“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” ― Harry S. Truman
What a month it has been, a month dripping with hypocrisy and faux outrage. It’s hard to say which issue has been the winner, is it the bullshit about Trump failing to condemn Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) for the murder of Saudi citizen and Washington Post “journalist” Jamal Khashoggi, or the so-called special relationship of the US Deep State with the Saudi Government or is it the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court’s unprecedented attack on the President of the United States for stating what everyone knows is true, judges are appointed by Democrats and Republicans specifically for their political bias.
Judges in America are anything but umpires who call “balls and strikes,” they are appointed to further the deep state agenda or they wouldn’t have made it to the highest courts in America. Give me a break Justice Roberts. Judges are appointed specifically for their party affiliation and their service to the Deep State, after all it was five corrupt Republican Supreme Court justices who overturned the results of an American election in 2000 and installed Republican George W. Bush as president.
Bush immediately kicked off the destruction of America, first through trillions in tax cuts for the rich while simultaneously starting endless, trillion dollar wars to wipe out the Clinton billions in surpluses turning America into a debtor nation. Anyone remember Prince Bandar bin Sultan – Saudi Arabia’s most famous arms dealer, longtime former ambassador to the US who was affectionately called Bandar Bush for his close ties to the Bush Crime Family? It seems that some of the outrage being generated against MBS by the CIA has something to do with Bandar Bush being arrested by MBS last year for corruption. From Tyler Durden at Zero Hedge:
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Saudi “Deep State” Prince Bandar Among Those Arrested In Purge: Report
According to a new report by Middle East Eye, Prince Bandar bin Sultan – Saudi Arabia’s most famous arms dealer, longtime former ambassador to the US, and recent head of Saudi intelligence – was among those detained as part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) so-called “corruption purge” that started with the initial arrests of up to a dozen princes and other top officials last weekend.
If confirmed, the arrest and detention of Bandar would constitute the most significant and high profile figure caught up in the purge – even above that of high profile billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal – given Bandar’s closeness to multiple US administrations and involvement in events ranging from Reagan’s Nicaraguan Contra program (including direct involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal), to making the case for the Iraq War as a trusted friend of Bush and Cheney, to directing US-Saudi covert operations overseeing the arming of jihadists in Syria.
Middle East Eye issued the report based on multiple contacts “inside the royal court” and indicates further that the scale of MBS’ aggressive crackdown is much larger than previously reported, and even involves the torture of “senior figures” among those detained… And shockingly, those sources say that the longtime Saudi ‘deep state’ power broker and liaison with the West, Prince Bandar, is among the detained:
One of the most famous is Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a former Saudi ambassador to Washington and confidant of former US President George W Bush. There is no word on his fate, but Saudi authorities said that one of the corruption cases they are looking at is the al-Yamamah arms deal, in which Bandar was involved.
While no doubt Bandar’s very well-known role in Saudi “oil for arms” programs which have come to define Saudi relations with the West over the past decades is a trumped up and “selective” charge (insofar as the highest levels of the state have overseen such shady dealing) the al-Yamamah deal in particular – which goes back to the mid-1980’s – has been an historical embarrassment to both the UK and Saudi governments (BAE Systems was the prime British contractor involved) for the astounding level of fraudulent accounting exposed in UK courts.
Concerning Prince Bandar’s role in the al-Yamamah deal, Middle East Eye continues:
Bandar bought an entire village in the Cotswolds, a picturesque area of central England, and a 2,000-acre sporting estate with part of the proceeds from kickbacks he received in the al-Yamamah arms deal, which netted British manufacturer BAE £43bn ($56.5bn) in contracts for fighter aircraft.
As much as $30m (£15m) is alleged to have been paid into Bandar’s dollar account at Riggs Bank in Washington and the affair led to corruption probes in the US and UK, although the case was dropped in the UK in 2006 after an intervention by then-prime minister Tony Blair.
But more likely is that Bandar has been caught up in this week’s MBS dragnet for his closeness to Western heads of state and foreign intelligence services… Likely, Bandar has been detained to ensure a communications blackout with Western intelligence and media until MBS’ plans are complete, with the added benefit of ensuring the “anti-corruption” angle to the purges for the consumption of international media.
