This will be, as of today, the “Definitive Trump Article”. ALL the latest, most up to date as well as long proven FACTS about Little, Lying, Liberal Donnie “El Trampo” will be included in this article.

First, The Newest:

RUSSIA INVESTIGATION SUSPECT PAUL MANAFORT JUST FOLLOWED MICHAEL FLYNN AND REGISTERED AS A FOREIGN AGENT. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Manafort Follows Michael Flynn Who Also Filed As A Foreign Agent.

BY CONOR GAFFEY ON 6/28/17 AT 8:03 AM

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A consulting company headed by Paul Manafort, the former chairman of President Donald Trump’s campaign team, registered as a foreign agent Tuesday, three years after it completed its work on behalf of a Ukrainian political party, the Washington Post reported.

The filing revealed that Manafort’s firm, DMP International, received $17.1 million between 2012 and 2014 from the Party of Regions, the pro-Russian former ruling party in Ukraine. Manafort resigned as the director of Trump’s campaign in August 2016 when allegations that he had received undisclosed cash payments for his work in Ukraine began to surface.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort checks the podium before then-presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during an event at Trump SoHo Hotel in New York City on June 22, 2016. Manafort has registered as a foreign agent for work carried out on behalf of a pro-Russian party in Ukraine.DREW ANGERER/GETTY

The retroactive disclosure by Manafort’s firm, DMP International, was made under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). The law was passed in 1938 to combat Nazi propagandists in the United States and some 6,000 companies and individuals have declared themselves to be foreign agents under the Act since it was established, though many are no longer active.

So what does it mean to be a foreign agent in the United States?

What is a foreign agent?

As defined by FARA, a foreign agent is any person who acts on behalf of a “foreign principal” in a political manner in the United States. To break that down: A foreign principal can mean a foreign government or political party; or just simply an individual or company based outside the U.S.

To be classified as a foreign agent under FARA, the person must be engaged in political or quasi-political activities on behalf of the foreign principal. So, for example, the Act was passed just before the outbreak of World War II as U.S. lawmakers were concerned about Nazi propagandists working on behalf of the regime in Germany to influence Washington’s view of the country.

The purpose of FARA is to ensure that “the U.S. government and the people of the United States are informed of the source of information (propaganda) and the identity of persons attempting to influence U.S. public opinion, policy, and laws,” according to the Department of Justice.

Why did Manafort register?

Manafort’s firm registered as a foreign agent under FARA because it worked on behalf of a foreign political party. The 87-page filing claimed that, while DMP International’s main work was on domestic Ukrainian politics, Manafort’s firm also worked “to advance the goal of greater political and economic integration between Ukraine and the West,” the AP reported. The Party of Regions was at the time led by Viktor Yanukovych, who was elected president of Ukraine in 2010 but fled to Russia in 2014 after mass protests against his rule.

Ex-Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych winks at his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during a ceremony in Moscow, December 17, 2013.SERGEI KARPUKHIN/REUTERS

It should be noted that FARA does not proscribe anyone from acting on behalf of foreign principals: In other words, Manafort and his firm did not do anything illegal under the Act by advocating on the Ukrainian party’s behalf. Rather, FARA simply requires that foreign agents register with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and disclose their activities—including income from and expenditure on behalf of their foreign principals. A separate U.S. statute, however, does prohibit public officials from acting as foreign agents, but since Manafort left before Trump was elected, it seems unlikely that he would qualify as a public official, according to the respected legal blog Just Security.

Will Manafort get in trouble for registering so late?

It seems unlikely. FARA does stipulate that foreign agents register with the DOJ within 10 days of agreeing to work for a foreign entity, and to also provide six-monthly updates on its activities. But the law only carries civil and criminal penalties in two cases:

• Where an individual or company has willfully failed to register as a foreign agent;
• Where an individual or company has made a false statement or omission of fact in connection with their registration.

It would seem difficult to prove willfulness as opposed to simple negligence as Manafort’s reason for not registering earlier. Criminal charges for FARA are usually reserved for those who have damaged U.S. foreign policy interests and are generally lumped in with other charges, like espionage, the Washington Post reported. [ME: THIS is the part that will hang the Trump cabal.]

What about Michael Flynn?

Manafort is not the first person associated with Trump to have filed as a foreign agent. A month after President Trump fired him as national security adviser for withholding details of his communications with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S., Flynn filed papers that acknowledged that he had worked on behalf of the Turkish government during the presidential campaign. Flynn received $500,000 from Inovo, a firm run by a Turkish-American businessman with ties to leaders in Turkey. The White House denied that it knew that Flynn would have to register as a foreign agent when he was hired by Trump, despite reports that Flynn’s personal lawyer had contacted attorneys in the Trump transition team ahead of the presidential inauguration.

Does this impact the Russia investigation?

Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed in May to head up the investigation into possible ties between Trump’s campaign and the Russian government, has taken over a criminal investigation into Manafort over the alleged misuse of Ukrainian government funds, the AP reported earlier this month. The Manafort investigation was opened by the DOJ before the 2016 election, but the fact that Mueller has taken over it suggests that Manafort’s case will be looked at in the wider context of the Russia probe.

Manafort’s declaration as a foreign agent would not seem to have a direct bearing on the Russia investigation. But it can only add to mounting questions over the people Trump has surrounded himself with.

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Report: Mueller is Pursuing Trump on 3 Different Impeachable Crimes

POSTED BY: ARTHUR JONES JUNE 23, 2017

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Ever since Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate President Trump, we have heard all sorts of rumors regarding exactly what he may be looking into. Some are obvious, such as colluding with Russia, but other possible alleged crimes go much deep and span greater lengths of time.

Claude Taylor, a former White House staff member for Clinton, has become somewhat of a Twitter reporter when it comes to being a resource for leaked Trump information. He has many connections both inside the White House and the intelligence community, and his sources have proven to be correct in the past. Yesterday he unleashed a rather intriguing Twitter thread on the social media platform. It read:

“Source with knowledge of investigation. Mueller is proceeding along 3 broad fronts. Investigating Trump for ties to Russian Organized Crime, especially money laundering and other illegalities tied to his business career. The second front is the Trump Campaigns and their collusion and coordination with Putin/Russian Govt in fixing the 2016 election. The third front is Trump’s crimes as president especially obstruction of justice. My source says Mueller’s team feels confident that Trump has committed impeachable offenses on all 3 fronts.”

So it’s not just “collusion” and “obstruction of justice” that Taylor’s sources say Robert Mueller is investigating Trump for. Rather it stems much deeper than that, into possible money laundering and organized crime (thus the rumors we’ve heard about a possible RICO case). Only one crime is required for an impeachment hearing to take place, and it appears as though Mueller, who has hired an all-star team full of investigators and prosecutors, will be digging quite deep into Trump’s entire business career.

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Comey Friend, Wittes, Hints That a Trump Bombshell Is On The Way

POSTED BY: ARTHUR JONES JUNE 26, 2017

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We just published a story which hinted at a major incoming bombshell in the Trump/Russia

investigation. The argument used was that both Trump and Fox News seem to have changed their narrative from ‘No Russian involvement of collusion” to “collusion is legal and common”.  It’s almost as if they are preparing the public for evidence, which soon will drop, implicating that there really was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Immediately following the publication of that article this morning, another tidbit of information popped up, suggesting that yes a bombshell is on its way. Benjamin Wittes, the man James Comey provided details about his Trump memos to, who then leaked them to the press, has just made two somewhat cryptic tweets alluding to a ticking time bomb.

The first tweet simply read, “tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick.”

This was then followed by a more substantial, yet still cryptic tweet, stating:

“3 things:
1) Not all ticks are related to Comey.
2) Fuse length remains uncertain.
3) Interesting preemptive defense of collusion happening.”

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Wittes is clearly alluding to three separate points here. First of all, not all the information he is privy to is related to James Comey’s ties to the Trump investigation. Second, he’s also unsure how long it will be before this next bombshell explodes, but it is ticking. Finally, the bombshell will likely be related to evidence pointing towards Trump’s collusion with Russian officials.

Wittes is a distinguished individual who clearly garnered the trust of James Comey. He’s not someone to make up or embellish rumors or facts, and if he believes something big is coming, I personally view it as fact. Wittes has tweeted the words ‘tick tick tick” before, and each time he has, yet another major leak in this investigation dropped soon after. Combined with the sudden change of narrative by Fox News and Trump himself, I feel it’s safe to say that something big is on the way; something that is not going to go over well for the President. Then again, perhaps I’m wrong.

