by Bob Rinear, The International Forecaster:

Did you all read the Saturday letter where I quoted Mr. Assad on his view of Donald Trump? If not, I’ll just pull out a couple quotes to get you up to speed:

Trump is puppet of US ‘deep state,’ has no ‘own’ foreign policy… US president Donald Trump is not a truly independent political leader but merely a puppet of US corporations, military and intelligence, and who serves their interests. Trump pursues “no own policies” but only executes the decisions made by the “intelligence agencies, the Pentagon, the big arms manufacturers, oil companies, and financial institutions. The United States always seeks to control all the states of the world without exception. It does not accept allies, regardless of whether they are developed states as those in the Western bloc or other states of the world…”

And so it goes on and on. Now, judging by the email’s I got concerning that letter, sure enough it was split about 60/40. About 60% of the feedback was aligned with Assad. “Trump’s an insider, that played everyone. He’s flipped on every promise he made to us, and he makes me sick”- was one in particular.

But there were others. “Bob, don’t sway, he’s playing the swamp game to get his real program through. I admit some of it looks bad but you will see it all work out” – was another that came through.

So just what is it? I’ll be the very first to say I’m ON THE FENCE about a lot of this. For instance when he followed the ridiculous story that Assad has gassed his own people, I wanted to vomit. Everyone and his brother knows that he did NOT do that. But Trump went along with it and launched a bunch of missiles to blow up sand. I was livid. Here he was on TV talking about the “babies, the darling babies” and used that as his excuse to put Assad in his place.

Yet… that’s all he did. He didn’t invade. He called the Russians ahead of time. The so-called air base was evacuated. He didn’t even blow up the runways. So other than lie about the reason why he did it…he didn’t really do much. Except get every war hawk and Neocon that loves bombing things… to love him. Instantly the “He’s a Russian agent” thing went away. Instantly he looked “tough” on the world stage. Democrats called him “Presidential”.

So, let me tell you folks, I’m on a knife edged fence here. Either this guy was the best salesman I have ever seen, knew how to play on every Patriotic heart like God’s own angel, and is really just the purest of two faced evil…or there’s something bigger in play.

On one hand he lied, or was taken over the by war hawks on Syria. Yet he announced to the NRA that you have no worries about your 2nd amendment and got Gorsuch on the bench. That’s a relief. On one hand he has enacted more EO’s that make sense from a business perspective than any President I’ve lived through, but on the other hand, he’s hell bent on encircling Russia with NATO.

In other words, he’s “apparently” flipped on many of the things he said while campaigning. He said NATO was obsolete. Now he’s loving them ( as long as they pay more) and parking them on Russia’s doorstep. Then he said we shouldn’t interfere in other Countries. Then he lob’s missiles at Syria. Then he said he was going to drain the swamp, but brings in the Alligators of Goldman Sachs. On and on it goes.

Yet, yet… He’s done 50 things I never thought I’d see in my lifetime. Here’s just a short list:

PREVENTION OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING: This executive order doubles down on preventing human trafficking

ESTABLISHING ENHANCED COLLECTION AND ENFORCEMENT OF ANTIDUMPING AND COUNTERVAILING DUTIES AND VIOLATIONS OF TRADE AND CUSTOMS LAWS

Protecting whistleblowers at the VA – this executive order makes it easier for vets to blow the whistle on the VA health system

Dismantling Obama’s climate change protections – This executive order reduces the EPA burdens on the energy and manufacturing sectors and makes mining and drilling easier by removing red tape.

Reviewing the waters of the United States rule – This executive order is to undo the EPA’s clean water rule, and get the EPA out of the lives of private property owners.

NOTE>> Did you guys know that in a lot of state’s it’s illegal for you to capture rain water? Or that if maps show there was a creek on your property 100 years ago that long went dry, it’s still a waterway and subject to the waterway acts?

Combating criminal organizations – This executive order makes it easier to deport illegals who are criminals.

For every new regulation proposed, repeal two existing ones – This executive order states that for every one regulation the executive branch proposes, two must be identified to repeal. It also caps the spending on new regulations for 2017 at $0.

National School Choice Week – This Presidential Proclamation was aimed at getting people to demand school voucher programs that will allow them to use federal funds to put their kids in private schools when the state schools are failing.

Expediting environmental review for infrastructure projects – This executive order allows those in charge of infrastructure projects to cut through red tape more quickly and simply get them done, rather than quibble about “endangered blue spotted toe snails.”

Review of designations under the Antiquities act – This executive order seeks to reverse the process of tying up American federal lands under layers and layers of red tape to prevent them from being used for their resources. It will reverse many restrictions that were perceived by many Americans to have been put in place by enemies of the United States while Americans helplessly watched, saying “Why did they do that”

NOTE>> That item goes back to an article I wrote in the early 2000’s. The EPA was created right at the time Nixon took us off the Gold standard. The premise sounded good to the people, an agency to clean up our air and water. Well that was only half the agenda. The other half was to “entomb” a ton of our resources. In a backhand way, our natural resources were locked down as a form of collateral so that our dollar had value after coming off the gold standard.

Repealing the lead bullet ban that screwed up so many of the Nations hunters.

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