Former South Carolina congressman Trey Gowdy spent some time explaining his understanding of the DOJ's decision to dismiss charges against Andrew McCabe on Maria Bartiromo's Sunday Morning Futures. Gowdy clarified what charges were dropped by the DOJ and what might still (we hope) be in store for McCabe.

Gowdy, along with Devin Nunes, Jim Jordan and other Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, was investigating the Russia probe back when it started. They eventually produced the Nunes memo in 2018, describing the FISA abuse which the Horowitz report just recently confirmed. Thus, Gowdy is uniquely positioned to comment on the McCabe situation.

The recent headlines are confusing because they seem to say that McCabe is not under investigation, but Gowdy said that McCabe is escaping indictment for a "discreet fact pattern," for the leaking he did during the Clinton email investigation.

The DOJ was having trouble getting an indictment for those charges, and Gowdy suggested that they dropped the case because it was too weak.

The good news, according to Gowdy, is that the DOJ may be pursuing McCabe on matters like the FISA abuse and the illegitimate initiation of the Russia Probe and any other misdeeds McCabe may have engaged in.

McCabe could be cooperating with Prosecutor John Durham's investigation. Hopefully, Gowdy is right, and justice may yet be served.

Bartiromo and Gowdy also discussed the whole counter-intelligence probe and timeline during the interview.

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After the DOJ announced on Friday that no charges would be brought against Andrew McCabe, one feels a little deflated, a little discouraged, a little disheartened.

Is the deep state so powerful that no deep state actor will ever be brought to justice? Can the swamp actually be drained? Is it a swamp or an ocean? How deep does the corruption in the deep state go?

The Untouchables

Bad actors like Andrew McCabe, James Comey, James Clapper, John Brennan, Peter Stzok, and others seem to lead charmed lives.

Yes, they either resigned or lost their jobs, but they used the awesome power of the US intelligence community to commit crimes, to try to overthrow a US president, duly elected. They ruined the lives and reputations of Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, George Papadopoulos, and Carter Page. They violated the public trust.

The repercussions of those violations are vast, disturbing the peace of the country. The activities of these deep staters mark the first time we have not had a peaceful transfer of power in this author's memory.

The acrimony, abusive language, and accusations perpetrated by the losing party and their media counterparts have encouraged uncivil behavior and in some cases, violence. Their rhetoric is so divisive, families are unable to carry on civil discourse at family events. Neighbors can't speak to each other. People who openly show their support for the president risk attacks.

The Democrats will brook no discussion. If you dare to disagree, you are not just wrong, you are evil, and should be stripped of your civil rights. The country is deeply divided and the Deep State, Democrats, and the media are responsible for that.

And yet, the Deep Staters seem so confident as they appear on CNN, MSNBC and other networks. They appear to believe they did nothing wrong and what's worse, they appear to fear no consequences. That is what is really worrisome.

What do they know that we don't?  The deep state and the media are protecting them and will not call their deeds crimes. The deep staters strongly believe there will be no consequences for their crimes.

Criminals

The Democrats, the media, and the deep staters will say, over and over, that Donald Trump is a criminal, though, after 2 1/2 years, the Mueller investigation could prove no crimes.

After months of an impeachment inquiry, the House Democrats included no crime in their articles of impeachment. President Trump committed no crimes, but he is constantly referred to as a criminal. In most people's opinions, that would be considered a false accusation.

But it is not false to say that Andrew McCabe lied under oath multiple times. He admitted it.

It is not false to say that Comey committed fraud and signed off on illegitimate FISA warrant applications to spy on Carter Page. The Horowitz ICIG report revealed that.

It is not false to say that Comey side-stepped protocol and did not warn President Trump that he was being investigated.

It is not false to say that Peter Strzok is highly partisan, hates Donald Trump, helped entrap Michael Flynn, and should have recused himself from any investigation of Donald Trump or his associates. His own texts reveal that.