Schindler, who is a columnist at the New York Observer, has spent close to 10 years with the NSA as both an intelligence analyst and a counterintelligence officer, working with issues in much of the Middle East and Eastern Europe. He is known to be an opponent of Trump as well as someone who has reported on breaking Trump/Russia news over the past several months.

The question that arises from this comment is; “Just who within Trump’s inner circle could have told his family and friends that he believes that both himself and President Trump are going to prison?” The fact that someone guilty of a crime is willing to admit he/she has broken the law to an extent that would result in prison is significant, but the fact that he too believes that the President of the United States is also guilty is quite the bombshell.

Stay tuned!

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Trump: Why Didn’t Obama Do Anything About Something I Said Never Existed?

Posted at 10:02 pm on June 24, 2017 by Jay Caruso

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Donald Trump denied on more than one occasion that the Russians attempted to meddle in the 2016 election even as late as a few days ago. Once the story broke in The Washington Post about Obama’s lack of a response to the meddling, President Trump took on a whole new outlook.

Going back over 2016, Donald Trump denied Russian involvement in election interference on a number of occasions:

September 2016 – During the first presidential debate, Trump made his first public denial.

October 2016 – During the second presidential debate, Trump suggested there was no hacking at all and why Russia was blamed.

December 2016 – After the election, Trump rejected a CIA assessment that said Russia intervened in the election in the hopes he’d win. “I don’t believe it.”

December 2016 – Trump’s transition team dumped on the CIA pointing to their assessment that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction

[ME: DT had access to the SAME intel as BHO. Why didn’t DT do anything? Oh, right, because DT’s been lying and trying to keep this from coming out.]

(BACK TO ARTICLE BY RED STATE)

What meddling, Mr. President? A day earlier he was still calling it a hoax:

Trump Just Admitted to Aiding and Abetting Russia

POSTED BY: CHASE SANDERS JUNE 25, 2017

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For close to a year now, candidate Trump and President Trump have denied, denied, and denied when it has come to Russia’s possible meddling in the U.S. election. When evidence was clearly in front of us all, instead of taking a pro-active approach to putting an end to what may be the worst attack on American democracy since 9-11, he deflected and deflated the entire idea that Russia was at all involved.

When 17 intelligence agencies pretty much stated that Russia was behind the 2016 election interference and that it appeared their goal was to harm Clinton and help Trump, instead of attacking Russia, Trump attacked the intelligence agencies. It was almost as if the man was too concerned about his ego to even entertain the idea (at least publicly) that his election win may have actually been attributed to interference in our democracy. He even went as far as to attack Democrats such as Senators Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi because they had been photographed in the past with Putin and/or his associates.

On multiple occasions, President-elect Donald Trump and President Donald Trump were briefed by high ranking members of the intelligence community, presenting him with solid evidence that Russia had interfered in our elections. After each and every briefing, Trump tweeted, gave interviews and even held press conferences stating the contrary, or at the very least blowing such claims off, and never once admitting that Russia was the culprit.

It wasn’t until Thursday, in an odd turn of events, that the President began to publicly consider that Russia may have actually been involved.

“By the way, if Russia was working so hard on the 2016 Election, it all took place during the Obama Admin. Why didn’t they stop them,” he tweeted.

On Friday things took another turn into the Twilight Zone as Trump continued blaming President Obama for Russia’s interference, this time lashing out at the former President for not taking action.

“Just out: The Obama Administration knew far in advance of November 8th about election meddling by Russia. Did nothing about it. WHY?”

The ironic thing about all of this is that Trump also knew about Russia’s role well prior to November 8th and has been pushing his administration and fellow Republicans to ease the sanctions Obama put in place to penalize Russia at the end of December. Meanwhile, up until last week, he had been denying, or at least shedding doubt, that it was Russia that was involved.  All the while he had been trying to get closer to the country which stabbed our democracy in the heart.

To cap things off, in a series of two tweets yesterday, Trump continued attacking Obama, even going as far as suggesting that the former President did not act on information, in an effort to prevent Clinton’s chances at the Presidency from being damaged.

“Since the Obama Administration was told way before the 2016 Election that the Russians were meddling, why no action? Focus on them, not T! Obama Administration official said they “choked” when it came to acting on Russian meddling of election. They didn’t want to hurt Hillary?”

It now appears, that not only is Trump admitting that Russia did in fact meddle in our election process, but he is blaming Obama, who did in fact act, for not acting.  Meanwhile over the last 5 months he has done absolutely everything in his power to aid and abet the Russians. By admitting that the Russians did in fact hack our democracy, he in essence is admitting to aiding and abetting them. The President was clearly warned of what was going on, yet instead of fighting back, putting up protective mechanisms, he deflected attention elsewhere, blamed Democrats for the ‘Hoax” and continued to push his administration to ease the very punishments that Obama placed on Russia right before leaving office. If this is not a clear definition of aiding and abetting, then I don’t know what is.

If Trump really did not believe that Russia was behind the attacks, then his actions could have been justified in a court of law.  Trump, however, decided to make it apparent, via these recent Tweets, that not only does he now believe Russia attacked our election, but he thinks President Obama should have done more to prevent the attacks.  That’s telling!

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Michael Flynn

Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn started advising Trump on national security in early 2016. When Trump took office in January 2017, Flynn served as his National Security Adviser, but resigned after one month amid questions about his links to Russia.

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RT

Kremlin-funded TV network

In December 2015, Flynn went to Moscow for a gala celebrating the 10th anniversary of RT, the English-language news network controlled and funded by the Russian government. He sat at the same table as Putin. He was paid more than $33,750 by RT to participate, according to documents released by the House Oversight Committee.

Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communication

RT was founded in 2005 by RIA Novosti, a state-run news agency in Russia that has since been dissolved. It fell under the jurisdiction of the Russian Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communication.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

The Russian Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communication is the governmental department in charge of state-run media. Putin appoints its minister.

Sergey Kislyak

Russian ambassador to the US

Flynn says he first met Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak in 2013 during an official visit to Russia as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Flynn and Kislyak were in contact during the Trump transition, and they spoke on the same day President Obama ordered sanctions on Russia. The controversy over these calls triggered Flynn’s resignation in February, after one month on the job.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

As the top Russian diplomat in the United States, Kislyak works at the Russian embassy in Washington and is an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

As president, Putin appoints all Russian ambassadors. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its leadership, answers to Putin.

Subu Kota

businessman

After leaving the military in 2014, Flynn founded Flynn Intel Group. His firm last year reportedlypartnered with Brainwave Science, a company co-led by Sabu Kota, according to the Washington Post. A Trump campaign spokesman said Flynn had never met Kota.

KGB

Soviet-era spy agency

In 1996, Kota pleaded guilty to selling biotech materials to someone posing as a Russian spy, but was really an FBI agent, according to Bloomberg. During the trial, prosecutors accused Kota of repeatedly meeting with a known KGB agent between 1985 and 1990. Kota denied the spying claim and insisted that the criminal charges stemmed from a patent dispute.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

The Committee for State Security, or the KGB, was dissolved when the USSR collapsed in 1991. Putin was a KGB agent from the mid-1970s until 1991. He later served as director of the FSB, a successor organization to the KGB.

Paul Manafort

Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016 and eventually became campaign chairman. He left in August 2016 amid questions about his dealings in Ukraine.

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Viktor Yanukovych

former Ukrainian president

Manafort worked for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych for about a decade, starting as early as 2004. He helped steer Yanukovych to victory in the 2010 presidential election, and stayed on as an adviser during Yanukovych’s presidency. Yanukovych was ousted from power in 2014.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

At the urging of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yanukovych adopted policies that moved Ukraine closer to Russia and away from the European Union. Putin publicly supported him during the 2014 revolution that led to his ouster. Yanukovych now lives in exile in Russia.

Dmytro Firtash

Ukrainian oligarch

Dmytro Firtash is a Ukrainian billionaire and ally of former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych. He partnered with Manafort on a deal to redevelop the Drake Hotel in New York. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko sued Firtash in federal court, alleging that the project was a money laundering scheme. Firtash denied the charges, the project fell through, and the lawsuit was dismissed.

Gazprom

Kremlin-run gas company

Firtash served as an intermediary between the Ukrainian government and Gazprom, the Russian natural gas company. He has amassed a fortune through his business in the energy industry.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

The Russian government holds a majority stake in Gazprom, and Putin has considerable influence in the company. Gazprom’s chairman of the board was Putin’s deputy while Putin was prime minister.

