FIRST – When someone says, “to be honest with you” – they are admitting their predisposition to be a liar.   Why?  Because in direct and truthful communication there is no reason to quantify the truthfulness of your statement.

Saying, “to be honest with you,” directly infers that a persons’ statements can, or cannot be, truthful.  The statements are positional depending on the intentions of the speaker.   In summary, anyone who says “to be honest with you” is very familiar being dishonest in their speaking.

SECOND – Notice when Kamala Harris explains her thoughts, her thinking, at the time when Joe Biden informed her, he was going to drop out of the race.  Notice that nowhere in her thought process, or the thought process of Biden as Harris describes it, is any consideration to the “voters” within her frame of reference or mindset.

As she self describes the events, Kamala Harris never gave a second thought to the Democrat voters in the primary when Joe Biden told her he was dropping out of the race.  Her only thoughts were of Joe Biden and herself.   This is how she would lead the nation.  WATCH:

Note she never thought about the voters..
That the people would never have a say.pic.twitter.com/vqHYOCYld0

— Doodles 🇺🇸 🐕 (@DoodlesTrks) August 30, 2024

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Now we know why Brian Fallon did not want Kamala talking.

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President Trump was asked his opinion about Kamala Harris refusing to answer media questions, appear for press conferences, or sit down for media interviews.

President Trump immediately pointed out the negotiated terms for Kamala Harris interview with CNN (broadcasts tonight), includes the interview being pre-taped with edits and campaign approvals.

“Why isn’t it live? It’s an interview that’s going to be taped, edited, and then put out. That’s not even an interview. And then she’s doing it with her Vice President sitting there. So she’s not very smart. When they ask her a question she can’t answer, she’s just going to look at him.”

President Trump on Kamala’s CNN “interview” tonight: “Why isn’t it live? It’s an interview that’s going to be taped, edited, and then put out. That’s not even an interview. And then she’s doing it with her Vice President sitting there. So she’s not very smart. When they ask her a… pic.twitter.com/7KuEZG3eHS

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 29, 2024

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Kamala Harris has yet to give a press conference or sit down with any journalist to discuss the construct of a campaign around her.  The media has largely tried to cover for this lack of openness, but even hardcore narrative engineers are starting to become twitchy at the extreme handling of Hawk Tuah Harris.

To deflect attention from the absence of questioning, HT Harris primary handler Brian Fallon, has arranged a scripted interview with CNN.  Together with her sketchy running mate, Tim Walz, Mrs Harris will be questioned by Dana Bash in a taped interview which will be edited, smoothed and broadcast on CNN fake news tomorrow at 9pm ET.

WASHINGTON DC – Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will face questions from CNN anchor Dana Bash in an interview expected to air 9 p.m. Thursday, the network announced Tuesday. The interview will take place in Georgia as the vice president is on a bus tour through the battleground state.  (read more)

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During a Tucker Carlson podcast, full video below, Robert F Kennedy Jr told Tucker that he has been offered a position with the President Trump transition team and will likely play a role selecting and staffing the Trump administration.  Segment, WATCH:

BREAKING: RFK Jr. tells Tucker that he’s been assigned to Trump’s transition team, where he will have hand in selecting personnel to serve in a second Trump admin

“I’ve been asked to go onto the transition team, to help pick the people who will be running the government” pic.twitter.com/SxRO2nAXQh

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 26, 2024

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The full Tucker Carlson interview is below.

Chapters:

00:42 RFK Jr. Endorsing Donald Trump
11:26 Pavel Durov’s Arrest and Censorship
13:30 President Trump is “reprehensible”
34:56 America’s Health Crisis
42:20 Kennedy Meeting with Trump
46:48 Kamala Harris Refusing to Meet with Kennedy
53:36 Why Did They Withdraw Secret Service?
1:01:48 Would Kennedy Accept a Position as CIA Director?
1:05:39 Why Is the Democratic Party Suing Kennedy?
1:16:00 Why Nature Matters
1:26:10 Kennedy’s Plan to Get Trump Elected

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Former Democrat turned Independent Tulsi Gabbard, a former congresswoman from Hawaii, today endorsed President Donald Trump against Vice President Kamala Harris.

Representative Gabbard served Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021 but announced her exit from the Democrat party in 2022 after denouncing it as an “elitist cabal of warmongers.” Gabbard previously supported Bernie Sanders when the DNC worked internally to undermine his campaign in favor of Hillary Clinton (’16) and Jor Biden (’20).