Let's not forget all the crimes that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton committed, and yet she is also still at large. Trump did not destroy official documents  but she did. He did not go outside regular channels and use private email servers to conduct official business, but she did. He did not preside over and then lie about the Benghazi tragedy, but she did.

Is there any hope? When will these officials, vested with dangerous power, be held accountable?

Andrew "The Bulldog" Weissman, a Mueller investigation prosecutor, suggested that the DOJ dropped charges against Andrew McCabe because they were too weak. He also suggested that new stronger charges would be brought by John Durham. Let's hope that is true.

Florida congressman Matt Gaetz gives his take on the DOJ dropping charges against McCabe.

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President Trump has been trying to help people who have been harmed by the sanctuary city laws that have been enacted in various cities and states across the country. These laws usually make it illegal for local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE in detaining illegal criminal aliens. These sanctuary laws sound  compassionate but in reality, they make life more dangerous for law-abiding citizens in those cities and states.

92-year-old Maria Fuertes

At his State of the Union address, the president told the story of Maria Fuertes, a 92-year-old great grandmother who was murdered by an illegal alien criminal. The illegal alien was free to brutally beat, rape and murder Maria due to New York City's sanctuary policies. He had been arrested five weeks before for assault, and ICE had asked that he be released to them, but he was allowed to go free.

According to her granddaughter, Daria Ortiz, Fuertes was originally from the Dominican Republic and immigrated to the United States legally. While in the Dominican Republic she had been a secretary to the president of that country.

Ortiz spoke out against the sanctuary laws that made it possible for the murderer to take her grandmother's life, saying he should never have had the opportunity to commit this crime. She called for changing the laws that made it possible for the tragedy to happen.

Her testimony and appeal are very moving. Let's hope that President Trump will continue to move against sanctuary cities and states in the US.

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The Democrats are going after Attorney General William Barr, again. In fact, they have been calling for his resignation since he declared that the Mueller Report found no collusion between Candidate/President Trump and Russia last summer.

The latest outcry is related to Roger Stone and the 9-year sentence he is facing at the hands of federal judge Amy Berman Jackson, a 2010 Obama appointee.

This is the same judge that dropped the wrongful death suit brought against Hillary Clinton by the parents of Sean Smith and Tyrone Woods, two of the men killed in Benghazi. The parents believe that Clinton's use of a private server gave access to information on the whereabouts of Ambassador Chris Stevens, who was also killed in Benghazi. Jackson dismissed the wrongful death suit and justified the use of the private server as in the course of duty.

Barr's DOJ has suggested a lighter sentence for Stone. Four of the Mueller prosecutors that recommended a sentence of 7 to 9 years for Roger Stone quit the justice department after the new recommendation for a shorter sentence has been was proposed. Sentencing is scheduled for February 20, 2020.

Tweets

President Trump has been weighing in with tweets, expressing disgust at the unfairness of the trial and the sentence.

Who are the four prosecutors (Mueller people?) who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous 9 year prison sentence to a man that got caught up in an investigation that was illegal, the Mueller Scam, and shouldn’t ever even have started? 13 Angry Democrats?"

Barr has publicly stated that the tweets are making it impossible to do his job. Senators McConnell and Graham are counseling the president to trust his attorney general.

Predictably, the Democrats are threatening more investigations, another impeachment, the total collapse of the rule of law, etc., and they want Barr's head.

President Trump could end all of this with a pardon or a commutation of the sentence. The Democrats will make all sorts of accusations, but don't they always?

Roger Stone

Everything about the Roger Stone arrest, indictment, trial and sentencing has been exaggerated.

Roger Stone was caught up by the Mueller investigation. He has no criminal record and yet the FBI sent a swat team accompanied by CNN early on the morning of January 25, 2019, to arrest him at his home in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida as if he were a dangerous criminal. But he was then released on a bond that same day as the judge did not think he was at all dangerous or a flight risk.

Stone had a radio show, "The Stone Cold Truth." He had just published a book titled "The Myth of Russian Collusion." Stone made television appearances after his arrest and Judge Jackson finally put him under a gag order during the trial, and up until his sentencing. Obviously, Roger Stone is a very visible media personality that supports President Trump.  Stone claims the Democrats were using the indictment to silence him.