Opposition Bloc

Ukrainian political party

Manafort began working for Yanukovych in 2004 and grew to be an influential figure in Ukraine who had the ear of the President. After Yanukovych was ousted and pro-Western forces took the reins, Manafort stayed on in the country to help rebrand Yanukovych’s Party of Regions as “Opposition Bloc.”

The Opposition Bloc is a political party in Ukraine that wants stronger relations with Russia. Party members mainly hail from eastern Ukraine, including regions that are dominated by pro-Russia separatists and militias.

Konstantin Kilimnik

Manafort aide in Ukraine

Konstantin Kilimnik, a dual citizen of Ukraine and Russia, was an aide to Manafort while Manafort worked in Ukrainian politics. Kilimnik told Radio Free Europe, that he spoke to Manafort “every couple of months” during the 2016 election, and Politico reported that they met twice during the campaign.

Viktor Yanukovych

former Ukrainian president

Kilimnik worked for Manafort and former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Kilimnik has said in interviews that he attended high-level meetings with Yanukovych, who served as president from 2010 to 2014.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

At the urging of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yanukovychadopted policies that moved Ukraine closer to Russia and away from the European Union. Putin publicly supported him during the 2014 revolution that led to his ouster. Yanukovych now lives in exile in Russia.

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Jeff Sessions

Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the first Senator to endorse Trump and he became chairman of the Trump campaign’s national security team in March 2016. He spoke at the Republican convention and was a top campaign surrogate down the stretch.

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Sergey Kislyak

Russian ambassador to the US

Sessions met Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak twice during the campaign. The first meeting was on the sidelines of an event at the Republican convention. The second was a private meeting in October, in Sessions’ office. He didn’t disclose these meetings at his confirmation hearings, and he later recused himself from all probes into the Trump campaign.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

As the top Russian diplomat in the United States, Kislyak works at the Russian embassy in Washington and is an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

As president, Putin appoints all Russian ambassadors. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its leadership, answers to Putin.

JD Gordon

Trump campaign adviser

Sessions chaired the Trump campaign’s National Security Advisory Committee during the presidential race. J.D. Gordon was a member of that committee and also advised Trump on security issues.

Sergey Kislyak

Russian ambassador to the US

Gordon met Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak at the Republican convention in July 2016. He told CNN that he stressed to the Russian envoy that he would like to improve relations with Russia, and that nothing he said to Kislyak amounted to collusion with Russia to aid the Trump campaign.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

As the top Russian diplomat in the United States, Kislyak works at the Russian embassy in Washington and is an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

As president, Putin appoints all Russian ambassadors. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its leadership, answers to Putin.

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Jared Kushner

Trump is the father-in-law of Jared Kushner, who married Trump’s daughter Ivanka in 2009. He was a confidant to Trump during the campaign and now serves as a Senior Advisor to the President.

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Sergey Kislyak

Russian ambassador to the US

In December 2016, Kushner attended a meeting with incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The meeting was held at Trump Tower, and a senior administration official told CNN that it lasted about 10 minutes.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

As the top Russian diplomat in the United States, Kislyak works at the Russian embassy in Washington and is an employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

As president, Putin appoints all Russian ambassadors. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and its leadership, answers to Putin.

Sergey Gorkov

VEB chairman

Kushner met Sergey Gorkov, chairman of VneshEconomBank, in December 2016 during the transition. The meeting was not acknowledged by the White House until press reports about it in March 2017.

VEB

Russian state-run bank

Gorkov is the chairman of VneshEconomBank, also called VEB, which is a state-owned development bank in Russia that focuses on infrastructure and other government projects.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

Putin appoints the chairman of VEB, and he tapped Gorkov in early 2016. The bank is not only part of the government but also a tool of the Kremlin. In that respect, VEB regularly funds projects that are favored by Putin, such as the massive development in Sochi for the 2014 Olympics.

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Donald Trump Jr.

Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has worked for the Trump Organization for years, and is currently the company’s executive vice president.

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Center of Political and Foreign Affairs

think tank

In October 2016, Trump Jr. flew to France and spoke at a dinner hosted by the Center of Political and Foreign Affairs, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper reported that Trump Jr. was paid for the speaking engagement.

The think tank was founded by Fabien Baussart. He and his wife, Randa Kassis, hosted the event Trump Jr. attended in Paris. She leads a Moscow-endorsed Syrian opposition group and has met with many senior Russian officials. In December 2016, the think tank nominated Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Felix Sater

managing director of Bayrock

Through the Trump Organization, Trump Jr. worked with Russian immigrant Felix Sater, and his company Bayrock Group, on various deals. Forbes published emails between Trump Jr. and Bayrock officials working on Trump SoHo. According to the Washington Post, Sater also said in a sworn deposition that he once escorted Trump Jr. and his sister Ivanka around Moscow.

Andrii Artemenko

Ukrainian lawmaker

Sater met with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen and Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko at a New York City hotel in January 2017. Sater and Artemenko say they discussed a “peace plan” for Ukraine that reportedly includes terms that are friendly to Russia.

Ukrainian prosecutors opened a treason investigation in 2017 to determine whether Artemenko is working for the Kremlin. They haven’t filed any charges and Artemenko says he is not a traitor. He is a member of the Ukrainian parliament but opposes the US-backed government, so he sometimes aligns with pro-Russia parties.

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Rex Tillerson

Trump appointed ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State in late 2016, and he was confirmed in February 2017.

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Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2013 personally awarded Tillerson the Order of Friendship, one of the highest honors given by Russia to foreign nationals.

Rosneft

Kremlin-run oil company

As ExxonMobil CEO, Tillerson sealed a major deal with Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil company. The agreement gave Exxon access to the Arctic Ocean, and Putin attended the signing ceremony. The project made progress until the Obama administration put new sanctions on Russia, and Rosneft.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

The Russian government owns a majority stake in Rosneft and Putin has considerable influence within the bank. Rosneft is run by Putin loyalist and friend Igor Sechin.

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Wilbur Ross

Trump selected Wilbur Ross to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce. He is a billionaire who made much of his money buying troubled assets and investing in bankrupt companies.

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Bank of Cyprus

largest bank in Cyprus

Ross’ investment company owns a stake in the Bank of Cyprus, and Ross was the bank’s vice chair from 2014 until he joined the Trump administration.

Vladimir Strzhalkovsky

Putin ally

Vladimir Strzhalkovsky was a senior official at the Bank of Cyprus when Ross became the vice chair. He was one of a handful of Russians involved in the bank that departed shortly after Ross’ arrival, according to the New York Times.

Vladimir Putin

President of Russia

RT, the Kremlin-funded TV network, identified Strzhalkovsky as a “former KGB official and Putin ally.” The two served together in the KGB, according to The New York Times.

Bank of Cyprus

largest bank in Cyprus

Ross’ investment company owns a stake in the Bank of Cyprus, and Ross was the bank’s vice chair from 2014 until he joined the Trump administration.

Viktor Vekselberg

Russian oligarch

Viktor Vekselberg is a Russian billionaire who emerged in 2014 as a leading shareholder in the Bank of Cyprus.

Like all Russian oligarchs who have survived Putin’s tenure, Vekselberg has worked on projects supported by Putin and his associates. This includes a Russian version of Silicon Valley and a Jewish center in Moscow. Vekselberg met Putin at the Kremlin in March 2017 to discuss upcoming projects.

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Felix Sater

Felix Sater was an executive at Bayrock Group, which licensed the Trump name to build Trump SoHo New York and Trump Tower Fort Lauderdale. Trump and Sater have appeared at public events together, gave joint interviews and co-signed paperwork relating to their business deals. But in a 2013 deposition, Trump distanced himself and said he didn’t know Sater well.

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Andrii Artemenko

Ukrainian lawmaker

Sater met with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen and Ukrainian lawmaker Andrii Artemenko at a New York City hotel in January 2017. Sater and Artemenko say they discussed a “peace plan” for Ukraine that reportedly includes terms that are friendly to Russia.

Ukrainian prosecutors opened a treason investigation in 2017 to determine whether Artemenko is working for the Kremlin. They haven’t filed any charges and Artemenko says he is not a traitor. He is a member of the Ukrainian parliament but opposes the US-backed government, so he sometimes aligns with pro-Russia parties.

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MORE SOURCING.

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VIDEO EVIDENCE:

TRUMP AND THE MAFIA.

TRUMP AND THE RUSSIA MOB.

TRUMP AND HIS TIES TO RUSSIAN “BUSINESSES”. (MONEY LAUNDERING)

TRUMP, THE KREMLIN CANDIDATE.

TRUMP AND THE RUSSIAN MOB: PART 2.

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MORE SOURCING.