Gabbard is a former Democrat who ran in the 2019 Democratic presidential primary against Harris and was recently recruited by President Trump’s campaign team to help with preparation ahead of the September 10th debate against Kamala Harris at the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia. WATCH:

After Robert F Kennedy endorsed President Trump, Kennedy shared over the weekend that several prominent Democrats were expected to join forces with President Trump and announce endorsements over the next week.  Gabbard appears to be one of the first in that predictive cycle.

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Vice Presidential nominee Senator JD Vance, appears on Meet the Press for an argumentative debate on Trump policy.  On the issue of tariffs, this might have been JD Vance’s first opportunity to set the record straight about what tariffs did in the first Trump administration.

Unfortunately, because JD Vance did not have the data to refute the NBC talking points, he missed an opportunity to set the record straight.  Tariffs did not raise prices and consumers did not pay tariff rates in the first Trump administration.  Factually, the exact opposite happened.  Prices dropped when Trump tariffs were put into place, the reasons are explained after the interview. WATCH:  

Our own analysis of U.S. consumer prices in 2019 showed that prices of imported goods actually declined despite the tariffs. A recent report from CPA takes a look at the impact to Chinese exports to the U.S.  [SEE DATA HERE] Bottom line, the tariffs worked to reduce Chinese imports.

CPA – […] Since the Section 301 tariffs were imposed, the share of imports from China has steadily declined from 21.6% in 2017 the year prior to the tariffs to 16.5%, a decline of 5.1%. No other country has lost as much share of total U.S. import penetration over the past five years.

In terms of total import value, Mexico gained the most from the tariffs, adding $110.8 billion. Vietnam gained the second most in import value by $78.4 billion and by far gained the most of total share of U.S. imports. In 2017, Vietnam accounted for about 2% of U.S. imports at $46.5 billion. In 2022, the U.S. imported $127.5 billion in goods from Vietnam, and the share of the total nearly doubled to 3.9%. Other countries in Southeast Asia such as Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia all saw significant increases in their value of imports by the U.S. (read more)

With the 2024 election here, it is worth revisiting the actual tariff outcome to American consumers in order to dispel the popular myths about tariffs raising prices here at home.  This might be the cited data you want to bookmark for later reference.

It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..

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CTH has expressed our concerns previously.  I always hope to be wrong about intelligence community connected politicians.   That said, I shall be a good team player and hope/pray to be wrong about RFK JR.

Robert F Kennedy Jr is introduced by President Trump at a MAGA rally in Arizona.  According to RFK Jr earlier in the day, President Trump promised a position in the Trump administration.  From the remarks tonight, I suspect that position offered is FDA Commissioner.

During his introduction President Trump heaped effusive praise on Robert F Kennedy as the crowd chanted, “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby!”  It was quite an exciting moment in an auditorium filled with over 20,000 supporters. WATCH: 

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In between two rallies in Las Vegas and Arizona, President Trump stopped briefly to answer questions from the press pool about the endorsement from Robert F Kennedy Jr. President Trump mentioned it was a “great honor” to receive the endorsement and support from a very popular and influential democrat.

Additionally, President Trump was asked a question about the Secret Service suspensions following the assassination attempt against him. President Trump noted the unfortunate lack of USSS support that seemed to come from the Biden office.

President Trump has never hidden from the media and as typical answered all their (abortion, RFK JR, 2024 election) questions. WATCH:

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Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr has suspended his campaign for president and endorsed President Donald Trump.

RFK Jr filed Friday to officially have his name withdrawn from the Pennsylvania ballot “as a result of today’s endorsement of Donald Trump for the office of President of the United States,” according to a brief filed by Kennedy’s campaign attorney. The candidate also filed to withdraw from Arizona Thursday evening.

RFK Jr. made the announcement from Phoenix, Arizona. WATCH:

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(Via Politico) – […] Kennedy said that he’s suspending his campaign but remaining on the ballot in several states. He also said he was offered a role in a potential second Trump administration.

[…] “If you live in a blue state, you can vote for me without harming or helping President Trump or Vice President Harris, and red states the same will apply,” Kennedy said at the press conference. “But in about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I’m going to remove my name.” (read more)

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This is the moment the previous three nights of effort have built toward, the acceptance speech by Kamala Harris at the DNC Convention.

Kamala has never given a major speech with this much attention and her handlers have been working furiously to prepare her for the past 48 hours. There is a lot riding on these next few hours for Barack Obama, the people around him who are trying to install his fourth term of influence, and for James Clyburn and the Democrat apparatus who have steered toward this outcome for the past four years.

If you are watching the events tonight, consider this an open discussion thread.  Kamala Harris is anticipated to speak around 9:30pm ET.

♦ 9 p.m. Eva Longoria, then Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), then comes Maya Harris, followed by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper who will likely introduce Vice President Kamala Harris. However, there could be some surprises.

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