The US is presently involved in 15 ‘shadow wars’
Syria
Since 2014, the U.S. has engaged in efforts to destabilize terrorist groups in Syria, including deploying nearly 900 U.S. troops. American support of the region began with the pro-democracy protests of the Arab Spring of 2011. During that time, the Syrian government’s destabilization led to a civil war. To this day, the U.S. continues providing military intelligence, surveillance, and air support.
Iraq
The Iraq War officially ended in December 2011, but U.S. troops returned to the region in 2014 to support counterterrorism operations. Military support aims to prevent and suppress the resurgence of ISIS in the area. Approximately 2,500 American troops remain in the region as of March 2023, providing instruction and assistance to Iraqi troops.
Egypt
The U.S. has maintained a military presence in Egypt since 1978 to enforce the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. The U.S. has provided more than $50 billion in military aid to the country. American troops have recently taken a more active role in the nation’s national security by partnering with the Egyptian military in Enigma H****r, a counterterrorist effort targeting ISIS.
Kenya
The U.S. maintains a military task force in Kenya in opposition to threats posed by the terrorist organization al-Shabaab. In 2020, the group launched an attack on a Kenyan military base in Manda Bay, where American troops were providing training, resulting in the deaths of an American soldier and two contractors. As of 2021, the Department of Defense funds $69 million in regional projects aimed toward counterterrorism measures.
Lebanon
American and Lebanese militaries have joined forces in opposition to Lebanon-based terrorist organizations, including ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Since 2012, the U.S. has provided the region with $2 billion in humanitarian aid, including $72 million specifically to increase the wages of the Lebanese Army and police forces.
Libya
American forces have been engaged in several military operations in Libya since the 2012 B******i attack, which resulted in the deaths of a U.S. ambassador and two CIA contractors, instigating a campaign geared toward improving the safety of American diplomats. The U.S. has launched drone strikes against the region’s terrorist groups since 2020.
Mali
Mali is another of the 11 African countries with which the U.S. has engaged in Operation Juniper Shield. To combat terrorist organizations in the region—including al-Shabaab, al-Qaeda, and Boko Haram—the U.S. provides training and equipment to Mali military groups. The country is also the site of Operation Objective Voice, an anti-propaganda information campaign.
Mauritania
Mauritania is another African country within the scope of the counterterrorism campaign Operation Juniper Shield. The country is also site to a base partially involved in the anti-propaganda campaign Operation Objective Voice. Additionally, during an annual event known as Exercise Flintlock, the U.S. provides the country with military training support in partnership with Canada and some European countries.
Niger
The U.S. provides counterterrorism support in numerous military campaigns currently operating within Niger, including Juniper Shield, Jukebox Lotus, and Objective Voice. The U.S. officially opened Niger Air Base 201 in 2019, serving as a base for American troops to operate drones and some small aircraft for military missions. The airfield cost approximately $110 million to construct.
Nigeria
The U.S. government maintains a steady military presence in Nigeria, supporting Operation Juniper Shield and Operation Objective Voice. The African nation has long been a military ally of the U.S., and in 2022, the White House approved the controversial selling of $1 billion in arms to the country. American support of the country dates back nearly two decades; since 2000, the U.S. has provided over 41,000 training courses to Nigerian military personnel.
Somalia
Over the past decade, the U.S. government has provided $3 billion to Somalia in the fight against terrorist groups al-Shabaab and ISIS. Aid given thus far also includes combat raids and military training and equipment. Under the Trump administration, American troops withdrew from Somalia, leading al-Shabaab to regain its grip on the region. However, the group’s presence waned amid the return of U.S. troops under the Biden administration.
https://www.kxnet.com/news/top-stories/the-us-is-presently-involved-in-15-shadow-wars-heres-where-and-why/

Ok, I failed to see the Chit Chat.

You are correct about the "nuts" part permafraud.
As are almost all of your liquor-assisted deranged posts.

Wasp protection
If you find a dryer sheet in your mailbox, it means that your mail carrier likely left it there intentionally to protect people who use the mailbox.
Postal workers use dryer sheets to prevent getting stung by wasps while delivering mail. Wasps often build nests in mailboxes, and opening the box can disturb them, resulting in painful stings.
The scent of the fabric softener sheet is enough to repel these insects and keep them from making their homes in your mailbox.

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Pin a tail on Biden.

You lie
In March 2016, Forbes estimated his net worth at $4.5 billion.
A year later, shortly after his inauguration, they lowered it by $1 billion, and by the end of his p**********l term, they had subtracted yet another $1 billion.