Russian Ties: The Evidence IS Damning

Donald Trump: Battle Of Little Big Liar

Trump: Owned By The Russian Mafia

Vindicated… Really???

A Drain The Swamp Catalogue Of Lies

K.S.N.: Viral News Dump

K.S.N.: VIRAL NEWS DUMP, PART 2.

There.

That includes many articles with links in them to many articles more.

It WILL take a while, BUT anyone who reads ALL the above and then says “fake news”, “No evidence” is a deluded liar, and rotten to the core Liberal.

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

INTO THE FRAY…notice the date of the first article…we were warned pre-election…just sayin’…

OCT 3, 2016 @ 07:57 AM 6,332  2 FREE ISSUES OF FORBES

Trump And The Oligarch ‘Trio’

2002 Felix Sater has testified that he joined Bayrock, controlled by Tevfik Arif, around 2002. Bayrock was based in Trump Tower. In a sworn deposition in 2008, Sater testified that he would pitch business ideas to Trump (“just me and him”) and his team (“on a constant basis”).

2005 FORBES has obtained a letter to Sater, listed as Bayrock’s “managing director,” from Donald Trump Jr., which states that his father would be a partner in a proposed hotel-tower in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. The letter is cc’d to the Trump Organization’s VP of development.

2005 Donald Trump gave Sater and Bayrock an exclusive deal to develop a project in Russia, according to Sater’s 2008 deposition. “I’d come back, pop my head into Mr. Trump’s office and tell him, you know, ‘Moving forward on the Moscow deal.’ And he would say ‘All right.'”

“I showed him photos, I showed him the site, showed him the view from the site. It’s pretty spectacular.”

2006 Donald Trump Jr. and sister Ivanka travel to Moscow. Sater claims Donald Sr. asked him to show them around the city. “He asked if I wouldn’t mind joining them and looking after them while they were in Moscow.” Trump Organization general counsel Alan Garten tells FORBES it was a coincidence that all were there at the same time. [Right…a “coincidence”…]

READ: Trump And The Oligarch ‘Trio’

2007 In a lawsuit, the manager of a proposed Trump hotel-condo tower in Phoenix alleges that Sater threatened to have a cousin shock his testicles, cut off his legs and leave him “dead in the trunk of his car” if the manager “disclosed to any party any of [Sater’s] suspected improprieties and past criminal conduct.” Sater strongly denies the allegation; the case was settled. [“Settled” by threat of lethal force.]

FORBES has also obtained a May 2007 letter from Bayrock’s executive vice president, Julius Schwarz, to Bayrock’s chairman saying “there were at least a hundred times when the deal [$50 million equity for Trump projects from a company in Iceland] could not have closed, among them because of the risk of discovering Felix’s past.” Schwarz tells FORBES that the letter is legitimate, but while he e-mailed it to his wife for her opinion, it was “never sent” to the chairman.

In a June 2007 e-mail chain obtained by FORBES involving Trump executives (including Donald Jr. and Ivanka), Bayrock executives (including Sater) and execs at Sapir Organization–a key Trump development partner owned by then-billionaire Tamir Sapir—Sater says he’s dealing directly with Donald Trump and his family in a dispute: “Donald Jr. and sr [sic] are calling me to talk about us eating it. I called Ivanka and told her I was pissed about Donald throwing me under the bus to Sapir. So now the billionairs [sic] can work it out.” Trump’s counsel characterized the exchange as unnewsworthy.

In August 2007 The Trump SoHo hotel-condo project files an offering plan with New York State–it names Donald Trump and his children Don Jr. and Ivanka–to sell apartments in the building. It states that there have been “no prior felony convictions of Sponsor [the Bayrock/Sapir Organization], or any principals of Sponsor.” FORBES has obtained e-mails that indicate that Sater was in fact an owner/principal in Bayrock. Sater and Bayrock deny it.

Dec. 19, 2007 Two days after a New York TimesNYT -1.7% story on Sater’s background, Trump was deposed in a lawsuit. Asked if he was aware that one of the principals of Bayrock had previously been convicted of both assault and securities-fraud violations, Trump responded: “Well, they represented to me that he [Sater] was not a principal–[that] he’s an employee. ” In a later deposition Trump stated, “I don’t know who owns Bayrock.”

Asked how much he interacted with Sater, Trump responded: “Not that much … very little … I dealt mostly with Tevfik [Arif]  … and very little with Sater.” Asked if he was severing ties with Bayrock in light of learning about Sater’s criminal background, Trump said: “I’m looking into it, because I’m not happy with the story. … He changed the spelling in his name, so people trying to find things out about him were unable to.”

The latter statement is questionable. In an internal Bayrock e-mail obtained by FORBES and dated almost three weeks before the Times story was published, an investigator retained by a Bayrock law firm revealed that Sater’s past was easy to learn because he had simply added a second “t” in his surname (“Satter”) while working at the company.

January 2008 So was Sater a partner at Bayrock (and thus a partner with Trump)? A January 2008 e-mail from Sater obtained by FORBES indicates so. Sater wrote to two executives representing Bayrock investors in Iceland. In the e-mail, Sater says Bayrock’s lawyer had informed one of its lenders that Sater was a “principal” in Bayrock. Sater, concerned that revelation could trigger a default, writes in the e-mail that Bayrock’s general counsel’s “head is not on straight,” as just a day before his disclosure he was verbally “abused” by Trump in a meeting. Sater added that Bayrock chairman Arif is “thoroughly freaked out” by the lawyer’s slip–and wants out of the company. Sater then lays out a detailed plan to create a family trust that gives him an option to buy 30% of Bayrock when the smoke clears a few years later. “By then no one will care,” he wrote. In a conversation with FORBES, Sater says he doesn’t recall the e-mail or its contents: “I don’t remember anything like that.” [Right….]

2008 According to the Washington Post, Sater’s message to potential investors was simple: “Anybody can come in and build a tower. I can build a Trump Tower, because of my relationship with Trump.”

READ: Trump And The Oligarch ‘Trio’

2009 A former Bayrock financial analyst filed a lawsuit against Bayrock in which he claimed he had been stiffed out of a partnership interest.

Alleged the analyst: “Felix Sater was Bayrock. They paid his personal expenses, they paid his living expenses. They bought him a house. … Felix always held himself out as owning half the company … held himself out to everyone. And he said it to me.” Sater denies this. The former employee also stated that Sater physically threatened him twice (“If you don’t write this e-mail, I’ll kill everyone you love,” he says Sater once told him. Sater denies this.)

2010 For about a year Sater became a “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump” and was given a Trump Organization e-mail address, business cards and an office there. The phone number listed on his business card previously belonged to a lawyer in Trump’s general counsel’s office.

Summer 2016 Felix Sater contributed the maximum allowed ($5,400) to Donald Trump’s campaign. A campaign spokesperson said at the time that they were unaware of Sater’s donations.

READ: Trump And The Oligarch ‘Trio’

July 2016 A year-old private lawsuit against Bayrock, Sater and others, filed on behalf of the state of New York, is unsealed by a New York court. It alleges that the group sought to launder as much as $250 million of profits on Trump projects out of the country to evade taxation and hide its true foreign owners. The attorneys behind the suit, Frederick Oberlander and Richard Lerner, now tell FORBES that new information leads them to believe that Trump misrepresented his knowledge and involvement, and was a participant in the schemes. FORBES has not found any evidence of government action on the case, and Trump’s attorney says the case is “completely frivolous” and believes it will be dismissed. Sater’s lawyer terms the suit “false and defamatory.”

[UPDATED] September 2016 FORBES uncovered over 100 Internet domain names that, according to a computer security expert retained by the magazine, lead back to Sater. Some seem to be for Sater himself (Felix-Sater.com). And one touches on Trump (DealsByTrump.com), although Sater’s lawyer denies any connection.

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DT has LONG had crooked, Mafia, Russian ties, including fraud and money-laundering. ALL of which was known BEFORE the election!!

And yet some 30,000,000 Democrats, mostly Bernie Sanders devotees, cross over and with the stupidest collection of R.I.N.O.s and bigoted Alt-Right Nazis went ahead and elected the most vile, wretched, fraudulent, vulgar, evil, egotistical, New York Leftist they possibly could find!!!

Then these same TrumpTards call US Liberals and Hilalry-supporters because we chose NOT to vote for Hillary’s bag-man, donor, and ling-time, Leftist FRIEND!!

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

Where to Begin?
There is such a treasure trove of FACTUAL EVIDENCE showing DT to be a:

1. Liar of epic proportions,
2. Life-long Liberal,
3. Egotistical Maniac,
4. Irresponsible Buffoon,
5. And Complicit With Communism for $$$.

