee Smith, and Margot Cleveland. One thing Smith pointed out, which Nunes confirmed, and which I had not heard before, is that the National Archives receives funding from Congress but also accepts PRIVATE DONATIONS, and one of its biggest private donors is some major Democrat. I was truly shocked to hear that this agency, which has access to all the most top-secret documents, is taking private money that has turned it into essentially an arm of the Democratic Party. No agency that accepts private funding should have access to ANY classified documents without the express knowledge and consent of the president that oversaw the creation of those documents. This is how twisted the whole thing has become, that what is essentially a Democrat-run NGO is now demanding that a former president turn over all his work products to THEM.
I’m convinced that the National Archives must now be abolished. When a president leaves office, he should take all his work products with him and have funding from Congress to store them however and wherever he wants.
Good point.
Um wait, what? No agency of the federal government should be accepting donation from anyone, ever! This must stop and is why so many agencies are captured by the very entities they are suppose to oversee. FDA, CDC are captured by big pharmaceutical companies. This has got to stop. They are paid to have oversight of companies not get in bed with them.
Not long ago, Jack Posobeic opined that this process should stop being called Elite Capture…
…because it has gone so far that it is now nothing but Elite Merger.
That donor is David Rubenstein, co – founder of The Carlyle Group (current VA gov Glenn Youngkin was a C – Suite occupant of that firm). Joey Two Scoops and other members of the Biden Crime Family spent time at Rubenstein’s Cape Cod digs this past Thanksgiving.
I think it was a hunt….
to find any Obama, Biden, Clinton, or “deep state” records that ties them to the illegal governmental surveillance and traitorous actions against Trump45….
Remember all the memes about Trump45…. “….I caught them all….” I think they believed him and that was what they were after….his evidence.
Why he didn’t declassify more, earlier, along with Grennell remains a mystery to me. Should have been a press conference every day on declassified documents during the last 2 months of office (once the election was “decided”). He could have blown it all up…. which is exactly what is needed.
They made sure there was always “an ongoing investigation” to ensure that any such revelation would be immediately declared an obstruction to justice. He would then be immediately indicted on the process crime. A ISP has been in place to keep Trump from blowing the lid off. When the current lawfare fails to convict, a new ISP will be unleashed.
This isn’t about Nara – Nara would never have had the balls to do what they’re doing without explicit orders from some unelected bureaucrat. It’s political theater and Nara is pretending along with the narrative.
They have been looking for the COG documents. Read the demands of Adam Schiff in the past for the same which can’t be mentioned by name. Read the Trump EOs dealing with foreign interference in the Presidential elections and the one dealing with seizure of assets involved in corruption and child trafficking. They want to expose and dismantle the shadow government being run by Trump and the patriots vs. the one being run by Obama and the globalists representing the belligerent foreign powers which occupy DC.
It’s all about power and control.
The deep state wanted to be involved not to protect us from him. That’s just the fake front story. The real reason is the back story: They wanted to be involved to protect their power and control racket. President Trump knows too well the power and control game. He removed the deep state’s seat at the grown ups table and properly placed them at the kiddie table.
Same with fake news and very fake news. He woke up the masses to how much we’ve been deceived by the media for a long, long time. “His head moved violently forward” was how it was reported in 1963 and believed until everyone saw the video footage of the JFK assassination a while later. The deception didn’t start then either.
All of the private discussions will be made public on Our President’s timeline and via the channels that he selects, not the Deep State’s. I strongly suspect that he has memorialized it all using technology that very few, maybe only he, has access to. A simple, analog dictation recorder would do the trick. Saying that “he might give away too much”?!!! Tells all you need to know about who the F these demon possessed cretins think they are! No WONDER Our President scares the absolute crap out of them!
Here is the TRUTH.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/06/16/six-reasons-dojs-legal-case-against-trump-is-seriously-flawed/
Very good article and worth the read. There appears to be a lot of holes in Jack’s case against President Trump, and if Trump has competent lawyers, will be easy to defend or even have thrown out of court.
You forgot to consider the biased never-Trump, bought and sold judge(s) running the show. They are all influenced by the current thought that the Constitution doesn’t say what we think it says and the best way to get around the Constitution is to ignore or re-interpret it to suit the 4th Branch’s goals.
“NARA officials view themselves, their role, as more important than the President of the United States, that is very clear. ”
Trump probably did not want to give the bureaucrats more fodder to press their LAWFARE against him. SMART! Besides, everything is digitally backed up in the system so what’s the point of all of this, except to usurp presidential powers. NARA HAS NONE! They report to the president.
This is more LAWFARE and BUREAUCRATIC SEDITION against America.