Ironically, Bandar himself once seemed to publicly boast about receiving massive kickbacks in relation to Saudi weapons dealing, which perhaps further made him an easy and high profile target in this week’s crackdown…
Weapons contracts have long been a source of wealth. British media reported that Prince Bandar received well over $1 billion in secret payments from BAE Systems, the leading British military contractor, over the course of a decade. The son of founding King Abdulaziz’s personal doctor, Adnan Khashoggi, became a billionaire as an arms dealer and go-between for weapons makers and members of the royal family.
Meanwhile news of Bandar’s possible arrest and detention hasn’t spread very widely in international media reports as of this writing, but it will be interesting to see the response in the West should the news be confirmed. Will Bandar’s friends in Washington and London go to bat for him? Or will Prince Bandar quietly recede into the background of a permanent forced retirement from public life?
Most likely the latter will be the case. Regardless, for friends of the former powerful Saudi intelligence director on either side of the Atlantic and within Saudi Arabia itself, Bandar no doubt knows where all the skeletons are buried, and this alone makes him a worrisome, volatile and unpredictable figure in the midst of a transfer of power.
Hmm, interesting Jamal Khashoggi was a cousin to Bandar and was a reporter for the Washington Post, the CIA’s propaganda arm. It was Bandar along with Tony Blair and W. Bush that sold the Iraq war to the people based on their lies and all three have gotten richer off the war. Very interesting don’t you think? Bandar Bush was identified in the secret 28 pages of the 911 report. From Veterans Today:
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Bandar “Bush” Named as 9/11 Planner in 28 Pages
Editor’s note: Prince Bandar, former head of Saudi secret services, former Ambassador to the United States, has been tied directly to the planning of 9/11. Below, an excerpt in the widely censored release of the 28 long withheld pages, made a huge error.
In naming ASPCOL Corporation as handling the “property” of Prince Bandar, those who failed to redact this section did not note that attorney William Jordan III, the sole proprietor of ASPCOL Corporation, not only represents Bandar’s property interests but has broader involvements in arms sales and more, as outlined in the February 12, 2008 Aspen Daily News article included as Appendix I.
Seemingly, film maker Michael Moore had this right in Fahrenheit 9/11…
The declassified documents were released by Congress on Friday and released them the same day, release of the documents confirmed suspicions that the terrorists involved in the 9/11 attacks – most of whom were Saudi nationals – likely received support from high-ranking Saudi intelligence officers.
“While in the United States, some of the September 11 hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may have be connected to the Saudi Government,” the report states. “There is information, primarily from FBI sources, that at least two of those individuals were alleged by some to be Saudi intelligence officers.”
My, my, my thick as thieves. Now America’s “intelligence agencies” are claiming the MBS ordered the hit on Khashoggi but can we believe anything that comes from these corrupt agencies? President Trump is not caving to pressure to oust MBS, so I wonder what Trump knows, maybe the answer is in this article from State of the Nation:
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Here’s why Khashoggi was really killed and set up with a Turkish honeytrap
Jamal Khashoggi and Hatice Cengiz
Who is Hatice Cengiz?
Primary Reasons Why MbS Ordered Assassination:
(i) Khashoggi Developing Exposé on Use of Chemical Weapons in Yemen by Saudi Arabia
(ii) Khashoggi’s Integral Participation in Upcoming Coup Against the Saudi Crown Prince
(iii) Khashoggi contracted by Brennan’s rogue C.I.A. to blow up relationship between Trump and MbS.
It’s very important to note that no other assassination in recent history has received so much mainstream media (MSM) attention as the macabre killing of Jamal Khashoggi. One would think that he was the JFK of Saudi Arabia from the nonstop, above-the-fold print reporting, especially from the American MSM.
There are very good reasons for this. The entire assassination conspiracy was stealthily crafted by John Brennan’s rogue C.I.A. Just like former CIA Director Allen Dulles literally commandeered the assassination plot of JFK in 1963 after he was fired by President Kennedy, it appears that Brennan oversaw this scheme to take out Khashoggi in the most crafty and dramatic way.