Stone explains his arrest to Tucker Carlson the same day he was arrested here:

He was indicted for witness tampering and obstructing the Mueller investigation. Alan Dershowitz pointed out that all of the "crimes" that Stone committed came as a result of the investigation. Mueller failed to find any crime that proved collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The jury found him guilty on all counts.

Tucker Carlson argues that the recommended sentence of 9 years is far longer than the typical 4-year sentence for a rapist or the 3-year sentence for armed robbery. Roger Stone committed no violent crime and at worst he lied. His real crime is being associated with Donald Trump.

Anti-Trump jury foreperson

Now, it has been discovered that the jury foreperson in Stone's trial was an anti-Trump partisan who followed the Mueller investigation very closely. According to Fox News,

"Former Memphis City Schools Board President Tomeka Hart revealed Wednesday that she was the foreperson of the jury that convicted former Trump adviser Roger Stone on obstruction charges last year -- and soon afterward, a string of her anti-Trump, left-wing social media posts came to light."

In the video below, Judge Napolitano emphatically asserts Stone's conviction needs to be overturned.

The biggest news out of the New Hampshire primary is the turnout for President Trump. Over 120,000 people came out to vote for a sitting president - the most in over four decades.

The president lost New Hampshire in 2016 to Hillary Clinton, but he has a very good chance of winning it this go-round.

Democrat winners and losers

Self-described socialist Bernie Sanders finished in first place in the Democratic New Hampshire primary with 26% of the vote, only two points ahead of supposed moderate Pete Buttigieg with 24.4%. Bernie was polling with a larger lead over the weekend.  Another moderate, Amy Klobuchar, beat Elizabeth Warren by 10 points and landed in third place with 20%.

The former Democrat favorite, Joe Biden, finished behind Elizabeth Warren in 5th place with 8.5%. This is the second poor showing for the former vice president, but he is counting on Nevada and South Carolina to give him a boost.  Fox News contributor Chris Hahn predicts if Biden does poorly in South Carolina his campaign is over.

The Nevada caucus is on February 22nd, South Carolina holds its primary on February 29th and then Super Tuesday will be on March 3rd. Go here to get the primary and caucus schedules.

24 delegates were at stake in the New Hampshire primary. Sanders and Buttigieg each leave with 9 and Klobuchar leaves with 6. Pete Buttigieg has the most delegates heading to the Nevada caucus.

Dropouts

Andrew Yang and Colorado Senator Michael Bennet dropped out of the race today. Yang vowed to support the eventual Democrat candidate.

No shows

Michael Bloomberg was not on the ballot, but he is opening a campaign office in New Hampshire after the primary. He is facing some pressure for a newly discovered audio recording of him talking about the stop and frisk policy he used while mayor of New York. “Ninety-five percent of murders, murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take a description, Xerox it, and pass it out to all the cops...They are male, minorities, 16 to 25. That’s true in New York, that’s true in virtually every city..."

Oops, former Mayor Bloomberg has some 'splaining to do.

MSNBC's Mourning Joe

Folks on MSNBC's Morning Joe looked pretty mournful and sad as they analyzed the results coming out of New Hampshire. Trump elicited the only real enthusiasm out of Joe Scarborough, and his discussion of Bernies  "unifying" victory speech just came across as forced.

Trump is still more interesting to Democrats even when the Democrats are really the news of the day. That makes sense when the Democrat platform is "Defeat Trump."

Good luck with that.

Congressman Mark Meadows (R-NC) discussed President Trump's best week with Fox and Friends hosts. They touched on impeachment and acquittal and the removal of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

One thing is clear: Trump needs to clean house. He has no room in his administration for disloyal holdovers from the Obama administration. 

A good start

President Trump had Alexander Vindman and his twin brother Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman escorted out of the White House last week. The brothers had both served on the NSC since 2017 and had offices across from each other.