Donald Trump's wealth takes a tumble during his presidency
Donald Trump's net worth dropped by about $700m to $2.3bn (£1.65bn) during his time as president, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The C****-** p******c hit his fortunes hard, with Mr. Trump's office buildings, branded hotels, and resorts losing revenue and falling in value.
His fleet of planes and golf courses have also seen drops in their value.
Mr. Trump is currently under a criminal investigation into his financial affairs and his family business.

Former President Trump’s net worth dropped by approximately $700 million during his presidency, according to an analysis from Bloomberg News.
According to Bloomberg, Trump’s net worth fell from $3 billion to $2.3 billion, with the c****av***s p******c and fallout from the deadly J*** 6 Capitol breach both heavily impacting his business empire.
Many of Trump’s businesses — hotels, casinos, and office spaces — have been decimated by the p******c as workplaces shut down and tourism came to a halt due to global travel restrictions.
“The fallout from the Capitol assault has hurt his relationships with brokers and lenders.
At least $590 million in loans come due in the next four years, more than half personally guaranteed by Trump, and his scrapyard of failed enterprises has only gotten more crowded,” Bloomberg writes.



The Hill has reached out to the Trump Organization for comment.
Bloomberg estimates that the value of Trump’s commercial real estate properties dropped by 26 percent between 2016 and 2021, currently valued at $1.7 billion. His commercial real estate businesses account for roughly three-quarters of his wealth, Bloomberg notes.
The value of Trump’s hotels and resorts reportedly took an even greater hit, falling by 42 percent between 2015 and 2021 and incurring debts worth $330 million that are personally guaranteed by the former president.
The value of his other properties such as residential buildings, books and entertainment deals all dropped by more than 80 percent.
Despite these losses, Bloomberg notes that Trump has bounced back from financial failures in the past.
“A post-p******c economic recovery could reinflate the value of his properties.
He could continue his run of bestsellers, pivot back to television, or start a rival to the social media platforms that have shunned him. Even if things go poorly, he could make the best of losses by using them to slash his tax bills, as he’s done for years,” the outlet writes.
Trump’s businesses are currently under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
In February it was reported that Manhattan prosecutors had obtained Trump’s tax returns.
And in early March sources told the Wall Street Journal that Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr. (D) was intensifying his probe into Trump’s Seven Springs Estate to find if he had inflated the property’s value to gain greater benefits from financial institutions.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/543672-trumps-net-worth-dropped-by-700-million-during-presidency/


IRS data proves Trump tax cuts benefited middle, working-class Americans most
Income data published by the IRS clearly show that on average all income brackets benefited substantially from the Republicans’ tax reform law, with the biggest beneficiaries being working and middle-income filers, not the top 1 percent, as so many Democrats have argued.

A careful analysis of the IRS tax data, one that includes the effects of tax credits and other reforms to the tax code, shows that filers with an adjusted gross income (AGI) of $15,000 to $50,000 enjoyed an average tax cut of 16 percent to 26 percent in 2018, the first year Republicans’ Tax Cuts and Jobs Act went into effect and the most recent year for which data is available.
Filers who earned $50,000 to $100,000 received a tax break of about 15 percent to 17 percent, and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 in adjusted gross income saw their personal income taxes cut by around 11 percent to 13 percent.
By comparison, no income group with an AGI of at least $500,000 received an average tax cut exceeding 9 percent, and the average tax cut for brackets starting at $1 million was less than 6 percent. (For more detailed data, see my table published here.)

That means most middle-income and working-class earners enjoyed a tax cut that was at least double the size of tax cuts received by households earning $1 million or more.

What’s more, IRS data shows earners in higher income brackets contributed a bigger slice of the total income tax revenue pie following the passage of the tax reform law than they had in the previous year.

In fact, every income bracket with filers earning $200,000 or more increased its tax burden in 2018 compared to 2017, and every income bracket with a top limit lower than $200,000 paid a smaller proportion of the total personal tax revenue collected.

That means that Republicans’ tax reform law resulted in the tax code becoming slightly more progressive — the exact opposite of what Democrats have claimed over the past four years.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/584190-irs-data-prove-trump-tax-cuts-benefited-middle-working-class-americans-most/

How did I use his position to rob the taxpayers or anybody?
It appears you are wasted on drugs or alcohol with your obnoxious false rant

US e******n 2024: Where Biden and Trump stand on key issues
Economy
The economic policy of President Biden has its own name - Bidenomics - and involves building the economy, in his words, "from the bottom up". That means investing in infrastructure manufacturing, clean energy, and expanding job opportunities.
The economic data shows strong growth and job creation under his leadership.
But v**ers feel the pain of high inflation, especially food and petrol.