The Washington Post is a key cog in the CIA’s Mockingbird Media and, therefore, all of their reporters are either card-carrying CIA agents or covert contractors. There’s no question that Khashoggi’s loyalties shifted majorly after he began writing for the WaPo in September of 2017. That month marked the beginning of the end of Khashoggi.
The ongoing war between President Trump and the WaPo’s owner Jeff Bezos is well documented. Bezos has always been a prime CIA asset (that’s why he was chosen to build and head Amazon.com) and he was recruited to purchase The Washington Post by his handlers. The top spooks at Langley knew they could count on him to weaponize the premier newspaper of record whenever ordered to. And so he has—BIG TIME!
With this critical understanding, it’s very easy to see how Khashoggi was used by the rogue C.I.A. to drive a massive wedge between Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud. MbS, as he is known, was an extremely vulnerable target for a WaPo investigative journalist, particularly one like Khashoggi who was a lifelong insider within the House of Saud.
Because Khashoggi was employed by the opposing Saudi factions at different times of his career, he was privy to everything—all the state secrets…and there are many. As follows:
- Khashoggi was closely associated with “Prince Turki who was the director of the Mukhabarat, the Saudi state intelligence apparatus”. It’s quite likely that whatever Prince Turki knew about the false flag terrorist attacks of 9/11 where it concerned the direct involvement of Saudi Arabia, so did Khashoggi. TPTB could simply no longer trust him with that highly radioactive 9/11 information.
Ten days before the 9/11 terror attacks on New York City, in which some 3,000 Americans died, Prince Turki retired from his post as head of Saudi intelligence. It was an abrupt departure, well before his tenure was due to expire.
What does Turkey and the apparent honeypot have to do with all of this.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was determined to pose a countervailing force to the Saudi juggernaut that started rolling across the Middle East with the blessing of their partner-in-war-crimes—Israel. This highly aggressive military posture is unprecedented and was assumed by Saudi Arabia with the ascension of MsB and the forming of his close partnership with the Trump administration.
Erdoğan knew that he had to do something very radical or else his grandiose plans to form a 3rd Millennium Ottoman Caliphate would be doomed. Hence, the evidence demonstrates that honeypot Hatice Cengiz was sent into Jamal’s life to entrap him in a scheme that would seal his fate, which it did.
The whole story about “Khashoggi collecting divorce papers relating to his previous marriage” never made any sense. Why Khashoggi would ever enter the Saudi consulate in Ankara is even a greater mystery, especially in light of his exceedingly dangerous position as potentially the greatest whistleblower OF ALL TIME (e.g. 9/11 truth)…
That the entire conversation was recorded after Khashoggi entered the consulate is also quite suspect. That’s because the entire assassination plot was implemented according to a carefully constructed plan. The only one who didn’t know about it was Khashoggi. Even Trump knew about the murder plot as Khashoggi was the most monitored man in the USA…in Turkey…and anywhere else he traveled to.
But why would President Trump permit a rogue CIA faction to pull off such a dastardly deed in broad daylight, especially one that would completely tear apart the US-Saudi relationship? Trump is more concerned about the price of oil in 2018 and beyond than anything else on Earth. His main promise and purpose is to MAGA, and he cannot do that with a skyrocketing or wildly fluctuating oil price. Hence, this whole scheme could also be used by his administration to keep MsS on a very short leash. Which it has done…
This high-profile assassination also allowed Turkey to re-assert itself onto the Mideast geopolitical chessboard in a HUGE way. Turkey believes that the heinous assassination can forever be used as a cudgel to beat Saudi Arabia whenever it oversteps as it’s doing everyday under the tyrannical MbS…
Now that the C.I.A. has issued a report boldly incriminating MbS, anything goes. This thing can explode into a clusterf*ck of incriminations and recrimination by all the concerned parties…and there are many. Just sit back and watch the fireworks, as it’s going to get very interesting indeed. TMR’s next report will cover the inevitable cataclysmic damage in the wake of this geopolitical superstorm. It may also prove to be a perfect storm where it concerns the desperately needed revelation of 9/11 truth…
The real trifecta of treachery is the three B’s, Bush, Bandar and Blair unindicted war criminals. It sounds like the election of Donald Trump was a HUGE reset on the world stage. Trump’s relationship with MBS is going to be real interesting, especially because Trump doesn’t blindly trust the CIA or the Washington Post. As is always with the case with war it’s all about the big banks and big oil. From Mint Press:
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The Real Reason the Knives are Out for MBS
In the six weeks before Khashoggi’s disappearance, MBS not only managed to anger the U.S. military-industrial complex but the world’s most powerful bankers. Thus, it seems that it was the privatization of Aramco that had MBS spooked.
