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August 30, 2016
Borrowing a little of this from a friend, I here explain how I and Millions of other Americans feel about Donald John Trump.....We don't mind if the man swears . . . or how many times he's been married...or who he voted for, or what his income tax return shows. We want the problems fixed. Yes he's an egomaniac, but we don't mind. We know he's not a racist, or bad to women, or all the other things the liberal media is trying to label him with. We know he's raised a good family, and that says a lot about him.
Our country is a mess because politicians over the years have made it that way. The elected leaders of the Republican Party are so two faced & gutless they can't stem the onslaught against our Constitution by the elected leaders of the Democrat Party, and illegals are everywhere and Muslims are openly trying to hurt and destroy this country and make the civilized world adjust to them. We want it all fixed!
We don't mind that Mr. Trump is crude, not a polished orator, we don't mind that he has changed positions on a few things, we don't care that he fights with Megan Kelly, the bias news media, and so many of the elected establishment. We don't care that Ted Cruz, John Kasich, the Bush family, (Jeb, George W.), Lindsey Graham, and so many other top old and new Republicans refuse to endorse him for their own selfish reasons, and we know what many of them are. We don't care that he doesn't know the name of some Muslim terrorists. They certainly know his. we don't care that he tried some businesses that didn't work out, even though, a great many did, and very successfully.
This country has been militarily weakened, we're bankrupt, our enemies are making fun of us, our friends doubting us. We are being invaded by illegals, we are becoming a nation of victims, where every Tom, Ricardo and Hasid is a special group with special rights to a point where we don't even recognize the country we were born and raised in, AND WE JUST WANT IT FIXED. And Donald Trump is the only guy who seems to understand what the people want!
We're sick of politicians, sick of the Democrat and Republican Parties. We're angry about the Iran deal, the budget, out of control government spending, treatment of Israel, military weakness, lobbyists, special interests, overpaid politicians with their self-serving bills and back room deals, trade deals with foreign countries extremely unfair to us, loss of jobs, manipulated economic numbers, businesses fleeing our country, and the phony pay for play money laundering Clinton Foundation.
Americans are no longer going to be fooled, and there is a movement underway to change the direction we're taking. Mr. Trump may not be a saint, but he doesn't have lobbyist money holding him, he doesn't have political correctness restraining him, and all you know is that he has been very successful, a good negotiator, he has built a lot of things, created a lot of jobs, he's flexible, and he's also not a politician. And he says he'll fix it. And we believe him because he is too much of an egotist to be proven wrong or looked at and called a liar.
Public service has become elected greed. This may be our only, and last, chance to have a non-politician, despite his flaws, try and correct the mess, at least for 4 years. We must take the shot, because the consequences of putting Hillary Clinton in office and filling the Supreme Court with Socialist judges, and selling our beloved nation for cash are frightening. Mr. Donald Trump, a non-politician, is leading a tidal wave of the American people, non-politicians, and it’s going to overcome much of what's happened to this country and prevent further decay caused by politicians in an overbearing Federal Government.
Until next time... forward to all you can, please get involved.
John Porter
Harrison, Arkansas

P. S. A Pragmatist is: "One who sees a problem and understands it must be fixed." "Skilled in business or law." Donald Trump is a pragmatist. He doesn't see the problems as Democrat or Republican, Liberal or Conservative. He sees them only as problems and understands they must be fixed.

Exactly what you'd expect to hear from a Trumpbot loyalist. "Trump's newly revised immigration plan isn't really amnesty."
That's what ALL politicians say.
Here's the latest: Straight off the press. "Trump is the 9th member of the Gang of 8".

IMMIGRATION WATCHDOG: TRUMP IS '9TH MEMBER OF GANG OF 8'
'Every politician pushing an amnesty says it's not really an amnesty'
GREG COROMBOS
news director for Radio America.