The Democrat Bureaucracy prefers “dependent” Presidents who say and do as they are told. Thus Biden’s frequent comments about “getting in trouble” for going off-script. But Trump is an independent operator, who neither needs not wants their stinking scripts. Trump has little or no respect for the opinions of the nannies; has scant knowledge of or interest in what they do; believes that he knows a thing or two about negotiation that they don’t; and, believes correctly that the swampers have strategic, pesonal, and political objectives that undermine his efforts and America’s interests. It’s very hard to negotiate with your own “team” stabbing you in the back, leaking private discussions, and trying to make their “establishment” views on policy prevail over the President’s prerogative.
Without knowing every word Trump speaks, the Dem-Burs feel vulnerable and unimportant. How they going to leak and spin everything to Trump’s disadvantage, and thwart his pro-American plans, if he doesn’t obey or at least share?
It is not really plausible that NARA independently decided to push an ex-President to the brink over a few documents. NARA was almost certainly directed to pursue Trump’s documents aggressively by whomever is running the overall Get Trump operation, in the realistic hope that Trump would resist, giving them an excuse to charge him with something. If Trump had lawyers worth spit, they would be making the government a laughingstock for charging him with ESPIONAGE. How can this have ANY credibility, after their entire Russia Hoax has been thoroughly exposed as a Democrat (campaign and government) dirty trick operation? This is just second verse, same as the first.
Sandy “Burglar” Berger made repeated thefts of Slick Willy records prior to arrest in 2003. Likely documents included GE/LTV bribes to dismiss in NASA kickbacks, CCP payments for Hughes multiple warhead guidance, Raytheon bribes for TWA-800 coverup and 9/11/2001 warnings.
Our impenetrable archives >
https://archives.gov/research/recover/notable-thefts.html
Sundance, I’m sure you’re right about the Institution versus the Office of the President, but I also firmly believe they never viewed President Trump AS President, they’ve done everything possible before, during, and after, to pretend that he wasn’t the real President and had no right to the office.
Therefore, any act President Trump took AS President was not to be borne. No right to see classified information, or to classify information – or to declassify.
They may do this to every President, now, but especially to the one they view as totally illegal, a Usurper, not real. Remember the IC keeping intelligence FROM HIM? Due to the “sensitivity of the matter”?
Remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the SOTU? In public no less? Remember the venom spit at President Trump by the usually respectful White House Press Corps? To them, President Trump was never president.
I think they’re trying to keep him from having any material for his Presidential Library.
They acted like it was cause for impeachment to fire Comey, who he had the perfect right to fire.
“Remember Nancy Pelosi tearing up the SOTU ?”
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Don’t know about y’all, but that public display was the most vile, vindictive, despicable, anti-American thing she did during the Trump presidency. Evil laughing behind his back, in front of the full Congress & live on national TV. Mrs. Vespucciland agrees, Pelosi is a pathetic excuse for a human being.
Someone should’ve slapped Pelosi’s face so hard that she fell down.
It’d have been worth the assault charge and ensuing lawsuit to let that Commie witch know Americans won’t take her crap sitting down.
I am a woman and agree with the slap, actually I would have punched her so hard the dentures would go flying, along with her idiotic small brain. Disgusting govno Piglose is. Exactly a lesson needs to be shown, those people are as PDJT said, sick, I say evil, corrupt and ugly on top of it with two brain cells. As a Canadian I watched the whole thing and it was so easy to see what that evil, ugly bijotch tried to prove. Shame on her and her ilk. Miss fancy pants, you will reap what you have sown, I totally believe that. Here is praying, she enjoys the show when it is time.
That thing stopped being human a long time ago.
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Seems President Trump outwitted them again!
A new perspective and the right one, I believe. With respect to breaches of security, there’s no obvious difference between what Trump might disclose based on his own knowledge and what might be in a document, so the whole “national security” foofah made little sense. But where having a document in one’s possession is highly significant is when that document is evidence of some other party’s misconduct. I had one of those “aha moments” about a week ago, and everything suddenly fell into place along exactly the lines you articulated. We’re looking at a highly organized coverup.
The President is the sole authority on foreign policy. The Establishment, by trying to infiltrate these meetings between President Trump and other heads of State with supposed “experts” are only demonstrating their distrust of everyone, and their lust for power that that information gained thru this open espionage gives them over the president.
My fear, with everything being exposed, is we’re rapidly approaching America of 1775. The government in power is actively trying to suppress and destroy the God given rights of the People. When the time comes will we come out the other side as we did before? A new, free nation, with a greatly enhanced knowledge of the depravity of men given power.
I think a lefty might maybe almost be ready to read and digest this post. But sigh, adding POTUS wise words video ensures nothing here gets heard over there. Alas, they can’t hear him yet.
With all of these articles Sundance is writing about just shows that the DEEP STATE are the people who really run this Country. I still believe that Trump has all the goods on them and if he is trapped in a corner it will all be released and that is what they are afraid of.
“You can not fool all of the people all of the time.” (modified to Lincoln, speaking in Clinton, IL on 9/2/1858)
Eight years ago then “The Apprentice” host Donald J. Trump has given hope to the many patriots who felt thwarted by “fundamental transformation” of USA. He has conveyed a convincing agenda to the voters in an understandable way. His great strength: He seemed genuine and compelling!