Let’s begin here, with a recent head-line that should raise BIG Red, Caution Flags:

REX TILLERSON TO WORK WITH RUSSIA ON CYBERSECURITY (EVEN AFTER HACKING)

1.  a Billionaire oil man with Exxon, now DT’s “Secretary of State” **snicker**,
2. who was awarded Russia’s HIGHEST CIVILIAN honor, The Medal Of Friendship…FROM PUTIN HIMSELF,
3. who has BILLIONS to gain from “improving ties with Russia” via oil contracts (can you say conflict of interest?),
4. who is suspected already of shady, illegal ties to Putin/Russia, collusion to steal an election, and conspiring in the on-going cover-up…

IS actually wanting to work CLOSER with Putin/Russia to “combat” threats to Cyber Security!!!

This is insanity that boggles the mind of (REAL) Conservative and Liberals alike!

REAL Conservatives are aghast that one of the chief foxes is guarding the chicken coop of Liberty, Honesty, and National Security!

Liberals are aghast that a so-called Republican/Conservative is, so far, doing and getting away with THIS!!!

Next Up is THIS, the REAL reason the G.O.P. rushing through Obama/Trump Care 2.1:

The GOP Knows Major “Russia News” is Coming – Ramming Through Healthcare Before It’s Too Late

POSTED BY: BRIAN KRASS JUNE 21, 2017

*SOURCE*
[EXCERPT.]

Typically when Congress moves to make legislation that affects a major portion of the economy of the United States, they take months, if not years to debate what such changes could mean for all Americans. With their push to replace the Affordable Care Act, however, they have done the exact opposite. It’s actually almost unbelievable the way in which Senate Republicans are hiding a bill which could have a major impact on approximately 16.6% of the U.S. economy, not to mention the lives of tens of millions of Americans. Even some within the GOP are questioning the strategy being used by their colleagues in the Senate, with Senator John McCain joking that he hadn’t even seen the secret healthcare bill, but he was ‘sure the Russians have been able to hack in’ to see it.

All joking aside, this is not normal, not even for the GOP, and that brings up the likely reason why they are in such a rush. The number one issue dogging the GOP since Trump’s inauguration approximately five months ago, has been the Russia story. The possibility that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in order to win the 2016 Presidential election, and the possible fallout if in fact such collusion is proven, is already driving a wedge between many Republicans. That wedge will certainly widen if in fact collusion is a foregone conclusion, meaning that any legislation that the GOP wishes to ram through, must be done ASAP…

…what does the GOP know that the public may not? Perhaps the few within the GOP who have been privy to the classified briefings related to Trump/Russia are warning their colleagues in the Senate that it’s ‘now or never’. Is the other shoe about to drop in the investigation? Could it be weeks before a major turning point in the investigation takes place, limiting the GOP’s ability to govern? It seems that way, and Claude Taylor, a former staff member of the Bill Clinton Administration, seems to agree.

“Cap Hill source tells me ‘GOP anxious to ram through healthcare because they believe more news on Russia coming’ (which will halt agenda),” tweeted Taylor.

There is only one rational explanation as to why the GOP is rushing to get a new healthcare bill voted on, perhaps as soon as next week. That reason seems to be that they know that they only have a very limited time frame to push the bill through before the public turns on them and the President.

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TOO LATE. WE’VE ALREADY TURNED…SOME 60 SOME MILLION LIKE ME NEVER BELIEVED NOR SUPPORTED TRUMP EVER.

THEN THERE IS THIS-

Report: Jeff Sessions Is About to Step Down

POSTED BY: ARTHUR JONES JUNE 20, 2017

*SOURCE*
[EXCERPT.]

Back on June 7, political insider and Chairman of the Democratic Coalition Jon Cooper, tweeted, “Word among Trump staffers is that both Jeff Sessions AND Sean Spicer will resign over the coming weeks in sign of growing tensions in WH.”

Now almost 2 weeks since that tweet, it’s being reported by the mainstream media that Press Secretary Sean Spicer will be stepping down from his position within the briefing room. There has been a lot of turmoil and confusion as of late, mostly because President Trump seemingly is telling his press team one thing, and then telling the media another, on a variety of topics…

…During Sessions’ Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, he refused to answer a lot of questions claiming it was his duty to keep what goes on in the White House private. If for some reason Sessions resigns or is fired, would these private conversations still need to be protected? Perhaps a resignation could signal the willingness of Sessions to cooperate more in a Trump/Russia investigation, which is certainly something that wouldn’t bode well for Donald Trump or anyone else in his campaign or administration.

The other question that remains, is who would take over for Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General if he were to step down or get fired. It is doubtful that President Trump would appoint Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, given everything currently going on with the Mueller investigation.

NEXT IN THIS PARADE OF COLLUSION, TREASON, GREED AND COVER-UPS IS THIS BEAUT-

Robert Mueller Just Hired Trump’s Worst Nightmare

POSTED BY: BRIAN KRASS JUNE 19, 2017

*SOURCE*
[EXCERPT.]

It has already become apparent that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is not fooling around when it comes to his job of investigating the Trump Campaign. He has already hired over a dozen of the best investigators and attorneys in the nation, which seems to have sparked even further outrage from the President.

As you likely are aware, prosecuting large conspiracies like the one that may have taken place within the Trump campaign, while possibly colluding with Russia, usually requires multiple witnesses flipping on each other. If no one talks, it becomes increasingly difficult to prove a conspiracy charge. Mueller, the former director of the FBI, clearly understands this, and thus has just hired a man named Andrew Weissmann.

Weissman, known for his time as head of the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal fraud section, has made a career out of getting witnesses to flip on one another. Weissman was instrumental in the investigation of Enron, which concluded with numerous executives being sent to prison for extended periods of time. He has also made a name for himself in Brooklyn, New York, where he successfully investigated multiple organized crimes.  All of these cases relied heavily on Weissman’s witness-flipping experience and abilities.

As multiple individuals tied to the President begin hiring their own lawyers, now is likely the time that we could see friends, colleagues and even family members begin to turn on the President in an effort to strike a deal before they themselves are prosecuted for possible crimes. Michael Flynn has already reportedly offered to testify in exchange for immunity and it’s very likely that others will follow. Dealing with multiple witnesses, convincing them to provide ammunition in exchange for reduced sentences or immunity is something Weissman seems to accomplish with ease. If the President is guilty of any number of crimes, this man may just be his worst nightmare come true.

AND, LASTLY, FOR NOW-

Report: Mueller is Pursuing Trump on 3 Different Impeachable Crimes

POSTED BY: ARTHUR JONES JUNE 23, 2017

*SOURCE*
[EXCERPT.]

Ever since Special Counsel Robert Mueller was appointed to investigate President Trump, we have heard all sorts of rumors regarding exactly what he may be looking into. Some are obvious, such as colluding with Russia, but other possible alleged crimes go much deep and span greater lengths of time.

Claude Taylor, a former White House staff member for Clinton, has become somewhat of a Twitter reporter when it comes to being a resource for leaked Trump information. He has many connections both inside the White House and the intelligence community, and his sources have proven to be correct in the past. Yesterday he unleashed a rather intriguing Twitter thread on the social media platform. It read:

“Source with knowledge of investigation. Mueller is proceeding along 3 broad fronts. Investigating Trump for ties to Russian Organized Crime, especially money laundering and other illegalities tied to his business career. The second front is the Trump Campaigns and their collusion and coordination with Putin/Russian Govt in fixing the 2016 election. The third front is Trump’s crimes as president especially obstruction of justice. My source says Mueller’s team feels confident that Trump has committed impeachable offenses on all 3 fronts.”

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So it’s not just “collusion” and “obstruction of justice” that Taylor’s sources say Robert Mueller is investigating Trump for. Rather it stems much deeper than that, into possible money laundering and organized crime (thus the rumors we’ve heard about a possible RICO case). Only one crime is required for an impeachment hearing to take place, and it appears as though Mueller, who has hired an all-star team full of investigators and prosecutors, will be digging quite deep into Trump’s entire business career.

Keep in mind that most legal experts agree that a sitting President can not be indicted for a crime. However, that doesn’t mean that a President who is kicked out of office or resigns can not be. Also keep in mind that to be thrown out of office, it does not require a unanimous vote like it does in a criminal trial. It’s possible that Trump could be found guilty in an impeachment hearing but not in a criminal court. It all depends on the evidence, if any, that Mueller and his team can build.