Far beyond the cancellation of the IPO itself — MBS has endangered other parts of the plan that these powerful financial interests had been counting on for well over a year. That includes Vision 2030’s plan to increase the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) — which is managed by a group of HSBC and Bank of America directors and a CitiGroup investment banking alumnus — from its current $230 billion in assets to a massive $2 trillion.
The dramatic increase in the fund’s size would make the PIF the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world. Without that injection of cash into the PIF from the Aramco IPO, media reports have warned of a “ripple effect” on the U.S. economy, including massive U.S. tech companies like Uber, given that the PIF has invested heavily in such companies.
Evidence has since emerged that MBS knows that these powerful banks are still angry despite his efforts to placate them. On October 5, just a few days after Khashoggi’s murder, MBS promised a new Aramco IPO within a few years, this time valued at $2 trillion. However, media reports on that announcement made it clear that Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup and the like weren’t convinced.
Indeed, with the entire privatization effort now in doubt, so too is the estimated $6 trillion in direct investments from powerful interests that had been planned to fund the privatization schemes that comprise the entirety of Vision 2030. That figure could certainly explain why so much pressure has been levied against MBS as of late over Khashoggi.
Indeed, given that the Saudis had butchered another dissident writer in 1979 in their Lebanese consulate without the same outrage that has resulted from Khashoggi’s murder, it is safe to say that the establishment’s outrage over this latest extrajudicial killing is motivated less by “human rights” than by trillions of dollars of capital.
A 2016 report from Foreign Policy succinctly states why past Saudi Royals have avoided “free-market reforms” as the older generations of the House of Saud “understand the fragility of a monarchy whose brittle pillars rest on the quiescence of conservative clerics and a merchant class hostile to the free-market reforms that will undercut their privileges.”
However, far more Saudis than just the “merchant class” have grown accustomed to the largesse of the Saudi state, as the majority of Saudi citizens benefit from Saudi state spending in the form of fuel subsidies, loans, free land, and public-sector jobs, among other boons. Indeed, half of the entire Saudi population is currently on welfare — welfare that depends on the wealth of the Saudi state and its oil revenue — while two-thirds of Saudis work in the public sector.
Of course, sharing oil profits with robber barons — as would have been the case in the partial privatization of Saudi Aramco — would reduce the amount of money the Saudi government dedicates annually to welfare programs and public-sector jobs to a significant degree. Notably, Vision 2030 also included “austerity programs” as part of its implementation, including tax increases and a significant reduction in the fuel subsidies given to ordinary Saudis.
However, less than a week after a handful of those austerity measures were implemented earlier this year, the Saudi government quickly eased them by increasing state-job salaries and launching a new economic stimulus program, after a “very negative” public response.
Despite the government’s efforts to assuage the anger that austerity had caused, it was not enough and the outcry continued, forcing the Saudi government to fire the country’s water minister to absorb some of the outrage. The fierce public response seems to have given MBS his first real inkling that his “ambitious reforms” to privatize Saudi Arabia would not be so easy to implement, no matter how hard he had worked to crush dissent.
Another indication of why MBS backed out of privatization plans can be seen in what happened to other countries when their young princes, championed as “ambitious reformers,” had drunk the “McKinsey Kool-Aid.” As Salem Saif wrote at Jacobin, many of the Arab countries that had previously followed McKinsey-drafted plans for neoliberalization subsequently “became epicenters of the Arab Spring. Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Yemen — each was convulsed by demonstrations, often animated by economic grievances.”