Vindman testified in the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment inquiry hearings, expressing his disapproval of the president's call to Ukraine's president.

President Trump is finally doing some housekeeping and removing people from the White House that don't support his agenda and in some cases are even obstructing his agenda, such as the author of "Anonymous" and the whistleblower.

His entire tenure has been marked by leaks, too. All of the Obama holdovers should be removed from the White House as they have done more than enough damage.

Predictably, the Democrats and the media have been characterizing the removals as "vindictive," mean, and a campaign of retribution among other things. Senator Dick Blumenthal said he feels a “very deep and profound concern and alarm," at the removals.

Clean house President Trump!

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AOC has proclaimed the Presidential Medal of Freedom a sacred award that Rush Limbaugh doesn't deserve.

Last night AOC mocked Rush Limbaugh, who is deaf, for being confused that he was receiving a award at the SOTU pic.twitter.com/OGSDrwEtqo

— Jack Posobiec  (@JackPosobiec) February 5, 2020

What is the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

According to Whitehouse.gov:

"Established by President John F. Kennedy in 1963, this prestigious award is the Nation’s highest civilian honor. It is awarded by the President of the United States to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the security or national interests of America, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."

The President of the United States awards this medal to whomever he thinks might merit it.

Medals have been awarded to actors, writers, generals, presidents, scientists, golfers, news anchors, musicians, foreign dignitaries, congresspeople, vice presidents, business people, humanitarians, judges, attorneys, doctors, historians, and many more.

President Obama and the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Obama is said to have awarded 123 medals during his eight years on office, the most of any president. Here are some of his recipients:

  • 12 sports figures including Ernie Banks, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Willie Mays
  • 4 scientists
  • 1 South African religious figure  (Desmond Tutu),
  •  1 vice president: Vice President Joe Biden
  • 2 presidents: President George W. Bush and  President William J. Clinton
  • 12 representatives and senators including John Dingell and Edward Kennedy
  • 16 activists  including Harvey Milk and Gloria Steinem
  • 4 television personalities including Ellen Degeneres, Oprah, and Lorne Michaels
  • 13 musicians including Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Barbara Streisand
  • 7 actors including Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Robert De Niro

President Trump and the Presidential Medal of Freedom

President Trump has only awarded a few medals to people such as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Edwin Meese, Tiger Woods, and Roger Staubach. He also awarded medals posthumously to Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.

Does Rush deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

Of course,  the answer depends on who you ask. Obviously, AOC thinks Rush is a bigot, a fascist, a misogynist and a racist. She says she can't stomach the idea of Rush being alongside Rosa Parks as a recipient.

Other voices on the left believe the medal should only be awarded to the heroes of the left, and find it "nauseating" to find Rush on the same list as Sister Teresa and Cesar Chavez.

Rush Limbaugh's 20 million listeners know that none of what AOC says is true about him. In fact, for the many that have been listening to him for decades, these accusations are nothing new, just slander from the left, designed but failing to silence one of the most important conservative voices in America. They have been trying to shut him up for decades, but his listeners keep tuning in for his incisive and valuable commentary.

Rush's focus has always been presidential politics, and in the late '80s through the early '90s, his was one of the only conservative voices to be heard. He provided a lifeline to millions of conservatives during some dark times. He has influenced generations of young Americans and was a bulwark against the left through the sixteen years of Clinton's and Obama's tenure.

He was also important through the Bush years as George W. didn't seem to respond to the attacks from the progressive left after the patriotism caused by 911 slowly disappeared and the disaster of the housing crash hit.

During the 2016 election cycle, although Rush initially endorsed Ted Cruz, he provided important analysis of the process and the candidates on both sides. When Trump won the election, Rush was ready for the attacks on the president. He had been handling such attacks his entire career in radio. He has been invaluable in the day to day trench-fighting that has been the norm during Trump's presidency. As he likes to point out, his analysis has been 99.8% right and he really has been on the cutting edge of societal revolution.