Mr. Trump has blamed his successor's big spending for inflation and vowed a return to an agenda of lower taxes, and fewer regulations.
He also says he will look to replace Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell, a man he appointed but now accuses of being too "political".

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Immigration
President Biden's promise of a more humane approach to immigration saw him suspend or revoke several Trump-era border policies, lift the refugee admissions cap, and expand humanitarian parole.
But a massive surge in i*****l i*********n and the ensuing public backlash has prompted the Democrat to shift in favor of more restrictive measures, including a recent cross-party bill that would allow him to shut down the border.

Mr Trump rallied his congressional allies to k**l that bill, claiming it did not go far enough.
He is promising, if re-elected, to revive first-term policies that will "seal the border" and carry out "the largest deportation operation" in US history. The Republican has also pledged to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented migrants and to wage war on Mexican drug cartels.

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A******n
President Biden has painted his opponent as the "architect" of an assault on reproductive freedom after a Supreme Court with three Trump-appointed justices overturned Roe v Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that granted US women the constitutional right to an a******n.
With several states moving to restrict a******n access, he is promising to restore the rights afforded by Roe as the law of the land if Democrats win back Congress.

Mr. Trump calls himself "proudly the person responsible" for ending Roe but at the same time has criticized extreme measures in states like Arizona and Alabama.
After a muddled few months, he finally set out his position as supporting states' rights to determine their laws.
But he declined to show support for a national law or how many weeks in his view should be the limit.

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Ukraine aid
President Biden has repeatedly urged Congress to continue funding Ukraine, warning that a win for Russia's Vladimir Putin will endanger Europe and embolden another major US adversary - China.

Mr Trump warned in February he would "encourage" Russia to "do wh**ever the hell they want" to Nato countries if those allies did not meet their financial obligations to the bloc - though he has since softened his rhetoric.

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Israel/Gaza War
President Biden remains "rock solid" in his support for Israel, providing billions of dollars worth in weapons and urging more aid to the US ally, but has ramped up public criticisms of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about his handling of the war in Gaza.

Often boastful of his support for Israel, Mr. Trump now says the country must "finish what they started" against Hamas militants in Gaza but "get it over with fast" because it is "losing the PR war".

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Taxes
President Biden supports raising the corporate income tax rate to 28%, bringing it closer to the 35% rate that prevailed prior to Mr Trump's term.
He has also proposed cracking down on tax avoidance by large multinationals and Big Pharma and restoring or imposing higher tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. Expanding tax credits for low earners and families is also a commitment.

Mr Trump wants to extend legislation he signed in 2017 so that the law's soon-to-expire individual income tax cuts as well as estate and wealth tax cuts are prolonged, possibly making them permanent.
He will maintain the corporate income tax rate at 21% and proposes a universal 10% tariff on all US imports and a 60% tariff on imports from China.

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Healthcare
President Biden and Democrats have taken action to lower prescription drug costs for older people.
As the "Obamacare" health insurance program continues to grow in popularity, he has fought to protect and expand coverage, and lower costs, moves that have pushed enrolment to an all-time high.

Mr Trump has often vowed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with "something better", but failed to detail an alternative.
He and his Republican Party are routinely fending off Democratic claims that he will chip away at the Social Security and Medicare safety nets for American seniors.

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Crime
President Biden credits investment in public safety for the significant decline in violent crime after major spikes during the first two years of the p******c.
Recent FBI data supports this downward trend but many Americans, like those surveyed by Gallup a few months ago, feel that crime is rising. New York recently deployed the National Guard to the city subway in response to a rise in violence.

Mr Trump has often highlighted violent incidents involving migrants or singled out public safety concerns in Democratic-led cities to paint a picture of surging, out-of-control crime levels under his rival. He has called for the death penalty to be used on drug dealers.

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Climate
President Biden invested a historic $300bn (£239bn) into clean energy and climate initiatives through his Inflation Reduction Act. He has also set ambitious new goals for cutting greenhouse gas and vehicle emissions and spurred a boon in the g***n e****y economy.
However, some climate activists oppose actions he has taken to boost oil and gas production, including the Willow oil project in Alaska.

