RFK Jr did a solid interview with Dr. Phil that deserves some attention for a few reasons.  The interview is about a week old and took place immediately following RFK’s announcement to exit.

First, BIG SMILE.  Considering the timing, logistical coordination and location analysis of both Trump and RFK Jr’s interview with Dr Phil, CTH can now assert with assurance the rollout of the Kennedy dropout, transition, MAGA endorsement and subsequent public information therein, was in the works for a long time before it became public.

The Trump campaign had this RFK Jr MAGA entry in the works as part of the post DNC-Chicago strategy. Dr Phil was/is a planned and agreed participant in the rollout.  The construct and the timeline also align with Corey Lewandowski rejoining the Trump campaign as a senior advisor shortly before the MAGA “unity” merge.

The fact that we can now see this as a long-planned and intentionally organized rollout operation is a good thing, a very good thing.  That reality mitigates, but doesn’t eliminate, the IC influence concern.

Additionally, many within our community of CTH Treepers travel the deep weeds of political research, and our collective commentary is read by a wide swath of well-known political analysts and media pundits.  The answers given by RFK Jr during the Dr Phil interview provide solid affirmation for positions we eventually took in prior discussions.

Second, within this specific segment, RFK Jr is talking about his decision to exit the race.  Kennedy admits from the inception of his campaign he has always pulled more votes from Donald Trump (57%) than he did from the Democrat nominee (Biden or Harris).   This is a point that was debated on these pages for quite some time; we can now put the argument away.

In the 2024 election, RFK Jr’s presence hurt President Trump more than Biden/Harris.  This is just a datapoint: From the outset Kennedy always knew he was hurting Trump and assisting Biden/Harris through his candidacy.  This is not to present anything controversial about his recent decision to exit and endorse Trump, nor is the highlight intended to diminish RFK Jr., this reality is simply just a datapoint to consider.  RFK Jr always knew he was hurting President Trump more than helping Joe Biden (or Kamala).

In the final minutes, Kennedy opened up to Dr. Phil about why he not only endorsed President Trump but also decided to actively campaign for him.

His first reason was clear: he’s terrified of a potential Walz-Harris administration, which he believes is on “the wrong side” of… pic.twitter.com/gVewErneYy

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) August 28, 2024

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Third, if you have followed the Trump campaign and family closely, you will note the MAGA issue of chronic childhood disease; as it relates to the issue “Make America Healthy Again” being at the forefront of President Donald Trump’s thinking as a policy initiative; comes from one place, Melania Trump.  President Donald Trump did not have an epiphany on an issue close to the heart of RFK Jr., Melania Trump has been quietly focused on the issues around childhood illnesses and environmental impacts for a long time. With the First Lady as the strong counsellor of record that truly matters, it makes sense for a positive, personal influence.

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I’m not surprised, I’m just angry.  According to Kevin Rojek, the head of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office leading the investigation into the attempted assassination of President Trump, Matthew Crooks acted alone -no coconspirators- and the FBI has no idea what his motive was.

According to the representative for the “best men” the Federal Bureau of Investigation has, Crooks might have been a leftist or a far-right extremist, they are just not sure.

What the FBI does know is that no one taught or helped Crooks make complicated explosives, and they are sure he acted alone… for some mysterious reason…. that culminated in a bullet passing through the top of President Trump’s right ear.

The pretending that permeates the FBI is infuriating to me. It is almost difficult to write or share this stuff.

WASHINGTON – Six weeks after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the FBI still doesn’t know what motivated the shooter.

“Extensive analysis of the subject’s online search history as well as his specific online activity has provided us valuable insight into his mindset, but not a definitive motive,” Kevin Rojek, the head of the FBI’s Pittsburgh Field Office, told reporters Wednesday.

So far, he added, the FBI sees “no definitive ideology … either left-leaning or right-leaning” associated with the shooter, Thomas Crooks.

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The lawyers representing the campaign of Robert F Kennedy Jr have successfully removed RFK Jr from the ballot in Nevada after coming to an agreement yesterday with DNC lawyers who were suing to keep him off the ballot.

Essentially, team RFK JR just dropped their argument, acquiesced to the DNC position and the judge dismissed the case with prejudice. That removes RFK Jr from Nevada.  [Filing Here] This is the same process the lawyers used to get Kennedy off the ballot in Pennsylvania.

That said, Michigan and Wisconsin are not removing Robert F Kennedy Jr from those state ballots.

MICHIGAN – […] Kennedy is on the ballot in Michigan as a candidate for the Natural Law Party, which nominated him at its convention earlier this year. Cheri Hardmon, a spokesperson for the Michigan secretary of state’s office, confirmed to NBC News that “minor party candidates cannot withdraw, so his name will remain on the ballot in the November election.

WISCONSIN – […]  In Wisconsin, the state’s election commission met Tuesday to certify ballot access for presidential and vice presidential candidates. Even though Kennedy requested to withdraw his nomination petition as an independent candidate, the commission ultimately voted to decline that request, according to an archived video of the proceedings published by WisconsinEye, a nonprofit public affairs network.

“The statute literally says, ‘Any person who files nomination papers and qualifies to appear on the ballot may not decline nomination. The name of that person shall appear upon the ballot except in case of death of the person,'” Ann Jacobs, the chair of the commission, said to another commissioner struggling with the idea of keeping someone on the ballot who didn’t want to move forward with his candidacy.

“You’re giving me this touchy, feely: ‘I feel like this shouldn’t be the law.’ The law in this case is crystal clear,” she added. “I don’t disagree with you it’s weird but I don’t see we have any discretion here.” (MORE)

♦ SUMMARY: RFK Jr is gone from ballots in the battleground states of Arizona, Pennsylvania and now Nevada.  Not Michigan and Wisconsin.