In contrast, Saudi Arabia, with its state-owned and state-managed assets, had remained largely immune to these economically-spurred uprisings throughout the Middle East.
However, earlier this year, MBS learned the hard way from the hostile reception to his privatization rollout that being the West’s neoliberal darling comes at a high price, one that could imperil not just his position as Crown Prince but the entire Saudi government.
The search begins for a new prince who will play along
As a consequence of the Khashoggi incident, there have been several reports from prominent publications claiming that efforts are now underway to replace MBS as crown prince. One such report in France’s Le Figaro has stated that MBS is set to be “gradually” replaced by his even younger brother Khalid bin Salman, who has most recently served as the Saudi Ambassador to Washington.
This choice is significant, as it shows that the powers-that-be are seeking to replace MBS with another McKinsey-bent “young Arab princeling” instead of the former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef or another elder of the House of Saud who would oppose the privatization that MBS had promised but failed to deliver…
Beyond his stated views in support of current Saudi policy, including the genocidal war the Saudis are waging in Yemen, not much else is known about Khalid, who has little political experience given his young age and his time spent as a fighter pilot in the Royal Saudi Air Force.
Yet, in his capacity as Saudi ambassador, Khalid bin Salman has met with powerful Congressmen from both parties, as well as Lockheed Martin executives, cultivating personal ties in the process…
Yet, what is clear is that MBS’ rise to power was backed by the international elite and the Trump administration based on the promise of these neoliberal reforms and the mass sale of U.S. weapons to Saudi Arabia.
So Washington is threatening to oust MBS and install a puppet to enforce neoliberal policies like they have in Greece, you know austerity programs. HSBC and the greedy big banks want their snouts in the Saudi trough. They want the Saudi people to suffer like the people are suffering in America and in Britain. Well Philip Giraldi at Lew Rockwell has the right idea:
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The Only Regime Change that Is Needed Is in Washington
Ambassador James Jeffrey Nut of the Month
One of the things to look forward to in the upcoming holiday season is the special treats that one is allowed to sample. Fruitcake and nuts are Thanksgiving and Christmas favorites. They usually come in tins or special packages but it seems that this season some of the nuts have escaped and have fled to obtain sanctuary from the Trump Administration.
Currently, there is certainly a wide range of nuts available on display in the West Wing. There is the delicate but hairy Bolton, which has recently received the coveted “Defender of Israel” award, and also the robust Pompeo, courageously bucking the trend to overeat during the holidays by telling the Iranian people that they should either surrender or starve to death. And then there is the always popular Haley, voting audaciously to give part of Syria to Israel as a holiday treat.
But my vote for the most magnificent nut in an Administration that is overflowing with such talent would be the esteemed United States Special Representative for Syria Engagement James Jeffrey.
The accolade is in part due to the fact that Jeffrey started out relatively sane as a career diplomat with the State Department, holding ambassadorships in Iraq, Turkey, and Albania. He had to work hard to become as demented as he now is but was helped along the way by signing on as a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), which is a spin-off of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
Jeffrey set the tone for his term of office shortly after being appointed back in August when he argued that the Syrian terrorists were “. . . not terrorists, but people fighting a civil war against a brutal dictator.” Jeffrey, who must have somehow missed a lot of the head chopping and rape going on, subsequently traveled to the Middle East and stopped off in Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It has been suggested that Jeffrey received his marching orders during the visit.
James Jeffrey has been particularly active during this past month. On November 7th he declared that he would like to see Russia maintain a “permissive approach” to allowing the Israelis to attack Iranian targets inside Syria. Regarding Iran’s possible future role in Syria, he observed that “Iranians are part of the problem not part of the solution…”
As virtually no one but Jeffrey and the Israeli government actually believes that Damascus and Tehran were responsible for creating ISIS, the ambassador elaborated, blaming President Bashar al-Assad for the cycle of violence in Syria that, he claimed, allowed the development of the terrorist group in both Syria and neighboring Iraq…
Jeffrey’s formula is just another recycling of the myth that the Syrian opposition consisted of good folks who wanted to establish democracy in the country. In reality, it incorporated terrorist elements right from the beginning and groups like ISIS and the al-Qaeda affiliates rapidly assumed control of the violence. That Jeffrey should be so ignorant or blinded by his own presumptions to be unaware of that is astonishing.