Mr Trump, by contrast, has vowed to "drill, baby, drill" and unleash domestic energy production, in part to bring prices at the pump down.
Domestic production is, however, higher under his successor.

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Gun laws
President Biden signed into law the most significant gun safety legislation in more than two decades, which includes enhanced background checks for gun buyers and other protections. His justice department has also banned the manufacture and sale of "ghost guns". He has repeatedly urged Congress to pass a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Mr. Trump weakened US gun laws in office but also took action to ban bump stocks, the accessories that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire more quickly.
He told members of the National Rifle Association in February "No one will lay a finger on your firearms" if he returns to the White House.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68790777

You Lie,
Trump donated portions of p**********l salary to agencies, contrary to v***l claim
The claim: Trump's tax returns prove he never donated his salary
A Dec. 23, 2022, Instagram post (direct link, archived link) shows a screenshot of a profanity-laced tweet about former President Donald Trump's annual salary while in the White House.
"all you d------ screamed at me for four years that DoNaLd TrUmP dOnAtEs HiS SaLaRy, well guess f------ what: his tax returns prove he never did," reads the tweet.
The post generated over 10,000 likes in less than three weeks. Similar posts have amassed hundreds of interactions on Instagram.
Our rating: False
Tax experts told USA TODAY that Trump's tax returns show only the charitable contributions he reported – not whether he donated his own salary or where the contributions went. Multiple federal agencies told USA TODAY they received donations from part of Trump's salary.

Trump's returns show charitable contributions, not the source of money
The House Ways and Means Committee released six years of Trump’s tax returns to the public on Dec. 30, 2022. The report includes more than 2,700 pages of individual returns from Trump and his wife and over 3,000 pages of returns on Trump’s business entities, as USA TODAY reported.

On Dec. 15, 2022, the Joint Committee on Taxation also released a report detailing Trump's tax returns.
Trump reported nearly $2 million in charitable donations in 2017 and a little over $500,000 in charitable donations in both 2018 and 2019, according to his tax returns and the report. He didn't report any charitable contributions in 2020.

Fact check: False claim that Donald Trump can be reinstated by Moore v. Harper SCOTUS ruling

There is no way to know from Trump’s tax returns whether the money he donated included his salary, as the post claims.
The tax returns show only how much was donated and claimed in charitable contributions, Jeffrey Hoopes, research director at the UNC Tax Center, told USA TODAY in an email.
“Since money is fungible, it is unknowable whether he donated his salary, or whether he donated any more than he otherwise would have had he not got the salary, etc,” Hoopes said. “I would not support the claim that we could know that from his tax returns.”
Daniel Shaviro, a tax policy expert at New York University, agreed the returns don't indicate where the contributions went.
Shaviro also told USA TODAY the returns don't confirm he made those contributions.
"He claimed sufficiently large charitable deductions in 2017-2019 ... but whether those deductions were actually made is not verified by the returns themselves," Shaviro said.
The Joint Committee on Taxation states in its report that it has inquired into whether Trump's cash contributions are "supported by required substantiation."

Trump did donate his salary
The Trump administration announced the donation of portions of Trump's salary to federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Park Service, and the Small Business Administration, according to White House briefings.
These agencies confirmed to USA TODAY that Trump donated part of his annual p**********l salary of $400,000.
Cynthia Hernandez, a spokesperson for the National Park Service, referred USA TODAY to a 2017 press release that states Trump donated over $78,000 from his salary to the agency to restore two projects at the Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.
Christina Carr, a spokesperson for the Small Business Administration, confirmed that the agency received Trump's 2018 second-quarter salary detailed in the White House press briefing.
Trump donated $100,000 of his salary to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, in 2017, Kamara Jones, the department's acting assistant secretary for public affairs, told USA TODAY in an email.
Jones also said Trump donated $100,000 of his salary to the department in 2018, $300,000 of his salary in 2019, and $100,000 of his salary in 2020.
Trump did not report any charitable contributions on his 2020 taxes. Hoopes said no one is legally required to report any donation on a tax return.
USA TODAY reached out to the social media user who shared the claim for comment.
AFP Fact Check also debunked the claim.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/02/fact-check-partly-false-claim-trump-tax-returns-salary-donation/11132712002/

Are you a "Corre spin dent"?