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To close, a montage of “We Told You So Memes”:

It’s really sad that it took Hillary’s defeat and Trump’s election for Liberals to care about really investigating a president. These same Libs not only were/are quiet about Obama, Hillary, Kerry, and Pelosi et al, they were active in assisting and covering up for them.

Truth is on life support in America.

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

The Constitutional Means To Solve America’s Economic and Financial Woes AND To Run A Thriving Economy

First, per usual, LAY THE GROUNDWORK.

Conservatism:101

(REAL) Conservatives Against Trump

Oh, BTW, DT IS A Liberal.

Layers Of An Onion

The Challenge

A Return To Constitutional Conservatism.

Federalism: Taking Back Constitutional Rights And Liberties

AND LASTLY,

A Double-Down On Marxism- We Warned You

PROGRAMS, BUREAUS, CABINET POSITIONS TO GUT-N-CUT.

FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES.

*SOURCE*

There are 127 Federal Law Enforcement Agencies. That is 125 too many!

Constitutional Solution: 

Combine all DOMESTIC LE under the FBI.

Combine all Foreign LE under the CIA.

Have The FBI handle all domestic issues/problems, with eyes and ears to any foreign influence working Domestically.

Have The CIA handle all Foreign issues/problems, with eyes and ears to any foreign influence working Domestically.

Have them work together as closely and openly as possible.

All personnel that is not needed when the stream-lining commences and is finished is let go, aid in finding suitable private sector work will be offered.

The Consolidation can then be housed under the umbrella of Homeland Security.

We do NOT need 127 different ANYTHINGS.

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CABINET POSTS TO ABOLISH OR CONSOLIDATE.

Combine The Dept. of Interior, Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Energy.

Rename: The Domestic Management Department.
Stream-line and gut any non-essential personnel. The task would be to maintain and manage Public Lands, and to allow for Private Sector businesses to develop and produce and market our resources in the most efficient manner possible.

Combine Defense Dept. and Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

Rename: War Department.
Stream-line and gut any non-essential personnel. The task would be America’s defense and security. This one of the three Original Cabinet Posts.

Depts. Of Treasury, Labor, Transportation, and Commerce Combined.

Rename: Economic Department.
Stream-line and gut any non-essential personnel. The task would be to enable all possible free-market, private sector, capitalist solutions and policies as possible.

Positions to be ABOLISHED FULLY.

Dept. of Health and Human Resources

Dept. of Housing and Urban Development

Dept. of Education

EPA

Both NEAs

Obama/Trump/R.I.N.O.-Care

Welfare/Entitlements/WIC

The Federal Reserve: along with THE IRS and the Income Tax.

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After all the gutting, cutting and abolishing of NON-Constitutional positions and posts, AND the abolishing of the Income Tax, THEN:

Institute a FLAT National Sales Tax of between 7-12%.

Privatise business.

Get government OUT of the Private Sector and Free Markets.

Watch the economy take off and grow, Grow, GROW.

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

The Rules Of Engagement (R.O.E.):

How To Deal, Discuss, And Debate Liberals

THE RULES.

1. “A man has got to know his limitations”, a quote from “Dirty” Harry in the movie “Magnum Force”.
   Stick with what you KNOW.
2. Have a working knowledge of the facts, quotes, evidence and such to set forth and validate your point and/or expose and obliterate the Liberal point.
3. STICK TO THE FACTS, quotes, and evidence.
4. Do NOT let the enemy choose the parameters and method of discussion/debate. NEVER let the enemy choose the ground that best suits them. And stick to rules 1-3 tenaciously.   
5. Explain your position thoroughly and plainly ONCE.
6. Answer whatever questions arise. BUT answer each question ONLY ONCE.
7.  The point is to set forth a view/principle(s) that are right, work, and win. NOT get dragged down into an argument. ALWAYS STRICTLY FOLLOW RULES 1-3. 
8. Always be studying, researching and re-studying your world-view, faith and core principles. LEARN from each encounter. What works with different people. And what doesn’t work, maybe doesn’t work at all. NO sense in having tools and weapons that are ineffective in communicating a winning, working and RIGHT view.  
9. LISTEN. PAY ATTENTION to weaknesses and holes in the Liberal’s “reasoning” (such as it is). There are PLENTY of them, USE them tom YOUR advantage. When they make a false assumption, false statement, and/or attempt to jump and come to a false conclusion…USE THAT AGAINST THEM. Use what THEY say as a means to expose and defeat them with their own flawed “reasoning” and views. 
10. When and/or IF they ever convert to Conservatism BE READY TO MENTOR/DISCIPLE THEM IN CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES AND VIEWS. Keep in mind they’re NEW to this and start where THEY are, NOT where YOU are, and lead them to where you are and where you’re headed.

There. That’s “The R.O.E. Debating Liberals”.

Stick to these rules ALWAYS and you’ll avoid being embroiled in useless, pointless, and worst of all, mind-numbing-migraine-inducing-eye-rolling talks that lead nowhere.

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

Why Bad Things Happen To Good People, and Good Things Happen To Bad People:

The Battle Of The Wills

Lay The Groundwork.

First, Scriptures on God’s Will, God’s Sovereignty, and The Will of Man.

God’s Will.

1. God’s Word IS God’s Will. See here, here, here, here, here, and here. Here are the main/major texts on God’s Will:
   

   John 13:17 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁷ If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

    

   John 14:15 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁵ If ye love me, keep my commandments. See verses 21, 23, 24 as well.

    

   John 15:14 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁴ Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

    

   John 17:17 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

    

   Deuteronomy 30:15-20 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁵ See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

   ¹⁶ In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

   ¹⁷ But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

   ¹⁸ I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.

   ¹⁹ I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

   ²⁰ That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. SEE DEUTERONOMY 28  & LEVITICUS 26 ALSO.

    

   Exodus 20:1-17 King James Version (KJV)

   20 And God spake all these words, saying,

   ² I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

   ³ Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

   ⁴ Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

   ⁵ Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

   ⁶ And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

   ⁷ Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lordwill not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

   ⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

   ⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

   ¹⁰ But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

   ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

   ¹² Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

   ¹³ Thou shalt not kill.

   ¹⁴ Thou shalt not commit adultery.

   ¹⁵ Thou shalt not steal.

   ¹⁶ Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

   ¹⁷ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

   AND, TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER-

   Matthew 4:4 King James Version (KJV)

   ⁴ But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

    

2. Man’s Free Will.
   As we looked at God’s Sovereign will we already saw that GOD will NOT violate man’s will ever. God will let us have what we choose even if it’s absolutely HORRID for us, even to the point of Eternal Damnation in Hell.
   More Scripture on Man’s Will: 

   Deuteronomy 28 King James Version (KJV)

   28 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

   ² And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

   ³ Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

   ⁴ Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

   ⁵ Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

   ⁶ Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

   ⁷ The Lord shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.

   ⁸ The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

   ⁹ The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

   ¹⁰ And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

   ¹¹ And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

   ¹² The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

   ¹³ And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

   ¹⁴ And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

   ¹⁵ But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

   ¹⁶ Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the field.

   ¹⁷ Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.

   ¹⁸ Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

   ¹⁹ Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

   ²⁰ The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.

   ²¹ The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

   ²² The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.

   ²³ And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

   ²⁴ The Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

   ²⁵ The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

   ²⁶ And thy carcase shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.

   ²⁷ The Lord will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.

   ²⁸ The Lord shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:

   ²⁹ And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.

   ³⁰ Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.

   ³¹ Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.

   ³² Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long; and there shall be no might in thine hand.

   ³³ The fruit of thy land, and all thy labours, shall a nation which thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed alway:

   ³⁴ So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

   ³⁵ The Lord shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top of thy head.

   ³⁶ The Lord shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

   ³⁷ And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword, among all nations whither the Lord shall lead thee.

   ³⁸ Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

   ³⁹ Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.

   ⁴⁰ Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

   ⁴¹ Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.

   ⁴² All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

   ⁴³ The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

   ⁴⁴ He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

   ⁴⁵ Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

   ⁴⁶ And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

   ⁴⁷ Because thou servedst not the Lord thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;

   ⁴⁸ Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the Lord shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.

   ⁴⁹ The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

   ⁵⁰ A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:

   ⁵¹ And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.

   ⁵² And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

   ⁵³ And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters, which the Lord thy God hath given thee, in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee:

   ⁵⁴ So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

   ⁵⁵ So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

   ⁵⁶ The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

   ⁵⁷ And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.

   ⁵⁸ If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, The Lord Thy God;

   ⁵⁹ Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

   ⁶⁰ Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

   ⁶¹ Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the book of this law, them will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

   ⁶² And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.