It is also interesting to note that he makes no mention of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, knee-jerk support for Israel and the unrelenting pressure on Syria starting with the Syrian Accountability Act of 2003 and continuing with the embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. Most observers believe that those actions were major contributors to the rise of ISIS.
Jeffrey’s unflinching embrace of the Israeli and hardline Washington assessment of the Syrian crisis comes as no surprise given his pedigree, but in the same interview where he pounded Iran and Syria, he asserted oddly that “We’re not about regime change. We’re about a change in the behavior of a government and of a state.”
Actually, the only regime change that is needed is in Washington and it would include Jeffrey, Bolton, Haley, Pompeo, and Miller. And while we’re at it, get rid of son-in-law Jared Kushner and his claque of Orthodox Jews, Jason Greenblatt the “peace negotiator” and David Friedman the U.S. Ambassador in Israel. None of them are capable of acting to advance any American national interest, which they wouldn’t recognize even if it hit them in the butt…
Regime change in America cannot come too soon how this cabal managed to take over the Trump Administration is a mystery. The mess they made in Ukraine is now reaching a melting point with the corrupt American installed, Petro Poroshenko trying to start a war with Russia. From RT:
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US, Europe & NATO risk all-out war by backing unhinged Kiev regime
Arguably, the Kiev regime and its adulation of World War II Nazi collaborators never had any legitimacy in the first place. It continues to demonstrate its lack of legitimacy from the immense social problems in Ukraine of poverty, corruption, human rights violations, neo-Nazi paramilitaries running amok, and now martial law being imposed.
It remains to be seen if the recent naval provocation was carried out with the tacit approval of Washington and other NATO powers as a pretext for further militarization against Russia. The initial misplaced condemnations of Russia have subsided to more measured calls from US President Donald Trump and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian for “restraint” and “dialogue.”
That might suggest Kiev’s failing President Poroshenko and his security services acted alone to order the naval confrontation as a desperate throw of the dice to escalate NATO and EU support for his shaky regime against Russia.
Trump’s comments hoping that Kiev and Russia would “straighten things out” sound like Washington is not behind the provocation and has no desire for a wider conflict. Just as well, because such a development is a gateway to all-out war.
Nevertheless, such a catastrophe is always a serious risk when Western powers indulge this unhinged Kiev regime.
Amen, just another US installed unhinged regime. None of this would have happened were it not for the decision by five corrupt Supreme Court Justices overturning the American election results in 2000 and installing George W. Bush as president. So Justice Roberts, your claims are pure horseshit.
“We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges,” “What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. That independent judiciary is something we should all be thankful for.”
Were Bush not installed in 2000 by five corrupt judges you would not be on that corrupt court. If Al Gore were allowed to take office after the American people voted him in as president in 2000 there would have been no 911 attack. The Gore Commission had released a report after two years of study while he was Vice President identifying terrorism as America’s biggest threat, particularly the threat of an airliner being hijacked and used as a bomb. Gore had a list of recommendations one being securing the cockpit doors,
The Republicans in congress laughed at Gore and refused to fund the Gore recommendations to protect America from the exact kind of attack that took place 9 months after Bush took office. Bush and Cheney tore up the Gore Commission report saying the biggest threat to America was Saddam Hussein.
So call him Mr. Obvious, as the corrupt media clamors for Trump to condemn MBS, and screams that Putin is attacking Ukraine, and calls for regime change in Syria, Trump tells truth. The more Trump tell the truth the louder the media screams. When Harry Truman was on the campaign trail and someone yelled “Give them hell Harry” them being Republicans. Truman’s reply was “I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.” So give them hell Trump, keep telling the truth.
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