Rush deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Rush Limbaugh absolutely deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rush is not perfect but he has been fighting to keep the airwaves free for decades. His show revolutionized American media. He has been pushing back on the progressive hordes that would rob Americans of their freedom to speak, pray, worship, and defend themselves for years.

For that, a grateful nation thanks him.

President Trump, by all measures, just finished the best week of his presidency.

The economy is roaring, unemployment is low, the stock market is high, and his approval number is the highest he has had. The Democrats have been unsuccessful in impeaching him, as the Senate voted to acquit him on both articles of impeachment. This week has been a relief to all that have supported him.

Many have said that the State of the Union address was the best they had ever heard. Indeed, the president had many accomplishments to present, and he featured the stories of many great Americans to show that America is indeed great. His America first policies are working even as the Democrats and the mainstream media attack him and obstruct him 24/7.

But the President really doesn't have time to rest on his laurels, and it is doubtful he would do that anyway. There is much to be done, not the least of which is to root out the corruption he has exposed in Washington D.C. It seems that all the Democrats are willing to risk their credibility to hide what went on during the 2016 election cycle and what went on in Ukraine under President Obama and Vice President Biden.

It is time to get to the bottom of Crossfire Hurricane and the illegal spying the FBI conducted on Carter Page and by association, candidate Trump and then President Trump. Director of the FBI, Christopher Wray has cagily conceded that illegal surveillance was conducted against Page in a House Judiciary Committee meeting. Wray does not inspire confidence and does not come across as transparent. 

It is time to get to the bottom of the Ukraine scandal, but who can be trusted? The CIA? The FBI? Attorney General Barr? The new Ukrainian president? The old Ukrainian prosecutor? Rudy Guliani? Will the American people ever know what has really gone on?

Senator Lindsey Graham was poised to open an investigation into the Biden/Burisma scandal but is handing it over to the DOJ.

They will be vetting the information that the President's personal attorney, Rudy Guliani, has gleaned in Ukraine.

The DOJ is concerned that the information given to Guliani may be misinformation from the Russians. We should be concerned with this development as we can thank the FBI for the whole Russia hoax and the Mueller investigation.

One of the Mueller prosecutors, Andrew Weissman is still advising on how to get rid of the "amoral" president. Where is the proof that the FBI can conduct a fair investigation?

While the country has been twisted in knots by the impeachment and trial of President Donald J. Trump, the "Squad" and others have been busy redesigning our immigration system in House Resolution 5383, a bill "To reform the process for enforcing the immigration laws of the United States, and for other purposes."

Jesus Garcia (D-IL), Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, Ayanna Presley, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar are among the 44 congresspeople that have co-sponsored the bill which was introduced December 10, 2019.

The New Way Forward effectively removes the borders

The New Way Forward bill is designed to remove the borders of the United States of America.

The bill, according to Jesus Garcia, will decriminalize immigration. Now, that sounds good, but legal immigration is not illegal. Illegal immigration is a crime. So, what he really means is this bill will decriminalize illegal immigration. That means that anyone could come into the country because there would be no such thing as illegal immigration.

No such thing as illegal immigration

Under the New Way Forward Act, anyone that comes into the US is in. No crime to enter illegally, no detention for those who enter illegally.

TITLE VI—DECRIMINALIZE 1 MIGRATION 2 SEC. 601. REPEALING MIGRATION CRIMINAL LAWS. 3 (a) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR ENTRY AT IMPROPER 4 TIME OR PLACE.—Section 275 of the Immigration and 5 Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1325) is repealed. 6 (b) CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR REENTRY.—Section 7 276 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 8 1326) is repealed.

US taxpayers will pay to lose their country

Of course, the US taxpayer already pays an enormous cost for sanctuary cities, incarceration, detention, education and health care for illegal immigrants. If this new bill passes we will also pay to lose our borders and import more immigrants.

According to The Hill: "The costs of illegal immigration are comprehensive. Even after deducting the $19 billion in taxes paid by illegal immigrants, the 12.5 million of them living in the country results in a $116 billion burden on the economy and taxpayers each year. About two-thirds of this amount is absorbed by local and state taxpayers, who are often the least unable to share the costs."