   ⁶³ And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

   ⁶⁴ And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

   ⁶⁵ And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:

   ⁶⁶ And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:

   ⁶⁷ In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

   ⁶⁸ And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.  SEE ALSO LEVITICUS 26.
   

   
   

3. GOD EVEN ENABLES US TO DO HIS WILL…IF WE LET HIM. 
   

   Philippians 2:13 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹³ For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

    

   Philippians 4:13 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹³ I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

    

   John 15:7 King James Version (KJV)

   ⁷ If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

    

   James 4:8-10 King James Version (KJV)

   ⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

   ⁹ Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.

   ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

    

   2 Chronicles 7:14-22 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁴ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

   ¹⁵ Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

   ¹⁶ For now have I chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may be there for ever: and mine eyes and mine heart shall be there perpetually.

   ¹⁷ And as for thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, and do according to all that I have commanded thee, and shalt observe my statutes and my judgments;

   ¹⁸ Then will I stablish the throne of thy kingdom, according as I have covenanted with David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man to be ruler in Israel.

   ¹⁹ But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

   ²⁰ Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

   ²¹ And this house, which is high, shall be an astonishment to every one that passeth by it; so that he shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and unto this house?

   ²² And it shall be answered, Because they forsook the Lord God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

    

   Isaiah 1:17-20 King James Version (KJV)

   ¹⁷ Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

   ¹⁸ Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

   ¹⁹ If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

   ²⁰ But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

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   With that as our solid foundation let us look at how that applies to us, to mankind.

   God is Eternal. From Eternity past, til the present, til Eternity future.
   God is Creator. Man was created flawless and sinless in God’s image.

   Man chose to sin rather than obey God.

   Man fell. And sin has since then been passed unto and upon us all.

   God KNEW this would happen and made preparations BEFORE HE made anything. See also HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE.

   As a result of the fall several things were set in motion by mankind’s sin.

   1. Sickness entered the earth.

   2. Aging entered the earth.

   3. Death entered the earth.

   4. Sin and it’s curse was passed upon all mankind and creation.

   5. And even the best people The Bible mentions had SIN in their life that ONLY God could deal with and remove.

   In John chapter 9 Jesus deals with and heals a blind man. Christ’s disciples ask whose sin cause this man to be born blind. Jesus says it was not due to either the blind man nor his parent’s sin, acknowledging that the sin nature itself is a curse, but said it was “because the works of God should be manifest in him”.

   The man was blind from birth. Jesus said it was NOT due to a sin that the blind man or his parents committed. It was the nature of sin manifested and an opportunity for God’s work to be manifested.

   Sometimes bad things happen simply because we live in a fallen world, with fallen people, and in a fallen body.

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   Let me relate this true story of one of the greatest Hymn writers of ALL time, Fanny Crosby, who wrote over 8,000 hymns-

   I Want to See Jesus
   Theme:	Praising God regardless of our circumstances – Proper 25 (30) Yr. B
   Object:	A bouquet of flowers
   Scripture:	“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked him. The blind man said, “Rabbi, I want to see.” Mark 10:51 (NIV)
   Isn’t this a beautiful bouquet of flowers? Can you imagine what it must be like to be blind and never see the beauty of things such as these beautiful flowers? The gift of sight is one of the most precious of all of God’s gifts. There is a story in the Bible of a man named Bartimaeus. He had never seen the beauty of a bouquet of flowers, because Bartimaeus was blind. One day as he sat begging beside the road, he heard the sound of a large crowd of people coming his way. He asked someone what was happening and they told him that Jesus was passing by.  Bartimaeus had heard of Jesus and about how he had healed many who were blind. He began to call out to Jesus. Others in the crowd tried to get Bartimaeus to be quiet, but he would not be silent. Jesus heard the voice of Bartimaeus calling out to him and he stopped and asked, “What do you want me to do for you?” “Teacher, I want to see!” said Bartimaeus. “Go,” said Jesus, “your faith has healed you.” The Bible tells us that immediately, Bartimaeus received his sight. That is a wonderful story, isn’t it? Unfortunately, stories about the blind don’t always end that way. There are many blind people who want to see, and yet they are never healed. Fanny Crosby was one of those people. When Fanny was only six weeks old, she was left blind by an illness. Even though she was blind for the rest of her life, Fanny was never bitter or complaining. Instead she made the most of her life by using the other gifts that God had given her. She had a wonderful gift for writing poetry and during her lifetime, she wrote over 8000 poems. Some of her poems were set to music and many of them are still in our hymnals today. One day a well-meaning minister said to Fanny, “I think it is a great pity that the Master did not give you sight when He showered so many other gifts upon you.” “Oh no!” Fanny replied. “If I could have only one request, it would be to be born blind.” “Why?” asked the surprised minister. “Because,” answered Fanny, “when I get to heaven, the first face that these blind eyes will ever see is the face of Jesus, my Savior.” Some, like Bartimaeus, receive the gift of sight. Some, like Fanny Crosby, are blind their entire life. One thing is certain, when we get to heaven, we will all see Jesus. Dear Father, we thank you for the gift of sight, but more than that, we thank you that one day we will see you in heaven. Amen.

    

   We may not always understand, or even like all that’s happened and happens in our life, BUT TRUST GOD. CAST ALL YOUR CARE ON HIM…AND LEAVE IT THERE. DRAW CLOSE TO GOD…AND HE WILL DRAW CLOSE TO YOU.

   God has ALREADY made provision for EVERY need, EVERY battle, EVERY victory…God in His great love waits for US to respond to Him in love and then RUN to meet us and greet us.

    

   James 4:8 King James Version (KJV)

   ⁸ Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.

    

   Notice that EVERY promise of God requires something of US FIRST.

   Whether it’s faith, repentance, confession of sin, drawing close to Him…but IF we obey and follow, HE WILL ALWAYS PROVIDE.

   -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good People?

That really is a trick question, but more on that later.

The questions arose today:

1. Why isn’t God DOING anything?
2. I pray. And live as good a life as I can, and don’t see God answering any prayers or doing anything. Why?
3. Why aren’t my enemies either saved or destroyed/removed?
4. Why do good things happen to bad people?
5. Why do bad things happen to good people?
6. Is it because we misunderstand God’s Word/Promises?
7. Is it because God is not all-powerful? or doesn’t love me/us?

This edition of “Leading The Charge” will address and answer those.

Buckle up.

Get ready…no sugar-coating. No soft-soaping. No watering-down. Just The Truth, plain, simple, clear…and sometimes…hard.

Defining who is good and who is bad.

1. First, WE don’t determine this at all-ever. God already has in HIS Holy Word, The Bible.
2. In reality, there is NONE good, NONE righteous, no, NOT ONE.  There was ONLY ONE who IS eternally and intrinsically good, The Lord Jesus Christ, and he was mocked, ridiculed, scorned, plotted against, falsely arrested, wrongly charged, and then tortured and crucified for your and my sins. BUT through faith in the completed work of The Lord Jesus Christ we are A) made new creatures, B)  made the righteousness of God in Christ, C) called out of darkness/into HIS marvelous light, D) NO longer under condemnation, and E) NOW HAVE THE VICTORY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUT LORD.
3. The bad are ALL those NOT born again via faith in Christ Jesus.

Biblical Examples of Bad Things Happening to Good People.

1. Cain murdered his brother, Abel, who God calls Righteous.
2. Joseph’s brother’s sold him into slavery. Potipher’s wife lied Joseph into prison. The Bible says Joseph was a man of God, a man of great faith.
3. Job. GOD calls Job righteous and just. But allowed Job’s faith and patience to be tried and tested by Satan himself.
4. David the little shepherd boy was hunted relentlessly by Saul. David had done no wrong, and had actually obeyed God, honored Saul, and played music for him.
5. Stephen, the 1st Christian martyr of the New Testament, was a servant and man of God. Fully in humbled service to God. And was unjustly stoned to death.

David’s Biblical Complaint About Good Things Happening To The Wicked.

Psalm 73 King James Version (KJV)

73 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

² But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

³ For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴ For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

⁵ They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

⁶ Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

⁷ Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

⁸ They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

⁹ They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰ Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

¹¹ And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

¹² Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

¹³ Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.

¹⁴ For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

¹⁵ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.

¹⁶ When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

¹⁷ Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end.

¹⁸ Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.

¹⁹ How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.

²⁰ As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

²¹ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

²² So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

²³ Nevertheless I am continually with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.

²⁴ Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

²⁵ Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.

²⁶ My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

²⁷ For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee.

²⁸ But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.

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Let’s examine David’s complaint and the revelation that God gave David IN the House of the Lord. 