The SJP termed the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel as "a historic win". The SJP reportedly received $300,000 from Soros' Open Society Foundations since 2017, and took in $355,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund since 2019, as per media reports.
The Rockefeller Brothers fund is chaired by Joseph Pierson and includes David Rockefeller Jr, a fourth-generation member of the oil dynasty, on its board of directors.
"They are trained to 'rise up, to revolution'," the NY Post report read. Last week, USCPR fellow Craig Birckhead-Morton was arrested at Yale University and was charged with first-degree trespassing when SJP's branch Yalies4Palestine occupied the school's Beinecke Plaza, as per a Yale Daily News report.
Morton, who is also a former intern for Democrat rep John Sarbanes, emerged from custody to address a sit-in blocking traffic in New Haven.

Commenting on the reports around its funding, the SJP told The Washington Post, "We refuse to engage with baseless claims regarding our funding in the middle of a genocide funding, militarily supported, and politically backed by the United States."
https://www.businesstoday.in/world/us/story/is-george-soros-behind-anti-israel-pro-palestine-protests-in-columbia-other-us-universities-heres-what-we-know-so-far-427241-2024-04-28

Hitler, Himmler, and Christianity in the
Early Third Reich
Christopher Tatara
With the rise of the National Socialist movement, Germany became a hostile environment to many minority groups. C*******ts, homosexuals, and the Jewish community were all targets of the N**i Party's aggressive rhetoric and physical assaults, but these actions have often overshadowed the N**i's persecution of larger majority groups. German Christian communities, both Catholic and Protestant would eventually be repressed by the N**i government
as well.
Why did the N**is do this?
What shaped the N**i Party's Christianity policy into one of h**e and suppression?
Both Adolf Hitler's and Heinrich Himmler's personal views on Christianity formed the basis of the N**i Party's policy
towards Christian churches in the early years of the Third Reich.

Hitler, despite being raised in a Catholic household, was anything but the ideal Christian.
His early views towards Christianity were born out of political necessity.
He understood the need for the early N**i Party to attract the majority of Christian v**ers.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler even states that "by defending myself against the Jews, I am fighting the Lord's Work.
"Hitler seems to portray himself as a defender of Christianity by fighting against the Jews; this was a cornerstone of Party ideology.
In 1920, Hitler and the Party proclaimed, ''The Party as such stands for a positive Christianity, without binding itself denominationally to a particular confession.
"This statement made it seem as if the Party would support the views of Christian churches.
With the ascension of Hitler to the chancellorship in January 1933, Party policy became government policy.
In a speech two months later, Hitler stated, ''The rights of the churches will not be restricted, nor will their relationship to the state be changed".
Hitler was striving for total control, and his policy reflected that.
However, Hitler's view Himmler, like Hitler, was raised Catholic and remained so at least until 1924, when he began to doubt Christianity.
Around this time, Himmler became "increasingly preoccupied with works that, in his views, dealt with occult phenomena in a serious 'scholarly' way.
"B Himmler's personal beliefs were t***sformed by Teutonic and Germanic myths, which supported the superiority of the German race, and many occult ideas.
He was obsessed with the idea that Germans were superior to all other races by blood right. Himmler became "violently anti-Catholic and anti-Christian, substituting for the faith ... those particular superstitions ... that suited his Germanic prejudice."
He desired Germany to be restored to its mythological roots, free of Christianity.
Christianity directly opposed Himmler's "demographic revolution" and, as a result, needed to be eliminated by any means necessary.
These beliefs became the policy of Himmler's SS and would result in the SS distancing itself from and openly attacking the Church.
Overall, Himmler was prepared to purify Germany of Christianity by using the security institutions of the state
To some extent, this statement by Hitler was true.
Hitler was "indifferent to all theological questions."Hitler's personal disdain for Christianity was never made public. He viewed Christian churches as political foes whose power could be used to oppose him.
Hitler desired to establish government control over the Protestant and Catholic Churches and make them politically impotent.
The N**i's persecution of Catholic and Protestant churches was a classic
power struggle. At first, the Party followed Hitler's politically pragmatic policy of placating the Churches while undermining their political power. Once political dominance had been achieved, the churches were no longer needed, and the Party turned to a more radical and aggressive policy spearheaded by Himmler.
This policy sought to eliminate Christianity from the Party and Germany and these policies would only continue to escalate in their severity throughout the early years of the Second World War.
With the fall of the Third Reich, the German Christians were left, along with all the others who were persecuted by the N**is, to deal with the scars and memories of N**ism.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1200&context=constructing

"for instance... Was it the t***h, or just one more of the lie about it and do it anyway strategy that was used to steal the SS trust fund and run guns to South America? More and more of the lies by the right wing come home to roost."