HR 5383 enables illegal aliens that have been deported to appeal their deportation and the Department of Homeland Security will have to pay to transport them back to the US for their appeals.

(d) TRANSPORTATION.—The Secretary of Homeland 16 Security shall provide transportation for aliens eligible for 17 reopening or reconsideration of their proceedings under 18 this section, at Government expense, to return to the 19 United States for further immigration proceedings and 20 shall admit or parole the alien into the United States.

Wake-up call

Wake up America! This is what the Democrats will do to you if they win the White House and control congress. The bill has been referred to the House subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship. This committee is chaired by the now infamous Zoe Lofgren of impeachment fame, and the vice-chair is Pramilya Jayapal.

More to come as this bill will also make ICE ineffective and the whole country a sanctuary for criminal immigrants. This bill poses a significant national security threat. Call your congressmen to oppose it. Call your senators, too.

Tucker Carlson warns: "If Democrats win the 2020 election, some version of the New Way Forward act will become law."

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The media has gone into a frenzy with the news that the Trump administration fired Alexander and Yevgeny Vindman, the twin brothers who starred as the "anti-Trump heroes" in the impeachment saga.

But like almost all of their reporting in the last four years, the media is getting it wrong - and they're hurting themselves in the process.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

"You've begun wrong!" That's how the self-assured Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum responded to Alice in Wonderland when she tried to introduce herself.

The supercilious Vindman twins are very much like Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum, deeming themselves the arbiters of "appropriate" behavior on the part of the President.

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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman listened in on President Trump's July 25, 2019, phone call and determined that the President had done something wrong.

He then did something wrong himself. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was willing to subvert the chain of command because he thought that President Trump had "inappropriately" requested the aid of the Ukrainian president to investigate corruption that involved Hunter Biden.

He did not report the inappropriate conversation to his immediate superior Tim Morrison.

Instead, he contacted his brother, an NSC attorney, Deputy Secretary of State George Kent, and an unknown person (probably the whistleblower) according to his own testimony during the House impeachment inquiry.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

In the House Intelligence Committee's impeachment hearings Vindman revealed his inflated opinion of himself as he corrected House Judiciary Committee Ranking member Devin Nunes for calling him "Mr. Vindman" instead of Lt. Col. Vindman.

In his testimony, Vindman came across as a tattletale, but his tales were not told to the person in authority, but about the person in authority; as if he said, "Teacher, teacher, the president broke the rules!" forgetting that the president makes the rules when it comes to foreign policy.

Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman

It has been reported that Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, an NSC ethics lawyer, may have reviewed former ambassador John Bolton's manuscript "The Room Where it Happened."

Parts of this manuscript were leaked to the media, triggering the Democrat House managers to demand that John Bolton testify at the Senate impeachment trial. They claimed that Bolton's testimony would show that the president was holding up military aid to Ukraine to get Ukraine to investigate the Bidens.

Who leaked it?

Vindictive, retaliation, retribution

Of course, the mainstream media is already decrying the removal of Vindman Dee and Vindman Dum running headlines like these:

  • Washington Post: "Trump ousts Vindman and Sondland, punishing key impeachment witnesses in post-acquittal campaign of retribution"
  • Washington Post: "With Vindman’s dismissal, Trump gets especially vindictive"
  • Business Insider: "Trump also fired the twin of impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman in apparent retaliation for his brother's testimony"
  • ABC News: "Emboldened Trump fires 2 officials who testified in impeachment inquiry"

The mainstream media wants to spin the removal of the Vindman twins as vindictive retribution and retaliation. They continue to argue that Trump does not have the right to appoint and fire whom he will in his own administration.

But they are misleading their readers.

President Trump needs support, not spies

The president has the right to hire and fire whom he will to staff his administration. He needs to purge the White House of overweening bureaucrats who are spying on him and leaking to the media.

These spies and leakers have been obstructing him for 3 years now. It is high time that he surrounds himself with people that share his vision and support him, not career officials who obstruct him.

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