1.  David went to God with an HONEST complaint of what he saw, heard and perceived.
2. He saw the wicked prospering.
3. While he and other righteous struggled.
4. God heard David out.
5. It was NOT until David went into The House of The Lord that he saw that God had set the wicked in slippery places.

What Can WE Learn From David’s Complaint.

1. Sometimes OUR understanding and perception of things is wrong.
2. We ARE finite. Limited. Fallen. Even as born again believers we still live in a fallen body and a fallen world.
3. GOD sees, knows, understands ALL. AND understands it before it happens.
4. When WE are faithful to God, trust God, commit it ALL to God, casting ALL our care on HIM HE WILL A) REVEAL WHAT IS TRULY GOING ON, B) GIVE US PEACE THAT HE IS IN CONTROL.

Basic Biblical Principles To Keep In Mind.

1. God is a God of Love. He wants us to serve, follow and obey Him BECAUSE we LOVE Him and CHOOSE to serve, follow, and obey HIM. Force, coercion, is NOT love.
2. God created each of us with a Free Will.
3. God will NEVER violate our free will. NEVER.
4. I can pray for someone else to become a Christian/to give their heart to The Lord Jesus Christ. My will wants them saved. God’s will is to save them. But countless billions will still go to hell. Why? Their Free Will Choice. Choose the Lord Jesus and LIVE. Reject HIM and be damned.  I’ve prayed since August, 1976 for my brother “Robert” to get saved. He has NOT yet. Why? Because, for now, he still has a choice, and he’s choosing to rebel.
5. BUT there IS coming a day when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ IS Lord to the glory of God The Father. 

Conclusion.

It is NEVER God’s fault if we or any other of mankind fails/sins.

God Always answers prayer.

Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes no. Sometimes wait awhile.

Often we don’t hear from God because we aren’t listening, we’re to busy worrying, fretting, stewing and blaming…when what God wants us to do is trust HIM completely, cast ALL our care on HIM, and LEAVE IT THERE.

It rains on the just and the unjust alike…leave the sorting out business to God…just trust and obey HIM.

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

“Leading The Charge” is a new ministry endeavour that takes a literal and originalist view of The Bible and America’s Founding Documents and 1) sets the standard, 2) is proactive, rather than reactionary.

The R.O.E. :

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT

1. This will be a setting forth of Principles and Values supported by quotes, facts, evidence from history, evidence from science, and evidence from eye-witnesses. As such if anyone honestly disagrees, then set forth the reasoning supported by countermanding facts and evidence. Any and all disagreements NOT rooted in facts, evidence, reason, quotes…to support it will be summarily and duly ignored as the foolishness that it is.
2. IF a disagreement, even based on facts and reason, descends into nothing but petty sniping, silliness, name-calling, flame-baiting and otherwise being a “spam troll” then your line of reasoning will be summarily and duly ignored as the foolishness that it is. NO exceptions ever. We can, and I do use humor to make a point, but silliness is any attempt to obfuscate and muddy the issue and derail the discussion, and will NEVER be tolerated.
3. A man must know his limitations. Stick with what you know. Stick with what is knowable. Don’t make authoritative statements based on opinion, conjecture, or flying-by-the-seat-of-your-pants. Opinion IS opinion. And should be presented as such.
4. NO off topic rabbit-chasing. Stay on topic. If you have a question or comment not on topic, start a discussion for that elsewhere, or ask for it to be started in another discussion (later) here. I enjoy humor and kidding around. Do it plenty. But “Leading The Charge” is reserved for honest and serious discussion. remember that as you reply and post. So while the use of humor to make a point is fine, this is NOT a comedy club.
5. Lastly, because this is a Biblical-Christian and Constitutional-Conservative site: NO PROFANITY. NO NUDITY. NO PORN. This should not even need be stated in a polite society, but we do NOT live in a polite society so it IS stated and enforced fully.

DEFINING KEY TERMS.

1. Biblical-Christian. Christianity as defined SOLELY BY AND WITHIN The Bible.
2. Constitutional-Conservative. Conservatism as defined SOLELY BY AND WITHIN the Founding Documents: Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, The Constitution, and Bill of Rights, including the 11th Amendment.

For sourcing see:

Gun Logic, 2nd Amendment Style

Conservatism:101

You Are NOT A Conservative If…

(REAL) Conservatives Against Trump

Liberalism’s Poison: The Symptoms. The Source.

Layers Of An Onion

The Challenge

You Can’t Be Both

A Return To Constitutional Conservatism.

Federalism: Taking Back Constitutional Rights And Liberties

This Is Not Then

WHY THIS NEW LIBRARY OF ARTICLES? WHY START THIS NOW?

A good friend, Christian, Conservative, and Patriot, and I were talking this morning about several crises/issues among which were:

1. Why did any church/christian support Donald Trump that claims to be  Traditional, Conservative, Biblical Christianity?
2. What would make otherwise long-time Conservative stalwarts of the Christian faith support, endorse and defend Donald Trump?
3. IS there a such a thing as Conservative and Conservatism anymore? Yes. See links above.
4. Is there a defining of  Conservatives and Conservatism? Yes. See links above.

In Closing And Summation.

Bank tellers and those who make it their job to work with money to be able to identify a counterfeit do NOT study all the various, different and ever changing means and types of counterfeiting. No. They study THE TRUE, THE REAL, THE ORIGINAL.

That is how we determine what is Liberal and Liberalism.

We become so well acquainted WITH TRUTH that anything NOT true is Liberalism.

Liberalism goes by many names and aliases, such as:

Progressivism

Socialism

Environmentalism

Secular-Humanism

Marxism

Communism

Authoritarianism

Fascism

Nazism…

In short, what is NOT Conservative, NOT for Liberty, is Liberal, aka Tyranny.

This inaugural edition starts a daily issuance of articles that stays ahead of the curve and sets the standard.

Stay tuned….

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

I will attempt to present K.itchen S.ink N.ews with ONLY cartoons and memes…and to stay as “Happy, Happy. Joy, Joy.” as I can…sort of…

K.ITCHEN S.INK N.EWS

Yeah, that’ll work…

TRUTH.

MORE HERE.

AND HERE.

Um, NO. You’re still idling at the station! Get Busy! Impeach and Remove Trump post haste!

It’s Trump…NOT twitter that’s the Albatross.

A Liberal wuss is my answer.

THEY’RE COMING FROM TRUMP!!!

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.

This was first posted as a Tweet-Storm on Twitter by a independent, Patriot and Investigative reporter:

Socialist/Marxists are ALWAYS violent: Oswald was Marxist, Sirhan Sirhan (Palestinian), Lenin, Stalin (Great Purge), Mao, Guevara, Castro /1

What makes #ScaliseShooting any different? Maybe the fact that the shooters wife said he left 2 months ago…when the news wrote this? /2

Maybe because he’s a Bernie Sanders supporter…Who Honeymooned in Communist Moscow in ’88? Who backed the Sandinista’s in Nicaragua? /3

Who’d have ever thunk that some Marxist with no moral compass would be so worked up over an opposing view that they’d shoot up US Reps /4

He didn’t purchase an M-4 Rifle from VA and go though VA background measures…because he came from Illinois./5

Don’t mistake my position:Didn’t vote Trump. But the “Trump Hate” was simply Rabble Rousing Ejection of Violent Sanders Protests at Rally /6

This was a symptom BEFORE Trump. Baltimore, Ferguson, all ratcheted up by Marxist Left simply to set the stage of unrest- Cloward & Piven /7

It’s slowly becoming fever pitched. Until BOTH parties decide 2 promote unity N support of AMERICA & not special interests, it’ll continue/8

The Democrat Party of JFK is Dead. The Democrat Party of Marxism and Muslim Brotherhood subversion is its replacement /9

I wasn’t born and raise a global citizen, on par with Venezuelan and Cuban Socialists. I was born & raised an AMERICAN /10

The Beacon an example of Freedom to other Nations. They can follow OUR example! We don’t follow theirs. #AmericanExceptionalism /11

If you want idiots like Hank Johnson Or Shelia Jackson Lee making life choices for you as they live high on the tax hog, you’re a moron /12

But if you want the abiliy to carve your own path to success with MINIMAL Government intervention, you’ll see why I believe the way I do /13

A civil society cannot exist without a conscience. A republic cannot survive without virtuous citizens. THATS what we look to “Conserve” /14

The “Conservation” of values and principles that the Founder’s not only understood were inherent, but essential to a Republic /15

If you lack these traits or plain out reject them, it’s YOU who are the problem and the reason for the current crumbling of society FIN /16

AND, LASTLY, FOR NOW ANYWAY…

 -Rev. Larry Wallenmeyer.