It has happened again and again that within the GOP candidates’ programs have been received differently, for example: Ronald Reagan’s (“I paid for that microphone”) supply-side-economics where criticized by (his later running-mate) George Bush as voodoo economics.
“What we have never seen before”: That an attempt is being made to destroy both the person and the program with increasingly brutal means:
But the truth is also that President Trump’s Achilles’ heels have weakened him: Trojan horses (like Jeff Sessions and Bush/Cheney apparatchiks) and double dealer like Bill Barr (recommended by Bush clan) and Chris Wray (recommended by Chris Christie).
It goes without saying that it needs the approval stamp of own parties’ leadership to take out a heavyweight (see Nixon). Maybe one of the most effective tools to get rid of MAGA movement is to use justice system to remove Trump.
Everything else: Side Show!
In the grand jury subpoena that was served at Mar-a-Lago about 60 days before the service of the search warrant, the government only wanted a search for documents with classified markings on them. The subpoena even displayed examples of the markings to help anyone who would conduct the search to find these documents, the ONLY documents being demanded by the DOJ.
We heard an awful lot about the photos of the document boxes in the ballroom and the bathroom at Mar-a-Lago, but the indictment tells us how many of the documents with classified markings were found by the search warrant in August 2022—102. Here is the breakdown as displayed in the indictment: 27 found in Trump’s office (Kim Jung Un letters?) and 75 in the double locked storeroom, exactly where they always were located. No documents with classified markings on them, the only kind of document described in the grand jury subpoena, were found in the boxes in the bathroom, the ballroom, etc., etc.
If you don’t ask for a certain thing, you shouldn’t get upset when you don’t get it.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23833962-parlatore-law-group-letter?responsive=1&title=1
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/just-security-mar-a-lago-grand-jury-subpoena.pdf
“Pursuant to 32 CFR 2001.36, another function my office
does is we have a small team that manages the Classified
Outside Government Control Program, which provides for
processes by outside government organizations or individuals
to contact ISOO for guidance and assistance when they
discover potentially classified national security information
outside government control.
I think specifically about libraries. Since about 2010,
we have gotten over 80 calls from different libraries where
mostly Members of Congress have taken papers and deposited
them in libraries for collections, their own papers. For
instance, Senator Muskie at Bates College took 98.
Anyway, when these records are being processed,
librarians know to call us. We dispatch a team to go
retrieve them and bring them back to Washington”.
So, what training do these archivists have to determine if the documents that have “classified markings”– are still classified? Do they have security clearances? Of what caliber? Clearly, lesser officials have taken documents with classified markings from skiffs and offices to include in their donated collections to academic libraries across the nation.
Donald Trump was (and is) the President of the United States, duly elected by the people. These National Archives bureaucrats cannot gainsay a POTUS. Originally, there were no archives in the United States, so former presidents would take their documents home.
In regards to this great document caper and in light of the statement from William Auto Body (Bondo) Barr, that all documents belong to the “government”, was Nancy Pelosi tearing up the state of the union speech a “criminal act” ? Asking for a friend……
This is where Barrbie is getting out over his skis.
“NARA was looking for these along with other documents pertaining to President Trump”
Very curious about why NARA was looking for these, and why their butts hurt so much over not finding them.
Why would bureaucrats be so concerned over such letters? Are they trying to hide something? Why would they go to such measures to hide something they know is in Trump’s possession?
Is it possible these worthless flunkies pushed this to the DOJ knowing what letters were given to Trump? Did they help set him up?
What other explanation is there for why they are so rabid about this?
LOVE THAT MAN! MY PRESIDENT!
A family service member received orders in January 2021 citing Continuity of Government authority in the opening paragraph. It was quickly updated and resent without reference to the COG.
They are looking for the paper trail of the COG put in place in the wake of the rigged election. It has been reported Trump watched the results of the election in a SCIF with military officials where the determination of foreign interference in the election was assessed. It has little to do with personal letters from world leaders with nuclear capabilities.
Yet more evidence Donald Trump is running a shadow presidency
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 6:29 PM EDT, Thu September 9, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/politics/donald-trump-13-military-members-killed-afghanistan/index.html
Election Night SCIF: Here’s where Team Trump was domiciled on November 3rd watching the election returnsPosted on November 8, 2020 by State of the Nation
https://stateofthenation.co/?p=35424
Sundance, I just read the stupid judge is going to put a gag order on Trump. I’m so depressed! You know the judge is in on this! What can we do to fight these criminals? I feel so helpless. I don’t think there’s any way he won’t get convicted and of course he’ll get prison time! I was reading Acts chapter 12 last night about the scene where an angel of the Lord leads Peter out of his prison cell and the guards don’t even know what is happening. And Herod Agrippa I put Peter in prison so I gave Biden a new name H E R O D! I just don’t know where to turn anymore!