FAST AND FURIOUS SCANDAL SHOULD BE ONE OF THE GREATEST SCANDALS IN AMERICAN HISTORY
Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-Glenbeulah) today criticized the Obama administration’s response to Operation Fast and Furious in a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing focused on what is still not known about the scandal six years later.

Witnesses at the hearing included Josephine Terry and Robert Heyer, mother and cousin of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry who was k**led as a result of the operation, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent John Dodson.

Excerpts of Grothman’s remarks

“We really haven’t gotten into how this happened in the first place, or what the motive would be for the U.S. government to try to get United States automatic weapons in the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

“It’s very horrible what happened to Bryan Terry. And I would suppose, given the zeal with which they were pursuing this, there were an unknown amount of Mexican individuals who wound up being k**led as a result of the actions of the U.S. government. Do you think that’s accurate?

“Has the Obama administration, or anyone connected with that administration, apologized to the Mexican government for trying to get automatic weapons down to the Mexican drug cartels as far as you’re aware?

“Well, someone ought to apologize.

“What would be the motivation to try to get American automatic weapons in the hands of drug cartels? Why did some people in the American government think it was in our interest to make sure the Mexican drug cartels were armed to the teeth?

“Eric Holder was certainly not very helpful. We held him in contempt of Congress. Can you, in general, give us your opinion on the degree to which Eric Holder tried to help this investigation, and the degree to which he tried to stand in the way of finding out what’s really going on here?

“It appears he really didn’t want to get to the bottom of it. He was willing to cover it up.

“Did you see the Obama administration step up and do anything about this?

“It looks like after [Eric Holder] left public service, he was rewarded by working at Covington and Burling, a top-of-the-line, liberal-leaning law firm in Washington. Does that bother you when you see people like Special Agent Dodson – his career stalled because he cares about the people, and cares about the future of this country? But somebody who gets in the way of this investigation is rewarded by the left-leaning establishment here in town by getting a job with a big law firm.

“I just hope this committee and whoever the new committee chairman is does what they can to make sure this is written in the history books. Sometimes, they say the winners write the history books, and sometimes horrific things happen and they disappear and future generations will never know about it.

“To me, the Fast and Furious scandal should be one of the greatest scandals in American history, and I hope this committee does all it
can so that people in the future always know the name of Eric Holder and know how little was done by this administration after they participated, for wh**ever motivation, in trying to get automatic weapons into the hands of the drug cartel.

“I want to thank you, Mrs. Terry, for showing up. I’d like to thank you Special Agent Dodson. I know you’re not as financially well-off as you would be if you had kept your head down, but I’m sure your reward is greater because you’re on the side of the angels.”
Operation Fast and Furious was a plan implemented by the Obama administration in which guns were sold to Mexican cartels in hopes that the guns would later be tracked to high-ranking cartel members and assist in their capture.

Instead, many of the guns went missing, and several were found at crime scenes on both sides of the Mexican-American border including at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The Oversight Committee originally held a hearing on Operation Fast and Furious in 2011, which forced out the ATF chain of command and caused the Justice Department to issue new policies prohibiting gun-walking.
The ATF and the Justice Department obstructed Congress throughout this investigation.
Six years later, Congress is still seeking documents related to the Justice Department’s response to the Congressional investigation.
https://grothman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=333

After slogging through a boisterous convention on the floor, Democrats were forced to make a last-minute adjustment to the on-stage decor, after a report pointed out there were no American f**gs present.
Democrats unveiled a sleek stage to the nation Monday after the convention had been in the works for months.
As speaker after speaker took the stage, screens behind them produced stunning scenery of the country and cool grey backgrounds.

But there wasn't a single American f**g onstage
It was an aesthetic contrast to the GOP convention, which was draped in patriotic imagery. There were no fewer than 36 American f**gs on stage at the time of Donald Trump's convention speech last Thursday.

The f**g's absence wasn't mostly escaped notice, even as Democrats opened the proceedings with the pledge of allegiance and the Star Spangled Banner, which celebrates the missing f**g.

But after the Daily Caller reported on the unusual absence, an official was observed wheeling f**gs onto the stage Tuesday.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3709467/Special-delivery-Democrats-procure-f**gs-convention-stage-embarrassing-oversight-leaves-Old-Glory-missing-Monday-night-s-festivities.html

Biden's weaponized DOJ strikes again.