A leading amnesty foe is blasting Donald Trump for moving far away from his earlier proposal on how to handle the millions of people in the country illegally, and he said the Republican presidential nominee now holds a position largely identical to those offered by Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and the Senate’s Gang of Eight.
On Tuesday, Trump told the Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity that many people have approached him about softening his plan to create a national deportation force to expel everyone in the U.S. illegally.
“I’ve had very strong people come up to me, really great, great people come up to me. They’ve said, ‘Mr. Trump, I love you, but to take a person who’s been here for 15 or 20 years and throw them and the family out. It’s so tough, Mr. Trump.’ I have it all the time,” said Trump on “Hannity” Tuesday night.
He then explained why allowing those who followed the law since entering the country illegally would not amount to amnesty.
“They’ll pay back taxes. They have to pay taxes. There’s no amnesty as such. There’s no amnesty,” Trump said.
But Center for Immigration Studies Executive Director Mark Krikorian told WND and Radio America this is a stunning reversal for the candidate who won the GOP nomination based largely upon his commitment to secure the border and remove those living here illegally. He said this new Trump approach doesn’t seem to differ much at all from the 2013 Gang of Eight bill that passed the U.S. Senate but died in the House of Representatives.
“Not that much, honestly,” Krikorian said. “The Gang of Eight was obviously a lot more detailed with a lot more explicit, whereas Trump is talking off the top of his head. But really, he is now the unofficial ninth member of the Gang of Eight.
“You’ve got to wonder when Jeb (Bush) was watching this on TV, he probably spit out his drink and started yelling, ‘That’s my immigration plan!'”
He said Trump used the same verbal tactics that amnesty supporters also employ.
“He was using phrases like ‘it’s not really an amnesty’ or ‘it’s not an amnesty as such’ and ‘they’ll pay back taxes.’ Those are buzzwords of the pro-amnesty people. Every politician pushing an amnesty says it’s not really an amnesty,” he said.
Krikorian asserted that, just like 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, Trump doesn’t speak the language of conservatives and really has no idea what they believe.
“The guy has been running on immigration for a year,” Krikorian said. “And he still doesn’t have the three bullet-point summary that you need to be able to articulate if you’re running for office on your signature issue. You need to know something about your signature issue. He doesn’t. Nothing.”
Krikorian believes it’s that disconnect with conservatives that led Trump to mistakenly conclude that the party base favored mass deportation through deportation squads. He said Trump may well have offered that idea out of genuine concern over America’s poor border security, but he was going to have to ease his position eventually,
“He was going to have to walk back his ridiculous comments about deporting all the illegals. There was no question. No immigration restrictionist has ever called for that,” Krikorian said. “That’s just something that was sort of a gut reaction of his. That was Archie Bunker yelling at the television.”
In the wake of Trump’s major policy shift, there is some speculation that internal polling convinced Trump to change course. Krikorian said if that’s the case, it should not be taken as a sign that American oppose blocking citizenship or legalization for those in the U.S. illegally.

“What the polling would likely show is that saying you’re going to deport all 12 million illegal aliens in two years with deportation squads, or whatever term he used, that doesn’t poll well,” Krikorian explained. ” You bet it doesn’t. That’s why no one in the restrictionist movement has ever suggested anything like that.”
But Krikorian said Trump walked it back in entirely the wrong way, by listening to his Latino advisers, who all backed the Gang of Eight and the immigration proposals of President George W. Bush.
“They’re all Bush people,” he said. “They were all for the amnesty in the Gang of Eight, and they were all for the earlier Bush amnesty. Presumably, with this meeting, people were saying, ‘Well Donald, it’s not really an amnesty if you don’t give them citizenship and make them pay back taxes.'”
“They made the same assumption that Republican and even Democratic politicians always make – that there’s only two options. Either deport them all with deportation squads or amnesty. It is not a binary choice,” he said.
Krikorian said the right way to back away from mass deportation was obvious. In fact, it’s been on Trump’s website for months. The strategy includes consistent enforcement of the law, monitoring businesses as they hire and keeping track of visa holders to reduce the number of people in the U.S. illegally.
“Then when you re-establish control, you can have a discussion about what we do about the people who are left here,” he explained.
While Krikorian slams Trump for flip-flopping on his signature issue, he is far more critical of Hillary Clinton. Krikorian said Clinton has the most radical immigration plan ever put forward by a major party nominee in the U.S., to the point of refusing to deport anyone here illegally unless they are convicted of a violent felony. She would also grant amnesty to all current illegal immigrants.
“That is radical,” he said. “Trump does look pretty good compared to that. My point is not that they’re the same or that Trump is worse. Hillary is unbelievably worse on immigration, to the level of irresponsibility and dereliction of duty.”
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