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President Trump confidant Dan Scavino promotes this interview between Dr. Phil McGraw and President Donald Trump. [Twitter Link]

The interview begins with a discussion of the assassination attempt against the life of President Trump and how Trump feels about the hand of God protecting him. Dr. Phil directly asks President Trump about his Christian faith and belief in God’s intervention. Within the answer, President Trump says he feels a much greater purpose ahead.

In the second half of the interview (beyond 33 min mark), President Trump is asked about the coverup of Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the RFK endorsement. WATCH:

A MUST WATCH INTERVIEW, @realDonaldTrump and @DrPhil from Las Vegas, Nevada…pic.twitter.com/OGRVbaeq9S

— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) August 28, 2024

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It’s really not Jack Smith, so we should drop the pretenses.  Mary McCord, Norm Eisen and Andrew Weissmann have recrafted a new DC indictment against President Trump by dropping around 10 pages of fraudulent evidence from the prior indictment and labeling it a “superseding indictment.”

The 36-page indictment is available HERE.  Essentially, after the supreme court decision on immunity, the majority of the previous case against President Trump was likely to fail, so Mary, Norm and Andrew went back and modified the previously lawfare to fit a narrower scale as requested by the supreme court.

The Lawfare crew then hand off the indictment to Jack Smith who runs it through a Grand Jury, and re-files it as a new set of issues; however, the majority of the case is structurally the same, they just took out the evidence they were using.  This fiasco does not appear to be any better than the previous pages of Lawfare.

(Via Politico) – […] The new indictment removes some specific allegations against Trump but contains the same four criminal charges, including conspiracy to defraud the United States. It’s a signal that Smith believes the high court’s immunity decision doesn’t pose a major impediment to convicting the former president.

“The superseding indictment, which was presented to a new grand jury that had not previously heard evidence in this case, reflects the Government’s efforts to respect and implement the Supreme Court’s holdings and remand instructions,” Smith’s team wrote in an accompanying court filing.

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President Trump announced via Truth Social that both political campaigns had agreed to terms of a presidential debate on September 10th.  However, according to Politico – the Harris campaign is saying they did not agree to all the outlined terms.

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(Via Politico) – […] the Harris campaign rejects the claim that the Sept. 10 debate will have the same rules from June. The issue regarding whether mics will be turned on during the entire debate is still being discussed, a Harris campaign official said.

“Both candidates have publicly made clear their willingness to debate with unmuted mics for the duration of the debate to fully allow for substantive exchanges between the candidates — but it appears Donald Trump is letting his handlers overrule him. Sad,” a Harris campaign official said in a statement to POLITICO.

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Several people have asked why the recent outlines about Tulsi Gabbard (Trump endorsement) and RFK Jr (Tucker Carlson interview), were presented without any opinion or analysis to accompany the articles.  Allow me to explain.

Friends, first, I am in action mode identifying who specifically is uploading state/county level registration data for key state ballot printing operations.  It sounds like boring footwork because it is, well, boring footwork.  This is not sexy, but hopefully this can have a big impact where needed.

Additionally, I am also just like you – trying to figure out how the intersections of the IC are playing out within this newly created coalition of MAGA and influential Democrats, the Unity Party as it is termed.

Essentially, on some aspects to these recent developments I’m trying to figure it out along with you; while my attention is operating at lower level toward what might be called the theatrics of political events.  Ballots matter right now more than all this other stuff.

That said, I am certainly not buying a lot of what is being put directly in front of me to purchase.  Someone recently said we have just accepted this intelligence operation of the 4th branch of government as if it is a hurdle to jump, or a gate with a lock to pick.

I’m not the guy that just accepts this stuff as our – “new normal.”  Eff these IC clowns.

Another aspect is how all of these anti-Trump anti-commonsense narratives (essentially lies) over the past several years are just accepted as the baseline for point making.  I just tune the conversation out because the premise is false, like RFK Jr saying yesterday that President Trump is “reprehensible” for what he did on January 6th, and Tucker Carlson just sitting there nodding in agreement like a goofy tool.

My mind sees that conversation and says, “what the heck is that all about?”  They both seem intelligent, Tucker has presented the FBI J6 stuff before, and yet they talk about J6 as if Trump was raging at people to attack Capitol Hill government.

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Great, years later, at a time when it seems that no one cares about the issue, nor will anyone in a position of capability actually do anything about what he now admits, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he was working with the White House specifically to censor Americans by removing content on social media and he regrets it.

Just effen’ perfect…. The zombie minded leftist killers of speech and information, have overwhelmed the ramparts, crossed the moat, destroyed our gates, constitutional defenses and drawbridges, and are now bashing loudly on the interior doors in their bloodlust effort to take full control.  Meanwhile the few of us who remain are on the other side of that splintering door; veins bulging, muscles strained, pushing and holding back with all our might against every surge and attack wave…. and Zuckerberg nervously says, “whoops, sorry for dropping the drawbridge guys.”  Good grief Mark, shut up and grab an axe now!

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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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President Trump was introduced today by Kid Rock to address the National Guard Association of the United States’ 146th General Conference & Exhibition.  The National Guard association’s annual business meeting — began Friday at Huntington Place, the Motor City’s main convention center. More than 4,200 Guard officers, their spouses and other guests in attendance.

The National Guard conference agenda includes Pentagon leaders and lawmakers every year. During presidential election years, NGAUS also invites the Democratic and Republican nominees for president. The association has hosted at least one major party candidate in every presidential election year since 1992.

President Trump spoke to the NGAUS conference in Baltimore, Maryland, when he was the Republican nominee for president in 2016.  And delivers remarks again today in Michigan.  The full speech video is below.  WATCH:

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